Shoreline offers more than 50 specialized Professional-Technical programs under the Applied Associate in Arts and Sciences (AAAS) degree.  The primary purpose of the AAAS is to provide students with professional skills that will allow them to gain employment in a specific field of work.  The minimum number of credits varies for each specialized program, but must be at least 90 credits.

SCC regularly updates and revises its curriculum and degrees in these applied areas, working closely with local advisory committees to ensure that students are receiving the skills and knowledge currently in demand by employers in the field.

Professional-Technical programs include specific vocational course work as well as required general education core courses in communication, quantitative reasoning, multicultural education and human relations.  Related instruction supports programs of study for some applied or specialized associate degrees, and these degrees contain a recognizable body of instruction in the programs related areas of communication, computation, and human relations.

View the list of Professional-Technical Programs for complete information on each of the AAAS degrees offered.

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