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Course Descriptions

Explanatory Notes

COURSE NUMBERS

NUMBERS 1-9 INDICATE DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES COURSES.

Credits earned in these courses are not applicable toward certificate or associate degree programs.

NUMBERS 10-99 INDICATE BASIC OCCUPATIONAL COURSES (EXCEPT FOR ESL COURSES).

Credits earned for these courses are applicable toward certificate programs. These credits are not applicable toward an associate degree.

NUMBERS 100-199 INDICATE FRESHMAN-LEVEL COURSES.

Credits earned for these courses are applicable toward associate degree and certificate programs.

NUMBERS 200-299 INDICATE SOPHOMORE-LEVEL COURSES.

Credits earned for these courses are applicable toward associate degree and certificate programs.

COURSE CREDITS

The credit for each course is indicated after the title in the course description. One credit is equivalent to one collegiate semester-hour credit.

COURSE HOURS

The number of lecture hours in class each week (including lecture, seminar, and discussion hours) and/or the number of laboratory hours in each week (including laboratory, shop, supervised practice, and cooperative work experiences) are indicated for each course in the course description. In addition to the lecture and laboratory hours in class each week, students must spend time on out-of-class assignments under their own direction.

PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

If any prerequisites are required before enrolling in a course, they will be identified in the course description or by an indication of course sequence. Courses listed as  ACC 111-ACC 112 and ENG 111-ENG 112, for example, must be taken in sequence unless otherwise noted in the course description. Courses in special sequences (usually identified by the numerals I-II or I-II-III) must also be taken in sequence unless otherwise noted in the course description. The prerequisites must be completed satisfactorily before enrolling in a course unless special permission is obtained from the school dean or designee. Co-requisite courses are to be taken simultaneously.

GENERAL USAGE COURSES

The following “General Usage Courses” apply to multiple curricula and may carry a variety of prefix designations. The descriptions of the courses are normally identical for each different prefix and are as follows:

90-190-290 COORDINATED INTERNSHIP

Provides supervised on-the-job training in selected health agencies, business, industrial, or service firms coordinated by the college. Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.

93-193-293 STUDIES IN

Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course’s viability as a permanent offering. Variable hours.

95-195-295 TOPICS IN

Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students. May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.

96-196-296 ON-SITE TRAINING

Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college. Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.

97-197-297 COOPERATIVE EDUCATION

Provides on-the-job training for pay in approved businesses, industrial, and service firms. Is applicable to all occupational/technical curricula at the discretion of the college. Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.

98-198-298 SEMINAR AND PROJECT

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. Maybe repeated for credit. Variable hours.

99-199-299 SUPERVISED STUDY

Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
 

Human Services
  

  • HMS 141 - Group Dynamics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the stages of group development, group dynamics, the role of the leader in a group, and recognition of the various types of group processes. Discusses models of group dynamics that occur as a result of group membership dynamics.

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

  • HMS 142 - Group Dynamics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines group dynamics, group leadership, group cohesion, transference, and group helping through experiential involvement in group facilitating and leadership. Increases group skills through active classroom participation in group experiences.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: HMS 141 .
  

  • HMS 220 - Addiction and Prevention

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the impact of drugs and addiction on individuals and their families. Explores the myths about various drugs and their benefit or lack of benefit.

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

  • HMS 225 - Functional Family Intervention

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an understanding of functions and dysfunctions within the family. Emphasizes the development of effective skills through an interpersonal/interactional approach to family intervention.

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

  • HMS 226 - Helping Across Cultures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an historical overview of selected cultural and racial groups. Promotes understanding of group differences and the impact on counseling services.

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

  • HMS 227 - The Helper as a Change Agent

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches the following skills for implementing alternative models of change and influence: action research, problem solving, consultation, workshop development, and outreach and advocacy for diverse client populations.

