The Health and Nutrition program continues to be responsive to dynamic changes in a global learning environment. Primary in these course offerings are classes that address the fundamental challenge of balancing personal health with the personal challenges including academia, careers, social tensions and stress in a world of continuous environmental, medical and nutritional change.
The IVC Writing Program focuses the conventions and expectations of college-level reading and writing as they reflect the essential skills of critical thinking, and the careful reading, analysis and interpretation of texts.
Literature courses at IVC are designed to prepare students for further study at four-year institutions, to teach techniques of careful and informed reading, and to enhance students' understanding and therefore enjoyment of literature. These courses introduce the major genres and traditions of literary expression across a broad range of cultures, historical periods and geographical areas. At the same time, the program explores the way that literature has been approached within the professional field of literary study.
The Creative Writing Program offers classes in several areas of writing:
Nathan Cayanan, IVC Writing and ESL instructor, has been selected for DC Comics’ inaugural class of the Milestone Initiative Talent Development Program. Cayanan was selected from hundreds of applicants from across the US and Canada.
The Milestone Initiative was created to provide access and opportunity for Black and diverse storytellers in the field of comics.
IVC English instructor Burlee Vang premiered his latest film, They Live in the Grey, on AMC Networks’ Shudder, and it has received wide acclaim and press. Professor Vang wrote and directed the horror film along with his brother, Abel Vang.
Two IVC students have been named by the Community College League of California to the 2022 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) All-California Academic Team. Anna Nahm was named to the First Academic Team, and Amelie Phua to the Third Academic Team. Anna has also been selected as a 2022 Coca-Cola Academic Team Silver Scholar and will receive a $1,250 scholarship.
At Irvine Valley College (IVC), our vision is to create a community that promotes inquiry, intellectual curiosity, personal growth and a life-long appreciation for the power of learning.
Sixty IVC students, supported by the IVC Honors Program, participated in the 22nd Annual UCI Community College Honors Research Conference on March 26, 2022. IVC students delivered 32 oral presentations and 13 poster presentations, comprising 45 of the 188 total research projects presented – the greatest number out of the 30 participating colleges statewide.