Moorpark College Courses

Allows independent study for students who wish to extend their knowledge of a particular area of Exotic Animal Training Management through research and study. Utilizes an approved independent project.

• California Community Colleges System
• 26 hours
• Paid Course

Learn animal training methods for zoo professionals in a college course that applies toward an associate degree.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 hours
• Paid Course

Learn how the scientific method reconstructs human evolution and explains human diversity through genetics, primatology, paleoanthropology, and biocultural adaptation.

• California Community Colleges System
• 15 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Explore evolution and genetics hands-on: compare vertebrate anatomy, study fossil hominids and primates, human population variation, medical genetics, and molecular biological methods.

• California Community Colleges System
• 8 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Explore concepts and methods for analyzing cultural systems, with emphasis on human behavior and cultural evolution across non-Western societies.

• California Community Colleges System
• 8 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Explore archaeology’s history, methods, and techniques through hands-on activities modeled on real archaeological explorations and excavations.

• California Community Colleges System
• 8 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Examines how sexuality and gendered experiences vary across world cultures and intersect with religion, kinship, ethnicity, politics, and economics.

• California Community Colleges System
• 8 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Explore how forensic anthropologists recover and analyze human skeletal remains within the medico-legal system, including forensic archaeology and the field’s history and methods.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Explore the elements and principles of two-dimensional design through hands-on projects using a variety of materials.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Learn the elements and principles of three-dimensional design through theory and weekly hands-on projects using a variety of materials.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Builds observational and technical drawing skills through varied media, with emphasis on pictorial composition, perspective, rendering, and creative responses.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Develops intermediate drawing through illustrative and analytic abstraction problems, experimentation with pen and ink, watercolor washes, collage, and personal expression.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Develops illustration through pen and ink, acrylic, scratchboard, graphite, and charcoal, using themes and story lines as subjects for weekly drawings.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Develop an individual illustration style for magazine, newspaper and book work using pen and ink, watercolor washes, acrylic paint and mixed media.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Develop a personal illustration style through advanced techniques and media experimentation, producing a series of projects that reflect your own voice.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course