The following table includes online courses which may be used to meet the Associate in Arts (AA) Degree requirements at North Iowa Area Community College.
Important: In order to earn an Associate Degree from NIACC, you will need a total of 60 semester hours of credit, half (30) of which must be credit offered by NIACC.
Online Course Descriptions and Registration Information
AA Degree Requirement |
Semester
Hours |
| Communications | 8 s.h. |
| Composition I (Communication Skills I) | 3 s.h. |
| Composition II (Communication Skills II) | 3 s.h. |
| Public Speaking | 2 s.h. |
| Humanities | 8 s.h. |
| U.S. (American) History to 1877 | 3 s.h |
| U.S. (American) History since 1877 | 3 s.h |
| Art History I | 3 s.h. |
| Art History II | 3 s.h. |
| Poetry and Drama | 3 s.h. |
| Short Story and Novel | 3 s.h |
| Natural Sciences | 8 s.h. |
| Calculus | 3 s.h. |
| Health and Nutrition | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to Chemistry | 4 s.h. |
| Introductory Biology (Biological Principles) | 3 s.h. |
| Math for Liberal Arts (Math for Decision Making) | 3 s.h. |
| Nutrition | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to Statistics | 3 s.h. |
| Social Sciences | 8 s.h. |
| American National Government (Intro to American Government) | 3 s.h. |
| International Relations | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to Psychology (General Psychology) | 3 s.h. |
| Developmental Psychology (Human Growth and Development) | 3 s.h. |
| Macroeconomics | 3 s.h. |
| Microeconomics | 3 s.h. |
| Marriage and Family | 3 s.h. |
| Personal Finance | 3 s.h. |
| Distributed
Requirement
Choose from courses above (under Communications, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences) |
8 s.h. |
| Electives | 20 s.h. |
| Principles of Accounting I | 3 s.h. |
| Principles of Accounting II | 3 s.h. |
| Beginning Web Page Development | 3 s.h. |
| Building Codes and Standards | 2 s.h. |
| Business Communications | 3 s.h. |
| Business Law I | 3 s.h. |
| Business Law II | 3 s.h. |
| Career Decision Making | 2 s.h. |
| Child Growth and Development | 3 s.h. |
| Child Health, Safety and Nutrition | 3 s.h. |
| Computer Business Applications | 3 s.h. |
| Computer Literacy | 1 s.h. |
| Creativity, Innovation and Opportunity Analysis | 2 s.h. |
| Criminal Justice, Intro to | 3 s.h. |
| Criminal Law | 3 s.h. |
| Cultural Anthropology | 3 s.h. |
| Intro to Early Childhood Education | 3 s.h. |
| Early Childhood Guidance | 3 s.h. |
| Employment Strategies | 1 s.h. |
| Electronic Portfolio | 3 s.h. |
| Evidence | 3 s.h. |
| General Insurance | 3 s.h. |
| Home and School Relationships in Early Childhood | 3 s.h. |
| Human Relations | 3 s.h. |
| Information Data Assurance | 3 s.h. |
| Insurance, Property and Casualty | 3 s.h. |
| Insurance; Life, Health and Disability | 3 s.h. |
| Internet Law | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to Computers and Information Systems | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to E-Commerce | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to Entrepreneurship | 3 s.h. |
| Intro to Keyboarding (Keyboarding Level I) | 1 s.h. |
| Java | 4 s.h. |
| Keyboarding Skill Development (Keyboarding Level II) | 1 s.h. |
| Laboratory Tests | 1 s.h. |
| Management Information Systems | 3 s.h. |
| Marketing, Principles of | 3 s.h. |
| Media Experience | 3 s.h. |
| Medical Terminology I | 3 s.h. |
| Medical Terminology II | 3 s.h. |
| Microsoft Access | 1 s.h. |
| Microsoft Outlook | 1 s.h. |
| Networks, Building Multi Layer Switched | 4 s.h. |
| Networks, Building Scalable | 4 s.h. |
| Networks, Implementing Secure Wide Area | 4 s.h. |
| Networks, Optimizing Converged | 4 s.h. |
| Personal Information Management | 2 s.h |
| Basic Presentation Software (Microsoft PowerPoint) | 1 s.h. |
| Basic Pharmacology | 2 s.h. |
| Programming, Intro to | 4 s.h. |
| PTA Terminology (Physical Therapy Assistant) | 1 s.h. |
| Principles of Banking | 3 s.h. |
| Project Management, Fundamentals | 4 s.h. |
| Project Management, Software | 2 s.h. |
| Principles of Selling | 3 s.h. |
| Successful Entrepreneur, The | 2 s.h. |
| Supervision, Principles of | 3 s.h. |
| Visual Communication | 3 s.h. |
| Web Animation | 3 s.h. |
| Web Design | 3 s.h. |
| Web Development I | 3 s.h. |
| Basic Word Processing | 2 s.h. |
| Ed2Go classes (Up to 3 semesters hour of Ed2Go online courses can be applied toward a degree. Each course is 1 s.h.) | 3 s.h. |
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