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	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.) Required courses include:
   two semesters of
   - BIOL 400 - Senior Seminar
 - Required Modern Language: Students in this major must take two semesters of a single language or demonstrate competency by placing out of the requirement.
 
 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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