An Arts degree from Okanagan College provides students with a flexible education and a variety of essential skills that can lead to many different career paths. An Arts education allows students to complete the first two years of a Bachelor's degree close to home for affordable tuition before transferring to complete their degree. It also gives students the option to complete diplomas in areas like Criminal Justice, Environmental Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, and Writing and Publishing to transfer or find employment. The document lists over 100 potential careers that are possible with an Arts degree, including careers in communications, education, health care, business, government, and more.

2. What can you do with an Arts degree? What can’t you do with an Arts degree?

3. Skeptical ever?

4. Studying Business or taking up a trade are not the only ways to find employment. An Arts education leads to a meaningful career.

5. Is it all poetry?

6. You won’t end up working at Starbucks. An Arts education leads to interesting areas of employment.

7. Ask questions like…

8. What is ideology?

9. What can history tell us?

10. Most of you will change careers several times in your lifetime. An Arts education ensures you won’t get stuck in one job, especially a job that might be obsolete by the time you start working.

11. Why sweatshops?

12. By focusing on essential skills such as those identified by Human Resources & Skills Development Canada, an Arts education allows you to change careers as labour markets or your own interests change.

13. The nine Essential Skills Reading Text Document UseNumeracyWritingOral CommunicationWorking With OthersContinuous LearningThinking SkillsComputer Use

14. Why?

15. Changing careers? What if you’re not even sure which career you want to start with first? There are more Arts students at Okanagan College than there are enrolled in any other program—more than Business, more than trades, technology, or health.

16. Fight the Power?

17. Most of our students are just like you. They’re taking the time to explore their options before they make a choice for life. They’re finding out that an Arts education gives them more opportunities than any other program.

18. If our country is so rich, why are so many people so poor?

19. An Arts education at Okanagan College allows you to complete the first two years of a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree close to home, for affordable tuition, in small classes.

20. Why is a comedy show the only source of reliable news on TV?

21. How small are our classes? A first year academic English course at Okanagan College is limited to 20 students. At UBCO, the same course has 140 students.

23. The Associate Degree of Arts is a provincial credential that allows you to complete 60 credits of study at Okanagan College and transfer these credits fully to any BC universitywhere you can begin the third year of study.

24. Racism? Today?

25. The credits earned in courses taken at the college count as equal to courses you would otherwise take at the university you transfer to for the completion of your BA.

26. Sexism? Today?

27. You can choose a discipline emphasis for the Associate Degree of Arts CommunicationsCrosscultural Studies EconomicsEnglishGeography and Earth ScienceHistoryModern LanguagesPhilosophyPhilosophy, Politics, and EconomicsPolitical SciencePsychologySociologyWomen’s Studies

28. Philosophy?

29. DiplomasIf you already have some idea of where your interests lie, try one of our two-year diplomas. Each allows you to transfer to BC universities for further education, or to graduate directly to employment opportunities in a variety of fields.

30. What’s wrong with the economy?

31. Diploma in Criminal & Social JusticeThis program provides students with an Arts-based criminal and social justice education. Students take courses in Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, and Criminology, as well as elective Arts courses. Fields of inquiry may include indigenous studies, gender studies, race and ethnicity, globalization, and poverty.

32. Tasers: yes or no?

33. Diploma in Environmental Studies This program offers students the opportunity to obtain an understanding of the physical principles governing the environment and the social and cultural aspects that influence human behaviour towards the environment. An interdisciplinary model equips students with the critical and analytical skills to think through the complex factors that influence our understanding of the environment.

34. Who did this?

35. Diploma in Media & Cultural Studies This interdisciplinary program offers students a range of courses from departments including Communications, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Geography. Students examine the rich interrelationship between media and culture in contemporary society and explore how culture is produced, commodified, communicated, regulated, and consumed.

36. What’s the difference?

37. Diploma in Writing & PublishingThis program provides students with a solid grounding in four areas: creative and literary writing, publishing, communications, and business. Students receive applied training in print and web-based publishing, accounting, marketing, and management, as well as in creative, cultural, and professional communications.

38. Write. Design. Promote.

39. ¿ HablaEspañol ?

40. Learn to read people…and then…

41. Take your two years here and go

42. just about anywhere.

43. Or why go anywhere else at all? Get the best of both worlds right here at Okanagan College. Use your Associate Degree of Arts to bridge in to the 3rd year of the college’s Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

44. Who’s worse for society?

45. Choose an Arts education at Okanagan College for the choice it gives you. Choose from over 200 different university transfer courses, in 20 different subject areas, from 11 different departments.

46. What ABOUT Papua New Guinea?

47. What can you do with an Arts degree? What can’t you do?

48. Author Advertising Specialist Administrative Manager Anthropologist Art Conservator Archaeological Technician Archivist Archaeologist Arts Commentator Airport Security Officer Alumni Programs Manager Aerial Photo Interpreter Agricultural Planner Advisor Audit Representative Activist Addictions Counsellor Admissions Counsellor Advocate

49. Broadcast Journalist Business Manager Business Analyst Broadcaster Banker Budget Analyst Benefits AdministratorChild and Youth Worker Constable Correctional Worker Court Clerk Court Reporter Criminal Investigator Community Relations Worker Community Development Officer Conservation Restoration Technician Consumer Researcher Cultural Resource Manager Classifications Officer

50. Communications Consultant Community Affairs Coordinator Copywriter Curator Cartographer Census Geographer City Planner Climatologist Community Developer Conservation Analyst Career Counsellor Campaign Worker Career Counsellor City Counsellor Census OfficerCounsellor Community Worker Crisis Worker Child Welfare Worker

51. Development Worker Demographer DetectiveEvents and Fundraising SpecialistEditor Employment Counsellor Evidence Technician Economic Statistician Economist Editorial Assistant Ecologist Economic Developer Environmental Impact Analyst Educational Consultant Event Planner Exhibit Designer Economic Development Officer Educational Assistant Employment Services Worker Equity Officer

52. Financial Advisor Foreign Service Officer Foreign Language Teacher Forensic Investigator Financial Consultant Financial Researcher Fund Manager Freelance Columnist Facilities Planner Field Researcher Foreign Area Analyst Financial AnalystFundraiser Finance Officer Group Benefits Consultant Government Policy Analyst Geographer Geology Laboratory Assistant GIS Analyst/Technician

53. Gerontologist Grievance Officer Health Promotion Home Care Worker HistorianHuman Resources Manager Health Services Planner Historic Preservations Specialist Historical Projects Coordinator Historical Writer Health Consultant Health Researcher Human Resources Coordinator Health Policy PlannerInformation Specialist Insurance Broker Immigration Officer Impact Assessment Officer International Development Insurance Investigator

54. Internal Auditor Inventory Specialist Investment Advisor Interpreter/Translator Industrial Developer Industrial Planner Intelligence Agent International Business Representative Human Resources Consultant Human Rights Officer Industry Affairs Analyst Investment BankerJournalist Job Analyst Judge Language Consultant Language Teacher Librarian

55. Literary Agent Lawyer Land Developer Land Economist Landscape Consultant Location Analyst Library Media Specialist Learning Strategist Legal Researcher LobbyistLegislative Analyst Lab Technician Linguist Mental Health Worker Market Analyst Multiculturalism Educator Museum Technician Manufacturing Planner Marketing Analyst

56. Magazine Writer Manuscript Reader Market Researcher Media Relations Executive Map Librarian/Curator Museum Educator Management Consultant Marriage and Family Therapist Office Manager Policy Consultant Preservation Assistant ProfessorPolicy Consultant Preservation Assistant Policy Consultant Preservation Assistant ProfessorPrincipal Product Marketing Project Manager

57. Public Affairs Officer Public Relations SpecialistParalegal Assistant Police Officer Policy Analyst Probation/Parole Officer Product Manager Property Manager Program Coordinator Public Policy/Political Analyst Publishing Sales PublisherPublic Policy/Political Analyst Publishing Sales Public Policy/Political Analyst Publishing Sales PublisherParalegal Assistant Planning Supervisor Program Consultant

58. Psychologist Political AnalystProbation & Parole Officer Politician Promotions Coordinator Publicist Planned Parenthood Counsellor Psychotherapist Rehabilitation Counsellor Research Analyst Rural Development Officer Records Officer Recruiting Officer Realtor Risk Analyst Reporter Research Assistant Regional Planner Radio/TV Producer

59. Recruiting Officer Research Director Real Estate Agent Researcher Reference Librarian Restoration AssistantStudent Services Manager Special Education Teacher Social Science Analyst Survey Researcher Statistical Research Analyst Statistician Stock BrokerSports WriterSales Representative Social Services Worker Statistical Consultant Social Worker Special Investigator

60. School Counsellor Sexual Assault Consultant Therapist TeacherTranslatorTechnical Writer Television and Radio Journalist Trade Development Advisor Underwriting SpecialistUser Interface Designer Urban AnalystUnion RepresentativeVolunteer CoordinatorVictim Services Specialist Web Page DesignerWriter Women’s Shelter DirectorWomen’s Rights Advocate Youth Worker

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