Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


This section includes a brief description of each credit class offered on a regular basis at Green River College. Classes are arranged in alphabetical order according to the college department that offers the class.

Each listing includes a course number (prefix & code/number), course title, number of credits awarded, prerequisite, course outcomes, and academic transfer distributions are also designated where applicable. Common course numbers are identified by an “&” symbol at the end of the department abbreviation.

Course numbers 100-299 are designated for Green River College programs and courses that transfer to senior institutions (transfer is sometimes limited). The 100 series is ordinarily for first-year students and the 200 series for second-year students, but this distinction varies because of differing requirements at other colleges and universities. The 300 and 400 level series are for third- and fourth-year students.

Consult the “Programs of Study ” section of this catalog and your faculty advisor for specific information about each class and about which classes will meet your requirements.

 

Accounting

  
  • ACCT 110 - Practical Financial Accounting 1

    Credits: 5
    Elementary course covering the complete accounting cycle for service and merchandising businesses, as well as the basic functions of analyzing, classifying, recording, and summarizing accounting data. Topics may include journals, ledgers, worksheets, adjusting entries and financial statement preparation, receivables, payables and banking procedures. Includes a computerized general ledger application.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for READ 104  or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Analyze, record and post business transactions, adjusting entries and closing entries, using a general journal, special journals, a general ledger and subsidiary ledgers.
    2. Prepare trial balances, worksheets, bank reconciliations and financial schedules and statements.
    3. Demonstrate the effective use of accounting software.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Translate data into various formats such as symbolic language, equations, graphs, and formulas.
    2. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 111 - Practical Financial Accounting 2

    Credits: 5
    A continuation of ACCT 110  with an emphasis on generally-accepted accounting principles. Topics may include payroll, special journals, receivables, payables, bad debts, notes and inventories. Includes computerized accounting applications.

    Prerequisite: ACCT 110  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Analyze, record and post business transactions for payroll and payroll taxes, inventory, uncollectible accounts and notes, and adjusting entries and closing entries involving inventory.
    2. Prepare payroll and payroll tax reports, trial balances, worksheets and financial schedules and statements.
    3. Demonstrate the effective use of accounting software.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Translate data into various formats such as symbolic language, equations, graphs, and formulas.
    2. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 112 - QuickBooks for Accounting

    Credits: 5
    The capstone financial accounting course for the accounting certificate. Provides hands-on experience in computerized, integrated accounting systems. Covers accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, inventory and job costs.

    Prerequisite: ACCT 110  or ACCT& 201 ; and BTAC 100  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the effective use of QuickBooks including sales, receivables, purchases and payables for service and merchandising businesses, end-of-period procedures, payroll and creating a company.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Translate data into various formats such as symbolic language, equations, graphs, and formulas.
    2. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 113 - Practical Accounting

    Credits: 5
    A continuation of ACCT 111 . The last in the financial accounting series for the Accounting, AAA . Topics may include accounting for property, plant and equipment, partnerships and corporations, bonds payable, the statement of cash flows, financial statement analysis and manufacturing accounting. May include integrated general ledger accounting software applications and spreadsheet applications.

    Prerequisite: ACCT 111  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; and B A 145 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Analyze and record business transactions for property, plant and equipment, partnerships, corporations and bonds.
    2. Prepare financial schedules and statements for partnerships, corporations, manufacturing businesses and cash flow.
    3. Use financial statement analysis and financial ratios to evaluate financial information.
    4. Demonstrate the effective use of accounting applications using Excel.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Translate data into various formats such as symbolic language, equations, graphs, and formulas.
    2. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 118 - Individual Taxation

    Credits: 5
    Introduces the principles and problems in tax accounting for individuals. Includes the concepts of gross income, adjusted gross income, taxable income, deductions, exemptions, and credits. Provides experience in completing tax reporting forms manually and with tax return preparation software.

    Prerequisite: ACCT 111  or ACCT& 201  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Analyze and calculate standard deductions and exemptions and items of gross income, business income and expenses, itemized deductions, credits and special taxes.
    2. Prepare income tax forms.
    3. Demonstrate the effective use of tax preparation software.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Translate data into various formats such as symbolic language, equations, graphs, and formulas.
    2. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 121 - Payroll Accounting

    Credits: 5
    Introduces payroll calculations, payroll taxes, and record and report preparation. Includes a manual payroll project and computerized payroll accounting applications.

    Prerequisite: ACCT 110  or ACCT& 201  with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Compute payroll and payroll taxes and prepare records and reports.
    2. Analyze and journalize payroll transactions, both by hand and using a computer payroll accounting application.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Translate data into various formats such as symbolic language, equations, graphs, and formulas.
    2. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 175 - Accounting Instructor Aide

    Credits: 1-5
    Students assist the instructor. Aides work with other students in accounting classes, answering their questions, and doing tutorial-type work.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

  
  • ACCT& 201 - Principles of Accounting I

    Credits: 5
    The first course in the accounting transfer sequence. Introduces basic principles, concepts, theories and procedures of recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial data. Students learn fundamentals of the accounting cycle, recording and classifying of transactions, and construction of financial statements. Students study manual and electronic accounting systems, accounting for cash, internal control, receivables, payables, and inventory. Includes computer application.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101  and MATH 147 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Identify the purpose and uses of financial accounting.

    2. Record and adjust basic business transactions.

    3. Construct a basic income statement, balance sheet, and statement of stockholders’ equity.

    4. Use a computer application to calculate amounts, solve problems, and/or record business transactions.


    Program Outcomes
    1. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

  
  • ACCT& 202 - Principles of Accounting II

    Credits: 5
    The second course in the accounting transfer sequence. Topics include fixed assets, liability and equity sections of the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows, and financial statement analysis. Uses problem solving and application of generally- accepted accounting principles to promote critical reasoning. Includes computer application.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101  and MATH 147 ; and ACCT& 201  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; or instructor’s permission. Recommended: BUS& 101  and computer spreadsheet skills.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Calculate appropriate amounts and record common business transactions relating to long-term assets, current and long-term liabilities, and stockholders’ equity.
    2. Construct a basic statement of cash flows.
    3. Analyze the performance of an organization using financial analysis techniques.
    4. Use a computer spreadsheet application to calculate amounts, solve problems, and prepare reports.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT& 203 - Principles of Accounting III

    Credits: 5
    The third course in the accounting transfer sequence. Covers introductory concepts of managerial accounting. Topics include job-order costing, cost-volume-profit relationships, budgeting, standard costs, variance analysis, and differential analysis for decision making, and capital budgeting. Includes computer application.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; and MATH 147 ; and ACCT& 202  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; or instructor’s permission. Recommended: ECON& 202  prior to enrolling in this course and computer spreadsheet skills.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate an understanding of managerial accounting and cost concepts.
    2. Use job costing, cost-volume-profit, and capital budgeting techniques.
    3. Prepare components of various budgets; and compute and analyze variances.
    4. Use a computer spreadsheet application to calculate amounts and solve problems.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Implement calculator/computer technology to solve problems.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ACCT 325 - Accounting for Decision Makers

    Credits: 5
    An intensive study of accounting in various business environments. Emphasizing the relevance of accounting information to managers in various areas of business. Topics covered include: the interpretation and analysis of financial statements, cost analysis and cost behavior, budgeting, and cost/volume/profit relationships. Students are expected to critically evaluate and offer possible solutions for business problems.

