West LA Dual Enrollment College Classes at VHS
SPRING 2025 West LA College Courses offered at Venice High School
***Students must complete this interest form no later than Friday, November 15, 2024 if interested in any of our potential spring 2025 class listed below
Marketing 021 (3 units, CSU transferrable): Principles of Marketing
This course will be offered 4th period in Spring 2025. This course grants 5 elective credits towards high school graduation.
Course Description: This introductory marketing survey course presents basic information including: the marketing environment and the roles of market research, advertising, public relations, product, place (distribution), promotion and pricing decisions in the marketing process. It covers customer motivation, distribution channels, social marketing, and ethics in marketing. Additional topics are sales forecasting, decision making relative to product development and management, trademarks, domestic and international markets, personal selling, and additional factors that impact marketing.
Psychology 014 (3 units, CSU/UC transferrable): Abnormal Psychology
This course will be offered 1st period in Spring 2025. This course grants 5 elective credits towards high school graduation.
Course Description: This course introduces the scientific study of psychopathology and atypical behaviors, broadly defined. Students investigate abnormal behavior from a variety of perspectives including biological, psychological, and sociocultural approaches. An integrative survey of theory and research in abnormal behavior, and intervention and prevention strategies for psychological disorders are also introduced.
Health 011 (3 units, UC/CSU transferrable): Principles of Healthful Living
This course will be offered online, asynchronously (no Zoom meetings) in Spring 2025. This course satisfies the LAUSD Health high school graduation requirement and impacts LAUSD GPAs. This course grants 5 elective credits towards high school graduation.
Course Description: This course is recommended for students entering the teaching profession, or in preparation for health care professions such as nursing, medicine, physical therapy, dentistry, and areas in biological sciences. This course develops health knowledge and values with the goal of promoting a high quality of life for each individual. Areas of focus include nutrition, physical fitness, communicable diseases and other major health problems, consumer and environmental health, human sexuality and family life, mental and emotional health, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, aging, death and dying.
Admin of Justice 002 (3 units, CSU/UC transferrable): Concepts of Criminal Law
This course will be offered online, asynchronously (no Zoom meetings) in Spring 2025. This course grants 10 elective credits towards high school graduation and aligns with LAUSD courses to impacts LAUSD GPAs.
An introduction to the historical development, philosophy, and basic legal concepts of criminal law. The course includes an examination of constitutional provisions, legal research, legal analysis, and the functioning of criminal law as a social force. It also includes a detailed examination of legal definitions, classifications of law, penalties, corpus delecti, criminal intent, parties to a crime, defenses to crime, and a brief introduction to laws of arrest and judicial procedure.
History 044 (3 Units, CSU & UC transferrable): The Mexican-American in the History of the United States II
This course will be offered online, asynchronously (no Zoom meetings) in Spring 2025. This course satisfies the LAUSD Ethnic Studies high school graduation requirement and impacts LAUSD, CSU and UC GPAs.This course grants 5 elective credits towards high school graduation.
This course is a survey of the history of the Mexican people in the United States from 1848 to the present time. The content includes a discussion of the United States War with Mexico, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the subsequent incorporation of Mexicans into the United States. Emphasis is placed on the politics of race, its origin in the colonial process and its impact on the historical development of a Mexican-American ethnic identity in the United States.
Enrollment Process
There are three steps to enroll in a college course.
- Apply to West LA College
- Submit a K-12 Dynamic Form, Link to Instructions
a. In order to complete this step, you need your West LA ID number. It may take a few days to get your West LA ID number after you apply (step 1). Your West LA ID number typically starts with a 900.
b. For counselor, put Jamie Simon-Meyer ([email protected])
c. The term is Spring 2025
d. For the course, use the course number and units from the list above. Add any courses that you think you may want to take. This doesn't mean you are going to take all of them, but the system will have you pre-approved for any course.
e. The counselor will not receive your form to sign until your parent has signed and submitted the K-12 form.
b. For counselor, put Jamie Simon-Meyer ([email protected])
c. The term is Spring 2025
d. For the course, use the course number and units from the list above. Add any courses that you think you may want to take. This doesn't mean you are going to take all of them, but the system will have you pre-approved for any course.
e. The counselor will not receive your form to sign until your parent has signed and submitted the K-12 form.
- Enroll in the course
a. Once your K-12 form is approved (from step 2), you will be cleared to enroll.
b. You will be emailed instruction to enroll with the specific section number.
c. You will need to log in to your LACC Student Portal to enroll. Instructions to access your student portal are linked here.
b. You will be emailed instruction to enroll with the specific section number.
c. You will need to log in to your LACC Student Portal to enroll. Instructions to access your student portal are linked here.
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