Academic Catalog 2011-12

Liberal Arts

Program Description

This degree is offered to students who complete general education requirements, any minor* presently offered by the University, and free electives for a total of 62 credit hours (minimum). Consult departmental offerings for requirements of a minor and electives.

Courses selected for credits toward the general education requirements may be, at the discretion of the department offering the minor, accepted for the minor.

Note: Once you have chosen a minor, contact the department which offers it in order to be assigned an advisor. The department offering your minor will both advise you and conduct your degree audit before graduation.

*see minors section.

Degree Requirements

General education requirements for the liberal arts associate degree include classes in communication skills, mathematics, humanities, social science, social science-diversity and natural science.

Communication Skills

• COMM101 Fund. of Speech Communication 3
• ENGL110 First-Year Composition I 3
• ENGL111 First-year Composition II 3

Humanities

• HUMN251 Humanities I 4

Choose one from:

• ARTS250 Art History and Appreciation I 4
• ARTS251 Art History and Appreciation II 4
• HUGE100 Approved transfer course for Humanities
• HUMN203 Survey of Chinese Culture 3
• HUMN240 Native Art and Culture 3
• HUMN252 Humanities II 4
• HUMN255 World Mythology 4
• MUSC220 History and Appreciation of Music I 4
• MUSC221 History and Appreciation of Music II 4
• NATV240 Native Art and Culture 3
• PHIL302 Ancient Western Philosophy 3
• PHIL305 Modern and Contemporary Philosophy 3
• Second Year Foreign Language 6-8

Mathematics (3-5 credits)

• MAGE100 Approved transfer course from CLEP 3
• MATH110 (or higher) Explorations in Math 3
  
  or
• PHIL205 Logic 3

Natural Science

Choose two (8 credits) from:

• BIOL105 Function of the Human Body 4
• BIOL122 Human Anatomy & Physiology II 4
• BIOL131 General Biology: Cells 4
• BIOL204 General Microbiology 4
• CHEM105 Life Chemistry II 4
• CHEM108 Applied Chemistry 3
  
  and
• CHEM109 Applied Chemistry Lab 1
• CHEM115 General Chemistry I 5
• CHEM116 General Chemistry II 4
• GEOL115 Field Excursions in Earth Science 4
• GEOL121 Physical and Historical Geology I 4
• GEOL122 Physical and Historical Geology II 4
• GEOG106 Physical Geography: Landforms 4
• GEOG108 Physical Geography: Meteorology and Climatology 4
• NSCI101 Conceptual Physics 4
• NSCI102 Introduction to Geology 4
• NSCI103 Environmental Science 3
  
  and
• NSCI104 Environmental Science Lab 1
• NSCI110 Chemistry in Society 4
• NSCI116 Introduction to Oceanography 4
• NSCI119 Descriptive Astronomy 4
• NSGE100 Approved transfer course for Natural Science 4
• PHYS221 Elements of Physics I 4
• PHYS231 Applied Physics for Engineers and Scientists I 4

Social Science

Choose two from different disciplines (6-8 credits):

• ECGE100 Economics General Education* 3-4
• ECON201 Principles of Macroeconomics 3
• ECON202 Principles of Microeconomics 3
• ECON208 Honors Prin. of Microeconomics 3
• ECON209 Honors Prin. of Macroeconomics 3
• ECON302 Managerial Economics 4
• GEOG201 World Regional Geography 4
• GEOG302 Economic Geography 4
• GEGE100 Geography General Education* 3-4
• HIST101 History of World Civilization I 4
• HIST102 History of World Civilization II 4
• HIST103 Chinese Cultural Diversity 3
• HIST131 United States History I 4
• HIST132 United States History II 4
• HSGE100 History General Education* 3-4
• POLI110 Intro. to American Government and Politics 4
• POLI160 Intro. to Canadian Government and Politics 4
• POLI241 Intro. to International Relations 4
• PSGE100 Political Science General Education* 3-4
• PSYC101 Introduction to Psychology 4
• PSYC155 Lifespan Development 3
• PYGE100 Psychology General Education* 3-4
• SOCY101 Introduction to Sociology 3
• SOCY102 Social Problems 4
• SOCY113 Sociology of the American Family 3
• SOGE100 Socioloy General Education* 3-4

Social Science - Diversity

Choose one class (3-4 credits) from:

• BUSN308 Managing Cultural Differences 3
• EDUC250 Student Diversity and Schools 3
• GEOG306 Cultural Geography 3
• HIST203 Chinese Cultural Diversity 3
• HLTH328 Multicultural Approaches to Health Care 3
• NATV225 Native Cultures of North America 3
• POLI333 Human Rights and World Politics 4
• POLI334 Middle East Politics 3
• SDGE100 Social Science Diversity General Education* 3
• SOCY103 Cultural Diversity 3
• SOCY213 Introduction to Anthropology 3
• SOCY225 Native Cultures of North America 3
• SOCY226 Races and Minorities 3
• SOCY321 Sociology of Women 3

*Approved transfer course number for Social Science and Social Science-Diversity General Education requirements. These courses are not listed in the course desciption section.

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