Overview
Do you want to explore what your passions are? Are you looking to expand your knowledge about the world around you? Come to River Valley, and enroll in our progressive Liberal Arts degree. This degree is designed to be your first step to a bachelors’ degree, with partnerships throughout New Hampshire. Liberal Arts at RVCC is an affordable and transferrable degree that lets you be in the driver’s seat!
Why RVCC?
Liberal Arts at River Valley caters to each students’ passions to help them succeed in the job field or in their next academic steps.
Career Options
- Transfer to any four-year institution!
What are you interested in?
We have just expanded our Liberal Arts Associate of Arts degree to include areas of concentration. This flexibility aligns with students exploring various academic pathways in their first two years of college.
The Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts aspires to create a community of inspired learners by offering challenging courses designed to cultivate scholarly inquiry, social responsibility and academic integrity. Liberal Arts faculty create a rigorous academic environment, characterized by mutual respect and collegiality, in which students are encouraged to discover their true potential and purpose.
Program Goals
The goal of the Liberal Arts program is to engage students in study across multiple disciplines with the goal of cultivating a broad knowledge base and strong skill set that prepares students for the workforce or continued study towards a bachelor’s degree. Through study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and sciences, students learn to think critically, communicate in multiple mediums, conduct research, solve complex problems, demonstrate ethical reasoning and system thinking, and grow as globally responsible citizens.
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the Liberal Arts program, students will be able to:
- Synthesize and apply knowledge from multiple perspectives to evaluate social, ethical, cultural and global issues
- Assimilate a variety of intellectual and practical skills to solve sophisticated problems
- Communicate complex ideas and concepts both orally and in writing across multiple disciplines
- Address real-world problems by exercising mental agility, analytical and creative thinking and interpersonal negotiation
- Develop a foundation sufficient for transfer to a four-year college or university
Course Sequencing
First Year: Fall Semester
Social Science Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Humanities/Fine Arts/World Language Elective
Total Credits: 3
Humanities/Fine Arts/World Language Elective
Total Credits: 3
Mathematics Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
First Year: Spring Semester
200-Level English Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Social Science Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Liberal Arts Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Open Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Mathematics Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Second Year: Fall Semester
Humanities/Fine Arts/World Language Elective
Total Credits: 3
Social Science Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Open Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Liberal Arts Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Lab Science Elective
Total Credits: 4
Second Year: Spring Semester
Liberal Arts Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Open Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Liberal Arts Elective
Total Credits: 3 – 4
Lab Science Elective
Total Credits: 4
Rich Andrusiak (he/him)
Liberal Arts | MathematicsProfessor & Program Director, Mathematics Concentration
Cara Chanoine
Liberal ArtsProfessor & Program Director, English Concentration
Julie Foote
Biological Science | Liberal ArtsAssistant Professor
Aimee Jahn
Liberal Arts | Professional StudiesProfessor & Program Director, Psychology Concentration; & Department Chair, Liberal Arts
Julie Robinson (she/her)
Healthcare Applications | Liberal ArtsProfessor & Program Director, Science Concentration
60-62 Credits Required
Program Contacts
Aimee Jahn -Psychology Concentration
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Cara Chanoine – English Concentration
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Rich Andrusiak – Mathematics Concentration
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Julie Robinson – Science Concentration
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