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This program provides one year of general education to offer opportunities for EMS Academy graduates to complete an associate degree.
The paramedic completion program provides an associate-level degree completion for students who are enrolled in or who have graduated from paramedic training program. The AAS in Health Science: Paramedic Completion does not confer eligibility to be certified or licensed. The student must come with or be concurrently completing a paramedic certificate program outside of SF.
Student Learning Outcomes
Associate degree-seeking students must meet general education learning outcomes:
- Communicate effectively through writing for specific audiences.
- Apply mathematical skills to problem solving.
- Analyze human behavior within a social context by means of recognized theory and research.
- Integrate understanding of the Franciscan tradition into one’s own life and disciplinary context.
- Reflect theologically on the lives of Francis and Christ and the movement they founded in dialogue with one’s own life.
- Identify an information need, find and evaluate resources, and incorporate new information into one’s current knowledge.
Degree Requirements
The Associate Applied Science in Health Science requires 60 credit hours:
- 12-13 credit hours of general education
- 12-24 credit hours in major and concentration courses
- 0-24 credit hours of elective credits*
- 34 credit hours of transfer credits from Paramedic/EMS training*
*Prior Learning Credit for Professional certifications (graduates of an accredited paramedic certificate program only)
Bachelor Degree Pairing: Students enrolled in the AAS in Health Science degree are eligible to dual enroll in the following SF bachelor degrees within the College of Health Sciences: Exercise Science, Health Services, Nutrition, or Social Work.
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