OPTIONS FOR COMPLETING PREREQUISITES for Cal State LB Graduate Nursing
Online Options for all prerequisites:
Cal State Dominguez Hills (www.csudh.edu) Patho course: BSN 345, Comm. Health (if
your BS is not in Nursing): BSN 410/411 or Nrsg 420/421; BSN 380/381L for Physical
Assessment
Excelsior College (on website, or call 518-464-8500) Patho course - 584
University of Iowa at www.nursing.uiowa.edu also has an approved Pathophysiology
course.
Grand Canyon University – Continuing Education at 602-639-8888
University of Massachusetts - online
(These colleges also have statistics and physical assessment classes – please check lists
for numbers.)
Additional online Patho courses are at University of Northern Colorado – Nrsg 326 and
University of Iowa under Nursing/Pathophysiology course; (CSULB Patho course: Biol
304 ).
Patho courses are usually at four year schools but the following community colleges
offer approved courses:
El Camino College (Nrsg 210)
Santa Barbara City (online) HT 204
Golden West (Bio 160)
Moorpark College HS 25
Saddleback (Bio 112)
L.A. Southwest (Nrsg 521)
Santa Ana (Bio 217)
There are many approved statistics courses at community colleges (please call to verify
one you plan to take – a CAN STAT 2 course is okay but please send verification that it
is such a course), or these at Cal State LB will also qualify: EDP 419, HsC 403/503,
Psych 310, Business 310, Math 108.
Choose a physical assessment class at any online or community college or four year
school. The one at CSULB is usually closed, however, as it is reserved for our BSN
programs. Must be over 30 hours including lecture and assessment. If it is called
something other than health or physical assessment, please send description. Golden
West, Cerritos, East LA and Saddleback Community Colleges offer physical assessment
courses (220, 251 and 102 (with lab), respectively). Santa Monica may also have one.
You may see we also offer physical assessment (312), community health (402) and
patho (305) here at CSULB in both semesters and often the summers. However,
these are reserved for BSN students and it is advised that you do not take them here.
Online courses are the ones most likely to have spaces. In the case of 402,
Community Health, you could contact Alison Kliachko-Trafas at Alison.KliachkoTrafas@csulb.edu at least two months before the start of the semester or summer,
as you must contact the teacher and fill out forms as clinical placements will take
that long. Our community health is 7 units but other schools often don’t have as
many units. It is best to look for classes at other schools as spaces in ours are always
last minute. You could try to enter 305 on the first day of class with an Open
University form (not recommended for 312 or 402). We request that you do not try
to take our 312 classes as those are very full. Thank you.
You may fax any course descriptions of any class you are wondering about (if they
are not specifically called physical/health assessment or pathophysiology) to 562985-2382, attn: Alison. You can also e-mail questions to Alison.KliachkoTrafas@csulb.edu or to Pam Ford at Pamila.Ford@csulb.edu
Equivalent Prerequisite Courses for Graduate Program
(if a class not mentioned here has a name that is not statistics, physical assessment or
pathophysiology, but included the content, please submit course description to Graduate Nursing at
fax no. 562-985-2382)
Community Health
Date
Course Name and Number
12/2/07
Nrsg 402 (includes lab)
12/2/07
BSN 410/411 or 420/421
01/27/12 NUR 405 (includes lab)
12/13/12
NRSG 230 (includes lab)
School
CSULB
CSUDH
University of Phoenix (1-800-3669699)
Cerritos College
2/19/13
2/19/13
NRSG 403/403C
Nrsg 420
Grand Canyon University
Vanguard
Pathophysiology
Date
Course Name and Number
9/23/10 HS M25
3/3/04
Nrsg 326
3/3/04
Nrsg 210
3/3/04
Bio 112
3/3/04
Bio 160
3/3/04
Nrsg 521
4/27/04 Nrsg 353
4/27/04 Nrsg 308
9/28/07 Nrsg 054/064
9/28/04 Integrated curriculum
9/28/07 Integrated curriculum
9/28/04 Nrsg 250 or 224
9/28/04 Nrsg 326
12/22/06 Bio 217
12/22/05 Nrsg 584 or BIOX410
06/08/07 096:118:GW1 Pathophysiology
06/08/07 Nrsg 425 or 427
2/14/08 HIT 204 (online)
4/28/09 BIOL 4160
9/23/10 Nrsg 210
9/23/10 Nrsg 119
10/28/11 Nrsg 250 Intro to Patho
4/2/10
PHYSCI X459 10
2/19/13 HS147
Any 300 or 400 class called Patho
(such as 302 through CSUN)
School
Moorpark College
Univ. of Northern Colorado online
El Camino College
Saddleback
Golden West
Los Angeles Southwest
Cal State Fullerton
San Diego State
Mount St. Mary’s
Biola
Brenau
Loma Linda
University of Northern Colorado
Santa Ana Community
Excelsior
University of Iowa/Nursing online
University of Phoenix
Santa Barbara City College
Cal State East Bay
University of San Francisco
Samuel Merritt University
CSU Los Angeles
UCLA Extension
Cypress College
Cal States, UCs, Private Regionally
Accredited Universities (Azusa
Pacific, Biola, Concordia, Holy
Names, UOP, Western, National,
etc.)
