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Art Experiences for Non-Artists

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Experience how it feels to be an artist. Let a gentle specialist in healing creators’ block guide you through step-by-step drawing, painting, and creativity exercises in a relaxing, supportive, fun atmosphere. Feel the incredible high of finding the secrets that awaken the art maker innate in us all! If you’re an absolute beginner—or someone who’s become separated from your art—here’s the class to begin your art journey! If you’re...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Painting - Level 1

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Find out how to achieve your objectives in your own work in a workshop for painters of all skill levels, tailored to your individual needs, with plenty of one-on-one time with your instructor. Bring your project to class for a customized demonstration on how to problem-solve your particular issue, or bring an idea that you don’t know how to paint for a step-by-step “how to” walkthrough.

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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PetSaver: First Aid, CPR & Care for Your Dog or Cat

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

In a program designed for pet owners and pet-care professionals, learn valuable first-aid skills and information to help keep your pets happy and healthy. Find out about: Proper restraining and muzzling How to perform rescue breathing and CPR How to deal with choking How to care for senior petizens What you need to know about your pet’s dental health...and much more You will receive a certificate valid for 2 years upon successful completion...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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Essential Ayurveda

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Ayurveda is an ancient holistic system of medicine from India. In a fun and interactive class, learn essential ayurveda food and lifestyle principles to help reduce stress, improve digestion, and have a happy and positive state of mind.  Taste seasonal food samples, and find out how food can be used as medicine to address the effects of migraines, anxiety, acid reflux, and more.  Recommended reading:  "The Essential Ayurvedic Cookbook...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

2 sessions

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Exploring Still Life Drawing - Color Media

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Whether you’re looking to fine tune your observational drawing skill or enhance your portfolio for College Admission, this is the course for you! This class will focus on traditional techniques and materials used to create highly informed drawings. We will be exploring a range of structural techniques designed to give students a stronger grasp on drawing from life. Drawing from life facilitates a better understanding of organic and manufactured...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Pastels & More

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Explore abstraction and abstract (as well as representational) images from various sources—including yourself—in a hands-on workshop that focuses on the powder pastel palette. Learn about rich color harmonies, composition, and expression. We’ll also touch on the use of oil pastel and the optional use of collage. Bring to first class meeting: India ink; a small, inexpensive 'multipurpose' soft brush; soft vine charcoal; powder pastels;...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Introduction to Basic Mindfulness

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Ever wanted to learn how to meditate? Want to improve your ability to concentrate, or to de-stress from the pressures of everyday life? Basic Mindfulness is a clear, easy way to begin. In a supportive class that includes simple instructions and brief in-class guided meditation sessions, learn how to enhance your clarity of sense perception, build your concentration power, and develop equanimity and restfulness in ways that can be applied directly...

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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German for Beginners

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

If you’ve ever wanted to speak German, this class is for you! Come learn the fundamentals of the language--including some of most important rules of German grammar--and start building your working vocabulary. You’ll be able to speak and understand simple sentences in German before you know it!

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Advanced Screen Writing: From Page to Screen

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Empower yourself in your journey from the blank page to the silver screen! In a hands-on workshop for screenwriters who have written at least a short or a feature film, gain practical tools to solve both storytelling and business issues. Find out how to address typical concerns of a screenwriter--from researches to writer’s block, from story structure to how to market your script--and pick up tips and techniques you can immediately apply to your...

(513) Advanced 18 and older
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$129

6 sessions

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Creating a Photo Essay

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Learn visual storytelling as you develop a personal photo project. Discover how grouping your photos together in creative ways can tell a more engaging story and take your photography to a greater level of communication. Whether you have travel photos to organize, want to create a cohesive body of images, or just enjoy visual storytelling, find out how to define your project with an artist’s statement and produce strong images that work together....

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

5 sessions

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The Alexander Technique

Santa Monica College @ 1227 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA

Discover how to help yourself look and feel better and more relaxed, using a technique developed by FM Alexander to free your body of the tension, stress, and pain brought on by daily activities and habits. Find out how to recognize your own particular habits and how they affect you. Learn how to apply the Alexander Technique in your daily life—standing, sitting, carrying groceries, or even brushing your teeth—to find an ease in both movement...