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

  • HMS 236 - Gerontology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the process of aging and its implications in relation to health, recreation, education, transportation, meaningful work or activity, and community resources. Emphasizes experiencing the aging process, facilitating retirement, and application of the helping relationship to work with older adults.

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

  • HMS 258 - Case Management and Substance Abuse

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the process for interviewing substance abuse clients. Includes intake, assessment, handling denial, and ending the interview. Teaches skills for writing short-term goals and treatment plans with emphasis on accountability. Examines various reporting devices.

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

  • HMS 260 - Substance Abuse Counseling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an understanding of the skills of guidance of clients and those associated with being an advocate. Examines the dynamics of the client/counselor relationship in developing treatment plans and empowerment skills.

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

  • HMS 266 - Counseling Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies major counseling theories, their contributions and limitations, and the application of each to a counseling interaction. Students develop their own personal counseling theory.

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

  • HMS 270 - Treatment Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the services and facilities established for the purpose of treating addictions. Focuses on treatment therapy models and ethical standards related to addiction-disease theory.

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

  • HMS 290 - Coordinated Internship in Human Services

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students must complete a 130 (HMS AAS degree) or 180 (CSC Substance Use/Abuse) clock-hour experiential learning assignment in community-based governmental, non-profit, or for-profit human service/social work or substance use/abuse agencies, as well as attend a scheduled campus-based or virtual course seminar.  Students who enroll in HMS 290 will be pre-cleared and placed into agency internships by the instructor of the course.  Program approved internships in human service and substance abuse agencies required. Places students in selected career-related human service agencies. Provides students with an opportunity to learn to integrate practice with theory under the supervision of a qualified supervisor in their designated career field. Helps students gain an overview of their chosen service career field.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 15 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer

Information Technology Design
  

  • ITD 110 - Web Page Design I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Stresses a working knowledge of web site designs, construction, and management using HTML5 and Dreamweaver. Includes headings, lists, links, images, image maps, tables, forms, and frames. Also includes templates, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), responsive web design and publishing to a web server.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: ITE 152   or equivalent 
  

  • ITD 112 - Designing Web Page Graphics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the creation of digital graphics for web design. Includes basic design elements, such as color and layout, utilizing a computer graphics program.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: ITE 152  or equivalent.
  

  • ITD 130 - Database Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces the student to Relational Database and Relational Database theory. Includes planning, defining, and using a database; table design, linking, and normalization; and types of databases, database description, and definition. Additional topics cover the use of Entity Relationship (ER) modeling in detail through many real-life examples and practical business problems and solutions. After several iterations, the ER model captures the data requirements and business rules and forms a sound basis for the initial design of a relational database. The introduction to SQL allows for the implementation of a database design using SQL.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: ITE 152   or school approval.
  

  • ITD 132 - Structured Query Language (T-SQL)

    Credit Hours: 4
    Incorporates a working introduction to commands, functions, and operators used in SQL for extracting data from standard databases. Provides students with hands-on experience developing code, functions, triggers, and stored procedures for SQL Server 2012.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: ITD 130  or equivalent.
  

  • ITD 210 - Web Page Design II

    Credit Hours: 4
    Incorporates advanced techniques in web site planning, design, usability, accessibility, advanced site management, and maintenance utilizing web editor software.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: ITD 110  or equivalent
  

  • ITD 212 - Interactive Web Design

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides techniques in interactive web design concepts for cross-platform and low-bandwidth through fast and concise open source applications. Emphasizes the importance of usability, accessibility, optimization, and performance. Understand and implement skills to design web sites for wireless devices. JQuery and jQuery Mobile are used to make websites interactive by reacting to visitor actions, use animations and effects, build drop-down navigation menus, pop-ups, and automate slideshows and more to improve the user interface.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: ITD 110  or equivalent.
  

