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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Improves basic reading and vocabulary skills. Expands reading comprehension from literal to inferential understanding of text. Advances effective dictionary use and spelling accuracy and promotes personal lifelong reading habits. This class carries institutional credit but cannot be applied toward any degree or certificate program. Prerequisite: Placement test score or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Introduces literal and critical reading skills essential for successful collegiate level course work. Increases vocabulary and critical thinking skills for comprehending text in all discipline areas. Promotes personal lifelong reading habits. Requires demonstration of ability to read beyond twelfth-grade level, based on standardized measures and class work. This course may be used as a general elective. Successful completion of this course meets the College's reading requirement for graduation. Prerequisite: Completion of REA 091 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate placement score.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Studies social patterns affecting the structure and functioning of group life such as cultural values, deviance, class structure, and social change. Examines methods and perspectives sociologists employ, and the ways group forces influence the individual in society. Prerequisite or corequisite: REA101 or having met the College's reading competency.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Examines social problems such as racism, inequality, sexism, delinquency, deviancy, urban growth, over-population, and global stratification. Studies social problems and their sources, theoretical approaches to the study and potential resolution of social problems. Prerequisite: SOC101.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Examines patterns of marriage, family, and intimate relationships from a variety of perspectives. Emphasizes functions and alternative structures of American marriage and family patterns. Explores problems and potential adjustments confronting marriage and family within the context of social change. Prerequisite: SOC101.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Examines juvenile delinquency and crime in contemporary society. Presents nature and extent of delinquency and crime, theories of causation and control, types of delinquency and criminality, and the basics of the criminal justice system. Prerequisite: SOC101.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Examines the definition of human diversity in American culture, including ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, poverty, and religion. Identifies the misinformation that perpetuates the exclusion of diverse groups from mainstream opportunities, and differentiates covert acts, institutional policies, and ideologies that promote the exclusion of diverse groups. Provides an awareness of the student's own diversity and how their feelings and worldviews might differ from other diverse groups, and how those differences may influence behaviors positively and/or negatively. Three class hours. Prerequisites: None.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Examines the cultural definition and societal forces that influence the position of women in society. Studies women who have made a difference, recognizing their courage, accomplishments, ideas, andactions. Focuses on the role of social action in promoting change within society.
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Develops Spanish listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Emphasizes ability to use and understand Spanish in context. Strategies may include lecture and discussion, group and individual work, oral exercises, video, reading and writing assignments. Requires laboratory-supported practice. Students hold basic conversations, read simple passages, and write brief dialogues and paragraphs at the novice level. Instructor determines final placement.
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2.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Strengthens Spanish listening, speaking, reading and writing skills acquired in SPA101 Elementary Spanish 1. Emphasizes the ability to use and understand Spanish in context through group and individual work, oral exercises, presentations, reading, and writing assignments. Requires laboratory- supported practice. Instruction occurs in Spanish with clarification in English. Students express themselves orally, read authentic materials, understand oral input, and write compositions at the high- novice level. Instructor determines final placement. Prerequisite: SPA101 or equivalent.
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