66 CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE • To interact with educators and other students in a positive, vital, respectful environment. • To become life-long learners. Any student who desires to enter clinical laboratory science must consult the academic program director. The candidate for a bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory science must complete 126 credits for graduation. Of this total, clinical internship training is assigned a weight of 32 credits and these 32 credits constitute the clinical laboratory science major. The candidate must have earned at least 63.0 grade points in the 126 credits presented for graduation. The courses required for completion of a major in clinical laboratory science are listed below. Completion of the Concordia College liberal arts core curriculum and the clinical laboratory science preprofessional curriculum by the end of the junior year will qualify a student to apply for clinical internship, which will be carried out during the senior year (see the academic program director for model course schedules). Students may also complete four years of study at Concordia before entering the clinical training experience if they prefer. Transfer students may be admitted to the program, but the academic program director should be consulted to arrange program details. Transfer students must spend at least one academic year at Concordia to be eligible to apply for clinical training.
Preprofessional curriculum (taken on campus at Concordia College): • MATH 205 – Introduction to Statistics, 4 credits • BIOL 121 – Cell Biology, 4 credits • BIOL 222 – Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4 credits • BIOL 306 – Human Anatomy and Physiology, 4 credits • BIOL 352 – Immunology and Parasitology, 4 credits • BIOL 407 – Microbiology, 4 credits • CHEM 127 – General Chemistry I, 4 credits • CHEM 128 – General Chemistry II, 4 credits • CHEM 341 – Organic Chemistry I, 4 credits • CHEM 342 – Organic Chemistry II, 4 credits • CHEM 373 – Biochemistry I, 4 credits
Other strongly recommended courses include: • CHEM 232 – Analytical Chemistry, 4 credits • CHEM 431 – Instrumental Methods of Analysis, 4 credits • PHYS 111 – General College Physics I, 4 credits • Hematology and Pathogen Microbiology (available through the Tri-College University) • Courses in management and small-group communication
Clinical internship curriculum (taken at Sanford Medical Center, Fargo) Concordia College is affiliated with the School of Clinical Laboratory Science at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. Students must apply to the affiliated hospital for acceptance into the clinical internship by Oct. 1 of their junior (or senior) year and are notified of a decision by Dec. 1. Admission is based on the student’s grade point average (generally 3.0 or better for admission), letters of recommendation, and a mandatory on-site personal interview. Admission is competitive, and students are not guaranteed an internship upon completion of the preprofessional curriculum. However, Concordia students have been very successful in obtaining internship positions. Clinical training begins in the summer following the junior year. During clinical training, students spend six to 10 hours per week in lectures, workshops and seminars, with the balance of the 40-hour week devoted to structured practical experiences in the clinical laboratory. Courses taken during the internship year are listed below.
Internship Course Descriptions (Sanford Health Medical Center, Fargo)
CLIN 470 – Clinical Chemistry, 7 credits. Lecture and laboratory instruction in medically oriented biochemistry as applied to normal and abnormal physiology and analysis of body constituents. Also includes instruction in instrumentation. CLIN 471 – Clinical Coagulation, 1 credit. Lecture and laboratory instruction in the chemistry of blood clotting. CLIN 472 – Immunohematology, 6 credits. Lecture and laboratory instruction in theory and practice of immunohematology as applied to blood transfusions, component therapy, immunologic diagnostic procedure and blood bank administration. CLIN 473 – Clinical Hematology, 6 credits. Lecture and laboratory instruction in the analysis of the cellular elements of the blood and bone marrow, both normal and abnormal. CLIN 474 – Clinical Microbiology, 8 credits. Lecture and laboratory instruction in the isolation and identification of pathogenic organisms and of their susceptibility to therapeutic agents. Includes bacteriology, parasitology, mycology and virology. CLIN 475 – Clinical Immunology, 1 credit. Lecture and laboratory instruction applying the principles of immunology to serologic diagnosis. CLIN 476 – Clinical Microscopy, 2 credits. Lecture and laboratory instruction in anatomy and physiology of the kidney, methodology and clinical significance in examination of the physical and chemical composition of urine. CLIN 477 – Professional Topics, 1 credit. Instruction in management and education topics.
Communication Studies and Theatre Art Programs offered
• Major in Communication (32 credits) • Major in Communication with a Concentration in Mass Media (36 credits) • Major in Communication with a Concentration in Organizational Communication (32 credits) • Major in Communication with a Concentration in Public Relations (32 credits) • Minor in Communication (20 credits) • Individualized Study Major in Communication Studies and Theatre Art (32 credits) • Individualized Study Minor in Communication Studies and Theatre Art (20 credits) • Minor in Film Studies (24 credits, an interdisciplinary program) • Major in Theatre Art (38 credits) • Minor in Theatre Art (20 credits) • Major in Multimedia Journalism, an interdisciplinary program (see multimedia journalism), (36 credits) • Double Major or Major/Minor Combinations in Communication and Theatre Art