    Prerequisite: Admission into the BAS in Applied Management program; and (ACCT 110  and ACCT 111 ) or ACCT& 201 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Read and interpret financial statements.
    2. Analyze financial statements, thereby gaining an understanding of the financial health of a company.
    3. Understand and explain cost behavior.
    4. Apply various inventory costing methods.
    5. Utilize cost-volume-profit analysis.
    6. Demonstrate an understanding of the role and preparation of budgets.


Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing

  
  • AAM 101 - Principles of Precision Machining 1

    Credits: 13
    Covers conventional machining, basic blueprint reading and math, health and safety, and introduction to Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining. Coursework is divided between lab assignments, lecture and reading/workbook assignments. Students spend their time divided between lecture and lab work each week with a significant amount of lab time dedicated to conventional mills and lathes. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

  
  • AAM 102 - Principles of Precision Machining 2

    Credits: 13
    Covers advanced blueprint reading skills including understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), applied math skills including geometry and trigonometry, CNC machine programming and operation. Coursework is divided between lab assignments, lecture and reading/workbook assignments. Student spends a significant portion of the lab time dedicated to conventional mills and lathes. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

  
  • AAM 103 - Machine Maintenance 1

    Credits: 13
    Covers industry and workplace safety awareness and practices in-depth. Prepares the entry-level machine maintenance technician with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain, diagnose, and repair elementary hydraulic and pneumatic systems. Introduces students to the fundamental mechanical concepts necessary for the installation, operation, and maintenance of industrial machinery. Students acquire the skills to design and interpret industrial prints and component schematics. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 ; or instructor’s permission.

  
  • AAM 104 - Machine Maintenance 2

    Credits: 13
    Covers techniques of assembling, rigging, and installing mechanical equipment. Students learn to work with mechanical transmission devices, including procedures for installation, removal, and maintenance. Upon completion, students will have an understanding of preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-centered maintenance. Students study the development of a comprehensive maintenance program and learn how to use a computerized maintenance management system. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 ; or instructor’s permission.

  
  • AAM 105 - Quality Assurance 1

    Credits: 7
    Helps student to select, set-up and inspect machine parts, based on specifications and tolerancing standards. Students learn to read and interpret GD&T information along with standard tolerances. Students practice set-up, record measurements, and determine discrepancies in Co-Ordinate Measuring Machines (CMM). Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 ; or instructor’s permission.

  
  • AAM 106 - Quality Assurance 2

    Credits: 7
    Prepares the students for the knowledge and skills required to effectively write instructions or “tie-ins”. Topics include operation of mechanical lifts, knowledge of the different fasteners and allowable substitutions, use of computer for data search and input, and understanding of statistical process controls. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .

  
  • AAM 107 - Inspection 1

    Credits: 7
    Prepares the students to read and interpret drawings for the inspection segment of the manufacturing industry. Includes drawing symbols, thread nomenclature, and dimension conversion: metric to inch and inch to metric, notes and title blocks, and dimensioning systems. Students get an understanding of assembly and manufacturing processes and safe working practices and emergency procedures. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .

  
  • AAM 108 - Inspection 2

    Credits: 7
    Helps the student to select and set-up and inspect machine parts, based on specifications and tolerancing standards. Students learn to read and interpret GD&T information along with standard tolerances. Students practice set up, record measurements and determines discrepancies with Co-ordinate Measuring Machines (CMM). Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .

  
  • AAM 111 - Print Reading for Inspection

    Credits: 4
    Read and interpret drawings for the inspection segment of the manufacturing industry. Includes drawing symbols, thread nomenclature, and dimension conversion: metric to inch and inch to metric, notes and title blocks, and dimensioning system.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .

  
  • AAM 112 - Inspection Measuring Basics

    Credits: 3
    Assembly and manufacturing processes and safe working practices and emergency procedures. Basic computer skills are highly recommended: Windows, Internet and Email.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .

  
  • AAM 113 - Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Quality Inspection

    Credits: 4
    Students select, set up and inspect machine parts, based on specifications and tolerancing standards. Students learn to read and interpret Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) information along with standard tolerances.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .

  
  • AAM 114 - Computerized Measuring for Inspection

    Credits: 3
    Students select, set up and inspect machine parts, based on specifications and tolerancing standards. Students learn to read and interpret Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) information along with standard tolerances.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 081 , MATH 072  and READ 104 .


American Minority and Ethnic Studies

  
  • AMES 100 - Introduction to American Minority and Ethnic Studies

    Credits: 5
    Social and historical overview of the interrelationships between Native American, African American, Latino and Asian Americans in the United States. Focuses on relations with each other and with the dominant society.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Describe the systems of oppression and its relations to the concepts of privilege, prejudice, discrimination, segregation, integration, pluralism, acculturation, and assimilation.
    2. Connect major historical events that have significantly impacted people of color.
    3. Explain contributions members of ethnic and minority groups made to the United States.
    4. Analyze experiences or points of view held by members of different ethnic groups.
    5. Uncover issues and breakthroughs that ethnic minorities face in United States today.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 103 - Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality

    Credits: 5
    Overview of the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality. Students shift from thinking of these as separate demographic attributes to an understanding of how these systems of oppression reinforce each other, structure people’s experiences, shape identity formation, determine life chances and create social continuity and conflict.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop a framework of how systems of oppression operate simultaneously in people’s lives.
    2. Articulate identities as socially constructed and intersectional.
    3. Examine the ways in which race, gender and class reproduce dominant cultural ideologies and institutional arrangements.
    4. Apply a culturally responsive and inclusive perspective when examining oppression.
    5. Dissect the way various systems of oppression and privilege operate in our own lives.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 105 - Social Inequality and Change in American Sports

    Credits: 5
    Examines issues of diversity in American sports from 1900 to the present. Topics include the ways in which social inequality affects access to and participation in sports, how sports contribute to the stereotyping of marginalized groups in society and the ways in which athletes and sports have been agents of social change by challenging norms and assumptions concerning race, gender, sexuality and ability.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Interpret and critique the social, cultural and historical significance of sports in American culture. 
    2. Articulate the ways in which access to particular sports are structured in the United States and how access affects participation in sports across racial, ethnic, gender and class lines.
    3. Examine the social and historical origins of stereotypes related to the participation in sports of particular groups.
    4. Correlate the ways that athletes and sports have contributed to social change.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 150 - Race and Ethnicity in the Pacific

    Credits: 5
    An interdisciplinary social and theoretical overview of the interrelationships that exist among various groups in the Northwest consisting of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Focuses on the historical, economical, political and social connections of Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American/Pacific Islander with each other and with the dominant society.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Distinguish social constructions, power relationships, prejudice, discrimination and segregation, integration, pluralism and assimilation.
    2. Articulate the ways in which race/ethnicity intersects with gender, sexuality, and class.
    3. Indicate key historical events unique to the history of race and ethnicity in the Northwest.
    4. Discuss significant contributions that each group makes to the development of Northwest history and society.
    5. Interpret narratives and frames of reference held by members of different racial and ethnic groups.
    6. Investigate problems and opportunities that various racial and ethnic groups face in the Northwest.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 194 - Special Topics-American Minority and Ethnic Studies

    Credits: 1-5
    Focuses on a special topic in ethnic studies. Course presentations develop theoretical concepts for students. Students may repeat the course when a different topic is presented.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099  or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the political, social, and economic issues facing particular groups.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 206 - Identity and Education in Hawai’i

    Credits: 5
    Focuses in Hawai’i as a site for exploring the islands as the land and its people negotiate a global milieu. Through historical texts, western and indigenous theory, art, music and local travel we will explore what it means to live in Hawai’i. This program will also explore its connection to the U.S. occupation of the Hawai’i and its implications on Pacific Islander American students identity and academic achievement particularly in the Aloha State. This inquiry will draw on fieldwork, historic sites visits, and scholarly sources.  Students will survey their mutual foundation and interconnectedness in situating colonial community formation, tourism, and militarism within the similar critical lens.

    Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AMES 253  and HUMAN 186 .  Eligible for ENGL& 101  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Formulate a comprehensive framework of race, ethnicity, class, and other intersectionality in Hawai’i.
    2. Recognize the culture, history, and academic achievement gap issues of the indigenous Hawaiians, Polynesians, and other communities of color in Hawai’i.
    3. Use academic research to evaluate racial issues, disparities, and inequalities.
    4. Discern and analyze the implications of United States contact and settlement in the Kingdom of Hawai’i.
    5. Discuss contemporary issues of concern to the indigenous Hawai’ians, Polynesians and other communities of color.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 214 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

    Credits: 5
    Overview of major sociological perspectives in the study of race and ethnicity in society, including group relations, social stratification, and social change. Students survey theories, data, and sociohistorical/cultural processes useful for better understanding today’s social world. Emphasizes using sociological scholarship to solve modern racial dilemmas. Cross-listed with SOC 214 .

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Evaluate race and ethnicity as social concepts.
    2. Recognize the relevance of Ethnic Studies to approaching social problems created by race.
    3. Research and evaluate racial issues, disparities, and inequalities.
    4. Describe how race, ethnicity, power, and privilege are used to stratify society within the systems of oppression.
    5. Classify the racial and ethnic patterns shaping our modern society.
    6. Identify consequences of race as a social construction.
    7. Use Ethnic Studies to advance the goal of realizing racial equality.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 230 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

    Credits: 5
    Provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Examines issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality, immigration/migration, citizenship, labor, racialization, exclusion, social and political activism and social movements, family, community-building, war, imperialism, sovereignty, (post) colonialisms, transnationalism, culture, and creative expressions. Previously HIST 226.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Explicate how race intersects with gender, sexualities, and socio-economic class.
    2. Compare and contrast the history and cultural production of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States, within both multiracial American and transnational contexts.
    3. Evaluate critical theories and methodologies to identify the structural and ideological forces that shape the lives of Asian American and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 253 - Community Formation in Hawai’i

    Credits: 2
    The course is tied to the broad themes and questions of AMES 100  and AMES 103  as they play out in the specific places of Hawai’i including localizing knowledge and community engagement. This course is to examine questions regarding the production of knowledge about communities and nations.  What does it mean to use categories that refer to specific groups and nations?  How do these categories arise?  Who benefits from these categories and whom they disadvantage?  This course will also enable its participants to then apply critical thinking skills to knowledge-production issues related to communities of color in Hawai’i.  Participants will learn different ways of understanding the specificities of communities of color such as Filipino American and Samoan American migration and colonization histories, identity and community formations, and institutional and national politics, as they all relate to critiques of ethnicity, “nation,” and power.

    Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AMES 206  and HUMAN 186 .  Eligible for ENGL& 101  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Analyze the concepts of social constructions, power relationships, prejudice, discrimination and segregation, integration, pluralism and assimilation.
    2. Indicate the ways in which race/ethnicity intersect with gender, sexuality, and class.
    3. Produce a critical analysis of key historical events unique to the history of race and ethnicity in Hawai’i.
    4. Identify significant contributions that each settler groups have made to the development of Hawai’i history and society.
    5. Explore lived experiences and viewpoints held by members of different racial and ethnic groups.
    6. Research the problems and opportunities that various racial and ethnic groups face in the Kingdom of Hawai’i.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • AMES 299 - Independent Study-American Minority and Ethnic Studies

    Credits: 1-5
    Allows and encourages a student to study independently in an area of their special interests in American and ethnic minority studies. Student and instructor decide course content, type and scope of work.

    Prerequisite: AMES 100  and instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of a specific topic.
    2. Design and execute a research project to explore the topic.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Articulate knowledge of comparative and interdisciplinary topics related to ethnic minority groups’ narratives.
    2. Demonstrate skill in community organizing.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

Anthropology

  
  • ANTH& 100 - Survey of Anthropology

    Credits: 5
    Provides a basic understanding of the four sub-fields of anthropology: Physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and sociocultural anthropology. Units of study include evolution, culture, human biological and cultural origins, primate behavior, pre-history, language acquisition, and cultural development.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Describe nature of anthropology and its uniqueness as a discipline.
    2. Explain biological evolutionary theory, and how it applies to human evolution specifically.
    3. Discuss why humans are classified as primates and yet are unique kinds of primates.
    4. Examine primate and human evolution, including the complex interrelationships between human biology and culture. 
    5. Identify the major primate and human fossils and their provenience
    6. Explain the basic components of human heredity and how these interact with environments to produce human biological variation.
    7. Identify the nature of the race concept, historically and contemporarily, and how some problems of human biological variation are being studied by physical anthropologists.
    8. Point out the basic tools and methods of archeology and the importance of context in the exploration of human history and prehistory.
    9. Briefly discuss dating techniques and their applications.
    10. Analyze human acquisition of language, and our efforts to understand primate communication.
    11. Discuss the concept of culture, and its importance to human survival.
    12. Point out different economic and kinship structures around the world, and how they work to create human alliances.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ANTH& 104 - World Prehistory

    Credits: 5
    Exploration of some of the most well-known archaeological discoveries from the distant and recent past (such as Olduvai Gorge, Ice Age Caves, Jericho, Egyptian pyramids, Harappa, Stonehenge, Xianyang, Teotihuacan, Cahokia, Mesa Verde, Great Zimbabwe, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Ozette, etc.). Offers global coverage and scientific interpretation of archaeological evidence for our human past.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop an appreciation of the course of human prehistory within its environmental settings.
    2. Analyze well-known archaeological case studies to explain how archaeological data are obtained, recorded, and analyzed to solve research problems provoked by the studies.
    3. Explain theories of cultural evolution and major transformative processes experienced by the human species in differing environmental contexts.
    4. Identify cultural and ecological diversity through the study of remains of various ancient cultures.
    5. Recognize legal responsibilities facing world citizens and their collective past.
    6. Critically evaluate current findings within an archaeological/ecological framework.
    7. Compare material evidence of economic, social, and political stratification.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 106 - American Mosaic: Cultures of the United States

    Credits: 5
    The study of cultures of historically marginalized groups of the United States from the perspectives of ethnicity, race, gender and class. Special emphasis on anthropological methods and approaches to enhance understanding of contemporary socio-cultural lifeways.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Articulate the anthropological concept of culture;
    2. Identify, analyze and articulate the construction of individual identity, personal perspective and personal biases;
    3. Identify, analyze and discuss the dynamics of institutional and attitudinal discrimination in the US;
    4. Identify, define and discuss ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and extreme relativism;
    5. Analyze and discuss the multicultural context of the US and its rapidly changing demographic profile;
    6. Distinguish between racial classification and the anthropological approach to human variation;
    7. Identify and analyze the complexities of socioeconomic class in the US;
    8. Identify the diversity of family and household forms in the US;
    9. Explore anthropological approaches to understanding diversity;
    10. Work in groups to collaborate, interact and communicate effectively while discussing matters of social inequality.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH 108 - Food, Drink and Culture

