Experience Plein Air Landscape Painting

Be Inspired by Summer, Surf & Sand

 

Summer, surf and sand are your inspiration when you register for Foothill's ART 19AS: Plein Air Landscape Painting class which meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Foothill as well as serene off-campus locations. The 1.5-unit class is ideal for artists of all ability levels.

 

Taught by award-winning artist, landscape painter and designer Joe Ragey, the class gives you the opportunity to experience the sensation of painting outdoors in California sunlight. You'll also study works by plein air masters from California's rich heritage of open air and impressionist paintings. To register, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

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New Accounting, Geography & Child Development Classes

 

This summer, Foothill's Business & Social Sciences Division debuts three new courses, including ACTG 68B-C: Advanced Tax Accounting, GEOG 9: California Geography and CHLD 86A: Mentoring & Professional Development of Early Childhood Professionals.

 

The ACTG 68B-C classes are offered online and will help you prepare to take the Internal Revenue Service's Enrolled Agent Exam.

 

The four-unit GEOG 9 course studies the extreme regional variations within California. In addition to using maps, geographic information systems, and the Internet, you'll examine settlement, economic development, and urban-industrial-transportation patterns of the state. This course also fulfills the California geography requirement for educator certification.

 

The new CHLD 86A course provides professional growth hours and allows you to advance toward becoming a child development mentor. Completion of the course will count toward the administrative units required for childhood professional certification. To register, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

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Learn the Emergency Response Skills that Can Prevent Injury & Save a Life

Popular Class Now Offered Weekends & Evenings

 

Foothill now offers more opportunities throughout the year to enroll in the popular HLTH 5: Emergency Response course. For convenience, the course is now offered in six- and twelve- week formats, and meets at the Foothill College Middlefield Campus in Palo Alto. Prior experience is not required.

 

Upon successful completion of the five-unit course, you'll be eligible to earn American Red Cross certificates in emergency response, CPR for the professional rescuer, automatic external defibrillation, oxygen use, and blood-borne pathogens and disease prevention. The class is also the prerequisite for Foothill's EMT Program.

 

For Summer Session, the course meets Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. beginning June 28. For Fall Quarter, two six-week sections of the class will be presented Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 27 and again Nov. 8. For Winter Quarter, the 12-week class is presented Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. beginning Jan. 10 or all day Saturdays beginning Jan. 14. For Spring Quarter, two six-week sections will be presented Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. beginning April 11 and again May 23. To register, access www.foothill.edu or call (650) 949-7325.

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EOPS Program Helps Families Improve the Quality of Their Lives

 

Foothill College journalism/mass communications major Christina Piazza is the recipient of the 2005 Central Coast Extended Opportunity Program & Services (EOPS) Consortium Award. She was selected from a field of more than 200 students from 11 community colleges in the region for the award, which includes a learning stipend.

 

Designed for California residents who receive financial assistance, EOPS is one of the numerous student support services offered by Foothill College. Participants receive counseling, textbook vouchers, tutoring, priority registration and other assistance. EOPS students must be educationally disadvantaged, enroll full time, qualify for the BOG Fee Waiver and have not yet completed 105 degree-applicable units.

 

To learn more about EOPS and determine if you qualify for the program, schedule a consultation at (650) 949-7207.

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Enjoy a matinee performance of Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon by award-winning Foothill Music Theatre, followed by an elegant alfresco supper, wine tasting, and live and silent auctions in the Smithwick Theater and Library Courtyard at Foothill College.

 

The gala is sponsored by the Foothill-De Anza Foundation and proceeds support award-winning Foothill Music Theatre, the new Lohman Theater, and other programs that foster student success. To purchase gala tickets or tables, call (650) 949-6230 or purchase online at www.foundation.fhda.edu.

 

Brigadoon runs July 22 through Aug. 14. For general admission tickets, call (650) 949-7360.