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Program Requirements
(see UD catalog for additional information)

Minimum program requirements
(University of Delaware and Jefferson Medical College)
  • Life and Physical Sciences (approx. 55 credits)

  • Humanities and Social Sciences (15 credits)

  • Public Policy and Economics (15 credits)

  • Medical Scholars Internships (6 credits)

  • UD and college requirements.

  • Total: 124 credits (60 credits at or above 300 level)
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College of Arts and Sciences Medical Studies Curriculum for
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies (BALS) Degree

  1. LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
    (The following are required)

    BISC207 -- Introductory Biology I (D)

    BISC208 -- Introductory Biology II (D)

    BISC306 -- General Physiology

    BISC408 -- Mammalian Histology

    BISC605 -- Advanced Mammalian Physiology

    CHEM103 -- General Chemistry (D)

    CHEM104 -- General Chemistry (D)

    CHEM321 -- Organic Chemistry & Lab

    CHEM322 -- Organic Chemistry & Lab

    CHEM527 -- Introduction to Biochemistry

    PHYS201 -- General Physics (D)

    PHYS202 -- General Physics (D)


  2. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
    (15 credits; at least 3 credits from each group, with at least 6 credits at the 300 level or higher) Any Honors Colloquium or Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar

    1. HISTORY

      HIST/CSCC382 -- History of Western Medicine (B)

      Any HIST course in Arts & Science Group B

    2. PHILOSOPHY

      PHIL202 -- Contemporary Moral Problems (A)

      PHIL203 -- Ethics

      PHIL204 -- World Religions(A)

      PHIL/CSCC241 -- Ethical Issues in Health Care (A)

      PHIL/CSCC246 -- Philosophical Perspectives of Medicine

      PHIL301 -- Ancient Philosophy (B)

      PHIL303 -- Modern Philosophy (B)

      PHIL317 -- American Philosophy

      PHIL/CSCC444 -- Medical Ethics (A)

    3. SOCIO-CULTURAL STUDIES

      Any ANTH course in Arts & Science Group A or B

      Any COMM course in Arts & Science Group C

      CSCC/SOCI311 -- Sociology of Health Care

      Any SOCI course in Arts & Science Group C

      Any ENGL in Arts & Science Group A or B

      IFST201 -- Life Span Development

      IFST221 -- Child Development

      IFST270 -- Families and Development Disabilities

      IFST329 -- Adolescent Development

      IFST401 -- Foundations of Human Sexuality

      IFST403 -- Concepts in Gerontology

      IFST410 -- The Hospitalized Child

      PSYC201 -- General Psychology (C)

      PSYC301 -- Personality (C)

      PSYC325 -- Child Psychology (C)

      PSYC416 -- Psychological Perspectives on the Black American

      PSYC418 -- Human Emotions

      PSYC424 -- Applied Social Psychology


  3. PUBLIC POLICY, ECONOMICS & INFORMATION SCIENCES
    (15 credits; at least 6 credits at the 300 level or higher) Any Honors Colloquium or Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar

    CSCC/CISC/SOCI355 -- Computer Ethics & Society

    ECON367 -- Economics of Health Care

    ECON151 -- Introduction to Microeconomics (C)

    ECON152 -- Introduction to Macroeconomics (C)

    HIST411 -- History of Public Policy in the United States

    POSC220 -- Introduction to Public Policy (C)

    POSC270 -- Comparative Politics (C)

    POSC285 -- Currents in Political Theory (A)

    POSC303 -- The Administrative Process

    POSC311 -- Politics of Developing Nations (B)

    POSC313 -- American Foreign Policy

    POSC333 -- Communism, Fascism and Democracy

    POSC343 -- Society, Politics, and Health Care

    POSC350 -- Politics & the Environment

    POSC355 -- Urban Politics

    POSC387 -- American Political Thought

    POSC411 -- Politics & Poverty

    POSC420 -- Introduction to Political Economy

    POSC436 -- Politics and Literature

    POSC467 -- Health Care Economics and Public Policy

    POSC445 -- Human Rights and World Politics

    POSC/WOMS323 -- Introduction to Women & Politics

    4. [Course subsitutions in Parts II and III may be petitioned, with permission of coordinator. They must be relevant to the BALS medical studies focus. ]


  4. MEDICAL SCHOLARS PRACTICUM
    (minimum of 6 credit hours)

    CSCC480-010 Issues in Children's Health Care (1st practicum)

    CSCC482-010 Issues in Health Policy/Economics (2nd practicum)


  5. UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS

    English 110

    Math 221

    Foreign Language Proficiency

    Multicultural Requirement

    Second Writing Course

    All required College of Arts and Science group breadth requirements.

    BALS-MSP Degree: 124 credits (60 cr. at 300 level)


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