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67 Maricopa County Community College District General Education Curriculum 2019-2020 Maricopa Community Colleges (MCCCD) 2019-2020 Arizona General Education Curriculum (AGEC) – A, B, S 1 Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation, June 25, 2019 Pending Governing Board Approval, August 27, 2019 Description The Maricopa County Community College District Arizona General Education Curriculum (MCCCD AGEC) is a general education certificate that fulfills lower-division general education requirements for students planning to transfer to any Arizona public community college or university. Generally, the MCCCD AGEC transfers as a block without loss of credit. The AGEC-A and AGEC-B require a minimum of 35 credit hours, and the AGEC-S requires a minimum of 36 credit hours. In most cases, all courses used to satisfy the MCCCD AGEC will apply to graduation requirements of the university major for which the AGEC was designed. There are three types of AGECs in MCCCD. They are the AGEC-A, the AGEC-B, and the AGEC-S. As described below, these AGECs are also a component of most MCCCD Associate degrees and comparable degrees at other Arizona public community colleges. The AGEC-A is the general education block of the MCCCD Associate in Arts (AA) degree (and major-specific pathway versions), the AGEC-B is part of the MCCCD Associate in Business (ABUS) degree (and major-specific pathway versions), and the AGEC-S defines the general education requirements in the MCCCD Associate in Science (AS) degree (and major- specific pathway versions). As described in more detail below, all AGECs require designated Core courses in First Year Composition [FYC], Literacy and Critical Inquiry [L], Mathematical Studies [MA/CS] (Exception: The AGEC-S does not require CS.), Social-Behavioral Sciences [SB], Humanities, Design and Fine Arts [HU], and Natural Science [SQ/SG]. Students must satisfy two Awareness areas: Cultural Diversity in U.S. and either Global Awareness or Historical Awareness. Purpose of the AGECs AGECs were designed to articulate with different academic majors, and their particular requirements vary accordingly. In some major-specific pathways, students are allowed to choose from a broad list of courses to satisfy the AGEC requirements; for others the courses are more restricted or even specified. Additional information on academic majors at the Arizona public universities can be accessed via the following website: www.aztransfer.com 1. The AGEC-A is designed to satisfy requirements in many liberal arts majors as well as other majors that articulate with an Associate in Arts degree (e.g., social sciences, fine arts, humanities, elementary education). AGEC-A requires a minimum of college mathematics or college algebra to satisfy the Mathematics [MA] requirement. 2. The AGEC-B is designed to satisfy requirements in business majors that articulate with the Associate in Business. AGEC-B requires a minimum of brief calculus to satisfy the Mathematics [MA] requirement. 3. The AGEC-S is designed to satisfy requirements in majors with more prescriptive mathematics and mathematics-based science requirements such as many in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. AGEC-S requires a minimum of the first course in a calculus sequence to satisfy the Mathematics [MA] requirement, and a minimum of eight credits of either university chemistry, university physics or general biology for majors to satisfy the Natural Sciences [SQ/SG] requirement. In addition, students must select six to ten additional credits of math and/or science appropriate to their major. Academic Policies that Govern the AGEC-A, -B, -S • Requires completion of at least 35 credit hours (AGEC-A, AGEC-B) and 36 credit hours (AGEC-S) in courses numbered 100 and above and that a minimum of 12 of those credits be taken at one or any combination of the MCCCD colleges. • All courses applied to the AGEC must be completed with a grade of "C" or better. • A single course can simultaneously count toward a Core Area and one or more Awareness Areas. For example, a course in world geography can be used to satisfy [SB] and [G] requirements. While multiple requirements can be met with a single course, the credits for that course are only counted one time toward