Nov 23, 2024

Reynolds Community College Catalog 2022-2023

Reynolds Community College Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Approved Electives

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Approved Electives fall into the following areas: humanities/fine arts/literature, information literacy, mathematics, personal wellness, science, social/behavioral sciences, and world languages. Prior to enrolling in these courses, students should consult their program advisor, as well as check the course descriptions to ensure that they meet any pre- or co-requisites. To avoid transfer problems, students should carefully select courses to fulfill elective requirements with the assistance of their advisors and upon an investigation of the transfer requirements of the institution to which transfer is contemplated.

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

Humanities/Fine Arts/Literature

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

ARC 201 - History of Modern Architecture Credit Hours: 3 (O)
ART 106 - History of Modern Art Credit Hours: 3 (O)
ASL 125 - History and Culture of the Deaf Community I Credit Hours: 3 (O)
ASL 220 - Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English Credit Hours: 3 (O)
CST 229 - Intercultural Communication Credit Hours: 3 (O)
PHI 227 - Bio-Medical Ethics Credit Hours: 3 (O)
ART 100 - Art Appreciation Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
ART 101 - History of Art: Prehistoric to Gothic Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
ART 102 - History of Art: Renaissance to Modern Credit Hours: 3 (P)
CST 151 - Film Appreciation I Credit Hours: 3 (P)
MUS 121 - Music in Society Credit Hours: 3 (P)
HUM 202 - Modern Humanities Credit Hours: 3 (P)
HUM 210 - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies Credit Hours: 3 (P)
HUM 220 - Introduction to African American Studies Credit Hours: 3 (P)
PHI 100 - Introduction to Philosophy I Credit Hours: 3 (P)
PHI 111 - Logic I Credit Hours: 3 (P)
PHI 220 - Ethics Credit Hours: 3 (P)
REL 230 - Religions of the World Credit Hours: 3 (P)
ENG 225 - Reading Literature: Culture and Ideas Credit Hours: 3 (U)
ENG 245 - British Literature Credit Hours: 3 (U)
ENG 246 - American Literature Credit Hours: 3 (U)
ENG 250 - Children’s Literature Credit Hours: 3 ^2,3 (U)
ENG 255 - World Literature Credit Hours: 3 (U)
ENG 258 - African American Literature Credit Hours: 3 (U)
ENG 275 - Women’s Literature Credit Hours: 3 (U)

Note:

¹ Students will not receive credit for both ART 100 and ART 101 .

² These courses have been designated writing-intensive (offer-enhanced instruction in writing) by the English faculty.

³ Students needing to take two literature courses are not required to take both Part I and Part II of the same literature course. Also, Part II of any literature course may be taken either prior to or without taking Part I.

⁴ These courses have an international focus. Additional humanities/fine arts/literature courses may be approved by the dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Health/Personal Wellness

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

DIT 121 - Nutrition I Credit Hours: 3 (O)
EDU 235 - Health, Safety, and Nutrition Education Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HLT 105 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Credit Hours: 1 (O)
HLT 106 - First Aid and Safety Credit Hours: 2 (O)
HLT 115 - Introduction to Personal and Community Health Credit Hours: 1 (O)
HLT 116 - Introduction to Personal Wellness Concepts Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HLT 121 - Introduction to Drug Use and Abuse Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HLT 203 - Men’s Health Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HLT 215 - Personal Stress and Stress Management Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HLT 230 - Principles of Nutrition and Human Development Credit Hours: 3 (O)
PED 109 - Yoga Credit Hours: 2 (O)
PED 111 - Weight Training I Credit Hours: 2 (O)
PED 117 - Fitness Walking Credit Hours: 1 (O)

Note:

¹ HLT 119 counts as a wellness elective for AAS degrees, but NOT AA and AS degrees.

Additional personal wellness courses may be approved by the dean, School of Health Professions.

Mathematics

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

MTH 111 - Basic Technical Mathematics Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (O)
MTH 130 - Fundamentals of Reasoning Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (O)
MTH 131 - Technical Mathematics Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (O)
MTH 156 - Elementary Geometry Credit Hours: 3 (O)
MTH 265 - Calculus III Credit Hours: 4 (O)
MTH 266 - Linear Algebra Credit Hours: 3 (O)
MTH 267 - Differential Equations Credit Hours: 3 (O)
MTH 288 - Discrete Mathematics Credit Hours: 3 (O)
MTH 154 - Quantitative Reasoning Credit Hours: 3 (P)
MTH 155 - Statistical Reasoning Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
MTH 161 - Precalculus I Credit Hours: 3 ² (P)
MTH 162 - Precalculus II Credit Hours: 3 (P)
MTH 167 - Precalculus with Trigonometry Credit Hours: 5 ² (P)
MTH 245 - Statistics I Credit Hours: 3 (P)
MTH 261 - Applied Calculus I Credit Hours: 3 (P)
MTH 263 - Calculus I Credit Hours: 4 (P)
MTH 264 - Calculus II Credit Hours: 4 (P)

Note:

¹ This course typically does not transfer to a four-year college.

² Students will not receive credit for both MTH 161 and MTH 167 .

