PURPOSE

East College was created by the Arizona Board of Regents in February 1997, to serve four purposes:

1. to offer an array of upper-division General Studies and general interest courses for students enrolled in agribusiness and technology programs;
2. to coordinate the New Partnership in Baccalaureate Education with Chandler-Gilbert Community College to provide lower-division General Studies and major prerequisite courses for ASU East students;
3. to offer an academic home for students who choose the unique social and academic environment of ASU East but do not wish to declare a major immediately; and
4. to be the home for all new degree programs developed at ASU East outside of agribusiness and technology. The first new programs should be available in the fall of 1998.

Through the New Partnership in Baccalaureate Education, ASU East students take First-Year Composition courses and lower-division courses that meet ASU General Studies requirements in mathematics, science, social and behavioral sciences, arts and humanities, and literacy, along with the awareness areas: historical awareness, global awareness, and cultural diversity. These courses are available in an innovative integrated first-year curriculum designed to foster student academic success. Students can take major prerequisite courses, introductory foreign language courses, and other lower-division courses of general interest through the partnership. East College also offers popular upper-division courses in anthropology, art, communication, economics, English, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and women’s studies.

1998–99 General Catalog Table of Contents

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