Community and Continuing Education
Welcome to the Community and Continuing Education department page!
In addition to providing the community with our award-winning classes and programs, we now feature El Camino’s noncredit course offerings. These are free courses built to increase literacy skills, access to higher education, and employment.
Community Learning
The Community & Continuing Education department aims to provide high-quality, engaging, community-driven and market-driven classes, workshops, and events that are responsive to the recreational and vocational needs of our diverse demographic of students while maintaining high levels of student-satisfaction ratings.
We provide fee-based, short-term, not-for-credit classes, workshops, career-training programs and events for professional and/or personal development with an emphasis on inspiring a sense of wonder and imagination for lifelong learning.
Continuing Education
El Camino College is expanding access to education through tuition-free, noncredit courses to help students achieve personal, academic, and vocational goals. These courses play an important role in supporting lifelong learning and can help gain or update skills for the workforce.
New courses added every semester! Take our survey and tell us what you are interested in:
- GED/High School Equivalency
- Allied Health Careers
- Business
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Academic Success
- Construction & Automotive Technologies
- Fashion Business Start-up
ESL Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the ESL team at esl@elcamino.edu or call (310) 660-6457 to help you get started!
We are here to help!
If you have a special interest or a particular need for a class, please send us your
suggestion(s) to commed@elcamino.edu. Visit our registration website for class listings and to enroll.
Location and Office Hours
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Call 310-660-6460 or Text 424-279-4430.
Location: Community & Continuing Education Office @ the Social Sciences building, room 101 (SOCS 101).
Closed weekends and the following holidays: Monday, May 26th (Memorial Day Holiday), Thursday, June 19th (Juneteenth Holiday), Thursday & Friday, July 3rd & 4th (Independence Day Holiday Observed), Closed Summer Fridays, June 27th - August 15th*
*Kid's College classes will take place Monday - Friday. See enrollment for class details.
We Are El Camino Community & Continuing Education
Noncredit Courses
These classes are free, short-term courses for skill building, literacy, and career development. They are available on your ECC transcript, are graded, and you can earn Certificates of Completion.
Not-for-Credit Classes, Workshops, Rapid Job-Training, and Events
College credit is not given for classes conducted by the Community Education department. There are no transcripts or grades. Community Education is a self-supporting entity of the college and is not funded by taxpayer dollars.
Service Area Outcome (SAO)
After attending an El Camino College Community & Continuing Education class, students will be able to use the information received from the class for personal or professional development.
Questions? Contact Us
Community and Continuing Education
Social Science Building, Room 101 (SOCS 101)