2024-2025 College Catalog 
    
    Nov 28, 2024  
2024-2025 College Catalog

The General Education Core


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The General Education Core provides the fundamentals of liberal arts education. It is the foundation of the Associate of Arts (“A.A.”) and the Associate of Science (“A.S.”) degrees. The General Education Core is constituted of courses that are accepted toward general education requirements at most of Virginia’s 4- year colleges and universities.

The General Education Core credit hour requirements applicable to the Associate of Arts Degree and the Associate of Science Degree are listed below. All students must meet the core requirements. The Core Courses listed below identifies those RBC courses that fulfill core requirements for the degree.

Choose one course from each of the following areas:


Investigation of the Natural World


Computer Proficiency: 3 - 4 Credit Hours


If you have taken CSCI 202 and CSCI 203 before Fall 2021, it will apply it to the Computer Proficiency requirement of the AA or AS degrees.
  

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Courses with an asterisk (*) can be used to satisfy the requirement of only one category.  A student may not satisfy the requirements in both the Human Experience and US & World Cultures exclusively with Philosophy and Religion courses.

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