Students enrolled in the BSN Option of the Nursing (BSN) Program must complete general education core credit hours. All students admitted to the program, including those who have earned a bachelor’s degree (or higher), will be required to meet the eight collateral course program requirements below if not obtained already. These include: BIOL 100, PSYC 221, CHEM 100, MATH 270, BIOL 230, BIOL 261, BIOL 262, and HLTH 210. An additional 5 hours of elective credit is required. Students must graduate with 122 credit hours for the BSN Option.
No student may begin the BSN Option until all general education and program requirements are met. However, students who do not have a bachelor’s degree may take LNCN 100 and CIVX 300 courses at any time during the Nursing (BSN) Program.
Institution Specific Courses
General Education Core Courses
English Communication
Fine Arts, Humanities, and Ethics
Choose any two of the following. Chosen courses must have two different prefixes (e.g. ART, ENGL, etc.).
Social/Behavioral Sciences
Choose one of the following:
Mathematics
Choose two of the following (MATH-270 is a Nursing requirement and must be taken in addition to one other math course):
History
Choose 2 of the following. They do not have to complete a sequence.
Natural Sciences and Collateral Courses
*MATH-270, BIOL-100, CHEM-100, BIOL-230 Microbiology, BIOL-261 Anatomy & Physiology I, BIOL 262 Anatomy & Physiology II, PSYC-221 Child and Adolescent Development, and HLTH-210 Nutrition) are collateral courses required for the Nursing (BSN) Program.
Any laboratory science course listed meets LMU’s natural science general education requirement. However, students who have completed one of these courses for their science requirement will still be required to take BIOL-261 and BIOL-262 (with labs) as a nursing requirement.
Natural Sciences
Select A&B or Select C
A. Life Sciences*
Choose one of the following.
B. Physical Sciences *
Choose one of the following:
C. Life/Physical Sciences*
Choose one sequence from the following:
Collateral Courses required for BSN Program
Nursing (BSN) Program-BSN Option
The first two years of curriculum consist of general education courses which provide a broad science and liberal arts foundation for nursing theory and clinical practice. Once the general education requirements have been met, the full time BSN student could complete the program in four sequential semesters: Fall I, Spring, Summer, and Fall II (17 months) at the Tampa, Florida site.
BSN Option Core Curriculum
Note: For courses with an NURS prefix, 1 clock hour of lecture per week for 15 weeks earns 1 credit hour; 3 clock hours of clinical/lab time per week for 15 weeks earns 1 credit hour. In addition, students may only register for a NURS course with the signature of a nursing advisor or the BSN Program Chair on their registration form.