Certificate of Pre-Health Career Preparation

1. Maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0.

2. Complete at least six courses from the list below.

Completion of these courses does not guarantee adequate preparation for application to professional school.  Refer to HPAC advising materials and the prerequisite requirements of specific schools of interest for a full list of required courses.

• BIO 101 - Introduction to Biology (4)
• BIO 110 - Inquiry Laboratory: Introduction to Biological Investigation (3)
• BIO 111 - Energy of Life: Cells to Ecosystems (3)
• BIO 112 - Information of Life: Genetics to Evolution (3)
• BIO 215 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I (4)
• BIO 216 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II (4)
• BIO 326 - Comparative Anatomy (4)
• BIO 355 - Human Anatomy (4)
• BIO 356 - Human Physiology (4)
• CHM 125 - General Chemistry I (4)
• CHM 126 - General Chemistry II (4)
• CHM 205 - Organic Chemistry I (4)
• CHM 206 - Organic Chemistry II (4)
• PRE 111 - Ethics (3)
• PSY 117 - Introduction to Psychology (3)

3. Complete an application to a professional school

in one of the following seven areas:  nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant, medicine (including osteopathic medicine), dentistry, and pharmacy.  An official receipt of submission must be submitted to the Health Professions Advisory Committee.  Alternatively, a student can petition the Health Professions Advisory Committee that sufficient progress toward application to one of the seven areas above has been made at the time of graduation.