Ventura College – new classes for Spring Semester
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VENTURA: Registration is currently ongoing at the three community colleges of Ventura County for the Spring Semester which begins January 12, 2009. At Ventura College, the schedule for registration is as follows:
Continuing students may retrieve their registration appointment dates from WebStar as of November 3 and may begin registering online by appointment only as of November 17.
EOPS, EAC, CalWORKs and Military Veterans have priority registration and may begin registering online or in-person beginning November 11.
Returning students and newly matriculated students (those who have completed orientation, assessment and counseling) may begin registering online on December 8 by appointment only.
All students may register online beginning December 15, with no appointment required.
High school (9th – 12th grades) special admission students may begin registering in-person at the Admissions and Records Office on December 16.
Walk-in registration for all students other than K-8 special admissions students begins January 5. K-8th grade students may register beginning January 12.
The College is in winter break from December 18 through January 2, and there are no classes and no in-person registration during that period. Online registration will continue over winter break 24 hours a day.
Students may register for full semester spring classes through January 23 in person and January 25 online. Additional late start and short term courses are available that begin in January, February and March. Students interested in these or any courses at Ventura College may visit www.venturacollege.edu to apply and register online or call the counseling office at 805-654-6448 for additional information.
Ventura College is offering a wide range of new classes for Spring 2009. Most of the courses are transferable to colleges within the UC and CSU systems.
Among the new classes offered this spring semester are:
ANTHROPOLOGY OF WOMEN with Instructor Gigi Fiumerodo: This course explores the roles of women across the globe, surveying the social factors which influence women’s status and the implications for anthropological theory and contemporary life. Topics will include women in prehistory, religion and ritual, art and more.
POLITICAL SCIENCE: SERVICE LEARNING (students concurrently enroll in INTRO TO POLITICAL SCIENCE, both with Instructor Dan Gonzalez): promotes citizenship by having students relate what they are studying in a political science class to the real world by engaging in service learning projects outside of the classroom.
PERSONAL INSURANCE with Instructor James Spencer, J.D.: This course introduces the layman and the student interested in the insurance industry to the broad scope of personal insurance products, including their creation, regulation and coverage scopes, as well as insurance company operations. Topics include life insurance, health care insurance, personal annuities, long term care and other personal lines. This is one of four courses that will allow students to earn an insurance specialist certificate in two semesters.
MODULARIZED ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA: These five one-unit courses are equivalent (when all five are completed) to Math V01; however, this new open-entry/open-exit version allows students to choose their own pace. Any number of modules (from one to all five) may be taken during a given semester, giving students the option to take as much (or as little) algebra as they would like in a semester. Each course is a prerequisite to the next (that is, V88A is a prerequisite to V88B, V88B is a prerequisite to V88C, etc.). Students may enroll in these courses throughout the semester as long as they have completed all prerequisites first. Students who do not complete all the modules in one semester may still enroll in one or more of the unfinished modules in a later semester, until they finish the entire five-module sequence.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE EMPLOYMENT ORIENTATION with Instructor Ted Prell: Participants will explore the background, testing and examination process used to evaluate and select law enforcement candidates. Areas of the of the background and testing process that can exclude candidates from service in the criminal justice system and effective strategies and techniques for eliminating, rehabilitating and minimizing them will be examined. A practice of a physical agility test, peace officer hiring panel interview, and entry-level test battery will be offered.
INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE with Instructors Ted Prell and Cari Lange: Students will 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.
INTRODUCTION TO METHODS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY with Professor Terry Pardee, Instructor Mary Pat Huxley and others in the industry: This career-oriented class will provide students with the opportunity to learn hands-on basic and industrial methods and protocols. The course can lead to a Proficiency Award, to an Associate’s degree or be used for transfer to a university.
BUSINESS CALCULATIONS - ONLINE with Instructor Donna Goris: This transferrable course is required for most Business majors, and recommended in many other majors and is being offered as an Internet-based, full-online section for the first time.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION FOR HEALTH CARE MAJORS with Instructor Deborah Pollack: This section will focus on reading, discussing, and responding to a variety of essays, excerpts from books, the thought-provoking and gut wrenching Fast Food Nation, and relevant films.
HOLISTIC HEALTH AND DISABILITIES with Instructor Linda Rovai: This short term course runs from 2/23/09-4/03/09. Students will explore the key elements of holistic health practices and their relevance to today's health movement; benefits of the whole person; rehabilitation model as related to quality of life experiences; the role of forgiveness in recovery and resiliency and available community resources.
THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST with Instructor Colleen Coffey: This course will examine the history of the Middle East from 1800 to the present, focusing geographically on Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, Arabia, Iran and Turkey with particular emphasis on the relationship between Islam and the social/political history of the Middle East, the impact of Western imperialism and the process of decolonization, and the historical roots of contemporary policy issues.
Survey/ WOMEN IN LITERATURE I with Professor Kelly Peinado: This fully online course can be taken as a graded, fully-transferable course or as a credit/no-credit “no essays or exams required” option. The class presents an examination of the images, roles, and identities of women through the study of literature in English by women from the Middle Ages through the early 20th Century. For transfer credit, register for Eng. 36A; for credit/no credit option, register for Eng. 136A. An optional on-campus orientation will be held on 1/13/09, 5:30 p.m., in Room 205 of the library.
SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II with Instructor: Dianne Armstrong. This course will cover the classic, canonical literatures but also the "non-canonized," i.e. British authors of every bent, in a multicultural approach, covering the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post Modern periods. This is a partially online class meeting once a week. The balance of the work is done independently via the Internet.
Two new Short Term classes in ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, an 8 week class from January 12-March 12, and INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, a second 8 week class from March 16- May 20, will allow students to complete two algebra classes in one semester.
New online classes include GENERAL PHYSICS II and GENERAL PHYSICS II CALCULUS BASED, RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUP RELATIONS, DANCE APPRECIATION, and THEATRE ARTS APPRECIATION
For additional information, please contact Alisa Moore at 805-654-6462 or contact the Counseling Office at 805-654-6448.
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