Ventura College Courses

This course covers the organization structures, business strategies, principles, and management practices with managing a building construction business. Topics will include licensing, insurance, proj

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course stresses construction cost estimating through the analysis of blueprint drawings and the generation of labor and material take-off lists. Topics will include materials, labor, overhead, pr

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

Work Experience Education provides supervised employment extending classroom occupational learning at an on-the-job learning station relating to the students’ educational or occupational goals. Each u

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

This course is designed to help students demonstrate an understanding and appreciation for the impact and significance of career choices on their social, psychological and physiological experiences th

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course is designed to provide new students a comprehensive orientation to facilities, programs, services, college policies and faculty at Ventura College. Students will experience a tour of the c

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 hours
• Paid Course

This course will offer a general overview of the criminal justice system in the U.S. The history and philosophy of criminal justice will be examined. Systemic problems, such as the organization and ju

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

Students will explore the roles of practitioners in the criminal justice field. Through discussion and study the students will review the expectations and perceptions of the public. Principal emphasis

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course covers report writing and courtroom procedures for criminal justice practitioners. Emphasis will be on mastering report writing to record crime scenes, emergency response situations, routi

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course introduces responsibilities, procedures, philosophies, techniques, and methods of police patrol. It includes patrol preparation, field observation, field interviews, handling of complaints

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course will offer an overview of the juvenile justice system in California, including the history of juvenile law and current police and probation procedures. Theories on delinquency causes and t

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This is a survey course that will provide the student an opportunity to review the geopolitical history of drug trafficking and the evolution of laws regulating the distribution and use of drugs, with

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course is an overview of the historical aspects of punishment and the development of contemporary correctional philosophy in the United States. The course will focus on the legal issues, general

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course presents an overview of traditional and emerging legal, psychological, and sociological perspectives in the field of victimology. While this course will address the consequences of victimi

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course is an introduction to forensic science. The techniques and methods used by forensic scientists to collect and evaluate biological and physical evidence in the modern forensic laboratory wi

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course

This course is an introduction to forensic science lab procedures and crime scene investigation. Students will practice the techniques and methods used by crime scene investigators and forensic scient

• California Community Colleges System
• 53 hours
• Paid Course