Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts - Social and Behavioral Sciences

The College of Alameda's Liberal Arts Degree: Arts and Humanities is a group of courses emphasizing the human condition — its limits, potential and creative expressions — through the study of cultural, literary and artistic expression of human beings. Students will evaluate and interpret the ways in which people through the ages in different cultures have responded to awareness of themselves and the world around them in artistic and cultural creation. Students will also learn to value aesthetic understanding and incorporate it when constructing value judgments.

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to: • Develop knowledge of their own critical thinking skills and processes. • Recognize the effects of their communication skills on others’ perceptions of themselves. • Develop an awareness of the manifold perspectives of the diversity of peoples and cultures that surround them.