New Online Course Taught by Award-Winning Social Services Advocate

This quarter, Leroy Martin, a noted social services advocate will teach Foothill’s four-unit SOC 11: Introduction to Human Services course in an online format. Newly retired from the position of director of the Department of Family and Children’s Services of the Santa Clara County Social Service Agency, Martin brings 36 years of experience in social services to this course.

“The world needs a social work philosophy,” Martin says. “There are a lot of myths about social work and the human services that we need to dispel to make positive social change. It’s a great challenge and it is critically important to the well-being of our lives, our communities and our world.”

The course focuses on a broad spectrum of paraprofessional and new career services and activities in the fields of social work, juvenile corrections, community services, mental health, alcohol and drug counseling, mediation and conciliation services as well as human resources management.

Under Martin’s leadership, the county agency received repeated national recognition for its innovative, positive and family-inclusive programs. Martin also served as the assistant deputy director of the Department of Social Services Children’s Service Bureau in San Diego.

For registration instructions, click here or call (650) 949-7325.

New Online Degree Program
Earn Your Internet Technology Associate Degree Online

This winter, Foothill College debuts its new online Internet Technology associate degree. The new degree also includes specialties in e-commerce and Web programming.

The degree’s core curriculum includes COIN 56: Electronic Commerce, COIN: 72: Web Marketing & Strategy and COIN 58: Internet Projects. These courses introduce the foundation concepts and best practices for e-business and marketing strategies for small- and large-scale businesses. The courses also focus on the principles and methods of designing the infrastructure for a commerce site. All three courses combine practical instruction with real-world activities to create an effective and fun introduction to doing business in the new economy.

Class assignments and projects can be tailored for working professionals, entrepreneurs as well as students who are pursuing business and technology degrees. Foothill College is one of the few community colleges to offer these essential courses in an online learning environment. For program information, call (650) 949-7236.

For registration instructions, click here or call (650) 949-7325.

From Dante to Apocalypse Now
Examining Mythology in Literature

Myth may appear to be about long ago and far away. But it is always about here and now. This quarter, you can experience first-hand the sights, sounds and themes that Dante wrote about in The Inferno.
Enroll in the four-unit ENGL 18: Mythology in Literature course that meets at the Foothill Middlefield Campus in Palo Alto.

Students will explore the journey into The Inferno by reviewing Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s Inferno; Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Redux.

“We will explore Dante’s Inferno as a prototype of the journey into hell. And we will also explore how Conrad used and transformed the work of Dante to make a new statement—just as Coppola used and transformed the work of Conrad to make Coppola’s new statement in a new genre,” says Instructor Diane Day.

For registration instructions, click here or call (650) 949-7325.