  • ITD 298 - Seminar and Project: Web Design Capstone

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides students with hands-on experience developing exemplary websites created with Dreamweaver using advanced behaviors and techniques, such as Asynchronous JavaScript and database connectivity using the Php language, JQuery, responsive web design, and additional components that students will select.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: ITD 210  and ITD 212  or permission from the instructor.

Information Technology Essentials
  

  • ITE 130 - Introduction to Internet Services

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students with a working knowledge of Internet terminology and services, including e-mail, WWW browsing, search engines, ftp, file compression, and other services using a variety of software packages. Provides instruction for basic web page construction.

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

  • ITE 140 - Spreadsheet Software (Excel)

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the use of spreadsheet software to create spreadsheets with formatted cells and cell ranges, control pages, multiple sheets, charts, and macros. Topics include type and edit text in a cell, enter data on multiple worksheets, work with formulas and functions, create charts, PivotTables, and styles, insert headers and footers, and filter data. Covers MOS Excel objectives.

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

  • ITE 150 - Desktop Database Software (Access)

    Credit Hours: 3
    Incorporates instruction in planning, defining, and using a database; performing queries; producing reports; working with multiple files; and concepts of database programming. Course topics include database concepts, principles of table design and table relationships, entering data, creating and using forms, using data from different sources, filtering, creating mailing labels. This course covers MOS Access certification objectives.

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

  • ITE 152 - Introduction to Digital Literacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops understanding of digital literacy. Introduces basic computer concepts in hardware, software, cyber, cloud, database, and operating systems. Includes hands-on experience developing word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents.  Evaluates the reliability of sources. Covers creating a simple web page. Examines topics such as social, legal, and ethical issues.

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

  • ITE 290 - Coordinated Internship in Information Technology Essentials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students supervised on-the-job training in Information Systems Technology.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 12 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
    Prerequisites: Permission of program head.
  

  • ITE 298 - Seminar and Project: Computer Applications Capstone

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides students with hands-on experience using the current version of Microsoft Office in order to integrate the software applications to produce realistic business projects.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
    Prerequisites: ITE 140 , ITE 150 , ITD 110 , or school approval.

Information Technology Networking
  

  • ITE 221 - PC Hardware and OS Architecture

    Credit Hours: 4
    Covers instruction about processors, internal functions, peripheral devices, computer organization, memory management, architecture, instruction format, and basic OS architecture. 

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week
  

  • ITN 101 - Introduction to Network Concepts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides instruction in networking media, physical and logical topologies, common networking standards and popular networking protocols. Emphasizes the TCP/IP protocol suite and related IP addressing schemes, including CIDR. Includes selected topics in network implementation, support, and LAN/WAN connectivity.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Corequisites: ITE 221  or school approval. 
  

  • ITN 106 - Microcomputer Operating Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches use of operating system utilities and multiple-level directory structures, creation of batch files, and configuration of microcomputer environments. May include a study of graphical user interfaces.

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

  • ITN 107 - Personal Computer Hardware and Troubleshooting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes specially designed instruction to give the student a basic knowledge of hardware and software configurations. Includes the installation of various peripheral devices as well as basic system hardware components.

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

  • ITN 170 - Linux System Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses instruction on the installation, configuration, and administration of the Linux operating system and emphasizes the use of Linux as a network client and workstation.

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

  • ITN 200 - Administration of Network Resources

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the management of local area network servers. Teaches proper structuring of security systems. Explains print queues, disk management, and other local area network (LAN) issues. Presents concerns and issues for the purchase and installation of hardware and software upgrades. Can be taught using any network operating system or a range of operating systems as a delivery tool.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall summer
    Corequisites: ITN 101 .
  

  • ITN 254 - Virtual Infrastructure: Installation and Configuration

    Credit Hours: 4
    Explores concepts and capabilities of virtual architecture with a focus on the installation, configuration, and management of a virtual infrastructure, ESX Server, and Virtual Center. Covers fundamentals of virtual network design and implementation, fundamentals of storage area networks, virtual switching, virtual system management, and engineering for high availability.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: FALL ONLY
    Prerequisites: ITN 171.
  

