COURSE IDENTIFICATION The C-ID numbering system is useful for students NUMBERING SYSTEM (C-ID) attending more than one community college and is applied to many of the transferable courses students need as preparation for transfer. Because these course The Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID) requirements may change and because courses may is a statewide numbering system independent from be modified and qualified for or deleted from the the course numbers assigned by local California C-ID database, students should always check with a community colleges. A C-ID number next to a counselor to determine how C-ID designated courses course signals that participating California colleges fit into their educational plans for transfer. and universities have determined that courses offered by other California community colleges are Students may consult the ASSIST database at www. comparable in content and scope to courses offered assist.org for specific information on C-ID course on their own campuses, regardless of their unique designations. Counselors can always help students titles or local course number. Thus, if a schedule of classes or catalog lists a course bearing a C-ID interpret or explain this information number, for example COMM 110, students at that college can be assured that it will be accepted in lieu of a course bearing the C-ID COMM 110 designation at another community college. In other words, the C-ID designation can be used to identify comparable courses at different community colleges. However, students should always go to www.assist.org to confirm how each college’s course will be accepted at a particular four-year college or university for transfer credit.
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(EMT)...... 221 Psychology (PSY)...... 295 Engineering (ENGR)...... 222 Engineering Technology (ENGT)...... 222 Radio (RDIO)...... 297 English (ENGL)...... 224 Reading (READ)...... 298 English As A New Language (ENLA)...... 227 Registered Dental Assisting (RDA)...... 299 Environmental Technology (ET)...... 229 Sociology (SOC)...... 299 Fabrication (FABR)...... 232 Spanish (SPAN)...... 301 Finance (FIN)...... 232 Speech (SPCH)...... 302 Fire Academy Courses (FAC)...... 232 Fire Technology (FTEC)...... 235 Technical Education (TCED)...... 304 French (FR)...... 238 Television (TV)...... 304 Theatre (THTR)...... 304 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...... 239 Geography (GEOG)...... 240 Vocabulary (VOCB)...... 309 Geology (GEOL)...... 240 Vocational Nursing (VN)...... 309 Health Science (HS)...... 240 Welding (WELD)...... 311 Heat & Frost (HEFR)...... 242 Wildland Fire Technology (WFT)...... 313 166 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog rately file individual federal and state ACCT 103 income tax returns within the scope Payroll Accounting of the VITA program. Students will Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate ACCOUNTING learn how to develop a system of assessment; ACCT 090 or 101 quality control for actual taxpayer Transfers to: CSU Division of Business returns as well as develop their com- This course combines basic account- munication skills through interviews ing skills with specialized training ACCT 090 of taxpayers and explanation of tax in payroll accounting to prepare Introduction to Accounting return results. students for entry-level positions Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 1 Unit within the payroll segment of assessment; MATH 030 or MATH 030D 54 Lab hours accounting. This course is designed or appropriate assessment; MGMT 052 for accounting majors and those This course provides basic knowl- ACCT 101 interested in pursuing an entry-level edge of accounting terms, concepts, Financial Accounting positions within the payroll segment and procedures for a sole propri- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate of accounting. This course is a com- etorship form of business. Topics assessment; MATH 050 or MATH 050D prehensive overview of federal and include the analysis and recording of or MATH 053 or appropriate assessment; state payroll laws and their effect on business transactions for service and ACCT 090; MGMT 052 payroll records and required govern- merchandising firms, and the prepa- Transfers to: UC, CSU ment reports. ration of simple financial statements. This course is the study of account- 3 Units Accounting for cash, sales, purchases, ing as an information system and 54 Lecture hours payroll, and the end-of-the-year how information is used by inves- procedures is presented. This course tors, creditors, and other external ACCT 104 is designed for the occupationally-ori- users to make decisions. The course Introduction to Governmental and ented students or those preparing for covers the accounting information Not-For-Profit Accounting Financial Accounting and Computer- system, including recording and Prerequisite: ACCT 101 with a grade of ized Accounting. reporting of business transactions “C” or better 3 Units with a focus on the accounting cycle, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 54 Lecture hours the application of generally accepted assessment; MATH 050 or MATH accounting principles, the financial 050D or MATH 053 or appropriate ACCT 096 statements, and statement analysis. assessment; MGMT 052 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Topics includes issues relating to Transfers to: CSU Program I asset, liability, and equity valuation, This course is an introduction to Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate revenue and expense recognition, the fundamentals of government assessment; ACCT 105 cash flow, internal controls, and and not-for-profit accounting. The This is the first course in a sequence ethics. This course is required of all emphasis of the course will be of two courses designed for students accounting and business administra- placed on accounting for various who want to be a part of the Volun- tion majors. fund types and restrictions relevant teer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) 4 Units to government and not-for-profit program at Rio Hondo. This course 72 Lecture hours agencies with both theoretical and will cover Federal and California tax practical aspects explored. Topics theories and laws appropriate for the ACCT 102 include budgets, revenues, expendi- current tax year, and students will Managerial Accounting tures, tax levies, appropriations, gen- apply their knowledge by taking the Prerequisite: ACCT 101 with a grade of eral fund, special fund, and financial IRS exams for VITA volunteers. Upon “C” or better statements for government and successful completion of the IRS Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate not-for-profit entities. This course is VITA Basic and Intermediate exams, assessment; MATH 050 or MATH 050D designed for students interested in the students will be able to assist low or MATH 053 or appropriate assessment furthering their educational require- income individuals and families with Transfers to: UC, CSU ments for the CPA exam and/or tax return preparation through the This course introduces students to pursuing an entry-level position VITA program for the current year. the fundamentals of managerial in government and not-for-profit 1 Unit accounting for decision making. This accounting. 18 Lecture hours course is the study of how manag- 3 Units ers use accounting information in 54 Lecture hours ACCT 097 decision-making, planning, direct- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance ing and controlling operations. The ACCT 105 Program II course focuses on the flow of costs in Income Tax Accounting Prerequisite: ACCT 096 a manufacturing environment, cost Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate terms and concepts, cost behavior, assessment; ACCT 101 assessment cost structure and cost-volume- Transfers to: CSU This is the second course in a profit analysis. Topics include issues Federal and California State income sequence of two courses designed for relating to cost systems, cost control, tax laws and preparation as related students who want to volunteer in profit planning, and performance to individuals and small business the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance analysis in manufacturing environ- entities. Emphasis is placed upon (VITA) program at Rio Hondo. This ments. This course is required of all income inclusion, exclusion, exemp- course will allow students who have accounting and business majors. tions, capital gains and losses, and successfully passed ACCT 096 to 4 Units business and individual deductions. apply their tax knowledge by assist- 72 Lecture hours Students who successfully complete ing low income individuals and the course will be certified by the families with tax return preparation California Tax Education Council as through the VITA program for the fulfilling the 60-hour qualifying edu- current year. Students will learn to cation requirement (45 federal hours use the TaxWise software to accu- and 15 California hours) imposed by 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 167 the State of California for becoming from Financial Accounting. Empha- employment. This course is intended a Registered Tax Preparer. sis will be on complex financial for students whose job is related to 4 Units transactions such as debt and equity the field of Accounting and have 72 Lecture hours financing, pensions and leases; completed or enrolled in the appro- evaluating the impact of accounting priate coursework. “Contact the ACCT 106 changes and errors; and calcula- CWE office regarding re-enrollment Computerized Accounting tion and analysis of financial ratios procedures”. (Formerly ACCT 094) and earnings per share for decision Student Unpaid Internship: Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate making. This course is designed for 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; assessment; MATH 030 or appropri- students furthering their educa- 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours ate assessment; ACCT 090; ACCT 101 tional requirements for the CPA Student Paid Internship: Transfers to: CSU exam and/or to be qualified for 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; This course is designed to provide higher level accounting positions. 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. students with a sound basic knowl- 3 Units 1 to 4 Units edge of how computerized inte- 54 Lecture hours 3 Lecture hours grated accounting systems function. 60 to 300 hours Students will be processing account- ACCT 203 ing data using receivables, payables, Introduction to Cost Accounting ACCT 299 inventory, payroll and project (Formerly ACCT 092, ACCT 007) Directed Study: Accounting modules. This course is designed for Prerequisite: ACCT 101 with a grade of Transfers to: UC, CSU accounting majors, those inter- “C” or better Independent Study/Directed Study ested in starting a small business, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate is intended for students who have and those interested in pursuing assessment; MATH 030 or MATH the ability to assume responsibility entry-level positions in the field of 030D or MATH 033 or appropriate for independent work and to pre- accounting. assessment pare written or oral reports and/or 3 Units Transfers to: CSU appropriate projects. To enroll in an 54 Lecture hours Introduction to Cost Accounting independent study/directed study takes a logical approach to the course, students must possess a 2.5 ACCT 201 fundamentals of cost accounting as overall grade point average, a 3.1 Intermediate Accounting I applied to a manufacturing busi- grade point average in the discipline Prerequisite: ACCT 101 with a grade of ness, and the use of cost data in of study being requested, or receive “C” or better management decisions. Principles an exception from the instructor. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate and procedures of cost systems Independent Studies/Directed Stud- assessment; MATH 050 or MATH are presented first in an overview, ies may be developed from any topic 050D or MATH 053 or appropriate then discussed and illustrated in arising from or related to a course of assessment; MGMT 052 detail. The course provides thor- study that will result in developing Transfers to: CSU ough coverage of job order costing, depth and breadth in that subject This course provides a more in- process costing, and standard costs. area. Students will be expected to depth study of accounting theory Analysis of cost data is integrated meet on a regular basis with their and practice. This course will further with discussions of cost accounting faculty sponsor and submit a final develop and refine the accounting systems and procedures. Students report or project, and student prog- knowledge and skills learned from will also evaluate both quantita- ress shall be evaluated at regular Financial Accounting. Emphasis will tive and qualitative data to assist intervals. Academic standards for be on the preparation and analysis management with strategic decision- Independent Studies/Directed of financial statements, the study of making, planning, and controlling. Studies shall be the same as those earnings management, the applica- This course is designed for account- for other courses. Units are awarded tion of present-value concepts, the ing majors and those interested in accordance to Title V regulations complexity of transactions that arise in furthering their knowledge with one unit of credit awarded for in complex economic environments, and understanding of managerial 54 hours of Directed Studies, six and the use of accounting informa- accounting. (6) hours of which must be with an tion to make decisions. This course 3 Units instructor. The instructor is respon- is designed for students further- 54 Lecture hours sible for monitoring student progress ing their educational requirements through the semester. Students may for the CPA exam and/or to be ACCT 290 take directed study courses for a qualified for higher level accounting Cooperative Work Experience/ maximum of four (4) units within a positions. Internship for Accounting Related discipline, and may not accumulate 3 Units Fields more than a total of twelve (12) units 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or college wide. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 to 4 Units ACCT 202 appropriate assessment 54 to 216 Lab hours Intermediate Accounting II Transfers to: CSU Prerequisite: ACCT 201 with a grade of This course supports and reinforces “C” or better on-the-job training in business and Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate industrial establishments under assessment; MATH 050 or MATH supervision of a college instruc- 050D or MATH 053 or appropriate tor and is facilitated by the use of assessment; MGMT 052 learning objectives. The student will Transfers to: CSU be working in a skilled or profes- This course provides a more in- sional level assignment in their depth study of accounting theory area of vocational interest and will and practice. This course will fur- meet performance objectives related ther develop and refine the account- to instruction that are above and ing knowledge and skills learned beyond the conditions of regular 168 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog associated with the use of firearms. AJ 104 A pistol match competition will Legal Aspects of Evidence be arranged by the instructor. The (Formerly AJ 004) ADMINISTRATION course laboratory work provides Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or OF JUSTICE supervised instruction in the firing of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or handguns and shotguns. appropriate assessment; AJ 101 Division of Public Safety 2 Units Transfers to: CSU 18 Lecture hours This course is designed to provide AJ 041 54 Lab hours Administration of Justice or other Effective Written Communications for interested students with an in-depth Public Service Personnel AJ 101 study of evidence rules. An emphasis (Formerly AJ 013) Introduction to Administration of will be placed on the application of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Justice rules in preparing and presenting appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly AJ 001) evidence. The course will discuss the appropriate assessment; AJ 101 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or history and approach to the study of This course is designed to provide appropriate assessment; READ 023 or evidence. Topics include proof by evi- Administration of Justice or other appropriate assessment dence and substitutes, general admissi- interested students with intensive Transfers to: UC, CSU bility tests, evidence by way of witness training in communication of facts This course introduces students to the testimony, documents, real evidence, and information of ideas in simple, characteristics of the criminal justice and exclusion of evidence on consti- clear, logical English. An emphasis system in the United States. Focus is tutional grounds. For a better under- will be placed on spelling, correct placed on examining crime measure- standing of the evidence rules, judicial usage of words, sentence structure, ment, theoretical explanations of decisions are cited and students will be critical reading and discussion, cre- crime, responses to crime, compo- required to brief cases. ative thinking, techniques of observa- nents of the system, and current 3 Units tion, and other skills that lead to good challenges to the system. The course 54 Lecture hours writing. Topics include organization examines the evolution of the prin- of ideas and are combined with an ciples and approaches utilized by the AJ 105 abundant practice in the writing of justice system and the evolving forces Community Relations/Multicultural effective reports, bulletins, memos, which have shaped those principals Issues Within Public Service letters, and other short papers. and approaches. Although justice (Formerly AJ 005) 3 Units structure and process is examined Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours in a cross cultural context, emphasis appropriate assessment; READ 023 or is placed on the US justice system, appropriate assessment; AJ 101 AJ 060 particularly the structure and func- Transfers to: UC, CSU Basic Firearms tion of US police, courts and correc- This course examines the complex, (Formerly AJ 010A) tions. Students are introduced to the dynamic relationship between com- Prerequisite: Department of Justice origins and development of criminal munities and the justice system in (DOJ) clearance law, legal process, sentencing, and addressing crime and conflict with Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or incarceration policies. an emphasis on the challenges and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units prospects of administering justice appropriate assessment; AJ 101 54 Lecture hours within a diverse multicultural popu- This course is designed for students lation. Topics covered may include interested in learning the proper use AJ 102 crime prevention, restorative justice, and storage of firearms. This course Criminal Procedures conflict resolution, and ethics. consists of instruction and demon- (Formerly AJ 002) 3 Units stration in the safe handling, firing Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours and care of firearms, related matters appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of legal liabilities, moral responsibili- appropriate assessment AJ 106 ties and safety. The basics of marks- Transfers to: CSU Criminal Law I manship and range procedures are This course is designed to provide Prerequisite: AJ 101 with a grade of “C” taught and the student is supervised Administration of Justice or other or better, or completion of PAC 040 or in comprehensive scheduled range interested students with an in-depth equivalent firing exercises. Introductory demon- study of the legal responsibilities Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or strations in the operation of the police of law enforcement. An emphasis appropriate assessment; READ 023 or shotgun and semiautomatic weapons will be placed on the judicial seg- appropriate assessment are also presented. ment of the administration of justice Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 1 Unit system. Topics include laws of arrest, (*Students will receive credit from UC 9 Lecture hours custody, past, present, and future for only one of the following courses: AJ 27 Lab hours analysis of the procedures for each 106 or AJ 107) subsystem within the administration This course offers an analysis of the AJ 070 of justice system from initial entry doctrines of criminal liability in the Advanced Firearms to final disposition. The relationship United States and the classification (Formerly AJ 018A) each segment maintains with system of crimes against persons, property, Prerequisite: AJ 060 and Department of members will also be covered. morals, and public welfare. Special Justice (DOJ) clearance 3 Units emphasis is placed on the classifica- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours tion of crime, the general elements appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of crime, the definitions of common appropriate assessment; AJ 101 and statutory law, and the nature This course is designed to acquaint of acceptable evidence. This course Administration of Justice or other utilizes case law and case studies to interested students with the legal introduce students to criminal law. provisions and safety precautions The completion of this course offers 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 169 a foundation upon which upper- gies and their applicability to forensic AJ 228 division criminal justice courses will science. Students will learn the skills Police Field Operations build. The course will also include necessary to evaluate the relevance of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or some limited discussion of prosecu- each method to particular case situa- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tion and defense decision making, tions. Issues of scientific versus legal appropriate assessment; AJ 101 criminal culpability, and defenses to burden of proof, legal terminology, Transfers to: CSU crimes. and trial will also be discussed. This course is designed to provide 3 Units 3 Units Administration of Justice or other 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours interested students with an in-depth understanding of the history and AJ 107 AJ 207 development of Police Field Opera- Criminal Law II Juvenile Law and Procedure tions. Particular emphasis is placed (Formerly AJ 103) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or on the planning of field activities. Prerequisite: AJ 101 with a grade of “C” appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Topics include the functions of patrol, or better, or completion of PAC 040 or appropriate assessment; AJ 101 traffic and other preliminary investi- equivalent Transfers to: CSU gative duties of the field officer. The Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is designed to provide techniques of planning for patrol appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Administration of Justice or other operations, handling of requests appropriate assessment interested students with techniques for service, vehicular traffic-related Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU for handling juvenile offenders and problems, and civil and domestic (*Students will receive credit from UC victims. An emphasis will be placed for only one of the following courses: AJ disturbances are also presented in the on the prevention and repression of course. 106 or AJ 107) delinquency, diagnosis and referral This course is designed to provide 3 Units of juvenile offenders, and organiza- 54 Lecture hours Administration of Justice or other tion of community resources. Juvenile interested students with a compre- law and juvenile court procedures hensive discourse on criminal statutes AJ 250 and their definition. Topics include will be contrasted with adult law Contemporary Issues in the Criminal classification as applied to the system procedures. Justice System of administration of justice, crimes 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or against persons, property, general 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or statutes, and health and safety stat- appropriate assessment; AJ 101; AJ102 utes as well as other state and federal AJ 208 Transfers to: CSU laws. Principles of Investigation This course is designed to provide (Formerly AJ 008) 3 Units Administration of Justice or other 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or interested students with an in-depth understanding of personal and orga- AJ 200 appropriate assessment; AJ 101 nizational values, beliefs, attitudes Introduction to Forensic Chemistry Transfers to: CSU Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in This course addresses the techniques, and ethics as they affect contempo- each of the following courses: BIOL 101; procedures, and ethical issues in the rary issues in the Criminal Justice CHEM 231; PHYS 160; MATH 130 investigation of crime, including System. Particular emphasis is placed Advisory: ENGL 101 organization of the investigative pro- on the historical foundations which Transfers to: CSU cess, crime scene searches, interview- serve as a basis of contemporary This course is designed to provide ing and interrogating, surveillance, decision making. Specific issues to be the student who has an interest in source of information, utility of evi- used in the discussions will vary from forensic science with an overview dence, scientific analysis of evidence semester to semester. of the role of forensic science and and the role of the investigator in the 3 Units the crime laboratory analyst in the trial process. 54 Lecture hours legal system. The focus is on non- 3 Units biological evidence, such as con- 54 Lecture hours AJ 275 trolled substances and toxicology, Introduction to Forensic Science trace evidence, and firearm evidence. AJ 215 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Students will develop the skills neces- Vice and Narcotics Control appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly AJ 015) sary to evaluate the applicability of appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or each method as it applies to particu- Transfers to: CSU lar case situations. Issues of scientific appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed to prepare versus legal burdens of proof, legal appropriate assessment; AJ 101 terminology, and trial procedure will Transfers to: CSU Administration of Justice, Forensic also be discussed. This course is designed to provide Science, and California Peace Officer 3 Units Administration of Justice or other students for the Forensic Science 54 Lecture hours interested students with an in-depth Identification Program. This course understanding of code and case law provides an introduction to the role AJ 201 of vice and narcotics. The course of forensics in criminal investigations. Introduction to Forensic Biology will focus on detection, suppres- It examines the methods utilized in Prerequisite: AJ 200 sion, apprehension, and prosecu- the forensic analysis of crime scenes, Advisory: ENGL 101 tion of violators. Special emphasis pattern evidence, instruments, Transfers to: CSU will be placed on laws dealing with firearms, questioned documents and This course is designed to provide gambling, prostitution, sex crimes, controlled substances. students with an introduction and narcotic identification, and search 3 Units broad overview of the forensics sci- and seizure. 54 Lecture hours ences. The emphasis will be on the 3 Units application of biological sciences to 54 Lecture hours legal investigations. It will provide an understanding of various physiologi- cal fluid and DNA testing methodolo- 170 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog AJ 290 Students may take directed study fied Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- courses for a maximum of four (4) and the students can take the optional ship for Administration of Justice units within a discipline, and may Photovoltaic Systems Entry Level Related Fields not accumulate more than a total of Certification exam as part of the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or twelve (12) units college wide. course. This course is intended for appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 to 4 Units students that are contemplating appropriate assessment 54 to 216 Lab hours a career in the solar photovoltaic Transfers to: CSU energy industry. This course supports and reinforces 3 Units on-the-job training in the Administra- ALTERNATIVE 45 Lecture hours tion of Justice field under supervision 27 Lab hours of a college instructor and is facili- ENERGY tated by the use of learning objec- AET 074 tives. The student will be working in TECHNOLOGY Advanced Photovoltaic Systems Design a skilled or professional level assign- Division of Career & and Installation (Same as ET 074) ment in the area of Law Enforcement Technical Education Prerequisite: AET/ET 072 and will meet performance objec- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tives related to instruction that are AET 070 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or above and beyond the conditions of Introduction to Alternative Energy appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or regular employment. This course is Technology (Same as ET 070) appropriate assessment intended for students whose job is Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This is the second course in the related to the field of Law Enforce- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or photovoltaic series that will further ment or Administration of Justice and appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or examine and implement the design have completed or enrolled in the appropriate assessment. and installation of solar photovoltaic appropriate coursework. “Contact the This course is an introductory course power systems. Students will learn CWE office regarding re-enrollment that will examine the theory behind how to interpret the National Electri- procedures”. present day energy systems which cal Code (NEC) specifics concerning Student Unpaid Internship: will include an in-depth analysis photovoltaic installations. The topics 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; of the design and installation of include code compliant wiring of 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours alternate energy systems. Topics will modules, inverters, charge control- Student Paid Internship: include: solar electrical systems, wind lers, batteries, grounding techniques 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; electrical systems, solar water heating and related topics. Additional topics 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. systems, wind mechanical systems, include the design and installation 1 to 4 Units small hydro-electrical systems, and of large commercial photovoltaic 3 Lecture hours conservation methods used to save systems. This course is intended 60 to 300 hours energy. Also presented are topics for students that are interested in on geothermal energy, fuel cells, a career in the solar photovoltaic AJ 299 biomass systems, and applications energy industry. Directed Study: Administration of of alternate energy in transportation, 3 Units Justice industrial, commercial, and residen- 45 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU tial systems. Students will collect 27 Lab hours Independent Study/Directed Study solar data using an irradiance meter is intended for students who have and determine power consumption AET 076 the ability to assume responsibil- of a typical residence to develop an Wind Energy Systems Design and ity for independent work and to alternative energy solution. This Installation (Same as ET 076) prepare written or oral reports and/ course is intended for students that Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or or appropriate projects. To enroll in are contemplating a career in the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or an independent study/directed study alternative energy industry. appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or course, students must possess a 2.5 3 Units appropriate assessment overall grade point average, a 3.1 45 Lecture hours This is an introductory course that grade point average in the discipline 27 Lab hours will examine and implement the of study being requested, or receive design and installation of wind an exception from the instructor. AET 072 power systems which will include Independent Studies/Directed Stud- Photovoltaic Systems Design and the installation of a working wind ies may be developed from any topic Installation (Same as ET 072) generation power system. Students arising from or related to a course of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or will learn how to perform wind site study that will result in developing appropriate assessment; READ 023 or evaluations, electrical load calcula- depth and breadth in that subject appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or tions, wind system size calculations, area. Students will be expected to appropriate assessment. hydraulics fundamentals, basic aero- meet on a regular basis with their fac- This is an introductory course that dynamics, and installation techniques ulty sponsor and submit a final report will examine and implement the for wind power generation systems. or project, and student progress shall design and installation of solar pho- Students will learn how to design and be evaluated at regular intervals. tovoltaic power systems which will install wind power generation system Academic standards for Independent include the installation of a working and obtain skills for employment. Studies/Directed Studies shall be the solar photovoltaic power system. This course is intended for students same as those for other courses. Units Students will learn how to perform that are contemplating a career in are awarded in accordance to Title solar site evaluations, electrical load the wind turbine power generation V regulations with one unit of credit calculations, solar system size calcula- industry. awarded for 54 hours of Directed tions, and installation techniques for 3 Units Studies, six (6) hours of which must grid-tie and off-the-grid photovoltaic 45 Lecture hours be with an instructor. The instructor systems. This course is approved by 27 Lab hours is responsible for monitoring student the North American Board of Certi- progress through the semester. 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 171 AET 078 energy field, with an overview of the facial expressions during signing will Advanced Wind Energy Systems Design industrial energy management and also be addressed. Students will be and Installation (Same as ET 078) auditing. Specifically, this course will exposed to deaf culture experiences Prerequisite: AET/ET 076 assist students in their preparation both in the classroom and in other Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of a comprehensive energy audit environments. This course is appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and energy management program. designed for people who wish to appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Emphasis is placed on the follow- learn to communicate with those who appropriate assessment ing topics: Types of Energy Audits, are deaf and hard of hearing. This is the second course in the wind Energy Management and Cost, 4 Units energy series that will further exam- Benchmarking, Energy Performance, 72 Lecture hours ine and implement the design and Energy Use Requirements, Maximiz- installation of wind power systems. ing System Efficiencies, Optimizing ASL 150 Students will learn how to interpret Energy Input Requirements, Fuel American Sign Language II the National Electrical Code (NEC) and Energy Substitution and Energy Prerequisite: ASL 149 with a “C” or specifics concerning wind power Audit Instruments. better or two years of high school ASL installations. The topics include 3 Units with a “C” or better code compliant wiring of modules, 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or inverters, charge controllers, ground- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or ing techniques and related topics. AET 280 appropriate assessment Additional topics include wind site Green Building Design Principles Transfers to: UC, CSU evaluations, electrical load calcula- (Same as ET 280) This course will provide a tions, wind system size calculations, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or continuation of American Sign hydraulic fundamentals, basic aero- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Language I emphasizing receptive dynamics, and installation techniques appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or and expressive skills. The use of for large wind power generation appropriate assessment facial expressions during signing will systems. This course is intended for Transfers to: CSU also be addressed. Students will be students that are contemplating a This course is designed to provide exposed to deaf culture experiences career in the wind turbine power individuals, who are working in or both in the classroom and in other generation industry. seeking employment in the green environments. This course is 3 Units building field, with an overview of designed for people who wish to 45 Lecture hours the green building industry and its continue learning to communicate 27 Lab hours components. Specifically, this course with those who are deaf and hard of will assist students in their prepara- hearing. AET 181 tion for the Leadership in Energy and 4 Units Home Energy Management and Environmental Design Accredited 72 Lecture hours Auditing (Same as ET 181) Professional (LEED AP) Examina- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tion, which is the most recognized appropriate assessment; READ 023 or professional accreditation for green ANIMATION appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or building in the nation. Emphasis is appropriate assessment placed on the six categories of design Division of Communication Transfers to: CSU that green buildings must address & Languages This course is designed to provide for LEED Certification: Sustainable individuals, who are working in or Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & ANIM 101 seeking employment in the green Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Digital Modeling and Texturing energy field, with an overview of Indoor Environmental Quality, and (Formerly DRAF 201) home energy management and Innovation & Design Process. Each of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or auditing. Specifically, this course will these categories will be studied, with appropriate assessment; READ 023 or assist students in their preparation of a focus on the significance of each appropriate assessment a comprehensive home energy audit particular credit. Transfers to: CSU and energy management program. 3 Units This course introduces students to Emphasis is placed on the follow- 54 Lecture hours digital 3-D modeling and textur- ing topics: Appliances, Insulation, ing. Students will learn the basic Designing/Remodeling, Electricity, techniques used to create digital 3D Landscaping, Lighting, Space Heat- models of organic and man made ing and Cooling, Water Heating, AMERICAN SIGN objects, used in film, TV, game Doors/Windows/Skylights, and development and design visualiza- Home Energy Audits. LANGUAGE tion. This course is appropriate and 3 Units Division of Communication beneficial for all students in courses 54 Lecture hours & Languages related to Graphic Arts (Multimedia, Illustration, Internet Web Design, Game Design and Film Production) AET 182 ASL 149 and Industrial Design (Architectural, Industrial Energy Management and American Sign Language I Automotive, Furniture, Clothing and Auditing (Same as ET 182) (Formerly SIGNL 149) Product Design). Students will be Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or introduced to the concepts of digital appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or sculpting, box modeling low and appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or appropriate assessment high resolution models, UV project- appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU ing, image based and procedurally Transfers to: CSU This course will provide an This course is designed to provide texturing 3-D objects. introduction to American Sign 4 Units individuals, who are working in or Language emphasizing receptive seeking employment in the green and expressive skills. The use of 172 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog 54 Lecture hours mation. The focus of the course is Students will create a digital portfolio 54 Lab hours on creating procedural and image for the web and print using programs based textures, generating lighting such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, ANIM 105 scenarios for human and manmade ZBrush, Autodesk Maya and the Principles of Animation objects and rendering methods. Unity game engine. This course is an Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Students will learn techniques used excellent opportunity for students appropriate assessment; ART 130; ART in the production of surfaces for who are interested in developing and 230 models of people, animals and scenes presenting a collection of work that Transfers to: CSU as used for games, animation and will help them take the next step in This course introduces students to the design visualization. This course is their professional or academic career basic principles that are the founda- beneficial for all students in courses as a traditional/digital artist. tion for the art form of animation. The related to Graphic Arts (Multimedia, 3 Units topics covered in this course are the Illustration, Internet Web Design, 36 Lecture hours starting point for any student inter- Game Design and Film Production) 72 Lab hours ested in becoming a digital animator. and Industrial Design (Architectural, Through the use of a computer, solid Automotive, Furniture, Clothing and ANIM 260 drawing and 3D software such as Product Design). Figure Drawing for Animators Maya, students will learn to master 4 Units Prerequisite: ART 230 fundamentals like squash and stretch, 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or timing, weight, drag and follow 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 022 or through. This course provides stu- appropriate assessment dents with the opportunity to build ANIM 130 Transfers to: CSU and refine the basic skill set necessary World Building for Game Development A figure drawing course for anima- to be a digital animator. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tors that focuses on gesture and 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or how to capture the essential move- 36 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; ANIM 101 ment, dynamic expression, and the 72 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU individual attitude of the model. This is an introductory course in This course is designed to introduce ANIM 110 the techniques used in building and develop an understanding of life Digital Character Animation worlds for game development. There drawing that will serve as a founda- (Formerly DRAF 202) will be an emphasis placed on the tion for further studies in animation Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or essentials of traditional background and entertainment arts. Students will appropriate assessment; READ 023 or layout, such as thumbnail sketching, refine basic skills in human anatomy appropriate assessment; ANIM 105 perspective, basic design and mood. while learning to draw the figure in Transfers to: CSU Students will have the opportunity sequential movement, understand This course will provide students to study in depth the procedures weight and balance, facial and body with an opportunity to further used in lighting and texturing game expression, and figure invention. develop their skills in the art of environments. Topics will include the 3 Units creating three-dimensional digital use of color, lighting, and the design 36 Lecture hours character animation. Students will of environmental elements used to 72 Lab hours learn how to create short animation enhance basic game play and level sequences and loops using digital design. This course is beneficial for all characters. This course is appropri- students in courses related to Graphic ate and beneficial for all students in Arts (Multimedia, Illustration, ANTHROPOLOGY courses related to Graphic Arts (Mul- Internet Web Design, Game Design Division of Behavorial timedia, Illustration, Internet Web and Film Production) and Industrial & Social Sciences Design, Game Design and Broadcast Design (Architectural, Automotive, Media Production) and Industrial Furniture, Clothing and Product ANTH 101 Design (Architectural, Automotive, Design). Introduction to Physical Anthropology Furniture, Clothing and Product 4 Units (Formerly ANTHR 101, 001) Design). Students will be introduced 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or to the concepts of storyboarding, 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Body Mechanics, acting for anima- appropriate assessment tors, Pose to pose and straight ahead ANIM 140 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU animation, control rigging, and ani- Animation Portfolio (*Students will receive credit from UC mating mechanical subject matter. Prerequisite: ANIM 101; ANIM 110; for only one of the following courses: 4 Units ANIM 120 ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H) 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or In this course, people are investigated 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment from the perspective of evolution- Transfers to: CSU ary theory. Students will learn about ANIM 120 Students will select a specific area the process of natural selection and 3D Materials, Lighting and Rendering of design that they research and related issues including patterns of (Formerly DRAF 203) center a portfolio project around. inheritance. Also included will be an Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The emphasis in this class is placed examination of the closest living rela- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or on helping the student improve the tives to humans, primates, with an appropriate assessment; ANIM 101 artistic merit of their work. The topics emphasis on behavior and ape societ- Transfers to: CSU covered will help prepare digital ies. An extensive survey of human This is an introductory course for artists to talk about and present their ancestors will trace the origins of all students interested in learning artwork in a professional manner. various life forms and recount how about texture mapping, lighting ape–like creatures evolved into and rendering for computer ani- modern humans. Students will also 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 173 discover how natural selection can be variation, and the identification and cultural anthropology can contribute used as a tool to understand patterns classification of the skeletal features to addressing problems important of human variation. This course is of humans, non-human primates, in the modern world. This course is designed for anthropology majors, and human ancestors. Also included designed for anthropology majors, those with an interest in anthropol- will be an exploration of Mendelian, those with an interest in anthropol- ogy, or anyone with a desire to fur- molecular, and population genetics. ogy, or anyone with a desire to ther their understanding of humans 1 Unit further their understanding of human from an evolutionary perspective. 54 Lab hours culture. 3 Units 3 Units 54 Lecture hours ANTH 102 54 Lecture hours Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ANTH 101H (Formerly ANTHR 102) ANTH 103 Introduction to Physical Anthropology Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Introduction to Archaeology Honors appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly ANTHR 103) (Formerly ANTHR 101H) appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or “C” or better The emphasis of this general educa- appropriate assessment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate tion course is the investigation of Transfers to: UC, CSU assessment human culture. By learning about Archaeology is the study of past soci- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU the diversity of cultural practices eties through the analysis of mate- (*Students will receive credit from UC around the world, students will be rial remains. This general education for only one of the following courses: able to evaluate their identities within course will survey the development ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H) their own societies. In addition to of major cultural centers around In this course, people are investigated discovering the theories and methods the world including those found in from the perspective of evolution- important to cultural anthropology, Mesoamerica, South America, Egypt, ary theory. Students will learn about the course will include an exten- China, Africa, and the Middle East. the process of natural selection and sive examination of cross-cultural Examples drawn from many ancient related issues including patterns of diversity. Students will learn about sites will trace human societies inheritance. Also included will be an how people in different cultures from pre-agricultural communities, examination of the closest living rela- obtain their food, exchange goods, through the origins of agriculture, tives to humans, primates, with an organize themselves in groups, to the rise of major political and eco- emphasis on behavior and ape societ- engage in politics, raise children, and nomic institutions. Students will learn ies. An extensive survey of human worship supernatural beings. Also how archaeologists discover informa- ancestors will trace the origins of addressed will be the issue of how tion about the past, the history of the various life forms and recount how cultural anthropology can contribute discipline, and the important issues ape–like creatures evolved into to addressing problems important confronting the field today. This modern humans. Students will also in the modern world. This course is course is designed for students who discover how natural selection can be designed for anthropology majors, are interested in the field of archaeol- used as a tool to understand patterns those with an interest in anthropol- ogy or for students who plan to major of human variation. This course is ogy, or anyone with a desire to in anthropology. designed for anthropology majors, further their understanding of human 3 Units those with an interest in anthropol- culture. 54 Lecture hours ogy, or anyone with a desire to fur- 3 Units ther their understanding of humans 54 Lecture hours ANTH 110 from an evolutionary perspective. Human Sexuality from a Cross-Cultural 3 Units ANTH 102H Perspective (Same as SOC 110) 54 Lecture hours Introduction to Cultural (Formerly ANTHR 110) Anthropology Honors Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ANTH 101L (Formerly ANTHR 102H) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Physical Anthropology Lab Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of appropriate assessment (Formerly ANTHR 101L) “C” or better Transfers to: UC, CSU Prerequisite/Corequisite: ANTH 101 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate This course is designed to provide ANTH 101H assessment the student who has an interest in Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU human sexuality with an introduction appropriate assessment; READ 023 or The emphasis of this general educa- to this subject as a form of culturally- appropriate assessment tion course is the investigation of influenced social interaction. Topics Transfers to: UC, CSU human culture. By learning about addressed include historical views This laboratory course, designed to the diversity of cultural practices of sexuality, gender identity, and the complement the lecture course, is for around the world, students will be impact of cultural change on sexual students interested in expanding their able to evaluate their identities within interest and activity. A social scien- knowledge of physical anthropology. their own societies. In addition to tific analysis of various aspects of Students will be introduced to the discovering the theories and methods human sexual behavior will be used methods, techniques, and proce- important to cultural anthropology, to examine sexuality as a form of dures used in physical anthropology the course will include an exten- social interaction in a cultural context. research, gaining practical experi- sive examination of cross-cultural Various social theories and relevant ence by participating in laboratory diversity. Students will learn about empirical research are critically activities and experiments employing how people in different cultures analyzed from both a Western and the scientific method. Laboratory obtain their food, exchange goods, non-Western perspective. exercises will include an assessment organize themselves in groups, 3 Units of the forces that affect evolutionary engage in politics, raise children, and 54 Lecture hours change, the observation of primate worship supernatural beings. Also behavior, the assessment of human addressed will be the issue of how 174 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ANTH 115 developed using traditional board Introduction to Medical Anthropology drafting methods and standards. (Formerly ANTHR 115) 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ARCHITECTURE 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Division of Career & Technical 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment Education Transfers to: CSU ARCH 125 Medical anthropology explores the ARCH 095 Residential Architecture and Detailing perceptions of disease, health, and Construction Document Reading and Prerequisite: ARCH 115, ENGT 150 or healing in different cultures around Estimating ENGT 170, or industry experience in the world. Socio-cultural, biologi- (Formerly ARCH 014) CADD applications cal, and ecological perspectives will Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or be used to understand the origins appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of illness and disease and medical appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or appropriate assessment practices across cultures. Topics appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU include diagnosis and therapies, the This course is beneficial for appren- This intermediate level course is role of healers like witchdoctors and tices, students of architecture for students pursuing a degree or shaman, stress and mental health, and employees in all areas of the certificate in Architectural Design unequal access to medical care, and construction industry, and covers and Drawing and is a requirement for medical anthropology applied to residential, light commercial and both the A.S. degree and certificate. global health problems. This course is industrial building construction. This course involves creating a set of intended for nursing and health care An introduction to the use of prints, construction drawings for a two story professionals seeking continuing edu- construction documents and the structure and emphasizes the study cation credit and students interested theory of construction estimating, of wall and construction systems, in the cultural aspects of healing and as used in the building industry will foundation systems, detailing of treating disease. be presented. Principles of reading wood and concrete systems, sections, 3 Units working drawings, plans, H.V.A.C. interior details, and completion of the 54 Lecture hours specifications, details, elevations and residential construction documents. electrical specifications are included Emphasis is placed on development ANTH 125 as well as material estimating, esti- of technical skills in detailing, use of Religion, Magic, Witchcraft, and the mating rules, tables and procedures. reference materials, building codes, Supernatural 3 Units standard construction techniques (Formerly ANTHR 125) 45 Lecture hours and architectural graphic standards. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 27 Lab hours All construction documents will be appropriate assessment; READ 023 or developed using CADD. appropriate assessment ARCH 115 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU Introduction to Residential 45 Lecture hours This course is designed for students Architecture: Drawing and Design 54 Lab hours interested in learning about the (Formerly ARCH 004A) diverse religious beliefs and practices Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ARCH 215 around the world. An introduc- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Architectural Perspective and tion to the anthropological study of appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or Rendering religion will include an overview of two years of high school drafting (Formerly ARCH 016) the various forms of religious belief Transfers to: CSU Prerequisite: ARCH 115 systems, the variety of gods and This introductory course is for any Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or other supernatural forces, the use student interested in the field of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of myths, rituals, and ceremonies in Architectural Drawing and Design. appropriate assessment; ENGT 105 religious practice, and the types of The course is a requirement for both Transfers to: CSU shamans, priests, and other religious the A.S. degree and certificate in This course is for all students inter- specialists found in religious systems. Architectural Design and Drawing, ested in developing skills in archi- The religious use of drugs will be Engineering Design Drafting and tectural perspective drawing and is a explored along with traditional Civil Design Technology. The course requirement for both the Architecture healing practices and folk medicine includes the study of architectural and Architecture Design and Draw- remedies used in many Western cul- graphic standards related to creating ing A.S. degrees. The students will tures. A survey of witchcraft, sorcery, construction drawings such as floor be introduced to the theory of and the occult, demons, exorcism rites, plans, exterior and interior eleva- practical application of perspective sacrificial practices, and magic will tions, site plans, foundation plans drawing and rendering as used in be included. In addition, concepts and details, building sections and architecture. Topics include one, two, relating to death and the afterlife will construction framing details for one and three point perspectives, entou- be explored such as souls, ghosts, or two story residential structure. rage, and introduction to rendering reincarnation, zombies, and others. Emphasis is placed on symbol- techniques, such as water color, 3 Units ogy, conventions, and techniques markers, film, pastels, pencil, pen and 54 Lecture hours to develop technical skills neces- ink. Presentation techniques will also sary for an entry level architectural be discussed. drafter and may lead to careers in 4 Units environmental planning and design, 54 Lecture hours architectural engineering, and con- 54 Lab hours struction technology. Construction methods, building codes, design fac- tors, planning, and use of reference materials are discussed and applied. All construction documents will be 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 175 ARCH 225 course builds upon the foundation proficiency levels, or repeated due to Commercial Wood and Masonry Design of architectural design studio ARCH content change or software updates. and Construction 235. This course presents additional 4 Units (Formerly ARCH 005B) design approaches to spatial and 54 Lecture hours Prerequisite: ARCH 115 form definition of architectural 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or program, urban and site planning, appropriate assessment, READ 023 or topographic, civil and environmental ARCH 280 appropriate assessment; ENGT 150 or issues. Architectural design propos- Advanced MicroStation for CADD & ENGT 170 or industry experience in als and projects will be expressed BIM Applications (Same as ENGT 280) Prerequisite: ENGT 170 with a grade of CADD applications verbally and graphically using “C” or better, or verifiable work experi- Transfers to: CSU presentation drawings, conceptual ence and proficiency in MicroStation XM This advanced level course is for models, renderings and photographs. or V8i students pursuing an A.S. Degree Students will enhance their design Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or or Certificate in Architecture and skills in a studio atmosphere, work- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Architectural Design and Drawing. ing to justify their design solutions. appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or The course includes the study of 4 Units two years of high school drafting construction methods, building ordi- 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU nances and codes. As a component 54 Lab hours This course is for students pursuing of the course students will complete an advanced study in MicroStation construction documents for concrete ARCH 260 3D parametric CADD (Computer block, steel and wood commercial Advanced Architecture Using Revit and Assisted Design and Drafting) and buildings and retail space. Emphasis 3D Software the BIM (Building Information Mod- is placed on effective space utiliza- (Formerly DRAF 023) eling) approach to building design tion, technical plans, elevations, aes- Prerequisite: ARCH 115; ENGT 150 using Bentley Architecture. Students thetics, handicap requirements, site Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or will apply previously learned draft- utilization and development, traffic appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ing conventions to produce two and flow, landscape, foundation design appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or three dimensional CADD and BIM two years of high school drafting; ENGT generated mechanical and architec- and construction details. 200 tural drawings and virtual design 4 Units Transfers to: CSU models. This course benefits all 54 Lecture hours This course is for all students students studying Architecture, Civil 54 Lab hours pursuing an A.S. Degree in Archi- Engineering, Drafting, Design and tecture (Transfer) and Architectural Computer Graphics. High technology ARCH 235 Design and Drawing and presents skills which are necessary to function Architectural Design Studio an intensive study of BIM (Building as a designer or CADD Drafter are (Formerly ARCH 030) Information Modeling) applications emphasized. Prerequisite: ARCH 215 as they relate to architecture. Utiliz- 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ing the latest releases of 3D design 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or software such as Revit and AutoCAD 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; ENGT 150 Architecture and previously learned Transfers to: UC, CSU technical and architectural drafting ARCH 290 This course is for students pursuing conventions, students will produce Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- the A.S. degree in Architecture with two and three dimensional BIM ship for Architecture Related Fields the intent of transferring and continu- generated architectural drawings and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing their study of architecture. Topics 3D virtual models. High technology appropriate assessment; READ 023 or explored include multiple design skills which are necessary to function appropriate assessment as a designer or CADD Drafter are Transfers to: CSU principles, concept applications, spa- emphasized. This course supports and reinforces tial and form definition, preliminary 4 Units on-the-job training in business and studies, interior and exterior space 54 Lecture hours industrial establishments under planning, site orientation, styles and 54 Lab hours supervision of a college instruc- materials. Student design concepts tor and is facilitated by the use of will be expressed verbally and ARCH 261 learning objectives. The student will graphically using presentation draw- Revit for Advanced BIM Architectural, be working in a skilled or profes- ings, isometrics and perspectives, Structural and MEP Applications sional level assignment in their area conceptual models, renderings and Prerequisite: ARCH 260 of vocational interest and will meet photographs. Students will develop Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or performance objectives related to skills in a studio atmosphere dealing appropriate assessment; READ 023 or instruction that are above and beyond with existing conditions, problem appropriate assessment the conditions of regular employ- solving using design criteria, codes Transfers to: CSU ment. This course is intended for and environmental relationships for Advanced BIM (Building Information students whose job is related to the abstract, residential and small com- Modeling) applications extends the field of architecture and have com- mercial structures. fundamentals of the Arch 260 class to pleted or enrolled in the appropriate 4 Units include Structural, Mechanical, Elec- coursework. “Contact the CWE office 54 Lecture hours trical and Plumbing extensions of the regarding re-enrollment procedures”. Autodesk Revit Building software. Student Unpaid Internship: 54 Lab hours Students will work on both group 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; and individual projects to create and 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours ARCH 236 present three-dimensional repre- Student Paid Internship: Architecture Design Studio II sentation of architectural solutions. 