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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPAN 2001 or permission of instructor This course is intended to increase grammar competence and develop student's abilities in composition tasks that reflect the kind of writing generally required of Spanish majors and minors. The topics, activities, and exercises included in this course will help students to expand and refine a number of writing tools - control of grammar, range of vocabulary, rhetorical techniques for organizing information - as well as strategies for getting started, characterizing the reader, reading critically, peer editing, revising, and rewriting. This course is taught in Spanish. (3 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the essential strategies and techniques employed by effective public speakers. The course covers strategic audience adaptation throughout the communication process. It provides suggestions for improving speeches in all facets, including invention, organization, style, and delivery. The course emphasizes the critical analysis of the effective and ineffective practices of historical, cultural, and contemporary speakers. It also provides opportunities for students to gain practical experiences in the art of self-expression. (3 contact hours)
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of public speaking, including invention, organization, style, and delivery. It emphasizes strategic audience adaptation throughout the communication process. It also provides opportunities for students to gain practical experience in public speaking through exercises and speech assignments. This course is designed for non-transfer students specializing in technical programs. (2 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course helps students become better communicators and prepares them to cope with everyday problems in face-to-face communication involving family, friends, fellow students, and co-workers. It emphasizes roles, skills, strategies, and activities that help students to develop effective interpersonal relationships. Lectures, discussions, and exercises enable students to critically assess the impact that gender, culture, perception, conflict, self-disclosure, listening, language, non-verbal expression, and emotions have on interpersonal communication transactions. (3 contact hours)
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of interpersonal communication. The course helps students become better communicators and prepares them to cope with everyday problems in face-to-face communication involving family, friends, fellow students, and co-workers. It emphasizes basic roles, skills, strategies, and activities that will help students to develop effective interpersonal relationships. Lectures, discussions, and exercises focus on the impact that gender, perception, self-disclosure, listening, language, non-verbal expression, and emotions have on interpersonal communication transactions. This course is designed for non-transfer students specializing in technical programs. (2 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPCH 1000 or SPCH 1050 This advanced course builds upon the concepts established in the basic public speaking courses. It refines the understanding of the relationship between audience-centered discourse and the traditional elements of an effective public speech. The course features an analytic framework in which students can more effectively write and assess speeches. Students will further enhance their skills, strategies, and knowledge concerning effective communication practices in social, business, and professional settings. This course provides significant opportunities for students to improve their own public speaking. (3 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPCH 1100 or SPCH 1150 This course continues to develop students( knowledge and practice of effective interpersonal communication. It examines the theoretical perspectives involved in interpersonal communication which relate to verbal messages, power, conflict, self-disclosures, assertiveness, nonverbal messages, communication barriers, dissolution, and dysfunctional relationships. The course emphasizes communicating in families. Students will develop practical skills and strategies that enable them to establish, maintain, and rebuild nurturing personal, professional, and social relationships. (3 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPCH 1000 or SPCH 1050 or SPCH 1100 or SPCH 1150 or permission of instructor This advanced class builds upon the fundamental skills taught in the introductory speech courses. It assists students in the work world and in social activities by helping them develop necessary skills for participating in task group situations. The course examines panels, forums, meetings, seminars, symposia, and committees in regard to working with people in small group situations. (3 contact hours)
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: admission to Surgical Technology program This course introduces the concepts and foundations of surgical technology including the standard of care, regulatory issues, and legal aspects of working as a surgical technologist. Students will learn aseptic and sterile techniques, the use and care of basic surgical instrumentation, and the relationship of the surgical technologist's role in the intraoperative environment. (9 contact hours: 3 lecture, 6 lab)
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7.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SURG 1100 or permission of instructor This course presents the role of the surgical technologist in the intraoperative setting. This course emphasizes surgery-specific anatomy and physiology of the tissue planes of the human body, surgical site management, hemostasis, electrosurgery, lasers, endoscopy, anesthesia techniques, and introduction to surgical pharmacology. Students will apply knowledge and skills in a clinical environment. (15 contact hours: 4 lecture, 3 lab, 8 clinical)
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