Associate of Arts, AA

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The associate of arts (AA) degree provides the student with the opportunity to obtain the first two years of college credits towards meeting most of the general education requirements and some of the prerequisites for the baccalaureate degree.

Requirements

English Composition requirement Credit Hours: 6 ¹
Speech requirement Credit Hours: 3 ¹
Mathematics requirement Credit Hours: 3 ¹
Lab Science requirement Credit Hours: 8 ^{1, 4}
Fine Arts requirement Credit Hours: 3 ¹
Humanities requirement Credit Hours: 3 ¹
History/Government requirement Credit Hours: 3 ¹
Social Sciences requirement Credit Hours: 6 ¹
Institutional requirement/advisor elective Credit Hours: 0 - 9 ^{3, 4}
Directed electives Credit Hours: 15 - 24 ^{2, 4}
FIN 1521 - Personal Finance Applications Credit Hours: 1 ⁵

60 Total Hours

Notes

Follow the General Education Core Requirements, see Graduation Requirements section of catalog.
Directed electives, 15-24 hours. (Courses taken to satisfy other State General Education Core Requirements cannot fulfill the directed electives requirement.) Select 1000-2000 level electives from the following areas: AHIS, ANTH, ART, BIOL, CHEM, CJ 1013 , DVST, ECON, ENGL (except ENGL 1201), FORL, FREN, GEOG, GEOL, GERM, HIST, HUMN, MATH (except MATH 1133 and 1203), MUSI 2763 , PHIL, PHSC, PHYS, POLS, PSYC, RELI, RHET, SOCI, SPAN, SPCH, STAT, THEA.
Institutional requirement/advisor elective, 0-9 hours. The institutional requirements can come from these same areas listed above or can come from other disciplines.
Students declaring the associate of arts who expect to apply for admission to a health science program should be aware of the following: 1. science courses taken more than five years prior to program application may not be eligible for health science programs and may need to be retaken; 2. health science programs require a grade of C or better for all courses applicable to the program. Courses with a grade of D, including science courses, may need to be retaken. See the specific health science program advisor for more information and to request a science course evaluation.
Prior to graduation students must demonstrate competency in financial literacy by satisfactory completion of FIN 1521 - Personal Finance Applications (or an approved substitution) with a grade of C or better, or by a score of 70% or more on a challenge exam for FIN 1521 .