Director, Candice Eisenhauer

This is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide students with a concentration of course work that supports the future study and practice in a healthcare career.

Requirements for a Pre-Health Professions Certificate are 26 - 34 hours from four groups: 

Pre-Health Professions Certificate
Note: 15-18 hours of required courses in categories, remaining credits of the students choosing to reach the required minimum of 26 credit hours and a maximum of 34.
Group One - Core Requirements
(A) Health Professions Study (Choose one of the options)
Option One: (Complete course & approved health experience as separate experiences)
Health Professions & Society
Health Professions Colloquium
Health Professions Practicum
Option Two: (Complete course & approved health experience together)
Health Professions Integrated Learning
(B) Biological Science Foundation course:
Organization of Life: Genetics and Cell Biology
(C) Physical Science Foundation course - Choose one from this list:
Course cannot overlap with major requirement (unless student’s major is Chemistry).
General Chemistry I
General Chemistry II
General Physics I
General Physics II
Introductory Physics I
Introductory Physics II
Group Two - Advance Study of Health & Human Body
Some courses may have prerequisites not included on the list.
Course cannot overlap with major requirement.
At least one course from:
Introduction to Pharmacology
Microbiology
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Advanced Cellular and Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Human Anatomy and Physiology I
Human Anatomy & Physiology II
Genetics
Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry II
General Biochemistry
Concepts in Nutrition
Applied Physiology
Foundations of Neuroscience
Group Three – Social, Psychological & Environmental Influences on Health
Some courses may have prerequisites not included on the list.
At least one course from:
Cultural Anthropology
Food, Farms, and Culture
Culture and Difference
Medical Anthropology
Global Health
Disease Ecology
Environmental Pollution and Toxicology
Introduction to Public Health
Concepts in Epidemiology
Race & Justice
Global Justice
Developmental Psychology
Intro to Psychopathology
Biopsychology
Introduction to Sociology
Sociology of Sexuality
Social Problems
Violence in Minority Communities
Violence Against Women
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Group Four - Supporting Electives
Some courses may have prerequisites not included on the list.
Course cannot overlap with major requirement.
Diversity of Life: An Introduction to Zoology and Botany
Reproductive Biotechnology
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioethics
Bioethics
Health Economics
Ethics & Society
Suffering
Gender and Being Human
Spanish Conversation
Any course in the Physical Science course list not already counting towards the certificate
Any course in the Advance Study of Health & Human Body course list not already counting towards the certificate
Any course in the Social & Environmental Influences on Health list not already counting towards the certificate

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