Technical Studies - AAS

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Purpose: The associate degree in Technical Studies-Industrial Maintenance is designed to assist companies through educating students on current industry and manufacturing practices. The degree allows students to have a work-based learning component in addition to the general education and technical foundation classes.

Admission Requirements: All students will be required to demonstrate college readiness through transcript review or informed self-placement. Based on this review students may request or be required to enroll in prerequisite or corequisite math and/or English courses.

Technical Studies Curriculum:

Degree Requirements

SDV 106: Preparation for Employment or any approved SDV course
ENG 111: College Composition I
ENG 115: Technical Writing
Humanities - Any course from ART, ENG (Literature), HUM, MUS, PHI, REL, or Foreign Language
Social Sciences - Any course from ECO¹, GEO, HIS, PLS, PSY², or SOC
Math - Any math course 130 or higher³
HLT 106: First Aid and Safety

Total Credits: 18

Technical Foundations:

Total Credits: 23

Work-based Learning:

One (1) or (2) existing certificates/career studies certificates with additional courses to create a coherent plan of study. May include experiential credit, such as credit for prior learning, internship credit, independent study, and/or apprenticeship credit.

Total Credits: 19

Total Minimum Credits: 60

Before registering for classes, students should check the prerequisites listed with the course descriptions in the back of the catalog. Normally, a full-time student would register for courses in the following sequence; however, apprenticeship offerings may alter this sequence.

¹ ECO 120 and ECO 201 -ECO 202 contain similar course content. Students who take ECO 120 cannot receive credit for either ECO 201 or ECO 202 . Students who take either ECO 201 or ECO 202 cannot receive credit for ECO 120 .

² Students cannot receive credit for both PSY 235 and PSY 230 .

³ Students considering transfer should check with anticipated four-year institution to determine appropriate MTH courses and/or sequences.

Suggested Scheduling:

First Year

Second Year

Third Semester

Social Science Elective
ENG 115: Technical Writing
Micro-Computers
IND 137: Team Concepts and Problem Solving

Total Credits: 15

Fourth Semester

Humanities Elective
Social Science Elective
SAF 126: Principles of Industrial Safety
HLT or PED
Work-Based Learning

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