Get a head start on a bachelor’s or master’s degree in science at ²Ø¾«¸ó. Our College of Science, Health and Pharmacy offers a series of programs in biology, chemistry and health sciences for continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó students and visiting students. These intensive online and on-campus courses include laboratory projects and connects students to expert faculty and industry professionals.
Course Date: July 2, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: On-campus lab (Wabash Building)
Course Description: University and transfer articulation requirements for non-majors’ biological science. This course introduces students to basic human biology from molecules and cells to organ systems and even populations.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Course fulfills University and transfer articulation requirements for non-majors’ biological science with lab. Course focuses on the practice of science and scientific thinking that can be applied to society's grand challenges.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 1
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Course fulfills University and transfer articulation requirements for non-majors’ biological science with lab. Topics include the practice of science and scientific thinking that can be applied to society's grand challenges.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: On-campus lab (Wabash Building)
Course Description: Biological principles relating to cellular and sub-cellular levels of organization. Topics include introductory biochemistry, cell biology and ultrastructure, and cell physiology.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: July 8, 2024 – July 12, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 2
Course Format: On-campus lab (Wabash Building)
Course Description: Biological principles relating to cellular and sub-cellular levels of organization. Topics include introductory biochemistry, cell biology and ultrastructure, and cell physiology.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 22, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Students will examine this complex organ and how it functions to allow for human behavior. Topics include fundamental neural systems (such as sleep and motivation), higher cortical functioning (such as language and attention), and brain plasticity.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 2-3
Course Format: On-campus lab (Auditorium Building and Schaumburg Campus)
Course Description: Students can complete two semesters of the organic chemistry program – which is required for many science degrees – in a single summer.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 2-3
Course Format: On-campus lab (Auditorium Building and Schaumburg Campus)
Course Description: Students can complete two semesters of the organic chemistry program – which is required for many science degrees – in a single summer.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: July 2, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: On-campus lab (Wabash Building)
Course Description: Students will examine the relationship of control microbiological procedures. Topics for this laboratory course includes surgical wound classification, stages of wound healing, the processes of microbiological life, and diseases caused by microbes.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: The goal of this course is to make you a more knowledgeable IT person who can better understand the roles and functions of the IT Manager in both small and large-scale companies. Students will explore how to relate to and understand the important role of the corporate IT Manager.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Design and programming applications for networks and the Internet; client side and server side processing; the use of a browser as a client and user interface. Topics include internet protocols, issues such as security, reliability, and management, along with programs with JAVA in UNIX and Windows environments. A computer use course.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: This course examines the socioeconomic, biological and environmental causes and consequences of diseases. Topics include infectious diseases, nutrition, maternal health, non-communicable diseases, mental health and injuries.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: This course will cover ethical and legal issues that affect medical practitioners in a variety of professional settings. Topics include credentialing, professional liability, medical malpractice, and end-of-life issues.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: This course provides students with an understanding of concepts and tools for measuring health in populations. In addition, they will be able to comprehend and characterizes the relationship of the public health system with medical care and other elements of the overall health system and identify the government’s unique contributions through federal, state, and local public health agencies.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Historical and social perspectives are explored and the legal and ethical underpinnings of practice are analyzed. Students are given an introduction to the health care delivery system as a whole and workforce issues are discussed. Additionally, students will begin to explore HESI exam questions and learn how to begin early preparation towards the NCLEX exam. Formerly NUR 190 and NUR 191.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 1.5
Course Format: On-campus lab (Auditorium Building)
Course Description: Students are introduced to the basic concepts of client needs, safety, communication, critical, ethical-legal, transcultural diversity, nursing history, and the program’s philosophy of nursing. Additionally, this course introduces psychomotor nursing skills needed to assist individuals in meeting essential human needs, necessary for maintaining microbial, physical, and psychological safety.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 1-3
Course Format: On-campus lab
Course Description: The theory portion of this course focuses on the nursing care of women throughout the prenatal, antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods of pregnancy. Topics include physiological, sociocultural and ethical concepts; risks, complications and appropriate nursing care; and care of the neonate, including possible complex outcomes of both term and preterm infants. Students will also participate in the clinical setting gaining experience in both the labor and delivery and mother-baby aspects of care in an impatient setting.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 1.5
Course Format: On-campus lab (Wabash and Auditorium Buildings)
Course Description: The lab component of this course will provide the ability to learn and practice hands-on nursing care with the use of a simulation mannequin. Case studies will be utilized to help the student develop critical thinking and reasoning skills in which they will analyze individually and as a group.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: On-campus (Schaumburg Campus)
Course Description: This course will cover the theory and practical application of various techniques used to analyze biological data including hands-on practice with equipment used in modern life science laboratories. Topics include pre-experiment planning, preparative methods, analytical methods, statistical evaluation of data and communication of results. Credit may be used in fulfillment of the research requirement for the master's degree.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó graduate students and graduate students-at-large
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Discussions are intended to foster thought and exploration of solutions to problems in health care, biological research, and approaches to combat health disparities.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó graduate students and graduate students-at-large
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Design and programming applications for networks and the World Wide Web; client side and server side processing; the use of a web browser as a client and user interface. Topics include internet protocols such as https, ftp, and ssl and issues such as security, reliability, and management, along with programs with JAVA in UNIX and Windows environments. A computer use course.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó graduate students and graduate students-at-large
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 22, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: This introductory level course provides foundational skills and knowledge in health care data analytics that will equip students to contribute more effectively to local data analytics and performance improvement efforts. Topics cover key skills in Excel such as pivot tables, filters and descriptive statistic, the Central Limit Theorem, along with z-test and z-scores, so that investigators have an appreciation of how these statistical methodologies can uncover fraud.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó graduate students and graduate students-at-large
Course Date: July 2, 2024 – August 5, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Biological principles relating to cellular and sub-cellular levels of organization. Topics include introductory biochemistry, cell biology and ultrastructure, and cell physiology. Graduate Course Description: Course designed to build direct experience with the growing fields of computational genomics. Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate, graduate students and visiting new students.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate, graduate students and visiting new students
Course Date: May 28, 2024 – July 1, 2024
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Format: Online
Course Description: Discussion and critical review of contemporary issues in biology and biomedical sciences based on student and instructor interests. Discussions are intended to foster thought and exploration of solutions to problems in health care, biological research, and approaches to combat health disparities.
Recommended Cohort: Continuing ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate, graduate students and visiting new students
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