Jefferson Community College

Accounting

The Accounting Certificate program is designed to prepare you for entry- level accounting positions in business and industry. The program provides you with a concentration in accounting theory courses and may be completed in one year of full-time study or done on a part-time basis over an extended period of time.

Accounting (A.A.S.)

The analysis and reports are relied upon by individuals and organizations to make financial decisions. Responsibilities may include: After you graduate with your Accounting A.A.S. Employment in the accounting field is expected to have steady growth for the next several years. Proficiency in accounting and auditing computer software, and expertise in specialized areas such as international business, specific industries, or current legislation, is in demand.

Accounting (A.S.)

Learn accounting fundamentals and complete general college requirements at Jefferson before seamlessly transferring to SUNY Polytechnic, SUNY Oswego, or another four-year college to complete a bachelor’s degree. You’ll take core classes in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, plus general business and accounting classes—essentially your first two years of a bachelor’s degree program.

Addiction Studies

Addiction Studies

Addiction Treatment Training Level 1

The microcredential in Addiction Treatment Training Level 1 will enable students to demonstrate competency in several key areas including: outline the current approaches to prevention of alcohol and nicotine addiction, examine the signs, symptoms, and stages of the various classes of drug addiction and to explain the unique characteristics of case management in substance abuse.

Agri-Business

The program consists of core requirements in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences in addition to an in-depth concentration in agri-business and business administration. Major emphasis is placed upon agri-business operations, marketing, sales and management of agricultural products. Jobs such as agricultural supply store manager, farm owner, agronomy technician, farm machinery salesperson are some options. Agriculture is a major employer in the northern New York region.

Agri-Business and Hospitality

The Agri-Business and Hospitality Micro-Credential will provide producer training on entrepreneurship, marketing, sanitation and safety and food and beverage management. The goal of the microcredential is to increase producers knowledge and product availability to the local community.

Allied Health & Biological Sciences

This specific concentration focuses on knowledge and skills needed for success in a wide range of natural science and health care fields. You’ll take classes in life sciences and health care disciplines, learn about the biology of living things and how they interact with the environment, and use scientific investigation principles to solve complex problems. Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts & Sciences, A.S.

Applied Business Studies

The Associate of Occupational Studies (A.O.S.) degree in Applied Business Studies program is designed to allow students with pre-existing skills and/or credit to supplement those skills and prepare them for a variety of positions in business, management or entrepreneurship. The program is unique in that a student can transfer up to 20 credits hours of prior learning experience including professional elective credits earned during military service and beyond.

Business Administration (A.A.S.)

Specialize in finance and accounting, entrepreneurship, marketing, law, and general management. As a graduate with a Business Administration A.A.S. Work in business, while demanding, can offer excellent financial rewards and a chance to work with advanced technologies and interesting people. The most significant trends facing today’s business graduate are the globalizing of business, the explosive growth of Internet business, and the volatile shifts of the economy and the stock and bond markets.

Business Administration (A.S.)

Complete your first two years of study in business at Jefferson then transfer to a four-year college to finish your bachelor’s degree. Your Jefferson associate’s degree in business administration will position you for success in whatever bachelor’s program you select. Choose one of our partner schools for a more seamless transition.

Business Administration A.S./B.S.

Business Leadership

The microcredential in Business Leadership will enable learners to demonstrate competency in various aspects of business that are essential to leadership, including entrepreneurship, accounting, and communications.

Childhood Education

More than 50% of this degree can be completed with online courses offered at Jefferson. The remainder of the coursework may be completed through Open SUNY. Jefferson shapes our future childhood teachers (grades 1-6) by providing a well rounded education in math, science and core education principles. You can choose to focus your efforts on the area you want to teach in and you will enjoy fieldwork and engaging with youth while learning.

