The Certificate of Achievement in Paralegal Studies is intended to prepare students for employment as a paralegal for various legal sectors. The Paralegal Studies program introduces students to the fundamentals of the paralegal profession to enhance the ability of students to reason, understand and apply correct principles of law by teaching analytical and critical thinking skills. Students examine the practical application of paralegal-related job skills, including preparing forms and pleadings, interviewing clients and witnesses, legal research and document organization. The following is required for the Certificate of Achievement in Paralegal Studies: a. Completion of a minimum of 24 designated units - the paralegal program at Chabot College meets the requirements of California Business and Professions code 6450. b. Minimum grade point average (GPA) of a least 2.0 in all paralegal-related coursework. c. All courses in the certificate must be completed with a grade C or better.

Career Opportunties

Students will be prepared for careers as a: paralegal, legal assistant, or research assistant. Labor Market data shows a significant undersupply of Paralegals and Legal Assistants compared to the demand for this occupation in the Bay region and in the East Bay sub-region (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties). There is a projected annual gap of about 750 students annually in the Bay region and 257 students annually in the East Bay sub-region. Potential employers of paralegals and legal assistants include law offices, state and federal government agencies, finance and insurance companies, and regulatory agencies. In addition, as California law firms struggle to find qualified paralegals and legal assistants, these jobs might prove to be a path to law school. Some law offices offer tuition reimbursement and other financial assistance to paralegals pursuing a law degree.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Develop the analytical thinking and professional skills necessary to work as a paralegal or legal assistant by an attorney, law office, governmental agency, or other legally related entity.

- Identify and apply correct principles of law and work effectively within the legal industry.

- Emphasize practical application of essential paralegal skills such as conducting legal research, calendaring, drafting legal documents and legal memoranda.

The Food Safety Certificate is intended for students interested in the specialized practices required for the safe production, handling, transportation, and manufacturing of food products. Students will be trained in skills critical to the agriculture and food manufacturing industries. A Certificate of Achievement in Food Safety will provide students with immediately useful job skills, and be complementary to other degree and certificate programs in Agriculture.

Program Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this program, a student will be able to:

🗸 Describe and employ current growing practices in the area of desired study.

🗸 Distinguish and propose inputs and controls needed to produce a consistently healthy crop in an area of study.

🗸 Recognize and evaluate how agriculture is in a progressively changing flux of knowledge and innovation.

🗸 Relate why sustainable agriculture is the cornerstone of future growing trends.

The Agriculture Production certificate is intended for students interested in a wide range of career and educational pathways: farm management, harvest operations, agricultural research, and many more. Students may use this emphasis to obtain skills and knowledge to work in industry, or as a foundation for transfer to a four-year college or university.

Program Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this program, a student will be able to:

🗸 Describe and employ current growing practices in the area of desired study.

🗸 Distinguish and propose inputs and controls needed to produce a consistently healthy crop in an area of study.

🗸 Recognize and evaluate how agriculture is in a progressively changing flux of knowledge and innovation.

🗸 Relate why sustainable agriculture is the cornerstone of future growing trends.

The Certificate of Achievement in Music Production is designed for musicians and songwriters who want to develop their creative skills while learning how to use current technologies to make music. This is a hands-on certificate program in which students will be constantly required to make sounds, create music and work on their craft. Housed in the state-of-the-art Chabot College recording studio & technology lab, this program offers a streamlined, efficient pathway for emerging musicians to establish a solid foundation of technical and aesthetic knowledge to begin working in the largely freelance and project-based creative music industry.

Career Opportunities

Career opportunities for which this program would provide include, but are not limited to: music producer/composer, sound design, game audio, audio for visual media and performing musician which labor market research shows is undersupplying with an annual gap of about 589 students in the Bay region and 134 students in the East Bay Sub-Region. Career opportunities are largely freelance or project-based.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Develop and implement the fundamental technical skills upon which to build a meaningful professional pathway into the music industry;

- Cultivate an essential aesthetic basis upon which to make artistically viable, personally meaningful musical decisions;

- Practice and demonstrate professional behaviors required in the music industry

This certificate program offers specialized study in Jazz pedagogy and will prepare students for a career performing, private teaching, and coaching jazz fundamentals, harmony, and musicianship. Completion of this certificate indicates that the student is prepared to offer instruction in jazz pedagogy including improvisation. The certificate may be pursued concurrently with the pursuit of an AA or AA-T degree program.

Career Opportunities

This certificate will prepare music students to succeed toward their educational goal and towards gainful employment in the workplace. Career opportunities in Jazz include being a private instructor, arranger, composer, contractor, as well as a performer.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Through analysis of characteristics of various historical periods, assess the aesthetic values in Jazz and the role Jazz plays in American culture.

