Medical Laboratory Sciences, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Course Requirements (95 credits)

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (23-24 credits)

• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I ♦ (satisfies Science for core)
• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II ♦ (satisfies Science for core)
• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication ♦ (satisfies Oral Communication for core)
• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I ♦ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core)

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• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition ♦ (satisfies Written Communication and Information Literacy for core) or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition ♦(satisfies Written Communication and Information Literacy for core)

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• Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Behavioral & Social Sciences for core)
• Human Cultures: Humanities - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Humanities for core)

Electives (1-2 credits)

An Ethics course (such as PHIL 11100 - Introduction To Ethics  or PHIL 27000 - Biomedical Ethics ) is highly recommended

University Core Requirements

• Human Cultures Humanities
• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
• Information Literacy
• Science #1
• Science #2
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning

For a complete listing of course selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

Program Requirements

Notes

• A student may elect the Pass/Not-Pass grading option for elective courses only, unless an academic unit requires that a specific departmental course/s be taken Pass/Not-Pass.  Students may elect to take University Core Curriculum courses Pass / Not-Pass; however, some major Plans of Study require courses that also fulfill UCC foundational outcomes.  In such cases, students may not elect the Pass/Not-Pass option.  A maximum of 24 credits of elective courses under the Pass/Not-pass grading option can be used toward graduation requirements. For further information, students should refer to the College of Health and Human Sciences Pass / Not-Pass Policy.
• Most Medical Laboratory Sciences students graduate in August.
• Clinical year includes coursework in Chemistry, Hematology, Serology, Immunohematology, Microbiology, Urinalysis, and special topics such as: Laboratory Management, Parasitology, etc. The course titles and credits may vary depending on the affiliate site, but will adhere to the overall total of 32 credits at the 40000 level.
• Students must complete 32 credit hours of Purdue coursework at the 30000 level of higher for graduation.
• 3 years plus 1 year clinical (application required for clinical).
• A cumulative GPA of at least 3.00 and a minimum science (CHM, BIOL, PHYS, MA) GPA of at least 2.75 is required for admission into the clinical year.
• 2.0 GPA required for graduation

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program. 

For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical.

In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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