Potomac State College West Virgina University.

Pre-Medical Lab Science

Arts and Sciences Degree/A.A.

Requirements for Graduation

In order to earn an Associate of Arts Degree in Arts and Sciences with a major in Pre-Medical Laboratory Science, a student must complete a minimum of 61 credit-hours of required and elective course work.

Application for admission into the junior year (first year in the undergraduate Medical Laboratory Science Program of the School of Medicine) should be made before the beginning of the second semester of the sophomore year.

Students, whether at WVU or at Potomac State College, are not transferred automatically from the pre-professional course (first two years) to the professional course (third and fourth years). Students are selectively admitted to the program for their final two years of work. Application forms for admission to the professional course are available after December 1 from the office of the Director of Admissions and Records, Medical Center. These forms should be completed and returned to that office no later than March 1, if the student expects to enter the succeeding first semester classes.

Admission to the third year is on the recommendation of the Admissions Committee to the Dean of the School of Medicine. A personal interview with the Committee is required.

Applicants should have a minimum grade-point average of 2.5 (both cumulatively and in science). Applicants with less than a 2.5 GPA (either cumulative or science) may be admitted on probation. Applicants with less than a 2.0 GPA, either cumulative or in the sciences, will not be admitted.

Students who contemplate graduate study should include course work in a foreign language in their program.

Recommended Two-Year Sequence

FIRST YEAR

First Semester			Hrs.
ENGL	101	Composition and Rhetoric	3
CHEM	115	Fundamentals of Chemistry	4
BIOL	101	General Biology	3
BIOL	103	General Biology Laboratory	1
MATH	126	or higher mathematics	3
GEC Elective			3
WVUe	191*	First-Year Seminar	(1)
Total			17

 

Second Semester			Hrs.
ENGL	102	Composition and Rhetoric	3
CHEM	116	Fundamentals of Chemistry	4
BIOL	102	General Biology	3
BIOL	104	General Biology Laboratory	1
GEC Elective			3
ORIN	270	Introduction to Health Careers	1
Total			15

 

SECOND YEAR

First Semester			Hrs.
CHEM	233	Organic Chemistry**	3
CHEM	235	Organic Chemistry Lab**	1
STAT	211	Elementary Statistical Inference	3
GEC Electives			9
Total			16

 

Second Semester			Hrs.
CHEM	234	Organic Chemistry**	3
CHEM	236	Organic Chemistry Lab**	1
GEC Electives			9
Total			13

Total Hours: 61

*Required of first-time, first-semester students; not required for graduation.

**Students may consider taking a brief course in organic chemistry off-campus, which covers both aliphatic and aromatic compounds and includes a laboratory. Chemistry 231, offered on the Morgantown campus, would satisfy the organic chemistry requirement.