Santa Barbara City College Courses

Advanced concepts and production skills specific to narrative filmmaking, including scripting, story boarding, pre-production planning, budgeting, casting, shooting, lighting, sound and editing. Stude

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

Advanced concepts and production skills specific to creating music videos, commercials and corporate/industrial video, from conceptualization through post-production. Protocols, history, conventions a

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

A 90-hour production course focused on documentary filmmaking.

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

Learn motion graphics and compositing, creating animated graphics and combining layered image elements into finished shots.

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

Focuses on the creative development of sound elements for post-production in film and television, such as ADR, Foley, sound effect recording/design, music editing, dialogue editing, and the final mixi

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

In this multi-disciplinary capstone course, student teams are tasked with producing a real-world transmedia project. Collaborating with, and learning from, the various disciplines represented, each te

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

Advanced directing for the camera, covering technical and aesthetic facets of the director's art. Focuses on issues and techniques in the operation of digital motion picture cameras, lighting and soun

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

A capstone course for Film Production students nearing the completion of their program. A festival-ready short film is produced by the students with crew roles assigned based on individual skills and

• California Community Colleges System
• 180 hours
• Paid Course

Practical money management for students living independently. Topics include career guidance, college financing, budgeting, money, bank accounts, credit cards and debt management.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 hours
• Paid Course

Analysis of the crucial issues of bank management: asset and liability management, liquidity planning, investment strategies, credit administration, and bank regulation.

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

Acquaints the student with the process of international trade finance and the core skills needed to participate in various trade finance situations. The emphasis is on practical information regarding

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

Explores financial processes which professional marketers must know when engaging in the creation or review of financial statement reports and budgets. Non-profit or profit organizations will require

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

Consists of supervised employment for students whose career objectives, course of study and employment complement each other. Students must accomplish specific course objectives. Class meetings on cam

• California Community Colleges System
• 216 hours
• Paid Course

Learn media design, applying design principles to the creation of visual and digital media.

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course

Starting point for those studying Graphic Design. Students are introduced to industry software applications to create basic page layouts. Topics include overview of the commercial print industry, imag

• California Community Colleges System
• 90 hours
• Paid Course