Clovis Community College (CA)

Accounting

Combines an in-depth understanding of accounting principles with a breadth of business knowledge, preparing students for entry-level employment in the accounting field. Students learn basic accounting, both manual and computerized, including managerial, cost, and manufacturing skills.

Accounting

Prepares a student for entry level positions in bookkeeping/accounting. A student becomes conversant in business and accounting terminology and learns to use computer equipment and software for analysis, budgeting, and financial statement preparation.

Administration of Justice (Criminology)

Prepares students for transfer into a four-year degree at any of the California State Universities. The criminology program studies the causes, consequences, and control of crime, focused on either Law Enforcement or Corrections.

Agriculture Foundations

Prepares students with foundational knowledge and skills needed for employment in the agricultural workforce, including principles of agriculture, agriculture technologies and equipment, safety processes, and safe operation of basic equipment and tools.

Agriculture Plant Science

Prepares students to transfer to a 4-year university to pursue a bachelor's degree in plant science or a related field, covering plant anatomy and physiology, soil science, and cultivation techniques.

American Sign Language

Prepares students for the workforce in a field that requires interaction with Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals, providing in-depth instruction in American Sign Language and exposure to Deaf culture.

Animation

Develops the skills needed to gain entry-level employment in the multimedia industry. Students learn digital multimedia skills, build a portfolio, and create self-promotional and marketing materials.

Anthropology

Gives students an understanding of the biological and cultural characteristics of humans and the techniques and methods of professional anthropologists and archaeologists.

Art History

Designed to give students a foundational understanding of art history and prepare them for transfer into art history programs at the California State University system.

Art - Three-Dimensional

Provides a foundational understanding of visual communication and artistic image making within a three-dimensional format, such as ceramics and sculpture. Prepares students for transfer into a four-year art program.

Art - Two-Dimensional

Provides a foundational understanding of visual communication and artistic image making within a two-dimensional format, such as drawing and painting. Prepares students for transfer into a four-year art program.

Associate Teacher

Provides the core curriculum for the early childhood education field, allowing the student to work as a teacher in a private program, along with the education and 150 hours of experience required toward the Associate Teacher Child Development Permit.

Audio Production

Provides aspiring music producers access to the essential technology, techniques, and business practices needed to pursue a career in music production. Part of a series of Commercial Music certificates, focusing on operating a professional recording studio.

Biology

Reflects the core lower division requirements for many CSU and UC campuses, designed for students who plan to earn a bachelor's degree in Biology or a related field. Also serves as a basis for pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, and pre-veterinarian degrees.

Business Administration: Accounting

Business Administration (Associate in Science Degree)

Prepares a student to assume responsibility for an entry or mid-level managerial position, providing broad knowledge of modern business and management theories through core courses in accounting, economics, management, and computer information systems. Multiple options are available.

Business Administration (Associate in Science in Business Administration for Transfer Degree 2.0)

Prepares students to seamlessly transfer into the CSU system to pursue a baccalaureate degree in Business Administration, with an introductory foundation in accounting, computers, economics, law, and statistics.

Business Administration, Entrepreneur

Business Administration: Information Systems Management

Business Administration: Management

Business Administration Marketing

California State University General Education-Breadth

Career Exploration

Chemistry (Associate in Science in Chemistry for Transfer Degree)

Designed for students who plan to complete a bachelor's degree in chemistry at a CSU campus, developing the ability to collect, record, organize, analyze, and interpret chemical information and data.

Chemistry (Associate in Science in Chemistry for UC Transfer Degree)

Designed for students who plan to complete a bachelor's degree in a similar major at a UC campus, developing the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret chemical information and data.

Child and Adolescent Development

Intended for students who plan to transfer and complete a bachelor's degree in Child Development or a related major at a CSU campus.

Child Development

Designed to prepare students to work with young children in various early care and education settings. Upon completion, students possess the coursework to work as a teacher in Title 5 and Title 22 early care settings and are eligible for the California Child Development Teacher Permit.

Civil Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Civil Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Civil Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Civil Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Commercial Music Performance

Develops the skills to participate in professional recording studio sessions as well as contemporary live performance for instrumentalists, singers, and digital music programmers. Part of a series of Commercial Music certificates.

Communicating in the Workplace

Communication

Gives students a solid foundation of communication skills for a variety of situations, focusing on how people use messages to generate meaning within and across various contexts, cultures, and channels.

