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Your TCC Path: Creative Arts, Literature, and Communication

Explore Endless Opportunities

This is your path to stretch your creative muscles and launch or accelerate your career in the arts and communications fields. If you're looking to develop your skills in oral, written, and digital media or strengthen your expertise in visual art and music, this is the path for you.

Creating a Path to Success

Getting Started

Do you have the tools you need to succeed?
Do you need to get to college level?
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Looking to improve your English skills?
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Have questions about transferring your prior credits?
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Want to earn college credits while in high school?
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Learning Within This Pathway

The Creative Arts, Literature, and Communication Pathway is for students seeking to refine their communication strategies, styles, and interpersonal skills needed for the workforce. Express your creativity through art and music, improve your writing skills for diverse audiences and purposes, champion inclusion and social justice advocacy, and expand your cultural understanding through world language and intercultural studies. Join us in promoting inclusion and positive change while gaining marketable skills.

Start off your first quarter with a Learning Community. These cohorts help set students up for success in navigating college, and could save you time and money by helping you identify your career and degree goals right away.

 

Beyond This Pathway

 

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Earn a degree or a certificate. Explore all of our programs and find one that matches your interests and goals. An associate degree is a college degree that typically takes two years to complete for a full-time student. Associate degrees provide students with the skills and knowledge to enter the workforce or continue their education. A bachelor degree is a college degree that typically takes fours years to complete for a full-time student. TCC offers a variety of Bachelor of Applied Science degrees that are designed specifically for working professionals and offer training for advancement within specific career paths. Certificates help you prepare for a new career, advance your existing skills, or enter the job market. They can either be earned as stand-alone options or be applied to a college degree.

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Support for Success & Well-Being

Tuition & Payment

TCC is typically 1/3 the cost of a state university. Find out about how much college costs so you can plan for your finances.

Financial Aid

Nearly 60 percent of all TCC students receive some kind of financial aid to help pay for school. We can help you make an investment in your education.

Ways to Pay

There are resources to help you pay for college, including scholarships, grants, workforce education funding, student emergency funds, and much more.

Veterans Benefits

Service members, military veterans, and their families have unique needs when it comes to furthering their educational goals.

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