The class is designed to provide strength training programs to help participants burn fat and boost their metabolism. Various body conditioning exercises will be used to increase muscle strength and bone mineral density, help prevent injury, and enhance physical function in daily living activities.

Come and learn or enhance your Bridge skills! Bridge is a fun, multi-facited card game that almost anyone can play. Learn the game in a fun and friendly environment with no pressure.

This course is best for those who have never played Bridge before, or have played but need a bush-up on their skills. 

SFCC Community Choir seeks any interested voice, regardless of skill level or experience, to help present one choral concert a quarter. This low-impact, low-pressure class is perfect for those who sang in school or wish they had and a great way to engage in the many benefits singing offers.

Shostakovich to Sousa! Unleash your musical inhibitions and perform a variety of band literature from new symphonies and band compositions to the old standards. For more information, contact Karl Mote (karl.mote@spokanefalls.edu). Prior to enrolling, please verify your availability on the performance date: *you must be able to participate in the end of quarter concert.* For concert schedule information, visit the SFCC Music Department website.

A 20 hour class to shape new, used, or recycled metal into hobby projects/yard art by using basic welding techniques. This class is for beginners/crafters, farmers, “retired and starting-a-part-time-out-of-the-garage” or even a “brush up class” opportunity for the established welders. Providing you some time and ability to have fun and make something cool using basic techniques! Students will design and provide materials for these projects. Students must furnish some supplies, clothing and safety equipment.

NOTE: The first night of class the instructor will give a safety orientation, along with a list of supplies the students will need. Students that miss the safety orientation cannot be admitted into the welding shop.

Improvisation is open to any student who plays a musical instrument or sings and wants to acquire improvisational skills for standard jazz repetoire. Students will learn how to utilize jazz vocabulary while developing an improvisational style.

The SFCC Jazz Ensemble is a full big band including trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and rhythm section (piano, bass, guitar, vibes, drums). Music performed will include traditional big band swing literature, contemporary works, Latin style pieces, and original compositions. Jazz ensemble experience preferred.

Prior to enrolling, please verify your availability on the performance date (you must be able to participate in the end of quarter concert). For concert schedule information, visit the SFCC Music Department website.

Ancient contemplative know-your-self methods, confirmed by modern brain science, are practiced and discussed to prompt and promote our full human heart/mind potential. This class is intended for everyone interested in the benefits of meditation, beginners and non-beginners, alike. Learning, sharing and practicing together will naturally foster appreciation and understanding of ourselves and others, so we can make better moves in everything we do. This is the aspiration. Instructor Dexter Amend, PhD, long-time meditator, councilor, and Psychology instructor, SFCC

What is learned and discussed:

1) How to calm and tame the mind

2) How to increase awareness and compassion

3) How to find and understand the causes and cures of human suffering

4) How to help ourselves and others in troubled times such as these

The SFCC Advanced Orchestra is a full orchestra that includes strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Specific instrumentation varies by quarter. Proficiency on a standard orchestral instrument is required. For more information, please contact Jason Moody at jason.moody@sfcc.spokane.edu.

Private Music Lessons - for personal enrichment ONLY. No grade given, no outcome assessment. Students can choose whatever instrument they are interested in. Current instrument offering examples include: saxophone, clarinet, percussion, and music composition. 

Students must contact the SFCC Music Department Chair prior to enrollment, contact information is below.

Spokane Falls Community Colleges' Step and Sculpt combines aerobic fitness and body conditioning in the same class session. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun! Participants will engage in aerobic routines set to music, using a step platform. Cardio movements may also be performed as a low-impact floor routine without the step. Students will use handheld weights, exertubes, fit-balls, weighted bars, and mats to participate in resistance training exercise activities. Equipment used in class will be provided, however, students may bring their own mat/yoga mat if they wish. Warm-up, cool down, and stretching will also be included during class time.

