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Degrees & Certificates

Choose from over 200 programs and get started achieving your educational and career goals.

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History

Associate of Arts

Study events, peoples, groups, ideas, institutions and trends that have shaped World History, Western Civilization, and North America and the United States to the present. Learn about these time periods through the perspectives of gender, class, and ethnicity while developing, practicing and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in this discipline. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Journalism - Liberal Arts

Associate of Arts

Learn how to clearly, accurately and fairly report media news while creating journalistic pieces for internet-based media. This comprehensive 2-year liberal arts program prepares students to go on to complete a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school as they embark on a future career in journalism. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Liberal Arts

Associate of Arts

This degree is for students seeking a general education. Students work with an advisor to develop an education plan that meets their goals as they prepare to transfer credits to a four-year college or university.
Music

Associate of Arts

Embrace your love of music while gaining the skills you need to start your career in this art form that teaches us, moves us and brings us together. This 2-year program prepares you to complete your bachelor's degree at a 4-year school before starting your future as a performance artist, composer, music therapist, music instructor, band/choir director or music producer. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Philosophy

Associate of Arts

Get introduced to the theoretical and practical questions, meaning and methods of philosophy, ethics and logic. Study the concepts, ideas and implications within religious worldviews and theories of value of the natural world and ideas of death and dying. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Political Science

Associate of Arts

Study political philosophy and ideology, democratic and non-democratic governments and processes, and international relations, the U.S. Constitution, the philosophy of American government, general principles of the Constitution, federalism, and civil liberties. Learn about public opinion and citizen participation, political parties, interest groups, electoral process, and the structure and functions of the national government along with domestic political systems, developments, themes, and events across developed and developing countries and regions while applying the comparative method to identify similarities and differences. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Psychology

Associate of Arts

Along with general requirements to prepare you to transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the science of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory. Learn about cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, sex, gender, sexuality, and social psychology and choose from specialty psych courses including death and dying, growth and development and abnormal psychology. This is a liberal arts associate of arts (A.A.) degree with designation (DWD).
Public Health

Associate of Arts

Along with general requirements to prepare for transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the academic discipline of public health. Students gain an understanding of how to confront systemic health challenges to provide optimal health to whole populations in courses which provide an introduction to the knowledge required for careers in community and public health. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Sociology

Associate of Arts

Study culture, race, class, gender, sexuality, social groups, and deviance along with family, religion, education, politics, the economy, health, demography, the environment and social movements through a local and global lens. Learn how to analyze and interpret socio-historical as well as contemporary issues by using critical thinking skills and linking individual experiences to social structures. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Spanish

Associate of Arts

Learn how to speak conversational Spanish and interpret and present the language and integrate your ability with an understanding of Spanish culture. Develop intercultural communication strategies across disciplines. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).