Associate in Science Code 1517
Program Contacts:
QC Campus
Todd Linscott, 309-796-5242, linscottt@bhc.edu
The Quad-Cities Campus Pre-Veterinary curriculum is offered through the Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering. The completion of this course of study outlined will provide the student with the course experiences needed to transfer to a four-year institution to complete requirements to enter a veterinary school.
The Pre-Veterinary Medicine curriculum presented here is based on the entrance requirements to the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Iowa State University. For many veterinary colleges the pre-veterinary medicine is considered a pre-professional tract within a major, leaving the student open to a major of their choice.
Veterinary colleges are seeking students with diverse backgrounds and are open to a wide variety of majors. Science majors are the most common (such as animal science, biology, zoology, animal ecology, biochemistry and microbiology), but students are admitted to veterinary schools with degrees in business, fine arts, music, English, engineering and psychology. Since universities may require specific courses for their pre-veterinary candidates, students should consult with Advising or the faculty contact person at Black Hawk College and/or an advisor at the transfer university as soon as possible.
Admission to schools of veterinary medicine is highly competitive.
Course of Study Outline – Suggested Courses (Credit Hours)
First Semester
BIOL 105 — General Biology I (5)
CHEM 101 — General Chemistry I (4)
ENG 101 — Composition I (3)
SPEC 101 — Principles of Speech Communication (3)
1Mathematics Elective (3)
Second Semester
BIOL 106 — General Biology II (5)
CHEM 102 — General Chemistry II (4)
ENG 102 — Composition II (3)
MATH 124 — Calculus I (4)
Third Semester
CHEM 203 — Organic Chemistry I (5)
PHYS 101 — College Physics I (5)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (3)
Non-Western Studies Elective (3)
Fourth Semester
CHEM 204 — Organic Chemistry II (5)
PHYS 102 — College Physics II (5)
Humanities (3)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (3)
Minimum total hours required for degree (66)
1Suggested MATH 124. May also take MATH 131 or 132 (some programs also require Statistics).
Note: Students desiring to complete an AA/AS degree in the pre-veterinary medicine curriculum must be certain that their course program includes six hours of mathematics, nine hours of humanities and fine arts general education elective (with one course selected from fine arts), nine hours of social science general education electives, three hours of non-western culture, along with seven to eight credit hours of science with one course selected for life sciences and one from the physical science general education elective (include at least one laboratory course).
