Health Science Pre-Professional/Pre-Dentistry Concentration, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Course Requirements (67 credits)

• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I ♦ (satisfies Science for core)
• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II ♦ (satisfies Science for core)
• BIOL 20300 - Human Anatomy And Physiology ♦
• BIOL 20400 - Human Anatomy And Physiology ♦
• CHM 11500 - General Chemistry ♦
• CHM 11600 - General Chemistry ♦
• CHM 25500 - Organic Chemistry ♦
• CHM 25501 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory ♦
• CHM 25600 - Organic Chemistry ♦
• CHM 25601 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory ♦
• HSCI 10100 - Introduction to the Health Sciences Professions
• HSCI 13100 - Introduction To Medical Terminology
• HSCI 20100 - Principles of Public Health Science (satisfies Science, Technology & Society for core)
• HSCI 20200 - Essentials Of Environmental, Occupational, And Radiological Health Sciences
• HSCI 22500 - Healthcare Leadership And Safety
• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I ♦ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning core)

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• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods or
• STAT 50300 - Statistical Methods For Biology

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• BCHM 30700 - Biochemistry or
• CHM 33900 - Biochemistry: A Molecular Approach

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• HSCI Selective - Credit Hours: 12.00

Pre-Dentistry Concentration (24 credits)

• 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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• HSCI Humanities, Behavioral/Social Sciences Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 
• Science and Health Selective - Credit Hours: 13.00

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (15-16 credits)

• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication ♦ (satisfies Oral Communication for core)
• PSY 12000 - Elementary Psychology (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences 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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• English Selective (any ENGL course 20000 level or above) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Human Cultures: Humanities - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Humanities for core)

Electives (13-14 credits)

Additional Requirements

Health Science Pre-Professional Supplemental Information  

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

• 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.
• An Ethics course (such as PHIL 11100 Ethics or PHIL 27000 Environmental Ethics) is highly recommended for elective credit.
  
• 2.0 Graduation GPA required for Bachelor of Science Degree.
• Students must complete 32 credit hours of 30000 level or above courses at Purdue for graduation.

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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