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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course helps tomake the student aware of the problems and challenges of ourmodern times. Included are problems associated with the family, physical andmental health, poverty, ethnic and race relations, gender and age inequality, drugs, crime and environmental concerns.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to assist the student in becoming a better world citizen through cultural understanding. By uncovering the sources, forces, and factors that formsocieties, the student will develop a deeper appreciation for, and a clearer understanding of, the rich cultural diversity of our world.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide the student with insight into the American family systemand give the student the tools with which tomake informed decisions about his/her future with respect to family and intimate relationships. Issues addressed in this course include gender, love, courtship, sexuality, diverse family forms, communication, parenting, work, family violence, uncoupling and remarriage. Attention is also given to families of diverse cultures and nations.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to various causes, consequences and treatments of compulsive and addictive behaviors. Included are drug and alcohol-related issues and compulsive behaviors that do not involve substances.
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3.00 Credits
Death and dying is a universal human event. This course considers how individuals and societies develop ways of coping with death on a personal and on a societal level. Additional areas of focus include health care decisions, grief, suicide, homicide and terrorism.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints the student with various learning styles, teaching styles and instructional methods. Time is devoted to the fundamentals andmechanics of classroommanagement, visual aids, assignments, evaluation techniques, course preparation and provision for individual differences in the classroom. Activities include lectures, discussion groups, group projects, student presentations and outside reading.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers timely topics in the social sciences or specialized subjects that reflect the expertise/interest of current General Studies Department faculty. This class is limited to 15 students.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the wide range of career options available in the technical communication field. Special emphasis is given to technical writing style, which can be applied in all the upper-division technical writing courses. Both in-class and out-of-class writing assignments provide practical experience in working on style. Another aspect of the course is to provide students with tours of facilities which employ technical communicators. Students will alsomake an oral presentation about technicalmaterial.
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3.00 Credits
Various theories of communication are examined in order to establish a framework for understanding the complex phenomenon of human communication. Theory is defined and a number of theories that cover a wide range of communication concepts (such as semantics, nonverbal communication, and persuasion) are studied. Theories are examined critically to determine the social, political, and historical factors whichmight havemotivated the authors and perhaps colored their perceptions of communication.
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3.00 Credits
This course combines classroomdiscussion and a "hands on" computer lab to prepare studentsto design and develop page layouts onMacintosh and PC computer systems. Students completing this course become literate in computer terminology through discussions on historical computer development, different operating systems, and computer hardware/software. In addition, the principles of page design and layout techniques are examined. The lab portion of the course allows students to use and learn several software programs at various levels, includingMicrosoft PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and scanning software. After completing this course, students are able to use the desktop computer and various software programs in combination to create professional looking documents.
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