Communication Studies

Provides communication skills applicable in the workforce, including gathering and organizing information, analyzing the audience, managing conflict, and applying effective leadership. Coursework may be applied toward an AA degree.

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Designed to prepare students to continue studies toward a B.A. degree in Communication at a CSU or for entry-level careers requiring competent and ethical communication skills.

Computer or Software Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Computer Engineering or Software Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Computer or Software Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Computer Engineering or Software Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Computer Science

Prepares students for transfer into four-year computer science programs. Students learn to write programs using both procedural and object-oriented programming languages and understand the social impact of computers on society.

Criminal Justice - Law Enforcement

The Criminology Program with a Law Enforcement focus prepares students for employment and/or further education in all aspects of the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, corrections, and probation and parole.

Criminology - Corrections

Offers a Corrections Option Certificate of Achievement within the Criminology Program, preparing students for employment and further education in the criminal justice system with a focus on corrections.

Criminology - Corrections

The Criminology Program prepares those interested in the criminal justice system, with depth in corrections, for employment and/or further education in law enforcement, corrections, probation and parole, and related fields.

Criminology - Law Enforcement

Offers a Law Enforcement Option Certificate of Achievement within the Criminology Program, preparing students for employment and further education in the criminal justice system with a focus on law enforcement.

Cyber Security

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career and gain professional certification (CompTIA) as an Information Technology Cyber Security Technician in a business, government, or education environment.

Data Science

Prepares students for transfer into four-year computer science programs. Students learn to write programs using both procedural and object-oriented programming languages and understand the social impact of computers.

Drinking Water Treatment and Distribution

Designed to provide skills and training to current and future water system employees. Satisfies the state requirement to take the State Water Resources Quality Control Board certification exams for levels 1 through 5.

Early Childhood Education

Prepares students for jobs in a variety of early care and education settings and for transfer to complete a bachelor's degree in a similar major at a CSU campus.

Economics

Acquaints students with the fundamentals of economic thinking and the principal concepts and theories of macroeconomics and microeconomics, preparing for transfer to a CSU campus.

Electrical Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Electrical Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Electrical Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Electrical Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Elementary Teacher Education

Prepares students for transfer into a baccalaureate level degree at CSU campuses. Prepares students for jobs teaching in kindergarten through sixth (K-6) grades in the public and private education system.

Elementary Teacher Level 1

Designed to prepare students for entry-level positions such as teacher assistants, instructional aides, afterschool program teachers, and tutors. Combines core courses in the Education AA-T including fieldwork, paralleling the competencies for the Multiple Subject Credential.

Elementary Teacher Level 2

Designed to prepare students for entry-level positions in the education industry such as teacher assistants and instructional aides. Combines core courses in the Education AA-T, completing two-thirds of the course requirements of that transfer degree.

Elementary Teacher Level 3

Designed to prepare students for entry-level positions in the education industry such as teacher assistants and tutors. Combines core courses in the Education AA-T, completing the course requirements of that transfer degree.

English

Provides a rigorous, complementary education for careers requiring English and prepares students for transfer to complete a bachelor's degree in English at a CSU campus.

Entry Level Management

Prepares students for entry-level, first-line supervisory positions, especially in the retailing industry, providing the skills, education, and classroom experience to understand basic management principles and contribute to business firms.

Environmental Science

Students understand essential biological and physical processes, analyze human/environment interactions, and gain specialized analytical skills in environmental science, preparing for transfer to the CSU system.

Food Safety and Quality Technician

Provides students the ability to identify chemical and biological threats to food safety in agricultural, professional, and occupational settings, interpret regulations, and implement food safety, hygiene, and occupational health programs.

Geographic Information Systems

Provides students the skills to obtain entry-level technician positions in GIS and to develop GIS skills for other career technical education programs. Students can continue toward an AAT in Geography.

Geography

Gives students an understanding of the physical and cultural characteristics of the earth and the spatial interrelationships of phenomena at local, regional, and global scales, preparing for transfer to a CSU campus.

Geology

Students apply basic geological principles to complex earth science problems, preparing for transfer into a four-year geology, earth science, planetary science, or similar program.

Getting Ready for Employment

Graphic Design

Develops the skills needed to gain entry-level employment in the graphic design industry, including both traditional and digital design skills. Students build a portfolio and create marketing materials for employment in graphic design.

