Los Angeles Southwest College’s service area consists of 45 square miles that includes parts of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated sections of Los Angeles County (2nd Supervisorial District), as well as portions of Gardena, Hawthorne, and Inglewood. For almost 50 years, Southwest College has focused its resources on empowering a diverse student population to help achieve their academic and career goals. It is a is a two-year college that awards Associate’s Degrees in more than 30 fields and occupational certificates in more than 45 disciplines. It offers a range of programs that meet the community’s needs, including college transfer services, occupational training, community services as well as general, transitional and continuing education.
The new 27,000 square-foot will house the Physiology, Anatomy, Biotech, Biology, Geography, Geology and Chemistry programs. The building will feature a roof-top observation deck for the Astronomy program.
The School of Career & Technical Education is a new facility to house the School of Business as well as the Workforce Development and Corporate Relations Offices, a new Career Resource Center, a new Environmental and Technology Science Program, a Student Success Center and shared support space functions.
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Contractor Boot Camp is a four-session program designed specifically for small contractors to improve their competitive bidding capacity. Through a comprehensive, hands-on curriculum, small contractors will learn more on the prequalification process for the Pre-Qualified Service Provider (PQSP) bench contracts for projects ranging from $25K - $5M, how to bid for work, and successfully execute BuildLACCD construction projects.