The Oakland Higher Education Center is a joint project of the City of Oakland’s Community and Economic Development Agency and the Oakland Higher Education Consortium. The Center was established in 1995 to increase access to higher education in the downtown area. Through the institutions represented in the Consortium, we offer educational information, referral services, and academic courses for twelve Bay Area colleges and universities.

All classes are held at the Oakland Higher Education Center (OHEC).OHEC is located at 2201 Broadway, Suite 250, Oakland, CA. To register for any of the classes listed, please call the respective institutions at the registration phone numbers provided for each school. Need more information? We will be happy to assist you with any inquires regarding the schools or their programs. Please call the Center at (510) 238-3150 or email us at ohec@citycom.com For more information regarding OHEC and for links to each of the member schools, log onto our web-site at www.OaklandHigherEdCenter.org

For more information, please call (510) 823-9656

First Semester Cohort 9:30am-5:00pm

Saturday & Sunday, September 7-8, October 5-6, November 2-3, December 7-8, 2002

Second Semester Cohort 9:30am-5:00pm

Saturday & Sunday, September 14-15, October 12-13, November 9-10, December 14-15, 2002

The Weekend College Humanities BA Completion Program is an accelerated undergraduate program designed for self-motivated, disciplined, working adults who have accumulated previous college credits and require a flexible schedule. This program is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program with academic clusters in the areas of arts, music, and literature, community/global studies, and cultural studies. Students work closely with an advisor, take monthly interdisciplinary humanities seminars, keep a journal, and complete a senior thesis.

• The Humanities & Leadership Weekend MA Completion Program

First Semester Cohort 10:00am-4:45pm

Saturday & Sunday, September 7, 21; October 5, 19; November 2, 16; December 7, 14, 2002

The M.A. in Humanities & Leadership is a one-year New College Graduate program designed to help managers become leaders and to help leaders prepare for the vital challenges of the 21^st century. Leadership is guidance toward a mutually desirable end and must be transformational, i.e. guiding the led in the process & habit of authentic self-motivation. To do this leader must realize that they have the right to act, the duty to know whom they are leading, and a responsibility to the people they are leading. Our approach to higher education credits students as sensitive and mature beings whose rightful duty is to take charge of their own academic and social destiny.

To register, please call (510) 642-4111

In this introductory course you develop your ability to understand everyday spoken Spanish and to communicate in a variety of everyday situations. By the end of the course you should be able to greet others, ask and answer questions, improve responses, and express basic needs, attitudes, and emotions. Enrollment is limited.

This is an introductory Java course for non-programmers who want to become programmers eventually. Java uses syntax similar to C/C++. However, even if you are unfamiliar with C/C++, you should be able to learn Java. The course focuses mainly on Java programming language using JDK 1.2, its syntax and semantics. It covers data types, variables and constants, assignments and initialization, relational and Boolean operators, control and flow constructs classes and objects, basic object-oriented programming with Java, understanding Java applets, and graphics programming with Java.

World Wide Web pages are becoming truly interactive, with embedded applets for content, animation, graphics, and sound. This is made possible by using Java, with its promise of platform independence. What this means is that "write once, run anywhere" may become a reality for software development (that is, software written for windows would work equally well on Macintosh, UNIX, and other platforms, and vice versa).

On completion of this course, you should be able to write basic Java applications and applets, and you should be prepared to undertake advanced courses in Java. Enrollment is limited.

Through this course, you learn how critically examining the professional literature can help you apply language acquisition strategies to your teaching, and you learn to draw on your own language learning and teaching experiences for examples that relate theory to practice.

• Mainstreaming Disabled Students with Special Needs in Regular Classes-Section 3 (EDP #208173)

This course helps you develop teaching and management skills that facilitate learning by students with special needs in the mainstreamed classroom. It provides information on special education history, legislation, programs, services, and trends; the terminology and characteristics of disabling conditions; and strategies for modifying the regular education program.

Studies confirm that both physical and emotional health are critical to school performance. Helping students learn to care for their bodies and make healthy emotional adjustments to the demands and pressures of our fast-paced society is part of the educational process at all grade levels. This course presents strategies for teaching health concepts in elementary, secondary, and adult classes. Topics include personal health, fitness and nutrition, stress and depression, emotional health, sexuality, and use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.

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