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Reynolds Community College Catalog 2021-2022 
    
Reynolds Community College Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Marketing

  
  • MKT 290 - Coordinated Internship in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial, or service firms coordinated by the college. Provides students an opportunity to increase their knowledge of operating a retail business. Teaches the skills necessary for effective performance in supervisory and upper-level management positions in marketing occupations. Involves rotation among the various departments/functions within the retail training laboratory until the student is familiar with the operation. Combines a comprehensive introduction to store retailing with extensive on-the-job training assignments, which provide the opportunity to apply the understanding of merchandising and management procedures.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 15 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Minimum of any 30 credits.
  
  • MKT 298 - Seminar and Project in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student’s occupational objective and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field. Familiarizes the student with many career opportunities in the field through classroom instruction and field exercises.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: Students should have completed most of the Retail Specialization before enrolling in this course.

Mathematics Developmental Education

  
  • MDE 10 - Introduction to Algebra

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers topics in arithmetic through introduction to variables and equations. Prepares students for enrollment into MDE 60 , MTH 101-MTH 133 , or direct enrollment into MTH 154  or MTH 155  with co­requisite.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDE 54 - Learning Supports for Quantitative Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides support to ensure success for students co-enrolled in MTH 154 - Quantitative Reasoning . Course will review foundational topics through direct instruction, guided practice, and individualized support.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Corequisites: MTH 154 - Quantitative Reasoning .

  
  • MDE 55 - Learning Supports for Statistical Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides support to ensure success for students co-enrolled in MTH 155 - Statistical Reasoning . Course will review foundational topics through direct instruction, guided practice, and individualized support.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Corequisites: MTH 155 - Statistical Reasoning .

  
  • MDE 60 - Intermediate Algebra

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers topics in algebra. Prepares students for enrollment into MTH 161  with co-requisite.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDE 61 - Learning Supports for Pre-Calculus

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides support to ensure success for students co-enrolled in Pre-Calculus (MTH 161 ). Course will review foundational topics through direct instruction, guided practice, and individualized support.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Corequisites: MTH 161 - Precalculus I .


Mathematics

  
  • MCR 4 - Learning Support for Quantitative Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides instruction for students who require minimum preparation for college-level Quantitative Reasoning. Students in this course will be co-enrolled in MTH 154 . Credits are not applicable toward graduation and do not replace MTE courses waived. Successful completion of Quantitative Reasoning results in the prerequisite MTE modules being satisfied.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of any three of the MTE modules 1-5 and co-enrollment in MTH 154 .
  
  • MCR 5 - Learning Support for Statistical Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides instruction for students who require minimum preparation for college-level Statistical Reasoning. Students in this course will be co-enrolled in MTH 155 . Credits are not applicable toward graduation and do not replace MTE courses waived. Successful completion of Statistical Reasoning results in the prerequisite MTE modules being satisfied.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of any three of the MTE modules 1-5.
    Corequisites: MTH 155 .

  
  • MCR 6 - Learning Support for Precalculus I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides instruction for students who require minimum preparation for college-level Precalculus. Students in this course will be co-enrolled in MTH 161 . Credits are not applicable toward graduation and do not replace MTE courses waived. Successful completion of Precalculus I results in the prerequisite MTE modules being satisfied.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of any seven of the MTE modules 1-9.
    Corequisites: MTH 161 .

  
  • MCR 7 - Learning Support for Precalculus with Trigonometry

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides instruction for students who require minimum preparation for college-level Precalculus, but still need further preparation to succeed. Students in this course will be co-enrolled in MTH 167 . Credits are not applicable toward graduation and do not replace MTE courses waived. Successful completion of Precalculus with Trig results in the prerequisite MTE modules being satisfied.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of any seven of the MTE modules 1-9.
    Corequisites: MTH 167 .

  
  • MTH 111 - Basic Technical Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a foundation in mathematics with emphasis in arithmetic, unit conversion, basic algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Replaces MTH 101 or 103 or 104 or 105 or 106.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Competency in Introductory Algebra MDE 10  as demonstrated through placement or by satisfactorily completing MDE 10 .
  
