USI's Dental Assisting program offers the unique opportunity to receive a Certificate of Dental Assisting after one year with the option of completing an Associate of Science degree in year two.
ENG 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self credits: 3
CMST 101 - Introduction to Public Speaking credits: 3
HP 115 - Medical Terminology credits: 2
DTAS 111 - Oral Pathology credits: 1
DTAS 122 - Clinical Science I credits: 5
DTAS 144 – Introduction to Dental Specialties credits: 1
DTAS 156 - Human Systems I credits: 3
DTAS 158 - Practice Management, Ethics, and Jurisprudence credits: 2
DTAS 166 - Human Systems II credits: 3
DTAS 175 - Preventive Dentistry credits: 2
DTAS 177 – Dental Assisting Skills Laboratory credits: 2
DTAS 181 - Clinical Science II credits: 6
DTHY 303 - Oral Radiology credits: 3
DTHY 308 - Applied Dental Materials credits: 3
DTHY 314 - Oral Anatomy credits: 2
DTAS 291 – Expanded Functions Dental Assisting credits: 3
ENG 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self credits: 3
CMST 101 - Introduction to Public Speaking credits: 3
HP 115 - Medical Terminology credits: 2
DTAS 111 - Oral Pathology credits: 1
DTAS 122 - Clinical Science I credits: 5
DTAS 144 – Introduction to Dental Specialties credits: 1
DTAS 156 - Human Systems I credits: 3
DTAS 158 - Practice Management, Ethics, and Jurisprudence credits: 2
DTAS 166 - Human Systems II credits: 3
DTAS 175 - Preventive Dentistry credits: 2
DTAS 177 – Dental Assisting Skills Laboratory credits: 2
DTAS 181 - Clinical Science II credits: 6
DTHY 303 - Oral Radiology credits: 3
DTHY 308 - Applied Dental Materials credits: 3
DTHY 314 - Oral Anatomy credits: 2
DTAS 291 – Expanded Functions Dental Assisting credits: 3
The Associate of Science degree is available to certificate program graduates who complete a second academic year. Of the 60 hours required to graduate with an Associate of Science degree 25 hours must be Core 39 courses. At the completion of the dental assisting certificate curriculum the student will have earned 41 hours; six of the 41 credits are Core 39 courses. Nineteen additional hours of Core 39 courses are needed to graduate with an Associate of science degree in dental assisting. The 19 Core 39 hours can be selected from the following categories:
Foundations Composition credits: 3
Foundations Mathematics credits: 3-4
Ways of Creative and Aesthetic Knowing Expression credits: 3
Ways of Historical Knowing Inquiry credits: 3
Ways of Moral and Ethical Knowing Reasoning credits: 3
Ways of Scientific and Knowing Mathematical Inquiry credits: 3
Ways of Social Knowing Inquiry credits: 3
Ways of World Languages Knowing and Culture credits: 3
Natural Science (with at least one lab) credits: 8-9