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Pre-Pharmacy
An Arts and Sciences A.A. Degree Program (Transfer)
APPLICATION CODE 55
For Curriculum Information Contact the Science and Technology
Division—Room ST-248—410-772-4827
Pharmacists dispense drugs and medicines prescribed by physicians
and dentists, advise on the proper use and proper dosage of prescription
and nonprescription medicines, and work in research and marketing
positions. Job opportunities exist in hospitals and clinics, community
pharmacies, the pharmaceutical industry and in government agencies.
The pre-pharmacy curriculum below includes the science, math and
liberal arts electives that are prerequisites for admission into pharmacy
programs at transfer institutions. Students should become familiar with
the prerequisite entrance requirements of the transfer institution from
which they intend to receive their professional degree in order to plan
a program of study at HCC that includes the appropriate electives.

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE
(General education core credits in excess of 36 will transfer as general electives or courses related to the major. Each student’s total of general education and required courses must equal at least 60 semester hours of credit.)

Credits 
Composition ENGL-121 College Composition I 3
ENGL-122 College Composition II 3
Arts & Humanities Literature Core Course (see p. 51) 3
Fine Arts Core Course (see p. 51) 3
History History Core Course (see p. 52) 3
Social Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Core Course 
(see p. 52) 6
Science BIOL-101 General Biology I 4
CHEM-101 General Inorganic Chemistry I 4
CHEM-102 General Inorganic Chemistry II 4
Mathematics MATH-140 Calculus I 4
Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary and Emerging Issues Core 
Course (see p. 53) 1-3
REQUIRED COURSES RELATED TO MAJOR  
MATH-138 Statistics 4
CHEM-201 Organic Chemistry I 4
PHYS-103 Fundamentals of Physics I 4
BIOL-200 Microbiology 4
CHEM-202 Organic Chemistry II 4
PHYS-104 Fundamentals of Physics II 4
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