  • MTH 130 - Fundamentals of Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents elementary concepts of algebra, linear graphing, financial literacy, descriptive statistics, and measurement and geometry. Based on college programs being supported by this course, colleges may opt to add additional topics such as logic or trigonometry. This course replaces MTH 120 or MTH 121 and is intended for occupational/technical programs.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Competency in Introductory Algebra MDE 10  as demonstrated through placement or by satisfactorily completing MDE 10 .
  
  • MTH 131 - Technical Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents algebra through unit conversion, trigonometry, vectors, geometry, and complex numbers. Replaces MTH 115 and MTH 116.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Competency in Introductory Algebra MDE 10  as demonstrated through placement or by satisfactorily completing MDE 10 .
  
  • MTH 133 - Mathematics for Health Professionals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents in context the arithmetic of fractions and decimals, the metric system and dimensional analysis, percents, ratio and proportion, linear equations, topics in statistics, topics in geometry, logarithms, and topics in health professions, including dosages, dilutions, and IV flow rates. This course replaces MTH 126 and is intended for health professions programs.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Competency in Introductory Algebra MDE 10  as demonstrated through placement or by satisfactorily completing MDE 10 .
  
  • MTH 154 - Quantitative Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents topics in proportional reasoning, modeling, financial literacy, and validity studies (logic and set theory). Focuses on the process of taking a real-world situation, identifying the mathematical foundation needed to address the problem, solving the problem, and applying what is learned to the original situation. Replaces MTH 151, MTH 152, MTH 158, or MTH 170.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MDE 10  followed by co-enrollment in MDE 54  with MTH 154 or placement in MTH 154 or placement in co-requisites MTH 154 and MDE 54 .
  
  • MTH 155 - Statistical Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents elementary statistical methods and concepts including visual data presentation, descriptive statistics, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, and linear regression. Emphasis is placed on the development of statistical thinking, simulation, and the use of statistical software. Replaces MTH 146 or MTH 157. Credit will not be awarded for both MTH 155 and MTH 245 .

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MDE 10  followed by co-enrollment in MDE 55  with MTH 155 or placement in MTH 155 or placement in co-requisites MTH 155 and MDE 55 .
  
  • MTH 156 - Elementary Geometry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and introduces non-Euclidean geometries and current topics.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Competency in Introductory Algebra MDE 10  as demonstrated through placement or by satisfactorily completing MDE 10 .
  
  • MTH 161 - Precalculus I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents topics in power, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, and systems of equations. Replaces MTH 163. Credit will not be awarded for both MTH 161 and MTH 167  or equivalent.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MDE 60  followed by co-enrollment in MDE 60  with MTH 161 or placement in MTH 161 or placement in co-requisites MTH 161 and MDE 61 .
  
  • MTH 162 - Precalculus II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents trigonometry, trigonometric applications, including Law of Sines and Cosines, and an introduction to conics. Replaces MTH 164. Credit will not be awarded for both MTH 162 and MTH 167  or equivalent.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement in MTH 162 or completion of MTH 161  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 167 - Precalculus with Trigonometry

    Credit Hours: 5
    Presents topics in power, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, systems of equations, trigonometry, trigonometric applications, including Law of Sines and Cosines, and an introduction to conics. Replaces MTH 166 or MTH 168. Credit will not be awarded for both MTH 167 and MTH 161 /MTH 162  or equivalent.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 5 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement in MTH 167.
  
