Workforce Development and Community Education: Spring 2022

Visit us online at www.sunywcc.edu/wdce | 48 LIFELONG LEARNING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Learn the Arts in Peekskill The following three courses are held at the Peekskill Extension Center, located at 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY. To register for these classes, call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu IN-PERSON Painting and Drawing for Adults Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. At Peekskill Center: CE-ART 2146PE, 12 Mon., Feb. 7-Apr. 25, 6:30-8:30 pm, $268. #18662 IN-PERSON Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. Printmaking projects include tee shirts, posters, and artwork to frame. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. At Peekskill Center: CE-ART 2334PE, 8 Tues., Feb. 8-Mar. 29, 6:30-9:30 pm, $300. #18663 Painting En Plein Air for Adults Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. At Peekskill Center: CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., Mar. 26-May 14, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $268. #18664 ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE www.sunywcc.edu/esl IN SPRING 2022, ESL CLASSES ARE AVAILABLE IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. The English Language Institute offers English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for beginner to advanced levels. Level is determined by placement exam. Registration instructions are on page 51. COVID-19 vaccination requirements for in-person classes at www.sunywc.edu/wdce-covid Eight levels of ESL instruction are offered (levels 0-8). Each level provides active practice in all English language skills: listening, speaking/pronunciation, standard grammar, reading, and writing. New students take a placement test to determine their level. These courses serve the needs of the general learner and learners preparing for college. Instructors are professionals in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). IN-PERSON INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM, STUDY 5 DAYS PER WEEK (Meets 5 days a week, 15 hours per week, for 12 weeks: 195 study hours) This course allows motivated learners of English to advance rapidly, starting at any level from beginner to advanced. The Intensive English Program meets the needs of serious learners, such as preparation for university study or to increase career possibilities. All students take three classes: Intensive Grammar & Reading (2 days per week, M/Th), Intensive Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation (2 days per week, T/F), and Intensive Writing (1 day per week, W). A placement test is required of all new students. Accent on Fluency, open to all Intensive English Program students, supplements the Intensive English Program with an additional 5 hours per week of instruction and practice in one or more particular skills or content areas. Students who have F-1 status (have an I-20 form) meet the full-time study requirement by also enrolling in Accent on Fluency to fulfill the 20 hour per week requirement. ELI-ESL IEP-G, -L & -W, 65 M-F, Jan. 6-Apr. 20 (skip 1/7-12, 3/14-18, and 4/15) 9:00 am-12:00 noon, GTW-243 #18667+18668+18669  Registration is required in all 3 courses.  Placement test: 1/6 at 9:00 am, GTW-243  Classes begin Jan. 13  Total tuition is $984 + $9.75 for 2 fees  Books, not included in tuition, cost approximately $170 additional. IN-PERSON ACCENT ON FLUENCY (Meets 3 days a week, 5 hours per week, for 12 weeks: 63.5 study hours) The substantial additional speaking and listening practice of this course supplements the Intensive English program (or another ELI English course) and helps accelerate progress towards language learning goals by “deepening” the experience of immersion in English. Also provides additional pronunciation activities to enable you to improve the clarity of your communication. ELI-ESL 1210, 38 T/W/Th, Jan. 6-Apr. 19 (skip 3/15-17), 12:30-2:10 pm, GTW-243, $260. #18670 F-1 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS F-1 students study 20+ hours per week: Students who have F-1 visa or status (have Form I-20) meet the full-time study requirement by enrolling in the Intensive English Program and Accent on Fluency (ESL 1210) More information or F-1 students on 51.