Dec 22, 2024  
2025-2026 Catalog (Working Draft) 
    
2025-2026 Catalog (Working Draft)

Associate of Arts, A.A.


The Associate of Arts degree consists of 35 hours of General Education courses and 25 elective credit hours. This degree may serve as a terminal degree for students or as an intermediate degree for students enrolled in a baccalaureate program. All hours earned at the 10000-level or above in satisfying the Associate of Arts degree may be used toward a baccalaureate degree. The requirements for the Associate of Arts degree are:

Total Hours: 60 hours


Required Courses: 35 hours


Choose one of the following:


One of the following courses:


Social Science: 9 hours


Choose one of the following: 3 hours

Choose two courses from two different disciplines from the following: 6 hours

Laboratory Sciences


Choose two 3-hour lecture courses with associated 1-hour labs or two 4-hour courses with integrated labs from the following disciplines:

  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Earth Sciences
  • Physics

One of the following:


Electives: 25 hours


All elective courses must be at the 10000-level or above. In addition, 15 hours of electives must be selected from courses that begin with the following prefixes: ANTH, ARAD, ARED, ARHS, ARTS, ASTR, BIOC, BIOL, BIOS, CEMB, CHEM, COMM, DMPR, ENGL, ENSC, ENTO, EPID, FILM, FREN, GDES, GENE, GEOG, GEOL, GEOS, HIST, HUMN, MATH, MBIM, MUED, MUEN, MUHS, MUPD, MUSC, MUTH, PHAR, PHIL, PHSC, PHYS, PLSC, PSYC, SBSC, SOCI, SPAN, SPCH, STAT, THTR, or courses that are listed on the Arkansas Division of Higher Education, Arkansas Course Transfer System website (https://adhe.edu/students-parents/transfer-info-for-students) Click on Arkansas Course Transfer System. Ten elective hours can be any 10000-level or above course selected by the student and his/her academic advisor.