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The Upside-Down Degree
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A Program for Graduates with Technieal Degrees POWGLAS poets

 

 

Fairhaven College, a cluster college
of Western Washington State College,
has available an upside-down de-
gree program for graduates of
technical arts Programs from
community colleges. The
normal route to the B.A,
calls for the general
education experience to
come during the first
two years and the
major during the
last two. This pro-
gram reverses this pro-
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Under this program the tech-
nical work completed in an as-
sociate of arts program will trans- .
fer into Fairhaven as the major (with
full 90 credits). Students will then

take qeneral courses during their junior
and senior years.

 

 

 

Fairhaven's general education requirements are
20 hours of humanities, and 12 hours each of social and natural sciences.
Otherwise all courses are electives. The means for fulfilling the require-
ments is deliberately kept loose, and there is the flexibility in schedul-
ing and the counseling to permit shaping general education requirements to
fit each individual.

 

The progran is designed for students who have a strong professional associ-
ate of arts degree coupled with a desire to continue learning and to fit
thetr professional studies into the larger questions and challenges of life.
it ts also important that prospective students respond positively to the
style of independent learning encouraged by Fairhaven,

Applicants use the regular transfer applications for WWSC. The words "up-
Side-down degree" should be clearly written at the top of the application.
In addition to this application to Western, there is a Fairhaven applica-
tion form which is sent either on request or after the initial application
to Western has been processed. Fairhaven seeks more subjective information
about its applicants and also asks for letters of recommendation. These
should be from persons who are in a position to comment on the quality of
one's academic work.

'f there are questions or if you wish further information about Fairhaven,
write or call either Hannah Wegner or Ken Freeman, Fairhaven College, Bell-
ingham, Washington 98225,