Entrance/Admission Requirements

Degree/Graduation Requirements

Planning Tool: Two-Year Sequence of Courses

AACC faculty developed the following sequence of courses to encourage greater success in each student’s program of study.  This sequence incorporates all of the student’s requirements for this degree and provides the student with essential notes to guide their success.  It is recommended that students view and save this as they plan courses for this degree.

TWO-YEAR (FALL and SPRING TERMS): Click here to view, print or save a planner for Fall and Spring Sequence of Courses

General Education Requirements: 34-37 credits

An approved list of general education courses can be found in the General Education Requirements and degree program required courses  section of the catalog. Choose general education courses from the following topics:

Program Requirements: 27 credits

• CTP 115 - Introductory Object-Oriented Program Analysis and Design 4 credit hours
• EDU 111 - Foundations of Education 3 credit hours
• EDU 133 - Growth and Development 3 credit hours
• EDU 211 - Educational Psychology 3 credit hours
• EDU 214 - Introduction to Special Education 3 credit hours
• MAT 135 - Statistics 3 credit hours
• MAT 201 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry 3 4 credit hours
• MAT 202 - Linear Algebra 4 credit hours

Additional Requirements

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Explain matrices and their applications.
• Describe vectors and vector spaces and their applications.
• Identify linear transformations and their applications.
• Use technology to assist with calculations and explorations.
• Identify the properties of basic classes of functions. (Here “functions” are algebraic, inverse, exponential [including hyperbolic], logarithmic, trigonometric.)
• Calculate the limits of functions.
• Analyze continuity of a function.
• Find the derivatives of functions numerically, algebraically, and graphically.
• Apply the derivative to diverse situations
• Calculate definite integrals and find indefinite integrals.
• Solve applied problems related to integration.
• Analyze the convergence or divergence of sequences and series.
• Graph and analyze polar equations, parametric equations, and conic sections.
• Solve elementary differential equations.
• Explain properties of vectors and vector-valued functions.
• Apply differentiation rules to various multivariable functions. Identify these properties of quadric surfaces.
• Evaluate multiple integrals.
• Explain properties of vector fields and evaluate various vector field derivatives and integrals.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the roles of the hardware and software components of a computer system.
• Identify the social, physical, emotional, and cognitive stages of development through adolescence.
• Describe the major approaches to (theories of) human learning.
• Explain approaches to learning/teaching.
• Describe the impact of culture, privilege, and oppression, as they influence personal growth and development.
• Relate culture, privilege and oppression to their impact on schooling, student performance and success.
• Identify factors that may contribute to behaviors/conditions resulting in at-risk students.
• Describe the important role of family in human development and the variety of ways individuals can organize to fulfill these roles.
• Define basic theories of motivation.
• Define what curriculum is and identify the social, cultural, historical, political, and philosophical influences that effect the development and change of curriculum.
• Describe the construction of curriculum as responsive to developmental, cultural, and social needs of children.
• Compare different approaches to and methods of teaching.
• Recognize that there are different approaches to teaching and that materials and objectives are specific to the approach selected.
• Know, locate and critique types of educational research.
• Recognize valid sources of educational information.
• Describe the roles of secondary school teachers.
• Distinguish between the roles of middle school and high school teachers.
• Reflect on the approaches to learning/teaching.
• Relate principles and practices of group dynamics to educational practices.
• Demonstrate knowledge of exceptionalities and individual differences and understand how culture and experience affect these.
• Specify how issues such as justice, social equality, concentrations of power, class differences, race and ethnic relations, language and literacy, or family and community organization relate to teaching and schools.
• Identify contemporary education issues.
• Relate issues to their historical, social, cultural, philosophical, education antecedents or analyze the historical, social, cultural, philosophical, and educational antecedents in relation to contemporary issues.
• Engage successfully in critical thinking and problem solving in a variety of content areas.
• Recognize instructional practices that enhance, or impede critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
• Engage in small group learning environments in a variety of content areas in the first sixty hours of coursework.
• Describe a variety of patterns of secondary school organization.
• Identify the various ways that teachers collaborate with others.
• Explain the history of education.
• Develop a philosophy of education and relate this to purposes of education.
• Describe schools as organizations.
• Identify the important role of family in learning and recognize teachers’ vital role in creating a partnership with families.
• Identify fundamental/basic rudiments of school law.
• Know, understand, and define for the ethical standards of the teaching profession.
• Explain the value of life-long learning.
• Begin a “developmental portfolio” that includes reflections on their developing schema of the teaching profession.

This program aligns with all the college’s core competencies. For a full list of Core Competencies, click here.

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