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College of Arts & Sciences

This agreement serves to facilitate the admission and academic transfer of students from Palo Alto College in the Alamo Community Colleges to the Biomedical Sciences program (BIMS) in the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.  As students progress successfully toward the completion of the Associate of Science degree, this agreement will ensure the seamless transition of students into the BIMS program according to provisions and conditions below:

  1. Palo Alto students who complete the attached degree plan, as full time students will be admitted to the BIMS program automatically, provided: they meet all other general admission requirements (i.e., transcripts, applications, time lines, deadline dates, etc.) for general admission to Texas A&M University.
  2. Students must have maintained no less than a cumulative 3.4 GPA in the courses taken at Palo Alto and be eligible for graduation from Palo Alto.
  3. Student must not have made any grade below a “B” in all of the Common Body Knowledge (CBK) science and math course work.
  4. This agreement will be reviewed on an annual basis and may be amended by mutual written consent of both parties by issuing an addendum to this agreement.
  5. This agreement will commence effective the Fall 2014 semester with commitment of a five (5) year period.

EXECUTED in TWO (2) original counterparts on this 2nd day of May, 2014.

Elizabeth Tanner
Vice President for Academic Success
Palo Alto College

Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni for Eleanor M. Green
Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University


Curriculum

1st Semester

Course Title SCH
ENGL 1301 Composition I 3
CHEM 1411 General Chemistry I 4
MATH 2412 Pre-Calculus 4
HUMA Select 1 course from Humanities (40) core 3
HIST Select 1 course from History (60) core 3
Total Semester Credit Hours 17

  

2nd Semester

Course Title SCH
ENGL 1302 Composition II 3
CHEM 1412 General Chemistry I 4
MATH 2413 Calculus I 4
HIST Select 1 course from History (60) core 3
Total Semester Credit Hours 14

 

3rd Semester


Course Title SCH
BIOL 1413 General Zoology 4
PHYS 1401 General Physics I 4
PSYC 2301 General Psychology 3
SPCH Select 1 course from Add. Communication (11) Core 3
GOVT Select 1 course from Government (70) Core 3
Total Semester Credit Hours 17

 

4th Semester

Course Title SCH
BIOL 1411 General Botany 4
PHYS 1402 General Physics II 4
GOVT Select 1 course from Government (70) Core 3
ARTS Select 1 course from Visual & Performing Arts (50) Core 3
HUMA Select 1 course from Add. Humanities (41) Core 3
Total Semester Credit Hours 17

 


Total Credit Hours: 65