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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).
Chemical Engineering
CHE 2800 - Fundamentals Of Process Engineering
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 or appropriate Accuplacer score (MATH 1020 for Nursing majors) Recommended Corequisite: CHEM 1115
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 Accuplacer score Recommended Corequisite: CHEM 1215
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
Credits: 5 | Additional Course Fee RequiredFirst 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 the Chinese culture. Lab attendance is required.
Credits: 5 | Additional Course Fee RequiredSecond 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 the Chinese culture. Lab attendance is required.
Credits: 1 | Additional Course Fee RequiredCourse 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.
Credits: 1-2 | Additional Course Fee RequiredIn 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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredThird in a series of four courses which focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Major objective of second year is to increase functional language ability. Emphasis is on proficiency. Lab attendance is required.
Credits: 4 | Additional Course Fee RequiredSecond-year Chinese courses increase functional language ability focusing on listening, speaking, reading, writing as well as increased focus on culture (philosophies, history, geography, literature, etc) Lab attendance is required.
Credits: 1 | Additional Course Fee RequiredCourse 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.
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredSecond 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.
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredCourse 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.
Credits: 1-3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredThis 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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredThe 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 Accuplacer score
CEEN 2000 - Cooperative Education In Civil Engineering
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
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredPrinciples 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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredPosition, 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.
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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredInternal 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.
Credits: 1 | Additional Course Fee RequiredThis 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.
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.
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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredNumerical 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.
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: 20 | Additional Course Fee RequiredCompletion of this course certifies proficient understanding of the basic concepts and procedures of clinical assisting.
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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredProvides 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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredProvides 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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredProvides 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.
Contact Hours: 10 | Focuses on performance of medical assisting tasks under the supervision of nursing and medical staff. A final job requirement.
Contact Hours: 165 | This course provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate and practice their medical assisting skills in a clinical setting.
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 | Survey of the basic issues, theories, and perspectives in the study of human communication, through critical analysis of oral, written and audio-visual texts.
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 | Interviewing methods with emphasis on interview design and questioning techniques in business, professional, and journalistic environments.
Credits: 4 | Additional Course Fee RequiredOrganization and written presentation of facts to a mass audience, with emphasis on reporting and writing news. Development of information-gathering skills for presentation through mass media.
Credits: 3 | Covers the organization and delivery of facts to a mass audience; specifically communicating about issues related to sustainability. Course offers hands-on experience in both traditional media and new communication technologies.
Credits: 3 | Investigates Performance Studies from multiple perspectives, including communication and anthropology; explores performance and performativity; integrates theory and practice, to include TV and radio experience.
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: 1 | This introductory short course focuses on U. S. copyrights given to creative individuals who produce visual, musical, literary works of art or performing arts. The course also covers licensing and trademarking.
COMM 1420 - Salesmanship And Promotion For Creative Professionals
Credits: 2 | This introductory short course will introduce basic sales and self-promotional principles and techniques specifically tailored for creative artists.
Credits: 2 | This introductory short course will introduce basic business structures and examine the process of setting up a business for creative professionals working in the areas of music, the many forms of visual design, fine art, animation, film and video, and the literary arts.
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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredA 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.
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredBecome 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.
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredThis is a basic survey course in journalism, emphasizing fact finding and news writing, including investigative reporting on specific beats. Class members contribute to the student newspaper and/or to other student news media.
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredIn-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.
Credits: 3 | Additional Course Fee RequiredStudents study advanced news delivery and overall layout and design of a newspaper, magazine, and online media, using contemporary tools for those tasks. Member of the class contribute to the Globe Student Media.
Credits: 4 | Additional Course Fee RequiredAn 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.
Credits: 3 | An introduction to content management systems that include digital and media assets to improve efficiency and lower costs. Types include Internet/web, television/IPTV, radio/podcasts, cell/mobile and print delivery are covered.
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 | 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 and decision-making techniques. Development of students’ skills of participation and analysis in decision-making.
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: 4 | Additional Course Fee RequiredDevelopment of basic audio and video production skills for television and online distribution, using individual and group assignments through traditional lecture, hands-on training, field and studio production environments.
COMM 2210 - Television, Film, and Video Lighting Essentials - Profesional Media Practice Workshop
Credits: 2 | Development of basic television, film, and video lighting skills. Using individual and group assignments through traditionals lecture, hands-on learning, field and studio production environments.
Credits: 2 | Development of basic television studio production skills using assignments through traditionals lecture, hands-on learning, studio production environments.
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 | Additional Course Fee RequiredSurvey 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.