Compton College

Administration of Justice

The Administration of Justice certificate of achievement prepares students for a career in criminal justice, gaining the ability to apply principles of the justice system, constitutional and procedural considerations, and concepts of criminal law. Career options include police officer, corrections officer, homeland security, private security, and crime scene investigator.

Administration of Justice

The Administration of Justice program provides students with the ability to apply principles of the justice system, constitutional and procedural considerations affecting arrest, search and seizure, human relations, and concepts of criminal law. Students completing this program will be prepared to transfer and major in criminal justice.

Air Conditioning

The Air Conditioning certificate of achievement prepares students for employment in the field and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel, with proficiency in service, troubleshooting, installation, and energy-efficient operation of heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and control systems.

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration program prepares students for employment in the field and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel. Students gain proficiency in service, troubleshooting, installation, and energy-efficient operation of residential, commercial and industrial heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and control systems.

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Electric Controls

The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Electrical Controls certificate includes heat transfer, energy, and the basic refrigeration system. Basic tools and refrigerant handling skills as well as study of electrical diagrams and circuits in domestic refrigeration equipment are covered.

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Electric Controls

Apple Apps Development: Swift

Automotive Accident Reconstruction

Automotive Accident Reconstruction is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Air Conditioning Technician

Automotive Air Conditioning Technician is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Brakes and Suspension Technician

Automotive Brakes and Suspension Technician is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Brakes/Suspension, Transmission/Drive Train Technician

This certificate includes fundamental courses in automotive brake and suspension systems and transmission and drive train systems dealing with maintenance of the modern automobile, emphasizing elementary operating principles and beginning skill development.

Automotive Collision Damage Estimating

Automotive Collision Damage Estimating is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Collision Investigation

Automotive Collision Investigation is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Collision Repair

By completing the Automotive Collision Repair certificate requirements, students gain proficiency in industry repair standards, vehicle identification and construction, estimating, body and frame repairs, vehicle alignment, welding, and vehicle painting.

Automotive Collision Repair/Painting

The Automotive Collision Repair/Painting program prepares students for employment in the field and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel, with proficiency in industry repair standards, vehicle identification and construction, estimating, body repairs, frame repairs, vehicle alignment, welding, and vehicle painting.

Automotive Engine Rebuilding and Repair Technician

Automotive Engine Rebuilding and Repair Technician (Certificate of Accomplishment)

Automotive Engine Rebuilding and Repair Technician (Certificate of Accomplishment) is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Engine Rebuilding and Repair Technician (Certificate of Achievement)

This certificate trains students to work as professionals in maintenance, diagnosis and overhaul procedures of electrical and fuel injection systems, with emphasis on diagnosis and measurement of internal engine components and complete disassembly and reassembly of engines.

Automotive Painting and Refinishing

By completing the Automotive Painting and Refinishing certificate requirements, students gain proficiency in industry repair standards, vehicle identification and construction, estimating, body repairs, frame repairs, vehicle alignment, welding, and vehicle painting.

Automotive Technician I

The Automotive Technician certificates of achievement train students to work as professionals, offering instruction in maintenance, diagnosis and overhaul procedures of electrical and fuel injection systems, as well as basic shop practices needed to meet industry standards.

Automotive Technician I

Automotive Technician II

The Automotive Technician certificates of achievement train students to work as professionals, offering instruction in maintenance, diagnosis and overhaul procedures of electrical and fuel injection systems, as well as basic shop practices needed to meet industry standards.

Automotive Technician II

Automotive Technology

The Automotive Technology program prepares students for employment in the field and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel, with proficiency in safety practices, automotive service, testing, troubleshooting, brakes, suspension, wheel alignment, engine tune up, electrical systems, fuel systems, emission systems, transmissions, drive trains, engine repair, engine rebuilding, automotive machining, and air conditioning.

Automotive Transmission and Drive Train Technician

Automotive Transmission and Drive Train Technician is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

Automotive Tune-Up Technician

The Automotive Tune-Up Technician certificate of achievement prepares students for employment and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel, with proficiency in automotive service, testing, troubleshooting, electrical systems, fuel systems, and emission systems.

Basic Career Training

Biomanufacturing

In the Biomanufacturing program, students gain key knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to work in the biomanufacturing industry, which uses biological systems to produce biofuels, vaccines, pharmaceutical drugs, and other therapeutic agents. Students gain hands-on experience with production and analysis of biologically relevant molecules.

