The Office of Pre-Professional Advising helps you become a competitive applicant for your future professional school. Below are the prerequisite courses that we strongly encourage our students to take based on the requirements that the majority of professional graduate programs require of their applicants. These courses will also help prepare students for their Entrance Exam. A 3.5+ cumulative and science GPA is recommended. The following courses support required and suggested coursework for Alabama schools . The combination of courses are guidelines — all course numbers are UAH course numbers. Specific requirements may vary among schools. = required course = recommended course (not required at all schools, but may be required at some Note: Academic placement for new students is based on standardized test results, AP/IB/CLEP credit, and/or previous college credit. Students who wish for their placement to be re-evaluated may do so with updated test results or through placement testing at UAH. We strongly advise placement re-evaluation prior to attending New Student Orientation. Biology Chemistry Math Physics Biology UAH Course Graduate Program Requirements Principles of Biology & Lab BYS 119 & BYS 119L 119: Lecture/Lab/Recitation. Introduction to biological principles of cell structure, function, metabolism, and reproduction. One two-hour lab and a one-hour recitation per week. 119L: Laboratory exercised to introduce students to accurate measurement techniques, observation, and the development of relevant hypotheses. Several formal lab reports are required as an introduction to scientific writing. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Optometry Nursing Organismal Biology BYS 120 & BYS 120L 120: Lecture/Lab/Recitation. Discussion of biological function with special emphasis on contrasting strategies employed by organisms in meeting similar biological needs. One two-hour lab and a one-hour recitation per week. Corequisites: BSY 120L and BSY 120R. 120L: Introduction to the basic concepts of natural selection, population biology, and the biodiversity of animals and plants. Several formal lab reports are required as a further introduction to scientific writing, along with a lab practical on the biodiversity of animals and plants. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Optometry Genetics and Evolution BYS 219 & BYS 219L 219: Lecture/Lab/Recitation. Two labs and one recitation per week. Hereditary basis of organisms; genes as the discrete units of inheritance, and genes in organisms and populations. Mendelian principles and evolutionary processes. Replication, transcription and translation of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Corequisite: BYS 219L Prerequisites: BYS 119, BYS 120 and CH 101 or CH 121 and MA 107 or MA 112. 219L: Laboratory activities include experiments to further students understanding in Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and human genetic diseases. Counted as part of the overall grade for BYS 219. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Optometry Cell and Developmental Biology BYS 300 & BYS 300L Lecture/Lab. One lab per week. Introduces the student to topics in cell and developmental biology. Subjects include cell structure, organelles, cytoskeleton, secretory pathway, cell division, cell cycle, cell interaction and control of differentiation. Prerequisites: BYS 219 (C- or better) and either CH 123 or 201. Medical Dental Vet Anatomy and Physiology I BYS 313 & BYS 313L 313: Lecture/Lab. One lab a week. Structure and function of the human body. Anatomy of the skeletal and muscular systems, physiology of membranes, cellular and epithelial transport and nervous system function. Appropriate preparation for professional schools/graduate study in biological sciences. Prerequisite: BYS 119. Prerequisites with concurrency: BYS 300, and either CH 201 or CH 331. 313L: Laboratory activities on the basic concept of system physiology including a rat dissection. Focuses on membrane transport and histology, and include gross anatomy and a study of the muscles and bones of the human body. Capstone student research project on electromyography of muscles. Medical 300+ (MCAT) Dental 300+ (DAT) Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Nursing BYS 215/216 Anatomy and Physiology II BYS 314 & BYS 314L 314: Lecture and one lab a week. Continuation of BYS 313 stressing structural and functional relationships of major organ systems, focusing on heart, brain, lungs, kidney, and the gastrointestinal tract. Appropriate for students preparing for professional schools or graduate study in biological sciences. Prerequisite: BYS 313 (C- or better). 314L: Research-intensive system-based laboratory course. Includes brain dissection, a student EEG project, heart dissection, and a cardiovascular physiology project. This is followed by a pulmonary function lab and a renal function lab where students calculate their own glomerular filtration rate. Medical 300+ (MCAT) Dental 300+ (DAT) Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Nursing BYS 215/216 General Microbiology I BYS 321 & BYS 321L Structure, biochemistry, and genetics of microorganisms, control of microbial growth, and microorganisms as pathogens. Lab covers basic and diagnostic methods in microbiology, environmental factors controlling microbial growth and survival, and characteristics of medically important microorganisms. Prerequisites: BYS 120, BYS 219. Prerequisite with concurrency: BYS 300. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Optometry General Biochemistry BYS 361 & BYS 362 361: Biochemical structure and function of amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids; Enzyme catalysis and kinetics; major catabolic pathways, their integration and control mechanisms: Glycolysis, Citric Acid Cycle, Fatty Acid Oxidation and Oxidative Phosphorylation. Same as CH 361 Prerequisites: (BYS 119, BYS 120, CH 332 and CH 335) or (BYS 311, CH 332 and CH 335). 