Arts, Media & Culture
Arts, Media & Culture provides you with the skills necessary to turn your love of creativity into a successful career.
"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."
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
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
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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...
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...
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
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 Sciences
- & more...
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...
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...
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