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Degree Description

The Lamar University Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree provides you a direct path to a fully accredited bachelor’s degree if you have completed course work for technical, applied or military credit or if you have a technical or applied degree from a community or technical college.

Why Study Applied Arts and Sciences at Lamar?

The Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences at Lamar University is designed for students who typically have already gained some real-world work experience. This includes active-duty military or veterans seeking college credit for courses taken as part of their training in the service, transfer students wanting credit for workforce or technical courses taken at a community or technical college, students interested in developing multiple areas of expertise and students who have a significant number of credit hours.

Our BAAS program accepts and builds on these unique credits, combining them with course work intended to meet your individual or career goals. Flexible evening, weekend and online courses make it easy for you to earn a BAAS degree while balancing full-time or part-time work and your personal life.

Courses You May Take

Narrative for Prior Experiential Learning Credit: You will be guided to develop an outcome-based learning narrative which will allow you the opportunity to translate knowledge and skills obtained through life and work experiences into academic credit.

Lifelong Learning and Portfolio Development: This course lays the foundation for the program of study by investigating current issues in the philosophy of higher education. It will establish academic, personal and professional goals for degree completion while introducing you to the portfolio process and improving your critical thinking and communication skills.

Senior Seminar: This course completes the assessment of the personal, educational and professional goals and outcomes set forth in your other classes.