Childhood Education (Birth-Grade 2)

Jefferson partners with SUNY Potsdam to help students earn an associate’s degree in childhood education (birth-grade 2) followed by a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood/Childhood Education (birth-grade transferring without interruption. SUNY Potsdam education courses and classes in some concentration areas can then be taken at Jefferson. No need to travel to Potsdam. When you graduate from SUNY Potsdam, you’ll be ready to teach children from early childhood through second grade.

Childhood Education (Birth-Grade 6)

Jefferson partners with SUNY Potsdam to help students earn an associate’s degree in childhood education (birth-grade 6) followed by a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood/Childhood Education (birth-grade transferring without interruption to SUNY Potsdam. SUNY Potsdam education courses and classes in some concentration areas can then be taken at Jefferson. No need to travel to Potsdam. When you graduate from SUNY Potsdam, you’ll be ready to teach children from early childhood through sixth grade.

Computer Information Systems

As a student, you’ll gain hands-on experience in business and computer information systems, how to create the systems and the appropriate structure. If you are in the program, you are required to buy or lease a computer for home use. Computer Requirements: Students entering this program are required to purchase or lease a professional computer system for home use. Computers are an integral part of all course instruction within the Computer Information Systems A.S.

Computer Information Technology

The College designed a program that prepares you to be a technology generalist able to solve today’s challenges with computers and technology. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a variety of information technology (IT) areas, including software application use and customization, programming, database design and implementation, web page development, and networking technology.

Computer Science

It’s designed for students who intend to transfer and complete a bachelor’s degree. And you’ll take the core classes you need to transfer to a four-year college or university to pursue a bachelor’s degree in computer science or mathematics. The program is designed for students interested in computers and their applications who have an aptitude for math and science. Applicants are strongly encouraged to have three to four years of high school mathematics and three years of science.

Creative Writing

Discover personal and career interests as you prepare to transfer to a four-year college or university. Complete core requirements in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and the natural sciences balanced with elective classes of your choice. Prepare for a career in teaching, government, law, the arts, and countless other fields with a general liberal arts emphasis. Employers want to hire people who communicate ideas, solve problems, and lead teams.

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

The 63 credit-hour program includes core classes in criminal evidence, criminal administrative procedures, technical writing, psychology, sociology, and American government. You can also choose from electives including community corrections, sex-crime investigations, and interviews and interrogations that will help you sharpen your skills and make informed judgments. Graduate ready for future studies at a four-year college or a law enforcement academy or put your skills to work right away.

Culinary Arts

You’ll take classes in culinary theory and practice, event management, and sanitation and safety, and learn from professional chefs and winemakers. Plus, you’ll gain hands-on experience working as an intern or preparing dinners and luncheons in our professional-quality kitchen and dining facilities. Graduate ready for some of the best jobs in hotels and restaurants, tourism, wineries and craft breweries, and more.

Direct Support Professional 1

The microcredential in Direct Support Professional 1 (DSP1) will enable students to demonstrate competency in several key areas including understanding human services organization structures and functions, ethical behavior in the workplace, the importance of interpersonal communication skills.

Direct Support Professional 2

The Direct Support Professional 2 (DSP2) microcredential empowers students to demonstrate competency in several key areas, including understanding healthcare organization structures and functions, the importance of case management skills, and improving students' capabilities in research, information literacy awareness, and written and oral communication.

Early Childhood

Jefferson’s Early Childhood Certificate prepares students working in the field the opportunity to expand your knowledge of educating young children and skills for advancement in the early childhood field. One fieldwork placement is required and you could be placed with area Head Start programs, Fort Drum Child Development Centers, Jefferson Community College Campus Care, day care centers, family day care, or early intervention programs.

Early Childhood (A.A.S.)

Two fieldwork placements are required and you could be placed with area Head Start programs, Fort Drum Child Development Centers, Jefferson Community College Early Childhood Learning Center (Campus Care), day care centers, family day care, and early intervention programs. The program consists of 62 hours of academic credit, with 21 hours directly in early childhood care education. Plus, you will enjoy a highly satisfying career in a growing field.

