Jan 22, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Pre-Health Professions Minor

This 24-credit hour minor includes the prerequisites for each of our pre-health profession tracks. Students should seek advice from a pre-health advisor in Arts & Sciences Advising Services as to which specific courses they should take for their chosen profession. For students pursuing a major in the College of Arts and Science, 9 hours of the minor must be distinct from the major.

Prerequisites:

Complete:

BIOL 150 - Organismal and Ecological Biology 3 Credit Hours *
BIOL 159 - Skills of Biological Investigation 2 Credit Hours *
BIOL 160 - Cellular and Molecular Biology 3 Credit Hours *

Or

BIOL 101 - Introduction to Biology: Cells, Genetics, and Physiology 4 Credit Hours *
BIOL 102 - Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity and Ecology 4 Credit Hours *
BIOL 160 - Cellular and Molecular Biology 3 Credit Hours *

Or

CHEM 122 - General Chemistry I 3 Credit Hours *
CHEM 123 - General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 Credit Hours *
CHEM 132 - General Chemistry II 3 Credit Hours *
CHEM 133 - General Chemistry II Laboratory 1 Credit Hours *

Pre-Health Professions Minor

I. Select 15 hours:

ANTH 250 - Human Anatomy 3 Credit Hours and
ANTH 251 - Human Anatomy Laboratory 1 Credit Hours
BCMB 230 - Human Physiology 5 Credit Hours
BIOL 220 - General Microbiology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 229 - General Microbiology Laboratory 2 Credit Hours
BIOL 240 - General Genetics 4 Credit Hours
CHEM 260 - Foundations of Organic Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 269 - Foundations of Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1 Credit Hours
CLAS 273 - Medical Terminology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 250 - Human Anatomy 3 Credit Hours and
EEB 251 - Human Anatomy Laboratory 1 Credit Hours
MICR 210 - Allied Health Microbiology 3 Credit Hours *
NUTR 100 - Introductory Nutrition 3 Credit Hours *
PHYS 221 - Elements of Physics I 4 Credit Hours *
PHYS 222 - Elements of Physics II 4 Credit Hours *
Note: either BIOL 220 or MICR 210 * may be applied to the minor.

II. Select 9 additional hours:

BCMB 311 - Advanced Cellular Biology 3 Credit Hours
BCMB 401 - Biochemistry I 4 Credit Hours
BCMB 402 - Biochemistry II 4 Credit Hours
BCMB 412 - Molecular Biology and Genomics 4 Credit Hours
BCMB 440 - General Physiology 3 Credit Hours
BCMB 461 - Cancer Biology 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 359 - In-depth Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1 Credit Hours
CHEM 360 - In-depth Organic Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
EEB 310 - Evolution, Disease, and Medicine 3 Credit Hours *
EEB 403 - The Evolution of Cancer: An Integrative Approach 3 Credit Hours
ENGL 342 - Literature and Medicine 3 Credit Hours *
ENGL 360 - Technical and Professional Writing 3 Credit Hours * *
HIAS 480 - Traditional Chinese Medicine 3 Credit Hours
HIEU 430 - Gender and Medicine in the Middle Ages 3 Credit Hours
HIEU 432 - Medicine in the Third Reich 3 Credit Hours
HIUS 339 - The History of Medicine in the Movies 3 Credit Hours
HIUS 443 - Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 3 Credit Hours *
MICR 330 - Immunology 3 Credit Hours
MICR 420 - Microbial Pathogenesis 3 Credit Hours
MICR 429 - Medical Microbiology Laboratory 2 Credit Hours
MICR 440 - Virology 3 Credit Hours
MICR 461 - Cancer Biology 3 Credit Hours
PHIL 345 - Bioethics 3 Credit Hours *
PHIL 360 - Philosophy of Science 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 330 - Abnormal Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 410 - Sensory Processes and Perception 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 430 - Health Psychology 3 Credit Hours
REST 309 - Religion and the Workplace 3 Credit Hours
REST 335 - Islam and the Body 3 Credit Hours *
REST 390 - Mindfulness 3 Credit Hours
REST 481 - Public Health in Holocaust Ghettos 3 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .