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Community Education

The Mission of the Community Education Program is to provide diverse, affordable personal enrichment workshops to the San Diego community including courses in arts and crafts, business and career development, dance, fitness and exercise, foreign languages, jewelry making, living green, travel, excursions, music and more.

Personal enrichment classes such as art, drama, music, dance, sewing and cooking are offered for a fee, based on the number of hours the class meets.

There is no preregistration for FEE classes: general interest, enrichment, recreational and avocational classes. FEEs are $4.25 per hour of instruction, as set by the SDCCD Board of Trustees. Fees are due and payable the first hour of the first class. FEE classes begin approximately every 6 weeks. See course listings.

Fifteen (15) fees must be collected for the class to be held. There are no refunds of fees once the class has officially begun.

Ballroom Dancing

Designed to develop basic skills in the more popular traditional ballroom dances including the latest fad dances. Mastery of step patterns, movement, quality and style will be emphasized.

Ballroom Dancing Class Schedule

Copper Enameling

Contemporary approach to the ancient art of firing glass on metal. Creative projects include wall plaques, jewelry, trays and bowls. Techniques include cloisonne, champleve, sgraffito and etching. Color and design appropriate to the media.

Copper Enameling Class Schedule

Firearm Safety

Basic

Fundamentals of handling handguns; safety regulations and procedures. Meets NRA Regulations for Hunter Safety Certification.

Advanced

Learn legal and safe methods of handling and firing handguns using proper advanced firing techniques. Through demonstrations, discussions and practice, learn how to select, care for, and maintain your handguns. The legal as well as the moral aspects regarding the use of handguns will be presented.

Firearm Safety Class Schedule

Investments - Make Profitable Financial Decisions

This is a practical, everyday economics course on the fundamentals of investments. The student will be able to make more profitable financial decisions upon completion of this course which discusses savings accounts, insurance, real estate, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other types of investments for both the working and retired investor. The student will receive guidance in preparing his/her own financial and estate plan.

Investments Class Schedule

Jewelry Making 1-3

Beginning through advanced jewelry making skills include design, fabrication, soldering, casting and stone setting methods. Technique oriented instruction so you can create your own designs. Must provide own materials and hand tools.

Advanced

For the jewelry student who is comfortable with the basics of soldering, sawing, filling, and polishing, this advanced class offers the opportunity to explore more ambitious techniques. Students will be introduced to more advanced skills while working on projects of their own design. Instruction may include skills such as faceted stone setting, hinges and mechanisms, torch texturing, adding gold to silver jewelry, and others.

Advanced Jewelry Making Techniques

Advanced jewelry making skills include design, fabrication, soldering, casting and stone setting methods. Technique oriented instruction so you can create your own designs. Must provide own materials and hand tools.

Jewelry Making with Precious Metal Clay

The course is an introduction to working and creating jewelry in Fine Silver using an exciting new process called Precious Metal Clay (PMC). PMC is rapidly becoming a very popular new medium for artists and others for creating unique new forms of jewelry, mainly because of its ease of use and relatively inexpensive price tag. Unlike traditional metal-based jewelry-making, PMC does not require soldering or special-purpose tools and well-practiced skills for working with metals. Instead, the PMC process begins with the shaping of a compound clay material of water and binder, and is more similar to working with delicate pottery, Fimo or Sculpey. Once fired, the clay piece hardens and evaporates to leave behind a beautiful piece of fine precious metal in silver or gold. PMC materials and processes are also non-toxic and non-hazardous.

The course will teach the students all stages of jewelry-making with PMC, from designing the piece to modelling it, firing and finishing the final, wearable or displayed piece of jewelry. The course will include six class meetings of 3 hours duration each. Students will be supplied in class or directed to retailers for purchase of the tools and materials needed.

Jewelry Making Class Schedule

Physical Fitness through Dance: Belly Dance

This course is designed to help students improve their flexibility, strength, coordination, balance, cardiovascular fitness, and body awareness through movement with a positive environment.

Belly Dancing Class Schedule

Printmaking

Printmaking is a centuries old technique for creating art and illustrations in multiple originals. Over the generations it has evolved into a Fine Art form capable of producing beautiful and unique expressions of the printmaker's imagination and skill.

The class will introduce to beginners or advanced students, at all levels, printmaking methods such as Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Mezzotint, Collagraph, Woodcut and Linoleum Block.

Advanced students will receive instruction in Viscosity, color printing, relief and Intaglio according to their interests.

Printmaking Class Schedule

Tennis

Beginning

This course is designed to give students the basic knowledge and practice to be able to understand and play tennis at a beginners level. They will learn the basic grips and strokes of the game.

Fundamental skills and strategies for playing singles and doubles. Entry level is dependent on playing ability and/or experience. First come-first served. Limited enrollment. Bring racquet and new can of balls to first class.

Intermediate

Fundamental skills and strategies for playing singles and doubles. Entry level is dependent on playing ability and/or experience. First come-first served. Limited enrollment. Bring racquet and new can of balls to first class.

Tennis Class Schedule

Woodshop-Woodworking

Provides instruction in skills necessary to develop competence in woodworking on a non-vocational or vocational level. Includes shop safety, terminology, wood recognition and individual project construction.

Woodshop-Woodworking Class Schedule

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