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SPA 102 - Beginning Spanish II
Credits: 4
Introduces understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes basic Spanish sentence structure. May include an additional hour of oral drill and practice per week. Part II of II.
Lecture Hours per Week: 4-5
May include one additional hour of oral practice per week.
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SPA 201 - Intermediate Spanish I
Credits: 3
Continues to develop cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and introduces complex sentence structures. Classes may be conducted in target language. Part I of II
Prerequisite SPA 102 or equivalent. May include oral drill and practice.
Lecture Hours per Week: 3-4
May include one additional hour of oral practice per week.
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SPA 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
Credits: 3
Continues to develop cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and introduces complex sentence structures. Classes may be conducted in target language. Part II of II
Prerequisite SPA 102 or equivalent. May include oral drill and practice.
Lecture Hours per Week: 3-4
May include one additional hour of oral practice per week.
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Student Development |
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SDV 100 - College Success Skills
Credits: 1
Assists students in transition to colleges. Provides overviews of college policies, procedures, curricular offerings. Encourages contacts with other students and staff. Assists students toward college success through information regarding effective study habits, career and academic planning, and other college resources available to students. May include English and math placement testing. Strongly recommended for beginning students. Required for graduation.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
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SDV 101 - Orientation To (Specify the Discipline)
Credits: 1
Introduces students to the skills which are necessary to achieve their academic goals, to services offered at the college and to the discipline in which they are enrolled. Covers topics such as services at the college including the learning resources center; counseling, and advising; listening, test taking, and study skills; and topical areas which are applicable to their particular discipline.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1-3
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Unmanned Systems |
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UMS 107 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Remote Pilot Ground School
Credits: 2-3
Presents the aeronautical knowledge required for FAA approved commercial operations as a Remote Pilot with small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) rating. Covers the regulations applicable to small UAS operations, loading and performance, emergency procedures, crew resource management, determining the performance of the small unmanned aircraft, and maintenance/inspection procedures. Prepares students for the FAA written examination required to obtain the Remote Pilot certificate.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2-3
Total Hours per week 2-3
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UMS 111 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) I
Credits: 3
Introduces students to the history of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), surveys current platforms, applications, components, and sensors. Covers the theory of flight, operations, manual flight, maintenance, and required record keeping. Introduces mission planning, crew management, and autonomous control. Emphasizes the ethical, legal, and safe use of sUAS.
Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 3
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UMS 112 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Program and Flight Data Management
Credits: 3
Provides an introduction to drone programming and flight data management, archiving and manipulation of data in addition to report generation. Covers programming topics and logic design concepts including the use of applications that are designed to manipulate data retrieved from the drone.
Prerequisite: UMS 111 .
Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 3
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UMS 177 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Components and Maintenance
Credits: 3
Provides an introduction to the basic equipment and techniques used in maintaining, repairing, and upgrading sUAS to assure airworthiness and proper operation of the other components. Emphasizes safe practices in repair and handling of components and develops fundamental skills in troubleshooting/repair of the circuits, subsystems and components typically found in the complete sUAS. Covers payload sensor mounting, power management and security threat management.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 2-3
Total Hours per week 4-5
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UMS 211 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) II
Credits: 3
Focuses on advanced Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) mission planning and operation of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS). Covers mission planning, operations, communications, autonomous flights, ground control station operations, crew management, emergency procedures, safety/air vehicle pilot checklist procedures, sensor selection, data collection and analysis. Examines advanced coverage of maintenance, operations support, and introduces geospatial product workflow. Emphasizes the ethical, legal, and safe use of sUAS.
