The following URI courses are suitable for use as professional electives. If you wish to choose any other non-Pharmacy course as your professional elective, you must obtain permission from Dr. Norma Owens, Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs. May only count as 1 professional elective.
| Course No |
Credits
|
Prerequites | |
| Principles of Cell Biology | BIO 341 |
3
|
1 biology and 1 organic chemistry course |
| Cell Biology | BIO/BCH/MIC 453 |
3
|
2 semester biology + BCH 311 |
| General Genetics | BIO/BCH 352 |
4
|
BIO 101 |
| Legal/Ethical Environment of Business | BUS 315 |
3
|
|
| Financial Management | BUS 320 |
3
|
ECN 201 |
| Oral Communication for Business and Professions | COM 351 |
3
|
Junior standing |
| Health Economics | ECN 360 |
3
|
ECN 201 |
| Wildlife and Human Disease | ENT/AVS 390 |
3
|
BIO 101 |
| Adult Development | HDF 312 |
3
|
HDF 201 or permission of instructor |
| Introduction to Gerontology | HDF 314 |
4
|
Completion of 24 or more credits |
| Family and Community Health | HDF 357 |
3
|
Junior standing |
| Death, Dying and Bereavement | HDF/THN 421 |
3
|
Junior standing |
| Family and Elderly | HDF 431 |
3
|
|
| Consumer Protection | HDF 428 |
3
|
HDF 205 or 225 |
| Environment Context of Aging | HDF 440 |
3
|
HDF 202 and 314 |
| Seminar in Adult Development | HDF 513 |
3
|
HDF 500 or permission of instructor |
| Seminar in Older Adulthood | HDF 514 |
3
|
Graduate standing or permission of instructor |
| Healthcare Policy and the Elderly | HDF 527 |
3
|
Graduate standing or permission of instructor |
| History of Women in Medicine | HIS 351 |
3
|
|
| Multidisciplinary Health Seminars for Elderly | HSS 530 |
3
|
Graduate standing or permission of instructor |
| Physical Activity, Cultural Diversity and Society | KIN 278 |
3
|
|
| Kinesiology | KIN 370 |
3
|
BIO 101 |
| Physiology of Physical Activity and Health | KIN 515 |
3
|
|
| Fitness Programs for Middle-Aged and Elderly | KIN 563 |
3
|
Graduate standing or permission of instructor |
| Physiology of Aging | KIN 564 |
3
|
BIO 242 |
| Virology | MIC 334 |
3
|
MIC 201 |
| Immunology | MIC 533 |
3
|
MIC 201 |
| Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | MIC 538 |
3
|
|
| Impact of Death on Behavior | NUR/THN 360 |
3
|
|
| Aging and Health | NUR 349 |
3
|
|
| Nutrition in the Lifecycle II | NFS 395 |
3
|
NFS 276, 394 |
| Nutrition Education | NFS 458 |
3
|
NFS 395, 441 or permission of instructor |
| Lipoprotein Metabolism in Health and Disease | NFS 528 |
3
|
|
| Macronutrients in Human Nutrition | NFS 551 |
3
|
BCH 311 |
| Micronutrients in Human Nutrition | NFS 552 |
3
|
BCH 311 |
| Aging in Society | SOC 438 |
3
|
1 300 level course in SOC or permission of instructor |