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; Prerequisite: ARCH 235 Students will also learn the basic 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or process and workflow in creation 1 to 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of Revit Families for use in building 3 Lecture hours appropriate assessment models. Course may be counted once 60 to 300 hours Transfers to: UC, CSU towards the major and repeated three This second level Design Studio times to enhance student’s skills and 176 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog tion requirements in Fine Arts and Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, ART Humanities. Realism, Early Photography, Impres- 3 Units sionism, Post Impressionism, and early Division of Arts & Cultural Programs 54 Lecture hours Modern art movements of the 20th century. This course is appropriate for ART 101 ART 105H all students pursuing the degree in Art Introduction to Art Survey of Western Art: Prehistory and/or seeking to fulfill general educa- (Formerly ART 007) through the Middle Ages Honors tion requirements in Fine Arts and Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or Humanities. This course is intended appropriate assessment; READ 022 or better and a minimum GPA of 3.2 for those who meet Honors Program appropriate assessment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Requirements. Transfers to: UC, CSU assessment 3 Units This lecture/lab course provides the Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 54 Lecture hours non-art majors an opportunity to learn (*Students will receive credit from UC for about art through a series of hands-on only one of the following courses: ART 105 ART 107 projects within an art historical and or ART 105H) The Art of Asia conceptual framework. Project and This course presents a broad overview (Formerly ART 002) topics include drawing, painting, of Prehistoric, Mesopotamian, Egyp- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or printmaking, design, mixed media and tian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Early appropriate assessment; READ 023 or sculpture. Christian, Islamic, and Medieval art appropriate assessment 3 Units and architecture. This course is appro- Transfers to: UC, CSU 36 Lecture hours priate for all students pursuing the This course examines the artistic tradi- 72 Lab hours degree in Studio Art and/or seeking to tions of Prehistoric to Modern Asia in fulfill general education requirements relation to their cultural, philosophical, ART 104 in Fine Arts and Humanities. This and religious influences. The art and Art of the Ancient Americas course is designed for those who meet architecture of Central Asia (India, Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Honors Program Requirements. China, Korea, and Japan) will be appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units emphasized. Examples from Southeast appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours Asia, Pakistan, Tibet, and Nepal will Transfers to: UC, CSU also be discussed. This course is appro- Art 104 is a study of the indigenous ART 106 priate for all students interested in art arts of Mexico, Andean South America, Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to and culture and for those seeking to and Central America, from civilizations Modern fulfill general education requirements including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, (Formerly ART 001B) for Fine Arts and Humanities, as well Inca, Moche, Chavin de Huantar, and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or as all Studio Art majors. Nazca. Art of representative native appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units tribes of the territory now encom- appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours passed by the United States and Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Canada will be comparatively exam- (*Students will receive credit from UC for ART 108 ined. Works of art and architecture will only one of the following courses: ART 106 The Art of Mexico be presented in relation to the various or ART 106H) (Formerly ART 003) religious beliefs, political/ economic This course provides an overview of Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate systems, and cultural practices of the the history of Western art from the assessment; ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ancient Americas. Art historical and 14th century through the Modern appropriate assessment archaeological methodologies relating Era, including Renaissance, Baroque, Transfers to: UC, CSU to the understanding and interpre- Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, This course is a survey of the art and tation of non-Western art will be Realism, Early Photography, Impres- architecture of Mexico including discussed. This course is appropriate sionism, Post Impressionism, and early PreColumbian, Viceregal (Colonial) for students pursuing a degree in Art, Modern art movements of the 20th and Modern 19th and 20th centuries. students with an interest in American century. This course is appropriate for Chicano/a art will also be examined Studies and Latin American Studies. all students pursuing the degree in in relation to its Mexican antecedents. 3 Units Art and/or seeking to fulfill general Art 108 is appropriate for all students 54 Lecture hours education requirements in Fine Arts interested in art and culture and for and Humanities. those seeking to fulfill general educa- ART 105 3 Units tion requirements in Fine Arts and Survey of Western Art: Prehistory 54 Lecture hours Humanities, as well as all Studio Art through the Middle Ages majors and Art History majors. (Formerly ART 001A) ART 106H 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Modern Honors appropriate assessment (Formerly ART 106) ART 109 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or Art of the Americas: Colonial to the Pres- (*Students will receive credit from UC for better and a minimum GPA 3.2 ent only one of the following courses: ART 105 Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly ART 004) or ART 105H) assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course presents a broad over- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or view of Prehistoric, Mesopotamian, (*Students will receive credit from UC for appropriate assessment Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, only one of the following courses: ART 106 Transfers to: UC, CSU Early Christian, Islamic, and Medieval or ART 106H) This course includes a study of the art art and architecture. This course is This course provides an overview of and architecture of North, Central, and appropriate for all students pursuing the history of Western art from the South America from the colonial period the degree in Studio Art or Art History 14th century through the Modern to the early 20th Century. This course is or seeking to fulfill general educa- Era, including Renaissance, Baroque, appropriate for students with an inter- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 177 est in American Studies, Latin Ameri- technological development, social role, ART 121 can Studies, and/or those seeking to and aesthetic possibilities of photog- Three Dimensional Design fulfill the general education require- raphy will be discussed in relation to (Formerly ART 030B) ments in Fine Arts and Humanities. major historical, art historical, cultural, Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate 3 Units and political influences. This course is assessment; ART 120 54 Lecture hours appropriate for all students interested Transfers to: UC, CSU in photography, art, and art history This is a foundational, first semester ART 110 and culture and for those seeking to course and is open to all students Understanding Visual Art fulfill the general education require- interested in the fundamentals of (Formerly ART 005) ment for Fine Arts and Humanities, visual thinking as they apply to all Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or as well as Studio Art majors and Art three dimensional media. It also fulfills appropriate assessment; READ 023 or History majors. a general education requirement in appropriate assessment 3 Units art. This course provides an introduc- Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lecture hours tion to the concepts, applications, ART 110 is a lecture course that pro- and art historical references related to vides the student with an introduction ART 115 three-dimensional art, and includes to the study of visual art: its vocabu- The Art of Film the basic elements and principles of lary, its forms, the many roles it plays Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or three-dimensional design. Students in society, and the variety of processes appropriate assessment; READ 023 or will develop a visual vocabulary for artists master in its making. Students appropriate assessment creative expression through lecture, gain insight into current approaches Transfers to: UC, CSU slide and video presentations, and used in interpreting meaning from art This introductory course explores film studio projects using a variety of tools and explore questions about the ways as an art form, its basic components, and written assignments. in which value is assigned to the art and its relation to the styles and move- 3 Units object. Using examples from cultures ments of other visual arts forms. An 36 Lecture hours around the world and across time, this understanding of cinematic language 72 Lab hours course offers a broad overview to any is emphasized by focusing upon film’s student interested in art and culture manipulation of time and space, its ART 124 and to those seeking to fulfill general use of visual metaphors, montages, Color Theory education requirements in Fine Arts and explicit/implicit messages. The Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and Humanities. collaborative nature of filmmaking appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units is studied by examining the role of appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours cinematography, lighting, film editing, Transfers to: UC, CSU visual effects, art direction, and the This course is an introduction to the ART 112 use of sound and music to enhance characteristics of color and its interac- Visual Art in the Modern Era the script and create style. Through tion suited for all art majors transfer- (Formerly ART 006B) discussion and written assignments, ring to a four-year college or interested Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or students develop the ability to analyze in working in the arts as a painter, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or the impact of films viewed both in and illustrator or designer. The course appropriate assessment out of class. This course is appropriate will cover the principles, theories, and Transfers to: UC, CSU for any student interested in film, art, applications of additive and subtractive ART 112 is a survey of developments in media studies, or culture. color in two dimensions. art and architecture from the early 19th 3 Units Topics will include major historical and century through the 20th century and 54 Lecture hours contemporary color systems, produc- into the 21st. From Realism and Early tion of projects in applied color, and Photograph through Postmodern and ART 120 the elements of design as they apply Contemporary art, visual art move- Two Dimensional Design to color. ments will be discussed in relation to (Formerly ART 030A) 3 Units stylistic trends, philosophical influ- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 36 Lecture hours ences, innovations in technology, and appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 54 Lab hours other historical and social contexts. appropriate assessment The roles played by artist, critic, and Transfers to: UC, CSU ART 130 consumer in shaping these movements This is a foundational, first semester Freehand Drawing I will be examined, as well as visual art’s course and is open to any student (Formerly ART 010A) impact upon society in the Modern interested in the fundamentals of visual Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Era. This course is appropriate for all thinking as they apply to all visual appropriate assessment; READ 023 or students interested in art and culture media and fulfills a general educa- appropriate assessment and for those seeking to fulfill general tion requirement in Art. This course Transfers to: UC, CSU education requirements in Fine Arts provides an introduction to the con- This is a first semester course for and Humanities, as well as for Studio cepts, applications, and art historical art and non-art majors interested in Art majors. references related to two-dimensional developing basic drawing skills. As an 3 Units art and composition, and includes the introduction to observational drawing 54 Lecture hours study of the basic elements of line, and composition, students will develop shape, texture, value, color and spatial the ability to perceive and define shape, ART 113 illusion. Students will develop a visual contour, volume, space, and light The History of Photography vocabulary for creative expression using a variety of drawing media and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or through lecture presentations, studio subject matter. Emphasis is on clarity appropriate assessment; READ 023 or projects, and written assignments. of observation and the ability to order appropriate assessment 3 Units and translate 3- dimensional form and Transfers to: UC, CSU 36 Lecture hours space into 2-dimensional drawings. This lecture course examines the his- 72 Lab hours 3 Units tory of photography from its inven- 36 Lecture hours tion in the 1830s to the present. The 72 Lab hours 178 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ART 131 ART 140 ART 146 Freehand Drawing II Ceramics I Introduction to Sculpture (Formerly ART 010B) (Formerly ART 038A) (Formerly ART 036) Prerequisite: ART 130 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Prerequisite: ART 121 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; ART 130 Transfers to: UC, CSU This is an introductory course open to Transfers to: CSU This is a second semester course for art all art and non-art majors interested This course is suited for art majors and non- art majors in observational in learning basic skills in ceramics transferring to a four-year college or drawing and composition, stressing using the potter’s wheel. Students any student interested in working in an advanced ability to perceive and will develop a visual vocabulary for the arts. The course is an introduc- define shape, contour, volume, space, creative expression through lectures, tion to three-dimensional sculptural and light. Students will use a variety power point, vocabulary lists and principles, techniques, and concepts of drawing media and subject matter. video presentations. This course utilizing a wide range of materials and Emphasis is on strengthening skills covers beginning problems of center- practices. Various sculpture methods introduced in Freehand Drawing I, the ing, throwing and shaping various are practiced with attention to creative exploration of color in drawing and functional and non-functional pottery. self-expression and historical context. concepts related to content. Students will be introduced to the 3 Units 3 Units process of glazing and basic firing 36 Lecture hours 36 Lecture hours techniques. This course emphasizes 72 Lab hours 72 Lab hours exploring personal and cultural expres- sion in the ceramic media. Evaluation ART 150 ART 135 will be based on using a variety of tools Beginning Printmaking Beginning Painting and writing assignments. (Formerly ART 032A) (Formerly ART 020A) 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 36 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 72 Lab hours appropriate assessment; ART 121; ART appropriate assessment; ART 130 130 Transfers to: UC, CSU ART 141 Transfers to: CSU This is a first semester course for art Ceramics II This course is an introduction to the and non-art majors interested in devel- (Formerly ART 038B) art of printmaking suitable for studio oping basic painting skills. The course Prerequisite: ART 140 art majors transferring to a four-year explores both traditional and con- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or college or any student interested in temporary painting techniques while appropriate assessment; READ 022 or working in the arts. This course is an stressing an ability to perceive and appropriate assessment introduction to the basic materials, define shape, contour, volume, texture, Transfers to: UC, CSU equipment, and processes of print- space, and light using acrylic or water- This is an intermediate course in making, including relief (linocut and based oil painting media. Emphasis is ceramics open to all art and non-art woodcut), intaglio (drypoint, etching, on learning the techniques of painting, majors, with continued emphasis on and collagraph), planography (lithog- understanding the use of color, while basic skills using the potter’s wheel. raphy and monotype), and stencil strengthening observation and render- Included in the course will be inter- (screenprint). ing skills. Students are advised to have mediate problems on the wheel, basic 3 Units some drawing skills before taking this decorative techniques, and making a 36 Lecture hours class. test glaze. 72 Lab hours 3 Units Students will be exploring contempo- 36 Lecture hours rary artistic practice and the social and ART 151 72 Lab hours historical elements of ceramic art. Intermediate Printmaking 3 Units (Formerly ART 032B) ART 136 36 Lecture hours Prerequisite: ART 150 Intermediate Painting 72 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly ART 020B) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: ART 130; ART 135 ART 142 appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Introduction to Ceramic Handbuilding Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This is a second semester course for the appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or art and non- art major in the continued Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment study of intaglio and relief fine art This is a second semester course for Transfers to: UC, CSU printmaking processes. This course art and non-art majors interested in This is a first semester course for art will expand upon techniques and further development of painting skills and non-art majors. It is designed to skills students learned in Beginning and techniques, understanding the use introduce students to the concepts, Printmaking, ART 150 including color of color and space, while strengthening techniques, history, and contempo- printing techniques as well as serigraph observation and rendering skills. The rary practices of handbuilding in the printing. While stressing creativity and course explores both traditional and ceramics arts. This course can be taken expression students will also learn the contemporary painting concepts, styles, once and repeated three times for practice of creating an edition. and techniques that involve complex credit. This class is for any student who 3 Units compositional and technical problems is interested in the fundamentals of 36 Lecture hours in either acrylic or oil painting media. clay construction using hand-building 72 Lab hours 3 Units technique. 36 Lecture hours 3 Units 72 Lab hours 36 Lecture hours 72 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 179 ART 160 ART 165 ART 175 Rendering and Illustration Graphic Design (Advanced Adobe Computer Graphics (Formerly ART 044A) Illustrator) (Formerly ART 041) Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (Formerly ART 045B) Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate assessment; ART 130 Prerequisite: ART 164 assessment Transfers to: CSU Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Transfers to: CSU Intended for the student interested assessment; ART 120 This course is for the student interested in developing skills in rendering and Transfers to: CSU in a degree in commercial art or any illustration, this course is a beginning Intended for the student interested in student interested in 2 dimensional course in illustration and rendering a degree in commercial art or those paint and 3 dimensional model- exploring both traditional and contem- interested in 2 dimensional design and ing applications employed as tools porary drawing techniques, stressing layout applications employed as tools by computer graphic artists. Topics an ability to perceive and define shape, by computer graphic artists, this course covered will include the exploration of contour, volume, texture, space, and is an advanced exploration of graphic basic paint techniques as well as basic light both realistically as well as expres- design using the Adobe Illustrator modeling, mapping, rendering and sively using various media. Emphasis computer based design software. animation techniques as they relate to is on learning the techniques of illustra- Topics include concept driven projects page and web design. tion, understanding the use of color, exploring illustration and rendering 3 Units while strengthening observation and techniques, advanced compositing 36 Lecture hours rendering skills. methods using various sources, as well 72 Lab hours 3 Units as current methods/styles employed 36 Lecture hours by graphic artists. This course includes ART 178 72 Lab hours portfolio building with an emphasis on Introduction to Digital Imaging (Adobe professional standards. Photoshop) ART 161 3 Units Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Advanced Rendering and Illustration 36 Lecture hours assessment; ART 120 (Formerly ART 044B) 72 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU Prerequisite: ART 160 This course is for the student interested Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate ART 170 in a degree in commercial art or any assessment; ART 130 Introduction to Digital Painting student interested in digital imaging. Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The focus of the course is computer Intended for the student interested appropriate assessment; READ 023 or based image-editing software and its in developing skills in rendering and appropriate assessment; ART 120; ART use as a tool in the creation of high illustration, this course is an advanced 130; ART 135 quality digital imagery. Also provided course in illustration and render- Transfers to: CSU is an overview of programs such as ing exploring both traditional and This course is designed for students Adobe Photoshop and other related contemporary drawing techniques majoring in the Visual Arts: includ- graphics programs employed by digital while stressing an ability to perceive ing Fine Arts, Illustration, Animation, imaging artists with an emphasis on and define shape, contour, volume, Graphic Art and any student interested photography as the primary source of texture, space, and light both realisti- in learning to use the computer as a the final images. Included in this course cally as well as expressively using tool for original image making. The will be the discussion of aesthetic deci- various media. Emphasis is on learning course will survey traditional drawing sions as they relate to image composi- the advanced techniques of illustration, and painting techniques using com- tion. The ethical and legal implications understanding the use of color, while puter technologies such as software, of image manipulation will be dis- strengthening observation and render- drawing tablets, scanners and printers. cussed as well as various presentation ing skills. Students will investigate the funda- possibilities. 3 Units mental pictorial elements of line, shape, 3 Units 36 Lecture hours space, color, and texture as well as the 36 Lecture hours 72 Lab hours formal relationship of these elements 72 Lab hours to produce original works of art while ART 164 learning the technology, concepts, and ART 180 Graphic Design (Adobe Illustrator) practices of digital art production. Art Gallery Display Design (Formerly ART 045A) 3 Units (Formerly ART 049) Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate 27 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or assessment; ART 120 81 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment Designed for the student interested ART 172 Transfers to: CSU in a degree in commercial art or those Desk Top Publishing (Adobe InDesign) This course is appropriate for all stu- interested in 2 dimensional design and (Formerly ART 040) dents interested in art, art exhibitions, layout applications employed as tools Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate museum studies, and cultural studies by computer graphic artists, this course assessment and is a combination studio and lecture is an exploration of graphic design Transfers to: CSU course that provides students with using the Adobe Illustrator computer This course is intended for the student creative experience in exhibition design and gallery installation. Topics include based design software. Topics include interested in commercial art, focusing exhibition space planning, principles typography usage, inclusion of photo- on computer generated multi page derived images, illustration techniques, of color and design, art exhibition con- layouts. Page composition and graph- page layout design, as well as current struction and lighting, and proper care methods/styles employed by graphic ics are explored using Adobe InDesign and handling of art objects. Students artists. This course includes portfolio software with an emphasis on design are also given an introduction to the building with an emphasis on profes- and the creative use of typography, basic principles of art curating and sional standards. included in this course is a discussion gallery management. This course may 3 Units of output possibilities and pre-press be taken once and repeated three times 36 Lecture hours considerations. for credit. 72 Lab hours 3 Units 2 Units 36 Lecture hours 18 Lecture hours 72 Lab hours 54 Lab hours 180 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ART 185 learn advanced drawing skills, study ART 236 Art Studio the human anatomy in greater detail, Advanced Painting II (Formerly ART 062) and extend their knowledge regarding (Formerly ART 021B) Transfers to: UC, CSU the use of the figure in visual art. Prerequisite: ART 235 This course is designed to provide 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or supervised studio study on an indi- 36 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or vidual basis with various projects. 72 Lab hours appropriate assessment Arranged: 4 hours lab. Offered on a Transfers to: UC, CSU pass-no pass basis. ART 233 This is a fourth semester course in 1 Unit Freehand Drawing III painting for the art and non-art major. 72 Lab hours Prerequisite: ART 131 This course explores experimentation Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or with traditional and contemporary ART 230 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or methods of painting using the figure, Beginning Life Drawing appropriate assessment still life, landscape, abstraction and (Formerly ART 012A) Transfers to: UC, CSU non-objective imagery with an empha- Prerequisite: ART 130 This course is a third semester course in sis on continuing skill development Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or drawing and composition. More com- and problem solving of interpretation, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or plex problems and a broader range of expression and conceptual issues in appropriate assessment media including color will be utilized. painting. Transfers to: UC, CSU Emphasis is on advancing observa- 3 Units This is a first semester course for art, tional skills and conceptual develop- 36 Lecture hours animation, and non-art majors inter- ment through a range of subject matter, 72 Lab hours ested in developing the basic drawing technical refinement and thematic skills of representing the human figure. development. Exploration of individual ART 242 As an introduction to observational creative interpretation, process and Advanced Ceramics figure drawing and composition, intent in order to deepen the student’s (Formerly ART 039) students will develop the ability to studio practice and investigation is Prerequisite: ART 141 perceive and define the anatomy and stressed. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or structural organization of the human 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 022 or form in terms of expressive design and 36 Lecture hours appropriate assessment creative use of drawing media. 72 Lab hours Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units This is an advanced course in ceram- 36 Lecture hours ART 234 ics, open to all art and non-art majors. 72 Lab hours Watercolor Painting This class places a special emphasis Prerequisite: ART 130 on personal growth and aesthet- ART 231 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ics as well as increased proficiency Intermediate Life Drawing appropriate assessment; READ 022 or on the potter’s wheel. Students will (Formerly ART 012B) appropriate assessment investigate the concepts of manage- Prerequisite: ART 230 Transfers to: UC, CSU ment and expressive exploration of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is an introduction to vari- the unique characteristics of fired appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ous transparent watercolor techniques ceramics – both the opportunities and appropriate assessment including wash and glazing. Applica- constraints presented in the process- Transfers to: UC, CSU tions of drawing, beginning painting, ing of clay from a soft, plastic, fragile, This is a second semester course for art, and design fundamentals to these impermanent substance into a hard, animation, and non-art majors inter- techniques are included as well as the rigid, and completely metamorphosed ested in furthering their figure drawing communicative element of content. material after drying and firing. It is a skills. Working from a professional 3 Units process that requires sensitivity to time figure model, students will refine those 36 Lecture hours and sequence, and demands critical skills learned in ART 230 and learn 72 Lab hours informed technical management. An intermediate drawing skills, study important aspect of the class will be human anatomy in greater detail, and ART 235 having students evaluate their selection extend their knowledge regarding the Advanced Painting I of type of clay, decorative techniques use of the figure in visual art. Emphasis (Formerly ART 021A) and final-firing process to achieve their is on clarity of observation and the Prerequisite: ART 136 desired finished results. Included in ability to order and translate form and Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or this course will be advanced problems- space on a two dimensional surface. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or solving in forms, shapes, decorative 3 Units appropriate assessment techniques and glazing. 36 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units 72 Lab hours This is a third semester course in 36 Lecture hours painting for the art and non-art major. 72 Lab hours ART 232 The course constitutes a study of Advanced Life Drawing advanced painting problems stressing ART 252 (Formerly ART 013) experimentation with traditional and Advanced Printmaking Prerequisite: ART 231 or ANIM 260 contemporary methods of painting, (Formerly ART 033) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or composition, and expression. Class Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and individual projects using figure, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment still life, landscape, abstraction, shaped appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU format, altered scale and material Transfers to: CSU This is a third semester course for art, exploitation will be stressed. This is a third semester course for the animation, and non-art majors inter- 3 Units art and non-art major in the continued ested in furthering their figure drawing 36 Lecture hours study of intaglio and relief fine art skills. Students will refine those skills 72 Lab hours printmaking processes. This course learned in ART 231or ANIM 260 and 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 181 will expand upon techniques and report or project, and student progress ance, endocrine, cardiovascular and skills students learned in Intermedi- shall be evaluated at regular intervals. respiratory systems. The pathophysi- ate Printmaking, ART 151. Students Academic standards for Independent ology of disease processes, as well as will improve printing skills enhanced Studies/Directed Studies shall be the medical and nursing interventions, by supervised repetition and practice same as those for other courses. Units is discussed. The students will apply within class periods. Course content are awarded in accordance to Title the theoretical concepts in the clini- differs each time it is offered so it may V regulations with one unit of credit cal setting. This course is designed be taken once and repeated three times awarded for 54 hours of Directed for students in the Associate degree for credit. Studies, six (6) hours of which must Nursing Program. 3 Units be with an instructor. The instructor 8 Units 36 Lecture hours is responsible for monitoring student 72 Lecture hours 72 Lab hours progress through the semester. Stu- 216 Lab hours dents may take directed study courses ART 290 for a maximum of four (4) units within ADN 151 Cooperative Work Experience/Internship a discipline, and may not accumulate Clinical Nursing Concepts for Visual Arts Related Fields more than a total of twelve (12) units (Formerly ADN 101) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or college wide. Prerequisite: BIOL 125, BIOL 222, and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 to 3 Units BIOL 226 (all with a grade of “C” or appropriate assessment 54 to 216 Lab hours better); ENGL 101 or appropriate assess- Transfers to: CSU ment This course supports and reinforces on- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate the-job training in business, industrial, ASSOCIATE DEGREE assessment; MATH 070 or MATH 070D studio, non-profit and professional art or MATH 073 or appropriate assessment organizations under supervision of NURSING Transfers to: CSU a college instructor and is facilitated Division of Health Sciences This is an introductory course in basic by the use of learning objectives. The clinical nursing concepts. The student student will be working in a skilled & Nursing will be introduced to a theoreti- or professional level assignment in cal framework for nursing practice ADN 075 their area of vocational interest and including the nursing process and LVN Transition into the Associate will meet performance objectives the conceptual model used in the Degree Nursing Program related to instruction that are above Associate Degree Nursing Program. Prerequisite: Acceptance into Nursing and beyond the conditions of regular Concepts related to therapeutic com- Program and Current LVN License employment. This course is intended munication, legal and ethical issue Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate for students whose job is related to the and documentation are included. The assessment; MATH 070 or MATH 070D field of visual arts and have completed nursing skills required for physi- or MATH 073 or appropriate assessment. or enrolled in the appropriate course- cal assessment and individualized This short-term course provides an work. Instructor approval is required patient care will be presented. The overview of the Associate Degree to remain in the class. “Contact the course includes laboratory practice Nursing Program. The focus is on CWE office regarding re-enrollment and experience in the care of patients successful learning strategies and procedures”. in the clinical setting. This course is the development of critical thinking Student Unpaid Internship: designed for students in the Associate skills. An overview of the Systems 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; Degree Nursing program. Developmental Stress Model is 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours 4 Units included as a framework for the Student Paid Internship: 36 Lecture hours nursing process and the Associate 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; 108 Lab hours Degree Nursing Curriculum. Also 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. included is an in depth study of the 1 to 4 Units ADN 154 nursing process including physi- 3 Lecture hours Pharmacology cal assessment, nursing diagnosis, 60 to 300 hours (Formerly ADN 120A & ADN 120B) interventions and evaluations. The Prerequisite: ADN 151 with a grade nursing skills required for physical ART 299 of “C” or better assessment and basic patient care Directed Study: Art Corequisite: ADN 150 will be presented. This course is open (Formerly ART 100) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate to all career ladder LVN and 30 unit Transfers to: UC, CSU assessment option students entering the second Independent Study/Directed Study Transfers to: CSU year of the Associate Degree Nursing is intended for students who have the This is an introduction pharmacol- Program. ability to assume responsibility for ogy course that focuses on the study 2.5 Units independent work and to prepare writ- of drugs most frequently prescribed. 36 Lecture hours ten or oral reports and/or appropriate The course emphasis is on basic tech- 27 Lab hours projects. To enroll in an independent niques and computations used in the study/directed study course, students administration of medications as well ADN 150 must possess a 2.5 overall grade point as the special nursing considerations Medical/Surgical Nursing I average, a 3.0 grade point average in that pertain to the safe administration (Formerly ADN 152 & 153) the discipline of study being requested, of medication. Completion of this Prerequisite: BIOL 222, ENGL 101, and or receive an exception from the course allows the Associate Degree ADN 151 with a grade of “C” or better instructor. Independent Studies/ Nursing student to safely administer Corequisite: ADN 154 Directed Studies may be developed medication to patients under the Transfers to: CSU from any topic arising from or related supervision of the nursing instructor. This course focuses on the applica- to a course of study that will result in 2 Units tion of the nursing process in caring developing depth and breadth in that 27 Lecture hours for patients with disturbances in the subject area. Students will be expected 27 Lab hours digestive and renal systems, fluid and to meet on a regular basis with their electrolyte status and acid/base bal- faculty sponsor and submit a final 182 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ADN 155 medical-surgical concepts. The course mental health and mental illness are Nursing Process: Childbearing Family/ emphasis is on advanced techniques discussed. This course is designed Women’s Health and computations used in the admin- for students in the Associate Degree (Formerly ADN 105) istration of medications utilizing the Nursing Program. Prerequisite: ADN 150 and ADN 154 nursing process and the Systems 3.5 Units with a grade of “C” or better Developmental Stress Model, as well 36 Lecture hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate as the special nursing considerations 81 Lab hours assessment that pertain to the safe administration Transfers to: CSU of medication. Study of this course ADN 253 This course is designed for the allows the Associate Degree Nursing Nursing Process Applied to Advanced Associate Degree Nursing stu- student to continue to safely adminis- Concepts dent. It focuses on the biological, ter medications to patients. (Formerly ADN 203) intrapersonal/interpersonal and 1 Unit Prerequisite: ADN 250, ADN 251 and developmental aspects of human 18 Lecture hours ADN 252 with a grade of “C” or better reproduction. The nursing process is Transfers to: CSU utilized in meeting maternal, new- ADN 251 This course focuses on the use of born and family needs as they relate Nursing Process Applied to Aging, the nursing process in caring for to human reproduction. This course Perception, Coordination and Mobility patients requiring complex nursing also focuses on women’s health (Formerly ADN 202) care in general medical/surgical issues with regards to fertility, family Prerequisite: ADN 155 and ADN 156 settings. The course also focuses on planning, gynecological problems (for generic ADN students) with mini- generalized emergencies, immu- and related needs, and the utilization mum grade of “C” or better; ADN 075 nologic problems and oncologic of the nursing process to meet those (for LVN to ADN students) with a grade problems. Nursing theory from needs. of “C” or better previous courses is integrated as the 4 Units Corequisite: ADN 252 (students who student applies advanced concepts 36 Lecture hours have an active psychiatric technician in the clinical setting. This course is 108 Lab hours license are exempt from this corequisite) designed for students in the Associate and ADN 250 Degree Nursing Program. ADN 156 Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 5 Units Nursing Process Applied to the Care of assessment. 36 Lecture hours Children Transfers to: CSU 162 Lab hours (Formerly ADN 104) This course focuses on the aging Prerequisite: ADN 150 and ADN 154 process as it relates to normal aging, ADN 254 with a grade of “C” or better changing biological, interpersonal Leadership and Management in Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate and intrapersonal needs. It also Nursing assessment focuses on the application of the nurs- (Formerly ADN 204 & ADN 205) Transfers to: CSU ing process in caring for patients with Prerequisite: ADN 253 with a minimum This course focuses on the applica- disturbances in perception, coordina- grade of “C” or better tion of the nursing process in caring tion and mobility. The pathophysiol- Transfers to: CSU for children. Emphasis is placed on ogy of disease processes, as well as This course focuses on theories and normal growth and development pat- medical and nursing interventions principles of leadership and manage- terns of the growing child and devel- and rehabilitative approaches to ment. It also addresses legal and ethi- opmental, biological, interpersonal restoring and maintaining optimum cal issues, current trends in nursing and intrapersonal stressors affect- health are discussed. The students and changes in the delivery of health ing children and their families. The will apply the theoretical concepts care affecting nursing practice. The pathophysiology of disease processes in the clinical setting. This course is students will apply the concepts and that may occur during childhood and designed for students in the Associate principles related to leadership and related medical and nursing inter- Degree Nursing Program. management through a preceptorship ventions are discussed. The students 4.5 Units experience in the clinical setting. This will apply the theoretical concepts 36 Lecture hours course is designed for students in the in the clinical setting. This course is 136 Lab hours Associate Degree Nursing Program. designed for students in the Associate 4 Units Degree Nursing Program. ADN 252 27 Lecture hours 4 Units Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing 135 Lab hours 36 Lecture hours (Formerly ADN 201) 108 Lab hours Prerequisite: ADN 155 and ADN 156 ADN 290 (for generic ADN students) with a grade Cooperative Work Experience/ ADN 250 of “C” or better; ADN 075 (for LVN to Internship for Nursing Related Fields Advanced Pharmacology ADN students) with a grade of “C” or Prerequisite: ADN 154, 155, 156 or Prerequisite: ADN 155 and ADN 156 better equivalent (for generic ADN students) with a grade Corequisite: ADN 251 (students who Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or “C” or better; ADN 075 (for LVN to have an active psychiatric technician appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ADN students) with a grade “C” or license are exempt from this course) and appropriate assessment better ADN 250 Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 101; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU This course supports and reinforces appropriate assessment; MATH 070 or This course focuses on application on-the-job training in health care MATH 070D or MATH 073 or appropri- of the nursing process as a problem institutions under supervision of a ate assessment solving approach to assessment, college instructor and is facilitated Transfers to: CSU problem identification and interven- by the use of learning objectives. The This is an advanced pharmacol- tion for patients with psychiatric student will be working in a skilled ogy course that focuses on the skills and mental health problems. Basic or professional level assignment in and study of medications used concepts related to biological, intrap- their area of vocational interest and for neurological, psychiatric, and ersonal and interpersonal factors in will meet performance objectives 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 183 related to instruction that are above galaxy, and the universe. Topics on become familiar with naked eye and beyond the conditions of regular the frontier of astronomical knowl- objects visible during the fall/winter employment. This course is intended edge such as black holes and the [112], spring/summer [114] including for second year nursing students search for extraterrestrial life will be constellations, planets, star clusters, currently enrolled in Rio Hondo’s explored. This course is designed for galaxies, meteors, and the phases nursing program and have completed those with an interest in astronomy of the moon. Students will learn the appropriate coursework. “Contact or anyone who desires to expand to locate objects visually and use the CWE office regarding re- enroll- their cosmic horizons. astronomical coordinate systems. The ment procedures”. 3 Units development of skill in the operation Student Unpaid Internship: 54 Lecture hours of optical telescopes is emphasized. 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; This course is designed for those with 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours ASTR 112 an interest in learning night skies and Student Paid Internship: Observational Astronomy the tools astronomers use to explore 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; (Formerly ASTR 002B) the cosmos. Observatory facilities will 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. Prerequisite/Corequisite: ASTR 110 with be utilized often, weather permitting. 1 to 4 Units a grade of “C” or better Field trips are an integral part of this 3 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or class. 60 to 300 hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 Unit appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 72 Lab hours appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU ASTR 150 ASTRONOMY (*Students will receive credit from UC Astronomy Field Studies for only one of the following courses: (Formerly ASTR 020) Division of Mathematics & Sciences ASTR 112 or ASTR 114) Prerequisite: ASTR 110 This course is designed to acquaint Transfers to: CSU ASTR 110 the student with the methods, tech- This is an observational course General Astronomy niques, and tools of the astronomer. designed for students who wish to (Formerly ASTR 001) Indoor labs will demonstrate classical study celestial objects and observe Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or methods and techniques of science. celestial motions in clear, dark skies appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Students will learn the critical think- through field investigations. Students appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or ing processes needed to acquire and will develop the skill required to appropriate assessment analyze scientific data. Students will operate portable telescopes in their Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU become familiar with naked eye investigations of stars, constella- (*Students will receive credit from UC objects visible during the fall/winter tions, planets, nebulae multiple star for only one of the following courses: [112], spring/summer [114] including systems, the moon, the sun, and the ASTR 110 or ASTR 110H) constellations, planets, star clusters, Milky Way. Visual observations of This is a descriptive nonmathemati- galaxies, meteors, and the phases meteors will be conducted nightly. cal course designed to develop an of the moon. Students will learn This course is designed for those appreciation of astronomy and to locate objects visually and use who wish to learn night skies and the a broad cosmic perspective. The astronomical coordinate systems. The observational tools of the astrono- emphasis of the course is on the development of skill in the operation mer. Area of study will include, but current state of knowledge of our of optical telescopes is emphasized. will not be limited to, campsites in solar system, our galaxy, and the This course is designed for those with National Monuments and Parks in universe. Topics on the frontier of an interest in learning night skies and the southwestern United States. astronomical knowledge such as the tools astronomers use to explore 1 to 2 Units black holes and the search for extra- the cosmos. Observatory facilities will 9 to 18 Lecture hours terrestrial life will be explored. This be utilized often, weather permitting. 27 to 54 Lab hours course is designed for those with Field trips are an integral part of this an interest in astronomy or anyone class. ASTR 299 who desires to expand their cosmic 1 Unit Directed Study: Astronomy horizons. 72 Lab hours (Formerly ASTR 100) 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lecture hours ASTR 114 Independent Study/Directed Study Observational Astronomy is intended for students who have ASTR 110H (Formerly ASTR 002B) the ability to assume responsibil- General Astronomy Honors Prerequisite/Corequisite: ASTR 110 with ity for independent work and to Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion (C a grade of “C” or better prepare written or oral reports and/ or better) of ENGL 101. Minimum GPA Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or or appropriate projects. To enroll in 3.0 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or an independent study/directed study Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or course, students must possess a 2.5 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment overall grade point average, a 3.0 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU grade point average in the discipline appropriate assessment (*Students will receive credit from UC of study being requested, or receive Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU for only one of the following courses: an exception from the instructor. (*Students will receive credit from UC ASTR 112 or ASTR 114) Independent Studies/Directed Stud- for only one of the following courses: This course is designed to acquaint ies may be developed from any topic ASTR 110 or ASTR 110H) the student with the methods, tech- arising from or related to a course of This is a descriptive nonmathematical niques, and tools of the astronomer. study that will result in developing course designed to develop an appre- Indoor labs will demonstrate classical depth and breadth in that subject ciation of astronomy and a broad methods and techniques of science. area. Students will be expected to cosmic perspective. The emphasis of Students will learn the critical think- meet on a regular basis with their fac- the course is on the current state of ing processes needed to acquire and ulty sponsor and submit a final report knowledge of our solar system, our analyze scientific data. Students will or project, and student progress shall 184 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog be evaluated at regular intervals. AUTB 076 This is an advanced, industry-based Academic standards for Independent CCC Pathways Computer Collision course in automotive painting pro- Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Estimating cedures and special effect materials same as those for other courses. Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate used in painting. Practical experience are awarded in accordance to Title assessment; AUTB 075 is provided in the use of spray equip- V regulations with one unit of credit This course provides comprehensive ment and special tools used in auto- awarded for 54 hours of Directed training in the use of Certified Col- motive painting. Related technical Studies, six (6) hours of which must lateral Corporation (CCC) Pathways information is presented concerning be with an instructor. The instructor Collision Estimating software. Special different types of custom paints and is responsible for monitoring student emphasis will be placed on setting up finishes, painting safety, and paint progress through the semester. profiles, creating work files, estimates problem solving techniques. Students may take directed study involving collision and comprehen- 3 Units courses for a maximum of four (4) sive losses, creating supplements, 18 Lecture hours units within a discipline, and may storing files, printing estimates, 108 Lab hours not accumulate more than a total of reports, and parts lists. This course twelve (12) units college wide. is designed for those students who AUTB 090 1 to 4 Units work at body shops or insurance Advanced Automotive Collision Repair 54 to 216 Lab hours companies. (Formerly AUTOB 090, 200) 2.5 Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 36 Lecture hours assessment; AUTB 130 27 Lab hours This course is designed for the advancement of skills in the art of AUTOMOTIVE AUTB 078 automotive collision repair, paint- BODY REPAIR Lab and Field Collision Estimating ing, customizing, and the repair of (Formerly AUTOB 078) plastics. Major emphasis is placed on Division of Career & Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate hand and power tool use, theory of Technical Education assessment; AUTB 075 design, complete repair projects and This is an advanced course in auto practicing repair skills for employ- AUTB 032 collision estimating and is designed ment opportunities. Auto Body and Fender Repair to enhance computer collision 2 Units (Formerly AUTOB 032, 095) estimating skills. Students will gain 108 Lab hours Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate experience in the estimation pro- assessment cess through the use of estimating AUTB 093 This is an introductory course software and vehicle inspections. Paintless Dent Removal designed to survey the field of Auto Topics addressed will include vehicle (Formerly AUTOB 093) Body Repair stressing an overall damage list creation, the production Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate understanding of the techniques, of effective computerized estimates of assessment materials, and fundamentals cur- repairs, and differentiating between This course provides an overview rently used in this area. The course is included and not included opera- of paintless dent removal methods designed for students having no pre- tions. This course is suitable for those and the techniques used to identify vious experience who desire a broad students who work with and would damage and repair vehicles in the overview and basic understanding like to further their understanding of auto collision industry. Lecture, as a part of their general technical commonly used computerized colli- discussion, and examination of background or who may be inter- sion estimating systems. specific damage and tool usage will ested in further specific education 1 Unit be used to develop student under- in this field. Sheet metal repairing, 9 Lecture hours standing and skills for locating and refinishing, tension devices, special 18 Lab hours repairing minor damage without materials handling, and painting are 18 Other hours the need to repaint. Demonstrations emphasized. on body panels and vehicles will 3 Units AUTB 080 provide the student with an introduc- 36 Lecture hours Automotive Painting I tion to the kinds of damage that can 54 Lab hours (Formerly AUTOB 080, 140) be addressed using paintless dent Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate removal. This course is suitable for AUTB 075 assessment those interested in the field of auto Collision Estimating This is an introductory course in the collision and paintless dent removal. (Formerly AUTOB 075) fundamental aspects of automotive 4 Units Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate painting. The course is a study in the 36 Lecture hours assessment; AUTB 101 use of spray equipment and special 108 Lab hours This course provides a foundation in tools used in automotive painting. the basic principles and techniques of Related technical information is pre- AUTB 096 automotive collision estimating using sented concerning different types of Collision Repair Analysis the latest revisions of CCC’s Path- paint products and finishes, painting (Formerly AUTOB 096) ways Collision Estimating Software. safety, hazardous waste handling and Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate The course is designed to prepare stu- disposal, and state regulations and assessment; AUTB 101 dents to enter the field of auto colli- rules used in the automotive paint This course provides an overview of sion estimating with major emphasis industry. the investigative methods and tech- placed on diagnosis of damage, writ- 3 Units niques used to identify fraudulent ing a damage report, and computer 18 Lecture hours repairs in the auto collision industry. assisted estimates. 108 Lab hours Lecture, discussion, and examina- 3 Units tion of actual vehicles will be used 54 Lecture hours AUTB 085 to develop student understanding Automotive Painting II of and skill in detecting incompe- (Formerly AUTOB 085, 140) tent or fraudulent repairs. The class 2014-2015 Catalog Prerequisite: AUTB 080 Rio Hondo College / 185 consists of demonstrations on actual ment, sectioning, door and panel AUTO 0451 vehicles that will provide a sampling repair, and major collision repair. Honda/Acura Chassis Electrical Systems of incompetent or fraudulent repairs. 4 Units (Formerly AUTOT 045.1) This course is suitable for those 54 Lecture hours Corequisite: AUTO 150 and AUTO 160 interested in the field of auto collision 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or fraud investigation. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 Unit AUTB 125 appropriate assessment 9 Lecture hours Automotive Collision Repair and This course provides instruction 27 Lab hours Painting relating to specific electrical circuits pertaining to Honda/Acura vehicles. Prerequisite: AUTB 101 The course features topics relating AUTB 099 Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate to: interior electrical circuits, body Auto Collision Mechanical and assessment networking, occupant comfort ameni- Electronic Components Transfer to: CSU ties and navigation systems. Students (Formerly AUTOB 099, 032) This course is designed to further the will engage in activities using Honda Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate student’s knowledge of automotive Diagnostic System (HDS) functional assessment; AUTB 101 collision repair and painting. Major test modes, validate voltage values This course provides a foundation in emphasis is placed on, straightening from components and circuits, then the basic principles and techniques of minor and major collision damage, compare and contrast those values repair and replacement of mechanical replacement of parts, quarter panel with circuit diagrams from the and electronic components involved and door replacement and section- Honda Interactive Training Network in collision. The course is designed ing, plastic repair, spot painting and (HINT). Students will also participate for students with previous auto body overall painting. in instructor lead demonstrations and experience and those who desire a 4 Units interactive classroom assignments. broader overview and basic under- 36 Lecture hours Course completion shall include fin- standing of components related to 108 Lab hours ishing all required HINT course train- auto collision repair. ing modules and proof of module 4 Units posting on American Honda’s Dealer Personal Tracking System (DPTS). 54 Lecture hours The course is a requirement for the 54 Lab hours AUTOMOTIVE Honda/Acura Professional Career Training Program (PACT Program) AUTB 101 TECHNOLOGY Engine Repair and Chassis Electrical Introduction to Automotive Collision Systems Certificate of Achievement Repair and Painting Division of Career & and is in partial fulfillment of the (Formerly AUTOB 101, 004) Technical Education Honda PACT Program AS Degree. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 4 Units assessment AUTO 045 72 Lecture hours Transfer to: CSU Honda/Acura Express Service This is an introductory course in the (Formerly AUTOT 045) AUTO 046 fundamental aspects of automotive Corequisite: AUTO 140 and AUTO 201 Honda/Acura Automatic Transmission collision repair and is designed for Prerequisite: AUTO 102 and AUTO 103 Systems anyone with an interest in the subject Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly AUTOT 046) matter. Major emphasis is on unitized appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Corequisite: AUTO 125 construction, high strength steel, appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or metal straightening and finishing, This course introduces maintenance appropriate assessment; READ 023 or paint feathering and priming. Related light repair and service operations for appropriate assessment technical information is presented late model Honda/ Acura vehicles. This course provides instruction relat- concerning power and hand tools and Students will engage in MLRS ing to specific automatic transmission internal operation: drive, driven, and their use, automobile designs and interactive activities, lessons and holding components, along with fluid or special assignments via distant nomenclature. pressures and sensor voltages. Stu- 4 Units learning using Honda’s Interactive dents will engage in activities using 36 Lecture hours Training and Support Network. Upon special Honda diagnostic equipment 108 Lab hours completion of each MLRS training to research automatic transmission module students will be assessed topics from the Honda Interactive AUTB 110 on the subject matter. Successful Training Network (HINT). Students Auto Body and Frame Straightening completion of all MLRS modules will will also participate in instructor (Formerly AUTOB 110, 006) then be accompanied by an Express lead demonstrations and interac- Prerequisite: AUTB 101 Service performance evaluation. tive classroom assignments. Course Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate During Express Service students will completion shall include finishing all assessment have an opportunity to demonstrate required HINT course training mod- Transfer to: CSU their skills in MLRS areas in a mock ules and proof of module posting on This course is designed to provide dealership environment. Successful American Honda’s Dealer Personal the student with the theory and basic completion of all MLR modules and Tracking System (DPTS). The course skills required to repair frame and the Express Service evaluation will is a requirement for the Honda/ unibody damage. Practical problems count toward the students MRLS Acura Professional Career Training and new procedures are introduced certification/certificate. Program (PACT Program) Powertrain and Transmission Systems Certifi- in the process of correcting misalign- 4 Units 72 Lecture hours cate of Achievement and is in partial ment of frame and body structures, fulfillment of the Honda PACT AS caused by collision damage, includ- degree. ing frame straightening, body align- 4 Units 72 Lecture hours 186 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog AUTO 0461 AUTO 101 conditioning, engine performance, Honda/Acura Occupant Safety Systems Introduction to Automotive Service and and emission control systems of Formerly AUTOT 046.1) Repair: Underhood Service the modern automobile. Students Corequisite: AUTO 240 (Formerly AUTOT 101) will learn basic automotive tool and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or equipment use and how to safely appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or perform basic repair and mainte- appropriate assessment appropriate assessment nance operations. Students will have This course provides instruction relat- Transfers to: CSU the opportunity to perform minor ing to specific supplemental restraint This is an introductory course repair work on their own vehicles to systems: cable reel, Occupant Detec- designed to provide the student complete required tasks. This course tion Systems (ODS), electrical system with the fundamentals of the engine is designed to be a companion course voltage thresholds, impact sensor and its subsystems of the modern to AUTO 101 and AUTO 106, and is inputs, air bag deployment and automobile. Students will learn basic one of the three prerequisite courses Supplement Restraint Systems (SRS) automotive tool and equipment use for AUTO 107. Students are encour- safety. Students will engage in activi- and how to safely perform basic aged to complete all three courses in ties using special Honda diagnostic repair and maintenance operations. order to obtain a firm foundation in equipment to research SRS repair Students will have the opportunity to this subject, and it is required for the and safety precaution topics from the perform minor repair work on their General Service Technician Certificate Honda Interactive Training Network own vehicles to complete required Program. (HINT). Students will also participate tasks. This course is designed to be a 3 Units in instructor led demonstrations and companion course to AUTO 103 and 45 Lecture hours interactive classroom assignments. AUTO 106, and is one of the three 27 Lab hours Course completion shall include prerequisite courses for AUTO 107. finishing all of the HINT course train- Students are encouraged to complete AUTO 106 ing modules and proof of module all three courses in order to obtain a Automotive Electrical Tools and posting on American Honda’s Dealer firm foundation in this subject, and Diagnostic Procedures Personal Tracking System (DPTS). it is required for the General Service (Formerly AUTOT 106) The course is a requirement for the Technician Certificate Program. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Honda/Acura Professional Training 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Program (PACT Program) Air Condi- 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment tioning and Supplemental Restraint 27 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU Systems Certificate of Achievement This is an introductory course and is in partial fulfillment of the AUTO 102 designed to provide the student with Honda PACT Program AS degree. Introduction to Honda/Acura Service the fundamentals of the electrical 4 Units and Repair systems of the modern automobile. 