General Education Requirements - Social Sciences

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:

  1. Courses taken to satisfy the basic college competencies in composition and mathematics will not be accepted.
  2. For AAS Degrees, no more than two courses may come from courses required by specific programs.*
  3. 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 a student success coach.

The complete and official list of courses approved as General Education/Discipline Studies is maintained by the Curriculum Committee.

Criteria for General Education/Discipline Studies Course Approval are developed by the Curriculum Committee based on the General Education Philosophy statement and the statewide outcomes and criteria for Discipline Studies for the AAOT.

Social Sciences Course List

CourseTitleCultural Literacy
EC 201ZPrinciples of Economics: Microeconomics 
EC 202ZPrinciples of Economics: Macroeconomics 
GEO 106World Regional Geography
HST 101History of Western Civilization: Ancient to Medieval
HST 102History of Western Civilization: Medieval to Modern
HST 103History of Western Civilization: Modern Europe
HST 201History of the United States to 1840
HST 202History of the United States 1840-1914
HST 203History of the United States 1914 to Present
HST 218American Indian History
HST 240Oregon History
HST 270History of Mexico
HST 285The Holocaust
PS 201U.S. Government 
PSY 101Psychology and Human Relations 
PSY 201ZIntroduction to Psychology - Part 1
PSY 202ZIntroduction to Psychology - Part 2
PSY 213Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience 
PSY 215Human Development 
PSY 216Social Psychology 
PSY 231Human Sexuality 
PSY 239Introduction to Abnormal Psychology 
SOC 204ZIntroduction to Sociology
SOC 205ZSocial Change 
SOC 206ZSocial Problems
SOC 213Diversity in the United States
SOC 218Sociology of Gender