Minor in Pre-Medical Studies
The undergraduate minor in Pre-Medical Studies requires 55 semester credit hours. This minor contains prerequisite courses commonly required by medical schools in the United States. Individual medical schools may require or recommend additional courses, and prerequisites can change without notice. Visit the admissions websites for medical schools you are interested in to ensure you meet all their requirements.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| Biology | ||
| BIO 1330 & BIO 1130 | Functional Biology and Functional Biology Laboratory | 4 |
| BIO 1331 & BIO 1131 | Organismal Biology and Organismal Biology Laboratory | 4 |
| BIO 2450 | Genetics | 4 |
| BIO 3421 | Vertebrate Physiology | 4 |
| or BIO 3426 | Human Physiology | |
| Chemistry | ||
| CHEM 1341 & CHEM 1141 | General Chemistry I and General Chemistry Laboratory I | 4 |
| CHEM 1342 & CHEM 1142 | General Chemistry II and General Chemistry Laboratory II | 4 |
| CHEM 2341 & CHEM 2141 | Organic Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry Laboratory I | 4 |
| CHEM 2342 & CHEM 2142 | Organic Chemistry II and Organic Chemistry Laboratory II | 4 |
| CHEM 3375 | Principles of Biochemistry | 3 |
| or CHEM 4375 | Biochemistry | |
| Physics | ||
| Choose 4 hours from the following: | 4 | |
| General Physics I and General Physics I Laboratory | ||
| General Physics I for Life Sciences Majors and General Physics I Laboratory | ||
| Mechanics | ||
| Choose 4 hours from the following: | 4 | |
| General Physics II and General Physics II Laboratory | ||
| General Physics II for Life Science Majors and General Physics II Laboratory | ||
| Electricity and Magnetism | ||
| English | ||
| Choose 6 hours from the following: | 6 | |
| College Writing I | ||
| College Writing II | ||
| Writing for Sustainable Change | ||
| British Literature before 1785 | ||
| British Literature since 1785 | ||
| World Literature before 1600 | ||
| World Literature since 1600 | ||
| US Literature before 1865 | ||
| US Literature since 1865 | ||
| U.S. Literature: Writing Identities | ||
| Technical Writing | ||
| Writing to Change the World | ||
| Writing Yourself into Academia: Creating Portraiture | ||
| Statistics | ||
| Choose 3 hours from the following: | 3 | |
| Statistics For Criminal Justice | ||
| Data Visualization and Interpretation: Honors Statistics | ||
| Healthcare Statistics | ||
| Elementary Statistics | ||
| Introduction to Probability and Statistics | ||
| Introduction to Statistics | ||
| Business Statistics | ||
| Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences | ||
| Pyschology | ||
| PSY 1300 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
| Total Hours | 55 | |
