California Community Colleges System Courses

Personal Finance: Estate Planning for Older Adults

This course assists older adults in preparing an estate plan that meets their individualized needs and wishes. This may include some financial management practices, trust investments, and other invest

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Personal Finance: Advanced Estate Planning for Older Adults

This course assists older adults in managing their finances, understanding their investments, understanding the healthcare and medicare systems, and planning the distribution of their estates. The thr

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Basic Computer Training (formerly Introduction to Computers)

This course is designed to assist students in accessing the world of computers and technology. Students acquire introductory computer skills, enabling them to interact with colleagues, family and frie

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Computer Based Presentations

This course will teach Emeritus students the skill of creating computer-based presentations. Students will learn to create, save, and retrieve computer-based presentations. During the learning process

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The Perils of Social Media

This course will teach Emeritus students the power and influence of social media such as Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, and many others. Politicians, pundits, cel

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Digital Photography II

This course assists older adults in choosing and using modern technology for keeping photographic records of their family, friends, and travels, and helps them use photography as a means of self-expre

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Photoshop/Computer Software Photo Editing

This course teaches Emeritus students the skill of using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Students will learn how to create, repair, and modify their personal images/photographs. In addition, students will b

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Word Processing – Beginning

Beginners learn word processing, including terminology, software, and processing possibilities. Hands-on experience in popular software applications on an IBM compatible machine. Bring a two-sided, do

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Word Processing – Intermediate

Continue learning word processing skills including terminology, software, and processing possibilities. Designed for those who have some elementary knowledge of word processing on an IBM compatible ma

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Advanced Word Processing

Continue learning more advanced word processing skills, including terminology, software, and processing possibilities. Designed for those who have knowledge of word processing on an IBM compatible mac

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Using and Creating Data Files

Beginners learn about data files, including terminology, software, and processing possibilities. Hands-on experience in a popular software applications on an IBM compatible machine. Bring a two-sided,

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Using the Internet

Beginners learn about search engines for browsing the internet, terminology, software, and safety precautions. Hands-on experience in popular software applications on an IBM compatible machine. Bring

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Introduction to the Computer

Beginners learn through hands-on experience about using the computer keyboard, learn what a mouse is and how to use it, and the fundamentals of how a computer works. Learn to use a computer safely and

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Poetry and Fiction

This course helps older adults explore poetry and fiction as adventure, confirmation, and renewal. Emeritus students also employ selected poems as a means to examine their life experiences and discuss

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Creative Writing

This course nurtures, revitalizes, and stimulates older adult writers who may already be producing or thinking about producing written material. The course is intended to discover, encourage, and deve

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• Paid Course