Curriculum

Freshman Year

Fall

  • CAS BI 105 or BI 108 Intro to Biology
  • CAS CH 171 Chemistry for Life Sciences
  • CAS WR 100 Writing Seminar
  • SAR HP 151 Intro to Health & Rehab. Sci. (2)
  • Humanities elective

Spring

  • CAS BI Biology Course II
  • CAS MA 115/113 Elementary Statistics or CAS PS 211 Intro to Experimental Design in Psychology
  • CAS PS 101 General Psychology
  • CAS WR150 Writing and Research Seminar

Sophomore Year

Fall

  • CAS BI Biology Course III
  • CAS SO 215 Health and Society
  • SAR HP 252 Health and Disability Across the Life Span
  • SAR HP 210 Intro To Critical Inquiry (2)
  • Humanities elective

Spring

  • SAR HP 353 Organization and Delivery of Health Care Systems
  • CAS EC 101 Intro to Microeconomics
  • Minor speciality area elective
  • social science elective

Junior Year

Fall

  • SAR HS 300 Epidemiology I
  • HAR HS 352 Health Care Information Systems (2)
  • CAS PH 251 Medical Ethics (fall semester) or CAS PH 452 Ethics of Health Care (spring semester)
  • SAR HP Health Professions elective
  • Social Science elective

Spring

  • SAR HS 300 Epidemiology I (either semester)
  • HAR HS 352 Health Care Information Systems (either semester) (2)
  • SAR HS 320 Genomics in Public Health
  • SAR HP Health Profession Course
  • Minor/specialty area elective

Senior Year

Fall

  • SAR HS 405 Health Science Practicum
  • Minor/specialty area of study
  • Elective

Spring

  • SAR HS 470 *Senior Seminar Topics in Public Health
  • SAR HS 475 * Senior Seminar Advocacy Disability and the Law
  • SAR HS 405 Health Science Practicum
  • Minor/specialty area of study
  • Elective

Each course carries 4 credits unless otherwise indicated.

 

 

Biology Course Sequence
 
Effective fall 2007

New Biology Course Sequence

All students are required to successfully complete either:

CAS BI 105 Intro to Biology
or
CAS BI 108 Biology II

Plus two biology courses from the following course list:

CAS BI 107 Biology 1
CAS BI 106 Human Anatomy
SARHS 369 Gross Human Anatomy
CAS BI 211 Human Physiology
CAS BI 315 Systems Physiology (for students who have taken BI 108 and CH 101, CH 102)
SAR HS 342 Exercise Physiology
SAR HS 370 Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology (prereq. SAR HS 369)
CAS BI 203 Cell Biology (for students who have taken BI 108, CH102)
CAS BI 311 General Microbiology (for students who have taken BI 203)
CAS BI 114 Human Infectious Diseases (microbiology with lab – formerly micro course for nursing school)
CAS BI 206 Genetics (for students who have BI 108 or high grade BI 105, and CH 203 or CH 172)
SAR HS 251 Human Nutrition Science

Other biology courses:  with prior approval of Health Science Program Director

 

health professions elective courses

The health professions electives are designed to provide health science majors with the opportunity to explore selected health professions in greater detail.

Athletic Training

SAR AT 345 Care and Prevention for Athletes

Speech, Language & Hearing

SAR SH531 Introduction to communication disorders
SAR SH524 Normal language acquisition
SAR SH521 Phonetics
SAR SH522 Anatomy and Physiology of the speech mechanism
SAR SH535 Introduction to Audiology

Health Science

SAR HS320 Genomics in Public Health
SAR HS470 Topics in Public Health: senior seminar
SAR HS475 Advocacy, Disability and the Law (junior or senior standing)

Human Physiology

SAR HS 342 Exercise Physiology (prereq: CAS BI 211)
SAR HS 369 Gross Human Anatomy (prereq: CAS BI 105, 106 or CAS BI 107, 108)
SAR HS 375 Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology (prereq: CAS BI 211, SAR HS 342)
SAR HS 360 Muscle Biology in Health and Disease (prereq: CAS BI 315)
SAR Any of the advanced science courses are open to health science majors, once prerequisites are met.

Nutritional Science

SAR HS 201 Introduction to Nutrition
SAR HS 251 Human Nutrition Science (prereq: college-level course in biology/physiology)

Occupational Therapy

SAR OT 151: Occupation & Health - Introduction to Occupational Therapy

Rehabilitation and Human Services

SAR HP 412: Introduction to Abnormal Behavior
SAR HP 500: Helping Skills

Public Health

PH 510 Introduction to Public Health
PH 511 International Health

School of Education

SED PE 303 Kinesiology
SED PE 375 Psychology of Sport

Other

PDP ER 400 Emergency Medical Technician

Other courses may be eligible, subject to approval of Health Science Program Director.