Bachelor’s in Health Services Management

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The Health Services Management (HSM) program uses an innovative, instructional approach specifically designed to prepare students to manage the business and operational side of healthcare delivery and related industries. This approach emphasizes the development of “soft” (non-technical) and “hard” (technical) skills necessary to achieve professional success. This is not a writing intensive program. Instead, we focus on preparing students for real world scenarios facing Health Services Managers. This is accomplished largely through case studies as opposed to traditional term papers, book reports, and annotated bibliographies. More specifically, we require students to produce professional deliverables consistent with that typically expected in industry, such as informal and formal business correspondence, action plans, root cause analyses, contingency plans, white papers, and the like. The emphasis is not on the quantity, but rather the quality of the submissions.

All HSM courses are delivered entirely online and leverage a collaborative meeting platform to conduct team meetings, deliver presentations, and interact in real time with industry leaders. We employ an 8-week term format as opposed to a traditional 16-week semester for the 3000 and 4000 level courses. This accelerated model allows students to focus on fewer courses while becoming more immersed in the discipline. In order to aid students in judging the amount of time necessary to fulfill course requirements, the HSM courses employ a standardized structure that balances one’s individual effort with that of his or her team. The program welcomes students from a wide array of professional backgrounds and academic preparation and is geared to non-traditional, working adults.

Finally, Brazosport College offer the country’s first 4+1 program between colleges and universities. This program allows eligible seniors to take up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework from a partnering college or university whereby those earned credits are reverse transferred into the bachelor’s program as electives. This allows students the opportunity to complete up to one-year of graduate school and even earn a Graduate Certificate by the time they complete their 4-year degree. The graduate programs make their curricula available entirely online.

Lower Division Academic Requirements - 44 Hours

Completion of theGeneral Education Core Curriculum(42 hours)
Two science labs corresponding to Core science courses (2 hours)

Lower Division Technical Requirements - 31 Hours

Students admitted to the program with an Associate of Applied Science degree (AAS) or at least 25 credit hours of coursework completed in a particular technical field will have those credits applied to this requirement of the bachelor degree. Students who haven’t completed 25 hours in a particular field may be required to complete additional coursework applicable to the degree, with the guidance of program faculty.

Students admitted with an Associate of Arts (AA) or Associate of Science (AS) degree will be evaluated upon program admissions to determine whether or not elective courses are applicable to this requirement. Students will complete a preliminary degree plan that outlines what courses may be required to complete this portion of the degree.

Completion of 3 credits hours in business/technical writing, and 3 credit hours in business computer applications are required to complete this component of the bachelor’s program:

ENGL 2311 Technical and Business WritingORPOFT 2312 Business Correspondence and Communication
One Course From:
- POFI 1301 Computer Applications I
- ITSC 1301 Introduction to Computers
- BCIS 1405 Business Computer Applications
- BCIS 1305 Business Computer Applications
- COSC 1301 Introduction to Computing

共有31学分要求完成this portion of the degree. Courses taken to satisfy requirements for the General Education Core Curriculum cannot be used to meet these requirements.

Upper Division Requirements - 33 Hours

An additional 33 major credits are required to complete the bachelor’s degree.

MHSM 3302 - US Health Care DeliveryCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3303 - Statistics for Health Care ManagersCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3304 - Communication for Health Care ProfessionalsCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3335 - Financial Management for Health Care ManagersCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3325 - Healthcare Law and EthicsCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3311 - Health Care Information TechnologyCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3305 - Management and Organizational BehaviorCredit Hours:3
MHSM 3345 - Healthcare Operations ManagementCredit Hours:3
MHSM 4310 - Human Resources in Health Care ManagementCredit Hours:3
MHSM 4320 - Health Economics and PolicyCredit Hours:3
MHSM 4361 - Health Services Management CapstoneCredit Hours:3
Note 1: Health Care Management Capstone must be taken in the final semester of the program with the approval of the Program Chair or Division Chair.

Program Electives - 12 Hours

Students have four options to complete the 12 hour elective requirement:

They may transfer in up to 12 lower division (1000 and 2000 level) credit hours from a previously earned technical program. Other lower division hours may be considered with Program Chair or Division Chair approval. This determination will be made when students are admitted into the program.
Complete one of three specializations offered by Brazosport College.
Eligible students may take graduates level courses as part of the 4+1 program partnership with other universities, and then reverse transfer those earned credits into the electives. This ‘head start’ towards a masters degree also allows students to select an area of specialization offered by our partner institutions.
Students may choose up to four courses 3000 level or higher that best fit their career goals and interests.