    Credits: 5
    Food and drink are essential components to human survival and as such the center of a myriad of human activities throughout human history. This course provides a cross-cultural and global view of food and drink that examines these essentials of life from the cultural, biological, archaeological, and linguistic perspectives of Anthropology. Students will develop and enhance their intercultural competence by examining various cross-cultural perspectives of food, while also building a foundation in methodological approaches to studying culture.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Explain the role that nutritional anthropology plays in understanding human consumption of food and drink. 
    2. Develop an understanding of some of the main methodological techniques of anthropology and identify appropriate uses of these methods in the study of food, drink, and culture.
    3. Assess the human diet from a human biological evolutionary perspective, especially the influences that our primate origins have on our overall nutritional needs. 
    4. Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and origins of world cuisines and beverages from a cross-cultural perspective.
    5. Connect various aspects of culture to the choice and consumption of food and drink.
    6. Identify the symbolic aspects of food and drink in various cultures and how these items convey values and norms. 
    7. List or recognize major global food challenges, such as sustainability and food inequalities, that the world faces today and develop an expanded awareness of different world views while challenging ethnocentrisms.
    8. Analyze one’s own diet through the lens of nutritional anthropology.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH 194 - Special Topics-Anthropology 1

    Credits: 1-5
    Focuses on a special topic in anthropology. Course presentations develop theoretical concepts for students. Students may repeat the course when a different topic is presented.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Explain main theoretical perspectives of the topic.
    2. Explain main methodological techniques of the topic.
    3. Explain concept of the topic.
    4. Explain basic principles of critical thinking and analysis.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 204 - Archaeology

    Credits: 5
    An introduction to the techniques, methods and goals of archaeological research, including excavation and dating of archaeological materials and general problems encountered in explaining archaeological phenomena.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    The outcomes of this course will be determined based on the available field experience.
    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ANTH& 205 - Biological Anthropology

    Credits: 5
    Study of human evolution including the theories of evolution by natural selection and other means. Examines human evolution through the fossil record, the comparison of human and non-human primates in behavior and morphology, and modern human variations and their implications to human adaptation.

    Prerequisite: ANTH& 100 , BIOL& 100 , or BIOL& 211 ; or instructor’s permission. Eligible for ENGL& 101  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science or Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Explain current anthropological views of genetics and evolution.
    2. Explain the varieties of primate species and their anatomical and behavioral characteristics.
    3. Explain the biological and behavioral consequences of bipedalism.
    4. Explain the evolution of hominid species.
    5. Explain the causes and degree of human variation.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 206 - Cultural Anthropology

    Credits: 5
    Study of the field of sociocultural anthropology with emphasis on the nature of culture, types of social systems in society, and the way they work. Includes theoretical and methodological issues in anthropology and ethnographic studies, while examining cross-cultural perspectives.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ;or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Describe some of the main theoretical perspectives of cultural anthropology and acquire the necessary knowledge and skills required to critically examine ethnographic works.
    2. Develop an understanding of some of the main methodological techniques of cultural anthropology and identify appropriate uses of these methods in the study of cultural diversity.
    3. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the concept of culture.
    4. Display a basic understanding of the concept of cultural relativism and apply this concept to both anthropological and real world situations.
    5. Show a basic understanding of the concept of cross cultural comparison and develop an expanded awareness of different world views while challenging ethnocentrism. 
    6. Develop an increased knowledge of some principles of critical thinking and analysis particularly those relevant to increased cross-cultural understanding and communication.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 207 - Linguistic Anthropology

    Credits: 5
    Introduces the sub-discipline of linguistics within the larger discipline of anthropology. Covers methods and theories in the study of language in anthropology including the structure of language; language through history; a comparison between human and non-human communication; the innate human capacity for language; the relationship between language, thought, and culture; and the study of language, power, and identity. Course emphasizes cross-cultural perspective.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Gain a sense of the different areas of focus in the study of language in anthropology.
    2. Explain the structure of language and the various levels of analysis of linguistic structure.
    3. Explain what historical linguistics is.
    4. Identify the major language families of the world.
    5. Comprehend both the similarities and differences between human and non-human modes of communication.
    6. Explain the arguments and evidence given for the innate human capacity for language.
    7. Discuss the connections between cognition and language.
    8. Discuss the relationship between language and culture.
    9. Explain how language can be used in social settings to convey power and identity.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ANTH& 210 - Indians of North America

    Credits: 5
    Study of the Indians of North America (north of Mexico) as they are known from historical and ethnographic sources. Covers the representative cultures of all the major regions with some greater emphasis on the northwest coast.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science and Diversity

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Identify the geographical and culture areas of North America.
    2. Recognize the differences and commonalties among Native Americans.
    3. Relate the archaeology and history of Native American tribes.
    4. Explain subsistence patterns, economic and social organization, kinship systems, art and religion of Native American tribes.
    5. Relate the impact of Euro-American contact and settlement on Native-American cultures including the stereotypes and discrimination patterns used against Native-Americans as well as Native-American reactions to these practices including revitalization and the rise of militant movements.
    6. Relate the impact of Euro-American contact and settlement on Native American cultures.
    7. Discuss contemporary issues of importance to Native Americans including coping strategies for dealing with the dominant culture.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 216 - Northwest Coast Indians

    Credits: 5
    Covers the historical, ethnographic and informant sources of the Native American cultures of the Northwest Coast (a cultural area extending from southern Alaska to northern California with an internal boundary of the Cascade Mountains).

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Identify the geographical and tribal areas of the Northwest Coast.
    2. Identify the differences and commonalties among the Northwest Coast tribes.
    3. Discuss the archaeology and history of the region.
    4. Discuss the subsistence patterns, economic and social organization, kinship, art and religious beliefs of the Northwest Coast tribes.
    5. Discuss the impact of European and American contact and settlement for the Northwest Coast tribes.
    6. Identify the issues of contemporary concerns of the Northwest Coast tribes.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH 220 - Sex, Gender and Culture

    Credits: 5
    Presents an evolutionary, comparative, and holistic approach to sex and gender from the perspective of Anthropology. Explores the concepts of sex and gender through all four fields (cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics). Course materials illustrate how ideas about sex and gender vary in different times and cultures.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Identify the four-field approach of Anthropology.
    2. Differentiate between the concepts of sex and gender.
    3. Recognize biological and cultural influences on sex and gender.
    4. Analyze the role of biological evolution in human sex and gender.
    5. Critique andocentric bias of past research.
    6. Contrast how gender roles are understood from archaeological evidence.
    7. Assess how constructions of gender categories and roles are culturally and historically created.
    8. Compare cross-cultural examinations of sex and gender.
    9. Recognize or characterize the historical and political uses of sex and gender.
    10. Examine the role of communication in gender expression.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 234 - Religion and Culture

    Credits: 5
    Introduces the concepts and theories characterizing the anthropological study of religion as a system within culture. Focuses on the cross-cultural examination of religious organizations, beliefs, rituals and practitioners.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop an understanding of religion as a system within culture.
    2. Describe the anthropological perspective on religion.
    3. Develop an understanding of the cross cultural diversity of religious concepts, organizations, practice, ritual and practitioners.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 235 - Cross-Cultural Medicine

    Credits: 5
    Uses ethnographic, informant and popular sources to study cross-cultural examination of health beliefs, care systems and healer/patient relationships.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Discuss the impact of culture on health and illness beliefs and behavior.
    2. Identify health care systems.
    3. Identify different types of healers and explain dynamics of healer-patient relationships.
    4. Relate the distinction between illness and disease.
    5. Discuss and utilize explanatory models.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH& 236 - Forensic Anthropology

    Credits: 5
    Covers the application of physical anthropology to medico-legal death investigation. Introduces the science of skeletal biology, the associated concepts of human variation, and their applications within a forensic context.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Obtain a basic understanding of the human skeleton including individual bone recognition, the differentiation between human and nonhuman skeletal elements, and the derivation of a biological profile from human skeletal remains.
    2. Practice critical thinking in exploring the information available from skeletal remains and the way in which such information contributes to forensic investigation.  This includes an understanding of scientific certainty, or less formally, what one is comfortable testifying to in a court of law.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ANTH 273 - Field Archeology

    Credits: 1-10
    Provides the student with fieldwork in archaeology through experiences in site survey, excavation, recording, classifying, cataloging and reporting.