Early Childhood (A.S.)

Jefferson graduates have been placed with area Head Start programs, Fort Drum Child Development Centers, Jefferson Community College Campus Care, day care centers, family day care, and early intervention programs. The program consists of 62 hours of academic credit, including the bulk of general education classes, and 15 hours in early childhood care and education. Studies show that children who attend preschool are better prepared socially, emotionally, and academically for kindergarten.

Engineering Science

Applicants are strongly encouraged to have four years of high school mathematics, including precalculus, plus physics, chemistry, and four years of English. Students in the program are required to buy or lease a computer that meets minimum specifications. Once you graduate with a bachelor's degree, you'll be ready to start your career in a field that's expected to grow by as much as 10 percent over the next decade.

Fire Protection Technology

Fire Protection Technology

Once you graduate you will be able to provide emergency fire service, emergency medical service, emergency rescue service, emergency hazardous material service, and non-emergency services (such as code enforcement and equipment status records); maintain facilities; and participate in public relations activities (such as presentations, parades, and tours).

Fundamentals of Effective Communication

The microcredential in Fundamentals of Effective Communication will enable students to demonstrate competency in various aspects of public speaking and interpersonal communication as it relates to all disciplines, specifically in terms of understanding communication styles and theories and developing effective communication skills to lead employees, customers, students or shareholders and investors.

Health Care Management

The program includes liberal arts courses to provide a broad-based general education, plus technology and business courses to enhance the foundational component in health care. This degree is appropriate for students who wish to pursue positions with hospitals, physicians’ offices, clinics, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, and numerous other types of healthcare-related facilities.

Healthcare Management 1

The microcredential in Health Care Management 1 will enable students to demonstrate competency in various aspects of healthcare office management including medical terminology, spreadsheet applications and introduction to health care management.

Healthcare Management 2

The microcredential in Health Care Management will enable students to demonstrate competency in various aspects of healthcare office management, with a focus on accounting and finance in the health care industry. A student could complete this microcredential independently of the Health Care Management 1 microcredential.

Homeland Security

Whether you’re a recent high-school graduate, a military veteran, or an experienced law enforcement officer, Jefferson’s Homeland Security A.S. Our curriculum teaches you to analyze evidence and intelligence data, identify security risks, and devise response plans to protect the United States and its citizens. You’ll focus on preventing and investigating crimes, apprehending suspected criminals, and managing public safety at the local, state, or federal levels.

Hospitality

The Hospitality microcredential will provide those looking to start their career in hospitality with the background to work in a customer-focused industry, while learning necessary skills such as basic hospitality, customer service, sanitation and safety, and beverage management.

Hospitality & Tourism

The Hospitality & Tourism Certificate will prepare you to explore careers in the hospitality, food service, tourism, and recreation industries. This Certificate will provide an edge to your resume if you are looking to enter the field or have been working for some time. Graduate ready for some of the best jobs in hotels and restaurants, tourism, wineries and craft breweries, and more.

Hospitality & Tourism

Hotel/Restaurant Management

Humanities & Social Sciences

Human Services

You’ll develop skills required to meet the needs of patients and clients, including interviewing, advocacy, assessment, counseling, case management, program development, and evaluation. You’ll also complete your first two years of study toward a bachelor’s degree in therapy, education, counseling, social work, or other related fields.

Individual Studies (A.A.)

One size does not have to fit all when it comes to your education. Choose from any number of disciplines to create a unique degree program that reflects your individual interests and career goals. You’ll pick classes to explore while completing a liberal arts core in the humanities, social sciences, and science and mathematics.

Individual Studies (A.A.S.)

Choose Approximately Eight Liberal Arts Courses 24 Minimum 60 hours of which 30 are to be Liberal Arts and Sciences with reasonable distribution among humanities, social sciences, and math/ science. No more than 12 credits of physical education activity or equivalent coursework may be used to satisfy free elective requirements.

