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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Technical Writing for the Trades is designed to prepare the student for job-related writing. The student will learn to communicate information that is new to someone who needs to know the information in order to do a job or make a decision. Topics include adapting messages to audiences, organizing paragraphs, revising for style, summarizing information, weighing ethical issues, creating appropriate page layout for everyday communications situations, and explaining a process. Specific applications are individualized according to students career plans and are chosen from several categories including effective memo/letter writing, short report writing, and proposal writing. This course does not fulfill General Education requirements for transfer. Prerequisite: Compass test score of 47 or higher on the English (Writing) component.
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3.00 Credits
Technical Writing is designed to prepare students for jobrelated writing. Students learn to communicate information in order to do a job or make a decision. Topics covered include adapting messages to audiences, organizing paragraphs, revising for style, summarizing information, using definitions in reports, outlining, explaining a process, and researching. Specific applications are individualized according to students' career plans and are chosen from several categories, including effective letter writing, short report writing, proposal writing, research writing, and formal report writing from analyzed data. Prerequisites: CA100 Composition Review or appropriate placement on Compass, ACT or SAT examination.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to teach students how to write better routine business correspondence. The basic concepts of letter, memo, and report writing are taught. Emphasis is on composing at a keyboard given different situations and following oral and written instructions. Grammar and punctuation are reviewed with an emphasis on business usage. Pre-requisite: CA 101.
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3.00 Credits
The objectives of this introductory-level course are to help students develop an understanding of the fundamentals of interpersonal communication theory and to learn useful skills that will enable them to be more effective in establishing healthy interpersonal relationships in their personal lives and professions.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to help students develop skills in speaking, organizing thoughts, and listening. Major emphasis is placed on the preparation and presentation of formal speeches.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides experience in writing essays based on close readings of more demanding texts. Students will come to understand more fully the intellectual demands of an academic discourse community by preparing essays designed to meet more rigorous expectations. CA 201 is designed to prepare transfer students to succeed in their junior- and senior-level courses by exposing them to Modern Language Association (MLA) and American Psychological Association (APA) documentation, critical thinking strategies, and logical construction of arguments. Students will complete developed essays that emphasize writing as a process of drafting and revising. Pre-requisite: CA 101.
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3.00 Credits
Research Paper
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3.00 Credits
The writing, discussion, and revision of students' work by other writers in the group is the opportunity presented in this course. Students will explore techniques and models of fiction and nonfiction germane to various genre; students are free to pursue any and all which may be appealing. Pre-requisite: Submission of a piece of writing to the instructor and permission of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
This course is for students who want to assist the College with recruitment and community relations activities. Students will gain enhanced communication, leadership, decision making and problem-solving skills. Course is graded P (pass)/W (withdraw).
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0.00 Credits
Cooperative Education
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