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The Associate in Arts core is designed to give students breadth of knowledge in the liberal arts, promote critical thinking that is fundamental to higher education and allow students to take specific courses in a discipline. Students working toward the Associate in Arts degree will take essential core requirements that will allow them to transfer to a senior college. Tyler Junior College offers the Associate in Arts degree to students completing the general graduation requirements for all degrees, the Associate in Arts degree core requirements, and those courses required for one of the concentrations.

Core Certificate: Students who complete the core curriculum for the AA degree or a concentration area may receive a certificate of completion.

1. The core curriculum requirements for the Associate in Arts* degree:

Component Area

Communication:
ENGL 1301 (3 credit hours); ENGL 1302 or 2311 (3 credit hours)†;
SPCH 1311 or 1315 or 1318 or 1321 (3 credit hours)

Mathematics:
(Select one course) (3 or 4 credit hours):
MATH 1314, 1324, 1325, 1332 (one additional MATH course is usually required by transfer institutions), 1333, 1342, 1350, 1351, 2320, 2412, 2413, 2414, 2415

Laboratory Sciences:
(Select two courses) (8 credit hours):
BIOL 1406, 1407, 1408, 1409, 1411, 1413, 2401, 2402, 2404, 2406, 2416, 2420,2421, 2471;CHEM 1405, 1406, 1407, 1408, 1411, 1412, 2423, 2425;
PHYS 1401, 1402, 1405, 2425, 2426, 1411, 1412; GEOL 1401, 1403, 1404, 1405

Visual/Performing Arts:
(Select one course) (3 credit hours):
ARTS 1301; DRAM 1310; MUSI 1306; ARTS 1303, 1304;
DANC 2303; DRAM 2361, 2362; MUSI 1308, 1309

Humanities:
(Select one course) (3 credit hours):
COMM 1307; ENGL 2322, 2323, 2327, 2328, 2332, 2333, 2352, 2353;
HIST 2311, 2312; HUMA 1301, 1302; PHIL 1301, 2306; FREN 2311*, 2312;
SPAN 2311*, 2312; SGNL 2301*, 2302

Social/Behavioral Science:
GOVT 2305 and 2306 (6 credit hours)**;
HIST 1301 and 1302 or 2301 (6 credit hours);
(Select one course) (3 credit hours):
ECON 2301, 2302; GEOG 1303; PSYC 2301, 2314, 2319; SOCI 1301, 2301, 2331

Institutional Designated Option:
(Select one course) (3 or 4 credit hours):
AGRI 1309; BCIS 1301; BCIS 1405; ENGR 2304; FREN 2311*; SGNL 2301*;
SPAN 2311*

Core Total: 44–46 credit hours

2. Complete courses listed in one of the concentrations.
Students who intend to transfer to a university and seek the baccalaureate degree should consult with their advisor, inquire about the receiving university’s course requirements and develop a degree plan accordingly. Work with the academic advisor for your major to request any course substitutions needed for your senior institution or associate degree plan. Course waivers/substitutions must be approved by the appropriate department chair and instructional dean.

Some degrees do not require completion of the core. Fields of study supplant core requirements.

*Students CANNOT use the same course to satisfy the Humanities and the Institutional Designated Option requirements.

**Students transferring six hours of Government from out-of-state must take GOVT 2107.

† Students should choose ENGL 1302 or 2311 based on senior college requirements.

NOTE: Students enrolling in core curriculum courses, other than courses having only mathematics or writing THEA (TASP) requirements, must have satisified all THEA (TASP) reading requirements.