Associate of Science | 61 credits minimum

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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.

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: $100 semester