PWST2312 - Advanced Motorcycle SystemsCredits: 3 (1/2/0)
This course is designed to test troubleshooting skills and knowledge. Students will be presented with motorcycle problems and, using a systematic approach, students will identify and repair the unit. This course is designed to simulate the role of a technician in a dealership. Students will be expected to write a work order, estimate repairs, make the repair and finalize the work order.
ENGL2325 - Contemporary World LiteratureCredits: 3 (3/0/0)
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 8. This course provides students an opportunity to read, discuss and analyze contemporary literature from around the world. The focus of the course is on fiction, although students may also be introduced to other contemporary world literature such as poetry, non-fiction and drama.
COSM1000 - Principles and PracticesCredits: 3 (3/0/0)
This course is intended for manicurists, estheticians and some transfer students. In a condensed form, this course will include the topics of chemistry, electricity, salon business, professional image, anatomy and infection control.
CRJU1108 - Physical Control Tactics for CorrectionsCredits: 3 (2/1/0)
This course will deal with use of force issues relating to correctional officers, defensive tactics and control techniques, proper restraint techniques and less-than-lethal weapons training. Lecture and practical applications are included in the course. Minnesota Police Officer Standards and Training Board learning objectives relating to physical control and less-than-lethal weapons are also covered.
HUM2210 - Introduction to FilmCredits: 3 (3/0/0)
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2 and 6. This course offers students an overview of the elements that comprise "telling stories on film." Students will study shot, angle, lighting, mise en scene, movement, editing, sound, etc. The course will also consider how film elements work to present various ideologies. Students will become familiar with open and closed forms and the distinctions between realism, classicism and formalism. Students will participate in film analysis using the concepts above.
SPAN2211 - Intermediate Spanish ICredits: 4 (4/0/0)
Meets MnTC Goal Area 8. This course is the first semester of Intermediate Spanish. Students will develop reading, writing, listening and speaking through a focus on historical, political, cultural and artistic expressions of the Spanish-speaking world. Grammar from beginning Spanish courses is lightly reviewed. Students will learn new grammatical skills including the perfect tense of the indicative mood and simple tenses of the subjunctive mood.
CHEM1112 - General Chemistry IICredits: 5 (4/1/0)
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2 and 3. This course is the second of a two-course series (CHEM1111 and CHEM1112) intended for science majors. Students will learn the general chemistry principles: intermolecular forces, properties of solids and liquids, solution chemistry, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base equilibrium, solubility equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and possibly coordination chemistry and an introduction to environmental chemistry. The course includes a lab. Students completing the two-semester sequence will be competent in all the areas listed in General Chemistry I & II of the Minnesota State Chemistry Transfer Pathway.
HLTH2215 - EMT BasicCredits: 6 (4/2/0)
This course follows the current National Standard Curriculum and will include all skills and classroom information necessary to provide emergency care at the basic life support level. Modules presented include preparation of the EMT-B, airway, patient assessment (medical and trauma), medical/behavioral emergencies and OB/GYN, trauma, infants and children, ambulance operations and interventions (medications and semi-automatic defibrillation). Upon successful completion of the EMT-B course, the student will be eligible to take the state/national registry computer and practical examinations.
SOC2220 - Food, Culture and SocietyCredits: 3 (3/0/0)
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. This course examines the social and cultural dimensions of the production, preparation and consumption of food. The course will include discussion of a wide variety of topics including food citizenry, sustainable food production, agroecology, hunger, food sovereignty, food choice and options, policy and legislation, social justice, and the interplay between food and gender, social class, race and ethnicity.
DSET1130 - Trans Elec/Start/ChargeCredits: 4 (2/2/0)
This course is an introduction to electrical systems. Students will learn how to use DVOMs and their applications. Students will study electrical theory including Ohm's law and its application to electrical systems. The course also introduces service procedures necessary to repair charging and starting system components. Electrical principles are applied to test and troubleshoot complete circuits as well as components of each. Fundamental rebuilding principles and system analysis are emphasized. Safe battery testing and service are performed.