When you enroll at Susquehanna, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from the complete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, consult with their advisor(s) and the Academic Planning Tool.

Learning Goals

• The student will be able to assess career options and make informed choices about which are the best for them given their interests and abilities.
• The student will be able to describe the nature of the health care system.
• The student will understand the impact of health care delivery on individuals and communities worldwide.
• The student will develop an appropriate knowledge base of key biomedical subjects related to the health care professions.

There are two health care studies minors creatively designed to address the needs of goal-oriented prehealth professional students. These minors also serve as a means for undecided students to explore health care career options. Both tracks require 24 credits of coursework and two separate 40-hour internships, which each carry one credit.

This program attracts students from many academic majors, including biochemistry, biology, business, communications, computer science, music and music education, neuroscience, psychology, Spanish and sociology. The interactions of students from such varying academic backgrounds enrich the experiences of all the students and contribute to their ability to view a topic from multiple perspectives. The intentional choice to create this program as two minors ensures that while students will receive recognition for this body of work, they are not locked into a professional track and are free to alter their career plans.

Double-counting restriction for interdisciplinary minors

Only 8 semester hours of this minor may be double-counted toward the student’s major.

Health Care Studies Minor Graduate Prerequisite Program

This minor is designed for students who plan on entering graduate programs that require Human Anatomy as a prerequisite course. These fields include but are not limited to: physical therapy, physician’s assistant, optometry, occupational therapy, accelerated nursing programs and other allied health careers. The minimum GPA for enrolling in the graduate prerequisite track is 3.30.

The minor requires 24 semester hours, including HLCR-301 Human Anatomy (4 SH), HLCR-302 Human Physiology (4 SH), HLCR-370 Human Health and Disease (4 SH), PHIL-224 Bioethics (4 SH), and HLCR-080 The Business of Health Care (2 SH). Students also take a four-semester hour elective course to be chosen from one of the following: BIOL-157 The Biology of Women; BIOL-320 Exercise and Extreme Physiology; BIOL-315 Animal and Exercise Physiology Lab; BIOL-440 Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; BIOL-441 Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab; BIOL-560 Interdisciplinary Explorations in Biology when the topic being taught is either Human Parasites or Teratology; CHEM-302 Medicinal Chemistry; CHEM-305 Forensic Chemistry; CHEM-424 Biochemistry of Metabolism; CHEM-426 The Biochemistry of Proteins and Enzymes; CHEM-427 Biochemistry of Proteins and Enzymes Lab; PSYC-242 Health Psychology; PSYC-320 Psychological Disorders; PSYC-342 Behavioral Neuroscience; HIST-217 History of Medicine; HIST-323 History of American Medicine; or another four-semester-hour course based upon the students’ interests, with approval of the health care studies director. Two, one-semester internship experiences (each 40-hour minimum), which may be completed outside of the academic year, are also required.

Health Care Studies Minor Explorations Program

The minor requires 24 semester hours, including HLCR-302 Human Physiology (4 SH), HLCR-370 Human Health and Disease (4 SH), PHIL-224 Bioethics (4 SH), and HLCR-080 The Business of Health Care (2 SH). Students also take two four-semester hour elective courses to be chosen from one of the following: BIOL-157 The Biology of Women; BIOL-320 Exercise and Extreme Physiology; BIOL-315 Animal and Exercise Physiology Lab; BIOL-440 Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; BIOL-441 Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab; BIOL-560 Interdisciplinary Explorations in Biology when the topic is either Human Parasites or Teratology; CHEM-302 Medicinal Chemistry; CHEM-305 Forensic Chemistry; CHEM-424 Biochemistry of Metabolism; CHEM-426 The Biochemistry of Proteins and Enzymes; CHEM- 427 Biochemistry of Proteins and Enzymes Lab; HIST-217 History of Medicine; PSYC-242 Health Psychology; PSYC-320 Psychological Disorders; PSYC-342 Behavioral Neuroscience; HIST-323 History of American Medicine; or another four-semester-hour course based upon the students’ interests, with approval of the health care studies director. Students enrolled in the explorations program of the health care studies minor may take HLCR-301 Human Anatomy as one of their four-semester hour classes on a space-available basis. Two, one-semester internship experiences (each 40-hour minimum), which may be completed outside of the academic year, are also required.

Internships