May 17, 2024  
Reynolds Community College Catalog 2023-2024 
    
Reynolds Community College Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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.

Approved Transfer Electives  

 

Legal Assisting

  
  • 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 .


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. 

    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. 

    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.

    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.

    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. 

    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. 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. 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 61  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. 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. 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 199 - Supervised Study - Heron’s Formula

    Credit Hours: 1
    Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor. Presents Heron’s Formula.  Lecture 1 hour per week.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour
    Semester(s) Offered: 1
    Prerequisites: Completion of MTH 161  
  
  • 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. 

    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. 

    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. 

    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. 

    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.

    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. 

    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. 

    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. 

    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: Competency in Introductory Algebra (MDE 10) as demonstrated through placement recommendation and ENG 111 or placement recommendation for co-requisite ENG 111 and EDE 11.
  
  • MDL 106 - Clinical Phlebotomy

    Credit Hours: 4
    Focuses on obtaining blood samples, processing specimens, managing assignments, assisting with and/or performing specified tests, performing clerical duties and maintaining professional communication. Provides supervised learning in college laboratory/and or cooperating agencies. Students will spend 2 weeks (36-40 hours/week) with an assigned clinical affiliate. The remainder of the course will include on-campus and on-line instruction. 

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 6 hours.
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of MDL 105 - Phlebotomy  with a grade of “C” or better, submission of immunization history, and an acceptable background check. 
  
  • 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
    Prerequisites: MDL 100  
    Corequisites: If not previously taken - MDL 100 

  
  • 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
    Prerequisites: MDL 100  
    Corequisites: If not previously taken - MDL 100  

  
  • 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
    Prerequisites: MDL 100  
    Corequisites: If not previously taken - MDL 100  

  
  • MDL 216 - Blood Banking

    Credit Hours: 3
    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 3 hours.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
    Prerequisites: MDL 210  
    Corequisites: If not previously taken - MDL 210  

  
  • 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 243 - Introduction to Clinical Molecular Diagnostics

    Credit Hours: 2
    Provides the fundamentals of genetics and inheritance along with an overview of the basic principles of clinical molecular diagnostics. Discusses the use of common molecular techniques in the diagnosis of disease.

    Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
    Prerequisites: Must be in the final year of the Medical Laboratory AAS degree program or have program approval. 
  
  • 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
    Prerequisites: MDL 100  
    Corequisites: If not previously taken - MDL 100  

  
  • 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  
  
  • 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
    Prerequisites: MDL 100  and CHM 101  or CHM 111  
    Corequisites: If not previously taken - MDL 100  and CHM 101  or CHM 111  

  
  • 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
    Prerequisites: MDL 100  MDL 110  MDL 125  MDL 210  MDL 216  MDL 225  MDL 252  MDL 261  
  
  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    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.

    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.

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 101 , current CPR certification by 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 101 , CPR - American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers.
  
  • 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 101 , current CPR certification by 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 101 .
  
  • 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.
 

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