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Explore Career & Degree Pathways
Below is a list of our Areas of Study program maps that will prepare you to earn a degree or certificate.
DEGREES
Creative Writing Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Drama and Speech Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Honors Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Journalism Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Literature Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Music Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Studio Arts Emphasis, Associate in Arts, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)
Learning outcomes
Communications
- Demonstrate an ability to analyze how multicultural audiences shape written, visual, oral, aural, and performative communication and its meaning.
- Generate effective written and oral communication for a variety of purposes and diverse audiences.
- Generate effective visual or performative communication.
Quantitative Reasoning
- Apply basic computational skills to practical applications.
- Recognize functional relationships between and among measurable phenomena
- Apply systematic approaches and logic to solving quantitative problems
- Translate mathematical symbols into words and words into mathematical symbols
Information
- Identify research goals and retrieve information.
- Synthesize, apply, and properly cite information to meet an identified purpose.
- Evaluate the credibility of information and information sources, and distinguish between fact and opinion.
Critical Thinking
- Interpret and analyze meaning from written, visual, oral, aural, and performative works.
- Analyze and understand diverse individual and community perspectives and values.
- Understand and analyze social justice issues and movements.
- Generate creative works that demonstrate a process of critical reflection, analysis, experimentation, and original thought.
Personal & Interpersonal
- Consider ideas that conflict with individual value systems.
- Function under conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Work cooperatively and collaboratively with others.