RUSH UNIVERSITY

College of Nursing

 

 

Prerequisite Course Requirements if taken at:     University of Illinois at Springfield                  

                                                                                    Springfield, 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                   CHE 241 Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry

 

 

Organic Chemistry                     CHE 367 & 368  Fundamental Organic Reaction & Experimental Organic Chemistry

 

 

Anatomy & Physiology               BIO 361  Comparative Vertebrate Biology

                                                AND

                                                BIO 429  Human Physiology      

 

 

Microbiology                              BIO 345 & 346  General Microbiology & Lab

                                               

 

Statistics                                  MATH 121 Applied Statistics

                                                OR

                                                PSY 303 Applied Statistics and Methods

 

 

Intro to Sociology                       PSY 431  Social Psychology (preferred)

                                                OR      

                                                SOA 221  Social Problems

 

 

Intro to Psychology                    PSYC 201 Principles of Psychology

 

Human Growth                           PSYC 421 Life-Span Developmental Psychology

& Development                          OR

                                                PSYC 422 Child Development

 

 

Mathematics                             MATH 111 or above.      

                                                College level mathematics course in addition to Statistics.

 

English Composition                  ENG 375 Expository Writing

                                                AND

                                                ENG 311  Literary Study and Research

 

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.