B.A. Degree with a Distributive Major in Health Services Leadership

Buena Vista University Graduate & Professional Studies is exclusively for students seeking to complete degrees begun elsewhere. We facilitate the smooth transfer of credits from Southwestern Community College. This advising guide is effective for students entering BVU in the 2011-12 academic year. As course and degree requirements change, students are encouraged to consult with BVU personnel.

Southwestern Community College has a full articulation agreement with Buena Vista University. Students who have completed an approved associate's degree at SWCC can seamlessly move on to complete a bachelor's degree through Buena Vista University.

The distributive health care leadership major degree plan will include a primary field of 18 credit hours selected from the following:
Business
ACCT 205 - Financial Accounting.........................................................................ACC 131 - Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 206 - Managerial Accounting.....................................................................ACC 132 - Principles of Accounting II 
ACCT 309 - Cost Accounting.................................................................................ACC 221 - Cost Accounting
ECON 205 - Principles of Microeconomics...............................................................ECN 130 - Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 206 - Principles of Macroeconomics..............................................................ECN 120 - Principles of Macroeconomics
FNBK 306 - Managerial Finance
FNBK 322 - Analysis of Financial Statement
FNBK 356 - Financial Planning
MGMT 206 - Management Science........................................................................BUS 230 - Quant Methods for Business Decision Making
MGMT 315 - Business Law I.................................................................................BUS 185 - Business Law I
MGMT 316 - Business Law II................................................................................BUS 186 - Business Law II
MGMT 320 - Human Resource Management
MGMT 375 - Entrepreneurship/Small Business
MGMT 380 - Social Responsibility of Business
MGMT 492 - Business Policy & Strategy
MIS 300 - Intro to MIS......................................................................................CIS 755 - Management Information Systems
MRKT 306 - Principles of Marketing....................................................................MKT 110 - Principles of Marketing
0BVU 120 - Computer Applications....................................................................CSC 110 - Intro to Computers or BCA 215 - Computer Business Applications

Additional management, marketing and finance courses as approved.


The degree plan must include 12 credit hours from each of the following two categories:
Communication & Behavior
COMM 100 - Fundamentals of Communication
COMM 230 - Business & Professional Communication
COMM 302 - Intercultural Communication
COMM 330 - Messages, Meaning & Society
COMM 355 - Conflict Management
COMM 370 - Leadership Communication
COMM 374 - Interviewing
DIGI 230 - Introduction to Integrated Communication
ENGL 300 - Advanced Composition
ENGL 450 - Business & Technical Writing
MRKT 355 - Consumer Behavior
PSYC 329 - Psychology of Gender
Other related upper division courses as approved.

Institutions & Society
ART 304 - Modern to Contemporary Art History
ENGL 250 - American Literature.....................................................................LIT 110 American Lit to Mid 1800s or LIT 111 American Lit since Mid-1800s
ENVS 100 - The Biological Environment
ENVS 101 - The Physical Environment
ENVS 201 - Conservation Ecology
ENVS 310 - Environmental Chemistry
HIST 311 - Problems in World History: Vietnam War
HIST 358 - Women Around the World
HIST 390 - America & the World Wars
HIST 397 - Recent American History
PSCN 465 - Civil Liberties
PSPA 320 - State & Local Politics.........................................................................POL 112 - American State & Local Government
PSPA 360 - Intro to Public Affairs
PSYC 364 - Industrial Psychology
PHIL/RELI 336 - Professional Ethics
SOCI 302 - Sociology of Deviant Behavior
SOCI 361 - Racism & Sexism in American Life
SCWK 255 - Human Behavior in Social Environment
SCWK 351 - Aging in American Society
THEA 411 - Dramatic Literature
Other related upper division courses as approved.

Students must earn a minimum of 12 credit hours at the 300/400 level in their major from Buena Vista University. All transcripts will be evaluated on an individual basis. If questions should arise, please contact Buena Vista University Graduate & Professional Studies Creston location at 800.556.7151 or 1501 West Townline, Room 726, Creston, Iowa 50801.