ACADEMICS
Welcome to the Aggie Nation Academics page! Here you will find degree sheets for all programs and degrees offered, as well as the resources needed to plan your next steps.
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DEGREES AND PROGRAMS
Gunsmithing (A.S.)
BADGES
- Digital Badge: Cultural Events Attendance (draft)
- This badge is awarded to students who attend (5) cultural events in a semester.
- Digital Badge: Musical Theatre Hero (draft)
- This badge is awarded for completion of a Musical Theatre Ensemble Final Project Performance.
- Digital Badge: Veterinary Nursing
CERTIFICATES
- Certificate: Basic Accounting***
- This certificate offers students the opportunity to gain working knowledge in the field of accounting. Jobs students can expect to achieve as a result of this certification include bookkeeper, accounting clerk, collections agent, administrative assistant for a senior accounting or data entry specialist.
- Certificate: Business Leadership***
- This certificate prepares students to serve in basic leadership roles. It offers exposure to ethical business practices and how to lead others to achieve employer objectives. Jobs students may hold with this certificate include project leader, shift supervisor, area/department managers, office managers, and entrepreneur.
- Certificate: Business Support Specialist***
- This certificate is for students interested in pursuing executive assistant positions in today's business world. Students will learn the skills and knowledge in computer software applications, accounting principles, records management, and customer service.
- Certificate: Hospitality***
- This certificate provides students with the knowledge and skills to serve in the hospitality industry. Students will gain knowledge of leadership, accounting, economics, and customer services. Examples of jobs students can expect include hotel management, operations manager, restaurant manager, hospitality manager, or food and beverage manager.
- Certificate: Hospitality Leadership***
- This certificate ensures that students have the knowledge and skills needed to lead or manage in the hospitality industry. Students will gain knowledge of leadership, accounting, economics, and customer services. Examples of jobs students can expect include hotel management, operations manager, restaurant manager, hospitality manager, or food and beverage manager.
- Certificate: Retail***
- This certificate is designed to prepare students for an exciting career in the retail industry. Students of this certification will gain working knowledge and skills in the areas of customer service, ethics, spreadsheets, management, marketing, and human resources management. Graduates of this certification can expect jobs such as customer service manager, unit manager, store manager/assistant manager, marketing associate, or merchandising associate.
- Certificate: Retail Leadership***
- This certificate offers students the chance to learn the skills needed to lead or manage in the retail industry. Jobs students may hold with this certificate include customer service manager, unit manager, store manager/assistant manager, marketing associate, or merchandising associate.
- Micro-Credential: Foundations of Accounting (draft)
- This micro-credential certifies that students have gained a working knowledge of the field of accounting. Expected job placement with the skills obtained could include: Bookkeeper, accounting clerk, collections agent, administrative assistant for senior accountant, and data entry specialist.
- Micro-Credential: Advanced Accounting (draft)
- This micro-credential is a continuation of the Basic Accounting Certificate, preparing students for positions such as senior accountant, accounts payable agent, or accounts receiveable administrator.
- Micro-Credential: Small Business Management (draft)
- This micro-credential is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to manage or own a small business. Concepts covered include: basic accounting, marketing topics, and in-depth examination of business concepts concerning small businesses.
- Micro-Credential: Personal Development (draft)
- This micro-credential prepares students to enhance or expan their skillsets in self-discipline, time management, emotional intelligence, and other soft skills needed into todays workplace.
- Micro-Credential: Medical Coding (draft)
- This micro-credential provides students with knowledge and skills in various coding systems, including CPTA and ICD-10-CM. Students can expect to enter occupations as medical coders or medical records clerks with this credential.
- Micro-Credental: Medical Procedures (draft)
- This micro-credential prepares students for employment in the medical field in areas like public relations, reception, patient records processing, and filing. Students can expect to enter occupations as a medical assistant, administrative medical assistant, and billing agent.
- Micro-Credential: Medical Terminology (draft)
- This micro-credential introduces students to terminology used in all areas of medical science, hospital science, and paramedic specialties. Students can expect to enter occupations as a medical transcriptionist and medical secretary.
- Micro-Credential: Advanced Spreadsheets (draft)
- This badge certifies that the earner has demonstrated both knowledge and skill in the use of Microsoft Excel to manage, organize, and manipulate data stored in spreadsheets. This badge is awarded after successful completion of BM 2723 Spreadsheet Applications.
- Micro-Credential: Microsoft Basics (draft)
- This badge certifies that the earner has demonstrated both knowledge and skill in the use of Microsoft Office. In particular, students are familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. This badge is awarded after successful completion of CIS 1113 Computer Applications.
- Micro-Credential: Advanced Word Processing (draft)
- This badge certifies that the earner has demonstrated both knowledge and skill in the use of Microsoft Word to create, organize, and process data through word processing applications. This badge is awarded after successful completion of BM 2603 Specialized Word Processing.
- Certificate: Certificate of Mastery
- This certificate prepares students for careers in child development services and provides those already employed in childcare or Head Start with the opportunity to increase their knowledge and update their skills. The Certificate of Mastery is recognized in Oklahoma and the program continues to increase as the need for quality childcare increases.
- Certificate: Basic Electrical Circuits & Computer Control
- This certificate covers training and knowledge of electrical circuit analysis, structure, and logic design for general circuit training.
- Certificate: Basic Machining
- This certificate trains students in general industrial device usage and safety, as well as covering the properties of many basic metal materials and what changes need to be made while using them.
- Certificate: CAD/CNC
- This certificate trains students to read, design, edit, and create blueprints using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, as well as training them in using those concepts in the application of CNC machinery.
