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WWT 199 - Independent Study-Wastewater Technology

Credits: 1-5
Allows students to investigate an area of interest in the wastewater technology field with the guidance of an instructor, using a learning contract.

Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

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

  1. Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student.

 
Program Outcomes

  1. Identify characteristics of wastewater conveyed and treated in municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
  2. Monitor, evaluate and adjust processes used in municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
  3. Monitor, evaluate, operate and maintain common types of equipment found in municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
  4. Apply appropriate safety procedures to operation of municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
  5. Collect samples for, perform and interpret results of basic laboratory analyses used to monitor municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
  6. Perform supporting administrative duties for municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.


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.



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