Associate Degrees

There are two options available for students to earn an Associate Degree.

Plan A requires completion of 30 units of General Education and a minimum of 18 units in any Plan A major. .

Plan B requires completion of 18 units of General Education and a minimum of 36 units in any Plan B major.

Upon completion of 60 degree applicable units and a grade point average of 2.0 or higher, students are eligible to petition for a degree which reads “Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts.”

The name of the major is not included in the degree.

In order for the student’s degree to include the name of the major, all Required Courses of the major must be completed, unless otherwise noted. For example, if a student completes all Required Courses in Child Development, the degree will read “Associate in Arts, Child Development.” If a student completes all Required Courses in Nursing, the degree will read “Associate in Science, Registered Nursing.”

Before beginning any of the following programs, please see a Counselor.

Associate Degree majors offered at Los Angeles Southwest College are:

• Administration of Justice
• Anthropology
• Art
• Art History
• Biology
• Business Administration

• Child Development
• Computer Science

• Drafting
• Electronics/Technology
• English
• Geography
• Geology
• History
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• Journalism
• Law/Paralegal
• Liberal Arts
• Liberal Studies
• Mathematics
• Mathematics: Computer Science
• Music
• Nursing-Registered
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Speech Communications
• Theatre Arts