The Associate in Applied Science degree is designed primarily to prepare students for entry into an occupation or a closely related cluster of occupations. Although the objective of the A.A.S. degree is to enhance employment opportunities, some baccalaureate-degree-granting institutions have developed upper-division programs to recognize this degree for transfer of credits.

The Associate in Applied Science degree will be awarded upon attainment of predetermined and specified performance requirements and satisfactory completion of a program of study of not less than sixty (60) hours with a minimum of 2.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale distributed as follows:

1. A specified program of courses consisting of specialized and related contextual courses/competencies consisting of a minimum of 43 credit hours recommended by the College catalog and/or vocational-technical advisor.
2. General education courses/competencies (minimum of 17 credit hours) should be from not less than three of the following areas. Courses listed are for consideration. Requirements can also be met by other courses in the respective area.

General Education Requirements

Included in the 17 credit hours of general education course requirements are:

SSC103 College/Career Success Seminar-- (1 hr)
Computer Science--(3hrs)
Health/Physical Education (examples include HPE 131 Weights & Conditioning or HPE 118 Individual/Dual Lifetime Activities [Fitness])--(1hr)

The student must also have at least one course from 3 of the 4 areas listed here:

Communications

COL101 English Composition I (3) or COL 105 Technical Writing (3)
BUS118 Business English (3)
BUS261 Business Communications (3)

Social and Behavioral Sciences (any of the courses listed below)

Economics
ECO207 Microeconomics (3)
ECO208 Macroeconomics (3)

Political Science
POL111 American Government (3)
POL130 State & Local Government (3)

Sociology
SOC102 Sociology (3)
SOC121 Marriage & Family Relations (3)
SOC205 Contemporary Social Problems (3)

Geography
GEO104 Principles of Geography (3)

Psychology
PSY101 General Psychology (3)
PSY263 Developmental Psychology (3)
PSY230 Abnormal Psychology (3)

Fine Arts and Humanities (any of the courses listed below)

History
HIS108 American History to 1865 (3)
HIS109 American History from 1865 (3)
HIS226 Kansas History (3)
HIS225 The American West 1840-1890 (1)
HIS231 The World Since 1914 (3)
HIS121 History of Western Civilization I (3)
HIS122 History of Western Civilization II (3)

Art
ART101 Art Appreciation (3)

Humanities
HUM111 Humanities for Life (3)
HUM105 Ethics (3)
HUM125 Philosophy (3)

Theatre
THE222 Theatre Appreciation (3)

Literature
COL130 Introduction to Literature (3)
COL230 Early British Literature (3)
COL211 Early American Literature (3)
COL135 Fiction (3)
COL231 Modern British Literature (3)
COL222 Modern American Literature (3)
COL132 Poetry (3)
COL237 Children's Literature (3)

Foreign Language
FLA101 Elementary Spanish I (5)
FLA102 Elementary Spanish II (5)
FLA201 Intermediate Spanish I (3)
FLA202 Intermediate Spanish II (3)
FLA120 Elementary German I (3)
FLA121 Elementary German II (3)

Music
MUS111 Music Appreciation (3)
MUS101 Fundamentals of Music (3)

Religion
HUM130 New Testament (3)
HUM131 Old Testament (3)
HUM135 World Religions (3)

Mathematics and Sciences

MAT105 College Algebra (3)
BUS121 Business Math (3)

Any of the courses listed below:

AGR215 Agriculture Computations (3)
BIO102 Principles of Biology (5)
CHE105 General Chemistry (5)
CHE125 Chemistry I (5)
PSC151 Physical Science & PSC 152 Physical Science Lab (5)
PSC154 Physical Geology (5)
PSC204 Engineering Physics I (5)
MAT106 Plane Trigonometry (3)
MAT115 Statistics (3)
MAT120 Pre-Calculus (3)
MAT123 Calculus with Analytic Geometry I (3)

Major Field Studies

In addition to the 17 credit hours of general education requirements listed above, the student must complete 43 credit hours related to the student's major field.

Total General Education and Major Field Studies -- 60 hrs.

The student must complete 60 hours of credit with at least a 2.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale to meet graduation requirements for an A.A.S. degree. Developmental course (numbers less than 100) credits do not apply toward graduation requirements. Students may apply only two semester hours of HPE activity classes to meet graduation requirements.