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. Students will select between three concentrations in interdisciplinary healthcare, paramedic medicine, and surgical technology.
The program provides one year of general education to offer opportunities for EMS Academy graduates to complete an associate degree.
The paramedic and surgical technology completion concentration tracks provide an associate-level degree completion for students who are enrolled in or who have graduated from paramedic or surgical technology training programs. The AAS in Health Science does not confer eligibility to be certified or licensed. The student must come with or be concurrently completing a paramedic/surgical technology certificate program outside of USF.
The interdisciplinary healthcare concentration 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
- Major Core: 9 credit hours
- Concentration: 3-15 credit hours
- 0-24 credit hours of elective credits*
- 34 credit hours of transfer credits from Paramedic/EMS training or 36 hours of transfer credits from Surgical Technology certificate training*
*Prior Learning Credit for Professional certifications (graduates of an accrediated paramedic or surgical technology certificate program only)
Bachelor Degree Pairing: Students enrolled in the AAS in Health Science degree are eligible to dual enroll in the following USF bachelor degrees within the College of Health Sciences: Exercise Science, Health Services, Nutrition, or Social Work.
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