    Prerequisite: ANTH& 100  and eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Social Science

  
  • ANTH 294 - Special Topics-Anthropology 2

    Credits: 1-5
    Focuses on a special topic in anthropology. Course presentations develop theoretical concepts for students. Students may repeat the course when a different topic is presented.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Explain main theoretical perspectives of the topic.
    2. Explain main methodological techniques of the topic.
    3. Explain concept of the topic.
    4. Explain basic principles of critical thinking and analysis.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH 298 - Independent Study-Anthropology 1

    Credits: 1-5
    Allows student to pursue a special interest in anthropology under the direction of an instructor.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Isolate a problem of anthropological interest and develop knowledge related to solving the problem.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ANTH 299 - Independent Study-Anthropology 2

    Credits: 1-5
    Allows student to pursue a special interest in anthropology under the direction of an instructor.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Isolate a problem of anthropological interest and develop knowledge related to solving the problem.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Define the anthropological concept of cultural relativism.
    2. Identify the holistic perspective.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

Anatomy and Physiology

  
  • AP 100 - Survey of Human Anatomy and Physiology

    Credits: 5
    Covers the basics of human anatomy and physiology including anatomical terminology, basic biochemistry, cells and tissues, and the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic/immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Introduces common human disease processes. Prepares non-science majors and allied-health profession students to take advanced anatomy and physiology courses.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Define basic anatomical and physiological terms.
    2. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic/immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive systems and diseases common to these systems.
    3. Describe how body systems interact with one another in human health and disease.
    4. Explain the concept of homeostasis and give examples of homeostatic regulatory mechanisms in cells, tissues, organs, and body systems.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Recognize and use essential components of effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
    2. Apply relevant criteria and intellectual standards when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
    3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.
    4. Demonstrates active communication and close reading skills.
    5. Connect past learning with current topics.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
  
  • AP 102 - Bringing Anatomy and Physiology to Life

    Credits: 5
    Intended for students interested in taking human anatomy and physiology without going into the depth of the other Green River anatomy/physiology course. Intended for non-science majors and for students not pursuing an allied health career. Develops an understanding of the structure and function of some of the key systems in the human body. Non-lab science course.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101  or MATH 072 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Define basic anatomical and physiological terms for specific systems.  
    2. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology for selected systems and diseases common to these systems.  
    3. Describe how body systems interact with one another in human health and disease.
    4. Explain the concept of homeostasis and give examples of homeostatic regulatory mechanisms in cells, tissues, organs, and body systems.  

    Program Outcomes
    1. Recognize and use essential components of effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
    2. Apply relevant criteria and intellectual standards when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
    3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.
    4. Use active listening and close reading skills.
    5. Connect past learning with current topics.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
  
  • AP 103 - Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology 1

    Credits: 5
    Introductory course in human anatomy and physiology. First of a two-quarter sequence including the study of structure and function of cells, tissues, and the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. Introduces common human disease processes. Laboratory component includes anatomical studies using microscopy and dissection and the study of physiological concepts via experimentation. AP 100  strongly recommended.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science or Lab Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Define basic anatomical and physiological terms.
    2. Describe the structure and function of cells and tissues.
    3. Explain the concept of homeostasis and give examples of homeostatic regulatory mechanisms in cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems.
    4. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems and diseases common to these systems.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Recognize and use effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
    2. Apply relevant criteria when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
    3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.     
    4. Demonstrate active listening and reading skills.       
    5. Connect past learning with current topics.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
  
  • AP 104 - Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology 2

    Credits: 5
    Introductory course in human anatomy and physiology. Second of a two-quarter sequence including the study of the endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic/immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Introduces common human disease processes. Laboratory component includes anatomical studies using microscopy and dissection and the study of physiological concepts via experimentation.

    Prerequisite: AP 103  and eligible for ENGL& 101 . Recommended:  



    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science or Lab Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Define basic anatomical and physiological terms.
    2. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology of the endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic/immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems as well as diseases common to these systems.
    3. Describe how body systems interact with one another in human health and disease.
    4. Explain the concept of homeostasis and give examples of homeostatic regulatory mechanisms in cells, tissues, organs, organ systems etc.  

    Program Outcomes
    1. Recognize and use effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
    2. Apply relevant criteria when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
    3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.     
    4. Demonstrate active listening and reading skills.       
    5. Connect past learning with current topics.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
  
  • AP 210 - Cadaver Anatomy

    Credits: 1
    Comprehensive review of human cadaver anatomy for health professionals and students of the health professions. Covers major muscles, skin, bones and joints, internal organs, blood vessels, the brain, spinal cord and major nerves. Uses dissected cadavers to study anatomical variations, pathologies, and anatomical change due to the aging process.

    Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AP 104  or BIOL& 242 ; and eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Describe superficial and deep anatomical relations of major organs and organ systems.
    2. Describe normal anatomical variations among individuals and describe anatomical changes which occur as a part of aging or disease processes.
    3. Participate in discussion, palpation, observation and comparison of multiple dissections, and be able to link the anatomy to specific anatomical systems and system functions.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate knowledge of and a willingness to accept stated/agreed upon expectations, policies, and procedures through lectures/discussions, appropriate attitudes and behaviors in the classroom and lab.
    2. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons through lectures/discussions, analysis of dissection material.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

Art

  
  • ART& 100 - Art Appreciation

    Credits: 5
    Introduces the basic elements and principles of art and the media with which artists create.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Gain proficiency in understanding the relationship between art making, the language of art, and the viewer’s approach to works of art in different traditions.
    2. Gain proficiency in understanding the relationship between art and society (socially and politically), to understand the elements and principles of art and society, and to understand the function of art, to clarify, to intensify, or otherwise enlarge our understanding of how art operates- within different traditions.
    3. Demonstrate a basic familiarity with differing art-making methods, materials and media and an understanding of the elements and principles of art and an ability to apply these to analyze the compositional structure of art works.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrated by textbook chapter tests, video responses, artist’s studio projects, and the final self portrait which focus on composition.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 105 - Beginning Drawing

    Credits: 5
    Covers the use of line, shape, light and shadow, perspective, and fundamentals of composition in the context of drawing based on observation and creative expression. Introduces students to the figure, forms in nature, landscape, interior spaces, and still life.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Show proficiency with hand/eye coordination in relationship to drawing from observation.
    2. Apply sighting methods to check proportion, angles, and spatial alignments.
    3. Identify and apply atmospheric and linear perspective concepts.
    4. Show familiar with a variety of black and white media, including the use of eraser as a drawing tool.
    5. Understand the many components of light and shadow, and the descriptive quality of surface texture.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to use effective compositions in their drawings.
    7. Show proficiency with various drawing techniques, gesture, contour, and tonal.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 106 - Intermediate Drawing

    Credits: 5
    Focuses on the human form as a basis for learning about anatomy, composition, relationship of figure to environment, line, shape, value, and color.

