Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Dental Assisting Major, A.S. Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Dental Assisting Major, A.S.

College of Nursing and Health Professions >> Dental Assisting 

60 hours; C or better required in all courses

The associate of science degree is available to certificate program graduates who complete a second academic year. Of the 60 hours required to graduate with an associate of science degree 25 hours must be Core 39 courses. At the completion of the dental assisting certificate curriculum the student will have earned 41 hours; six of the 41 credits are Core 39 courses. Nineteen additional hours of Core 39 courses are needed to graduate with an associate of science degree in dental assisting. The 19 Core 39 hours can be selected from the following categories:

Dental Assisting Associate of Science Degree, Core 39 coursework* (19 hours)

Foundations-Composition II (3 hours)

Foundations-Mathematics (3-4 hours)

Ways of Knowing (choose one course from up to 4 categories/max 12 hours); no two courses can have the same prefix
    Creative and Aesthetic Expression
    Historical Inquiry
    Moral and Ethical Reasoning
    Scientific and Mathematical Inquiry
    Social Inquiry
    World Languages and Culture

Natural Science (7-8 hours, no more than one non-lab course)

*See USI Bulletin for appropriate Core 39 courses.

Pre-requisite Courses (8 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ENG 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self

USI Core 39: Foundations-Rhetoric and Composition I.


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
CMST 101 - Introduction to Public Speaking

USI Core 39: Foundations-Communication.


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
HP 115 - Medical Terminology for the Health Professions
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 2

Required Coursework (33 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
DTAS 122 - Clinical Science I
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 5
DTAS 156 - Human Systems I
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
DTHY 303 - Oral Radiology
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
DTHY 308 - Applied Dental Materials
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
DTHY 314 - Oral Anatomy
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 2
DTAS 111 - Oral Pathology
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
DTAS 158 - Practice Management, Ethics, and Jurisprudence
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
DTAS 166 - Human Systems II
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
DTAS 175 - Preventive Dentistry
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 2
DTAS 181 - Clinical Science II
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 5
DTAS 183 - Clinical Science Applications
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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