Associate in Applied Science Degree Requirements

Degree Type:

Associate in Applied Science

Curriculum Code:

AAS.AAS.AAS

Total Program Credits: 60-63

The general education requirements for the Associate in Applied Science degree are listed below. The specific requirements for each career-education curriculum are listed on the pages that follow that section of the catalog.

Note: Students may be required to enroll in COL 102◊ as a condition for admission or re-admission to certain programs at the college.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS:

General Education requirements by discipline*:

The Communications requirement varies by curriculum.

COMMUNICATIONS: Two courses (six semester hours total are required for graduation; department choice of RHT 101◊ and RHT 102◊ OR RHT 101◊ and SPE 101◊ option).

• RHT 101◊ and RHT 102◊ OR RHT 101◊ and SPE 101◊

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE OR HUMANITIES OR FINE ARTS: Two courses (six semester hours are required for graduation; department choice whether courses are taken from each discipline or two courses from the same discipline).

• Social and Behavioral Science: (department may specify which discipline the course is taken from or may specify a specific course)

  • Anthropology: ANT 101◊, ANT 102◊, ANT 103◊, ANT 105◊
  • Education: ECE 110◊
  • Economics: ECO 100◊, ECO 102◊, ECO 103◊, ECO 105◊
  • Geography: GEO 104◊
  • History: HIS 121◊, HIS 122◊, HIS 141◊, HIS 142◊, HIS 151◊, HIS 152◊, HIS 156◊, HIS 171◊, HIS 172◊, HIS 192◊
  • Humanities: HUM 175◊
  • Political Science: PSC 120◊, PSC 150◊, PSC 151◊, PSC 184◊
  • Psychology: PSY 100◊, PSY 201◊, PSY 216◊, PSY 222◊, PSY 228◊
  • Sociology: SOC 100◊, SOC 120◊, SOC 131◊, SOC 225◊
  • Social Science: SSC 190◊

  Humanities OR Fine Arts: (department may specify which discipline the course is taken from or may specify a specific course).

  • Architecture: ARC 210◊
  • Art: ART 110◊, ART 111◊, ART 112◊, ART 114◊
  • Foreign Language: (any CHN, ITL or SPN course)
  • Humanities: HUM 100◊, HUM 104◊, HUM 151◊, HUM 152◊, HUM 155◊, HUM 165◊, HUM 170◊, HUM 296◊, SPN 104◊, SPN 115◊, SPN 116◊, SPN 151◊, SPN 152◊
  • English Literature: LIT 101◊, LIT 103◊, LIT 105◊, LIT 170◊, LIT 231◊
  • Mass Communication: MCM 151◊, MCM 152◊
  • Music: MUS 104◊, MUS 110◊, MUS 215◊, MUS 216◊
  • Philosophy: PHL 101◊, PHL 102◊, PHL 103◊, PHL 104◊,PHL 105◊, PHL 106◊, PHL 113◊
  • Speech: SPE 130◊, SPE 134◊
  • Visual Communication: VIC 160◊

  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 and will be fulfilled by taking:

  • ANT 101◊, ANT 103◊, ART 114◊, GEO 104◊, HIS 141◊, HIS 142◊, HIS 156◊, HIS 171◊, HIS 172◊, HIS 192◊, HUM 100◊, HUM 165◊, HUM 170◊, HUM 175◊, PHL 105◊, SOC 225◊ or SPE 134◊.
    

PHYSICAL OR LIFE SCIENCE OR MATHEMATICS: One course (three semester hours total are required for graduation; review specific program requirements for the curriculum selected)

Foreign Language encouraged if transferring.

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

Dean: Panos Hadjimitsos, Ext. 3395, email: panoshadimitsos@triton.edu