  • ITN 257 - Cloud Computing: Infrastructure and Services

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on cloud infrastructure, deployment, security models, and the key considerations in migrating to cloud computing. Covers the technologies and processes required to build traditional, virtualized, and cloud data center environments, including computation, storage, networking, desktop and application virtualization, business continuity, security, and management.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: ITN 101  or school approval.
  

  • ITN 260 - Network Security Basics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides instruction in the basics of network security in depth.  Includes security objectives, security architecture, security models and security layers; risk management, network security policy, and security training.  Includes the five security keys, confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, and auditability.   

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

  • ITN 261 - Network Attacks, Computer Crime, and Hacking

    Credit Hours: 4
    Encompasses in-depth exploration of various methods for attacking and defending a network. Explores network security concepts from the viewpoint of hackers and their attack methodologies. Includes topics about hackers, attacks, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), malicious code, computer crime, and industrial espionage.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: ITN 260  or school approval
  

  • ITN 262 - Network Communication, Security, and Authentication

    Credit Hours: 4
    Covers an in-depth exploration of various communication protocols with a concentrationon TCP/IP. Explores communication protocols from the point of view of the hacker in order to highlight protocol weaknesses. Includes Internet architecture routing addressing topology fragmentation and protocol analysis and the use of various utilities to explore TCP/IP.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Prerequisites: ITN 260  or school approval
  

  • ITN 263 - Internet/Intranet Firewalls and e-Commerce Security

    Credit Hours: 4
    Gives an in-depth exploration of firewall, Web security, and e-commerce security. Explores firewall concepts, types, topology and the firewall’s relationship to the TCP/IP protocol. Includes client/server architecture, the Web server, HTML and HTTP in relation to Web security, and digital certification, D.509, and public key infrastructure (PKI).

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: ITN 260  or school approval.
  

  • ITN 276 - Computer Forensics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches computer forensic investigation techniques for collecting computer-related evidence at the physical layer from a variety of digital media (hard drives, compact flash and PDAs) and performing analysis at the file system layer.  Credit will be given to ITN 275 or ITN 276 and ITN 277, but not all three courses.  

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: ITN 260  
  

  • ITN 298 - Seminar and Project: Networking Capstone Course

    Credit Hours: 4
    Covers the use of advanced concepts and utilities with current network operating systems. Includes administrator duties, such as server organization, permissions and rights, and client side issues, such as configuration, troubleshooting, and installation of applications.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: ITN 101  and ITN 260  or school approval

Information Technology Programming
  

  • ITP 100 - Software Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces principles and practices of software development. Includes instruction in critical thinking, problem solving skills, and essential programming logic in structured and object-oriented design using contemporary tools.

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

  • ITP 120 - Java Programming I

    Credit Hours: 4
    Teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming using Java. Emphasizes program construction, algorithm development, coding, debugging, and documentation of console and graphical user interface applications.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
  

  • ITP 136 - C# Programming I

    Credit Hours: 4
    Teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and design using C#. Emphasizes program construction, algorithm development, coding, debugging, and documentation of applications within the .NET framework.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
  

  • ITP 236 - C# Programming II

    Credit Hours: 4
    Focuses instruction in advanced object-oriented techniques using C# for application development. Emphasizes database connectivity and back-end development using the .NET Framework and database processing using LINQ and the Entity Framework.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: ITP 136  and ITD 130 .
  

  • ITP 245 - Developing User Interfaces

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides instruction in the creation of computer application user interfaces that offer intuitive navigation and informative design for web, mobile, and desktop applications, and other technologies.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Prerequisites: ITP 236  or school approval
    Corequisites: If not taken previously - ITP 236  or school approval
  

  • ITP 251 - Systems Analysis and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on application of information technologies (IT) to system life cycle methodology, consisting of the systems planning, analysis, design, implementation, and support/security phases. Covers methodologies related to identification of information requirements; feasibility in the areas of economic, technical, and social requirements, and related issues. Software applications may be used to enhance student skills.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: ITE 152  or equivalent.
  

