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Bachelor of Applied Studies—2009-2010 Roadmap [Degree Requirements] |
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The Bachelor of Applied Studies is an adult completion degree offered through the Regional Campuses. It is designed to accommodate varied educational backgrounds, develop competencies needed for success in a variety of work settings, and offer major courses in schedules attractive to time- and place-bound adults. Self-management of one's career in the 21st century is a major goal of this degree.
This degree provides a blended, breadth of learning experience that is trans-disciplinary, and is quite different from the traditional degree which provides depth within a single discipline. Students who desire a major with depth in a specific discipline should consider a traditional degree.
The Bachelor of Applied Studies requires a prescribed core of skills/knowledge-based courses which bridge multiple disciplines in multiple colleges. The skills/knowledge provided by this degree are civic engagement, computer literacy, critical thinking, diversity/internationalization, ethics, information literacy, leadership, oral and written communication, self-managment, and statistical and algebraic thinking. Students construct a meaningful plan for using the curriculum in Applied studies to explore and prepare for their preferred futures by completing a cornerstone course and developing an electronic portfolio. This enables students to collect artifacts of their learning which can be used to advance their careers. A capstone course features a synthesizing of learning focused on the ten foundational competencies and finalization of the electronic portfolio for job search and career development purposes.
Student also complete 34 hours of applied courses from their major in an associate degree or develop a concentration in consultation with an advisor.
To receive a Bachelor of Applied Studies, a student must satisfy the 36-hour Liberal Education Requirements as indicated in this Catalog, the diversity requirements, and a minimum of 39 upper-division (junior- and senior-level) credit hours. The cumulative grade point average must be at least 2.00 for all coursework taken at Kent State University and a grade of C (2.00) or better in each course completed in the applied studies courses.
All baccalaureate students at Kent State University must complete a writing-intensive course in their major. For applied studies majors, COMM 35864, Organizational Communication, is the course designed to meet the writing-intensive course requirement.
NOTE: The AACSB accreditation standards prohibit non-business majors from taking more than 25 percent of their degree requirements in business courses. Therefore, no more than 30 semester credit hours in College of Business Administration courses may be counted toward stated degree requirements.
This program is available at all seven Regional Campuses: Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Salem, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas.