Golden West College

Dance Program

The Dance Program of the Performing Arts Department, Arts and Letters Division includes general education, education for AA degree preparation, and transfer to upper division at colleges and universities. The program and members of the faculty provide services to the campus and community in the form of public performances, fundraising, concert tours, adjudication, and significant outreach for the recruitment of new students.

Highlights:

* 25 courses covering a wide variety of dance styles.
* GWC dance faculty are professional artists presenting their work both within the community and nationally.
* The GWC Dance Department plays an active role in the community by presenting workshops, master classes and performances in the community at schools and special events, such as the Orange County Youth Expo.
* GWC dance students enjoy small classes with individual attention to their needs.
* GWC dance students have opportunities to travel and perform in festivals within the US and abroad.
* The dance faculty are very friendly and available to students for advisement.


Design Program

Designers create, plan and develop the objects and environments we use and experience in our everyday lives. Design is everywhere. Whatever we wear, sit on, drive, watch or listen to and work with - including our tools, electronics, vehicles, toys, furniture, home or commercial environments - a designer has had a hand in its creation and development. And there is an ongoing demand for new design.

The Golden West College Design Certificate of Specialization was created to help prepare students with the fundamental artistic, digital and technical skills required for careers in design. Popular design careers include; interior design, transportation design, toy design, industrial design, fashion design, furniture design, graphic design, model making and computer aided design (CAD) just to name a few.

The course of study includes the fundamental artistry, technical and digital knowledge and skills that are typically found in all of the professional design fields. Emphasis is placed on design theory, ideation, universal design principles, 2D and 3D visualization, artistry and model making, CAD, perspective and rendering, rapid visualization techniques, rapid prototyping, career options in design, materials and technical processes and portfolio development.

Completion of this certificate prepares successful students for employment as entry level designers, design interns, model makers, technicians, CAD designers or free lance designers. The curriculum is transferable for those pursuing a baccalaureate design degree. Students who complete this certificate will have many opportunities to create excellent examples of artwork for dramatic presentations, participation in the semi - annual GWC Design Student Show and for their professional portfolio.


Drafting Program

The Drafting Department includes two areas: Basic Engineering Drafting and Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) with advanced 3D CAD design. The Engineering drafting area consists of introductory drafting classes for students requiring transfer credits to the Cal State system or for entry level vocational skills required in the current job market and is offered for beginning drafting students with no prior experience. The student will come away with the ability to understand the basic principles of drafting. Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) with advanced 3D CAD design program includes computer related classes in drafting that start with preparation for inexperienced students and lead up to classes that will prepare students for jobs in advance computer modeling. The first class offers a complete familiarization of Auto CAD which begins with simple drawings. The advanced classes give the students the opportunity to become familiar with state-of- the-art parametric modeling using AutoCAD’s most current Inventor Professional Series programs.

Certificates of Achievements are available for Technical Drafting in a one-year program and a two-year program. We also offer a 3 semester certificate that is co-listed with the Architectural program that allows students to acquire additional experience of CAD. Entry level technical drafting skills can be obtained after one year. The two year program offers the student the ability to obtain employment in industries using 3D modeling. We have combined our original Drafting 100, Technical Drafting, with the new beginning CAD 101 class at the advice of our advisory committee. This will give us two classes that will take a student from the beginning of CAD to the advanced level of AutoCAD in one year. The second year of the program would be advanced activities using AutoCAD and Inventor Professional software.

Highlights:

* The Drafting program at Golden West was the first college in California to teach parametric modeling using Mechanical Desktop and Inventor software.
* We currently use a more advanced CAD software then Cal State University Long Beach and at Fullerton use.
* All of our classes transfer to the CSU system.
* Highly knowledgeable instructor and supportive advisory committee


Music Program

The academic Music Program of the Performing Arts Department, Arts and Letters Division, offers undergraduate music courses leading to an Associate of Arts Degree and transfer to four year colleges and universities. Included are classes in Applied Music (individual lessons in voice, piano, guitar, brass, woodwinds and percussion), Music Theory, and several courses in History and Appreciation of Music, including Jazz, Rock, Cinema and World musics. Students may enroll in a variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles and other classes in music performance. A major in music is in the process of being developed.

The Commercial Music/Vocational Arts Program of the Performing Arts Department, Arts and Letters Division offers several Certificates of Achievement. Certificate options are offered in Recording Arts, with selected certificates being deleted and others being developed at this time. The program and members of the faculty provide for the campus and community sound reinforcement and recording services, public performances, fundraising, concert tours, adjudication, and significant outreach for the recruitment of new students.


Theater Department

The Golden West College Theater Department offers courses and activities which meet the needs of general, transfer, distance learning, and vocational education. Our courses cover Introduction to Theater, History of Film, Theater History and Musical Theater History and Literature, beginning, intermediate, and advanced acting, movement classes, technical classes in stage make-up, costume, scenery, and stage lighting and production courses in traditional theater and musical theater. The faculty, staff, and students also provide services to the campus and community in performance activities, participate in community outreach and recruitment, and raise funds for their programs and campus needs. Under the leadership of the Dean of Arts and Letters, the program maintains Mainstage Theater, Stage West Theater, and the StarShower Amphitheatre for the presentation of student performances. Community productions are also presented in these facilities, which are supported and staffed by the department.

Highlights:

* The Theater Department provides training in all aspects of theater including acting, scenery, costume, lighting, make-up, movement, history, musical theater and production.
* The Theater Department successfully produces major dramatic, comedic, and musical productions in the Mainstage and Stage West theaters.
* Theater students receive training in a 340 seat modern proscenium stage and a 99 seat thrust workshop theater by a dedicated qualified faculty and staff with extensive professional and educational experience.
* Students participating in Theater Department productions have been nominated for awards in the Kennedy Center ’s American College Theater Festival.
* Because of the quality of production values, the productions of the Theater Department of Golden West College have had consistent high acclaim.


Visual Arts Program

Visual Arts teaches both traditional art functions and digital art. Course offerings include drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, digital art, graphic design, web design and photography. Our student population takes courses for a variety of reasons, including vocational preparation, continuing education and degree requirements. The program is active in community outreach through the local high schools and vocational advisory committees.

Highlights:

The Digital Arts program and facility are strong and offer vocational oriented certificates in a state-of-the-art computer lab. With a vital connection to industry via vocational advisory committees the course offerings are relevant and enable students to acquire entry-level positions. The Photography program is aggressively moving into the digital realm to meet the demand of the student population as well as industry needs. The combination of having both a Digital Arts program and a Fine Arts program has made the students multi skilled and has increased interest in both areas due to the students moving back and forth between the programs. The students soon become aware that there is more to making art on the computer then learning the software programs. This knowledge fuels their desire for continuing their art education at a four-year college.

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