Liberal Arts Department

For graduates looking to immediately enter the workforce, the Liberal Arts A.A. degree provides marketable skills for entry-level job opportunities in a wide range of fields. Liberal Arts graduates possess skills desirable to employers including: effective written and oral communication; analytical thinking and reasoning; understanding of people, cultures, and societies; trainability, and flexibility.

Common career areas: marketing, public relations, management, advertising, media, journalism, communications, public service, administrative support, museum work, historical preservation, and law.

Upon completion of the Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts, students will have learned to:

• Practice effective written and verbal communication skills through the creation of essays, reports, and oral presentations.
• Reflect understanding of the connection of people and place to language, ideas, and culture.
• Utilize critical thinking skills to analyze and synthesize ideas and information from a variety of sources with one’s own ideas to create well thought out discussions, arguments, and ideas in written and oral work.
• Demonstrate recognition of differing American Indian values and traditions, and respect for various tribal cultures through the integration of Native American cultural perspectives into coursework.
• Apply knowledge of the Liberal Arts to real-world situations, in meaningful ways, across multiple settings and conditions.

There are no special requirements or prerequisites to start working towards this degree program. SKC does require students to complete a writing and math assessment in order to get them started in the correct English and Math courses.