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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 MATH 0950).
Pharmacy Technician (CE)
PHAR 1015 - Pharmacy Skills Lab
Credits: 2 Course is designed to teach and allow the student to practice critical, entry-level tasks required of pharmacy technicians in hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health, retail, institutional and community settings. This course focuses on hands-on lab work. Topics include information sources, drug knowledge, accurate calculations and measurement, practice of computer skills, customer relations reviewing and processing prescriptions, application of rules and regulations, institutional pharmacy and non-sterile compounding.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 This course teaches basic knowledge of the medications most commonly dispensed in pharmacy practice. Information regarding use, mechanism of action, side effects, contraindications, drug interactions and special cautions are reviewed. Issues related to medication and patient safety are emphasized. Technician professionalism, soft skills, communication and cultural awareness related to disease management are covered. Inpatient, outpatient, prescription, non-prescription and alternative therapies are reviewed. Brand and generic drug names, therapeutic class, common use and dosing are memorized.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 2 Course prepares students for the successful preparation of compounded sterile parenteral and non-sterile pharmaceuticals. Course emphasizes aseptic technique, procedures that ensure patient safety and consistent, pathogen-free products. Instruction teaches background knowledge and practical skills needed to prepare compounded products based on current USP Chapter 795 and 797 requirements. Aseptic garbing, hand washing, hood cleaning, large and small volume parenteral preparation, ampule preparation, as well as nonsterile dose preparation are practiced. Activities place emphasis on patient safety in preparation of doses.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1 Course passes off student’s ability to demonstrate individual skills in sterile and nonsterile compounding tasks learned in PHAR 1030. Course authenticates mastery of aseptic technique and skills needed to prepare sterile and nonsterile compounded products based on current USP Chapter 795 and 797 requirements. Aseptic garbing, hand washing, hood cleaning, large and small volume parenteral preparation, ampule preparation, lip balm, topical creams, ointments and suspensions are demonstrated.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Recommended Corequisite:PHAR 1030 Semester: Fall & Spring
Credits: 2 Course teaches the essential mathematics concepts and skills pharmacy technicians use on the job. Skills required for calculating and preparing drug doses in community and institutional pharmacy settings are mastered. Basic skills on fractions, percents, conversions, measurements, application of equations required for dose and solution preparations are presented. Business terms and math skills essential to determine inventory and purchasing needs, profit margins, and inventory control are covered. State, federal and controlled substance laws governing pharmacy practice are presented.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Spring
PHAR 1045 - Communication Skills for Pharmacy Technicians
Credits: 3 This course teaches pharmacy technician students the principles, skills, and practices that are the foundation for clear communication and the essential development of trust with future patients, healthcare professionals, and co-workers. Students learn theory and basic principles of oral and written communication, develop practical skills using those tools, and practice application of those skills in everyday encounters. Role-play situations allow students to effectively communicate and fine-tune their communication skills in dealing with a variety of sensitive situations that arise in pharmacy practice.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Spring & Summer
Credits: 2 The course will introduce students to prescription processing software resembling that used in retail pharmacy settings. Students will master the principles using any software program to serve patients effectively and accurately. Details concerning actual prescription processing will be covered in class in preparation for the hands-on computer lab following the class. In addition to prescription processing, students will learn a practical, focused overview of medical insurance and billing of prescriptions in the community pharmacy setting. Details to work with prescription charges, billing processes, and claim adjudication will be covered.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1 Student will process prescriptions using the McKesson Enterprise Management Software System in the pharmacy computer lab. Details concerning use of the software will be covered in PHAR 1050 in preparation for the hands-on computer lab. In addition to prescription processing, students will learn a practical, focused overview of medical insurance and billing of prescriptions in the community pharmacy setting. Details to work with prescription charges, billing processes, and claim adjudication will be covered. Management of cash drawer creation, reconciliation, and counting change will be demonstrated.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Recommended Corequisite:PHAR 1050 Semester: Fall & Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 This course is a continuation of Pharmacology I, teaching basic knowledge of the medications most commonly dispensed in pharmacy practice. Information regarding use, mechanism of action, side effects, contraindications, drug interactions and special cautions are reviewed. Issues related to medication and patient safety are emphasized. Professional technician skills continue to be modeled and reviewed. Inpatient, outpatient, prescription, non-prescription and alternative therapies are covered. Additional brand and generic drug names, therapeutic class, common use and dosing are memorized.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Spring
PHAR 1065 - Pharmacology III Over the Counter Medications
Credits: 2 This course discusses various common ailments and explores the non-prescription options available to the public for self-treatment. As pharmacy technicians are allowed to provide counseling to patients about non-prescription alternatives, the course presents the principles of patient communication and key points to be covered when discussing options with the patient. The course introduces a select group of medication options and allows the student to practice communication skills in presenting these drugs to fellow students in the class.
