{"id":3719,"date":"2017-08-09T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2024-02-12T08:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:32:55","slug":"weekend-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/weekend-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional class options have expanded to Weekend College!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are online classes not working for you?<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that St. Petersburg College offers a wide range of basic and specialized face-to- face classes on the weekend?\u00a0 From Principles of Marketing to Photography I to Applied Ethics, there are classes that can help you move towards completing your degree, learning a new skill, or test driving a new major.<\/p>\n<p>For the last year, St. Petersburg College has\u00a0offered these classes on the Clearwater Campus on Friday evenings, Saturday mornings and afternoons and Sunday afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We originally thought this would appeal to new students with schedule conflicts,&#8221; said Social and Behavioral Sciences Dean Joseph Smiley. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve found that most of the students who enrolled over the past year have been former students seeking a new way to complete their degree or fulfill prerequisite requirements for admission to a specialized program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just happy to be solving a problem for students.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Weekend College is for you!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/08\/Weekend-College-Blog-photo-crop-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3721 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/08\/Weekend-College-Blog-photo-crop-2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"weekend college\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/08\/Weekend-College-Blog-photo-crop-2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/08\/Weekend-College-Blog-photo-crop-2-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/08\/Weekend-College-Blog-photo-crop-2-1024x611.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take advantage of the flexible course options at St. Petersburg College.<\/p>\n<p>To see the full schedule, click here <a href=\"https:\/\/go.spcollege.edu\/weekendcollege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weekend College<\/a>, and search your courses under Register for Class on your MySPC website.<\/p>\n<p>Classes begin August 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are online classes not working for you? Did you know that St. Petersburg College offers a wide range of basic and specialized face-to- face classes on the weekend?\u00a0 From Principles of Marketing to Photography I to Applied Ethics, there are classes that can help you move towards completing your degree, learning a new skill, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/weekend-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traditional class options have expanded to Weekend College!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}