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Arts & Sciences/University Transfer

We understand you have many options for pursuing your education, so we are excited that you decided to enroll in a program offered by A-B Tech’s Division of Arts & Sciences.

Arts & Sciences and University Transfer Programs

 

Dedicated to your success, we strive to give you a quality educational experience. Our outstanding faculty have experience in neurosurgery, cancer research, military public relations, and the film and television industry. Published authors, working artists, and Fulbright Scholars teach our courses. Our students have opportunities to travel to exciting locations abroad, participate in the international award-winning Alpha Upsilon Eta Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, show their work in the Student Art Show, participate in Pi Day activities with the Mathematics department, and attend talks about math and science through the STEM Friday's lecture series. From foreign languages to physics, we have something for you.

Explore Arts & Sciences options below or get help with university transfer programs and advising from our Program Advising Center. 

Programs

Title Credential Credit Hours Link to program details
Associate in Arts (A.A.) Degree Degree 60 ‌‌
Associate in Engineering (A.E.) Degree Degree 60 ‌‌
Associate in Fine Arts in Visual Arts (A.F.A.) Degree Degree 60 ‌‌
Associate in Science (A.S.) Degree Degree 60 ‌‌
General Occupational Technology (A.A.S.) Degree 64 ‌‌

Faculty and Staff

Steve Heulett

Dean, Division of Arts and Sciences

 

Pam Baker

Administrative Assistant

 

Cindy Ingle

Administrative Assistant

Kelly McEnany

Department Chair, Behavioral Sciences

"There are no throw-away people." — Susan Burton

 

Marin Clontz

Instructor, Psychology

“Value people. Care about people. Help them be the best they can be." — Former NC Governor Jim

"Relationships matter; everything else is just stuff." — Marin Clontz

 

Kimberly Hayes

Instructor, Sociology

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." — Maya Angelou

 

Robin Howse

Instructor, Psychology

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat." — Vladimir Lenin

 

Samantha Johnson

Instructor, Psychology

"Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world." — Polykarp Kusch

 

Steven Luke

Instructor, Psychology

"...for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." — (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Nga Pace

Department Chair, Biology

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." — Marie Curie

 

Audra Bassett-Touchell

Instructor, Biology

"It’s only when you’re flying above it that your realize how incredible the Earth really is." — Philippe Perrin

 

Helen Burrell

Instructor, Biology

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." — Jon Muir

 

Amanda Chapman

Instructor, Biology

 

Cynthia Eayre

Instructor, Biology

 

Christina Manee

Instructor, Biology

"Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein

 

Scott Paxon

Associate Chair, Biology

"Evolution is one of the half-dozen shattering ideas that science has developed to overturn past hopes and assumptions, and to enlighten our current thoughts." — Stephen Jay Gould

 

Camille Paxton

Instructor, Biology

"Non-Satis Scire - To Know is Not Enough"

 

Karly Sindy

Lab Manager/Instructor

 

Milton "Buddy" Tignor

Instructor, Biology

"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party." — Jimmy Buffett

Dr. Brad Scott

Department Chair

 

Sandy Dantone

Instructor, BA

 

Ghassan Dib

Instructor

 

Carol Hughes

Instructor, BA & Accounting

 

Kevin Warth

Instructor

Susan Schwarz

Department Chair, Chemistry and Physics

"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated." — Rosalind Franklin

 

Shannon Bonomi

Instructor, Physics

 

Candice Henderson

Instructor, Chemistry

“Beginnings are always messy.” - John Galsworthy

 

Joseph Holmes

Instructor, Physics

 

Evan Lunt

Instructor, Chemistry

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." — Louis Pasteur

 

Glenn Ratcliff

Instructor, Chemistry

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." — Carl Sagan

 

Suzanne Willis

Instructor, Chemistry

"The more I study science, the more I believe in God." — Albert Einstein

Rebekah Handy

Department Chair, Communication

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." — Wayne Gretzky

 

Martha Gates

Instructor, Communication

 

Curtis Philon

Instructor, Communication

 

William D. Rhodarmer

Instructor, Arts, and Graphic Design

"Most art is sincere and most art is bad, though, of course, some insincere art (sincerely, insincere) is quite good." — Igor Stravinsky

 

Ani Volkan

Instructor, Arts

Heather Vaughn

Department Chair, English

"I've put up with too much too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less." — Sandra Cisneros from Woman Hollering Cree

 

Jennifer Browning

Instructor, English

Email: jenniferlbrowning@abtech.edu

"All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment." — Eudora Welty

 

Eleanor Macken

"Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place." — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver

 

Erik Moellering

Instructor, English

"You can get all A's and still flunk life." — Walker Percy

 

Dr. Chelsey Patterson

"It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect." — Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

 

Margaret Poist

Instructor, English

"Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?" — Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"Love's not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point." — William Shakespeare, King Lear

 

Lisa York

Instructor, English

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tammy Sullivan

Department Chair, Mathematics

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein

 

Holly Bass

Instructor, Mathematics

 

Malgorzata J. Chockla

Instructor, Mathematics

"Change is the end result of all true learning." — Leo Buscaglia

 

Taylor Conn

Instructor, Mathematics

"A professor is one who can speak on any subject—for precisely fifty minutes." — Norbert Wiener

 

Joshua Cushman

Instructor, Mathematics

"I truly enjoy working here at A-B Tech with my colleagues, and appreciate the attitude, energy and diversity of our student population." — Joshua Cushman

 

Griffin Dodd

Instructor, Mathematics

 

Mathew Knowlen

Instructor, Mathematics

"If you only take general math, then you’ll only make general money.” — Snoop Dog

 

Valerie Martin

Instructor, Mathematics

"Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world." — Archimedes

 

Jillian McMeans

Instructor

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty." — Bertrand Russell

 

Cindy Moore

Instructor, Mathematics

"Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them." — Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)

 

Jennifer Tracy

Instructor, Mathematics

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." — Michael Jordan

 

James Wilson

Instructor, Mathematics

"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple" — Stan Gudder

April Birchfield

Department Chair, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Foreign Language

"Docendo discimus."

 

Casey Boyatt

Instructor, Spanish

 

Patricia Furnish

Instructor, Spanish

 

Sun Kondal

Instructor, Humanities

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." — Albert Einstein

 

John Martin

Instructor, History

"People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." — James Baldwin

 

Austin Mitchell

Instructor, History

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." — Frank Herbert

 

Melanie Parham

Instructor, French

"Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery." — Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother