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Dental Assisting

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Program Snapshot
Academic CredentialCertificate
Total Credit Hours47
Average Time to Complete10 Months
Academic PathwayHealth Sciences
AdvisorLaurie Womble, BHs, CDA
Dental Assisting Coordinator
850.769.1551, ext 5842
lwomble@gulfcoast.edu

Academic Program SpecialistAlyssa Evans
850.913.3311
Health SciencesGCSC@gulfcoast.edu
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Dental Assisting, Certificate

Courses
+#=*DEA 0020CPreclin Procedures6 credit hours
+#=*DEA 0132Dental Nutrition1 credit hours
+#=*DEA 0133Intro To Microbiol1 credit hours
+#=*DEA 0134Intro Pharmacol2 credit hours
+#=*DEA 0800LClin Practice I1.5 credit hours
+#=*DEA 0801LClin Prac II Lab6 credit hours
+#=*DEA 0850LClin Prac III6.5 credit hours
+#=*DEH 1400Oral Pathology2 credit hours
+#=*DES 0501Dent Prac Mgt1 credit hours
+#=*DES 0844Dentl Health Ed1 credit hours
+#=*DES 1000Dental Anatomy2 credit hours
+#=*DES 1010Head and Neck Anatomy2 credit hours
+#=*DES 1100CDental Materials3 credit hours
+#=*DES 1200Dental Radiology I2 credit hours
+#=*DES 1200LDental Radiology I Lab1 credit hours
+#=*DES 1201Dental Radiology II1 credit hours
+#=*DES 1201LDental Radiology II Lab1 credit hours
+#=*DES 1320Communications1 credit hours
+#=*DES 1404Anatomy and Physiology2 credit hours
+#=*DES 1832Expanded Functions1 credit hours
+#=*DES 1832LExpanded Functions Lab1 credit hours
  TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 19 credit hours
  TOTAL VOCATIONAL HOURS 28 credit hours
Total Degree Hours47


• General Education Core.
+ Prerequisites  and/or corequisites required.  See course descriptions.
# Applies only to A.S. degree and certificate programs.
= PSAV course.
* Minimum grade of "C" required.

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