Health Sciences BS

With a Health Sciences major, you’ll learn effective strategies, techniques and technologies to deliver safe, ethical and therapeutic health care. Our Health Sciences major includes all prerequisite courses for UNC’s Nursing BSN clinical application. This major also stands on its own as a direct path to jobs in healthcare.

The BS in Health Sciences requires 120 credits, which include:

31 Credits – Liberal Arts Curriculum
General education classes include a mix of math, writing, arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural and physical sciences, and cultural and international studies.

85 Credits – Required Major Courses
You’ll take foundational courses, as well as required and elective classes for your chosen concentration.

Choose one concentration to focus your studies and shape your career path. View full degree requirements by concentration in our catalog:

• Healthcare Administration Concentration: Develop skills to manage people, budget and projects, lead teams and gain organizational leadership and managerial acumen to deliver high-quality health care.
• Public Health Concentration: Study human health and ways to improve health outcomes.

This plan outlines a recommended schedule for completing a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences in four years. Consult with your major advisor for additional information on graduation requirements and guidance on course sequences.

Refer to the UNC Catalog to view Four-Year Plans by concentration:

• Health Care Administration Concentration, 4-Year Plan
• Public Health Concentration, 4-Year Plan

If you’re curious about managing health-related organizations, interested in environmental and global health or get excited about collaborative healthcare, then Health Sciences is the major for you.

You’ll learn how to:

• Think critically and analyze information, knowledge and research from other disciplines like the humanities, arts, general sciences and health sciences
• Apply effective communication strategies, techniques and technologies to deliver safe, ethical and therapeutic healthcare for individuals, families, groups, communities and populations
• Integrate principles of inclusion, equity and diversity into healthcare concepts and practices that impact individual, family community and societal health

The Healthcare Administration concentration features human resource management certification courses so you earn both a bachelor’s degree and certification at the same time.

With this concentration you’ll gain valuable direct experience working in a community setting as part of a supervised internship. Your internship coordinator will help you find an ideal opportunity that fits your personal interests and career goals.