72 Lecture hours (Formerly AUTOT 102) Emphasis will be placed on electri- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate cal fundamentals, symbols and AUTO 065 assessment circuit diagrams, batteries, start- Smog Technician Diagnostic and Repair Transfers to: CSU ing, charging, ignition, and lighting Procedures This is an introductory course systems. Students will learn the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or designed to provide the student with proper use of automotive electrical appropriate assessment; READ 023 or the fundamentals of operation of tools and equipment, and how to appropriate assessment the various systems of Honda and safely perform basic vehicle electrical This course is designed to provide the Acura vehicles. Students will learn repair and maintenance operations. student with the ability to satisfy the basic automotive tool and equip- Students will have the opportunity to Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) ment use and how to safely perform perform minor repair work on their Smog Check Technician training many basic repair and maintenance own vehicles to complete required requirement of successfully complet- operations. Students will learn using tasks. This course is designed to be a ing the Specified Diagnostic and Honda and Acura vehicles, and companion course to AUTO 101 and Repair Training Course when apply- school provided units and automo- AUTO 103, and is one of the three ing for the California Smog Check tive component parts. All completed prerequisite courses for AUTO 107. Technician licensing examination. work will be reported on American Students are encouraged to complete Course content includes diagnostic Honda’s Dealer Personal Tracking all three courses in order to obtain a and repair strategies in Electrical and System (DPTS). This course is part firm foundation in this subject, and Electronic Systems, Engine Perfor- of American Honda’s Professional it is required for the General Service mance, and Advanced Engine Perfor- Automotive Career Training (PACT) Technician Certificate Program. mance. This course is also intended program. 3 Units for the student as a test preparation 3 Units 45 Lecture hours course for the Automotive Service 45 Lecture hours 27 Lab hours Excellence (ASE) A6, A8, and L1 27 Lab hours certification exams. Upon successful AUTO 107 completion of this course, the student AUTO 103 Introduction to Automotive Light will receive a certificate of comple- Introduction to Automotive Service and Service tion from the Rio Hondo Automotive Repair: Undercar Service (Formerly AUTOT 107) Technology Department. Students, (Formerly AUTOT 103) Prerequisite: AUTO 101, AUTO 103, with permission from the Division, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and AUTO 106 may re-enroll only one time for certi- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or fication or licensure standards. appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment 45 Lecture hours This is an introductory course Transfers to: CSU 27 Lab hours designed to provide the student with This is an introductory course to the fundamentals of the transmission, provide students with working brakes, suspension, heating and air knowledge of light duty service. 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 187 Students will learn underhood and AUTO 115 AUTO 120 undercar systems service, battery Computerized Engine Controls and Engine Tune-Up/Performance and basic electrical service, pre- Diagnostics (Formerly AUTOT 120) delivery inspection procedures, and (Formerly AUTOT 115) Prerequisite: AUTO 101 preventative maintenance operations. Prerequisite: AUTO 106 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Emphasis will be placed on the safe Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or operation of light-duty service tools appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; AUTO 110; and equipment, and general repair appropriate assessment AUTO 115 procedures of wheels and tires, Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU suspension & steering components, This course is designed to provide the This course is designed to strengthen engine and transmission components, student with an introduction to the the student knowledge of modern engine & vehicle electrical compo- ASE L1 Advanced Engine Perfor- automotive fuel and ignition systems nents, and brake system components. mance “Composite Vehicle” by the and the functional knowledge of This course offers further practice use of simulator boards and comput- system components. The class is and more experience in the subjects er-based training methods. This is an structured to provide ‘hands-on’ taught in three other introduction introductory study of computerized diagnostic experience in system courses (AUTO 101, AUTO 103, & engine controls and diagnosis as it failure analysis, troubleshooting of AUTO 106). pertains to the function and control components utilizing modern service 3 Units of the engine, fuel, ignition, and emis- repair techniques. Emphasis is placed 45 Lecture hours sion control systems. Emphasis will on electronic diagnosis using Scan- 27 Lab hours be placed upon system components Tools, DVOM, Digital Volt Ohm and their operational characteristics. Meters, Lab Scopes, Exhaust Analyz- AUTO 108 Basic troubleshooting techniques of ers, information retrieval systems and Introduction to Automotive Diesel the engine, fuel, ignition, and emis- diagnostic flow charts. Service & Operation sion control systems will be demon- 4 Units Prerequisite: AUTO 101 strated. 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment AUTO 125 Transfers to: CSU AUTO 118 Power Train System Service and Trans- This beginning course introduces stu- Light Duty Vehicle Diesel Fuel Systems mission Diagnostics dents to the field of diesel powered & Emission Control Diagnostics (Formerly AUTOT 125) passenger cars theory of operation Prerequisite: AUTO 101 Prerequisite: AUTO 102 or AUTO 103 and general service procedures. This Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or course covers the principals of opera- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tion, fuel systems, electrical, exhaust appropriate assessment; AUTO 108 appropriate assessment systems, and controls. This course Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU is for the beginning student, general This course is designed to strengthen This course in power train service technicians and emission control existing student skills in the field of and light repair addresses topics in (smog) technicians interested in auto- diagnosing Light Duty Vehicle diesel Manual Transmissions, Automatic motive diesel technology. fuel systems and related driveability Transmissions/ Transaxles, Differ- 3 Units and emission control concerns. This entials, Clutches and Drive shafts. 54 Lecture hours course is also for emission control Emphasis will be placed on correct (smog) technicians desiring to take procedures for sustaining transmis- AUTO 110 and pass the ASE A9 Light Vehicle sion service life, identifying service Introduction to Engine Diagnosis and Diesel Engines certification exam intervals for prolonging component Tune-Up covering advanced auto/truck diesel life, procedures for proper transmis- (Formerly AUTOT 110) technology. Course content includes sion removal and reinstallation and Prerequisite: AUTO 101 an advanced study emphasizing inspection of components. Students Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the latest theories and principles will be informed to specific power appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and troubleshooting procedures train related faults, how problems are appropriate assessment; AUTO 106 of late-model vehicle diesel fuel diagnosed, and protocol for updat- Transfers to: CSU systems. Emphasis will be placed on ing transmission shift logic using An introductory study of automotive advanced diesel engine diagnosis updated computer software. Topics diagnosis and tune-up procedures and repair, and diesel engine air, fuel, will be facilitated through class room as they pertain to the function and and emission systems diagnosis and discussions, live demonstration as control of the engine, fuel, ignition, repair. The use of a variety of modern well as student laboratory exercises. starting, and charging systems. This diagnostic tools and equipment is Students will use scan tools, flushing course is first in a series of Engine included. Students, with permission equipment, computers and a variety Diagnosis and Tune-Up classes, from the Division, may re-enroll only of specialty tools to assist them and is designed for the student who one time for certification or licensure during their classroom and labora- wants to enter the field of Tune-Up, standards. tory experiences. Driveability, and Emissions. 3 Units 4 Units 3 Units 45 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours 45 Lecture hours 27 Lab hours 54 Lab hours 27 Lab hours 188 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog AUTO 128 AUTO 135 AUTO 140 Fuel Injection Systems I Level-II Smog Technician Training Body and Chassis Electrical Systems (Formerly AUTOT 128) Course: Smog Check Inspection (Formerly AUTOT 140, 038B) Prerequisite: AUTO 106 Procedures Prerequisite: AUTO 102 or AUTO 106 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly AUTOT 47.9) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or assessment; AUTO 157 appropriate assessment; AUTO 110 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment; AUTO 130 This course provides an overview of This course is designed to provide Transfers to: CSU the modern automobile’s electrical the student with the fundamentals This course is designed to provide the system as related to the body and of pre-OBD-II Engine Management student with the ability to satisfy the Systems related to fuel injected Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) chassis of the vehicle. The theory of vehicles. Students will learn how to Smog Check Technician training operation, operational characteristics use specific tools and equipment, and requirement of successfully complet- and methods of problem diagnostics how to safely perform basic repair ing the Level-II Smog Technician and repair for the following systems and maintenance operations. Empha- Training Course when applying for are included: lighting, instruments, sis will be placed upon the history the California Smog Check Techni- windshield wipers, power windows/ and evolution of fuel injection and cian licensing examination. Course seats/mirrors, audio systems, con- engine management systems used on content includes Customer Aware- vertible tops, safety restraints, (SRS) vehicles from the late 1960’s to 1995. ness, Program Administration, Supplemental Restraint Systems, Service Information Systems, Electri- Equipment Maintenance, Inspection and anti-theft systems. This course cal Circuits, Symbols & Circuit Dia- and Testing Procedures, and Pass/ prepares the student for the (ASE) grams, and other related topics will Fail Reports. Emphasis is placed on Automotive service Excellence A-6 be discussed. This course requires the the practical application of the loaded exam and is intended for Automotive student to have a solid background and non-loaded modes of emissions majors. Students with permission regarding the technical knowledge of testing. Lab activities focus on vehicle from the Division may re-enroll only basic Gasoline Engine Fuel and Igni- identification, visual and functional one time for certification or licensure tion Systems as a prerequisite, and is inspections, calibration of testing standards. required for the Automotive Electri- equipment, as well as performing 4 Units cal, Fuel & Safety Systems Certificate complete smog checks inspections of Program. vehicles. Upon successful completion 54 Lecture hours 3 Units of this course, the student will receive 54 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours a certificate of completion from the Rio Hondo Automotive Technology AUTO 141 AUTO 130 Department. Students with permis- Alternative Fuels I Level-I Smog Technician Training sion from the Division may re-enroll (Formerly AUTO 040, AUTOT 040) Course: Engine and Emission Control only one time for certification or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Fundamentals licensure standards. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly AUTOT 130, 024B) 3 Units appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 27 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment; AUTO 065 This is an introductory course on Transfers to: CSU AUTO 138 alternative fuels as they pertain to use This course is designed to provide the Fuel Injection Systems II in modern vehicles. Various alterna- student with the ability to satisfy the (Formerly AUTOT 138) tive fuels will be compared, such as Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) Prerequisite: AUTO 106 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Smog Check Technician training Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Hydro- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or requirement of successfully complet- gen, Bio-Fuel, LPG, etc. The theory appropriate assessment; AUTO 110 ing the Level-I Smog Technician of operation, system components, Training Course when applying for Transfers to: CSU and the safe handling of these fuels the California Smog Check Techni- This course is designed to provide cian licensing examination. Course the student with the fundamentals are included. Students will develop content includes Engine Theory, of post-OBD-II Engine Manage- skills in the area of vehicle prepara- Design and Operation, Ignition Sys- ment Systems related to fuel injected tion, system component identifica- tems, Fuel Systems, Engine Manage- vehicles. Students will learn how to tion, and repair procedures related to ment Systems, and Emission Control use specific tools and equipment, and vehicles using alternative fuels. This Systems. Emphasis is placed on how to safely perform basic repair course is designed for students and proper engine diagnostic procedures and maintenance operations. Empha- technicians working on stationary and On-Board Diagnostic Systems sis will be placed upon the history power engines, transportation and (OBD-I and OBD-II). Lab activities and evolution of fuel injection and clean fuels seeking to improve skills focus on the use of testing equipment, engine management systems used related to the maintenance and repair scan tools, digital scopes and meters, on vehicles from 1996 to the present. of gaseous fuels. This course provides as well as inspection and repair pro- Service Information Systems, Electri- students with ASE F1 or H1 test prep cedures of vehicles that fail the Smog cal Circuits, Symbols & Circuit Dia- information. Test. Upon successful completion of grams, and other related topics will 3 Units this course, the student will receive be discussed. This course requires the 45 Lecture hours student to have a solid background a certificate of completion from the 27 Lab hours Rio Hondo Automotive Technology regarding the technical knowledge of Department. Students with permis- basic Gasoline Engine Fuel and Igni- sion from the Division may re-enroll tion Systems as a prerequisite, and is only one time for certification or required for the Automotive Electri- licensure standards. cal, Fuel & Safety Systems Certificate 3 Units Program. 45 Lecture hours 3 Units 27 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 189 AUTO 142 of Automotive Safety, Comfort and cuits, Symbols & Circuit Diagrams, Alternative Fuels II Convenience Systems related to the and other Fuel & Ignition-related (Formerly AUTO 041, AUTOT 041) modern automobile. subjects. This course requires the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Students will learn how to use spe- student to have a solid background appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cific tools and equipment, and how to regarding the technical knowledge of appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or safely perform basic repair and main- basic Gasoline Engine Fuel and Igni- appropriate assessment; AUTO 141 tenance operations. Emphasis will be tion Systems. This course is designed Transfers to: CSU placed upon the SRS Airbag Restraint for all automotive majors with a back- This is the second course on alter- Systems, ABS and Traction Control ground in advanced emission repair. Systems, AC and Heating Systems, native fuel systems used to power 3 Units Lighting Systems, and Theft-deter- modern vehicles. Emphasis will be rent Systems. Service Information 45 Lecture hours placed on installation, diagnostic Systems, Electrical Circuits, Symbols 27 Lab hours procedures, laptop computers, and & Circuit Diagrams, and other related computer monitoring of Compressed topics will be discussed. This course AUTO 157 Natural gas (CNG), and Liquid requires the student to have a solid Automotive Specialized Electronics Natural Gas (LNG) systems. The background regarding the technical Training application of other alternative fuels knowledge of basic Automotive Elec- (Formerly AUTO 057, AUTOT 057) such as Hydrogen, LPG, Bio Fuels, trical and Electronic Systems as a sug- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or etc will also be covered. Students will gested prerequisite, and is required appropriate assessment; READ 023 or also develop skills that interface with for the Automotive Electrical, Fuel appropriate assessment; AUTO 106 modern technology computer based & Safety Systems Certificate Program. Transfers to: CSU automotive electronic and network 3 Units This course provides an overview of controls. SAE and CAN network 54 Lecture hours the principles of automotive electron- control systems will also be cov- ics. Topics covered include electri- ered. This course is designed for the AUTO 150 cal theory, fundamentals of circuit experienced technician working in Engine Electrical Systems construction, computers, semicon- the field of stationary power engines, (Formerly AUTOT 150, 038A) ductors, microprocessors, integrated Prerequisite: AUTO 102 or AUTO 106 transportation and clean energy fuels circuits (IC), types of output signals, Advisory: AUTO 115 seeking to improve skills related to Transfers to: CSU wire repair techniques, meter usage the installation and repair of gaseous This course discusses the modern and strategy based diagnostics. fuels. automobile’s electrical system as A demonstration General Motors 4 Units related to the engine and various circuit board will be used to illustrate 54 Lecture hours engine related systems. The theory of circuit board function. This course is 54 Lab hours operation, operational characteristics designed for entry level technicians and methods of problem diagnosis or students who need an under- AUTO 147 and repair for the following systems standing of the basics of automotive Introduction to Hybrid and Electric are included; electronic ignition sys- electronics. Vehicle Technology tems, electronic fuel injection, engine 4 Units (Formerly AUTO 0478, AUTOT 47.8) management, emission control, 72 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or charging, cooling and starting. This appropriate assessment; READ 023 or course prepares the student for the AUTO 160 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or (ASE) Automotive Service Excellence; Upper End Engine Rebuilding and appropriate assessment; AUTO 140 A-8 Engine Performance Exam and Machining Transfers to: CSU is intended for Automotive majors. (Formerly AUTOT 160, 020A) This course explores the use of Students with permission from the Prerequisite: AUTO 101 or AUTO 102 Hybrid and Electric power for vehicle Division may re-enroll only one Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or transportation. Topics will include time for certification and licensure safety when using high voltage, standards. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or maintenance, drivability, inverter 4 Units appropriate assessment power transfer, battery technologies, 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU hydrogen electric power, and fuel 54 Lab hours This course provides occupational cell technology. Physics of battery preparation in the skills required storage, Hybrid generation systems, AUTO 155 in the adjustment and repair of the Electric vehicle applications and Automotive On-Board Diagnostics modern automobile engine upper end their integrated systems from many Generations One and Two (OBD I and and valve train assembly. Emphasis is manufactures will be discussed. This OBD II) placed on problem diagnosis, repair course is suitable for student’s enter- (Formerly AUTOT 47.7) techniques, service procedures, and ing into alternative fuels or power Prerequisite: AUTO 101 machining operations. This course generation and energy technology Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or prepares the student for the (ASE) field. Automotive Service Excellence A-1 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; AUTO 106; exam and is intended for automotive 45 Lecture hours majors. Students with permission 27 Lab hours AUTO 120 Transfers to: CSU from the Division may re-enroll only AUTO 148 This course will provide students one time for certification or licensure Vehicle Safety, Comfort and Conve- with the fundamentals of Automo- standards. nience Systems tive On-Board Diagnostics, Gen- 4 Units (Formerly AUTOT 148) erations One and Two (OBD-I and 54 Lecture hours Prerequisite: AUTO 106 OBD-II). Students will discuss the 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or history, regulations, vocabulary, and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or diagnostic strategies of OBD-I and appropriate assessment OBD-II equipped vehicles. Topics Transfer to: CSU of discussion include Safety, Service This course is designed to provide Information Systems, Electrical Cir- the student with the fundamentals 190 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog AUTO 170 AUTO 200 based problem diagnosis. These pro- Lower End Engine Rebuilding and Suspension, Steering, and Alignment cedures for imported and domestic Machining Service automobiles and light trucks are (Formerly AUTOT 170) (Formerly AUTOT 200, 010A) developed through classroom discus- Prerequisite: AUTO 101 Prerequisite: AUTO 103 sions, demonstrations and laboratory Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or experiences. This course is designed appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or for students wanting to work in appropriate assessment; AUTO 160 appropriate assessment the automotive sector or automo- Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU tive technicians needing to improve This course provides occupational their skills and knowledge in Brake This course discusses the principles preparation in the skills required for service. Students with permission adjustment and repair of modern of suspension, steering and wheel from the Division may reenroll only automobile engine lower end assem- alignment for modern imported one time for certification or licensure bly. Emphasis is placed on problem and domestic automobiles and light standards. diagnosis, repair techniques, service trucks. Emphasis is placed on devel- 4 Units procedures, and machining opera- oping skills required in the diagnosis, 54 Lecture hours tions. This course prepares students and/or repair and adjustment to 54 Lab hours for the Automotive Service Excellence steering systems and wheel align- (ASE) A-1 exam and is intended for ment angles. Complete suspension AUTO 211 automotive majors. and steering system overhaul will be Antilock Brakes/Traction Control 4 Units covered in the laboratory. Computer- Systems 54 Lecture hours ized wheel alignment and computer- (Formerly AUTOT 211) 54 Lab hours ized wheel balancing equipment will Prerequisite: AUTO 103 be used / demonstrated. This course Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or AUTO 180 is designed for students wanting appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advanced Automotive Diagnosis to work in the automotive sector or appropriate assessment; AUTO 210 (Formerly AUTOT 180, 030) automotive technicians needing to Transfers to: CSU Prerequisite: AUTO 101 improve their skills and knowledge This course is designed for students Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or wanting to work in the automotive in suspension, steering and align- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or sector or automotive technicians appropriate assessment; AUTO 120 ment. Students with permission from needing to improve their skills and Transfers to: CSU the Division may reenroll only one knowledge in modern Anti-lock and/ This course is designed to strengthen time for certification or licensure or Traction Control systems. This existing student skills in the field of standards. course will provide instruction in automotive tune-up and driveability. 4 Units automotive anti-lock brake systems, Course content includes an advanced 54 Lecture hours traction control systems and vehicle study emphasizing the latest theories 54 Lab hours stabling assist (VSA), including diag- and principles of automotive diagno- nosis, operation and maintenance sis and troubleshooting procedures. AUTO 201 of ABS/ TCS/VSA. The course will Emphasis will be placed on advanced Automotive Brake and Suspension include the use of scanners, DVOM engine diagnosis and repair, air, fuel Service meters and lab-scopes in diagnosis and ignition system diagnosis and Prerequisite: AUTO 102 or AUTO 103 of various ABS/TCS/VSA systems; repair, and emission system diagno- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or both 2 wheel and 4 wheel systems sis and repair. The use of a variety of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or will be covered. modern diagnostic tools and equip- appropriate assessment 3 Units ment is included. Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours 3 Units This course discusses brakes and 45 Lecture hours suspension theory of operation, AUTO 220 27 Lab hours service and repair procedures, related Manual Drive Trains and Axles tool and equipment use and strategy (Formerly AUTOT 220, 012A) AUTO 190 based problem diagnosis. These pro- Prerequisite: AUTO 103 Engine Blueprinting & Machining cedures for imported and domestic Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly AUTOT 190, 032) automobiles and light trucks are appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: AUTO 160 or AUTO 170; developed through classroom discus- appropriate assessment; AUTO 125 READ 023 or appropriate assessment sions, demonstrations and laboratory Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU experiences. This course is designed This course discusses modern manual This is an advanced course for for students wanting to work in the transmissions, transaxles, drivelines, students interested in engine automotive sector or automotive differentials, and 4WD/AWD sys- blueprinting and engine machining technicians needing to improve their tems theory of operation, methods of practices. Topics include: cylinder skills and knowledge in brake and repair, service, equipment operation block machining and preparation, suspension service. and techniques of problem diagnosis. cylinder head machining and repair, 4 Units Procedures for import and domestic crankshaft materials and construc- 54 Lecture hours vehicles are developed through class- tion, connecting rod applications 54 Lab hours room discussion, demonstrations and and machining, piston design and laboratory experiences. This course applications as well as camshaft lobe AUTO 210 prepares the student for the (ASE) applications and profile analysis. Stu- Automotive Brake Systems Automotive Service Excellence A-3 dents must be proficient with basic (Formerly AUTOT 210, 010B) Exam and is intended for automotive precision instruments or have prior Prerequisite: AUTO 103 majors. Students with permission experience with engine machining Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or from the Division may re-enroll only or assembly practices. Emphasis will appropriate assessment; READ 023 or one time for certification or licensure be placed upon engine blueprinting appropriate assessment standards. methods machining operations and Transfers to: CSU 4 Units component applications. This course discusses modern disc 54 Lecture hours 3 Units and drum brake theory of operation, 54 Lab hours 45 Lecture hours service and repair procedures, related 27 Lab hours tool and equipment use and strategy 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 191 AUTO 230 tive computer systems, vehicle learning objectives. The student will Automatic Transmission/Transaxle communication network systems, as be working in a skilled or profes- (Formerly AUTOT 230) well as the latest Scantools available sional level assignment in their area Prerequisite: AUTO 103 to help aid in diagnostics of these of vocational interest and will meet Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or systems. Course content includes performance objectives related to appropriate assessment; READ 023 or advanced electrical and electronic instruction that are above and beyond appropriate assessment; AUTO 125 systems theory and diagnosis, OBD-I the conditions of regular employ- Transfers to: CSU and OBD-II engine and transmission ment. This course is intended for This course is designed to provide management systems diagnostics, students whose job is related to the instruction in Automatic Transmis- and basic vehicle network systems automotive/transportation field and sion/Transaxle systems. Included diagnostics. The majority of the have completed or enrolled in the will be the application of friction course content focuses on proper appropriate coursework. “Contact the materials, planetary gear compo- Scantool usage, including proper tool CWE office regarding re-enrollment nents, hydraulic components; both selection, updating software, iden- procedures”. hydraulically controlled and elec- tifying and using data streams, and Student Unpaid Internship: tronically controlled, fluid types and understanding the numerous serial 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; sealing materials. The student will data protocols, including CAN data 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours achieve skill in diagnosis, removal, communications. Student Paid Internship: disassembly, reassembly and rebuild- 3 Units 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; ing transmission units to manufac- 54 Lecture hours 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. turer’s specifications and learn part 1 to 4 Units nomenclature and function. AUTO 260 3 Lecture hours Students with permission from the Advanced Hybrid/Electric Vehicle 60 to 300 hours Division may reenroll only one Prerequisite: AUTO 147 time for certification and licensure Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or standards. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 4 Units appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or BIOLOGY 54 Lecture hours MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- 54 Lab hours ate assessment; AUTO 157 Division of Mathematics & Sciences Transfer to: CSU AUTO 240 This course continues the study of the BIOL 101 Heating and Air Conditioning use and service of Hybrid Electronic General Biology (Formerly AUTOT 240) generation and Plug-in Battery Elec- (Formerly BIOL 010A) Prerequisite: AUTO 102 or AUTO 103 tric power for vehicle transportation. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The course is not for beginner techni- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment, READ 023 or cians. Topics will include: OSHA/ appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or appropriate assessment NEC/NFPA safety when using high MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- Transfers to: CSU voltage, vehicle maintenance, driv- ate assessment This course is designed to provide ability conditions, inverter power Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU instruction on the operating prin- transfer, battery storage technolo- (*Students will receive credit from UC ciples of common automotive heating gies, regeneration of electrical power for only one of the following courses: and air conditioning systems. Topics from kinetic energy, Level I, Level BIOL 101 or BIOL 200) include new service equipment, II, Level II battery charging and fuel General Biology 101 is a general edu- contamination issues, servicing and cell technology. Dynamics of battery cation course, open to all students, diagnosing manual and automatic storage, Hybrid generation systems, and is designed to provide an intro- systems, and retrofitting R-12 systems Electric vehicle applications and their duction to concepts and principles of to R-134a, as well as the rules of integrated systems from many manu- modern biology. Topics covered will AQMD/EPA. Students will be given factures will be discussed. High- include cell structure and function, the opportunity to earn their certifica- Voltage battery management systems energy relationships, genetic control tion license (EPA Rule 1411). Students including active/passive design to mechanisms, concepts of evolution, with permission from the Division charging systems will be primary biological diversity, and ecosystem may enroll in this course only one focus of this course. This course is for function. The laboratory component time for certification or licensure student’s working in the Hybrid and of the course emphasizes the applica- standards. Electric vehicle, power engineering tion of the scientific method as a tool 4 Units and technology field. to understanding living systems. 54 Lecture hours 4 Units 4 Units 54 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours 54 Lab hours AUTO 256 Automotive Scantools and Vehicle AUTO 290 BIOL 105 Network Systems Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- Human Biology (Formerly AUTOT 256) ship for Automotive Technology Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: AUTO 106 Related Fields appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly AUTOT 105) appropriate assessment assessment; AUTO 150 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course will provide an intro- This course is designed to enhance appropriate assessment duction to the basic principles, the student’s electrical and electronic Transfers to: CSU structures, functions and biological diagnostic skills in both the auto- This course supports and reinforces processes of the human body. This motive powertrain management on-the-job training in business and lecture only course will emphasize a spectrum. This course emphasizes an industrial establishments under the scientific viewpoint of the workings in-depth study of various automo- supervision of a college instruc- of the human body and its interac- tor and is facilitated by the use of tions with the environment as well 192 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog as the necessary practices needed to BIOL 112 and their functions, natural selection, promote a healthy body. The course’s Outdoor Biology population interactions, environ- target audience are those students (Formerly BIOL 012) mental toxicology, radiation expo- pursuing a liberal arts education who Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or sure effects, soil and groundwater are interested in furthering their own appropriate assessment; READ 022 or systems, water pollution, alternative knowledge of human biology. appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or energy systems, and environmental 3 Units MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- resistance. 54 Lecture hours ate assessment 1 Unit Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lab hours BIOL 111 This course is intended for the Marine Biology student who has an interest in the BIOL 125 (Formerly BIOL 011) natural world and the ecological Human Anatomy Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or relationships of the organisms found (Formerly BIOL 025) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or within it. The course emphasizes the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or natural habitats of Southern Cali- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- fornia and the plants and animals appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or ate assessment associated with them. Also discussed MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- Transfers to: UC, CSU is the impact human beings have had ate assessment; BIOL 101 This course is designed to give the upon these natural habitats. Field Transfers to: UC, CSU student a better understanding of the work utilizes the Rio Hondo College This course is primarily a systems basic principles of Marine Biology Wildlife Sanctuary which allows stu- approach to the study of human and fulfills the general education dents to gather original data through body structure. The study of each lecture requirement for the life sci- firsthand observation and experience. body system includes structural ences. Emphasis is placed on how the Several additional more distant trips specializations and functions from scientific method is used to inves- requiring driving explore some of the the microscopic to the system level tigate the chemical, physical, and variety of natural habitats in South- emphasizing the interdependence of geological properties of the marine ern California. form and function. Additional topics environment. Students will learn 3 Units include methods of anatomical study, to distinguish among the diverse 36 Lecture hours human genetics, and embryonic organisms and habitats that comprise 54 Lab hours development. The laboratory exer- the ocean’s ecosystems. An introduc- cises will also include vertebrate dis- tion to the structure and function of BIOL 120 sections. This course is intended for marine ecosystems is provided and Environmental Biology students preparing to enter careers in the impact of human activity on those (Formerly BIOL 020) the health sciences. systems will be addressed. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 4 Units 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or 54 Lab hours MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- BIOL 111L ate assessment BIOL 200 Marine Biology Laboratory Transfers to: UC, CSU Principles of Biology 1 (Molecular and (Formerly BIOL 011L) Utilizing basic biological concepts, an Cellular Biology) Prerequisite/Corequisite: BIOL 111 interdisciplinary approach is used to (Formerly BIOL 001A) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or address environmental challenges. Prerequisite: CHEM 120 and MATH appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Topics addressed may include eco- 070 or MATH 070D or MATH 073 or appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or system characteristics and functions, appropriate assessment MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- population dynamics, energy and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ate assessment material resource use, pollution, and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: UC, CSU alternative energy sources. Students appropriate assessment This laboratory course complements in many disciplines will benefit from Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU the Marine Biology lecture course and this course as the social, political, and (*Students will receive credit from UC is designed for the student interested economic implications of environ- for only one of the following courses: in furthering their understanding mental decisions are addressed. This BIOL 101 or BIOL 200) of the marine environment and its course fulfills the general education This course is first in a sequence of organisms, with emphasis on marine requirement in life sciences. courses for undergraduate prepara- life of the local coasts. The scientific 3 Units tion for biology majors. Areas of method will be employed to inves- 54 Lecture hours focus include cellular and molecular tigate the chemical and physical biology, bioenergetics, genetics, properties of seawater, the role of BIOL 120L evolution and ecology. The labora- pigments in marine algae, the behav- Environmental Biology Laboratory tory portion of the course emphasizes ior of marine organisms, the basic (Formerly BIOL 020L) scientific methodologies focusing on classification and morphology of Prerequisite/Corequisite: BIOL 120 observations, experimentation, record marine producers, invertebrates and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or keeping, data collection and analysis, vertebrates, and adaptations of organ- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and presentation of outcomes. The isms to specific habitats. Students appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or course sequence also provides excel- will use basic laboratory equipment appropriate assessment lent preparation for those students and techniques in both classroom and Transfers to: UC, CSU intending to pursue post-graduate field-based investigations. Field trips This laboratory course compliments studies in the medical sciences. to coastal marine habitats and public the Environmental Biology lecture 5 Units aquaria are conducted. course and is designed for stu- 54 Lecture hours 1 Unit dents interested in furthering their 108 Lab hours 54 Lab hours understanding of the environmental sciences. The scientific method will be employed to investigate ecosystems 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 193 BIOL 201 general biology studies. This course BIOL 299 Principles of Biology 2 (Diversity and will cover a variety of topics relevant Directed Study: Biology Ecology) to the study of genetics, ranging Transfers to: UC, CSU (Formerly BIOL 001B) from classical to nontraditional Independent Study/Directed Study Prerequisite: BIOL 200 with a grade of Mendelian genetics, from bacterial is intended for students who have “C” or better and viral genetics to human genet- the ability to assume responsibil- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ics, and include studies on molecular ity for independent work and to appropriate assessment; READ 023 or techniques and their applications. prepare written or oral reports and/ appropriate assessment Other topics will include chromo- or appropriate projects. To enroll in Transfers to: UC, CSU some analysis, population genetics an independent study/directed study This course continues the sequence of and genomics. course, students must possess a 2.5 undergraduate preparation for biol- 3 Units overall grade point average, a 3.1 ogy majors. The course is a survey of 54 Lecture hours grade point average in the discipline the diversity of life on earth, focusing of study being requested, or receive on the relationships between struc- BIOL 222 an exception from the instructor. ture and function. Topics deal with Microbiology Independent Studies/Directed Stud- classification, development, evolu- (Formerly BIOL 022) ies may be developed from any topic tionary relationships and ecological Prerequisite: CHEM 110 arising from or related to a course of functions of living organisms. Labo- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or study that will result in developing ratories will emphasize life forms, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or depth and breadth in that subject experimentation and dissections. appropriate assessment; BIOL 101 area. Students will be expected to Field trips will be used to examine Transfers to: CSU meet ona regular basis with their fac- organisms in their natural settings. The course encompasses the biol- ulty sponsor and submit a final report 5 Units ogy of microorganisms with an or project, and student progress shall 54 Lecture hours emphasis on the role of bacteria and be evaluated at regular intervals. 108 Lab hours viruses on human health and disease. Academic standards for Independent Other topics include resistance and Studies/Directed Studies shall be the BIOL 205 immunity to disease, basic biological same as those for other courses. Units Molecular Biology and Biotechnology principles, microbial genetics and are awarded in accordance to Title Prerequisite: BIOL 200; CHEM 130 physiology, the harmful and useful V regulations with one unit of credit Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or aspects of microorganisms in nature, awarded for 54 hours of Directed appropriate assessment; READ 023 or medicine and industry. Laboratory Studies, six (6) hours of which must appropriate assessment exercises emphasize sterile culture be with an instructor. The instructor Transfers to: CSU techniques, the detection, isolation is responsible for monitoring student This course is designed for Life Sci- and identification of microorganisms. progress through the semester. ence majors and introduces them to This course is intended for students Students may take directed study the basic concepts of biochemistry, preparing to enter careers in the courses for a maximum of four (4) molecular biology and molecular health sciences. units within a discipline, and may genetics; including protein struc- 5 Units not accumulate more than a total of ture and function, DNA structure 54 Lecture hours twelve (12) units college wide. and replication, transcription, RNA 108 Lab hours 1 to 4 Units processing, translation, and recom- 54 to 216 Lab hours binant DNA technology. Students BIOL 226 will also be introduced to the science Human Physiology of biotechnology by providing both (Formerly BIOL 026) the theory and hands-on experience Prerequisite: BIOL 125 and CHEM 110 with laboratory protocols that include Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or BUSINESS LAW the isolation, purification, and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Division of Business cloning of a gene; including the use appropriate assessment; BIOL 101 of restriction enzymes, electropho- Transfers to: UC, CSU BUSL 110 resis, library construction, blotting Human Physiology provides a Legal Environment of Business and hybridization and sequencing. general introduction to the func- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) will tion and regulation of human body appropriate assessment; READ 023 or be explained in detail, particularly systems. Physiological integration of appropriate assessment how it has revolutionized research the systems to maintain homeostasis Transfers to: UC (*credit limit), CSU in molecular biology, medicine, and the significance of biochemistry (*Students will receive credit from UC forensics, systematics and evolution- is emphasized throughout the course. for only one of the following courses: ary biology. Course content will include neural BUSL 110 or BUSL 220) 4 Units and hormonal homeostatic control This course examines the legal regu- 54 Lecture hours mechanisms, and a study of the mus- latory, and international environment 54 Lab hours culoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory, of business. Included are the topics digestive, urinary, immune and endo- of alternative dispute resolution, BIOL 206 crine systems. Laboratory exercises the forms of business organization, Principles of Genetics will allow students to gather physio- regulations affecting employment, Prerequisite: BIOL 200 logical data and draw conclusions on and current environmental statutes. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or how physiological mechanisms are Case studies are used to discuss appropriate assessment; READ 023 or regulated. This course is intended for torts, crimes, contracts and sales, appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or students preparing to enter careers in warranty and product liability, labor appropriate assessment the health sciences. law, employment discrimination, and Transfers to: UC, CSU 4 Units environmental law. This course is designed for Life Sci- 54 Lecture hours 3 Units ence majors as a continuance of their 54 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours 194 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog BUSL 220 blueprint reading, use and applica- with the State of California who are Business Law tion of levels and transits, founda- interested in the carpentry industry. Prerequisite: BUSL 110 tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs Modules cover the following topics: Transfers to: UC (*credit limit), CSU and ramps, welding materials and history of the carpentry profession (*Students will receive credit from UC welding applications. along with state and federal labor for only one of the following courses: 1 Unit law, job layout, safe working condi- BUSL 110 or BUSL 220) 20 Lecture hours tions, health and safety certifications, A continuation of BUSL 110, this 20 Lab hours basic blueprint reading, advanced course includes a study of the fol- blueprint reading, use and applica- lowing areas: negotiable instruments, CARP 020C tion of levels and transits, founda- security devices, partnerships and Blueprint I tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs corporation, insurance, real property, Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with and ramps, welding materials and personal property, estates, bank- the State of California welding applications. ruptcy, and government and busi- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit ness. The student should consult the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 20 Lecture hours college to which he plans to transfer appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 20 Lab hours for the junior year before registering appropriate assessment for this course. This course is designed to meet the CARP 020F 3 Units needs of Indentured Apprentices Wall Forms 54 Lecture hours with the State of California who are Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with interested in the carpentry industry. the State of California Modules cover the following topics: Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or history of the carpentry profession appropriate assessment; READ 023 or CARPENTRY along with state and federal labor appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or law, job layout, safe working condi- appropriate assessment Division of Career & tions, health and safety certifications, This course is designed to meet the Technical Education basic blueprint reading, advanced needs of Indentured Apprentices blueprint reading, use and applica- with the State of California who are CARP 020A tion of levels and transits, founda- interested in the carpentry industry. Orientation/Safety I tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs Modules cover the following topics: Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with and ramps, welding materials and history of the carpentry profession the State of California welding applications. along with state and federal labor Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit law, job layout, safe working condi- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 20 Lecture hours tions, health and safety certifications, appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 20 Lab hours basic blueprint reading, advanced appropriate assessment blueprint reading, use and applica- This course is designed to meet the CARP 020D tion of levels and transits, founda- needs of Indentured Apprentices Builders Level and Transit tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs with the State of California who are Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with and ramps, welding materials and interested in the carpentry industry. the State of California welding applications. Modules cover the following topics: Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit history of the carpentry profession appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 20 Lecture hours along with state and federal labor appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 20 Lab hours law, job layout, safe working condi- appropriate assessment tions, health and safety certifications, This course is designed to meet the CARP 020G basic blueprint reading, advanced needs of Indentured Apprentices Stairs and Ramp Forming blueprint reading, use and applica- with the State of California who are Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with tion of levels and transits, founda- interested in the carpentry industry. the State of California tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs Modules cover the following topics: Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and ramps, welding materials and history of the carpentry profession appropriate assessment; READ 023 or welding applications. along with state and federal labor appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 1 Unit law, job layout, safe working condi- appropriate assessment 20 Lecture hours tions, health and safety certifications, This course is designed to meet the 20 Lab hours basic blueprint reading, advanced needs of Indentured Apprentices blueprint reading, use and applica- with the State of California who are CARP 020B tion of levels and transits, founda- interested in the carpentry industry. Health and Safety Certifications tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs Modules cover the following topics: Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with and ramps, welding materials and history of the carpentry profession the State of California welding applications. along with state and federal labor Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit law, job layout, safe working condi- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 20 Lecture hours tions, health and safety certifications, appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 20 Lab hours basic blueprint reading, advanced appropriate assessment blueprint reading, use and applica- This course is designed to meet the CARP 020E tion of levels and transits, founda- needs of Indentured Apprentices Foundations and Flatwork tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs with the State of California who are Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with and ramps, welding materials and interested in the carpentry industry. the State of California welding applications. Modules cover the following topics: Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit history of the carpentry profession appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 20 Lecture hours along with state and federal labor appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 20 Lab hours law, job layout, safe working condi- appropriate assessment tions, health and safety certifications, This course is designed to meet the basic blueprint reading, advanced needs of Indentured Apprentices 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 195 CARP 020H tion of levels and transits, founda- CHEM 110 Welding tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs Chemistry for Allied Health Majors Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with and ramps, welding materials and (Formerly CHEM 010) the State of California welding applications. Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit 050D or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 20 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 20 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; Concurrent This course is designed to meet the enrollment in MATH 070 or MATH needs of Indentured Apprentices 070D with the State of California who are Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU interested in the carpentry industry. CHEMISTRY (* The UC will grant credit for only one Modules cover the following topics: Division of Mathematics & Sciences of the following courses: CHEM 110, history of the carpentry profession CHEM 120) along with state and federal labor CHEM 101 This course provides an introduc- law, job layout, safe working condi- Chemistry and Our World tion to the fundamental concepts of tions, health and safety certifications, Prerequisite: READ 023 or appropriate general, organic, and biological chem- basic blueprint reading, advanced assessment istry, and is especially appropriate for blueprint reading, use and applica- Advisory: ENGL 101; MATH 030 or students intending to pursue a career tion of levels and transits, founda- appropriate assessment in nursing and other health-related tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU professions, including kinesiol- and ramps, welding materials and (*The UC will grant credit for only one ogy and psychology. Emphasis is welding applications. of the following courses: CHEM 101, placed on the relationship between 1 Unit CHEM 110) chemistry and the health/medical 20 Lecture hours This course explores the properties sciences. Weekly laboratory activities 20 Lab hours and reactions of matter, focusing require students to empirically verify on chemical applications of social concepts presented in lectures. No CARP 020I concern. Student will investigate previous background in chemistry Advanced Welding elementary principles of chemistry, is required or expected of students Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with including chemical and physical enrolling in this course. the State of California properties of the elements, the states 5 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of matter, nomenclature, basic atomic 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or theory, acids and bases, organic 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or chemistry, biochemistry, and nuclear 18 Other hours appropriate assessment chemistry. Supplementary topics will This course is designed to meet the be selected from topics of current CHEM 120 needs of Indentured Apprentices social interest, including air and Introduction to Chemistry with the State of California who are water pollution: chemical, nuclear (Formerly CHEM 090) interested in the carpentry industry. and alternative energy sources; chem- Prerequisite: MATH 070 or MATH Modules cover the following topics: ical and biological warfare; chemistry 070D with a grade of “C” or appropriate history of the carpentry profession and the law; and the pharmaceutical assessment along with state and federal labor industry and drug design. Emphasis Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or law, job layout, safe working condi- will be placed on the construction of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tions, health and safety certifications, effective and informed arguments, appropriate assessment basic blueprint reading, advanced both verbal and written. The content Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU blueprint reading, use and applica- of this course is oriented to the non- (* The UC will grant credit for only one tion of levels and transits, founda- science major, and mathematical of the following courses: CHEM 110, tions, flatwork, wall structures, stairs content will be presented at a basic CHEM 120) and ramps, welding materials and level. This one-semester course is designed welding applications. 3 Units for students intending to major in 1 Unit 54 Lecture hours science or engineering. The course 20 Lecture hours primarily prepares students for 20 Lab hours CHEM 101L Chemistry 130; additionally, it fulfills Chemistry and Our World Laboratory the general education requirement CARP 020J Prerequisite/Corequisite: CHEM 101 in the physical sciences. This course Advanced Blueprint Transfers to: UC, CSU introduces the fundamental prin- Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with This laboratory course complements ciples of general chemistry, with the State of California the corresponding lecture section, emphasis on chemical nomenclature Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or demonstrating important concepts and quantitative problems in chemis- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and theories through relevant experi- try. The lecture presents classical and appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or ments. Topics will include simple modern chemistry including atomic appropriate assessment chemical reactions, separations of theory, periodic properties, chemical This course is designed to meet the mixtures, and formation and analysis bonding, chemical reactions, stoichi- needs of Indentured Apprentices of everyday chemicals, among others. ometry, acids and bases, gas laws and with the State of California who are The scientific method will be pre- solutions. The laboratory introduces interested in the carpentry industry. sented as a tool to guide laboratory the techniques of experimental chem- Modules cover the following topics: investigations. Laboratory measure- istry with examples from all areas of history of the carpentry profession ment techniques will be emphasized chemistry. along with state and federal labor throughout the course. 5 Units law, job layout, safe working condi- 1 Unit 54 Lecture hours tions, health and safety certifications, 54 Lab hours 54 Lab hours basic blueprint reading, advanced 18 Other hours blueprint reading, use and applica- 196 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog CHEM 130 CHEM 230 the admissions requirements for General Chemistry Organic Chemistry I medical, dental, veterinary, and other (Formerly CHEM 001A) (Formerly CHEM 012A) health-related graduate programs. Prerequisite: CHEM 120 with a grade of Prerequisites: CHEM 131 and CHEM 5 Units “C” or better 131L with a grade of “C” or better 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 101; READ 023 or Transfers to: UC, CSU 108 Lab hours appropriate assessment; MATH 175 or This course, the first of a two-semes- appropriate assessment ter sequence, provides a rigorous CHEM 299 Transfers to: UC, CSU introduction to the practical and Directed Study: Chemistry Chemistry 130 is the first semester of theoretical aspects of organic chemis- Transfers to: UC, CSU a two semester sequence designed for try. Several topics will be explored in Independent Study/Directed Study students intending to major in science depth, including molecular structure is intended for students who have and engineering. The lecture course and hybridization, applications of the ability to assume responsibil- covers classical/modern chemistry, acid/base theory to organic com- ity for independent work and to with applications, in stoichiometry pounds, stereochemistry, alkanes, prepare written or oral reports and/ and classical atomic theory of chem- alkenes, alkynes, dienes, substitu- or appropriate projects. To enroll istry, periodic properties, gas laws, tion and elimination reactions, and in an independent study/directed modern quantum theory of atomic spectroscopic methods of analysis study course, students must possess and molecular structure and periodic (e.g. IR, UV/VIS, NMR). Particular a 2.5 overall grade point average, a properties, thermochemistry, liquids emphasis will be placed on ther- grade point average in the discipline and solids, solution chemistry. The modynamic and kinetic aspects of of study being requested, or receive laboratory introduces experimental reactions and detailed examination an exception from the instructor. chemistry with examples from all of reaction mechanisms. Laboratory Independent Studies/Directed Stud- areas of chemistry. exercises are designed to provide ies may be developed from any topic 5 Units students with a solid foundation in arising from or related to a course of 54 Lecture hours the essential techniques of organic study that will result in developing 72 Lab hours chemistry, including the determina- depth and breadth in that subject 36 Other hours tion of melting points, thin- layer and area. Students will be expected to column chromatography, extrac- meet on a regular basis with their fac- CHEM 140 tion, distillation, and spectroscopic ulty sponsor and submit a final report General Chemistry analysis of products. This course is or project, and student progress shall Prerequisite: CHEM 130 with a grade of appropriate for students majoring in be evaluated at regular intervals. “C” or better chemistry, biological sciences, and Academic standards for Independent Advisory: ENGL 101; READ 023 or chemical engineering, and satisfies Studies/Directed Studies shall be the appropriate assessment; MATH 180 or the admissions requirements for same as those for other courses. Units appropriate assessment medical, dental, veterinary, and other are awarded in accordance to Title Transfers to: CSU health-related graduate programs. V regulations with one unit of credit CHEM 140 is a continuation of 5 Units awarded for 54 hours of Directed CHEM 130. Theory and techniques 54 Lecture hours Studies, six (6) hours of which must of elementary physical chemistry are 108 Lab hours be with an instructor. The instructor stressed. Emphasis is placed on the is responsible for monitoring student dynamics of chemical change using CHEM 231 progress through the semester. thermodynamics and reaction kinet- Organic Chemistry II Students may take directed study ics as the major tools. A thorough (Formerly CHEM 012B) courses for a maximum of four (4) treatment of equilibrium is given, Prerequisite: CHEM 230 with a grade of units within a discipline, and may with many examples of acid/base, “C” or better not accumulate more than a total of buffer, solubility, and complex ions. Transfers to: UC, CSU twelve (12) units college wide. Entropy and free energy, electro- This course, the second of a two- 1 to 4 Units chemistry, coordination compounds semester sequence, provides a 54 to 216 Lab hours and a brief introduction to organic rigorous introduction to the practical chemistry are presented. Various and theoretical aspects of organic analytical techniques used in modern chemistry. The chemistry of aromatic chemistry are introduced. Descriptive and carbonyl-containing compounds chemistry of representative metallic will be emphasized through out the and nonmetallic elements is included. course of the semester. Bioorganic CHICANO STUDIES The Laboratory introduces experi- compounds will be introduced. Division of Behavioral mental chemistry with examples from Particular emphasis will be placed on & Social Sciences areas of kinetics, equilibrium, acid/ thermodynamic and kinetic aspects base and buffer preparation, dif- of reactions, the detailed examina- CHST 101 ferential titration, electrochemistry, tion of reaction mechanisms, and Introduction to Chicano Studies and qualitative analysis. Modern the design of multi-step syntheses. (Formerly CHST 149) instrumental methods are used in Laboratory exercises require students Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or some exercises. to use the techniques learned in the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 5 Units previous semester to carry out more appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours complex reactions and multi-step Transfers to: UC, CSU 108 Lab hours synthesis. Additionally, students will This is an introductory course that investigate the techniques of organic examines the cultural, economic, qualitative analysis. This course is educational and political issues as appropriate for students majoring in they impact the Chicana/o in the U.S. chemistry, biological sciences, and Topics include Chicana/o identity, chemical engineering, and satisfies ethnic/racial paradigms, gender, lan- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 197 guage, race, educational attainment, students interested in furthering their Introduction will also be provided immigration, labor, and poverty. understanding of the social con- regarding the laws, regulations, Students interested in this course may struction of the Mexican American standards, policies and procedures include individuals with familial or woman. and child development curriculum personal connections to the Chicano 3 Units related to child nutrition, health and (Mexican-American) community 54 Lecture hours safety. Topics will include preven- and/or those intending to work in tion and recognition of infectious environments with high concentra- CHST 150 disease, immunization, dental and tions of this population. Chicano Politics (Same as POLS 150) mental health, child nutrition, menu 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or planning, sanitary food handling, 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or prevention of injury, emergency appropriate assessment preparedness and evacuation, CHST 146 Transfers to: UC, CSU providing services for children with The Mexican American in the History This course examines U.S. history special needs and child abuse preven- of the U.S. and political issues relevant to the tion, identification and reporting Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Chicano/Latino community, provides responsibilities. The importance of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or an overview of Chicano/Latino program collaboration with families appropriate assessment demographics in the U.S. examines and health professionals will also Transfers to: UC, CSU Chicano/Latino political activism be addressed. This course meets the This course is a survey of the history and the rise of Chicano/Latino politi- Department of Social Services Classi- of the Mexican/Mexican-American cal leadership. This is an entry level fication Indicator DS7 and the State of people in the United States presented course serving as an elective for both California Department of Education in the context of U.S. history and the Political Science and Chicano Title V Child Development Permit. government. The course begins with Studies majors. 