  • ITP 298 - Seminar and Project in Information Technology Programming: Programming Capstone

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides students with hands-on experience developing sophisticated web-based applications using ASP.NET and SQL Server, including profiles, personalization, web parts, themes, multi-lingual, and web services. Students will work in small teams to build a semester-long project.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: ITP 136 , ITP 236 , ITP 245 , ITP 251 , ITD 130 , ITD 132 , or school approval.

Interpretation
  

  • INT 105 - Interpreting Foundations I (English)

    Credit Hours: 4
    Develops fundamental skills of interpreting, including cognitive processes and intralingual language development in English and ASL. Reviews Process Models of Interpreting, and uses one to analyze interpretations. Develops feedback skills essential to the team interpreting process. Part I of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111 .
  

  • INT 106 - Interpreting Foundations II (ASL)

    Credit Hours: 4
    Develops fundamental skills of interpreting, including cognitive processes and intralingual language development in English and ASL. Reviews Process Models of Interpreting, and uses one to analyze interpretations. Develops feedback skills essential to the team interpreting process. Part II of II.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Placement in ENG 111  and completion of ASL 202 .
  

  • INT 107 - Translation Skills

    Credit Hours: 4
    Further develops fundamental skills needed for the task of interpreting Targets comprehending source language (either ASL or English), transferring content into memory store (breaking from original form), restructuring into target language, maintaining message equivalence, conveying implicit and inferred information, and applying appropriate discourse structure. Reviews Process Model of interpreting and uses it to analyze translations. Further develops feedback skills essential to the team interpreting process.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 4 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: INT 105  and INT 106 .
  

  • INT 133 - ASL-to-English Interpretation I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students the opportunity to begin consecutively interpreting monologues from the source language (ASL) to the target language (English); watch, process, and analyze entire ASL monologues; choose appropriate English to match the message; and eventually interpret the monologue into English. Puts interpreting theory into practice in a lab environment. Develops team interpreting techniques and provides students with the opportunity to interact with consumers of ASL-English interpretation and conduct research in the field of interpretation.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: INT 107 .
  

  • INT 134 - English-to-ASL Interpretation I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students the opportunity to begin consecutively interpreting monologues from the source language (English) to the target language (ASL); listen to, process, and analyze entire English monologues; and choose appropriate ASL to match the message. Puts interpreting theory into practice in a lab environment. Develops team interpreting techniques and provides students with the opportunity to interact with consumers of ASL-English interpretation and conduct research in the field of interpretation.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: INT 107 .
  

  • INT 195 - Topics in Interpreter Education: Introduction to ASL-English Interpretation

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces the student to the ASL-English Interpretation AAS degree requirements and other avenues necessary to achieve certification, establishes the standard of work ethic required to successfully complete the curriculum, provides an overview of the requirements typically required to work as an interpreter, and provides for an introduction to and a discussion of the application of the RID Code of Ethics and the NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
  

  • INT 233 - ASL-to-English Interpretation II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches students to perform simultaneous interpretations of monologues in the source language (ASL) to the target language (English) and process an incoming ASL monologue while simultaneously producing an appropriate interpretation in English. Provides students the opportunity to conduct research in the field of interpretation, apply team interpreting techniques, and interact with consumers of interpretation.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: INT 133  and INT 134 .
  

  • INT 234 - English-to-ASL Interpretation II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches students to perform simultaneous interpretations of monologues in the source language (English) into the target language (ASL) and process an incoming English monologue while simultaneously producing an appropriate interpretation in ASL. Provides students the opportunity to conduct research in the field of interpretation, apply team interpreting techniques, and interact with consumers of interpretation.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 2 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: INT 133  and INT 134 .
  

