California Community Colleges System Courses

Needlepoint: Beginning for Older Adults

This course provides a supportive learning environment for older adults to learn needlecrafts and create inexpensive and handmade garments or projects for personal or charitable use. Beginning and int

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Creative Stitchery for Older Adults

This course provides a supportive and creative learning environment for older adults to create inexpensive, handmade needlework projects. Older adults will learn knitting and crocheting techniques, as

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Introduction to the Emeritus Program of Santa Monica College

This course serves as an orientation to the Emeritus Program of Santa Monica College for students to take in their first term of enrollment in Emeritus. This class will teach students the policies and

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Volunteering Today for Older Adults

This course assists older adults in finding valuable and significant volunteer opportunities in their community. The course also emphasizes ways that older adults can become successful volunteers and

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Life Review for Older Adults

This course helps older adults review and discuss their life with peers in order to understand the past more fully, give new meaning to their present life, and validate the lives of older adults throu

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Enjoy Life – Understanding Our Mind, Body & Brain for Senior Adults

This course familiarizes older adults with the aging process, including physiological, psychological, and sociological aspects. Older adults become more comfortable with changes in themselves and othe

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American Socialization for Older Adults

This course helps older adult Latino/Hispanic immigrants become an integral part of their community. Older adults learn about differences and similarities in the behaviors, processes, and practices in

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Assertiveness Training for Older Adults

This course helps older adults learn effective coping skills to use in a variety of situations that occur in later years, including dealing with health practitioners during health crises, working with

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Life Experience

This course assists older adults in evaluating their lives and starting a positive life review process. Older adults will look back at their accomplishments, failures, and satisfying life experiences,

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Bereavement Support

This course helps older adults in the resolution of grief and toward a more positive view or reaction to the death of a loved one. The course provides older adults with a variety of alternative method

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Dealing with Hearing Impairment

This course helps older adults with hearing impairments improve their communication skills and adaptive techniques and increase their levels of sociability and self-confidence. Older adults learn the

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Exercising the Brain

This course assists Emeritus students in minimizing anxiety when memory behavior patterns change and helps build confidence as they age. This class is designed to stimulate thinking and to exercise th

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Communication After a Stroke (Computer Based)

This course helps older adults with aphasia reconstruct their language comprehension and communication skills and gain greater self-confidence in their ability to understand and communicate with other

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Communication After a Stroke

This course, which is part of the Pathfinders Program, increases, enhances, and maintains the daily speech function of adults who have experienced speech impairments due to acquired brain injury. Olde

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BrainFlex

This course helps older adults who have sustained an acquired brain injury maintain or improve their functional cognition through individualized feedback offered in a group setting. Emphasis will be p

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