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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description An introductory literature course featuring techniques of reading and analyzing short stories and novels. Emphasis is on discussion of and writing about characteristics and themes of the works. (3 hrs. lect.) Prerequisite: Credit for ENG 100 or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes Use concepts and terminology particular to literary study to analyze and interpret imaginative literary works orally and in writing. Respond to a work of literature as an expression of a culture's values and compare those values with the student's own.Enjoy a more creative, enlightened, and fulfilled life through an appreciation of literature's social, cultural, political, and philosophical significance. Exhibit knowledge about selected short story writers and novelists, and their characteristic themes and techniques. Explore the distinction between the short story and novel as types of fiction. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DL Resources Literature Current Syllabus none currently available Past Syllabi None
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description An introductory literature course featuring techniques of reading and analyzing poetry and drama. Emphasis is on discussion of and writing about characteristics and themes of the works. (3 hrs. lect.) Prerequisite: Credit for ENG 100 or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes Use concepts and terminology particular to literary study to analyze and interpret imaginative literary works orally and in writing. Respond to a work of literature as an expression of a culture's values and compare those values with the student's own.Enjoy a more creative, enlightened, and fulfilled life through an appreciation of literature's social, cultural, political, and philosophical significance. Integrate knowledge of selected poets and dramatists, and their characteristic themes and techniques. Explore the characteristics of poetry and drama as types of literature. Adapt to the differing expectations put on the reader of poetry as compared to the reader or audience of drama. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC: DL Resources Drama Poetry Current Syllabus none currently available Past Syllabi None
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description Selected topics in literature drawn from a cross section of literary types and periods. (Offered occasionally) (3 hrs. lect.) Prerequisite: Credit for ENG 100 or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes Use concepts and terminology particular to literary study to analyze and interpret imaginative literary works orally and in writing. Respond to a work of literature as an expression of a culture's values and compare those values with the student's own.Enjoy a more creative, enlightened, and fulfilled life through an appreciation of literature's social, cultural, political, and philosophical significance. Explore the themes specific to the focus of the course. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DL Resources Literature Current Syllabus none currently available Past Syllabi None
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description An introductory level biological science course which integrates basic concepts of science with the study of human nutrition. Designed for students who want an introduction to nutrition, as well as those who later choose to major in it. Meets natural science core requirement. (3 hrs. lect.) Prerequisite: Placement into ENG 100 and MATH 25 or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes Describe the six categories of nutrients and evaluate the nutrient adequacy of a diet. Identify factors influencing eating habits. Correctly interpret and evaluate information on food labels, packages and product advertising based on generally accepted scientific methods and standards. Define various types of malnutrition and discuss their causes, cures, and associated health effects. Discuss current issues related to the safety of the food supply, using concepts from toxicology. Describe physiological changes that occur during the life cycle and explain the changes in nutrient needs that accompany these changes. Discuss various environmental and ecological conditions, which interact with human nutrition, both locally and globally. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DB Academic Subject Certificate in Plant Biotechnology Resources Nutrition Current Syllabus none currently available Past Syllabi None
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description Survey of the natural environment; distribution and interrelationships of climates, vegetation, soil, and land forms. (3 hrs. lect.) Student Learning Outcomes Describe the components (inputs), processes (actions) and resulting spatial patterns (outputs) of the physical environment (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere) as a system. Apply the scientific method, and theories and concepts of geography to explain a physical environment. Explain critically the interaction of humans and the physical environment. Illustrate how his/her views of the physical environment have (or have not) changed. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DP Academic Subject Certificate in Bio-Resources and Technology Resources Geography Current Syllabus Spring, 2009 (60087) - taught by Toshihiko Ikagawa Spring, 2009 (60088) - taught by Toshihiko Ikagawa Past Syllabi Fall 2008 - taught by Toshi Ikagawa
