ADDITIONAL DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: 10-32 SEMESTER HOURS
STUDENT HAS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL:
Emergency Medical Technician – Basic (16 hours)
Emergency Medical Technician – Advanced (16 hours)
Food Preparation, Safety and Service Technical Certicate (25 hours)
Laboratory Phlebotomy Technician Technical Certicate (18 hours)
Pharmacy Technician Technical Certicate (31 hours)
In addition to the 15 hours in general education core classes, and the 15 hours in major core requirements, students may apply the
credits from their allied health technical certicates (listed in box above).
The length of the technical certicate or certicates applied to this degree, will dictate how many additional credits the student will
need. A student needs at least 60 credits (15 in general education) in order to earn an AAS degree from Southwest.
When the technical certicate(s) and the 30 hours required in gen.ed and major core classes, do not equal 60, then students may select
from the following list of electives to bring their credit total to 60 hours: (Grades of “C” or better are recommended)
THIRD SEMESTER Notes Credits MC
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o
o
o
o
SECOND SEMESTER Notes Credits MC
o
o
o
o
o
General Advising Notes
Helpful Hints
Milestone Courses
SEMESTER CREDITS
SEMESTER CREDITS
SEMESTER CREDITS
SEMESTER CREDITS
PROGRAM CREDITS
Based on prior students’ experience, students who do
well in these courses are more likely to graduate on
time in this program.
15 to FINISH
Take 15 credit hours a semester to nish
your degree in two years.
Contact Information
For full catalog:
catalog.southwest.tn.edu
Phone:
Email:
ACADEMIC MAP
To stay on track, these courses
must be taken in order.
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2018-2019
HLTH1050 Personal Health
HLTH2210 Health, First Aid, and Safety
PSYC2120 Social Psychology
SSCI2990 Special Topics in Soci
al Sciences
BIOL1010 Introduction to Biology I
BIOL1020 Diversity of Life
BIOL2020 Human Anatomy and Physiology II
Preferred for Healthcare Professi
onals:
PSYC2130 Life Span Psychology
BIOL1230 Microbiology
BIOL2010 Human Anatomy and Physiology I
This program is not designed to transfer.
Allied Health
AAS
3
3
3
3
3
15
16-31
3
3
3
3
3
15
0-30
60
This degree is for students who are
enrolled in or already have a Technical
Certi
cate in an Allied Health Area
AND want to continue their education
to receive an Associate of Applied
Sciences Degree.
ENGL1010 and ENGL 0810
ACAD 1010 and READ 0810
MATH 0530 and MATH 1530
901-333-5407
alliedhealth@southwest.tn.edu
ENGL1010 English Comp I
MATH1530 Intro Statistics
AHS2000 Mgmt & Leadership for Allied Health Sci
AHS1020 Medical Terminology
PHIL1040 Intro to Ethics
Online only
Online only
PSYC1030 Intro Psychology
AHS2990 Special Topics in Health Careers
HPER1570 Wellness Perspectives
SOCI1040 Social Problems
COMM2025 Fund of Speech Comm
Online only
