A comprehensive curriculum offered entirely online provides flexibility for students balancing professional and personal obligations. The accelerated online-only program includes:

• • 120-Credit BSHS degree
  • 100% online courses
  • 8 and 4-week course offerings
  • a solid foundation of healthcare, business, and humanities courses
  • a focus on 21^st century skills that can be particularly attractive to employers
  • a focus on strengths-based leadership skills that supports personal and professional growth
  • practicum experiences for real-world knowledge
  • a range of minor options built into the curriculum
  • interaction with various student majors including speech, occupational therapy, kinesiology, biology, psychology, and many others
  • low-cost textbooks; free course resources
  • personable and supportive faculty

The online-only distance learning program offers fast-tracked courses. In fall and spring semesters, students take 8-week courses and 4-week courses are available in the summer. This accelerated schedule means motivated students can get closer to their healthcare career goals faster. Dedicated distance learners could graduate in as little as 2 years.  

Health Studies courses are built around current, industry-specific skills to support future professional goals. Health Studies faculty are experts in their fields and provide excellent mentoring to help students explore potential career paths, develop networks in their chosen fields, sharpen in-demand professional skills and develop a professional career portfolio. Faculty is dedicated to supporting students with clear goals of launching or enhancing non-clinical leadership careers in healthcare administration.

ULM's Health Studies program emphasizes hands-on experience through internships, job shadowing, community events, and research opportunities, preparing students for successful careers in healthcare. The Health Studies Practicum provides students with on-the-job healthcare experiences and the opportunity to gain necessary observation hours in their professional discipline under an approved agency’s supervision.

The Health Studies Practicum is a 3-credit course wherein students complete a minimum of 104 hours in a professional healthcare atmosphere. Typically completed in the student’s senior year during the summer, the practicum allows students to explore interests and experience different career options while in school. Students will see how what they have learned in class applies to real-world situation as well as their future employment.

Practicum Requirements:

• • • Declared major in a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences program
    • Completion of 90 credits in the BSHS curriculum
    • Completion of all 2000 and 3000 level HLST courses
    • Good standing with the university
    • Minimum overall cumulative GPA of 2.0
    • A minimum HLST GPA of 2.75 with a "C" or better in all HLST courses
    • Application and approval for progression to the HLST 4003

Health Studies seniors must apply for practicum placement in the spring semester by submitting the Intent to Register form to the Practicum Coordinator, Dr. Jodi Bower. The Practicum Coordinator organizes all matters related to finding and approving practicum sites, reviews and approves applications, assures students and preceptors adhere to practicum policies, and resolves conflicts between the practicum sites and students.Dr. Bower can be reached at jbower@ulm.edu for more information.

Accreditation

The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), an institutional accrediting body to award associate, baccalaureate, post-baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degrees. The Health Studies Baccalaureate degree programs, within the School of Allied Health and the College of Health Sciences at ULM, meets high quality faculty and education standards that are consistent with the program, college, and university’s mission according to SACSCOC accrediting body. In addition, the Health Studies program participates annually in a comprehensive institutional assessment and planning process associated with data collection, analysis, and actions to improve the program.

Quality Matters

All Health Studies courses are Quality Matters – Certified indicating the courses meet Quality Matters standards for quality and continuous improvement.

Transfer Agreements
Program-to-program articulation agreements are formal agreements between ULM and various community colleges and programs to transfer block credits toward the Bachelor of Science in Health Studies.

ULM Health Studies Transfer Agreements

Complaints and Appeals
The academic grade appeal provides a fair means for appealing a final grade in a course if the student believes the final grade to have been determined unfairly.  Procedures for appealing a final grade can be found in the most current edition of the Student Policy Manual.
Grade Appeal Policy

To file an informal or formal complaint against another university student, service or department, follow the steps listed in the Student Policy Manual: Charging a Student or Student Organization wiht a Violation of the ULM Code of Student Conduct, to determine your next role in reporting a complaint/grievance to the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Read completely, the Procedures for Complaint Resolutions, posted in the Student Policy Manual, before continuing with the process.
Student Policy Manual - Student Complaint Policy