- Certificate: Electrical Design (draft)
- This certificate trains students in general electrical design, practices, and application. This includes working with electrical diagrams and practical installations for residential or industrial purposes. This certificate is awarded upon successful completion of MT 1223 AC/DC Electrical Systems, MT 1333 Electrical Relay & Computer Control, and MT 1413 Electrical Wiring and Fabrication.
- Certificate: Industrial Manufacturing Technician – Level 1
- This certificate covers both circuit analysis and basic control logic, while also focusing on a student's workplace communication and success skills.
- Certificate: Industrial Manufacturing Technician – Level 2
- This certificate is similar to Level 1, with the addition of more advanced programming and algorithm design for the application of PLC devices.
- Certificate: Maintenance and Measurement (draft)
- This certificate trains student to perform routine and emergency maintenance on mechanical systems, providing them with knowledge and experience working with a wide variety of hand tools, measurement tools, and blueprints. This certificate is awarded upon successful completion of MT 1113 Intro to Manufacturing Maintenance, MTH 1123 Technical Math I, and MT 1512 Blueprint Reading.
- Certificate: Maintenance Math (draft)
- This certificate trains students for the common mathematical problems that occur when performing maintenance or upkeep on mechanical and electrical systems. This certificate is awarded upon successful completion of MTH 1123 Technical Math I, MTH 1233 Technical Math II, and MT 1113 Intro to Manufacturing Maintenance.
- Certificate: Veterinary Assistant (Click here for VA Certificate program information)
- This certificate will encompass all aspects of routine pet care. The students will learn how to comfort and restrain animals during examinations and treatments, monitor feed and water consumption, clean, sterilize, and maintain kennels, operating rooms, examining rooms, cages and surgical equipment, assist with laboratory sampling and testing, administering medications, importing information into records, and CPR. These courses contain 92 hours of lecture and 60 hours of clinical skills for a total of 142 hours of training. Graduates of this certificate program will be eligible to take a state examination through the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association to become state certified. Veterinary assistants can work in veterinary practices/hospitals with small, large, and/or exotic animals.
MICRO-CREDENTIALS
- Micro-Credential: HACCP Training (draft)
- This badge certifies that earners have completed a comprehensive Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) training about food safety quality assurance. They are competent in skills such as safe food handling and packaging.
- Micro-Credential: Food Safety Fundamentals (draft)
- This badge certifies that earners have learned the fundamentals of the food industry, from produce to consumer, and the current United States and world food situations. This badge is awarded after successful completion of FDSC 1133 Fundamentals of Food Science.
- Micro-Certificate: Humanities Champion (draft)
- This micro-credential certifies that students have completed two Humanities courses listed in the course catalog on page 53, Area A, Section 4.
- Micro-Credential: Music Insight (draft)
- This micro-credential certifies that the earner has completed MU 1202 Fundamentals of Music, MU 1211 Applied Vocal Music, and MU 1221 Applied Piano Music.
- Micro-Credential: Clay Prodigy (draft)
- This micro-credential certifies that the earner has gained competencies in ceramics creation. The student will complete ART 1103 Ceramics I and ART 2203 Ceramics II.
- Micro-Credential: Thespian (draft)
- This badge is awarded for successful participation in a Murray State College play or musical as cast or crew.
- Micro-Credential: Foundations of Accounting (draft)
- This micro-credential certifies that students have gained a working knowledge of the field of accounting. Expected job placement with the skills obtained could include: Bookkeeper, accounting clerk, collections agent, administrative assistant for senior accountant, and data entry specialist.
- Micro-Credential: Advanced Accounting (draft)
- This micro-credential is a continuation of the Basic Accounting Certificate, preparing students for positions such as senior accountant, accounts payable agent, or accounts receiveable administrator.
- Micro-Credential: Small Business Management (draft)
- This micro-credential is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to manage or own a small business. Concepts covered include: basic accounting, marketing topics, and in-depth examination of business concepts concerning small businesses.
- Micro-Credential: Personal Development (draft)
- This micro-credential prepares students to enhance or expan their skillsets in self-discipline, time management, emotional intelligence, and other soft skills needed into todays workplace.
- Micro-Credential: Medical Coding (draft)
- This micro-credential provides students with knowledge and skills in various coding systems, including CPTA and ICD-10-CM. Students can expect to enter occupations as medical coders or medical records clerks with this credential.
- Micro-Credental: Medical Procedures (draft)
- This micro-credential prepares students for employment in the medical field in areas like public relations, reception, patient records processing, and filing. Students can expect to enter occupations as a medical assistant, administrative medical assistant, and billing agent.
- Micro-Credential: Medical Terminology (draft)
- This micro-credential introduces students to terminology used in all areas of medical science, hospital science, and paramedic specialties. Students can expect to enter occupations as a medical transcriptionist and medical secretary.
- Micro-Credential: Advanced Spreadsheets (draft)
- This badge certifies that the earner has demonstrated both knowledge and skill in the use of Microsoft Excel to manage, organize, and manipulate data stored in spreadsheets. This badge is awarded after successful completion of BM 2723 Spreadsheet Applications.
- Micro-Credential: Microsoft Basics (draft)
- This badge certifies that the earner has demonstrated both knowledge and skill in the use of Microsoft Office. In particular, students are familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. This badge is awarded after successful completion of CIS 1113 Computer Applications.
- Micro-Credential: Advanced Word Processing (draft)
- This badge certifies that the earner has demonstrated both knowledge and skill in the use of Microsoft Word to create, organize, and process data through word processing applications. This badge is awarded after successful completion of BM 2603 Specialized Word Processing.
CATALOGS