University Minor in BBB and Health Care Management

The BBB Program and the Health Care Systems Department (HSMG) of the Wharton School have jointly sponsored this effort. The objective is to provide students with exposure to two related areas: study in neuroscience and behavioral biology, as a leading example of the bioscience enterprise, and health care management, as the environment in which science innovation must be developed and managed. The minor consists of eight courses, four from Wharton and four from the BBB Program. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- in courses taken to fulfill the minor requirements.

The College requires that students take sixteen courses in the College beyond those that are in their major. Thus, BBB majors declaring this University minor can count only two non-College classes within the 36 for the degree. These students must complete 38 credits for their degree.

Students interested in the minor should contact Ms. June Kinney in the Health Care Systems Office at kinneyj@wharton.upenn.edu or in her office 205 Colonial Penn Center (3641 Locust Walk) for advising before declaring the minor with the BBB Office.

Wharton required courses:

HCMG 101, Health Care Systems, is a basic course and would ordinarily be taken first in the sequence of health management course (although it is not technically a prerequisite for other HCMG courses).

Three additional Wharton/HCMG courses:
HCMG 202 The Economics and Financing of Health Care Delivery
-OR-
HCMG 302 The Economics and Financing of Health Care Delivery
(Please note that HCMG 202 and HCMG 302 cannot both be taken for credit by any one student.)
HCMG 203 Clinical Issues in Health Care Management: Doctors, Patients, and Managers in Modern Society
HCMG 204 Comparative Health Care Systems
HCMG 211 The Law of Health Care in America
HCMG 212: Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and Management
HCMG 213 Health Care Management and Strategy
HCMG 215 Management and Economics of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry

BBB Required Courses:

BIBB 109 - Introduction to Brain and Behavior

Three (3) additional BBB courses:

BIBB 217 Visual Neuroscience
BIBB 227 Physiology of Motivated Behaviors
BIBB 231 Animal Behavior
BIBB 240 Human Chronobiology and Sleep
BIBB 249 Cognitive Neuroscience
BIBB 251 Cellular Neurobiology
BIBB 269 Autonomic Physiology
BIBB 270 Drugs, Brain and Mind
BIBB 310 Laboratory in the Structure of Nervous Systems
BIBB 320 Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine I
BIBB 321 Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine II
BIBB 350 Developmental Neurobiology
BIBB 399 Independent Research
BIBB 410 Behavioral Medicine
BIBB 420 Smell and Taste
BIBB 421 Human Brain Imaging
BIBB 423 Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
BIBB 441 Genetics, Evolution and Behavior
BIBB 451 Behavioral Genetics
BIBB 460 Neuroendocrinology
BIBB 475 Neurodegenerative Diseases
BIBB 480 Biological Basis of Psychiatric Disorders
BIBB 481 Behavioral Pharmacology
BIBB 482 Clinical Psychopharmacology
BIBB 492 Experimental Methods in Synaptic Physiology
BIBB 499 Honors Thesis

BBB Student Research: Photomicrographs contrasting the Fluoro-Jade Staining of sham control (A), ipsilateral (B), and contralateral (C) dentate gyri in mouse brain sections seven days after unilateral brain injury. These pictures show that there is extensive damage to the ipsilateral dentate gyrus, but not the contralateral nor the sham control. Therefore, the contraleteral dentate gyrus remains intact and could contribute to long-term recovery mechanisms. Work was performed by Lorriann Tran with Dr. M.S. Grady.