Immerse yourself in different cultures, new perspectives and timely historical insights. Communicate in new ways and dig up answers to long-standing and emerging questions facing today's world. Develop your critical thinking and research skills with the two-year Associate of Arts Degree, choosing from more than 300 courses in 23 subject areas. the Associate of Arts Degree can be structured by students to reflect emphasis on a particular discipline. Students are advised to verify with the appropriate Department Chair that the specific course offerings will be offered within a two-year cycle if students intend to complete the Associate Degree in two years. Program specializations - Communications, Creative Writing, Crosscultural Studies, Economics, English, Environmental Studies, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Geography, History, French, German, Spanish, Philosophy, Philosophy, Political Science and Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Studies in Resistance and Revolution There are arguably more career paths from an Associate of Arts/Bachelor of Arts degree than any other field of study, as critical thinking and creativity applies to almost every career. Arts students go on to meaningful careers in education, law, health, government, social services, publishing, the environment, media, etc.
This Associate of Arts degree Emphasis in Resistance and Revolution, offered exclusively at the Salmon Arm campus, is a program that will expose students to the variety of ways that people around the world have contested and continue to contest social, political, colonial, and economic orders. This interdisciplinary program will focus not only on dramatic and large-scale social movements and revolution, but also on small-scale, grass-roots efforts aimed at affecting change. Important topics will include the application of critical theories of race, class, gender, and sexuality as well as social movement theories and cultural critique.
