Featured Courses

Paul Taylor Dance Intensive
After 53 years of making extraordinary dances, Paul Taylor remains one of history's most highly regarded creative artists. Taylor works are now in the repertoire of many of the world's leading ballet and modern dance companies. As a serious student you will find it essential to learn the Taylor style, and for maximum benefit, to learn it from Taylor dancers.

Oral History Methods
Learn how to conduct and record an oral history project at your own pace, in your own community following the complete process of historical documentation. Create historical context, plan and organize interviews to meet your objectives, and decide on materials to use during interview sessions.

Research and Interviewing Techniques for Non-Fiction Writers
Learn how to conduct research and interviews by practicing techniques in class and in the field and apply these techniques as you write a professional and publishable piece.

Reading Contemporary Fiction as a Writer
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Ford has said, "It's a short step from admiring to emulating; reading good writing can move us to try to duplicate it. And close study can help teach us how to duplicate it." Read and think clinically and critically as you analyze, dissect and deconstruct fiction produced by a variety of contemporary writers.

Coming in Fall

Tomales Bay Writers' Workshops
Join award-winning, nationally-known poets and writers, as well as respected editors and agents, in an intensive conversation about craft. Four and a half days of working with an established author, receiving constructive feedback and generating new material.

New This Quarter

Painting Flowers Simply and Beautifully in Watercolor
Learn easy techniques to make your flowers glow. This hands-on course will focus on spontaneous, rather than careful, realistic representations of flowers, with a strong emphasis on the use of white space and composition.

Free Information Session

Writing Information Session
Attend a free information session about our writing coursework, including the expanding field of non-fiction writing. Learn about the Specialized Studies Program in Non-Fiction Writing, courses in creative writing and get answers to frequently asked questions.

Distance Learning

Spanish Without Walls
Learn to speak Spanish at home with our unique Spanish Without Walls series.