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William Burke
Office of Pre-Health Services & Career Strategy
College of Natural and Health Sciences
wburke@vsu.edu
Phone: (804) 524-5638

Ayanna Thompson
Special Programs/Program Support Coordinator
anthompson@vsu.edu

Prerequisite Checklist

Below are the courses offered through Virginia State University that will be accepted toward completing the 8 prerequisites to apply to the PA program. Only 1 of the acceptable courses listed is required to meet the prerequisite. If multiple courses listed are on the transcript, the course with the highest grade will be used in our review.

  1. Please note that 7 of 8 prerequisite courses must be completed before the EAP application deadline.
  2. All courses must be completed at Christopher Newport University with a B- or better.
  3. Pre-requisite courses must not be repeated for poor performance.

Note: Any exceptions must be approved in advance by the school's Admissions Directors and will not be granted retroactively.

Prerequisite Acceptable VSU Course(s)

Anatomy or A&P I

BIOL 218: Anatomy & Physiology I

Physiology 1 and II


BIOL 219: Anatomy & Physiology II

General Chemistry
CHEM 151: General Chemistry I

Organic Chemistry or Biochemistry

CHEM 422: Biochemistry I

Microbiology or Cell Biology

BIOL 201: Cell and Molecular Biology

Introduction to Psychology

PSYC 110: Introduction to Psychology

Advanced Psychology

PSYC 200 level to 400 level (PSYC 212 for example)

College Math, Statistics or Physics    

Math 112: Basic Mathematics I
Elementary Statistics I
PHYS 105: Introduction to Physics I