What courses are required to receive an associates degree?
I just graduated with my Associate of Science (or AA degree) and it all depends on the college you are at. My college, SWCC required you to take so many credits worth of sciences and I chose to take 1 year of Inorganic chemistry, 1 yr of Organic Chemistry both with labs,a year of Biology with lab, definitely good idea to take Physics with lab (while you’re at a comm. college-earier) which requires you to take Calc I, Human Anatomy & Physiology and Science and Nutrition. If you are going to be a science major you will need to take those for your own sake, because you will have to take them no matter what, and that way you get them out of the way and it will go towards your AA/AS degree. Also you will need usually most schools want you to have around 8 math credits, I took Calc I and college Alg & Trig. Then every school has their own requirements for English: at SWCC I had to take Speech, English Composition I and II, and you only had to have 8 credits, so each one of those classes was
