BAS Core Requirements
The following information pertains only to students enrolled in The University of Iowa's Bachelor of Applied Studies (BAS) external degree program.
- The courses listed below have been approved to fulfill one or more Core Requirement area for the Bachelor of Applied Studies degree.
- If not completed prior to admission, the following minimum Core Requirements must be completed by graduation.
- Those courses which may also be counted toward fulfillment of upper-level course requirements are designated by (UL).
- While most of the courses listed below are available by Guided Independent Study, some of them are offered as semester-based online courses through Distance Education. Blended format courses, on-campus course work, regular daytime or Saturday & Evening classes, also may be used to satisfy these Core Requirements. For additional course options see ISIS at http://isis.uiowa.edu/courses.
- Courses are 3 semester hours (s.h.) unless indicated.
| Select By Core Requirement Area: | |
| Cultural Diversity | Rhetoric |
| Social Sciences | Business/Management |
| Quantitative or Formal Reasoning | |
- See also BLS/BAS Distribution Areas: http://continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/ccp/gis/BLSdist.htm
Cultural Diversity - 3 s.h. of credit are required in this area.
- Sociology - CLAS
Quantitative or Formal Reasoning - 3 s.h. of credit are required in this area.
- Mathematics - CLAS
- 22M:009 Elementary Functions (4 s.h.)
- 22M:010 Finite Mathematics ( 4.s h.)
- 22M:012 Theory of Arithmetic
- 22M:025 Calculus I (4 s.h.)
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations - CLAS
- Statistics and Actuarial Science - CLAS
Rhetoric - 4-8 s.h. of credit are required in this area-includes equivalent of 2 composition courses and 1 speech course.
- Rhetoric - CLAS
Social Sciences - 3 s.h. of credit are required in this area.
- Aging Studies -CLAS
- Economics -CLAS and TCOB
- 06E:001 Principles of Microeconomics (4 s.h.)
- 06E:002 Principles of Macroeconomics (4 s.h.)
- Leisure Studies - CLAS
- Linguistics - CLAS
- Nursing - CON
- Political Science - CLAS
- Psychology - CLAS
- Social Work - CLAS
- Sociology - CLAS
Business/Management - 6 s.h. of credit are required in this area.
- Entrepreneurship - TCOB
06T:050 Foundations in Entrepreneurship (2 s.h.)
06T:120 Entrepreneurship & Innovation (UL)
06T:133 Entrepreneurial Finance (UL)
- Management and Organizations - TCOB
Collegiate Abbreviations
CLAS = College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
COE = College of Education
COENG = College of Engineering
CON = College of Nursing
COP = College of Pharmacy
CPH = College of Public Health
TCOB = Henry B. Tippie College of Business
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