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Following are revisions made to this catalog in an effort to keep students fully informed and are listed by date:
April 8, 2025:
- Medical Office Management: Medical Insurance Coding Specialist, CERT, Second Semester section: added HITT 2245 - Coding Certification Exam Review, as had been inadvertently left out, which increased semester credit hours from six to eight and total semester credit hours from 19 to 21
April 9, 2025:
- All Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Cabinet-approved Non-mandatory Course Fee Changes have been updated as of today
April 11, 2025:
- Live and Recorded Sound, AAS, Major Courses section and Recommended Course Sequence section, Fourth Semester subsection: added MUSC 2386 - Internship - Recording Arts Technology/Technician as OR option to: MUSC 1396 - Special Topics in Recording Arts Technology/Technician (Capstone), as appears to have been inadvertently left out
April 15, 2025:
- BMGT 2341 - Strategic Management: removed BMGT 2310 - Financial Management from prerequisite, as BMGT 2310 was deleted
April 21, 2025:
- BMGT 2341 - Strategic Management: removed BUSG 2309 - Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship from prerequisite
April 24, 2025:
- Added newly created course (MATH 2420 - Differential Equations) to Mathematics discipline/MATH prefix, and added it as OR option to MATH 2320 - Differential Equations in following awards:
- Foundations in Engineering: Chemical Engineering Emphasis, AS
- Foundations in Engineering: Civil Engineering Emphasis, AS
- Foundations in Engineering: Computer Engineering Emphasis, AS
- Foundations in Engineering: Electrical Engineering Emphasis, AS
- Foundations in Engineering: General Engineering Emphasis, AS
- Foundations in Engineering: Mechanical Engineering Emphasis, AS
- Mathematics, AS
- Physics, AS
- Following two award displays were added for Texas A&M University Engineering Academy at Tyler Junior College, so students will have Recommended Course Sequences to follow:
- Engineering, AS for Texas A&M University Engineering Academy (Calculus I Track)
- Engineering, AS for Texas A&M University Engineering Academy (Precalculus Track)
April 28, 2025:
- CRIJ 2314 - Criminal Investigation: removed “s” at end of course title per Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boards’ (THECB’s) Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM)
May 5, 2025:
- Modifications made to following Kinesiology (KINE) courses and components:
- KINE 1109 - Weight Training I: Number (formerly 2109)
- KINE 1127 - Weight Training II: Number (formerly 2127), Description, Prerequisite
- KINE 2135 - Weight Training III: Prerequisite
May 6, 2025:
- Added following new course: GEOL 1447 - Meteorology
May 9, 2025:
- MUSC 1120 - Live Sound Workshop: corrected Lecture-Lab Hours from 1-2 to 0-3
May 15, 2025:
- Recommended Course Sequence section, Total Semester Hours subsection of below majors: modified notes about courses marked with an asterisk to clarify General Education requirements:
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Business Management, AAS
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Diagnostic Echocardiography, AAS
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Diagnostic Medical Sonography, AAS
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Game and Simulation Development, AAS
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Medical Office Management, AAS
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Real Estate, AAS
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Surveying and Geomatics, AAS
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Visual Communications, AAS
May 23, 2025:
- DNTA 1251 - Dental Office Management: corequisite corrected from “DNTA 2130 and DNTA 2166” to “DNTA 2266”
May 27, 2025:
- Dental Studies: Dental Hygiene, AAS: Recommended Course Sequence section, Third Semester and Total Semester Hours subsections: modified note about ARTS 1301 - Art Appreciation to clarify General Education requirements
June 13, 2025:
- Following awards in Emergency Medical Service Professions program were reassigned from School of Nursing and Health Sciences to School of Professional and Technical Programs as of June 1, 2025:
- Emergency Medical Service Professions, AAS
- Emergency Medical Service Professions: Advanced Emergency Medical Technician, CERT
- Emergency Medical Service Professions: Emergency Medical Technology, OSA
- Emergency Medical Service Professions: Paramedic Option, CERT
June 16, 2025:
- Criminal Justice: Basic Crime Scene Investigation, CERT: newly created, so added to Catalog
- Live and Recorded Sound, AAS, Recommend Course Sequence section:
- Following changes made, so curricula align with newly created Live and Recorded Sound: Recording Arts, CERT:
- DRAM 2335 - Theater Design moved from First Semester to Third
- MUSC 1335 - Commercial Music Software moved to from Third Semester to First
- Live and Recorded Sound: Recording Arts, CERT: newly created, so added to Catalog
June 17, 2025:
- Texas Success Initiative (TSI) tags were removed from below three course descriptions in fall 2023, but were left in Catalog, so have been removed now:
- SGNL 1301 - Beginning American Sign Language I
- SGNL 1302 - Beginning American Sign Language II
- SGNL 2301 - Intermediate American Sign Language I
July 15, 2025:
- Physical Therapist Technician/Assistant (PTHA) courses: HITT 1305 - Medical Terminology added as prerequisite to following:
- PTHA 1225 - Communication in Health Care
- PTHA 1405 - Basic Patient Care Skills
- PTHA 1413 - Functional Anatomy
July 18, 2025:
- EMGT 4303 - Emerging Issues in Emergency Management, course description: removed reference to this course being capstone for program, as EMGT 4405 - Capstone - Emergency Management was created for this purpose
- RELE 2378 - Real Estate Capstone, course description: removed reference to RELE 2388 - Internship - Real Estate course, which was removed from curriculum in spring 2022
July 31, 2025:
- Visual Communications program changed name to Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media program affecting award names below:
- Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media, AAS
- Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media: Graphic Design, CERT
- Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media: Graphic Design, OSA
- Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media: Photography, CERT
August 1, 2025:
- Added following new Occupational Skills Award (OSA): Nursing, Vocational: Certified Nurse Aide, OSA
August 5, 2025:
- How to Get Started section, Residency Classification subsection: removed paragraph regarding SB 1528 (Non-Residents), as this law has been struck down pending further litigation.
