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2026 - 2027 Catalog Year
Associate of Science (Full-time)

Degree: Associate of Science
Division: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.

Fall Semester (First Year)
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Notes: CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: A university-parallel course in chemistry for the science major. The first half of a comprehensive first-year survey of chemistry. Topics include the basics of matter, atoms and molecules, chemical reactions, bonding, molecular geometry and gases. Students registering for this course should have previously taken high school chemistry or equivalent. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.

Notes: CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: MAT 0300 or MAT 1450 or MAT 1470 or MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 or MAT 2270 or MAT 2280 or MAT 2290

Corequisites: CHE 1251

Corequisites: CHE 1211

Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the prerequisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the corequisite course ENG 0101, English Composition I Booster.

Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)

Description: This course is designed to help new students make a successful transition to Sinclair Community College. Topics include college resources; academic, career and personal services available through Sinclair; learning styles; the learning process; financial responsibility; stress and wellness; and computer literacy through eLearn and library resources.

Notes: Speak with advisor

 

Term hours subtotal:

14

Spring Semester (First Year)
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Description: The second course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Techniques of integration, applications of integration, numerical integration, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, power series, parametric equations, polar coordinates, conic sections.

Notes: CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: MAT 2270 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: The second half of a university-parallel course in chemistry for the science or engineering major. Topics include liquids and solids, solutions, chemical reaction kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acid/base chemistry, electrochemistry, representative metals, metalloids and non-metals and organic chemistry. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.

Notes: CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: CHE 1211

Corequisites: CHE 1261

Corequisites: CHE 1221

Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.

Notes: or COM 2206, COM 2225

Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.

Notes: Arts & Humanities Elective - Choose any OT36 History (HIS) course. View all options here: https://www.sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/

 

Term hours subtotal:

16

Summer Semester (First Year)
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Description: Historical inquiry into the major concepts and attitudes of moral and ethical theory in Western society, emphasizing the role of human responsibility and the conditions for making ethical judgments.

Notes: Arts & Humanities Elective - Choose any OT36 Course (must be from 2 different subjects). View all options here: https://www.sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/

Description: American political system at the national level, including process of government; democratic theory and development of the U. S. Constitution; citizen participation through voting; interest groups and political parties; structure, functions and powers of legislative, executive, and judicial branches; and issues of civil liberties and equal rights. This course has no textbook costs.

Notes: Choose any OT36 Social & Behavioral Science Elective (must be from 2 different subjects). View all course options here: https://www.sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/

 

Term hours subtotal:

6

Fall Semester (Second Year)
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Description: Vectors in the plane and space, dot and cross product of two vectors. Lines, planes and surfaces in space, vector-valued functions, arc length and curvature. Functions of several variables, partial derivatives with applications, multiple integrals with applications, line integrals, surface integrals, vector fields, Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem.

Notes: or MAT 2600 SPRING ONLY. CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: MAT 2280 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: The study of alkanes, stereochemistry, alkyl halides, organometallic compounds, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic hydrocarbons and spectroscopic methods of organic analysis. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Notes: CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: CHE 1221

Corequisites: CHE 2151

Description: Lab for CHE 2111.

Corequisites: CHE 2111

Description: Fundamentals of mechanics including kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, oscillations, gravity, fluids, waves and sound, thermodynamics and kinetic theory, using calculus as appropriate. Four classroom, three lab hours per week. This course has no textbook costs.

Notes: or PHY 1141. CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: MAT 2270

Corequisites: PHY 2207

Description: Lab for General Physics I. This course has no textbook costs.

Corequisites: PHY 2201

 

Term hours subtotal:

15

Spring Semester (Second Year)
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Description: The study of alcohols, ethers, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, derivatives of carboxylic acids, enolates, carbanions, amines, polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic compounds, pericyclic reactions, and polymers. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Notes: CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: CHE 2111

Corequisites: CHE 2161

Description: Lab for CHE 2121.

Corequisites: CHE 2121

Description: Electrostatics, DC conduction and circuits, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, and geometric and physical optics. Calculus used extensively. Four classroom, three lab hours per week. This course has no textbook costs.

Notes: or PHY 1142. CHEMISTRY PATHWAY

Prerequisites: PHY 2201 and MAT 2280

Corequisites: PHY 2208

Description: Lab for General Physics II. This course has no textbook costs.

Corequisites: PHY 2202

Description: University-parallel course covering topics such as history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies. This course has no textbook costs.

Notes: Choose any OT36 Social & Behavioral Science Elective (must be from 2 different subjects). View all course options here: https://www.sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

This information is for planning purposes only. Sinclair College will make every effort to offer curriculum listed above but reserves the right to change, add and cancel curriculum offerings for unforeseen circumstances. View current catalog.