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Courses
Computer Applications (3 credits)
Microsoft® Office allows people to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases. This course will teach you how to use three popular tools from the Microsoft® Office Suite — Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®. In this course, you'll learn how to use Word™ to create and edit text documents, insert figures and tables, and format pages for a variety of uses. You'll then learn how to use Excel® to organize and format data, including charts, formulas, and more complex tables. Next, you'll learn how to use PowerPoint® to create and deliver slide shows. Finally, you'll complete a graded project, which will test the skills acquired in Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
Objectives:
- Create various Microsoft® Word™ documents.
- Produce a thorough Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet.
- Identify the basic skills needed to use Microsoft® PowerPoint®.
- Synthesize what you’ve learned by integrating Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
Science Elective (3 credits)
(Choose one)
SCI110-Earth Science
This course will allow you to learn about planet Earth and the various aspects of the environment.
Objectives:
- Describe specific characteristics of Earth.
- Describe different types of rocks and minerals.
- Discuss the various components of our solar system.
- Explain the components of weather and climates.
Textbook: Earth Science
SCI120-Introduction to Biology
An introductory course that explains the origin of life and the relationships between all living things. It describes how a significant number of organisms are structured and how they work, in order to enable students to discuss intelligently the various forms of life and their processes.
Objectives:
- Analyze cells and their processes for obtaining energy and reproducing.
- Explain how traits are passed on from one generation to the next.
- Explain how different species of living things have evolved and are classified.
- Write responses to fundamental biology essay prompts.
- Identify the characteristics and behavior of plants and animals.
- Diagram the anatomy and physiology of the human body.
- Describe the ecology of living things.
Textbook: Essentials of Biology
SCI140-Nutrition
This course will allow you to develop a healthier lifestyle by making smarter nutritional decisions.
Objectives:
- Explain the various components of nutrition as a science.
- Describe nutrition from a global viewpoint.
- Understand the importance of water and exercise.
- Identify the basics of human growth and aging.
- Discuss food safety procedures.
Textbook: Personal Nutrition
Social Science Elective (3 credits)
(Choose one)
SSC105-World Civilizations
This course serves as an introduction to many of the major events of the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. It also examines the causal relationships between events and trends all across the globe.
Objectives:
- Identify the causes and consequences of global trade and its conflicting worldwide impact
- Describe the impact of social and industrial revolutions, fifteenth century onward, on various nations
- Recognize the conditions that led to the World Wars, decolonization, and the Cold War
- Summarize post–World War II effects on the economic and political structures around the world
- Discuss an event that occurred after the fifteenth century and had an impact on a world civilization
- Explain the effects of World War II on the world population
Textbook: A History of World Societies, Volume 2
SSC125-Introduction to Sociology
This course is designed to introduce you to social structure and social interaction through groups, networks, and organizations. Study politics, the economy, population, social movements, technology, and social change.
Objectives:
- Describe deviance, crime, and social control.
- Discuss the effects of stratification, racial and ethnic inequality, sex, gender, and sexuality.
- Examine the role of health, family, education, and religion in human behavior.
SSC130-Essentials of Psychology
This course will introduce you to the relationship between biology and behavior. You will learn about human development throughout the life span.
Objectives:
- Identify major psychological theories.
- Discuss consciousness, memory, thought, and language.
- Define intelligence, personality, and stress.
- Analyze the role of gender in psychology.
- Explain how community influences behavior.
Textbook: Psychology and Your Life
Arts and Humanities Elective (3 credits)
(Choose one)
HUM102 - Art Appreciation
In this course, you will gain an understanding of artistic media, historical periods and artistic movements, the roles of the artist and the viewer, and the principles of art criticism.
Objectives:
- Define the language, visual elements, and principles of design of art
- Identify two-dimensional media
- Identify three-dimensional media
- Explain the evolution of art from ancient Mediterranean cultures through eighteenth century Europe
- Identify features and popular examples of art throughout the history of African, Asian, Pacific, and American cultures
- Compare the genres of the Modern and Postmodern eras of art from around the world
Textbook: Living with Art, 11th Edition
HUM104 - Music Appreciation
In this course, you'll practice the skill of active listening. Learning to listen differently will allow you to experience all kinds of music in a new way. Most listeners are familiar with how music makes them feel, and we often say we like a particular piece of music because it has a "good beat" or a beautiful melody. This course will allow you to go deeper. You'll identify what the composer might have been trying to convey and listen for the way elements of musical composition and performance make each piece unique.
Objectives:
- Identify the building blocks of music a composer can use to create a piece, such as rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, form, and timbre
- Differentiate between the music of the baroque era and the musical styles of previous time periods
- List the major characteristics of classical music, including form, melody, and instrumentation
- Describe the musical trends and innovations that occurred during the romantic era
- Relate musical styles of the early twentieth century to comparable movements in art and literature
- Explain the evolution of American popular music in the twentieth century
- Describe the influence of world music on modern western composition
- Synthesize research comparing composers' influence in their respective genres
Textbook: Experience Music
ENG115 - Introduction to Literature
This course will allow you to develop your critical thinking skills and broaden your knowledge of the main genres of literature — fiction, poetry, and drama.
Objectives:
- Explain how to effectively read fiction for both knowledge and enjoyment
- Identify different styles and forms of poetry
- Use what you've learned in this course to discuss, write about, and understand literature
- Prepare a critical interpretation of fiction or poetry based on what you've learned in this course
- Discuss how literary dramas differ from fiction and poetry
- Identify different strategies of critical literary analysis
English Composition (3 credits)
This course teaches the skills and techniques of effectively developing, drafting, and revising college-level essays toward a specific purpose and audience: active reading, prewriting strategies, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis statements, varied patterns of development (such as illustration, comparison and contrast, and classification), critical reading toward revision of structure and organization, editing for standard written conventions, and use and documentation of outside sources. Students submit two prewriting assignments and three essays (process analysis, comparison and contrast, and argumentation).
Objectives:
- Use writing skills to construct well-written sentences and active reading skills to understand and analyze text
- Develop paragraphs using topic sentences, adequate detail, supporting evidence, and transitions
- Contrast the revising and editing steps of the writing process
- Distinguish between different patterns of development
- Write a process analysis essay using prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing skills
- Recognize how to determine the reliability of secondary sources and to give proper credit to sources referenced in an essay
- Write a comparison and contrast essay by using persuasive writing techniques to defend a claim
- Create a sound written argument using techniques of drafting and evaluating sources
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