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Course Numbering Information:
Courses at SLCC are identified by an alphabetic prefix (two to four letters) followed by a four-digit number. Numbers beginning with a “1” generally indicate a course designed primarily for freshmen (such as ENGL 1010); numbers beginning with a “2” generally indicate courses designed primarily for sophomores (such as MATH 2010); numbers beginning with a “0” generally indicate preparatory courses that are non-transferable (such as WRTG 0990).
Certified Nursing Assistant (SAT)
KCNA 0010 - CPR Health Care Professionals
Contact Hours: 4 Prepares and certifies students in CPR for Health Care Professionals.
Contact Hours: 90 Students learn the skills required to meet the needs of acute, chronic, long-term, and chronically ill patients in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and in the home, while preparing for the state Certified Nurse Assistant exam.
Contact Hours: 78 The primary objective of this program is to provide the clinical knowledge and basic skills necessary for entry level employment as a Nursing Assistant. Students learn the theory and skills required to meet the needs of acute, long-term, and chronically ill patients in hospitals and long-term care facilities while preparing for the state Certified Nurse Assistant exam.
Contact Hours: 12 This lab must be taken concurrently with the Patient Care Theory course. Students will practice and demonstrate patient care skills that align with the theory portion of the program.
Contact Hours: 36 Students learn the skills required to work as a member of the health care team providing non-clinical support for patient care: maintain patient charts, transcribe doctors’ orders, order diagnostic tests/procedures, etc.
Contact Hours: 6 In a hospital setting, students will practice the skills required to work as a member of the health care team providing non-clinical support for patient care: maintain patient charts, transcribe doctors’ orders, order diagnostic tests/procedures, etc.
Contact Hours: 60 Students acquire the skills needed to meet the needs of residents in long-term care facilities to promote their ability to adapt and adjust to living as independently as possible.
Prerequisite: CNA, can be taken concurrently while enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant program
CHE 2000 - Cooperative Education In Chemical Engineering
Credits: 1-2 This is a supervised work experience in a business, industrial, or government environment related to the program major. Credit is award for successful completion of specified learning objectives.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, minimum 2.0 GPA, and instructor approval Semester: All
Credits: 2 First and second law of thermodynamics, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy and open and closed systems are covered. Engineering cycles including Carnot, Otto, Diesel, Brayton and Refrigeration are introduced.
Credits: 3 Numerical techniques used in engineering computing, including: convergence, error accumulation, roots, solution of linear and nonlinear equations, numerical integration and differentiation, and solutions to differential equations.
Credits: 3 Material and energy balances, fundamentals of multicomponent phase properties and phase equilibria, numerical and graphing calculations, degrees of freedom, and applications to process engineering calculations are covered.
Credits: 3 Survey of general chemistry: structure, composition, properties and chemical transformations. Course may be taught with a Service Learning component.
Credits: 3 Introduction to basic concepts in chemistry. Emphasizes application of math principles, use of computers and other problem-solving methods. Preparation for CHEM 1210 series.
Credits: 4 Introductory course in general inorganic and organic chemistry of hydrocarbons of functional groups. For health science students and other non-chemistry majors.
Prerequisite:MATH 1010 w/C grade or better or appropriate placement score for placement into MATH 1010. Recommended Corequisite:CHEM 1115 Semester: All
Credits: 4 Introductory organic chemistry of heteroatom functional groups and introductory biochemistry. Primarily for health science students and other non-chemistry majors.
Credits: 4 Fundamentals of inorganic chemistry. Atomic structure chemical bonding, chemical reactions, solution chemistry, stoichiometry, periodic table, thermochemistry, kinetics, gases, and kinetic molecular theory will be covered.
Prerequisite:MATH 1050 w/C grade or higher, or appropriate placement score Recommended Corequisite:CHEM 1215
Credits: 4 Chemical kinetics, equilibria, acids and bases, entropy and free energy, precipitation reactions, electrochemistry, main group chemistry, nuclear chemistry, metallic bonding theories, hybridization, intro to organic chemistry
Credits: 2-4 Cooperative education represents flexibility and alternative opportunities for students to complete portions of their educational goals through new learning associated with study-related internships or employment.
Credits: 4 Introduction to concepts of organic chemistry. Structure, bonding, reaction mechanisms. Detailed study of alkanes, alkyl halides, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds, alcohols. Intro to spectroscopy and stereochemistry
Prerequisite:CHEM 1220 w/C grade or better Recommended Corequisite:CHEM 2315
Credits: 5 First in a series of four courses which focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Major objective of the first year is to develop functional language ability in Chinese, and cultural competence. Lab attendance is required.
Prerequisite: None for students with no previous experience in the language. Placement testing required for all others. Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 5 Second in a series of four courses which focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Major objective of the first year is to develop functional language ability in Chinese and cultural competence. Lab attendance is required.
Prerequisite:CHI 1010 w/C grade or better; or placement by test into CHI 1020 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1 Course practices currently held conversation skills to increase speaking ability and vocabulary. Includes role-plays, small group work and presentations. Lab attendance may be required. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite:CHI 1010 or instructor approval Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1-2 In the course in language and culture, students plan areas of study, Service Learning or travel and work with an instructor on an individual basis. Some work may be done in groups. Lab may be required. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 4 Third in a series of four courses which focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Major objective of the second year is to increase functional language ability in Chinese, and cultural competence. Lab attendance is required.
Prerequisite:CHI 1020 w/C grade or better; or placement by test into CHI 2010 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 4 Fourth in a series of four courses which focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Major objective of the second year is to increase functional language ability in Chinese, and cultural competence. Lab attendance is required.
Prerequisite:CHI 2010 w/C grade or better; or placement by test into CHI 2020 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1 Course practices currently held conversation skills to increase speaking ability and vocabulary. Includes role-plays, small group activities and presentations. Lab attendance required. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite:CHI 1020 or instructor approval Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Second year courses focus on improvement of listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture skills. Major objective is to increase functional language ability through holistic approach to literature. Lab attendance required.
Prerequisite:CHI 1020 or instructor approval Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Course will aid students in their study of language and culture. Films will be viewed with subtitles and written work and discussions will be in Chinese. Lab attendance required.
Prerequisite:CHI 1020 or instructor approval Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1-3 This is a course designed by faculty which allows students to explore specific interests in Chinese language and culture. Lab attendance required. May be repeated for credit.
CEEN 1100 - Introduction To Civil And Environmental Engineering Design
Credits: 3 The progression of civil and environmental engr. including the major elements of the profession. An understanding of the core disciplines and design in engr. is reviewed. It includes speakers, design project, and lectures.
Prerequisite:MATH 1010 or appropriate placement score Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1-2 A supervised work experience in a business, industrial or government related to the program major. Credit is awarded for successful completion of specific learning objectives that provide new learning related to the major.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, minimum 2.0 GPA, and instructor approval Semester: All
Credits: 3 Principles of forces, moments and couples; resultant and static equilibrium of general force systems; statically equivalent systems, center of gravity and pressure; friction; free body method of analysis. Principles applied to engineering problems.
Credits: 2 Position, velocity and acceleration, vector calculus, particle kinematics, kinetics of particles, including Newton’s Laws, conservation of momentum and energy, and impact vibratory motion of particles are covered.
Prerequisite:CEEN 2010 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
CEEN 2130 - Engineering Economics With Statistics And Probability
Credits: 4 Lectures and discussion on Engineering economic decisions, equivalence and interest formulas, rate of return, project evaluation and cash flow, depreciation, taxes, and an intro. to Eng. Probability and Statistics.
Credits: 2 Internal forces in members, concept of stress and strain, axial loading, Hooke’s Law, torsion, pure bending, traverse loading, transformations of stress and strain, plane stress and strain, pressure vessels, Mohr’s circle, strain energy, beam deflection and column bending are discussed.
Prerequisite:CEEN 2010 and MATH 2250 (either can be taken concurrently) Corequisite:CEEN 2145 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1 This is an introductory laboratory in mechanical behavior of materials using basic testing methods and instrumentation, column bending, tension and compression of metals, concrete failure, Charpy’s Impact, and creep tests.
Recommended Corequisite:CEEN 2140 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Surveying procedures and their application to design and construction are taught. Students receive hands-on experience using total stations, GPS, and other surveying equipment. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite:MATH 1060 or MATH 1080, or appropriate placement score Semester: Spring & Summer
Credits: 2 First and second law of thermodynamics, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy and open and closed systems are covered. Engineering cycles including Carnot, Otto, Diesel, Brayton and Refrigeration are introduced.
Credits: 3 Numerical techniques used in engineering computing, including: convergence, error accumulation, roots, solution of linear and nonlinear equations, numerical integration and differentiation, and solutions to differential equations.