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1.00 Credits
Catalog Description Analysis by use of maps, air photos, field and laboratory observation, and experimentation. Emphasis on Hawai'i and on human modification of environment. Required field trips during regular class hours. (3 hrs. lab.) Prerequisite: Credit for or registration in GEOG 101. Student Learning Outcomes Apply the scientific method to study a physical environment: Define a problem for a study, gather and record data, analyze the data, arrive at appropriate conclusions, and report the findings in written form. Use various instruments, such as a compass, GPS unit and thermometer, to gather environmental data. Use the metric system, scientific notation, graphs, and geographic and basic statistical measurements. Write a lab report using the standard scientific format. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DY Academic Subject Certificate in Bio-Resources and Technology Resources Geography Current Syllabus Spring, 2009 (60090) - taught by Toshihiko Ikagawa Past Syllabi Fall 2008 - taught by Toshi Ikagawa
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description Designed to acquaint the student with the cultural regions of today's world, with emphasis on the interrelationships and interactions of each region's ideological, economic, political, and physical elements. (3 hrs. lect.) Student Learning Outcomes Identify locations on regional and world maps. Compare and contrast the major geographic realms of the world, applying theories and concepts of geography. Apply a spatial perspective to critically explain current world events and issues and daily events. Illustrate how his/her views of the world have (or have not) changed. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DS Resources Geography Current Syllabus see Toshi Ikagawa's website for most current syllabus Past Syllabi None
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description This course is designed to acquaint the student with basic geographic principles and aid in understanding and appreciating the Hawaiian environment. Fundamental concepts of physical and cultural geography are presented with emphasis on Hawai'i volcanic land forms, coastal features, climate, and vegetation. Geographic aspects of population, settlement, agriculture economics, and land use are also investigated. (3 hrs. lect.) Student Learning Outcomes Describe the physical, biological and cultural elements and processes responsible for Hawai'i's current environment applying theories and concepts of geography.Compare and contrast the Hawaiian environment with that of a middle latitude region, such as the US mainland, Europe and East Asia. Evaluate the Hawaiian environment in terms of how the student would survive on a pre-human Hawaiian island. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DS Academic Subject Certificate in Hawaiian Studies Resources Hawaiian Geography Geography Current Syllabus Fall 2008 - taught by Toshi Ikagawa Past Syllabi None
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3.00 Credits
Catalog Description Elements of population geography and urban studies, economic geography and resource management; application to current problems of developed and underdeveloped countries. (3 hrs. lect.) Student Learning Outcomes Describe and map major themes in human society and culture: population, economy, politics, language, religion, customs, and conflict. Apply scientific method, and theories and concepts of geography to explain the nature, history, and diffusion of the major themes. Synthesize cross-cultural perspectives on current issues in the major themes. Communicate the achievement in written form and/or in other artistic expressions such as photograph. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DS Resources Geography Current Syllabus none currently available Past Syllabi None
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4.00 Credits
Catalog Description Man's natural physical environment; the landscape, rocks and minerals, rivers and oceans, volcanism, earthquakes, and other processes inside the earth; effects of man's use of the earth and its resources. Laboratory study of minerals, rocks, and topographic and geologic maps. Lecture/laboratory/field trip course. (3 hrs. lect.; 3 hrs. lab.) Student Learning Outcomes Understand the importance of plate tectonics in creating, modifying and recycling the surface of the earth. Understand the structure of the earth and how that is known, and its relationship to geophysical, geological, atmospheric and oceanographic processes. Comprehend the vastness of geological time and how time is measured thus the time-scale known, in addition to the history recorded in rocks of geological/atmospheric/oceanographic processes in conjunction with those that influenced the organic evolution of life. Realize geological hazards and the mitigation of those hazards, as well as the politics of managing a changing landscape. Describe the formation of mineral deposits and hydrocarbon accumulations, with an appreciation of their impermanence as resources. Know formational processes, types and uses of soils, minerals, fossils and rocks. Understand the rock cycle, its driving mechanisms, rates of cyclicity, and consequent products for interpreting the 15 billion years of earth history, and applying that knowledge towards predicting the planet's future. Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To WCC Associate in Arts: DP and DY Resources Geology Current Syllabus none currently available Past Syllabi None
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