Students with the AAOT from an Oregon community college are considered to have met all lower-division general ed requirements at any OUS institution. Our proposed requirement is two terms of sequential coursework in each school area. This is because a major stumbling block with students' use of the current Transfer Option is the requirement of year-long sequences in a single discipline. Two terms of sequential coursework is more consistent with what we will require for students who complete our general ed curriculum. It provides additional flexibility to permit students to more fully use the transfer credits they bring, and provides adequate background for success in our proposed upper- division general ed courses.
Many transfer students enter with the math requirement already completed.
We propose that those who don't should take either a stand-alone quantitative reasoning course or complete one of our eligible sequences. This makes the requirement for transfers consistent with what we propose for our own students. Because the AAOT is so demanding, students completing it have little room to complete coursework which would be pre-requisite to their major here. By reducing the total required credits we provide valuable flexibility to students. Here's a comparison of our current the transfer option and the Core Committee's proposed alternative.