The school was opened in 1955 as American River Junior College, on the site of the old Grant Technical College. It moved to its present area in 1958, involving eight recently assembled office buildings and the first Cameron farm house. In 1965 the school turned into a part of the Los Rios Community College District and got to be American River College. Today, alongside Cosumnes River College, Folsom Lake College and Sacramento City College, ARC is coordinated by a seven-part leading group of trustees chose by voters living in the area.
The climactic police confrontation of the 1986 Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore film Wisdom was recorded on the American River grounds, incorporating into and around Beaver Stadium.
Amid the time of 2004-2013, the school opened an assortment of new offices, including structures for Health Education, Theater and Music, Kinesiology, and Life Science and Fine Arts. Likewise, the school additionally extended its book shop and library and opened another Student Center and parking structure.
In 2008 the understudy government bolstered California Proposition 8 which looked to confine marriage to inverse sex couples. In 2010 the Board of Trustees lost a claim against the understudy government.
Humanities is the investigation of mankind around the globe and all through time, with the objective of comprehension our transformative starting points, our organic refinement as an animal types, and our assorted appearances of society. A degree in human sciences gives the understudy fundamental aptitudes in basic examination, utilization of the experimental technique, and diverse comprehension.
Profession Opportunities:
The humanities major might enter numerous livelihoods changing from archeological unearthing, investigation, and exhibition hall administration to the examination of societies, etymology, crime scene investigation, primatology, instructing, and counseling with legislative and instructive organizations.
Financial matters
Financial aspects is the investigation of how people and social orders use restricted assets for generation of products and administrations and how they convey them for present and future utilization. Financial matters is isolated into two noteworthy ranges: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics concentrates on choice making at the national level. Macroeconomics themes incorporate total national output, unemployment, expansion, and cash and keeping money. Microeconomics contemplates choice making at the individual family unit, business firm, and industry levels. Microeconomics subjects incorporate speculations of the firm and purchaser practices.
Courses offered by the Economics Department are intended to fulfill general training prerequisites at American River College, and they are transferable to the CSU framework, the UC framework, and other fine organizations of higher learning in the United States. Besides, these financial aspects courses will furnish understudies with key devices to dissect contemporary national and worldwide monetary issues.
Both Micro and Macroeconomics at ARC are UC and CSU transferable. For more data, see our present inventory or contact directing.
Gerontology Department
Gerontology is the investigation of human development and advancement amid adulthood. It incorporates the mental and physiological changes that touch every person, and the social ramifications that spill out of these progressions.
American River College has picked up a notoriety for being a pioneer in gerontology contemplates and has been granted National Program of Merit Status by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), making it the main junior college in the country to get this honor and one of just eight schools and colleges so assigned in the nation.
The Gerontology program at American River College offers particular preparing for job in organizations and offices that give administrations to the elderly, and/or planning for upper division work in gerontology. Circular segment has picked up a notoriety for being a pioneer in gerontology thinks about. We co-host occasions with AARP, California Council of Gerontology and Geriatrics (CCGG), and UCD Family and Consumer Sciences. This authority has advanced its offerings and improved the profession estimation of an ARC gerontology degree or authentication.
A Gerontology Associate in Arts (AA) Degree (in the picked focus) comprising of the required 30 center prerequisites, in addition to 9 units of grouping of decision, in addition to the general training necessities. For ARC graduation prerequisites click here.
A Gerontology declaration, comprising of 30 center prerequisites, in addition to 9 units in convergence of decision.
Three professional declarations are offered in the ranges of Activity Leader, RCFE Administrator and Social Services Designee.
Four particular interest declarations are accessible: Dementia Care, Elder Care, Ethnicity and Aging and Leadership in Assisted Living Communities.
Proceeding with instruction courses for RNs, LVNs, CNAs, RCFE Administrators, LMFTs, LCSWs and Nursing Home Administrators are accessible.
