Course Of Study

Life/Biomedical Sciences Area of Study Term Course Title Subject Fall 2016 General MCB 3020 Microbiology Spring Genetics PCB 3036 2017 Fall 2017 Human Physiology PCB 3703 Fall 2018

Neurobiology

Physical Sciences Area of Study Term Course Title Fall 2015 Intro to Forensic Science Spring Chemistry 2016 Fundamentals II Fall 2016 Organic Chemistry I Spring Chemistry 2017 Fundamentals Lab

ZOO 3744

Subject CHS 3501 CH 2046 CHM 2210 CHM 2046

Fall 2017

College Physics I

Fall 2017

Organic Chemistry CHM 2211 II

Health Science Minor Term Course Title Spring Medical 2017 Terminology Fall 2017 Medical Self Assessment Spring Fundamentals of 2018 Human Nutrition Summer Clinical Nutrition 2018 Fall 2018 Fall 2018

Intro to Pharmacology Preventative Healthcare

What I learned? Beginning knowledge of how microorganisms work and interact. Take biology knowledge and apply it to how we express and pass down different traits. How the anatomical structures in the body function together to keep us alive.

PHY 2053

Subject HSC 3537 HSC 3110 HUN 2201 HSC 4572

HSC 3147 HSC 3211

What I learned? Introduction into the field of Forensic Science and everything you can do with a F.S degree. Studied more about chemistry and how it applies to the world around us. Advanced molecular structure and interactions. Put prior chemistry knowledge to the test while learning laboratory skills that will help with future lab work. Learned concepts to help understand how the world works mathematically. Took prior organic chemistry knowledge and went further into chemical interactions and processes.

What I learned? Learned more about different medical terms to help prepare for a career in the medical field. What types of medical careers are out there, and which would be most interesting to me. Basics of what nutrients our body needs and how they can change our bodies. Learning more about how the nutrients we receive can play a role in our general wellbeing. Learned the basic on what went into prescribing and administering medications. Learning what preventative medicine is and what it takes to perform it.

Personally, finding out about the Interdisciplinary Studies major was one of the most beneficial moments of my life. Before learning about this major, I was stressing about how I was going to graduate because even though I had 120 credit hours, I still needed the required courses to graduate, having 137 credits. Once I found IDS, I could now create my own schedule and I could take the classes that interested me the most and would be most helpful towards my career. In the summer, I will be attending an accelerated second-degree Nursing program, followed by a Master’s in Nursing program, in order to become a Nurse Practitioner. I want to specialize in children and work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit helping the little babies. Being able to take the courses that interest me the most has allowed me to stick to science courses and throw in some developmental courses as well. This major has saved me a lot of stress, time and money and with that, it has allowed me to focus more on my education. I can learn more and most of all, enjoy what I am learning. Some of these courses, however, I took before I switched majors, so they are not the courses I would have chosen if I was an IDS major the entire time. I still would have taken the courses required as prerequisites for the nursing program, but I wouldn’t have taken things like organic chemistry.