CEEN 2900 - Special Topics In Civil/Environmental Engineering
Credits: 1-3 Special Topics reflecting items of current interest in Civil/Environmental Engineering in addition to some of the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) issues and engineering marvels.
Contact Hours: 50 An overview of the medical assistant profession and its role in the healthcare environment, introduction to the legal and ethical issues within the healthcare setting, basic principles of psychology and the impact of ethnic cultures in healthcare.
Contact Hours: 45 Provides training in proficient medical office communication and administrative skills, the fundamentals of beginning and tracking a patient record using both paper and electronic medical record (EMR) software.
Contact Hours: 50 Provides guidelines to learn and apply standards of CDC and OSHA in regard to personal safety, asepsis, standard precautions and handling of biohazard wastes. Provides fundamental understanding and obtainment of vital signs, basic first aid and healthcare provider level CPR.
Contact Hours: 105 Provides phlebotomy theory and skill performance, understanding of basic concepts, safety and procedures of clinical lab. Learn proper handling and performance of CLIA waived hematology/serology labs and proper specimen handling and performance of microbiology and urinalysis testing.
Contact Hours: 64 This stand alone course is not a required part of the Clinical Lab Assistant program but can provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate and practice their laboratory skills learned in the classroom in a clinical setting with the oversight of the clinical supervisor. This allows the student to obtain real-world laboratory experience that will enhance their knowledge and skills, and allow them to obtain the required laboratory hours needed for a national certification exam for this vocation.
KCMA 0065 - Medical Office Communications and Records
Provides training in proficient medical office communication and administrative skills, the fundamentals of beginning and tracking a patient record using both paper and electronic medical record (EMR) software. Introduction to medical terminology suffixes and prefixes.
Contact Hours: 70 An overview of the medical assistant profession and its role in the health care environment, introduction to the legal and ethical issues that impact the healthcare setting, basic principles of psychology in a health care environment and the impact of ethnic cultures in healthcare as well as introduction to medical terminology in these areas.
Contact Hours: 95 Provides the guidelines for personal safety and well-being of staff and patients learning and practicing the CDC guidelines for hand hygiene and government regulations for standard and biohazard wastes. Provides a fundamental understanding of vital signs, basic first aid and healthcare provider level CPR. Provides a fundamental understanding and skill in phlebotomy.
Contact Hours: 60 Provides understanding of basic concepts, safety and procedures of clinical lab. Learn proper handling and performance of CLIA waived hematology/serology labs and proper specimen handling and performance of microbiology and urinalysis testing.
Contact Hours: 110 Provides understanding of the basic skills and procedures for assisting with patient exams. Learn to prepare patients for diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitation, and radiology procedures. Provides understanding of heart anatomy and electrical physiology as students properly perform ECGs. Learn to calculate medication dosages and administer nonparenteral and parenteral medications.
KCMA 0165 - Introduction To Medical Insurance & Billing Procedures
Contact Hours: 40 Provides an introduction to medical insurance procedures. Exposes the clinical medical assistant to medical office financial procedures.
Credits: 3 Communication principles and practice applied in dyadic, group, written, electronic, and oral presentation assignments. Listening, perception, verbal clarity, nonverbal, diversity, conflict management and interviewing in workplace and interpersonal settings.
COMM 1011 - Effective Workplace Communication for Career and Technical Education
Credits: 1 Communication theory and skills practice with emphasis on effective interpersonal relationships in workplace settings. Addresses listening, perception, verbal clarity, nonverbal communication, organizational culture, diversity, communication ethics, and interviewing.
COMM 1012 - Effective Teamwork for Career and Technical Education
Credits: 1 Communication theory and skills practice with emphasis on effective teamwork in workplace settings. Addresses team relationships, productivity, decision-making, problem-solving, conflict management, leadership, and facilitating & planning meetings.
COMM 1013 - Effective Oral Presentations for Career and Technical Education
Credits: 1 Communication theory and skills practice with emphasis on preparing, delivering, and evaluating oral presentations in workplace settings. Addresses anxiety management, audience assessment, organizing ideas, use of sufficient evidence, ethical persuasion, delivery, visual aids, and cultural variations.
Credits: 3 Preparing and delivering speeches for civic and professional occasions. Basic theory and skills practice, including audience analysis, anxiety mgt, critical listening, supporting claims with evidence, persuasion, motivation, delivery.