Prerequisite: Admission to Pharmacy Technician cohort Semester: Fall & Summer
Credits: 2 The course allows hands-on experience of prior program curriculum for 200 hours under the supervision and direction of a licensed pharmacist who serves as a preceptor to the student. This is done by assignment to two unique practice sites in various hospital and community settings. Student will perform all tasks required by technicians employed in the setting with direction from pharmacists and technicians. Performance will be evaluated based on pre-established experiential criteria by the designated preceptor.
Prerequisite: Utah Department of Professional Licensing Pharmacy Technician Training License Semester: Fall & Summer Additional Course Fee Required
PHAR 2980 - Comprehensive Examination Review and Special Topics
Credits: 2 The course is a comprehensive review of all community and hospital pharmacy technician curriculum in preparation for the national pharmacy technician certification examination. Pharmacy is a dynamic healthcare field constantly presenting new medication-related topics essential for the practicing technician. Course will allow these topics to be covered as they emerge, drawing on clinical instructors with field expertise in these topics. Guest presenters will discuss work-site opportunities.
Prerequisite: Successful completion or current enrollment in all other program course requirements. Semester: Fall & Summer
Credits: 3 This introductory survey of philosophy examines the historical development of Western philosophy and philosophical problems concerning truth, reality, and values. The course introduces philosophical methods of inquiry and argumentation.
Credits: 3 The philosophical study of moral values, how we understand what is right and wrong, and how we make moral decisions and act in the world. Through classic philosophical texts and contemporary writers, we explore moral philosophies and principles, and we develop skills to analyze and respond to moral dilemmas surrounding death, punishment, war; love and hate; animals and the environment, and more.
PHIL 1250 - Reasoning and Rational Decision-Making (CM)
Credits: 3 This course strengthens reasoning, communication and argumentation skills in a variety of contexts—professional, academic and public—through analyzing and evaluating argument-structure, fallacies, causal, statistical, probability, analogical and other inductive and deductive reasoning methodologies that ground knowledge claims in our disciplines, and in political, moral and legal spheres.
Credits: 3 Philosophical analyses of our ethical relationships to the environment, such as moral extensionism, deep ecology, ecofeminism, and environmental justice. Application to classic and contemporary environmental issues.
Credits: 3 This course will explicate and evaluate some of the truth-claims made by the major world religions concerning the nature of reality and humanity’s relationship to it. It will address such classic topics in Philosophy of Religion as conceived of by the major Western monotheistic traditions (i. e. , Judaism, Christianity, Islam).
Credits: 2 Students will explore the field of therapy including an overview of therapy treatments in different health care settings and pertinent legal and ethical considerations. Students will participate in clinical observation.
PTA 2010 - Principles of Functional and Neuro Anatomy
Credits: 3 Students will explore neuro-musculo-skeletal anatomy in depth and relate it to functional activity. Topics include neuroanatomy, structure and function of the musculo-skeletal system, and components of human motion.
Prerequisite: Admission to the program Corequisite:PTA 2015 Semester: Fall
Credits: 2 Students learn a wide variety of data collection skills appropriate for the physical therapist assistant.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2360 Semester: Spring
Credits: 2 Students develop competency in a wide variety of data collection skills appropriate for the physical therapist assistant.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2350 Semester: Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Students learn medical and surgical musculoskeletal pathologies including common treatment strategies and the involvement of physical therapy.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better. Corequisite:PTA 2410 Semester: Spring
PTA 2410 - Therapeutic Interventions for Musculoskeletal Disorders
Credits: 1 Students develop treatment skills for medical and surgical musculoskeletal pathologies.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2400 Semester: Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 2 Students learn neurological pathologies including common treatment strategies and the involvement of physical therapy.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2460 Semester: Summer
PTA 2460 - Therapeutic Interventions for Neurological Disorders
Credits: 2 Students develop treatment skills for neurological pathologies.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2450 Semester: Summer
Credits: 3 Students learn selected system pathologies and special populations including common treatment strategies and the involvement of physical therapy.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2520 Semester: Spring
PTA 2520 - Therapeutic Interventions for Special Disorders
Credits: 1 Students develop treatment skills for selected special pathologies and populations.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2510 Semester: Spring Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 2 Students will learn the sociological, psychological, and physical facets of the aging process. Selected treatment approaches unique to an aging population will be presented and discussed.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Semester: Spring
Credits: 2 Students will learn the psychological aspects of the rehabilitation process. Topics include health locus of control, learned helplessness, self-efficacy and the biopsychosocial model of treatment.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Semester: Summer
Credits: 4 Students will participate in a supervised clinical experience in physical therapy department affiliated with the College.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Semester: Summer Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 6 Students will complete an internship including practical Performance and application of physical therapy procedures and techniques under supervision in selected physical therapy clinical settings.
Prerequisite: Completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan Semester: Fall Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 6 Students will complete a culminating internship demonstrating practical performance and application of physical therapy procedures and techniques under supervision in selected physical therapy clinical settings.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan w/C grade or better Corequisite:PTA 2700 Semester: Fall Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 1 Students will integrate principles of academic learning with clinical practice and presentation of current trends and issues in PT, along with professional journal reviews, and development of employment skills.
