Community Education

"Your Path to Lifelong Learning"

Community Education offers something for everyone regardless of age or interests. Take a few moments to check out our offerings and see where the Path to Lifelong Learning can take you!

Classes for You - Enjoyment and Personal Enrichment

Need to relax? Want to take up a new hobby like oil painting or landscaping? Looking to spice-up your life through Swing or Latin Dance? Need to understand the stock market or manage your small business? You can find all these and more in the Classes for You section.

Off-Campus Sites - Close to Home - Classes for Credit

Need to enhance your career, complete your degree and save money at the same time? Why spend a fortune on gas when SWIC offers a variety of college classes in a location close to you. Live in Waterloo, Collinsville, Highland or Columbia? Work or live at Scott Air Force Base? We offer college courses right in Your Community.

You can improve your computer skills, start your degree with basic English, Speech or Math courses, or take career-specific classes like foundry/sandcasting, auto body repair or food service sanitation. All these and more can be found in the Off-Campus Sites section.

Noncredit Online Courses

Update your skills, discover a new talent, or chart a career path at your own pace and at your convenience with Community Education's new online offerings. Community Education has partnered with Ed2Go to provide noncredit, online, instructor-led courses. Each course runs for six weeks and consists of 12 lessons. Interactive quizzes, assignments, tutorials, and online discussion areas supplement the lessons. All materials will be made available to you over the World Wide Web. Read your lessons and ask your instructor questions at times that are most convenient to you. All you need to get started is Internet access, an e-mail address, and a Web browser. Visit http://www.ed2go.com/swicce for requirements, demonstrations, additional information, or to register.

Summer Children's Enrichment Programs

Looking for something to keep your children busy this summer? Check the College for Kids and Kids on Campus programs.

College for Kids

The College for Kids program is an educational enrichment program for children from kindergarten age to eighth grade. The courses are designed to provide students with unique and enjoyable educational, cultural and recreational activities, which are different in form and content from regular classroom activities. Course selection should be based on the current school year grade level. Summer of 2008 program dates are: June 16-19, 23-26, July 7-10 and 14-17.

View the 2008 schedule.

Kids on Campus

Kids on Campus workshops are presented by SWIC and the Association for Bright Learners' Education (ABLE). This self-supporting program offers different courses at SWIC for students currently enrolled in grades K-8. Course selection should be based on the current school year grade level. Your child will have an opportunity to learn new ideas and acquire new skills in a college environment while making new friends in this exciting summer program. Summer of 2008 program dates are: August 1, and August 4-8.

View the 2008 schedule.

We're Proud to be a Part of Your Community - Join us on the Path to Lifelong Learning!

Call (618) 235-2700 or 1-800-222-5131, ext. 5393 or 5618 to register for classes.

For comments, questions or suggestions send an email to CommunityEducation@swic.edu.

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