Program Overview

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Healthcare Management (Double Major) degree. This program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in biology and healthcare management, preparing them for careers in the healthcare industry.

Bachelor of Science in Biology and Healthcare Management (Double Major)

The Bachelor of Science in Biology and Healthcare Management (Double Major) degree requires 147-149 semester credit hours. The program is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in biology and healthcare management, as well as the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the healthcare industry.

Faculty

The faculty for the Biology and Healthcare Management (Double Major) program includes:

• Professors: Lee A. Bulla, Rockford K. Draper, Juan E. Gonz嫮ez, Lawrence J. Reitzer, Stephen Spiro, Li Zhang, Michael Qiwei Zhang
• Professors Emeritus: Hans Bremer, Donald M. Gray
• Clinical Professor: David Murchison
• Associate Professors: Gail A. M. Breen, John G. Burr, Jeff L. DeJong, Ernest M. Hannig, Tae Hoon Kim, Dennis L. Miller, Kelli Palmer, Zhenyu Xuan
• Assistant Professors: Zachary Campbell, Nikki Delk, Heng Du, Jung-whan (Jay) Kim, Faruck Morcos, Duane D. Winkler, Hyuntae Yoo
• Research Assistant Professors: Lan Guo, Li Liu
• Senior Lecturers: Irina Borovkov, Mehmet Candas, Brenna Hill, Wen-Ju Lin, Meenakshi Maitra, Robert C. Marsh, Jing Pan, Elizabeth Pickett, Ruben D. Ramirez, Scott A. Rippel, Ilya Sapozhnikov, Uma Srikanth, Michelle Wilson, Wen-Ho Yu

JSOM Faculty

The JSOM faculty for the Healthcare Management program includes:

• Professors: Ashiq Ali, Indranil R. Bardhan, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Met璯 ドkanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Daniel A. Cohen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Theodore E. Day, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Ernan E. Haruvy, Varghese S. Jacob, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, 畤alp 畤er, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Ashutosh Prasad, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Riki Takeuchi, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, John J. Wiorkowski, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
• Professor Emeritus: Dale Osborne
• Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Ranavir Bose, Pamela Foster Brady, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Paul Convery, David Cordell, Kutsal Dogan, Howard Dover, Forney Fleming III, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, Charles Hazzard, William Hefley, Robert Hicks, Gerald (Jerry) Hoag, Marilyn Kaplan, Ching-Chung Kuo, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John F. McCracken, Dennis McCuistion, Diane S. McNulty, Joseph Picken, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, David Ritchey, Rajiv Shah, Mark Thouin, Keith Thurgood, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
• Associate Professors: Nina Baranchuk, Norris Bruce, Jianqing Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Xianjun Geng, J. Richard Harrison, Doroth嶪 Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, L癉ia Mark鏂zy, Amit Mehra, Toyah Miller, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Valery Polkovnichenko, Cuili Qian, Orlando C. Richard, Young U. Ryu, Gil Sadka, Jane Salk, Harpreet Singh, David J. Springate, Upender Subramanian, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
• Clinical Associate Professors: Steven Guengerich, Lale Guler, David Parks, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Kelly Slaughter, Jeanne Sluder, James Szot, McClain Watson
• Assistant Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Qi (George) Chen, Khai Chiong, Emily Choi, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nathan Goldman, Ying Huang, Sora Jun, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Xiaolin Li, Maria Loumioti, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Anyan Qi, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Simon Siegenthaler, Serdar Simsek, Shaojie Tang, Christian Von-Drathen, Shouqiang Wang, Malcolm Wardlaw, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Shengqi Ye, Nir Yehuda, Zhe (James) Zhang, Xiaofei Zhao
• Clinical Assistant Professors: Shawn Alborz, Athena Alimirzaei, Christina (Krysta) Betanzos, Moran Blueshtein, Judd Bradbury, Jerome Gafford, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Kristen Lawson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Liping Ma, Sarah Moore, Ravi Narayan, Dawn Owens, Parneet Pahwa, Jason Parker, Drew Peabody, Nassim Sohaee
• Senior Lecturers: Semiramis Amirpour, Frank Anderson, Vivek Arora, Tiffany A. Bortz, Richard Bowen, Monica E. Brussolo, Juliann Chapman, George DeCourcy, Eugene (Gene) Deluke, Alexander Edsel, Amal El-Ashmawi, Carol Flannery, Mary Beth Goodrich, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Jennifer G. Johnson, Jackie Kimzey, Chris Linsteadt, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Robert (Stephen) Molina, Prithi Narasimhan, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Madison Pedigo, Matt Polze, James Richards, Debra Richardson, Anindita Roy Bardhan, Kashif Saeed, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Luell (Lou) Thompson, Amy L. Troutman, Robert Wright, Kathy Zolton, Hubert Zydorek

