Non-Credit Summer Courses Offered at the College
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michelle Tooker, Public Relations
610-359-5276
(Delaware and Chester Counties, PA)—Spend your summer seeking personal enlightenment or enrichment by taking one of Delaware County Community College’s non-credit courses. A wide variety of courses will be offered at the College’s Marple Campus (901 S. Media Line Road, Media, PA) from May to mid-August.
Find out what it takes to prepare a successful proposal for funding, and learn the requirements of private foundations, public agencies and other funding sources in Grant Writing and Research (5/30), or explore legal issues, market research, management, accounting, insurance and site selection in How to Start a Small Business (5/22).
Launch a career in Life Coaching (5/23), helping others discover their strengths, set goals and achieve them. Or consider the field of bartending and learn recipes, preparation of drinks and bar setups for restaurant, home and catering applications in Introduction to Mixology (7/9). And whether you’re a seminar, conference, retreat, fundraiser or personal-event coordinator, Event Planning (5/29) will show you how to organize and pull it off without a hitch!
Learn a new language in a stimulating environment in Spanish (5/29) or Italian (6/4) with beginning courses introducing the basics of pronunciation, sentence structure and vocabulary, or build skills in performing a manual alphabet to communicate with hearing-impaired children and adults in Sign Language for Beginners (5/22).
Explore ways to make your fiction or non-fiction come alive in Creative Writing (5/22), or relax in a beginner dance class, mastering the foxtrot, waltz and tango in Smooth Ballroom or the rumba, salsa and cha cha in Latin Rhythm (both 5/29). Or the Basics of Organic Gardening (6/7) may be more to your liking as you learn to understand the ecosystem, site a garden, plant seeds, transplant seedlings, mulch, compost, identify and control pests, and apply chemical-free fertilizers.
If you’ve dreamed of making music, consider joining Beginning Piano (5/21) for group instruction in our electronic piano lab. In Musical Theater—Cabaret (5/23) you will learn to select an appropriate singing repertoire from Pop, Broadway and/or Classical songs and develop skills to enrich your performance technique.
Courses to enhance your health and well-being include T’ai Chi (6/13), Pilates for Beginners (5/24), Zumba (5/22), Hatha Yoga (5/24) and Experiencing Meditation (6/5). In addition, Nurturing the Spirit Within (5/22) is an exploration of one’s inner self that incorporates Chakras, Reiki, Spirit Painting, Palmistry, Crystal Energy, Dreams and Feng Shui.
To register—or for more information on these offerings as well as information on GED Prep, SAT Prep, TEAS Prep, English as a Second Language, and summer programs for kids and teens—call the Office of Community Education at 610-359-5025, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday. For information regarding courses at the College’s Chester County campuses, call 484-237-6242. The College is handicap accessible, and plenty of free parking is available.
For a complete listing of non-credit offerings, including Computer and Technical Education courses plus courses offered at our new Upper Darby Center, visit www.dccc.edu/noncredit-courses.
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