Overview
Faculty Advisors: Paz Jensen and Christine Photinos
The Associate of Arts (AA) degree is designed to give students a solid foundation for continuing professional and traditional studies as well as continued intellectual growth.
Requirements
The general education program consists of a minimum of 70.5 quarter units. Of the 70.5 units, students must complete at least 4.5 units at the upper division level and 4.5 units in diversity enriched course work. A plus [+] indicates a diversity enriched offering. All undergraduate students working toward any associate or bachelor's degree must meet the University diversity requirement.
National University has general education requirements in the following eight areas:
AREA A: ENGLISH COMMUNICATION
(minimum 15 quarter units)
AREA B: MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING
(minimum 4.5 quarter units)
AREA C: INFORMATION LITERACY
(minimum 4.5 quarter units)
AREA D: ARTS AND HUMANITIES
(minimum 13.5 quarter units)
AREA E: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(minimum 13.5 quarter units)
AREA F: PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(minimum 6 quarter units required [Note: one science lab is required])
AREA G: MODERN LANGUAGE
(minimum 9 quarter units)
(Students may satisfy this area by passing a competency test in any second language. They also may satisfy this requirement with 9 quarter units of computer languages, such as C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. Students who satisfy competency by examination must still meet the overall general education unit requirement. Students enrolled in a degree program under the School of Business and Management can elect to take general education electives to fulfill this requirement.)
AREA A-G: GENERAL EDUCATION
(minimum 4.5 quarter units)
Courses taken to achieve minimum levels of collegiate-level competency in the areas of writing and mathematical concepts and systems do not satisfy any portion of the general education requirement.