These courses in English as a Second Language develop and expand low intermediate-level English skills for non-native English-speaking students.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Write complete affirmative and negative statements and questions in various tenses. Use comparatives and superlatives to compare two or more things.
🗸 Interpret short narratives and descriptions using contextual clues.
🗸 Ask for and give information using simple and progressive forms of present and past tenses and using two forms for future.
🗸 Express permission, ability, advice, and obligation.
🗸 Use present perfect to describe experiences using common regular and irregular verbs as well and “since” and “for”.
🗸 Discuss abilities and experience orally and in writing in paragraph format with appropriate punctuation.

These courses in English as a Second Language develop and expand low intermediate-level English skills for non-native English speaking students.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Write complete affirmative and negative statements and questions in various tenses.
🗸 Scan for specific information in a simple passage.
🗸 Ask for and give information using simple and progressive forms of present and past tenses and using two forms for future.
🗸 Express permission, ability, advice, and obligation.
🗸 Describe experiences using common regular and irregular verbs.
🗸 Write a simple paragraph using appropriate punctuation and clear sentences.

These courses in English as a Second Language develop and expand high beginning-level English skills for non-native English speaking students.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Ask for and give information using basic present, past and future tenses, and use simple modals.
🗸 Demonstrate comprehension of spoken English about pictures, maps, and numbers in various formats.
🗸 Find information and determine general meaning of basic written English.
🗸 Produce a narrative paragraph with 3 to 5 properly sequenced sentences that are simple but grammatically correct.

Students in the architectural history and theory program will develop the necessary skills to observe, analyze and evaluate the built environment through the academic disciplines of architectural history and theory. The program emphasizes the historical periods and movements in architecture in a global context, with ideas, philosophy, and social influences that have shaped architectural expression and the built environment throughout historical periods of time until the present.

This certificate introduces students to methods of analysis of the built environment and approaches to the appreciation and greater philosophical, intellectual, theoretical, and social forces that have shaped architecture throughout history.

Program Learning Outcomes
 

✔ Identify canonical buildings in history.

✔ Compare divergent approaches to architecture and the built environment through historical theories and philosophical approaches to design.

✔ Compare and contrast different historical and philosophical movements in architecture and the built environment and their representation in built form and spatial organization.

✔ Associate theoretical and philosophical approaches to architecture and the built environment to larger social, political, and cultural influences throughout history.

✔ Interpret and evaluate historical documents, manifestos, and theoretical writings from the architectural design field.

The Private Security Certificate Program provides essential employment knowledge and skills for anyone wishing to attain a job or career in private sector security. The certificate is a pipeline to employment for students who are interested in private security positions. This program provides the funds of job knowledge, skills, and support for students through the application and hiring process.

To earn a certificate of achievement, students must complete each course used to meet a certificate requirement with a “C” grade or higher. Required courses are available online, in the evening, and during the day.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ Discuss the role of private security in private sector safety and security.

✔ Describe criminal law and legal procedures of the United States and California criminal justice systems.

✔ Explain the essential importance of ethics and professional standards in private sector security roles and responsibilities.

✔ Successfully complete a private security employment and background application process.

This certificate of achievement program prepares students for entry-level careers as law enforcement officers in federal, state, and local agencies, as well as in private and corporate security. After completing this certificate, students enrolling in a POST police academy will have a solid foundation that will help to ensure their successful completion and high achievement in the academy. Students entering private security will attain the knowledge, skills, and training to be successful and effective in these careers. Completion of this certificate will also improve opportunities for employment and provide for advancement and promotion for those currently employed in these fields.

To earn a certificate of  achievement, students must complete each course used to meet a certificate requirement with a “C” grade or higher. Certificate requirements may be completed by a combination of day, evening, or weekend courses listed in the Administration of Justice (AJ) Program. Successful completion of coursework for this  certificate  counts towards the requirements of the certificate of achievement in administration of justice.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ demonstrate an understanding of the three parts of the criminal justice system and how they interrelate.

