LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE, LOS ANGELES

Partners: Hollywood Senior High School, Downtown Business Magnets High School, Miguel Contreras Learning Complex

Los Angeles City College offered a five-semester course sequence for high school students in multimedia and web development. The sequence, comprised of 18 college credits, led to a certificate and was available to low-income, underrepresented students at three partnering high schools. Classes were taught by college instructors and yielded both college and high school credit. Job readiness workshops and paid internships were also made available to students enrolled in the sequence. For the 2010-2011 school year, the first cohort of students (36 students) finished the multimedia certificate.

 

 

 

 

Number of students who took courses:

2008–2009: 66
2009–2010: 91

What do students have to say about the program?

Cinema was fun. Hopefully other students have the same opportunity I did and experience such a cool class.
—2010 survey

All of [the courses] were really fun and offered me a good experience.
—2010 survey

I really enjoyed my class. I built more responsibility in doing my work and [it] was very motivating.
—2010 survey