Pre-Health Sciences

Pre-Health Sciences is a curriculum option for students that intend to pursue graduate or professional studies in the broad field of Health Sciences, including dentistry, environmental health, medicine, nursing and public health, after graduating from Franklin. The curriculum is designed to ensure that you complete commonly required and recommended courses for pre-health graduate programs while pursuing your chosen major.

General Pre-Health Requirements*

Franklin Courses

One year of General Biology with lab

BIO 101 and BIO 102 General Biology with lab

One year of General Chemistry with lab

CHEM 101 and CHEM 102 General Chemistry with lab

One year of Organic Chemistry with lab

CHEM 201 and CHEM 202 Organic Chemistry with lab

One semester of Biochemistry

CHEM 301 Biochemistry 

One semester of General Physics with lab

PHYS 101 Physics for Health Sciences with lab

One semester of Mathematics (Calculus often recommended)

MAT 200 

One semester of Statistics

MAT 201 or ENV 250 

One semester of Psychology

Any PSY course; PSY 100 recommended

One year of English

WTG 150, WTG 200, or CLCS Writing courses

One semester of Humanities or Social Science

AHT, COM, ECN, HIS, POL, POL, PSY or SJS

Other Science Courses
   Anatomy
   Physiology
   Public Health
   Environmental Health

BIO 297 Wilderness Medicine in a Changing Climate

BIO 330 Epidemiology, Disease and Public Health

ENV 240 Environment and Health

Other upper-level BIO courses

Anatomy and physiology courses forthcoming

*Entry requirements of specific programs may differ among institutions
Students entering Franklin with university credit towards specific requirements can apply those credits to substitute for the pre-health courses (e.g. AP, IB, etc.).
May be required by some programs

Health sciences graduate programs are generally looking for well-rounded candidates who not only have the appropriate knowledge, but who also have excellent critical thinking, speaking, writing and quantitative skills, who are team players, who are culturally competent and who have a developed set of ethics and a service-oriented outlook. At Franklin students have a wide array of courses, majors, minors and experiences to choose from that will develop and strengthen these skills.