2024-2025 Catalog
Humanities, A.A.
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Degree: Associate in Arts
HEGIS Code: 5649
Curriculum Code: 2872.HUM
Liberal Arts Division
Pre-Admission Recommendations: HS or HSE (High School Equivalency) Diploma
Career Opportunities/Further Education: Transfer to Bachelor’s Degree Program in Fine Arts, Philosophy, Music, etc.
Program Description
The content, ideas, intellectual frameworks, skills, and attitudes addressed in these courses are easily applied to any career goal. The Humanities degree program includes the foundation courses for many college majors.
The Humanities degree curriculum is designed to allow maximum flexibility in creating a program which best serves the interests and goals of individual students. Such a broad-based liberal arts curriculum is appropriate for students who plan to transfer into a bachelor’s degree program in fields such as Dance, Drama, English, International Studies, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy, or Pre-Law. Students uncertain about their long-term educational and career goals will find that this program provides a valuable opportunity to explore and test their interests.
Students intending to use this degree program as a basis for baccalaureate study and transfer should meet with an advisor to ensure that their course selections meet the requirements of the college to which they plan to transfer.
Program Competencies
Upon completion of an Associate in Arts degree in Humanities, the student will be able to:
- exhibit a command of the global nature of communication through foreign language and/or the Arts;
- apply the vocabulary, concepts, and various ethical theories related to the Arts and Humanities disciplines;
- creatively solve problems;
- demonstrate competency in one or more areas of the humanities (Art, Dance, Drama, English, French, Music, Philosophy, Sign Language, Spanish); and
- explain the breadth, diversity, and creativity of human experience as expressed in the Humanities and the Arts.
Total Degree Credits: 60.0 - 62.0
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First Year, Fall Semester
First Year, Spring Semester
- EN 101 - Composition for the Humanities Credit Hours: 3
- Humanities Elective 2 (SUNY Gen Ed The Arts) Credit Hours: 3
- SUNY Gen Ed Natural Science Credit Hours: 3-4
- SUNY Gen Ed Social Science Credit Hours: 3
- Liberal Arts Elective 2 Credit Hours: 3
Second Year, Fall Semester
- Humanities Elective 3 Credit Hours: 3
- Humanites Elective 4 (must be 200-level) Credit Hours: 3
- Global Perspective Elective Credit Hours: 3
- SUNY Gen Ed History Elective Credit Hours: 3
- Liberal Arts Elective 3 Credit Hours: 3
Second Year, Spring Semester
- PY 288 - The Art of Being Human Credit Hours: 3
- Humanities Elective 5 (must be 200-level) Credit Hours: 3
- Humanities Elective 6 (must be 200-level) Credit Hours: 3
- Liberal Arts Elective 4 Credit Hours: 3
- Liberal Arts Elective 5 Credit Hours: 3
Notes
- Students completing the program can fulfill SUNY Transfer Path Requirement for the discipline most closely related to their interests. See your advisor for details
- The following disciplines and courses qualify as Humanities courses:
- Art - All Courses
- Dance - All Courses
- Drama/Theater - All Courses
- English - Select from the Following: EN 114, 121, 130, 140, 141, 150, 151, 160, 161, 162, 163, 205, 206, 210, 211, 214, 215, 220, 221, 225, 230, 235, 236, 240, 245, 250, 260, 265, 270, 275, 280, 285, 286, 290, 292, 294, 296, 297, 298, 299.
- French - All Courses
- Honors - HP200 - Honors Capstone
- Music - All Courses
- Philosophy - All Courses
- Sign Language - All Courses
- Spanish - All Courses
- Global Perspective courses include: AT280, AT281, AT282, DT101, DT103, DT110, DT111, MU100, all FR, SL, SP.
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