August 13, 2025:
- Removed term-specific offering tags from following courses in below awards:
- CETT 1321, 1325
- ELPT 1325, 1345, 2305, 2319, 2347
- ENER 2325
- HART 1401, 1403, 1407, 1441, 1445, 2336, 2349, 2357, 2438, 2442, 2445
- IEIR 1302, 2388
- INCR 1302
- INTC 1341
- Recommend Course Sequence section, Total Semester Hours subsection: revised notes about term-specific offering tags on above courses in following awards:
- Electrical/Electronic Controls Technology, AAS
- Electrical/Electronic Controls Technology: Electronic Fundamentals, CERT
- Electrical/Electronic Controls Technology: Instrumentation, Electrical and Controls Fundamentals, CERT
- Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology, AAS
- Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology: Advanced Level, CERT
- Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology: Ammonia Technology, AAS
- Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology: General Track, Entry Level CERT
August 18, 2025:
- Added following new Occupational Skills Awards (OSAs):
- Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media: Digital Media and Communications, OSA
- Computer and Networking Information Technology: Cloud Computing, OSA
- Computer and Networking Information Technology: Cybersecurity, OSA
- Computer and Networking Information Technology: IT Management, OSA
- Computer and Networking Information Technology: IT Server, OSA
- Medical Laboratory Technology: Specimen Processing, OSA
- Nursing, Registered: Certified Nurse Aide, OSA
- Real Estate, OSA
- Surgical Technology: Fundamentals of Sterile Procedures, OSA
- Added note regarding coming spring 2026 prerequisite change to following awards:
- Dental Studies: Certified Dental Assisting, AAS, Course Sequence section, Prerequisites subsection
- Dental Studies: Certified Dental Assisting, CERT, Prerequisites section
- Sign Language Interpreting, AAS: changed from “TSI Complete” to “TSI Reading & Writing Complete” starting in academic year 2023-24, so was corrected here
August 25, 2025:
- Mathematics, AS, Major Courses section: slightly restructured section to:
- better align with Recommended Course Sequence section, Second through Fourth Semester subsections
- ensure it’s clearly communicated that required major courses are Calculus I - III (MATH 2413/2414/2415), and one of either Linear Algebra (MATH 2318) or Differential Equations (MATH 2320 or 2420)
October 6, 2025:
- How to Get Started page, Selective Admissions section: added following awards to Selective Admissions list:
- Culinary Arts: Occupational Life Skills - Basic Food Handler, CERT
- Culinary Arts: Occupational Life Skills - Intermediate Food Handler, CERT
- Ophthalmic Medical Assisting, AAS
- Also added verbiage regarding above awards being on Selective Admissions list to introductory sections of their display pages
October 28, 2025:
- Applied Graphic Design and Digital Media, AAS, Major Courses section: removed ARTC 1305 - Basic Graphic Design and replaced with ARTV 1351 - Digital Video, as this had already been done in Recommended Course Sequence section, First Semester subsection
- Added following two courses for potential spring 2026 offering:
- ESOL 0301 - Oral Communication for Emergent Bilingual Students
- ESOL 0302 - Reading and Vocabulary for Emergent Bilingual Students
November 6 ,2025:
- Removed verbiage regarding Field of Studies Curriculum (FOSC) from following associate degrees, as their FOSCs were not revised/renewed in summer 2024 and their phase/teach out periods ended effective August 31, 2025:
- Computer Science, AS, introductory text and Recommended Course Sequence (Total Semester Hours subsection) sections
- Economics, AA, introductory text section
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