NSU Catalog 2025-2026 
    
    Dec 05, 2025  
NSU Catalog 2025-2026

Career Pathways (AS)

Location(s): Northern State University Campus, Online, Huron Community Campus



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Career Pathways provides resources and guidance to students at the beginning of their academic journey. This program allows students opportunities to explore various career options, aligns those options with the appropriate academic major, and supports students on this journey by providing them with intensive academic and career services. The goal is to help students identify the academic major that best prepares them for their future career goals and then facilitating a seamless transfer into their major of choice.

Student Learning Outcomes:

  • Explore issues, objects, or works through collection and analysis of evidence that results in informed conclusions or judgments, and break down complex topics or issues into parts to gain a better understanding of them.
  • Exhibit a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
  • Exhibit both the capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
  • Recognize and know when there is a need for information and identify, locate, evaluate and effective and responsibly use and share that information to address the need or the problem at hand.
  • Integrate available and reliable information to develop meaningful solutions.
  • Articulate the development of their academic or career goals.

Coursework Required:


Choose one of the following undergraduate certificates:


General Education Requirements - Associate (24 credits)


Please see General Education & Degree Requirements  for specific information about each SGR.

SGR #1 - 6 credits


SGR #4 - 3 credits


SGR #6 - 3 credits


Flexibility - 3 credits


Additional credits from SGR #3, SGR #4, or SGR #6 (course must be from different disciplinary prefix)

TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED: 60 Credits


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