Biomanufacturing Technician

The Biomanufacturing Technician certificate of achievement provides training in the theory as well as the practical applications of processes in an industrial biomanufacturing environment, preparing students to enter the workforce as a technician in a research-focused biology lab or regulated setting.

Biotechnology Laboratory Assistant

The Biotechnology Laboratory Assistant certificate prepares students with the technical skills needed to work in a biotech laboratory, including basic laboratory skills, DNA manipulation, enzymatic assays, protein separation methods, antibody-based methods, and data collection.

Biotechnology Laboratory Assistant

Business Administration 2.0

The Business Administration 2.0 program is designed to provide students with a foundation in basic accounting principles, business law, and macro-and-micro-economics. Upon successful completion, students are prepared for entry-level careers and transfer to a major in Business Administration.

Business: Business Management

Business Management

This program provides students with the opportunity to obtain a degree in business management. The student will have the ability to organize, operate, and manage business organizations, utilize human resources, improve working relationships, draft letters and reports, and speak in various business situations.

Business Management

The Business Management certificate of achievement provides students with the ability to organize, operate, and manage business organizations, utilize human resources, improve working relationships, draft letters and reports, and speak in various business situations.

Business Marketing

The marketing program provides students with the opportunity to obtain a degree or certificate in marketing. Students explore opportunities in the marketing field, acquire basic marketing terminology, and apply marketing concepts to the business firm and the global economy.

Business: Marketing

California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC)

Certified Nursing Assistant

Child Development

The child development program prepares students for careers in private or public programs serving infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children with special needs, or children in before and after school care. Students acquire the ability to apply developmental theories in observing and assessing children.

CNC Machine Operator

The CNC Machine Operator certificate of achievement aims to provide basic to advanced training in manual or conventional machining, computer numerical programming and operation, and advanced multi-axis programming and operation.

Commercial Music

The Commercial Music certificate of achievement is designed so that upon completion students will be equipped with the technical skills to be employed as a professional in commercial music technology, film scoring, video game/audio development, music business entrepreneurship, audio forensics, and other digital and multimedia entertainment industries.

Communication Studies 2.0

The degree provides students with a thorough foundation in the theory and practice of communication studies through courses that develop personal, business, and professional communication skills in individual, interpersonal, and group situations, along with skills in research, organization, critical thinking, argumentation, and forensics.

Computer Information Systems

The program is intended for students interested in information systems and can lead to career opportunities as software specialists, web programmers, database developers, systems analysts, or network administrators. A variety of courses enables students to learn project management, systems analysis and design, and cybersecurity.

Computer Systems Applications

The Computer Systems Applications certificate of achievement is intended for students interested in information systems and can lead to career opportunities as software specialists, web programmers, database developers, systems analysts, or network administrators.

Cosmetology

The cosmetology program offers students the option to gain proficiency in hair cutting, coloring, permanent waving, chemical relaxing, manicuring, pedicuring, and facials, preparing them to take the California State Board of Cosmetology Examination.

Cosmetology Level I

After completing introduction to cosmetology, Cosmetology Level I gives students the basic skills for entry level positions as specified by the State Board of Cosmetology.

Cosmetology Level II

The Cosmetology Level II Certificate of Achievement gives students 1,000 hours to prepare them to take the California State Board of Cosmetology written examination. After successful completion, students will have a state license to embark on their new career.

Cosmetology Level II

Early Childhood Education

The program prepares students for careers in private or public programs serving young children. The transfer degree option prepares students to continue studies at a four-year institution and major in Child and Adolescent Development, Human Development, or Education.

Early Childhood Education

The certificate in Early Childhood Education prepares students to be competent and effective caregivers in settings for young children ages 0-5. It is designed to meet the minimum requirements of the Department of Social Services to teach in licensed private preschools and childcare programs.

Early Intervention Assistant

The certificate for Early Intervention Assistant affords students career placements in public and/or private early intervention and educational settings that service typically and atypically developing young children, working with children birth to five years of age.

Early Intervention Assistant

Economics

The degree provides students with a background in the principles and practices of economic policy and theory. Students acquire a broad fundamental knowledge of the theory and practice of economics and the skills needed to successfully apply their knowledge in a professional environment.

Elementary Teacher Education

The program is designed for students who wish to earn a multiple-subject teaching credential authorizing them to teach in grades K-5. Upon successful completion, students will be prepared to transfer to a CSU and major in Liberal Studies.

