The Hawaiʻi Life Styles (HLS) Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree focuses on particular Native Hawaiian occupations that supported a vibrant, sustainable, highly scientific, and spiritually balanced island population years prior to Westerm contact.

Upon Successful completion, students are prepared to:

• Demonstrate an awareness of and facilitate community movement toward Hawaiian cultural understanding, the transmission, maintenance, practice, perpetuation and evolution of Hawaiian traditions.
• Improve their employment and business opportunities, which are supported by a deep and relevant expertise in Hawaiian culture, as they venture into traditional and developmental career paths.
• Articulate their knowledge of the technical, environmental, commercial, and educational implications and application of natives' cultural practices as it is appropriate to local and global concerns.
• Apply authentic learning experiences from Hawaiian culture to one's life.
• Improve self-identity through intra- and intersearch; this will improve the student's ability to be sensitive and respectful of all environments (social, natural, mythic, technological, and scientific).
• Demonstrate a higher consciousness for the health of Hawaiʻi's physical environment and all of Hawaiʻi's native populations.

HLS FACULTY

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