The General Education credits must come from the approved OCCC General Education/Discipline Studies List.
In order to ensure a breadth of learning, which is the cornerstone of the General Education requirements, the following limitations apply:
- Courses taken to satisfy the basic college competencies in composition and mathematics will not be accepted.
- For AAS Degrees, no more than two courses may come from courses required by specific programs.*
- When an existing course meeting a General Education requirement is expanded into a multi-course sequence with the same course number with varying suffixes (e.g., 101 becomes 101a, 101b, 101c), any course in the sequence may be used to meet the General Education requirement. However, an individual student may use only one course in the sequence toward fulfillment of the requirement, even if the student takes multiple courses in the sequence.
*Note: Because of these restrictions, it is possible that a course is acceptable as General Education for some students while it is not acceptable for others. Degree candidates who are unsure of how the General Education Policy applies to their individual cases are responsible for seeking help from an advisor or counselor.
The complete and official list of courses approved as General Education/Discipline Studies is maintained by the Instructional Leadership Team.
Criteria for General Education/Discipline Studies Course Approval are developed by the Instructional Leadership Team based on the General Education Philosophy statement and the statewide outcomes and criteria for Discipline Studies for the AAOT.
Science, Math, & Computer Science Course List
Course | Title | Lab Science | Offered at OCCC |
BI 101 | Biology I | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 101H | Biology I: Honors | ✓ | |
BI 102 | Biology II | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 103 | Biology III | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 112 | Cell Biology for Health Occupations | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 121 | Introduction to Human Anatomy & Physiology I | ✓ | |
BI 122 | Introduction to Human Anatomy & Physiology II | ✓ | |
BI 141 | Habitats: Life of the Forest | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 142 | Habitats: Marine Biology | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 143 | Habitats: Freshwater Biology | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 145 | Intro. to Fish and Wildlife Conservation and Management | ✓ | |
BI 163 | Organic Gardening | ✓ | |
BI 164 | Bird Identification and Ecology | ✓ | |
BI 200B | Principles of Ecology: Field Biology | ||
BI 202 | Botany: An Introduction to the Plant Kingdom | ✓ | |
BI 211 | Principles of Biology I | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 212 | Principles of Biology II | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 213 | Principles of Biology III | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 231 | Human Anatomy & Physiology I | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 232 | Human Anatomy & Physiology II | ✓ | ✓ |
BI 234 | Microbiology | ✓ | ✓ |
CH 100 | Everyday Chemistry with Lab | ✓ | |
CH 104 | Allied Health Chemistry I | ✓ | |
CH 151 | Preparatory Chemistry | ✓ | ✓ |
CH 221 | General Chemistry I | ✓ | ✓ |
CH 222 | General Chemistry II | ✓ | ✓ |
CH 223 | General Chemistry III | ✓ | ✓ |
CIS 121 | Information Systems and Programming | ||
CIS 122 | Introduction to Programming Logic | ||
CS 160 | Exploring Computer Science | ✓ | |
ESR 140 | Introduction to Sustainability | ||
ESR 171 | Environmental Science: Biological Perspectives | ✓ | ✓ |
ESR 172 | Environmental Science: Chemical Perspectives | ✓ | |
ESR 173 | Environmental Science: Geological Perspectives | ✓ | ✓ |
ESR 200 | Introduction to Environmental Systems | ✓ | |
ESR 204 | Introduction to Environmental Restoration | ✓ | |
FN 110 | Personal Nutrition | ||
G 147 | Geology of the National Parks of the United States | ✓ | |
G 148 | Volcanoes and Earthquakes | ✓ | |
G 184 | Global Climate Change | ✓ | ✓ |
G 201 | Earth Materials and Tectonics | ✓ | ✓ |
G 202 | Earth Surface Processes | ✓ | ✓ |
G 203 | Evolution of Planet Earth | ✓ | ✓ |
G 207 | Geology of the Pacific Northwest | ✓ | |
G 208 | Volcanoes and Their Activity | ✓ | |
G 209 | Earthquakes | ||
GS 106 | Physical Science (Geology) | ✓ | ✓ |
GS 107 | Physical Science (Astronomy) | ✓ | ✓ |
GS 108 | Physical Science (Oceanography) | ✓ | ✓ |
GS 109 | Physical Science (Meteorology) | ✓ | |
MTH 105Z | Math in Society | ✓ | |
MTH 111Z | Precalculus I: Functions | ✓ | |
MTH 112Z | Precalculus II: Trigonometry | ✓ | |
MTH 211 | Foundations of Elementary Math I | ✓ | |
MTH 212 | Foundations of Elementary Math II | ✓ | |
MTH 213 | Foundations of Elementary Math III | ✓ | |
MTH 241 | Calculus for Management, Life and Social Science | ✓ | |
MTH 243Z | Statistics I | ✓ | |
MTH 244 | Statistics II | ✓ | |
MTH 251 | Calculus I | ✓ | |
MTH 252 | Calculus II | ✓ | |
MTH 253 | Calculus III | ✓ | |
MTH 254 | Vector Calculus I | ✓ | |
MTH 256 | Differential Equations | ||
MTH 261 | Applied Linear Algebra I | ||
PHY 101 | Force, Motion, and Energy | ✓ | |
PHY 102 | Atoms, Matter, and Heat | ✓ | |
PHY 103 | Sound, Light, and Electricity | ✓ | |
PHY 121 | The Solar System | ✓ | |
PHY 122 | Stars and Stellar Evolution | ✓ | |
PHY 123 | Galaxies and Cosmology | ✓ | |
PHY 201 | General Physics | ✓ | ✓ |
PHY 211 | General Physics (Calculus) | ✓ | ✓ |