08-27-2013, 01:17 PM
The question often comes up here: Where should a student, who might have earned or might be earning the rest of their bachelor's elsewhere, look to complete undergraduate science courses? Especially with labs, and often with the provision that these should be on the ground, bricks-and-mortar. These science courses could be the standard prerequisites for medical school, or prerequisites for other programs in health professions, or gateways to other opportunities in and around natural science.
Smart people on these boards â especially Jennifer who's been our authority on all this â often point to Harvard Extension School, with its close affiliate Harvard Summer School. HES is a degree-granting school and HSS is a degree-credit-granting school of Harvard University. These are different parts of Harvard University from Harvard College, with their own distinct histories, but I didn't need to tell you that! Thousands of threads across the Internet already make this point very fully.
HES and HSS offer well-regarded undergraduate sequences in general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics and biology with lab, and electives for undergraduate or graduate credit especially in biology. This is alongside an impressive catalog of courses across the liberal arts and several professions. HES offers an organized Health Careers Program for pre-health students; the same underlying courses can be taken with or without enrollment in the HCP.
Over time I looked into these opportunities from HES, and other individual courses and organized programs elsewhere. I really liked what I learned about HES.
It still amazes me that this came together, but it did: I'm writing this from Cambridge, MA, and I start HES General Chemistry I with Dr. Gregg Tucci next week. I have my class response clicker for lecture, lab glasses for lab, textbook, alternate textbooks and reference books. Index cards are piling up; worked problems are starting to.
My plan is to take General Chemistry I and II in Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 and biology, organic chemistry, physics, and potentially science electives into Summer 14 and 14-15.
Interesting Things should happen! I'll try to keep everyone posted as they do.
I want to thank everyone here on DF for adding to this community which has helped, directly and indirectly, me to see this as possible.
Smart people on these boards â especially Jennifer who's been our authority on all this â often point to Harvard Extension School, with its close affiliate Harvard Summer School. HES is a degree-granting school and HSS is a degree-credit-granting school of Harvard University. These are different parts of Harvard University from Harvard College, with their own distinct histories, but I didn't need to tell you that! Thousands of threads across the Internet already make this point very fully.
HES and HSS offer well-regarded undergraduate sequences in general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics and biology with lab, and electives for undergraduate or graduate credit especially in biology. This is alongside an impressive catalog of courses across the liberal arts and several professions. HES offers an organized Health Careers Program for pre-health students; the same underlying courses can be taken with or without enrollment in the HCP.
Over time I looked into these opportunities from HES, and other individual courses and organized programs elsewhere. I really liked what I learned about HES.
It still amazes me that this came together, but it did: I'm writing this from Cambridge, MA, and I start HES General Chemistry I with Dr. Gregg Tucci next week. I have my class response clicker for lecture, lab glasses for lab, textbook, alternate textbooks and reference books. Index cards are piling up; worked problems are starting to.
My plan is to take General Chemistry I and II in Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 and biology, organic chemistry, physics, and potentially science electives into Summer 14 and 14-15.
Interesting Things should happen! I'll try to keep everyone posted as they do.
I want to thank everyone here on DF for adding to this community which has helped, directly and indirectly, me to see this as possible.
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