Oregon Transfer Module
Program Description
The Oregon Transfer Module (OTM) is a 45-credit block of general education courses designed to simplify transfer between Oregon’s colleges and universities. The OTM helps students meet general education requirements, streamlining their path toward a bachelor’s degree. This program improves access to higher education and reduces transfer barriers. It provides a clear, standardized route for students to continue their studies without losing credits. The OTM is ideal for students planning to transfer and completing their degree at a four-year Oregon institution.
Program Outcomes
- Communicate clearly and purposefully with awareness of the needs of different audiences and situations.
- Analyze data quantitatively as the basis for valid and reliable inferences to draw reasonable and appropriate conclusions.
- Identify and analyze complex cultural and artistic perspectives, practices, and products and their roles in society.
- Apply principles of scientific inquiry to natural and social systems.
- Analyze issues of identity and difference, power, and privilege, to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Program Course Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Requirements | ||
| Oral Communication | ||
| COM 111Z | Public Speaking | 4 |
| or COM 218Z | Interpersonal Communication | |
| Mathematics | ||
| MTH 105Z | Math in Society (or higher) 4 | 4 |
| Writing | ||
| WR 121Z | Composition I | 4 |
| WR 122Z | Composition II | 4 |
| or WR 227Z | Technical Writing | |
| Discipline Studies Requirements | ||
| Arts and Letters Elective 1 | 9-12 | |
| Science Elective 2 | 11-15 | |
| Social Science Elective 3 | 9-12 | |
| Total Minimum Credits | 45-55 | |
- 1
Choose three Arts & Letters courses from the approved AAOT list.
- 2
Choose three Science courses with a lab and one Science course with or without a lab from the approved AAOT list.
- 3
Choose three Social Science courses from the approved AAOT list.
- 4
Excludes MTH 110.
Additional Requirements
- It is encouraged to complete at least one course designated as meeting the criteria for Cultural Literacy. This course is not an additional course, it could also meet an Arts & Letters or a Social Science requirement.
- No course substitutions allowed.
- All courses must be passed with a C or better and a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 is required.
Additional Program Information
- Students should work closely with UCC advisors and faculty to select appropriate courses.
- The OTM is not a separate program but will be notated on transcripts as a block when complete.
- Completing the OTM does not guarantee admission to a university, students must still meet the admissions requirements.