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.

Learning Support

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

Fall

• EDUC 1030 - ♦College and Lifelong Learning Credits: 3
• ENGL 1010 - ♦English Composition I Credits: 3
• Humanities/Fine Arts - Select one approved course Credits: 3 ^*
• MATH 1530 - ♦Introductory Statistics Credits: 3
• SWRK 2010 - ♦Introduction to Social Work Credits: 3

Spring

• Communication - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• ENGL 1020 - ♦English Composition II Credits: 3
• Humanities/Fine Arts - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• POLS 1030 - ♦American Government Credits: 3
• PSYC 1030 - ♦Introduction to Psychology Credits: 3

Fall

• Economics or Anthropology - Select one approved course Credits: 3 ^**
• BIOL 1010 - ♦Introduction to Biology Credits: 4 ^***

• or

• BIOL 1110 - ♦General Biology I Credits: 4
• History - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• Literature - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• SOCI 1010 - ♦Introduction to Sociology Credits: 3

Spring

• General Elective - Credits: 4 ^*****
• BIOL 1020 - ♦Diversity of Life Credits: 4 ^***

• or

• BIOL 1120 - ♦General Biology II Credits: 4
• History - Select one approved course Credits: 3
• SOCI 1040 - ♦Social Problems Credits: 3

• or

• Social Work Elective - Credits: 3 ^****

Total Credit Hours: 60

Transfer Requirements

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

^* Students who intend to transfer to the University of Memphis (UoM) should take at least one fine arts under the Humanities & Fine Arts general education requirement.

^** Students interested in transferring to Tennessee Technological University should take an Economics course. UoM and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga require an Anthropology course.

^*** Natural science must be taken in sequence.

^**** Students who intend to transfer to ETSU are required to take a Social Work elective.

^***** Students who intend to transfer to University of Tennessee at Martin and Austin Peay State University should take BIOL 2010 - ♦Human Anatomy and Physiology I  as an elective.

Additional Information Regarding Foreign Language

At some universities, foreign language may be required in certain programs that lead to the Bachelor of Science Degree. Complete information regarding foreign language requirements at each university may be found in the transfer and articulation websites of the Tennessee Board of Regents and the University of Tennessee System. Community college students are encouraged to be familiar with foreign language requirements at the universities and, if applicable, complete the requirements before transferring.

Effective Fall 2011

For Further Information

Contact the Behavioral and Social Sciences division