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Degrees & Certificates

Choose from over 200 programs and get started achieving your educational and career goals. 

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Pathways:
  • Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
  • Liberal Arts

    Associate of Arts
    This degree is for students seeking a general education. Students work with a student success coach to develop an education plan that meets their goals as they prepare to transfer credits to a four-year college or university.
  • Media Writing

    Associate of Applied Science
    Students receive an introduction to mass media and learn about its influence in a democracy along with the basics of news writing, reporting and interviewing and investigative reporting. The media writing degree teaches techniques to write for television and radio as well as scriptwriting for corporate and institutional video productions.
  • Music

    Associate of Arts
    Embrace your love of music while gaining the skills you need to start your career in this art form that teaches us, moves us and brings us together. This 2-year program prepares you to complete your bachelor's degree at a 4-year school before starting your future as a performance artist, composer, music therapist, music instructor, band/choir director or music producer. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
  • Philosophy

    Associate of Arts
    Get introduced to the theoretical and practical questions, meaning and methods of philosophy, ethics and logic. Study the concepts, ideas and implications within religious worldviews and theories of value of the natural world and ideas of death and dying. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
  • Psychology

    Associate of Arts
    Along with general requirements to prepare you to transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the science of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory. Learn about cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, sex, gender, sexuality, and social psychology and choose from specialty psych courses including death and dying, growth and development and abnormal psychology. This is a liberal arts associate of arts (A.A.) degree with designation (DWD).
  • Psychology - Liberal Arts A.S.

    Associate of Science
    Along with general requirements to prepare you to transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the science of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory. Learn about cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, sex, gender, sexuality, and social psychology. This is a liberal arts associate of science (A.S.) degree with designation (DWD).
  • Radio Production

    Associate of Applied Science
    Study the history and function of radio in society as well as radio formats, communication systems, and the types of broadcasting and production equipment used today. Three out of four semesters are spent in the studio using radio station equipment and hosting shows on Aims Student Radio to prepare you to launch your radio career.
  • Develop fundamental skills in programming and broadcasting and get practical insights for starting a radio career. Learn the basics of radio programming, announcing for radio and TV, and delve into different radio formats including news and sports and learn how to find a radio job.
  • This two-class interactive lab format teaches you how to use basic radio production equipment and how to do simulated broadcasts. Study different types of programming and formats like news and sports and create an audition tape.
  • Sociology

    Associate of Arts
    Study culture, race, class, gender, sexuality, social groups, and deviance along with family, religion, education, politics, the economy, health, demography, the environment and social movements through a local and global lens. Learn how to analyze and interpret socio-historical as well as contemporary issues by using critical thinking skills and linking individual experiences to social structures. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).