  • INT 237 - Interpreting ASL in Safe Settings

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies roles, responsibilities, and experiences involved in interpreting American Sign Language (ASL) in community and educational settings, including ethical and business practices. Analyzes the specific linguistic needs of the clients, managing the environment, and resolving ethical concerns for interpreters.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: INT 233  and INT 234  or program head placement.
  

  • INT 250 - Dialogic Interpretation I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students the opportunity to apply interpreting fundamentals, interpret dialogs between spoken English and ASL users, analyze interpretations by using a Process Model of Interpreting, conduct research, practice team interpreting skills in an interactive interpreting environment, and prepare for the interactive nature of standard interpreting evaluations.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: INT 233  and INT 234 .
  

  • INT 280 - Interpreter Assessment Preparation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares student to sit for a specific interpreter assessment tool. Examines the contents of the various segments of the assessment tool. Provides an opportunity for the student to design and implement a specific individualized work plan based upon a diagnostic assessment of the student’s interpretation product to improve all knowledge, skill and ability elements in order to meet or exceed the competency set for the selected interpreter assessment tool.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Summer Only
    Prerequisites: INT 130.
  

  • INT 290 - Coordinated Internship in Interpreter Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an internship under guidance of a professional interpreter as a means to transition from school to work. (Provides supervised on-the-job training in selected business, industrial, or service firms coordinated by the college.)

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 12 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: INT 250  and successful completion of the written portion of an ASL-English interpreting assessment.

Legal Assisting
  

  • LGL 110 - Introduction to Law and the Paralegal

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces various areas of law in which a paralegal may be employed. Includes study of the court system (Virginia and federal); a brief overview of criminal law, torts, family law, evidence, the U.C.C., contracts, and ethics; the role of the paralegal; and other areas of interest.

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

  • LGL 117 - Family Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies elements of a valid marriage, grounds for divorce and annulment, separation, defenses, custody, support, adoptions, and applicable tax consequences. Includes property settlement agreements, pre- and ante-nuptial agreements, pleadings, and rules of procedure. May include specific federal and Virginia consumer laws.

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

  • LGL 125 - Legal Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an understanding of various components of a law library, and emphasizes research skills through the use of digests, encyclopedias, reporter systems, codes, citations, ALR, and other research tools. May include research through electronic databases, overview of computer applications, and writing projects.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Corequisites: LGL 126  may be taken as a corequisite.
  

  • LGL 126 - Legal Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies proper preparation of various legal documents, including legal memoranda, letters, and pleadings. Involves practical applications. May include case and appellate briefs.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: ENG 111  or permission of instructor
    Corequisites: LGL 125  may be taken as a corequisite.
  

  • LGL 200 - Ethics for the Paralegal

    Credit Hours: 1
    Examines general principles of ethical conduct applicable to paralegals. Includes the application of rules of ethics to the practicing paralegal.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Summer
  

  • LGL 210 - Virginia and Federal Procedure

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the rules of procedure in the Virginia and federal court systems, including the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Practice and Procedure in the General District Court, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court of Virginia.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall summer
    Prerequisites: LGL 110 .
  

  • LGL 215 - Torts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies fundamental principles of the law of torts and may include preparation and use of pleadings and other documents involved in the trial of a civil action. Emphasizes intentional torts, negligence, personal injury, products liability, and malpractice cases.

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

  • LGL 216 - Trial Preparation and Discovery Practice

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the trial process, including the preparation of a trial notebook, pretrial motions, and orders. May include preparation of interrogatories, depositions, and other discovery tools used in assembling evidence in preparation for the trial or an administrative hearing.

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

  • LGL 218 - Criminal Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on major crimes, including their classification, elements of proof, intent, conspiracy, responsibility, parties, and defenses. Emphasizes Virginia law. May include general principles of applicable constitutional law and criminal procedure.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of English placement test or evidence of ENG 111  or its equivalent.
  

