Dental Assisting – Certified
All graduates are eligible to complete the Dental Assisting National Board and meet all requirements to be registered in radiology and expanded functions by the South Dakota Board of Dentistry. To be accepted into this program, the American Dental Association requires all applicants to have a high school diploma or GED.
Courses
- DA 105 — PRECLINICAL SCIENCE
- DA 110 — DENTAL AND ORAL ANATOMY
- DA 115 — MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR DENTAL
- DA 120 — ORAL HEALTH
- DA 126 — INTRODUCTION TO PATIENT CARE
- DA 135 — DENTAL MATERIALS
- DA 138 — CLINICAL SKILLS
- CPR 112
- PSYC 101 — GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY *
- DA 141 — PHARMACOLOGY AND MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
- DA 148 — ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS
- DA 156 — DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- DA 165 — DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY I
- DA 167 — DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY II
- DA 176 — DENTAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATION
- DA 190 — ORTHODONTICS
- COMM 101 — COMMUNICATIONS AND CAREER SEARCH
- DA 210 — CLINICAL PRACTICE
- ENGL 101 — COMPOSITION *
- CMST 101 — FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNICATION *
- CSS 100 — CAREER SEARCH STRATEGIES
- BIOL 221 — HUMAN ANATOMY *
- MATH 103 — MATHEMATICAL REASONING *
- MATH 114 — Students registering for these courses will be
- CSC 102 — WINDOWS APPLICATIONS FOR TECHNICIANS
- CHEM 106 — INORGANIC CHEMISTRY LECTURE AND LAB *
- CHEM 106L — Inorganic Chemistry Lab
- PHGY 210 — INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY *
- SOC 100
- ECON 105 — LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE
- ECON 201 — PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS I *
- MICRO 231
- PSYC 251 — ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY