I want to be a College Professor in Humanities, what would be the best program for me at a 2 year college?

Question

Want to be a college professor in Humanties but do not know what to take as major in junior college. and then on to regular university. they offer humanities but what about the education part? I know I will need at least my masters to start out teaching at a junior college level, then later I can obtain my PhD. But I want to know the best way to go about this, since I have started late in life on my college career. I want to do it as fast as I can the best way that I can.

Answer 1

You say the humanities but I ask which of the humanities is it that you want to concentrate on? Maybe history? In any case, what you need to do in order to achieve this in a relatively short and inexpensive manner is the following: attend a community college, get your G.E.'s (General Ed. courses) out of the way, and if possible aim at getting an A.A. (It may not seem as much, but it fits well as part of your acumen.) Afterward, transfer over to a university -- a state university is just as fine, do not be mislead by much of the nonsense that goes around about these schools sucking or worse subpar evaluations -- and get your bachelor's. By this time, if all goes well --i.e., if you considered going even to summer school, it should have taken you no more than 3 1/2 or four years, tops to have gotten the B.A. If it is in your ability to do so, remain in the same institution or else transfer to another of your liking and begin immediately to work on your master's. If you were to attend all year round, you might finish in 1 1/2 years (2 tops) and have your M.A. so as to be able to teach at the junior college level (as you correctly identified above). After that, the Ph.D takes another four years of school to get, and for that I cannot help or say anything because I have yet to reach that level of contemplation. As is, I'm currently going for two master's myself in Philosophy and Political Science. Be that as it may, hope to have provided some help.

Answer 2

There really isn't any one major or field--at a two-year college or otherwise--that prepares one to be a college professor. At this point, you shouldn't worry so much about graduate school and beyond, when you are just starting out in a two-year program.

If you think you may want to pursue an undergraduate degree (and later a graduate degree) in the humanities, then why don't you choose a major now in your two-year program that would prepare you for that kind of direction. Maybe an English major? History? Political Science? I am not sure what offerings your school has to choose from...

Answer 3

If you plan to pursue an M.A., M.S., or Ph.D., I would recommend majoring in Humanities proper, Liberal Arts, or English at junior college. A major, in fact, may not be required: you can take a number of foundational courses in the humanities that you can use for transfer credit, which should allow you to skip those courses when you get to work on the B.A/B.S. For the time being, I don't think you'll need to worry about Education courses, since many of those credits won't be transferable when you get into a Bachelor's program. If your interest is speed, get your core courses out of the way at juco, and then begin a B.A. in Education with a concentration in Humanities (or whatever subfield that most interests you) when you're ready.

Answer 4

5- 10 years, relies upon. A professor at an section college in ordinary words needs a bachelors (4 years) and a masters (a million-2 years), even as a professor at a school also needs a doctorate (2-4 years).

Answer 5

The humanities cover a broad range of subjects. Before you can do anything, you have to decide on what you are most interested in teaching in the future.