Associate in Science Degree Requirements

Curriculum U230A
(64 semester hours required)

For students who intend to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree at a four-year school.

Students must meet the prescribed general education requirements listed below for the Associate in Science degree and should complete the remaining required semester hours according to the requirements of the four-year school to which they plan to transfer. The "◊" symbol on courses means articulated courses.

NOTE: The following AS degree requirements, effective summer 1998, meet the Illinois Community College Board‘s recommended model including the IAI General Education Core curriculum.

Communications: Three courses (nine semester credits)

#	RHT 101◊	Freshman Rhetoric and Composition I	3
#	RHT 102◊	Freshman Rhetoric and Composition II	3
	SPE 101◊	Principles of Effective Speaking	3

Note: Grade of "C" or better is an IAI requirement for RHT 101◊ and RHT 102◊

Social and Behavioral Science: Three courses (nine semester credits), with courses selected from at least two disciplines.

Graduation from an Illinois college or university requires satisfactory completion of one or more courses incorporating Human Diversity which may be taken as a Social and Behavioral Science or a Humanities and Fine Arts course. These courses are notated with an (*).

	ANT 101◊	*Introduction to Anthropology	3
	ANT 102◊	Introduction to Physical Anthropology	3
	ANT 103◊	*Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	3
	ANT 105◊	Introduction to Archaeology	3
	ANT 150◊	*Cultural Contexts	3
	ECO 102◊	Macroeconomics	3
	ECO 103◊	Microeconomics	3
	GEO 104◊	*Contemporary World Cultures	3
	GEO 105◊	*Introduction to Economic Geography	3
	GEO 106◊	*Regional Geography of Africa and Asia	3
	HIS 121◊	History of Western Civilization I	3
	HIS 122◊	History of Western Civilization II	3
	HIS 141◊	*World History I	3
	HIS 142◊	*World History II	3
	HIS 151◊	History of the United States to 1877	3
	HIS 152◊	History of the United States Since 1877	3
	HIS 156◊	*African History	3
	HIS 171◊	*History of Latin American I	3
	HIS 172◊	*History of Latin American II	3
	HIS 191◊	*History of Asia and the Pacific I	3
	HIS 192◊	*History of Asia and the Pacific II	3
	PSC 120◊	Principles of Political Science	3
	PSC 150◊	American National Politics	3
	PSC 151◊	American State and Urban Politics	3
	PSC 184◊	Global Politics	3
	PSY 100◊	Introduction to Psychology	3
#	PSY 201◊	Introduction to Social Psychology	3
#	PSY 216◊	Child Psychology	3
#	PSY 222◊	Adolescent Psychology	3
#	PSY 228◊	Psychology of Adulthood and Aging	3
	SOC 100◊	Introduction to Sociology	3
#	SOC 120◊	Social Patterns of Courtship & Marriage	3
	SOC 131◊	Social Problems	3
#	SOC 225◊	*Racial and Cultural Minorities	3
	SSC 190◊	Contemporary Society	3

Humanities and Fine Arts: Three courses (nine semester credits), with at least one course selected from Humanities and at least one course from the Fine Arts. Graduation from an Illinois college or university requires satisfactory completion of one or more courses incorporating Human Diversity which may be taken as a Humanities and Fine Arts or Social and Behavioral Science course. These courses are notated with an (*).

Humanities

#	ENG 101◊	Introduction to Poetry	3
#	ENG 102◊	Introduction to Drama	3
#	ENG 103◊	Introduction to Fiction	3
#	ENG 105◊	Literature of the Western World	3
#	ENG 113◊	Classic American Authors Before Civil War	3
#	ENG 114◊	Classic American Authors, Civil War to Present	3
#	ENG 231◊	Introduction to Shakespeare	3
	HUM 104◊	Humanities Through the Arts	3
	HUM 151◊	Great Books of the West I	3
	HUM 152◊	Great Books of the West II	3
	HUM 165◊	*Introduction to the Latin American Experience	3
	IDS 101◊	The Arts in Western Culture I	3
	IDS 102◊	The Arts in Western Culture II	3
#	ITL 104◊	Intermediate Italian II	4
	PHL 101◊	Introduction to Philosophy	3
	PHL 102◊	Logic	3
	PHL 103◊	Ethics	3
	PHL 105◊	*World Religions	3
#	SPN 104◊	Intermediate Spanish II	4
#	SPN 151◊	Introduction to Spanish-American Literature I	3
#	SPN 152◊	Introduction to Spanish-American Literature II	3

