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2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Biology Major (Pre-Medicine)


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Requirements for the Pre-Medicine Biology Major (73 credits)


(Biology major preparing students for taking entrance exams and applying to graduate professional health career programs. These graduate programs include: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Pre-Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Optometry, and related fields.)

Signature Learning Requirements:


  • First Year Seminar 
  • Reading and Writing
  • Oral Communication 
  • Ethics 
  • Quantitative Reasoning 
  • Religion 
  • Fine Arts 
  • Social Science  
  • Cultural Pluralism 
  • Natural Science - (Students must take six (6) credit hours of Natural Science (the combination of the Natural Science and Society requirement and the Laboratory Science requirement)
  • Humanities
  • Global Systems

See Signature Learning  Pathways for a complete listing of applicable cognate courses.

Notes:


Additional coursework is recommended for all pre-medical students, including:

  • Statistics
  • English Composition
  • Psychology
  • Biochemistry
  • Sociology
  • Medical Terminology
  • Internship

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