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FBAS 60 What Were You Born to Do? ($49)
You were born to make a unique contribution to humanity. Progressing toward this purpose brings joy and abundance. Straying from it causes stress and emptiness. To accomplish this, one of the 33 Natural Talents is wired into your DNA. It's so subtle, you rarely notice it; yet so powerful, it's the source of your highest potential. Elvis, Oprah, and Einstein were all just "doin' what comes naturally." Applying your Natural Talent relentlessly will magnetically attract all your heart's desires.
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09091 F 06:00PM-09:30PM 21-157 ADNEY C
(07/16)
Additional $30 material fee paid to instructors in class, cash only.
FBAS 84 Getting the Most Out of Your Writing ($40)
As Abraham Maslow pointed out, if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as a nail. The focus here is to have more writing tools at your disposal. Sessions will include getting the most out of your story structure, characters, dialogue, humor, action sequences, and descriptive techniques. We’ll fine-tune what you already know and reveal the importance of combining individuality and creativity to yield that rarest of elements, originality. The course is taught by a published writer and former Program Director for the Riverside Arts Foundation.
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91150 T 06:00PM-08:00PM TBA TBA BOLDING P
(06/21 - 07/30)
Additional $10 material fee paid to instructor in class, cash only.
FBAS 454 Future Leaders ($20)
This course is designed to introduce students (13-18) key concepts and material and information to improve their decision making process. Students will better understand how their early choices in life, have consequences. The goal of the future leader program is to improve student performance and decrease the dropout rate.
- How to work as a team to accomplish goals
- Philosophy, ethic and charter development
- Conflict resolution
- Understand the basic principles of proper decision making: generating questions, organizing ideas, and demonstrate the ability to make correct choices
- Choices and Consequences
Parent welcome.
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91185 S 10:00AM-02:00PM 30-5 SMITH J
(07/17)
91186 S 10:00AM-02:00PM 30-5 SMITH J
(08/07)
FBAS 493 Speaking for Success ($80)
You will learn fundamentals techniques of proper voice production including healthy use of the voice, without abuse, for speaking. You will learn proper relaxation and support techniques, speech intensification, vocal freedom, optimum pitch and resonance. Gives emotional support for the speaking process and presenting oneself in a positive manner
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91118 MTH 06:00PM-08:00PM TBA TBA YANCEY P (06/21 - 07/29)
FBAS 557 ($65)
Life Survival Skills for Disaster Prevention
Be a survivalist! Learn how to survive and prevent natural, financial and health disasters from disrupting your life. This course will provide steps and strategies to prepare you for not being a victim to unforeseen catastrophic events. The course will involve class participation, questionnaire surveys and resources for disaster prevention.
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91014 T 03:30PM-04:30PM 10-8 HERNANDEZ A
(06/22 - 07/13)
91015 T 03:30PM-04:30PM 21-157 HERNANDEZ A
(07/20 - 08/10)
FBAS 558 ($150)
The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012
An introduction to the physical and social science through the medium of an intro/refresher course made popular by the recent movie/DVD (2012: the end of time) and a popular scientific book of a similar title. Is the world going to end, according to the ancient Maya gyps? Did the Maya even state such a hypothesis? How did they build their giant outdoor observatories at Uxmal, Chicken Itza and other locations in Central America and how were they able to measure with great mathematical precision the movement of the planets and stars? Take the course and find out!
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91021 TWTH 10:00AM-02:00PM 41-2 AKERS G
(06/21 - 08/14)
Additional $15 material fee paid to instructor in class, cash only.
FBAS 562 Etiquette Lifestyle ($20)
This workshop will focus on the following classes: (1) The Meaning of Etiquette (2) Proper Introduction (3) Basic rules of conversation (4) Communication Skill/Public Speaking (5) Cultural Diversity and (6) Dinning Etiquette. The objectives of these courses are to make youth and young adults aware of etiquette courses can provide limitless opportunities in their lives when engaged in appropriate productive behaviors. In addition etiquette offers a sense of structure, confidence and reinforces positive patterns.
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91058 S 09:00AM-10:30AM 21-142 DAVIS M
(07/10 - 07/24)
Additional $5 material fee paid to instructor in class, cash only.
FBAS 566 Eliminate Test Anxiety ($30)
Do you stress out before “The Big Test?” Visualization through Hypnotherapy can help! Eliminate test anxiety and get the grade you deserve!
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91067 S 10:00AM-12:00PM 21-155 CRUZ S
(07/24)
FBAS 568 Matt Furey Book Study ($39)
We’ll read and review materials by Wrestling and Martial Arts Champ, plus Health and Internet Guru Matt Furey.
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91077 S 02:00PM-04:00PM 21-156 TURNER E
(07/10 - 07/31)
Additional $20 material fee paid to the instructor in class, cash only.
FBAS 570 Jon Gordon Book Study ($39)
We’ll read the books and view the materials of Motivational Speaker Jon Gordon.
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91079 S 02:00PM-04:00PM 50-5 TURNER E
(08/07 - 08/28)
Additional $20 material fee paid to the instructor in class, cash only.
FBAS 572 College Films ($39)
How do American movies view various universities here and the students who attend them?
Potential Movies:
“Rudy” – Notre Dame
“The Skulls” – Yale
“The Sure Thing” – UCLA
“The Paper Chase” - Harvard
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91085 S 07:00PM-09:45PM TBA TBA TURNER E
(08/07 - 08/28)
If any of these class titles look interesting to you, then download our on-campus VVC Community Education catalog to view the descriptions of these courses.