Course Descriptions

This course is for non-native learners of English. Students will develop the listening and speaking skills necessary for participating in college-level classroom discussion, incorporating oral presentation and fostering critical listening skills needed for taking notes and understanding lectures.

This writing course is for non-native learners of English and is designed to prepare students for ELL1080: ELL Writing II. Students will learn the short essay form for expository writing, emphasizing sentence and paragraph structures as well as editing for increased accuracy.

This writing course is for non-native learners of English and is designed to prepare students for college-level writing tasks and/or courses. Students will learn multiple-paragraph essay forms with an emphasis on paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting and analyzing sources. Students will inventory patterns of error and create an individual plan for increasing accuracy.

This writing course is for multi-lingual learners of English and is designed to prepare students for college-level writing tasks and courses. Students will practice the writing process while creating multiple-paragraph essay forms with an emphasis on paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting and analyzing sources. Students will inventory patterns of error and create an individual plan for increasing accuracy.

This introductory course provides the student with knowledge of electrical theory including atomic structure, Ohms law, and series and parallel circuits. This course also includes some hands-on dealing with the terminating of underground wire and rigging of ropes used in the electrical lineworker industry.

This course provides the student with basic electrical theory involved in the production and use of electrical energy. In addition, the student practices basic direct current circuitry calculations and rigging skills including basic knots and splices pertaining to the electrical industry.

This course provides the student with the introductory knowledge and skills necessary to properly install electrical structures with hand tools and with mechanized structure installation machinery.

This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills to safely climb and frame various electrical structures to heights of 50 feet. Topics include free-hand and safety-strap climbing, and installation and removal of pole line hardware.

This course provides the student with the technical understanding and skill necessary to construct overhead high voltage structures. Topics include interpretation of industry specification manuals, identification of overhead hardware, construction techniques and tool use.

This course provides the study of the principles of alternating current high voltage distribution circuitry. Included in this course are mathematical computation of AC power, conductor application including practice at armor rodding, hand and pre-formed ties, overvoltage and overcurrent installations, and street lighting circuits.

This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills necessary for mounting and connecting transformers to primary and secondary systems. The course will also cover paralleling of closed and open banks.

This course provides the student with an understanding of the design of line work construction drawings and equipment installation orders.

This course provides the student with an understanding of procedures necessary to complete a rescue of a line worker disabled while on a pole or in an aerial device.

This course covers the installation of single-phase high voltage systems under actual field conditions. The overhead construction component of the course includes structural assembly, including grounding requirements, guying, conductor installation including stringing and tying, single-phase transformer, capacitor and regulator installation. The second component of the course is underground installation, covering trencher operation, primary and secondary cable termination, services, pad mount transformers and sectionalizing cabinets, and street lighting.

This course covers the installation of multi-phase high voltage systems under actual field conditions. The overhead section will cover structure assembly including grounding, structural guying, conductor installation including stringing and tying, multi-phase transformer installation, capacitor installation, regulator installation, and the use of protective cover-up material and hot sticks. The underground section will cover multiple cable installation, primary and secondary cable termination, three-phase pad mount transformer installation and multi-phase sectionalizing cabinet installation.