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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MS Excel: Databases, Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Advanced MS Excel: Working with Databases, Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts In a follow-up class to Intermediate MS Excel, continue building your skills as you learn how to use filters, how to work with subtotals, how to link data to a drop-down menu, how to create Sumif formulas, and how to make the most of pivot tables and pivot charts to take large volumes of data and summarize them in seconds, giving you valuable information efficiently. ...

(513) Advanced 18 and older
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Jewelry-Making Basics from A to Z

Santa Monica College @ 1227 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA

Earrings! Bracelets! Necklaces! Learn how to create your own custom jewelry, as well as repair old pieces. In a hands-on workshop that covers stringing beads, attaching clasps, wire-wrapping and looping, pearl knotting, bead weaving, and chain maille, you’ll make two pieces of jewelry each week, and take home instructions for future projects.  Bring to class a small towel and any jewelry tools you already own. Do NOT buy any new tools until...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$79

3 sessions

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Intro to Music Theory

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Knowing the basics of music theory will help you make a better connection to composition, playing your instrument, and becoming a better musician. Whether you are a composer, play an instrument, or an avid music listener, this intro-level class will give you a clearer understanding of music, so it all starts to make real sense, and you can appreciate and enjoy music on a higher level.  We’ll cover music element basics, sight reading, key...

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Creating Comics & Graphic Novels, Part II

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Improve your penciling and inking techniques and expand your writing and visual storytelling skills to make your comic books and graphic novels spark! Explore how to create your own characters and stories—and complete a concept bible and/or an 8-page mini-comic/ashcan—in this very hands-on workshop, which mixes lectures, demonstrations, and technique development. All levels of art experience welcome, but novices are encouraged to first take...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Plein Air Outdoor Watercolor Painting

Santa Monica College @ Thomson Art Studio, Santa Monica, CA

Outdoor painting and watercoloring known as "Plein Air” has been enjoyed and used through the centuries by people of all ages. Join us for 6 onsite visits to noteworthy places in the community--Water Gardens, Will Rogers State Beach, Palisades Park, Douglas Park, Lake Shrine Self-Realization Center, and Tongva Park--and enjoy the outdoors as you learn how to quickly sketch and render perspective views using simple pencil and watercolor techniques....

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$119

7 sessions

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Shibori and Beyond

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Discover the ancient art of binding, stitching, and dyeing fabrics to give cloth a three-dimensional look. Come learn 6-8 simple techniques for binding and stitching, the basics you need to know about dyes and textiles, and how to set dyes into fabric. Learn how to create inexpensive but personal dyed shibori silk scarves to give to family and friends. This is a very hands-on class, so wear old clothes you won’t mind getting messy. This class...

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$89

2 sessions

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TDD and Refactoring Legacy Code Using C#

Hands On Technology Transfer, Inc. @ (Exact location to be announced), Santa Monica, CA

All HOTT courses are available face-to-face, remote-live, or on-site at your facility. This course provides students with hands on experience learning Test Driven Development (TDD) using NUnit and Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Students will build unit tests using mocks, fakes, stubs and drivers, and address issues working with databases and other systems. Students will create tests and code that will be more likely to meet and exceed requirements....

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$2,595

5 sessions

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SharePoint 2013 Power User

Hands On Technology Transfer, Inc. @ (Exact location to be announced), Santa Monica, CA

All HOTT courses are available face-to-face, remote-live, on-demand or on-site at your facility.  This hands-on course thoroughly covers out-of-the-box features of SharePoint and how to customize these features to make the most of your SharePoint environment. The course begins with an overview of SharePoint system architecture, then moves on to creating SharePoint web applications, site collections and sites. From there, students will add...

(7) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,595

3 sessions

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UNIX/Linux Fundamentals and Shell Scripting

Hands On Technology Transfer, Inc. @ (Exact location to be announced), Santa Monica, CA

All HOTT courses are available face-to-face, remote-live, on-demand or on-site at your facility.  This hands on course provides training on standard UNIX/Linux commands and utilities used for day to day tasks including file manipulation, program execution and control, and effective use of the shell and desktop environments.  The course presents the concepts necessary to understand the way UNIX works as well as the system's most commonly...

(7) Beginner 18 and older
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$2,595

5 sessions

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