3 Units a discussion of the Mexican American 3 Units 54 Lecture hours War and the Treaty of Guadalupe 54 Lecture hours Hidalgo, and goes on to examine CD 103 the Mexican American struggle for Parenting full integration into U.S. society. Key Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or topics include repatriation, unionism, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Mexican American GIs on the Pacific CHILD appropriate assessment and European war front, postwar DEVELOPMENT Transfers to: CSU struggles for economic and social jus- This course is designed for stu- tice, radicalism, and concludes with Division of Behavioral dents who are interested in gaining an examination into the dramatic & Social Sciences information to understand and work growth of the Mexican/Mexican- effectively with parents and to under- American population in the U.S. CD 095 stand the parent child relationships in Students interested in this course may Current Issues in Child Development their own lives. The course provides include individuals with familial or Advisory: CD 106; CD 110 A working a framework for topics pertinent personal connections to the Chicano knowledge of current issues in the field to current parenting concepts. The (Mexican- American) community of Child Development, leadership and following topics will be explored and/or those intending to work in advocacy skills and professionalism will and examined: understanding the environments with high concentra- be the focus of this course. parenting process from infancy to tions of this population. The course is meant for students adulthood, parenting in diverse 3 Units who are interested in understand- culture, various life styles and family 54 Lecture hours ing the current issues and changes structures, alternatives to biological in the field of Child Development. parenting and understanding high CHST 148 This course meets State Of California risk families. La Chicana: The Contemporary Teacher Credentialing requirements 3 Units Mexican-American Female for the Child Development Permit 54 Lecture hours (Same as SOC 148) and Department of Social Services Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Classification Indicator DS3. CD 104 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 Unit Methods for Teaching Parent Education appropriate assessment 18 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This introductory course explores CD 102 appropriate assessment the racial/ethnic identity formation Nutrition, Health and Safety for Chil- Transfers to: CSU of Chicanas/Mexican origin women dren This course is designed for child in the United States. Course themes (Formerly ECE 102, ECE 033) development students interested in include an examination into the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or developing skills in working with genesis of the term “Chicana”, the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and educating parents. The course emergence of Chicana feminism, and appropriate assessment provides the framework for prepar- the intersection of race, gender, class, Transfers to: CSU ing students who are interested in and sexuality in relation to the forma- This course is designed for students specializing in parenting and/or tion and study of Chicana identities. interested in working in group care teaching parent education classes. This course is an interdisciplinary and educational programs that Students will participate in develop- one, drawing on methodologies enroll children from infancy to early ing lesson plans, class schedules, from racial/ethnic studies, women/ adolescence. The course focuses on and leading parent discussion gender studies, queer studies, history, preventive health and safety practices seminars. Topics covered include: literature, sociology, and popular in group care environments for both leadership techniques, structuring culture. This course is appropriate for children and adults and integra- parent education classes considering tion of these practices into everyday theoretical perspectives regarding program planning and development. the family, parent education topics, 198 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog and resources for parents. This course CD 111 for children. The course provides a meets the California Commission on Early Childhood Education Curriculum comprehensive study of creativity Teacher Credentialing requirements Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and its impact on child development. for the Child Development Permit. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or A developmental perspective will be 3 Units appropriate assessment utilized as students explore creative 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU art and its impact on the whole child, This introductory course presents the artistic development process, CD 106 current concepts in childhood cur- aesthetics, the elements of art, specific Child Growth and Development riculum development and imple- art program approaches, artistic (Formerly ECE 106) mentation. The student will design styles, facilitating and supporting cre- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or curriculum based on observation and ative art experiences for children, art appropriate assessment; READ 023 or assessment of young children to sup- assessment techniques and specific appropriate assessment port play and learning using devel- art experiences. The course meets Transfers to: UC (credit limit *), CSU opmental, inclusive and anti-bias State of California Commission on (*Students will receive credit from UC principles in collaboration with fami- Teacher Credentialing requirements for only one of the following coursers: CD lies to support all children; demon- for the Child Development Permit 106 or PSY 112) strate knowledge of the teachers’ role and Department of Social Service This course provides an overview in evaluating best practices and apply Classification Indicator DS3. of human growth from concep- understanding of children’s learn- 3 Units tion to adolescence. The theories of ing and development. This course 54 Lecture hours development relevant to life through is meant for students who plan to the teenage years are introduced create and implement children’s CD 118 and the social, emotional, cognitive educational programs. This course Development of Science and Math and physical aspects of these early is also designed to meet the State of Experiences stages of life are addressed. This California Title 22 Department of (Formerly ECE 118) course is appropriate for students Social Service Classification Indicator Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or preparing for a profession working DS3 and applies toward the State of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or with children and their families or California Title V requirements for appropriate assessment those interested in furthering their the Child Development Permit. Transfers to: CSU understanding of child and adoles- 3 Units This course provides a framework cent development. This course is also 54 Lecture hours from which to explore the theo- designed to meet the Department of ries, philosophies, principles, and Social Service Classification DS1 and CD 114 implementation of science and math applies toward the State of California Observation and Assessment experiences for children from birth Title V requirement for the Child Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or to early adolescence. Emphasis is Development Permit. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or placed upon theoretical and devel- 3 Units appropriate assessment opmental foundations with practical 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU application in the form of develop- This course is designed for students mentally appropriate activities for CD 110 working towards a Child Develop- use in the school and the child care Principles and Practices of Early ment permit. The course focuses on center. This course is targeted for Childhood Education appropriate use of assessment and students preparing for a career in (Formerly ECE 110) observation strategies to document teaching children. The course meets Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or development, growth, play and learn- the Department of Social Services appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ing in order to join with families and Classification Indicator DS3 and appropriate assessment professionals in promoting children’s applies towards the State of Califor- Transfers to: CSU success and maintaining quality pro- nia Department of Education Title V This course is designed for students grams. Recording strategies, rating Child Development Permit. desiring to work in educational pro- systems, portfolios, and multiple 3 Units grams for children from birth to age assessment methods are explored. 54 Lecture hours eight. The course is an examination of Advantages and disadvantages of the underlying theoretical principles observation techniques, observer CD 119 of developmentally appropriate prac- bias and cultural considerations are Music and Movement for Children tices applied to programs, environ- discussed. This course meets the (Formerly ECE 119) ments, emphasizing the key role of Department of Social Services Clas- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or relationship, constructive adult-child sification Indicator DS 3 and applies appropriate assessment; READ 023 or interaction and teaching strategies in toward the State of California Title V appropriate assessment supporting physical, social, creative requirement for the Child Develop- Transfers to: CSU and intellectual development for ment Permit. This course offers a framework for all children. This course includes 3 Units providing developmentally appropri- a review of the historical roots or 54 Lecture hours ate music and movement principles early childhood programs and the and experiences for children birth to evolution of the professional practices CD 115 early adolescence. The developmen- promoting advocacy, ethics and pro- Creative Art Experiences for Children tal characteristics of movement and fessional identity. This course meets (Formerly ECE 115) music abilities will be outlined along the Department of Social Services Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or with the basics of movement and Classification Indicator DS3 and the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or music education. Students will partic- State of California Department of appropriate assessment ipate in music and movement related Education Title V Child Development Transfers to: CSU activities. This course is designed for Permit. This course is appropriate for students interested in working with 3 Units students interested in facilitating children in group care and educa- 54 Lecture hours and supporting creativity in group tional programs. The course meets care and educational environments the Department of Social Services 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 199 Classification Indicator DS3 and of school- age care programs. Topics showing the importance of respectful, applies towards the State of Califor- covered include: characteristics reciprocal relationships that support nia Department of Education Title V of a quality program; staff roles; and empower families. This course Child Development Permit. school-age children’s develop- meets the Department of Social Ser- 3 Units ment; developmentally-appropriate vices Classification Indicator DS2 and 54 Lecture hours discipline and guidance, environ- the State of California Department of ment, and curriculum; policies and Education Title V Child Development CD 120 procedures for program operation; Permit. Experiences in Language Arts and laws and regulations. The unique 3 Units (Formerly ECE 120) features of a school-age care program 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or as opposed to a preschool child care appropriate assessment; READ 023 or program or the regular school day CD 210 appropriate assessment will be addressed. Students taking Adult Supervision Transfers to: CSU this course will be prepared for a (Formerly ECE 099) This course is designed for students position working as an administra- Prerequisite: CD 106, CD 110, CD 208 who are interested in promoting and tor or supervisor in a school-age care Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or facilitating the language development program. This course meets the State appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of children. The course is a study of appropriate assessment philosophies, principles and imple- of California Teacher Credentialing requirements for the Child Devel- Transfers to: CSU mentation of language arts experi- This course is designed for students opment Permit and Department of ences for children from birth to early who wish to develop the skills to adolescence. The theoretical basis of Social Service Classification Indicator effectively supervise staff working language development and systems DS 5. in children’s educational programs. of teaching literacy will be addressed. 3 Units The course is a study of the meth- Literature, dramatics, flannel board 54 Lecture hours ods and principles of supervising stories, puppetry, and storytelling are student teachers, assistant teachers, incorporated into the course as strate- CD 130 parents and volunteers in early gies for language acquisition as well School-Age Child Care and Curriculum childhood/child development as literacy activities. The course meets (Formerly ECE 130) classrooms. Emphasis is on the role of State of California Commission on Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the classroom teachers who function Teacher Credentialing requirements appropriate assessment; READ 023 or as mentors to new teachers while for the Child Development Permit appropriate assessment simultaneously addressing the needs and Department of Social Service Transfers to: CSU of children, parents and other staff. Classification Indicator DS3. This course is meant for students This course meets the requirements 3 Units interested in providing enrichment for a course in adult supervision for 54 Lecture hours curriculum for school-age children the Child Development Permit. enrolled in out of school child care 3 Units CD 128 54 Lecture hours Child Growth and Development programs. The course focuses on the development and implementation of During the School Years CD 211 (Formerly ECE 128) developmentally appropriate curricu- Infants and Toddlers Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or lum. Topics covered include devel- (Formerly ECE 211, ECE 011) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or opmental theories, issues related Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment to the growth and development of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU school-age children and teaching appropriate assessment This course focuses on the develop- methods and practices that utilize Transfers to: CSU mental needs of children from 5-14 that knowledge.The course meets This course is a study of factors that years and will include the physi- State of California Commission on affect the developmental progress of cal, cognitive, linguistic, social and Teacher Credentialing requirements children from birth through 2 years. emotional aspects of the school-age for the Child Development Permit Current developmental theories child. Emphasis will be placed on and Department of Social Service specific to this age and practical gaining an understanding of various Classification Indicator DS5. applications that nurture the cogni- strategies that address the needs of 3 Units tive, language, emotional, social, school-aged children. This course is 54 Lecture hours personality, and motor development directed towards students seeking are explored. Emphasis will be placed employment in educational programs on the role of the adult in designing, for school-age children. The course CD 208 Child, Family and Community assessing and implementing the edu- meets the Department of Social Ser- care (education and caring) of infants (Formerly ECE 208) vices Classification Indicator DS5 and and toddlers. Culturally sensitive applies towards the State of Califor- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or care, as well as early recognition and nia Department of Education Title V appropriate assessment; READ 023 or intervention for infants and toddlers Child Development Permit. appropriate assessment with special needs is discussed. This 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU course is recommended for students 54 Lecture hours This course is designed for students who are interested in working with desiring to work with children in a infants and toddlers in center-based CD 129 group setting, as well as for parents programs, family child care and School-Age Care Supervision and and others who wish to further their parental care. This course meets Administration understanding of how the socio-cul- The Department of Social Services (Formerly ECE 129) tural environment affects the devel- Classification Indicator DS4 and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or oping child. The course examines the applies towards the State of Califor- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or historical and contemporary inter- nia Department of Education Title V appropriate assessment relationship of family, school and Child Development Permits. Transfers to: CSU community on child development. 3 Units This course presents the principles The process of socialization and iden- 54 Lecture hours of administration and supervision tity formation will be highlighted, 200 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog CD 213 gram administration skills. Topics or educational environments to facili- Developing and Implementing Infant/ covered in CD 222 and CD 129 are tate the learning and development of Toddler Curriculum explored more in depth with a spe- children with special needs. Applies (Formerly ECE 213) cific focus on program funding, grant toward the State of California Teacher Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or writing and the national accredita- Credentialing requirements for the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tion process for children’s programs. Child Development Permit. appropriate assessment Other advanced topics will include 3 Units Transfers to: CSU interdisciplinary and interagency 54 Lecture hours This course will prepare students functions, dealing with boards and for a position working with infants evaluation of the program. The CD 228 and toddlers in a group setting. The course meets State of California Com- course presents the elements of a mission on Teacher Credentialing Early Childhood Education Practicum quality infant and toddler program. requirements for the Child Devel- (Formerly ECE 228, ECE 028A) Topics covered will include the theo- opment Permit and Department of Prerequisite: CD 106, CD 110, CD 111, ries of growth and development, laws Social Service Classification Indicator CD 114 and CD 208 and regulations governing group pro- DS6. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate grams, program quality standards, 3 Units assessment and the significance of the caregiver’s 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU relationship to the child. The course In this capstone course the student meets State of California Commission CD 224 will practice and demonstrate devel- on Teacher Credentialing require- Diversity Issues During Early opmentally appropriate early child- ments for the Child Development Childhood, School Age and hood program planning and teaching Permit and Department of Social Adolescence competencies under the supervision Service Classification Indicator DS4. (Formerly ECE 124, ECE 024) of Child Development faculty and 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or other qualified early education pro- 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or fessionals. Students will utilize practi- appropriate assessment cal classroom experiences to make CD 222 connections between theory and Administration of Educational Transfers to: CSU practice, develop professional behav- Programs for Young Children This course addresses the similarities, (Formerly ECE 222) variety and multiplicity found within iors, and build a comprehensive Prerequisite: CD 110 programs and educational settings understanding of children and fami- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or for Young Children, School Age lies. Child centered, play-oriented appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Children and Adolescents. Topics approaches to teaching, learning, and appropriate assessment covered include: family values, cul- assessment; and knowledge of cur- Transfers to: CSU ture, race, gender, social class, sexual riculum content areas will be empha- This course will illustrate the prin- preference, language and abilities. sized as student teachers design, ciples of organization and admin- Focus will also be placed on develop- implement and evaluate experiences istration of federal, state, private mental appropriateness in address- that promote positive development for-profit and private non- profit ing diversity, parental perspectives and learning for all young children. children’s programs. Presentation and the effects of diversity on the This course is designed for students of evaluative tools including ECERS domains of development. This course looking for a supervised field/labora- (Early Childhood Environments is designed for students wishing to tory experience in an early childhood Rating Scale), COR (Child Observa- work in children’s programs and setting. The course meets The Depart- tion Record), and California Desired educational settings. This course ment of Social Services Classification Results for operating programs for meets the Department of Social Indicator DS3 and applies towards children is included. Students will the State of California Department of also learn fundamental information Services Classification Indicator DS 3 Education Title V Child Development related to program operation in the and applies towards the State of Cali- areas of budget, state regulations, fornia Department of Education Title Permits. inclusion, cultural awareness and V Child Development Permits. 3 Units developmental appropriate practices. 3 Units 36 Lecture hours This class provides academic training 54 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours for students preparing to qualify as program administrators. The course CD 226 CD 229 meets State of California Teacher Cre- Introduction to Special Education Literacy Development for Children dentialing requirements for the Child (Formerly ECE 226, ECE 026) (Formerly ECE 229, ECE 028B) Development Permit and Department Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of Social Service Classification Indica- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tor DS6. appropriate assessment appropriate assessment 3 Units Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours This course introduces students to the This course is appropriate for field of special education. Instruction students interested in facilitating CD 223 will focus on understanding basic and supporting literacy develop- Advanced Administration of strategies for working with children, ment in children enrolled in group Educational Programs for Young care and educational environments. Children birth to early adolescence, that are Focus is on effective skills and (Formerly ECE 223) at-risk or have a diagnosed disability. Prerequisite: CD 129 or CD 222 Issues related to family dynamics and techniques utilized by teachers and Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or education resources and strategies caregivers to enhance the develop- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or will also be discussed. Public policy ment of Emergent Literacy skills appropriate assessment requires that children with special throughout childhood. Students will Transfers to: CSU needs are learning in environments develop knowledge of the sequence This course is intended for students with their same-age peers. This of Literacy and Language Develop- desiring to further enhance their pro- course will prepare students who ment, Developmentally Appropriate wish to work in children’s programs Practices in classroom environments 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 201 and a Balanced Literacy Approach. CD 232 courses for a maximum of four (4) Effective assessment, curriculum and Educating Children with Special Needs units within a discipline, and may techniques to promote skill develop- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or not accumulate more than a total of ment will also be introduced. The appropriate assessment; READ 023 or twelve (12) units college wide. course meets State of California Com- appropriate assessment 1 to 4 Units mission on Teacher Credentialing Transfers to: CSU 54 to 216 Lab hours requirements for the Child Devel- This course will prepare students and opment Permit and Department of parents to participate in the planning Social Service Classification Indicator and implementation of program- DS3. ming for children with special needs. CHINESE 3 Units The course focuses on supporting Division of Communications & 54 Lecture hours the educational process of children Languages with special needs within group CD 230 settings utilizing multidisciplinary CHIN 101 Family Child Care approaches that incorporate the Chinese I (Formerly ECE 230) family in the planning and imple- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or mentation of programming. Topics appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or will include assessment, diagnosis, appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate placement, individual- Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU ized program planning and educa- This course provides the student This course is designed for students tional approaches and adaptations. with an introduction to the Chinese who want to open and operate a Criteria outlined by laws regarding language and culture. The course family child care program. Emphasis Special Education and court rulings stresses oral and written proficiency will be placed on the management will be addressed along with the through fundamental use of Chi- nese pronunciation and the Pinyin and operation of a family child care issue of program accountability. The Spelling System. Students will also facility including how to create a course meets State of California Com- receive an introduction to Chinese budget, advertisement, recruitment mission on Teacher Credentialing characters. In addition to classroom of children, and conforming to State requirements for the Child Devel- discussion, students receive intensive of California Title 22 regulations. opment Permit and Department of individualized oral-aural practice in This course will also cover effective Social Service Classification Indicator the language laboratory via inter- parent communication, setting up DS3. active websites, audio CDs, video an appropriate environment and 3 Units programs, and CD ROMs. Various community resources. This course 54 Lecture hours facets of Chinese history, culture and meets the California Commission on civilization will also be analyzed Teacher Credentialing requirements CD 299 via cross-cultural comparisons. This for the Child Development Permit Directed Study: Child Development course is intended for those interested and the Department of Social Services (Formerly ECE 299, ECE 100) in learning to speak Chinese as well Classification Indicator DS3. Transfers to: UC, CSU as for those seeking a degree in the 3 Units Independent Study/Directed Study Chinese language. 54 Lecture hours is intended for students who have 4 Units the ability to assume responsibil- 72 Lecture hours CD 231 ity for independent work and to CHIN 102 Curriculum for Family Child Care prepare written or oral reports and/ Chinese II (Formerly ECE 231) or appropriate projects. To enroll in Prerequisite: Completion of CHIN 101 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or an independent study/directed study with a “C” or better, or completion of 2 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or course, students must possess a 2.5 years high school Chinese with a “C” or appropriate assessment overall grade point average, a 3.0 better Transfers to: CSU grade point average in the discipline Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate This course is designed for students of study being requested, or receive assessment who are preparing to work in a an exception from the instructor. Transfers to: UC, CSU family child care program or to oper- Independent Studies/Directed Stud- This course is a continuation of the ate their own program. This course ies may be developed from any topic essentials of the Chinese Language. provides an overview of the funda- arising from or related to a course of The course stresses oral and written mentals of planning and implement- study that will result in developing proficiency through fundamental use ing a curriculum for family child care. depth and breadth in that subject of Chinese pronunciation and the Emphasis is placed on understand- area. Students will be expected to Pinyin Spelling System. Students will ing the importance of a philosophy meet on a regular basis with their fac- continue to further their knowledge statement, goals and objectives for ulty sponsor and submit a final report of Chinese characters. In addition lesson plans, setting up the physical or project, and student progress shall to classroom discussion, students environment, the caregiver’s role, be evaluated at regular intervals. receive intensive individualized oral-aural practice in the language and the parent’s role. The unique Academic standards for Independent laboratory via interactive websites, challenges of organizing a home as a Studies/Directed Studies shall be the audio CDs, video programs, and CD learning environment, dealing with same as those for other courses. Units ROMs. Various facets of Chinese his- multi-age groups, and small groups are awarded in accordance to Title tory, culture and civilization will also will also be addressed. This course V regulations with one unit of credit be analyzed via cross-cultural com- meets the California Commission on awarded for 54 hours of Directed parisons. This course is intended for Teacher Credentialing requirements Studies, six (6) hours of which must those interested in learning to speak for the Child Development Permit be with an instructor. The instructor Chinese as well as for those seeking a and the Department of Social Services is responsible for monitoring student degree in the Chinese language. Classification Indicator DS3. progress through the semester. 4 Units 3 Units Students may take directed study 72 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours 202 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog This course presents advanced appli- CIV 290 cations that will cover the theory and Cooperative Work Experience/ practice of plane surveying, including Internship for Civil Related Fields CIVIL DESIGN principles of position, horizontal and (Formerly CIVIL 290, DRAF 290) Division of Career & vertical curves, construction stak- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Technical Education ing, alignments, field procedures, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or U.S. Public Land Survey System, appropriate assessment CIV 140 Boundary Surveying, use and care of Transfers to: CSU Civil Drafting Fundamentals surveying equipment. This course supports and reinforces on-the-job training in business and (Formerly CIVIL 140, DRAF 140) 4 Units industrial establishments under Advisory: ENGT 101 or two years of 54 Lecture hours supervision of a college instruc- high school drafting; ENGL 030 or 54 Lab hours tor and is facilitated by the use of ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; learning objectives. The student READ 023 or appropriate assessment. CIV 241 will be working in a skilled or Transfers to: CSU Civil Engineering Drafting and Design professional level assignment in This course is for all students (Formerly CIVIL 241, DRAF 241) their area of vocational interest interested in the career field of Civil Prerequisite: ENGT 200 and will meet performance objec- Design Drafting and Civil Engineer- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tives related to instruction that are ing. The course is a study of civil appropriate assessment; READ 023 or above and beyond the conditions of design drafting practices and the appropriate assessment regular employment. This course is preparation of drawings used in Transfers to: CSU intended for students whose job is in This course is for all students the civil engineering field. Students civil engineering design / drafting interested in the career field of Civil will use Computer Aided Draft- related fields and have completed or Design Drafting and Civil Engineer- enrolled in the appropriate course- ing (CADD) software to complete ing. Civil Drafting and Design is an projects relating to interpretation work. Instructor approval is needed intermediate level class in which to remain in the class. “Contact the of survey data, profiles and cross the practices and the preparation sections, land subdivision, site and CWE office regarding re-enrollment of drawings, pertaining to the civil procedures”. grading plans, underground utilities engineering field, will be expanded to Student Unpaid Internship: and structures, concrete and struc- include the development of maps and 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; tural detailing. drawings used for transportation, site 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours 3 Units development, grading and drainage Student Paid Internship: 36 Lecture hours and road alignment. The student 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; 72 Lab hours will use Computer Aided Draft- 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. ing (CADD) to complete the above 1 to 4 Units CIV 142 mentioned projects. Other topics to 3 Lecture hours Introduction to Surveying and GPS be covered will include specifications, 60 to 300 hours (Formerly CIVIL 142, DRAF 142) site details for utilities and under- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ground piping, structural plans and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or integration of Geographic Informa- tion Systems (GIS). appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or 3 Units COMPUTER appropriate assessment; CIT 102 36 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU 72 Lab hours INFORMATION This course is for all students interested in the career field of Civil CIV 245 TECHNOLOGY Design Drafting, Surveying/Map- Civil Engineering Design and Modeling Division of Business ping, and Civil Engineering. (Formerly CIVIL 245, DRAF 245) Introduction to Surveying and GPS Prerequisite: ENGT 170 CIT 042 will cover the principles and practices Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Computer Literacy of land surveying which will include assessment; ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: CIT 100A the measuring of distance, direction, appropriate assessment This basic computer literacy course elevation and position, topographic Transfers to: CSU is designed to provide the student mapping, and use and care of survey- This course is for all students inter- with skills necessary to understand ested in the career field of Civil Engi- ing equipment. The fundamentals of and communicate with comput- neering Design Drafting and Civil global positioning systems (GPS) and ers. It will include hardware and their applications in land surveying Engineering. Civil Design & Model- ing is an advanced level class which software basics, file management, will also be introduced. This course computer networks, and the Internet. will also be beneficial for those in the includes design analysis and the preparation of drawings used in the The course is taught on a lecture- construction industry who need to civil engineering field. The student lab basis: (3) hours in the classroom acquire property data. will use civil engineering software, and a minimum of (2) hours in the 4 Units such as In-Roads and Land Desk- laboratory each week. This course is 54 Lecture hours top to design, analyze and develop taught in a six-week module during 54 Lab hours projects relating to transportation, the regular semester. This course is site development, grading, drainage recommended for all community CIV 143 and road alignment and alternatives. college students in order to prepare Applications to Surveying and GPS Other topics to be covered are terrain them for their college-level courses Prerequisite: CIV 142 modeling, surface editing, alignment which may require the knowledge Advisory: MATH 050 or appropriate editing, plan, profile, cross-sections, of the microcomputer and its use for assessment earthwork computations and site completion of assignments. Transfers to: CSU planning design. 1 Unit This course is for all students with 3 Units 18 Lecture hours 36 Lecture hours a basic understanding of surveying 12 Lab hours who are interested in pursuing a 72 Lab hours career in the field of Land Surveying. 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 203 CIT 060 fundamental computer concepts and CIT 104 Windows Operating System training in spreadsheets and database Advanced Microsoft Word Advisory: CIT 100A microcomputer applications. Topics (Formerly IS 063) This course is a comprehensive include the importance of computers Prerequisite: CIT 103 course of the Microsoft Windows in business and society, the informa- Transfers to: CSU operating system and its graphical tion processing cycle, the Internet, This course presents the advanced user interface. The student will learn: communication and networks, the features of the latest version of Graphical User Interface/Mouse, latest hardware and software devel- Microsoft Word®. Specific topics My Computer, File Management opments, and planning a career as a include merging documents, macros with Explorer, WordPad, Paint, and computer professional or a computer and styles, specialized tables, pro- data sharing using the Clipboard. user. This is the basic computer tected forms and shared documents. The Find program, object linking course designed for Business majors. This course is intended for students and embedding, printers and fonts 3 Units desiring to complete the require- will also be included. Networking 54 Lecture hours ments for the Computer Information capabilities of Windows will be used Technology Microcomputer Special- and disk maintenance tasks will be CIT 102 ists Degree or professions wanting to performed. Introduction to Microsoft Office master Microsoft Word. 3 Units (Formerly CIT 072) 1.5 Units 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 18 Lecture hours 36 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 27 Lab hours appropriate assessment; CIT 100A CIT 100A Transfers to: CSU CIT 105 Keyboarding This course is intended as an intro- Microsoft PowerPoint (Formerly CIT 020) duction for students wanting to learn Advisory: CIT 101 Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate the latest version of the integrated Transfers to: CSU assessment program suite of Microsoft Office This course provides the student Transfers to: CSU Professional. The student will be pro- with an overview of the presentation The course is designed to enable the vided with the basics of each of the software Microsoft® PowerPoint®. student to master the alphanumeric programs in the suite - Word, Excel, Specific topics include planning and creating a presentation, applying and keyboard on a microcomputer by Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook as modifying text and graphics objects, touch and to gain a thorough knowl- well as their Internet integration. In using design templates, working with edge of current keyboarding tech- addition, an introduction to funda- graphics and sound from other file niques. This course is recommended mental computer concepts will be formats and the World Wide Web, for all students to provide them with presented including hardware and preparing charts, and presenting the skills necessary to use touch software basics, file management, slide shows. This course is intended keyboarding to prepare reports and computer networks and communica- for students desiring to complete the general course assignments. tions. requirements for the Computer Infor- 1 Unit 3 Units mation Technology Microcomputer 9 Lecture hours 45 Lecture hours Specialists Degree or professionals 27 Lab hours 27 Lab hours wanting instruction in Microsoft® PowerPoint® leading to Microsoft® CIT 100B CIT 103 Office Specialist Certification. Keyboarding Speed and Accuracy Microsoft® Word® 1.5 Units (Formerly CIT 021) (Formerly IS 062) 27 Lecture hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 18 Lab hours assessment; CIT 100A assessment; CIT 101 Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU CIT 107 This course is designed to improve This is a thorough introduction to Microsoft® Excel® students’ speed and accuracy on a the word processing application (Formerly CIT 082) computer keyboard by analyzing Microsoft® Word®. This course will Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate their keyboarding techniques and provide instruction in the use of the assessment; CIT 101 prescribing specific drills to increase latest version of word processing Transfers to: CSU their timed writing rate. It is taught software for business applications. This is a comprehensive spreadsheet as a lab or on-line. This course is Students will learn the basic edit- application course which will provide recommended for all students who ing and formatting functions of the instruction in the use of the latest ver- have learned the location of the keys program. Document maintenance, sion of spreadsheet software for busi- on the keyboard and who now want formatting enhancements, and the ness applications. Students will learn to improve their speed and accuracy creation and formatting of tables will to create and format a workbook, in preparation of reports and general also be presented. Additional topics work with formulas and functions, course assignments. include macros and styles, specialized create charts, tables and PivotTables. 1 Unit tables, protected forms and shared Students will also learn advanced 18 Lecture hours documents. This course is intended functions, and develop Excel applica- for students desiring to complete the tions. This course is intended for CIT 101 requirements for the Computer Infor- students desiring to complete the Introduction to Computer Information mation Technology Microcomputer requirements for the Computer Infor- Technology Specialists Degree or professions mation Technology Microcomputer (Formerly IS 101) wanting to master Microsoft Word. Specialists Degree or professionals Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units wanting comprehensive knowledge appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 36 Lecture hours of Microsoft® Excel® appropriate assessment; CIT 100A 54 Lab hours 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU 36 Lecture hours This is an introductory computer 54 Lab hours course, which offers students both 204 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog CIT 108 custom forms design for data entry, logical expressions, procedures, deci- Advanced Microsoft Excel custom report writing, and sharing sions, repetition, arrays, processing (Formerly CIT 083) and integrating data with Web pages. sequential files, processing random Prerequisite: CIT 107 This course is intended for students access files, graphical display, con- Advisory: CIT 115 desiring to complete the requirements trols and objects. Transfers to: CSU for the Computer Information Tech- 4 Units This is an advanced microcomputer nology Computer Systems Degree 72 Lecture hours spreadsheet applications course, or professionals wanting to learn the which will provide instruction in the programming features of Microsoft CIT 116 use of the latest version of spread- Access for managing databases. Advanced Visual Basic Programming sheet software. Students will learn to 1.5 Units (Formerly IS 116) integrate Excel with other Windows 27 Lecture hours Prerequisite: CIT 115 programs and the World Wide Web, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate create Excel tables, PivotTables and CIT 111 assessment PivotCharts, build Excel applica- Introduction to Programming Transfers to: UC, CSU tions using macros and buttons, and (Formerly CIT 097) This course is intended for students enhance workbooks with Visual Advisory: MATH 050 or appropriate desiring to complete the require- Basic. This course is intended for assessment ments for the Computer Information students desiring to complete the Transfers to: CSU Technology Degree or professionals requirements for the Computer This course is designed to develop who want to continue develop- Information Technology Computer the problem-solving abilities of the ing their programming skills using Systems Degree, or professionals student who intends to continue in an object- oriented programming wanting to learn the advanced func- the computer field. Various tech- language. This course will review the tions and programming features of niques used will include hierarchy fundamentals of software develop- Microsoft® Excel®. diagrams, data flow diagrams, flow- ment and cover advanced program- 1.5 Units charting, data diagrams, and pseudo ming skills using the Visual Basic 18 Lecture hours code. This course will also include language. Advanced topics include: 27 Lab hours information on Microsoft Visual user interface concepts, database Studio.NET’s integrated development management, custom controls, and CIT 109 environment (IDE). Window common controls, multiple Microsoft® Access® 3 Units document applications, class, ActiveX (Formerly CIT 080) 54 Lecture hours and distributing programs. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 4 Units assessment; CIT 101 CIT 112 72 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU Survey of Object-Oriented This is a thorough microcomputer Programming CIT 125 database applications course, which Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or C++ Programming - Introduction will provide instruction in the use appropriate assessment; READ 022 or (Formerly IS 125) of the latest version of database appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate software for business applications. appropriate assessment; CIT 097 assessment; CIT 111 Students will learn to create and Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU modify tables, build table relation- This class covers the basic syntax This course is intended for students ships, add and edit records, create for three object- oriented program- desiring to complete the require- forms for data entry, produce simple ming languages: C++, Visual Basic ments for the Computer Information queries and reports, advanced query and Java. Using the Microsoft Studio Technology Degree or professionals functions, custom forms design for environment, this class includes the who want to continue developing data entry, custom report writing, and following topics: introduction to com- their programming skills using Visual sharing and integrating data with puters, logic, input/output, looping C++ programming language. This Web pages. This course is intended and structures. course will cover the fundamentals for students desiring to complete 3 Units of software development using the the requirements for the Computer 54 Lecture hours most popular language: C++. The Information Technology Degree or topics covered include: designing, professionals wanting a thorough CIT 115 writing the source code, compiling, introduction to Microsoft® Access®. Introduction to Visual Basic linking, executing, debugging, data 3 Units Programming types, arithmetic/logical expressions, 36 Lecture hours (Formerly IS 115) pointers, looping, branching, classes, 54 Lab hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate objects and static and dynamic assessment; CIT 111 memory allocation. CIT 110 Transfers to: UC, CSU 4 Units Advanced Microsoft Access This course is intended for students 72 Lecture hours (Formerly CIT 081) desiring to complete the require- Prerequisite: CIT 109 ments for the Computer Information CIT 126 Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Technology Degree or professionals C++ Programming - Advanced assessment wanting an introduction to Visual (Formerly IS 126) Transfers to: CSU Basic Programming. This course will Prerequisite: CIT 125 This is an advanced microcomputer cover the fundamentals of software Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate database applications course, which development using the most popular assessment will provide instruction in the use of language – Visual Basic. Course Transfers to: UC, CSU the latest version of database soft- topics include: designing programs, This course is intended for students ware with emphasis on the software writing the source code, compiling, desiring to complete the requirements as a programming tool. Students linking, executing and debugging for the Computer Information Tech- will learn advanced query functions, programs, data types, arithmetic/ nology Degree or professionals who 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 205 want to continue developing their Applications Infrastructure certifica- components and controls, database programming skills using an object- tion exam. Students will learn deploy interfaces using ADO (ActiveX Data oriented programming language. servers, configure remote desktop Objects) and SQL (Structure Query This course will review the funda- services, configure web services Language), and graphics program- mentals of software development infrastructure, and configure network ming. and cover the advanced program- application services. 4 Units ming skills using the C++ language. 3 Units 72 Lecture hours Advanced topics include: classes and 36 Lecture hours data abstraction, operator overload- 54 Lab hours CIT 152 ing, inheritance, virtual function Introduction to Web Page Design for and polymorphism, stream I/O and CIT 135 Business Exception Handling. Introduction to Java Programming Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 4 Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 72 Lecture hours assessment; CIT 111 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Transfers to: UC, CSU MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- CIT 130 This course is intended for students ate assessment; CIT 101 Windows Configuration desiring to complete the require- Transfers to: CSU This course provides students with an Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ments for the Computer Information understanding of the fundamentals appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Technology Degree or professionals of HTML (Hypertext Markup Lan- appropriate assessment wanting an introduction to Java Pro- guage) programming to design Web Transfers to: CSU gramming. This course will cover the pages. Students will create custom This course is designed for students fundamentals of software develop- Web pages for personal Internet and preparing to take the Windows client ment using the most popular Open business Intranet environments. operating system certification exam. Source language – Java. Course topics Students will also learn to use cascad- Students will learn to install, upgrade include: program design, algorithms, ing style sheets (CSS) and scripting and migrate from previous to the writing and testing source code, languages. current Windows client operating arithmetic/logic expressions, control 3 Units system and deploy Windows using structures, objects and basic Java 54 Lecture hours system images and configure virtual structures. hard disks. Students will also learn 4 Units CIT 155 to configure hardware & applica- 72 Lecture hours Introduction to E-Commerce tions, network connectivity, access Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or to resources, mobile computing, CIT 136 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or backup and recovery, and monitor- Advanced Java Programming appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or ing and maintaining systems that run Prerequisite: CIT 135 MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- ate assessment; CIT 101 Windows. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Transfers to: CSU 3 Units assessment This course offers a hands- on prob- 36 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU lem-solving approach for learning 54 Lab hours This course is intended for students the basic to more advanced features desiring to complete the requirements of doing business on the Internet. CIT 131 for the Computer Information Tech- You will learn to use E-commerce Windows Server Active Directory nology Degree or professionals who effectively, such as: gather corporate Prerequisite: CIT 130 want to continue developing their information, make a purchase online, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or programming skills using Java. This develop an effective company Web appropriate assessment; READ 023 or course covers the basics of the soft- site, or find global trading partners. appropriate assessment ware development and the advanced You will learn how and why elec- Transfers to: CSU programming skills using the Java tronic commerce is an important part This course is designed for students language. Topics include Java data of our economy and our society. preparing to take the Windows syntax, data structure, applets, graph- 3 Units Server Active Directory, Configuring ics, animation, inheritance, abstract 54 Lecture hours certification exam. Students will learn windows toolkit, exception handling, to configure Domain Name System, file input and output, and multi- CIT 160 Active Directory infrastructure, threading. Introduction to Operating Systems Advisory: CIT 060 Active Directory Roles & Services, 4 Units Transfers to: CSU creating and maintaining Active 72 Lecture hours This course provides an overview of Directory objects, maintaining the the operating systems that are cur- Active Directory environment, and CIT 145 rently used to create an e-business configure Active Directory Certificate Introduction to C# Programming infrastructure. Operating systems Services. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate discussed include Windows, Unix, 3 Units assessment; CIT 111 Linux, Novell and Mac and their 36 Lecture hours Transfer to: UC, CSU use in the industry. An in-depth 54 Lab hours This course is intended for students study of Windows 2000 Server is or professionals desiring to enhance also presented. Topics discussed are CIT 133 their programming skills using the how to setup, install, and administer Windows Server Applications Microsoft.NET framework. This Windows 2000 Servers. This course Infrastructure course will review the fundamen- is designed for students interested in Prerequisite: CIT 130 tals of software development, and learning operating systems and the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or cover software development skills use of operating systems in running appropriate assessment; READ 023 or using the C#.NET program. Topics corporate information systems. appropriate assessment include Windows-based applications, 3 Units Transfers to: CSU Web Services with XML (eXtensible 36 Lecture hours This course is designed for students Markup Language) data exchange, 54 Lab hours preparing to take the Windows Server 206 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog CIT 161 in computer technology, network- security systems. The course is the Intermediate Web Page Design ing and security. The student will first in a two-course series provid- Advisory: CIT 152 also learn communication skills and ing an in-depth study of network Transfers to: CSU professionalism now required of all security. The student will gain an This course provides a hands-on entry-level IT professionals. This understanding of the key issues asso- in-depth study of web scripting course is intended for IT students ciated with protecting an organiza- languages for students interested in wishing to prepare for the CompTIA tion’s network including identifying web page development. The funda- A+ Essentials and CompTIA A+ specific types of threats, protecting mentals of programming logic will Practical Application examinations, the network against those threats, be reviewed and scripting languages the two exams required to achieve and recovering from the occurrence such as VBScript and JavaScript CompTIA A+ certified status. of a threat. Specific topics covered will be introduced. The use of these 4 Units include network access authentica- programs and how they are used to 54 Lecture hours tion, attacks on the network, e-mail manipulate and enhance static web 54 Lab hours protection, and Web security. pages will be addressed. 3 Units 4 Units CIT 187 45 Lecture hours 72 Lecture hours Customer Service for Help Desk 27 Lab hours Professionals CIT 162 Prerequisite: CIT 101 CIT 194 Advanced Web Page Development Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Network Security II Advisory: CIT 110 assessment Prerequisite: CIT 192 Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate This course provides the students This course will provide students assessment; CIT 190 with the “soft” skills required to with a project-based approach to Transfers to: CSU deliver high quality customer sup- developing and implementing inter- port at the help desk. In addition to This course is intended for IT stu- active database-driven Web pages. information obtained during lecture, dents and professionals who want to The course offers an overview of the students will have the opportunity to develop a foundation in information tools used to connect databases to use a hands-on approach to learning security systems. The course is the Web-based applications. Students the skills of active listening, effective second in a two-course series provid- will learn to develop interactive Web communication, problem solving, ing an in-depth study of network sites using tools such as Active Server handling difficult customer situa- security. The student will gain an Pages (ASP.Net). Students entering tions, stress management, and team understanding of the key issues asso- the course should possess knowledge building. This course is intended for ciated with protecting an organiza- of relational databases, such as Micro- IT students who want to improve tion’s network including identifying soft Access, and HTML. This course their customer service skills or specific types of threats, protecting is intended for students who wish to qualify for entry level positions in PC the network against those threats, create Web applications integrated maintenance. and recovering from the occurrence with databases. 3 Units of a threat. Specific topics covered 3 Units 54 Lecture hours include network access authentica- 54 Lecture hours tion, attacks on the network, e-mail CIT 190 protection, and Web security. Introduction to Information Security CIT 163 3 Units Prerequisite: CIT 101 Internet Server Management Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 45 Lecture hours Advisory: CIT 101; CIT 152; CIT 160 assessment 27 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU This course provides a lab-based This course provides an introduc- CIT 200 approach to setting and adminis- tion to the various technical and Systems Analysis and Design tering Web, FTP, DNS, and email administrative aspects of informa- Prerequisite: CIT 101 servers. Popular servers are discussed tion security. The student will gain Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or including Web servers, FTP servers, an understanding of the key issues appropriate assessment; READ 023 or DNS servers, and email servers. Stu- associated with protecting informa- appropriate assessment dents learn how to install, configure, tion assets, determining the levels of Transfers to: CSU maintain and secure IIS, MS DNS, protection and response to security This course provides an overview and SendMail. Web page setup and incidents, and designing a consis- of the processes, tools, and tech- maintenance is also emphasized. This tent, reasonable information security niques used to analyze and design course is intended for students inter- system, with appropriate intrusion computer-based information systems. ested in designing and administering detection and reporting features. This Students will gain an understand- an intranet or Internet system for an course is intended for IT students and ing of the systems development life ISP or a business. professionals who want to develop cycle, strategic planning, feasibility a foundation in information security 3 Units studies, fact-finding techniques, data systems. 