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YAVAPAI COLLEGE CATALOG • 2015/16
ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAMS
The Associate of General Studies degree requires completion of a
minimum of 60 credit hours. Students whose career, major, or transfer intent is uncertain may elect to pursue this degree.
This degree is designed to allow students to explore a broader range of general education course work and individual disciplines.
Associate of General Studies Degree
The Associate of General Studies degree requires the completion 60 credit hours. Students whose career, major, or transfer intent is uncertain may elect to pursue this degree. This degree allows stu- dents to uniquely design an associate’s degree with more flexibility in the selection of courses. These courses may be taken from a variety of subject areas with no specific area of emphasis. Students are encouraged to develop their degree plan in conjunction with an academic advisor. Students electing to transfer to one of the Arizona public universities with an AGS degree will have their coursework evaluated on a course-by-course basis by the university to which they transfer. These students may wish to also complete the Arizona General Education Curriculum (AGEC) certificate to ensure the ac- ceptance of their general education coursework as a block transfer of general education requirements.
Twenty-eight credit hours of coursework in this degree are concentrated in general education. The general education curriculum of this degree program is divided into three parts: (A) Foun- dation Studies include critical literacy, precise writing, qualitative thinking, and the process of analysis and synthesis that underlie logical reasoning; (B) Core Studies focus on the conceptual frameworks through which a thinker, a culture, or an academic discipline may approach an issue; (C) Area Studies link foundation skills in thinking and communicating and the core emphasis on conceptual frameworks to the content of academic disciplines. The intent is to give the student a firm grounding in the processes and content of general education and to facilitate lifelong learning.
Three credit hours of communication coursework and 29 credit hours of major and elective stud- ies are required for this degree.
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