Associate of Arts Transfer Degrees

Associate of Arts Direct Transfer Agreement
(AA-DTA)

The Associate of Arts Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA) degree is designed to transfer to four-year colleges and universities in Washington state.

DTA degrees provide students:

• Priority consideration in the admissions for most humanities and social science majors public universities ahead of students without a degree.
• Completion of lower division general education requirements.
• Credit for all courses completed within the DTA up to and in some cases beyond 90 credits.
• Opportunity to explore several fields of study through the category of up to 30 credits of elective courses.
• Opportunity to complete prerequisites for a future major.

Students who transfer within these agreements must still meet requirements in major, minor and professional programs.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the AA-DTA program will be able to:

Natural Sciences Outcomes 

• Demonstrate scientific literacy in terms of methodology, terminology, and fundamental concepts underlying at least one natural system. 
• Analyze data and interpret the results from scientific investigations. 
• Evaluate conclusions from scientific modeling, experimentation, or science-related articles. 
• Apply mathematics and computational thinking to critically evaluate and solve problems in the natural world. 

Social Sciences Outcomes 

• Understanding the range of methods by which the social sciences study individuals, cultures, and societies. 
• Rigorously apply concepts and tools from the social sciences to explain or analyze a social phenomenon, process, event, conflict, or issue. 
• Objectively identify the social variables, structures, and experiences that shape an individual’s point of view, including one’s own. 
• Recognize the nature of power and privilege. 

Humanities Outcomes 

• Evaluate and apply disciplinary approaches in the context of creative expression and human experience. 
• Analyze and interpret personal, societal, and/or historical experiences that interact with aesthetic values. 
• Engage and interact effectively with diverse audiences using the discourse of a given discipline. 

General Education Learning Outcomes

Think

Think analytically, logically, creatively, and reflectively.

• Recognize how the values and biases in different disciplines can affect the ways in which information and knowledge are created and analyzed
• Analyze issues and develop questions within a discipline
• Access, interpret, and evaluate relevant information to reach defensible conclusions
• Develop unique and/or innovative solutions and gain insight utilizing reflective and creative thought processes

Quantify

Apply mathematical skills quantitatively, logically, creatively, and critically.

• Use mathematical principles and methods to reason, gain insight, and solve problems
• Interpret data presented in various formats

Communicate

Produce and exchange ideas and information through written, spoken, and visual forms.

• Read, comprehend, and produce college level writing
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal, group, and/or public communication skills
• Develop appropriate communication strategies to inform, persuade, or entertain
• Demonstrate informational, critical, and empathetic listening skills appropriate to a given context
• Analyze, interpret, and/or create visually communicated content

Integrate

Apply knowledge, skills, and methodologies from multiple disciplines.

• Recognize the interconnectedness of diverse disciplines and areas of study
• Identify the strengths and limitations of different disciplinary frameworks and methodologies and their implementation
• Identify and evaluate the relationships among different perspectives within a field of study or among different fields of study
• Demonstrate cognitive complexity by considering issues from multiple perspectives

Engage

Interact with humans and the environment informed by an understanding of equity.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the historically and socially constructed nature of human differences, with a particular focus on power and privilege
• Identify prevailing systems of power and one’s individual and group status
• Reflect critically on one’s ethical role and identity as a citizen, consumer, student, and environmental actor
• Apply cross-cultural communication strategies and skills appropriate to a given context

Washington Colleges & Universities Accepting the AA-DTA Degree from Skagit Valley College

• Bastyr University
• Central Washington University
• City University
• Cornish College of the Arts
• Eastern Washington University
• The Evergreen State College
• Gonzaga University
• Northwest University
• Pacific Lutheran University
• Seattle Pacific University
• University of Washington (including Bothell and Tacoma campuses)
• Washington State University
• Western Washington University
• Whitworth University

Statewide Transfer Degrees by Major

To help transfer students become better prepared in selected academic majors, Skagit offers the following degrees that transfer to Washington State four-year institutions: 

• Biology Direct Transfer Agreement, DTA/MRP    
• Business Direct Transfer Agreement, DTA/MRP  
• Computer Science DTA/MRP   
• Education, A.Ed.  
• Fire Service Administration, AAS-T   
• Music Direct Transfer Agreement, DTA/MRP    
• Associate in Nursing Direct Transfer Agreement, DTA/MRP   
• Associate in Pre-Nursing Direct Transfer Agreement, DTA/MRP    
• Environmental Sustainable Agriculture Education, AAS-T   
• Associate in Science - Transfer Track #1, AS-T   
• Associate in Science - Transfer Track #2, AS-T    

Articulated Academic Transfer Degrees

Skagit also offers the following articulated academic transfer degrees: Visual Arts, AVA  transfers to WSU.

Professional/Technical Degree Transfers

A number of Skagit’s Associate in Applied Science Transfer Degrees (AAS-T) offer transfer options to four-year institutions. See Degrees & Certificates Quick View  for more information.