Health Professions and Graduate School Preparation
Prerequisites:
For those students planning to pursue health-related careers such as medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, optometry, osteopathy, physical therapy, physician assistant, nursing, or medical technology, or for those preparing for graduate school, the following prerequisites are typically required:
Principles of Biology I and II
Principles of Chemistry I and II with Laboratories
Organic Chemistry I and II with Laboratories
Calculus I
Principles of Physics I and II with laboratories
English Literature course in addition to an academic writing course (e.g. ENC, ENG).
Statistics is also strongly recommended (BIO 3012: Biostatistics, MATH 1100: Intro to Statistics, or PSY 2012: Statistics for the Social Sciences).
Biochemistry with or without lab (BIO 3061 and BIO 2061 respectively) is also strongly recommended.
Prospective pre-medical/pre-dental minors interested in enrolling in Principles of Biology I or II also need to complete the Biology Placement Exam, which is an online exam located on Blackboard.