Credits: 3 Analyzes conflict communication from the perspectives of marginalized and empowered populations. Explores ethnocentrism, power, anger, inequality, disrespect. Students learn conflict management skills for workplace, community and personal life.
Credits: 3 This is a beginning course in journalism and media writing with a focus on the organization and written presentation of facts to a mass audience. The class emphasizes interviewing, fact finding and news writing, including investigative, specific beats, online reporting and media package production (for example hyperlinking, permalinking, photo galleries, and video clips). Members of the class contribute to the media outlets of the Student Media Center (SMC).
Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 (may be taken concurrently) Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1 Basic financial information for creative professionals or students interested in freelance work or setting up a studio. This course is useful for artists working in the areas of fine art, the many forms of design, photography, film/video, music, advertising, the performing arts and creative or technical writing.
Credits: 3 Introductory survey of field of mass communication. Preview of function, performance, and structure of individual mass media and the relationships between media audiences and media and government.
Credits: 3 A broad overview of sound, sound systems, recording, and live sound reinforcement providing basic training in the physics of sound and the hardware and systems used to control and record it. No prerequisites.
Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Become a better communicator by having your own radio show on the student radio station, RadioSLCC.com. Learn about the radio industry, on-air performance techniques, and commercial writing and production. Use industry practices and concepts along with theories and models from the disciplines of communication, and business to become a better communicator on and off the air.
Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 In-depth study of reporting and news delivery, to include news writing, editing, design and delivery across multiple mass mediums. Members of the class contribute to the Mass Communication Center.
Prerequisite:COMM 1130 or COMM 1610 Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 4 An introduction to digital media fundamentals and the evolving industry. Students obtain a hands-on, in-depth experience with digital media tools, content and production techniques. Industry standard hardware and software tools are used to create and edit images, audio, video, layout, and web media to create powerful media. Copyright and professional responsibility issues and trends are covered.
Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1-6 Supervised work experience in a business, industrial, or government environment related to the student’s COMM program sequence. Credit awarded for successful completion of specified learning objectives that provide new learning.
Credits: 3 Survey of the basic issues, theories, and perspectives in the study of human communication, through critical analysis of oral, written and audio-visual texts. Effective Summer 2016, COMM 2050 will replace and is equivalent to COMM 1050.
Credits: 3 Development of listening skills, situational analysis and participation in various interpersonal contexts through focus on the elements and processes which contribute formation, maintenance and termination of relationships.
Credits: 3 Introduces elements of the small group process, focusing on problem-solving, decision-making, leadership and conflict management in teams. Development of student analytical skills as observers and participant observers of groups.
Credits: 3 Examination of how cultural similarities and differences impede or enhance communication across cultures. Issues of diversity, values, norms among different cultures, as well as issues of cultural diversity, values and norms.
Credits: 3 Overview of historical and contemporary perspectives of organizational communication; analysis of current issues and practices of organizational communication; development of communication competence in organizational settings. Internet only.
Credits: 3 Through a combination of lectures, lab exercises, video production assignments, and post-production editing assignments, students will learn to effectively use aesthetic theories of visual imaging and sound design throughout the production process. Students will learn that most of what we see and hear on television and in movies is not by chance, but rather a carefully thought out form of mass communication. Students will also learn to become active viewers of visual media rather than mere passive receivers of information.
Prerequisite:COMM 1800 (may be taken concurrently) Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 2 In this course students will learn the technical terms, positions, and work flows of multi-camera TV studio production through lecture, hands-on production and competency exercises.
Credits: 2 Development of basic television feild production skills. Students work with the Mass Communication Center programs to support production of division and external client multi-camera TV productions. Students also learn TV equipment maintenance, and signal path, and TV engineering basics.environments.
Credits: 3 Survey of tools, principles, practices and publics of public relations profession. Includes lab component where students are expected to produce public relations documents under a time deadline.
Credits: 3 An introduction to social networking components such as social media platforms, blogs, RSS feeds, podcasting, wikis, collaboration and virtual teams, and forums. Further study will be devoted to how organizations successfully use these tools for communication through content creation and distribution.
Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Students learn the knowledge and skills needed to build and manage professional web sites using Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Students create interactive web sites, graphics, animation, and advanced styling using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Prerequisite: COMM 1800/ENGL 1800/FLM 1800 or ART 1800 Semester: All Additional Course Fee Required