Health Science - Mountain State University

Health Science from Mountain State University is a Campus Master Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The graduate program in health science can prepare those in traditional health care fields for advanced work, particularly in education or administration. It also provides options for those within related specialties, such as safety officers and advisors, occupational health nurses, safety and training coordinators, risk managers, occupational hygienists, ventilation engineers, and people in other health science?related fields. The program?s flexible structure allows students to integrate a variety of disciplines and to incorporate such elements as mentored learning, field experiences, and other nontraditional forms of study. It also provides convenience for those who need to schedule graduate study around work and family responsibilities. PROGRAM INFORMATION This section includes information on options, processes, and regulations within the M.H.S. program. Contact the program staff or the School of Graduate Studies for additional details. THE GRADUATE EXPERIENCE Your graduate experience can be of immense value to you in the future, not only because it advances specific career or educational goals, but also because it cultivates habits of mind and discipline that will be important throughout your life. It fosters independent critical thinking; the ability to plan and perform; and skills in communication, research, and presentation. The Nature of Graduate Study Graduate work makes use of strong academic skills. The program therefore offers a number of courses that reinforce such key competencies in graduate study as research, critical thinking, professional writing, and fluency in communication and evaluation. Taking advantage of these courses will assist you in furthering your abilities. During graduate study, you should expect to improve and apply learning characteristics from your past undergraduate work. At the same time, your studies will emphasize higher-order attributes common in graduate education. Psychologists of learning often use the framework known as Bloom?s hierarchy to describe the ascending complexity of learning: assimilation, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. One significant difference between undergraduate and graduate work is that graduate education assumes the first three elements as givens in your work and encourages analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, particularly as a result of independent research. Graduate study not only emphasizes independence but also cultivates higher order learning and presentation bolstered by graduate characteristics. The Nature of Graduate Individualized Work If a traditional graduate experience normally includes independent work, graduate individualized study depends on it. This work is directed by advisors but is also the product of self-direction and self-discipline, attributes expected in the culture of graduate education. In graduate individualized study you present your degree plan for faculty and program approval; execute the plan, which may include traditional classes, independent learning classes, and directed independent research; and present a culminating project to your committee. You also work independently to form the committee that will guide you and to ask prospective members to serve on your committee. View more details on Mountain State University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.