2019-2020 BSC Catalog

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
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Dual Degree in Law
Frederick Ashe, Advisor
Students participating in the cooperative law program will complete all general
education requirements and requirements for a major at Birmingham-Southern
College before continuing their studies at Cumberland School of Law at Samford
University. Students in their junior year at the College will be eligible to apply to the
Cumberland program after completing ¾ of the coursework required for a bachelor’s
degree.
Admission to the Cumberland program will be by means of the normal law school
application process that requires, among other things, a Law School Admission Test
(LSAT) score and two letters of recommendation, one of which should be from the
chairperson of the student’s major department. A student seeking admission to the
program should have an LSAT score equal to or better than the median LSAT
score of the current first-year Cumberland class and have a cumulative Birmingham-
Southern College grade point average of 3.000 or better.
After successful completion of the first year of the program at Cumberland,
Birmingham-Southern College shall award the student the appropriate bachelor’s degree.
Upon successful completion of the remaining requirements at Cumberland, the student
will be awarded the J.D. agree.
Dual Degree in Nursing
Sue Buckingham, Advisor
Birmingham-Southern College students who opt for this dual-degree program attend the
College for approximately three and a half years and major in health sciences. Then, if
eligibility requirements are met, they are admitted into the Accelerated Master’s in
Nursing Pathways (AMNP) program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The
student will be enrolled at both institutions for the spring term of the senior year, and
upon successful completion of the 18 required credit hours at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham in that same term, the student will be awarded the bachelor’s degree in
health sciences from Birmingham-Southern College. To be eligible for enrollment in the
AMNP program, students must have competed at least 29 units and fulfilled all general
education and health sciences major requirements (with the exception of the senior
capstone requirement) at Birmingham-Southern College. Once the remaining
requirements are completed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the student will
be awarded the Master of Science degree in nursing.
Students will normally apply in the fall of their junior year, and must have a minimum
cumulative and pre-nursing grade point average of 3.000 to be eligible. Applicants will
be provided with an admission decision prior to the end of the fall term of the junior year.
Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2019-2020