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3.00 Credits
(formerly HIST-H205) 3 cr. This course will utilize historical, sociological, and cultural perspectives in the analysis of the current status of African-Americans in the United States. The quest for equality, problems and prospects, and the role of African-Americans in the development of American and world cultures will be explored. (Spring)
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(formerly HIST-H224) 3 cr. This course provides an overview of American Indian History from the precolonial era through the present, with a primary focus on those tribes living in the region of the present-day United States. The course examines cultures, tribal structures, Environments and economies, and worldviews of various Indian tribes. Topics involved include Anglo-Indian relations, the role of Indians in the fur trade, life on the reservation, the changing objective of, and Indian resistance to, federal "Indian Policy" by various tribal nations in theireffort to preserve their culture, tribal knowledge, language and belief systems and how the struggle for economic and cultural survival has carried on into the 21st century.
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3.00 Credits
(formerly HIST-H110) 3 cr. The lives and impact of several major figures will be studied. The people will be from the fields of art, music, literature, the military, social philosophy, religion, politics, science, and business, and will include subjects such as Mao Tse-Tung, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth I, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Helen Keller, Napoleon Bonaparte, Leonardo DaVinci, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Alan Poe, Thomas Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jennie Jerome Churchill, David Livingstone, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Edith Wharton, Marie Curie, Vincent Van Gogh, Victor Hugo and Georgia O'Keefe. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
(formerly HIST-H299) (Fall/Spring)
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. This course is designed to assist students in meeting the expectations of a health care curriculum and career. The students will become familiar with the rigors of higher education and the specific skills needed to maximize their opportunity for academic and clinical success. The course will include a comprehensive overview of the duties and responsibilities associated with clinical competency. Interdisciplinary learning strategies, correlating clinical and didactic education, life management skills, work ethics, and critical thinking skills necessary for all health providers will be emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
(formerly IDS-H095) This course is designed to introduce students to the nursing profession and to the Associate Degree nursing program at NVCC. The course presents a variety of approaches to assist students toward successful entry, progression and completion of the program. Students will be provided with learning activities which focus on developing critical thinking, reading and comprehension skills, knowledge of medical terminology and basic math competence as well as study, test-taking and communication skills.
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2.00 Credits
(formerly PE-H100) 2 cr. Designed to help students realize the importance of healthy diet and exercise behaviors in permanent weight control. Behavior modification techniques are used to help students achieve a healthy lifestyle that will result in either a gradual reduction in body weight, and/or the maintenance of a healthy body weight.
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2.00 Credits
(formerly PE-H108) 2 cr. Physical fitness and exercise is designed to provide the background information concerning exercise prescription development and follow through. Participants will be trained in exercise testing theory and ethics, and practical exercise prescription. Students will participate in lecture and laboratories to develop their own exercise prescription.
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2.00 Credits
(formerly PE-H114) 2 cr. Modern methodologies skills and systems of exercising through dance are introduced and practiced. The physical condition of the body, the levels of cardiovascular fitness and individual physical differences are stressed.
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2.00 Credits
(formerly PE-H191) 2 cr. Emphasis of this course is on the development of a high degree of individual skills and methods necessary to understand the body mechanics involved in activity exercise. Programs discussed will include training for leisure sports, rehabilitation, muscular tone, endurance, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and weight loss.
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