Core Curriculum

The purpose of the core curriculum is to ensure that Angelina College students will develop the essential knowledge and skills they need to be successful in College, a career, their communities, and life. The core curriculum facilitates the transfer of lower-division course credit among public colleges, universities, and health-related institutions.

The information below presents course requirements for New Core Curriculum (effective Fall 2022) and courses approved by the Texas High Education Coordinating Board (THECB):

Communications (6 CH)

Courses focus on developing ideas and expressing them clearly, considering the effect of the message, fostering understanding, and building the skills needed to communicate persuasively. Courses involve the command of oral, aural, written, and visual literacy skills that enable people to exchange messages appropriate to the subject, occasion, and audience.

  • ENGL 1301
  • ENGL 1302
  • ENGL 2311

Mathematics (3 CH)

Courses focus on quantitative literacy in logic, patterns, and relationships. Courses involve the understanding of key mathematical concepts and the application of appropriate quantitative tools to everyday experience.

  • MATH 1314
  • MATH 1324
  • MATH 1332
  • MATH 1342
  • MATH 1350
  • MATH 2412
  • MATH 2413
  • MATH 2414 

Life & Physical Sciences (6 CH)

Courses focus on describing, explaining, and predicting natural phenomena using the scientific method. Courses involve understanding interactions among natural phenomena and the implications of scientific principles on the physical world and human experiences.

  • BIOL 1322
  • BIOL 1406
  • BIOL 1407
  • BIOL 1408
  • BIOL 1409
  • BIOL 2401
  • BIOL 2402
  • BIOL 2404
  • BIOL 2420
  • CHEM 1305
  • CHEM 1409
  • CHEM 1411
  • CHEM 1412
  • GEOL 1403
  • GEOL 1404
  • PHYS 1305
  • PHYS 1401
  • PHYS 1402
  • PHYS 2425
  • PHYS 2426 

Language, Philosophy & Culture (3 CH)

Courses focus on how ideas, values, beliefs, and other aspects of culture express and affect human experience. Courses explore ideas that foster aesthetic and intellectual creation to understand the human condition across cultures.

  • ENGL 2322
  • ENGL 2323
  • ENGL 2327
  • ENGL 2328
  • ENGL 2332
  • ENGL 2333
  • ENGL 2341
  • ENGL 2351
  • HIST 2311
  • HIST 2312
  • SPAN 2311
  • SPAN 2312 

Creative Arts (3 CH)

Courses focus on appreciating and analyzing creative artifacts and works of the human imagination. Courses involve the synthesis and interpretation of artistic expression and enable critical, creative, and innovative communication about works of art.

 

  • ARTS 1301
  • ARTS 1303
  • ARTS 1304
  • DRAM 1310 
  • MUSI 1306
  • MUSI 1307
  • MUSI 1310 

American History (6 CH)

Courses focus on past events and ideas relative to the United States, with the option of including Texas History for a portion of this component area. Courses involve the interaction among individuals, communities, states, the nation, and the world, considering how these interactions have contributed to the development of the United States and its global role.

  • HIST 1301
  • HIST 1302 

Government/Political Science (6 CH)

Courses focus on the Constitution of the United States and the states’ constitutions, with special emphasis on Texas. Courses involve the analysis of governmental institutions, political behavior, civic engagement, and their political and philosophical foundations.

  • GOVT 2305
  • GOVT 2306 

Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 CH)

Courses focus on applying empirical and scientific methods that contribute to the understanding of what makes us human and exploring behavior and interactions among individuals, groups, institutions, and events, examining their impact on the individual, society, and culture.

 

  • ECON 2301
  • ECON 2302
  • GEOG 1303
  • PSYC 2301
  • PSYC 2314
  • SOCI 1301
  • SOCI 1306 

Component Area Option (6 CH)

Any of the courses from this section or sections 2, 3, 4. or 8.

  • CRIJ 1301
  • EDUC 1300
  • PSYC 1300
  • SPCH 1315
  • SPCH 1318
  • SPCH 1321
  • ARTS 1303
  • ARTS 1304
  • ENGL 1302
  • ENGL 2311
  • CHEM 1105
  • HIST 2311
  • HIST 2312
  • MATH 1325
  • PHYS 1105 

The core curriculum fulfills the general education requirements for associate degrees awarded by Angelina College. Each associate degree requires students to complete a minimum of 15 SCH of general 83 Return to Table of Contents education courses in humanities/fine arts, social/behavioral sciences, and natural science/mathematics. Each general education area aligns with core curriculum courses in the following disciplines. 1. Humanities/fine arts – English, Spanish, Speech, Arts, Drama, and Music 2. Social/behavioral sciences – History, Government, Economics, Psychology, and Sociology 3. Natural science/mathematics – Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, and Physics

(The information on this page was obtained from the College Catalog)

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