Concentrations:
1. Management
2. Health education
3. Gerontology
4. End of life care

The Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences is designed to meet the educational needs of health care workers seeking a baccalaureate degree. The program affords students an opportunity to apply credits already earned toward the baccalaureate and acquire a credential needed for graduate school admission, promotion, job expansion, and job mobility. The curriculum will not only provide students with a broad background in health, the health care system, and the arts and sciences, it will also give them an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in one of the four areas of concentration: management, health education, gerontology and end of life care.

1. Demonstrates leadership skills within organization and evolving health care systems.
2. Identifies and evaluates evidence to guide decision making.
3. Uses a systematic approach and higher order thinking in responding to health care issues and societal needs.
4. Integrates knowledge of culture and an appreciation for diversity in planning and evaluating health care.
5. Implements evolving technologies in the planning implementation, and evaluation of health care.
6. Incorporates multiple strategies of communication to establish collaborative relationships with clients, members of the multidisciplinary team and other stakeholders.
7. Analyzes legal, ethical and policy issues within health care delivery systems.
8. Implements specialized knowledge and skills in the management and delivery of health care services.
9. Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong learning in pursuit of excellence in the practice of a health care profession.

Achievement of Program Outcomes is assessed via the HSC 464 Health Science Capstone course. The capstone course assesses leadership abilities, effective communication, cultural diversity and a commitment to lifelong learning. The Health Science Capstone is required to be completed by all students only after all other required core courses are completed.  In addition, students demonstrate knowledge and skills on program outcome 2 by means of successful completion of the final exam in the course HSC 365, Research for Evidence Based Practice.

The HSC 464, Health Science Capstone contains 3 case studies:
Case Study 1 measures outcomes 1,2,5,9
    - 67% of students exceeded expectations
    - 33% of students met expectations
Case Study 2 measures outcome 3
    - 44% of students exceeded expectations
    - 56% of students met expectations
Case Study 3 measures outcomes 4,6,7,8
    - 67% of students exceeded expectations
    - 33% of students met expectations

HSC 365, Research for Evidence Based Practice
Measurement reported on is the final exam which measures program outcome 2
  -   50% of students exceeded expectations
  -   50 %of students met expectations

Scale:
Exceeded expectations =  Grade A
Met expectations  = Grade B & C
*There were no grades below C

Not applicable