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Bergen Community College offers an online liberal arts degree, the Associate of Art degree in Liberal Arts / General Curriculum.  This program is designed for individuals interested in utilizing the time they spend earning an associate degree to learn about a wide variety of core subjects before focusing their efforts on any one field.  The liberal arts major prepares students to transfer to a four-year college to earn a bachelor’s degree in fields including English, history, humanities, journalism, foreign languages, psychology, education, and more.  Coursework stresses civic knowledge and engagement both locally and globally, intercultural knowledge and competence, ethical reasoning and action, and foundations and skills for lifelong learning. 

You will learn to:

• Think critically and creatively
• Apply analytical reasoning
• Communicate proficiently
• Demonstrate technological competency
• Appreciate diversity, historical viewpoints, and the global perspective
• Value ethics, personal wellness, and personal learning strategies

Bergen Community College offers an online history degree, the Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts, with a concentration in History.  This degree is designed for students interested in learning the knowledge, values, and skills that are unique to history degrees and who intend to transfer to a four-year history or liberal arts program.  You will take courses in Western Civilization, European History, US History, Latin American History, and Geography, as well as general education courses.  Students gain skills in communication that allow them to consider a diversity of viewpoints, construct and defend theses, and narrate events from the past.  You will also learn to use primary and secondary sources while evaluating their perspective and bias, apply a methodological practice when working with historical evidence, identify historical change and continuity, and recognize the important political, intellectual, social, and cultural forces that shaped our past.

The Associate in Science in Professional Studies is an online liberal arts degree from Bergen Community College.  This program offers a broad and multidisciplinary course of study rather than the more specific programs that focus on one major.  With this liberal arts degree, there is a general curriculum that prepares students to think critically and analytically across a wide range of disciplines or fields of study.  You will complete general education requirements and then take courses in a variety of disciplines in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. 

In addition to possibly introducing students to new areas of study, this program also prepares them to:

• Think creatively and critically
• Apply analytical reasoning
• Demonstrate proficiency in communication
• Demonstrate technological competency and information literacy
• Appreciate diversity, historical viewpoints, and the global perspective
• Cultivate ethical values, personal wellness, and personal learning strategies

Bergen Community College offers an Associate of Art degree for students interested in an online liberal arts degree that focuses on Psychology. You will gain an understanding of the mind, personality, and mental disorders so that you can help others and improve understanding of issues related to the mind.  

The curriculum emphasizes fundamentals of psychology and real-world education, examining cases that will be applicable on the job. Topics include research methods, abnormal behavior, theories and practices, sexuality and gender, and health and sports psychologies. This online psychology degree prepares students for junior-level admission to a bachelor’s degree program. 

Graduates will be qualified to:

• Discuss concepts, perspectives, and trends in psychology
• Demonstrate critical and creative thinking
• Understand skeptical inquiry and a scientific approach to solving problems related to behavior and mental processes
• Apply psychological principles to issues
• Use cultural competencies for effective and sensitive interactions with diverse people

Bergen Community College offers an Associate of Art degree in Sociology, an online liberal arts degree for those interested in learning about cultures and structures of human societies. This degree is designed to be a transfer program so graduates can go on to pursue more advanced degrees. Students will gain a general understanding of society, social behavior, and contemporary social issues.

With this online sociology degree, students learn about sociology as well as psychology, human services, and business. The curriculum focuses on social groups and institutions, norms and controls, and the reasons why and how they change. 

Course topics include:

• Family
• Education
• Deviance
• Race and ethnicity
• Gender roles
• Social change
• Social inequalities

The online Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Philosophy is designed for students interested in developing an understanding of Philosophy. You will learn about the basic techniques of logical thinking and argumentation. The curriculum also covers philosophical issues and history. Students learn a set of methods to help understand and resolve contemporary moral, social, and political problems. Fields covered include metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory and teach students about the basic principles of logic.