{"id":57801,"date":"2024-12-11T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/?page_id=57801"},"modified":"2024-12-11T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:52:57","slug":"technology-requirement-for-aa-and-as-degree-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/student-resources\/testing-center\/technology-requirement-for-aa-and-as-degree-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Requirement for AA and AS Degree Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide\">Effective September 2009, the State of New Jersey has mandated that all NJ community college students enrolled in AA and AS degree programs will be required to satisfy a Technology general education requirement by taking a computer technology skills\/information literacy course or by demonstrating competency through a test-out option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide\">Students planning to take the test-out option should<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/student-resources\/testing-center\/\" title=\"Testing Center\">\u00a0make an appointment to take the test in the Testing Center<\/a>. The minimum passing score is 70%. The test will be scored automatically, and students will know immediately if they have passed. The proctoring fee for the test is $62.00. Several texts have been placed on reserve in the Library for students who would like advance preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide\">Please be advised that students are entitled to only one attempt at the test-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide\"><strong>Most OCC programs<\/strong>&nbsp;include a technology requirement. You will need to take a computer technology skills\/information literacy course or successfully test out of the requirement. For more program information, view the&nbsp;Course Maps (curriculum guides) in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.ocean.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">College Catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide\">If you have questions or concerns about the requirement, please contact the Academic Advising Office at&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:7322550400\" title=\"\">732.255.0400<\/a>, Ext. 300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective September 2009, the State of New Jersey has mandated that all NJ community college students enrolled in AA and AS degree programs will be required to satisfy a Technology general education&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6737,"parent":2433,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-57801","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"has_advanced_title_block":false,"subtitle":"","blurb":"","links":null},"aioseo_notices":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57801\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}