    Prerequisite: ART 105  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop observation skills in terms of weight, balance, and gesture of the figure.
    2. Explore the various possibilities within the picture plane in a more creative and complex manner.
    3. Investigate the abstraction of human form.
    4. Explore the use of traditional materials, including mixed media.
    5. Apply skills and concepts for creative expression.
    6. Analyze the context in a drawing.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 107 - Advanced Drawing

    Credits: 5
    Further explores the human form as subject matter for drawing as a means of creating a coherent visual and expressive statement.

    Prerequisite: ART 106  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop observation skills and translating observations into visual expressions.
    2. Experiment with a variety of surfaces, drawing media, and collage to investigate line, value, form, and composition.
    3. Investigate traditional techniques and contemporary trends.
    4. Consider the figure as a vehicle for conveying meaning and as a vital way to invoke associations to culture and history.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 109 - Beginning Design

    Credits: 5
    Introduces the visual elements of design and the fundamental principles of visual organization. Uses computers and traditional materials. Through visual problem solving, students strengthen their compositional skills while obtaining a better understanding of the visual world and the vocabulary with which to discuss it.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate their approach to the creative process by developing and refining ideas, problem solving, working through technical and craftsmanship challenges, and reflecting upon a resolved solution.
    2. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic elements and principles of design through the completion of creative projects.
    3. Participate in critiques and demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate art using reasoned judgment and clear design vocabulary.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 110 - Intermediate Design and Color

    Credits: 5
    Continues the study of two-dimensional design through exploration and understanding of color theory. In-depth exploration of color theory principles such as additive and subtractive color systems, color harmony and palette analysis, color interaction and the expressive impact of color. Digital and traditional media are used for visual problem solving exercises.

    Prerequisite: ART 109  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate understanding of the theoretical rules within the additive and subtractive color systems.
    2. Mix color and how to use a color wheel.
    3. Demonstrate understanding of the basic properties of color; hue, value and saturation.
    4. Demonstrate understanding of palette relationships through the use of color harmonies and chords.
    5. Create art that demonstrates conceptual understanding of color through color’s expressive and spatial effects. 
    6. Demonstrate understanding of local color, subjective color and optical color.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 111 - Painting 1

    Credits: 5
    Introduces students to traditional and contemporary concepts and techniques in oil painting. Working from still life and landscape, students learn to organize form, color, and tone while practicing various methods of application, color mixing, and surface preparation.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate compositional development of objects/shapes in the picture plane.
    2. Create simple to involved landscape and still-life assignments. 
    3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
    4. Demonstrate color evaluation and its relationship to creating depth and volume.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 112 - Painting 2

    Credits: 5
    Students further the skills taught in ART 111  and investigate painting as a means for self-expression. Explores advanced compositions and use of various materials.

    Prerequisite: ART 111 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
    2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
    3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
    4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ART 113 - Painting 3

    Credits: 5
    Provides advanced instruction in painting using objectives taught in ART 112 . Students demonstrate advanced compositional theories and painting methods.

    Prerequisite: ART 112 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
    2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
    3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
    4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ART 114 - Pottery 1

    Credits: 3-5
    Students develop an appreciation of clay as an art medium. Introduces students to the fundamental methods of clay construction, hand building, and the use of the potter’s wheel through utilitarian pottery and sculpture. Course traces the history of ceramics and its development from a global thematic approach. Art transfer students must take ART 251  instead of ART 114.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the fundamental methods of clay construction in pottery and sculpture.
    2. Be exposed to the fundamental concerns of clay sculpture and utilitarian pottery.
    3. Demonstrate a familiarity with ceramic terminology and process.
    4. Demonstrate their concepts based on aesthetic and design principles.
    5. Demonstrate their design concepts through sketches and maquettes.
    6. Develop an awareness of clays role in society, from a global thematic approach.
    7. Demonstrate respect for themselves, fellow students, and the studio environment.
    8. Course content learning outcomes will be assessed by the instructor.
       

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 115 - Pottery 2

    Credits: 3-5
    Students continue to develop their skills on and off the potter’s wheel. Instructor leads students through discussions of the forming process of object-making. Encourages students to explore the visual, tactile, and intellectual possibilities through this art medium. Art transfer majors must take ART 252  instead of ART 115.

    Prerequisite: ART 114 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate proficiency in the use of ceramic terminology and process.
    2. Demonstrate the development of their sensibilities to the forming process of art making.
    3. Demonstrate the visual, tactile, and intellectual possibilities of clay.
    4. Explore the historical context from which their concepts develop.
    5. Demonstrate respect for themselves, fellow students, and the studio environment.
    6. Course content learning outcomes will be assessed by the instructor and the student peers.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 119 - 3-Dimensional Design

    Credits: 5
    Explores the fundamentals of form and space with 3-D projects. Students investigate various mixed media materials, and become familiar with structure, mass, color, and scale.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop techniques of research and idea development through sketchbook project requirements.
    2. Demonstrate three-dimensional processes through visual problem solving through the carving and building projects.
    3. Demonstrate an understanding of creativity in the context of three-dimensional structures by creative problem-solving of the requirements in the assemblage and form over function projects.
    4. Demonstrate the value of good craftsmanship through skill development and the relationship of appropriate materials to the idea by overall neatness and effective construction skills in all free-standing projects.
    5. Participate in critiques and demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate art using reasoned judgment by participation in and preparedness for the projects’ critiques.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 120 - Introduction to Graphic Design

    Credits: 5
    Introduces the principles of graphic form to convey meaning and communicate ideas through text and imagery. Students learn the principles of visual communication through compositional-layout, color and typography in a variety of formats. Digital and traditional media are used for visual problem solving exercises.

    Prerequisite: ART 109  or concurrent enrollment.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Practice the creative process by developing a concept map, gathering source materials, creating process thumbnail sketches and workup models, finalizing a solution and reflecting upon the process.
    2. Communicate an idea and problem solve using the elements and principles of design with a particular focus on typography, color, layout concepts and visual organization.
    3. Identify and use the characteristics and terminology of basic typography.
    4. Demonstrate how imagery and typography in combination function as a catalyst for dynamic visual communication.
    5. Create a graphic design portfolio.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 122 - Visual Concepts of Web Design

    Credits: 5
    Focuses on elements and principles of design as they apply to the internet, with emphasis on creating a website that is aesthetic and functional. Course evaluates past visual trends in web design as well as implement latest trends, tools and software used by today’s designers in the field.

    Prerequisite: ART 109 . Recommended: ART 110  and/or ART 120 .

