The School of Arts and Sciences seeks to provide high quality academic programs that serve the educational needs and offer lifelong learning opportunities primarily for those in the regions served by UH-Victoria and its off-campus sites.  Research and service are also important parts of this school’s commitment to providing quality and excellence in education.

The School of Arts and Sciences strives to meet these commitments and continuously improve its offerings by:

• Hiring and retaining highly qualified faculty who stay abreast in their field through research and professional development.
• Providing students with access to faculty advisors who help them design programs of study to meet their individual needs and goals.
• Emphasizing the ethical values, conceptual knowledge, global and multicultural understanding, analytical skills, technical skills, and communication skills needed in the specific fields of study.
• Assessing and revising programs and course offerings to ensure quality and to keep current with and anticipate changes in workforce, educational, and social needs.
• Offering students hands-on learning opportunities such as internships, practica, laboratories, and class project collaborations with local organizations.
• Ensuring that educational opportunities in the community are available and accessible through a variety of efforts including distance learning, off-campus sites, and weekend course offerings.
• Participating in service and outreach activities that contribute to the educational enhancement of the students, school, university, system, the professions, and community served by UH-Victoria.

2.        General Requirements: 

• Lower Division - 24-45 vocational/technical courses; 3 semester hours of speech and satisfy computer literacy/proficiency requirement.

• Upper Division - 16 semester hours; ENG 3430 Professional  Writing; COM 3313 Public Relations Communication; COM 4314 Intercultural Communication; HUM 4322 Ethics; MGT 3311 Principles of Management.

3.        Concentration/Specialization – 17-21 semester hours chosen from one of the following alternatives:  

a.        General Business: 21 semester hours of business courses from at least 3 of the following areas: Accounting (ACC), Finance (FIN), International Business (IBS), Management (MGT), Marketing (MKT).  No more than 9 hours may be taken in any one area.  All 21 semester hours must be designated as upper division courses.  At least 50 percent of the upper division credits must be taken from the University of Houston-Victoria.

b.       Psychology: PSY 4311 Abnormal Psychology; PSY 4320 Principles of Learning; PSY 4314 History and Systems; and 9 semester hours of upper division courses by advisement.

c.        Communication: COM 3316 Organizational Communication, and 15 semester hours of upper division communication courses by advisement.

d.       Computer Information Systems: 21 semester hours of upper division computer science courses by advisement.

e.        Legal Assistance and Administration: CJS 3316 Ethics of Social Control, or MGT 3312 Legal Environment of Business, and 15 semester hours from one of the following groups of courses.  Students must take at least 3 semester hours from each group.

·         Group 1- Management Courses - MGT 4311 Human Resources Management; MGT 4312 Staffing; MGT 4313 Compensation; MGT 4315 Contemporary Issues in Management; MGT 4300 Selected Topics in Management (by advisement).

·         Group 2 - Criminal Justice - CJS 3321 American Court Systems; CJS 4310 Computers in Criminal Justice; CJS 4312 Alternatives to Incarceration; CJS 4313 Juvenile Justice System; CJS 4318 Victimology; CJS 4321 Policing in a Democratic Society.

f.         Biology:  17 semester hours of upper division biology courses by advisement, with at least 2 semester hours of laboratory coursework.  Biology concentrators should take General Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology or General Chemistry as their lower division natural science courses in the core curriculum.

g.     Marketing:  MKT 3311 Principles of Marketing, MKT 4340 Marketing Management; MKT 4311 Buyer Behavior, MKT 4313 Marketing Research, and 6 semester hours of upper division marketing courses by advisement.

 

1.        Satisfy all university requirements for a bachelor’s degree as found in the “UNIVERSITY DEGREE REQUIREMENTS” section of this catalog.

2.        Satisfy Core Curriculum Requirements for students entering college in Fall 1999 or after.

3.        Satisfy the requirements for either the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science, as follows:

a.          Bachelor of Arts

(1)     Lower or Upper Division:  Foreign Language/ Linguistics: 6 semester hours at the sophomore level in one foreign language or 3 semester hours at the sophomore level and 3 semester hours in linguistics.  Students submitting an acceptable score on a standard foreign language proficiency test approved by the School of Arts and Sciences may substitute 6 semester hours of electives.

b.          Bachelor of Science

(1)    Lower Division:  Natural Sciences:  11 semester hours in natural sciences, at least 8 semester hours of which must be in  laboratory courses.  Natural sciences include biology, biophysical sciences, chemistry, geology, and physics.

4.        Satisfy course requirements for the major:   At least 24 semester hours in one major of which at least 18 semester hours must be advanced.

1.        Satisfy Core Curriculum Requirements for students entering college in Fall 1999 or after.  See “General Requirements for a Bachelor’s Degree.”

2.        Satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Science.

3.        General requirements:

·         Lower Division - 3 semester hours of speech and satisfy computer literacy/proficiency requirement; BIOL 1406 and BIOL 1407 General Biology for Science Majors; BIOL 2420 Elementary Microbiology; CHEM 1407 Introductory Biochemistry; CHEM 1411 and CHEM 1412 General Inorganic Chemistry; PHYS 1401 General Physics; and MATH 1348 Analytic Geometry.

·         Upper Division - ENG 3430 Professional Writing; MAS 3391 Probability and Statistics.

