UNLV [2015-2016] Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program Health Career Professional Studies Requirements
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UNLV [2015-2016] Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program Health Career Professional Studies Requirements
UNLV Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program Health Career Professional Studies Requirements Requirements for entering terms: Catalog Expires (10 yrs): College: [2015-2016] Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 August 2026 Sciences This program is for students who have undergraduate degrees in any discipline who wish to pursue a career in the health sciences. There are three tracks, each designed to assist a different demographic. Completion of requirements in any track will result in awarding the Certificate. This program is for students who have undergraduate degrees in any discipline who wish to pursue a career in the health sciences. There are three tracks, each designed to assist a different student demographic. Completion of requirements in any of the 3 tracks will result in awarding the Certificate in Health Career Professional Studies. Track 1 is designed to assist individuals who already have an undergraduate degree in a nonhealth discipline but are interested in making a career change . Track 2 is designed for two demographics of students; those that have applied to professional school and been rejected due to a low grade point average and those who have not yet applied to professional school due to a low grade point average and wish to improve their application before applying. Track 3 is designed for the partnership with the any of the schools of medicine in the state of Nevada that have agreements with UNLV. This track affords preferential consideration to students who are first generation college, from groups which are under-represented in medicine, including Native American, Latino/Latina, African-American; and students from rural areas, and low socio-economic backgrounds. Track 1-Career Change Designed to assist individuals who are interested in making a career change. This track is intended to facilitate the completion of prerequisite and preparatory coursework to confer eligibility to apply to medical school and dental school. Students interested in pursuing Pharmacy, Physician Assisting, Physical Therapy, Veterinary, Chiropractic, or any other type of health science professional school may pursue this track, but will likely need to take additional courses to complete the prerequisites for these types of professional school. Only students whose grade point averages are competitive for professional school (3.0 or higher) should pursue this track. It consists of 64 credits of defined coursework that are delineated below. Transfer credits may be accepted dependent on how recent the coursework was completed. Courses over 10 years old are not considered to be current for application to professional school. Track 2 - Health Science Enhancement Designed for two demographics of students; those that have applied to professional school and been rejected due to a low grade point average and those who have not yet applied professional school due to a low grade point and wish to improve their application before applying. These students typically require substantantive post-baccalaureate coursework and the extent of the number of credits required to facilitate acceptance to professional school is directly dependent on how low starting GPA is. In most cases, 60 credits may faculitate acceptance to professional school, but in the extreme cases 90 credits may be necessary. As such, students may complete 60 to 90 credits of any of the following courses to earn the certtificate. Track 3 - Medical School Partnership Designed for the partnership with the any of the schools of medicine in the state of Nevada that have agreements with UNLV. This track affords preferential consideration to students who are first generation college, from groups which are under-represented in medicine, including Native American, Latino/Latina, African-American; and students from rural areas, and low socio-economic backgrounds. Anyone is eligible to apply. Students pursuing this track must also complete the application for this program with the participating school of medicine and proceed through a screening process to be selected for this track. If the student maintains a 3.3 cumulative GPA and earns a minimum score to be determined by the school of medicine on the MCAT, the student is eligible to apply for a reserved number of seats for the appropriate incoming medical school class. The participating schools of medicine reserve up to 10% of incoming seats for post baccalaureate students. It is designed for students who have undergraduate degrees who are not academically competitive to apply to medical schools. Students do not have to be a re-applicant. Students admitted to this track must complete 30 credits from the following courses over a single academic year. Certificate Requirements GPA 3.0 Grades Allowed: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C Other Administrative Requirements: approval by the Office of the Dean, College of Sciences College of Sciences Advising Center 702-895-2077 www.unlv.edu/sciences/advising Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program 2015-2016 Health Career Professional Studies Requirements Course Lists by Track Course Number Credits Track 1 BIOL 196/196L Modern Biology I Course Title 4 4 Track 2 BIOL 197/197L Modern Biology II 4 4 BIOL 223/223L Anatomy & Physiology I 4 4 BIOL 224/224L Anatomy & Physiology II 4 4 BIOL 251/251L General Microbiology 4 4 BIOL 300/300L Principles of Genetics 4 BIOL 304/304L Molecular Genetics 4 BIOL 301(301X) Fossil Record BIOL 305 Track 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 Introduction to Conservation Biology 3 3 3 BIOL 348 Human Anatomy 3 3 BIOL 351** Microbiology before 2010 4 4 BIOL 360 Biomathematics I 3 3 3 BIOL 361 Biomathematics II 3 3 3 BIOL 405 Molecular Biology 3 3 3 BIOL 409 Virology 3 3 3 BIOL 414 Endocrinology 3 3 3 BIOL 417(417X) Biochemical Adaptations 3 3 3 BIOL 418(418X) Microbial Ecology 3 3 3 BIOL 425 Genomics 3 3 3 BIOL 440 Mammalian Physiology 3 3 3 BIOL 447 Adv Comparative Animal Physiology 3 3 3 BIOL 445 Cell Physiology 3 3 3 BIOL 451(350)/455 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy 5 5 5 BIOL 453 Immunology 3 3 3 BIOL 460 Microbial Physiology 3 3 3 BIOL 464X Bacterial Pathogenesis 3 3 3 BIOL 465 Vertebrate Embryology 4 4 4 BIOL 466 Developmental Biology 3 3 3 BIOL 468 Histology 4 4 4 BIOL 470 Topics in Applied Microbiology 3 3 3 BIOL 475 Neurobiology 3 3 3 BIOL 485 Microbial Genetics 3 3 3 BIOL 489 Developmental Genetics 3 3 3 CHEM 121/121L General Chemistry I 4 4 CHEM 122/122L General Chemistry II 4 4 CHEM 241 Organic Chemistry I 3 3 CHEM 241L Organic Chemistry I lab 1 1 CHEM 242 Organic Chemistry II 3 3 CHEM 242L Organic Chemistry II lab 1 1 CHEM 421 Physical Chemistry I 3 3 3 CHEM 422 Physical Chemistry II 3 3 3 CHEM 428 Quantum Chemistry 3 3 3 CHEM 474 Biochemistry I 3 3 3 3 CHEM 475 Biochemistry II 3 3 3 3 CHEM 476 Advanced Topics in Biochemistry 3 3 3 CHEM 478 Endocrinology 3 3 3 PHYS 151/151L General Physics I 4 4 PHYS 152/152L 4 3 General Physics II 4 4 ENG 101 Composition I 3 3 ENG 102 Composition II 3 3 PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology 3 3 PSY 300/400 level upper division Psychology class 3 4 3 Total Credits 64 121 105 Credits Required 64 60-90 30