On Associates of Arts Degrees and Not Fucking up Everything.

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bump because help me

would your pre-engineering degree actually transfer to an engineering degree at a decent college? do the credits and courses transfer?

if you look at
http://catalog.valenciacollege.edu/degrees/associateinarts/articulatedpremajorsatvalencia/computerscienceuniversityofcentralflorida/
for an example they've got a special associate of arts course set up for a transfer to a state university computer science course, same with a lot of the bachelors available at UCF.

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I don't know where you live OP, but I think that life out there is really hard especially for young people. You will not find a decent job with an arts degree (ok maybe you could, but the chances are not good at all). My suggestion is to go into engineering/computer-related shit as fast as you can. Trump can argue about "bringing back jobs" that the Chinese stole, but all that shit will be useless soon as machines, programs and AI will take over all the jobs next.

It's pretty wasteful to just abandon the degree you are almost finished. What courses have you taken so far? The CC AA degree isn't worth much on its own, but it is better than nothing and can let you transfer to a real university to do something useful hopefully.

>>18062259
Yes. Many students at my CC go on to study at the Missouri School of Mines( It's called Missouri S&T now).
>>18062273
Right, I know man. That's why I'm unsure the extra effort for the associates of arts is even worth another semester of useless stuff.
I want to do biomedical engineering or something applicable to transhumanist stuff.
I should have been more clear, the degree program I'm in now has everything from literature to chemistry as requirements. It's a liberal arts education. There's a bit of everything, and it's designed to transfer to other big schools. It's fun, but I wish it was worth more on its own.
>>18062277
So do I finish it off and then continue at the same institution doing pre engineering (inexpensively) or just transfer and start at a bigger and more expensive school?

Have you bothered to look to see what sort of course requirements are needed for a bachelors at the 4 year school you would like to attend? And what courses from the CC would transfer to provide credit for your 4 year degree?

Because that will go a long way to letting you know whether or not it's worth finishing up at the CC or not.

>>18062166
The requirements for engineering degrees to transfer is what you should base yourself off of.

My opinion is that you should complete your A.A. as it should satisfy most of the general education requirements and then complete the bare minimum required to transfer. The core engineering classes should really be done at the target institution.

If it doesn't go as planned at least you still have you A.A. to fall back on. Truthfully an A.S. would probably be better suited for you as they typically have more science or math classes depending on your community college.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I've done a good job of enrolling myself into classes that give me "honors" credits and also the STEM algebra and trig courses. I'm kind of in between goals, I guess.
The A.S. my school offers has basic engineering design courses, but it's mostly things like chemistry, differential equations, macroeconomics. and engineering physics they offer at my school for that program. You don't engineer much except for some circuit lab stuff, though the school does have SolidWorks and AutoCad stuff available. I've not taken any of those.