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Info on New Fall Classes!

Contact: Alisa Moore, Public Information Officer 805-654-6462

REGISTRATION STILL OPEN FOR VENTURA COLLEGE

Fall semester begins at Ventura College on August 18, and there is still time to register for courses at the main campus and the main campus. Students can apply, register, and complete their orientations online, as well as in person. In addition to full semester day and evening courses, the college offers weekend courses, short-term courses, one-day seminars, and online courses. Many courses begin in September, with others starting in October and November. Offering more than 1,000 courses in 50 majors and programs, the college provides general education, transfer preparation, career programs, skills’ enhancement, and lifelong learning classes.

Among the new courses at Ventura College are Introduction to Forensic Science, Intro to Non-Western Art, Computer Maintenance Technology, Computers and Computer Literacy, Introduction to Poetry, Spanish for Law Enforcement, and Writing Skills for ESL Students, and Deviance, Crime & Society. Two new online courses are Dance Appreciation and American Literature to 1865. A new program format, a Learning Community, will offer American History and American Government together. The professors for the two classes will teach the classes back to back, in the same room, using the same syllabus and reading the same books. This format provides a richer interdisciplinary approach to these two subjects..

The Ventura College Promise, a program sponsored by the Ventura College Foundation, pays enrollment fees of all recent Ventura County high school graduates, regardless of family income, during their first year of attendance at Ventura College. This same promise is extended to students who have successfully completed their GED requirements or who have completed high school coursework but have not yet passed their exit exam. Expenses covered by the Ventura College Promise include the per-unit cost of classes, the Health fee, the Student Center fee, and the cost of an Associated Student Body card. There is no minimum/maximum number of units that must be taken and no minimum grade point average or assessment score that must be met.

To qualify, an applicant must identify an educational goal, take an assessment examination, work with a counselor to develop an education plan, complete a Financial Aid Application (FAFSA), apply for the Ventura College Promise, and be enrolled within 12 months of high school (or GED) completion. Interested individuals can contact a Ventura College counselor at (805) 654-6448 or the Ventura College Foundation Office at (805) 654-6461. More than 1,600 students have taken advantage of the Ventura College Promise to date.

A complete listing of fall courses for the college is available online at www.venturacollege.edu, and www.vcccd.edu. With California resident fees at just $20 per unit, the California community college is still the best value in higher education, costing thousands of dollars less than a California state or private university. Students who have not yet graduated from high school can enroll at any Ventura County community college concurrently and are not required to pay enrollment fees.

FALL 2008 –

JUST SOME OF THE NEW AND EXCITING COURSES
AVAILABLE AT VENTURA COLLEGE

ANTH V01L Physical Anthropology Lab, (Two sections)

This hands-on class fills the laboratory science requirement for all students! The lab focuses on human biology from the anthropological perspective and uses the scientific method to help explore why we look the way we look and how and why that has changed over time.

ANTH 89A/ CJ89A Introduction to Forensic Science

Explore various techniques and methods used by forensic scientists and law enforcement to identify, collect, record, and evaluate biological and physical evidence at a crime scene and in the modern forensic laboratory. Course will include lectures, demonstrations, hands-on activities, a field trip, and guest presentations.

ART V02C/AES 67 INTRO TO NON-WESTERN ART

This course is a survey of Non-Western art and culture, including African, Asian, Islamic, Oceanic and American Indian. Works of art, crafts, and architecture from prehistoric to contemporary times are examined as a form of historical, cultural, and social expression.

ART V09 Modern Latin American Art

This course is as a survey of mainstream modern and contemporary developments in painting, sculpture, crafts and architecture of selected Latin American countries, with particular emphasis on a Latin American identity through works of art as a form of cultural and social expression.

BIS V13 Computer Maintenance Technology

CRN 71586
Instructor: Robert Terrazas
Tuesday 6:00pm - 9:50pm
Meets in APP-6, that's up by the welding shop
2 units, $5 maintenance fee required
Computer Maintenance class, lots of fun!

CS V04 Computers and Computer Literacy
CRN 71774
Instructor: Jan Archibald
MW 3:00 pm - 4:40pm
Meets in Classroom SCI 228
Transfer credit: UC/CSU, 3 units, credit limitations
This course uses Microsoft Office 2007. $15 materials fee required.

DANC V01 Dance Appreciation
CRN 72213
Instructor: Becky Contreres
Distance Education Class
1 unit
Anthropological and Historical look at Dance, taught through Distance Education!
The orientation date and time will be announced.

