Housatonic to offer B.A. studies

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme- mso-fareast- mso-fareast-theme- mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme- mso-bidi- mso-bidi-theme-} For the first time this fall, Housatonic Community College will host a four-year bachelor”™s degree, in an arrangement with Wheelock College in Boston.

Wheelock College is offering the final two years of a bachelor”™s degree program in human development at HCC”™s Bridgeport campus, accepting students with HCC associate”™s degrees in early childhood education.

HCC has transfer agreements in place with more than a dozen other schools, including Fairfield University; Sacred Heart University in Fairfield; the University of Bridgeport; the University of Connecticut Stamford; and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. The Wheelock program marks the first time it has allowed students to complete a bachelor”™s degree on campus, however.