Pre Health Professions Minor

Degree Type
Minor
Department
Biological Sciences
Chemistry & Physics

 

Many students graduating from SUNY Old Westbury aspire to have careers in the Health Professions. They want to become physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, veterinarians, physician assistants, physical therapists, nurses or any of the many other members of the health care team. The career path to achieve those goals involves post graduate education, clinical training and graduation from an appropriate professional graduate program. Entrance into these programs is now more competitive than ever. There are a variety of courses in which students must perform well that are pre-requisites for acceptance to these programs. These different types of programs have varying pre-requisites and it is not possible to place all of the possible courses together into a single Minor. In addition, many of the students aspiring to these careers are Biological Science Majors, but also many are not. For these reasons the Pre Health Professions Minor is designed to be something that could benefit any student interested in a career in the Health Professions, regardless of their academic major. Completion of the Pre Health Professions Minor will not satisfy all of the Pre-Requisite Courses for Health Professions Programs. Students working towards this minor are strongly encouraged to speak with a Health Professions Advisor to determine which of the offered elective courses will be most beneficial both for the Pre Health Professions Minor and when applying to graduate programs for their chosen career.

 

Curriculum

 

Requirements:


All students are required to complete a minimum of 6 courses, totaling 24 or more credits. A minimum of 16 credits must be taken outside of the courses required for the student’s academic major. Up to 2 courses or a maximum of 8 credits may be transferred from another institution for purposes of completing the Minor.

 

A. Required Courses:

All students must take one of the following sets of courses or at least 8 credits. Students can opt to take both sets of courses and the other 2 courses can count towards Elective Courses:

Either

  • BS2400/BS2401 Basic Biology 1 Lecture and Lab

AND

  • BS2410/BS2411 Basic Biology 2 Lecture and Lab

and/or

  • BS2300/BS2301 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 Lecture and Lab

AND

  • BS2310/BS2311 Human Anatomy and Physiology 2 Lecture and Lab


B. Elective Courses:

All students must take a minimum of 16 credits of the following elective course.
No course can be counted for both a required course and an elective course.


Biological Sciences

Maximum of 2 of the following may be applied as electives for the minor

  • BS2300/BS2301 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 Lecture and Lab
  • BS2310/BS2311 Human Anatomy and Physiology 2 Lecture and Lab
  • BS2400/BS2401 Basic Biology 1 Lecture and Lab
  • BS2410/BS2411 Basic Biology 2 Lecture and Lab
  • BS4420 Microbiology Lecture and Lab
  • BS4460 Genetics Lecture and Lab
  • BS3400 Vertebrate Physiology Lecture and Lab
  • BS3520 Comparative Anatomy Lecture and Lab


Chemistry/Physics

Maximum of 2 of the following may be applied as electives for the minor

  • CP2120/CP2121 Principles of Chemistry 1 Lecture and Lab
  • CP2130/CP2131 Principles of Chemistry 2 Lecture and Lab
  • CP3300/CP3302 Organic Chemistry 1 Lecture and Lab
  • CP3310/CP3312 Organic Chemistry 2 Lecture and Lab
  • CP4490 Biochemistry for Life Sciences

or

  • CP4510 Biochemistry 1
  • CP4520 Biochemistry Lab

or

  • CP2220/CP2221 Structure of Physics 1 Lecture and Lab

or

  • CP2240/CP2241 General Physics 1 Lecture and Lab

or

  • CP2230/CP2231 Structure of Physics 2 Lecture and Lab

or

  • CP2250/CP2251 General Physics 2 Lecture and Lab



Mathematics

Maximum of 1 of the following may be applied as an elective for the minor

  • MA2000 Applied Statistics
  • MA2090 Precalculus
  • MA2310 Calculus & Analytic Geometry I

 

Psychology

Maximum of 1 of the following may be applied as an elective for the minor

  • PY2010 Introduction to Psychology
  • PY3310 Abnormal Human Behavior
  • PY3215 Foundations of Child Development
  • PY3230 Adulthood and Aging
  • PY4230 Psychobiology of Aging


Sociology

Maximum of 1 of the following may be applied as an elective for the minor

  • SY1500 Introduction to Sociology


Public Health

Maximum of 1 of the following may be applied as an elective for the minor

  • PH4670 Biostatistics
  • PH4800 Epidemiology