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Programs of Study
Two-Year Associate Degree Programs | Certificate
Programs | Continuing Education
In addition to academic programs leading to college degrees,
community colleges offer vocational education and technical
training. Community colleges usually have strong ties with
their state's universities and their region's business sector,
and so are sometimes referred to as the community's college.
These relationships mean that the college curricula are designed
to prepare students for either future academic success or
immediate employment.
Programs of study at community colleges usually include:
Two-year Associate
Degree Programs
hese may be:
- designed to fulfill the requirements for the first two
years of a four-year bachelor's degree. They may be called
transfer degree programs because students who complete them
later transfer to four-year universities for the final two
years of study. Examples of such programs include pre-business
administration, pre-engineering, fine arts, liberal arts,
and computer science.
- designed to prepare students for immediate employment
in fields such as automotive engineering, interior design,
aviation flight technology, child development, criminal
justice, health care services and sciences, business, fire
science technology, paralegal studies, food management,
and photography. These are sometimes called terminal degree
programs
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Certificate
Programs
Certificate programs train individuals for positions in areas
like social work and human services, health care, building
trades, and technologies. Certificate programs may be short-
or long-term depending on the type of course that is offered.
Long-term programs include nursing, while short-term certificate
programs include such specialty areas as office technology,
real estate, and computer-assisted design.
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Continuing Education
Continuing education programs are for students who wish to
enhance their professional or personal skills, rather than
to study for credit toward a degree or certificate. There
is an endless variety of courses offered for students in this
area.
The certificate programs at two-year colleges are very similar
to those found at vocational and technical institutions. Additional
information about vocational and technical training, as well
as continuing education courses, may be found in 'Short-Term
Study.'
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