2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

Health Information Management, B.S.

Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 required at time of application for acceptance as declared major.

Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 required to apply to Rutgers for Major professional courses.

ENG 1030, all  Rutgers prerequisite courses, Capstone and Major courses require grade of C or higher.

General Education 32

Foundations Requirements 13

GE 1000TRANSITION TO KEAN

1

OR

GE 3000TRANSFER TRANSITIONS

1

 

ENG 1030COLLEGE COMPOSITION

3

COMM 1402SPEECH COMM AS CRITICAL CITIZENSHIP

3

MATH 1000ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS

3

GE 2024RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

3

GE 1000, GE 3000: University Requirement for Graduation for all undergraduate students that must be satisfied in one of two ways: Complete GE 1000 (all freshmen and transfers entering with 0-29 credits) OR GE 3000 (transfers entering with 30 credits or more).

ENG 1030: Minimum grade of C required

Disciplinary/Interdisciplinary Distribution Requirements:

Humanities 6

ENG 2403WORLD LITERATURE

3

Select one course from below
Fine Arts or Art History

3

Philosophy or Religion

3

Foreign Languages

3

Music or Theatre

3

Interdisciplinary

3

Social Sciences 6

HIST 1062WORLDS OF HISTORY: TRADITIONS AND ENCOUNTERS

3

Select one course below
Psychology

3

Economics or Geography

3

Political Science

3

Sociology or Anthropology

3

Interdisciplinary

3

Science and Mathematics 7

BIO 1000PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY

4

MATH 1016STATISTICS

3

Rutgers prerequisite courses: Minimum grade of C required

Additional Requirements 14-16

Additional Required Courses 14-16

ID 1400COMPUTING IN MODERN SOCIETY

3

AND

CPS 1032MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS

3

OR

CPS 1231FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

4

BIO 2402HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY & ANATOMY

4

MGS 2030PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

3

ACCT 2200PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING I

3

Rutgers prerequisite courses: Minimum grade of C required

Free Electives 15-17

Free Electives 15-17

50% at 3000-4000 level

Academic Major 61

Major courses below are taken at Rutgers University

All major courses at Rutgers are online except coding courses

Foundation Core 52

BINF 3000Introduction to Healthcare

1

BINF 3010Medical Terminology

3

BINF 3110Legal Aspects

3

BINF 3126Health Record Data Management I

3

BINF 3127Health Record Data Management II

3

BINF 3301Classification and Reimbursement Systems

3

BINF 3311Introduction to Coding

3

BINF 3411Disease Pathology I

3

BINF 3412Disease Pathology II

3

BINF 4220
Guided Research and Statistics

3

BINF 4200
Finance Concepts for HIM

3

BINF 4310
Performance Improvement W-E

3

BINF 4311Electronic Health Record

3

BINF 4305Health Info Services Admin

3

IDST 3510Principles of Scientific Inquiry

3

IDST 4300Human Resource Mgmt.

3

BINF 5000Essentials of Health Computer Science

3

BINF 5520
Health Analytics

3

Minimum grade of C required in all major courses

Elective Options 6

Must select two courses from same track; minimum grade of C required

Medical Coding Track

BINF 4216
Coding with ICD Part 1

3

BINF 4217
Coding with ICD Part 2

3

BINF 4313
Coding with CPT

3

Compliance Track

BINF 4536Healthcare Compliance I

3

BINF 4537Healthcare Compliance II

3

Information Analytics Track

BINF 5515
Information Governance

3

BINF 4150
Ethics in Healthcare

3

Health Informatics Track

BINF 5005Healthcare Info. Systems

3

BINF 5100Intro to Biomed. Informatics

3

Courses in this track also count toward Master's degree of same title

Health Info. Leadership Track

Choose two of the three courses below:

BINF 5131Health Care Finance

3

IDST 5110Health Services Issues and Trends

3

IDST 5600Mgmt and Leadership in Health Care

3

Courses in this track also count toward Master's degree of same title

Major Capstone 3

BINF 4619
Management Affiliation

3

Senior capstone at Rutgers/joint assessment using Kean University GE oral presentation and written presentation rubrics; minimum grade of C required

Total Credit Hours: 124