Prerequisites

Prerequisite Courses

The KU course numbers below are provided as a guide. Equivalent courses from other institutions may be accepted pending transcript evaluation. Equivalent courses from other institutions may be eligible to fulfill these requirements. We do not accept any grade lower than a "C" in any prerequisite course.

Biological Sciences

BIOL 100 Principles of Biology¹ (or other natural sciences course) (3 credits) 

BIOL 240 Fundamentals of Human Anatomy²  (3 credits)

BIOL 246 Principles of Human Physiology³ (3 credits)

Mathematics

MATH 365 Elementary Statistics (3 credits)

ACCT 200 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting⁴ or ACCT 205 Survey of Accounting (4 credits)

English

ENGL 101 Composition (3 credits)

ENGL 102 Critical Reading and Writing (3 credits)

Oral Communication

COMS 130 Speaker-Audience Communication (3 credits)

Humanities

PHIL 148 Reason and Argument (3 credits)

PHIL 160 Introduction to Ethics (3 credits)

HUM 204 Western Civilization I (or other culture and diversity elective)⁵ (3 credits)

Social Sciences

PSYC 104 General Psychology (3 credits)

SOC 104 Elements of Sociology (3 credits)

Health Care

HEIM 210 Introduction to Health Care (1 credit)

HEIM 230 Medical Terminology (3 credits)

Other

BLAW Legal Aspects of Business (3 credits)

IST 310 Intro to Information & Management Productivity Systems (3 credits)

Note: IST 202, IST 205, and ACCT 205 are discontinued but they are acceptable for any student who has already taken these courses.

¹ Students may choose any elective fulfilling the KU Core Goal 3, Natural Sciences.

² BIOL 241 or BIOL 242 are lab courses for BIOL 240 and are recommended but not required.

³ BIOL 247 is the lab course for BIOL 246 and is recommended but not required.

⁴ KU requires students to take MATH 101 before taking ACCT 200; transfer students may not need to complete a MATH 101 equivalent if it is not required for the required accounting course.

⁵ Students may choose any elective fulfilling the KU Core Goal 4, Learning Outcome 2.

Recommended Courses

If you need additional credit hours, consider taking the following recommended courses.

(1) Additional courses needed to finish KU's minor in business.

(2) Additional courses recommended for students interested in health information management:

• BUS 305 Business Writing (meets requirement for ENGL 102)
• COMS 330 Effective Business Communication
• ENGL 362 Technical Writing
• SOC 160 Social Problems and American Values

KU Core Requirements

All incoming KU freshmen are required to fulfill the KU Core requirements. The purpose of the KU Core is to establish a University-wide general curriculum for all baccalaureate degrees that meets six primary educational goals.

If you’re a current student on the KU-Lawrence campus, it is important to declare pre-health information management as your major. To verify the status of prerequisite completion, you can access the Degree Progress Report through the KYOU portal.

Prerequisite classes and how they meet KU Core requirements are detailed below. As courses are constantly being evaluated and approved for inclusion in the KU Core curriculum, please check for the most up-to-date course listings that meet each goal. Some KU Core goals will be fulfilled through courses taken during the last two years of study in the health information management program at KU Medical Center.

KU core checklist for health information management students (PDF)

** These schedules are provided for reference only. For complete, current information about courses and requirements, please visit the KU Academic Catalog.