  • MTH 245 - Statistics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents an overview of statistics, including descriptive statistics, elementary probability, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, and linear regression. Credit will not be awarded for both MTH 155 - Statistical Reasoning  and MTH 245 - Statistics I or equivalent.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MTH 154  or MTH 161  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 246 - Statistics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues the study of estimation and hypothesis testing with emphasis on advanced regression topics, experimental design, analysis of variance, chi-square tests, and non-parametric methods. Focuses on multivariate and nonparametric techniques useful to business, science, and social science majors. Replaces MTH 242.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MTH 245  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 261 - Applied Calculus I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces limits, continuity, differentiation, and integration of algebraic, exponential and logarithmic functions, and techniques of integration with an emphasis on applications in business, social sciences, and life sciences. Replaces MTH 270 or MTH 271.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement into MTH 261 or completion of MTH 161  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 262 - Applied Calculus II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers techniques of integration and an introduction to differential equations and multivariable calculus, with an emphasis throughout on applications in business, social sciences, and life sciences. Replaces MTH 272.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MTH 261  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 263 - Calculus I

    Credit Hours: 4
    Presents concepts of limits, derivatives, differentiation of various types of functions and use of differentiation rules, application of differentiation, antiderivatives, and integrals. This course replaces MTH 173 or MTH 175 or MTH 273 and is the first course in a three-course sequence.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement into MTH 263 or completion of MTH 167  or MTH 161 /162 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 264 - Calculus II

    Credit Hours: 4
    Prepares students for further study in calculus with analytic geometry by providing them with the necessary competencies in finding limits, differentiation, and integration. Continues the study of calculus of algebraic and transcendental functions, including rectangular, polar, and parametric graphing, indefinite and definite integrals, methods of integration, and power series along with applications. Designed for mathematical, physical, and engineering science programs. This course replaces MTH 174 or MTH 176 or MTH 274 and is the second course in a three-course sequence.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement in MTH 264 or completion of MTH 263  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 265 - Calculus III

    Credit Hours: 4
    Prepares students for further study in calculus. Focuses on extending the concepts of function, limit, continuity, derivative, integral, and vector from the plane to the three dimensional space. Topics include vector functions, multivariate functions, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, and an introduction to vector calculus. Designed for mathematical, physical, and engineering science programs. This course replaces MTH 277 or MTH 178 and is the third course in a three-course sequence.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement in MTH 265 or completion of MTH 264  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 266 - Linear Algebra

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers matrices, vector spaces, determinants, solutions of systems of linear equations, basis and dimension, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors. Designed for mathematical, physical and engineering science programs. This course replaces MTH 177 or MTH 275 or MTH 285.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Completion of MTH 263  or equivalent with a grade of B or better, or MTH 264  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 267 - Differential Equations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces ordinary differential equations. Includes first order differential equations, second and higher order ordinary differential equations with applications, and numerical methods. Replaces MTH 279 or MTH 291.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Completion of MTH 264  with a grade of C or better.
  
  • MTH 288 - Discrete Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents topics in sets, counting, graphs, logic, proofs, functions, relations, mathematical induction, Boolean Algebra, and recurrence relations.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: MTH 161  or MTH 166 or MTH 167 .

Mechanical Engineering Tech

  
  • MEC 175 - Fundamental Shop Procedures and Internal Combustion Engine

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces the student to the practical use and care of hand and power tools, shop equipment and pullers, precision measuring tools, service manuals and parts catalogs, and safety. Includes the introduction to the design of the internal combustion engine.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only

Medical Laboratory

  
  • MDL 100 - Introduction to Medical Laboratory Technology

    Credit Hours: 2
    Introduces the basic principles, techniques, and vocabulary applicable to all phases of medical laboratory technology, including design of the health care system, ethics, terminology, and calculations.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDL 101 - Introduction to Medical Laboratory Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the basic techniques, including design of the health care system, ethics, terminology, calculations, venipuncture, and routine urinalysis.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: All (or most with program head approval) general education courses required in the Medical Laboratory Technology program.
  
  • MDL 105 - Phlebotomy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces basic medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, components of health care delivery and clinical laboratory structure. Teaches techniques of specimen collection, specimen handling, and patient interactions.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the reading placement test.
  
