Catalog 2011-2012

St. Lucie West Campus

Located in rapidly growing south St. Lucie County, the IRSC St. Lucie West Campus, a joint-use campus with Florida Atlantic University, offers an innovative daytime, evening, and Friday-only schedule of college credit classes for the A.A. Degree. Two-year Associate in Science (A.S.), Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.), and one-year professional certifications are also available. Golf Course Operations, Landscape & Horticulture Technology and Agricultural Production Technology programs are augmented with a six-hole golf course and horticulture lab. English as a Second Language (ESL) and the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) are offered through the Adult Education Department.

A state-of-the-art academic and public library, free individualized tutoring at the Academic Support Center (ASC), assessment center and tutorial lab help to ensure student success. Additional student services include advisement on career, transfer credits, and programs of study.

The Schreiber Conference Center offers customized business training through IRSC’s Corporate & Community Training Institute as well as providing a professional venue for local business, government, and community conferences, seminars, and meetings.

Opening in 2012 at the St. Lucie West Campus will be the new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Center, a multi-use facility which will position the College with an exemplary teaching facility to support the life science firms locating in the Research Coast corridor. The three-story 56,000 square-foot building will house seven unique science laboratories in genetics, ecology, chemistry, molecular science, botany and microbiology.