Academic
Catalog August 2007 - August 2008 Undergraduate
and Graduate
School of Health Professions
Department of Dental Hygiene
Health Professions Building, room 202
NAU, PO Box 15065, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5065
928-523-5122
Department Chair
Denise Helm
You may pursue the follow undergraduate academic plans in NAU’s Department of Dental Hygiene:
We offer these plans to help you become a professional capable of having a significant impact in your community. We are committed to excellence, with a focus on self-responsibility, critical thinking, leadership, optimal health, and personal development. We seek to improve access to oral health and serve as a regional resource to oral health professionals.
We create opportunities for you to provide individualized educational, preventive, and therapeutic services designed to achieve and maintain optimal oral health; evaluate education and treatment outcomes of dental hygiene intervention; make ethical decisions; solve problems creatively; develop interpersonal skills that enhance effective communication, with sensitivity to cultural and other differences; develop a commitment to service and leadership skills in community and professional activities; and explore advanced technologies related to dental hygiene education and care.
Our B.S.D.H. plan is fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Dental and Dental Auxiliary Educational Programs of the American Dental Association.
To be admitted to the dental hygiene plan, you must:
Complete the 28 units of requirements described under the heading Preprofessional Requirements.
Apply for admission to the dental hygiene plan.
We encourage males and minorities to apply. You can find application information on the web at www.nau.edu/hp/dh/.
You can apply when you have no more than 18 units remaining in progress, with no more than two courses remaining to be taken during summer sessions.
Apply for admission to NAU.
You can do this at any time before you apply to the dental hygiene plan. For more information, see http://www4.nau.edu/uadmissions/admis/home.htm.
Please be aware that being admitted to NAU does not automatically mean you’ll be accepted into the dental hygiene plan.
Although NAU does not offer a graduate degree in dental hygiene, we do offer graduate courses focusing on dental hygiene education and theoretical concepts.
If you are a dental hygienist, you may use these courses in several ways to advance your education: You may use them for professional continuing education credit. If you are enrolled in the bachelor’s degree completion plan (see the title Degree Completion for Licensed Dental Hygienists in the undergraduate section), you may use these courses to help meet requirements for graduation. Finally, you may use these courses as electives in a master’s or certificate plan, with your adviser’s approval.
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