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Science in Biology and Healthcare Management (Double Major) degree requires 147-149 semester credit hours.

Core Curriculum Requirements

The core curriculum requirements include:

• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
  • COMM 1311 Survey of Oral and Technology-based Communication
  • RHET 1302 Rhetoric
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • MATH 2413 Differential Calculus
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I
  • CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture core courses
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts core courses
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History core courses
• Government / Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • GOVT 2305 American National Government
  • GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • Choose one course from the following:
    • BA 1320 Business is a Global World
    • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
    • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
  • Choose two courses from the following:
    • MATH 2414 Integral Calculus
    • BA 1320 Business is a Global World
    • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
    • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics

Major Requirements

The major requirements include:

• Biology Major Preparatory Courses: 20-22 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • CHEM 1111 General Chemistry Laboratory I
  • CHEM 1112 General Chemistry Laboratory II
  • CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I
  • CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II
  • CHEM 2123 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
  • CHEM 2125 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
  • CHEM 2323 Introductory Organic Chemistry I
  • CHEM 2325 Introductory Organic Chemistry II
  • MATH 2413 Differential Calculus
  • MATH 2414 Integral Calculus
  • PHYS 2325 Mechanics and PHYS 2125 Physics Laboratory I
• Biology Core Courses: 29 semester credit hours
  • BIOL 2111 Introduction to Modern Biology Workshop I
  • BIOL 2112 Introduction to Modern Biology Workshop II
  • BIOL 2281 Introductory Biology Laboratory
  • BIOL 2311 Introduction to Modern Biology I
  • BIOL 2312 Introduction to Modern Biology II
  • BIOL 3101 Classical and Molecular Genetics Workshop
  • BIOL 3102 Eukaryotic Molecular and Cell Biology Workshop
  • BIOL 3161 Biochemistry Workshop I
  • BIOL 3162 Biochemistry Workshop II
  • BIOL 3301 Classical and Molecular Genetics
  • BIOL 3302 Eukaryotic Molecular and Cell Biology
  • BIOL 3361 Biochemistry I
  • BIOL 3362 Biochemistry II
• Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
  • ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting
  • BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law
  • BA 1310 Principles of Business Decision Making
• Business Core Courses: 26 semester credit hours
  • BA 1100 Business Basics and HMGT 3100 Professional Development
  • BCOM 3310 Business Communication
  • BCOM 4350 Advanced Business Communication
  • FIN 3320 Business Finance
  • IMS 3310 International Business
  • ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
  • OPRE 3310 Operations Management
  • OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management

Elective Requirements

The elective requirements include:

• Guided Electives: 18 semester credit hours
  • HMGT 4090 Healthcare Management Internship
  • BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum
  • Healthcare Management Core Courses: 15 semester credit hours
    • HMGT 3301 Introduction to Healthcare Management
    • HMGT 3311 Healthcare Accounting
    • HMGT 4321 Introduction to Healthcare Information Systems
    • HMGT 3310 Healthcare Regulatory Environment
    • HMGT 4380 Capstone in Healthcare Management
  • Biology: 3 semester credit hours
    • BIOL 4380 Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory
    • BIOL 3V96 Undergraduate Research in Molecular and Cell Biology
    • BIOL 4391 Senior Research in Molecular and Cell Biology
    • BIOL 4399 Senior Honors Research for Thesis in Molecular and Cell Biology

Additional Requirements

All students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to graduate. Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.