Health Care Administration

Prepares students for employment as leaders of business operations of health care facilities, with instruction on the fundamentals of business and the theories and practices applied to health care organizations.

Health Care Interpreter

Prepares bilingual and bicultural individuals to develop skills necessary for effective language interpretation in health care settings, to bridge the cultural gap, and to provide accurate health care information as required by Federal law.

History

Provides students with a major that fulfills the general requirements for CSU transfer and exposes them to the humanist study of history, building an analytical foundation.

Honors

Recognizes the accomplishments of students who complete the Clovis Community College Leon S. Peters Honors Program, creating a community of scholars that embody inclusivity, civic engagement, academic research, and leadership.

Information Systems

Provides the basic knowledge and skills necessary to pursue a career in Information Systems. Students complete Business Department and Information Systems core courses and one of three options: Networking, Web Design, or Programming for the Web.

Information Systems

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career in Information Systems, enabling students to enter the workforce with an understanding of the fundamental elements of computing in a business environment.

Information Systems Networking

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career as a networking technician, enabling students to enter the workforce as a technician in business, government, or education.

Information Systems -- Networking

Information Systems -- Programming for the Web

Information Systems Programming for the Web

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career as a web programming specialist in business, government, and educational environments.

Information Systems -- Web Design

Information Systems Web Design

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career as a Web Design Specialist in business, government, and educational environments.

Information Technician Support

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career as an Information Technician Support and Help Desk professional in business, government, or education.

Information Technology Support Technician

Provides knowledge, training, and hands-on experience to pursue a career as an Information-Technology Support Technician in business, government, or education, preparing students for the CompTIA A+ exams.

Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)

Kinesiology

Prepares students for transfer into four-year kinesiology programs, enabling studies in kinesiology/physical education credential programs, exercise science, athletic training/sports medicine, and sports administration.

Liberal Arts & Sciences

Designed for the student who wishes to earn a degree in a broad area of study that includes additional coursework in an Area of Emphasis (American Studies, Arts and Humanities, or Natural Sciences). An ideal choice for students planning to transfer to CSU or UC.

Liberal Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences

Liberal Studies

Designed for students who are interested in transferring to a university and completing a Liberal Studies degree and a multiple subject teaching credential.

Life Science

Students identify the phyla/classes of organisms, their structures, and physiology, and gain hands-on experience in a health setting with equipment such as EKG machines, microscopes, and autoclaves, along with a basic understanding of microbiological techniques.

Live Sound

Provides students with the skills and experience needed to operate a live sound system including mixing consoles, microphones, effects units, and speaker systems. Part of a series of Commercial Music certificates.

Management

Prepares the student for employment at beginning and intermediate levels of business positions along with beginning and intermediate levels of supervisory positions, with an understanding of how businesses function and the role of management.

Managerial Assistant

Prepares students for intermediate supervisory positions as a managerial assistant, providing the skills and understanding of business operations, organizational behavior, and employee motivation in the workplace.

Mathematics (Associate in Science Degree)

Prepares students for transfer into four-year mathematics programs and provides fundamental background for persons who plan to become systems analysts or computer programmers.

Mathematics (Associate in Science in Mathematics for Transfer Degree)

For students who transfer to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor's degree, guaranteeing acceptance to a CSU to pursue a baccalaureate in mathematics, engineering, statistics, actuarial science, business, and related fields.

Mechanical, Aerospace, or Manufacturing Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Manufacturing Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Mechanical, Aerospace, or Manufacturing Engineering

Completes the lower division coursework necessary to transfer into a bachelor's degree program in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Manufacturing Engineering, and prepares students for engineering internship opportunities.

Mechatronics/Industrial Automation

Designed to prepare students for employment as entry-level industrial automation technicians. Focuses on the application of electronics and computer technology to industrial automation systems, including instrumentation and control, industrial robotics, and process control.

Mechatronics/Industrial Automation

Designed to prepare students for careers in the design, operation, and maintenance of industrial automation systems, focusing on the application of electronics and computer technology to industrial automation, including instrumentation, robotics, and process control.

Medical Office Administration

Prepares students with front office skills for a physician's office, hospital, clinic, laboratory, pharmaceutical company, or health insurance company, including managing medical records, insurance forms, scheduling, billing, and inventory.

