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Pre-Health

Description

This Learning Community is designed to help you develop the academic skills you need to succeed as an undergraduate and, eventually, as a medical professional. The thematic course introduces students to the expectations and rewards of fields in the health professions and the schedule of courses sets students on the right path for a major leading to medical, veterinary, or pharmacy school. To read about previous pre-health learning communities at UWG, click here.

For which students?

The Pre-Health Learning Community is especially for first-year students who are considering a career in a health-related field, particularly medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, or veterinary medicine. The courses are suitable for students in any science major, particularly chemistry and biology.

Please note: Students wishing to enroll in this Learning Community must have scores of 500 or higher on the Math SAT and a high school GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Schedule of courses

Fall 2009:
XIDS 2002 Health Professions
ENGL 1101 English Composition I
MATH 1113 Pre-Calculus
CHEM 1211 Principles of Chemistry I
POLS 1101 American Government (optional)

Spring 2010:
ENGL 1102 English Composition II
CHEM 1212 Principles of Chemistry II
MATH 1634 Calculus
BIOL 1107 or 2985 Principles of Biology I or Biological Diversity
COMM 1110 Public Speaking

Enrollment instructions