Prerequisite: UMS 111
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 2-3
Total Hours per week 4-5
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Welding |
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WEL 120 - Introduction to Welding
Credits: 2
Introduces history of welding processes. Covers types of equipment, and assembly of units. Stresses welding procedures such as fusion, non-fusion, and cutting oxyacetylene. Introduces arc welding. Emphasizes procedures in the use of tools and equipment.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1-2
Lab Hours per Week: 2-3
Total Hours per week 3-5
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WEL 123 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Basic)
Credits: 3
Teaches operation of AC and DC power sources, welding polarities, heats and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process. Deals with running beads, butt, and fillet welds in all positions. Emphasizes safety procedures.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3-6
Total Hours per week 5-8
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WEL 124 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Advanced)
Credits: 3
Continues instruction on operation of AC and DC power sources, welding polarities, heats and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process. Deals with running beads, butt, and fillet welds in all positions. Emphasizes safety procedures.
Prerequisites: Course has a prerequisite of WEL 123 .
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3-6
Total Hours per week 5-8
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WEL 125 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding Capstone
Credits: 1-2
Continues instruction on operation of AC and DC power sources, welding polarities, heats and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process. Deals with running beads, butt, and fillet welds in all positions. Emphasizes safety procedures.
Corequisite: WEL 124
Prerequisite: WEL 123
Lecture Hours per Week: 0-1
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 3-4
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WEL 126 - Pipe Welding I
Credits: 3
Teaches metal arc welding processes including the welding of pressure piping in the horizontal, vertical, and horizontal- fixed positions in accordance with section IX of the ASME Code.
Corequisite: Course has a co-requisite of WEL 124 .
Lecture Hours per Week: 2-3
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 5-6
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WEL 127 - Pipe Welding II
Credits: 3
Provides practice in the welding of pressure piping in the horizontal, vertical, and fixed positions. Independent Study Only: (for Business Interests as requested).
Prerequisites: Course has a prerequisite of WEL 126 .
Lab Hours per Week: 9
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WEL 138 - Pipe and Tube Welding
Credits: 2
Develops entry level skills for the inert gas tungsten welding process (TIG) with emphasis upon thin and thick wall carbon and stainless piping and tubing.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 4
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WEL 141 - Welder Qualification Tests I
Credits: 3
Studies techniques and practices of testing welded joints through destructive and non-destructive testing. Part I of II.Independent Study Only (for Independent Study at Student request or for Business Interests as requested.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3-6
Total Hours per week 5-8
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WEL 142 - Welder Qualification Test II
Credits: 3
Studies techniques and practices of testing welded joints through destructive and non-destructive testing. Part II of II.Independent Study Only - for Independent Study as Student Request of for Business Interests as requested.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3-6
Total Hours per week 5-8
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WEL 145 - Welding Metallurgy
Credits: 3-4
Studies steel classifications, heat treatment procedures, properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Discusses techniques and practices of testing welded joints and destructive/nondestructive, visual magnetic and fluorescent testing.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2-3
Lab Hours per Week: 1-2
Total Hours per week 3-5
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WEL 150 - Welding Drawing and Interpretation
Credits: 3
Teaches fundamentals required for successful drafting as applied to the welding industry. Includes blueprint reading, geometric principles of drafting and freehand sketching, basic principles of orthographic projection, preparation of drawings and interpretation of symbols.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2-3
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WEL 160 - Gas Metal Arc Welding
Credits: 3
Introduces semi-automatic welding processes with emphasis on practical application. Includes the study of filler wires, fluxes, and gases.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3-6
Total Hours per week 5-8
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WEL 161 - Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW)
Credits: 3
Introduces flux cored semi-automatic welding processes with emphasis on practical application. Includes the study of filler wires, fluxes, and gases.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 5
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WEL 164 - Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG)
Credits: 3
Introduces practical operations in the use of tungsten arc welding and equipment. Studies equipment operation setup, safety, and practice of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG).
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 5
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WEL 166 - Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG)
Credits: 3
Continues practical operations in the use of tungsten arc welding and equipment. Studies equipment operation setup, safety, and practice of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG).
Prerequisite: WEL 164
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 5
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WEL 190 - Coordinated Internship
Credits: 1-5
Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1-5
Total Hours per week Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours.
