Norco College released 41 new program pages to help students understand and navigate certificate and degree options. Pages include career options, trailheads, major information, and student/faculty profiles. The program pages have also been added to the A-Z index. This week's program spotlight is on the Humanities program.

The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture. The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.

 

Career Options

Career options for students who get a degree in humanities include: communications director, content strategist, editor, technical writer, instructional designer, proposal manager, human resources specialist, journalist, public relations specialist, operations research analyst, and school counselor.


   Student Voice

Graciela Arzola

 

Graciela Arzola

Graciela Arzola first stepped onto the Norco College campus 10 years after graduating from high school. Her children encouraged her to go to college and the Puente program with its “Yes, you can” motto sustained her and helped her overcome the self-doubt that haunted her. Graciela graduated from Norco College in 2013 with AA degrees in Social Behavioral Studies, Humanities, and Communication Studies. She was accepted into the competitive Social Work program at Cal State San Bernardino.

“Once I got into the Puente program, I had professors telling me that I could make my dreams come true,” said Graciela. “They taught me how to take the ‘ifs’ out of my life. It’s ‘when’, not ‘if’.”

 

To view more of the Humanities program page, click here.