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3.00 Credits
30 class hours, 45 shop hours This course will allow students the experience of being outdoor leaders through planning and guiding extensive outdoor expeditions that explore Maine, New England, and/or elsewhere. Students will also participate in excursions led by professional guides, allowing them the opportunity to critique various guiding methods, styles, and techniques. Activities may include canoeing, kayaking, sailing, backpacking and other activities. Appropriate fitness, clothing, and a willingness to have fun are pre-requisites for this course. This course will involve mandatory overnight weekend expeditions. Prerequisite: ADV121 or instructor permission.
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3.00 Credits
2 class hours, 2 lab hours Learn to dive today. This course leads to PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) open water dive certification and dive master certification; the most widely recognized and respected diving certification in the world. Within a few days, students will be enjoying the underwater world. Locations of course(s) to be announced due to facilities required.
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3.00 Credits
1 class hour, 6 shop hours This course is actually a semester-long project that will be the culmination of the student's learning experiences in the Adventure Recreation and Tourism program at WCCC. Students will use this project to help organize and develop a small tourismbased business through which they will offer many tours, activities, and events. For this project, students are to fully develop, plan, market, promote, and deliver one of these products. Prerequisite: All course work in core or instructor permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 class hours This course will explore the practical and technical basics of drawing. Through lecture and hands-on drawing exercises, students will sharpen their powers of perception, develop practical drawing skills and learn about different approaches, techniques and drawing media. The focus will be on the studio setting, but some classes will be held outdoors as weather permits. Class sessions will focus on still life, landscape and the model. The goal of this course is for students to gain an understanding of the basic principles of design and the concepts of shape, value, lines, texture and perspective.
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9.00 Credits
Emphasizes methods and materials used in residential construction and covers building codes, floor framing systems, wall framing, types and layout of trusses, cornice systems, types of roof coverings, exterior doors, windows, siding, and exterior paint. Students apply their coursework through the construction of a residential building/structure. 102 Washington County Community College
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9.00 Credits
Presents methods and materials used to finish interiors of buildings, including gypsum board, tile ceilings, suspended ceilings, wall paneling, paint, hardwood flooring, tile floors, wall-to-wall carpeting, interior doors and trim. Students apply the skills by completing the interior of a residential project. Prerequisite: BCN120 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
3 class hours, 2 lab hours This course introduces students to the concepts and principles of the chemical basis of life; organic molecules; cell structure; function and structure of living organisms including nutrition, digestion, and circulation; regulation in organisms including hormonal, nervous systems, senses, muscles and movement. Prerequisite: C or better in high school biology.
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4.00 Credits
3 class hours, 2 lab hours This introductory one-semester course is designed to provide students with the fundamental concepts of human anatomy and physiology. The sequence of topics includes an orientation to the human body, basic chemistry, cells and tissues, organ systems, special senses and blood. The activity-based labs, using models, slides and prepared specimens, are designed to explore lecture topics.
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4.00 Credits
3 class hours, 2 lab hours This course is a basic introduction to the science of microbiology. The student should develop a broad understanding of both theoretical and laboratory aspects of the science. Specific topics to be covered include general characteristics of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi; disease transmission; immunology; epidemiology; and microbial control. The student will have the opportunity to practice techniques for specimen collection, culturing, staining, and microscopic observation of representative species. Prerequisite: BIO225.
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4.00 Credits
3 class hours, 2 lab hours This course is designed to prepare students for a career in the allied health sciences. Topics include: structure levels, anatomical positions and cavities, skeletal and muscular systems, and nervous system. The intent of this approach is to allow the student to develop a concise understanding of how each system of the body functions and interacts. The concepts covered in the lecture course are explored in greater detail in lab. Model, prepared slides and preserved specimens will all be used to supply the student. Prerequisite: BIO120 or BIO130.
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