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Student Services

OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION— PUENTE PROGRAM
WORK EXPERIENCE The Puente Program has won accolades for its approach
Earn 1 to 6 transferable units per semester for working to helping more than 400,000 underserved students thrive
in a paid or unpaid part-time or full-time position with a academically – by holding high expectations, valuing
licensed business or 1.5 Units to brush up on soft skills or cultural and social capital, and ensuring that students
create a career portfolio - no job required. We offer three and their families have critical college-going information
courses: and guidance. Puente’s mission is to increase the number
of educationally underrepresented students who enroll
• OCED 070: Occupational Soft Skills in four-year colleges and universities, earn degrees, and
No job or volunteer work required. This 8-week return to their communities as leaders and mentors to
1.5-unit course will provide students the future generations. The Puente Program has three main
necessary skills to become valuable employees components:
and get started on the path to an internship or
job. 1. A rigorous one-year writing program, ENGL 001
and 310D in the fall and ENG 002 in the spring.
• OCED 090: Occupational Work Experience These classes provide a supportive and stimulating
For those students working or volunteering environment for Puente students to build
in positions which are directly related to their confidence in writing skills.
declared major. Students can earn 1 unit for 2. Focused counseling services. Students take one
each 75 hours paid or 60 hours unpaid work per semester of COUN 007: College Study Techniques.
semester – up to 6 units per semester to a total Students work closely with the Puente counselor
of 16 units over multiple semesters. We offer until graduation, exploring career options,
full-semester, 12-week and 8-week sections. developing an academic educational plan and
For a breakdown of how many hours students identifying lifetime goals. Students visit University
need to work, visit our website at http://www. of California and California State University
sccworkexperience.com/. campuses and attend an annual student transfer
conference.
• OCED 091: General Work Experience 3. Professional community mentors—each student
For those working or volunteering in jobs not is matched with a mentor from the business or
related to their major. Students can earn 1 unit professional community. Mentors share with
for each 75 hours paid or 60 hours unpaid work students personal, academic, and career experiences,
per semester – up to 6 units per semester to a and provide a window into a “real life” work
total of 6 units over multiple semesters. We offer environment.
full-semester, 12-week and 8-week sections. For a
breakdown of how many hours students need to For more information, please contact Rebecca LaCount
work, go to http://www.sccworkexperience.com/. at (707) 864-7000, ext. 5779. You can check out the
website at www.solano.edu/puente.

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