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WEL 195 - Special Topics in Construction Safety (OSHA 10)
Credits: 1
Presents welding safety and an introduction to occupational safety and health and its application on the construction site. Introduces safety standards and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) rules and regulations emphasizing job-site hazards (OSHA 10). Attainment of the OSHA 10 Construction Safety and Health credential is embedded within the course.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
Total Hours per week 1
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WEL 195 - Special Topics In: Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG)
Credits: 1-3
Special Topics In: Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG)
Lecture Hours per Week: 0-1
Lab Hours per Week: 1-3
Total Hours per week 1-3
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WEL 195 - Topics In
Credits: 1-5
Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1-5
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WEL 250 - Welding Quality Control & Inspection
Credits: 3
Teaches techniques and practices of inspection, and interpretation of tests and measurements. Includes weld chemistry, destructive testing and nondestructive examination. (for Business Interests as requested).
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 2
Total Hours per week 4
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WEL 290 - Coordinated Internship
Credits: 1-5
Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1-5
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WEL 297 - Cooperative Education
Credits: 1-5
Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college’s cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1-5
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Medical Lab Technology Medical Lab Technology lecture courses are offered through Virginia Western Community College.
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MDL 101 - Introduction to Medical Laboratory Techniques
Credits: 3
Introduces the basic techniques including design of the health care system, ethics, terminology, calculations, venipuncture and routine urinalysis.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 5
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MDL 125 - Clinical Hematology I
Credits: 4
Teaches the cellular elements of blood including blood cell formation, and routine hematological procedures.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 5
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MDL 126 - Clinical Immunohematology/Immunology I
Credits: 4
Incorporates basic principles of antigen and antibody reactions included in blood grouping and typing, compatibility testing, and serological procedure.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 6
Total Hours per week 8
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MDL 140 - Clinical Urinalysis
Credits: 2
Focuses on urinalysis studies including physical and chemical properties, microscopic techniques. Emphasizes the significance of abnormal results.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 4
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MDL 195 - Topics in Medical Laboratory Technology
Credits: 1
Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
Lab Hours per Week: 0
Total Hours per week 1
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MDL 215 - Immunology
Credits: 2
Presents the physiological basis of humoral and cell mediated immunity, including the medical and clinical laboratory application of immunological principles.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Total Hours per week 2
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MDL 225 - Clinical Hematology II
Credits: 4
Teaches advanced study of blood to include coagulation, abnormal bloody formation, and changes seen in various diseases.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 4
Total Hours per week 6
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MDL 227 - Clinical Immunohematology/Immunology II
Credits: 3
Emphasizes ability to apply theories and procedures utilized in immunohematology for routine transfusion and donor services. Correlates theories with practical application in order to assess cellular and immune mechanisms in specific disease states.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
Lab Hours per Week: 6
Total Hours per week 7
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MDL 236 - Parasitology and Virology
Credits: 2
Teaches identification of the common parasites affecting man. Stresses methods of isolation and identification.
Lecture Hours per Week: 1
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 4
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MDL 237 - Clinical Bacteriology
Credits: 4
Teaches handling, isolation, and identification of pathologic bacteria. Emphasizes clinical techniques and associate bacteria with clinical symptoms.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 6
Total Hours per week 8
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MDL 260 - Laboratory Instrumentation
Credits: 3
Teaches the theory, principles of operation, methodologies, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the more common instrumentation used in the clinical laboratory.
Lecture Hours per Week: 2
Lab Hours per Week: 2
Total Hours per week 4
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MDL 261 - Clinical Chemistry and Instrumentation I
Credits: 4
Introduces methods of performing biochemical analysis of clinical specimens. Teaches instrumentation involved in a clinical chemistry laboratory, quality control, and the ability to recognize technical problems. Part I of II.
Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 6
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MDL 262 - Clinical Chemistry and Instrumentation II
Credits: 4
Introduces methods of performing biochemical analysis of clinical specimens. Teaches instrumentation involved in a clinical chemistry laboratory, quality control, and the ability to recognize technical problems. Part II of II.
Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Lab Hours per Week: 3
Total Hours per week 6
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