Individual Studies
SUNY Adirondack offers a Liberal Arts Humanities & Social Sciences — Individual Studies Associate in Science (AS) degree. The degree provides students great flexibility in designing a degree program to support their career and transfer goals with customized course selection. The Individual Studies degree can be earned online.
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The degree combines a strong liberal arts and sciences foundation, with 30 credits of choice, to help a student transfer in a direction not currently supported by many degree programs. Students will work with their advisor and design a four semester layout. This degree also supports returning adults, or veterans, who may have started in one direction and now have a new focus, and want to continue their studies without undue loss of credit.
The degree program is of value to a wide range of students, including:
- First-time students with a particular transfer school in mind – seeking education in an educational niche not offered in a current degree program.
- Students who would like to change degree programs without loss of credit
- Students who complete several semesters at another college or university and want to obtain their associate degree and utilize the maximum number of transfer credits
- Military personnel or veterans who have been taking coursework during service and want to apply those technical credits to a degree
- Returning adult students who began a college career and opted out to become employed and now want to return to school and utilize the maximum number of previously earned credits
- Entrepreneurial-minded students who have a business concept in mind and want to customize their course selection to best support their start-up.
CAREER & TRANSFER OPPORTUNITIES
SUNY Adirondack holds over 30 seamless transfer agreements with four-year colleges in New York and across the country. The most popular transfer institutions for this program are:
- Empire State College
- SUNY Polytechnic Institute
- Student-chosen baccalaureate program that are doing a custom transfer design
Program Learning Outcomes
- Develop sufficient background in a discipline to qualify for upper level study.
- Demonstrate the skills and knowledge needed to think critically.
- Employ effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Articulate the presence and influence of diversity within societies such as the United States and those in Western Europe, as well as throughout the world.
- Demonstrate the skills and knowledge related to personal health and fitness, life-long sports, and recreational wellness.
- Examine expression and the creative process in one or more of the areas of humanities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the scientific method.
- Identify basic factors relevant to the analysis of human behavior.
- Demonstrate an understanding of quantitative literacy.