COCC Community Learning Classes Now Open

Bend, Ore. – Registration for Central Oregon Community College’s Community Learning winter classes is now open. The complete class listing will be posted on the Community Learning website to allow for early registration.

The schedule includes more than 300 new and regular noncredit offerings to build job skills, start new hobbies and meet new friends. Classes in computers, recreation and health, business, language, cooking and art are held in Bend, La Pine, Madras, Prineville, Redmond and Sisters.

Thirty-five new classes will be offered during winter term, including Nutritional Therapist training program, IBD general certificate in brewing prep course, woodworking, Canon USA Explorer of Light program with George Lepp, Bridge to China: Conversational Chinese and Culture and project management courses.

Class schedules will be mailed to residents on Dec. 10 to those who have taken a class in the last two years. Schedules are also available at COCC, local chambers of commerce and libraries and on the Web (http://www.cocc.edu/continuinged/full-class-listing/).

Students can register by mail, e-mail, fax, telephone, on the Web or in person.

To register, call 541-383-7270 or visit noncredit.cocc.edu.

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