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Associate in Arts (A.A.) Degree General Course Requirements

Program Code: HGAA AA

The Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree is designed so that students may complete the lower-division (freshman and sophomore) portion of a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree. The A.A. degree includes the transferable General Education Core courses and the lower-division Baccalaureate Major Field core courses recommended by the Illinois Articulation Initiative.

All course work must be baccalaureate-oriented (courses numbered 100-289 whose second digit is even).

The A.A. degree is ideally suited for students seeking a B.A. degree in areas such as liberal arts and sciences, English, psychology, and many other fields. Since admission to colleges and universities — and to specific majors — is often competitive, students planning to transfer should understand that completing the recommended courses alone does not guarantee admission.

It is recommended that students fulfill the foreign language requirement of the program of the senior institution to which they are transferring. In general, credit for the four years of the same high school foreign language or credit for two years in the same foreign language at the college level satisfies the foreign language requirement of most bachelor of arts degrees.

General Education Core Curriculum Requirements (38 hours)	Credit Hours
Communications (9) ENG 101Composition I ENG 102 Composition II SPE 101 Introductory Speech Communication	3 3 3
Social and Behavioral Sciences Must include courses selected from at least two disciplines.	9
Humanities and Fine Arts Must include at least one Humanities course and at least one Fine Arts course. (One course from Soc/Beh Sci, Hum, or FA must fulfill the non-Western culture requirement.)	9
Mathematics	3
Physical and Life Sciences Two laboratory-based science courses, one from life sciences and one from physical sciences.	8
A.A. Degree Requirement (3 hours)
LAS 189 Introduction to the Liberal Arts and Sciences	3
Recommended Area of Concentration or Majors Courses (9-16 hours)
Concentration or major field recommended (same or related course prefix)	9-16
General Electives (3-10 hours)
General electives	3-10
Total Semester Credit Hours Required	60