Fine Arts

	ART 110◊	Looking at Art	3
	ART 111◊	Ancient to Medieval Art	3
	ART 112◊	Renaissance to Modern Art	3
	ART 114◊	*Survey of Asian Art	3
	HUM 104◊	Humanities Through the Arts	3
	IDS 101◊	The Arts in Western Culture I	3
	IDS 102◊	The Arts in Western Culture II	3
	MCM 150◊	Film History and Appreciation	3
	MUS 110◊	Listening to Music	3
#	MUS 215◊	Introduction to Music History	3
	MUS 216◊	Music in America	3
	SPE 130◊	Introduction to Theater	3

Mathematics: Two courses (six semester credits)

#	ECO 170◊	Statistics for Business and Economics	3
#	MAT 101◊	Quantitative Literacy	3
#	MAT 102◊	Liberal Arts Mathematics	3
#	MAT 117◊	Math for Elementary School Teachers II	3
#	MAT 124◊	Finite Mathematics	3
#	MAT 131◊	Calculus & Analytic Geometry I	5
#	MAT 133◊	Calculus & Analytic Geometry II	5
#	MAT 134◊	Introduction to Calculus for Business and Social Science	5
#	MAT 135◊	Calculus & Analytic Geometry III	3
#	MAT 170◊	Elementary Statistics	3

Physical and Life Science: Two courses (seven to eight semester credits), with one course selected from the Life Sciences and one course from the Physical Sciences including at least one laboratory course.

Physical Science

	AST 100◊	Introduction to Astronomy	4
	AST 101◊	Astronomy of the Solar System	4
	AST 102◊	Astronomy of the Stars and Beyond	4
	CHM 100◊	Chemistry and Society	4
#	CHM 110◊	Fundamentals of Chemistry	4
#	CHM 140◊	General Chemistry I	5
	GEO 200◊	Physical Geography: Weather and Climate	4
	GEO 201◊	Physical Geography: Maps and Land Forms	4
	GOL 101◊	Physical Geology	4
	GOL 102◊	Historical Geology	4
	PHS 100◊	Introduction to Earth Science	4
	PHS 141◊	Applications of Physical Science Concepts	4
	PHS 142◊	Science of Light and Music	4
#	PHY 100◊	General Physics	4
#	PHY 101◊	General Physics (Mechanics, Heat & Sound)	5
#	PHY 106◊	General Physics (Mechanics)	4

Life Science

	BIS 100◊	General Biology	4
	BIS 101◊	Human Biology	4
	BIS 102◊	Human Heredity and Society	4
	BIS 104◊	Issues in Modern Biology	4
	BIS 105◊	Environmental Biology	4
	BIS 108◊	Biology of Humans	3
#	BIS 122◊	Introductory Microbiology	4
#	BIS 150◊	Principles of Biology I	4
	HRT 125◊	Plants and Society	4

General Education Core:

12 to 13 courses (40 to 41 semester credits)

Total credits required for graduation

No more than two courses from any one discipline can be used to fulfill General Education Core curriculum requirements.
While few baccalaureate institutions require a foreign or second language in their campus-wide general education requirements, competency through two, three, or four college semesters (or the high school equivalent) in a single foreign/second language is required for the Bachelor of Arts degree at some universities, for all bachelor’s degrees in some colleges (such as Colleges of Liberal Arts, and for some bachelor’s degree majors.
Community college students who intend to transfer should plan to complete the foreign language courses required by their intended transfer institution, college within a university and /or major prior to transferring.
Students must earn a passing letter grade in each course used to fulfill requirements. Passing scores (based on national norms) on appropriate AP and CLEP exams may be used to fulfill requirements for students who earn an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science degree prior to transfer. For other transfer students, receiving institutions will follow established credit policies.

Transfer Major and Electives (23-24 credit hours)

It is recommended that students select the remaining courses from their major area of study of the IAI approved or articulated courses with a counselor.
It is highly recommended that students enroll in COL 101◊, COL 102◊, CSG 150◊ and HTH 104◊ or HTH 281◊.

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General Education electives must be selected from AA/AS applicable course list and must adhere to the requirements of the Illinois Articulation Initiative for graduation if planning to transfer within Illinois. AS Degree Requirements pages explain needed courses in detail. Students are required to select at least one course from Humanities and one course from Fine Arts, a Physical and a Life Science, and courses in Social and Behavior Sciences from at least two disciplines*. See catalog with AS Degree Requirements for required hours and number of courses in each discipline.

*discipline: a subject or field of activity, for example, an academic subject

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