Dec 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergrad Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergrad Catalog

Health Science: Interdisciplinary Healthcare, AAS


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This program is designed to support students who are exploring interdisciplinary careers in health sciences. 

The interdisciplinary healthcare track provides an associate-level degree that students can fulfill while working on admission criteria for an additional healthcare major and offers coursework and elective hours to expose them to healthcare careers and complete certificate programs within healthcare such as phlebotomy or central sterile processing.

Student Learning Outcomes

Associate degree-seeking students must meet general education learning outcomes:

  • Communicate effectively through writing for specific audiences.
  • Apply mathematical skills to problem solving.
  • Analyze human behavior within a social context by means of recognized theory and research.
  • Integrate understanding of the Franciscan tradition into one’s own life and disciplinary context.
  • Reflect theologically on the lives of Francis and Clare and the movement they founded in dialogue with one’s own life.
  • Identify an information need, find and evaluate resources, and incorporate new information into one’s current knowledge.

Degree Requirements

The Associate Applied Science in Health Science requires 60 credit hours:

  • 12-13 credit hours of general education
  • 12-24 credit hours in major and concentration courses
  • 0-24 credit hours of elective credits

 

This program is designed to support students who are exploring interdisciplinary careers in health sciences and those who already hold a certificate/license and aspire to additional career and higher education opportunities. 

The interdisciplinary healthcare program provides an associate-level degree that students can fulfill while working on admission criteria for an additional healthcare major and offers coursework and elective hours to expose them to healthcare careers and complete certificate programs within healthcare such as phlebotomy or central sterile processing.

Bachelor Degree Pairing: Students enrolled in the AAS in Health Science degree are eligible to dual enroll in the following SF bachelor degrees within the College of Health Sciences: Exercise Science, Health Services, Nutrition, or Social Work.

 

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