Catalog 2024-2025

Health Sciences

Catalog Year: 2024-2025

Teaching Faculty

Professors Caro, Dearolf (chair), Kennedy, Murray, and Schurko
Associate Professor Gantz and MacDonald
Assistant Professors Irons, and Thomas

Description

Health Science Major

13 courses distributed as follows:

  • BIOL 150 Fundamentals of Cellular Life (w/Lab)
  • CHEM 110 General Chemistry I (w/Lab)
  • CHEM 120 General Chemistry II (w/Lab)
  • BIOL 205 Anatomy & Physiology I (w/Lab)
  • BIOL 215 Anatomy & Physiology II (w/Lab)
  • PSYC 110 Introduction to Psychology
  • 1 course from the following list
    • BUSI 250 Principles of Statistics
    • MATH 215 Introductory Statistics
    • PSYC 290 Statistics
    • SOCI 210 Social Statistics
  • HESC 497 Senior Seminar
  • 1 course from the following list [see the Senior Capstone Experience to explain these options]
    • HESC X95 Internship (Non-Credit)
    • HESC X96 Internship (Credit)
    • HESC X98 Independent Research (Non-Credit)
    • HESC X99 Independent Research (Credit)
  • 4 courses from the following (at least two at 300 level or above):
    • BIOL 250 Genetics (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 310 Developmental Biology (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 325 Neurobiology (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 340 Microbiology (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 354 Biology of Movement
    • BIOL 362 Physiology of Exercise (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 430 Immunology (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 435 Cancer Biology (w/Lab)
    • BIOL 440 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (w/Lab)
    • CHEM 240 Organic Chemistry I (w/Lab)
    • CHEM 330 Biological Chemistry (w/Lab)
    • HESC 200 Introduction to Athletic Injuries
    • HESC 265 Nutrition
    • PSYC 210 Developmental Psychology
    • PSYC 310 Social Neuroscience (w/Lab)
    • PSYC 330 Learning
    • PSYC 335 Sensation and Perception
    • PSYC 341 Moral Emotions
    • PSYC 351 Health Psychology
    • PSYC 352 Social Cognition
    • PSYC 355 Evolutionary Psychology
    • PSYC 360 Behavioral  Neuroscience (w/Lab)
    • PSYC 365 Emotions
    • PSYC 366 Behavioral Endocrinology
    • PSYC 385 Abnormal Psychology

Notes:

Students majoring in Health Science cannot double major in Biology or Psychology.
Students majoring in Health Science cannot minor in Biology.

Senior Capstone Experience

Health Science students are required to complete HESC X95 Internship (non-credit) or HESC X96 Internship (for credit) through Career Services and participate in HESC 497 Senior Seminar during one semester of the senior year. The Internship must be approved in advance by the program chair and completed prior to taking the senior seminar. When appropriate, and upon approval by the program chair, a year of research during the academic year or at least 8 weeks of summer research may substitute for the internship experience. Students doing research during the academic year will register for HESC X99 Independent Research for credit (a for-credit course taken during one of the two semesters during which the research is conducted), whereas students doing research for the summer will register for HESC X98 Independent Research (a non-credit course normally added to the Spring semester following the research experience). Students who have done research during the summer at Hendrix and wish to obtain course credit can register for HESC X99 Independent Research for credit and continue their research during a single academic semester.

Program Course Listings

The courses for this program are organized into the following categories:

Health Science Courses

HESC 200

Introduction to Athletic Injuries

The course provides the knowledge of prevention, care, and rehabilitation of common athletic injuries. The student receives athletic training information and the skills necessary to care for the common movement injury. Designed to develop competence in rendering immediate and temporary aid to a victim of accident, sudden illness, or injury. Prerequisite: BIOL 107 or BIOL 205

BIOL 107 or BIOL 205
HESC 265

Nutrition

Examines basic principles of nutrition with emphasis on role of nutrition in health and disease.
HESC 497

Senior Seminar

Students will use current literature in their chosen healthcare fields to write an academic paper summarizing the state of the discipline and elaborating on innovations and challenges in those fields. Students will also develop and deliver oral presentations based on these papers and their experiences in internships or original research. Time spent in class will focus on discussions about the state of the medical field, intensive editing of student papers and presentations, and development of written and oral communication skills for health care professionals. Prerequisite: Senior standing and completion of an approved internship or research project

Senior standing and completion of an approved internship or research project
HESC X95

Internship (Non-Credit)

Students interested in internships in health sciences should contact the department chair.
HESC X96

Internship (Credit)

Students interested in internships in health sciences should contact the department chair.
HESC X98

Independent Research (Non-credit)

Non-credit course. Students interested in independent research in HESC should contact the program chair.

Undergraduate Research UR
HESC X99

Independent Research (Credit)

Students interested in independent research in health sciences should contact the department chair.

Undergraduate Research UR
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