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2020-2021 Catalog & Student Handbook 
    
2020-2021 Catalog & Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Psychology

  
  • PSY 200 - Principles of Psychology


    - credits 3

    Surveys the basic concepts of psychology. Covers the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, research methods and measurement, theoretical perspectives, and application. Includes biological bases of behavior, learning, social interactions, memory, and personality; and other topics such as sensation, perception, consciousness, thinking, intelligence, language, motivation, emotion, health, development, psychological disorders, and therapy.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111  

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
    Total Hours Per Week: 3

  
  • PSY 201 - Introduction to Psychology I


    - credits 3

    Examines human and animal behavior, relating experimental studies to practical problems. Includes topics such as sensation/perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, stress, development, intelligence, personality, psychopathology, therapy, and social psychology. Part I of II.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111  

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
    Total Hours Per Week: 3

  
  • PSY 202 - Introduction to Psychology II


    - credits 3

    Examines human and animal behavior, relating experimental studies to practical problems. Includes topics such as sensation/perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, stress, development, intelligence, personality, psychopathology, therapy, and social psychology. Part II of II.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111  

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
    Total Hours Per Week: 3

  
  • PSY 230 - Developmental Psychology


    - credits 3

    Studies the development of the individual from conception to death. Follows a life-span perspective on the development of the person’s physical, cognitive, and psychosocial growth.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111  

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
    Total Hours Per Week: 3

  
  • PSY 235 - Child Psychology


    - credits 3

    Studies development of the child from conception to adolescence. Investigates physical, intellectual, social and emotional factors involved in the child’s growth.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111  

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
    Total Hours Per Week: 3


Religion

  
  • REL 230 - Religions of the World


    - credits 3

    Introduces the religions of the world with attention to origin, history, and doctrine.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111 

    Lecture Hour(s): 3

Safety

  
  • SAF 130 - Industrial Safety OSHA 10


    - credits 1

    Presents an introduction to occupational health and safety and its application in the workplace. Emphasizes safety standards and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), its rules and regulations (OSHA 10).

    Lecture Hour(s): 1
    Total Hours Per Week: 1


Student Development

  
  • SDV 100 - College Success Skills


    - credits 1

    Assists students in transition to colleges. Provides overviews of college policies, procedures, curricular offerings. Encourages contacts with other students and staff. Assists students toward college success through information regarding effective study habits, career and academic planning, and other college resources available to students. May include English and Math placement testing. Strongly recommended for beginning students.

    Lecture Hour(s): 1
    Note(s): Required for graduation.
  
  • SDV 101 - Orientation to (Specify the Discipline)


    - credits 1

    Introduces students to the skills which are necessary to achieve their academic goals, to services offered at the college and to the discipline in which they are enrolled. Covers topics such as services at the college including the learning resources center; counseling, and advising; listening, test taking, and study skills; and topical areas which are applicable to their particular discipline.

    Lecture Hour(s): 1
    Total Hours Per Week: 1


Sociology

  
  • SOC 200 - Principles of Sociology


    - credits 3

    Introduces fundamentals of social life. Presents significant research and theory in areas such as culture, social structure, socialization, deviance, social stratification, and social institutions.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111 

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
  
  • SOC 268 - Social Problems


    - credits 3

    Applies sociological concepts and methods to analysis of current social problems. Includes delinquency and crime, mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual behavior, population crisis, race relations, family and community disorganization, poverty, automation, wars, and disarmament.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENG 111 

    Lecture Hour(s): 3

Spanish

  
  • SPA 101 - Beginning Spanish I


    - credits 4

    Introduces understanding, speaking, reading and writing skills, and emphasizes basic Spanish sentence structure. Will include at least four additional hours of online oral drill and practice per week. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hour(s): 4
    Total Hours Per Week: 4

  
  • SPA 102 - Beginning Spanish II


    - credits 4

    Reinforces understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes Spanish sentence structure and the past tenses. Will include at least four additional hours of oral drill and practice per week. Part II or II.

    Lecture Hour(s): 4
    Total Hours Per Week: 4

  
  • SPA 201 - Intermediate Spanish


    - credits 4

    Continues to develop understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills. May include oral drill and practice. Part I of II. Lecture

    Prerequisite: SPA 102  or equivalent.
    Lecture Hour(s): 4
    Note(s): May include one additional hour of oral practice per week.
  
  • SPA 202 - Intermediate Spanish


    - credits 4

    Continues to develop understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills. May include oral drill and practice. Part II of II.

    Prerequisite: SPA 102  or equivalent.
    Lecture Hour(s): 4
  
  • SPA 203 - Intermediate Spanish I


    - credits 4

    Continues to develop understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Classes conducted in Spanish. Part I of II. May include oral drill and practice.

    Prerequisite: SPA 102  or equivalent.
    Lecture Hour(s): 4
  
  • SPA 204 - Intermediate Spanish II


    - credits 4

    Continues to develop understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Classes conducted in Spanish. May include oral drill and practice. Part II of II.

    Prerequisite: SPA 102  or equivalent.
    Lecture Hour(s): 4

Welding

  
  • WEL 110 - Welding Processes


    - credits 3

    Introduces types of welding, their advantages and disadvantages. Points out effects of welds on metals to be machined. Provides practice and demonstration in welding.

    Lecture Hour(s): 2
    Laboratory Hour(s): 3
    Total Hours Per Week: 5

  
  • WEL 123 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Basic)


    - credits 4

    Teaches operation of AC and DC power sources, welding polarities, heats and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process. Deals with running beads, butt, and fillet welds in all positions. Emphasizes safety procedures.

    Lecture Hour(s): 2
    Laboratory Hour(s): 6
    Total Hours Per Week: 8

  
  • WEL 124 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Advanced)


    - credits 4

    Continues instruction on operation of AC and DC power sources, welding polarities, heats and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process. Deals with running beads, butt, and fillet welds in all positions. Emphasizes safety procedures.

    Lecture Hour(s): 2
    Laboratory Hour(s): 6
    Total Hours Per Week: 8

  
  • WEL 130 - Inert Gas Welding


    - credits 4

    Introduces practical operations in the uses of inert-gas-shield arc welding. Discusses equipment, safety operations, welding practice in the various positions, process applications, and manual and semi-automatic welding.

    Lecture Hour(s): 2
    Laboratory Hour(s): 6
    Total Hours Per Week: 8

  
  • WEL 141 - Welder Qualification Tests I


    - credits 4

    Studies techniques and practices of testing welded joints through destructive and non-destructive testing. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hour(s): 2
    Laboratory Hour(s): 6
    Total Hours Per Week: 8

  
  • WEL 150 - Welding Drawing and Interpretation


    - credits 3

    Teaches fundamentals required for successful drafting as applied to the welding industry. Includes blueprint reading, geometric principles of drafting and freehand sketching, basic principles of orthographic projection, preparation of drawings and interpretation of symbols.

    Lecture Hour(s): 3
  
  • WEL 160 - Gas Metal Arc Welding


    - credits 4

    Introduces semi-automatic welding processes with emphasis on practical application. Includes the study of filler wires, fluxes, and gases.

    Lecture Hour(s): 2
    Laboratory Hour(s): 6
    Total Hours Per Week: 8

 

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