  • MDL 110 - Urinalysis and Body Fluids

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the gross, chemical, and microscopic techniques used in the clinical laboratory. Emphasizes the study of clinical specimens, which include the urine, feces, cerebrospinal fluid, blood, and body exudates. Introduces specimen collection and preparation.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDL 125 - Clinical Hematology I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches the cellular elements of blood, including blood cell formation, and routine hematological procedures.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
  
  • MDL 190 - Coordinated Practice in Phlebotomy (MLT)

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides supervised on-the-job training in a designated specimen collection location. Includes skill development and evaluation of blood collection using venipuncture and capillary techniques, specimen handling, patient/staff interactions, professional behavior, and troubleshooting the collection process. Requires successful completion of 50 procedures for students to pass this course.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 8 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of MDL 100  or MDL 105 .
  
  • MDL 190 - Coordinated Practice in Phlebotomy Training

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides supervised training and practice in venipuncture for phlebotomy students at clinical sites coordinated by the college. Students will observe venipunctures, perform some procedures with supervision, and perform the remaining venipunctures on their own. A total of 100 venipunctures and 25 dermal punctures must be completed successfully to pass this clinical. Students may also be required to attend site-specific training related to bloodborne pathogens and HIPAA and participate in skills assessments by Reynolds faculty.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 40 hours per week for three weeks.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: MDL 105 .
  
  • MDL 210 - Immunology and Serology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches principles of basic immunology, physiology of the immune system, diseases involving the immune system, and serologic procedures.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDL 216 - Blood Banking

    Credit Hours: 4
    Teaches fundamentals of blood grouping and typing, compatibility testing, antibody screening, component preparation, donor selection, and transfusion reactions and investigation.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 5 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
  
  • MDL 225 - Clinical Hematology II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches advanced study of blood to include coagulation, abnormal blood formation, and changes seen in various diseases.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: MDL 125 .
  
  • MDL 251 - Clinical Microbiology I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches handling, isolation, and identification of pathogenic microorganisms. Emphasizes clinical techniques of bacteriology and mycology. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 4 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
  
  • MDL 252 - Clinical Microbiology II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches handling, isolation, and identification of pathogenic microorganisms. Emphasizes clinical techniques of bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and virology. Part II of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: MDL 251  (or BIO 205 ).
  
  • MDL 261 - Clinical Chemistry and Instrumentation I

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces methods of performing biochemical analysis of clinical specimens. Teaches instrumentation involved in a clinical chemistry laboratory, quality control, and the ability to recognize technical problems. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDL 281 - Clinical Correlations

    Credit Hours: 1
    Teaches students to apply knowledge gained in courses offered in the MDL curriculum using primarily a case history form of presentation. Emphasizes critical-thinking skills in the practice of laboratory medicine. To be taken in final semester while students are in clinical rotations.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MDL 290 - Coordinated Practice in Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides supervised on-the-job training in a hospital blood bank. Includes skill development and evaluation of typing and cross-matching technique for transfusion, analyzing data and formulating reports, performing and analyzing quality control measures, and troubleshooting test parameters.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 40 hours per week for three weeks.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first four semesters of the MDL curriculum and program permission to enroll in this course.
    Corequisites: MDL 281 .

  
  • MDL 290 - Coordinated Practice in Clinical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides supervised on-the-job training in a clinical chemistry laboratory. Includes skill development and evaluation of chemical analysis technique for blood and other body fluids, analyzing data and formulating reports, performing and analyzing quality control measures, and troubleshooting test parameters.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 40 hours per week for three weeks.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first four semesters of the MDL curriculum and program permission to enroll in this course.
    Corequisites: MDL 281 .

  
  • MDL 290 - Coordinated Practice in Hematology

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides supervised on-the-job training in a clinical hematology laboratory. Includes skill development and evaluation of techniques for automated cell counting, manual differential counting, assessing blood cells in health and disease, analyzing data and formulating reports, performing and analyzing quality control measures, and troubleshooting test parameters.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 40 hours per week for three weeks.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first four semesters of the MDL curriculum and program permission to enroll in this course.
    Corequisites: MDL 281 .

