Arts, Media & Culture
Arts, Media & Culture provides you with the skills necessary to turn your love of creativity into a successful career.
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"I’m getting a second chance to do what I want to, what I didn’t even know I wanted to do. This isn’t a hobby or something to do on the side; I can make money and pay my mortgage."
![Photographer Paul Coleman](/sites/default/files/styles/120x120/public/2024-05/Paul%20Coleman21_01.jpg?itok=N6RwsTeO)
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Workforce training offerings
Microcredentials are groups of credit-bearing courses that help you gain career skills. You can use them toward a degree or certificate program, or as credentials in your field of interest. Offering three different microcredentials in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop basics
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Early College Career Academy
SUNY Adirondack partners with area school districts and WSWHE BOCES to offer a unique blend of college credited coursework and career/technical education. Students spend a half-day on campus their junior and senior years studying New Media (Graphic Design).
What our Arts, Media and Culture graduates do
Our graduates transfer to the following colleges:
- Castleton University
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- Johnson and Wales University
- Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
- SUNY Buffalo State
- SUNY Delhi
- SUNY Empire State
- SUNY Fredonia
- SUNY New Paltz
- SUNY Oneonta
- SUNY Oswego
- SUNY Plattsburgh
- SUNY Potsdam
- Paul Smith’s College
- Savannah College of Art and Design
- University at Albany
Kevin Ankeny
- Distinguished professor of Broadcast Media Production
- Advisor to WGFR and Adirondack Broadcast Association
Matt Bolton
- Instructor of Culinary Arts
- Chef
John Hampshire
- Professor of Fine Art
Adriana Umaña Hossman
- Assistant professor of World Languages
- Advisor to the World Studies Club; High School Academy liaison; supervisor to World Languages Tutoring Lab
Dynia Mariano
- Instructor of Baking/Pastry Arts and Dining Room
P. Kathleen McCoy
- Distinguished professor of English
- Writers Project director
Nick Paigo
- Professor of Graphic Arts
- Media Arts Club advisor; Arts, Media & Culture academic advisor
Rebecca Pelchar
- Assistant professor of Art History
- Curator of the SUNY Adirondack Art Collection and director of the Visual Arts Gallery
Nancy White
- Distinguished professor of English
- English Division chair
- bishopb@sunyacc.edu
- 518-743-2285
- 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday
- Dearlove Hall, Room 106
- ericksonj@sunyacc.edu
- 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday
- Washington Hall
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1+1 programs
SUNY Adirondack teams with other SUNY institutions to offer 1+1 programs. SUNY Adirondack offers the first year of a degree program, then students transfer to another college to finish an associate degree.
- Environmental and Resource Conservation 1+1 program
- Forest Tech 1+1 program
- Histotechnician 1+1 program
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Arts, Media & Culture
Arts, Media & Culture provides you with the skills necessary to turn your love of creativity into a successful career.
- Broadcast Media Production
- Culinary and Baking Arts
- Culinary Arts
- Culinary certificate
- & more...
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Business
Start your business career — in accounting, hospitality, agribusiness or as an entrepreneur — at SUNY Adirondack.
- Accounting
- Agricultural Business
- Business Administration
- Entrepreneurship & Business Management certificate
- & more...
![Nursing professors evaluate a student's work in a nursing simulation lab on SUNY Adirondack's Queensbury campus](/sites/default/files/styles/512x659/public/2024-06/577x745-healthsciences.jpg?h=29e06061&itok=468zE9-W)
Health Sciences
SUNY Adirondack's Health Sciences pathway prepares students for the college's rigorous Nursing degree program, and other careers in the booming health care industry.
- Nursing
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Humanities and Social Sciences
SUNY Adirondack offers many areas of study in our Liberal Arts and Sciences track. SUNY Adirondack's Humanities and Social Science degree program provides a diverse education. Students choose from literature, philosophy, history, economics, fine arts, theater and psychology.
- Creative Writing
- Criminal Justice: Police Science
- Criminal Justice: Substance Abuse Services
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Social Science — Individual Studies
- & more...
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Math and Science
SUNY Adirondack's Liberal Arts: Math and Science program provides a diverse education. Math and Science students are creative thinkers who generate new ideas.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Adolescence Education Mathematics concentration
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Health Education concentration
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Mathematics concentration
- & more...
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Technology, Engineering and Computer Science
SUNY Adirondack offers several programs within TECS, to ensure you develop the skills you need for a successful career in these diverse fields.
- Computer Science
- Engineering Science
- Information Technology: Computer Networking
- Information Technology: Cybersecurity
- & more...