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Information about Nursing Courses
Students who have a bachelor’s or master’s degree:
- With the exception of the university seminar class, the courses listed under the freshman and sophomore years of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree plan of this School of Nursing website are your degree plan. The grades you have already earned in these prerequisite courses, and if necessary will earn, become your overall grade point average when you apply to the School of Nursing at Texas State.
Note: All of the steps for admission (1-10) listed on the Procedures web page are the same procedures that students who already have either a bachelor’s and/or master’s degree must follow. The only difference between non-degreed applicants and those who have a bachelor’s/master’s degree is how their overall GPA is computed.
The following is the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Degree Program at Texas State University; the first two years include prerequisite classes which are to be taken before students are admitted to the School of Nursing (SON). The schedule of classes listed under freshman and sophomore years are for “traditional” full time students. We realize, though, that students who apply to the SON will come from many pathways. Some students will be “traditional” while others will have already earned a degree and still others will have taken longer to complete these prerequisite courses.
There are, though, several timing and sequencing “issues” for prerequisite courses that are important. They are:
- Science courses must be taken within 5 years of being admitted to the School of Nursing.
- The sequence of the blue prerequisite courses is important; these courses build upon one another – said another way – you need to have taken a specific class before CATS Web will allow you to take X class. For example, you need to have taken BIO 2451 before you register for BIO 2452, and BIO 2451 is only offered in the fall semester.
- The black courses have a natural sequence; for example it is a good idea to take HIST 1310 US History Pre 1877 before HIST 1320 US History Post 1877.
- The green courses listed under the freshman and sophomore years do not have prerequisites. Examples of these courses are Introduction to Psychology and BIO 2440 Microbiology.