Create your career-ready field of study at JCC
The Individual Studies A.A.S. degree at Jamestown Community College prepares you to enter the workforce after graduation and pursue careers based on your interests, experiences, and career goals.
If you’re undecided about your career path, or you’re looking for a program that JCC doesn’t offer, you can customize your curriculum and explore disciplines while earning a degree designed for employment after JCC.
You’ll work with your advisor to connect your interests and goals with possible careers. Your studies will build skills in critical thinking, communication, and information literacy as you take career courses.
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Individual studies skills
After you complete the program, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate basic competency in college-level quantitative reasoning skills, including arithmetic, algebra, and data analysis.
- Demonstrate competency in college level reading and writing skills.
- Understand and employ contemporary research methods to locate, evaluate, and synthesize information from a variety of sources.
- Identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments as they occur in their own or other’s work; develop well-reasoned arguments, and assess the adequacy of both qualitative and quantitative evidence.
- Recognize the value of learning as an ongoing process and understand their role in directing that process through individualizing a program of study.