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3.00 Credits
In this low advanced course, students will continue to refine reading comprehension and writing proficiency. Assigned readings (including whole works) as well as student writing provide the basis for small group and class discussions. Through writing and rewriting essays, students work on organization, development of ideas, clarity, and the mechanics of effective writing. Additional language practice activities are required and may include Blackboard Vista assignments, the use of supplemental learning software in the Academic Skills Center and other audio-visual media. Assessment will be based on portfolios in addition to quizzes and in-class essays. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ESL* 143, an acceptable LOEP/Accuplacer placement score (combining Reading, Sentence Meaning, and Language Use subtest scores), a satisfactory writing sample, or the instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity to investigate and discuss environmental health topics and local issues that may have an impact on students. Topics include air, water and land resource use, pollution of these resources and the effect on environmental health. (Formerly ECOL 271.)
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3.00 Credits
First semester of a two-semester program designed to develop sound conversation, reading, and writing skills. The context will be the everyday experience and culture of the French-speaking world.
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of French 101 with a review of essentials of grammar. Student conversation and vocabulary building will be stressed. Reading and writing will gradually be increased. The course is designed to further develop the ability to communicate in French, orally and in writing, to satisfy basic survival needs within a cultural setting. Prerequisite: FRE* 101.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course reviews the nature and extent of the fire problem in the United States, the characteristics and behavior of fire, the state, regional, national and international organizations having responsibility for fire control and suppression, extinguishing agents, fire protection equipment and other basic aspects of fire protection technology.
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3.00 Credits
The study of major types of building construction and their related problems under fire conditions, fire resistance and flame spread ratings, fire walls and partitions, protection of openings, and fire test methods. Prerequisite: FTA* 112.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the organizational aspects of fire prevention and control services for a municipal fire district including analyzing needs, master planning, building the organization, distribution of a fire department's personnel requirements, hiring practices, training, records, work schedules, staff development, labor problems, physical equipment and facilities, and budget preparation. Prerequisite: FTA* 112.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the determination of points of origin and causes of fires, differentiating between fires of accidental and incendiary nature. Managing operations at the fire scene, collecting and preserving evidence, recording information, and scientific aids to investigation are key topics that are explored in the coursework. Prerequisite: FTA* 116: Building Construction.
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3.00 Credits
Familiarizes students with the surface of the earth so they can better understand the ways in which geography affects life. Students develop a conceptual framework of the world by analyzing interacting systems in selected places--not the development of a mere inventory of facts about a "place," but, rather, an understanding of how it functions and why it is the way it is.
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4.00 Credits
The basic principles of design-balance, harmony, variety, dominance, proportion and movement-will be explored and integrated with the basic elements of design-line, shape, value, and texture-and applied to unique graphic concepts and relationships. Historical and contemporary symbols will be studied and utilized in a series of compositions. Letter forms will become the basis of graphic designs that investigate the abstract power inherent in their shape as well as their power to communicate realistic meaning. Complex relationships that merge type and images can then be creatively pursued. This union forms the basis of an understanding of the potential of graphic design. (3 hours lecture/3 hours studio.) Prerequisite: Basic Design or equivalent studio design experience. (Formerly ART 115
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