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Schenectady County Community College

HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT


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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.

--Buddha


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Carol A. DeFries, Chair
381-1392
defrieca@gw.sunysccc.edu
Dawn Winkler, Secretary
381-1387
winklede@gw.sunysccc.edu
 

As a cross-disciplinary department, SCCC's Humanities and Social Sciences Department offers courses in various fields of both the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as other courses related to these academic areas. The Humanities and Social Sciences courses serve to provide part of the Liberal Arts core for programs in other departments, in addition to structuring three kinds of programs the department offers:

  transfer degree programs that serve as the first two years of baccalaureate programs, and that are accepted at four-year colleges and universities;

  career degree and certificate programs that are designed to enable students to enter the workplace immediately after graduation; and

  a certificate program in General Studies, which allows students to sample various academic areas as the first step in deciding on a degree program.


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The instructional technology with which the department supports its courses include:

 A language laboratory, located in 520 Elston Hall, which contains 25 audio lab carrels, 25 computers, and newspapers and magazines in various languages. The lab is open during various daytime and evening hours, Monday through Saturday.

 Computerized classrooms for writing courses.

 Distance learning technology for certain courses via the SUNY Learning Network.

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The Humanities and Social Sciences Department also administers the Gateway Montessori Preschool in conjunction with its Early Childhood programs.

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Link to the Humanities & Social Sciences Programs page Link to the 
			Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty page Link to the 
			Humanities & Social Sciences Courses page

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Last updated February 13, 2007

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