Semester 2
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®.
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
Intermediate Algebra (3 credits)
Algebra is the mathematical language used to interpret and represent patterns in numbers by using variables, expressions, and equations. Algebra is an essential tool used in business, science, and computer technology. Throughout this course, you’ll be introduced to algebraic concepts, along with real-world application problems from a variety of fields. In addition to providing a springboard to the discovery of underlying mathematical properties, these applications illustrate the importance of mathematics in your world.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate effective quantitative skills
- Solve algebraic equations, linear equations, inequalities, and absolute value equations
- Solve and graph linear equations and inequalities
- Solve polynomials
- Apply algebraic operations to rational expressions and rational equations
- Solve problems involving radicals and complex numbers
- Solve quadratic equations, rational inequalities, nonlinear equations, and nonlinear inequalities
- Calculate exponential and logarithmic functions
- Solve binomial expansions, sequences, and arithmetic and geometric series
- Prepare for the final exam
Textbook: Intermediate Algebra
Financial Accounting (3 credits)
This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the principles of financial accounting. Topics covered include analyzing transactions; completing the accounting cycle; merchandising businesses; inventories, assets, and liabilities; and corporations, stocks, bonds, and cash flow.
Objectives:
- Solve important accounting principles and concepts by creating four common types of financial statements: balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained earnings, and statement of cash flows
- Explain inventory systems, the inventory process, and the role of ethics in accounting
- Explain cash and receivables, assets, current liabilities, and debt
- Analyze stocks and the statement of cash flows and financial statements that are used to assess the value of a business
Nutrition (3 credits)
Nutrition is the science that investigates how the body takes in, breaks down, and uses foods. The course will provide you with basic information on how these processes take place, including information about nutrients and how they contribute to the way the body functions. This will help you to have a better understanding of your decisions about food and diet. You’ll also learn about physical activities that can contribute to a healthier lifestyle. Because a central focus of nutrition studies is on health promotion, suggestions for individual nutrition choice will be discussed, as well as tactics for maintaining a healthy weight and keeping food supplies safe.
Objectives:
- Describe how nutrition supports a body's wellness
- Recognize the body's use of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
- Identify the body's use of water, minerals, and micronutrients
- Discuss what nutritional needs are for a healthy weight and for an athletic lifestyle
- Define food safety and the nutritional needs of humans over a lifetime
- Prepare a research paper on a nutritional topic
Proctored Exam
You will be required to complete a proctored exam on selected courses each semester. These assessments will evaluate the knowledge and skills that you learned during the semester. You choose the time, the location, and the qualified exam supervisor.
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