News Release

Bucks Adds New Programs, Expands Online Learning This Fall

Two new certificate programs and two new courses are added, plus six courses are offered online for the first time

Bucks County Community College has added two new certificate programs to its nearly 90 majors designed to help students reach their fullest potential. In addition, two new courses have been added, and a half-dozen courses will be offered online for the first time, expanding eLearning to 230 courses.

The Department of the Arts, which already offers nine associate degrees and two certificates, has added the Applied Photography certificate. This 27-credit program blends traditional and digital techniques and is designed for students seeking intensive technical training. Students develop essential entry-level skills required in commercial photography studios or businesses such as wedding and portrait photography.

Meanwhile, the Department of Math, Science, and Technology is offering an industry-validated certificate in Biotechnology: Cell and Tissue Culture to help fill the need for technicians in laboratories. Workers currently employed as biotechnology technicians can also benefit from enhancing their skills through this 16-credit program.

New courses include the Psychology of Cultural Diversity, in which students will critically examine their sense of self and others, identity, personal attitudes, values, and norms. Also new is GIS for Land use Planning and Environmental Technology. Students will learn how to use the latest Geographic Information Systems software to gather environmental spatial data.

Bucks has also expanded its eLearning courses to keep up with students’ needs for a convenient way to attend college. Offered online for the first time this fall are Criminal Evidence, The Peoples of Russia and Eastern Europe, American Pop Culture: History of Rock, Business Calculus, Elementary Statistics II, and Pharmacology in Nursing. These are in addition to more than 130 other courses offered online or in a “hybrid” format – a mix of online and classroom learning – each semester. Bucks offers a total of 230 courses online.

Classes are offered at the Newtown campus, the Lower Bucks Campus in Bristol, and the Upper Bucks Campus in Perkasie, as well as online.  Bucks County Community College is a public, two-year college with an open-admissions policy and affordable tuition, only $99 a credit for county residents. For more information on these and other new opportunities, visit www.bucks.edu or call 215-968-8100.