Las Positas College - Spring 2025 - Class Schedule

SPRING 2025 9 25. 424. 1 000 | l p c - a d m i s s i o n s @ l a s p o s i t a s c o l l e g e . e d u S P R I N G 2025 - C O U R S E L I S T I N G S Please refer to the onl ine schedule on CLASS-Web to access course section detai ls and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. NONCREDIT ESL NESL 203 LANGUAGE FOR CHILD’S LEARNING 0.0 Units School Matters 1 will teach English Learners the listening and speaking, reading and writing, and vocabulary skills necessary to help support their child’s learning in the K-12 school system. This class focuses specifically on supporting your child in their classroom (for example, language skills for contacting your child’s teacher), and supporting your child’s learning at home (for example, reading and writing skills for helping your child with homework). Recommended Course Preparation: NESL 231A and/or Completion of ESL Level 1A, or placement into ESL Level 1B through the ESL Assessment. NESL 204 LANGUAGE FOR CHILD’S COMMUNITY 0.0 Units School Matters 2 will teach English Learners the listening and speaking, reading and writing, and vocabulary skills necessary to engage with their child’s K-12 school community. This class focuses specifically on language skills for interacting with school administration (for example, speaking skills for engaging office staff about a child’s absence), and interacting with the greater school community (for example, speaking skills for volunteering at your child’s school). NESL 213 SPEAKING AND LISTENING FLUENCY 0.0 Units This is an oral communication course that will enable students to develop advanced speaking and listening fluency for academic and professional purposes. ESL 113 will enable students to fluently use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately, emphasizing academic and professional discourse. Students will practice listening and responding to academic lectures and presentations like TED Talks, including note-taking, summarizing, and other forms of critical analysis. Speaking practice will emphasize advanced rhetorical strategies through group discussions, debates, impromptu speeches and oral presentations and cultural norms in academic and professional contexts. It is the fifth and highest level of the ESL Speaking and Listening Fluency Pathway. Prerequisite: NESL 223 or ESL 123 or NESL 226 or ESL 226 with a minimum grade of Pass or Placement into Advanced ESL courses through the ESL Assessment Process. NESL 220A INTERMEDIATE GRAMMAR READING 0.0 Units This is the first semester of a one-year course in intermediate grammar for academic writing and reading designed to enable students to identify, comprehend, and use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately in reading and writing. The course focuses on types of sentences, clauses, and phrases, word order, verb forms, verb tenses, and on the connection between vocabulary and grammar. Prerequisite: NESL 230B or ESL 130B with a minimum grade of P or placement through the ESL assessment process Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 220A and NESL 221A, and ESL 123 or ESL 126. NESL 220B HIGH-INTERMEDIATE GRAMMAR 0.0 Units This is the second semester of a one-year course in intermediate grammar for academic writing and reading designed to enable students to use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately in written expression. The course focuses on types of sentences, clauses, phrases, word order, verb forms, verb tenses, and on the connection between vocabulary and grammar. This course also emphasizes analyzing grammar and meaning and detecting and correcting grammatical errors. Prerequisite: NESL 220A or ESL 120A with a minimum grade of P or placement through the ESL assessment process Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 220B and NESL 221B, and ESL 123 or ESL 126. NAVI 202B DRONE MAPPING AND SURVEY 0.0 Units This course introduces students to using drones for mapping and remote sensing applications. It will focus on pre-flight planning, data capture, and post-processing stages of common remote sensing data (RBG, Multispectral, Thermal, and LIDAR). Emphasis is developing post-processing skills for commercial projects with exposure to the craft of report writing, cartography, data interpretation, and presentation. This is a starting point for using drones in multiple and careers trajectories. It involves a structured, exercise based, and hands-on laboratory component. Recommended Course Preparation: NAVI 201 or GEOG 15 or PHTO 56 or PHTO 58 with a minimum grade of C NONCREDIT BUSINESS NBUS 212 DEVELOPING YOUR BUSINESS PLAN 0.0 Units This is a course designed for students considering starting their own businesses. All major elements of a business plan will be covered, including financial statements, marketing, and competitive strategies. NBUS 213 LEGAL ASPECTS SMALL BUSINESS 0.0 Units This course is designed for students interested in establishing a business and who need information about the legal issues involved. Legal aspects such as forms of ownership, licensing, and taxes will be covered. NBUS 214 SUCCESS IN THE GIG ECONOMY 0.0 Units This course provides students with a hands-on class experience in starting a side business that can add to a student’s income stream or grow into a full-time business. Students will learn to: identify income producing opportunities, develop business and promotion plans, and fund, launch, refine their business and make a profit. Emphasis will be placed on experiential learning, taking action and the iterative refinement process needed to start a new business. NBUS 233 PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 0.0 Units Designed to provide students with the practical, hands-on means of successfully managing their personal finances and of becoming financially empowered upon course completion. Among other topics, the course will cover the basics of credit management, assessing insurance needs, budgeting, personal financial statement preparation, investment and savings accounts, management of taxes, retirement accounts, will preparation and estate planning. NONCREDIT CIS NCIS 211 GOOGLE CAREER CERTIFICATES 0.0 Units Las Positas College has partnered with Google to offer students FREE access to several Google Career certificate courses. Some examples: IT Support, Data Analytics, Project Management, UX Design, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing and E-commerce and many other career certificates sponsored by Google. NCIS 211 is FREE, noncredit, zero textbook cost course designed for students who are undecided on their career choice and want to explore various technology related jobs, or students interested in finding a technology job, or students improving their skills for a current role. Each certificate allows users to learn at their own pace and is accessed FREE through a third-party online learning platform called Coursera.