Associate of Arts & Sciences DTA map
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Communications Skills: 10 Credits
Quantitative Skills: 5 Credits (SQR)
Additional Breadth: 5 Credits
Humanities: 15 Credits (HU, HP)
(ART, CMST, ENGL, FREN, GERM, HUM, MUSC, PHIL, REL, SPAN)
Physical Education/Health & Wellness: 3 Credits
Social Science: 15 Credits (SS)
(ANTH, CJ, ECON, HIST, POLS, PSYC, SOC)
Natural Science: 15 Credits (NS, LS, MS)
(AGR, ASTR, BIOL, BOT, CHEM, ENGR, ENVS, GEOL, NUTR, PHYS)
Specified Electives: 10 Credits (SE)
General Electives: 12 Credits
Total Credits Required: 90
Suggested Schedule and checklist
Suggested Schedule:
- ENGL&102: English Composition II
- Humanities Breadth: Select with advisor
- Social Science Breadth: Select with advisor
To Do:
- Make an education plan with your advisor
- Apply for BBCC Foundation Scholarships
Suggested Schedule:
- Humanities Breadth: Select with advisor
- Natural Science: Select with advisor
- Specified Elective: Select with advisor
To Do:
- Meet with your advisor
Suggested Schedule:
- General Elective: Select with advisor
- Natural Science: Select with advisor
- Specified Elective: Select with advisor
To Do:
- Apply for graduation (After enrolling in your final quarter of classes)
Suggested Schedule:
- Additional Breadth: Select with advisor
- General Elective: Select with advisor
- Social Science Breadth: Select with advisor
To Do:
- Order cap and gown
- Attend graduation
Diversity Course Requirement:
You must complete one diversity course as part of your degree.
- ART&100: Art Appreciation
- CMST 225: Intercultural Communication
- ENGL 223: Banned Books in Literature: A Cultural Approach
- ENGL 225: Chicanx Literature
- ENGL 261: Women’s Literature
- HIST&215: Women in US History
- HIST&219: Native American History
- HUM 108: Intro to Gender Studies
- HUM 205: Diversity French/German Cinema
- HUM 214: Diversity Issues: Race, Class & Gender
- HUM 220: Diversity in Education
- MUSC 170: History of Jazz
- MUSC 175: Music of the World
- POLS&203: International Relations
- REL 201: World Religion
- SOC 204: Gender & Power
- SOC 220: Marriage and the Family
- SOC&201: Social Problems
Associate of Arts & Sciences (DTA) Pre-Requisite Flow Chart
Start by meeting with your advisor to determine which course to take first based on your placement scores.
Math Pathway
DVS 080: College Transitions Math → MATH 094: Intro to Algebra → MATH 099: Intermediate Algebra II → MATH&141: Pre- Calculus I or ASTR&101: Intro to Astronomy (F, Sp) or CHEM&161: General Chemistry I (F) or PHYS&114: General Physics I (Sp)
OR
DVS 080: College Transitions Math → MATH 094: Intro to Algebra → MATH 098: Intermediate Algebra I → MATH&107: Math in Society or MATH&146: Intro to Statistics or PHIL&120: Symbolic Logic (W, Sp) or CHEM&121: Intro to Chemistry or GEOL&101: Intro to Physical Geology (W, Sp) or PHY&110: Physics for Non-Science Majors (W)
English Pathway
ENGL 99: English Skills + CSS 106: Reading Skills → ENGL&101: Composition I → ENGL&102: Composition II and HUM 214: Diversity Issues
KEY: F = Fall, W = Winter, Sp = Spring, Su = Summer
- Cumulative GPA must be 2.0 or higher
- Earn a grade of 1.0 or higher in each course to use it toward your degree
- Work closely with your advisor to develop a transfer plan
Fall, Winter, Spring, or Summer
This degree can be completed entirely online. Courses are offered on-campus, online, or hybrid (part on-campus, part online)
90 Credits = 6 Quarters* if you take 15 credits each quarter
*Your specific route may take longer than 6 quarters depending on the number of credits you take each quarter and where you start in your math and English pathways.
Completion of the Associate of Arts & Sciences degree allows for a wide variety of career pursuits depending on the course of study at your transfer institution.
The AA&S DTA represents the broad knowledge generally acquired in the first two years of a four-year program leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. When students earn the AA&S DTA, they may transfer to a baccalaureate institution within the state of Washington with assurance that they have satisfied all or most of the basic requirements.
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Transition to College (new link)
- Attend your orientation and enroll in your 1st quarter classes
- GED & Placement assessments
- Enroll in a Beyond High School class:
- Identify intended pathway (college, military or employment)
- Update High School & Beyond Plan with your Ed Planner
- Meet with Outreach Staff
- Apply for Financial Aid with FASFA or WASFA application
- Research Scholarship/Grant Funding options
- WIOA partner funding applications
- Verify support access across campus
- Finish Graduation Plan
- Ensure placement completion
- Inquiry about college tuition waiver
- Finish High School & Beyond Plan
- Select college pathway course(s) with your Ed Planner
- Complete college course waiver [10 college credit max]
- Make certain funding is in place
- Finish High School credits
- You will complete these with your Ed Planner:
- Complete New Student Enrollment
- Apply for Graduation
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