Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Social Science, A.A. - SUNY Niagara

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Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Social Science, A.A.

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Program Overview

The Humanities and Social Science degree program at SUNY Niagara include the foundation courses for many college degree programs. The information, concepts, and attitudes conveyed in these courses are easily applied to any career goal.

The Humanities and Social Science degree program is designed to allow maximum flexibility in creating a program. Such a broad-based liberal arts major is appropriate for students who plan to transfer into a bachelor’s degree program in fields such as anthropology, economics, English, history, modern languages, philosophy, psychology, social sciences, sociology, or international studies. The majority of graduates from this major transfer to complete a bachelor’s degree.

The Humanities and Social Science degree program is also appropriate for students with a more specific career direction. Careers such as architecture, childhood education, chiropractic, exceptional education, government or legal studies, management science, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and secondary education begin with a liberal arts base.

The flexibility of the Humanities and Social Science degree program is also appropriate for students who are undecided on a career pathway and who wish to explore several academic areas. LAHS maintains numerous Dual Admissions and Articulation agreements with many local four year colleges and universities. The program is also available as a distance-learning option.

Program Goals and Objectives

  • LAHS students achieve a general knowledge of the liberal arts by taking a variety of courses from several Liberal Arts disciplines. They have opportunities to develop their abilities to think critically, to learn research methods using a variety of data bases, to work cooperatively with others and to synthesize and communicate the knowledge and skills they have acquired.
  • Students are given the opportunity to receive in-depth instruction in a specific discipline within LAHS. Study in LAHS provides students with a wide range of opportunities for understanding and analyzing human behavior and experiences.
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Curriculum Overview

Program Learning Outcomes

The assessment of student learning outcomes is not only a key indicator of program effectiveness, it is also one of the standards of excellence identified by the Middle States Commission (Standard 5) and is required through the SUNY assessment initiative.

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