California Community Colleges System Courses

Beginning Jewelry/Metal Arts

Introduction to basic jewelry metal arts fabrication processes and design approaches: use of tools and materials, soldering, cold connections, forming, stone setting, and basic three-dimensional desig

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

Intermediate Jewelry/Metal Art

Building on previous experience, intermediate students will explore more advanced jewelry and metal smithing techniques including stone setting, sinking, angle raising, synclastic/anticlastic raising,

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

Asian American Popular Culture

This introductory Ethnic Studies course examines how Asian Americans have turned to a wide range of cultural productions such as music, performance arts, visual culture, film, digital/internet culture

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

Asian Amer Exprnc Since 1820

Introductory Ethnic Studies examination of United States history and government through the experience of immigrant groups from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and India. Topics include immigrat

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

East Asian Calligraphy: Intro

This introductory course examines historical development and cultural aspects of East Asian calligraphy. Course emphasizes Chinese Hanzi characters, but also includes the Japanese Kana syllabary, and

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

Cosmic Evolution

Introductory astronomy course with an emphasis on the development of the cosmos and its components. The origin, evolution, and final state of our physical universe. Properties, formation, and evolutio

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

Life in the Universe

The origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe. Applying the disciplines of astronomy, biology, and planetary science, students study the chemical and

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

Observational Astronomy

Through direct investigation, students will examine the motion and appearance of the night sky, characterize and classify astronomical objects such as planets, moons, stars, nebulae, and galaxies, and

• California Community Colleges System
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Paid Course

Planets

Methods and practice of planetary science and its impact on humanity. Fundamental physical sciences for understanding the origin and evolution of planetary systems. Comparative examination of planetar

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

Stars

Introduction to stars and stellar systems, including their apparent motions and their use in navigation. Observations and theories regarding stars as the primary producers of energy in the universe an

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

Galaxies and the Universe

Introduction to cosmology, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, with a focus on basic questions of existence: Where do we come from and what is our fate? Covers the universe's origin, evolution, fate

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

Intro to Electronic Media

Development and impact of electronic media institutions of radio, television, cable, satellite, internet, and new media technologies as social, vocational, economic, and political forces in American s

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

Media Literacy

Critical analysis of aesthetic and thematic aspects of television, online video, audio, podcasts and mobile device programming. Methods of interpreting visual and oral messages in news, entertainment,

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

Mass Media and Society

A general interest course covering the history, organization, and social role of major mass communication media, such as radio, television, motion pictures, print, recording industries, the Internet,

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

Writing for Electronic Media

Basic introductory course in writing for electronic media. Emphasis on preparing scripts in proper formats, including fundamental technical, conceptual and stylistic issues related to writing non-fict

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