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2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Mathematics, B.A. (Secondary Teacher Certification)


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This degree requires 120 hours and includes 42 hours of University Core.

The following requirements apply to all candidates for the Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics.

  1. Satisfy all university requirements for a bachelor’s degree as found in the “Bachelor’s Degree Requirements ” section of this catalog.
  2. Satisfy Core Curriculum Requirements for students entering college in Fall 1999 or after. Note: Students who transfer from a Texas public community college or public university and are certified as core complete shall have satisfied the core requirements of UHV.
  3. Satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts, as follows:
    1. Lower Division: 3 semester hours of speech and satisfy Computer literacy/proficiency requirement (See [**] below); Foreign Language: 6 semester hours at the sophomore level in one foreign language. Students submitting an acceptable score on a standard foreign language proficiency test approved by the College of Natural and Applied Science may substitute 6 semester hours of electives.

[**] May be satisfied within the core curriculum. However, 3 semester hours of both speech and Computer literacy/proficiency are still required even if the student is certified as core complete by way of transfer from a Texas public community college or public university.

    4. Satisfy course requirements for the plan.

These requirements are outlined below:

University Core Curriculum Requirements


42 total core hours required

  • Core 010 Communication
  • Core 020 Mathematics (Pre-Calculus recommended)
  • Core 030 Life and Physical Science
  • Core 040 Language, Philosophy and Culture
  • Core 050 Creative Arts
  • Core 060 American History
  • Core 070 Government/Political Science
  • Core 080 Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Core 090 Component Area Option: Speech
  • Core 090 Component Area Option: Computer Literacy (COSC 1336/1136 recommended)

Bachelor of Arts Program Requirements - 10 hours


Major Program Requirements


Math majors must receive a grade of C or higher in all COSC and MATH courses, including prerequisites. Any course in which a student receives a D, F, or W, must be repeated. No grades transferred of D, F, or W in these subjects will apply to this academic plan.

Total Semester Hours


Total must be minimum of 120 semester hours. 30 of the last 36 advanced semester hours must be completed with UH-Victoria.

Students seeking secondary teacher certification may be required to complete addtional hours.

^ May be satisfied within core curriculum. However, 3 semester hours of both speech and computer literacy/proficiency are still required even if the student is certified as core complete by way of transfer from a Texas public community college or public university.

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