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About Individualized Technical Studies

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 The Individualized Technical Studies Degree is intended for currently employed individuals or other students who have a specific career objective that cannot be met by BTC's existing degree programs. By combining State Board approved courses from two or more major areas of study, students may, along with an occupational mentor, modify an occupational degree program into a unique Associate degree.

Admission requires each student to participate in advising and planning sessions, which include the following:

• Provide flexibility in programming to meet the educational needs of individuals based on their particular career goals.
• Emphasize the individual's career goals that cannot be achieved through enrollment in any single instructional program currently available at BTC.
• Develop a plan outlining the student's career objectives.
• Identification of an occupational mentor who is familiar with the skills and abilities needed in positions similar to that sought by the student.
  Provide documentation of career goals and objectives.

Program Requirements

General Education courses will be drawn from communication, mathematics, science, and behavioral and social sciences. Each student also will complete a minimum of 36 credit hours of individualized technical studies (including at least three credit hours of computer-related courses). Students may use courses from all departments at BTC. A minimum of 20 of these credits must be focused in one discipline. The selection of these courses must be relevant to the student's career goals and should provide sufficient hours of concentration in one or two specific technical areas to ensure technical competence in achieving his or her occupational goals.