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4.00 Credits
Students learn basic communications, interview and assessment skills as used in community mental health settings. Development of beginning-level counseling skills and awareness of unique qualities each brings into the helping profession. This course will review the major therapeutic approaches including clientcentered therapy, rational-emotive therapy, reality therapy, gestalt therapy, and transactional analysis. Includes some demonstration of techniques associated with the therapies. 4 lecture hours. Vocational program course. May be used as a general elective in the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 095 or placement in ENGL& 101. Survey of the fields which make up anthropology: physical anthropology, archeology, prehistory and beginning of history including the earliest cultures and civilizations; ethnology/social anthropology, living and recent societies of the world. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies social science distribution area C requirement or specified elective for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: A grade of "C" or better inENGL& 101 or instructor permission. This introduction to Archaeology on-line course explores the history, field practices, and objectives of archaeology, with an effort to understand how archaeologists do what they do, and why they do what they do. You will become familiar with the general terminology, principles and methods of archaeology, including excavation, site survey, laboratory analysis, ethno archaeology, archaeological experimentation, and the theoretical reconstruction of past societies. You will examine the controversies and political issues within the field of archaeology, and be able to develop your own opinions on these issues based upon your personal, cultural, and educational backgrounds. The overall goal is to begin training students to qualify as Cultural Resource Technicians for Native American communities. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies specified elective requirements for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH& 100 or SOC& 101 or instructor permission. The study of cultural traditions in various sections of the world, leading to an understanding of cultural differences and similarities. Emphasis will be placed upon anthropological examples of human behavior in societies that contrast with Western civilizations. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies social science distribution area C requirement or specified elective for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: A grade of "C" or better inENGL& 101 or instructor permission. Native American Cultures and Culture Contact provides a general view of the variations in the life ways of the Native Americans up to current times. Major Native American culture areas are visited and discussed in a broad comparative content. We examine current indigenous and scientific thoughts about the origins, development and variation of North American Native culture areas. We also examine current issues and legal contexts, with a particular focus on cultural resource management (CRM) and the laws applied throughout North America and their continuing applications in attempts to protect cultural resources. This vocationally oriented course is intended to train students to become familiar with the available information compiled concerning the past and present peoples of Native North America. It is important for Cultural Resource Technicians being trained in these classes (CRTs) become quite familiar with what has been written about past and present peoples, so that they can help build, improve and correct upon these perspectives. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies specified elective requirement for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: A grade of "C" or better in ENGL101 or instructor permission. Pacific Northwest Coast Peoples - Past and Present examines current indigenous and scientific thoughts about the origins, development and variation of Pacific Northwest cultures. We consider at least 12,000 years of cultural history in the Northwest Coast region, leading to one of the culturally most complex maritime societies to have existed into the contemporary times. Pacific Northwest Coast Peoples, rich in culture, tradition and with an extensive knowledge of the environment they occupy, are recorded with mile-long villages containing as many as 1,000 inhabitants, monumental construction in homes, canoes and art, and highly complex societies, consisting of nobles, commoners and slaves. We will discuss how these cultures shape modern life throughout this region today. This vocationally oriented course is intended to train students to become familiar with the available information compiled concerning the past and present peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It is important to become quite familiar with what has been written about past and present peoples, so that they can help build, improve and correct upon these perspectives. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies specified elective requirement for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Recommended Preparation: ENGL& 101. Prerequisites: ENGL 095 or placement in ENGL& 101; READ 090 or placement in READ 120. A study of the basic elements of visual form and their application to the variety and richness of art. Traditional and contemporary art from around the world, including architecture, design, painting, photography, and sculpture are examined in ways that provide meaningful responses to form and content. The broad objective of this course is for the student to recognize and become conversant with the basic concepts, styles, terminology, and elements of visual art. Major examples of two- and threedimensional art will be examined and discussed. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies humanities distribution area A requirement or specified elective for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 095 or placement in ENGL& 101. A practical introduction to the methods, materials and visual elements necessary to draw from life. The basic skills and vocabulary of representing visual elements necessary to draw from life. The basic skills and vocabulary of representing visual observations will be discussed, demonstrated and practiced. This course is an exploration of concepts and techniques basic to representational drawing. Projects chosen by the instructor will develop, through observation, the skills applicable to perspective drawing, landscape, still life, the human figure, and graphic layout. Through demonstration, critique, and problemsolving, students will be exposed to the traditions of two-dimensional representation in black and white including the elements of composition, proportion, values, contours, cross-contours, chiaroscuro and basic perspective. 4 lecture hours; 2 studio hours. Satisfies humanities distribution area A requirement or specified elective for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ART 101 or ART 104. Further application of the principles, materials, and methods presented in ART 101 with increased emphasis on effective development of form, volume and expressive composition. This course is designed to extend basic skill levels and encourage more individual application of the skills, basic principles, terminology, and techniques of representational drawing developed in ART 101. Through demonstration, critique, and individual problemsolving, students will further their understanding of the traditions of two-dimensional representation in black and white using the familiar elements of composition, proportion, values, contours, crosscontours, chiaroscuro and basic perspective. 4 lecture hours; 2 studio hours. Satisfies specified elective requirement for the AA degree.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ART 102. Advanced study of principles and methods of observational drawing with special attention to traditional concepts and contemporary forms. In addition to studio assignments, independent projects will be developed jointly by student and instructor. This course is designed to encourage more individual application of the skills, basic principles, terminology, and techniques of representational drawing developed in ART 101 and 102. Drawing from observation and the in-class study of visual relationships will continue to be emphasized as well as synthesizing images from a variety of other sources. 4 lecture hours; 2 studio hours. Satisfies specified elective requirement for the AA degree.
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