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El Camino College is a two-year public community college located in Torrance in Los Angeles County, California. It consists of 37 buildings spanning an area of roughly 26 acres (105,000 m²). Jump to: navigation, search In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a junior college, is an educational institution providing post-secondary education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and associates degrees. ... Jump to: navigation, search City of Torrance official logo Torrance is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California. ... Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...

The El Camino Community College District was officially established as of July 1, 1947. Today the college serves nearly 25,000 students of a diverse background within the El Camino Community College District, including the cities of El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Lawndale, Hawthorne, Lennox and Inglewood. El Camino College offers nearly 2,500 different classes offered in some 850 different programs, including vocational, undergraduate, and honors courses, many available in online and televised formats for distance education. The El Segundo skyline, as seen from Sepulveda Boulevard (CA/SR-1) El Segundo is a city located in Los Angeles County, California on the Santa Monica Bay. ... Manhattan Beach is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California. ... Hermosa Beach is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Redondo Beach is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Jump to: navigation, search City of Torrance official logo Torrance is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California. ... Lawndale is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Hawthorne is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California. ... Lennox is a census-designated place located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Inglewood is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Vocational education (or Vocational Education and Training (VET)) prepares learners for careers or professions that are traditionally non-academic and directly related to a trade, occupation or vocation in which the learner participates. ...

In addition to traditional undergraduate education, El Camino offers a variety of faculty organized and campus cooperation study abroad programs. In recent years students have traveled to locations such as Vienna, Austria, Oxford, England, Sydney, Australia, Paris, France, and Shanghai, China. Students receive full class credit for classes taken abroad, as arranged with college administrators. This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 ( 2001 census). ... This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Alternate meanings: See Shanghai (disambiguation) Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: shàng hǎi; Shanghainese IPA: /zɑ̃ hɛ/) is Chinas largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta. ...

El Camino College is a popular choice for students to complete lower-division college requirements for often crowded universities. It is one of the leading transfer institutions in Southern California, offering transfer agreements with most four-year universities including UCLA, California State University, Long Beach, San Diego State University, Chapman University, and Pomona College. The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... California State University, Long Beach (also known as Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, CSULB, LBSU or The Beach!) is the largest campus of the California State University system and the second largest university in the state of California. ... Jump to: navigation, search A landmark architecture featured in the school logo. ... Chapman University is a private university located in Orange County, California. ... Jump to: navigation, search + The Smith Campus Center Fountain at Pomona College during the inauguration of David Oxtoby Pomona College is a small private residential liberal arts college in Claremont, California, located 47 miles east of Los Angeles. ...

El Camino College also offers over 80 acclaimed career programs, including Fashion, Journalism, Computer Information Systems, Fire and Emergency Technology, Automotive Systems, and Cosmetology. According to Merriam-Webster, Cosmetology is the treatment of skin, hair and nails. ...

KECC Radio Station

The first time KECC was actually on the air experimentally was Career Day, April 27, 1994. This operation lasted only four hours, from 9 AM to 1 PM. On November 11, 1994, KECC signed on the air for the first time as a regularly scheduled carrier current broadcast station. At that time, the frequency used was 1620 kHz. Jump to: navigation, search April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ...

The station was soon involved in emergency operation when heavy rains flooded the campus in January of 1995, during Registration. The campus police radio system had been submerged by the rising water and had shorted out. KECC being on higher ground was still operating and became a radio relay station, with the police phoning in problems and the broadcast staff relaying them. Jump to: navigation, search January, from the Très riches heures du duc de Berry January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the fall of 2000 KECC changed frequency from 1200 kHz to 1500 kHz. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...

Interesting facts

• El Camino is Spanish for "The Road." The road refers to California's first road: El Camino Real, which means "The King's Road," or "The Royal Road."
• The El Camino College symbol was inspired by the numerous markers along the famous road, which consisted of a single bell suspended on an upside down hook-shaped pole. If closely observed, the initials E.C.C. are visible vertically in the shape of the bell itself.
• The campus was the basis of the remade film The Longest Yard starring Adam Sandler
• The school newspaper "The Union," was renamed from "The Warwhoop" as a result of pressure to be more politically correct and sensitive to Native Americans.

El Camino Real in California is historically the road built in 1769 by Father Junípero Serra to connect the Catholic missions in Alta California between Sonoma in the north, and (what is now Presidio Park in) San Diego in the south, during the Spanish colonial era, and now a... The Longest Yard was a 1974 movie about inmates at a prison who play American football against their guards. ... Jump to: navigation, search Adam Sandler at Cannes 2002 Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is a Jewish-American actor, comedian, producer, and musician who was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. ...

External links

• Official webpage.