4.        Concentration -

·         Lower Division - CHEM 2323 Organic Chemistry I

·         Lower Division or Upper Division - CHEM 2325 Organic Chemistry II, or BIO 4310 Biochemistry and BIO 4210 Laboratory for Biochemistry.

·      Upper Division - BIO 3320 Genetics;  BIO 4320 Embryology, or BIO 3330 Histology and BIO 3230 Laboratory for Histology; BIO 4333 General Physiology, or BIO 3323 Comparative Anatomy; BIO 3326 Plant Biology and BIO 3226 Lab for Plant Biology, or BIO 4390 Phytochemicals and Human Health; BIO 3337 Cell & Molecular Biology and BIO 3237 Lab for Cell & Molecular Genetics, or BIO 4335 Ecology and BIO 4235 Lab for Ecology;

·         BIO 3340 Animal Behavior, or BIO 3342 Social Biology; BIO 4140 Biology Seminar or BIO 4130 Independent Research in Biology.

5.       Students must take a minimum of 4 semester hours of upper division laboratory:  2 s.h. must be BIO 3237 or BIO 4210.

6.        Free electives - Enough electives to fulfill the 122 semester hour requirement and the 54 semester hours of upper division courses.

These requirements are summarized in the following table:

Premedical and Predental Program

The Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and courses taught at the University of Houston-Victoria fulfill the admissions requirements for most medical and dental schools in the United States and its protectorates.

Premedical and predental students are advised that most medical schools require the following courses; however, students are responsible for determining the specific requirements of those medical schools selected for application. A majority of this course work needs to be completed at the lower division.

Most professional colleges require the completion of a bachelor’s degree and a high GPA to obtain admission. Some schools will admit exceptionally well-qualified students with high grades and MCAT/DAT scores before they complete a bachelor’s degree.

Letters of recommendation from the Pre-Professional (Premedical, Predental) Advisor can be provided only for students who have fulfilled these requirements and completed at least 3 upper division courses at UHV including the core courses for a BS in Biology.  The recommendation will require above average grades and close interaction with the Pre-Professional (Premedical, Predental) Advisor.

1.        Satisfy Core Curriculum Requirements for students entering college in Fall 1999 or after.  See “General Requirements for a Bachelor’s Degree.”

2.        Satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science degree.

3.        General requirements:

·         Lower Division or Upper Division - 3 semester hours of speech and satisfy computer literacy/proficiency requirement.

·         Upper Division – ENG 3430 Professional Writing; PSY 4318 Research Methods for the Social Sciences or MKT 4311 Buyer Behavior; PSY 3315 Statistics for the Social Sciences; ENG 3312 Grammar and Rhetoric; 9 semester hours of HUM, HIS, or  ENG courses.

4.        Concentration/Specialization: 24 semester hours, including COM 4314 Intercultural Communication; COM 3316 Organizational Communication; and 18 semester hours, which can include up to 3 semester hours of lower division communication or speech classes.

5.        Free electives - Enough electives to fulfill the 122 semester hour requirement and the 54 semester hours of upper division courses.

(a) Computer Science, (b) Information Systems.

1.        Satisfy Core Curriculum Requirements for students entering college in Fall 1999 or after.  See
        “General Requirements for a Bachelor’s Degree.”

2.        Satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Science.

3.        General Requirements:

        ·         Lower Division - 3 semester hours of speech and satisfy computer literacy/proficiency
                requirement; natural science with lab. 

        ·         Upper Division – ENG 3430 Professional Writing;  ISC 3317 Object Oriented Programming
                and Design;  ISC 3331 Data Structures and Algorithms I;  ISC 3333 Data Structures and
                Algorithms II;  ISC 4320 Software Engineering; ISC 4336 Database Systems; ISC 4337
                Operating Systems; ISC 4350 Information Security, Privacy and Ethics; MAS 3362 Discrete
                Structures; MAS 3391 Probability and Statistics.

4.        Concentration

        a.          Computer Science

·            General requirements:  Lower Division -- 6 semester hours of calculus, 3 semesters of C/C++ programming and 3 semester hours from Fortran, Ada, Pascal, Java, or Advanced C/C++ (Advanced C/C++ recommended);

·            Concentration requirements:  Upper Division -- ISC 3332 Computer Organization and  Architecture; ISC 4331 Structure of Programming Languages; 12 semester hours computer science or mathematics courses by advisement (excluding ISC 3325, and 4305).

b.          Information Systems

·            General Requirements:  Lower Division -- MATH 1324 Finite Math; MATH 1325 Business Calculus; 9 semester hours from Pascal, C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, and COBOL with at least 3 semester hours from C/C++ (6 hours of C/C++ preferred)

·            Concentration requirements:

              Lower Division -- ACCT 2301 or 2401 Accounting Theory I; ACCT 2302 or 2402 Accounting Theory II.

                Upper Division -- ISC 3315 Application Design Using GUI and Database; ISC 3325 Information Systems in Organizations; ISC 4321 Software Project Management; ISC 4339 Telecommunication and Networks; MGT 3311 Principles of Management; MKT 3311 Principles of Marketing;  6 upper division semester hours by advisement in accounting, computer science, management or marketing (excluding ISC 4305).

5.        Free electives - Enough electives to fulfill the 122 semester hour requirement and the 54 semester hours of upper division courses.