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Design and create a website with an emphasis on effective aesthetic and functionality.
    2. Address graphic elements such as color and typography in web design.
    3. Incorporate graphics and images in web design.
    4. Present layout and content within the framework of strong design principles.
    5. Demonstrate techniques for file management.
    6. Discuss current and past visual trends in design as it applies to the internet.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 130 - Watercolor Painting

    Credits: 3
    Combines watercolor techniques with drawing media to create landscapes, interiors, and figure studies from observation. Emphasizes building foundational skills for the purpose of expressive sketchbooks, illustrations, notational journal drawings, and portfolio presentations.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Mix colors using watercolor media.
    2. Manipulate the paper for special effects.
    3. Learn watercolor techniques: wet into wet, glazing, direct painting, transparent and opaque washes, and dry brush.
    4. Incorporate drawing into a watercolor painting.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to use effective compositions in their paintings.
    6. Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensional qualities of light and shadow within a painting.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensional qualities of light and shadow within a painting.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 133 - Portrait Drawing

    Credits: 3
    Students learn to draw realistic portraits by studying proportion, anatomy, and foreshortening. Using models, students practice rendering the skull, facial features, and shoulders from a variety of perspectives.

    Recommended: ART 105 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the anatomical structure of the skull, neck, and shoulders.
    2. Describe the proportions of the human head.
    3. Explore the use of traditional drawing materials.
    4. Render differences in each individual’s facial features.
    5. Build form through the observation of light and shadow.
    6. Develop a portrait in stages from a generalized form to more specific details.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 135 - Introduction to Screen Printing

    Credits: 3
    Introduces the traditional and contemporary concepts and techniques of screen printing.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the process of creation from initial design to the final product.
    2. Build on early sketches of a design, refine ideas on the computer, then translate onto the screen mesh for printing.
    3. Work with the printing process; organizing form, color and tone while practicing various methods of application, color mixing, and surface preparation.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ART 139 - Introduction to Digital Illustration

    Credits: 3
    Introduces students to the process of creating narrative illustrations through digital media. Focus is on creative development of a theme, storyboarding techniques, and the use of digital media for drawing and painting. 

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Establish a working productive creative process and will demonstrate this process from sketch to finished illustration through clear and efficient workflow and consistent participation.
    2. Research storytelling and narrative art in order to gain an understanding of create their own compelling narrative illustrations.
    3. Illustrate clear and appropriate mood to fit a narrative which specifically addresses color use and shape design.
    4. Apply basic compositional principles and techniques.
    5. Communicate ideas and narratives through the use of sequential images (storyboarding).
    6. Develop and strengthen their design vocabulary through the critique process.
    7. Demonstrate basic technical skills using the digital lab software.
    Program Outcomes

    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

  
  • ART 140 - Introduction to Animation

    Credits: 5
    Students will create their own animations from still photographs, mixed media, drawings, and/or digital media. The course introduces the basics of stop-motion animation and the industry standard software used to edit animated movies.

    Prerequisite: ART 109 .

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate conceptual understanding of narrative through the process of story-boarding and reflection.
    2. Demonstrate understanding of the structure of stop-motion animation by creating still imagery via photography, drawing and digital stills.
    3. Create animations digitally.
    4. Edit movies by adding audio soundtracks and titles.
    5. Work on a creative team.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 150 - Espial Journal Design and Publication

    Credits: 5
    Introduces students to the creative process of creating a book publication. Students manage their process and partner with the ENGL 239  class to create a literary and visual arts journal on behalf of Green River College. Tasks and deadlines are self-assigned in curatorial, layout design, editing and promotion.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Practice leadership and conflict resolution skills.
    2. Strengthen and reinforce the values of teamwork, communication and problem solving as a team endeavor.
    3. Manage goals and a project timeline as a team.
    4. Critically evaluate art and literature in terms of form, quality and suitability for use in a student journal.
    5. Collaboratively establish criteria for book layout, editing and production.
    6. Create cohesive content.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ART 177 - Art Work Experience 1

    Credits: 1-5
    Allows students to work full- or part-time in jobs directly related to their programs and interests. Students may receive a salary or volunteer.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 178 - Art Work Experience 2

    Credits: 1-5
    Allows students to work full- or part-time in jobs directly related to their programs and interests. Students may receive a salary or volunteer.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 179 - Art Work Experience 3

    Credits: 1-5
    Allows students to work full- or part-time in jobs directly related to their programs and interests. Students may receive a salary or volunteer.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 180 - The Artist’s Portfolio

    Credits: 3
    Leads students through the process of organizing a body of artwork into a portfolio. Through discussions, critiques, and demonstrations, students learn how to assemble, document, and provide support materials for a professional portfolio. Course ends with an art exhibition of the student’s work.

    Prerequisite: ART 105  and ART 109 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop the skills to create and present an art portfolio.
    2. Critically evaluate technique, form and content in the artwork of a portfolio.
    3. Assemble a package of materials that supports the portfolio artwork.
    4. Display various techniques of documenting artwork.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 199 - Independent Study-Design

    Credits: 1-5
    Encourages students to study and develop independently in their major areas of advanced design. Students develop their own objectives, evaluation criteria and performance standards in conjunction with the appropriate instructor.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 212 - History of Art 1

    Credits: 5
    Study of the development of visual art from the Prehistoric Period to the Gothic Period of Western Civilization.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Discuss understand the relationship between art and society in the Prehistoric to the Gothic Periods.
    2. Define the function of art, to clarify, intensify, or otherwise enlarge our experience of life in the Prehistoric to the Gothic Periods.
    3. Discern styles in western art history from Prehistoric Periods to Gothic Periods.
    4. Trace the centuries of change, a topical record describing how things, places and people lived as recorded in their art in the Prehistoric to Gothic Periods.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 213 - History of Art 2

    Credits: 5
    Study of the development of visual art from the Gothic Period to the beginning of the Romantic Period.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Discuss understand the relationship between art and society in the Gothic to Romantic Periods.
    2. Define the function of art, to clarify, intensify, or otherwise enlarge our experience of life in the Gothic to Romantic Periods.
    3. Discern styles in western art history from the Gothic to Romantic Periods.
    4. Trace the centuries of change, a topical record describing how things, places and people lived as recorded in their art in the Gothic to Romantic Periods.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 214 - History of Art 3

    Credits: 5
    Study of the development of visual art from the Romantic Period up to and including contemporary art.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Discuss understand the relationship between art and society in the Romantic period to the present.
    2. Define the function of art, to clarify, intensify, or otherwise enlarge our experience of life in the Romantic period to the present.
    3. Discern styles in western art history from the Romantic period to the present.
    4. Trace the centuries of change, a topical record describing how things, places and people lived as recorded in their art in the Romantic period to the present.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 219 - Advanced 3-Dimensional Design

    Credits: 5
    Further development of 3-dimensional design concepts as they apply to the visual arts. Students work on an independent project, developing an idea through various design stages, culminating in the installation of a final sculpture.

    Prerequisite: ART 109  and ART 119 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Develop ideas for 3-dimensional projects through research of historical context.
    2. Develop visual problem solving skills by rendering ideas with a variety of drawing media.
    3. Demonstrate an understanding of orchestrating space through the concerns of placement and locations.
    4. Demonstrate an understanding of creativity in the context of 3-dimensional structures.
    5. Demonstrate the value of good craftsmanship through skill development and the relationship of appropriate materials to the idea.
    6. Evaluate art and respond to art critique using reasoned judgment.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 240 - History of Art and Feminism

    Credits: 5
    This course will explore how images shape understanding of gender roles, morality, and power. This will involve a historical survey of the artistic contributions of women, an examination of images of women in art, and an investigation of how using a feminist lens can change the way we look at art made throughout history.

    Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL& 101  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Identify key 20th and 21st century female-identified artists, using the 1970s North American feminist movement as a benchmark.
    2. Define and utilize art historical terminology as it relates to the art produced by female-identified artists.
    3. Analyze the relationship between art created by female-identified artists and the social, cultural and historical contexts, including hetero-patriarchy and Eurocentrism.
    4. Identify and define various feminist theories, and practice a feminist approach to analyzing art. 
    5. Explain how artistic images shape our understanding of gender roles, morality, and power with an emphasis on an intersectional approach, including attention to race, sexuality, class, and disability.
    6. Demonstrate competency in research and visual analysis skills through written and oral forms of communication.
    7. Develop collaboration and presentation skills.
    8. Create artistic expressions (painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, performance) in response to various feminist theories.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the elements and principles of visual arts.
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 251 - Ceramics 1

    Credits: 5
    Introduces students to conceptual problems and challenges with developing solutions in clay. Students demonstrate their understanding of the narrative object and its effectiveness in communicating ideas, values, and identity. Exposes students to non-traditional processes in clay construction, glaze application, firing process, and finishing surfaces, and discusses their aesthetic choices.

    Prerequisite: ART 114  and ART 115 ; and ART 105  or ART 109 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate their familiarity of ceramic terminology and process.
    2. Complete assignments based on specific or collective narratives.
    3. Take part in alternative firing processes: Raku, Horse Hair, Saggar, Salt, and/or Pit- Firing.
    4. Learn how the material used to create an object may be part of its content
    5. Use alternative surface treatments.
    6. Demonstrate familiarity with intermediate glazing techniques.
    7. Produce sketches and writings to show the development of their concepts.
       

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 252 - Ceramics 2

    Credits: 5
    Intermediate course in ceramics in which students demonstrate a complete understanding of the ceramic process through clay construction and firing. Students gain knowledge of various clay bodies, glaze properties and effects. Students demonstrate the ability to work responsibly and safely in the glaze room and mix, test, and assess fired glaze results. Students begin to develop the sensibilities to integrate concept and material in their approach to ceramics.

    Prerequisite: ART 251  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate their familiarity with the ceramic process: from clay to ceramic.
    2. Demonstrate their understanding of how to load, fire, and unload kilns.
    3. Demonstrate their understanding of reduction/ oxidation kiln atmospheres and how the different atmospheres may affect their work. 
    4. Demonstrate their ability to work with kiln equipment in an appropriate safe manner.
    5. Demonstrate a complete understanding of the health hazards related to some ceramic materials and learn to handle, work, and dispose of them in a safe and environmentally conscious manner.
    6. Learn the benefits of keeping kiln logs/charts for documentation and assessment.
    7. Develop the sensibilities to work more independently- to cultivate an individual approach in clay.
       

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 253 - Ceramics 3

    Credits: 5
    Advanced course in ceramics with an emphasis on the rigors of developing the conceptual skills of art making. Students develop an individual approach to a full integration of ideas, materials, and process. Encourages students to experiment with different strategies of clay construction and firing.

    Prerequisite: ART 252  or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the different strategies of clay construction and firing.
    2. Demonstrate a full integration of ideas, materials, and process.
    3. Demonstrate and record anticipated results of clay construction and firing.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to function independently in the ceramics studio.
    5. Demonstrate a complete understanding of how the ceramic studio operates.
    6. Document growth through completed drawings, maquettes, kiln firing charts, clay and glaze-test results.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 255 - Advanced Painting 1

    Credits: 5
    Covers theory, as well as practice and encourages originality and creativity. Furthers student understanding of the methods, materials, and ideas that are central to the practice of painting still lifes, figures, and landscapes.

    Prerequisite: ART 105 , ART 109 , ART 111 , or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate compositional development of objects/shapes in the picture plane.
    2. Create simple to involved landscape and still-life assignments. 
    3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
    4. Demonstrate color evaluation and its relationship to creating depth and volume.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  
  • ART 256 - Advanced Painting 2

    Credits: 5
    Students continue to develop their skills in painting by focusing on advanced compositional theories and abstract concepts. Explores value, pattern, tone, mood, and color theories to stretch and refine abilities. Emphasizes the creative process from concept to finished art.

    Prerequisite: ART 255 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
    2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
    3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
    4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ART 257 - Advanced Painting 3

    Credits: 5
    Explores traditional and contemporary approaches to theory and practice of painting. Emphasizes evoking emotional responses through effects of light, color, and abstraction. Students work in a series and further explore materials and subject matter.

    Prerequisite: ART 256 .

    Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
    2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
    3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
    4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

    Program Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
    2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 


    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
  
  • ART 275 - Independent Study-Ceramics 1

    Credits: 1-5
    Emphasizes the development of an individual approach to art-making. Students submit proposals with project descriptions. Assesses student’s development and progress through faculty visits.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 276 - Independent Study-Ceramics 2

    Credits: 1-5
    Emphasizes the development of an individual approach to art-making. Students submit proposals with project descriptions. Assesses student’s development and progress through faculty visits.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 277 - Independent Study-Ceramics 3

    Credits: 1-5
    Emphasizes the development of an individual approach to art-making. Students submit proposals with project descriptions. Assesses student’s development and progress through faculty visits.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 294 - Independent Study-Painting 1

    Credits: 1-5
    Encourages students to study and develop independently in their major areas of painting. Students develop their own objectives, evaluation criteria and performance standards in conjunction with the appropriate instructor.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
  
  • ART 297 - Independent Study-Advanced Drawing 1

    Credits: 1-5
    Encourages students to study and develop independently in their major areas of advanced drawing. Students develop their own objectives, evaluation criteria and performance standards in conjunction with the appropriate instructor.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

    Course Outcomes:
    Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 
    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate elements and principles of visual arts.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
    • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

Astronomy

  
  • ASTR& 101 - Introduction to Astronomy

    Credits: 5
    Presents a unified account of contemporary astronomy beginning with our earth and moving outward toward our solar system, and beyond to the stars of our home galaxy and out into the physical universe. Laboratory portion introduces students to methods and techniques commonly employed in astronomy. Actual experiments vary depending upon weather conditions and observable celestial objects. Not open to students who have taken ASTR& 100.

    Prerequisite: ENGL& 101  or eligible for ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

    Satisfies Requirement: Natural Science or Lab Science

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Apply appropriate principles of physics to the study of astronomical objects.
    2. Describe the historical development of the principles on which astronomy is based.
    3. Employ the earth as a model when considering the other planets of the solar systems.
    4. Employ sun as a model when considering the other stars of the galaxy.
    5. Employ the same home galaxy as a model when considering the other galaxies of the universe.
    6. Recognize real-world applications and connections related to astronomy.


Automotive Technology

  
  • ATECH 110 - Shop Procedures

    Credits: 2
    Includes use and maintenance of special tools and equipment, service and repair, record keeping, use of technical reference materials and regulations governing the automotive repair industry. Emphasizes development of a positive attitude toward work ethic, cultural and gender diversity, personal safety and a safe workplace, and handling and disposal of hazardous materials.

    Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission and eligible for READ 104 .

    Course Outcomes:
    Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

    1. Recognize and correct unsafe conditions in the workplace.
    2. Properly handle and dispose of hazardous materials.
    3. Use special tools and equipment.
    4. Use of technical reference materials.
    5. Keep records.
    6. Demonstrate proper work ethics and customer and peer relations with emphasis on cultural and gender diversity.

    Program Outcomes
    Demonstrate safe shop practice and hazardous material handling.

    College-wide Outcomes
    • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
 

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