Jan 02, 2025

2023-2024 SLCC General Catalog

2023-2024 SLCC General Catalog [**** ATTENTION: YOU ARE VIEWING AN ARCHIVED CATALOG ****]

Humanities: AA

Associate of Arts | 61 credits minimum

Program Description
The Humanities disciplines study the ideas and the meaning-making practices of human cultures, past and present. In seeking to understand the human condition, it prompts empathy, encourages reflection, and demands engagement with complex moral issues. The Humanities explore human experience through examination of texts, performances, art symbols, cultural and historical systems, and other modes of human expression. They most frequently employ historical interpretation, rhetorical analysis, the cultivation of style, creativity, and imagination as part of their analytical frameworks. Humanities disciplines try to understand the quality of cultural products, and what that quality tells us about the values of the individuals and their culture as well as our own.

Disciplines that make up this Humanities degree include:

English
History
International Studies
Philosophy
Religious Studies
World Languages & American Sign Language
Writing Studies

This program provides students the opportunity to explore the various Humanities disciplines and their approaches with the option to gain a 9-credit emphasis in one. The list of courses from which to choose is based on articulation with lower division requirements in majors programs at the USHE institutions to which most SLCC students transfer. Students who complete this program as designed will be able to start out at junior status upon transfer. This program also allows students to earn the AA without taking additional hours. Furthermore, students can explore areas outside of the Humanities without sacrificing time and resources toward completion of this degree.

Career Opportunities
Because the Humanities teach skills that are in high demand by employers graduates find a plethora of different kinds of jobs. In a recent survey, around 90% of humanities graduates nationally satisfied with their lives. Two-thirds (68%) reported that their job provided the “opportunity to do what I do best every day” and 67% that they were “deeply interested in the work that I do,”. More than half (54%) believed they had the “ideal job” for them. Career opportunities include writing, teaching, publishing, law, journalism, foreign service, advertising, administration, social work, archival and curatorial work, government and civil service, public relations, human resources, management, etc.

Transfer/Articulation Information
Each of the three designated courses under each Humanities emphasis/track has been selected based on its articulation to at least one of the institutions to which most of SLCC students transfer.

Estimated Cost for Students
Tuition and student fees: http://www.slcc.edu/student/financial/tuition-fees.aspx
Books: $125 per semester
Course Fees: $15 per each language course

General Education Requirements

Complete all General Education courses.

Associate of Science (AS) / Associate of Arts (AA) Degree General Education Requirements

Note: Major course work cannot be shared with General Education requirements.

AA LANGUAGE DEGREE REQUIREMENT (5 cr)

All AA programs require LANG 1020 (5 cr). Students with no background in a second language may need to take LANG 1010 (5) before enrolling in LANG 1020. Students with previous language experience may take a free placement test and enroll directly into LANG 1020 or higher. If LANG 1010 and/or LANG 1020 are/is needed, students will select those courses from the Elective list (see note under Elective Courses, General Electives below).

Advanced speakers (Dual-language immersion students, heritage speakers, and other students who have adequate proficiency in a second language) may satisfy this 5-credit language requirement through a) proficiency testing, b) an AP score of 3 or higher, or c) equivalent prior college-level coursework, d) LANG 2010 or 2020.

Non-native speakers of English are required to use English to meet the language requirement.

LANG prefix does not exist – it represents any of the languages taught at SLCC.

Program Requirements

Required Courses (3 credits)

HIST 2950 - Archival Internship or
HUMA 2800 - Research/Inquiry in the Humanities

Program Electives (9 credits)

Select one course from three different tracks/emphases below or select three courses from one track/emphasis below:

English

History

International Studies

Philosophy

PHIL 2300 - Introduction to Environmental Ethics (HU)
PHIL 2350 - Principles of the Philosophy of Religion (HU)
PHIL 2818 - Phenomenology and Existentialism (HU)

Religious Studies

Writing Studies

General Electives (15 credits)

Select any 5 courses or 15 credits from courses 1000 or above.

*AA requires LANG 1020 (5 cr) or demonstration of proficiency through a) testing, b) AP score of 3+; c) equivalent prior college-level coursework; d) LANG 2010 or LANG 2020 at SLCC. If LANG 1010 and/or LANG 1020 (5) is needed, that requirement is fulfilled here.

Time to Completion & Graduation Map

Humanities AA: Full-time
Time to completion is 4 Semesters for full-time students who take 15 to 16 credits each semester

Program Learning Outcomes

Program learning outcome alignment with Student Learning Outcomes in brackets.

Drive evidence from primary sources regarding the complexities and changes in human experience through analytical reading and critical thought. [1,4]
Describe and critically analyze how human experience, values and understandings, and conceptual frameworks regarding self and the world are shaped by human agency along with social, cultural, linguistic, technological, and/or historical circumstances; and vice versa. [1, 2, 4]
Demonstrate attentiveness to language, images, or acoustic media and communicate meaning. [2,4]
Demonstrate appropriate use of verbal, perceptual, or imaginative skills when organizing meanings, developing a sense of self, and balancing potentially disparate values. [2,4,5]
Collect and sift appropriate source material in the library or online and provide appropriate and thorough attribution. [8]