Certificate (CAS) General Education Core

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Blue Ridge Community and Technical College has a General Education Core designed to fulfill the three institutional goals:

The student will develop college-level communication skills.
The student will develop general knowledge about and awareness of society.
The student will develop fundamental thinking and reasoning skills necessary for academic study and career success.

To graduate with a certificate after 30 credits of study, a student is required to take 6 credits from the General Education Core, one course in Communication and one in Mathematics, thus addressing goals one and three.

To graduate with an Associate of Applied Science degree, a student is required to take 15 credits from the General Education Core, including one course in Communication, one in Social & Cultural Awareness, and one in Scientific & Quantitative Reasoning, thus addressing all three institutional goals.

For an Associate of Arts degree and an Associate of Science degree – which are degrees that typically prepare a student to continue to a four-year institution or beyond – 24 credits from the General Education Core are required, including one course in Communication, one in Social & Cultural Awareness, and one in Scientific & Quantitative Reasoning, thus addressing all three institutional goals.

Refer to the Academic Programs section in the catalog to see which of the General Education Core courses fulfill the requirements for that degree.

General education courses approved for a Certificate of Applied Science degree are included in the following table.

Communication	Scientific & Quantitative Reasoning	Social & Cultural Awareness
CAS 110 Understanding Computers (3)++	BIOL 100 Human Body (3)	AGRB 101 Introduction to Agribusiness (3)
CAS 111 Information Literacy (3)++	BIOL 101 General Biological Science I (4)++	ART 103 Introduction to Visual Arts (3)++
CAS 230 Office Administration (3)++	BIOL 102 General Biological Science II (4)++	BUSN 160 Organizational Behavior (3)++
COMM 202 Fundamentals of Speech (3)++	BIOL 120 &121 Anatomy and Physiology I & Lab (4)++	CGEN 100 First-Year Experience (3) ++
COMM 205 Professional Communication (3)++	BIOL 122& 123 Anatomy and Physiology II & Lab (4)++	ECED 105 Child Development (3)
ENGL 101 Written English (3)++	BIOL 220&221 Microbiology & Lab (4)++	ECON 123 Contemporary Economics (3) ++
ENGL 102 Writing for Arts and Humanities (3)++	CAHS 210 Human Growth and Development (3)	EDET 180 Building Better Relationships (2) ++
ENGL 110 Technical Writing and Communication (3)++	CHEM 125 Introduction to Chemistry (4)++	EDET 181 Conflict Resolution (2)++
ENGL 111 Applied Technical Writing (4)++	CHEM 127 General Organic & Biological Chemistry I (4)++	ENGL 215 The Art of Literature (3)
ENGL 204 Survey of American Literature (3)++	CHEM 128 General Organic & Biological Chemistry II (4)++	GEOG 105 World Cultural Geography (3)
ENGL 208 Survey of World Literature (3)	EDET 201 Fundamentals of Electricity I (2)++	GSPE 210 Fitness for Life (3)
MDIA 101 Introduction to Media Studies (3)	EDET 202 Fundamentals of Electricity II (2)++	HIST 101 World History to 1500 (3)
	ENVT 101 Environmental Science (3)	HIST 102 World History Since 1500 (3)
	GEOL 101 Geological Sciences (4)	HIST 201 United States History until 1877 (3)
	LTEC 120 Biology for Technicians I (4)	HIST 202 United States History since 1877 (3)
	LTEC 121 Biology for Technicians II (4)	HIST 210 WV and Appalachian History (3)
	MATH 101 Introduction to Mathematics (3)	IT 105 Computer Ethics ++
	MATH 102 Technical Mathematics (3)	IT 269 Project Management (3) ++
	MATH 105 Algebra (3)	MUSC 111 Introduction to Music (3) ++
	MATH 106 Trigonometry (3)	PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy (3)
	MATH 108 Pre-Calculus (4)	PHIL 111 Phil of World Religions (3)
	MATH 114 Elementary Probability & Stats (3)	PSCI 100 Intro to Political Ideology (3)
	MATH 154 Finite Mathematics (3)	PSCI 101 American Federal Government (3)
	MECH 102 & 102L Technical Physics & Lab (4)	PSCI 201 Intro to Int’l Relations (3)
	PHYS 103 General Physical Science I (4)++	PSYC 203 Introduction to Psychology (3)
	PHYS 104 General Physical Science II (4)++	SOCI 203 General Sociology (3)
		SOCI 215 Human Relations (3)