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Special Studies
Seattle Community Colleges offer a variety of special study areas.
Applied Academics
Seattle Community Colleges offer applied academics courses in communications, mathematics,
science and humanities for all students working toward a technical degree.
Applied academics integrate technical/academic concepts with examples from technical speciality areas. Applied
academics courses are competency-based; emphasize cooperative learning; respond to diverse learning
styles; recognize cultural diversity; stress the application of principles, laws, formulas and rules;
and are taught using real-world situations.
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Coordinated Studies Program
Coordinated studies programs offer an alternative to the traditional individual course approach.
These programs are based on specific themes and synthesize knowledge and ideas across different
disciplines to help students understand patterns and make connections among different schools of
knowledge, and to integrate their studies with personal experience and intellectual growth.
A typical program might meet three days a week for five hours daily. The course may include workshops,
seminars, lectures, field trips and writing assignments. Seminars play a crucial role in the learning
process, in which participants learn to analyze and critique arguments, cooperate in group discussion,
read critically and debate logically. Writing assignments allow students to clarify and express their
ideas and make connections among many subjects.
Coordinated studies represents an integrated educational approach. Consequently, students should
be aware that a common grade is given for the program, although it is reported separately by subject
for transfer purposes. Courses within coordinated studies may apply to the A.A. degree and may transfer
to other colleges and universities.
NOTE: This program is not sequential; therefore, students may register at the beginning of any quarter.
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Foreign Study & Travel Courses
Students can get credit for foreign study and travel. Visit
SCCD Students Abroad
for further information.