General Education Courses

To earn their associate degree, all students ^must complete core requirements (ENG 111, ENG 112, SPC 111), major requirements, and free electives.  Students must also complete the general education distribution requirements as listed below. 

Please note that some majors specify the precise course a student must take to complete a given general education requirement (e.g., theatre major must take THA 111 to fulfill the general education arts, requirement), whereas, others just specify that students take any course from the approved list.  Please see the catalog for the precise requirements for each major. 

Arts - All students take 1 course

ART  101   Introduction to Visual Art
COM 121  Introduction to Mass Media*
MUS 103  Introduction to Music**
MUS 143  American Musical Theatre*
THA 111   Introduction to Theatre**

History - All students take 1-2 courses, generally a sequence

HIS 111  US History to 1877

HIS 112  US History -1877 to Present

HIS 113  Contemporary United States History

HIS 151  History of World Civilizations, to 1500

HIS 152  History of World Civilizations II, 1500 - 1920

BIO  152   General Biology -Organisms

BIO  155   Human Biology and Reproduction*
BIO  171   Human Anatomy and Physiology I

BIO  172   Human Anatomy and Physiology II

BIO  183   Ecology

BIO   211  Microbiology

CHM 151 General Chemistry I

CHM 152 General Chemistry II
PSC 125  Meteorology**
PSC 181  Environmental Science

Literature - All students take 1 course

ENG 215  Contemporary Literature*
ENG 217  Social Issues in Literature*
ENG 231  American Literature to 1860

ENG 232  A American Literature from 1860

ENG 255  Modern British and American Literature

ENG 260  Introduction to Poetry
ENG 261  Dramatic Literature*
ENG 263  Literature of the Bible*
ENG 265  Cinema: Films from Literature

ENG 270  Literature by Women Writers*

ENG 277  Mythology/Folklore

ENG 285  Introduction to the Short Story

ENG 295  Children’s Literature
ENG 301  Shakespeare*
 

Math - All students take 1 course

MTH 117  College Mathematics*
MTH 121  Algebra Essentials

MTH 125  Math for Liberal Arts

MTH 130  Statistics

MTH 151  College Algebra

MTH 152  Pre-calculus*
MTH 238  Quantitative Analysis I

MTH 239  Quantitative Analysis II

MTH 241  Calculus 1*
MTH 242  Calculus 11*

Philosophy - All students take 1 course
PHL 101     Introduction to Philosophy

PHL 115     Ethics
PHL 215     Comparative Religions

Social Science - All students take 1-2 courses

CRM 110   Introduction to Criminal Justice*
ECO 111   Principles of Economics - Macro

ECO 112   Principles of Economics - Micro

GEO 111   World Geography

POL 211   American Government*

PSY 111   General Psychology

PSY 201   Abnormal Psychology

PSY 202   Human Development:  A Lifespan Perspective
PSY 211   Child Psychology

PSY 230   Cross-Cultural Psychology

PSY 234   Educational Psychology

PSY 241   Adolescent Psychology
PSY 334   Brain and Behavior*
SOC 113  Introduction to Sociology

SOC 203  Sociology of the Family
SOC 215  Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC 217  Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 220  Social Problems

^Note:  Accounting and General Business major s complete different general education requirements.

**Offered as day courses only.