Classes are held three days each week under the instruction of Ted Weatherford, 2005 Physical Educator of the Year (SCOPE). Ted has been a fulltime faculty member at IVC for more than two decades and has taught adapted fitness, kinesiology, health, dance and coached the IVC intercollegiate softball team.
Enrollment in the KNEA 1 course is open to any student who may benefit from this course, and a disability is not a pre-requisite to enrollment.
Enrollment is managed online through IVC Admissions and Records. Students must first complete the simple admissions process, but once onboard, students can use the online IVC Schedule of Classes to complete their enrollment in KNEA 1, the Adapted Kinesiology course.
Helping student achieve their individual fitness goals are the highest priority for the IVC Adapted Kinesiology Fitness Program. As part of the college's longstanding commitment to serve the entire community and embrace our tradition of rich diversity, Adapted Kinesiology is a key component in the programs of the School of Kinesiology, Health and Athletics and our colleagues in Disability Support Programs for Students (DSPS). Classes have been designed for those with temporary or chronic conditions who cannot attain their fitness goals in conventional ways.
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.