ART E21 | Painting/Drawing, Oil and AcrylicThis course enhances older adults’ artistic creativity and painting skills through positive motivation and instruction in oils and acrylic techniques. Older adults learn basic painting techniques, the elements of composition, and how to select and use materials. Painting projects, demonstrations, and group critiques are used to explore two-dimensional artwork. |
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ART E22 | WatercolorThis course allows older adults who have never used watercolors to acquire a strong foundation in watercolor techniques, and provides those students with some watercolor experience with a strongly supportive peer group in which to paint. Older adult students learn watercolor techniques and methods, as well as washes, brush strokes, color, value, and composition. |
ART E23 | Calligraphy for Older AdultsThis course assists older adults in acquiring basic skills in calligraphy to use for personal growth, self expression, or for family and volunteer projects. Older adult students learn the tools and equipment needed to write the beginning calligraphy alphabet, as well as fundamental calligraphy techniques. |
ART E24 | Calligraphy IIThis course expands older adults’ knowledge of calligraphy and everyday calligraphic forms to use for personal growth, self expression, or for family and volunteer projects. Older adult students learn the tools and equipment needed to write the calligraphy alphabet, as well as fundamental calligraphy techniques, lettering styles, and display methods. |
ART E25 | Calligraphy IIIThis course strengthens older adults’ sense of creativity, competence, motor skills, and sense of belonging to a group through the advanced study of calligraphy. Older adult students learn and/or improve their knowledge of complex lettering styles and letterforms and create professional-quality projects for personal expression. |
ART E30 | Watercolor StudioThis course allows older adults who have never used watercolors to acquire a strong foundation in watercolor techniques, and provides those students with some watercolor experience with a strongly supportive peer group in which to paint. Older adult students learn watercolor techniques and methods, as well as washes, textures, color, value, and composition. |
ART E40 | Color and Design for Older AdultsThis course is designed to provide older adults with a supportive environment to explore artistic self expression, as well as opportunities to socialize with other older adults through instruction in design and basic use of color and color mixing. |
ART E55 | SculptureThis course introduces older adults to three-dimensional design principles and elements, and helps them create expressive works of sculpture. Older adults learn to appreciate sculpture as a medium of self expression, and use a combination of materials and techniques to create a sculptural form and develop an expressive idea using a variety of materials, including items from everyday life. Students are required to purchase or bring their own materials. |
ART E60 | Creative Crafts for Older AdultsThis course allows older adults to create a variety of decorative arts and crafts projects, including stationary, personal home accessories or decoration, paper, fancy boxes, jewelry, bookends, botanicals, sachets, wreaths, floral candles, bread dough art, wind chimes, and more. |
ART E80 | Jewelry MakingThis course provides older adults with an opportunity to create pieces of jewelry and learn an assortment of different techniques involved in creating jewelry. Students also learn about the wide range of materials available for making jewelry. Older adults make bracelets, earrings, and necklaces using techniques such as wire wrapping and bending, macrame, pearl knotting, crimping, and bead-weaving. Each week students learn a new technique and make a piece of jewelry using that technique. |
ARTS 88A | Independent Studies in the ArtsUnits: 1Transfer: CSU Please see “Independent Studies” section. |
ARTS 88B | Independent Studies in the ArtsUnits: 2Transfer: CSU Please see “Independent Studies” section. |
ARTS 88C | Independent Studies in the ArtsUnits: 3Transfer: CSU Please see “Independent Studies” section. |
ASL 1 | American Sign Language 1Units: 5Transfer: UC, CSU IGETC Foreign Language (required for UC only) Satisfies Global Citizenship This is an introductory course of American Sign Language (ASL) with an emphasis on signing, receptive skills, signing parameters, the glossing system and numbers. This course provides a historical introduction, cultural awareness and cross-cultural adjustment skills. Non-verbal communication is emphasized. Homework assignments will include, but are not limited to, attendance and involvement at community events. |
ASL 2 | American Sign Language 2Units: 5Transfer: UC, CSU IGETC AREA 3B (Arts and Humanities), Foreign Language (required for UC only) Satisfies Global Citizenship
*The advisory for this course is comparable to two years of high school American Sign Language. This course is a continuation of ASL 1. Instruction will include further studies of the elementary skills for the fundamentals of ASL: grammar, receptive, and expressive. There will also be extensive instruction on the Deaf Culture and Community, which will be presented in readings, videos and discussion in ASL. Non-verbal communication is emphasized. |
ASL 99 | Applied Learning in ASLUnits: 1Transfer: CSU
This course — taken in tandem with another course in the discipline — enables a student to apply course content in a meaningful and relevant way to a particular activity. In this hands-on course, students engage in applied learning through unpaid experiential activities organized by the student (in conjunction with SMC’s applied/service learning center) and approved by the instructor. Students will develop a customized reading list relevant to their particular activity, complete a minimum of 15 hours of volunteer work with that activity, and submit academically-sound written reports regarding the activity. By applying course material to their experience, students develop a deeper understanding of the discipline. |
ASTRON 1 | Stellar AstronomyUnits: 3Transfer: UC*, CSU IGETC AREA 5A (Physical Sciences, non-lab) *Maximum credit allowed for ASTRON 1 and ASTRON 3 is one course (4 units). This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fascinating subject of astronomy with an emphasis on the study of the Sun and other stars. Topics covered include the motions of the sky, a survey of the history of astronomy from Kepler to Einstein, gravity, radiation and matter, astronomical instrumentation, the Sun, stars, star formation, stellar evolution, galaxies and cosmology. |
ASTRON 10 | Exploration of the Solar SystemUnits: 3Transfer: UC, CSU IGETC AREA 5A (Physical Sciences, non-lab)
This course provides a geologic and astronomic view of solar system exploration. Current knowledge of the geology of other planets, natural satellites and asteroids is discussed. Current studies in planetary science and how to access and utilize data collected from modern and historic planetary missions and Earth-based studies are also examined. ASTRON 10 is the same course as GEOL 10. Students may earn credit for one, but not both. |
ASTRON 2 | Planetary AstronomyUnits: 3Transfer: UC*, CSU IGETC AREA 5A (Physical Sciences, non-lab) *Maximum credit allowed for ASTRON 2 and ASTRON 4 is one course (4 units). This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fascinating subject of astronomy with an emphasis on the study of the Earth and the other planets in the solar system. Topics covered include the motions of the sky, a survey of the history of astronomy from the Greeks to Einstein, phases of the moon, eclipses, gravity, the formation of the solar system, the Earth, Terrestrial and Jovian planets, their moons, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and a discussion of extrasolar planets around other stars. |
ASTRON 3 | Stellar Astronomy with LaboratoryUnits: 4Transfer: UC*, CSU IGETC AREA 5A (Physical Sciences, + LAB) *Maximum credit allowed for ASTRON 1 and ASTRON 3 is one course (4 units). This survey course covers the same material as Astronomy 1, but includes a laboratory section covering hands-on astronomical activities. The laboratory portion includes observations of the sky, computer simulations, the construction of simple astronomical instruments and analyzing publicly available astronomical data from the internet. |