  
  • MDL 290 - Coordinated Practice in Microbiology

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides supervised on-the-job training in a clinical microbiology laboratory. Includes skill development and evaluation of culture and sensitivity technique for various patient specimens, identification of numerous pathogens, analyzing data and formulating reports, performing and analyzing quality control measures, and troubleshooting test parameters.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 40 hours per week for three weeks.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first four semesters of the MDL curriculum and program permission to enroll in this course.
    Corequisites: MDL 281 .

  
  • MDL 290 - Coordinated Practice in Urinalysis, Serology, and Coagulation

    Credit Hours: 1
    Supervises on-the-job training in conjunction with another rotation, at the discretion of the clinical site. Includes skill development and evaluation of techniques performing urinalysis, conducting serological assays, conducting hemostasis studies, analyzing data and formulating reports, performing and analyzing quality control measures, and troubleshooting test parameters.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 40 hours per week for one week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first four semesters of the MDL curriculum and program permission to enroll in this course.
    Corequisites: MDL 281 .


Mental Health

  
  • MEN 101 - Mental Health Skill Training I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops skills necessary to function as a mental health worker, with emphasis on guided practice in counseling skills as well as improved self-awareness. Includes training in problem-solving, goal-setting, and implementation of appropriate strategies and evaluation techniques relating to interaction involving a variety of client needs. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MEN 102 - Mental Health Skill Training II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops skills necessary to function as a mental health worker, with emphasis on guided practice in counseling skills as well as improved self-awareness. Includes training in problem-solving, goal-setting, and implementation of appropriate strategies and evaluation techniques relating to interaction involving a variety of client needs. Part II of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: MEN 101 .

Music

  
  • MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Provides the ability to read and identify basic fundamentals of music notation. Teaches major and minor scales, chords and basic harmonic progressions. Covers basic ear training and keyboard exercises.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
  
  • MUS 111 - Music Theory I

    Credit Hours: 4
    Discusses elements of musical construction of scales, intervals, triads, and chord progressions. Develops ability to sing at sight and write from dictation. Introduces the analysis of the Bach chorale style. Expands facility with harmonic dictation and enables the student to use these techniques at the keyboard. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
  
  • MUS 112 - Music Theory II

    Credit Hours: 4
    Discusses elements of musical construction of scales, intervals, triads, and chord progressions. Develops ability to sing at sight and write from dictation. Introduces the analysis of the Bach chorale style. Expands facility with harmonic dictation and enables the student to use these techniques at the keyboard. Part II of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: MUS 111 .
  
  • MUS 121 - Music in Society

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the language of music through an introduction to basic elements, forms and styles across time. Acquaints students with composers’ lives and influential creative individualities, discovering representative works and milestones in western society. Develops techniques for listening analytically and critically. Reviews historical development and significance of art music within the context of evolving societal structures. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  
  • MUS 136 - Applied Music - Voice

    Credit Hours: 2
    Teaches singing, proper breath control, diction, and development of tone. Studies the standard vocal repertoire. May be repeated for a total of 3 hours for the major and 4 hours for the minor.

    Prerequisites: school approval. 1 hour lesson per week and 8 hours practice (laboratory) required.
  
  • MUS 137 - Chorus Ensemble

    Credit Hours: 1
    Ensemble consists of performance from the standard repertoires, including study of ensemble techniques and interpretation. School approval required.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours per week.
  
  • MUS 141 - Class Piano I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Offers the beginning piano student activities in learning musical notation, in accomplishing sight reading skills, and in mastering techniques of keyboard playing. Presents appropriate literature. Open to all students and may be used to fulfill applied minor instrument requirement for music major. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
  
  • MUS 142 - Class Piano II

    Credit Hours: 2
    Offers the beginning piano student activities in learning musical notation, in accomplishing sight reading skills, and in mastering techniques of keyboard playing. Presents appropriate literature. Open to all students and may be used to fulfill applied minor instrument requirement for music major. Part II of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Prerequisites: MUS 141  or equivalent.
  
  • MUS 145 - Applied Music - Keyboard

    Credit Hours: 2
    Teaches piano, organ, harpsichord, or synthesizer. Studies the standard repertoire.

