Undergraduate Degrees, page 3
School of Dentistry

Curriculum

Courses listed below are required for completion of the degree. Course listings are current as of 1994-95 and are subject to change without notice by action of the School of Dentistry and the university.

Post-Certificate Dental Hygiene Program Course Requirements

Required coursesUnits
AMED 421Seminar: Teaching Local Anesthesia1
AMED 501Medicine and Physical Evaluation2
AMED 521Local Anesthesia1
AMED 522Pharmacosedation I1
ANAT 310LPrinciples of Human Anatomy3
DHYG 310cFundamentals of Clinical Dental Hygiene1
DHYG 318Dental Specialties2
DHYG 411abDental Literature Review2-2
DHYG 413abDental Hygiene Educational Concepts2-2
DHYG 414abAdvanced Dental Hygiene1-1
DHYG 415abDirected Clinical Teaching2-2
DHYG 417Issues in Dental Health Care Delivery1
DHYG 424Research Methods2
DHYG 430Seminar: Initial Periodontal Therapy2
DHYG 431Seminar: Periodontal Treatment Planning2
DHYG 460abcdClinic: Advanced Dental Hygiene2-2-1-1
DPHR 501Pharmacology3
GSPD 504Dental Treatment of the Geriatric and Special Patient2
HBHV 310Interactional Skills in Dental Hygiene1
INTB 503Cariology and Periodontology: Basis and Prevention2
INTB 601Advances in Oral Biology2
MBIO 310Principles of Microbiology and Immunology2
PERI 415Basic Periodontal Therapy1
PERI 502Periodontal Disease and Therapeutic Judgment2
PERI 504Advanced Periodontics1
PTHL 312abPrinciples of General and Oral Pathology3-2
PTHL 501Oral Pathology3
Elective courses*16

*Electives: Students must meet prior to registration each trimester with the Dental Hygiene Department Chair to review their proposed course schedule. Electives must be upper division courses in the humanities and social sciences. Upper division courses in the humanities taken prior to admission may fulfill up to eight units of the 16 unit elective requirement.

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