1996-1997 catalog
Undergraduate
Degree Requirements
Certificate programs vary in length; however, you can usually complete them in one year.
Requirements
To enroll in a certificate program, and before receiving a certificate, you must formally be admitted. To earn a certificate, you may enroll in any course for which you are eligible.
To earn a certificate, you must earn at least 30 credits, including transfer credit. Fifteen semester hours must be residence credits. You must have a grade point average of 2.0 in all work, as well as in your major.
- Specialty requirements and approved electives (30 credits)
Majors Available for Certificate Programs: Airframe and Powerplant, Applied Mining Technology, Community Health, Culinary Arts, Diesel/Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Drafting Technology, Early Childhood Development, Fire Science, Native Language Education and Office Management and Technology and Rural Health Services.
Associate of Arts
The Associate of Arts degree represents the completion of broad-based college study. This degree may serve as a starting point for your career or as a steppingstone to a baccalaureate program. You may earn only one A.A. degree.
Requirements
All credits for the A.A. degree must be at the 100 level or above with 20 credits at the 200 level or above, and be distributed as follows:
Communication (9 credits)
- ENGL 111X-Methods of Written Communication (3 credits)
ENGL 211X-Intermediate Exposition with Modes of Literature OR
*ENGL 212-Business, Grant and Report Writing OR
ENGL 213X-Intermediate Exposition (3 credits)
COMM 131X-Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Group Context OR
COMM 141X-Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Public Context (3 credits)
Mathematics or natural science (10 credits)
- MATH 131X-Concepts and Contemporary Applications of Mathematics (3 credits)
(OR MATH 200, 201, 202, 262, 272 or any math course having one of these as a prerequisite)
One natural science course, with lab, selected from the baccalaureate core (4 credits)
Mathematics or natural science elective (3 credits)
Humanities and social science (18 credits)
- ANTH 100X/SOC 100X-Individual, Society and Culture (3 credits)
ECON 100X/PS 100X-Political Economy (3 credits)
HIST 100X-Modern World History (3 credits)
ART/MUS/THR 200X-Aesthetic Appreciation: Interrelationship of Art, Drama and Music OR
HUM 201X-Unity in the Arts (3 credits)
ENGL/FL 200X-World Literatures (3 credits)
Humanities or social science elective (3 credits)
(Two semester length courses in a single Alaska Native language or other non-English language or three semester-length courses [9 credits] in American Sign Language taken at the university level may substitute for one of the required courses above and the three-credit humanities or social science elective.)
Library and information skills (0-1 credit)
- Successful completion of library skills competency test or LS 100X or LS 101X (0-1 credit)
Successful completion of the library skills competency test satisfies this requirement of the core curriculum, but does not carry degree credit.
(It is strongly recommended that this requirement be completed before enrolling in the 200-level English course requirement or that it be completed concurrently with enrollment in the 200-level English core requirement.)
General electives (22-23 credits)
- Any combination of courses. (Students planning to go on to the baccalaureate degree are advised to select courses meeting remaining core requirements and courses designated within baccalaureate majors and minors.) (22-23 credits)
Electives to total (60 credits)
* ENGL 212 doesn't fulfill the second half of the written communication requirement for the baccalaureate degree.
Associate of Applied Science Requirements
Associate of Applied Science degrees are awarded in specific occupational fields with emphasis on entering the job market. This degree, usually seen as a terminal degree, can serve as the basis for additional training.
Requirements
All credits for the A.A.S. degree must be at the 100-level or above and be distributed as follows:
Communication (9 credits)
- ENGL 111X-Methods of Written Communication (3 credits)
ENGL 211X-Intermediate Exposition with Modes of Literature OR
*ENGL 212-Business, Grant and Report Writing OR
ENGL 213X-Intermediate Exposition (3 credits)
COMM 131X-Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Group Context OR
COMM 141X-Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Public Context (3 credits)
Mathematics or natural science (3 credits)
- A math or natural science course at the 100-level or above (3 credits)
Humanities, social sciences, math, natural sciences or Perspectives on the Human Condition (3 credits)
Major specialty (at least 30 credits)
Electives (to total 60 credits)
Note: Students planning to go on to the baccalaureate degree need to work closely with their advisers and are encouraged to select courses meeting core requirements, and courses designated within majors and minors.
* ENGL 212 doesn't fulfill the second half of the written communication requirement for the baccalaureate degree.
Majors Available for A.A.S. Degree: Airframe and Powerplant, Applied Accounting, Applied Business, Aviation Technology, Community Health, Culinary Arts, Early Childhood Development, Early Childhood Education, Fire Science, Human Services Technology, Interdisciplinary, Native Language Education, Office Management and Technology, Paralegal Studies and Renewable Resources.
(Requirements of majors listed are in the Degrees and Programs section of this catalog.)