DACC Catalog 2011-2012

Catalog - Community Education

The Community Education department is dedicated to enhancing and enriching the lives of community members by offering courses, workshops, seminars, tours, conferences, and other activities. Community Education is focused on providing experiences, knowledge, and information to the general public at an affordable cost. The goal of Community Education is to provide opportunities for individuals to explore new areas of interest, brush up on skills, and to develop employable skills that are needed and desired by employers located within the general college district area.

Community Education Programs and Courses

The courses are offered as a community service to the residents of our service area. As no state funding is received for these courses, they must be self-supporting from the fees charged to the participants.

Complete and current Community Education listings are included in the Fall and Spring Corporate and Community Education Program announcements and can be found at http://www.dacc.edu/cce/

There is a great deal of flexibility in the offerings in these courses. Some of the courses that are currently being offered include:

CAKE DECORATING

Cake Decorating-Course I
Learn the right way to decorate, step by step, so you experience the excitement of successfully decorating your first cake. You’ll understand how to bake a great cake, see how to make and color icing and learn the best way to ice the cake. You will also practice the three fundamentals of decorating, enabling you to approach each technique the right way for great results. Along the way, you’ll learn to create icing drop flowers, rosettes, shells, pompom flowers, leaves, shaggy mums, and the ribbon rose. Participants will also be required to purchase a decorating kit and book.

Cake Decorating-Course II
Reach a new level of decorating sophistication in this course. This is your introduction to breathtaking new icing flowers such as violets, apple blossoms, lilies and the rose. Discover the secrets of arranging these flowers in a bouquet, give them a border, and create a basket weave design. Participants will also be required to purchase a decorating kit and book.

Cake Decorating-Course III
This course will open a new world of decorating possibilities. Create stand-up decorations, ruffled layers of petals, and bows. If you loved playing with modeling clay as a kid, you’re going to love this class. Learn to tint, roll, and cut gum paste and fondant. Participants will also be required to purchase a decorating kit and book.

Cake Decorating-Course IV
Continue your work with gumpaste and learn to make vines and bouquets, and different types of flowers.

Flowers and More!-Course II
Master elegant new borders featuring rosettes, reverse shells and rope designs. Give your cakes incredible dimension with the addition of bold color flow decorations. Create lovely new flowers like rosebuds, daisies, daffodils, mums and more. Use these flowers in a grand finale-an impressive flower basket cake using the interwoven basketweave technique.

Fondant and Tired Cakes-Course III
Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques in Course III. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant, great for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely holiday blooms like poinsettias and Easter lilies. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a tower tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders.

Fondant and Gumpaste
Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques learned in this class. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant-for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and making intriguing gumpaste flowers. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a tower tiered cake with gumpaste flower swags.

CREATIVE ARTS & CRAFTS

POTTERY, Hand Building or Wheel Throwing
Beginner, intermediate and advanced students all WELCOME! Throw functional pots, throw bowls, plates and cups. Clay, and some glazes provided.

CERTIFICATION/OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS

Food Service
This course is designed to prepare food service employees to meet the Illinois certification requirement. Topics include: foodborne disease, facilities, equipment, personal hygiene, and inspection techniques. Exam will be given at last class meeting. Attendance is a must!

Food Service Renewal
State guidelines requires 5 hours of continuing education credit to renew licenses prior to expiration. A copy of your current license MUST be brought to class with you.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE/AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

American Sign Language
This class builds students' receptive and expressive skills in ASL and fingerspelling, as well as their knowledge of Deaf culture, since a language cannot be separated from its culture. It is designed for the student or professional who is interested in working and/or interacting with deaf people. Active participation is essential.

PETS

Dog Obedience:
Beginners/Initial Class—The beginner’s class is for dogs that have not attended a prior class with DACC Handlers should wear comfortable shoes. Dogs MUST be current on all shots including bordetella for kennel cough. Dogs should have 6 foot leash and a collar on. Types of training collars will be discussed the first night of class. The focus will be on commands for correct heeling, sit, down, stand, come, and stay.

Advanced Dog Obedience—This class is for dogs that have attended prior training classes through DACC and who have developed good skills learned from the beginners class. The focus will be on more intense and correctness of heeling, sit, down, stay, stand, and recall with introduction to off-lead heeling. Dog MUST be current on all shots including Bordetella and have a leash and collar.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Digital Photography
Traditional film is almost a thing of the past. This workshop will emphasize digital photography techniques, explain digital photography terms, camera operations and settings, basic photo manipulations, and file management of digital images.

Photography “The Basics”
This course of study introduces the student to: The use and handling of a camera; a working knowledge of film and digital imaging; the basic elements of a photograph; an understanding of lighting, both natural and artificial (flash); basic portrait lighting and posing; and the care, storage, and display of printed photographs as well as digital images.

Photography II - Introduction to Professional Photography
This course of study introduces the student to the basics of studio and commercial photography. Classes will explore photojournalism, studio photography, commercial advertising photography and scenic art photography. Weekly photo assignments and photo critiques are a part of the curriculum. A camera, either digital or film is required. Prerequisite – Photography 1 – “The Basics” or permission of the instructor.

Photoshop
This class will introduce you to the basics of working with Photoshop for retouching images and drawing. Students will be able to use various techniques for selecting in order to edit and retouch images. Students will be able to prepare images for including in a website or for including in printed documents. Students will be able to edit images using the painting tools, clone stamp and drawing tools. Students will be able to create new images using the pen tool and the drawing and painting tools. Students will be able to create and edit images using layers.