Physical Assessment
Date
Course Name and Number
9/23/10 Nrsg 277 Health Assessment
5/26/11 NRS 434V
3/3/04
Any 3 unit class called Physical or
Health Assessment including a Lab
Within last 5 years
9/9/10
436 Health Assessment
Nrsg 251
Any class called Physical or Health
Assessment (CSUN 307/307L through
Cont. education, for instance)
1/23/09 Nrsg 442
10/11/10 Nrsg 155
5/30/12 Nrsg 420 (NOT 440)
6/13/13 NUR 343
School
East L.A. Community College
Grand Canyon Cont. Education
All Cal States/UCs
Any accredited four year or
community college
Grantham University (non –
regionally accredited but can be used
for prerequisite)
Cerritos College
Cal States, UCs, Private Universities
(Azusa Pacific, Biola, Concordia,
Holy Names, etc.)
Excelsior
El Camino
University of Phoenix 800-366-9699
Jacksonville University Online
Statistics
Date
Course Name and Number
5/12/11 Basic Statistics CEU course
4/27/04 Math 160
4/27/04 Math 10
4/27/04 Math 165
4/27/04 100A Biostatistics
4/27/04 Math 7
4/27/04 Math 150
9/28/04 Math 225
9/28/04 Psych 230
9/28/04 421 Quat. Methods
9/28/04 Pysch 60
9/28/04 Math 119
9/28/04 Bio 260
9/28/04 Math 10
9/28/04 Math 10
9/28/04 Math 12
9/28/04 Math 227
9/28/04 Math 160
9/28/04 Math 210
9/28/04 Psych 011
9/28/04 Math 219
9/28/04 Math 120
9/28/04 Stat 1
9/28/04 Soc 3/Stat Methods
9/28/04 Stat 2122
School
www.learnwell.org
OCC/Coastline/Golden West
Irvine Valley
Sonoma State
UCLA
El Camino College
El Camino College
L.A. Valley Colleges
Northern Arizona University
CSUDH/online
UCSD
Mesa/SD Community
CSULB
Foothill College
Saddleback
Riverside Comm.
L.A. Southwest/L.A. Harbor
Cuyamaca
Biola
UCR
Santa Ana
Cypress
LBCC
College of the Desert
Miami Dade
9/14/07
9/28/04
9/28/04
9/28/04
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
6/30/05
Stat 18
Math 222
Math 52
Math 160
Math 206
Stat 114
Math 203
Math 40049
Math 112
Math 010
Math 136
Stat 1
Pasadena City College
Pacific Union
Santa Monica College
Grossmont College
Walla Walla
SCC
Chapman
UCSD
Cerritos
Mission College
Glendale
L.A. Valley
6/30/05
5/21/07
8/10/06
3/31/07
4/5/07
1/2/07
4/18/07
1/26/09
6/04/07
6/04/07
6/04/07
7/27/07
6/04/07
6/04/07
4/1/10
10/9/07
2/24/08
1/23/09
4/7/10
CAN STAT 2 Course
Stat 095
Psych 230
Math 205
Psych 60
Math 120
Math 152
Math 105
Math 108
Psych 310
EDP 419
IS 310
HsC 403
HsC 503
SOC 250
Math 7
Math 117
CLEP Exam – College Mathematics
AP Statistics Exam
Community Colleges
San Jose State
Arizona State University
St. Joseph’s College/Maine
UC San Diego
Fullerton College
Ocean County College/New Jersey
CSULB
CSULB
CSULB
CSULB
CSULB
CSULB
CSULB
CSULB
UC Irvine
Santa Barbara City College
College Board
High School Exam for GE credit