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2021-22 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Quarterly Credit Classes are available online, where you may filter class offerings by subject, time, day, or whether they are held on campus, online or are hybrid classes.
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Adult Basic Education (ABE) |
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ABE 073 - I-BEST Academic Success 4-6 CR
This course is designed to support students enrolled in an approved I-BEST course with program specific contextualized instruction in reading, writing, computation, digital literacy skills, and college and career readiness skills.
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the approved I-BEST Program.
Course Outcomes
- Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.
- Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly or implicitly.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a variety of texts.
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners in small and larger groups.
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
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English as a Second Language (ESL) |
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ESL 062 - English as a Second Language (ESL) Level 2 1-10 CR
Prepares English-as-a second language students to communicate using routine statements related to personal needs, desires, and feelings in familiar social contexts. Students learn to write basic messages, interpret maps, bills, and schedules, and follow written and oral instructions. This is beginning ESL. Students must show progress in three quarters of instruction. Course is credit/no-credit.
Prerequisite(s): Placement by assessment.
Course Outcomes
Reading
• Read and understand words, sentences, and short paragraphs in school and workplace texts.
• Find and tell about the main ideas and details in a text.
• Ask and answer questions about main ideas and details in a text.
• Look at headings and pictures to find and tell about important information in a text.
Writing
• Write letters of the alphabet, words, and sentences about school and work topics.
• Edit your writing with help from the teacher.
• Complete personal, school, and work forms.
• Use technology (computers) to write and to communicate with others.
• Do research (find information) to answer questions.
Speaking/Listening
• Listen and speak with different classmates in small and large groups.
• Tell about people, places, things, ideas, and events.
• Speak clearly and slowly so people can understand you.
• Ask questions when you don’t understand something.
• Answer questions clearly.
Language
• Use correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
• Use the “be” verb, the simple present tense, and the present continuous tense to complete sentences and to answer simple questions.
• Use many strategies (plans) to learn the meaning of new words and sentences.
Level 2 Course Standards for Technology
• Log-in to Canvas.
• Message your teacher in Canvas.
• Check your grades in Canvas.
• Complete assignments in Canvas.
• Use websites to gather information.
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High School Completion |
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HSC 083 - Science 1-10 CR
The emphasis of this course is to develop an understanding of basic scientific thinking and how to conduct an effect experiment in a lab setting. This course integrates technology, reading, writing, listening, speaking, math and critical thinking skills around assignments and activities. Students will utilize videos, pictures, lab exercises, models, and other visual strategies to develop skills in scientific thinking.
Note: Lab included.
Prerequisite(s): ABE Orientation and advising
Course Outcomes
- Identify the purpose of science and demonstrate scientific thinking.
- Apply the steps of the scientific method to everyday situations as well as laboratory investigations.
- Identify and describe the characteristics of cells and organelles.
- Demonstrate basic lab skills through the collection, synthesis, and analysis of data (including the creation of graphs from data and correct interpretation of graphed data).
- Critique information presented online and in the media to determine if the information is “scientific and credible.”
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Biology |
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Botany |
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Business Administration - Transfer |
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BA 240 - Statistical Analysis 5 CR
Surveys techniques used in decision-making and research. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, central tendency, variability, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, and regression. Material has applications in business, health care, etc.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of MATH 138 or MATH 141 with a C or higher, or entry code.
Course Outcomes
- Present, calculate and interpret:
mean, median and mode
standard deviation, standard error, variance
applications of probability, normal and t-distributions, bell curve analysis
confidence intervals and sampling error
hypothesis testing
z-scores, t-tests, p-values
correlation, simple linear regression, time series analysis
chi-square
- Analysis of variance Multiple regression
- Analyze and evaluate research methodology e.g. gathering of information, sampling, inaccuracies, presentation of information and bias, misleading pitfalls
- Research, locate and evaluate of various data sources via internet, secondary, tertiary resources, original research publications
- Define and classify variable types, discrete variable formats, binomials
- Analyze and appropriately apply statistical procedures to data and types of variables
- Estimate population parameters with confidence intervals Identify hypothesis setups, appropriate comparisons, type I and II errors
- Describe and apply the roles of statistics as descriptors versus inferences, prediction Illustrate applied examples and procedures in different fields e.g. bio-med, business, economics, engineering, health professions, nursing, psychology, sociology, social work, others Synthesize procedures, concepts, applications
- Interpret and apply meaningfulness of statistics in research studies
- Demonstrate use of a statistical package e.g. Excel, SPSS, SAS, Minitab or other
- Self assess writing for evidence sequence, focus, organization, style and mechanics Work effectively in teams
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Business Intelligence |
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Business Management |
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