What To Take... A&P Together or Separately?

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Hello! I'm a new student currently doing my gen eds at a community college. I should start Chemistry in the Spring. I'm also from California. I would personally like to transfer to a Cal State and get my BSN, but knowing this state when it comes to admissions, I wouldn't mind if I only got accepted to, say, the local ADN program.

It looks like it's the norm to take Anatomy and Physiology separately here in California, based on what I have seen on college and university websites on their nursing requirements but I could be completely wrong. I don't really like the idea of taking A&P separately; maybe I'm just used to taking a class that had it combined, which I did in my final year of high school.

My college offers A&P I and A&P II if that is the sequence students prefer. After taking Chemistry (Chemistry is a pre-requisite of A&P I) I must decide by then whether I should do the separate route or take the class that has the two combined. What do you guys think, from your experience?

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Just realized you mentioned that there is a course that teaches both. So I assume that the credits you get will be 8 credit hours for two courses taken over two semesters. Or maybe they’ve sped up the course work so that the information of two courses could be put into 3.5 months. Hey, if you can do that, why not? But don’t try to take two separate courses in the same semester. There are concepts from AP I upon which AP II builds. If they offer it as a single course, and you feel advanced enough to do it, go for it. I got A’s in both, but I took them separately. Just beware that there is A LOT OF READING. I’m talking about 100 pages per week for just one course (double the load, I assume they are doubling the work). Plus lots of parts to memorize, and your other courses. I worked full time and took AP I with developmental psych and Microbiology in one semester, and then the second course with composition and intro to literature. So it’s probably doable depending on your course load. Good luck.

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@bsd058 Thank you for responding! I apologize that it sounded like I was taking two separate courses together in one semester. I won't take a separated Anatomy and Physiology in one semester, not only is that a lot of work but it's not allowed at my school, since Anatomy is a prerequisite for Physiology.

Yes, it would be 8 credit hours, as A&P I and A&P II are 4 credits each. I'm a little confused, you said you took the courses separately (so Anatomy in one, and Physiology in another) but then you said you took A&P I. Was it what the schools you applied to wanted or I'm just mistaken?

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10 hours ago, rougewitch said:

@bsd058 Thank you for responding! I apologize that it sounded like I was taking two separate courses together in one semester. I won't take a separated Anatomy and Physiology in one semester, not only is that a lot of work but it's not allowed at my school, since Anatomy is a prerequisite for Physiology.

Yes, it would be 8 credit hours, as A&P I and A&P II are 4 credits each. I'm a little confused, you said you took the courses separately (so Anatomy in one, and Physiology in another) but then you said you took A&P I. Was it what the schools you applied to wanted or I'm just mistaken?

For my school, they taught physiology along with anatomy throughout the whole semester one and the same throughout semester two. There was more physiology in the second course, but both were a mixture of both subjects. The school to which I applied just had the requirement that you take both courses at the same school, probably for the reason you mentioned, the curriculum is taught differently at different schools. The content should, theoretically, be the same, when taking everything into account, though.

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