Pre-Nursing

Pre-Professional Programs

Students who wish to enter speciﬁc professional or graduate schools should write to those schools to receive advice about the courses of study expected of those who would enter. Below are outlines of programs which are somewhat standard.

Students with interests in nursing as a career may complete one of the following options:

1. A Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree

In two years after completing the general education core of 74 hours. See the Generic B.S.N. program as outlined in the School of Nursing section of the catalog.

2. Professional-level nursing programs leading to RN certiﬁcation

Three calendar years in duration, including approximately one year of pre-professional course work in the following required courses:

BIOL 2305 - Nutrition 3 hrs
BIOL 2408 - Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology I 4 hrs - OR - BIOL 3408 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I 4 hrs
BIOL 2409 - Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology II 4 hrs - OR - BIOL 3409 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II 4 hrs
BIOL 3410 - Microbiology 4 hrs
ENGL 1301 - Composition and Rhetoric 3 hrs
ENGL 1302 - Composition and Reading 3 hrs
MATH 1300 - Intermediate Algebra 3 hrs - OR - MATH 1304 - College Algebra 3 hrs
PSYC 1301 - General Psychology 3 hrs
PSYC 2301 - Developmental Psychology 3 hrs