    Prerequisites: school approval. May be repeated a
  
  • MUS 221 - History of Music I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the chronology of musical styles from antiquity to the present time. Relates the historical development of music to parallel movements in art, drama, and literature. Develops techniques for listening analytically and critically to music.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
  
  • MUS 225 - The History of Jazz

    Credit Hours: 3
    N/A


Natural Science

  
  • NAS 2 - Foundations of Life Sciences

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents elementary biological and chemical principles for allied health students whose high school preparation is deficient in the biological sciences.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer

Nursing

  
  • NSG 100 - Introduction to Nursing Concepts

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces concepts of nursing practice and conceptual learning. Focuses on basic nursing concepts with an emphasis on safe nursing practice and the development of the nursing process. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 141  or BIO 231 ; ENG 111 , PSY 230 , SDV 100 , CPR - American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers.
  
  • NSG 106 - Competencies for Nursing Practice

    Credit Hours: 2
    Focuses on the application of concepts through clinical skill development. Emphasizes the use of clinical judgment in skill acquisition. Includes principles of safety, evidence-based practice, informatics, and math computational skills. Prepares students to demonstrate competency in specific skills and drug dosage calculation including the integration of skills in the care of clients in simulated settings. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 141  or BIO 231 , ENG 111 , PSY 230 , SDV 100 , CPR - American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers.
  
  • NSG 115 - Healthcare Concepts for Transition

    Credit Hours: 5
    Focuses on role transition from licensed practical nurse to registered professional nurse. Incorporates concepts of nursing practice and conceptual learning to promote health and wellness across the life span. Uses the nursing process to explore care delivery for selected diverse populations with common and predictable illness. Emphasizes the use of clinical judgement in skill acquisition.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: BIO 141  and BIO 142 ; ENG 111 ; PSY 230 ; SDV 100 ; acceptance to the LPN to AAS Nursing transition program.
  
  • NSG 130 - Professional Nursing Concepts

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces the role of the professional nurse and fundamental concepts in professional development. Focuses on professional identity, legal/ethical issues and contemporary trends in professional nursing.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 141  or BIO 231 ; ENG 111 , PSY 230 , SDV 100 , CPR - American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers.
  
  • NSG 152 - Health Care Participant

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the health and wellness of diverse individuals, families, and the community throughout the lifespan. Covers concepts that focus on client attributes and preferences regarding healthcare. Emphasizes population-focused care. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or cooperating agencies, and/or simulated environments.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 142  or BIO 232 ; NSG 100 , NSG 106 , NSG 130  and NSG 200 .
  
  • NSG 170 - Health/Illness Concepts

    Credit Hours: 6
    Focuses on the nursing care of individuals and/or families throughout the lifespan with an emphasis on health and illness concepts. Includes concepts of nursing care for the antepartum client and clients with common and predictable illnesses. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 142  or BIO 232 ; NSG 100 , NSG 106 , NSG 130 , and NSG 200 .
  
  • NSG 200 - Health Promotion and Assessment

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces assessment and health promotion for the individual and family. Includes assessment of infants, children, adults, geriatric clients and pregnant females. Emphasizes health history and the acquisition of physical assessment skills with underlying concepts of development, communication, and health promotion. Prepares students to demonstrate competency in the assessment of clients across the lifespan. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 141  or BIO 231 ; ENG 111 , PSY 230 , SDV 100 .
  
  • NSG 210 - Health Care Concepts I

    Credit Hours: 5
    Focuses on care of clients across the lifespan in multiple settings including concepts related to physiological health alterations and reproduction. Emphasizes the nursing processin the development of clinical judgment for clients with multiple needs. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories clinical/community settings and/or simulated environments. Part Iof II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 150  or BIO 205 , NSG 152 , and NSG 170 .
  
