Academic Programs

General Studies

Award: Associate of Arts
Number of credits required: 61
Locations: La Plata Campus (LAPL) Prince Frederick Campus (PRIN) Leonardtown Campus (LEON)
Offered: Days And Evenings
Contact: W. E. Montgomery, Chair

Description:

This program serves part-time and full-time students who have a variety of short- and long- term goals: 1. those who need a flexible course of study suitable to their unique occupational or personal needs; 2. those whose career plans are undecided and who wish to sample courses from several disciplines in preparation for making career decisions; 3. those who wish to broaden the base of their general knowledge in the range of disciplines traditional to college-level liberal arts education.

Students are asked to confront significant and complex scientific, historical, cultural, philosophical ideas; manipulate information; reason analytically; and demonstrate in writing or orally in the disciplines of arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Transfer institutions expect general studies students to build on these competencies in upper-level major courses. Employers find these competencies compatible with business and industry needs.It is strongly advised that those who choose this program because their educational or career goals are unclear take STU-1050, a career exploration course, within the first 24 credits of the program. This program is fully available online.

The maximum number of credits accepted in transfer from other institutions to this program is 45.

Required courses:

Take ITS-1015 ENG-1010 ENG-1020 SOC-2010

Arts:

Take 3 credits from General Education Courses listing

Communications:

Take 3 credits; from COM-1010 COM-1250 COM-1350 COM-1450

Emerging issues:

Take 3 credits from General Education Courses listing Except SPA-1010 SPA-1020 SPA-2010 SPA-2020 SPA-2050 FRE-1010 FRE-1020 FRE-2010 FRE-2020

English literature:

Take 3 credits from General Education Courses listing.

Humanities:

Take 3 credits from General Education Courses listing

Mathematics:

Take 3 credits from General Education Courses listing

Biological/phys sci:

Take 7 credits from General Education Courses listing At least one lab course must be taken.Lab credit identified in Group 1. Course may also appear in Group 2, but credit only counted once.

Social/behavior sci:

Take 3 credits from General Education Courses listing (except SOC courses)

Electives:

Take 21 credits from any course 1001 or higher except MTH-1040

Last Update: July 7, 2008