Associate of Arts
The Associate of Arts program provides you with a broad academic education to prepare you for upper-level university study and the workforce.
Use credits from this program toward completing a degree, increasing employability, or simply enjoying the experience of university.
Program requirements
Some program requirements may be met with credits earned through prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR).
Admission requirements
Open admission
Residency requirements
A minimum of nine TRU credits (distance or on-campus)
Degree requirements
Sixty credits total of first- and second-year (lower-level) courses and some upper-level courses, with a grade point average (GPA) of 2.00 or higher over all courses required for this credential, as follows:
Six credits in English (university-level composition and literature), excluding technical- and business-writing courses
Eighteen credits in first-year arts other than English, including six credits in social sciences and six credits in humanities (including creative and performing arts but not studio courses)
Eighteen credits of second-year arts in two or more subject areas
Nine credits in natural science (physical anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, physics, physical geography), including three credits in a first-year hands-on laboratory science, such as BIOL 1113 (3) and BIOL 1115 (0), and three credits in mathematics, statistics or computer science
Nine credits of first- or second-year courses
Certain interdisciplinary areas of studies may be allocated to more than one subject area, depending on the content of the course.
The first-year science requirement includes a hands-on laboratory course that accompanies the three-credit course; for example, BIOL 1115, BIOL 1215, GEOG 1221, GEOL 1111, PHYS 1105, PHYS 1205. Any credits earned in first-year hands-on lab courses do not count toward the 60 credits required for program completion.
No course may be used to meet more than one of the specific requirements.