California Community Colleges System Courses

Advanced Reading and Vocabulary

This course focuses on the development of academic vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills through extensive readings of college-level material in English.

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

Introduction to the Essay

This is an introduction to the principles and techniques of academic essay writing based on critical reading and thinking.

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

Advanced Grammar and Proofreading for Writers

This is an advanced grammar course. It focuses on helping students improve their grammar and editing skills to become successful academic writers. The course addresses the students' individual grammar

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

High Intermediate Listening and Speaking

This course will explore English speaking and listening practice in a variety of contexts, along with the development of vocabulary appropriate in both formal and informal situations.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

High Intermediate Grammar, Writing and Reading

This course focuses on the development of high-intermediate reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using high-intermediate grammar. Students will write well-organized and well-developed

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

American English Pronunciation 2

This course focuses on understanding native speakers' speech and production of speech that is intelligible and accurate through the study and practice of the English language consonant sounds, voicing

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Low Advanced Listening and Speaking

This course emphasizes listening comprehension and proficiency in speaking in academic settings and the expression of students' ideas using a variety of speaking strategies. Students will develop voca

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Low Advanced Grammar, Writing and Reading

This course focuses on the development of low-advanced skills for writing clear, organized, well-developed multi-paragraph compositions, grammar, sentence structure, and reading comprehension and voca

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Advanced Reading and Vocabulary

This course focuses on the development of academic vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills through extensive readings of college-level material in English.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Introduction to the Essay

The course introduces the principles and techniques of academic essay writing based on critical reading and thinking.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Advanced Grammar and Proofreading for Writers

This is an advanced grammar course. It focuses on helping students improve their grammar and editing skills to become successful academic writers. The course addresses the students' individual grammar

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Introduction to Creative Writing

The course introduces students to the writing of fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction, through both critical analysis and intensive practice.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to Cinematic Arts

This is an introduction to the close analysis of film and television texts. The course will examine broad questions of form and content, aesthetics and meaning, and history and culture. Covering a wid

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

History of Cinema (1895-1950)

This course surveys the international development of the motion picture to 1950 as a distinct form of artistic expression, through classic films, notable artists, and key events; an investigation of t

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

History of Cinema (1950-Present)

This course surveys the international development of the motion picture since 1950 as a distinct form of artistic expression, through classic films, notable artists, and key events; investigates the a

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