POLITICAL SCIENCE (A1010K)

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE (44 Semester Hours Credit)
Forty-four semester hours of credit in General Education Core courses are required as outlined on the NCCCS Curriculum Standards for Associate in Arts degree programs. The General Education Core includes study in the areas of humanities and fine arts, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, and English composition. Within the core, students receive opportunities to achieve competence in reading, writing, communicating, demonstrating mathematical skills, understanding science concepts, and using computers.

English Composition (6 SHC)  Two English composition courses are required.

• ENG 111, Expository Writing, is required as the first composition course.
• The second composition course must be selected from the following:
  ENG 112: Argument-based Research
  ENG 114: Professional Research and Reporting

Humanities/Fine Arts (12 SHC)
Four courses from three discipline areas are required. At least one course must be a literature course. One 3 SHC speech communication course may be substituted for one 3 SHC humanities/fine arts course except literature.

• The following courses are recommended:
  • One of the following language sequences (6 SHC):
    FRE 111 and 112,: Elementary French I and II (6 SHC)
    SPA 111 and 112: Elementary Spanish I and II (6 SHC)
  • One of the following speech communication courses (3 SHC):
    COM 110: Introduction to Communication (3 SHC)
    COM 231: Public Speaking (3 SHC)
• Select the required literature course and additional courses from the following:
  • Art (ART 111, 114, 115)
  • Foreign Languages (FRE 111, 112, 211, 212; SPA 111, 112, 211, 212)
  • Interdisciplinary Humanities (HUM 110, 115, 120, 122, 130, 150, 160, 161, 211, 212, 220)
  • Literature (ENG 131, 231, 232, 241, 242, 261, 262)
  • Music (MUS 110, 113)
  • Philosophy (PHI 215, 240)
  • Religion (REL 110, 111, 112, 211, 212, 221)
  • Speech/Communication (COM 110, 120, 231)

Social/Behavioral Sciences (12 SHC)

• Select four courses from at least three discipline areas: economics, geography, psychology, and sociology.
• HIS 121: Western Civilization I (3 SHC) or HIS 122: Western Civilization II (3 SHC) is required.
• The following courses are recommended as choices for your other three courses:
  • ECO 251: Principles of Microeconomics (3 SHC)
  • ECO 252: Principles of Macroeconomics (3 SHC)
  • GEO 111: World Regional Geography (3 SHC)
  • GEO 112: Cultural Geography (3 SHC)
  • PSY 150: General Psychology (3 SHC)
  • SOC 210: Introduction to Sociology (3 SHC)
  • SOC 220: Social Problems (3 SHC)
  • SOC 225: Social Diversity

Natural Sciences/Mathematics (14 SHC)

• Natural Sciences (8 SHC): Select two courses, including accompanying laboratory work, from among the following biological and physical science disciplines:
  • Astronomy (AST 111 [class] and 111A [lab])
  • Biology (BIO 110, BIO 111, 112, BIO 120, BIO 130, 140 and 140A)
  • Chemistry (CHM 151, 152)
  • Physics (PHY 110 [class] and 110A [lab], 151, 152, 251, 252)
• Mathematics (6 SHC): Two courses are required.
  • One course must be in introductory mathematics (college algebra, trigonometry, calculus, etc.): 171 or 175; 172 or 175; 263; 271; 272; 273)
  • The following course is recommended to meet the second mathematics requirement: CIS 110 Introduction to Computers (3 SHC).

OTHER REQUIRED HOURS (20-21 Semester Hours Credit)

• Academic Related (1 SHC): ACA 115  [Note: Beginning with the fall semester 2005, this course is required for new students to Sandhills.]
• Physical Education (2 SHC) activity courses are required at Sandhills Community College. Select two courses from the following activity courses (PED 110 is not an activity course.): PED 113, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 135, 139, 142, 143, 145, 147, 152, 153, 154, 160, 162, 169, 170, 173, 174, 181, 186, 212, 215, 217, 260, 262
• The following course is required:
  • POL 120: American government ( 3 SHC)
• Fifteen (15) additional hours of approved college transfer courses are required. To satisfy this requirement, the following courses are recommended:
  • POL 210: Comparative Government (3 SHC)
  • POL 220: International Relations (3 SHC)

Note: Students must meet the receiving university's foreign language requirement, if applicable, prior to or after transferring to the senior institution.

Total Semester Hours Credit (SHC) in Program: 64-65