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3.00 Credits
This initial course is for students who need to improve upon basic skills that aid in reading. This course is designed for students who must strengthen their comprehension, language usage, and strategic reading skills. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate strategy for understanding unknown words; Demonstrate understanding in reading comprehension; Identify and use language and structural clues as an aid to comprehension in reading materials; Demonstrate critical reading through writing; Demonstrate strategic reading in a variety of materials.
Prerequisite:
Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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3.00 Credits
Reading II is designed for students who need to improve their ability to understand and retain the material they read in college. Emphasis in the course is on reading comprehension, language clues, structural clues, critical thinking, and strategic reading. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate proficiency in reading comprehension skills; Identify and use language and structural clues as an aid to comprehension in reading materials; Demonstrate critical thinking through writing; Demonstrate strategic reading in a variety of materials.
Prerequisite:
REA 030 or ESL 045 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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5.00 Credits
This class combines REA 050 and ENG 050 and emphasizes the relationship between reading and writing. It includes comprehensive review and writing practice in the fundamentals of English grammar, word choice, punctuation, and paragraph construction. Additionally, it is designed for students who need to improve their ability to understand and retain the materials they read in college. To this end, emphasis will be placed upon reading comprehension, language clues, structural clues, critical thinking, and strategic reading. . Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate critical reading, thinking, and writing in various rhetorical situations and make appropriate rhetorical choices for given writing tasks; Demonstrate proficient comprehension of and a critical assessment of college-appropriate texts using strategic and critical reading; Identify and use language and structural clues as aids to comprehension of reading materials; Develop a thesis for an essay that will be supported with evidence; Demonstrate that writing is a process; Utilize basic research skills to produce a final, polished written product; Apply formal conventions of written American English with respect to grammar, mechanics, and punctuation.
Prerequisite:
(ESL 043, ESL 044, ESL 045, and ESL 046) or Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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3.00 Credits
Critical Reading addresses both literal and abstract comprehension strategies at a college level. Students will apply contextual reasoning, interpretive processing, figurative analysis and inferential reasoning to a variety of reading materials. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Differentiate between main idea and supporting details; Recognize bias in a variety of materials; Discriminate between the facts and opinions; Demonstrate critical judgement and analytical thought in writing; Apply interpretive and inferential analysis in order to read critically; Evaluate persuasive and argumentative reasoning.
Prerequisite:
REA 050 or REA 075 or ENG 099 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the application of nanotechnology to electronic, chemical, and biological fields including a review of the basic science concepts. The impact of the commercialization of nanotechnology on society and the environment will be discussed. It is intended primarily for students in any of the various technology programs who will seek employment as laboratory technicians in research and industrial laboratories. Emphasis will be placed on providing a broad overview of the field. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of scientific notation and size relationships between nanometers and other metric measures; Describe the societal impacts of nanotechnology on modern society; List at least five biological applications of nanotechnology; Find, using Internet research, five commercial applications of nanotechnology; Describe the structures known as nanotubes and bucky balls, and one current application of each form; Describe the application of nanotechnology in environmental and medical sensors to electronic monitoring; Define key nanotechnology concepts such as "buttom-up", "self-assembly", and "molecular recognition"; Discuss instrumentation, such as SEM and STM, which is used at the nano level; Hypothesize future applications of nanotechnology.
Prerequisite:
(ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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3.00 Credits
This course, designed as a non-laboratory science option for non-science majors or as an open elective for Natural Science majors, traces the philosophical, cultural, intellectual, and technological developments that influenced the evolution of modern science. By examining these developments made over a span of two millennia, students in the course identify the people, places, ideas, and discoveries that led to fundamental shifts in worldviews resulting in changes in the way people obtain knowledge about, investigate, and understand the physical world. Specifically, the course explores the origin and influence of scientific methodologies by tracing the changing role of experimenters, their experiments, and the tools they used. In addition, students document the converging influences that resulted in the Scientific Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution. The course concludes by highlighting important scientific discoveries up to the present day and the continuing struggle between science and long-held misconceptions and beliefs. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Develop an answer to the question "What is science?", state the basic assumptions underlying modern science, and discuss the origins of these assumptions; Define "scientific paradigm", describe its influence on the development of science, and outline the factors that result in a change of the scientific paradigm; List the characteristics of a scientific methodology; Understand the role politics, religion, and commerce played in the history of science; Explain the difference between deductive and inductive arguments and their role in the study of the physical world, identify people who employed them, and give examples of each form; Describe the approaches and contributions to science of Greek, Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and European thinkers and identify the people and places associated with these approaches and contributions; Outline the changing role of experimentation in the history of science, the tools used in the experiments, and describe their influence on the origin of scientific methodology; List examples and relate the significance of the people, places, ideas, and discoveries that were part of the Scientific Renaissance; Describe the emergence of the Scientific Revolution from the Scientific Renaissance and provide examples of important scientific discoveries over the past three hundred years; Identify current areas where scientific research is in conflict with popular beliefs and analyze a selected conflict by examining all arguments put forth in the context of the scientific method and the history of science.
Prerequisite:
ENG 100
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1.00 Credits
STEM Topics is a 1-credit course designed to introduce students majoring in STEM fields to skills and topics of importance to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Presented by both Delaware County Community College faculty/staff and invited speakers, the weekly one-hour meetings include explorations of STEM-related transfer programs and careers, internet research methods, identification of primary research, research design, and technical writing and communication. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Use the internet as a research tool in STEM disciplines; Evaluate internet sources for credibility and authority in STEM disciplines; Differentiate between primary and secondary research in STEM disciplines; Produce and present a research design to address a proposed hypothesis; Identify potential STEM transfer programs based on students' interest areas; Develop career goals in a chosen STEM field.
Prerequisite:
(MAT 050 and ((ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075)) or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the factors that determine social organization, social injustice, behavior and change as they are considered in relation to the individual student's own life and society. Study is concentrated on social intervention, culture, social class, national and global inequality, institutions and socialization. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Apply the sociological perspective to their own lives; Further personal development through knowledge and in the socialization process; Describe the impact of the five major social institutions on society and themselves; Assess present and possible future effects of social change on their culture's and values; Depict the effects of living in a modern complex society; Use the three major sociological theoretical perspectives to analyze a major concept within sociology; Describe the systematic ways that oppression and privilege are built into and perpetuated by social institutions; Describe the various ways in which global interdependence impacts the social, economic and political society.
Prerequisite:
(ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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3.00 Credits
This course studies contemporary social problems from theoretical and practical perspectives. Theoretical assessments of the national and international origins and etiology that support and sustain social injustice, inequality, and conflict will be supported through data sources. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Apply the sociological perspective to the national and international social problems; Describe the origin, development, and society's possible treatment of at least two contemporary and social problems detailing how the rules of society and its social institutions attempt to sustain, perpetuate and/or eradicate inequity and injustice; Describe the systematic ways that oppression is facilitated by powerful people and society's social institutions; Describe the various ways in which global interdependence impacts the people in society.
Prerequisite:
(ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores various types of family relationships in society and how sustaining and changing the values, beliefs and rules in relationships are supported and altered through society's institutions in diverse societies. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Describe the American family in terms of the three major sociological theories; Explain the concepts concerning who marries whom; Describe how the rules in institutions shape perceptions of what constitutes a family and may reinforce inequality and discrimination; Explain human reproduction, including prenatal aspects, childbirth, contraceptive techniques and socially transmitted diseases; Assess possible future changes in what family forms, marriage forms and living arrangements are as they may affect the American family.
Prerequisite:
(ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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