Prerequisite: Completion of prior semester courses per established curriculum plan Semester: Fall
Credits: 2 Students learn principles of injury prevention and therapeutic rehabilitation applied to the practice of sport and competitive physical activity.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into technical portion of program Semester: Fall Additional Course Fee Required
Credits: 3 Conceptual survey course in introductory physics. For non-science majors. Principles of mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, and modern physics.
Credits: 3 Course includes structure, scale, and behavior of the universe and its underlying laws presented in a conceptual format. It shows examples of formation and workings of the sun and planets. Also teaches earth as a planet and as a reference for reckoning of the celestial sphere.
Credits: 4 For pre-professional, non-science, non-engineering majors. Newtons laws of motion, gravity, work and energy, solid body motion, fluid motion, vibrations and waves, and thermal physics.
Credits: 1 Problem session for PHYS 2010, based on the lecture class. Though not required, students are strongly encouraged to register for this session.
Credits: 4 Continuation of PHYS 2010. Laws of electricity and magnetism optics and light, modern atomic theory, nuclear physics and an overview of relativity.
Credits: 1 Problem session for PHYS 2020, based on lecture classes. Though not required, students are strongly encouraged to register for this session.
Credits: 4 For engineering and science majors. Mechanics and Newtons laws presented with calculus. Gravity, energy, momentum, fluid mechanics, oscillations, waves, and thermodynamics.
Credits: 1 Problem session for PHYS 2210, based on lecture classes. Though not required, students are strongly encouraged to register for this session.
Credits: 1 Problem session for PHYS 2220, based on lecture classes. Though not required, students are strongly encouraged to register for this session.
PHYS 2500 - Introduction to Computer Methods in Physics
Credits: 2 Computer software and methods commonly used in physics are introduced including the use of numerical, graphical, and symbolic manipulation software to solve common physics problems. Other common applications encountered by the physics professional will be explored.
Prerequisite:PHYS 2210 Recommended Prerequisite:PHYS 2220 Semester: Fall
PHYS 2710 - Introductory Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Credits: 3 Introduction to Modern Physics with a focus on relativity, quantum mechanics, and atomic physics. Applications in solid-state physics, bonding in molecules and solids, and nuclear physics.
Credits: 2 Applied related grade math required for the core curriculum success of each student. This course covers basic math through Triangular Trigonometry.
Credits: 2 Brief history of the Plumbing/Pipefitting industry and the organizational structure of the trade. Emphasis on the importance of job safety, personal safety, and the well being of others on the job site.
Credits: 2 Theory and practical hands on applications of various pipe fittings, their uses and purposes, use and care of the materials and equipment used in the trade.
Credits: 2 Course includes the basics of theory involving water, steam, hydraulics, pneumatics, and metals in preparation for deeper understanding of the trade.
Credits: 2 Code and local amendments as they pertain to the natural gas and industrial gas usages, various materials required, use applications, and methods of installation accepted by the gas industry.
Credits: 2 Hydronics is the science of heating and cooling with water. Curriculum includes technical aspects of design, calculation, and installation of hydronic systems.
Credits: 2 Basic principles and applications of electricity common to Plumbers and Pipefitters. Safety requirements, basic devices and tools, circuits, and electrical measuring instruments are included.
Credits: 2 Theory and application of shielded metal arc welding, oxy-acetylene welding and oxy-acetylene cutting. A study of electrode classification and welding procedures with proper safety and safe use of equipment.
Credits: 2 Structural plate welding including flat, horizontal and overhead welding. Weld defects and the properties of metals. Destructive testing and welding procedures for code work.
Credits: 2 Theory and application of shielded metal arc welding, oxy-acetylene welding and oxy-acetylene cutting. A study of electrode classification and welding procedures with proper safety and safe use of equipment.
Credits: 2 Structural welding including flat horizontal, vertical, and overhead welding. Weld defects and the properties of metals Destructive testing and welding procedures for code work.
Credits: 2 Structural plate welding including flat horizontal, vertical and overhead welding. Weld defects and the properties of metals. Destructive testing and welding procedures for code work.
Credits: 2 This course will include study and training on industry specific power supplies, weld heads and preparation for orbital welding certification.
Credits: 2 Theory and application of a variety of pumps and pumping processes. Study also includes hot steam systems and the application of pumps and processes utilized in the industry.
Credits: 2 Basic instruction in brazing and brazing methods, materials used and good practices. Compressor function and utilization. Breakdown of a compressor and component parts testing and inventory.
Credits: 2 Utilization of drainage in commercial and industrial applications including various materials, applicable piping for drainage systems, installation and joint connections.
Credits: 2 This course will continue study of general pipe fitting principles and techniques and introduce hands on application of the skills and knowledge learned.
Credits: 2 Course includes applied mathematical conclusions, code and safety requirements related to the pipe fitting industry as preparation for the industry Pipe Fitting Journeyman exam.