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The Arts and Sciences Program provides a wide range of course offerings in the Liberal Arts for all students at the College. Some students only take several courses in the program, but many enroll in the two-year sequences leading to the Associate in Arts degree. A large number of students in the Arts and Sciences Program plan to transfer to four-year colleges and universities as sophomores or juniors after one or two years at Tri·C. They are enrolled in what is usually referred to as the University Parallel curriculum, courses paralleling those offered in the first two years of a four-year institution. Credits earned in this curriculum may be transferred to colleges and universities as the first and second years of a Bachelor's degree program. Tri-C's University Parallel curriculum includes many courses designed to prepare students for upper division study in such specialized fields as medicine, dentistry, law, business, education, engineering and