Montgomery College 2016-2017 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
General Studies AA: Studies in Humanities, Arts, Communication, and Languages (HACL Core)
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611A
The Humanities, Arts, Communication and Languages Core allows students to develop an interdisciplinary course of study emphasizing the humanities and arts disciplines. The HACL Core is designed to encourage student to explore these disciplines while deepening their knowledge through a selected academic focus. For additional information, please visit the General Studies website.
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:
- Art (ARTT)
- Dance (DANC)
- English (ENGL)‡‡‡
- Film (FILM)
- History (HIST)
- Linguistics (LING)
- Music (MUSC)
- Philosophy (PHIL)
- Speech (COMM)
- Theatre (THET)
- Women’s and Gender Studies (WMST and GNDS),
- World Languages (ARAB, CHIN, FREN, GERM, HIND, ITAL, KORA, LATN, RUSS, PORT, ASLP, SPAN)
Student may elect to take any of the following individual courses as part of their Core requirements to enhance their selected academic focus; however, transferability of these courses should be carefully reviewed:
Studies in Humanities, Arts, Communication, and Languges 611A- General Degree Requirements
In order to complete this degree, students must:
- Complete of a minimum of 60 Credit hours including
- General Education Requirements- 31 Credit hours ***
- Humanities, Arts, Communication, and Languages Core courses- at least 15 Credit hours, with a minimum of 3 credit hours at 200 level
- Electives- Up to 11 Credit hours as needed to complete 60 Credit hours
- Complete a minimum of 15 Credits at 200 level, with at least 3 credit hours at the 200 level from the Core
- Have a GPA of 2.0.
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Suggested Course Sequence
All students should consult an advisor.
Second Semester
- English foundation 3 semester hours (ENGF) ‡
- Behavioral and social sciences distribution 3 semester hours (BSSD)**
- Humanities distribution 3 semester hours (HUMD)
- Natural science distribution with lab 4 semester hours (NSLD)
- Elective 3 semester hours
Third Semester
- Arts distribution 3 semester hours (ARTD)
- Behavioral and social sciences distribution 3 semester hours (BSSD) **
- Core course 1 3 semester hours
- Core course 2 3 semester hours
- General education institutional requirement 3 semester hours (GEIR) †
Fourth Semester
- Core course 3 semester hours
- Core course 3 semester hours
- Core course 3 semester hours
- Elective 3 semester hours ‡‡
- Elective 2 semester hours ‡‡
Total Credit Hours: 60
* ENGL 101 /ENGL 101A , if needed for ENGL 102 /ENGL 103 , or select a general elective.
** Behavioral and Social Science Distribution (BSSD) courses must come from different disciplines.
*** Students must complete one Global or Cultural Perspectives designated course as part of their General Education Program.
‡ Students should attempt ENGL and MATH foundation requirements within completion of the first 24 credits of college level work or at the completion of any prerequisite or required non- credit coursework.
‡‡ Any credit hours beyond the minimum in General Education (31 Credit hours) or Core courses are counted toward elective credit hours.
‡‡‡ ENGL 102 , ENGL 103 , COMM 108 , COMM 112 not eligible for HACL Core requirements, if used for General Education Foundation requirements. ENGL 101 and ENGL 110 cannot be used to meet HACL Core requirements.
† Two general education institutional requirement (GEIR) courses 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.
Please Note: Exact semester credit counts may vary based on specific course selections.
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
- Articulate a plan for their educational and career development that relates their coursework to their goals.
- Identify available resources related to their ongoing educational and professional development.
- Apply critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and/or scientific reasoning skills by articulating, analyzing, and evaluating problems and scenarios across discipline areas.
- Find, evaluate, use, and synthesize information needed to address increasingly complex problems and scenarios.
- Use technology effectively to accomplish a variety of general and discipline specific activities.
- Communicate effectively in writing and orally appropriately across disciplines.
- Articulate an academic identity that reflects an integrated, interdisciplinary view of their formal, co-curricular and personal learning.
- Make and articulate the connections within their course of study.
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