English, AA [ENG-AA, 60 Total Credits]
The Associate of Arts Degree with an English Emphasis helps students develop and apply critical thinking, analytical writing, and communication skills. Students who complete these degree requirements will be prepared to transfer to a four-year institution.
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Student Learning Outcomes
- Address purpose, audience, and rhetorical situation.
- Produce writing that demonstrates academic reading skills.
- Use a process approach to compose well-developed, research-based essays.
- Create an argumentative and/or exploratory thesis supported by textual evidence.
- Locate, evaluate, and integrate information sources.
- Summarize, analyze, synthesize, apply, and document source material.
- Control conventions of language, mechanics, and MLA format.
- Use critical reading and writing skills to engage and analyze literary texts.
- Demonstrate ability to connect literary works.
- Demonstrate ability to contextualize literary works.
General Education Requirements (34 Credits)
Mathematics (3 Credits)
NOTE: Your first college-level MATH course MUST be completed before reaching 30 total college-level credits.
- MATH 120 - Fundamentals of College Mathematics
- orMATH 120E - Fundamentals of College Mathematics Expanded or above (except MATH 122 and MATH 123)
- orSTAT 152 - Introduction to Statistics
English Composition (6-8 Credits)
NOTE: Your first college-level ENG course MUST be completed before reaching 30 total college-level credits.
- ENG 100 - Composition Enhanced
- orENG 101 - Composition I
- orENG 113 - Composition I for International Students
- and
- ENG 102 - Composition II
- orENG 114 - Composition II for International Students
Analytical Reasoning (3 Credits)
- PHIL 102 - Critical Thinking and Reasoning
- orPHIL 114 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Natural Science (6-7 Credits)
Choose two courses; one must include a lab.
- ANTH 102 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology
- orANTH 110L - Physical Anthropology Lab
- or any AST prefix course
- orBIOL 101 - Biology for Non-Majors or above
- orCHEM 105 - Chemistry, Man and Society or above
- or any EGG prefix course
- or any ENV prefix course
- orGEOG 103 - Physical Geography
- orGEOG 104 - Physical Geography Laboratory
- orGEOG 117 - Meteorology/Climatology
- or any GEOL prefix course
- orHHP 123 - Introduction to the Human Body
- or any PHYS prefix course
Fine Arts (3 Credits)
- any ART prefix course
- orDAN 101 - Dance Appreciation
- or any MUS prefix course (except MUS 100)
- orPHO 101 - Beginning Photography
- or any THTR prefix course (except THTR 275)
Social Science (9 Credits)
Nine credits must be from three different disciplines.
- any ANTH prefix course (except ANTH 102 and ANTH 110L)
- orCRJ 104 - Introduction to Administration of Justice
- or any ECON prefix course
- orHHP 150 - Living Healthy and Well
- orHHP 201 - Stress Management
- orHHP 213 - Healthy Aging
- orPHIL 135 - Introduction to Ethics
- orPHIL 205 - Science and Religion
- orPHIL 207 - Social and Political Philosophy
- orPHIL 216 - Philosophy of Human Nature
- orPHIL 244 - Bioethics
- orPHIL 245 - Contemporary Moral Issues
- orPHIL 246 - Philosophy of Law
- orPHIL 249 - Environmental Ethics
- or any PSC prefix course
- or any PSY prefix course (except PSY 270)
- or any SOC prefix course
- orWMST 113 - Gender, Race, and Class
U.S. and Nevada Constitutions (4-6 Credits)
- Four Credit Options
- HIST 100 - Historical Issues and Contemporary Society
- orPSC 101 - Introduction to American Politics
- Six Credit Options
- HIST 101 - U.S. History to 1877
- and HIST 102 - U.S. History Since 1877
- or
- HIST 101 - U.S. History to 1877
- and HIST 217 - Nevada History
- or
- HIST 102 - U.S. History Since 1877
- and HIST 111 - Survey of U.S. Constitutional History
- or
- HIST 111 - Survey of U.S. Constitutional History
- and HIST 217 - Nevada History
Values and Diversity
All students MUST fulfill this requirement. Course chosen may also be used to fulfill the corresponding general education or special program requirements.
- See AA/AB/AS General Education Requirements for list of choices.
Special Program Requirements (26 Credits)
Core Requirements (14 Credits)
- COM 101 - Oral Communication
- andENG 298 - Writing About Literature
- and World Languages 111 or above (courses must be in a single language; includes the following course prefixes: ARA, ARM, CHI, FIL, FREN, GER, ITAL, JPN, KOR, LAT, PORT, RUS, SPAN, and THAI)
Choose from the following (6 Credits)
- ENG 223 - Themes of Literature or above
Electives (6 credits)
- ENG 235 - Survey of English Literature I
- orENG 236 - Survey of English Literature II
- orENG 241 - Survey of American Literature I
- orENG 242 - Survey of American Literature II