362: One 3-hour lab a week. Practical experience in isolation, qualitative identification, and quantitative estimation of biomolecules. Same as CH 362. Prerequisites: CH 335 and CH 336. Prerequisite with concurrency: CH 361. Medical MCAT Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Optometry Top Chemistry UAH Course Graduate Program Requirements General Chemistry I & Lab CH 121 & CH125 121: For science and engineering majors. Chemical properties of elements, their periodic groups, and their compounds. Reactions and stoichiometry. Nature of the chemical bond, molecular structure, thermochemistry. Properties of gases, liquids, and solids. Prerequisite: CH 101 or placement test. Prerequisites with concurrency: MA 113 or higher, and CH 125. 125: Complements the lecture material for CH 121. Includes the determination of chemical and physical properties of materials, synthesis and characterization, and introduction to spectroscopy. Prerequisite with concurrency: CH 121 or CH 121M. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Optometry Nursing CH 101/105 General Chemistry II & Lab CH 123 & CH 126 123: Continuation of CH 121 with in-depth study of topics listed. To be taken concurrently with CH 126. Prerequisite: CH 121 or CH 121M. 126: Complements the lecture material of CH 123. Includes an introduction to qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques. Prerequisite with concurrency: CH 123. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Optometry Organic Chemistry I & Lab CH 331 & CH 335 331: Lecture/Lab includes one two-hour recitation per week. Chemistry of organic compounds. Synthetic methods, theory, and reaction mechanisms. Prerequisite: CH 123. 335: Techniques of organic chemistry including synthesis, separation, and identification of organic compounds with use of chemical and spectroscopic methods. Prerequisite with concurrency: CH 331. Prerequisite: CH 126. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Optometry Organic Chemistry II & Lab CH 332 & CH 336 332: Lecture/Lab Includes one two-hour recitation per week. Continuation of CH 331. Prerequisite: CH 331. 336: Continuation of CH 335. Prerequisite: CH 335. Prerequisite with concurrency: CH 332. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Optometry Top Math UAH Course Graduate Program Requirements Calculus A MA 171 or MA 171S MA 171: Limits, derivatives, applications of the derivative, definite and indefinite integrals, exponential and logarithmic functions, and inverse functions. Prerequisites: MA 113 or MA 115 with a grade of C or better, or Level 3 placement. MA 171S: This course offers all of the Calculus A curriculum with the addition of trigonometry review. The course is 4 credit hours but meets five days per week. The S-section of Calculus A is intended for students with math placement level 2 but who are willing to put in extra time and effort to study trigonometry along with all of the requirements for MA 171. Prerequisite: MA 113 or math placement level 2. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Optometry Statistics MA 281 or MA 385 or PY 300 or SOC 303 MA 281: Descriptive statistics, fundamentals of probability theory, fundamentals of statistical inference, including estimation and hypothesis testing, and use of a typical statistical package such as MINITAB. Prerequisites: MA 113, or MA 115, or Level 2 Placement. MA 385: This course is a calculus-based introduction to probability with special emphasis on the interplay between probability and statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability spaces; discrete distributions (including the binomial, geometric, hypergeometric, and Poisson); continuous distributions (including the uniform, exponential, and normal); joint distributions; mean, variance, and general expected value; independence and correlation; the law of large numbers; and the central limit theorem. Prerequisites: MA 201 with grade of C- or better. PY 300: Introduction to psychological statistics, with an emphasis on quantitative analysis of experimental data. Topics covered include probability, descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: MA 107 or MA 110 or MA 112 or MA 113 or MA 115 or MA 120 or MA 171. Corequisite: PY 300L. SOC 303: Introduction to the basic quantitative data analysis techniques used by social scientists. Explore the ways researchers use statistics to examine and test ideas about the social world. In the lab, students learn how to use the statistical software SPSS to analyze social science datasets. Prerequisite: One of the following math courses: MA 107, MA 110, MA 112, MA 113, MA 115, MA 120, MA 171. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physician Assistant Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Optometry Nursing Top Physics UAH Course Graduate Program Requirements General Physics I & Lab PH 101 & PH 101L or PH 111 & PH 114 PH 101: Introductory non-calculus based course using algebra and trigonometry. The basic laws of physics and their application to specific problems. Newtonian mechanics, energy, conservation laws and thermodynamics. Laboratory included. PH 101 and 102 satisfy the laboratory science requirement. Offered Fall Corequisite: PH 101L. PH 101L: Laboratory for PH 101 Corequisite: PH 101. PH 111: For science and engineering students. Basic laws of physics and their application to specific problems: vectors, Newtonian mechanics, energy, conservation laws, simple harmonic motion, statics, fluids. Offered all terms. Prerequisite: MA 171 Corequisite: PH 114. PH 114: Laboratory instruction in support of material covered in PH 111. Offered all terms. Corequisite: PH 111. Medical Dental Vet Pharmacy Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Optometry General Physics II & Lab PH 102 & PH 102L or PH 112 & PH 115 PH 102: Continuation of PH 101. Electrostatics, currents, magnetic phenomena, relativity, waves, quantum nature of matter. Laboratory included. Offered Spring. Prerequisite: PH 101. Corequisite: PH 102L. PH 102L: Laboratory for PH 102 Corequisite: PH 102. PH 112: Continuation of PH 111. Heat and thermodynamics, basic electricity, electric and magnetic fields. Offered all terms. Prerequisite: MA 172, PH 111, PH 114. Corequisite: PH 115. PH 115: Laboratory instruction in support of material covered in PH 112. Offered all terms. Corequisite: PH 112. Medical Dental Vet Physical Therapy Optometry Top