This class will show how YOU could begin using your speaking voice for commercials, films, videos and more! In this class, you will learn about a unique, outside the box way to cash in on a lucrative full or part-time career. Instructor Lisa Foster has voiced commercials for dozens of businesses and is a well-known radio personality in the Seattle broadcast market. She has been coaching and instructing beginning voice-over talents for over 10 years.

To learn more about Lisa Foster, you can visit her website here! 

This course introduces students to the basic art of drumming as a gateway to explore the cultures and music of Africa, Brazil, Cuba and the Middle East. No previous music reading or drumming ability is required (although helpful) and instruments are provided.

Unleash your creativity and transform scrap metal into stunning yard art in this hands-on 20-hour welding class! Explore the exciting world of metalworking as you learn basic welding techniques, brazing, and cutting to craft one-of-a-kind sculptures and unique decorative pieces. You'll have the freedom to design and create your own projects, bringing your ideas to life with the materials you choose.

Note: On the first night, the instructor will guide you through a crucial safety orientation and provide a list of materials you'll need and proper attire.Students who miss the safety orientation will not be allowed to enter the welding shop.

Student supplies: metal for projects (steel, aluminum, titanium, stainless steel) and safety glasses.

Participants will learn to incorporate exercise in their daily life as a component of a healthy lifestyle, and participate in instructor-led group exercise activities such as cardiorespiratory training, strength conditioning, and flexibility training. Participants will gain knowledge that can be used for a lifetime while having fun participating in exercise activities that lead to reaching their fitness goals.

As the population in the United States ages, there are many opportunities to learn how to work with seniors in multiple settings in a way that supports quality of life. In the Certificate in Healthy Aging, you'll gain an overview of specific aspects of aging to provide a long-term foundation for treatment of the senior community and overall health during the later years of life. This certificate is designed for anyone working in the health care field, those who are interested in the topic, those who are working with the aging population, or anyone who wishes to prepare for a career in aging services or gerontology.

Hours to Complete: 12

Duration of Access: 3 months

Whether you want to learn conversational Japanese for travel or just for fun, you'll find this course makes it easy and enjoyable for beginners to master the essentials of the Japanese language. Throughout this course, you'll gain cultural knowledge and learn useful conversational phrases and vocabulary words particular to a specific area of travel. You'll practice these in drills, interactive exercises, and dialogues.This technique will allow you to bypass one of the biggest obstacles for most beginners of Japanese: the letter system. By the end of this course, you'll have acquired basic conversational skills that enable you to travel around the country easily, and you'll have discovered the heart of Japan. Self-paced. 

Hours to complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months 

Community members and staff can work out in the Fitness Center and Weight Room at SCC for the current quarter. For community members 18 and older. Closed on all Federal holidays.

OPERATION HOURS:

Mon-Thurs 6:30am - 5:30pm

Fri 6:30am - 3:30pm

Community members and staff can work out in the Fitness Center and Weight Room at SFCC for the current quarter. For community members 18 and older. Closed all Federal holidays. 

OPERATION HOURS:

Mon-Thurs 6:30am - 5:30pm

Fri 6:30am - 3:30pm

Tracing your family's history is a fascinating journey! Genealogy Basics will help you understand the genealogy research process and how to interpret the information you find. Learn where to look, who to contact, and how to use research tools to begin an exciting and fascinating exploration of your roots. This course guides you through the search process for family names using several subscription-based websites, which you can access while enrolled in the class. Self-paced. 

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months

If you're interested in learning how to come up with jokes or witticisms on the fly, liven up dull material for an audience, or make a living as a comedy writer - this course will get you going! Once you've learned some of the methods of creating humor, you'll be ready to apply it to all aspects of your life. Punch up speeches and presentations so that the audience is instantly on your side. Mix laughter with learning in the classroom and watch your students' attention spans grow. Add some humor to your web page and make the hit numbers explode as word gets out. Learning should be fun, and this course is no exception. Filled with opportunities to laugh as you learn, this course promises to be an entertaining and informative experience. Instructor moderated. 

