Arts & Humanities Pathway

​If you are interested in art, languages, philosophy, history or whatsoever of the other disciplines that strive to make sense of humanity's place in the universe, you can choose this pathway.

Graduates in Arts & Humanities disciplines often go on to careers involving highly adult critical thinking and advice skills.  Students interested in teaching language arts, fine art, or music in high school should also consider this pathway.

These skills apply to many careers making them "transferable," giving the pupil the flexibility to use them in an ever changing global economy.

If you lot choose this pathway you are likely working toward a Direct Transfer Degree (DTA) to proceed on to a university or other iv twelvemonth higher. Caste: Directly Transfer Understanding (DTA) 90 units​

Areas of Involvement​

The goal of American Sign Linguistic communication (ASL) courses is to enable the students to interact successfully with native signers and to relate linguistic communication behavior to existent-globe situations. The regular academic courses meet on a daily basis.

It is appropriate to begin the ASL 101 sequences in the fall quarter and thereby complete a i-yr programme in ASL in fulfillment of the requirement at many four-year colleges or universities.

The major in fine art is intended to educate and aid students in a key agreement of concepts, techniques and methods of form and content inside works of art. The art major leads to an Associate of Arts degree and is designed for transfer to a 4-year institution and/or for acceptance into art institutes devoted to the advancement of specific fine art skills.

Non-art majors may wish to study in this area for personal reasons or for application to other program such as web page design, multimedia, and computer graphics.

Communication studies integrates aspects of both social sciences and the humanities. Much of the work being done in the field is academic in nature. As a social science, the subject area often overlaps with sociology, psychology, anthropology, biological science, political science, economics, and public policy, among others. From a humanities perspective, communication is concerned with rhetoric and persuasion The field applies to outside disciplines too, including engineering, architecture, mathematics, and informatics.

Drama is a 2-year program designed for theater majors and not-majors alike. Emphasis is divided betwixt the literature of the theater and production. Three full-length productions are prepared and performed each year.

The program meets the proposed accreditation standards of the American Theater Association. Drama Transfer Program students should follow requirements of the Associate of Arts Degree nether faculty advisement.

Offer classic theater performances likewise as classes for personal enrichment or a career path is the mission of the Yakima Valley College Drama/Theater Department. Theater reflects life, and whatever the YVC Theater section can do to reflect life is our goal.

The major in English enables students to develop and enrich reading, writing, and disquisitional thinking skills by completing a variety of liberal arts courses. The major leads to an Associate of Arts degree and prepares students for various bachelor caste programs including administration, communication, English, journalism, pre-constabulary, and pre-medicine.

Students who want to become English language majors or are interested in careers in writing or didactics are strongly encouraged to enroll in English 185, Writing Middle Consultant, for elective credits. Student writers go easily on grooming and feel tutoring peers in a workshop setting.

The Section of Music offers a full two twelvemonth program of study for music majors in theory, ear training and performance. In improver, courses for the interested general pupil are an important part of the Section'southward curriculum. Music Appreciation, History of Jazz, Music of World Cultures and 20th Century music are all courses designed for the student who has an interest in music as a non-major.

Non-majors are besides encouraged to participate in various performing ensembles such as the YVC Jazz Ensemble, The YVC Concert Choir, Jazz Combos and the Sleeping accommodation Singers.

Philosophy is a person'southward view of the world and his or her methods and policies for operating in the world. But if a person'south views and methods regarding the world are inflexible and withheld from criticism, then they are not part of a process traditionally associated with academic philosophy.

At Yakima Valley Higher, our courses focus on helping students develop a number of abilities that promote an understanding of Philosophy; the power to analyze; the ability to organize, appraise and compare claims; the ability to read and listen with care and discernment; and the ability to articulate in both written and oral forms what one thinks and why.

This program is intended for students interested in studying Spanish with the intent of earning an Acquaintance of Arts degree or transferring to a four-year university for a Available of Arts degree. A Spanish degree empowers students to sympathise, speak, read, and write Spanish and gain a broad agreement of the Hispanic civilisation and culture in the world and inside the United states of america.

The goal of Spanish courses is to enable students to interact successfully with native speakers and to relate language behavior to real-world situations. The regular academic courses meet on a daily basis. The conversation courses differ from the academic courses primarily in breadth. They are usually taught in the Castilian 101 or 201 sequences in the fall quarter and thereby complete a one-twelvemonth program in Castilian in fulfillment of the requirement at many four-yr college universities.

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