Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Education at Foothill College

Foothill College has reputation for excellence dates back to its founding when Superintendent/President Calvin C. Flint led the design and construction of a dynamic facility that set a new standard for quality in community colleges, garnered several architectural awards and earned national accolades.  As the first community college in California to offer online classes, Foothill College has pioneered online instruction and now offers more online courses and complete online degree programs than any other Bay Area community college.  Foothill pioneered the use of online courseware with its own ETUDES product, and is now engineering ETUDES NG-the next generation courseware product to be used by a consortium of community colleges throughout the nation.  On its beautiful 120 acre campus in Los Altos Hills, Foothill serves some 19,000 students annually.

The Computers, Technology & Information Systems Division offer hundreds of university-transferable courses leading to degrees and industry-recognized certificates.   At Foothill, you can train for Oracle, CISCO, A+, LINUX, and Microsoft certification exams.   Our day, evening, weekend, and online courses span all aspects of computing from beginning to advanced.  Learn employable skills in Enterprise Networking, Internet Technology, Computer Software Development, Interactive & Multimedia Technology, BioInformatics, Database Management, Video and Computer Game Design and much more.  We also have an array of short courses designed to bring you quickly up to speed in the use of a variety of technologies.  Please use our website to find answers to your questions about the degrees, certificates, classes, laboratories, and people involved in our 5 departments below. For questions about any program, view the on-line counseling page which allows you schedule an ON-LINE counseling appointment, access the counseling message forums, and schedule in person appointments when necessary.  If you cannot find what you are looking for, don't hesitate to call the division office at 650-949-7236 or contact CTIS.

CNET (Computer Networking) courses are devoted to a full range of computer networking expertise.  The Department offers programs in Data Communications & Network Management, Network Installation & Maintenance, Network Security and Wireless Networking.   We offer Cisco, Microsoft, and CompTIA Certification Training at all levels and an AS Degree.

CAST (Computers and Software Training) courses help students gain mastery of software applications as tools in a variety of disciplines - web publishing and multimedia, print production, office and the home.  Examples include Intro to Flash, Intermediate Flash Projects, Advanced Flash, Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Excel and Word, and Final Cut Pro.  An AS Degree is available.

CIS (Computer Information Systems) courses teach the principles and techniques of writing software in a variety of languages and operating systems.  Examples include Intro and Intermediate JAVA Programming, Software Development in C++, Intro to UNIX, Advanced Shell Programming, Perl, Computer Graphics Programming and Intro to Programming in MS Windows.  CIS offers six specialty programs, each with an AS degree and many with certificates:  Computer Science Program, Computer Software Development Program, Database Management Program, Bioinformatics Program, Informatics Program and Video and Computer Game Design Program.

COIN (Computers on the Internet) courses dealing with all aspects of the growing Internet.  The Department offers programs in Electronic Commerce, Web Programming, Web Administration, and Web Design and Development.  Example Courses include, Using the Internet, Electronic Commerce, Building WWW Sites, HTML & Publishing on the WWW, JavaScript & Vbscript, XML, Advanced HTML Topics, and Database Driven Websites.  An AS Degree is available.