36 Lecture hours 3 Units flow diagrams, structure English, 54 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours object-oriented analysis and design, automated system design tools, CIT 180 CIT 192 entity-relationship diagrams, system PC Maintenance-A+ Certification Network Security I testing, documentation, training and Prerequisite: CIT 101 Prerequisite: CIT 101 maintenance activities. Students will Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate apply the course concepts through assessment assessment; CIT 190 case studies. This course is suitable Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU for students seeking a career in com- This course will prepare students This course is intended for IT stu- puter information technology. with the necessary competencies of dents and professionals who want to 3 Units an entry-level IT professional with develop a foundation in information 54 Lecture hours hands-on experience and theory 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 207 CIT 210 Area Network (WAN) design with environment under the supervision Telecommunications in Information detailed coverage on WAN Tech- of a college instructor and is facili- Systems nologies, PPP, ISDN, Frame Relay, tated by the use of learning objec- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate network management, preparation tives. The student will be working assessment; CIT 101 for the Net+ Certification exam and in a professional environment and Transfers to: CSU a review for the CCNA Certification will meet performance objectives This is a course designed to familiar- Exam. Completion of the threaded related to instruction that are above ize the student with the terminology case study will reinforce the student’s and beyond the conditions of regular and capabilities of data commu- ability to design, install, and maintain employment. nications systems. Mastery of this school-sized internetworks. This is Student Paid Internship: material will enable participation in the fourth course in a four-course 1 unit/75 hours; decisions regarding alternative con- sequence that qualifies the student to 2 units/150 hours; figurations of data communications take the CISCO CCNA certification 3 units/225 hours components. This course specifically test. 1 to 3 Units covers that part of telecommunica- 3 Units 3 Lecture hours tions that relates to computer sys- 54 Lecture hours tems, or the electronic transmission of computer data. Students will be CIT 290 expected to complete case assign- Cooperative Work Experience/ ments outside of class. Internship for Computer Technology CORRECTIONS 3 Units Related Fields Division of Public Safety 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or CORR 101 CIT 211 appropriate assessment Introduction to Corrections Internetworks and Router Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Fundamentals This course supports and reinforces appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: CIT 210 on-the-job training in business and appropriate assessment Advisory: Windows and DOS basics industrial establishments under Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU supervision of a college instruc- This course is designed to provide This course covers wide area internet- tor and is facilitated by the use of Corrections or other interested working fundamentals. Topics cover learning objectives. The student will students with an overview of the his- router fundamentals, router setup be working in a skilled or profes- tory and trends of adult and juvenile and configuration, network manage- sional level assignment in their area corrections. It will focus on probation, ment, routing and routed protocols, of vocational interest and will meet parole, legal issues, specific laws and and network troubleshooting. This performance objectives related to the general operation of correctional is the second course in a four course instruction that are above and beyond institutions. The relationship between sequence that qualifies the student to the conditions of regular employ- corrections and other components take the CISCO CCNA certification ment. This course is intended for of the justice system will also be test. students whose job is related to the examined. This course has been 3 Units field of Business Management and identified by the Correctional Peace 54 Lecture hours have completed or enrolled in the Officer Standards and Training Board appropriate coursework. “Contact the of the Peace Officers Association to CIT 212 CWE office regarding re-enrollment fulfill educational requirements of the Internetworks /LAN Design procedures”. CPOST Certificate for newly hired Prerequisite: CIT 210 Student Unpaid Internship: officers after July 1, 1995 by CDC and Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; CYA. assessment 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours 3 Units Transfers to: CSU Student Paid Internship: 54 Lecture hours This course is designed for those 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; students who are interested in Local 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. CORR 104 Area Network (LAN) design with 1 to 4 Units Control and Supervision in Corrections consideration of LAN switching, 3 Lecture hours (Formerly C/SS 104) VLANs, ACLs, IPX, network man- 60 to 300 hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or agement, and major consideration appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of the functions of layers 1-4 in the appropriate assessment; CORR 101 OSI layers. A threaded case study COOPERATIVE Transfers to: CSU will reinforce the student’s ability to This course is designed to provide design, install, and maintain school- WORK EXPERIENCE- Corrections or other interested stu- sized internetworks. This is the third dents with an overview of supervi- course in a four-course sequence GENERAL sion of inmates in the local, state and that qualifies the student to take the Division of Career & federal correctional institutions. The CISCO CCNA certification test. issues of control in a continuum form 3 Units Technical Education of institutional daily living through 54 Lecture hours crisis situations will be introduced CWEG 290 and discussed. The course will CIT 213 Cooperative Work Experience emphasize the role played by the Internetworks/WAN Design Education - General offender and the correctional worker. Prerequisite: CIT 210 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Topics include inmate subculture, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or violence and effects of crowding assessment appropriate assessment on inmates and staff, and coping Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU techniques for correctional officers This course is designed for those This course supports and reinforces in a hostile prison environment. The students who are interested in Wide on-the-job training in an actual work 208 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog causes and effects of abusive tactics CORR 208 concepts of anxiety, fear, frustration, will also be discussed. This course Leadership in Corrections hostility, aggression, motivation and has been identified by the Correc- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or manipulation roles. Minorities, crowd tional Peace Officer Standards and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and mob interaction, alcohol, drugs, Training Board of the California appropriate assessment sexual problems, character, neurotic Department of Corrections, California Transfers to: CSU and psychotic disorders, youthful Youth Authority, and California Cor- This course is designed to provide offenders, stress of incarceration, and rectional Peace Officers Association Corrections or other interested brain disorders will also be discussed. to fulfill educational requirements of students with an overview of the 3 Units 54 Lecture hours the CPOST Certificate for newly hired skills necessary to be an effective leader in a correctional setting. Topics officers after July 1, 1995 by CDC and CORR 264 CYA. addressed include the unique chal- lenges faced by executives managing Inmate Discipline in Corrections 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours in prison settings, approaches to ensuring the creation and mainte- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; AJ 101 nance of a safe prison environment, CORR 106 Transfers to: CSU Legal Aspects of Corrections and techniques for personnel devel- This course is designed to provide (Formerly C/SS 106) opment. Corrections or other interested stu- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units dents with the correctional process appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours of inmate discipline. Topics covered appropriate assessment; CORR 101 include due process, disciplinary Transfers to: CSU CORR 209 process, disciplinary reports, findings This course is designed to provide Case Load Management and disposition. The curriculum Corrections or other interested Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or covered is recommended by the Cali- students with an awareness of the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or fornia Commission on Peace Officer historical framework, concepts, appropriate assessment Standards and Training. and precedents that guide correc- Transfers to: CSU 3 Units 54 Lecture hours tional practice. Course material will This course is designed to provide Corrections or other interested broaden the individual’s perspective CORR 265 of the corrections environment, civil students with an introduction to effective caseload management in a Supervision of Sex Offenders rights of prisoners, and responsi- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or bilities and liabilities of corrections correctional setting. Topics include the laws, policies, and bargaining appropriate assessment; READ 023 or officials. This course has been identi- appropriate assessment; AJ 101 units that govern caseload manage- fied by the Correctional Peace Officer Transfers to: CSU Standards and Training Board of the ment. Specialized supervision issues This course is designed to provide California Department of Corrections, such as offenders with psychological California Peace Officers or other California Youth Authority, and problems and second strike offenders interested students with instruc- California Correctional Peace Officers will also be addressed. tion into the correctional process of Association to fulfill educational 3 Units supervision of inmates who have requirements of the CPOST Certifi- 54 Lecture hours been convicted of sex offenses. Topics cate for newly hired officers after July include human sexuality and dys- 1, 1995 by CDC and CYA. CORR 210 functions, theories of sexual offense, 3 Units Supervision in Public Safety offender typologies and supervision 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or techniques. The curriculum follows appropriate assessment; READ 023 or that recommended by the California Commission on Peace Officer Stan- CORR 134 appropriate assessment dards and Training and the California Introduction to Interviewing and Transfers to: CSU This course is designed to provide Corrections Commission on Peace Counseling Officer Standards and Training. (Formerly C/SS 134) Corrections or other interested students with an overview of the 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or characteristics needed to be an effective supervisor in a correctional appropriate assessment; CORR 101 CORR 290 Transfers to: CSU setting. Topics include basic supervi- Public Safety Communications This course is designed to provide sory responsibilities, the importance Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Corrections or other interested of effective interpersonal commu- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or students with an overview of the nications, and managing personnel appropriate assessment; AJ 101 techniques available to entry level complaints in a prison setting. Transfers to: CSU practitioners in counseling and inter- 3 Units This course is designed to provide viewing. While it is an introduction to 54 Lecture hours California Peace Officers or other approaches of behavior modification interested students with an in-depth through interviewing and counsel- CORR 235 understanding of public safety Conflict Resolution ing, some of the advanced methods communication in the Correctional (Formerly C/SS 035) utilized by professional counselors field. Topics include techniques of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or effectively communicating facts such as game concepts, transactional appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of information and ideas in a clear analysis, sensitivity and confrontation appropriate assessment and logical manner for public safety methods will also be examined. The Transfers to: CSU reports. Students will gain practi- development of positive relation- This course is designed to provide cal experience in interviewing, note ships between the client and support Corrections or other interested stu- taking, report writing, and testifying. personnel will be stressed. dents with an in-depth understand- 3 Units 3 Units ing of conflict situations in which 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours abnormal or non-normal behavior is manifested. Topics covered include 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 209 CORR 43502 CORR 43507 CORR 43511 Custody Training Officer School Suicide Prevention Basic Report Writing Skills (Formerly CORR 43.502) (Formerly CORR 43.507) (Formerly CORR 43.511) Prerequisite: PAC 040 Prerequisite: PAC 040 Prerequisite: PAC 040 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment This course is designed to assist the This course is designed to address the This course is designed for custody experienced custody officer or other issue of suicide for correctional offi- facility employees or other interested Corrections students with current cers or other Corrections students as students with limited report writ- information needed to become quali- it occurs in custody settings. “At risk” ing skills. The course will provide fied training officers. Topics covered inmates and the events that trigger students with the basic skills needed include supervision, leadership, and suicidal situations will be identified. to write a report based on the results communication skills. Procedures for prevention, identify- of an investigation. 0.063 to 0.5 Units ing suicide risk, and intervention 0.063 to 0.5 Units 9 to 40 Lecture hours measures will be discussed. 9 to 40 Lecture hours 0.063 to 0.5 Units CORR 43503 9 to 40 Lecture hours CORR 43515 Advanced Tactical Communications Jail Intelligence Gathering (Formerly CORR 43.503) CORR 43508 (Formerly CORR 43.515) Prerequisite: PAC 040 or equivalent Squad Tactics and Riot Training Prerequisite: PAC 040 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or (Formerly CORR 43.508) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Prerequisite: PAC 040 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment This course is designed to teach appropriate assessment; READ 022 or This course is designed to familiarize custody officers or other Corrections appropriate assessment Corrections or other interested stu- students advanced communication This course is designed to provide the dents with the principles and practice skills required to interact effectively custody officer or other Correctional of analytical interviewing. The course with inmates in a custody setting. students with information on agency will provide students with the basic Topics covered include interpersonal approved emergency response skills needed to develop the inter- communication, verbal defusing procedures. The topics to be covered viewer’s skills and enhance success techniques, body language, and include tactical formations in squads, during interviews. paraphrasing. platoon size deployments, special 0.063 to 0.5 Units 0.063 to 0.5 Units weapons review, riot equipment, and 9 to 40 Lecture hours 9 to 40 Lecture hours chemical agents. 0.063 to 0.5 Units CORR 43516 CORR 43505 9 to 40 Lecture hours Hot Fire Team Cell Extractions (Formerly CORR 43.516) (Formerly CORR 43.505) CORR 43509 Prerequisite: PAC 040 Prerequisite: PAC 040 Special Weapons Training Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or (Formerly CORR 43.509) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Prerequisite: PAC 040 appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is designed to familiar- This course is designed to increase appropriate assessment; READ 022 or ize Corrections or other interested custody officers or other Corrections appropriate assessment students with the Penal Institution student’s knowledge and skills in This course is designed to familiar- Fire Safety Systems. Demonstrations the task of cell extractions. The focus ize Correctional or other interested of burning materials and extinguish- will be on risk management, state students with nomenclature, opera- ing agents will be presented. Students and federal laws of authority, agency tions, and tactical deployment. An will experience smoke and heat force policy, and the use of special emphasis will be placed on special environments and the use of self- weapons. weapons such as the taser, electronic contained breathing apparatus. Team 0.063 to 0.5 Units immobilization device, 37 MM arwen, work, dangers, and hazards of jail 9 to 40 Lecture hours stingball, and 37 MM stinger shot fires will be stressed. cartridge. 0.063 to 0.5 Units CORR 43506 0.063 to 0.5 Units 9 to 40 Lecture hours Tactical Weapons Qualification 9 to 40 Lecture hours (Formerly CORR 43.506) CORR 43518 Prerequisite: PAC 040 CORR 43510 Emergency Procedures Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Senior Supervision (Formerly CORR 43.518) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or (Formerly CORR 43.510) Prerequisite: PAC 040 appropriate assessment Prerequisite: PAC 040 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is designed to qualify Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or custody officers or other Correc- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment tions students in the use of “less appropriate assessment This course is designed to familiar- lethal weapons”. Weapons included This course is designed to familiar- ize Corrections or other interested are the 37mm A.R.W.E.N., 37mm ize Correctional or other interested students with agency approved emer- stinger shot, stingball grenade, students with the basic skills required gency response procedures. Topics and the MK-46 riot extinguisher. to effectively supervise employees covered include tactical formations, Nomenclature, operation, and safety in a custody environment. Topics to disturbance suppression, evacuation considerations for each weapon will be presented are individual values, plans and related equipment utiliza- be covered. ethics/integrity, performance evalu- tion. 0.063 to 0.5 Units ations, and incident report prepara- 0.063 to 0.5 Units 9 to 40 Lecture hours tion. 9 to 40 Lecture hours 0.063 to 0.5 Units 9 to 40 Lecture hours 210 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog CORR 43519 learn and apply information in the COUN 101B Drug and Alcohol Awareness for following areas: vocabulary of higher College and Life Success Supervisors education, college requirements, (Formerly COUNS 101A) (Formerly CORR 43.519) policies and procedures, campus sup- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: PAC 040 port services, and self management appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or as it relates to higher education. The appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 022 or emphasis in the class will be on first- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU appropriate assessment year retention and success. (*The UC will grant a maximum of 3 This course is designed to familiar- 1.5 Units units credit for COUN 101, 101A, 101B ize correction supervisors or other 27 Lecture hours and 151 combined) interested students with techniques for recognizing symptoms relating to This course provides an exploration drug and alcohol abuse. Supervisory COUN 101 of cognitive, psychological, social, strategies for creating a safe work College and Life Success and physical factors influencing environment will be presented. (Formerly COUNS 101) success in college and in life. Topics 0.063 to 0.5 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or include personal responsibility, criti- 9 to 40 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cal thinking, motivation, self-efficacy, appropriate assessment personal awareness, life-long learn- CORR 43524 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU ing, self-management, health and Narcotics Identification and (*The UC will grant a maximum of 3 wellness, interpersonal communica- Investigation units credit for COUN 101, 101A, 101B tion in a diverse world, and intro- (Formerly CORR 43.524) and 151 combined) duction to career and educational Prerequisite: PAC 040 This course provides an exploration planning. Students will learn about Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or of cognitive, psychological, social, the purpose, demands, requirements, appropriate assessment; READ 022 or and physical factors influencing and support services of higher educa- appropriate assessment success in college and in life. Topics tion including both Rio Hondo Col- This course is designed to assist Cor- include personal responsibility, criti- lege and four year institutions. rections or other interested students cal thinking, motivation, self-efficacy, 1.5 Units with the development of techni- personal awareness, life-long learn- 27 Lecture hours cal knowledge and procedures for basic narcotics investigation in the ing, self-management, health and custody setting. An emphasis will wellness, interpersonal communica- COUN 105 be placed on drug recognition and tion in a diverse world, and intro- Orientation and Education Planning the processes by which drugs enter a duction to career and educational Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or custody facility. planning. Students will learn about appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 0.063 to 0.5 Units the purpose, demands, requirements, appropriate assessment 9 to 40 Lecture hours and support services of higher educa- Transfers to: CSU tion including both Rio Hondo Col- This course is designed for first-time CORR 43527 lege and four year institutions. college students as well as students Gangs in the Custodial Environment 3 Units who have not yet developed an (Formerly CORR 43.527) 54 Lecture hours individual education plan. Students Prerequisite: PAC 040 will be oriented to Rio Hondo College Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or COUN 101A policies and procedures, learn about appropriate assessment; READ 022 or College and Life Success certificate/degree options within the appropriate assessment (Formerly COUNS 101A) higher education system, and the This course is designed to familiar- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or graduation/transfer requirements ize Corrections or other interested appropriate assessment; READ 023 or within these systems. The course will students with the background and appropriate assessment culminate in the development of an future expectations of gang activity within the custodial environment. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU individual education plan based on Topics of identification, behavioral (*The UC will grant a maximum of 3 each student’s specific academic goal. traits, and issues of inmate and officer units credit for COUN 101, 101A, 101B 0.5 Units safety will be presented. and 151 combined) 9 Lecture hours 0.063 to 0.5 Units This course provides an exploration 9 to 40 Lecture hours of cognitive, psychological, social, COUN 151 and physical factors influencing Career Exploration and Life Planning success in college and in life. Topics (Formerly COUNS 151) include personal responsibility, criti- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or cal thinking, motivation, self-efficacy, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or COUNSELING personal awareness, life-long learn- appropriate assessment Division of Counseling & ing, self-management, health and Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Student Development wellness, interpersonal communica- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 3 tion in a diverse world, and intro- units credit for COUN 101, 101A, 101B COUN 100 duction to career and educational and 151 combined) Introduction to College Survival planning. Students will learn about This course will examine student, (Formerly COUNS 039) the purpose, demands, requirements, career and self-development theo- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or and support services of higher educa- ries to empower students to make appropriate assessment; READ 022 or tion including both Rio Hondo Col- effective decisions throughout their appropriate assessment lege and four year institutions. lifespan by engaging in the process Transfers to: CSU 1.5 Units of career and life planning from This course is intended for first-time 27 Lecture hours a psychological, sociological and college students in need of devel- physiological perspective. Students oping the knowledge and skills will compare and contrast human necessary to successfully transition development and career theories, into higher education. Students will decision-making, factors that contrib- ute to college success, life skills, adult 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 211 workplace competencies, values, physiological perspective. Students for individuals seeking to move with interest, abilities, and personal- will compare and contrast human greater efficiency and less pain in ity, labor market trends in a global development and career theo- everyday activities. Students will economy, and successful job search ries, decision-making, factors that learn how to move the body in a safe and workplace behaviors. contribute to college success, life and effective manner and develop 3 Units skills, adult workplace competencies, strength, flexibility, proper align- 54 Lecture hours values, interest, abilities, and person- ment, agility, balance and coordina- ality, labor market trends in a global tion. Course work is designed for COUN 151A economy, and successful job search those wishing to work at a more and workplace behaviors. Career Exploration and Life Planning deliberate pace and in a non-competi- (Formerly COUNS 151A) 1 Unit 18 Lecture hours tive atmosphere, or who are recover- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing from prior injury. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or COUN 290 1 Unit appropriate assessment 54 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU Cooperative Work Experience/ Internship for Student Services Related This course will examine student, DANC 150 career and self-development theo- Fields Introduction to World Dance ries to empower students to make (Formerly COUNS 290) effective decisions throughout their Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly DANCE 150) lifespan by engaging in the process appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: UC, CSU of career and life planning from appropriate assessment This course is open to all students a psychological, sociological and Transfers to: CSU interested in studying dances physiological perspective. Students This course supports and reinforces representative of different cultures will compare and contrast human on-the-job training in the Student and nationalities. Students will learn development and career theo- Services field under supervision of dances from multiple cultures and ries, decision-making, factors that a college instructor and is facilitated evaluate the similarities and differ- contribute to college success, life by the use of learning objectives. The ences of the works within these cul- skills, adult workplace competencies, student will be working in a skilled tures. Dances will be analyzed based or professional level assignment in values, interest, abilities, and person- on their salient movement qualities, ality, labor market trends in a global the area of Student Services and will meet performance objectives related including Body, Effort, Space, and economy, and successful job search Shape, taking into consideration and workplace behaviors. to instruction that are above and beyond the conditions of regular historical background and related 1 Unit folklore. 18 Lecture hours employment. This course is intended for students whose job is related 1 Unit 54 Lab hours COUN 151B to the field of Student Services and Career Exploration and Life Planning have completed or enrolled in the (Formerly COUNS 151B) appropriate coursework. “Contact the DANC 151 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or CWE office regarding re-enrollment Modern Dance I appropriate assessment; READ 023 or procedures”. (Formerly DANCE 151, PE 151) appropriate assessment Student Unpaid Internship: Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: CSU 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; appropriate assessment; READ 022 or This course will examine student, 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours appropriate assessment career and self-development theo- Student Paid Internship: Transfers to: UC, CSU ries to empower students to make 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; Modern Dance I is an introductory effective decisions throughout their 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. course for those students who seek lifespan by engaging in the process 1 to 4 Units technical skill in Modern dance. 3 Lecture hours of career and life planning from Emphasis will be placed on develop- 60 to 300 hours a psychological, sociological and ing contemporary technique as well physiological perspective. Students as conditioning the body by improv- will compare and contrast human ing posture, flexibility, strength, and development and career theo- coordination. Improvisation and cre- ries, decision-making, factors that DANCE ative expression will also be explored. contribute to college success, life This course may be taken once and skills, adult workplace competencies, Division of Kinesiology, Dance, and repeated three times for credit. values, interest, abilities, and person- Athletics ality, labor market trends in a global 1 Unit economy, and successful job search Dance Activity Courses 54 Lab hours and workplace behaviors. Dance activity courses may be used DANC 152 1 Unit in place of Kinesiology (Formerly Dance Rehearsal and Performance 18 Lecture hours P.E.) activity courses to fulfill degree (Formerly Dance 152, PE 152) requirements. COUN 151C Corequisite: DANC 180 Career Exploration and Life Planning DANC 114 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly COUNS 151C) Conditioning and Alignment for the appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Dancer appropriate assessment; DANC 151; appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly DANCE 114, PE 114) DANC 159; DANC 251 appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or This introductory course provides This course will examine student, experience and laboratory explora- career and self-development theo- appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU tion in all aspects of dance rehearsal ries to empower students to make performance for beginner level This course is designed to provide effective decisions throughout their students. Students have the opportu- the physical training and prepara- lifespan by engaging in the process nity to perform in an evening-length tion for students interested in Dance, of career and life planning from dance concert, work with faculty a psychological, sociological and Yoga, and/or Pilates and is suitable 212 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog choreographers and guest artists, and will be discussed. The course appeals ment, balance, body awareness, and participate as a member of a touring to dancers seeking careers in dance, rhythmic coordination which are dance ensemble. Students contribute students looking to expand their necessary parts of appropriate social as dancers and rehearsal assistants dance skills, and those wanting an dancing technique. A basic under- under the supervision and guidance aerobic work-out. standing of partner dancing etiquette of faculty choreographers. Produc- 1 Unit will also be addressed. The course tions will be presented for public 54 Lab hours appeals to students interested in the performance on and off campus. social aspect of dance, ones seeking 3 Units DANC 159 experience in partnering work, and 18 Lecture hours Choreography I dancers seeking careers in dance. 108 Lab hours (Formerly DANCE 159, PE/TH 159) 1 Unit Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 54 Lab hours DANC 153 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Ballet I appropriate assessment; DANC 151 DANC 172 (Formerly DANCE 153, PE 153) Transfers to: UC, CSU Dance Repertory Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Choreography I is an introduction Corequisite: DANC 180 assessment to the art and craft of dance com- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU position. The course will focus on appropriate assessment; READ 022 or This is an introductory course for the elements of improvisation and appropriate assessment; DANC 151; those students who seek technical experimentation through choreo- DANC 159; DANC 251 skill in classical ballet. The course will graphic exercises. Basic elements of Transfers to: UC, CSU focus on body alignment, traditional choreography including form, design, This course provides dance stu- steps and combinations, musicality, motivation, phrasing, gesture, accom- dents the opportunity to rehearse ballet terminology, and the devel- paniment, and production basics will and perform choreographic works opment of strength and flexibility. be explored. Additionally, critical based on existing dance repertoire Students will also gain knowledge of analysis of dance will be empha- created by well- known and estab- contemporary influences on ballet. sized through lectures, readings and lished choreographers, faculty, and/ This course may be taken once and observations of professional dance or guest artists. Students will learn repeated three times for credit. rehearsals and/or concerts. The class how to analyze movement using 1 Unit may culminate in the presentation of basic elements of Laban Movement 54 Lab hours student choreography or production Analysis in preparation for stage. of a dance concert. They will also experience different DANC 154 3 Units methods of reconstructing existing Jazz Dance I 36 Lecture hours repertoire and gain knowledge about (Formerly DANCE 154, PE 154) 54 Lab hours the historical significance of the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or repertoire explored. Productions will appropriate assessment; READ 022 or DANC 162 be presented for public performance appropriate assessment Dance Production either on and/or off campus. Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units Jazz Dance is a versatile, contem- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 18 Lecture hours porary and exciting art form that is appropriate assessment; DANC 151; 108 Lab hours highly visible on television specials, DANC 159; DANC 251 music videos, commercials, and on Transfers to: CSU DANC 179 the theatrical stage. Jazz Dance I is This course offers an introduction to Dance History designed for the beginning student the technical aspects of dance produc- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or who wants to gain rhythmic under- tion and is designed for the beginner appropriate assessment: READ 023 or standing, basic terminology and level dance student. Topics of explo- appropriate assessment the fundamental physical skills that ration include basic staging, costume Transfers to: UC, CSU form the basis of jazz technique. A design, set design, make-up, lighting, This course introduces the forces and variety of jazz styles will be intro- sound production, and publicity. figures which have shaped dance duced, including lyrical, musical Productions will be presented for through history. Students will study theatre, contemporary, and hip-hop. public performance either on and/or dance forms from ancient to modern This course may be taken once and off campus. times through readings, films, and repeated once for credit. 3 Units class discussions with particular 1 Unit 18 Lecture hours focus on Western concert dance. 54 Lab hours 108 Lab hours Comparisons of various dance tech- niques, theories, and personalities DANC 157 DANC 168 who have contributed to the art of Hip-Hop Dance Latin Social Dance dance will also be covered. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU DANC 180 Students will learn various forms of Students will learn various types of Performance beginning hip-hop dance, including beginning club and American-style Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or pop and lock, hip-hop funk, synco- Latin dance forms that may include appropriate assessment; READ 022 or pations and rhythms. The class will Salsa, Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, appropriate assessment; DANC 151; explore the use of space, energy, Merengue, Bachata and Bolero. DANC 159; DANC 251 rhythm, and improvisation while This course emphasizes the use of Transfers to: UC, CSU emphasizing body control, alignment, proper lead and follow techniques This course provides dance students balance, and use of weight changes. as a form of communication between the opportunity to participate in A basic history of hip-hop culture partners, and develops proper align- dance productions. Productions 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 213 will be presented for public perfor- DANC 253 product to be evaluated. (Title V, mance either on and/or off campus. Ballet II Section 58051) Independent Studies/ Students will learn how to adjust a Prerequisite: DANC 153 Directed Studies may be developed performance for presentation on a Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or from any topic arising from or related stage, pre-performance and post- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or to a course of study that will result in performance responsibilities will be appropriate assessment developing depth and breadth in that outlined. In addition students will Transfers to: UC, CSU subject area. Students will be expected be exposed to basic stage direction Ballet II is an intermediate level to meet on a regular basis with their and techniques for overcoming stage course designed for students who faculty sponsor and submit a final fright. This course may be repeated wish to further develop the techni- report or project, and student progress to a maximum of 4 units in different cal and performance skills acquired shall be evaluated at regular intervals. semesters. in Ballet I. The class includes more Academic standards for Independent 1 Unit advanced technique work at the Studies/Directed Studies shall be the 54 Lab hours barre, across the floor, and in center same as those for other courses. Units floor combinations. Complex adagio are awarded in accordance to Title DANC 199 and allegro dance sequences will also V regulations with one unit of credit Dance Appreciation be introduced. Students will have awarded for 54 hours of Directed (Formerly DANCE 199, PE/TH 199) the opportunity to perform in an Studies, six (6) hours of which must Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or informal showing or concert setting. be with an instructor. The instructor appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course may be taken once and is responsible for monitoring student appropriate assessment repeated three times for credit. progress through the semester. Stu- Transfers to: UC, CSU 1 Unit dents may take directed study courses This survey course is a multi-cultural 54 Lab hours for a maximum of four (4) units within exploration of one of the world’s a discipline, and may not accumulate oldest and most universal art forms. DANC 254 more than a total of twelve (12) units The history of ballet, jazz, modern, Jazz Dance II college wide. hip-hop, and musical theater dance (Formerly DANCE 254, PE 254) Offered in the Following Disciplines: are investigated through lecture, Prerequisite: DANC 154 Accounting video and demonstration. In addi- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Administration of Justice tion, dance will be analyzed in terms appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Art of Body, Effort, Space, and Shape appropriate assessment Astronomy and examined for cultural, social Transfers to: UC, CSU Biology and political influences. This course Jazz Dance II is an intermediate level Chemistry is designed for students who want course designed for students who Child Development to gain an understanding of dance wish to further develop the techni- Education and for dance majors who want to cal and performance skills acquired Engineering broaden their knowledge. in Jazz Dance I. Additionally, the English 3 Units historical and cultural aspects of Jazz Environmental Technology 54 Lecture hours Dance will be emphasized through Fine Arts lectures, readings and observations Fire DANC 251 of a professional dance concert. Stu- French Modern Dance II dents will also have the opportunity Geography (Formerly DANCE 251, PE 251) to perform in an informal showing Geology Prerequisite: DANC 151 or concert setting. This course may Health Education Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or be taken once and repeated once for History appropriate assessment; READ 022 or credit. Humanities appropriate assessment 1 Unit Journalism Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lab hours Literature Modern Dance II is an intermediate Management course designed for students who Mathematics wish to further develop the techni- Music cal and creative skills acquired in Directed Studies Nursing Modern Dance I. The course will Division of Library & Philosophy focus on the biomechanical approach Instructional Support Physical to dance, musicality and fluidity. Physics Additionally, the aesthetic and cul- 299 Political tural aspects of modern dance will be Directed Study Science emphasized through field observa- Transfers to: UC, CSU Radio tions of a professional dance concert, The course is intended for students Social Science in-class viewing of videotapes and who have the ability to assume Sociology out of class readings. Students will responsibility for independent work Spanish have the opportunity to perform in an and to prepare written or oral reports Speech informal showing, collaborate with and/or appropriate projects. To enroll Theatre Arts the advanced choreography students in an independent study/directed Trade and Industrial and keep a journal of their technical study course, students must possess a Vocational Nursing and creative growth. This course may 2.5 overall grade point average, a 3.0 1 to 3 Units be taken once and repeated three grade point average in the discipline 48 to 144 Hours times for credit. of study being requested, or receive 1 Unit an exception from the instructor. The 54 Lab hours paperwork shall include the number of units, and hours of study required the arrangements for consultation with the instructor and the work 214 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog of national economic systems, with ECON 102H an emphasis on the US economy. It is Principles of Microeconomics Honors intended for Economics or Business Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of DRAFTING majors as well as to satisfy General “C” or better; MATH 070 or appropriate - See ENGINEERING Education requirements. Topics assessment include production possibilities and Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate TECHNOLOGY tradeoffs; comparative economic assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Division of Career & systems; functions of government; national income and employment; This is an introductory course in eco- Technical Education nomic analysis of markets, intended business cycles; money and banking; for Economics and Business majors DRAF 299 monetary and fiscal policy; com- as well as to satisfy General Educa- Directed Study: Drafting parative advantage and trade policy; tion requirements, and may be taken Transfers to: UC, CSU economic growth and stability; and by any student who has completed Independent Study/Directed Study income distribution and poverty. English 101 with a “C” or better. It is intended for students who have 3 Units may be taken prior to ECON 101. Stu- the ability to assume responsibil- 54 Lecture hours dents will learn how markets work to ity for independent work and to coordinate consumers and producers prepare written or oral reports and/ ECON 101H in an economy, various causes of the or appropriate projects. To enroll in Principles of Macroeconomics Honors failure of free markets and policies an independent study/directed study Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of used to correct or regulate market course, students must possess a 2.5 “C” or better; MATH 070 or appropriate behavior. Students will do a research project on an actual economic policy overall grade point average, a 3.0 assessment or a theoretical view. grade point average in the discipline Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate assessment 3 Units of study being requested, or receive 54 Lecture hours an exception from the instructor. Transfers to: UC, CSU Independent Studies/Directed Stud- This is an introductory course in which students learn to describe and ECON 106 ies may be developed from any topic Economics of Contemporary Issues analyze the performance and policies arising from or related to a course of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or study that will result in developing of national economic systems, with appropriate assessment; READ 023 or depth and breadth in that subject an emphasis on the US economy. It is appropriate assessment area. Students will be expected to intended for Economics or Business Transfers to: UC, CSU meet on a regular basis with their fac- majors as well as to satisfy General The course is an introductory course ulty sponsor and submit a final report Education requirements. Topics designed for students interested in or project, and student progress shall include production possibilities and exploring how the tools of economics be evaluated at regular intervals. tradeoffs; comparative economic are used to analyze and debate criti- Academic standards for Independent systems; functions of government; cal issues facing society today. Eco- Studies/Directed Studies shall be the national income and employment; nomics will be applied to issues such same as those for other courses. Units business cycles; money and banking; as: health care, trade deficits, social are awarded in accordance to Title monetary and fiscal policy; com- security, crime, pollution, alternative energy, income inequality, global V regulations with one unit of credit parative advantage and trade policy; economic growth and stability; and development, housing and homeless- awarded for 54 hours of Directed ness, and immigration. Studies, six (6) hours of which must income distribution and poverty. 3 Units 3 Units be with an instructor. The instructor 54 Lecture hours is responsible for monitoring student 54 Lecture hours progress through the semester. ECON 135 ECON 102 Students may take directed study International Political Economy courses for a maximum of four (4) Principles of Microeconomics Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or units within a discipline, and may (Formerly ECON 001B) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or not accumulate more than a total of Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH appropriate assessment twelve (12) units college wide. 050D or MATH 053 or appropriate Transfers to: UC, CSU 1 to 4 Units assessment This is an introductory course 54 to 216 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or designed for students interested appropriate assessment; READ 023 or in economics and political science, appropriate assessment as well as anyone interested in the Transfers to: UC, CSU global interconnectedness of the ECONOMICS This is an introductory course in eco- world economy. The course focuses on the relations between the politi- Division of Behavioral nomic analysis of markets, intended for Economics and Business majors as cal and economic systems within the & Social Sciences well as to satisfy General Education global economy. The course covers requirements. It may be taken prior the impact of political decisions on ECON 101 to Econ 101. Students will learn how world economies and international Principles of Macroeconomics markets work to coordinate consum- organizations. Further emphasis is (Formerly ECON 001A) ers and producers in an economy, placed on a comparison-contrast of various national economies. Geo- Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH various causes of the failure of free 050D or MATH 053 with a grade of “C” graphic areas of concern include markets and policies used to correct Africa, Europe, the Pacific Rim, the or better or appropriate assessment or regulate market behavior. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Middle East, Latin America, Russia, 3 Units China, and the United States. The appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment course is cross-listed as Economics 135 and Political Science 135. Credit is Transfers to: UC, CSU given in either area, not both. This is an introductory course in 3 Units which students learn to describe and 54 Lecture hours analyze the performance and policies 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 215 ED 130 This is a non-degree applicable Tutoring Reading in the Schools: Semi- course and is offered on a pass/no nar and Field Work pass basis. All students are required EDUCATION Prerequisite: READ 022 or appropriate to concurrently enroll in the one-unit Division of Behavioral assessment reading lab, EDEV 021L. & Social Sciences Prerequisite/Corequisite: ED 120 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours ED 090 appropriate assessment Tutorial Skills Transfers to: CSU EDEV 021L (Formerly ED 025) This course provides the student Literacy Skills II Lab Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or with supervised experience tutoring (Formerly ED DEV 021L, DISAB 021L) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or reading in an elementary-educational Prerequisite/Corequisite: EDEV 021 appropriate assessment setting (grades K-6). Participants will This course is a skills class designed This course provides preparation apply their knowledge of the reading for students with learning disabilities for successful peer tutoring at the process and tutorial skills in tutor- who need to improve reading com- community college level. Instruction ing sessions with children at an off prehension and vocabulary through will focus upon tutoring principles, campus site. A weekly class meeting individually prescribed lab work. techniques, and materials, study provides the academic component Students will complete reading tasks skills strategies, communication to the tutoring experience, reinforc- designed to complement the activities skills, and learning differences. This ing and expanding the application of of their reading course. Students are course is intended for tutors in the concepts gained in the prerequisite required to be concurrently enrolled Learning Assistance Center and other / corequisite course. This course in EDEV 021, Literacy Skills II. peer tutoring programs at Rio Hondo partially fulfills the requirements for 0.5 Units College. students participating in the Ameri- 27 Lab hours 1 Unit Corps grant program. 18 Lecture hours 2 Units EDEV 022 18 Lecture hours Basic Arithmetic ED 110 225 Lab hours (Formerly ED DEV 022, DISAB 022) Introduction to Teaching This course is a review of the basic (Formerly ED 010) principles and skills of arithmetic. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The general areas of review are appropriate assessment; READ 023 or EDUCATIONAL operations of whole numbers and appropriate assessment fractions, operations with decimals Transfers to: UC, CSU DEVELOPMENT and proportional thinking, per- This course is designed to introduce cent problems and applications to students to the profession of teaching Division of Disabled Students percents. This course is designed for through lecture and observation of Program & Services K-12 classrooms and public schools. students with special needs to master basic computational skills, develop The major aspects of the teaching EDEV 020 problem solving and arithmetic skills, profession will be examined, the Literacy Skills I and acquire learning strategies to diversity of the public school system (Formerly ED DEV 020, DISAB 020) allow them to function successfully will be discussed, and students will This is a beginning course designed upon matriculating into upper level gain experience in all three levels for students with learning disabili- mathematics courses. This is a non- of the K-12 system. This course is ties who have limited reading skills. intended for students considering a degree applicable course. Students will learn the meanings and career in teaching. 3 Units 3 Units the pronunciations of new words 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours through the use of phonics. The class will cover vowel sounds, consonant EDEV 024 ED 120 sounds, word syllables, and word Assessment for Learning Disabilities Tutoring Reading in the Elementary structure. Students practice strategies (Formerly ED DEV 024) needed to encode and decode words School Advisory: Appropriate placement though to be successful readers. This is a non- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or the Learning Disabilities Assessment degree credit course and is offered on appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Process appropriate assessment a pass/no pass basis. This course provides intensive Transfers to: CSU 3 Units diagnostic learning assessment for This course provides preparation 54 Lecture hours for a successful tutoring experi- students with learning disabilities. A profile will be developed through ence in reading at the elementary EDEV 021 cognitive and achievement assess- school level. Instruction will focus Literacy Skills II ment which will emphasize specific upon tutoring principles, stages of (Formerly ED DEV 021, DISAB 021) academic and learning modality reading acquisition from pre-kinder- Prerequisite: Appropriate skill level dem- strengths and weaknesses. Students garten through upper elementary onstrated through the RHC Placement school levels as well as materials, will develop a Student Education Process approaches, and activities that are Contract to help them improve in Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in appropriate for tutoring learners at reading, writing, spelling, computa- EDEV 021L these various stages of development. tion, and learning skills as well as This course is designed for students This course is designed for those stu- plan for future educational support. with learning disabilities who need to dents who intend to pursue a career Recommended for all students who improve basic reading skills such as in teaching at the elementary school suspect they may have a learning dictionary usage, vocabulary devel- level. disability. This is a non-degree credit opment, and reading comprehension. 1 Unit course. 18 Lecture hours Students practice specific learning 1 Unit strategies needed to compensate for 54 Lab hours diverse learning styles or deficits. 216 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog EDEV 025 program with minimum supervi- EDEV 031 Adaptive Computer Technology sion. Students are placed in on- and Acquired Brain Injury Orientation (Formerly ED DEV 025) off-campus work sites for 4 hours per (Formerly ED DEV 031) This course helps disabled students week. They will receive on-the-job Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in to utilize adaptive computer hard- training with close supervision at the EDEV 031L ware and software. Material will be various locations - 4 weeks at each This course is designed to orient provided which is relevant for each job site. This is a non-degree credit students with ABI to the structure, student’s needs. Emphasis will also course. goals, and services of the Acquired be placed on knowledge of appro- 1 Unit Brain Injury Program at Rio Hondo 54 Lab hours priate compensatory strategies and College. The course serves as an familiarity with disability equip- introduction to cognitive retraining EDEV 029 ment. Documentation of a verifiable and provides systematic instruction Independent Living Skills disability needs to be provided to the for increased attention and concen- (Formerly ED DEV 029) DSP&S office to enroll in the course. tration skills. Course activities are This course is designed specifically This is a non-degree credit course. designed to refine problem-solving for the Developmentally Delayed 1 Unit and improve memory capabilities. Learner (DDL) population and 54 Lab hours Development of interpersonal and students with special learning needs. psychosocial skills which are neces- Essential independent living skills EDEV 026 sary to function successfully in work, are emphasized. Major topics focus Consumer Math social, and educational environments on the how to live and work issues- (Formerly ED DEV 026) will be emphasized. Students are from maintaining a healthy body and This course is specifically designed required to concurrently enroll in a safe home to finding and keeping for the Developmentally Delayed EDEV 031L ABI Orientation Lab. a job. Desired outcome is for the stu- Learner (DDL) and students with Students may repeat this course dent to develop the necessary skills to special learning needs who would to improve skills through further like to apply their math abilities to gain greater independence within- instruction and practice. This course the workplace and everyday life. outside the family structure. may be taken once and repeated three Home and money management; 3 Units times for credit. banking/obtaining credit; math skills 54 Lecture hours in the workplace; use of calculators; 1 Unit 54 Lecture hours time cards/taxes and benefits; and EDEV 030 basic reading, writing and math English Skills EDEV 031L across the curriculum are emphasized (Formerly ED DEV 030, DISAB 030) Acquired Brain Injury Orientation Lab in the course. Guest speakers will Corequisite: EDEV 030W be invited and student projects will (Formerly ED DEV 031L) This course is designed for students reflect the students’ conceptualization Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in with learning disabilities who need to and ability to put into practice what EDEV 031 improve basic writing skills. A pro- is learned. This is a non-degree credit This course utilizes computer-assisted cess approach to writing is integrated course. instruction to improve cognitive skills with reading assignments to provide 3 Units in attention, memory, and reason- a variety of writing experiences. Stu- 54 Lecture hours ing in students with acquired brain dents practice strategies to develop injuries. Emphasis is on reinforcing thinking, language, and writing skills. EDEV 027 associated learning strategies and This course is the beginning level of Strategies for Career Success techniques specific to each student’s composition; it prepares students for (Formerly ED DEV 027) cognitive strengths. Students are Prerequisite: Students must meet mea- success in English 035 or 101. This required to concurrently enroll in sured appropriate adaptive behaviors that is a non-degree credit course and EDEV 031 Acquired Brain Injury meet California Community Colleges is offered on a pass/no pass basis. Orientation. Students may repeat Title V regulations for DSP&S Students are required to concurrently this course to improve skills through Corequisite: EDEV 027L enroll in EDEV 030W. further instruction and practice. This course is designed specifically 3 Units This course may be taken once and for the Developmentally Delayed 54 Lecture hours Learner (DDL) and students with repeated three times for credit. 1 Unit special learning needs to prepare EDEV 030W them for employment. Emphasis is on 54 Lab hours English Skills Workshop developing skills in the areas of goal (Formerly DISAB 030) setting, career assessment inventory, EDEV 101 Corequisite: EDEV 030 career awareness, career exploration, College and Career Exploration This course is a skills class to assist choosing a career, career preparation, (Formerly ED DEV 101, DISAB 101) students with learning disabilities socialization, utilizing community Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or in improving writing and language resources and appropriate grooming appropriate assessment; READ 023 or skills through instruction with the and hygiene. This is a non-degree appropriate assessment Learning Disabilities Specialist. credit course and is offered on a Transfers to: CSU Students will perform writing tasks pass/no pass basis. This course is designed to facilitate a 3 Units designed to complement the activi- student’s acquisition of the necessary 54 Lecture hours ties of their composition class. This information and personal awareness is a non-degree course and is offered for a successful college experience. EDEV 027L on a credit/no credit basis. Students Special strategies will be utilized to Strategies for Career Success Lab are required to concurrently enroll in particularly benefit the student with (Formerly ED DEV 027L) EDEV 030, English Skills. specific learning difficulties. The Prerequisite/Corequisite: EDEV 027 1 Unit value of higher education will be This course is designed specifically 54 Lab hours for the Developmentally Delayed explored with particular emphasis Learner (DDL) population and on the policies and procedures of students with special learning needs. Rio Hondo College and four year The laboratory is a work experience institutions. Special attention will be 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 217 directed toward the understanding concepts of terminology and will ELEC 060 of “Certificate Programs”, “Associate receive hands-on experience with D.C. and A.C. Fundamentals Degrees”, “General Education” and components and measuring equip- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate “Transfer” requirements. Students ment. assessment will investigate the various support 2 Units This introductory course in D.C. & services available at Rio Hondo and 27 Lecture hours A.C. electricity is for general audience develop a working knowledge of 27 Lab hours and for those contemplating a career how a student may benefit from such in the powerline (electrical) industry. services. ELEC 051 Course content includes basic theory, 3 Units Electrical Power Distribution Systems resistance, capacitance, inductance, 54 Lecture hours Prerequisite: ELEC 050 simple D.C. & A.C. circuits, trans- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or formers, measuring instruments, EDEV 134 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or batteries, motors & generators. Study Techniques appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 3 Units (Formerly ED DEV 134, DISAB 134) appropriate assessment 45 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This is an introductory course for 27 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or linemen and those interested in a appropriate assessment career in the power utility industry. ELEC 061 Transfers to: CSU This is the second class of a five class Fundamentals of Wire and Cabling This is a course in college study program designed to provide the stu- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or skills which also addresses the needs dent with knowledge and skills with appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of students identified with special electrical power distribution systems. appropriate assessment learning needs. Students are taught This course explains how electricity This course will present the principles specific techniques, principles, and is generated and delivered to custom- and practices of copper cable wiring strategies which enable them to effec- ers. Course content includes safety, technology and includes instruction tively acquire, integrate, store, and basic electrical theory of generation, in the design, installation, and main- retrieve information and thus become transmission, transformers, regula- tenance of copper wiring systems for more successful students. Topics in tors, fuses, meters, and applied math- intelligent control systems, lighting this course include in-depth instruc- ematics to illustrate basic electricity and appliance control devices, com- tion in critical reading and thinking, relationships of components in an munication, and networking. Also time management, memory tech- electrical power distribution system. includes instruction in household niques, note-taking, test-taking, cre- 3 Units and institutional power wiring. This ativity, and communication. Students 45 Lecture hours course is designed for students want- are encouraged to utilize appropriate 27 Lab hours ing to work in the Home Technology college resources. Service industry. 3 Units ELEC 052 2 Units 54 Lecture hours Distribution of Electrical Power 27 Lecture hours Prerequisite: ELEC 051 27 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ELEC 062 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Fundamentals of Fiber Optics ELECTRONICS appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Division of Career & This is an introductory course for appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Technical Education linemen and those interested in a appropriate assessment career in the power utility industry. This course presents the principles ELEC 041 This is the third class of a five class and practices of fiber optics and opto- High Reliability Electronic Fabrication program designed to provide the electronic technology and includes Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or student with knowledge and skills instruction in the design, installa- appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or with electrical power distribution tion, and maintenance of fiber optic appropriate assessment systems. This course further explains cabling control systems and optoelec- This course introduces the student to the distribution of electrical energy, tronic control systems for computer the techniques required for the use of starting with the various methods of communication and networking hand tools in the building and main- generation, through a more exten- systems. This course is designed tenance of electronics equipment. sive look into various transmission for students wanting to work in the Particular attention is devoted to sol- systems, into the rural and urban sub- Home Technology Service industry. dering and other assembly operations stations, and ending at the customer’s 2 Units which must frequently be performed service entrance. Course content 27 Lecture hours by electronic technicians. includes safety, electrical theory of 27 Lab hours 3 Units generation, transmission, distribu- 36 Lecture hours tion, substations, transformers, and ELEC 063 54 Lab hours applied mathematics related to the Fundamentals of Wireless components of an electrical power Communication ELEC 050 distribution system. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Introduction to the Electrical Industry 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment assessment 27 Lab hours This course presents the principles This introductory course is for a and practices of wireless commu- general audience and for those con- nication technology and includes templating a career in the powerline instruction in the design, installation, (electrical) industry. Students will and maintenance of wireless commu- become acquainted with the basic nication technology network systems. Emphasis is placed on system reli- ability, security, and cost containment 218 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog concerns. This course is designed provide students with information and devices. Students will analyze for students wanting to work in the and skills associated with the wire- circuits and solve problems utiliz- Home Technology Service industry. less (cellular) telecommunications ing basic network analysis methods. 2 Units industry. The course is intended for The course will instruct students on 27 Lecture hours students that are interested in a new the arrangement of circuit diagrams, 27 Lab hours career or are currently working in proper identification of circuit/device the wireless telecommunications symbols, and use of wiring sche- ELEC 064 industry. Topics will include: Wire- matics. Laboratory work provides Home Technology Integration less standards and protocols and experience with the design and test of Technologies the critical issues of compatibility, basic electrical circuits, use of meters, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or internetworking, and voice/data schematic diagrams, oscilloscopes, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or convergence, design and integration and common laboratory equipment. appropriate assessment of WCDMA/UMTS, CDMA2000, This course is for students that are This course presents the principles and SCDMA into existing cellular/ contemplating a career in the electri- and practices of installing and PCS networks. Also presented are cal/electronics industry and is part maintaining home technology. topics on RF propagation, 3G and 4G of the preparation leading to an A. S. Students are exposed to home light- networks, and the future of wireless Degree or a Certificate in Electronics ing controls, computer networking, telecommunications. Technology. home security, home entertainment 3 Units 4 Units systems including video, data, and 45 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours voice, heating ventilation and air 27 Lab hours 54 Lab hours conditioning control systems, and home systems integration. This ELEC 101 ELEC 105 course prepares the student for Home D/C Electronic Circuits and Devices Computer Simulation and Fabrication Technology Industry certification Prerequisite: MATH 030 or MATH of Electronic Circuits and is designed for students want- 030D or appropriate assessment, or Prerequisite: ELEC 101 ing to work in the Home Technology TCED 080 Transfers to: CSU Service industry. