General Studies AA: Studies in Social Science, Administration, and Health Area of Concentration (SSAH Core): 611C

: 611C

General Studies focuses on developing knowledge and skills across traditional disciplinary boundaries resulting in an interdisciplinary cornerstone for academic and career pursuits. A General Studies major allows you to develop a path for transfer into a variety of majors or that will enhance your career competitiveness and further your academic and personal goals. General Studies has flexible program requirements within core areas that encourage you to synthesize knowledge and approaches on inquiry from various disciplines allowing you to bring creative, multi-disciplinary problem-solving, and critical thinking approaches to a range of modern problems.

The General Studies degree is a flexible curriculum that fosters intentional exploration of academic and career goals through academic coursework and supportive advising. Using interdisciplinary application of practical and intellectual skills through General Education courses and your selected core area of focus, the General Studies program creates a flexible, integrated framework for you to engage in complex problems related your chosen focus of study while promoting specific disciplinary content and skills. The General Studies program promotes personal responsibility and civic engagement by providing an academic framework in which you will explore contemporary and enduring questions, integrate learning across disciplines, and develop knowledge, skills, and motivation to frame issues and questions presented in the academic experience in the context of a broader community. This program can be completed either on campus or online.

In the Social Sciences, Administration and Health area, you will select courses and build a degree with a foundation in the social and behavioral sciences that will allow you to transfer in a range of disciplines such as Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Social Work, or Anthropology or to build an interdisciplinary academic foundation in traditional behavioral and social sciences. Additionally, this area allows you to develop broad and deep communication, interdisciplinary creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills as you cultivate teamwork and leadership expertise-all highly valued proficiencies in academic fields and the workforce.

In this core, students will develop an intentional academic plan that reflects personal, academic, and career goals emphasizing the following discipline areas or individual courses:

• Anthropology (ANTH)
• Applied Geography (GEOG)
• Criminal Justice (CCJS)
• Economics (ECON)
• Health (HLTH)
• History (HIST)
• Homeland Security (HMLS)
• Hospitality Management (HMGT)
• Physical Education (PHED) (students are limited to two PHED courses #100-199)
• Political Science (POLI)
• Psychology (PSYC)
• Sociology (SOCY)
• Women’s and Gender Studies (WMST and GNDS)

Students may elect to take any of the following individual courses as part of their SSAH core requirements to enhance their selected academic focus; however, transferability of these courses should be carefully reviewed:

• Accounting (ACCT 221 , ACCT 222 )
• Business (BSAD 101 , BSAD 210 )
• Education (EDUC 101 , EDUC 102 , EDUC 119 )
• Emergency Management (EMGT 101 , EMGT 206 )
• Health Information Management (HINM 115 , HINM 116 )
• Management (MGMT 101 , MGMT 140 , MGMT 211 , MGMT 201 )

NOTE: Students intending to transfer to pursue a 4-year degree in hospitality management or criminal justice should consult an advisor to determine how to use this core.

General Degree Requirements

In order to complete this degree, students must 

   1.  complete of a minimum of 60 credit hours including:

• 3 credits for ENGL 101  if needed for ENGL 102 /ENGL 103 , or select an elective
• ​​​31 credit hours of General Education program requirements
  • Two General Education institutional requirement (GEIR) courses are required from the following General Education courses: COMM, HLTH, or one ARTD or HUMD. Students may only take one course from ARTD or HUMD to fulfill General Education institutional requirements.
  • One global and cultural perspectives (GCP) designated course as part of the General Education program. 

• 15 credit hours in SSAH core courses with a minimum of 3 credit hours at the 200 level
• up to 11 elective credit hours as needed to complete 60 credit hours

   2.  complete a minimum of 15 credit hours at the 200 level with at least 3 credit hours at the 200-level from the SSAH core

• Any CCJS course may be taken except CCJS 255  

   3.  have a 2.0 GPA or higher

• ENGL 102  or ENGL 103  must have a grade of C or better to graduate.