General Education Requirements for the Associate in General Studies (AGS)

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Individualized Program (26 minimum credits)

Communications (6 Credit Hours)

COM 121 - English Composition 3 Credit Hours or
COM 122 - English Composition (Honors) 3 Credit Hours

AND Choose ONE of the following courses:

BUS 106 - Business Communications 3 Credit Hours
COM 131 - Composition & Literature 3 Credit Hours or
COM 132 - Composition & Literature: Texts and Contexts (Honors) 3 Credit Hours
COM 141 - Technical Writing 3 Credit Hours
COM 151 - Fundamentals of Speech 3 Credit Hours or
COM 152 - Fundamentals of Speech (Honors) 3 Credit Hours

Humanities (3 Credit Hours)

Choose ONE from the following list:

ART 111 - Introduction to Drawing 3 Credit Hours
ART 112 - Drawing II 3 Credit Hours
ART 113 - Design 3 Credit Hours
ART 121 - Painting 3 Credit Hours
ART 201 - Art Appreciation 3 Credit Hours
ART 250 - Art History: The Western Tradition 3 Credit Hours
MUS 221 - Music Appreciation 3 Credit Hours
ENG 231 - World Literature I 3 Credit Hours
ENG 235 - World Literature II 3 Credit Hours
ENG 241 - American Literature I 3 Credit Hours
ENG 245 - American Literature II 3 Credit Hours
ENG 249 - Contemporary American Literature 3 Credit Hours
ENG 251 - Introduction to Drama 3 Credit Hours
ENG 255 - Shakespeare 3 Credit Hours
ENG 261 - Film Studies 3 Credit Hours
PHI 271 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 Credit Hours
PHI 275 - Introduction to Ethics 3 Credit Hours or
PHI 276 - Ethics (Honors) 3 Credit Hours
HUM 299 - Special Studies and Special Topics Varies Credit Hours
200 - level - Humanities Honors Elective

Information Technology (3 Credit Hours)

IFT 110 - Microcomputer Applications 3 Credit Hours *

Mathematics (3 to 4 Credit Hours)

Choose ONE of the following courses:

BUS 110 - Business Mathematics 3 Credit Hours
MAT 110 - Algebra II 3 Credit Hours
MAT 150 - Foundations of Mathematics 3 Credit Hours
MAT 160 - College Algebra 3 Credit Hours
MAT 165 - Trigonometry 3 Credit Hours
MAT 180 - Precalculus 3 Credit Hours
MAT 210 - Statistics 3 Credit Hours
MAT 220 - Calculus I 4 Credit Hours

Natural/Physical Sciences (3 to 4 Credit Hours)

Choose ONE of the following courses:

BIO 120 - Biological Concepts 4 Credit Hours
BIO 150 - Biology I 4 Credit Hours
CHE 120 - Principles of Chemistry 4 Credit Hours
CHE 150 - Chemistry I 4 Credit Hours
ENV 130 - The Environment 3 Credit Hours or
ENV 131 - The Environment (Honors) 3 Credit Hours
ENV 150 - The Visible Universe 3 Credit Hours
PHY 120 - Principles of Physics 4 Credit Hours
PHY 240 - Physics I 4 Credit Hours

Orientation (2 Credit Hours)

ORI 102 - College Success Strategies 2 Credit Hours ** or
ORI 101 (Course must be taken during first semester of enrollment.)

Social Sciences (6 Credit Hours)

Choose TWO of the following courses:

ANT 135 - Human Evolution: Physical Anthropology & Archaeology 3 Credit Hours
ANT 140 - Cultural Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
HIS 110 - History of the United States to 1877 3 Credit Hours
HIS 115 - History of the United States Since 1865 3 Credit Hours
HIS 120 - Western Civilization: To 1600 3 Credit Hours
HIS 125 - Western Civilization: 1600-1945 3 Credit Hours
HIS 130 - Introduction to Contemporary History 3 Credit Hours
POS 130 - American Government 3 Credit Hours
POS 135 - State & Local Government 3 Credit Hours
PSY 120 - Interpersonal Relations & Communications 3 Credit Hours
PSY 130 - General Psychology 3 Credit Hours or
PSY 131 - General Psychology (Honors) 3 Credit Hours
SOC 125 - The Individual & Society 3 Credit Hours
SOC 130 - Sociology 3 Credit Hours or
SOC 131 - Sociology (Honors) 3 Credit Hours

Elective Requirements (34 to 36 Credit Hours)

Note(s):

A minimum of 60 credits is required to fulfill the graduation requirements for the Associate in General Studies degree program. Please see your academic advisor one year prior to graduation to determine whether you meet the graduation requirements for your major.

* Students who feel that they can demonstrate that they have already mastered the competencies for this course should contact Janine Tiffany at jtiffany@racc.edu about credit by examination a semester before they are scheduled to take IFT 110 .

**Any transfer student who has completed a minimum of 24 credits with a GPA of 2.0 or better from an accredited college or university may choose to have the College Success Strategies class waived.