Elementary Teaching (Teacher Preparation Option)

This degree is designed for students who wish to earn a multiple-subject teaching credential authorizing them to teach in grades K-5. Students study a broad range of subjects including English, mathematics, science, social science, visual and performing arts, and human development.

Engineering Technician

The Engineering Technician Certificate of Achievement prepares students with the skills and knowledge required for employment as an engineering aide, computer aided drafter, designer, engineering technician, or other technical support position in the field of engineering.

English

The English program develops the student's ability to read multiple genres with understanding and discernment and to write college-level expository essays. Completion of the program prepares the English major for transfer and for any profession requiring strong communication skills.

ESL for Childhood Education

ESL Level 1

ESL Level 2

ESL Level 3

Ethnic Studies

The Associate of Arts in Ethnic Studies provides an interdisciplinary foundation for examining the histories, cultures, and contemporary experiences of the United States' diverse ethnic communities. Students may choose to focus on a single track in African American Studies or Chicano/a Studies or more broadly in American Cultures.

Ethnic Studies: African American Studies Option

Ethnic Studies: American Cultures Option

Ethnic Studies: Chicano Studies Option

Fitness Trainer

Fitness Trainer is a short-term certificate program offered at Compton College.

General Science

The general science program provides students the opportunity to investigate diverse methods of inquiry by experiencing courses from a cross section of science disciplines. Students develop critical thinking skills, learn to communicate effectively in writing, and acquire an understanding of major scientific concepts.

General Studies: Arts and Humanities

These courses emphasize the appreciation of arts and humanities through cultural activities and artistic expression. Students transferring to a four-year university will have a basic foundation for further studies in areas such as arts, communications, English, foreign language, film studies, literature, history, journalism, or philosophy.

General Studies: Biological and Physical Sciences

These courses emphasize the physical universe, its life forms, and its natural phenomena. Students transferring to a four-year university will have a basic foundation for further studies in areas such as biology, chemistry, physical sciences, or physics.

General Studies: Culture and Communication

General Studies: Culture and Communications

These courses emphasize the study of communication, culture, and the skills needed to communicate effectively in oral, written, or visual forms, providing a basic foundation for further studies in communication studies, media studies, journalism, English, or modern languages.

General Studies: Fine and Applied Arts

These courses emphasize the nature of artistic activities and expression of art through analysis, examination, performance, and technical development, providing a foundation for further studies in areas such as architecture, art, digital media, creative writing, dance, film, music, performing arts, photography, studio art, or theatre arts.

General Studies: Kinesiology and Wellness

These courses emphasize lifelong understanding and the development of a student's physiological, psychological, and social well-being, providing a basic foundation for further studies in areas such as physical education, recreation, nutrition, or allied health fields.

General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences

These courses emphasize an appreciation and understanding of how members of diverse societies operate as individuals and social groups. Students transferring to a four-year university will have a basic foundation for further studies in areas such as American studies, anthropology, criminal justice, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, or sociology.

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Refrigeration

The Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Refrigeration Certificate of Achievement prepares students for employment in the field and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel.

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Refrigeration

High School Education in Mathematics

High School Social Sciences

High School Spanish

History

The degree provides students with a foundation in the science of historical inquiry. After completing the program requirements, students gain an understanding of the methodologies and schools of interpretation utilized by historians to study the past, preparing students for transfer to a CSU.

Kinesiology

The kinesiology program provides a foundation for the study of diverse dimensions of exercise science, sport, and movement studies. Upon completion, students will be prepared to transfer and major in kinesiology.

Liberal Studies: Elementary Teaching (Teacher Preparation Option)

Machine Tool Technology: Machinist option

Machine Tool Technology: Numerical Control Programmer option

Machinist

The Machine Tool Technology program prepares students for employment in machine shops, tool rooms, and instrument and experimental laboratories, with proficiency in the set-up and operation of drilling machines, lathes, mills, grinders, CNC machines, and computer aided manufacturing systems.

Machinist

The Machinist certificate of achievement program aims to provide basic to advanced training in manual or conventional machining, computer numerical programming and operation, and advanced multi-axis programming and operation.

Marketing

The Marketing certificate of achievement is a Career Technical Education (CTE) program that provides students with credentials that are the key to individual self-efficacy and a meaningful career, laying the groundwork for managerial competence in the global marketplace.

