Fulfilling A&S Gen Ed Requirements with Colorado Community College coursework

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When you complete an associate's degree at a Colorado community college

If you complete an Associate of Arts (AA) or an Associate of Sciences (AS) degree at a Colorado community college*, this degree fulfills all of the Gen Ed requirements in the College of Arts and Sciences.  All Associate Degrees with Designation (DwDs), as well as the general AA and AS degrees, earn this Gen Ed waiver, but Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Associate of Enginering Science (AES), and Associate of General Studies (AGS) degrees DO NOT earn the Gen Ed waiver**.

What about gtPathways courses?

If you transfer to CU Â鶹ӰԺ from a Colorado community college* before earning an AA or AS or after earning an AAS, AES, or AGS degree, the gtPathways courses you took at your community college are guaranteed to count toward your A&S Gen Ed requirements. They will be applied to your Gen Ed requirements on a course-by-course basis, which is determined by their GT designation.

General Education Skills Requirement

General Education Distribution Requirement

  • Arts & Humanities category – All GT-AH1, GT-AH2, GT-AH3, GT-AH4, and GT-HI1 courses will count toward the 12 credits required in this category.
  • Natural Sciences category – All GT-SC1 and GT-SC2 courses will count toward the 12 credits required in this category
    • All GT-SC1 courses will also fulfill the Natural Sciences laboratory or field requirement of this category.
  • Social Sciences category – All GT-SS1, GT-SS2, and GT-SS3 courses will count toward the 12 credits required in this category.

General Education Diversity Requirement

  • U.S. Perspective category – No gtPathways category correspondences to this Gen Ed cateogy.  So, community college courses are evaluated on an individual basis for this category. 
    • Check for courses that fulfill this category.
  • Global Perspective category – No gtPathways category correspondences to this Gen Ed category.  So, community college courses are evaluated on an individual basis for this category. 
    • Check for courses that fulfill this category.

Full list of gtPathways categories

  • GT-CO1 Introductory Writing Course, GT-CO2 Intermediate Writing Course, GT-CO3 Advanced Writing Course
  • GT-MA1 Mathematics
  • GT-AH1 Arts & Expression, GT-AH2 Literature & Humanities, GT-AH3 Ways of Thinking, GT-AH4 World Languages
  • GT-HI1 History
  • GT-SS1 Economic or Political Systems, GT-SS2 Geography, GT-SS3 Human Behavior, Culture, or Social Frameworks 
  • GT-SC1 Natural & Physical Sciences Course with Required Laboratory, GT-SC2 Natural & Physical Sciences Course Without Required Laboratory

*Any college in the Colorado Community College System, Aims Community College, Colorado Mountain College, or the two-year parts of Adams State University or Colorado Mesa University.

**Students who matriculated at CU Â鶹ӰԺ in Spring 2023 or any early term who earned the Gen. Ed. waiver are still subject to the college's Minimum Academic Preparation Standards (MAPS) Admissions requirements.  This means that even though they are waived from Gen Ed, if a student did not complete the following course work while in high school or make it up at their community college, they will be required to take additional lower-division courses at CU to rectify that deficiency.  

Pre-Summer 2023 MAPS (Minimum Academic Preparation Standards) Requirements 

  • 3 years of English
  • 4 years of Mathematics
  • 3 years of Natural Science, including 1 year of Chemistry or Physics
  • 3 years of Social Science, including 1 year of U.S. or World History and 1 year of Geography
  • 3 years of the same Foreign Language

Student who matriculate in Summer 2023 or subsequent terms are not longer required to rectify any MAPS deficinces that they might have by taking courses at CU Â鶹ӰԺ.

***Students who transfer to CU Â鶹ӰԺ with credit for just a GT-CO1 course or just a GT-CO2 course, but not both, will complete the Written Communication category of the Gen Ed Skills requirement at CU Â鶹ӰԺ by passing an approved Upper-division Written Communication course.

 

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