Health Science, Dental Hygiene Option, BS

General Education Requirements: 32 Hours (47 Hours*)

See Baccalaureate Degree General Education Curriculum Requirements. 

Health Sciences Core: 21 Hours

• HS 0305 - Intercultural Communication 3 *
• HS 0350 - Fundamentals of Organizational Management 3
• HS 0312 - Biomedical Ethics 3

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• MATH 0310 - Elementary Statistics 3

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• GB 0321 - Business Statistics I 3

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• SOC 0405 - Social Science Statistics 3

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• PSY 0320 - Applied Statistics for the Behavioral and Natural Sciences 3

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• HS 0380 - Epidemiology 3

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• HS 0370 - Environmental Health and Safety 3

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• HS 0390 - Health Care Systems 3
• HS 0402 - Evidence Based Practice 3

Dental Hygiene Requirements: 74 Hours

• BIO 0121 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I 4 *
• BIO 0221 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II 5
• BIO 0231 - General and Medical Microbiology 5
• BIO 0240 - Radiation Biology 3
• CHEM 0120 - Chemistry for the Allied Health Sciences 5 *
• PSY 0100 - General Psychology 3 *
• SOC 0110 - Introduction to Sociology 3 *
• DH 0101 - Fundamentals of Dental Hygiene 2
• DH 0103 - Fundamentals of Dental Hygiene - Lab 2
• DH 0105 - Fundamentals of Instrumentation 2
• DH 0120 - Medical Emergencies & Special Needs Patients 1
• DH 0140 - Dental Morphology 1
• DH 0150 - Oral Histology and Embryology 3
• DH 0160 - Dental Radiology 2
• DH 0165 - Dental Radiology Lab 1
• DH 0190 - Clinical Dental Hygiene I 4
• DH 0210 - Pain Management 1
• DH 0220 - Dental Materials 1
• DH 0225 - Dental Materials Lab 1
• DH 0280 - Peridontics I 2
• DH 0290 - Clinical Dental Hygiene II 4
• DH 0295 - Seminar in Dental Hygiene I 1
• DH 0300 - Community Dental Health Education 3
• DH 0301 - Community Dental Health Education Practicum 1
• DH 0310 - Nutrition 2
• DH 0320 - Pharmacology 2
• DH 0340 - Oral Pathology 3
• DH 0350 - Periodontics II 2
• DH 0390 - Clinical Dental Hygiene III 4
• DH 0395 - Senior Seminar in Dental Hygiene 1

Electives Upper Division: 1 Hour**

Total Hours: 124

*Required courses satisfy major requirements and General Education Requirements. Both Sociology and Psychology are required. One course is built into the General Education Requirements and the other should be taken as a dental hygiene requirement.
**Four hours of upper division electives needed after completion of the Dental Hygiene and Health Science Core. ENG 0305  recommended to satisfy GER Area F2  to help meet upper division requirements.
Students who transfer with an Associate’s Degree in Dental Hygiene may qualify for upper division retro-credit hours. See Retro Credit Program  for details.