Prerequisite Coursework

Completion of specified prerequisite courses with an earned grade of C or better for each course. Prerequisite coursework must be completed within seven years prior to the application to the program. The only potential expceptions are for those who work in fields focused on the specific area and who have taken the coursework in the past.

  1. Abnormal Psychology — 3 credit hours
    No substitutions for this course.
  2. Human Anatomy with lab — If anatomy and physiology are offered together as one course, then two semesters must be taken (example: Anatomy and Physiology I & II). There must be a lab component reflected.
  3. Human Physiology with lab — If anatomy and physiology are offered together as one course, then two semesters must be taken (example: Anatomy and Physiology I & II). There must be a lab component reflected.
  4. Developmental Psychology — 3 credit hours — Lifespan
  5. Statistics — 3 credit hours
    Any undergraduate statistics course — examples: psychological statistics, educational statistics, statistics in nursing, statistics in health care, business statistics, scientific statistics etc. are accepted.
  6. Technical or Research Writing — 3 credit hours
    The overall goal of Technical Writing is to hone students’ writing skills taught in earlier English courses and apply them to relevant writing tasks for graduate, scholarly writing. This course should focus on synthesizing multiple sources of data into a well-organized, concise and powerful scholarly paper with proper citations. Other courses may or may not satisfy the Tech Writing requirement (must be 3000 level or above). While research knowledge can be useful, the course's focus must be to improve writing skills on a graduate level.
  7. Terminology for Health Professions — Minimum 1 credit hour. This course must be 1 credit hour to meet the prerequisite requirement. If you completed a medical terminology course with fewer credit hours, you would need to repeat the course at the 3-credit level.

Only applicants with three or more prerequisite courses completed will be considered for early admission — more than a year prior to start date. Applicants with fewer than three completed prerequisite courses will be considered starting in January, that is prior to the desired start date. Applicants are only considered eligible for consideration if grade-point averages for their prerequisites and last 60 cumulative credit-hours are 3.0 or higher.

If you have additional questions, contact us at OTD@uark.edu.