2005-07 Catalog - Tacoma Community College

46 Professional/TechnicalTacoma Community CollegePROFESSIONAL/TECHNICAL EDUCATIONTacoma Community College offers more than 44 career trainingprograms designed to prepare you to enter the workforce. Careerprograms at TCC lead to two-year Associate in Applied Sciencedegree or shorter-term program certificates. Many of the programsand courses are available for career advancement, updating skills orretraining opportunities.In addition to admission to Tacoma Community College, eachprofessional/technical program may have specific application andadmission procedures. Interested students should contact theindividual program chair or division office for details. TCC canprovide career training or retraining in the following areas: Business careers. Health careers. Information technology careers. Office careers. Public services careers.ASSOCIATE INAPPLIED SCIENCES DEGREEThe Associate in Applied Sciences degree is designed for thosestudents who complete an approved course of studies in aprofessional, occupational, or technical area. See the list on page 45for the programs TCC offers that lead to an Applied Sciences degree.Degree RequirementsThe Associate in Applied Sciences degree is a terminal degreedesigned for students in TCC’s professional/technical programs. Incertain cases articulation agreements with specific universities mayenable transfer. Program chairs can provide information regardingany transfer opportunities for specific programs. To obtain thedegree, a student must complete a minimum of 90 credits, meet thespecific program requirements, meet the related instructionrequirements described below, and earn a minimum cumulativegrade point average of 2.0. Thirty of the last 45 applicable creditsmust be completed at Tacoma Community College.The faculty of TCC, along with a program advisory committee,determines the curriculum for each professional/technicalprogram. Each curriculum includes major program requirements,elective courses, and related instruction requirements. EachApplied Sciences degree program contains six related instructionareas: Communication. Quantitative skills. Living and working cooperatively. Responsibility and ethics. Critical thinking and problem solving. Information and information technology.Related instruction content may be embedded (listed in courseobjectives) within a program course, may be taught as part of acourse (e.g., English 101 for Communication), or may be aprerequisite to program admittance. Students also may challengecourses or utilize an assessment/testing process to satisfy somerelated instruction requirements. Specific program requirementsare listed in the Professional/Technical Programs section.