Undergraduate Programs
Bachelor of Health Administration
(Three years—90 credits)
     
Regulations effective September 1, 2007


     

Canada's health care system is faced with challenges from all directions; rising costs, shortage of human resources, and its aging population.

Athabasca University's Bachelor of Health Administration program is designed to help health care administrators and managers meet these challenges. By developing organizational, analytical, and managerial skills, the program enables graduate students to seek innovative ways of meeting the increasing demands on Canada's health care system. To receive more information about this program, please contact Athabasca University's Center for State and Legal Studies. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.

Second Undergraduate Degree

Students who hold a recognized first degree and who wish to obtain an AU undergraduate degree in a different subject area, must apply under the second undergraduate degree regulations.  These students may transfer in up to 50 per cent (45 credits) into the three-year degree program, based on course work in the first degree that is applicable. Preparatory (100 level) credits cannot be used to fulfill the requirements of a second undergraduate degree.

Athabasca University advisors have developed a program plan to assist you. Counselling Services offers an assessment Web site, "Mapping Your Future: Your Career and Athabasca University." Athabasca University has also developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating.

Students are strongly encouraged to register in ADMN 233 or ENGL 255 and PHIL 252 early in their program. Students must also meet the English Writing Skills Requirement in order to graduate.

 

English Writing Skills Requirement

Students must meet the following English writing skills requirement in order to graduate:

     
• 

pass the Alberta Universities Writing Competence Test. Students who complete the Alberta Universities Writing Competence Test must replace these three credits with any three credits at the junior or senior level.

or

     
• 

hold credit in ENGL 255 or ADMN 233;

or

     
• 

have a grade of B- (70 percent) or better in an Athabasca University English course above the preparatory (100) level;

or

     
• 

receive transfer credit for an English course in which a grade of B- or better was achieved.

 

     
     
  Program Structure  
  Total credits in the program
90
  Required credits
54
  Elective credits
15
  Options
21
  Minimum credits at the senior (300 and 400) level
54
  Maximum credits at the junior (100 and 200) level
36
  Residency requirement. A minimum of 24 credits must be obtained through Athabasca University.
24
  Maximum Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) credits
21
 

 

 

 
     
  Required Core Courses (54 credits)
     
ACCT 245 Accounting for Managers of Not-for-Profit Organizations
or
(3)
ACCT 250 Accounting for Managers
or
ACCT 253 Introductory Financial Accounting
ADMN 232 Administrative Principles
(3)
ADMN 233 Writing in Organizations* See English Writing Skills Requirement
or
(3)
ENGL 255 Introductory Composition
APST 235 Practicum: Clinical Practice
(3)
APST 335 Practicum: Community Health Administration
(6)
COMM 243 Interpersonal Communications in Management
(3)
CMIS 245 Microcomputer Applications in Business (Windows)
(3)
ECON 321 Economics of Health Care
(3)
HADM 336 Community Health Planning
(3)
HADM 339 The Organization of the Canadian Health Care System
(3)
HADM 369 Health Policy in Canada
(3)
HADM 379 Introduction to Epidemiology
(3)
HLST 200 Introduction to Human Health
(3)
HADM 400 Health Care Law
(3)
PHIL 252 Critical Thinking*
PHIL 252 will be waived if students have completed a university-level course in indigenous philosophy.
(3)
PHIL 333 Professional Ethics
(3)
SOSC 366 Research Methods in the Social Sciences
(3)

 

   

 

     
  Electives (select 15 credits from the following)
     
COMM 377 Communication and Problem Solving in Groups
(3)
HADM 315 Health and Community Development
(3)
HADM 326 Health Issues: Health and Healing
(3)
HLST 320 Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals
(3)
HRMT/ORGB 386
Introduction to Human Resource Management
(3)
LGST 331 Administrative Law
(3)
ORGB 364 Organizational Behaviour
(3)
WMST 303 Issues in Women's Health
(3)
     
     
  Options (21 credits)

 
     
  In any discipline
(21)


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