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MEDICAL HUMANITIES (BS)*: Ground
your studies in the natural sciences while
you explore the humanities including
history, philosophy, literature, and ethics.

Career Opportunities: This major offers
excellent preparation for advanced study,
research, and professional growth. Grad-
uates of this curriculum are prepared for
employment and success in many fields
including, environmental law and policy,
public health service, public administra-
tion, clinical research, and more.

MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
(BS with certification; three years of Career Opportunities: You will have many
academic study and one year of clinical career opportunities available to you
rotations in a hospital setting): Become upon graduation. These include positions
a healthcare detective as you analyze in clinical, government, academic,
blood, urine, tissue, or other body and industrial settings. Additionally, a
specimens, and use these test results to bachelor’s degree in microbiology is
play an important role in the detection, an excellent background for continuing
diagnosis, and treatment of disease. studies leading to degrees in medicine,
dentistry or veterinary science or other
Career Opportunities: Medical laboratory advanced academic degrees based in
scientists are in high demand, and research or public health.
government economists expect job growth
for medical scientists, to be much faster NEUROSCIENCE (BS, Minor)*: Unlock the
than the average for all careers through secrets behind what we do, how we think,
2020. Upon completion of the program, and what affects us as you examine
you have a wealth of career options. the nervous system across theoretical
Potential worksites include forensic and clinical contexts. Specializations:
laboratories, hospitals, research clinics, molecular and medicinal, clinical, and
and pharmaceutical companies theoretical neuroscience.
Career Opportunities: A Neuroscience
MICROBIOLOGY (BS, Minor)*: Study life degree will position you to thrive in
that cannot be seen with the naked eye as graduate, medical, or health professional
you examine how these microorganisms school. Conduct research in areas
live, affect us, and affect the environment. such as theoretical modeling of the
Search for answers to practical problems nervous system, neurobiology, or
in health and medicine, food production neuropsychology. Or Serve the public as
and preservation, alternative energy, and a healthcare provider.
infectious disease control. Specializations:
applied microbiology and biotechnology &
medical microbiology and immunology.

*Pre-Health Professions Option: The pre-health professions curriculum is built into these programs,
allowing students to prepare for medical, dental, optometry, or veterinary school while completing their
bachelor’s degree program.