  • LGL 220 - Administrative Practice and Procedure

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys applicable administrative laws, including the Privacy Act, the Administrative Process Act, and Freedom of Information Act. Studies practice and procedure involving the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, State Corporation Commission, Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, Social Security Administration, Virginia Employment Commission, and other administrative agencies.

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

  • LGL 221 - E-Practice

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares students to electronically file (e-file) in federal court, state court, and appropriate administrative agencies. Provides the student with the proper information on electronic discovery (e-discovery), including how data are requested, located, and searched in the course of litigation. Focuses on the proper process required to be in conformance with the appropriate laws.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: LGL 210 , LGL 216 , and ITE 152   
  

  • LGL 222 - Information Technology for the Paralegal

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides extensive instruction on technology in the law office, including word processing tools, spreadsheet programs, database management systems, office management programs, case management programs, electronic mail, the Cloud, litigation and trial software, and the use of the Internet in the practice of law.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: ITE 152 , LGL 125 , or faculty approval
  

  • LGL 225 - Estate Planning and Probate

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces various devices used to plan an estate, including wills, trusts, joint ownership, and insurance. Considers various plans in light of family situations and estate objectives. Focuses on practices involving administration of an estate, including taxes and preparation of forms.

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

  • LGL 226 - Real Estate Abstracting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews aspects of abstracting title to real estate, recordation of land transactions, liens, grantor-grantee indices, warranties, covenants, restrictions, and easements.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Only
    Prerequisites: LGL 228  or permission of program head.
  

  • LGL 228 - Real Estate Settlement Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on methods and practices in administrative area of real estate closings, back title information, preliminary report from attorney’s title notes, lender’s requirements, payoffs, HUD-1 settlement statement, real estate taxes, interest, escrow, disbursement, and release of liens of record.

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

  • LGL 235 - Legal Aspects of Business Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies fundamental principles of agency law and the formation of business organizations. Includes sole proprietorship, partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities. Reviews preparation of the documents necessary for the organization and operation of businesses.

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

  • LGL 238 - Bankruptcy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a practical understanding of nonbankruptcy alternatives and the laws of bankruptcy, including Chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. Emphasizes the preparation of petitions, schedules, statements, and other forms.

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

  • LGL 290 - Coordinated Internship in Legal Assisting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the student supervised on-the-job training as a paralegal.

    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 12 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
    Prerequisites: Permission of the program head, which includes the successful completion of a comprehensive examination with a grade of 70 or better.

Marketing
  

  • MKT 110 - Principles of Selling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents a fundamental, skills-based approach to the professional selling of products, services, and ideas, and to relationship building. Emphasizes learning effective interpersonal communication skills in all areas of the sales process through skill-building activities. Examines entry-level sales careers in retailing, wholesaling, services, and industrial selling. Focuses on building a positive self-image, following ethical behavior, understanding buyer needs, and appreciating the importance of a positive customer relationship strategy. Concludes in a professional sales presentation to buyers ranging from individual consumers to corporations.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
  

  • MKT 120 - Fundamentals of Fashion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops an understanding of the principles and procedures involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of fashion merchandise. Traces the history and development of fashion and how these changes affect the fashion merchandising world. Focuses on changing consumer characteristics which influence demand for fashion products and the effects that fashion marketing activities have on the economy.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
  

  • MKT 201 - Introduction to Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces students to the discipline of marketing and the need to create customer value and customer relationships in the marketplace. Presents an overview of marketing principles, concepts, management strategies and tactics, along with the analytical tools used by organizations in the creation of a marketing plan to promote ideas, products, and/or services to selected target groups. Also, examines entrepreneurial, global and e-marketing practices in today’s business environment.