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course provides an introduc- 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tion to the use of computer software 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment in the simulation and fabrication of 54 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU electronic circuits and printed circuit This course is an introduction to boards. It is intended for students ELEC 070 the field of Direct Current (D/C) in electronics technology as well Applied Telecommunications electricity/electronics. Emphasis is as those currently working in the Technology on the theory of operation, physi- electronics industry. Using a popular Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or cal properties and characteristics educational version of circuit simula- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of DC electrical/electronic circuits tion software, the Electronics Work- appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or and devices. Students will analyze bench TM program suite, students appropriate assessment circuits and solve problems utiliz- will be introduced first to concepts This is an introductory course that ing basic network analysis methods. of analog and digital circuit simula- will examine the theory behind The course will instruct students on tion. The modeled circuits are then present day wireless (cellular) the arrangement of circuit diagrams, processed. Fabricated and ultimately telecommunications systems which proper identification of circuit/device tested as prototype circuit boards. will include an in-depth analysis of symbols, and use of wiring sche- Students will learn to use a miniature the design and installation of these matics. Laboratory work provides computer controlled circuit board systems. The course is intended experience with the design and test of mill to produce the prototypes. for students interested in a career basic electrical circuits, use of meters, 2 Units in the wireless telecommunica- schematic diagrams, oscilloscopes, 18 Lecture hours tions industry. Topics will include: and common laboratory equipment. 54 Lab hours mobile devices networks, antenna This course is for students that are orientation, base station system, and contemplating a career in the electri- ELEC 108 the operation and support system cal/electronics industry and is part Introduction to Solid State Devices and associated with the wireless systems. of the preparation leading to an A. S. Circuits Also presented are topics on environ- Degree or a Certificate in Electronics Prerequisite: ELEC 101 and 102 mental effects, governmental impact Technology. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and history of wireless telecommuni- 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cations. 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment 3 Units 54 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU 45 Lecture hours This course is an introduction to 27 Lab hours ELEC 102 solid state devices used in the field of A/C Electronic Circuits and Devices electronics. Emphasis is on the theory ELEC 071 Prerequisite: MATH 030 or 030D or of operation, methods of fabrication, Mobile and Wireless Communications appropriate assessment, or TCED 080 physical properties and character- Prerequisite: ELEC 070 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or istics of semiconductor devices and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or circuits. Devices considered are appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment diodes, BJT and FET transistors, appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Transfers to: CSU special diodes, Thyristors (SCR), IC’s appropriate assessment This course is an introduction to the (digital and analog), typical appli- This is the second class of a five class field of Alternating Current (A/C) cations of each device in amplifier, program that will further examine electricity/electronics. Emphasis is regulator, oscillator, timer and digital the theory behind present day wire- on the theory of operation, physi- circuits. Students will analyze circuits less (cellular) telecommunications cal properties and characteristics and solve problems utilizing basic systems. This course is designed to of AC electrical/electronic circuits network analysis methods. Labora- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 219 tory work provides experience with ELEC 111 ELEC 211 the design and test of basic solid Introduction to Digital Electronics Advanced Digital Electronics state device circuits including signal Prerequisite: ELEC 101 and 102 Prerequisite: ELEC 111 tracing and troubleshooting, use of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or meters, schematic diagrams, oscil- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment loscopes, and common laboratory appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU equipment. This course is for stu- Transfers to: CSU This course is a continuation of intro- dents that are contemplating a career This course is an introduction to duction to electronic digital principles in the electrical/electronics industry digital electronic principles common common to all areas of electronics. to all areas of electronics. The course and is part of the preparation leading Building on the foundations cov- will emphasize study of number to an A. S. Degree or a Certificate in systems and representations such as ered in ELEC 111, emphasis will be Electronics Technology. Binary codes, Hexadecimal codes and placed on the study of various types 4 Units Boolean algebra. Analysis and design of Counters, A/D and D/A Convert- 54 Lecture hours of combinational and sequential ers, I-O Devices, Memories and an 54 Lab hours Logic Circuits, Gates, Adders, TTL: introduction to Micro Computers. small and medium scale integrated Through laboratory work, students ELEC 109 devices, programmable logic and learn applications by construct- Linear, Analog Circuits and Devices simulation of digital circuits and ing various circuits and devices. Prerequisite: ELEC 101 and 102 CMOS, ECL families will be covered. Advanced analysis and design of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 Laboratory work will also provide combinational and sequential Logic or appropriate assessment; READ experience with the design and test Circuits, Gates, Adders, TTL: small 023 or appropriate assessment of basic digital circuits, use of meters, and medium scale integrated devices, Transfers to: CSU schematic diagrams, oscilloscopes, programmable logic and simulation This course focuses on linear and common laboratory equipment. of digital circuits and ECL families analog circuits and devices used This course is for students that are will be covered. Laboratory work in the field of electronics. Empha- contemplating a career in the electri- will also provide experience with sis is on the theory of operation, cal/electronics industry and is part the design and test of basic digital of the preparation leading to an A. S. methods of fabrication, physical circuits, use of meters, schematic Degree or a Certificate in Electronics properties and characteristics Technology. diagrams, oscilloscopes, and common of operational amplifiers, other 4 Units laboratory equipment. This course is discrete circuits and external 54 Lecture hours for students that are contemplating circuitry. This course builds on 54 Lab hours a career in the electrical/electronics the foundation laid in Electron- industry and is part of the prepara- ics 108, continuing the study of ELEC 208 tion leading to an A. S. Degree or a solid state devices and circuits Advanced Solid State Devices and Certificate in Electronics Technology. with emphasis on the Integrated Circuits 4 Units Circuit (IC) and applications. Prerequisite: ELEC 108 54 Lecture hours Students will analyze circuits Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lab hours and solve problems utilizing appropriate assessment; READ 023 or basic network analysis methods. appropriate assessment ELEC 240 IC device characteristics are Transfers to: CSU Microprocessors and Microcomputing explored. Input/output imped- This course is a continuation of the Prerequisite: ELEC 211 ance, drift, offset, bias current, study of solid state devices used in Transfers to: CSU Gain, Frequency Response and the field of electronics presented This course will provide a funda- simple modeling are among the in the introductory course ELEC mental knowledge of the general 108. Emphasis is on the theory of topics considered. Use of device architecture of microcomputers. operation, physical properties and data sheets and application notes characteristics of advanced semicon- Emphasis is on the study of organi- will be introduced to provide ductor devices and circuits. Devices zation and structuring of the major training in the selection of devices considered are advanced design hardware and software components for specific purposes. Laboratory transistors, SCRs and other Integrated of computers which includes, the work provides experience with Circuits-IC’s (digital and analog), CPU and some of the I/O devices the design and test of basic solid typical applications of each device in used to interface the CPU to vari- state device circuits including inverters, converters, and switching ous peripheral devices. It considers signal tracing and troubleshoot- power supplies. Students will analyze the physical aspects of information ing, use of meters, schematic circuits and solve problems utiliz- transfer and control within a digital diagrams, oscilloscopes, and ing basic network analysis methods computer. Network architecture, common laboratory equipment. with emphasis on advanced bias- communication protocol, as well as This course is for students that ing, cascading, coupling and phase micro-programming instruction sets are contemplating a career in the shifting. Laboratory work provides and assembly language program- electrical/electronics industry and experience with the design and test ming are also emphasized. Labora- is part of the preparation leading of advanced solid state device circuits tory exercises will focus on construct to an A. S. Degree or a Certificate including signal tracing and trouble- and deconstruct of a basic computer, in Electronics Technology. shooting, use of schematic diagrams along with test and troubleshooting and common laboratory equipment. 4 Units of critical functions. This course is This course is for students that are 54 Lecture hours contemplating a career in the electri- for students that are contemplating 54 Lab hours cal/electronics industry and is part a career in the electrical/electronics of the preparation leading to an A. S. industry and is part of the prepara- Degree or a Certificate in Electronics tion leading to an A. S. Degree or a Technology. Certificate in Electronics Technology. 4 Units 4 Units 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours 54 Lab hours 220 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog construction, and transformers and EUT 120 voltage regulators. Topics include Utility Pole Climbing Techniques schematics, shunt and series capaci- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ELECTRONICS/ tors and safety issues outlined by appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ELECTRIC UTILITY the Occupational Safety and Health appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Act (OSHA). Calculating power used appropriate assessment TECHNOLOGY by electrical circuits is also covered. Transfers to: CSU This course is intended for students This course is designed to provide Division of Career & that are contemplating a career in the instruction on climbing a utility Technical Education electrical utility industry. pole safely using the latest OSHA 3 Units fall resistant requirements. At the EUT 110 45 Lecture hours completion of this course, students Electrical Utility Technology I 27 Lab hours will be able to safely ascend and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or descend a utility pole using gaffs appropriate assessment; READ 023 or EUT 116 and extension ladders. This course appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Electrical Utility Technology IV provides an orientation in the power appropriate assessment; ELEC 050 Prerequisite: EUT 114 distribution and line construction Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or industry. Basic electrical principles This is an introductory course that appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and safety on the job are emphasized. will examine the theory behind appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or This course is intended for students present day utility energy systems. appropriate assessment; ELEC 050 that are contemplating a career in the This course provides an orientation Transfers to: CSU electrical utility industry. in the power distribution and line This course is a continuation of 4 Units construction industry. Basic electri- pole and overhead line construc- 54 Lecture hours cal principles and safety on the job tion. Topics covered include state 54 Lab hours are emphasized. Topics include basic safety orders for line construction mathematical computations, includ- and maintenance, transmission and ing trigonometry fundamentals, distribution systems and conduc- electron theory and the fundamentals tors and electrical systems faults. EMERGENCY of magnetism. Students will combine Students will also learn about short MEDICAL TECHNICIAN electrical theory with laboratory and circuits, system protective concepts practical applications in the course of and how to identify control circuits Division of Public Safety study. This course is intended for stu- from wiring diagrams. This course dents that are contemplating a career is intended for students that are con- EMT 093 in the electrical utility industry. templating a career in the electrical Emergency Medical Technician 3 Units utility industry. Prerequisite: FTEC 121 45 Lecture hours 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 27 Lab hours 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 27 Lab hours appropriate assessment; BIOL 125 EUT 112 This course is designed to certify Electrical Utility Technology II EUT 118 Prerequisite: EUT 110 students as California State Emer- Electrical Utility Technology V gency Medical Technicians and gain Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: EUT 116 employment as an ambulance driver appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or or ambulance attendant. After suc- appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; ELEC 050 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or cessful completion of this course, Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment; ELEC 050 students will be authorized to take This course involves the study of the Transfers to: CSU the National Registry EMT examina- power distribution and line construc- This course covers advanced theory tions and then request certification tion industry. Topics include meth- of electrical distribution lines and as an EMT through the Los Angeles ods of producing electricity, A.C. systems. Other topics include phas- County Department of Health or and D.C. meters and circuitry and ing, system groundings, substations other local EMS accrediting agencies. electric batteries. Students will also and the use of electrical instruments. Topics discussed include pre-hospital learn about Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Students will also learn how to care terminology, cardiovascular Law, and electromagnetic induction. connect transformers in accordance emergencies, pre-hospital childbirth, This course is intended for students with the state code. Usage of fusing that are contemplating a career in the communicable disease, extrication tables and reference tables, including tools and equipment, automatic electrical utility industry. technical symbols are also covered. external defibrillation and an 3 Units This course is intended for students 45 Lecture hours that are contemplating a career in the understanding of the Emergency 27 Lab hours electrical utility industry. Medical System. Students must pass a 3 Units background check and EMT medical EUT 114 45 Lecture hours physical with a 10-panel drug screen. Electrical Utility Technology III 27 Lab hours 8 Units Prerequisite: EUT 112 117 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 81 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment; ELEC 050 Transfers to: CSU This course is a study of alternating current circuits, A.C. and D.C. motors and generators, pole and overhead 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 221 EMT 0931 drafting. Practical application will be Emergency Vehicle Operations provided with the tools, techniques, (Formerly EMT 093.1) ENGINEERING standards, and practices used in the Prerequisite: READ 023 or appropriate industries that need technical draw- assessment; Possession of a class “C” Division of Mathematics & Sciences ings and graphics. license. ENGR 217 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Electric Circuit Analysis 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment Prerequisite/Corequisite: MATH 270 and PHY 213 (both with a grade of “C” or This course is designed to certify better) Transfers to: UC, CSU ENGT 105 students as driver operators for This course is for students who both Class “B” commercial driver’s Architectural and Technical Freehand intend to pursue a major in engineer- Sketching license and for ambulance drivers ing. The course is the study of basic certification in California. A Class circuit analysis techniques including (Formerly DRAF 105) “B” commercial drivers permit will Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, mesh- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or be obtained while in this course and a current and node-voltage method, appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Class “B” commercial drivers license Thévenin and Norton’s equivalent appropriate assessment circuits, transient and steady-state may be obtained prior to completion Transfers to: CSU responses of passive circuits, and This course is designed to develop of this course. Pre-Trip inspection, operational amplifiers. This course driving skills and a driving test is skill in freehand drawing as used by also includes sinusoidal steady-state the design professionals in both archi- part of this course. Students will analysis of AC circuits, AC power cal- complete certification through the culation, three-phase circuits, mutual tectural and technical applications. California State Fire Marshal’s office inductance, frequency response, and Using pen, pencil, marker, basic prin- in Driver Operator 1A and 1B. A resonance. ciples of proportion, composition and physical is required to meet Cali- 3 Units freehand techniques, students will 72 Lecture hours fornia State standards in regards to prepare technical sketches to industry standards, in isometric, oblique, licensing. ENGR 235 4 Units perspective and orthographic. Design Engineering Mechanics: Statics considerations will also be introduced 54 Lecture hours Prerequisite: PHY 211 with a grade of 54 Lab hours “C” or better for various projects involving pre- Prerequisite/Corequisite: MATH 191 liminary design sketches. This course is open to all students who wish to EMT 290 with a grade of “C” or better Transfers to: UC, CSU develop freehand drawing skills. It Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- This course is for students who is required for all students working ship for Emergency Medical Technician intend to pursue a major in engineer- towards a degree or certificate in the Related Fields ing and provides an overview of the Architecture and Engineering Design Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or effect of two and three dimensional Drafting program. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or force systems on particles and rigid 2 Units bodies under equilibrium conditions. appropriate assessment Topics covered include distributed 27 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU forces and determination of cen- 36 Lab hours This course supports and reinforces troids, analysis of trusses, frames on-the-job training in the Emergency and machines, internal forces and ENGT 122 Medical Technician field under moments, systems involving friction, Engineering Design Graphics and method of virtual work and supervision of a college instruc- (Formerly DRAF 122) equilibrium. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or tor and is facilitated by the use of 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or learning objectives. The student will 72 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or be working in a skilled or profes- two years of high school drafting sional level assignment in the area Transfers to: UC, CSU of Emergency Medical Technician This course is an introduction to and will meet performance objectives graphics as used in engineering related to instruction that are above ENGINEERING design and the systematic use of and beyond the conditions of regular graphic solutions and descriptive employment. This course is intended TECHNOLOGY geometry to solve three dimensional for students whose job is related to Division of Career & engineering problems involving the field of fire technology or EMS Technical Education space, points, planes and lines. Technical drawing using I.S.O. and (emergency medical services) and ENGT 101 A.N.S.I. standards including geomet- have completed or enrolled in the Introduction to Technical Drawing & appropriate coursework. “Contact the ric dimensioning and tolerancing, Graphics will be stressed with a conceptual CWE office regarding re-enrollment (Formerly DRAF 101) design project and preparation of procedures”. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or working drawings. This course is Student Unpaid Internship: appropriate assessment; READ 023 or required for all students working 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; appropriate assessment towards a degree or certificate in the 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours Transfers to: CSU Architecture and Engineering Design Student Paid Internship: This is a basic course in technical Drafting program. The course is also 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; drawing and graphics for students recommended for students interested 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. with no previous drafting skills or in transferring to Schools of Engineer- 1 to 4 Units training. The course is designed for ing. 4 Units 3 Lecture hours students who wish to pursue training 54 Lecture hours 60 to 300 hours in fields and careers related to archi- 54 Lab hours tecture, civil and engineering design 222 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ENGT 131 an entry level CADD operator or to operational skills, students will Engineering and Manufacturing Appli- apply CADD to specific disciplines of use AutoCAD to produce detailed cations of Technical Drawing mechanical and architectural design, drawings that involve model-space (Formerly DRAF 131) manufacturing, illustration and and paperspace, 2D and 3D objects, Prerequisite: ENGT 122 engineering related documents. An block attributes and viewport scales. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or overview of computer graphics and Emphasis will be placed on working appropriate assessment; READ 023 or CADD (Computer Assisted Design with multiple drawing files using external files to create mechanical, appropriate assessment; ENGT 150 or and Drawing) utilizing the latest ENGT 270, or CADD experience architectural and civil projects. release of AutoCAD software will be 3 Units Transfers to: CSU provided. Students will produce 2D This intermediate course is the study 45 Lecture hours orthographic, isometric, and basic 3D 54 Lab hours of technical drawing as used in model solutions of mechanical and manufacturing applications of design architectural applications. ENGT 231 and engineering technology. This 4 Units Technical Product Design and course is for all students in areas of 54 Lecture hours Presentation study related to Engineering, Techni- 54 Lab hours (Formerly DRAF 231) cal Drafting, Design and Computer Prerequisite: ENGT 122; ENGT 150 Graphics. The course incorporates ENGT 170 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or orthographic projection, introduction MicroStation for Basic CADD appropriate assessment; READ 022 or to tool design, and applications of Applications appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU descriptive geometry through layouts (Formerly DRAF 170) This intermediate course is the study and developments. The course will Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or of technical presentation drawing, also cover ANSI Y14.5, precision appropriate assessment; READ 023 or dimensioning, geometric tolerancing, product proposal and design includ- appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or ing electro-mechanical packaging, manufacturing terminology and pro- two years of high school drafting cesses. Lab exercises and drawings orthographic and axonometric Transfers to: CSU illustration for presentation and will be used to reinforce lecture and This course is for students preparing assembly pictorial views. Using demonstration concepts. for high technology careers who need computer aided design, manual draft- 4 Units the skills necessary to function as ing, and graphic techniques, students 54 Lecture hours an entry level CADD operator or to will apply previously learned skills 54 Lab hours apply CADD to specific disciplines of to develop graphic illustrations of mechanical and architectural design, mechanical applications for use in ENGT 138 manufacturing, illustration and catalogs, manuals and engineering Engineering Careers & Applications engineering related documents. An support presentation documents. This course benefits all students in areas of (Formerly CIV 138, CIVIL 138, DRAF overview of computer graphics and study related to Engineering, Draft- 138) CADD (Computer Assisted Design Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing, Design and Computer Graphics. and Drawing) utilizing the latest 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or release of MicroStation software will appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours be provided. Students will produce 54 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU 2D orthographic and basic 3D model This course is for all students inter- solutions of mechanical and architec- ENGT 250 ested in the career field of Engineer- tural applications. Parametric Modeling 3D Applications ing Design Drafting. Engineering 4 Units for Mechanical Design Careers and Applications will explore 54 Lecture hours (Formerly DRAF 250) the career opportunities and training 54 Lab hours Prerequisite: ENGT 150 requirements in the field of engineer- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ing and engineering technology. ENGT 200 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Topics will include the history of Intermediate AutoCAD for Design and appropriate assessment engineering, careers in engineering, Production Transfers to: CSU ethics and responsibilities of the engi- (Formerly DRAF 200) This course presents advanced neer, communicating and problem Prerequisite: ENGT 150 with a grade of applications of 2D and 3D Computer solving. “C” or better Aided Design Drafting (CADD) and 2 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or an introduction to parametric model- ing and rapid prototyping utiliz- 27 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ing the latest releases of Autodesk 36 Lab hours appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or two years of high school drafting Inventor series, SolidWorks, and Transfers to: CSU other parametric modeling software ENGT 150 to produce solutions for mechanical AutoCAD for Basic CADD Applications This course is for students pursuing degrees or certificates in the Architec- applications. This course benefits all (Formerly DRAF 150) ture and Engineering Design Drafting students in areas of study related to Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Program and for those who wish to Engineering, Drafting, Design and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or enhance their AutoCAD skills for Computer Graphics, emphasizes appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or workplace productivity. The course CADD generated three dimensional two years of high school drafting is an intermediate application study graphics using wire frame, surface Transfers to: CSU in computer aided design, drafting, modeling, and parametric solids. This course is for students preparing and graphics using the latest revi- 4 Units for high technology careers who need sions of AutoCAD. Combined with 54 Lecture hours the skills necessary to function as previously learned technical drafting 54 Lab hours conventions and basic AutoCAD 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 223 ENGT 265 dimensional parametric computer to instruction that are above and Pressure Piping Design generated virtual models incorporat- beyond the conditions of regular Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ing mechanical design refinements. employment. This course is intended appropriate assessment; READ 023 or The course emphasizes high technol- for students whose job is related to appropriate assessment; ENGT 150 or ogy skills which are necessary to the field of drafting and have com- ENGT 170 or industry experience in function as a design professional to pleted or enrolled in the appropriate CADD applications apply 3D design graphics technology coursework. “Contact the CWE office Transfers to: CSU to specific disciplines of mechanical regarding re-enrollment procedures”. This course is for those students with engineering, machine drafting and Student Unpaid Internship: CADD experience who are interested design, manufacturing, animation, 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; in the career field of pressure piping modeling and illustration. Students 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours design engineering. This course pres- will be introduced to a variety of Student Paid Internship: ents the preparation of engineering means to directly produce prototype 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; detail drawings of piping systems for models from CADD generated solid 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. commercial, utilities and industrial geometry. 1 to 4 Units plants. Included is information and 4 Units 3 Lecture hours work dealing with the location, instal- 54 Lecture hours 60 to 300 hours lation, operation, and maintenance 54 Lab hours of pumps, steam turbines, compres- sors, tanks, heaters, coolers, cooling ENGT 280 towers, condenser, reactors, boilers, Advanced MicroStation for CADD & chillers, heat exchangers and special BIM Applications (Same as ARCH 280) ENGLISH equipment. (Formerly DRAF 280) Division of Communications 3 Units Prerequisite: ENGT 170 with a grade & Languages 36 Lecture hours of “C” or better, or verifiable work experi- 72 Lab hours ence and proficiency in MicroStation ENGL 030 XM or V8i Introductory Composition for ENGT 266 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Developing Writers Pressure Piping Applications appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly ENGL 039) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; ENGT 101 or Corequisite: ENGL 030W appropriate assessment; READ 023 or two years of high school drafting Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate appropriate assessment; ENGT 150 or Transfers to: CSU assessment ENGT 170 or industry experience in This course is for students pursuing This course assists students in CADD applications; ENGT 265 Trans- an advanced study in MicroStation developing thinking, language, and fers to: CSU 3D parametric CADD (Computer writing skills through structured This course is for all students inter- Assisted Design and Drafting) and assignments that increase in complex- ested in the career field of pressure the BIM (Building Information Mod- ity throughout the semester. This is piping design engineering. This eling) approach to building design the first or beginning course in com- course presents the advanced prepa- using Bentley Architecture. Stu- position; it prepares students for suc- ration of engineering detail drawings dents will apply previously learned cess in either ENGL 035 or ENGL 101. of piping systems for commercial, drafting conventions to produce Students must concurrently enroll utilities and industrial plants. two and three dimensional CADD in the one-unit Writing Workshop, Included is advanced information and BIM generated mechanical and ENGL 030W. This is a non-degree and layout work dealing with the architectural drawings and virtual applicable course and is offered on a location, installation, operation of design models. This course benefits pass/no pass basis. pumps, steam turbines, compressors, all students studying Architecture, 3 Units vertical vessels, horizontal ves- Civil, Engineering of all types, Draft- 54 Lecture hours sels, tanks, heaters, coolers, cooling ing, Design and Computer Graphics. towers, condenser, reactors, boilers, High technology skills which are ENGL 030W chillers, heat exchangers and special necessary to function as a designer or Writing Workshop equipment. CADD Drafter are emphasized. (Formerly ENGL 039W) 3 Units 4 Units Corequisite: ENGL 030 36 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate 72 Lab hours 54 Lab hours assessment This is a lab course designed to assist ENGT 270 ENGT 290 students in developing and improv- Solid Works for 3D Modeling and Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- ing their writing and language skills Prototype Applications ship for Drafting Related Fields through individual conferences with (Formerly DRAF 270) (Formerly DRAF 290) composition instructors. Students will Prerequisite: ENGT 150 or ENGT 170 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or complete and revise assignments that Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or complement the goals and objectives appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment of ENGL 030. All ENGL 030 stu- appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU dents must enroll in this course. This Transfers to: CSU This course supports and reinforces course may be repeated one time for This course presents an intensive on-the-job training in business and credit. This is a non-degree applicable study in 3D computer graphics and industrial establishments under course offered on a pass-no pass CADD (Computer Assisted Design supervision of a college instruc- basis. and Drafting) utilizing the latest tor and is facilitated by the use of 0.5 Units release of SolidWorks Software. learning objectives. The student will 27 Lab hours This course benefits all students in be working in a skilled or profes- areas of study related to Engineer- sional level assignment in their ing, Drafting, Design and Computer area of vocational interest and will Graphics. Students will produce three meet performance objectives related 224 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ENGL 035 ENGL 035A ENGL 035B Intermediate Composition for Intermediate Composition for Intermediate Composition for Developing Writers Developing Writers Developing Writers (Formerly ENGL 099) (Formerly ENGL 099W) (Formerly ENGL 099) Prerequisite: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 Prerequisite: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 Prerequisite: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 with a grade of “Pass” or appropriate with a grade of “Pass” or appropriate with a grade of “Pass” or appropriate assessment Corequisite: ENGL 035W assessment assessment This is a composition course which Corequisite: ENGL 035W Corequisite: ENGL 035W trains students in the clear and This is a composition course which This is a composition course which logical communication of ideas and trains students in the clear and trains students in the clear and information. Students will learn to logical communication of ideas and logical communication of ideas and relate ideas and information in stan- information. Students will learn to information. Students will learn to dard written English that a literate relate ideas and information in stan- relate ideas and information in stan- audience can easily understand. To dard written English that a literate dard written English that a literate accomplish this, students will learn audience can easily understand. To audience can easily understand. To methods of prewriting, construct accomplish this, students will learn accomplish this, students will learn and revise a series of original essays, methods of prewriting, construct methods of prewriting, construct discuss readings, and participate in and revise a series of original essays, and revise a series of original essays, collaborative activities which increase discuss readings, and participate in discuss readings, and participate in their ability to articulate ideas. This collaborative activities which increase collaborative activities which increase is a non-degree credit course and is their ability to articulate ideas. This their ability to articulate ideas. This offered on a pass/no pass basis. Each is a non-degree credit course and is is a non-degree credit course and is week, three additional hours will be offered on a pass/no pass basis. Each offered on a pass/no pass basis. Each required in an accompanying 35W week, three additional hours will be week, three additional hours will be Writing Workshop offered on a pass/ required in an accompanying 35W required in an accompanying 35W no pass basis. This class can also Writing Workshop offered on a pass/ Writing Workshop offered on a pass/ be taken in three 6-week modules. no pass basis. This class can also no pass basis. This class can also Students will have the opportunity be taken in three 6-week modules. be taken in three 6-week modules. to take one, two, or three modules Students will have the opportunity Students will have the opportunity for one unit of credit each. Module to take one, two, or three modules to take one, two, or three modules A will cover simple and compound for one unit of credit each. Module for one unit of credit each. Module sentences, simple punctuation, A will cover simple and compound A will cover simple and compound and language usage. Students will sentences, simple punctuation, sentences, simple punctuation, practice writing to instruct and and language usage. Students will and language usage. Students will inform. Module B will cover complex practice writing to instruct and practice writing to instruct and sentences, punctuation such as colons inform. Module B will cover complex inform. Module B will cover complex and semicolons, and use of persua- sentences, punctuation such as colons sentences, punctuation such as colons sive language. Further practice will and semicolons, and use of persua- and semicolons, and use of persua- be given in the use of commas and sive language. Further practice will sive language. Further practice will capitalization. Module C will include be given in the use of commas and be given in the use of commas and paragraphs, short essays, punctuation capitalization. Module C will include capitalization. Module C will include review, and use of sequential and paragraphs, short essays, punctuation paragraphs, short essays, punctuation transitional language. Practice will be review, and use of sequential and review, and use of sequential and given in adapting information to dif- transitional language. Practice will be transitional language. Practice will be ferent audiences. In addition to this given in adapting information to dif- given in adapting information to dif- material, modules A, B, and C will ferent audiences. In addition to this ferent audiences. In addition to this cover material detailed in the appen- material, modules A, B, and C will material, modules A, B, and C will dix to the course outline. To receive cover material detailed in the appen- cover material detailed in the appen- credit for ENGL 035 or ENGL 035 A, dix to the course outline. To receive dix to the course outline. To receive B, C, students must receive a score credit for ENGL 035 or ENGL 035 A, credit for ENGL 035 or ENGL 035 A, of 10 or higher on the common final. B, C, students must receive a score B, C, students must receive a score Workshop credit will be given upon of 10 or higher on the common final. of 10 or higher on the common final. completion of all three modules. Workshop credit will be given upon Workshop credit will be given upon Students may enroll in all modules completion of all three modules. completion of all three modules. or individual modules and receive Students may enroll in all modules Students may enroll in all modules appropriate credit. English 035 A, B, or individual modules and receive or individual modules and receive C is offered on an open entry, open appropriate credit. English 035 A, B, appropriate credit. English 035 A, B, exit basis. This is a non-degree credit C is offered on an open entry, open C is offered on an open entry, open course and is offered on a pass/ exit basis. This is a non-degree credit exit basis. This is a non-degree credit no pass basis. (Each week, three course and is offered on a pass/ course and is offered on a pass/ additional hours will be required in no pass basis. (Each week, three no pass basis. (Each week, three the ENGL 035W Writing Workshop, additional hours will be required in additional hours will be required in offered on a pass/no pass basis.) the ENGL 035W Writing Workshop, the ENGL 035W Writing Workshop, 3 Units offered on a pass/no pass basis.) offered on a pass/no pass basis.) 54 Lecture hours 1 Unit 1 Unit 18 Lecture hours 18 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 225 ENGL 035C ENGL 035W expand their knowledge of stan- Intermediate Composition for Writing Workshop dard American English and thereby Developing Writers (Formerly ENGL 099W) increase their skill in the written and (Formerly ENGL 099) Corequisite: ENGL 035 spoken language. It is especially help- Prerequisite: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate ful for students planning to go into with a grade of “Pass” or appropriate assessment teaching. assessment This is a lab course designed to assist 3 Units Corequisite: ENGL 035W students in developing and improv- 54 Lecture hours This is a composition course which ing their writing and language skills trains students in the clear and through individual conferences with ENGL 126 logical communication of ideas and composition instructors. Students will Languages of the World information. Students will learn to complete and revise assignments that (Formerly ANTHR/ENGL 126, ANTHR/ relate ideas and information in stan- complement the goals and objectives ENGL 126) dard written English that a literate of English 035. All English 035 stu- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or audience can easily understand. To dents must enroll in this course. This appropriate assessment; READ 023 or accomplish this, students will learn course may be repeated one time for appropriate assessment methods of prewriting, construct credit. This is a non-degree applicable Transfers to: UC, CSU and revise a series of original essays, course offered on a pass-no pass This is a linguistics course which discuss readings, and participate in basis. covers the major languages families collaborative activities which increase 0.5 Units of the world and representative their ability to articulate ideas. This 27 Lab hours languages from those families. It is a non-degree credit course and is presents the phonology, morphol- offered on a pass/no pass basis. Each ENGL 101 ogy, syntax, and pragmatics of these week, three additional hours will be College Composition and Research languages. It is specifically targeted at required in an accompanying 35W (Formerly ENGL 001A) those who will be working with non- Writing Workshop offered on a pass/ Prerequisite: ENGL 035 with a grade native speakers of English in order to no pass basis. This class can also of “Pass” or ENLA 100 with an “A” or equip them to recognize the cross-lin- be taken in three 6-week modules. “B” or appropriate assessment guistic influences of other languages Students will have the opportunity Transfers to: UC, CSU on English, thus preparing them to to take one, two, or three modules This is a composition course that communicate more effectively with for one unit of credit each. Module enables students to generate logical, their clients and/or students and to A will cover simple and compound coherent essays and reports necessary assess the linguistic and sociolinguis- sentences, simple punctuation, to academic and professional success. tic factors which affect communica- and language usage. Students will Students will become proficient in tion. This course is useful for majors practice writing to instruct and research techniques, learn critical in foreign language, anthropology, inform. Module B will cover complex reading and thinking skills through communications, health science, and sentences, punctuation such as colons expository and persuasive reading English, and especially for those plan- and semicolons, and use of persua- selections, and apply these skills to ning to enter elementary and second- sive language. Further practice will creating original essays and a final ary teaching in California, with its be given in the use of commas and research paper. The lab component diversity of languages and cultures. capitalization. Module C will include of this course is designed to assist 3 Units paragraphs, short essays, punctuation students in improving and refining 54 Lecture hours review, and use of sequential and their writing and language skills. transitional language. Practice will be Students will complete lab activities ENGL 127 given in adapting information to dif- that enhance their ability to compose Language Structure and Language Use: ferent audiences. In addition to this logical, well-supported arguments Introduction to Linguistics material, modules A, B, and C will that exhibit grammatical fluency and Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or cover material detailed in the appen- correct documentation form. Students appropriate assessment dix to the course outline. To receive will meet with composition instruc- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate credit for ENGL 035 or ENGL 035 A, tors through individual conferences assessment B, C, students must receive a score that address students’ specific writing Transfers to: UC, CSU of 10 or higher on the common final. concerns. This course is designed This course explores the nature and Workshop credit will be given upon for students who wish to fulfill the structure of language, including completion of all three modules. General Education requirement for phonology, morphology, syntax, Students may enroll in all modules Written Communication. semantics and discourse, language or individual modules and receive 3.5 Units acquisition and language develop- appropriate credit. English 035 A, B, 54 Lecture hours ment, and language use. This course C is offered on an open entry, open 27 Lab hours is useful for students planning to exit basis. This is a non-degree credit enter elementary or secondary teach- course and is offered on a pass/ ENGL 125 ing and for those majoring in foreign no pass basis. (Each week, three Grammar and Usage language, English, communications, additional hours will be required in (Formerly ENGL 025) and anthropology. the ENGL 035W Writing Workshop, Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units offered on a pass/no pass basis.) appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours 1 Unit Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 18 Lecture hours assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU This course explores parts of speech, varieties of sentence structures, common grammar and usage prob- lems, and how to apply these issues to real-world communications. It is designed for students who wish to 226 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ENGL 127H of this course is designed to assist ENGL 299 Language Structure & Language Use: students in advancing and refining Directed Study: English Introduction to Linguistics Honors their writing and language skills and Transfers to: UC, CSU Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of will augment their ability to exer- Independent Study/Directed Study “C” or better cise critical thought. Students will is intended for students who have Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate complete lab activities that further the ability to assume responsibil- assessment enhance their ability to compose ity for independent work and to Transfers to: UC, CSU logical, well-supported arguments prepare written or oral reports and/ This course explores the nature and that exhibit grammatical fluency and or appropriate projects. To enroll in structure of language, including correct documentation form. Students an independent study/directed study phonology, morphology, syntax, will meet with composition instruc- course, students must possess a 2.5 semantics and discourse, language tors through individual conferences overall grade point average, a 3.1 acquisition and language develop- that address students’ specific writing grade point average in the discipline ment, and language use. This course concerns. of study being requested, or receive is useful for students planning to 3.5 Units an exception from the instructor. enter elementary or secondary teach- 54 Lecture hours Independent Studies/Directed Stud- ing and for those majoring in foreign 27 Lab hours ies may be developed from any topic language, English, communications, arising from or related to a course of and anthropology. This course is ENGL 201H study that will result in developing designed for students eligible for the Advanced Composition and Critical depth and breadth in that subject Honors Program. Thinking Honors area. Students will be expected to 3 Units Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of meet on a regular basis with their fac- 54 Lecture hours “C” or better ulty sponsor and submit a final report Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate or project, and student progress shall ENGL 131 assessment be evaluated at regular intervals. Creative Writing Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Academic standards for Independent (Formerly ENGL 031A) (*Students will receive credit from UC Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Prerequisite: ENGL 101 for only one of the following courses: same as those for other courses. Units Transfers to: UC, CSU ENGL 201 or ENGL 201H) are awarded in accordance to Title This is a course of expression for stu- This advanced composition course V regulations with one unit of credit dents who are interested in various is open to all students who have awarded for 54 hours of Directed forms of writing. It offers students a successfully completed ENGL101 Studies, six (6) hours of which must workshop setting in which to develop and is designed for those who expect be with an instructor. The instructor their writing skills in various genres, to transfer to four-year colleges or is responsible for monitoring student such as fiction, poetry, and playwrit- universities. Students will read and progress through the semester. ing. Students are required to write write extensively, while applying Students may take directed study regularly, present their own work critical thinking skills and research courses for a maximum of four (4) in class for discussion, and develop techniques. Students will demon- units within a discipline, and may critical standards for evaluating the strate these abilities in advanced not accumulate more than a total of merit of their own work and of the composition as they research and twelve (12) units college wide. work of their peers. write a series of argumentative 1 to 4 Units 3 Units essays, which demonstrate the ability 54 to 216 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours to analyze issues, evaluate positions, and argue persuasively through clear, ENGL 201 concise prose. The lab component Advanced Composition and Critical of this course is designed to assist Thinking students in advancing and refining ENGLISH AS A (Formerly ENGL 001C) their writing and language skills and NEW LANGUAGE Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of will augment their ability to exer- “C” or better cise critical thought. Students will Division of Communications Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate complete lab activities that further & Languages assessment enhance their ability to compose ENLA 011 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU logical, well-supported arguments Basic Vocabulary (*Students will receive credit from UC that exhibit grammatical fluency and (Formerly READ 066, ESL 034, ESL for only one of the following courses: correct documentation form. Students 024A) ENGL 201 or ENGL 201H) will meet with composition instruc- Advisory: ENLA 014 or appropriate This advanced composition course tors through individual conferences assessment is open to all students who have that address students’ specific writing This course is designed to help successfully completed ENGL 101 concerns. This Honors section is open non-native speakers of English learn and is designed for those who expect to all students who have completed meanings, forms, uses, and pronun- ciations of 200-250 English words to transfer to four-year colleges or English 101 with a grade of C or not presently in their vocabulary. universities. Students will read and better. Students will be expected to Special emphasis is given to examin- write extensively, while applying analyze issues in more depth and ing words in context, parts of speech, critical thinking skills and research write on them at greater length than and inflections. This course is offered techniques. Students will demon- they would in a non–Honors section. on a pass/no pass basis and is not strate these abilities in advanced 3.5 Units applicable to the degree. Students are composition as they research and 54 Lecture hours expected to complete an additional 8 write a series of argumentative 27 Lab hours hours TBA (To Be Arranged) in the essays, which demonstrate the ability Language Lab. to analyze issues, evaluate positions, 3 Units and argue persuasively through clear, 54 Lecture hours concise prose. The lab component 8 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 227 ENLA 012 oral communication, note taking and have difficulty understanding native Beginning Speaking and Listening organizational skills. This course is speakers of English in academic (Formerly ESL 033A, ESL 028A) offered on a pass/no pass basis and is and other situations. Its purpose is This course is for English language not applicable to the degree. Students improved the pronunciation, articu- learners who wish to improve their are expected to complete an addi- lation, speed and comprehension conversational skills in English. Areas tional 8 hours TBA (To be Arranged) of non-native speakers of English. of emphasis include dictation, Eng- in the Language Lab. Students The course focuses on sounds in lish phrasing patterns, various speak- initially enrolled in the course will be isolation, the blending of sounds in ing situations, listening practice, and assessed and only those passing the phrasal elements and the production self-correction. This course is offered assessment will be allowed to remain. of sentences incorporating correct on a pass/no pass basis and is not 3 Units intonation, accent, speed and rhythm. applicable to the degree. Students are 54 Lecture hours This course is offered on a pass/no expected to complete an additional 8 8 Lab hours pass basis and is not applicable to the hours TBA (To Be Arranged) in the degree. Language Lab. ENLA 023 3 Units 3 Units Intermediate Grammar 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours (Formerly ESL 029A,B,C; ESL 030A) 8 Lab hours 8 Lab hours Advisory: ENLA 013 or appropriate assessment; ENLA 024 or appropriate ENLA 034 ENLA 013 assessment Intermediate-Advanced Composition Basic Grammar This course presents a multi skills (Formerly ESL 097, ESL 197) (Formerly ESL 025) approach to English grammar Prerequisite: ENLA 024 or appropriate Advisory: NESL 018 or appropriate and sentence structure for second assessment assessment language students. Through read- A continuation of ENLA 024, this This is an introductory grammar ing, writing, listening, and related course is for ENLA students and course for non-native speakers of activities such as diction, close emphasizes longer writings with English. Through reading, writing, exercises, and sentence analysis, more complicated sentence pat- listening, and speaking activities, students practice the elements of cor- terns leading up to a basic essay. students learn basic English grammar rect English while focusing on verbs Students focus on both thematic and while focusing on verb structures. and verb forms. This course is offered rhetorical modes of composition This course is offered on a pass/no on a pass/no pass basis and is not while they practice topic sentences, pass basis and is not applicable to the applicable to the degree. Students are thesis statements, subordination, and degree. Students are expected to com- expected to complete and additional transitional expressions. This course plete an additional 8 hours TBA (To 8 hours TBA (To Be Arranged) in is offered on a pass/no pass basis and Be Arranged) in the Language Lab. the Language Lab. Students initially is not applicable to the degree. 3 Units enrolled in the course will be assessed 3.5 Units 54 Lecture hours and only those passing the assess- 54 Lecture hours 8 Lab hours ment will be allowed to remain. 27 Lab hours 3 Units ENLA 014 54 Lecture hours ENLA 100 Beginning Composition 8 Lab hours Advanced Composition (Formerly ESL 010) (Formerly ESL 198) Prerequisite: Appropriate placement ENLA 024 Prerequisite: ENLA 034 or appropriate through the Rio Hondo Assessment Intermediate Composition assessment Process (Formerly ESL 058A, ESL 037, ESL 027) Transfers to: UC, CSU This course is designed to help Prerequisite: ENLA 014 or appropriate ENLA 100 is the highest-level course limited English-speaking students assessment of the ENLA writing sequence and communicate better in English. The This is an intermediate composi- an ENLA student’s gateway in to course focuses on the development tion class for non-native speakers of English 101. As a result of taking this of written skills. Topics specifically English focusing on the fundamen- course, students will be able to utilize emphasized are idiomatic expres- tals of academic writing in English. various stages of the writing pro- sions, vocabulary, reading and Basic sentence structures, paragraph cess, MLA conventions of academic writing. These are taught at an entry development, composition forms, writing in several rhetorical modes level. This course is offered on a English grammar and word usage are (including a research paper), and pass/no pass basis and is not appli- studied in various rhetorical modes. advanced levels of grammatical and cable to the degree. This course is offered on a pass/no mechanical accuracy in their writing. 3.5 Units pass basis and is not applicable to the 3.5 Units 54 Lecture hours degree. 54 Lecture hours 27 Lab hours 3.5 Units 27 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours ENLA 022 27 Lab hours Intermediate Speaking and Listening (Formerly ESL 028B) ENLA 032 Advisory: ENLA 012 or appropriate Advanced Speaking and Listening: Pro- assessment nunciation and Accent Reduction This course is for ENLA students (Formerly ESL 028C) who wish to improve their English Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate speaking and listening skills at an assessment; ENLA 022 or appropriate intermediate level. Areas of empha- assessment sis include pronunciation, listening, ENLA 032 is a speaking, listening and pronunciation course intended for students who need further practice in spoken English and/or 228 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ET 074 energy series that will further exam- Advanced Photovoltaic Systems Design ine and implement the design and and Installation installation of wind power systems. ENVIRONMENTAL (Same as AET 074) Students will learn how to interpret TECHNOLOGY Prerequisite: AET/ET 072 the National Electrical Code (NEC) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or specifics concerning wind power Division of Mathematics & Sciences appropriate assessment; READ 023 or installations. The topics include appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or code compliant wiring of modules, ET 070 appropriate assessment inverters, charge controllers, ground- Introduction to Alternative Energy This is the second course in the ing techniques and related topics. Technology (Same as AET 070) photovoltaic series that will further Additional topics include wind site Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or examine and implement the design evaluations, electrical load calcula- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and installation of solar photovoltaic tions, wind system size calculations, appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or power systems. Students will learn hydraulic fundamentals, basic aero- appropriate assessment how to interpret the National Electri- dynamics, and installation techniques This course is an introductory course cal Code (NEC) specifics concerning for large wind power generation that will examine the theory behind photovoltaic installations. The topics systems. This course is intended for present day energy systems which include code compliant wiring of students that are contemplating a will include an in-depth analysis modules, inverters, charge control- career in the wind turbine power of the design and installation of lers, batteries, grounding techniques generation industry. alternate energy systems. Topics will and related topics. Additional topics 3 Units include: solar electrical systems, wind include the design and installation 45 Lecture hours electrical systems, solar water heating of large commercial photovoltaic 27 Lab hours systems, wind mechanical systems, systems. This course is intended small hydro-electrical systems, and for students that are interested in ET 110 conservation methods used to save a career in the solar photovoltaic Hazardous Waste Generation/Reduc- energy. Also presented are topics energy industry. tion/Treatment on geothermal energy, fuel cells, 3 Units (Formerly EHMT 110) biomass systems, and applications 45 Lecture hours of alternate energy in transportation, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or industrial, commercial, and residen- 27 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tial systems. Students will collect appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or solar data using an irradiance meter ET 076 appropriate assessment and determine power consumption Wind Energy Systems Design and Transfers to: CSU of a typical residence to develop an Installation This course is designed to educate alternative energy solution. This (Same as AET 076) individuals working in or seeking course is intended for students that Corequisite: AET/ET 070 employment in the hazardous waste are contemplating a career in the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or management field with an overview alternative energy industry. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of industrial processes and their gen- 3 Units appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or eration of waste streams. The selected 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment industries include: electroplating, 27 Lab hours This is an introductory course that metal finishing and printed circuit will examine and implement the board production; oil refining and ET 072 design and installation of wind chemical production; steel produc- Photovoltaic Systems Design and power systems which will include tion; general manufacturing; printing Installation the installation of a working wind and graphic reproduction; agricul- (Same as AET 072) generation power system. Students ture; and consumer services. Corequisite: AET/ET 070 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or will learn how to perform wind site 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or evaluations, electrical load calcula- 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or tions, wind system size calculations, appropriate assessment hydraulics fundamentals, basic aero- ET 130 This is an introductory course that dynamics, and installation techniques Health Effects of Environmental will examine and implement the for wind power generation systems. Hazardous Materials design and installation of solar pho- Students will learn how to design and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tovoltaic power systems which will install wind power generation system appropriate assessment; READ 023 or include the installation of a working and obtain skills for employment. appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or solar photovoltaic power system. This course is intended for students appropriate assessment; BIOL 120; BIOL Students will learn how to perform that are contemplating a career in 120L; CHEM 110 solar site evaluations, electrical load the wind turbine power generation Transfers to: CSU calculations, solar system size calcula- industry. This course is designed to educate tions, and installation techniques for 3 Units individuals working in or seeking grid-tie and off-the-grid photovoltaic 45 Lecture hours employment in areas that include systems. This course is approved by 27 Lab hours health and safety responsibilities. the North American Board of Certi- It provides an overview of how to fied Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) ET 078 identify and evaluate the hazards and the students can take the optional Advanced Wind Energy Systems Photovoltaic Systems Entry Level of chemical, physical and biological Certification exam as part of the Design and Installation agents that can be encountered in course. This course is intended for (Same as AET 078) industrial operations, waste disposal students that are contemplating Prerequisite: AET/ET 076 and remediation sites. a career in the solar photovoltaic Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units energy industry. