Second Degree Prerequisites

Prerequisites - credits/semester hours

The following courses must be completed with a B or better at an accredited university or college before enrollment:

• Human or Animal Anatomy and Physiology - 6-8 cr (within the past 5 years)
• Microbiology - 3-4 cr
• Nutrition - 2-3 cr
• Human Growth and Development or Developmental Psychology covering the entire lifespan - 3 cr
• Statistics - 3 cr
  Should include topics of correlation and linear regression; experimental design such as t-tests, analysis of variance and chi-square. Suggested departments: psychology, sociology, education, biology and mathematics. The departments whose statistics courses are more theory-based and lack the experimental design component are business, management and economics.