RUSH UNIVERSITY

College of Nursing

Prerequisite Course Requirements if taken at: Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, IL

Applicants to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing and the BSN Completion program must complete the following courses, with a grade of “C” or better, before enrolling at Rush University.

PREREQUISITE COURSE NUMBER & TITLE

Inorganic Chemistry CHEM 105 & 106 Inorganic Chemistry I & II

Organic Chemistry CHEM 201 Organic Chemistry I (prerequisite to Chem 106)

Anatomy & Physiology BIOL 155 & 156 Human Anatomy & Physiology I & II

Microbiology BIO 250 Microbiology

Statistics MATH 191 Introductory Statistics

OR

BUS 205 Economic & Business Statistics

Mathematics MATH 112 or above.

College level mathematics course in addition to Statistics.

Intro to Sociology SOC 153 Introductory Sociology

Intro to Psychology PSYC 151 General Psychology

Human Growth PSYC 210 Life Span Development

& Development OR

PSYC 250 Child Development

OR

ECE 112 - Growth & Development of Children

English Composition English 101 & 102 Rhetoric & Composition I & II

Social Sciences 5 Semester Hours.

Social science courses include: psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, political

science, economics, & geography.

Humanities 8 Semester Hours.

Humanities courses include: literature, foreign languages, religion, philosophy, or

history of: art, music, theater, film. Studio art classes, instrumental music classes, and

speech classes are not acceptable.