Minor in Health and Medical Sciences
The Health & Medical Sciences Minor is primarily geared towards students interested in pre-professional health programs or careers in medical research. The purpose of the Health & Medical Sciences Minor is to allow students with interests in a variety of fields, including medicine, exercise science, dentistry, optometry, health-related research, veterinary medicine, health informatics, pharmacy, nursing, and other allied health sciences to gain basic knowledge of the science surrounding health that will prepare them for future careers.
The purpose of the Health & Medical Sciences Minor is to encourage students to gain a basic knowledge of the science surrounding health and medicine, and prepare students for future careers in the allied health sciences. The Health & Medical Sciences Minor is designed to provide students with flexibility to pursue their interests while ensuring that students are exposed to a diversity of subject areas. Therefore, to complete the 15-credit Health & Medical Sciences Minor, students will be required take a minimum of 9 credits of classes from at least two schools other than their home school (i.e., classes with School designators--APPH, BIOL, BIOS, CHEM, NEUR, PHYS, PSYC-- other than their major School designator) and a maximum of 6 credits from their home unit. All classes used to fulfill the Health & Medical Sciences Minor must be chosen from the approved list of health-related courses.
In addition, as is the case for all GT minors, (1) the Health & Medical Sciences Minor must include at least 9 semester hours of courses numbered 3000 or above, (2) courses used to satisfy Core Areas A through E in a student’s major degree program cannot also be used to satisfy the course requirements for the minor, (3) a maximum of 6 semester hours of approved Special Topics courses may be included in the Health & Medical Sciences Minor or the student may complete 3 semester hours of Special Topics and 3 semester hours of either Special Problems or Undergraduate Research or Vertically Integrated Programs study (which would need to be pre-approved as appropriately health-related by the minor adviser), (4) a maximum of 3 semester hours of transfer credit may be used to satisfy the requirements for the minor, and (5) all courses counting toward the minor must be taken on a letter-grade basis.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Courses approved for Health and Medical Sciences minor: | ||
| BIOS 1107 | Biological Principles | 3 |
| BIOS 1107L | Biological Principles Laboratory | 1 |
| BIOS 1108 | Organismal Biology | 3 |
| BIOS 1108L | Organismal Biology Laboratory | 1 |
| BIOS 1207 | Biological Principles for Majors | 3 |
| BIOS 1207L | Biological Principles Project Laboratory | 1 |
| BIOS 1208 | Organismal Biology for Majors | 3 |
| BIOS 1208L | Organismal Biology Project Laboratory | 1 |
| BIOS 2500 | Introduction to Sport Science | 3 |
| BIOS 2600 | Genetics | 3 |
| BIOS 2601 | Genetics Laboratory | 1 |
| BIOS 2610 | Integrative Genetics | 3 |
| BIOS 2611 | Honors Genetics Lab | 1 |
| BIOS 2699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| BIOS 3000 | Survey of Medicine | 3 |
| BIOS 3380 | Microbiology | 3 |
| BIOS 3381 | Microbiology Lab | 1 |
| BIOS 3400 | Mathematical Models in Biology | 3 |
| BIOS 3450 | Cell and Molecular Biology | 3 |
| BIOS 3451 | Cell and Molecular Biology Lab | 1 |
| BIOS 3753 | Human Anatomy | 3 |
| BIOS 3754 | Laboratory in Human Anatomy | 1 |
| BIOS 3755 | Human Physiology | 3 |
| BIOS 3756 | Physiology Laboratory | 1 |
| BIOS 4012 | Protein Biology | 3 |
| BIOS 4015 | Cancer Biology and Biotechnology | 3 |
| BIOS 4100 | Exercise Physiology | 3 |
| BIOS 4150 | Genomics and Applied Bioinformatics | 3 |
| BIOS 4200 | Kinesiological Basis of Human Movement | 3 |
| BIOS 4238 | Ion Channels | 3 |
| BIOS 4340 | Medical Microbiology | 3 |
| BIOS 4400 | Human Neuroanatomy | 3 |
| BIOS 4464 | Developmental Biology | 3 |
| BIOS 4471 | Behavioral Biology | 3 |
| BIOS 4480 | Evolutionary Developmental Biology – How to Build an Organism | 2 |
| BIOS 4500 | Drug Discovery | 3 |
| BIOS 4505 | Programming in Biological and Life Sciences | 3 |
