This course offers an overview of visual communication fields and the programs of study in the Visual Media Design Department. The class introduces students to professional practice in fields such as graphic design, illustration, imaging, publication design and web front end development. Students will identify potential career options, explore the necessary skills to succeed in these fields, and outline a future program of study.
Prepares students for the GED Mathematical Reasoning test, TASC or HiSET Math test, and/or credit math courses. Topics include quantitative reasoning with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, and related word problems; data measurement and analysis; an introduction to algebraic reasoning; and geometric measurement.
This is a high school level preparatory course with an emphasis on reading and writing expository texts with the goal of establishing academic skills necessary for career and college success.
An advanced course designed to develop reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. Credits earned can be used towards the City College of San Francisco High School Diploma.
Preliminary short-term competency-based course designed to support student academic success in career, technical and vocational programs. Students learn and use vocational foundation skills in mathematics.
Competency-based course designed to support student academic success in career, technical and vocational programs. Students learn and use workplace essential skills in reading and writing.
A course designed to develop student awareness of the ways in which literature and visual art address similar themes, and to strengthen writing and editing skills, as well as visual art techniques.
Students learn techniques, elements of art, principles of design and how history and culture provide contexts for visual art by viewing reproductions of works and producing original works of their own.
An introductory course in physics. Content is taught at a conceptual level using basic math such as ratios, square roots, scientific notation, graph interpretation, slope, and simple scalar and vector algebra. Topics include forces, motion, energy, momentum, work, power, simple machines, waves, electricity, and magnetism.
An introductory course in ecological concepts, including structure and function of the biosphere, biomes, biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem, biochemical and nutrient cycles, interaction among species, changes in populations, and current conservation in society.