Health Science Major (Bachelor of Science)

A student majoring in health science must complete 54 quarter hours of interdisciplinary courses as listed below, the required cognates, the general studies program, and all baccalaureate degree requirements as outlined in this bulletin.

Core Requirements:

HLTH 110	Wellness for Living	3
HLTH 205	Survey of Health	2
HLTH 208	Drugs and Society	3
HLTH 220	Human Nutrition	4
HLTH 315	Etiology of Selected Diseases	3
HLTH 370	Health Psychology (or PSYC 370)	3
HLTH 427	Fitness Evaluation Techniques	3
HLTH 472	Stress Management	3
HLTH 496	Seminar	1
PETH 426	Physiology of Exercise	4
	Electives	9-13

Electives: one class must be upper-division.

Select 12-16 hours from the following courses: (4 hours must be upper division) (12-16)

BIOL 121	Anatomy and Physiology	4
BIOL 122	Anatomy and Physiology	4
BIOL 123	Anatomy and Physiology	4
BIOL 222	Microbiology	5
BIOL 305	General Ecology	4
BIOL 381	Cell Biology I: Structure and Bioenergetics	4
BIOL 382	Cell Biology II: Genetics and Molecular Biology	4
BIOL 420	Sociobiology	3
BIOL 449	Vertebrate Histology	4
BIOL 464	Animal Physiology	4
BIOL 466	Immunology	4
CHEM 431	Foundations of Biochemistry	4
CHEM 432	Foundations of Biochemistry	4
ENVI 385	Environmental Stewardship	4
Total Credit Hours:		54

 

Cognates

BIOL 141	General Biology	4
BIOL 142	General Biology	4
BIOL 143	General Biology	4
CHEM 141	General Chemistry	3
CHEM 142	General Chemistry	3
CHEM 143	General Chemistry	3
CHEM 144	General Chemistry Laboratory	1
CHEM 145	General Chemistry Laboratory	1
CHEM 146	General Chemistry Laboratory	1
PSYC 130	General Psychology	4
PHYS 211	General Physics	3
PHYS 212	General Physics	3
PHYS 213	General Physics	3
	and
PHYS 214	General Physics Laboratory	1
PHYS 215	General Physics Laboratory	1
PHYS 216	General Physics Laboratory	1
	or
CHEM 321	Organic Chemistry	4
CHEM 322	Organic Chemistry	4
CHEM 323	Organic Chemistry	3
	and
CHEM 325	Introduction to Organic Chemistry Laboratory	1
CHEM 326	Introduction to Organic Chemistry Laboratory	1

Select one of the following: (4)

BIOL 250	Biostatistics	4
MATH 206	Applied Statistics	4
GBUS 263	Business Statistics	4

Select one of the following: (4-8)

MATH 117	Accelerated Precalculus	5
MATH 121	Precalculus Mathematics I	4
MATH 122	Precalculus Mathematics II	4
MATH 181	Analytic Geometry and Calculus I	4