Integrated Life Sciences - B.S./M.D. Program Requirements

Year 1
Course		Title	Credits
Summer 1 (13 credits)
PSYC	11762	General Psychology	3
SOC	22100	Sociological Analysis	3
US	10097	Destination Kent State: First Year Experience	1
		Humanities courses or electives	6
Fall 1 (19 credits)
BSCI	10120	Biological Foundations	4
CHEM	10960	Honors General Chemistry I	5
HONR	10197	Freshman Colloquium I	4
ILS	21091	Integrated Life Sciences Seminar I	2
MATH	12021	Calculus for Life Sciences	4
Spring 1 (18 credits)
BSCI	30140	Cell Biology	4
CHEM	10961	Honors General Chemistry II	5
HONR	10297	Freshman Colloquium II	4
ILS	21092	Integrated Life Sciences Seminar II	2
SOC	42563	Sociology of Health and Health Care	3
Year 2
Course		Title	Credits
Summer 2 (14 credits)
BSCI	30156	Elements of Genetics	3
ILS	32592	Sociological Perspectives in Public Health	3
	42591	Medical Sociology Research Skills	2
	42592	Medical Sociology Practicum	3
		Humanities course or elective	3
Fall 2 (18 credits)
BSCI	30171	General Microbiology	4
CHEM	30475	Organic Chemistry Laboratory I	1
	30481	Organic Chemistry I	3
ILS	32091	Integrated Life Sciences Seminar II	2
MATH	12022	Probability and Statistics for Life Sciences	3
Choose from the following:			5
PHY	13001	College Physics I (4)
	13021	General College Physics Laboratory I (1)
		or
	23101	General University Physics I (5)
Spring 2 (18 credits)
BSCI	30519	Vertebrate Embryology and Developmental Anatomy	4
CHEM	30482	Organic Chemistry II	3
	40245	Biochemical Foundations of Medicine	4
ILS	32092	Integrated Life Sciences Seminar IV	2
Choose from the following:			5
PHy	13002	General College Physics II (4)
	13022	General College Physics Laboratory II (1)
		or
	23101	General University Physics II (5)
Year 3
Course		Title	Credits
Summer 3 (12 credits)
ILS	30392	Psychological Helping Skills for Medicine	3
	40392	Medical Psychology Practicum	3
PSYC	40111	Abnormal Psychology	3
		Humanities course or elective	3
Fall 3		Phase II NEOUCOM
Spring 3		Phase II NEOUCOM
Year 4
Summer 4 (12 credits)
		Humanities course of elective (if not completed earlier)	12
MINIMUM TOTAL			124

Humanities and Electives
THE HUMANITIES COMPONENT (18):
Objective: Within the constraints imposed and the opportunities afforded by summer academic scheduling, to provide disciplined experience in and exposure to the differing modes of thought, perception/perspectives and methodologies of the disciplines usually classified as the “humanities” in arriving at informed critical analyses of the human experience.

Requirement: 18 semester hours of academic credit. At least one of the courses taken to satisfy the humanities must also satisfy the diversity requirement. The humanities requirements may be fulfilled in the following fashion during the students’ fourth and fifth summers (fourth and sixth summers for students who begin core clerkships in fifth summer, rather than in the fall) in the joint six-year B.S./M.D. program offered by the university in conjunction with the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine:

I. Fine Arts (3)
Students are to take at least one approved course from the list of Kent Core Fine Arts courses.

II. History, Literature, Philosophy (12)
Students must take two courses (one lower and one upper division) from two of the following three fields:
History
Literature
Philosophy*
*Students are strongly urged to take an ethics course from Philosophy as parts of the Humanities Requirement.
III. Humanities Elective (3)
Students are to take one additional course in Humanities, Fine Arts or Foreign Language.

IV. Electives (6)
During the time devoted to fulfillment of the humanities requirements of the ILS program, students also will be taking “elective” hours sufficient to complete the 124 semester hours of satisfactorily completed academic credits required for the B.S. degree as offered through the College of Arts and Sciences of Kent State University. Humanities hours in excess of the 18 semester hours minimum of the humanities component requirement will be applied toward these “elective” hours.

Diversity
Students must also satisfy the 6-hour diversity requirement of the university. At least one of the courses taken to satisfy the humanities must also satisfy the diversity requirement. The 6 hour diversity requirement is fulfilled with one domestic diversity course and one global diversity course.

NOTE: All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.