Course & Student Stories

OLS Bellevue College Students Create Social Issues Comic Strips

Occupational & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) Critical Thinking through Writing students spent winter quarter learning about many types of writing and how pieces they create can be used to express their voices. Social issues affect everyone, and there are many social issues that were discussed in class during a class brainstorm. Students then had ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Create Social Issues Comic Strips


OLS Bellevue College Students Participate in Mock Interviews

The Occuaptional & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) Communication in the Workplace class had their Mock Interviews on March 8th. Preparing for the mock interview This is a quarter long preparation for the students in getting ready for these interviews. We start with communication skills with customers and coworkers as well as conflict resolution. We ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Participate in Mock Interviews


OLS Bellevue College Students Visit Seattle’s Bullitt Center

In February, Environment and Our Community students got a close-up look at how those two things – environment and community – will work together in the future. The class had a private tour of Seattle’s Bullitt Center, billed as “The Greenest Commercial Building in the World.”   The most visible “green” feature is the overhanging roof, ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Visit Seattle’s Bullitt Center


OLS Bellevue College Disability Awareness Research Project

Second-year students in the Occupational & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) program were tasked with a research project in their Disability Awareness course. Famous Person Research Project Students researched a famous person with a disability similar to their own disability. Classroom presentations included students talking about their disability and comparing the experiences of the famous ...more about OLS Bellevue College Disability Awareness Research Project


OLS Bellevue College Students Visit Microsoft Inclusive Tech Lab

The Occupational & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) Disability Awareness course is designed to increase students' understanding of disabilities and self-determine disability-related needs through research and reflection. In addition, this course helps students to be better prepared for self-advocating in the community and at the workplace. Second-year students enrolled in the course had the opportunity ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Visit Microsoft Inclusive Tech Lab


Social Change and the $8.50 Soda

A student came into the Social Change classroom one recent morning expressing outrage at something she had seen in the Pizza Café, near the dorms on Main Campus. Social Change in America teaches students ways they can take action to solve problems in their local communities. They learn six different methods such as elevating awareness ...more about Social Change and the $8.50 Soda



Mindful Eating

In the OLS Mindfulness course, students study how Mindfulness can be applied to various aspects of their daily lives. Using Mindfulness techniques can improve well-being and health in many ways, such as calming down before a stressing event, scanning the body for tension to help us fall asleep, controlling emotions by labeling them and using ...more about Mindful Eating


Learning About Internet Safety

The OLS Intro to Computers class has been busy learning about internet safety. One activity that they recently completed was an Internet Safety Poster. For this fun group activity, students compiled what they learned in class on a poster. Students shared the best reasons to be online, how they use the internet, and advice they ...more about Learning About Internet Safety


Volunteering at KidVantage

OLS Citizenship course students spent time researching and self-reflecting on what being a good citizen means and how to be better citizens to their community. Students broke into small groups to discuss ways to help the community. Some of the ideas they came up with included donating blood, hosting food drives, donating goods and clothing, ...more about Volunteering at KidVantage