OCC to offer new transfer degree Orange...

OCC to offer new transfer degree

Orange Coast College may soon widen its degree options to

incorporate a path that many students have already taken.

In an effort to fall more inline with the academic standards of

other community colleges in California, OCC officials may award

students the option of not only obtaining their associate in arts

degree but also an associate in arts transfer degree.

Although the proposed amendment to the general education

requirements may seem to offer students another route to take, the

new degree plan is actually one the college has offered for years.

Instead of simply meeting the requirements for an associate’s degree,

students earning an associate’s transfer degree will also have

fulfilled the requirements for the transfer certificates the college

offers as well.

The transfer certificates that OCC now offers are specific to

either the Cal State or University of California systems and, in some

cases, are accepted by private universities as well.

The proposed degree will help expand students’ career options and

resumes.

UCI lecture will focus on memory, brain

For years, the acts of remembering and forgetting have posed

questions about the function of memory and, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at

the Irvine Barclay Theatre, an Emory University professor of

psychiatry and behavioral sciences will discuss it.

Stuart Zola will explore the mystery of what people remember and

what they forget by using the film “Memento.” As a leading expert in

the neuroscience of memory and its organization in the brain, he will

also explore reasons for why memories work as they do.

The lecture, sponsored by the Irvine Health Foundation and the

Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at UC Irvine, is

part of a distinguished lecture series that focuses on the brain,

learning and memory.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is $5. The

theater is at 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. For more information, call

(949) 824-4275 or visit www.cnlm.uci.edu.