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  • PSY 290: Adulthood and Aging

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This course is an examination of the biological, physical, psychological, cognitive, affective, social and cultural changes that occur as people move from adulthood into old age. It explores the controversies, myths, and realities of growing older in America. As well, the course emphasizes the similarities and differences of adulthood and aging across cultures. Prerequisite:    PSY 140
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  • REA 030: Reading I

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This initial course is for students who need to improve upon basic skills that aid in reading. This course is designed for students who must strengthen their comprehension, language usage, and strategic reading skills. Prerequisite:    Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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  • REA 050: Reading II

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    Reading II is designed for students who need to improve their ability to understand and retain the material they read in college. Emphasis in the course is on reading comprehension, language clues, structural clues, critical thinking, and strategic reading. Prerequisite:    REA 030 or ESL 045 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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  • REA 075: Intro to Reading and Writing

    5.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This class combines REA 050 and ENG 050 and emphasizes the relationship between reading and writing. It includes comprehensive review and writing practice in the fundamentals of English grammar, word choice, punctuation, and paragraph construction. Additionally, it is designed for students who need to improve their ability to understand and retain the materials they read in college. To this end, emphasis will be placed upon reading comprehension, language clues, structural clues, critical thinking, and strategic reading. NOTE: Credits from the course are not applicable toward a degree Prerequisites: Placement via the College Placement process, or successful completion of all required ESL classes. Students must be eligible for ENG 050 and REA 050 to place into this course. Prerequisite:    ESL 043 and ESL 044 and ESL 045 and ESL 046
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  • REA 100: Critical Reading

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    Critical Reading addresses both literal and abstract comprehension strategies at a college level. Students will apply contextual reasoning, interpretive processing, figurative analysis and inferential reasoning to a variety of reading materials. Prerequisite:    Appropriate Placement Test Scores
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  • SCI 105: Introduction to Nanotechnology

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This course will cover the application of nanotechnology to electronic, chemical, and biological fields including a review of the basic science concepts. The impact of the commercialization of nanotechnology on society and the environment will be discussed. It is intended primarily for students in any of the various technology programs who will seek employment as laboratory technicians in research and industrial laboratories. Emphasis will be placed on providing a broad overview of the field. Prerequisite:    (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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  • SCI 110: History of Science

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This course, designed as a non-laboratory science option for non-science majors or as an open elective for Natural Science majors, traces the philosophical, cultural, intellectual, and technological developments that influenced the evolution of modern science. By examining these developments made over a span of two millennia, students in the course identify the people, places, ideas, and discoveries that led to fundamental shifts in worldviews resulting in changes in the way people obtain knowledge about, investigate, and understand the physical world. Specifically, the course explores the origin and influence of scientific methodologies by tracing the changing role of experimenters, their experiments, and the tools they used. In addition, students document the converging influences that resulted in the Scientific Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution. The course concludes by highlighting important scientific discoveries up to the present day and the continuing struggle between science and long-held misconceptions and beliefs. Prerequisite:    ENG 100
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  • SCI 150: STEM Topics

    1.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    STEM Topics is a 1-credit course designed to introduce students majoring in STEM fields to skills and topics of importance to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Presented by both Delaware County Community College faculty/staff and invited speakers, the weekly one-hour meetings include explorations of STEM-related transfer programs and careers, internet research methods, identification of primary research, research design, and technical writing and communication. Prerequisite:    (MAT 050 and ((ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075)) or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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  • SOC 110: Introduction to Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This course studies the factors that determine social organization, social injustice, behavior and change as they are considered in relation to the individual student's own life and society. Study is concentrated on social intervention, culture, social class, national and global inequality, institutions and socialization. Prerequisite:    (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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  • SOC 120: Social Problems

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware County Community College

    This course studies contemporary social problems from theoretical and practical perspectives. Theoretical assessments of the national and international origins and etiology that support and sustain social injustice, inequality, and conflict will be supported through data sources. Prerequisite:    (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores (*Course(s) May Be Taken Concurrently)
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