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

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Requirements (67 credits)

• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I ♦ (satisfies Science for core)
• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II
• BIOL 20400 - Human Anatomy And Physiology ♦
• CHM 11600 - General Chemistry
• CHM 25600 - Organic Chemistry
• CHM 25601 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory

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• CHM 33300 - Principles Of Biochemistry ♦ or
• CHM 33900 - Biochemistry: A Molecular Approach ♦ or
• BCHM 30700 - Biochemistry ♦

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• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core)
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods
• STAT 50300 - Statistical Methods For Biology
• HSCI 10100 - Introduction to the Health Sciences Professions (satisfies Science, Technology & Society for core)
• HSCI 13100 - Introduction To Medical Terminology
• HSCI 20100 - Principles of Public Health Science
• HSCI 20200 - Essentials Of Environmental, Occupational, And Radiological Health Sciences
• HSCI 22500 - Healthcare Leadership And Safety
• HSCI Selective - Credit Hours: 12.00

Interdisciplinary Health Science Concentration (24 credits)

• HSCI Behavior/Social Sciences Selective - Credit hours: 3.00
• Science and Health Selectives - Credit hours: 21.00

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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• Science and Health Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• HSCI Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00

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

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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