Animal Sciences: Pre-Veterinary Medicine Concentration, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Courses (33 credits)

Other Departmental /Program Course Requirements (83-84 credits)

• AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University
• AGR 11400 - Introduction to Animal Sciences Academic Programs
• AGRY 32000 - Genetics
• AGRY 32100 - Genetics Laboratory
• BCHM 30700 - Biochemistry
• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I ♦
• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II ♦
• BIOL 22100 - Introduction To Microbiology
• BIOL 23100 - Biology III: Cell Structure And Function
• BIOL 23200 - Laboratory In Biology III: Cell Structure And Function
• CHM 11500 - General Chemistry ♦ (satisfies Science #1 for core)
• CHM 11600 - General Chemistry ♦ (satisfies Science #2 for core)
• CHM 25500 - Organic Chemistry
• CHM 25501 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory
• CHM 25600 - Organic Chemistry
• CHM 25601 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory
• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core)
• MA 16020 - Applied Calculus II
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods (satisfies Information Literacy for core)
• VM 10200 - Careers In Veterinary Medicine

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• PHYS 22000 - General Physics or
• PHYS 23300 - Physics For Life Sciences I

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• PHYS 22100 - General Physics or
• PHYS 23400 - Physics For Life Sciences II

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• Written Communication/Information Literacy Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00-4.00 (satisfies Written Communication for core)

• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition or
• HONR 19903 - Interdisciplinary Approaches In Writing or
• SCLA 10100 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity

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• Oral Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Oral Communication for core)

• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication or
• COM 21700 - Science Writing And Presentation or
• EDPS 31500 - Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal Skills

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• Economics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Culture Behavioral/Social Science for core) 

• AGEC 20300 - Introductory Microeconomics For Food And Agribusiness
• AGEC 20400 - Introduction To Resource Economics And Environmental Policy
• AGEC 21700 - Economics
• ECON 21000 - Principles Of Economics
• ECON 21700 - Economics
• ECON 25100 - Microeconomics
• ECON 25200 - Macroeconomics

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• Human Cultures: Humanities Selectives - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Cultures: Humanities for core)
• Humanities or Social Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Science Selective (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Written or Oral Communication Selective (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (3-4 credits)

• Electives - Credit Hours: 3.00-4.00

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements

• 2.00 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
• College of Agriculture International Understanding Selective   - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Multicultural Awareness Selective   - Credit Hours: 3.00
• College of Agriculture Humanities or Social Science Selectives    (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

• Humanities or Social Science Selectives   (Choose from outside the College of Agriculture) - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Written or Oral Communication Selectives   (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

University Core Requirements

For a complete listing of University Core Course Selectives, visit the University Senate Website.

• Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Science (BSS)
• Human Cultures: Humanities (HUM)
• Information Literacy (IL)
• Oral Communication (OC)
• Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
• Science #1 (SCI)
• Science #2 (SCI)
• Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
• Written Communication (WC)

Program Requirements

Notes

• 2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 2.0 GPA required in Animal Science courses
• Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student.

World Language Courses

World Language proficiency requirements vary by program. The following list is inclusive of all world languages PWL offers for credit; for acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor.

ASL-American Sign Language	ARAB-Arabic	CHNS-Chinese	FR-French
GER-German	GREK-Greek (ancient)	HEBR-Hebrew (Biblical)	HEBR-Hebrew (modern)
ITAL-Italian	JPNS-Japanese	KOR-Korean	LATN-Latin
PTGS-Portuguese	RUSS-Russian	SPAN-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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