This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.
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The AA in Liberal Arts is a program for students seeking a broad-based degree that can serve as an educational foundation for a wide variety of careers and transfer majors.
Students pursuing an AA in Liberal Arts may complete either the Chabot College Associate in Arts General Education course requirements, the CSU General Education Breadth, or the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) as well as 18 units of courses within one of the following four broad disciplinary options, for a total 60 degree-applicable units.
With careful course planning, this degree offers students a foundation, as well as the flexibility, to align with many transfer pathways.
Entry-level positions in a wide variety of fields requiring skills such as: oral communications, writing, team work, critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and innovation.
Option 1: ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Option 2: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIONS
Option 3: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Option 4: KINESIOLOGY AND WELLNESS
This option focuses on the study of cultural, literary, humanistic activities 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 themselves and the world around them in artistic and cultural creation. Students will also learn to value aesthetic understanding and incorporate these concepts when constructing value judgments.