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

  • MKT 209 - Sports, Entertainment, and Recreation Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Builds on the principles of marketing to introduce the more specific importance and specialization of Sports, Entertainment, and Recreation (SER) marketing. Emphasizes the SER industries as they relate to economics, business structure, product development, branding, pricing strategies, distribution strategies, integrated communications, ethics, and research.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: MKT 201 .
  

  • MKT 215 - Sales and Marketing Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Emphasizes the relationship of professional sales skills and marketing management techniques. Demonstrates the use of the Internet to enhance marketing. Studies legal and ethical considerations.

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

  • MKT 216 - Retail Organization and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the organization of the retail establishment to accomplish its goals in an effective and efficient manner. Includes study of site location, internal layout, store operations, and security. Examines the retailing mix, the buying or procurement process, pricing, and selling. Studies retail advertising, promotion, and publicity as a coordinated effort to increase store traffic.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring Only
    Prerequisites: An understanding of basic marketing and business activities is desirable.
  

  • MKT 220 - Principles of Advertising

    Credit Hours: 3
    Emphasizes the role of advertising in the marketing of goods, services, and ideas. Discusses the different uses of advertising; types of media; how advertising is created; agency functions; and legal, social, and economic aspects of the industry. Introduces advertising display, copy and art work preparation, printing, and selection of media.

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

  • MKT 227 - Merchandise Buying and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the merchandising cycle. Explores techniques used in the development of buying resources, merchandising plans, model stock, unit control, and inventory systems. Highlights merchandise selection, policy pricing strategies, and inventory control methods.

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

  • MKT 228 - Promotion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents an overview of integrated marketing communications through advertising, public relations, personal selling and sales promotion. Focuses on coordinating these activities into an effective campaign to promote sales for a particular product, business, institution or industry.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
  

  • MKT 229 - Marketing Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the marketing research process to include methodology, data collection, sampling, and analysis. Focuses on planning basic research studies and applying the findings to marketing decisions.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
    Prerequisites: MKT 201 .
  

  • MKT 238 - Fashion Merchandising

    Credit Hours: 3
    Compares the major considerations involved in the buying and merchandising of fashion products. Emphasizes the dynamics of fashion and consumer buying patterns and sources of buying information. Discusses fashion buying and inventory control in the merchandising cycle plus techniques used to develop fashion buying plans, model stocks, unit control, and inventory systems. Stresses selection policy and pricing for profit.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
    Semester(s) Offered: Check Availability
  

  • MKT 260 - Customer Service Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the role of customer service in achieving a firm’s long-term goals; discusses the basic principles of effective customer service; and explores the tasks and responsibilities of a customer service manager. Includes such topics as purpose of customer service; establishment of customer service goals and policies; recruitment, selection, and training of customer service employees; motivation techniques; empowering employees for better decision making; and evaluation of customer service employees and program.

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

  • MKT 271 - Consumer Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the various influences affecting consumer-buying behavior before, during, and after product purchases. Describes personal, societal, cultural, environmental, group, and economic determinants on consumer buying.

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

  • MKT 281 - Principles of Internet Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces students to Internet marketing. Discusses how to implement marketing programs strategically and tactically using online communications tools. Teaches e-marketing strategies.

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

  • MKT 282 - Principles of eCommerce

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies on-line business strategies and the hardware and software tools necessary for Internet commerce. Includes the identification of appropriate target segments, the development of product opportunities, pricing structures, distribution channels, and execution of marketing strategies.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
  

  • MKT 283 - Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues in eCommerce

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines major issues of e-commerce which include privacy protection, concerns about censorship, protection of intellectual property and copyright issues, fraud prevention, along with the local, national, and international legal framework within which marketing strategies are executed.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
  

  • MKT 284 - Social Media Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the use of social networks and online communities such as blogs, wikis, and virtual events that allow companies to expand their interaction with customers and develop relationships with collaborative communities. Emphasizes the ongoing transformation of the way companies adjust their marketing plans to improve interaction with customers online.

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

  • 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 .
 

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