California Community Colleges System Courses

Technopolitics: Exploring the Intersection of Technology and Governance

This course explores the intricate relationship between technology and politics, analyzing how technological advancements shape political systems, governance, policy-making, and public engagement. Stu

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Special Studies in Politics

This course increases Emeritus students’ understanding of various subjects that vary from term to term. Students will consider the political, social and economic ramifications of special topics each t

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Principles of Acting

This course allows older adults to explore the human condition in historical and contemporary dramatic literature, fairy tales, myths, and legends, satire, and parody. By learning how to analyze and i

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Theater Arts Appreciation

This course expands older adults’ knowledge of play production methods and the history of the theater as it relates to current society and the life experiences of older adults. Older adults will learn

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Reader’s Theater

This course increases older adults’ knowledge of how to present dramatic literature and allows them to express themselves by reading scenes, poetry, illuminating literature, or speeches in front of an

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Theater – History of Comedy

This course is designed to help Emeritus students improve their outlook on life, stimulate their minds and imaginations, improve peer group interaction and communication, and increase their sense of p

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Improvisation

This course encourages older adults to awaken their childhood by introducing them to the fundamentals of theatre improvisation. Students will joyfully explore essential improvisation performance techn

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Art, Culture & Entertainment Through a Jewish Lens

This course is designed to help Emeritus students learn about Jewish culture, from the historical backdrop of the 19th Century’s worldwide advances, pogroms, and immigrations, to the flowering of Jewi

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Principles of Illusion: Close-up and Stage

In this performance-based class, students will be expected to learn and perform Close-up and Stage Magic. From card tricks to dinner table gags, the illusions covered in this class are practical, easy

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Plays and Playwrights

This course engages Emeritus students in the rich theatrical material available in the Los Angeles area by exposing them to an assortment of American, English, and other theatrical works, playwrights,

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Dramatic Interpretation Through Movies

This course helps older adults explore the art, technology, language and appreciation of film from the point of view of the older adult. Older adult students analyze the fundamentals of film productio

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

Theatrical and Screenplay Writing

This course is designed for Emeritus students interested in exploring the art of writing play scripts and screenplays. Students will learn the essential storytelling elements, character development, p

• California Community Colleges System
• Paid Course

An Introduction to African American Studies

This course is an introduction to the field of African American Studies through history, literature, philosophy, the arts, and culture. Additionally, it will examine the sociological, political, econo

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

African American History to 1865

This course examines the history of Black/African Americans from their kidnapping from Africa to their enslavement in the Americas until the end of the institution of slavery after the Civil War, incl

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Physical Anthropology

Introduction to biological aspects of humans. A bio-cultural and an evolutionary approach is used to understand human variation and human evolution. Issues and topics will include, human variation and

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course