Academics
Various programs lead to the awarding of Associate's degrees in Arts and Sciences, as well as vocational certificates.
Santa Ana College is nationally known for its Fire Technology program.
Santa Ana College is also home to the Tessmann Planetarium which was renovated and now has a state-of-the art planetarium system.
Tessmann Planetarium is the largest, both in diameter (30 feet) and seating capacity planetarium in the County of Orange CA. It was completed and became operational in 1967.
Santa Ana College is also home to Around and About Orange County News (AAOC) and Noticiero Latino del Condado de Orange (NLCO)are student produced weekly news shows that have produced hundreds of professionals that work in the TV Broadcast, Film and Radio Industry. NLCO became the first Spanish language college newscast produced by a community college.
The TV Department takes advantage of the Digital Media Center (DMC) which was opened a few years ago. They use the DMC to produce, shoot and edit the College's Newscast.
In addition to a strong broadcast journalism department, Santa Ana College has the nation's top community college newsmagazine, the el Don. The el Don has won 16 Associated College Press National Pacemaker Awards and was inducted into the Associated Collegiate Press College Journalism Hall of Fame in 2008.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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