Online Associate in Liberal Studies: Careers
Build the Foundation for the Career You Want
Complete in 2 Years
6 Starts Dates Per Year
The online Associate in Liberal Studies degree from The American Women’s College of Bay Path University (TAWC) delivers the academic foundation you need to succeed in media, education, healthcare, design, and more. You’ll customize your learning experience with elective courses based on your interests and graduate ready to pursue a bachelor’s degree or get started in a variety of entry-level careers.
- Gain liberal arts skills that can be applied in a wide range of careers
- Courses taught by expert faculty with industry experience
- Study online on your schedule
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What Can You Do with a Liberal Studies Degree?
Communications Specialist $56,879 average annual salary1
Social Media Coordinator $42,870 average annual salary2
Teacher Assistant $29,360 average annual salary3
Advertising Sales Agent $52,340 average annual salary4
Explore Your Options with a Custom Education
Liberal arts skills are essential for a variety of high-paying jobs. The online Associate in Liberal Studies degree is designed to prepare you for success in the career you want, even if you haven’t decided on a professional path yet.
Explore diverse opportunities for liberal studies jobs while building expert critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills that can be applied in the field of your choice. You’ll complete your associate degree with 60 credits that can be applied to a bachelor’s program, plus the academic credential required for diverse entry-level jobs.
- 6% industry growth for the communications field expected by 20315
- Median annual salary for liberal arts careers was $62,340 in 20215
- More than 658,000 new jobs for education professionals to be created by 20316
What You’ll Learn and Skills Acquired
- Engage and learn from perspectives and experiences different from your own and understand how your place in the world both informs and limits your knowledge
- Understand the interrelationships between multiple perspectives, such as personal, social, cultural, disciplinary, environmental, local, and global
- Integrate learning in all aspects of life
- Make simple connections among ideas and experiences, as well as synthesize and transfer learning to new, complex situations
- Apply critical thinking skills characterized by your comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion
- Recognize that success in all disciplines requires habits of inquiry and analysis that share common attributes
- Demonstrate solid knowledge of disciplinary parameters and push beyond those boundaries in new, unique, or atypical recombination by uncovering or critically perceiving new syntheses
- Recognize creative risk-taking in order to envision a response
- Develop well-rounded thinking skills that support the ability to know when there is a need for information, as well as to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use and share that information for the problem at hand
By Graduation, You’ll Have the Following Skills:
- Critical thinking
- Leadership
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Integrity
- Self-regulation
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
Enjoy Lifelong Dedication to Your Career Success
You can always find the support you need to take the next step in your career whenever you need it. The Sullivan Career and Life Planning Center is here to help you from the day you enroll to the day you retire.
Sources
- Payscale. “Average Communications Specialist Salary.” Retrieved from https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Communications_Specialist/Salary.
- Payscale. “Average Social Media Coordinator Salary.” Retrieved from https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Social_Media_Coordinator/Salary.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Teacher Assistants.” Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/teacher-assistants.htm.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Advertising Sales Agents.” Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/advertising-sales-agents.htm.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Media and Communication Occupations.” Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/home.htm.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Education, Training, and Library Occupations.” Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/home.htm.