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Economics Transfer Major, AA

2024-2025

CIP 450601 (DECO)

The purpose of a statewide articulation agreement is to identify the courses a student at a Colorado public community college must complete as part of an AA/AS degree to be guaranteed to be able to complete the designated baccalaureate degree program at public four-year colleges and universities as designated by the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) transfer agreement.

For more information about this transfer degree please refer to the Colorado Department of Higher Education website.

Program Requirements

General Education Requirements (31 credit hours)
Written Communication (6 credit hours)
  • A GT Pathways-approved CO1 course (GT-CO1) and a GT Pathways-approved CO2 course (GT-CO2)
    OR
  • A GT Pathways-approved CO2 course (GT-CO2) and a GT Pathways-approved CO3 course (GT-CO3)
Mathematics (3 credit hours)
Arts and Humanities (6 credit hours)
History (3 credit hours)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (6 credit hours)
  • Two GT Pathways Social & Behavioral Sciences courses (GT-SS1, GT-SS2, GT-SS3)
Natural and Physical Sciences (7 credit hours)
  • GT - Two Guaranteed Transfer Natural and Physical Sciences courses (GT-SC1, GT-SC2), one must be with laboratory (GT-SC1).
Additional Required Courses (11 credit hours)
Electives (18 credit hours)

Elective credit must be completed from the following lists of approved prefixes or courses to bring the total credit hours to 60.

Guaranteed Transfer
Any course in the following prefixes
  • Any course in the following prefixes except Special Topics, Independent Study, Capstone, and Internships: ANT, ART, BIO (1000 OR above), CHE, ECO, HIS, HUM, LIT, MUS, PED, PHI, PHY (1105 OR above), POS, PSY, SOC.
Note(s):

Any additional courses taken in the discipline covered by this agreement might not count toward the requirements of the major at the receiving institution.

Students may need to take additional preparatory math courses for placement into Calculus I (e.g., trigonometry, college algebra, precalculus); these additional courses may apply toward electives.

Students intending to transfer to Adams State University, Metropolitan State University of Denver, or the University of Northern Colorado may take College Algebra or Finite Mathematics instead of Calculus I.

Total: 60 credit hours

All courses required for this degree must be completed with a "C" or better to be considered for transfer to another Colorado institution. Transferability of courses to colleges or universities outside of Colorado is determined by the receiving institution.

Graduation Requirements