| BIOS 4510 | Epigenetics, Stem Cells, and Development | 3 |
| BIOS 4540 | Human Motor Control | 3 |
| BIOS 4545 | Genetics of Complex Human Traits and Diseases | 3 |
| BIOS 4560 | RNA Biology and Biotechnology | 3 |
| BIOS 4570 | Immunology | 3 |
| BIOS 4607 | Molecular Biology of Microbes: Disease, Nature, and Biotechnology | 3 |
| BIOS 4651 | Bioethics | 3 |
| BIOS 4668 | Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics | 3 |
| BIOS 4699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| BIOS 4746 | Signaling Molecules | 3 |
| BIOS 4801 | Special Topics (History of Neuroscience) | 1 |
| BIOS 4803 | Special Topics (Chromosome Biology & Human Disease) | 3 |
| BIOS 4803 | Special Topics (Neuromotor Physiology) | 3 |
| BIOS 4803 | Special Topics (Integrative Physiology) | 3 |
| CHEM 1211K | Chemical Principles I | 4 |
| CHEM 1212K | Chemical Principles II | 4 |
| CHEM 1310 | Principles of General Chemistry for Engineers | 4 |
| CHEM 1315 | Survey of Organic Chemistry for Engineers | 3 |
| CHEM 2311 | Organic Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHEM 2312 | Organic Chemistry II | 3 |
| CHEM 2313 | Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry | 3 |
| CHEM 2380 | Synthesis Laboratory I | 2 |
| CHEM 2699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| CHEM 3511 | Survey of Biochemistry | 3 |
| CHEM 3521 | Biochemistry I | 3 |
| CHEM 3522 | Biochemistry II | 3 |
| CHEM 4311 | Advanced Organic Chemistry | 3 |
| CHEM 4521 | Biophysical Chemistry | 3 |
| CHEM 4581 | Biochemistry Laboratory I | 3 |
| CHEM 4582 | Biochemistry Laboratory II | 3 |
| CHEM 4760 | Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering | 3 |
| CHEM 4765 | Drug Design, Development, and Delivery | 3 |
| CHEM 4699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| NEUR 2001 | Principles in Neuroscience | 4 |
| NEUR 2699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| NEUR 3001 | Cell and Molecular Neuroscience | 3 |
| NEUR 3010 | Methods in Neuroscience | 3 |
| NEUR 4100 | Neurodevelopment | 3 |
| NEUR 4300 | Neuroscience of Memory | 3 |
| NEUR 4400 | Neuroendocrinology | 3 |
| NEUR 4803 | Special Topics (Ion Channels) | 3 |
| NEUR 4803 | Special Topics (Intro to Neuroengineering) | 3 |
| NEUR 4803 | Special Topics (Neurobiology of Sleep) | 3 |
| NEUR 4699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| PHYS 2211 | Introductory Physics I | 4 |
| PHYS 2212 | Introductory Physics II | 4 |
| PHYS 2213 | Introduction to Modern Physics | 3 |
| PHYS 2231 | Honors Physics I | 5 |
| PHYS 2232 | Honors Physics II | 5 |
| PHYS 2699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| PHYS 4250 | Neurophysics | 4 |
| PHYS 4251 | Biophysics | 3 |
| PHYS 4699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| PSYC 1101 | General Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 2103 | Human Development Over the Life Span | 3 |
| PSYC 2210 | Social Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 2230 | Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 2280 | Psychology of Creativity and Art | 3 |
| PSYC 2699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| PSYC 2760 | Human Language Processing | 3 |
| PSYC 3000 | Science of Stress, Anxiety, and Happiness | 3 |
| PSYC 3009 | Health Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 3012 | Introduction to Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 3040 | Sensation and Perception | 3 |
| PSYC 3790 | Introduction to Cognitive Science | 3 |
| PSYC 3803 | Special Topics (Programming for Brain & Behavior) | 3 |
| PSYC 3803 | Special Topics (Neuroscience of Mental Health: Research and Practice) | 3 |
| PSYC 4010 | Human Abilities | 3 |
| PSYC 4020 | Biopsychology | 3 |
| PSYC 4090 | Cognitive Neuroscience | 3 |
| PSYC 4100 | Behavioral Pharmacology | 3 |
| PSYC 4260 | Psychology of Aging | 3 |
| PSYC 4699 | Undergraduate Research | 1-3 |
| PSYC 4790 | Seminar in Cognitive Science | 3 |
| PSYC 4803 | Special Topics (Mapping Experience and Space in the Mind) | 3 |
| PSYC 4803 | Special Topics (Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience Methods) | 3 |
| PSYC 4803 | Special Topics (Emotions) | 3 |