Personal Enrichment Courses
These high-quality instructor led online courses begin monthly and are comprised of twelve lessons released every Wednesday and Friday over a six-week period. The courses are completely web-based, so you will never need to come to campus! Learn more about taking community education courses online.
Choose the class title for a class syllabus, computer system requirements, cost and more information. Don't see exactly what you're looking for? Go to www.ed2go.com/portlandcc/, and select 'courses'. You'll find many more classes from which to choose!
The cost of each class is $89.
General Enrichment Topics
Cooking: Foods, Wine & Beer
Financial Planning & Management
- Personal Finance
- Debt Elimination Techniques
- Real Estate Investing
- Stocks, Bonds, Investing, Oh My!
- Analysis and Valuation of Stocks
Health and Wellness
Test Prep Courses
Language Courses
- Grammar for ESL
- Writing for ESL
- Beginning Conversational French
- Instant Italian
- Speed Spanish
- Speed Spanish II
- Speed Spanish III
Personal Development Courses
Photography
- Discover Digital Photography
- Photographing People with Your Digital Camera
- Secrets of Better Photography
- See below for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements courses
Unique Interest Classes
Internet and Software Courses
Specific software courses require that you have the use of that software to take the class. Click on the course title for individual requirements:
Adobe Photoshop
- Photoshop 7 for the Absolute Beginner
- Intro to Photoshop 7
- Intro to Photoshop CS
- Intro to Photoshop CS 2
- Photoshop Elements 3.0 for the Digital Photographer
- Photoshop Elements 3.0 Projects
- Photoshop Elements 4.0 for the Digital Photographer
- Photoshop Elements 4.0 for the Digital Photographer II
- Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Digital Photographer
- Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Digital Photographer II
- Photoshop CS 2 for the Digital Photographer
- Photoshop CS 3 for the Digital Photographer
Internet Exploration and Tools
Web Page Development
- Creating Web Pages
- Creating Web Pages II
- Designing Effective Websites
- Intro to Dreamweaver MX
- Intro to Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Intro to Dreamweaver 8
- Intro to FrontPage 2003: [Level I]
- Intro to CSS and XHTML
Web Page Graphics and Enhancements
- Achieving Top Search Engine Positions
- Intro to Flash 8
- Intro to Flash MX 2004
- Intro to Director MX 2004
- Intro to CorelDRAW X3
- Intro to FreeHand MX
Programming for the Web
Writing Courses
Creative Writing Fundamentals
- Beginning Writer's Workshop
- Creating a Sense of Place
- Grammar Refresher
- Research Methods for Writers
- Writeriffic: Creativity Training for Writers
- Writeriffic 2: Advanced Creativity Training
Fiction and Special Genre Writing
Publishing and Marketing
- Keys to Effective Editing
- Beginner's Guide to Getting Published
- Publish it Yourself
- Writing for Children
- Your Screenwriting Career
- Intro to Internet Writing Markets