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours 3 Units appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 45 Lecture hours appropriate assessment 27 Lab hours This is the second course in the wind 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 229 ET 150 the environmental field, with an ET 200 Hazardous Waste Management overview of the basic physical and Hazardous Materials Management Applications chemical nature of groundwater Applications (Formerly EHMT 150) aquifer systems, an overview of the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or techniques of sampling protocols appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or for obtaining groundwater samples appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or based on US EPA approved sampling appropriate assessment appropriate assessment protocols, and an introduction to Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU groundwater pollution, remediation, This course is designed to provide This course is designed to provide and protection. Emphasis is placed individuals, who are working in or individuals, who are working in or on developing practical working who seek employment in the hazard- seeking employment in the envi- knowledge of groundwater resources, ous materials management field, with ronmental field with an overview of groundwater protection, and a general overview of the require- hazardous waste management and groundwater remediation. ments and applications of federal, regulations. The course explains the 3 Units state, and local laws and regulations hazardous waste regulatory frame- 54 Lecture hours relating to hazardous materials. The work and develops research skills in course will emphasize compliance the hazardous waste area. Emphasis ET 181 with Department of Transportation, is placed on the following topics: Home Energy Management and Auditing OSHA Hazard Communications, universal waste, generator compli- (Same as AET 181) SARA Title III Community Right-to- ance, site investigation and reme- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Know, Underground Tank, Asbes- diation, permitting, enforcement, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tos, Proposition 65, and Air Toxics liability, and storm water discharge. appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or Regulations. The course also provides “hands-on” appropriate assessment 4 Units applications of the regulations. These Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours This course is designed to provide applications include: preparing a 54 Lab hours individuals, who are working in or hazardous waste manifest, labeling seeking employment in the green and storing containers, sampling and energy field, with an overview of ET 230 analysis, and preparing a Phase I home energy management and Safety and Emergency Response environmental audit. auditing. Specifically, this course will Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 4 Units assist students in their preparation of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours a comprehensive home energy audit appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or 54 Lab hours and energy management program. appropriate assessment Emphasis is placed on the follow- Transfers to: CSU ET 160 ing topics: Appliances, Insulation, This course is designed to provide Hazardous Waste Site Remediation Designing/Remodeling, Electricity, individuals, who are working in Systems Landscaping, Lighting, Space Heat- or who seek employment in the Prerequisite: CHEM 110; ET 101 ing and Cooling, Water Heating, environmental technology field, with Advisory: GEOL 150; GEOL 150L Doors/Windows/Skylights, and hands-on instruction in safety and Transfers to: CSU Home Energy Audits. emergency response to chemical and This course provides an overview 3 Units physical exposures at hazardous of remediation systems that are 54 Lecture hours waste sites. Topics include: hazard employed in cleaning up hazard- identification, emergency response ous waste sites. The remediation ET 182 planning, proper use and selection systems that will be studied include: Industrial Energy Management and of PPE, site control and evaluation, groundwater remediation systems, Auditing handling drums and containers, soil vapor extraction, chemical extrac- (Same as AET 182) field sampling and air monitoring, tion/soil washing, solidification/ Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or proper use of instruments, confined stabilization, bioremediation, thermal appropriate assessment; READ 023 or spaces, emergency response includ- processes, and chemical destruction. appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or ing field exercises in the use of APR Specific details on the compounds appropriate assessment and SCBA. This course satisfies the removed, the fundamentals and spe- Transfers to: CSU requirements for 40 hour HAZ- cific applications of each method will This course is designed to provide WOPER TRAINING under OSHA be examined. Innovative remediation individuals, who are working in or (1910.120) and confined space entry technologies and trends in remedia- seeking employment in the green training under OSHA (1910.146). tion systems will be studied. A case energy field, with an overview of the 4 Units study, which will highlight the reme- industrial energy management and 54 Lecture hours diation processes that are being used auditing. Specifically, this course will 54 Lab hours at a selected remediation site, will be assist students in their preparation examined. of a comprehensive energy audit ET 240 3 Units and energy management program. Solid Waste Management Applications 54 Lecture hours Emphasis is placed on the follow- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing topics: Types of Energy Audits, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ET 170 Energy Management and Cost, appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or Groundwater Hydrology and Sampling Benchmarking, Energy Performance, appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Energy Use Requirements, Maximiz- Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ing System Efficiencies, Optimizing This course is designed to provide appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or Energy Input Requirements, Fuel individuals, who are working in or appropriate assessment and Energy Substitution and Energy seek employment in the solid waste Transfers to: CSU Audit Instruments. management field, with an overview This course is designed to train 3 Units of the solid waste industry and its individuals, who are working 54 Lecture hours components. Emphasis is placed in or who seek employment in 230 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog on the various aspects of integrated pursuing a degree in Environmental ET 271 waste management including: waste Technology, a Safety & Health Cer- Wastewater Treatment Plant prevention, recycling, composting, tificate and the working professional Operations II incineration, landfilling, environmen- or business owner responsible for Prerequisite: ET 270 tal sampling and monitoring, facility worker safety or Risk Management. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or siting and permitting, and compli- 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ance with environmental, health and 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or safety regulations. appropriate assessment 4 Units ET 260 Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours Environmental Sampling and Analysis This is the second course of a series 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of water treatment courses designed appropriate assessment; READ 023 or to train individuals, who are working ET 250 appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or in or who seek employment in the Fundamentals of Safety and Health I appropriate assessment; BIOL 120; BIOL waste water treatment field, with the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 120L; CHEM 110 practical aspects of operating and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU maintaining wastewater treatment appropriate assessment, ET 230, or work- This course provides an overview of plants, emphasizing the use of safe ing in General Industry, Construction, the techniques of sampling protocols practices and procedures. Informa- or in the Safety and Health Field for obtaining soil, air, surface water, tion presented includes: conventional Transfers to: CSU and groundwater samples based on activated sludge processes, sludge This course is designed to introduce the U.S. EPA approved sampling digestion and solids handling, efflu- the student to the field of Occupa- protocols. In the lecture, emphasis is ent disposal, plant safety and good tional Safety and Health and Program placed on the aspects of the procure- housekeeping, plant and equipment Development. Topics include instruc- ment of the samples through the maintenance, analysis and presenta- tion on Federal, State and Local EPA approved standard operating tion of data, and records and report Agency legislation and the appli- procedures and practices. In the writing. Students will also learn to cation of Labor and Occupational laboratory, the student will gain analyze and solve operational prob- Safety and Health regulations. The practical knowledge and skills for the lems and to perform mathematical course content also includes famil- appropriate collection and handling calculations relating to wastewater iarization with Workers Compensa- of environmental samples. treatment process control. tion/General Liability Insurance, 4 Units 3 Units Accident Investigation Techniques, 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics, Fire 54 Lab hours Prevention, Site and Facility Audit- ET 272 ing, Systems Safety and Program ET 270 Advanced Wastewater Treatment Development. This course is for indi- Wastewater Treatment Plant Prerequisite: ET 271 viduals that are pursuing a degree in Operations I Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Environmental Technology, Safety & Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Health or for working supervisors, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or professionals or business owners that appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or appropriate assessment are responsible for worker safety or appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU placement of workers compensation/ Transfers to: CSU This is the third course in a series of general liability insurance. This is the initial course of a series of water treatment courses designed to 3 Units water treatment courses designed to train individuals who are working in 54 Lecture hours train individuals, who are working or who seek employment in the waste in or who seek employment in the water treatment field in the practical ET 251 waste water treatment field, in the aspects of operating and maintain- Fundamentals of Safety and Health II practical aspects of operating and ing wastewater treatment plants and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or maintaining wastewater treatment emphasizes the use of safe practices appropriate assessment; READ 023 or plants, emphasizing the use of safe and procedures. Topics presented appropriate assessment; ET 230 practices and procedures. Informa- include: detailed descriptions of the Transfers to: CSU tion presented includes the role and equipment and advanced treatment This course is designed to introduce responsibilities of a treatment plant processes used for odor control, pure the student to the supervisory and operator, an explanation of why oxygen activated sludge treatment, management functions of Occupa- wastes must be treated, and detailed solids removal from secondary tional Safety and Health and Risk descriptions of the equipment and effluents, residual solids manage- Management. Topics include a review processes used in a wastewater treat- ment, enhanced biological control of Federal, State and Local Agency ment plant. Students will learn to including nitrogen and phosphorus Legislation, Labor and Occupational operate and maintain racks, screens, removal, and wastewater reclama- Safety and Health regulations and comminutors, sedimentation tanks, tion. Students will learn to operate Workers Compensation insurance. trickling filters, rotating biological and maintain treatment plant instru- The course content will focus on contactors, package activated sludge mentation equipment and systems. the Elements of Safety and Health plants, oxidation ditches, ponds, Additionally, students will also learn Program Development, Behavior and chlorination facilities. Students to analyze and solve operational Based Safety, Workplace Violence, will also learn to analyze and solve problems and to perform mathemati- Terrorism Preparedness, Hazardous operational problems and to perform cal calculations relating to wastewa- Materials and Waste Management, mathematical calculations relating to ter treatment process control. This Application of occupational safety wastewater treatment process control. course focuses on actual operating and health design/compliance, regu- 3 Units procedures and teaches students lations and development of the Safety 54 Lecture hours to analyze and solve operational and health and Loss Prevention problems. Program (Policy through QA/QC). 3 Units This course is for individuals that are 54 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 231 ET 280 ET 299 shop safety and safe and proper use Green Building Design Principles Directed Study: Environmental of equipment, tools and materials. (Same as AET 280) Technology 2 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU 18 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Independent Study/Directed Study 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or is intended for students who have appropriate assessment the ability to assume responsibil- FABR 045 Transfers to: CSU ity for independent work and to Intermediate Fabrication Processes This course is designed to provide prepare written or oral reports and/ Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate individuals, who are working in or or appropriate projects. To enroll in assessment; MATH 020 or appropriate seeking employment in the green an independent study/directed study assessment; FABR 040 building field, with an overview of course, students must possess a 2.5 This is a beginning level course the green building industry and its overall grade point average, a 3.1 designed to broaden the students’ components. Specifically, this course grade point average in the discipline skills and knowledge of metal fab- will assist students in their prepara- of study being requested, or receive rication techniques. This course will tion for the Leadership in Energy and an exception from the instructor. introduce students to basic hand tools Environmental Design Accredited Independent Studies/Directed Stud- and power tools commonly used in Professional (LEED AP) Examina- ies may be developed from any topic the metal fabrication industry. Topics tion, which is the most recognized arising from or related to a course of covered in this class will include professional accreditation for green study that will result in developing structural fabrication, tube bend- building in the nation. Emphasis is depth and breadth in that subject ing, stair layout and construction, placed on the six categories of design area. Students will be expected to and fabrication of components from that green buildings must address meet on a regular basis with their fac- sheet metal. Emphasis will be placed for LEED Certification: Sustainable ulty sponsor and submit a final report on shop safety and on developing Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & or project, and student progress shall proper working procedures. Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, be evaluated at regular intervals. 2 Units Indoor Environmental Quality, and Academic standards for Independent 18 Lecture hours Innovation & Design Process. Each of Studies/Directed Studies shall be the 54 Lab hours these categories will be studied, with same as those for other courses. Units a focus on the significance of each are awarded in accordance to Title particular credit. V regulations with one unit of credit 3 Units awarded for 54 hours of Directed 54 Lecture hours Studies, six (6) hours of which must FINANCE be with an instructor. The instructor Division of Business ET 290 is responsible for monitoring student Cooperative Work Experience/ progress through the semester. FIN 101 Internship for Environmental Students may take directed study Introduction to Financial Planning Technology Related Fields courses for a maximum of four (4) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or units within a discipline, and may assessment; MATH 030 or MATH 030D appropriate assessment; READ 023 or not accumulate more than a total of or appropriate assessment. appropriate assessment twelve (12) units college wide. Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU 1 to 4 Units This course provides an overview This course supports and reinforces 54 to 216 Lab hours of the fundamentals of financial on-the-job training in business and planning. Course topics include the industrial establishments under financial planning process, managing supervision of a college instruc- assets, managing credit, managing tor and is facilitated by the use of FABRICATION investments in stocks, bonds, mutual learning objectives. The student will funds, insurance, and real estate, be working in a skilled or profes- Division of Career & and retirement and estate planning. sional level assignment in their area Technical Education This course is designed for those of vocational interest and will meet interested in learning about personal performance objectives related to FABR 040 financial planning and/or entering instruction that are above and beyond Introduction to Fabrication Processes the field of financial planning. the conditions of regular employ- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 3 Units ment. This course is intended for stu- assessment; MATH 020 or appropriate 54 Lecture hours dents whose job is related to the field assessment; TCED 090 of environmental technology and This is a beginning level course have completed or enrolled in the designed to introduce students to appropriate coursework. “Contact the various techniques, processes and CWE office regarding re-enrollment technologies used in the Fabrication FIRE ACADEMY procedures”. industry. This course will develop Division of Public Safety Student Unpaid Internship: skills necessary for translating 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; dimensional information from a FAC 043 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours shop drawing or blueprint to metal- Advanced Fire Course Student Paid Internship: lic materials used for production of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; finished parts and assemblies. Topics appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. covered in this class will include basic appropriate assessment 1 to 4 Units blueprint reading, measurement and This is a variable format (2-40 Hours 3 Lecture hours measuring tools, layout, metal cut- of Lecture; 2-40 Hours of Lab) course 60 to 300 hours ting, drilling and tapping, and metal designed to keep Fire Service person- forming. Emphasis will be placed on nel informed of new laws and fire codes, current prevention procedures, 232 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog recent developments in hazardous employed firefighters and other a fire department, fire officer respon- materials, stress on the firefighter, interested students. Topics covered sibilities and establishing command technology, community relations, include organization of the public at the scene of an emergency will be physical fitness & wellness and other and private fire service, characteris- discussed. refresher training as may be neces- tics and behavior of fire, fire hazards 0.07 to 1.48 Units sary. and firefighter safety, extinguishing 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.482 Units agents and related extinguishing 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours equipment, fire protection systems 2 to 40 Lab hours and water supply, incident command FAC 4315 system, confine space awareness, Arson Scene Investigation FAC 118 building construction and assemblies, (Formerly FAC 43.15) Firefighter I, Basic Fire Academy basic firefighting tactics and strategy, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly FTECH 018, 118) fire prevention, hazardous materials, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 emergency care, wild land firefight- appropriate assessment or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ing, Rapid Intervention, Rescue This course is for fire department per- appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or Systems and physical fitness. This sonnel and other interested students MATH 030D or appropriate assessment; course meets the State Board of Fire as it provides an introduction to the FTEC 101; FTEC 102; FTEC 103; FTEC Services requirements for designation practices and procedures of fire scene 104; FTEC 105; FTEC 106; EMT 093 as a “California Fire fighter I Accred- investigation. The scientific method Advisory: BIOL 125 ited Academy” (ARA or Accredited of scene investigation, providing a Transfers to: CSU Regional Academy by the California systematic framework for investiga- This course is designed for recently State Fire Marshal). Students who tions, is stressed. Determining the employed firefighters and other complete this course also receive Cali- point of origin, establishing the cause interested students. Topics covered fornia certification as an Emergency and recognition, and preservation of include organization of the public Medical Technician, in Vehicle Extri- evidence will be included. Current and private fire service, characteris- cation, Fire Control I & II, Hazardous legally acceptable methods in compli- tics and behavior of fire, fire hazards Materials First Responder Opera- ance with the standards of NFPA 921 and firefighter safety, extinguishing tional, Confine Space Awareness, “Guide to Fire Explosion Investiga- agents and related extinguishing Rescue Systems I, S-110, S-130, S-190, tions” are stressed throughout the equipment, fire protection systems Trench Rescue, Rapid Intervention course. and water supply, incident command Crew Tactics, Firefighter Safety and 0.074 to 1.482 Units system, confine space awareness, Survival and ICS –200. This course 2 to 40 Lecture hours building construction and assemblies, requires completion of a medical 2 to 40 Lab hours basic fire fighting tactics and strategy, physical examination and includes fire prevention, hazardous materials, arduous physical activity. FAC 4326 emergency care, wild land firefight- 22 Units Paramedic Support Operations ing, Rapid Intervention, Rescue 136 Lecture hours (Formerly FAC 43.26) Systems and physical fitness. This 783 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or course meets the State Board of Fire appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Services requirements for designation FAC 4305 appropriate assessment as a “California Fire fighter I Accred- Hazardous Material Identification This course is designed for fire ited Academy” (ARA or Accredited (Formerly FAC 43.05, FTECH 43.05) department personnel and other Regional Academy by the California Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or interested students who may assist State Fire Marshal). Students who appropriate assessment; READ 023 or paramedic units at the scene of complete this course also receive appropriate assessment emergencies. Patient preparation, California certification as an Emer- This course is for fire department per- stabilization and paramedic coordi- gency Medical Technician, in Vehicle sonnel and other interested students nation will be reviewed. Common Extrication, Fire Control I & II, that want to learn about the current terminology will be included. This Hazardous Materials First Responder laws and regulations pertaining to course meets the Los Angeles County Operational, Confine Space Aware- the labeling of hazardous materials Emergency Medical Technician ness, Rescue Systems I, S-110, S-130, and the UN Hazardous Classifica- requirements for recertification as an S-190, Trench Rescue, Rapid Inter- tions. The National Fire Protection Emergency Medical Technician in the vention Crew Tactics and ICS –200. Association (NFPA) guidelines and State of California. This course requires completion of the Department of Transportation 0.074 to 1.482 Units a medical physical examination and (DOT) rules and regulations will be 2 to 40 Lecture hours includes arduous physical activity. presented in this class. 2 to 40 Lab hours 22 Units 0.074 to 1.482 Units 136 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours FAC 4327 783 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours Fire Fighting Operations, Structures (Formerly FAC 43.27) FAC 120 FAC 4310 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Firefighter I, Basic Fire Academy with Management Orientation appropriate assessment; READ 023 or EMT (Formerly FAC 43.10) appropriate assessment Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is designed for fire or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or department personnel and other appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment emergency responders who seek MATH 030D or appropriate assessment; This course is designed for fire additional coursework in fighting FTEC 101; FTEC 102; FTEC 103; department personnel and other structure fires. A review of basic FTEC 104; FTEC 105; FTEC 106 interested students who seek infor- firefighting tactics and strategy Advisory: BIOL 125 mation related to fire service manage- for occupancies such as dwellings, Transfers to: CSU ment. The organizational structure of commercial occupancies, industrial This course is designed for recently 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 233 occupancies, and special occupan- FAC 4331 FAC 4345 cies will be included. Emphasis will Pumping Techniques and Certification Fire Instructor 1B be placed on safety to personnel and (Formerly FAC 43.31, FTECH 43.31) (Formerly FAC 43.45) crew cohesiveness. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: FAC 4344 0.074 to 1.482 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 2 to 40 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 2 to 40 Lab hours appropriate assessment appropriate assessment This course is designed to train stu- State Board of Fire Services accred- FAC 4328 dents to operate fire apparatus under ited courses in fire service instruc- Fire Fighting Operations, Mobile Units emergency and non-emergency tional techniques, including methods (Formerly FAC 43.28) conditions. It integrates the physical of instruction, use of audio/visual Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or properties of modern fire apparatus equipment, employment of instruc- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or suppression systems, pump theory tional aids, test construction, teaching appropriate assessment and operation, hydraulic calcula- demonstrations and reducing failure This course is designed for fire tions, water supply considerations, rates. This course applies to Califor- department personnel and other relay pumping principles, water nia Fire Service Training and Educa- emergency responders who seek shuttle operations, foam systems tional System certifications. additional coursework in fighting fires where mobile units are burning. operation and apparatus maintenance 0.167 to 0.75 Units A review of basic firefighting tactics and testing. This course will include 8 to 40 Lecture hours and strategy specifically for cars, classroom discussion, pumping dem- trucks, buses, ships, planes and trains onstrations, and pumping practice. FAC 4346 will be discussed. This course will This course meets the standards of Fire Prevention 1A also present information related to the State of California and NFPA (Formerly FAC 43.46) terrorist acts while utilizing mobile 1002, for operator certification. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or equipment. Emphasis will be placed 0.167 to 0.75 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or on safety to personnel. 8 to 40 Lecture hours appropriate assessment 0.074 to 1.482 Units This course is the first of a two- 2 to 40 Lecture hours FAC 4335 course series designed to prepare Fire 2 to 40 Lab hours Special Equipment Familiarization Service or other interested students (Formerly FAC 43.35, FTECH 43.35) to become a California Certified Fire FAC 4329 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prevention Officer. This is one of the Fire Fighting Operations, Hazardous appropriate assessment; READ 023 or State Board of Fire Services accred- Materials appropriate assessment ited courses and applies to California (Formerly FAC 43.29) This course is intended for fire Fire Service Training and Educational Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or department personnel and other System certifications. Topics covered appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or interested students who want to provide broad, technical overview appropriate assessment learn more about specialized equip- of fire prevention codes, ordinances, This course is designed for fire ment used in today’s fire service. inspection practices and key hazards department personnel and other Such equipment as the jaws of life, including responsibilities and author- interested students who seek infor- compressor units, lighting units, ity, occupancy classification & types mation related to response to fires life-saving equipment and command of construction, Egress requirements, where hazardous materials are pres- equipment will be included. fire resistive assemblies, general fire ent. A basic review of hazard clas- 0.074 to 1.482 Units safety provisions, principles and sifications, response concerns when 2 to 40 Lecture hours procedures for fire inspections. hazardous materials are present, 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 Units and responder safety is discussed. 40 Lecture hours This course will also present basic FAC 4344 response issues related to terrorist Fire Instructor 1A FAC 4347 acts involving hazardous materials. (Formerly FAC 43.44) Fire Prevention 1B 0.074 to 1.482 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly FAC 43.47) 2 to 40 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: FAC 4346 2 to 40 Lab hours appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is the first of a two- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or FAC 4330 course series designed to prepare Fire appropriate assessment Driving Techniques and Certification Service or other interested students This course is a second in the series (Formerly FAC 43.30) to become a California Certified Fire of courses required for Fire Officer Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Instructor. This is one of the State Certification as it relates to Fire appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Board of Fire Services accredited Prevention. It is also designed for Fire appropriate assessment courses and applies to California Fire Service personnel or other interested This course is designed to train Service Training and Educational students to become a California students to drive heavy equipment System certifications. Topics cov- Certified Fire Prevention Officer. including fire engines and fire trucks ered include Occupational Analysis, This course focuses on the special under emergency and non-emer- course outline, concepts of learn- hazards associated with flammable gency conditions. This course will ing, levels of instruction, behavioral and combustible liquids and gases. include classroom discussion, driving objectives, lesson plan development, Some topics of discussion include demonstrations, and driving practice. psychology of learning and instructor bulk storage and handling, transpor- This course meets the standards of evaluation. Student teaching demon- tation of flammable gases and liquids the State of California and NFPA strations are required of all. and more. 1002, for driver certification. 2 Units 2 Units 0.167 to 0.75 Units 40 Lecture hours 40 Lecture hours 8 to 40 Lecture hours 234 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog FAC 4348 FAC 4351 FAC 4362 Fire Investigation I Fire Management I Incident Command System (ICS)200 (Formerly FAC 43.48) (Formerly FAC 43.51) (Formerly FAC 43.62) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment This course is designed for students This course is designed to prepare This Fire Management course is who desire a basic introduction to the Fire Service or other interested stu- designed to prepare Fire Service or Incident Command System (ICS) for dents to become a California Certified other interested students to become fire ground operations. This course Fire Investigator. This is one of the a California Certified Fire Prevention provides the foundation for students State Board of Fire Services accred- ited courses and applies to California Officer with emphasis on supervisory to actively take part as a member of Fire Service Training and Educational skills. This is one of the State Board team responding to a fire incident. System certifications. This course of Fire Services accredited courses Instruction will be provided in the provides the participants with an and applies to California Fire Service principles and features of ICS, includ- introduction to the basics of fire scene Training and Educational System ing an organizational overview, investigation. The focus of the course certifications. This course prepares incident facilities, incident resources, is to provide information on fire or enhances the first line supervisor’s and common responsibilities. scene indicators and to determine the ability to supervise subordinates. It 0.2 Units fire’s origin. introduces key management con- 12 Lecture hours 2 Units cepts, practices utilized, and include 40 Lecture hours discussions about decision making, time management, leadership styles, FAC 4349 personnel evaluations and counseling Fire Command 1A guidelines. FIRE TECHNOLOGY (Formerly FAC 43.49) 2 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 40 Lecture hours Division of Public Safety appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment FAC 4353 FTEC 044 This course is designed to prepare Physical Fitness and Ability for the Fire Service or other interested stu- Automatic External Defibrillator (Formerly FAC 43.53) Firefighter dents to become a California Certified (Formerly FTECH 044) Fire Officer. This is one of the State Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: Student must be able to lift Board of Fire Services accredited 75lbs., drag a 150 pound “drag dummy”, courses and applies to California Fire appropriate assessment and use a sledge hammer in completion of Service Training and Educational This course provides training in System certifications. This course the use of an automated external a physical abilities test. provides instruction and simulation defibrillator. This course meets the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or time pertaining to the initial decision requirements for certification in AED appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and action processes at a working (automated external defibrillation) appropriate assessment fire. Topics include the fire officer, usage through the American Heart This course is designed to give in- fire behavior, fireground resources, Association and is for the lay rescuer service firefighters and interested operations and management. and first responder. This course is students information about condi- 2 Units designed for the individual working tioning and fire department physical 40 Lecture hours in the public health and safety field. ability test designs and will include Offered on a pass/no pass basis. manipulative drills in order to be suc- FAC 4350 0.2 Units cessful in passing California PAT’s Fire Command 1B 6 Lab hours (Physical Abilities Tests). This course (Formerly FAC 43.50) will provide information on the most Prerequisite: FAC 4349 FAC 4361 recently developed tests in South- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Fire Command 1C I-Zone Fire Fighting ern California including the CPAT appropriate assessment; READ 023 or for Company Officers (Candidate Physical Abilities Test) appropriate assessment (Formerly FAC 43.61) and the Biddle (Biddle and Associate This course is a continuation of Fire Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Validated Test). Students will learn Command 1A and is designed to pre- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or about firefighter wellness programs, pare Fire Service or other interested appropriate assessment review basic nutrition and current students to become a California Certi- This is a State Board of Fire Services NFPA (National Fire Protection fied Fire Officer. This is one of the accredited course in I-Zone fire Association) standards pertaining to State Board of Fire Services accred- fighting and elements of the Incident firefighter health and safety. Students ited courses and applies to California Command System (ICS) for Company must be able to perform basic fire- Fire Service Training and Educational Fire Officers. This addresses the three fighter activities including climbing, System certifications. This course elements of wild land fire behavior using sledge hammers, dragging including fuel, weather and topog- provides the student with informa- 150lb dummies and wearing a self raphy and fundamental elements tion on tactics, strategies and scene of size-up as they relate to I-Zone contained breathing apparatus. management for multi-casualty inci- firefighting. The duties and respon- 3 Units dents, hazardous materials incidents sibilities of a Strike Team Company 36 Lecture hours and wildland fires. Each student also Officer and procedures for struc- 54 Lab hours has the opportunity to increase his or ture triage and protection are also her knowledge and skills by handling addressed. This course is designed initial operations at these types of for firefighting personnel and other incidents through simulation and interested students who seek certifi- class activities. cation as a California State Certified 2 Units “Fire Officer”. 40 Lecture hours 2 Units 36 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 235 FTEC 045 FTEC 103 FTEC 106 Firefighter Entrance Examination Fire Behavior and Combustion Fire Protection Equipment and Systems Techniques (Formerly FTECH 103, 003) (Formerly FTECH 106, 006) (Formerly FTECH 045) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU-Restricted (see coun- This course provides Fire Technology This course provides the Fire Tech- selor for restrictions) or other interested students with an nology student with information per- This course is designed to prepare exploration of theories and funda- taining to the design and operation of Fire Technology or other interested mentals of how and why fires start, fire detection and alarm systems, heat students to take a firefighter’s spread, and how they are controlled. and smoke control systems, special examination. Topics covered include An in-depth study of fire chemis- protection and sprinkler systems, a review of firefighter duties and the try and physics, fire characteristics water supply for fire protection and requirements of a firefighter, employ- of materials, extinguishing agents, portable fire extinguishers. ment requirements in the fire service and fire control techniques will be 3 Units and the hiring process. Resumes, fire explored. 54 Lecture hours department written examinations, 3 Units oral interviews, and other related 54 Lecture hours FTEC 107 aspects will be discussed. Hazardous Materials I 3 Units FTEC 104 (Formerly FTECH 107, 007) 54 Lecture hours Fire Prevention Technology Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly FTECH 104, 004) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or FTEC 101 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment Fire Protection Organization appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU (Formerly FTECH 101, 001) appropriate assessment This course provides fire technology Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: CSU or other interested students with appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed to provide information pertaining to the first appropriate assessment Fire Technology or other inter- responder role when dealing with Transfers to: CSU ested students with fundamental hazardous materials operations. Haz- This course provides Fire Technol- information regarding the history ardous materials decontamination ogy or other interested students and philosophy of fire prevention, procedures will also be discussed. with an overview of fire protection organization and operation of a fire Classification of hazardous materials issues. Included will be an introduc- prevention bureau, use of fire codes, and National Fire Protection Associa- tion to the philosophy and history of identification and correction of fire tion standards (NFPA 472) will be fire protection and fire service. The hazards, and the relationships of fire addressed. organization and function of public prevention with built-in fire protec- 3 Units and private fire protection services, tion systems, fire investigation, and 54 Lecture hours the laws and regulations affecting fire fire and life-safety education. service and the role of fire depart- 3 Units FTEC 108 ments as part of local government 54 Lecture hours Hazardous Materials II will be explored. Basic fire chemistry, (Formerly FTECH 108, 008) fire protection systems, firefighting FTEC 105 Prerequisite: FTEC 107 strategies and possible career oppor- Building Construction for Fire Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tunities in fire related fields will also Protection appropriate assessment; READ 023 or be addressed. (Formerly FTECH 105, 013) appropriate assessment 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course provides the fire tech- appropriate assessment nology or other interested student FTEC 102 Transfers to: CSU with information pertaining to the Principles of Fire & Emergency Services This course provides the Fire Tech- handling, identification, firefighting Safety & Survival nology or other interested students practices, and the explosive hazards (Formerly FTECH 102, 002) with an understanding of the essen- confronted with during a hazard- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tial components used in building ous materials response. The role of a appropriate assessment; READ 023 or construction that directly relates to Hazardous Material Technician and appropriate assessment fire safety. The elements of construc- Specialist will be discussed. The types Transfers to: CSU tion and design of structures, factors of hazardous materials that could be This course introduces the Fire Tech- when inspecting buildings, preplan- used during a terrorism event will be nology or other interested students ning fire operations, and operating at covered. to the basic principles and history fires will be discussed. The develop- 3 Units related to the national firefighter ment and evolution of building and 54 Lecture hours life safety initiatives, focusing on fire codes will be studied in relation- the need for cultural and behavior ship to past fires in residential, com- FTEC 109 changes throughout the emergency mercial, and industrial occupancies. Fire Fighting Tactics and Strategy services. This course has been 3 Units (Formerly FTECH 109, 009) updated to meet the National Fire 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and Emergency Services Higher Edu- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cation objectives as it pertains to fire- appropriate assessment; fighter safety and survival techniques Transfers to: CSU used in today’s fire service. This course provides the fire technol- 3 Units ogy or other interested students 54 Lecture hours with information pertaining to the elements of the incident management 236 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog system, evaluation of information include the different types of fire FTEC 150 management and critical incident apparatus and their function includ- Truck Company Operations factors including control of incident ing wildland firefighting apparatus Prerequisite: Firefighter 1 certification communications, basic strategy deci- and municipal fire apparatus. or completion of a CSFM approved Fire sions, and the development of a tacti- 3 Units Academy cal plan. Basic current fire ground 54 Lecture hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate strategies will also be explored in this assessment course. FTEC 114 Transfers to: CSU 3 Units Fire Investigation This course is for veteran firefight- 54 Lecture hours (Formerly FTECH 114, 014) ers or other interested students that Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or want to enhance their knowledge and FTEC 110 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ability as it pertains to the fire ground Rescue Practices appropriate assessment operations associated with truck com- (Formerly FTECH 110, 010) Transfers to: CSU pany tactics and strategy. Basic roof Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course provides the Fire Tech- construction, vertical and horizontal nology or other interested students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ventilation, forcible entry, positive with an understanding of determin- appropriate assessment ing causes of fires (accidental, suspi- and negative ventilation, search and Transfers to: CSU cious and incendiary). Topics covered rescue, thermal imaging technology, This course provides the Fire Tech- include arson laws, field note taking, firefighter safety and survival, rapid nology or other interested students and incendiarism. Also addressed are intervention tactics, elevator rescue with a better understanding of rescue the recognition and preserving of evi- and related truck company opera- problems and techniques in the fire dence, the interviewing of witnesses tions will be discussed. service field. Topics covered include and suspects, arrest and detention 2 Units emergency rescue equipment, toxic procedures, court demeanor and the 20 Lecture hours gases, chemicals, diseases, radiation giving of court testimony. 60 Lab hours hazards, and care of victims. Students 3 Units will become prepared for emergency 54 Lecture hours FTEC 290 childbirths, respiration and resus- Cooperative Work Experience/ citation, auto extrication, and other FTEC 117 Internship for Fire Technology Related emergency conditions throughout the Fire Service Management, Safety and Fields course. Wellness (Formerly FTECH 290) 3 Units (Formerly FTECH 117) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or assessment; ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment FTEC 111 Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU Fire Hydraulics This course is designed for fire This course supports and reinforces (Formerly FTECH 111, 011) technology majors to provide the on-the-job training in the Fire Tech- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or student with the concepts, theories nology field under supervision of a appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and principles of fire service man- college instructor and is facilitated appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or agement. Emphasis is placed on the by the use of learning objectives. The appropriate assessment distinctions between management, student will be working in a skilled Transfers to: CSU supervision and leadership. Fire or professional level assignment in This course provides the Fire Tech- service stress and safety management the area of Fire Technology and will nology student with information will be discussed and the national fire meet performance objectives related applicable to hydraulics laws as they service standards will be presented. to instruction that are above and pertain to the fire service. The student 3 Units beyond the conditions of regular will study and understand formulae 54 Lecture hours employment. This course is intended and mental calculation to properly for students whose job is related to use the fire apparatus at a fire emer- FTEC 121 the field of fire technology and have gency to solve gallons per minute and Emergency Response completed or enrolled in the appro- pressure problems with water used (Formerly FTECH 121) priate coursework. “Contact the for firefighting purposes. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or CWE office regarding re-enrollment 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or procedures”. 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment Student Unpaid Internship: Transfers to: CSU 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; FTEC 112 This course is intended for students 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours Fire Apparatus and Equipment that seek a better understanding of Student Paid Internship: (Formerly FTECH 112, 012) the role and responsibilities of a first 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or responder. This class also meets the 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or State of California Title 22 require- 1 to 4 Units appropriate assessment ments pertinent to CPR, First Aid and 3 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU AED (automatic external defibrilla- 60 to 300 hours This course provides the fire technol- tion) training as it relates to the EMT ogy or other interested students with (Emergency Medical Technician). FTEC 299 information pertaining to the design This course will also certify the stu- Directed Study: Fire Technology and operation of fire department dent to administer oxygen, provide Transfers to: UC, CSU apparatus. This includes components professional rescuer CPR and provide Independent Study/Directed Study such as the engine, pump and drive basic first aid. This course may be is intended for students who have train. Basic hydraulic calculations for repeated once. the ability to assume responsibil- operation and safe vehicle use will 3 Units ity for independent work and to also be discussed. Topics addressed 36 Lecture hours prepare written or oral reports and/ 54 Lab hours or appropriate projects. To enroll in an independent study/directed study 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 237 course, students must possess a 2.5 FR 102 by the instructor. In addition to class- overall grade point average, a 3.1 French II room instruction, students receive grade point average in the discipline (Formerly FR 002) intensive, individualized oral-aural of study being requested, or receive Prerequisite: FR 101 practice in the language laboratory an exception from the instructor. Transfers to: UC, CSU in which websites, video programs, Independent Studies/Directed Stud- This course is a continuation to the audio CDs, and CD ROMs are used. ies may be developed from any topic essentials of the French language. Various facets of French culture, phi- arising from or related to a course of The course stresses oral and written losophy, politics, and history will also study that will result in developing proficiency as well as reading com- be explored. This course is intended depth and breadth in that subject prehension. In addition to classroom for those interested in continuing to area. Students will be expected to discussion, students receive intensive learn to speak French as well as for meet on a regular basis with their fac- individualized oral-aural practice in those seeking a degree in the French ulty sponsor and submit a final report the language laboratory via inter- language. or project, and student progress shall active websites, audio CDs, video 4 Units be evaluated at regular intervals. programs, and CD ROMs. Various 72 Lecture hours Academic standards for Independent facets of French history, philosophy, 18 Lab hours Studies/Directed Studies shall be the and politics will also be analyzed same as those for other courses. Units via cross-cultural comparisons. This FR 299 are awarded in accordance to Title course is intended for those interested Directed Study: French V regulations with one unit of credit in continuing to learn to speak French Transfers to: UC, CSU awarded for 54 hours of Directed as well as for those seeking a degree Independent Study/Directed Study Studies, six (6) hours of which must in the French language. is intended for students who have be with an instructor. The instructor 4 Units the ability to assume responsibil- is responsible for monitoring student 72 Lecture hours ity for independent work and to progress through the semester. 18 Lab hours prepare written or oral reports and/ Students may take directed study or appropriate projects. To enroll in courses for a maximum of four (4) FR 201 an independent study/directed study units within a discipline, and may French III course, students must possess a 2.5 not accumulate more than a total of (Formerly FR 003) overall grade point average, a 3.1 twelve (12) units college wide. Prerequisite: FR 102 grade point average in the discipline 1 to 4 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU of study being requested, or receive 54 to 216 Lab hours This course stresses advanced an exception from the instructor. conversational, reading, writing and Independent Studies/Directed Stud- translation skills. Emphasis is placed ies may be developed from any topic on understanding spoken French as arising from or related to a course of FRENCH well as on proficiency and accuracy study that will result in developing in speaking French. The course will depth and breadth in that subject Division of Communications include an introduction to French area. Students will be expected to & Languages literature as well as the reading of meet on a regular basis with their fac- one novel in French to be determined ulty sponsor and submit a final report FR 101 by the instructor. In addition to class- or project, and student progress shall French I room instruction, students receive be evaluated at regular intervals. (Formerly FR 001) intensive, individualized oral-aural Academic standards for Independent Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or practice in the language laboratory Studies/Directed Studies shall be the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or in which websites, video programs, same as those for other courses. Units appropriate assessment audio CDs, and CD ROMs are used. are awarded in accordance to Title Transfers to: UC, CSU Various facets of French culture, phi- V regulations with one unit of credit This course provides the student losophy, politics, and history will also awarded for 54 hours of Directed with an introduction to the French be explored. This course is intended Studies, six (6) hours of which must language and culture. The course for those interested in continuing to be with an instructor. The instructor stresses oral and written proficiency learn to speak French as well as for is responsible for monitoring student as well as reading comprehension. those seeking a degree in the French progress through the semester. In addition to classroom discussion, language. Students may take directed study students receive intensive indi- 4 Units courses for a maximum of four (4) vidualized oral-aural practice in the 72 Lecture hours units within a discipline, and may language laboratory via interactive 18 Lab hours not accumulate more than a total of French websites, audio CDs, video twelve (12) units college wide. programs, and CD ROMs. Various FR 202 1 to 4 units facets of French history, philosophy, French IV 54 to 216 Lab hours and politics will also be analyzed (Formerly FR 004) via cross-cultural comparisons. This Prerequisite: FR 201 course is intended for those inter- Transfers to: UC, CSU ested in learning to speak French as This course is a continuation of FR well as for those seeking a degree in 201. The course stresses advanced the French language. conversational, reading, writing, and 4 Units translation skills. Emphasis is placed 72 Lecture hours on understanding spoken French as 18 Lab hours well as on proficiency and accuracy in speaking French. The course will include an introduction to French literature as well as the reading of one novel in French to be determined 238 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog GIS 220 maintenance and asset management GIS Applications of large-scale facilities and infrastruc- GEOGRAPHIC Prerequisite: GIS 120 ture. Included is site management of Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or facilities, city and regional planning, INFORMATION appropriate assessment; READ 023 or infrastructure based on topological appropriate assessment; CIT 101 features, evaluation based on growth SYSTEMS Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU indicators, population and economic Division of Career & (*Students will receive credit from UC for projections, and use of GIS to support only one of the following courses: GIS 120 contemporary environmental rules and Technical Education or GIS 220) regulations. The course will include GIS 220 is designed for students to production of professional quality GIS 120 apply tools learned in GIS120 and maps using ArcView as well as utiliz- Introduction to Geographic Information introduces geoprocessing methods and ing customized software. Systems and Spatial Analysis new data sets to perform suitability 3 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or models such as where to locate a new 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or school, or how to determine concen- 36 Lab hours appropriate assessment; CIT 101 trations of sales, pollutants or crimes Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU within a community. In addition, field GIS 230 (*Students will receive credit from UC for work is performed using Global Posi- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in only one of the following courses: GIS 120 tioning System (GPS) including devel- Environmental Technology or GIS 220) opment of data dictionary, collection Prerequisite: GIS 120 This course will introduce fundamental and processing and import into GIS. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or concepts of geographic information Additional data import includes CAD appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and spatial analysis, using industry and tables. Students are introduced to appropriate assessment standard geospatial application tools data delivery including layer and map Transfers to: CSU including geographic information In the environmental field today there packages and web mapping. Course systems (GIS), global positioning are few jobs that do not require a back- may include field trips for student to systems (GPS), cartography, remote ground in Geographical Information visit industry meetings and attend off sensing. Students will learn how to Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning campus GPS exercise. use geospatial technologies to perform Systems (GPS). GIS is today widely 4 Units spatial analysis in various disciplines applied in planning used for land use 54 Lecture hours including but not limited to business, and growth management, environ- 54 Lab hours public safety, health, politics, engineer- mental assessment to disaster response. ing, environmental, and social, biologi- This course integrates training in GIS GIS 221 cal and geological sciences. Students with field data collection methods Cartography Design and Geographic using GPS & Remote Sensing to collect should have a working knowledge Information Systems environmental data used interpretively of Windows to be successful in this Prerequisite: GIS 120 by GIS. Students should have a work- course. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ing knowledge of Windows to be suc- 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cessful in this course. This course may 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment be taken once for credit towards the 54 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU certificate and repeated once for credit GIS plays an important role in almost to enhance student skills and profi- GIS 130 any discipline and improves under- ciency level. Possible day field trips are Applied Geographic Information scheduled to visit local industries and standing of information through visual Systems for GPS field work. interpretation. Prerequisite: GIS 120 or introductory level 3 Units This course is designed for students experience in GIS and use of e-mail and 36 Lecture hours who want a better understanding and Internet 54 Lab hours methods to effectively portray informa- Transfers to: CSU tion spatially using conventions of pat- This course provides students an GIS 280 terns, colors and symbology. Students expanded hands-on study in GIS Visual Basic and Database Management are introduced to the history of map using ArcView and practical learning for GIS interpretation, map projections, scales, in the field to enhance GIS entry-level Prerequisite: GIS 120 map accuracy and layout conventions Corequisite: GIS 220 employment skills. Working in the for publication in reports or large for- Transfers to: CSU field with professionals from GIS and mats at emergency operations center. This course presents the fundamen- other disciplines, students will collect Course may include field trips for tals of computer programming and real data and information using Global student to visit industry meetings and database management systems (DBMS) Positioning Systems GPS, develop GIS attend off campus GPS exercise. techniques as utilized in Visual Basic data, explore solutions to real problems 4 Units and Access for various GIS (Geo- and produce supportive documenta- 54 Lecture hours graphic Information Systems) environ- tion in a variety of formats including 54 Lab hours ments. Advanced GIS programming constructing web pages and plotting and database management methodolo- maps. gies for spatial data analysis and devel- GIS 222 3 Units opment of GIS applications will also Planning and Facilities Management 36 Lecture hours be covered. This course is designed for Using GIS 54 Lab hours students in the GIS program and others Prerequisite: GIS 120 who wish to upgrade their skills to Corequisite: ENGT 150 build a solid understanding of Visual Transfers to: CSU Basic and data management systems This course uses ArcView GIS as an for GIS customization and application analytical and information tool for development. engineers, planners and facility manag- 4 Units ers to aid in the planning process, facili- 54 Lecture hours ties management, systems evaluation, 54 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 239 GIS 281 GEOG 103 Crime Mapping and Analysis World Regional Geography Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or GEOGRAPHY Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; CIT 101 Division of Mathematics & Sciences appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU Crime mapping plays an important GEOG 101 World Regional Geography explores role in almost any form of crime analy- Introduction to Physical Geography the world’s geographic regions, sis and can improve our understanding (Formerly GEOG 001) including Subsaharan Africa, North of the important relationships between Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Africa, Southwest Asia, China, South- people, location, time, and crime. As a appropriate assessment; READ 023 or east Asia, Middle America, South result, Geographic information systems appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or America, Japan, Europe, and Russia. (GIS) has become an essential tool used appropriate assessment This course describes the cultural, by crime analysts to discover crime Transfers to: UC, CSU economic and environmental aspects patterns, implement corrective strate- Introduction to Physical Geography of each of these geographic realms. gies, optimize resource allocation and is a general education course that It provides a geographic perspective to develop crime prevention measures. introduces students to the natu- that will enhance global awareness Students will use ArcGIS to analyze ral processes that shape the earth. and geographic literacy. crime series, conduct problem analysis, Weather and climate, landforms 3 Units study crime trends, and address and volcanoes, glaciers, rivers and 54 Lecture hours deployment issues as they relate to coastal phenomena are among the decision making in law enforcement. topics explored. This course is for any GEOG 299 Students should have a working student interested in the physical pro- Directed Study: Geography knowledge of Windows to be success- cesses that shape land masses. Transfers to: UC, CSU ful in this course. 3 Units Independent Study/Directed Study 4 Units 54 Lecture hours is intended for students who have 54 Lecture hours the ability to assume responsibil- 54 Lab hours GEOG 101L ity for independent work and to Introduction to Physical Geography prepare written or oral reports and/ GIS 290 Laboratory or appropriate projects. To enroll in Cooperative Work Experience/Internship (Formerly GEOG 001L) an independent study/directed study for Geographic Information Systems Prerequisite/Corequisite: GEOG 101 course, students must possess a 2.5 Related Fields Transfers to: UC, CSU overall grade point average, a 3.1 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The physical geography laboratory grade point average in the discipline appropriate assessment; READ 023 or is designed to acquaint students of study being requested, or receive appropriate assessment with the methods, techniques and an exception from the instructor. Transfers to: CSU procedures used by geographers in Independent Studies/Directed Stud- This course supports and reinforces on- the study and analysis of the physical ies may be developed from any topic the-job training in business and indus- environment. Students will use maps, arising from or related to a course of trial establishments under supervision the internet and other tools to work study that will result in developing of a college instructor and is facilitated with real-world geographic data. This depth and breadth in that subject by the use of learning objectives. The course fulfills the general education area. Students will be expected to student will be working in a skilled or lab requirement in physical sciences meet on a regular basis with their fac- professional level assignment in their when taken with or after GEOG 101. ulty sponsor and submit a final report area of vocational interest and will 1 Unit or project, and student progress shall meet performance objectives related to 54 Lab hours be evaluated at regular intervals. instruction that are above and beyond Academic standards for Independent the conditions of regular employment. GEOG 102 Studies/Directed Studies shall be the This course is intended for students Introduction to Cultural Geography same as those for other courses. Units whose job is related to the field of GIS (Formerly GEOG 002) are awarded in accordance to Title and have completed or enrolled in the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or V regulations with one unit of credit appropriate coursework. “Contact the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or awarded for 54 hours of Directed CWE office regarding re-enrollment appropriate assessment Studies, six (6) hours of which must procedures”. Transfers to: UC, CSU be with an instructor. The instructor Student Unpaid Internship: Introduction to Cultural Geography is responsible for monitoring student 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; is a general education course that progress through the semester. 