  • NSG 211 - Health Care Concepts II

    Credit Hours: 5
    Focuses on care of clients across the life span in multiple settings including concepts related to psychological and physiological health alterations. Emphasizes the nursing process in the development of clinical judgment for clients with multiple needs. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories clinical/community settings and/or simulated environments. Part II of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: BIO 150  or BIO 205 , NSG 152 , and NSG 170 .
  
  • NSG 230 - Advanced Professional Nursing Concepts

    Credit Hours: 2
    Develops the role of the professional nurse in the health care environment in preparation for practice as a registered nurse. Introduces leadership and management concepts and focuses on the integration of professional behaviors in a variety of health care settings.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: NSG 210  and NSG 211 .
  
  • NSG 252 - Complex Health Care Concepts

    Credit Hours: 4
    Focuses on nursing care of diverse individuals and families integrating complex health concepts. Emphasizes clinical judgment, patient-centered care and collaboration.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: NSG 210  and NSG 211 .
  
  • NSG 270 - Nursing Capstone

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides students with the opportunity to comprehensively apply and integrate learned concepts from previous nursing courses into a capstone experience. Emphasizes the mastery of patient-centered care, safety, nursing judgment, professional behaviors, informatics, quality improvement, and collaboration in the achievement of optimal outcomes of care. Provides supervised learning experiences in faculty and/or preceptor-guided college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 12 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: NSG 210  and NSG 211 .

Opticianry

  
  • OPT 105 - Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Eye

    Credit Hours: 3
    Considers the fundamentals of various body systems and principles of human physiology; methods of drug delivery, including the advantages and disadvantages of drops, ointments, and sustained release systems; systemic use of medications; basic characteristics of common external and internal diseases of the eye; and ocular emergencies.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
  
  • OPT 121 - Optical Theory I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces theory and application of ophthalmic lenses. Presents history, basic manufacturing, and quality standards of ophthalmic lenses, propagation of light, refraction, and dioptric measurements, true power, surface power, nominal lens formula. Explains lens makers’ equation, boxing system, spherical lens design, fundamental aspects of cylindrical lenses, sphero-cylinder lens design, and flat and toric transposition.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
  
  • OPT 122 - Optical Theory II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the development of multifocal lenses, application of multifocal lenses, survey of current ophthalmic lens, the properties of spherocylinder lenses, and an in-depth analysis of the optics of ophthalmic prisms, which includes prism notation, vertical imbalance, and anisometropia.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 121  or equivalent.
  
  • OPT 150 - Optical Laboratory Theory I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the student to the terminology, instruments, lens, frames, and materials used in the surfacing and finishing of optical prescription eyewear. Focuses on the lensometry and fabrication of single vision eyewear and presents personal and environmental safety issues.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Corequisites: OPT 152 .

  
  • OPT 151 - Optical Laboratory Theory II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers making eyeglasses with advanced prescriptions and frames. Includes verification and neutralization techniques for single vision lens and bifocals, frame repair, accomplishing prescribed prism by decentration, verification and neutralization, semi-rimless glasses, and multifocal glasses.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 150  and OPT 152  or equivalent.
    Corequisites: OPT 153 .

  
  • OPT 152 - Optical Laboratory Clinical I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the clinical component of OPT 150 . Provides students the opportunity to learn clinical skills in fundamental optical laboratory tasks at the entry level under the direction and supervision of a preceptor. Emphasizes accuracy and attaining skills that meet acceptable professional standards.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Corequisites: OPT 150 .

  
  • OPT 153 - Optical Laboratory Clinical II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the clinical component of OPT 151 . Presents students with an opportunity to learn clinical skills for optical laboratory tasks at the advanced level under the direction and supervision of a preceptor. Emphasizes accuracy and the attainment of skills that meet acceptable professional standards.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 150  and OPT 152  or equivalent.
    Corequisites: OPT 151 .

  
  • OPT 154 - Optical Business Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers basic management and leadership skills necessary for a successful eye care office. Teaches the analysis, creative thinking, judgment, planning strategy, and implementation skills necessary for today’s optical business challenges.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Summer Only
  
  • OPT 160 - Optical Dispensing Theory I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the student to the skills necessary for becoming a dispensing optician. Includes the history of the profession, patient/client measurements, frame and lens materials, frame and lens selection, prescription analysis, and adjustment techniques.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Summer Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 121  or equivalent.
    Corequisites: OPT 165 .

