Southwestern College Courses

Provides an introduction of Deaf culture where students learn a wide array of historical milestones that shaped the belief system, behavioral norms, and perspectives of members in the Deaf community.

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Surveys the basic processes of biology which are common to all organisms. Includes scientific method, biomolecules, cellular organization, structure, function, metabolism, and reproduction, genetics,

• California Community Colleges System
• 16 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduces students to trends in today's business organizations related to a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, finance, economic systems, legal, global, marketing, risk management and huma

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduces basic investment principles including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, portfolio management, derivatives, securities markets, interpretation of financial statements, and the relationship of eco

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Focuses on providing the entrepreneur or business owner the skills necessary to develop and implement a business plan for a small business. Emphasizes the development of the financial, managerial, and

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Paid Course

Provides an overview of traditional and electronic sales skills for small business owners and sales personnel. Emphasizes creation of an effective psychology of selling focused on customer needs, anal

• California Community Colleges System
• 16 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Paid Course

Studies management principles with primary emphasis on basic management functions: communicating, planning, organizing, and controlling. Analyzes decision making, human relations, and the role of the

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Studies the fundamental mathematical operations and their application to business problems. Includes payroll, pricing, interest and discount, commission, taxes, and other pertinent uses of mathematics

• California Community Colleges System
• 16 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduces students to entry-level positions in today's modern electronic office, as well as prepare students for the introductory level of Microsoft Office Specialist certification. [D; CSU]

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Prepares students to become expert users of advanced applications required in todays modern electronic office including: enhance professional documents, configure Word options, tables, mail merge, mac

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Develops English language skills used in a modern business context. Includes a review of business vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and proofreading. Introduces skills in basic business lett

• California Community Colleges System
• 16 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Applies the principles of effective and ethical communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes the de

• California Community Colleges System
• 16 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Focuses on the foundational concepts and skills of project management. Earns project management skills in the information technology field and builds upon the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMB

• California Community Colleges System
• 16 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Provides training in keyboarding for beginners. Emphasizes keyboarding using touch control method of letter keys, correct typing techniques, and speed building and accuracy on one-minute and two-minut

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Paid Course

Provides keyboarding instruction as a continuation of BUS 70 . Develops speed and accuracy, and presents the numeric and symbol keys, formatting of business letters, and preparation of one-page report

• California Community Colleges System
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Paid Course