ENGL V15 Introduction to Poetry
CRN: 70794
Instructor: Kelly Peinado
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12 noon to 1:20pm
Meets in Classroom J3
Transfer credit: UC/CSU, 3 units
This class is designed for beginning and full-fledged poetry enthusiasts alike, and the emphasis is on enjoyment and understanding. In addition to studying poems in the excellent Norton Introduction to Poetry, we'll use online sources to find the best in contemporary poetry and we'll welcome a series of published guest poets to read to us from their work and talk about their approaches to the craft.

ENGL V22A American Literature to 1865
CRN 71967
Instructor: Dr. Dianne Armstrong
11:30 am-12:20 p.m, Weds.,
Meets in TR 1. Note: partially online course: meets once a week for 50 minutes with the balance of the time, 2 hours, done independently on the internet.
Transfer credit: UC/CSU, 3 units
Our approach is based on the unique intercultural encounters that define what it means to be "American." History read west to east and east to west! Example of just one surprising fact: At the time of the American Revolution, 1775, half the population of the American colonies was under sixteen years of age! No wonder George Washington's colonial militia consisted of only 18, 500 plus men at any given time! American history like you've never heard it before, read it before, understood it before, as revealed through its multi-cultural literatures.
There is a mandated orientation on Wednesday, August 20, at 11:30 a.m., in LRC 205.

ESL V08 Writing Skills (two sections)
CRN 72796
Instructor: Pamela Schroeder
MW 11:30 am - 1:20 pm, Friday 11:30am - 12:20pm
Meets in DP-3 (Main Campus)
CRN 72644
Instructor: Karen Harrison
MW 8:00am - 9:50am, Friday 9:00am - 9:50am
Meets in EC-20 (at the East Campus)
This course is for native and non-native speakers of English who want to improve their writing. Students will discuss interesting readings, movies, and current events as they learn to write for mainstream college courses and vocational programs. ESL V05 and ESL V06 prerequisites required. Recommended prep: concurrent enrollment ESL V07. Credit/no credit basis only.

HIST VO7A and POLS V01 The American Democratic Experience and You: A Learning Community (Two Sections)
Instructors: Sara Essa Gallaway and Robert Porter
HIST VO7A CRN 73731 must enroll concurrently in POLS VO1 CRN 71637
HIST VO7A CRN 73733 must enroll concurrently in POLS VO1 CRN 71619.
Meets from 9 am- 12 noon Tuesdays and Thursdays in Classroom MAC 201.
Transfer credit: UC/CSU, 3 units for each course, credit limitations
This Learning Community combines two courses: American History and American Government. A fully integrated Learning Community, students from both classes will be reading the same books and using the same syllabus. This format provides a richer interdisciplinary approach to these two subjects.

SOC V13 Deviance, Crime & Society
CRN 72600
Instructor: Andrea Horigan
T/TH 12:00 - 1:20pm
Meets in Classroom K-2
Transfer credit: UC/CSU, 3 units
This course examines the sociological study of the origins, causes, and control of deviance and deviant behavior. It also considers deviance as a labeling process. Course emphasis is placed on individual and group deviance, resulting from societal norms and values. Some areas to be covered are: drug use, sexual deviance, criminal behavior, suicide, and career deviance. Field Trips to Todd Road Jail and The Museum of Tolerance.

SPAN V75 - Spanish for Law Enforcement
CRN 72270
Instructor: Alejandro Hernandez
Online hybrid class – Meets 6:30-8:20p.m. on 6 Thursdays: Aug 21, Sept 11, Oct 2, Oct 23, Nov 13 and Dec 4 in Classroom C-2. The rest of the class will be conducted online.
Required Orientation Meeting: Saturday, August 16th 10:00-11:00a.m. in LRC-F
Fun and interactive, Spanish for Law Enforcement will providing you with tools that will allow you to react to your daily job environment, meeting your needs with hands-on language, giving you enough to survive in the law enforcement area, without loading you down with translation exercises. A real-life context is intended to transfer directly to your daily “need-to-know” activities. Join, learn, have fun, and put it in practice!

The Ventura County Community College District is a partner in the 110-campus California Community College system. The District’s three colleges, Moorpark, Oxnard, and Ventura, offer programs in general education for transfer to four-year universities, occupational and vocational fields, developmental programs, community service and continuing education, and provide opportunities to engage in co-curricular campus activities. For more information, please visit us at www.vcccd.edu.

Last Updated 1/16/09