For more nitty gritty data on the above Gerontology degrees, authentications and course necessities, go to the Program Overview page.
For direction in investigating your way in gerontology, please contact Sue Ward at (916) 484-8160, or by email at wards@arc.losrios.edu
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Human Services
The project in Human Services bases on the expansive cluster of section level aptitudes and capacities successfully utilized as a part of social administration conveyance frameworks. Coursework incorporates the twelve assistant center capacity applications in customer screening, admission, appraisal, introduction, directing, conference, customer's rights, privacy, emergency mediation, customer instruction, proficient morals, and reports and record keeping.
Human Services courses at ARC are normally CSU transferable. For more data on particular classes, see our "courses" connection to one side, our present index, or contact directing at 916-484-8572.
Legitimate Assisting
18 units of ABA Breadth Requirements which should incorporate one of: ENGWR 300 or ENGWR 480; and five classes (15 units least) chose from no less than two unique zones of Areas 2 - 5B on the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC). All courses must be finished with an evaluation of "C" or better. Execution and action courses, and in addition the lab part of science courses, are avoided. The units connected to this prerequisite can likewise be utilized to meet the consistent ARC General Education and Competency necessities where pertinent.
ONLINE COURSES
An online course is offered over the Internet. Regularly, substance is exhibited through website pages and class discourses utilizing a mix of email, mailing records, release sheets, visit rooms, or newsgroups. All class gatherings, assignments, addresses and evaluations are online (except for introduction gatherings or other up close and personal examinations as controlled by the teacher).
Half and half COURSES
A half and half course is taught internet utilizing comparative electronic devices and Hybrid course exercises as an online class. Some part of the course meeting time is directed on the web, and the remaining rate of the class is led in a conventional classroom way.
WEB-ENHANCED COURSES
The class is taught up close and personal for 100% of the course meeting time, yet classroom assignments and materials are supplemented with electronic exercises. Cases are online tasks, hand-outs and materials, online talks, or web testing.
Internet learning can be an energizing approach to learn; it can likewise be testing. Your prosperity is specifically fixing to your exertion and association. It requires an abnormal state of inspiration and self-restraint, and you might spend a greater number of hours on coursework than you would on the off chance that you took the same course in a classroom.
Is it accurate to say that you are Ready for Online Learning?
Taking an online course is not quite the same as heading off to a classroom.
A "yes" answer to the vast majority of the accompanying inquiries demonstrates that online courses might be a good fit for you.
Do you have solid access to a PC and the Internet?
To be a fruitful understudy in an online course, you need customary boundless access to a PC and the Internet. At any rate, we prescribe utilizing no less than a Pentium II-based PC or a G3 PowerMac machine.
You will likewise require a solid Internet association. On the off chance that you encounter regular occupied or dropped signals, you might experience issues finishing courses on time and taking an interest in talk sessions.
Do you appreciate composing and partaking in discourses?
Most correspondence in an online class comprises of composed messages in the middle of you and the educator and discourses among class members. In the event that you experience issues with a task or have questions, you should will to "talk up" to advise the educator. Great writing abilities likewise are an or more.
Do you every now and again utilize email and scan the web?
You should login to your online course and interface a few times each week. This can incorporate dealing with assignments, partaking in talks, and reacting to email. In case you're not usual to routinely getting to the Internet, it might be hard to persuade yourself to take every necessary step. You should be sufficiently trained to keep your coursework current.
Do you read course material precisely?
The majority of the material you're required to peruse for this course is online and you should read it deliberately. A few understudies simply print out the syllabus and key data to peruse disconnected from the net. It's critical to acknowledge you can't simply skim over the substance and have the capacity to have a reasonable comprehension of when assignments are expected and what is anticipated from you.
Does your timetable make it hard to go to classes on grounds?
One of the significant reasons understudies register for online classes are for the accommodation of having the capacity to take the course without traveling to the course area. Do remember regardless you should spend about t
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