Courses
Courses are available to you as:
- Local and regional courses taught by Northwest Campus faculty. NWC offers community interest courses, such as painting, ceramics, and computer applications that are taught face-to-face in a traditional classroom setting. NWC faculty also teach distance delivered courses as part of CRCD's schedule, which includes the Bering Strait region. These are listed in the College of Rural and Community Development's Fall and Spring Schedule, but they can also be viewed through UAOnline at the Class Schedule link on the front page. As additional courses become available, NWC will advertise through local media, its NWC News Group, and this website.
- Semester-based distance delivered courses offered by other UA campuses. These can also be most easily found at the University of Alaska Distance Education Gateway or UAF eCampus. This is an online schedule that is searchable by course, meeting time, delivery type, and semester.
- UAF eCampus offers online courses and fully online degrees. You can find these courses and degrees, and register online through UAF eCampus website
These various schedules of courses offer instruction through audioconferences, paper-based correspondence, web-based correspondence, and Internet-based class meetings.
Please contact Northwest Campus by phone 800-478-2202 or 907-443-2201, fax 907-443-5602,
or email nwc.info@alaska.edu for current course offerings.
Upcoming Courses
with Marilyn Koezuna-Irelan
Saturdays / 1:00pm-4:00pm / Sep 16 - Dec 2 / REGISTER BY: Sep 9
Twelve 3-hour sessions / 2 credit / APAR F150P / CRN: 76239
Cost: $340—or $290 if you pay in advance!*
*NSEDC/NWC Fall 2023 price rollback! Regular price $540
CLASSROOM COURSE (NOME): Learn to make a King Island-style atigi, or parka! Adapt and cut a pattern to size, cut out pieces and sew together a finished product.
By the end of class, you will have made a custom-sized atigi. Sew a parka for yourself or as a gift for someone special! Please bring your own sewing machine
to class.
Marilyn Koezuna-Irelan has sewn many King Island-style kuspuks and parkas, and has taught these skills to Northwest Campus students since 2008.
with Megan Gannon
Tues / 6:00pm-8:00pm / Oct 24 - Dec 5 / REGISTER BY: Oct 17
Lab time available 12-2pm Saturdays for duration of class
Seven 2-hour sessions / 1 credit / APAR F150P / CRN: 76240
Cost: $170—or $120 if you pay in advance!* (plus $35 supply fee)
*NSEDC/NWC Fall 2023 price rollback! Regular price $270
CLASSROOM COURSE (NOME): Learn and practice the basics of ceramics in this course
that is open to beginners and those with ceramics experience. Explore techniques of
hand-building (slab, coil, pinch) and wheel-throwing, glazing, and firing.
Megan Gannon first took ceramics in college and co-founded Ceramic Kingdom, a pottery
collective in Berlin where she taught classes from 2017-2019.
Dual credit courses:
The dual credit process allows secondary school students to register for UAF classes and concurrently earn high school and college credit, if approved. Any high school student meeting course prerequisites may enroll in university classes. Students must consult their appropriate school district officials and school counselors for approval prior to registration if they wish to use university courses to meet high school graduation requirements. Northwest Campus has direct partnership with the Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical Center (NACTEC), the Bering Strait School District (BSSD), and Nome Public Schools (NPS).