• course - Nutrition | Credit Hours: 3 *

• course - Responding to Emergencies | Credit Hours: 2 *

• course - Fundamental Microbiology Concepts | Credit Hours: 2 *

• course - Anatomy & Physiology I | Credit Hours: 4 **

• course - Anatomy & Physiology II | Credit Hours: 4 **

• course - General Organic & Biochemistry | Credit Hours: 4 *

• course - College Orientation | Credit Hours: 1 *

• course - Dental Charting and Documentation | Credit Hours: 3 *

• course - Dental Office Management | Credit Hours: 2 *

• course - English Composition I | Credit Hours: 3 *

• course - Technology and Society | Credit Hours: 3 *

• course - Contemporary Mathematics | Credit Hours: 3 *

• course - Public Speaking | Credit Hours: 3 *

• Approved Elective | Credit Hours: 3

Approved Electives

• course - General Psychology | Credit Hours: 3

• course - College Reading | Credit Hours: 3

• course - Introduction to Sociology | Credit Hours: 3

Total Credit Hours: 40

A co-requisite is a course that must be taken the same semester as another specified Course.

A prerequisite is a course that must be completed in order to enter another specified course.

Students must complete the certificate with a minimum GPA of 2.5 to be eligible to enter the Associate in Applied Science, major in Dental Hygiene degree and must also meet other program admission requirements.