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Health Sciences, Associate in Applied-Science
Overview
This program is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of the healthcare system and career options, as well as, provide a solid foundation of knowledge, abilities and skills for health education or community health worker. Students will learn how to use an evidence based approach to public health education and health awareness to improve the community health overall as this degree can foster a healthcare job.
Outcomes
Graduates of the program will be able to:
- Analyze and evaluate programs and educational opportunities in the healthcare arena
- Demonstrate effective communication and apply adult teaching learning principles to healthcare education
- Apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to healthcare related situations
- Analyze data related to health assessment and research in the healthcare arena
- Design an educational program including assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation for the community and be able to disseminate the information
Courses
First Semester
| COLS101 | College Success | 1 credits |
| CMTH102 | Introduction to Communication | 3 credits |
| PUBH100 | Introduction to Healthcare Careers | 1 credits |
| CISC101 | Introduction to Information Technology | 3 credits |
| ENGL101 | English I | 3 credits |
| BIOS204 | Human Anatomy & Physiology I | 4 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Second Semester
| BIOS254 | Human Anatomy & Physiology II | 4 credits |
| NUTR105 | Introduction to Nutrition | 3 credits |
| MATH150 | Introductory Statistics | 3 credits |
| ENGL151L | English II | 3 credits |
| PSYC103 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Third Semester
| PHIL202G | Ethics & Moral Problems | 3 credits |
| PUBH101 | Introduction to Public Health | 3 credits |
| PUBH102 | Introduction to Epidemiology | 3 credits |
| CHEM135 | Chemistry of Life | 4 credits |
| General Education Elective (SIT or SSHB) | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Fourth Semester
| BIOS202 | Microbiology for Allied Health | 4 credits |
| PUBH103 | Social & Cultural Perspectives of Health | 3 credits |
| PSYC230 | Introduction to Health Psychology | 3 credits |
| PSYC258 | Developmental Psychology | 3 credits |
| Elective | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Total Credit Hours: 63
• Completion of
PHIL202G satisfies the Writing Intensive (WI) requirement.
• Completion of
ENGL151L satisfies the Diversity and Global Awareness (D) requirement.