Music

Prepares students to transfer to a CSU campus to pursue a bachelor's degree in music, with possible specializations in music education, performance, composition, therapy, business, and commercial music.

Nutrition and Dietetics

Provides education in nutrition science and the relationship of the human diet to health, preparing students for transfer into the CSU system to complete a baccalaureate degree in nutrition and dietetics.

Occupational Therapy Assistant

Designed to prepare each student for competent entry-level practice, to take and pass the national certification examination, and become a licensed Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA). The program is a 16-month cohort model.

Philosophy

Designed for students who plan to complete a bachelor's degree in philosophy or a related major, providing a strong philosophical foundation and enhanced critical thinking skills.

Physical Education

Students identify effective pedagogical techniques for primary and secondary students, demonstrate basic knowledge of human anatomy and treatment of common sports/fitness injuries, and gain practical experience in a breadth of activities.

Physical Science

Provides a background in physical science or prepares students for transfer into chemistry, geology, physics, and engineering four-year programs. Also provides background for physical science technicians and engineering aides.

Physics (Associate in Science in Physics for Transfer Degree)

Prepares students for transfer to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor's degree in physics. Physics graduates are qualified for technical positions and welcomed into professional programs such as law, business, or medicine.

Physics (Associate in Science in Physics for UC Transfer Degree)

For students seeking to transfer to a University of California campus as a physics major, providing a full two years of physics education as well as a strong foundation in math and chemistry.

Plant Science

Provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in plant science, including anatomy, physiology, and cultivation of plants and soil science. Designed for students interested in plant science, soil science, horticulture, or agriculture.

Political Science

Allows students to begin their major in Political Science and transfer to a CSU campus, providing a strong foundation in American politics and government, nation-states, international actors, and political theory.

Preparation for Career

Preparation for College

Psychology

Prepares students for transfer into the CSU system, providing academic preparation in statistics and biology in addition to the fundamentals of lower division psychology coursework.

Rehabilitation Aide

Small Business Management

Intended for students who wish to be successful in the business environment, especially those wishing to start, own, or operate a small business, providing the skills to successfully operate a small business.

Small Business Management

Intended for students who wish to start, own, or operate a small business, providing the skills, education, and classroom experience to successfully operate a small business.

Social Justice Studies

An interdisciplinary study of the field of social justice, permitting students to focus on the intersection of gender, ethnicity/race, class, and sexual orientation as pertaining to issues of politics, economics, environment, and education.

Social Science

Students acquire a knowledge of human behavior, society, and institutions through the study of courses in Anthropology, Economics, Ethnic Studies, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. Well suited for the transfer student.

Social Work and Human Services

Intended for students who plan to transfer and complete a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and Human Services, or a similar major, at a CSU campus.

Sociology

Prepares students for transfer to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor's degree in sociology, providing the scientific, systematic study of human society and social interaction.

Songwriting

Establishes a basic understanding and proficiency in music geared at the art of songwriting. Part of a series of Commercial Music certificates, focusing on composing lyrics and melodies for original songs.

Spanish

Prepares students for transfer to four-year Spanish programs at a CSU campus, developing communicative competence in Spanish in a culturally rich environment for careers in education, health, business, and translation.

Studio Arts

Designed to give students basic skills in 2D and 3D composition, an introductory level of art history, and computer digital art familiarity, preparing students for transfer into four-year art programs.

Teacher I

Provides educational coursework that meets Title 22 teacher qualifications for the early childhood education field, allowing students to begin working in a private early care and education program.

Teacher I

Teacher II

Provides an additional six units of coursework beyond what is required to qualify to work in a Title 22 early care and education program, providing additional knowledge and skills to work as a teacher with children successfully.

Teacher III

Designed to prepare students to work with young children in a variety of early care settings. With appropriate work experience, students are eligible to apply for the California Child Development Permit at the Associate Teacher Level.

Video Editing

Develops the skills needed to gain entry-level employment in the video editing and production industry. Students build a portfolio and create marketing materials for employment in industries utilizing video editing and production.

Wastewater Treatment

Provides students with the technical knowledge to pass the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Certification tests for levels I, II, or III. Designed for current employees in the field of wastewater treatment.

World Language

Students achieve communicative competence in at least one foreign language, gaining receptive and productive skills, and are prepared to pursue more advanced study of that language at a four-year institution.