Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) General Education Core

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.

To graduate with either Associate of Arts degree or an Associate of Science degree –degrees that typically prepare a student to continue to a four-year institution or beyond – a student is required to take 24 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.

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 an Associate of Science degree are included in the following table.

Communication	Scientific & Quantitative Reasoning	Social & Cultural Awareness
CAS 111 Information Literacy (3)	BIOL 100 Human Body (3)	AGRB 101 Agribusiness Introduction (3)
COMM 202 ~Fundamentals of Speech (3)	BIOL 101 ^General Biological Science I (4)	ART 103 ~Intro to Visual Arts (3)
ENGL 101 ^English Composition I (3)	BIOL 102 ~General Biological Science II (4)	CGEN 100 First Year Experience (3)
ENGL 102 ^English Composition II (3)	BIOL 120 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology I (3) and BIOL 121 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology I Lab (1)	ECED 105 Child Development (3)
ENGL 110 ~ Tech Writing & Communication (3)	BIOL 122 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology II (3) and BIOL 123 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology II Lab (1)	ENGL 215 ~The Art of Literature (3)
ENGL 204 ~Sur of American Lit (3)	BIOL 220 Microbiology (3) and BIOL 221 Microbiology Lab (1)	GEOG 105 ~World Cultural Geography (3)
ENGL 208 ~Sur of World Lit I (3)	CHEM 127 ~General Organic & Biochem I (4)	GSPE 210 Fitness for Life (3)
	CHEM 128 ~General Organic & Biochem II (4)	HIST 101 ~Wld Hist to 1500:Early Man-Re (3)
	ENVT 101 Environmental Science (3)	HIST 102 ~Wld Hist since 1500:Ren-Prsnt (3)
	GEOL 101 ~Geological Sciences (4)	HIST 210 ~WV and Appalachian History (3)
	GEOL 103 Historical Geology (4)	IT 105 Computer Ethics
	MATH 101 ~Intro to Mathematics (3)	MUSC 111 ~Introduction to Music (3)
	MATH 102 Technical Mathematics (3)	PHIL 101 Intro to Philosophy (3)
	MATH 105 ^Algebra (3)	PHIL 111 Phil of World Religions (3)
	MATH 106 ^Trigonometry (3)	PSCI 100 ~Intro to Political Ideology (3)
	MATH 108 ^Pre-Calculus (4)	PSCI 101 ~Amer Federal Government (3)
	MATH 114 ~Elementary Probability & Stats (3)	PSCI 201 Intro to Int’l Relations (3)
	MATH 154 ~Finite Mathematics (3)	PSYC 203 ~Introduction to Psychology (3)
	PHYS 103 ~General Physical Science I (4)	PSYC 210 Human Growth and Development (3)
	PHYS 104 ~General Physical Science II (4)	SOCI 203 ~General Sociology (3)
		SOCI 205 ~Social Problems (3)
		SOCI 215 ~Human Relations (3)
		THEA 101 ~Introduction to Theatre (3)