Courses
Auburn University is committed to your success as a college student. Instructors have designed the courses below to meet quality and accessibility standards that will allow you to maximize your academic potential. Auburn First courses will guide you to learn, practice, and complete thoughtfully created assignments that lay a strong foundation for your future. Contact the Auburn First student services team for assistance with course selection and registration (aufirst@auburn.edu or (334) 844-8732).
English Language Arts
Students receive an intensive study of and practice in effective expository and argumentative writing. Course is 3 credit hours. Students who earn a 30 or higher on the ACT English test receive credit for this course at Auburn University.
Students receive instruction in rhetorical principles, textual practices, cultural expectations, and critical habits of mind commonly associated with academic research writing. Course is 3 credit hours. Students who earn a 35 or higher on the ACT English test receive credit for this course at Auburn University. Students must have earned credit for ENGL 1100/1103 to register in this course.
Students complete culturally diverse readings in world literature from the ancient period to c. 1600 and engage in course discussions and assignments. Course is 3 credit hours. Students must have earned credit for ENGL 1100 and ENGL 1120 to register in this course.
Students complete culturally diverse readings in world literature from c. 1600 to the present and engage in course discussions and assignments. Course is 3 credit hours. Students must have earned credit for ENGL 1100 and ENGL 1120 to register in this course.
Social Studies
Students are instructed on economic principles emphasizing scarcity and choice, consumer behavior, supply and demand, markets, production and cost, globalization of markets, role of government, and market and government failure. Course is 3 credit hours.
Survey course on world history from early humanity to the late 18th century. Students will examine the record of human political, social, cultural, religious, and economic activities across time, regions, civilizations, and cultures. Course is 3 credit hours.
Survey course on world history from since the Industrial Revolution. Students will examine the record of human political, social, cultural, religious, and economic activities across time, regions, civilizations, and cultures. Course is 3 credit hours.
Students are instructed on American political institutions, processes and behavior in comparative context, with special attention to the ways in which cultural and social diversity in the United States has impacted its politics. Course is 3 credit hours.
Mathematics
Students are required to request their standardized test scores be sent to Auburn University for placement in a Math course. If you do not have a standardized test score, you may take the ALEKS Math Placement test to determine your math placement. See aub.ie/mathplacement for required scores for placement in each course.
Students are instructed on fundamental concepts of algebra, equations and inequalities, functions and graphs, polynomial and rational functions. Does not satisfy the core requirement in mathematics. Students who have previous credit in any higher-numbered math course may not also receive credit for this course. Course is 3 credit hours.
Students are instructed on Algebra of functions including polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Systems of equations and inequalities, quadratic inequalities, the Binomial Theorem. Course is 3 credit hours. Students must have earned at least a score of 22 ACT Math/550 New SAT Math/50% ALEKS Math Placement to register in this course.
Students are instructed on basic analytic and geometric properties of the trigonometric functions. Complex numbers, De Moivre'e Theorem, polar coordinates. Course is 3 credit hours. Students must have earned at least a score of 23 ACT Math/565 New SAT Math/64% ALEKS Math Placement OR earned credit for MATH 1120 to register in this course.
Students are instructed on algebraic functions, Exponential Logarithmic functions, and analytic and geometric properties of trigonometric functions. Course is 4 credit hours. Students must have earned at least a score of 23 ACT Math/565 New SAT Math/64% ALEKS Math Placement or “C” or above in MATH 1000 to register in this course.
Students learn limits; the derivative of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; applications of the derivative and antiderivatives; the definite integral and applications to area problems; and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Course is 4 credit hours. Students must have earned at least a score of 26 ACT Math/620 New SAT Math/78% ALEKS Math Placement or “C” or above in MATH 1130/1150 to register in this course.
Electives
Students are introduced to the study of human evolution, early civilizations, and globalization; linguistic and cultural problems using the four sub-fields of anthropology, including biological/physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. Course is 3 credit hours.
Students are introduced to information on stuttering, speech, language, voice disorders and hearing impairment and how to interact with individuals with communication disorders. Course is 2 credit hours.
Student are introduced to plans for managing personal financing problems involving insurance, housing, household budgeting, investments, personal and bank loans, personal credit and time value of money. Course is 3 credit hours.
Students are introduced to spatial and locational context for analyzing change in the contemporary world, including elements of both physical and cultural environments. Course is 3 credit hours.
Students will be introduced to the various subfields of psychology such as developmental, biological, cognitive, clinical, and social psychology. Course is 3 credit hours.
Students are introduced to the study of society and current social concepts and issues such as race and ethnicity, stratification, conformity and deviance, religion, sexuality and population are also examined. Course is 3 credit hours.
Science
Students are introduced to the physical, chemical, and biological principles common to all organisms. Course is 3 credit hours for the lecture and 1 credit hour for the lab totaling 4 hours.
Students learn general physical geology. Survey of the important minerals and rocks. Origin and classification of geologic structures, earthquakes, and landforms. Study of geologic maps.
Course is 4 credit hours and includes lab credit.
World Languages
Basic language skills stressed with progressive emphasis on conversation. Exposure to Hispanic civilization. For students with less than two years of high school Spanish. Course is 4 credit hours. Contact the Department of Foreign Languages regarding questions about placement 334.844.4345.
Fundamentals of Spanish language skills stressed with progressive emphasis on conversation. Exposure to Hispanic civilization.
Fundamentals of German language skills stressed. Exposure to Germanic civilization. For students with no previous background or less than two years of high school German.
Basic language skills in Italian; exposure to culture.
Arts Education
Appreciation of theatre arts including stage, television, and film. Development of sensitive and critical sophistication as articulate, discriminating theatre-goers. Play and film viewing, play-reading, critiques, and term projects. Course is 3 credit hours.
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