Reading Area Community College - RACC
Liberal Arts, AA
Reading, USA
Associate of Arts
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: Reading Area Community College (RACC) offers the Liberal Arts Transfer Associate of Arts (AA) in the Communications, Arts and Humanities Division. The program combines the General Education core with courses in communication, arts, literature, language, math, and social and natural sciences. It trains students to reason across disciplines, communicate in multiple modalities, and prepare for upper-level transfer with breadth of knowledge, cultural awareness, critical thinking, writing, and civic responsibility.
Career Outcomes: Graduates often transfer; potential careers include teaching assistant, communications specialist, administrative coordinator, community outreach worker, museum assistant, research assistant, BA/BS transfer. They gain writing, analysis, and cultural literacy.
Communications, Arts and Humanities Division
The Liberal Arts Transfer Program includes the General Education core and additional required courses that give students the basis of a liberal education. The program teaches students how to understand deeply and communicate clearly in ways appropriate for a good citizen and scholar. To that end, students will study communication, arts, literature, language, math, and social and natural sciences. The range of courses allows students to explore disciplines and interdisciplinary thinking necessary for upper-level courses upon transfer.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate ways diverse disciplines reason, write, and reflect.
- Evaluate the impact of the arts and sciences on society.
- Communicate clearly and effectively through a variety of modalities.
- Show breadth of knowledge across the liberal arts.
- Identify the correlation between the liberal arts education and the potential for socially responsible choices.
- Recognize the value of cultural diversity and the arts.
