Health Professions Pathway

The Health Professions Pathway is a suggested curriculum for students having an interest in the health professions and post-graduate training such as medicine or pharmacy, and which can lead to careers in the following areas (Please click on the links below which provide additional information regarding the appropriate training leading to occupational opportunities in these fields) :

• Audiology
• Chiropractic
• Dentistry
• Optometry
• Pharmacy
• Physical Therapy
• Physicians and Surgeons
• Podiatry
• Veterinary Medicine

Students may choose to complete either a standard 36 hour major with a minor in another field, or a 50 credit hour concentration without a minor.

• Biology Major Requirements (minor required)
• Biology Major Requirements (without a minor)

The following courses offered by the Department of Biological Sciences are suggested by the faculty for those students having an interest in the health professions.

A course is required in each of the menu areas below for the major, but multiple suggestions are offered to reflect the diversity of appropriate courses made available to students by the department.

Molecular menu suggestions

• BIOL 3150 - Cell Biology (3 credits) - every semester
• BIOL 3151 - Cell Biology Lab (2 credits) - every semester
• BIOL 4167 - Biochemistry of Metabolism (3 credits) – fall semester
• BIOL 4177 - Biochemistry of Metabolism Lab (2 credits) – fall semester

Organismal menu suggestions

• BIOL 3220 - Comparative Anatomy (4 credits) – fall, odd years
• BIOL 3260 - Animal Physiology (4 credits) - spring

Biodiversity menu suggestions

• HSCI 3320 - General Microbiology (4 credits)

Population menu suggestions

• BIOL 3350 - Ecology (4 credits) – fall and spring semester
• BIOL 4360 - Evolution (3 credits) - spring semester

Electives suggestions

• BIOL 4147 - Biochemistry of Macromolecules (3 credits) – spring semester
• BIOL 4157 - Biochemistry of Macromolecules Lab (2 credits) – spring semester
• BIOL 4277 – Neurobiology (4 credits) - fall
• BIOL 4597 - Recombinant DNA Laboratory (3 credits) - spring semester
• BIOL 4647 - Molecular Biology (3 credits) - fall semester
• BIOL 4900 - Independent Study (1-4 credits) - every semester
• BIOL 4910 - Research in Biology (1-4 credits) - every semester