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