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Overview

The USC Fort Jackson Program is designed for and awards Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees to active-duty military personnel (all branches), their family members, Department of Defense civilian employees, National Guard members, reservists, and veterans. Civilians, including Columbia-campus students, are welcome to take courses on a space-available basis, but they may not earn these associate degrees.  For further information, call 803-782-8810.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to generate and comprehend written communication through writing coherent expository, persuasive, critical and analytic essays, and through reading and analyzing literature.
• Students will demonstrate organizational and research skills which will allow them to locate, analyze, and synthesize information.
• Students will be able to demonstrate the methods of preparation, practice, and good delivery of a speech.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between a dynamic delivery and effective oral communication.
• Students will be able to solve problems involving derivatives and integrals of elementary algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions.
• Students will be able to find maxima, minima, rates of change, and area under a curve.
• Students will learn how to organize and graph statistical data.
• Students will learn how to use a computer to solve problems, and will learn basic computer programming.
• Students will define, understand, and use scientific, biological, and/or medical terminology.
• Students will demonstrate skills for word processing, data management and graphing, and statistical processing and analysis.
• Students will be able to describe life processes that power, support, and move parts of the human body.
• Students will gain an understanding of the basic concepts of biology OR geology OR geography.
• Students will be able to synthesize a wide variety of sources and construct an historical narrative that demonstrates an understanding of change over time (historical development).
• Students will be able to identify ideas, institutions, and philosophies in a cultural context (either past or present) that differs from their own.
• Students will differentiate among different human cultures, defining the structures that make each culture unique.
• Students will learn to recognize outstanding forms of human expression as seen in the arts, music, literature, theatre, and/or film.
• Students can articulate and defend an ethical position based on an understanding of philosophical ethical principles.

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