Photoshop Elements
PhotoShop Elements is a program that comes with many new digital cameras and scanners. It can perform many of the functions that the more expensive PhotoShop CS4 can do, but is more user friendly to amateur artists and photographers. The class will teach how to view and organize, fix, edit, and enhance photos, and produce photo creations and composites.

RECREATION & FITNESS

Adult Golf
This a great opportunity for beginning and intermediate golfers who want to learn and improve several areas of their game. The class will include instruction on problem areas the golfer might have as well as the basics in: grip, stance, back swing, down swing, follow-through, and finish position. Each participant will have the opportunity to have his/her golf swing analyzed. Rules of the game and golf etiquette will also be covered.

QIGONG Chinese Energy Healing
Qigong (pronounced cheegung) is a powerful system of healing and energy medicine from China; advocated by Dr. Oz (from the Oprah Show) as health enhancing exercise. It is the art and science of using breathing techniques, gentle movement, and meditation to cleanse, strengthen, and circulate the life energy (qi). Qigong practice leads to better health and vitality and a tranquil state of mind.

TAI CHI For Health
Medical and fitness authorities stress that effective exercise for health should include three components: cardio-vascular fitness, muscular strength, and flexibility. Nowadays, tai chi is practiced in every corner of the world for health improvement. Scientific studies show that tai chi improves and possibly prevents chronic conditions such as arthritis, heart disease and diabetes. In addition, it improves balance, immunity and reduces stress. Sun style tai chi uses low-impact, upright postures and is suitable for people of all ages.

COLLEGE FOR KIDS

College for Kids is a program that is offered to youth ranging in age from 2-16. The courses offered are developed to enhance and expose our youth to areas that will build character, enhance skills, and develop a broad range of knowledge that will help them transform into productive, educated citizens within out community. College for Kids provides:

• Hands-on, in-depth exploration in specialized areas
• Opportunities for our youth to reach greater levels of intellectual stimulation
• Challenging experiences and tools to help them advance in their educational venues successfully
• Opportunities to promote creativity, individuality, and building character
• Motivation and mentorship to direct energies towards working at their potential

COMPUTER/TECHNOLOGY
Classes held at Village Mall

For Beginners Only
If you have little or no computer experience this is the course for you. Topics include: terminology, (learning the lingo) and components of a computer system. Hands-on labs give students experience with basic window system operations such as creating and saving files. Basic word processing, email and surfing the web are included. Hands-on demo include digital photos, burning CD’s, and flash drives.

Word Level I
The course will give students a thorough understanding of the features of Microsoft Word. Students will be able to create, edit, format, and print Word documents that include outlines, tables, styles, and sections. Other essential topics including printing, saving, and retrieving files are also covered. Students will create a newsletter that uses columns, drawings, and object linking and embedding. Students will learn how to use the Workgroups features of Word, how to create Forms, Master Documents, and Macros.

Word Level II
Students will practice working with graphics, using advanced formatting options, using headers and footers, working with columns, using styles, creating and formatting tables, using basic collaboration features, and working with charts, diagrams, and organizational charts.

Excel Level I
This course will give students a working knowledge of electronic spreadsheets, what they are and how to use them. Students will be able to create and format Excel spreadsheets that include charts and multiple worksheets. Students will be able to create and execute formulas and use the Excel functions. Data sorting and manipulation are also covered. Students will learn to work with the workgroup features of Excel. Students will learn to import data into an Excel spreadsheet and will work with the data using the data management functions of Excel.

Excel Level II
Students will practice using multiple worksheets, manipulating screen display, working with advanced functions, using advanced formatting features, using advanced print options, filtering lists using AutoFilter, working with names, protecting data, using basic integration and web features, using comments, and working with charts.

Keyboarding
This class walks you through the process of learning each key and proper hand/finger placement to aid you in becoming a successful typist on the keyboard. You will learn to identify numbers and letters and build skills in typing and speed. This class is for all levels and is delivered in a self-paced atmosphere.

Access Level I
This course will give students a working knowledge of databases, what they are and how to use them. Students will learn to view data in a database and change the view by sorting and filtering the data. Students will create a database and learn to define forms for inputs and reports for summarizing the data. Students will learn to create queries to view a subset of data in the database. Students will create charts to display data and a switchboard to manage their database application. Students will create relational databases and learn to create forms, queries, and reports that use relational databases. Students will learn to build macros in Access.

Access Level II
Students will practice creating relational databases, working with related tables, using subforms, maintaining data integrity, using advanced form features, using advanced report features, using advanced query features, creating advanced queries, using data access pages, and importing and exporting data.

PowerPoint Level I
This class will give students a working knowledge of creating presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. Students will learn to work with the various PowerPoint views to create and view their presentations. Students will learn to give slide shows using PowerPoint and use PowerPoint to create web-based presentations. Students will learn to incorporate Excel data, charts and animations into their presentations.

Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Publisher allows you to design documents from calendars to business cards, newsletters to brochures. In this course you will learn to create documents using templates and learn to add and format text images. Students will learn design techniques as well as how to use publisher.

COMPUTER CLASSES FOR SENIORS

Computer Understanding (Boomers and Seniors)
If you have little or no computer experience, but want to learn, this is the class for you. It’s easy. In fact it’s a lot of FUN! Topics include: components and terminology of a computer system, keyboard and mouse usage, care and handling of diskettes, and an overview of software applications.

Senior Internet
Learn about the opportunities available with the Internet. Topics include: connection to the Internet, Explorer, search tools, how to use the World Wide Web and E-mail access.