Jun 29, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [Catalog goes into effect at the start of the Fall 2024 semester.] 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [Catalog goes into effect at the start of the Fall 2024 semester.]

Management, B.B.A. - Healthcare Leadership Track


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The Healthcare Leadership Track in Management provides students with a possible interest in entering healthcare administration positions with a greater knowledge and understanding of the complex and unique nature of healthcare leadership challenges.  Coursework toward the track satisfies 9 credit hours of the 18 credit hours of coursework required for the Management major and also satisfies the requirements for a certificate in Healthcare Leadership.  The certificate is open to all undergraduate business and non-business majors with courses that may be used to satisfy major, minor, or elective requirements when courses are appropriate to those requirements.

Healthcare Leadership Track requirements (9 Credit Hours)


Management majors interested in coursework related to healthcare leadership may pursue a Healthcare Leadership Track and Certificate by meeting the following 9 credit hour course requirements:

Management Major Coursework and Electives (42 Credit Hours)


Business majors must meet the business, nonbusiness, and elective requirements for a baccalaureate degree as well as the following for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in management:

  1. Select 18 credit hours from any 4000-level management electives (of which 9 credit hours are from the Healthcare Leadership Track)
  2. Select six credit hours of approved advanced electives in business
  3. Select nine credit hours of advanced electives (any 3000-4000 level course)
  4. Select nine credit hours of general electives (any 1000-4000 level course) *

* The 9 hours of General Electives are designated for 6 hours of any unused Component Area Option (090) courses and 3 hours of an unused Social/Behavioral Science (040) course. Remaining hours can be met by any 1000-4000 level course.

Management majors may pursue a track in Applied Leadership, Healthcare Leadership, or in Human Resource Management.

  • Management, B.B.A. - Applied Leadership Track 
  • Management, B.B.A. - Healthcare Leadership
  • Management, B.B.A. - Human Resource Management Track 

Undergraduate business majors in the accelerated pathway B.B.A./M.S. degree program


Undergraduate business majors in the accelerated pathway B.B.A./M.S. degree program who complete graduate courses as an undergraduate may count them toward the requirements for the B.B.A. regardless of admission to a M.S. business program toward major or minor requirements for courses with the same letter rubrics as their major or minor, or toward elective requirements of their major.

General B.B.A. Requirements


In order to earn a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree, students must complete credit hour requirements:

  • UH Core Courses & College Requirements
  • Business Administration and Management Field of Study Courses
  • Advanced-Level Business Requirements (required for all business majors),
  • Major Coursework Requirements
  • Additional Elective Requirements

along with noncredit requirements:

  • Assenting to the Bauer Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, and
  • A business writing evaluation (BWE), administered through BUSI 3302 .

Credit Hour Requirements


Students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree must complete freshman-sophomore core and Business Administration and Management Field of Study requirements, upper-level business core and required courses, major requirements, and clear the business writing evaluation (BWE).

The total hours required for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree are summarized below. Students in the Bauer Business Honors Program have additional requirements as specified under the description of the Bauer Business Honors Program.

Students pursuing the Global Energy Management Professional Program (GEM-PP) track in Finance have specialized degree requirements listed under the GEM-PP track for a major in finance. Other specialty programs, such as the Professional Program in Accounting, the Entrepreneurship Program, and the Program for Excellence in Selling, may have additional admission and program requirements as specified by the program.

B.B.A. requirements also listed as approved UH core courses may fulfill both requirements, but students must have a minimum of 120 credit hours to earn the B.B.A.

Specific course requirements in each category are discussed in the following sections. ECON 2301 and ECON 2302 may count for Core Social and Behavioral Science requirement and Field of Study (students without either ECON 2301 or ECON 2302 and substituting Intermediate ECON would be required to take a Social and Behavioral Science course in place of a General Elective Requirement.

UH Core Courses & College Requirements


6 credit hours

Business Administration and Management Field of Study Courses


24 Credit Hours

Courses require completion with a grade of “C” or higher in all Business Administration and Management Field of Study courses unless a transfer student has completed the Business Administration and Management Field of Study at another Texas public institution.

3 Credit Hours


Additional UH Core Courses


24 Credit Hours

UH Core American History Requirement:


Complete both:

UH Core Government Requirement:


Complete both:

Plus completion of required number of hours from selection of courses in each of the following UH Core Requirement categories:


Advanced-Level Business Required Courses


21 Credit Hours

This section is required for all business majors.

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