✔ gather, organize, and prepare written reports for law enforcement and correctional activities.

✔ demonstrate proficiency with handguns and shotguns, an understanding of personal safety and defensive tactics and their legal ramifications.

The Bus Coach Operator Apprenticeship Program is a career pathway designed to prepare students to enter the public transit industry. Part of the training includes working for Golden Gate Transit as an apprentice and completing 12 units of course requirements. Upon successful completion of the required coursework, students will be proficient in bus/coach operation and earn a Certificate of Achievement in Bus Coach Operator.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Demonstrate the skills needed to immediately contribute to quality, on-time service delivery to the riding public in a dynamic public transit environment.
🗸 Display a sound command of both technical (driving) and interpersonal skills in coach operation and passenger relations.
🗸 Interact effectively with a diverse community of coworkers and transit customers in order to meet and exceed service delivery objectives

The Motorsports Technician program is designed to provide fundamental skills for an entry-level technician in a high-performance race shop. Graduates become skilled and proficient race car mechanics. The program offers a blend of hands-on and classroom training which prepares students to work in the challenging and rewarding fields of the Motorsport Industry. Students learn metal fabrication, MIG and TIG welding, engine building, custom painting, brakes, steering, and suspension. The Motorsport Technicians program teaches a combination of critical thinking skills and a hands-on approach to learning. The program is located in Novato, California, just west of Sonoma Raceway.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Demonstrate the ability to describe operation of, diagnose, and repair race engines.
🗸 Demonstrate the ability to describe operation of, diagnose, and repair race automotive steering brakes, and suspension systems.
🗸 Demonstrate the ability to fabricate materials required to build and maintain race vehicle chassis, bodies, and components.

The Translation and Interpretation (Spanish/English) Certificate of Achievement provides proper bilingual skills training. Students learn about careers that employ bilingual skills and how to provide interpreting and translating services for a variety of industries including business, medical, education, and government. Bilingual employment requires language proficiency in both Spanish and English (written and verbal), knowledge of industry terminology, technology skills for in-person and remote services, customer service skills, and an understanding of cultural and social communication.

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Translate texts from English to Spanish, and from Spanish to English, and identify grammatical differences between English and Spanish.
🗸 Apply the appropriate use of translation and interpretation in various settings and identify the responsibilities of interpreters and translators related to conduct, civic duties, and code of ethics.
🗸 Identify career opportunities in the fields of translation, interpretation, and localization, and the requirements to succeed in these and related careers.
🗸 Use the two languages, English and Spanish, to investigate the relationship between the products a culture produces, the practices a culture manifests, and the perspectives that underlie them.
🗸 Explain localization and the translation profession with a philosophical understanding of the fact that the English language and the Anglo culture are not the only standards of meaning and value in the United States and the world.
🗸 Describe the importance of the role of localization in linguistic and cultural retention as opposed to linguistic discrimination, assimilation, and oppression.
🗸 Investigate and analyze different local and global manifestations of language and culture as completely valid, as well as explain the basics of linguistic rights, the importance of retaining unique cultural markers of language, and the linguistic and cultural complexities of language in context.

The Certificate of Achievement in Spanish for Spanish Speakers promotes fluency in Academic Spanish and an understanding of Hispanic culture. This is an eighteen-unit program of study of the Spanish language and its culture that prepares students to interact appropriately with Spanish-speaking persons in a variety of settings, including education, retail, medicine, travel, hospitality, entertainment, and community services. The program assists students who are seeking careers in a wide variety of fields that value multilingualism and multiculturalism, and/or cater specifically to Spanish-speaking consumers. Students are exposed to potential paths for bilinguals such as translation, teaching of foreign languages, Chicano and other Hispanic literatures. The Certificate of Achievement establishes Spanish linguistic and cultural fluency as a foundation for further studies in Spanish, Spanish interpreting, Hispanic literature, linguistics and culture.