Liberal Arts

The Associate of Arts degree program of study provides a solid foundation in arts and sciences, allowing students to transfer with confidence to Baccalaureate programs at four-year colleges and universities.
A wide variety of course choices exists for students to explore content areas in arts and sciences.
American Studies courses offer an interdisciplinary approach to topics related to American society. English selections include writing courses, literature, communications, and technical writing. Social Science selections include anthropology, economics, history, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology. Foreign Language selections include American Sign Language, French, and Spanish. Humanities selections include courses in western civilization, humanities, literature, philosophy, communications and creative writing course, and American Studies. Fine Arts selections include arts courses in drawing. Math courses offer traditional theoretical and applied courses. Science selections include biological sciences, chemistry, and physics. Students wishing to focus their Liberal Arts studies in a specific discipline are able to concentrate their 24 Liberal Arts elective credits in that discipline. Each student's program is developed in consultation with a Liberal Arts faculty advisor.

In addition to fulfilling the mission of Baccalaureate transfer, the program will also provide the core of general education requirements for all degrees at this College.

LIBERAL ARTS CONCENTRATIONS
The following focused Associate of Arts concentrations provide the opportunity for students to transfer to specific Baccalaureate degrees at four-year institutions:

Liberal Arts/American Studies
Liberal Arts/Biotechnology
Liberal Arts/Business
Liberal Arts/Teacher Preparation

LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
The primary objective of the Liberal Arts Degree program is transfer with a solid foundation in Arts and Sciences. The program is representative of the first two years of a baccalaureate program as well as the general education requirements for an Associate Degree in a specific field. Its academic format emphasizes access to various disciplines of knowledge, critical thinking the principles and techniques of research within academic subject areas. Students will find the program flexible enough to allow them to select courses based on the requirements of the four-year colleges to which they plan to transfer or use their course selections to clarify their educational goals and to explore career opportunities and interests. This broad experience
provides students with the academic exposure relevant to intellectual, personal, and social growth.

Liberal Arts Transfer Credit Policy:
In addition to NHCTC Stratham & Portsmouth transfer credit policies, Liberal Arts and Science courses will be considered for transfer regardless of when they were taken as long as they meet minimum grade requirements. See individual department policies for program exceptions on general education requirements. In the case of English and math courses, if there is uncertainty whether coursework currency affects the students' ability to be successful in a subsequent course, a student will be asked to take portions of the Accuplacer Placement Test to verify the skill level of the course being considered for transfer credit.

Transfer of a course to this institution does not guarantee transfer of that same course to subsequent institutions.
SAT testing may be required by some transfer institutions.