General Studies- Associate in Arts
This program is available to students enrolled at any campus of Miami University who have not completed the requirements for a Bachelor's degree.
Students completing Miami’s Associate in Arts degree are required to complete 36 semester hours of Ohio Transfer 36 approved coursework in the Miami Plan Perspectives Areas.
Students select a 12 semester hour concentration area, as described below, to complete within the required 62 semester hours of the degree.
Program Requirements
(62 semester hours)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Miami Plan Perspectives Areas: 1 | ||
| Formal Reasoning and Communication | ||
| Miami Plan Mathematics and Formal Reasoning | 3 | |
| Miami Plan English Composition | 3 | |
| Miami Plan Advanced Writing | 3 | |
| Science and Society | ||
| Miami Plan Social Sciences | 6 | |
| Miami Plan Natural Sciences | 6 | |
| Arts and Humanities | ||
| Miami Plan Creative Arts | 3 | |
| Miami Plan Humanities | 3 | |
| Global Citizenship | ||
| Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion | 3 | |
| Intercultural Consciousness | 3 | |
| Global Inquiry | 3 | |
| Additional Intercultural Consciousness or Global Inquiry | 3 | |
| Select 12 semester hours in addition to those above in one of these areas of emphasis: | 12 | |
Humanities | ||
Natural Science and Mathematics 2 | ||
Social Science | ||
Business | ||
Education, Health and Society | ||
Engineering and Computing | ||
Creative Arts | ||
Liberal Arts and Applied Science | ||
| Electives 3 | 11 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 62 | |
- 1
Students must select Perspective Areas courses that satisfy Ohio Transfer 36.
- 2
Students with natural science and mathematics emphasis cannot apply MTH 101 and MTH 102 to this degree.
- 3
Select 30 semester hours taken at Miami University and the final 9 credit hours must be from Miami University. No more than five semester hours of SLM 110-SLM 170B
Minimum 2.00 cumulative GPA