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 6 weeks

Learn how to make the most of your scrapbooking talents and artistic ideas when you combine digital and traditional scrapbooking techniques. You'll quickly learn how to build pages, use artistic journaling, and produce sophisticated illusions. Photoshop Elements lets you build your own clip art, create frames, and develop multi-layer pages with an endless array of layouts and designs. You'll see how to draw and create your own art, build collages and scrapbooks to share, and work with both color and black and white. If you need to restore or age images—the tools are all available to you. Come take your scrapbooking to a new level!

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months

Spokane Colleges supports parents who may choose home-based instruction for their children by offering a homeschool introductory course that fulfills one of the four ways to qualify in Washington: completing a qualifying course in home-based education at a postsecondary institution or a vocational-technical institute (RCW 28A.225.010 (4)(a-c). Our parent-qualifying course is designed to be an affordable, convenient, online, self-paced course taught by a homeschool parent who encourages parents just starting their journey. It will build your confidence and arm you with strategies to acquire resources for community connection, learning, assessment, and record-keeping. The course typically takes 5 to 9 hours to complete. A certificate is awarded upon completion.

Learn how to promote wellness, balance, and health in daily life! Explore the various stages of health and illness, along with discovering how true health means wholeness of the mind, body, and spirit. Using a variety of methods like diet, hydrotherapy, positive attitude, relaxation, yoga, chiropractics, natural remedies and more, you'll explore the way to achieve total health in mind, body, and spirit. By the end of this course, you'll have begun taking charge of your own health and healing. Self-paced.

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months

Learn how to promote wellness, balance, and health in daily life! Explore the various stages of health and illness, along with discovering how true health means wholeness of the mind, body, and spirit. Using a variety of methods like diet, hydrotherapy, positive attitude, relaxation, yoga, chiropractics, natural remedies and more, you'll explore the way to achieve total health in mind, body, and spirit. By the end of this course, you'll have begun taking charge of your own health and healing. Self-paced.

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months

Learn the secrets of effective public speaking and small group communication. In this course, you will discover how to talk confidently and persuasively to both large audiences and small groups. You will also learn how to plan and deliver your presentations skillfully and how to manage one of the most common public speaking barriers - fear. You'll learn the secrets to presenting a speech, how to handle questions and manage conflict in meetings, and even how to shine in a job interview. You will get tips for training your voice and learn how to use both verbal and nonverbal communication effectively. Sedlf-paced. 

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months

Are you nervous about walking alone or downtown? Is your fear of aggression standing in the way of your ability to live? Take this course as a step toward reclaiming your freedom. People of all ages and physical conditions can benefit immediately from simple, easy to remember techniques. Prepare yourself mentally and physically to walk with confidence and have fun learning in a supportive and inclusive community! Each week will feature light physical activity, competency using one new anti-aggression technique, and repetitive review of previous week's techniques to develop automatic and effective reactions. Leave this class with an increased sense of personal safety and security.

With the Speed Spanish course, you will immediately start creating sentences and conversations in Spanish. Each lesson will introduce new techniques to increase your fluency quickly and allow you to start speaking Spanish right away. You will also have the opportunity to discuss Spanish culture and differences in Spanish-speaking countries. Be prepared to travel to a Spanish-speaking country and communicate effectively, and build in-demand skills that can increase your career opportunities. Self-paced. 

Hours to Complete: 24

Duration of Access: 3 months

This certificate program examines workplace violence, domestic (intimate partner) violence, elder abuse, child abuse, pediatric abusive head trauma, and sexual assault, gender violence, and rape. The outcome of this certificate program is for the learner to describe several key types of violence, risk factors specific to those types of violence, assessment and treatment options, and prevention measures to reduce the incidence of violence. Self-paced.

Hours to Complete: 13 

Duration of Access: 3 months