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Hey all, I am student that graduated with a degree in journalism about a year ago. I plan on going back to school in order to take a LOAD of math and science courses. I have to take a lot of chemistry and biology courses and I wanted advice on the order. Which ones might be best to take first as far as ease? Second, what's the most number of courses do you think I can handle as a person who has never been exposed to college science? And third, are there any science course that might be able to be taken online with ease? I'm sorry if that was a mouthful. I appreciate any advice.
Thank you so much.

 

[PharmacyWarrior]

Hey all, I am student that graduated with a degree in journalism about a year ago. I plan on going back to school in order to take a LOAD of math and science courses. I have to take a lot of chemistry and biology courses and I wanted advice on the order. Which ones might be best to take first as far as ease? Second, what's the most number of courses do you think I can handle as a person who has never been exposed to college science? And third, are there any science course that might be able to be taken online with ease? I'm sorry if that was a mouthful. I appreciate any advice.
Thank you so much.

If you haven't taken any science courses, then you have to start from the bottom and work your way up. High level science courses have specific prerequisite courses before you could take them so you have to check with your department on that. For chem and bio courses, you might have to take the general courses, such as Chem101 and Bio101 (your school might have different course # for those courses) and work your way up to biochem, pchem, etc. General science courses are very easy to understand. I think you can handle both gchem and gbio at the same time. And if you have time, you could throw in physics. Very few science courses are offered online because most of the time you're required to attend labs. Go to the pharmacy school site of your choice, and look at their prerequisite courses if you don't know what to take. Good luck my friend.

 

[Nelcovp]

If you haven't taken any science courses, then you have to start from the bottom and work your way up. High level science courses have specific prerequisite courses before you could take them so you have to check with your department on that. For chem and bio courses, you might have to take the general courses, such as Chem101 and Bio101 (your school might have different course # for those courses) and work your way up to biochem, pchem, etc. General science courses are very easy to understand. I think you can handle both gchem and gbio at the same time. And if you have time, you could throw in physics. Very few science courses are offered online because most of the time you're required to attend labs. Go to the pharmacy school site of your choice, and look at their prerequisite courses if you don't know what to take. Good luck my friend.

Good advice on the chm and bio 101. Do not let anyone talk you into taking something higher than intro chemistry and biology. When I returned to school, I took these and build myself an excellent foundation for the classes that followed.

My suggestions:

Intro Bio
Intro Chemstry
Intermediate Algebra
Intro to Anatomy

Bio I
Chm I
Anat I
Pre-Calc

Bio II
Chm II
Anat II
Calc

Orgo I
Physics
Micro
Basket Weaving

 

[Notecard]

My advice is to forget the intro classes and dive right in to something like this:

Bio I + lab
Chem I + lab
Calc 1
Spanish

You want a load? Take it and run. If you really do mean serious business then this will only save you time/money. Someone said the general classes are easy to understand but don't take them lightly. They don't weed out thousands of college kids every year because they're a joke.