Individual Studies (A.S.)

Instead, pursue classes that meet your individual academic and career goals, then use that experience to continue your education at a four-year college or university or to find entry- level work in the field of your choice. There are few limits to what you can accomplish with this unique degree option.

Kitchen Basics

The Kitchen Basics microcredential will provide those looking to start their career in the culinary industry with the background to work in the food service field, while learning necessary skills such as basic culinary, sanitation and safety, and beverage management.

Mathematics

Non-Profit Leadership

JCC's non-profit leadership microcredential program prepares students to demonstrate competency in leadership characteristics and behaviors; demonstrate an understanding of non-profit culture, organizational goals, and strategies. Students who successfully complete the program will have an understanding of best practices for exceptional leadership and knowledge to establish strategies for success and identify opportunities to improve.

Nursing

Grade point average: Cumulative GPA or 2.5 or higher or high school graduation grade average of 75 or higher. Satisfy BOTH of the following criteria to meet all prerequisites for one semester of college chemistry (equivalent to CHE 107: Introduction Satisfy ONE of the following criteria to meet all prerequisites for Satisfy ONE of the following criteria to meet the prerequisites for Students entering this program are required to purchase or lease a computer laptop for in-classroom use.

Office Studies

Jefferson’s Office Certificate is designed to prepare you for administrative and clerical support roles in virtually all business and office settings in a one year format. Work in the business world by providing assistance to executives by coordinating and directing office services, such as staff assignments, records management, budget control, and special management studies.

Office Technologies - Administrative Assistant

Work in the business world by providing assistance to executives by coordinating and directing office services, such as staff assignments, records management, budget control, and special management studies. Specific careers include administrative assistant, office manager, executive secretary, and other administrative professional positions.

Office Technologies - Medical

You’ll take classes in medical terminology, health care documentation, medical ethics, and medical office administration, as well as foundational classes in business and the liberal arts. You’ll also learn to use current computer software to process medical documents, simulate scheduling of patients, enter insurance/billing data, and maintain medical office records. Graduate with marketable skills that can be used immediately in health care settings.

Paralegal

In addition, if you wish to go on to law school, you will experience the “case method” approach, which is the preferred teaching method in many law schools. Most law courses or topics within this program are similar to those taught in law school. Plan to work at law offices, financial institutions, or government offices, or you may operate your own business. Paralegal employment is ideal if you wish to pursue law school admission.

Physical Education

Physical Science

Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts & Sciences, A.S.

Psychology

Software Development

Upon completion of the Software Development microcredential, students will be able to create accurate and complete top-down designs, algorithms, and programs with functions and/or objects in computer programming languages currently used in industry and to use data modeling methods such as stacks, queues, linked lists, and tree structures.

Sports Management

Take your passion for sports and recreation to a new level with Jefferson’s Sports Management A.S. You’ll learn to handle the business side of sports with classes in sports management, economics, marketing, and accounting. Plus, you’ll be well on your way to earn a bachelor’s degree in this exciting field. Sports are big business comprising not only teams and players, but also event facilities, merchandising, tickets and operations, marketing, and more.

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant Level II

The microcredential in Teacher Assistant Level 2 is designed for teacher assistants already at level I. To reach level II, a student must complete nine college credits. The three college courses will enable students to demonstrate competency in writing (ENG 101), understanding the principles of education (EDU 210), and basic knowledge from an introductory psychology class (PSY 133).

Teaching Assistant Level III

The Teacher Assistant Level 3 microcredential is designed for teacher assistants who have already earned the Teacher Assistant Level 2 microcredential from Jefferson. To reach level 3, a student must complete nine college credits. The three college courses will enable students to demonstrate competency in public speaking (STA 151), American History (HIS 150), and child and adolescent psychology (PSY 220).

Winery Management and Marketing