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  • ENG 279: Women's Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course will familiarize students with the main issues surrounding the texts of women writers, their audiences, and the mythological representations that work for and against their literary activism. It will concentrate on the diversity of women's writing as it pertains to genre; to the cultural, economic and political identities of women; and to the transformative power of their voices within their cultures. Students will develop an understanding of women's creative writing through feminist critical theory and new historical criticism.
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  • ENG 290: Shakespeare

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course provides through discussion and writing activities a study of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and histories, examining Shakespeare's culture and Elizabethan theatre, the texts themselves, their sources, unique interpretations, and stage and film productions.
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  • ENG 85: College Literacy I

    4.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    College Literacy I develops proficiency in integrated and contextualized reading and writing skills and strategies. Topics include reading and writing processes, critical thinking strategies, and recognition and composition of well-developed, coherent, and unified texts. Students will also cover the fundamentals of study strategies, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and sentence and paragraph structure. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate and apply those skills toward an understanding of a variety of complex academic and career texts while also composing texts, incorporating relevant, valid evidence. ENG 085 is a pass/fail course. To be considered to have met their developmental requirements, students must complete ENG 085 with a 70% or higher. Students who pass ENG 085 with a 70-89% may register for ENG 095 or ENG 095 and ENG 161. The criteria for being exempt from ENG 095 are as follows: 90% or higher in the course overall, 80% or higher on the final assessment and an average score of 1300 or higher on the course Lexile readings.
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  • ENG 95: College Literacy II

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    College Literacy II develops proficiency in integrated and contextualized reading and writing skills and strategies. Topics include reading and writing processes, critical thinking strategies and recognition of well-developed coherent and unified texts. The skills taught include but are not limited to: thesis statement, supporting details, critical reading, documentation and vocabulary development. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate and apply those skills toward understanding a variety of complex academic and career texts and composing texts, incorporating relevant, valid evidence. ENG 095 is a pass/fail course. To be considered to have met their developmental requirements, students must complete ENG 095 with a 70% or higher.
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  • ENG 99: Fundamentals of College Writing

    1.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    ENG 099 provides support for the development of critical reading, thinking and writing skills integrated with standard College Writing assignments. The curriculum is tailored to support the coursework completed in ENG 161, so that the student has the best possible success in College Writing. ENG 099 is a pass/fail course. To be considered to have met their developmental requirements, students must complete ENG 099 with a 70% or higher.
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  • EPS 150: Astronomy

    4.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    An introductory course for non-science programs. It provides a broad introduction to Astronomy including basic observing skills and scientific reasoning; the historical development of the subject; basic physics of motion, gravity, light and atoms; telescopes and other instrumentation; planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system; extrasolar planets; the Sun and other stars; the evolution of stars; the Milky Way galaxy and other galaxies; distant quasars and other active galaxies; the expanding universe; cosmology based on the Big Bang theory; and life in the universe. This course covers most of the areas of modern astronomy at a level, which requires only basic algebra and mathematics. Prerequisite(s): MTH 052 or placement.
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  • EPS 160: Earth Science

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    A physical science course with emphasis on topics from astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and geology, focusing on the earth as the physical environment in which we live. This course also covers man's impact on the environment.
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  • EPS 163: Introduction to Physical Geology

    4.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    Deals with materials, land forms and structural features of the earth and the biological, chemical and physical processes that produced them. Topics include water; wind and glaciers; the construction and composition of rocks and minerals; the formation and deformation of rockbeds;earthquakes and volcanoes; the interior processes and origins of the earth.
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  • FIN 155: Personal Finance

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course analyzes the personal and financial situations that confront individuals in our society today. Topics include: basic economics as it relates to individuals, budgeting and financial planning, renting versus owning a home, home financing options, purchasing versus leasing a vehicle, savings and borrowing techniques, liability and health insurance options, investment planning and strategies, retirement and estate planning, and the safety and security implications of purchasing items over the Internet.
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  • FIN 220: Business Finance

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course examines the organization and financial management of a firm with an emphasis on risk and return. Topics include financial statement and cash flow analysis, time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting and financing decisions. Prerequisite(s): ACC 155 or ACC 165
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