Mathematics

The mathematics program provides the student with sufficient depth to support a lifelong interest in mathematics and is suitable for the student who plans to transfer in mathematics. The core of the major is the calculus sequence.

Music

The music program provides students with a comprehensive foundation in music theory, history, and performance through a structured program of training in a variety of solo performance media, ensembles, music theory, keyboard skills, music history, and music technology.

Numerical Control Programmer

The Numerical Control Programmer certificate of achievement aims to provide basic to advanced training in manual or conventional machining, computer numerical programming and operation, and advanced multi-axis programming and operation.

Numerical Control Programmer

The Machine Tool Technology program prepares students for employment in machine shops, tool rooms, and instrument and experimental laboratories, with proficiency in the set-up and operation of drilling machines, lathes, mills, grinders, CNC milling machines, and computer aided manufacturing systems.

Numerical Control Programmer

Nursing

The degree provides the student with the skills to utilize the nursing process and assess unique patient needs across the lifespan using a concept-based approach to learning. The nursing major prepares graduates in a variety of health care settings as entry-level registered nurses.

Nursing: Upward Mobility Option

Personal Care Attendant

Physical Science

The physical science program provides students the opportunity to investigate diverse methods of inquiry by experiencing courses from a cross section of science disciplines. Students develop critical thinking skills, learn to communicate effectively in writing, and acquire an understanding of major scientific concepts.

Physics

The Physics program provides students with the ability to use and develop problem-solving strategies that apply to physical concepts involving mechanics, thermodynamics, sound, light, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics. Upon completion, students will be prepared to transfer and major in physics.

Political Science

This degree provides students with an introduction to political science. Students acquire knowledge of fundamental political theory, intergovernmental relations, international law, and the principal functions of the government of the United States, preparing students for transfer to a CSU and a political science major.

Psychology

The Psychology program is designed to provide students with a foundation in the science of psychology. Psychology majors acquire the ability to evaluate psychology theories critically, research the major areas of psychology, use descriptive and inferential statistics, and design and conduct research.

Real Estate Salesperson

The Real Estate Salesperson Certificate of Achievement will qualify and prepare students to take the written examination for the California Real Estate Salesperson license.

Real Estate Salesperson

Refrigeration

The Refrigeration certificate of achievement explores refrigeration theory, characteristics of refrigerants, temperature and pressure, tools and equipment, soldering, brazing, commercial refrigeration systems, system components, compressors, evaporators, and metering devices.

Refrigeration

Retail Management

The Retail Management certificate of achievement is a comprehensive program designed to prepare current and future retail employees for a fast-paced and competitive retail environment, providing the competencies required to succeed at the management level within the retail industry.

Social Justice Studies: LGBTQ Studies

The Social Justice Studies: LGBTQ Studies degree is dedicated to the academic exploration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning histories, cultures, and experiences. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum, students critically examine how sexual orientation and gender identity intersect with ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and political identities.

Social Media

The Social Media Certificate aims to provide students with the training and skills to utilize social media tools to effectively market, promote, and inspire to action. Students analyze and create social media campaigns for themselves, established brands, nonprofit organizations, and social justice causes.

Sociology

The Sociology degree program provides students with a foundation in the science of sociology. Upon successful completion, students acquire an understanding of major sociological concepts and theoretical perspectives on social problems and social life as they apply to the individual, group, and society.

Spanish

The Spanish degree provides the student with proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding Spanish and knowledge of Spanish and Spanish American culture. This major provides opportunities for continued advanced learning of Spanish and prepares students to transfer and major in Spanish.

Special Education Assistant

The certificate for Special Education Assistant prepares students to individualize lesson plans and instructions to meet the needs of those with varying disabilities. Aides or assistants will be able to work with children with diverse learning needs and their families.

Studio Arts

The Studio Arts program provides a comprehensive foundation in the history, theory, and practice of art. Students acquire observational, compositional, technical, interpretive, and expressive competency through participation in an extensive range of studio art courses.

Welding

The Welding program prepares students for employment in the field, developing skills in welding ferrous and nonferrous alloys, layout, fabrication, reading engineering drawings, and pipe welding, with training to prepare for AWS D1.1 certification.

Welding

The Welding program prepares students for employment in the field and provides upgrade opportunities for currently employed personnel. Students gain proficiency in oxy-acetylene cutting, plasma arc cutting, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, and flux cored welding, including preparation for AWS D1.1 certification.