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School of Applied Health Sciences
General Education and Common Degree Requirements
Fundamental Literacies
Writing Literacy
- ENG-W 131 Reading, Writing, and Inquiry I
Critical Thinking
- HSC-H 492 Research in Health Sciences (recommended)
Oral Communication
- SPCH-S 121 Public Speaking
Visual Literacy
Quantitative Reasoning
- HSC-H 322 Epidemiology and Biostatistics (recommended)
Information Literacy
Computer Literacy
Common Core Courses
Students in the Applied Health Sciences will take all four EXCEPT dental hygiene and clinical lab sciences. Clinical Laboratory Science students must take ONE common core at the 390/399 level—this has been edited on the CLS degree page since the General Education for that degree is different than the overall School of Applied Health Sciences. must be at the 390/399 level (Dental Hygiene and Nursing students must take courses in three of the following):
- Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity
- Human Behavior and Social Institutions
- Literary and Intellectual Traditions
- The Natural World
Contemporary Social Values
Non-Western Cultures
Rehabilitative Sciences requires ANTH-E 105 Culture and Society
Diversity in United States Society
- HSC-H 327 Introduction to Public and Community Health (Health Sciences; recommended)
- SOC-S 161 Principles of Sociology (Dental Hygiene; required)
Health and Wellness
Either are recommended
- HPER-N 220 Nutrition for Health (Dental Hygiene students)
- HPER-N 220 Nutrition for Health (Health Science students); OR
HSC-H 102 Lifetime Wellness for Health
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