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 Science 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 & Reporting

Humanities/Fine Arts (9 SHC)
Three 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.

• Select the required literature course and two additional courses from the following:
  • Art (ART 111, 114, 115)
  • Drama (DRA 111)
  • Foreign Languages (FRE 111, 112, 211, 212; SPA 111, 112, 211, 212)
  • Interdisciplinary Humanities (HUM 110, 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 (9 SHC)

• One course must be a history course: (HIS 111, 112, 121, 122, 131, 132)
• The following courses are required (6 SHC):
  • PSY 150: General Psychology (3 SHC)
  • PSY 241: Developmental Psychology (3 SHC)

Natural Sciences/Mathematics (20 SHC)

• Natural Sciences (8 SHC)—The following physics sequence is required:
  • PHY 251 and 252: General Physics I and II (8 SHC)
• Mathematics (12 SHC)—The following courses are required:
  • MAT 175: Precalculus (4 SHC)
  • MAT 271: Calculus I (4 SHC)
  • MAT 272: Calculus II (4 SHC)

OTHER REQUIRED HOURS (20 Semester Hours Credit)

One semester hour of credit may be included in a sixty-five semester hour credit Associate in Science program. The transfer of the 65th hour is not guaranteed.

A minimum of 20 SHC of college transfer courses in general education, pre-major or elective courses are required.

• Academic Related (1 SHC): ACA 122 College Transfer Success (1 SHC)
• 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, 123, 125, 128, 129, 130, 135, 137, 138, 139, 142, 143, 145, 147, 152, 153, 154, 156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 169, 170, 173, 174, 181, 186, 187, 212, 215, 217, 218, 260, 262
• The following courses are required (8 SHC):
  • EDU 216: Foundations of Education (4 SHC)
  • MAT 273: Calculus III (4 SHC)
• One of the following courses is required (3 SHC):
  • MAT 280: Linear Algebra (3 SHC)
  • MAT 285: Differential Equations (3 SHC)
• One of the following courses is required (3 SHC):
  • CSC 120 Computing Fundamentals I (4 SHC)
  • CSC 134 C++ Programming (3 SHC)
  • CSC 136 Fortran Programming (3 SHC)
  • CSC 151 JAVA Programming (3 SHC)
• Three (3) additional hours from college transfer courses approved as general education humanities are required.
• Three (3) additional hours from college transfer courses approved as general education social/behavioral sciences are required.

• Note: Students must meet the receiving university's foreign language requirement, if applicable, prior to or after transferring to the senior institution.
• Appplication to a University: Admission application deadlines vary; students must meet the deadline for the university to which they plan to transfer. Upon successful completion of the Associate in Science degree, students who meet the requirements outlined in this pre-major articulation agreement for Mathematics Education will be eligible to be considered for admission as juniors to the universities offering the baccalaureate degree: ASU, ECU, ECSU, FSU, NCA&T, NCCU, NCSU, UNC-A, UNC-CH, UNC-C, UNC-G, UNC-P, UNC-W, WCU, WSSU.
• Admission to the Major: Grade point average requirements vary and admission is competitive across the several programs in Mathematics Education. Admission to teacher licensure programs requires satisfactory scores on PRAXIS I and II.

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