The standard educational track consists of 56 hours of pre-requisite courses that can be taken at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university with an additional 64 hours (two years) of professional courses that are completed at LSU Health Shreveport.
Summer Semester (8 total credit hours)
- CPSC 3100 - Respiratory Care Fundamentals I - 2 credits
- CPSC 3220 - Cardiopulmonary Anatomy & Physiology - 6 credits
Fall Semester (12 total credit hours)
- CPSC 3200 - Respiratory Care Fundamentals II - 5 credits
- CPSC 3250 - Clinical Applications & Procedures I - 3 credits
- CPSC 3262 - Clinical Seminar I - 1 credit
- CPSC 3263 - Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology and Pharmacologic Therapy I - 3 credits
Spring Semester (13 total credit hours)
- CPSC 3300 - Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care - 2 credits
- CPSC 3350 - Clinical Application and Procedures II - 2 credits
- CPSC 3330 - Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics I - 1 credits
- CPSC 3310 Critical Care Concepts - 4 credits
- CPSC 3362 - Clinical Seminar II - 1 credit
- CPSC 3363 - Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology and Pharmacologic Therapy II - 3 credits
Summer Semester (6 total credit hours)
- CPSC 3332 - Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics II - 2 credits
- CPSC 3400 - Clinical Application and Procedures III - 2 credits
- CPSC 4160 - Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Home Care - 2 credits
Fall Semester (13 total credit hours)
- CPSC 4050 - Cardiovascular Pathophysiology - 3 credits
- CPSC 4062 - Cardiovascular Diagnostics - 6 credits
- CPSC 4072 - Clinical Seminar III - 1 credit
- CPSC 4080 - Clinical Applications & Procedures IV - 3 credits
Spring Semester (12 total credit hours)
- CPSC 4152 - Cardiopulmonary Specialty Topics - 4 credits
- CPSC 4170 - Clinical Applications & Procedures V - 2 credits
- CPSC 4180 - Professional Development in the Health Sciences - 3 credits
- CPSC 4190 - Introduction to Research and Statistical Methods - 3 credits
Total hours for degree: 120 (including 56 hours prerequisites)
NOTE: In that the above-listed LSU Health Shreveport courses form the professional component of the major, no grade below a C is acceptable. The coursework in any courses in which the student receives less than a C must be repeated, and a grade of C or higher earned, before the sequence can be continued.