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Bouve College of Health Sciences

Introduction :: Academic Requirements :: Pathways Program :: Transfer Credit :: List of Programs

STEPHEN R. ZOLOTH, PHD, MPH, Dean
Christine Letzeiser, MS, RN, Assistant Dean of First-Year Services and Enrollment
Jessica L. Ley, EdM, Academic Counselor
William J. Purnell, Director of Graduate Admissions
Margaret K. Schnabel, Director of Graduate Student Services
Cynthia Seltzer, MA, Academic Counselor
Anne M. Sullivan, MEd, Assistant Dean for Administrative Affairs
Ena Vazquez-Nuttall, EdD, Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate School
Nancy P. Warner, MS, Associate Director, Office of Student Services
Esther B. Williams, Freshman Counselor

The programs in Bouvé College of Health Sciences combine cooperative education experiences with highly innovative academic curricula that are designed to meet the demand for well-educated allied health professionals, nurses, and pharmacists. The college prepares students to become effective professional practitioners, enter graduate schools, and work in many areas responsible for the delivery of health care.

     There are three schools within the Bouvé College of Health Sciences: the School of Health Professions, the School of Nursing, and the School of Pharmacy. The college offers students a health-care education that features a curriculum of highly relevant and closely integrated basic courses in the physical, biological, behavioral, and administrative sciences; on-site involvement in clinical patient care, including early and advanced pharmacy practice experiences and clinical affiliations in nursing, physical therapy, and other health professions; a cooperative education work program; and a commitment to the search for and advancement of new and progressive concepts, ideas, and philosophies of education and professional practice.

     Each of the programs offered by the college is accredited by the appropriate professional group. The college is a member of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

Academic Requirements
Students must receive a grade of C or better in professional courses.

Professional courses:
Courses taught within the major/college as identified by unit/faculty: ATP, BHS, CES, MLS, NUR, PTH, SLA, TOX, PMD, PSC

Nursing—All NUR courses including the following interdisciplinary courses: BHS U105, Nutrition, BHS U450, Research, and PCS U340, Pharmacology

Students must receive a grade of C– or better in selected professional prerequisites.

Professional prerequisites:
All courses, including sciences, essential, content, and prerequisite courses, as determined by unit faculty. Laboratory sections may be treated separately from lecture.

Athletic Training: BIO, CHM, PHY
Cardiopulmonary and Exercise Sciences: BIO, CHM, PHY, PSC
Medical Laboratory Science: BIO, CHM, PHY
Nursing: MTH U115, BIO, CHM Pharmacy: BIO, CHM, PHY, MTH Physical Therapy: BIO, CHM, MTH, PHY
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: BIO, MTH, PSY U101

For all other courses:
The University’s minimum passing grade for the course will be accepted.

Academic Standing
Freshmen must have an overall GPA greater than or equal to 1.800 and earn at least 12 semester hours in the semester just completed in order to maintain good academic standing.

Upperclass students must have an overall GPA greater than or equal to 2.000 and earn at least 12 semester hours in the semester just completed in order to maintain good academic standing.

Status	Freshman	Upperclass
Probation	1. GPA of less than 1.800	1. GPA of less than 2.000
Probation	1. GPA of less than 1.800	1. GPA of less than 2.000
Extended	for any two consecutive	for any two consecutive
	semesters	semesters
Dismissal	1. GPA of less than 1.800	1. Failure to bring GPA
from	after completion of	above 2.000 after two
Program	summer remedial	semesters of probation
	work or	or
	2. Failure to receive	2. Three failures in
	passing grade in the	professional
	same course twice	courses regardless
		of remediation or
		3. Failure to pass the
		same course twice

Academic Progression

In order to progress from freshman to sophomore year, the student must have a GPA greater than 1.800, have completed 27 semester hours, and have successfully repeated any deficient courses. In order to progress into the subsequent year of professional courses, the student must have passed all professional courses with a grade of C or better and all professional prerequisites (as determined by the department) with a grade of C– or better. Students are responsible for following the curriculum plan based on their assigned major, cooperative education division, and year of graduation. Students have a responsibility for monitoring their own progress through the curriculum by registering for the proper courses, knowing the course prerequisites, and knowing the sanctions for unsatisfactory academic progress.

Special Requirements

Cooperative education is a required component for all Bouvé programs unless otherwise noted.

Graduation Requirements

The college reserves the right to amend programs, courses, and degree requirements to fulfill its educational responsibility to respond to relevant changes in the field. Students must complete all of the requirements in the degree program in which they are candidates. Degree requirements are based on the year of graduation, determined by the date of entry or reentry into the college. Degree requirements and the year of graduation for a degree candidate who fails to make normal academic progress will be subject to review and possible change.

Pathways Program

The Pathways Program is designed for students who are undecided about a profession but are interested in a career in health care. The program offers freshmen a core of courses designed to provide the basic scientific background for many of the professional programs in the college.

     Satisfactory completion of all freshman-year courses, including the Pathways core curriculum, is necessary for admission, on a space-available basis, to one of the professional programs of the college.

Transfer Credit

The college may accept qualified transfer students who have successfully completed course work in an accredited college or university. No student transferring from another college or university may receive a degree unless 32 of the last 40 semester hours of academic work immediately preceding graduation have been completed at Northeastern.

Introduction :: Academic Requirements :: Pathways Program :: Transfer Credit :: List of Programs