College of the Atlantic has a number of degree requirements. All entering students must take the human ecology core course, a history course, a writing course, a quantitative reasoning course, and at least two courses from each of our three resource areas, environmental sciences, human studies, and arts and design. There are also several degree requirements that must be fulfilled in addition to this coursework: community service, internship, human ecology essay, and final project. Details about each of these required components can be found by exploring this section of the site.

The degree of Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology is granted upon completion of thirty-six credits specified below and of two requirements bearing no credit. Eighteen of the 36 credit units must be earned at COA, and a minimum of six terms must be spent enrolled full- or part-time at COA. One of those six terms may be a COA Internship, but a minimum of five must be spent on campus. The normal full-time annual load is nine credits, three in each of the three 10-week terms. (One COA credit unit is the equivalent of 3 1/3 semester hours; 9 COA credits = 30 semester hours.) Courses that fulfill resource area and other requirements are indicated by starred codes. (*AD* = Arts and Design; *ED* = Educational Studies; *ES* = Environmental Sciences; *HS* = Human Studies; *HY* = History; *QR* = Quantitative Reasoning; *WF* = Writing-Focused, *W* = Writing.)

Please note that while these pages contain accurate descriptions of all degree requirements, they do not give the complete sets of policies that govern the fulfillment of these requirements. For this information, please request a copy of the course catalog from the Office of Admission.