Pre-Allied Health - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
An Arts and Sciences Area of Study
Application Code 68
For curriculum information, contact the Science, Engineering, and Technology Division—Room ST-248—443-518-1600.
Highly qualified allied health professionals are needed to respond to the increasing health needs of a growing population. The pre-allied health curriculum is designed to prepare students for entrance into the following programs: dental hygiene, nursing, physical therapy, physician assistant, and radiation therapist. The pre-allied health curriculum emphasizes science and liberal arts courses that are required for transfer into these professional schools at other institutions. The curriculum has been designed to fulfill the diverse prerequisites of professional schools in these allied health areas. Students should become familiar with the entrance requirements of the professional program from which they plan to obtain their allied health degree in order to plan a course of study at HCC that includes the appropriate electives.
General Education Core
Students enrolled in transfer patterns must take a minimum of 30 credits in General Education. Each student’s total of general education and required courses must equal at least 60 semester hours of credit.
Composition
Humanities, Arts and Literature
One Humanities Core Course (3 credits), plus one Arts Core Course (3 credits), plus one Literature Core Course (3 credits) satisfies the Humanities, Arts and Literature Core requirement, OR a World Language Sequence (8 credits), plus another Humanities, Arts, and Literature Core (3 credits) in a second discipline other than a world language satisfies the Humanities, Arts and Literature Core requirement.
Social Sciences
One History Core Course is required and may be taken as either a Social and Behavioral Sciences Core or a Humanities Core. No more than 6 credits may be taken in History to meet Humanities Core and Social and Behavioral Sciences Core requirements.
Science
Mathematics
Interdisciplinary
Required Courses Related to Major
Required Courses
| CHEM-101 | General Inorganic Chemistry I | 4 credits |
| CHEM-102 | General Inorganic Chemistry II | 4 credits |
| - | or | |
| CHEM-104 | Fundamentals of Organic and Biochemistry | 4 credits |
| PSYC-101 | General Psychology | 3 credits |
| MATH-181 | Calculus I | 4 credits |
Social Sciences
Select two courses with a prefix of ECON, GEOG, HIST, POLI, PSYC, or SOCI (6)
Electives – Select 12 credits from the following:
Total Credit Hours: 62-69