Certificate (CAS) 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 a Certificate of Applied 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)
COMM 205 ~Professional Communication (3)	BIOL 102 ~General Biological Science II (4)	BUSN 160 Organizational Behavior (3)
COMM 220 Intercultural Communication (3)	BIOL 120 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology I (3) and BIOL 121 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology I Lab (1)	CGEN 100 First Year Experience (3)
COMM 230 ~Art and Science of Persuasion (3)	BIOL 122 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology II (3) and BIOL 123 ^Human Anatomy & Physiology II Lab (1)	ECED 105 Child Development (3)
ENGL 101 ^English Composition I (3)	BIOL 220 Microbiology (3) and BIOL 221 Microbiology Lab (1)	ECON 123 ~Contemporary Economics (3)
ENGL 102 ^English Composition II (3)	CHEM 127 ~General Organic & Biochem I (4)	ECON 205 ~Prin of Macroeconomics (3)
ENGL 110 ~Tech Writing & Communication (3)	CHEM 128 ~General Organic & Biochem II (4)	ECON 206 ~Prin of Microeconomics (3)
ENGL 111 Applied Technical Writing (4)	ENVT 101 Environmental Science (3)	EDET 180 Building Better Relationships (3)
ENGL 204 ~Sur of American Lit (3)	GEOL 101 ~Geological Sciences (4)	ENGL 215 ~The Art of Literature (3)
ENGL 208 ~Sur of World Lit I (3)	GEOL 103 Historical Geology (4)	GEOG 105 ~World Cultural Geography (3)
MDIA 101 Introduction to Media Studies (3)	LTEC 101 Chemistry of Technicians I (4)	GSPE 210 Fitness for Life (3)
	LTEC 120 Biology for Technicians I (4)	HIST 101 ~Wld Hist to 1500:Early Man-Re (3)
	LTEC 121 Biology for Technicians II (4)	HIST 102 ~Wld Hist since 1500:Ren-Prsnt (3)
	MATH 101 ~Intro to Mathematics (3)	HIST 201 ~US History to 1877 (3)
	MATH 102 Technical Mathematics (3)	HIST 202 ~US History Since 1877 (3)
	MATH 103 Pharmacological Math (3)	HIST 210 ~WV and Appalachian History (3)
	MATH 105 ^Algebra (3)	IT 105 Computer Ethics
	MATH 106 ^Trigonometry (3)	MUSC 111 ~Introduction to Music (3)
	MATH 108 ^Pre-Calculus (4)	PHIL 101 Intro to Philosophy (3)
	MATH 114 ~Elementary Probability & Stats (3)	PHIL 111 Phil of World Religions (3)
	MATH 154 ~Finite Mathematics (3)	PSCI 100 ~Intro to Political Ideology (3)
	MECH 102 Technical Physics (2) and MECH 102L Technical Physics Lab (2)	PSCI 101 ~Amer Federal Government (3)
	PHYS 103 ~General Physical Science I (4)	PSCI 201 Intro to Int’l Relations (3)
	PHYS 104 ~General Physical Science II (4)	PSYC 203 ~Introduction to Psychology (3)
		PSYC 210 Human Growth and Development (3)
		SOCI 203 ~General Sociology (3)
		SOCI 205 ~Social Problems (3)
		SOCI 215 ~Human Relations (3)