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THE BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE

The BAS degree is a minimum 124-semester hour program. A minimum of 36 semester hours must be in upper-level (junior/senior level) credit.

Credit from CCAF is typically applied to the Wayland degree in the following manner:

CCAF

  • Technical Education - 24 hrs
  • Physical Education - 4 hrs
  • Leadership, Mgmt, & Military studies - 6 hrs
  • Oral Communication - 3 hrs
  • Written Communication - 3 hrs
  • Mathematics - 3 hrs
  • Program Electives - 15 hrs

WBU

  • Specialization Electives - 18 hrs and Professional Development - 6 hrs
  • EXSS - 3 hrs and Electives - 1 hr
  • Professional Development - 6 hrs
  • General Education Speech - 3 hrs
  • General Education English 1301 - 3 hrs
  • General Education Math/Science/Foreign Language - 3 hrs
  • Professional Development - 6 hrs and Electives - 9 hrs

Depending on the elective credits transferred in from your CCAF degree, you will have no more than 48-55 semester hours remaining to complete the BAS degree.

The following additional courses are required for graduation:

General Education Core Course Requirements

  • ENGL 1302 Composition and Reading - 3 hrs
  • HIST 1303 & 1304 World Civilization or HIST 2301 & 2302 U.S. History - 6 hrs
  • MATH 1304 College Algebra - 3 hrs
  • **RLGN 1301 Old Testament History and **RLGN 1302 New Testament History - 6 hrs
  • Science - 3 hrs
  • POLS 2301 Political Science - 3 hrs
  • ***Math/Science/Foreign Language (any combination) - 3 hrs
  • *COSC 2311 Computer Applications - 3 hrs
  • Orientation 0001 - 0 hrs
  • Exit Seminar 4101 - 1 hr
  • TOTAL - 31 hrs

@Must be taken within first year of enrollment.
*Students may opt to test out of COSC 2311, see course description.
**Wayland Baptist University will not accept RLGN 1301, Old Testament History, or RLGN 1302, New Testament History, or their equivalents, from any institution except other Baptist universities.
In no case will either of these two courses be accepted if they were taken by correspondence or on the Internet. The School of Religion & Philosophy must approve any exception to this policy.

Major Course Requirements

  • RSWR 3345 Research Writing Methods - 3 hrs
  • ENGL 4314 Contemporary Usage or MGMT 3310 Managerial Communications - 3 hrs
  • CTED 3321 Principles of Supervision for Education and Training or EDUC 4313 Classroom Management or MGMT 3304 Principles of Management - 3 hrs
  • EDIT 4310 Technology Tools for Instruction or MISM 3314 Advanced Computer Applications - 3 hrs
  • BUAD 4334 Business Ethics or EDUC 3313 Educating Students from Diverse Backgrounds or PHIL 4319 Ethics or PHIL/RLGN 4323 Basic Christian Ethics - 3 hrs
  • Upper Level Academic Occupational Elective - 3 hrs
  • TOTAL - 18 hrs

Experiential Professional Development

  • 12 semester hours of credit will be earned through submission of 48 months or more of Enlisted Performance Reports (EPR). Experiential learning must be evaluated and approved by the university to ensure its relevance to the degree.
  • TOTAL - 12 hrs

Professional Development Course Requirements

  • Upper Level Academic Elective - 3 hrs
  • Upper Level Elective - 3 hrs
  • TOTAL - 6 hrs

Click here for a sample degree plan.

For more information contact the AU-ABC representative at the WBU Campus nearest you.