Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration course guide
Open the registered program, choose the exact class code, then work through Aspen's native eight-Week rhythm with the live syllabus controlling every activity.
Aspen's active 2025–2026 catalog lists 40 course appearances for this BSHCA path. The public map below preserves that sequence. The student's degree audit remains authoritative for transfer credit, prerequisites, substitutions, residency, field requirements, and the actual order of enrollment.
Program snapshot
| Field | Verified public value |
|---|---|
| School area | Healthcare |
| Catalog requirement | 120 Credits |
| Mapped appearances | 40 |
| Course rhythm | Eight Weeks; registered syllabus controls the work inside each Week |
| Catalog status | Active in version 1.10, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026 |
The classes in the current map
This table is a navigational transcription, not an enrollment plan. Each code opens one canonical class page shared across every current program in which Aspen lists it. From there, “The weeks, one by one” carries real links to Week 1 through Week 8.
| Position | Code | Official catalog title | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COM100 | Introduction to Communications | 3 |
| 2 | PAC115 | Medical Terminology | 3 |
| 3 | MAT245 | Personal Finance | 3 |
| 4 | HCA100 | Contemporary Issues in Health Care | 3 |
| 5 | CMP160 | English Composition I | 3 |
| 6 | SBS105 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
| 7 | MAT200 | Principles of Accounting I | 3 |
| 8 | HCA110 | Insurance and Healthcare Reimbursement | 3 |
| 9 | SBS110 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
| 10 | HCA120 | Healthcare Information Systems | 3 |
| 11 | HUM155 | American History I | 3 |
| 12 | COM220 | Management Communication | 3 |
| 13 | NPS100 | Introductory Biology | 3 |
| 14 | HUM100 | World of Art | 3 |
| 15 | CMP170 | English Composition II | 3 |
| 16 | HCA205 | Principles of Health and Disease | 3 |
| 17 | SBS200 | Human Development | 3 |
| 18 | MAT140 | College Algebra | 3 |
| 19 | NPS195 | Study of Physical Science | 3 |
| 20 | HCA125 | Healthcare Finance | 3 |
| 21 | HCA105 | Pharmacology | 3 |
| 22 | HCA130 | Healthcare Writing and Communications | 3 |
| 23 | SBS120 | Diversity and Culture | 3 |
| 24 | MGT215 | Customer Relationship Management | 3 |
| 25 | HCA310 | HIPAA and Electronic Health Records | 3 |
| 26 | MGT414 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| 27 | COM140 | Managing Performance and Developing Teams | 3 |
| 28 | MGT464 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| 29 | MAT350 | Quantitative Methods | 3 |
| 30 | BIO210 | Microbiology | 3 |
| 31 | HCA305 | Health Perspectives and Assessment | 3 |
| 32 | HCA315 | Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration | 3 |
| 33 | HCA320 | Healthcare Policy and Economics | 3 |
| 34 | HCA405 | Medical Office Management | 3 |
| 35 | HCA410 | Healthcare Careers | 3 |
| 36 | PAC415 | Healthcare Ethics | 3 |
| 37 | BUS454 | Ethical Decision Making for Business | 3 |
| 38 | COM230 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| 39 | MGT424 | Leadership in Organizations | 3 |
| 40 | HCA499 | Senior Capstone | 3 |
How this program becomes class work
The healthcare sequence asks the learner to connect organizations and populations: policy, finance, operations, evidence, ethics, and leadership must point to a defensible decision rather than remain separate vocabulary.
Maintain an evidence ledger with population, setting, date, measure, denominator, limitation, and decision use. That habit keeps a policy brief, financial analysis, improvement proposal, and doctoral study from making stronger claims than the data can carry.
The program page is the stable map; the online classroom is the live work order. At the start of every class, copy the eight Weeks from the current syllabus into one planner with activity identity, type, instructions, rubric, weight, due time, required materials, dependencies, student action, submission state, result, and feedback. That record is more useful than a generic list because it exposes collisions among papers, discussions, quizzes, projects, and supervised obligations.
Read the Weeks without guessing
Aspen publicly verifies eight-week courses and says each Week's activities are organized in the syllabus. That supports positional Week pages, not invented labels such as “Assignment 1” or a claim that every class uses the same mixture. Open the registered Week first; capture the exact activity; then use the linked manual to plan reasoning, evidence, drafting, checking, and student submission.
The program-level quality system
For health systems, policy, population evidence, administration, leadership, and public health, quality is cumulative. Preserve an evidence ledger, decision log, term glossary, calculation record, instructor-feedback register, and source archive across classes. Carry methods and feedback forward, but never recycle previously submitted language as new work. Before each deadline, test the current deliverable against the live rubric, its named audience, required evidence, professional constraints, and the student's own registered context.
Internship, residency, field, doctoral research, and approval-controlled work stays student-owned. Tutors teach analysis and review de-identified student drafts; institutions, sites, supervisors, and review bodies control authorization and acceptance.
Source control and change boundary
The course identities and requirements on this page come from Aspen University's 2025–2026 Academic Catalog, version 1.10, published June 5, 2026. The catalog is effective through August 31, 2026; this map was checked July 30, 2026. Aspen's official FAQ is the source for the eight-week rhythm and live-syllabus activity boundary. Later catalog revisions, a different governing catalog, and the registered classroom supersede this page.
Questions about this map
Is this the current Aspen Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration course map?
It is transcribed from Aspen University's active 2025-2026 Academic Catalog, version 1.10, and was checked July 30, 2026. A student's governing catalog, degree audit, transfers, substitutions, and advisor instructions can change the registered path.
Does every listed course have eight Week pages?
Yes. Aspen's official FAQ states that courses are eight weeks long and that each week's activities are organized in the online-classroom syllabus. Each course page links Week 1 through Week 8 without inventing the assignment inside any Week.
Can a tutor complete field, practicum, residency, or doctoral activity?
No. The student completes all supervised, experiential, approval-controlled, identity-controlled, group, and submission activity. Tutoring is limited to instruction, planning, and feedback on de-identified student work.