- Perform Jazz improvisations and analyze and Jazz solo transcriptions.

- Compose and improvise jazz music appropriate to the style of the era.

This certificate program offers specialized study in harmony and musicianship to help prepare students to teach, tutor and coach music fundamentals, harmony, musicianship and basic form analysis. Completion of this certificate indicates that the student is prepared to offer instruction in basic music theory, ear training and sight-singing. The certificate may be pursued concurrently with the pursuit of the music AA-T degree program.

Career Opportunities

Music theory tutor and coach, Harmony and Musicianship tutor and coach, Ear-training & Sight-singing tutor and coach, Composer, Arranger, etc.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Examine music as a form of expression that reflects personal creativity as well as social, historical, political, religious and cultural changes and influences.

- Examine and discuss music in relation to other forms of human expression, including art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and politics.

- Demonstrate proficiency in communication technologies for the purposes of research, composition, listening, performance, recording, and cross-discipline collaboration.

The Agriculture Business Certificate is intended for students interested in entrepreneurship, or as part of a foundation for transfer to a four-year college or university to pursue a higher degree in agriculture business or related field.

Program Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this program, a student will be able to:

🗸 Describe and employ current growing practices in the area of desired study.

🗸 Distinguish and propose inputs and controls needed to produce a consistently healthy crop in an area of study.

🗸 Recognize and evaluate how agriculture is in a progressively changing flux of knowledge and innovation.

🗸 Relate why sustainable agriculture is the cornerstone of future growing trends.

The Certificate of Achievement in Audio Recording is designed for students who want to learn how to record and mix sounds in a variety of different applications. Students will learn the basics of recording hardware and software and will work in an extremely hands-on environment with abundant opportunities to engage in actual recording sessions. Housed in the state-of-the-art Chabot College recording studio & technology lab, this program offers a streamlined, efficient pathway for emerging audio engineers to establish a solid foundation of technical and aesthetic knowledge to begin working in the largely freelance and project-based creative music industry.

Career Opportunities

Completion of this certificate, while not a requirement for entry into the music industry, will provide students with a solid foundation for primarily freelance and project-based work. This includes but is not limited to the following areas: music recording, music mixing, audio editing, and live concert sound reinforcement. With labor market research showing an undersupply of audio recording workers, teaching students foundations for relevant vocational training in the new music industry guides their chances of filling employment positions. As such, the Music Recording & Technology program at Chabot College seeks to provide students with a broad, dynamic package of courses and completion options. This will provide the best possible points of departure for becoming our future sound engineering technicians, audio/video equipment technicians and a wide variety of other audio career pathways that are in need in today’s music industry.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Develop and implement the fundamental technical skills upon which to build a meaningful professional pathway into the music industry;

- Cultivate an essential aesthetic basis upon which to make artistically viable, personally meaningful musical decisions;

- Practice and demonstrate professional behaviors required in the music industry.

The Certificate Program in Medical Assisting is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), 1361 Park Street, Clearwater, Florida 33756, (727) 210- 2350, www.caahep.org, on the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB)) of the American Association of Medical Assistants? Endowment (AAMAE). Completion of this program qualifies the student to take the National Certification examination CMA-AAMA-Certified Medical Assistant Exam. Graduates of the Medical Assisting programs at Chabot College will have an opportunity to apply for employment as Medical Assistants in an ambulatory care setting. Medical Assistants are multi-skilled allied health professionals who can perform a variety of administrative and clinical skills.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Medical Assisting programs at Chabot College will have an opportunity to apply for employment as Medical Assistants in an ambulatory care setting.

Program Learning Outcomes

- To prepare competent entry-level professional medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

- To be responsive to the communities of interest that are served by the program including, but are not limited to, students, graduates, faculty, sponsor administration, industry partners, physicians, and the public.

- Employ principles of communication theory to facilitate and maintain effective, verbal, written and nonverbal interaction

The Community Health Worker Certificate of Achievement trains and certifies students to work in the fields of public health, health care, and social services. Community health workers provide a wide range of services, including health outreach and education, client-centered counseling and case management, and client and community-based advocacy. Community health workers work to reduce unequal rates of illness and death between different communities and to promote health equity or justice, prioritizing communities with the greatest health risks.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

UPON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THIS PROGRAM, STUDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO:

🗸 Identify basic health needs and evaluate health and human service resources within the community.
🗸 Demonstrate Community Health Worker professional skills and job readiness in the core competencies identified by the Community Health Care Worker Core Consensus Project (C3) and the needs of the local community.