Additional mathematics courses may be approved by the dean, School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Laboratory Sciences

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

BIO 107 - Biology of the Environment Credit Hours: 4 2 (O)
BIO 141 - Human Anatomy & Physiology I Credit Hours: 4 ^2,3 (O)
BIO 142 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II Credit Hours: 4 2,3 (O)
BIO 145 - Basic Human Anatomy & Physiology Credit Hours: 4 (O)
BIO 150 - Microbiology for Health Sciences Credit Hours: 4 2 (O)
BIO 206 - Cell Biology Credit Hours: 4 2 (O)
CHM 241 - Organic Chemistry I Credit Hours: 3 (O)
CHM 245 - Organic Chemistry I Laboratory Credit Hours: 2 (O)
CHM 242 - Organic Chemistry II Credit Hours: 3 (O)
CHM 246 - Organic Chemistry II Laboratory Credit Hours: 2 (O)
CHM 260 - Introductory Biochemistry Credit Hours: 3 (O)
PHY 101 - Introduction to Physics I Credit Hours: 4 (O)
BIO 101 - General Biology I Credit Hours: 4 1 (P)
BIO 102 - General Biology II Credit Hours: 4 ¹ (P)
BIO 106 - Life Science Credit Hours: 4 1 (P)
BIO 256 - General Genetics Credit Hours: 4 ² (P)
CHM 101 - Introductory Chemistry Credit Hours: 4 (P)
CHM 111 - General Chemistry I Credit Hours: 4 (P)
CHM 112 - General Chemistry II Credit Hours: 4 (P)
GOL 105 - Physical Geology Credit Hours: 4 (P)
GOL 106 - Historical Geology Credit Hours: 4 (P)
PHY 201 - General College Physics I Credit Hours: 4 (P)
PHY 202 - General College Physics II Credit Hours: 4 (P)
PHY 241 - University Physics I Credit Hours: 4 (P)
PHY 242 - University Physics II Credit Hours: 4 (P)

Note:

¹ Students will not receive credit for both BIO 101 and BIO 106 or BIO 102 and BIO 106 .

² Science AS students may use these courses only as laboratoryscience electives beyond the two laboratory science electives thatmust be year-long courses, e.g. BIO 101 -BIO 102 and PHY 201 -PHY 202 .

³ BIO 141 -BIO 142 generally do not transfer for the Liberal Arts AA and Social Sciences AS degree programs. Please check with the four-year institution you plan to attend.

Additional science courses may be approved by the dean, Schoolof Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

Social/Behavioral Sciences

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

GEO 200 - Introduction to Physical Geography Credit Hours: 3 (O)
GEO 225 - Economic Geography Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HIS 127 - Women in American History Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HIS 141 - African-American History I Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HIS 142 - African-American History II Credit Hours: 3 (O)
HIS 203 - History of African Civilizations Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (O)
HIS 253 - History of Asian Civilizations I Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (O)
HIS 254 - History of Modern East Asian Civilizations Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (O)
HIS 281 - History of Virginia I Credit Hours: 3 ² (O)
PSY 215 - Abnormal Psychology Credit Hours: 3 (O)
PSY 230 - Developmental Psychology Credit Hours: 3 (O)
PSY 235 - Child Psychology Credit Hours: 3 (O)
SOC 215 - Sociology of the Family Credit Hours: 3 (O)
ECO 150 - Economic Essentials: Theory and Application Credit Hours: 3 (P)
ECO 201 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credit Hours: 3 (P)
ECO 202 - Principles of Microeconomics Credit Hours: 3 (P)
GEO 210 - People and the Land: Introduction to Cultural Geography Credit Hours: 3 (P)
HIS 101 - Western Civilizations Pre-1600 CE Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
HIS 102 - Western Civilizations Post 1600 CE Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
HIS 111 - World Civilizations Pre-1500 CE Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
HIS 112 - World Civilizations post-1500 CE Credit Hours: 3 ¹ (P)
HIS 121 - United States History to 1877 Credit Hours: 3 (P)
HIS 122 - United States History since 1865 Credit Hours: 3 (P)
PLS 135 - U.S. Government and Politics Credit Hours: 3 (P)
PLS 136 - State and Local Government and Politics Credit Hours: 3 (P)
PSY 200 - Principles of Psychology Credit Hours: 3 (P)
SOC 200 - Principles of Sociology Credit Hours: 3 (P)
SOC 211 - Cultural Anthropology Credit Hours: 3 (P)
SOC 268 - Social Problems Credit Hours: 3 (P)

Note:

¹ These courses have an international focus.

² These courses do not satisfy a U.S. History requirement.

Additional social/behavioral sciences courses may be approved by the dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

World Languages

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

ASL 101 - American Sign Language I Credit Hours: 4 (U)
ASL 102 - American Sign Language II Credit Hours: 4 (U)
ASL 201 - American Sign Language III Credit Hours: 3 (U)
ASL 202 - American Sign Language IV Credit Hours: 3 (U)
FRE 101 - Beginning French I Credit Hours: 4 (U)
FRE 102 - Beginning French II Credit Hours: 4 (U)
FRE 201 - Intermediate French I Credit Hours: 3 (U)
FRE 202 - Intermediate French II Credit Hours: 3 (U)
SPA 101 - Beginning Spanish I Credit Hours: 4 (U)
SPA 102 - Beginning Spanish II Credit Hours: 4 (U)
SPA 201 - Intermediate Spanish Credit Hours: 3 (U)
SPA 202 - Intermediate Spanish Credit Hours: 3 (U)
See the Virginia Community College Master Course File for other World Languages options (U)

Information Literacy

Key for type of elective: O = neither Passport nor UCGS U = UCGS P = Both Passport and UCGS

ITE 152 - Introduction to Digital Literacy Credit Hours: 3 (U)

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