Health Science Major, Dental Hygiene Option, BS, HS01

General Education Requirements: 27 Hours (45 Hours*)

See Baccalaureate Degree General Education Curriculum Requirements.  

Health Sciences Core: 18 Hours

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

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• MATH 0310 - Elementary Statistics 3

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• GB 0321 - Business Statistics I 3

• OR

• 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

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 - Dental Hygiene Concepts 2
• 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 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 3
• DH 0390 - Clinical Dental Hygiene III 4
• DH 0395 - Senior Seminar in Dental Hygiene 1

Electives Upper Division: 2 Hours**

Electives as needed to satisfy 39 upper division hours and to meet 120 total hours.

Total Hours: 121

*BIO 121 meets Area D1 of General Education Requirements (GER), CHEM 120 meets Area D2, PSY 100 and SOC 110 meet Area E2, HS 305 meets Area I of GER.
**Two hours of upper division electives needed after completion of the Dental Hygiene and Health Science Core.
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.