General Education Module - Associate in Science

English (6.0 credits)

ENGL 1113 (required with a grade of “C” or better) and one of the following courses to meet 6.0 credit requirement.

ENGL 1113 - Freshman Composition

Plus 3.0 hours from one of the following:

ENGL 2113 (Technical Writing) is preferred

History (3.0 credits)

Any course with the HIST designation except for American Military History (HIST 2313).

Humanities or Modern Language (6.0 credits)

For the AS degree, a student must take 6.0 to 8.0 credits in humanities. A course used in another core area cannot be used to meet the humanities requirement, e.g. an advanced English course used in the English GenEd core (ENGL 2323) may not be used here as a humanities GenEd core at the same time.

This requirement may be met by a language course:

Or a literature course:

Or a history (survey) course:

Laboratory Science (12.0 credits)

Three lab science courses are required, two of which must be sequential.

Sequential Courses

BIOL 1214 - Principles of Biology I
BIOL 1224 - Principles of Biology II
or
BIOL 2434 - Human Anatomy
BIOL 2444 - Human Physiology
or
CHEM 1214 - General Chemistry I
CHEM 1224 - General Chemistry II
or
GEOL 1214 - Physical Geology
GEOL 1224 - Historical Geology
GEOL 1234 - Environmental Geology
GEOL 1224 or GEOL 1234 may be taken to complete the GEOL sequence

or
PHYS 1114 - General Physics I
PHYS 1124 - General Physics II
or
MCIS 1814 - Computer Science I
MCIS 1824 - Computer Science II

And one from the following:

Cadet may take one from the list below or another laboratory science from the list above. However, courses below level of sequential courses are not allowed.

Mathematics (6.0 credits)

Two mathematics courses are required with MATH 1113 (College Algebra) being the minimum allowable course.

Social Science (3.0 credits)

One non-history social science course.

Military Science/Leadership (2.0 to 12.0 credits)

Cadets may take military science at NMMI. A contract cadet will take a maximum of 12.0 class hours of MS and 4.0 credits of physical activity. Cadets may take MS 1 and 2 to prepare for ROTC at a 4-year school. Students may take one semester of LEAD 1103 (Introduction to Leadership) or MSL each semester to satisfy the Leadership graduation requirement.

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