  
  • OPT 165 - Optical Dispensing Clinical I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides the student with an opportunity to develop the skills necessary for becoming a dispensing optician. Covers patient/client measurements, frame and lens materials, frame and lens selection, prescription analysis, and adjustment techniques. Serves as the clinical component of OPT 160 .

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Summer Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 121  or equivalent.
    Corequisites: OPT 160 .

  
  • OPT 260 - Optical Dispensing Theory II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the development and refinement of the skills necessary for student to become a licensed dispensing optician, including patient/client measurements, presbyopic options, frame and lens materials, absorptive lenses, frame and lens selection, safety and sports eyewear, prescription analysis to include considerations for spectacle magnification and tilt, low vision aids, and adjustment techniques.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 160  and OPT 165  or equivalent.
    Corequisites: OPT 271 .

  
  • OPT 271 - Optical Dispensing Clinical II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the development and refinement of the skills necessary for students to become a licensed dispensing opticians, including patient/client measurements, frame and lens materials, frame and lens selection, prescription analysis, and adjustment techniques. Serves as the clinical component of OPT 260 .

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 12 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 160  and OPT 165  or equivalent.
    Corequisites: OPT 260 .

  
  • OPT 272 - Optical Dispensing Clinical III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the development and refinement of the skills necessary for students to become a licensed dispensing optician, including patient/client measurements, frame and lens materials, frame and lens selection, prescription analysis, and adjustment techniques.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 12 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 271 .
  
  • OPT 273 - Contact Lens Theory I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces basic concepts and techniques of contact lens fitting, design, materials, and nomenclature. Covers contact lens insertion and removal techniques, and basic slit lamp and keratometry skills.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Summer Only
    Prerequisites: NAS 176 or OPT 105  or equivalent.
  
  • OPT 274 - Contact Lens Theory II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores soft spherical and gas permeable contact lens fitting philosophies, tolerances, and designs. Develops the student’s patient evaluation skills, patient training skills, and skills for evaluating the fit and verification of contact lenses.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 273  or equivalent.
  
  • OPT 280 - Contact Lens Clinical

    Credit Hours: 3
    Promotes the development of clinical skills in fundamental contact lens tasks at the entry level under the direction and supervision of a preceptor. Emphasizes professional standards.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: OPT 274  or equivalent.

Philosophy

  
  • PHI 101 - Introduction to Philosophy I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and perspectives with an emphasis on the systematic questioning of basic assumptions about meaning, knowledge, reality, and values. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111  or placement in co-requisites ENG 111  and EDE 11 .
  
  • PHI 111 - Logic I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces inductive and deductive reasoning, with an emphasis on common errors and fallacies.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111  or placement in co-requisites ENG 111  and EDE 11 .
  
  • PHI 220 - Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a systematic study of representative ethical systems.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111  or placement in co-requisites ENG 111  and EDE 11 .
  
  • PHI 225 - Selected Problems in Applied Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes and discusses significant contemporary ethical issues and problems existing throughout the various professions such as business medicine law education journalism and public a!airs.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Course Availability
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111  or placement in co-requisites ENG 111  and EDE 11 .
  
  • PHI 227 - Bio-Medical Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the ethical implications of specific biomedical issues in the context of major ethical systems.

    Lecture Hours: 3
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111  or placement recommendation for Co-requisites ENG 111  and EDE 11 .
  
  • PHI 260 - Studies in Eastern Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces an in-depth study of the East through a variety of approaches, which include music, literature, drama, and cinema. Places special emphasis on Chinese and Japanese philosophy and religion, especially Buddhism.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Must have tested into English 111 with no developmental co-requisites.

Photography

  
  • PHT 164 - Introduction to Digital Photography

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches the fundamentals of photography including camera function, composition, and image production as they apply to digital imagery.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
 

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