General Education Requirements

Note: All courses must be from the Approved Courses for General Education  courses for each category listed in the General Education section of this catalog. Additional courses may be required to overcome deficiencies in English, mathematics, and reading.

Learning Support

Additional courses may be required to overcome deficiencies in English, mathematics, and reading.

Fall

• Behavioral/Social Science - Select one approved course Credits: 3 *
• EDUC 1030 - ♦College and Lifelong Learning Credits: 3
• ENGL 1010 - ♦English Composition I Credits: 3
• Humanities and/or Fine Arts - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• MATH 1910 - ♦Calculus I Credits: 4 **

Spring

• CHEM 1110 - ♦General Chemistry I Credits: 4 ***
• Communication - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• ENGL 1020 - ♦English Composition II Credits: 3
• Humanities and/or Fine Arts - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• MATH 1920 - ♦Calculus II Credits: 4

Fall

• Circuits I - (Calculus-Based) Credits: 4 ****
• History - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• MATH 2010 - ♦Introduction to Linear Algebra Credits: 3

• or

• MATH 2050 - ♦Calculus-Based Probability and Statistics Credits: 3 *****
• MATH 2110 - ♦Calculus III Credits: 4
• PHYS 2110 - ♦Calculus-Based Physics I Credits: 4

Spring

• Behavioral/Social Science - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• ENGR 1120 - ♦Engineering Programming Credits: 3
• History - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• Literature - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• MATH 2120 - ♦Differential Equations Credits: 3
• PHYS 2120 - ♦Calculus-Based Physics II Credits: 4

Total Required Credit Hours: 70

Additional Information

*Students transferring to U of Memphis or UTM should take macroeconomics as one of the Behavioral/Social Science general education requirements.

**Students who are not prepared for calculus will also need some or all of the following courses based on placement testing: MATH 1100 , MATH 1710 , MATH 1720 .

***Students who are not prepared for CHEM 1110 will need some or all of the following based on placement test scores: MATH 1100 and/or MATH 1710 or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1000 .

****This course is not offered at Northeast State. Students who want to graduate with this emphasis will need to take the course at another institution and transfer it in. Alternatively, students may graduate with an emphasis in pre-engineering: general. However, students should be aware that this course is a pre-requisite to most courses at the junior level in TBR or UT electrical engineering programs.

*****UT Knoxville accepts Northeast State’s MATH 2080  as an equivalent course for MATH 2050 .

UTK and TTU require 4 hours of programming.

Students transferring to TSU’s BSEE program are encouraged to complete ENGR 1020, ENGR 1151, and circuits II and Digital Logic Design courses during the summer prior to transferring to the University.

Courses in engineering technology do not fulfill any of the requirements for the Area of Emphasis in Electrical Engineering.

Although it is possible to complete the B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering in four semesters after earning the associate’s degree, students typically need five or six semesters to complete requirements.

Transfer Requirements

Tennessee Transfer Path to UT/TBR four year universities in compliance with Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010.

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