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours introduces students to the basic ele- Students may take directed study Student Paid Internship: ments of culture. Population growth, courses for a maximum of four (4) 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; migration, ethnicity, language, units within a discipline, and may 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. religion, folk and popular culture, not accumulate more than a total of 1 to 4 Units and settlement forms are among the twelve (12) units college wide. 3 Lecture hours topics presented. This course may be 1 to 4 units 60 to 300 hours of interest to students considering the 54 to 216 Lab hours field of elementary teaching, ecology, social science, or travel related voca- tions. 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 240 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog GEOL 153 be evaluated at regular intervals. Earthquakes Academic standards for Independent GEOLOGY (Formerly GEOL 004) Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Division of Mathematics & Sciences Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or same as those for other courses. Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or are awarded in accordance to Title GEOL 150 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or V regulations with one unit of credit Physical Geology appropriate assessment awarded for 54 hours of Directed (Formerly GEOL 001) Transfers to: UC, CSU Studies, six (6) hours of which must Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or “Earthquakes” examines the origin, be with an instructor. The instructor appropriate assessment; READ 023 or mechanics, distribution, and effects is responsible for monitoring student appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or of tremors. Spectacular examples of progress through the semester. MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- historical earthquakes are reviewed, Students may take directed study ate assessment as are such topics as plate tectonics, courses for a maximum of four (4) Transfers to: UC, CSU earthquake prediction, structural risk, units within a discipline, and may Physical Geology, which fulfills the fault anatomy, paleoseismology, tsu- not accumulate more than a total of physical science general education namis, magnitude scales, earthquake twelve (12) units college wide. requirement, is the study of the mate- location, and safety - as well as a 1 to 4 units rials that our beautiful Earth is made survey of southern California’s major 54 to 216 Lab hours out of, as well as the processes and fault systems and damaging histori- systems operating within the planet cal quakes. This course is designed as and on its surface. Earthquakes, vol- an elective credit for geology majors canoes, oil, beaches, tsunamis, rocks, and interested students. rivers, glaciers, plate tectonics, miner- 3 Units HEALTH SCIENCE als, continent and mountain building 54 Lecture hours Division of Health Sciences are among the many diverse topics & Nursing that will be explored. The direct effect GEOL 257 of geology on society and our history, Geology of California HS 045 as well as the impact humans are (Formerly GEOL 012) Math for the Health Care Professional having on our earth system will also Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or be examined. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- Transfers to: UC, CSU ate assessment GEOL 151 Geology of California looks at how This is a basic course that focuses on Physical Geology Laboratory our state was assembled, as well as mathematical computation and appli- (Formerly GEOL 001L) its beautiful mountains, deserts, vol- cation within the health care setting. Prerequisite/Corequisite: GEOL 150 canoes, rivers, and other landforms. Topics covered within this course Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or It examines the dynamic micro and include drug dosages, calculation appropriate assessment; READ 023 or mega processes that created these of intake and output, weights and appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or features as well as the varied rocks, measures, temperatures, intrave- MATH 030D or MATH 033 or appropri- minerals, structure and stratigra- nous infusion rates and conversions ate assessment phy that underlie them. This course necessary for safe employment in the Transfers to: UC, CSU is designed as an elective credit healthcare setting. This course is an Physical Geology Laboratory engages for Geology majors and interested elective course for students wanting students with a “hands-on” review of students. to pursue a career in the healthcare the topics presented in Geology 150 3 Units industry. and an examination of their relevance 54 Lecture hours 1 Unit to everyday life. Laboratory exercises 18 Lecture hours will include (but are not limited to) GEOL 299 earthquake hazards, earthquake risk Directed Study: Geology HS 050 and analysis, the physical proper- (Formerly GEOL 100) Nurse Assistant Pre-Certification ties and identification of minerals, Transfers to: UC, CSU Training Course igneous, metamorphic and sedimen- Independent Study/Directed Study (Formerly HS 035) tary rocks, as well as topographic is intended for students who have Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and geologic map reading. Glacial, the ability to assume responsibil- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or coastal, dry land, groundwater, and ity for independent work and to appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or fluvial, processes and landforms are prepare written or oral reports and/ MATH 020C or appropriate assessment scrutinized. Several geologic investi- or appropriate projects. To enroll in This course is designed for students gations of the hills and the river plain an independent study/directed study who have expressed an interest in surrounding the campus will also be course, students must possess a 2.5 an entry level nursing course. This completed. overall grade point average, a 3.0 course meets Title 22 regulations for 1 Unit grade point average in the discipline taking care of the geriatric population 54 Lab hours of study being requested, or receive in a long term care setting, utiliz- an exception from the instructor. ing skills in basic care, emergency Independent Studies/Directed Stud- care and communication. The Nurse ies may be developed from any topic Assistant Pre-Certification training arising from or related to a course of course consists of a combination of study that will result in developing 64 hours of classroom instruction depth and breadth in that subject and 120 hours of supervised clinical area. Students will be expected to practice in long term facilities. This meet on a regular basis with their fac- course prepares the student to take ulty sponsor and submit a final report the California state certification exam or project, and student progress shall 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 241 to become a Certified Nurse Assis- classroom instruction and 48 hours tant (CNA). After obtaining the state supervised clinical practice in either certification, the student may find the Acute Care or Skilled Nursing HEAT & FROST employment in the acute care, long Facility. This course meets title 22 Division of Career & term care or assisted living settings. Regulations for Home Health Aides Technical Education According to Title 22 regulations, the training programs. student who has completed the train- 2 Units HEFR 001 ing program (HS 050) may take the 24 Lecture hours Industry and Safety Orientation competency state exam. If the student 48 Lab hours (Formerly HE&FR 001) fails the state exam, they may repeat Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice with the exam two times before they must HS 054 the State of California take this entire training program (HS Beginning Terminology for Healthcare Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 050) again. Workers appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 5.5 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 64 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment 120 Lab hours appropriate assessment This course is designed to meet the This course covers the basic knowl- needs of State Indentured Appren- HS 051 edge and understanding of medical tices with the state of California who Certified Nurse Assistant Acute Care language, terminology, and basic are interested in the heat and frost Training Course human anatomy. The student will insulators industry. Topics include Prerequisite: Nurse Assistant Pre- learn word parts, prefixes, suffixes, orientation to the trade, industry Certification Training Course/State word roots and will review the body safety, job-site safety, insulation, Certification systems. Anatomical, physiological pipe systems, OSHA, refinery safety, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and pathophysiological terms will boom and scissor lift safety, and duct appropriate assessment; READ 023 or also be defined. This is an entry level systems. appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or course for students interested in the 6 Units MATH 020C or appropriate assessment health care field and is highly recom- 90 Lecture hours This course is designed for students mended prior to enrolling in any 72 Lab hours who are Certified Nurse Assistants health related course. that wish to learn the basic nursing 3 Units HEFR 002 skills and duties in the acute care 54 Lecture hours Piping Systems setting with additional emphasis (Formerly HE&FR 002) on the specialized acute care areas HS 060 Prerequisite: HEFR 001; Indentured such as medical/surgical, orthope- Health Science Core Apprentice with the State of California dics, pediatrics and obstetrics. The (Formerly HS 020) This course is designed to meet the Certified Nurse Assistant Acute Care Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 needs of State Indentured Appren- course consists of a combination of or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tices with the State of California who 24 hours classroom instruction and appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or are interested in the heat and frost 48 hours supervised clinical practice MATH 020C or appropriate assessment insulators industry. Topics include in the acute care hospital. This course This is a basic course which focuses insulation materials, techniques, includes communication, patient on medical terminology, normal body finishes, piping systems, fireproofing, assessment, observation and report- structures and functions, the prin- hand tools, fall protection, and equip- ing training as well as reinforcement ciples of nutrition, and the relation- ment used in the field. of Certified Nurse Assistant basic- ship of nutrition to health. It provides 6 Units care procedures. a strong foundation for all students 90 Lecture hours 2 Units entering the health care field. This 72 Lab hours 24 Lecture hours course is a prerequisite for the Voca- 48 Lab hours tional Nursing Program. HEFR 003 5 Units Boiler Insulation HS 052 90 Lecture hours (Formerly HE&FR 003) Home Health Aide Training Course Prerequisite: HEFR 001; Indentured Prerequisite: Nurse Assistant Pre- HS 070 Apprentice with the State of California Certification Training Course/State Introduction to Ambulatory Care This course is designed to meet the Certification Nursing needs of State Indentured Appren- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: Possess an unrestricted tices with the State of California who appropriate assessment; READ 023 or California RN license are interested in the field of heat appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or This is an introductory level course and frost insulators industry. Topics MATH 020C or appropriate assessment to prepare the licensed RN to work include boilers, insulating techniques, This course is designed for students in the ambulatory care nursing stacks, breechings, hi- ribb lath insu- who are Certified Nurse Assistants setting. This course includes class- lation, finishing, ship-yard orienta- that wish to learn how to provide room lecture and learning activities tion, pen welding, safety, first-aid, personal care in the home care set- that provides the type of skills and confined space, and fittings. ting for those who are unable to do competencies needed for the RN to 6 Units it for themselves and / or promote work in outpatient care settings, such 90 Lecture hours the recovery, safety and comfort of as clinics. 72 Lab hours the patient. Additional emphasis on 4.5 Units rehabilitative nursing care, family 81 Lecture hours relationships and the impact of long- term illness on the family as well as the client will be included. The Home Health Aide training course consists of a combination of 24 hours 242 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog HEFR 004 HEFR 008 battery, charging, starting, accessory, Mathematics Prefabricated Buildings and instrumentation systems.Dem- (Formerly HE&FR 004) (Formerly HE&FR 008) onstrations using the A-Tech circuit Prerequisite: HEFR 001; Indentured Prerequisite: HEFR 001, Indentured boards will be used to illustrate elec- Apprentice with the State of California Apprentice with the State of California trical principles, including strategy- This course is designed to meet the This course is designed to meet the based diagnostics. needs of State Indentured Appren- needs of State Indentured Appren- 4 Units tices with the State of California who tices with the State of California who 54 Lecture hours are interested in the heat and frost are interested in the heat and frost 54 Lab hours insulators industry. Topics include insulators industry. Topics include whole numbers, fractions, decimals, HET 042 basic math functions, curves and insulation, design of walls, prefabri- Heavy Equipment Heating, Ventilation angles, drawings, estimating, energy cated industry panels, prefabricated and Air-Conditioning appraising, insulation certifications, metal buildings, hazardous materials, (Formerly HEM 042) and measurements. and storage tank insulation. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 6 Units 6 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 90 Lecture hours 90 Lecture hours appropriate assessment 72 Lab hours 72 Lab hours This course is designed to familiarize the students with the heavy equip- HEFR 005 ment’s heating, ventilation, and air- Mechanical Piping Insulation conditioning systems, and prepare (Formerly HE&FR 005) them for an entry level technician Prerequisite: HEFR 001; Indentured HEAVY EQUIPMENT in this field. Topics covered include Apprentice with the State of California TECHNOLOGY environmental and safety practices, This course is designed to meet the thermodynamic principles, refrigera- needs of State Indentured Appren- tion systems, engine cooling and heat tices with the State of California who Division of Career & sources, service and troubleshooting are interested in the heat and frost Technical Education procedures. During the course, stu- insulators industry. Topics include dents will be given the opportunity heat transfer, general insulating HET 040 to earn their certification license (EPA methods, materials, application of Introduction to Heavy Equipment Rule 1411). insulation materials, coatings, cover- Technology 2 Units ings for pipes and fittings, attach- (Formerly HEM 040) 27 Lecture hours ment methods, mold recognition and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 27 Lab hours abatement, and finishing for pipes in appropriate assessment; READ 023 or various thermal ranges. appropriate assessment HET 043 6 Units This is an introductory course Heavy Equipment Hydraulic 90 Lecture hours designed to familiarize the student Fundamentals 72 Lab hours with the basic operation and main- (Formerly HEM 043) tenance of a multitude of systems Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or HEFR 006 commonly found on Heavy Equip- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Foam and Firestopping Insulation ment machinery. Students will learn appropriate assessment; HET 040 (Formerly HE&FR 006) the fundamentals of diesel engines, This introductory course is designed Prerequisite: HEFR 001; Indentured clutches, manual transmissions, to familiarize the students with a Apprentice with the State of California torque converters, automatic trans- variety of heavy equipment hydraulic This course is designed to meet the missions, drive lines, steer and drive systems and their operational char- needs of State Indentured Appren- axles, various brake and hydraulic acteristics. Topics covered include tices with the State of California who systems. In addition, the students will hydraulics safety, hydraulic power are interested in the heat and frost learn basic tools and equipment, and principles, typical components, oil insulators industry. Topics include how to safely perform basic repairs contamination and filtration, circuits, metal cutting, fittings, band saws, and maintenance operations. This is symbols, schematics, diagrams, and foam materials, spray equipment the first course in a series of Heavy testing instruments. In addition, an operations, firestopping insulation, Equipment Technology classes, and is overview of electro-hydraulic sys- and maintenance and repair of foam designed for the student who wants tems including electric and electronic application equipment. to enter the field of Heavy Equipment components, controllers, controller 6 Units Maintenance and Repair. programming, and data communica- 90 Lecture hours 4 Units tion, will also be covered. 72 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours Demonstrations using hydraulic 54 Lab hours trainer simulators will be used to HEFR 007 illustrate hydraulic power principles Blueprint Reading HET 041 and operation, including strategy- (Formerly HE&FR 007) Heavy Equipment Electrical based diagnosis. Prerequisite: HEFR 001; Indentured Fundamentals 2 Units Apprentice with the State of California (Formerly HEM 041) 27 Lecture hours This course is designed to meet the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 27 Lab hours needs of State Indentured Appren- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tices with the State of California who appropriate assessment HET 044 This introductory course is designed are interested in the heat and frost Heavy Equipment Diesel Engines insulators industry. Topics include to familiarize the student with the heavy equipment’s electrical and (Formerly HEM 044) introduction to blueprint reading, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or general arrangements, symbols, electronic systems. Topics covered include fundamentals of electricity, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or industry standards, insulation draw- appropriate assessment; HET 040 ings, isometric, industry certifica- basic circuits, schematics, symbols, This course is designed to familiar- tions, and shop drawings. diagrams, DVOM, graphing multi- 6 Units meter and oscilloscope usage, wire ize the students with the mechanical 90 Lecture hours repair techniques, electrical compo- aspects of the Heavy Equipment 72 Lab hours nents, semiconductors (including IC), diesel engines. Topics covered 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 243 include engine terminology, designs, addition, proper shop and personal HET 049 theory of operation, construction, safety, and how to use manufactur- Heavy Equipment Hydraulic disassembly, cleaning, components er’s service specifications information Diagnostics inspection, failure analysis, and reas- will also be covered. (Formerly HEM 049) sembly. In addition, proper shop and 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or personal safety, correct usage of shop 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and hand tools, precision measuring 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; HET 040; HET instruments, critical fasteners, and 041; HET 043 how to use manufacturer’s service HET 047 This course is intended to familiar- specifications information will also be Heavy Equipment Machine Specific ize the students with the heavy covered. Instruction equipment’s hydraulic and electro- 4 Units (Formerly HEM 047) hydraulic systems. Topics include 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or review of hydraulic theory and 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or basic hydraulic system designs and appropriate assessment; HET 045 components, hydraulic and electronic HET 045 This course is designed to familiar- components used in electro-hydraulic Heavy Equipment Powertrains I ize the students with a variety of systems, hydraulic controllers, sen- (Formerly HEM 045) material handling and construction sors, actuators, and data communica- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or equipment including forklifts, skid tions. In addition, the students will appropriate assessment; READ 023 or steer loaders, and front end loaders/ be introduced to the strategy-based appropriate assessment; HET 040; HET backhoes. Topics covered include diagnostics, with an emphasis on 043 machine specific terminology, pre-op- electro-hydraulic controls failures, This course is designed to familiarize erational and operational inspections, using hydraulic trainer simulators the students with conventional Heavy principles of balance and stability, and live equipment. Equipment powertrain systems and capacity and load handling, refuel- 4 Units components. Topics covered include ing, hydraulic power, job site and 54 Lecture hours fundamentals of gears, friction and pedestrian safety. Upon successful 54 Lab hours anti- friction bearings, mechani- completion of this course and forklift cal clutches, manual transmissions, performance testing, the student will HET 050 driveline systems, drive axles, final receive a Certificate of Completion Heavy Equipment Electrical Diagnosis drives, hydraulic and air brakes, and and wallet card for Forklift Operator Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or undercarriage systems. Component Safety Training as required by OSHA appropriate assessment; READ 023 or failure analysis will be discussed as 1910.178(l) and CAL/OSHA Title 8 appropriate assessment; HET 041 part of disassembly, inspection, and (Section 3669). This course is designed to famil- reassembly of various transmissions, 2 Units iarize the student with the heavy drive axles, and final drives. In addi- 27 Lecture hours equipment’s electrical and electronic tion, proper shop and personal safety, 27 Lab hours systems. Topics include review of and how to use manufacturer’s electrical theory, circuit faults, electri- service specifications information will HET 048 cal and electronic components usage also be covered. Heavy Equipment Powertrains II and diagnostics, computers, sensors, 4 Units (Formerly HEM 048) actuators, and data communications. 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or A-Tech simulator boards will be used 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or to illustrate different component appropriate assessment; HET 040; HET functions. In addition, the students HET 046 041; HET 043 will be introduced to the strategy Heavy Equipment Fuel Systems and This course is intended to familiarize based diagnostics, including trouble- Emissions the students with a wide variety of shooting electrical problems using (Formerly HEM 046) modern heavy equipment power- live equipment. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or trains systems and components. 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Topics covered include powershift 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; HET 041; HET transmissions, torque convert- 54 Lab hours 043; HET 044 ers, hydrostatic drive systems, AC This course is intended to familiar- electric drive systems, spring-applied HET 290 ize the students with a wide variety hydraulically released brakes, steer- Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- of heavy equipment diesel engine ing, and suspension systems. Compo- ship for Heavy Equipment Technology fuel systems and operation. Topics nent failure analysis will be discussed Related Fields covered include hydromechanical as part of disassembly, inspection, (Formerly HEM 290) systems such as port-helix, inlet- and reassembly of various transmis- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or metering, sleeve-metering and sions, drives, brakes and steering appropriate assessment; READ 023 or mechanical unit injectors as well as systems. In addition, proper shop appropriate assessment computerized management systems and personal safety, and how to use Transfers to: CSU including common rail and ampli- manufacturer’s service specifications This course supports and reinforces fied common rail. Additional topics information will also be covered. on-the-job training in business and regarding diesel engine emission 4 Units industrial establishments under the control strategies and devices such 54 Lecture hours supervision of a college instruc- as diesel oxidation catalyst, diesel 54 Lab hours tor and is facilitated by the use of particulate filter and selective cata- learning objectives.The student will lytic reduction will also be covered. be working in a skilled or profes- Component failure analysis will sional level assignment in their area be discussed as part of testing and of vocational interest and will meet adjusting of various fuel systems. In performance objectives related to instruction that are above and beyond the conditions of regular employ- 244 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ment. This course is intended for HIST 122 HIST 143H students whose job is related to the History of Mexico History of the United States to 1877 heavy equipment maintenance field (Formerly HIST 011) Honors and have completed or enrolled in Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of the appropriate coursework. “Contact appropriate assessment; READ 023 or “C” or better the CWE office regarding re- enroll- appropriate assessment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate ment procedures”. Transfers to: UC, CSU assessment Student Unpaid Internship: This course examines the cultural, Transfers to: UC, CSU 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; social, and political history of Mexico This course is a survey of United 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours from pre-Columbian to modern States history from Native American Student Paid Internship: times. The course will cover pre- origins to post Civil War Reconstruc- 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; Columbian Mesoamerica, the Spanish tion. Social, economic, political and 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. conquest and the colonial period, cultural developments are explored 1 to 4 units and the national period, with special with an emphasis on the indepen- 3 Lecture hours emphasis given to Mexico’s relations dence movement, Revolutionary War, 60 to 300 hours with the United States and its place the new Republic, westward expan- and role in the world community. sion and the Civil War. This course This course is designed for students is designed for students interested in HISTORY interested in understanding Mexico the foundational history of the United Division of Behavioral & as a nation and is also recommended States. It is recommended for all Social Sciences for all history and most social science history majors and fulfills the CSU/ majors. UC American Institutions require- HIST 101 3 Units ment and the American Institutions History of World Civilization to the 54 Lecture hours requirement for the Associate degree. 17th Century This course is intended for those who Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or HIST 131 meet Honors Program requirements. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or History of the North American Indian 3 Units appropriate assessment (Formerly HIST 016) 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is a survey of the politi- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or HIST 144 cal, economic and social development appropriate assessment History of the United States Since 1865 of world civilization up to the 17th Transfers to: UC, CSU (Formerly HIST 018) century. Special emphasis is placed This course surveys the struggle of Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or on the origins of the earth’s principal Native Americans to maintain their appropriate assessment; READ 023 or centers of civilization, their subse- culture in the face of invasion and appropriate assessment quent interaction, and the emergence changing technology. It explores gov- Transfers to: UC (credit limit:*), CSU of a world economic, political, and ernment Indian policies of removal, (*Students will receive credit from UC intellectual order. This course is pacification, annihilation and assimi- for only one of the following courses: designed for the student who wishes lation, and considers present issues HIST 144 or HIST 144H) to increase their understanding and facing Native Americans today. This This course provides a survey of appreciation of cultural, political, and course is intended for students who the political, social, economic, and intellectual diversity, as well as the wish to understand the role of Native cultural development of the United process of intercultural interaction. Americans in the historical develop- States from Reconstruction (1865) to 3 Units ment of North America. the present. Some topics addressed 54 Lecture hours 3 Units are the socio-political and eco- 54 Lecture hours nomic impact of Reconstruction, the HIST 102 American West, capital and labor in History of World Civilization, 1500 to HIST 143 the age of enterprise, America as an the Present History of the United States to 1877 emerging world power, World War Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly HIST 017) I, World War II, the Vietnam Era, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or the Cold War, the new world order, appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Clinton, and the Bush Administration Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment to the present. This course fulfills the This course is a survey of the politi- Transfers to: UC, CSU American Institutions requirement cal, economic, and social develop- This course is a survey of United for the Associate Degree. It is also rec- ment of world civilization from 1500 States history from Native American ommended for all History majors. to modern times. Special emphasis is origins to post Civil War Reconstruc- 3 Units placed on the origins and develop- tion. Social, economic, political and 54 Lecture hours ment of the world economic system cultural developments are explored and the corresponding cultural, intel- with an emphasis on the indepen- HIST 144H lectual, and social currents that have dence movement, Revolutionary War, History of the United States Since 1865 characterized most of the world’s the new Republic, westward expan- Honors leading societies since 1500. This sion and the Civil War. This course Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of course is intended for the student is designed for students interested in “C” or better who wants to increase their under- the foundational history of the United Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate standing of and appreciation of both States. It is recommended for all assessment the diversity and the unity of the history majors and fulfills the CSU/ Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU modern world. UC American Institutions require- (*Students will receive credit from UC 3 Units ment and the American Institutions for only one of the following courses: 54 Lecture hours requirement for the Associate degree. HIST 144 or HIST 144H) 3 Units This course provides a survey of 54 Lecture hours the political, social, economic, and 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 245 cultural development of the United HIST 159H spheres of society. This course is States from Reconstruction (1865) to History of Minorities: Mexican designed for the student who wants to the present. Some topics addressed Americans, Asian Americans and learn more about women’s history in are the socio-political and economic American Women Honors America and is recommended for all impact of Reconstruction on modern Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of history majors. American society, the American “C” or better 3 Units West, capital and labor in the age of Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 54 Lecture hours enterprise, America as an emerging assessment world power, World War I, World Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU HIST 299 War II, the Vietnam Era, the Cold (*Students will receive credit from UC Directed Study: History War, the new world order, Clinton, for only one of the following courses: (Formerly HIST 100) and the Bush Administration to HIST 159 or HIST 159H) Transfers to: UC, CSU the present. This course fulfills the This course surveys the roles selected Independent Study/Directed Study American Institutions requirement minorities have played in the histori- is intended for students who have for the CSU and Associate Degree. It cal development of the United States the ability to assume responsibil- is also recommended for all History from the earliest times to the present. ity for independent work and to majors. This course in intended for Emphasis is placed on the history prepare written or oral reports and/ those who meet Honors Program and cultural contributions of Mexican or appropriate projects. To enroll in requirements. Americans, Asian Americans, and an independent study/directed study 3 Units American women. This course is course, students must possess a 2.5 54 Lecture hours intended for those wishing to fulfill overall grade point average, a 3.0 the American Institutions require- grade point average in the discipline HIST 158 ment at Rio Hondo and those who of study being requested, or receive History of Minorities: African desire a better understanding of the an exception from the instructor. Americans and American Indians history of minorities in the United Independent Studies/Directed Stud- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or States. This course is intended for ies may be developed from any topic appropriate assessment; READ 023 or students eligible for the Honors arising from or related to a course of appropriate assessment Program. study that will result in developing Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units depth and breadth in that subject This course is a survey of the role 54 Lecture hours area. minorities have played in the histori- Students will be expected to meet cal development of the United States from the earliest times to the present, HIST 167 on a regular basis with their faculty with an emphasis on the twentieth History of California sponsor and submit a final report or century. The course begins with a (Formerly HIST 039) project, and student progress shall study of racism, followed by the Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or be evaluated at regular intervals. history and cultural contributions of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Academic standards for Independent the American Indian and the African appropriate assessment Studies/Directed Studies shall be the American. This course fulfills the Transfers to: UC, CSU same as those for other courses. Units American Institutions requirement This course provides an overview are awarded in accordance to Title for the Associate Degree. This course of California history from the first V regulations with one unit of credit is intended for those who desire a aboriginal inhabitants to modern awarded for 54 hours of Directed better understanding of the history of times. Cultural, political, social Studies, six (6) hours of which must minorities in the United States. and economic development will be be with an instructor. The instructor 3 Units addressed in the context of history. is responsible for monitoring student 54 Lecture hours The development of contemporary progress through the semester. institutions and the historical context Students may take directed study HIST 159 of current issues will addressed. This courses for a maximum of four (4) History of Minorities: Mexican Ameri- course is suitable for students seeking units within a discipline, and may cans, Asian Americans and American further understanding of California’s not accumulate more than a total of Women past and present, and those preparing twelve (12) units college wide. (Formerly HIST 020B) for a career in teaching at the elemen- 1 to 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tary level. 54 to 216 Lab hours appropriate assessment 3 Units Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 54 Lecture hours (*Students will receive credit from UC for only one of the following courses: HIST 170 HUMAN SERVICES HIST 159 or HIST 159H) Women in American History Division of Behavioral This course surveys the roles selected Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or & Social Sciences minorities have played in the histori- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cal development of the United States appropriate assessment HUSR 111 from the earliest times to the present. Transfers to: UC, CSU Human Services in Contemporary Emphasis is placed on the history This course is a survey of the role, Society and cultural contributions of Mexican status, and contributions of women (Formerly HUSER 111, PSY 111) Americans, Asian Americans, and of different ethnic groups and social Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or American women. This course is classes in American society from appropriate assessment; READ 023 or intended for those wishing to fulfill earliest times to the present, with an appropriate assessment the American Institutions require- emphasis on the twentieth century. Transfers to: CSU ment for the Associate degree and Special attention will be given to an CSU and those who desire a better This course is an introduction to the understanding of how gender has understanding of the history of history and philosophy of human minorities in the United States. shaped women’s options and expecta- services in contemporary society. The 3 Units tions within the private and public function and objectives of human 54 Lecture hours service organizations as well as the 246 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog qualifications of the professional will HUSR 124 will assist students’ seeking a Drug be emphasized. A survey of the popu- Introduction to Case Management and Studies Certificate or Associate of lations served in the field will focus on Documentation Science degree in Drug Studies. Other cultural, social, economic and histori- (Formerly HUSER 124, PSY 124) students interested in psychology, cal trends. The course is designed for Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or human services and the behavioral students pursuing careers in social appropriate assessment; READ 023 or sciences will benefit greatly from the work, counseling or community appropriate assessment content of the course. organizing. Transfers to: CSU 3 Units 3 Units This course introduces students to 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours case management and documentation in a variety of settings. Students will HUSR 130 HUSR 118 study the purpose, function, and ratio- Essential Counseling Skills Chemical Dependency: Intervention, nale for case management. In addition, (Formerly HUSER 130, PSY 130) Treatment, and Recovery the documentation of client clinical Advisory: ENGL 035 OR ENLA 100 or (Formerly HUSER 118, PSY 118) records will be covered, emphasizing appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the taking of social histories and the appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or writing of treatment plans. The profes- Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment sional guidelines necessary for work- This course focuses on critical coun- Transfers to: CSU ing with clients in a social services seling skills and strategies within a This course provides an introduction setting will also be covered, providing multicultural context. The course pro- to current perspectives with respect to the student with an understand- vides a vital orientation to the helping the management of chemical depen- ing of issues related to ethics, client process and the counseling profession. dency. Through an examination of rights, and confidentiality. This class Current issues within the counsel- alcoholism as a model of drug depen- is designed for students interested in ing profession, such as diversity and dence, the treatment of and recovery working in a social services setting. multiculturalism, are discussed and from such disorders will be explored 3 Units integrated throughout the course. A from two divergent perspectives: the 54 Lecture hours unique focus is given to the student’s reformative and the transformative. growth and development as a coun- Current treatment modalities will be HUSR 126 selor and how the student can best use compared and contrasted in terms of Counseling the Family of the Addicted supervision in this developmental pro- their view of the individual in both Person cess. This course would be of benefit the social and clinical context. The (Formerly HUSER 126, PSY 126) to anyone working in a human service class experience itself will serve as an Advisory: ENGL 035 OR ENLA 100 or or social services setting. intervention by challenging students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units to examine their existing ideas about appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours treatment and recovery from sub- Transfers to: CSU stance use disorders. Suitable for This course provides an overview of HUSR 199 students interested in furthering their the systems approach to counseling Fieldwork in Human Services understanding of substance depen- the chemically dependent family. (Formerly HUSER 199, PSY 199) dence and those interested in working Alcoholism will be used as a model for Prerequisite: PSY 101 or SOC 101 with with populations recovering from or developing counseling skills through a minimum grade of “C” or better, OR at risk for such problems. the analysis and examination of the consent of instructor. 3 Units relationships that develop in the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours addicted family system. An expe- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or riential format will be employed as appropriate assessment HUSR 122 students participate in exercises that Transfers to: CSU Introduction to Group Leadership and lead to the development of the neces- This course offers the student a super- Process sary skills. This course is designed for vised field experience in a community (Formerly HUSER 122, PSY 122) those working with or preparing to organization, agency, or institution, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or work with the drug dependent and allowing the student to apply knowl- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or those around them. edge and learn new skills outside of appropriate assessment 3 Units the classroom environment. A weekly Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours class meeting provides the academic This course provides an introduction element to this experiential course to the dynamics of group interaction. HUSR 128 offering and reinforces the application The individual’s firsthand experience Chemical Dependency and Co-Occur- of concepts gained in the prerequi- is emphasized as the group studies ring Disorders site course or courses. This course is itself under supervision. The factors Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or designed to provide the student with involved in problems of communica- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or an opportunity to develop skills that tion, effective emotional responses, appropriate assessment would facilitate gaining employment and personal growth will be high- Transfers to: CSU in the human services field. lighted. Group process will be exam- This course is designed for stu- 3 to 4 Units ined as a means of changing behavior. dents interested in furthering their 18 Lecture hours Suitable for students interested in understanding of the co-existence of 120 to 225 Lab hours furthering their understanding of substance abuse with other mental group dynamics and those interested health disorders. The course will assist HUSR 230 in supervising groups dedicated to students to gain the needed knowl- Drug Studies Seminar and Internship achieving behavioral change. edge and skills to interact with clients (Formerly HUSER 230, PSY 230) 3 Units who have various mental health Prerequisite/Corequisite: HUSR 122, 54 Lecture hours disorders that are complicated by co- HUSR 124, HUSR 130 occurring substance abuse problems. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The course also covers the diagnostic, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or therapeutic, and recovery phases that appropriate assessment 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 247 Transfers to: CSU century. This course is intended for Mexican-American literary, artistic, It is recommended that this course students who wish to further their musical, theatrical, social, political be taken in the final semester of the understanding of major cultural and historical movements. This Drug Studies Program and provides developments around the world. course is designed for students the student with work experience in 3 Units who wish to further their a drug treatment facility. The student 54 Lecture hours understanding of major Mexican- will apply the concepts and skills American cultural contributions to gained through their coursework as HUM 125 contemporary society. they serve as an intern in a setting Introduction to Mexican Culture 3 Units where drug dependent individuals (Formerly HUMAN 125, 002) 54 Lecture hours are served. The seminar will focus Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or on ethics, the further development appropriate assessment; READ 023 or HUM 140 of counseling skills, and the use of appropriate assessment Splendors of Asia community resources. Students must Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or meet the requirements of the intern- (*Students will receive credit from UC appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ship facility. for only one of the following courses: appropriate assessment Student Unpaid Internship: HUM 125 or HUM 125H) Transfers to: CSU 120 hours This course provides an This course is designed for Student Paid Internship: interdisciplinary presentation of students who wish to further their 150 hours vital artistic, literary, architectural, understanding of major Asian 3 Units musical, political, religious and cultural contributions to classic 16 Lecture hours historical movements within and contemporary society. The 120 to 150 other hours Mexico spanning from Pre- student will be provided with Cortesian to contemporary an interdisciplinary examination times. This course is designed of the most vital Asian literary, for students who wish to further artistic, philosophical, architectural, HUMANITIES their understanding of major religious, political and historical Division of Behavioral Mexican cultural and historical movements. & Social Sciences developments. 3 Units 3 Units 54 Lecture hours HUM 110 54 Lecture hours Survey of Humanities (Formerly HUMAN 110, 001A) HUM 125H Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Introduction to Mexican Culture ITALIAN appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Honors Division of Communications appropriate assessment (Formerly HUMAN 125H) & Languages Transfers to: UC, CSU Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or This course provides an better ITAL 101 interdisciplinary presentation Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Italian 101 of cultural forces, providing the assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or student with a comprehensive Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU appropriate assessment; READ 022 or view of the most vital artistic, (*Students will receive credit from UC appropriate assessment literary, philosophical, religious for only one of the following courses: Transfers to: UC, CSU and architectural movements HUM 125 or HUM 125H) This course is an introduction to the within the Western, Eastern and This course provides an essentials of the Italian language. Meso-American traditions from the interdisciplinary presentation of Conversational, reading, and writing Egyptians to the 1500s. This course vital artistic, literary, architectural, skills will be stressed. In addition is intended for students who wish musical, political, religious to classroom instruction, students to further their understanding of and historical movements receive intensive individualized oral- the major cultural developments within Mexico spanning from aural practice in the language labora- from around the world. pre- Cortesian to contemporary tory utilizing audio cassettes and 3 Units times. This course is designed computer programs. Relevant aspects 54 Lecture hours for students who wish to further of the cultures and civilization of the their understanding of major Italian-speaking will be included in HUM 111 Mexican cultural and historical the course. Survey of Humanities developments. This course is 4 Units (Formerly HUMAN 111, 001B) designed for students eligible for 72 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the Honors program. 18 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours ITAL 102 Transfers to: UC, CSU Italian 102 This course provides an HUM 130 Prerequisite: ITAL 101 interdisciplinary presentation Contemporary Mexican-American Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or of cultural forces, providing the Culture appropriate assessment; READ 022 or student with a comprehensive view (Formerly HUMAN 130, SOCSCI 105) appropriate assessment of the most vital artistic, literary, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU philosophical, religious, scientific appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is a continuation of ITAL and architectural movements appropriate assessment 101; in it the study of Italian grammar within the Western, Eastern Transfers to: UC, CSU is completed. Conversational, read- and Latin American traditions This course provides a ing, and writing skills will continue from the Renaissance to the 20th contemporary interdisciplinary to be stressed. Student will receive examination of the most vital intensive, individualized, oral-aural 248 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog practice in the language laboratory parisons. This course is intended for and is an introdthe principles and using audio materials and computer those interested in learning to speak techniques of broadcast news with programs. Additional aspects of Japanese as well as for those seeking special reference to the gathering and the culture and civilization of the a degree in the Japanese language. writing of news for radio and televi- Italian-speaking population will be 4 Units sion, script writing, interviewing, presented. 72 Lecture hours and the procedures and techniques 4 Units of presenting the news for broad- 72 Lecture hours cast. Each student will be assigned 18 Lab hours to write, direct, edit, and oversee JOURNALISM the production of a video broadcast Division of Communications for the college’s digital newspaper JAPANESE & Languages during the semester. Division of Communications 3 Units & Languages JOUR 110 36 Lecture hours Digital Photo Journalism 54 Lab hours JAPN 101 (Formerly JOUR 010) Japanese I Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or JOUR 220 (Formerly JAPAN 101) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advanced Reporting and Writing Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment (Formerly JOUR 020B) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU Prerequisite: JOUR 120 with a grade of appropriate assessment This course provides an introduction “C” or better Transfers to: UC, CSU to students in the process of taking Transfers to: CSU This course provides the student photographs using digital cameras, This course is designed to meet lower with an introduction to the Japanese digital video cameras, and digital division requirements for Journalism language and culture. The course printing devices, as well as computer majors which are transferable to four- stresses oral and written proficiency skills, photo-composition, printing year institutions. JOUR 220 is a con- through fundamental use of the Japa- and scanning techniques using Photo- tinuation of JOUR 120 with emphasis nese language as well as the Hiragana shop for the use of publication, and on improvement of basic skills. This and Katakana script. Students will other computer skills related to con- course concentrates on writing and also receive an introduction to Kanji temporary photo journalism. Assign- editing of more advanced news and characters. In addition to classroom ments may include work for college feature stories and other factual discussion, students receive intensive publications. Class is recommended forms for newspapers. Students will individualized oral-aural practice in for students majoring in journalism study methods of preparing material the language laboratory via inter- or photography. intended for publication. active websites, audio CDs, video 3 Units 3 Units programs, and CD ROMs. Various 36 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours facets of Japanese history, culture, 54 Lab hours 36 Lab hours and civilization will also be analyzed via cross-cultural comparisons. This JOUR 120 JOUR 230 course is intended for those inter- Communications Reporting and Magazine Production ested in learning to speak Japanese as Writing (Formerly JOUR 030) well as for those seeking a degree in (Formerly JOUR 020A) Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the Japanese language. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment 4 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 72 Lecture hours appropriate assessment assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU JAPN 102 The course is an introduction to the This course includes writing news, Japanese II writing and editing techniques used news features, profile features, (Formerly JAPAN 102) in the newspaper industry, with an commentary, and photography for Prerequisite: Completion of Japanese 101 emphasis on gathering information publication in the college magazine, with a “C” or better, or completion of 2 and the principles of clarity and con- La Cima. Students will learn copy- years high school Japanese with a “C” or ciseness. Students will use comput- editing, layout/computer design, better ers during class and lab times. This Photoshop, digital photography, and Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate course is intended for students who advertising fundamentals through assessment are pursuing the Associate of Science the process of writing, editing and Transfers to: UC, CSU Degree/Certificate of Achievement laying out the college magazine. Stu- This course is a continuation of the in Mass Communications with either dents may take this course once and essentials of the Japanese language. Mass Media or Print Media Special- repeat it one more time for credit. The course stresses oral and written izations. 3 Units proficiency through fundamental use 3 Units 36 Lecture hours of the Japanese language as well as 54 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours the Hiragana and Katakana script. 18 Lab hours Students will further their knowl- JOUR 231 edge of Kanji characters. In addition JOUR 147 Digital Magazine Production to classroom discussion, students Broadcast News Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or receive intensive individualized oral- (Formerly JOUR 047) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or aural practice in the language labora- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment tory via interactive websites, audio appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU CDs, video programs, and CD ROMs. appropriate assessment This course is intended for students Various facets of Japanese history, Transfers to: CSU wanting to learn the production and culture, and civilization will also be This course is for students interested management techniques of the col- analyzed via cross-cultural com- in writing for radio and television lege online magazine La Cima as an 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 249 online publication. Students will be newspaper. Students will continue CWE office regarding re-enrollment shown basic techniques for writ- writing and producing El Paisano, the procedures”. ing and producing a campus online campus newspaper, through contin- Student Unpaid Internship: magazine. Students will be shown ued lectures and advanced demon- 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; through lecture and demonstration strations and the proper techniques 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours the proper techniques for gathering for writing, proofreading, layout by Student Paid Internship: editorial, photo, layout, and video learning Quark Express and photo 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; contents for an online magazine and enhancements through Photoshop. 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. entering and placing the information Students will be expected to serve in 1 to 4 units on the pages of La Cima online. leadership roles and cover a major or 3 Lecture hours 3 Units public affairs beat. 60 to 300 hours 36 Lecture hours 4 Units 54 Lab hours 36 Lecture hours JOUR 299 108 Lab hours Directed Study: Journalism JOUR 241 (Formerly JOUR 100) Newspaper Production I JOUR 244 Transfers to: UC, CSU (Formerly JOUR 041) Digital Newspaper Production II Independent Study/Directed Study is Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: JOUR 242 intended for students who have the appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ability to assume responsibility for Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or independent work and to prepare assessment appropriate assessment written or oral reports and/or Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU appropriate projects. To enroll in an This course is intended for students This course is intended for students independent study/directed study wanting to learn production and wanting to continue in an advanced course, students must possess a 2.5 management techniques for a college degree the production and man- overall grade point average, a 3.0 newspaper. Students will be shown agement techniques of the college grade point average in the discipline basic techniques for writing and newspaper El Paisano as an online of study being requested, or receive producing the campus newspaper, publication. Students will continue to an exception from the instructor. El Paisano. Students will be shown work on writing for the online news- Independent Studies/Directed Stud- through lecture and demonstration paper but will learn, by hands-on ies may be developed from any topic the proper techniques for gathering development, actual video broadcasts arising from or related to a course of editorial, photo, and layout content by using station video equipment that study that will result in developing for the newspaper, as well as copy will encompass the entire Rio Hondo depth and breadth in that subject editing and proofreading. campus and areas of interest within area. Students will be expected to 4 Units the community. Students will also meet on a regular basis with their fac- 36 Lecture hours work on KRHC, the student radio sta- ulty sponsor and submit a final report 108 Lab hours tion to develop audio news programs or project, and student progress shall for the station. Those students wish- be evaluated at regular intervals. JOUR 242 ing to may also develop photo slide Academic standards for Independent Digital Newspaper Production I presentations of action taken through Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or student activities on campus for the same as those for other courses. Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or online publication. are awarded in accordance to Title appropriate assessment 4 Units V regulations with one unit of credit Transfers to: CSU 36 Lecture hours awarded for 54 hours of Directed This course is intended for students 108 Lab hours Studies, six (6) hours of which must wanting to learn the production be with an instructor. The instructor and management techniques of the JOUR 290 is responsible for monitoring student college newspaper El Paisano as an Cooperative Work Experience/ progress through the semester. online publication. Students will be Internship for Journalism Related Students may take directed study shown basic techniques for writ- Fields courses for a maximum of four (4) ing and producing a campus online Prerequisite: JOUR 120 units within a discipline, and may newspaper. Students will be shown Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or not accumulate more than a total of through lecture and demonstration appropriate assessment; READ 023 or twelve (12) units college wide. the proper techniques for gathering appropriate assessment 1 to 4 Units editorial, photo, layout, and video Transfers to: CSU 54 to 216 Lab hours content for an online newspaper and This course supports and reinforces entering and placing the information on-the-job training in journalism on the pages of El Paisano online. related fields under supervision of 4 Units a college instructor and is facilitated KINESIOLOGY 36 Lecture hours by the use of learning objectives. The 108 Lab hours student will be working in a skilled (Formerly Physical or professional level assignment in JOUR 243 an area of journalism related fields Education) Newspaper Production II and will meet performance objectives Division of Kinesiology, Dance, and Prerequisite: JOUR 241 related to instruction that are above Athletics Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate and beyond the conditions of regular assessment employment. This course is intended (For Dance courses – See Dance) Transfers to: CSU for students whose intended job is Dance activity courses may be used This course is intended for students related to the field of journalism and in place of P.E. activity courses to wanting to continue in an advanced have completed or enrolled in the fulfill degree requirements. degree the production and man- appropriate coursework. “Contact the agement techniques of the college Students may select several differ- ent courses or may enroll in a course 250 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog and continue to the next level of the KINA 104 KINA 108 same course the following semester. Volleyball I Water Polo I Courses labeled “I” and “II” fall into (Formerly PE 104, PE 1-04) (Formerly PE 108, PE 2-11) the continued instruction category. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU All Activity Course sections may appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 be taken once and repeated three appropriate assessment units credit for PE activity courses) additional times for credit. Only four semesters of enrollment are allowed Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU This is a course in the fundamen- in each activity, e.g., four in tennis, (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 tals and skills of water polo such as four in swimming, etc. All four units credit for PE activity courses) passing, guarding, shooting, team semesters could be in Level I, II, III or This course is a beginning class play, and strategy. Rules and class IV classes or any combination of these designed to present the basic funda- competition are included. levels totaling four enrollments. mental skills and rules of volleyball. 1 Unit The student will have the opportu- 54 Lab hours KINA 101 nity to learn and practice serving, set- Tennis I ting, and spiking. The student will KINA 109 (Formerly PE 101, PE 1-0) also participate in team play. This Soccer I Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or class is appropriate for students who (Formerly PE 109) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or have never played volleyball, are just Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment learning the game or haven’t played assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU for an extended period of time and Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 want to refresh their skills. (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 units credit for PE activity courses) 1 Unit units credit for PE activity courses) This is a beginning tennis class 54 Lab hours This is a beginning soccer/activ- designed to take the student to a rec- ity class designed for all students reational level in skills. Instruction in the serve, groundstroke, volley, and KINA 105 interested in developing the physi- rules are taught so that the student Basketball I cal, technical and tactical elements of can compete on a recreational level. (Formerly PE 105, PE 2-05) the game of soccer. The course will 1 Unit Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or include fundamental skills of soccer 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 022 or which include, dribbling, passing, appropriate assessment kicking, collecting and basic concepts KINA 102 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU of offensive and defensive tactics. Intercollegiate Baseball I (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Rules of the game, skill practice and (Formerly PE 102, PE 2-0) units credit for PE activity courses) participating in recreational soccer Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This beginning level course designed matches will be included. appropriate assessment; READ 022 or for all students will provide instruc- 1 Unit appropriate assessment tion in the fundamentals of basketball 54 Lab hours Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU such as dribbling, passing, shoot- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 ing, team play, rebounding, defense KINA 110 units credit for PE activity courses) and strategy. Collegiate rules, class Futsal (Indoor Soccer) This course is designed for the competition, injury prevention and (Formerly PE 110) student interested in competing care, and proper diet and fitness Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or in baseball at the collegiate level. needs are included in instruction. The appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Instruction will focus on the introduc- tion of advanced drills in the area of emphasis will be on active participa- appropriate assessment offense, defense and pitching. Special tion, basketball as recreation and skill Transfers to: CSU attention will be placed on skill development within this team sport. This class will provide instruction development and class participation 1 Unit and repetition in the technical and in preparing students for intercolle- 54 Lab hours tactical components of Futsal (Indoor giate competition. This course may be Soccer). The Federation of Interna- repeated three times for credit. KINA 107 tional Football Association (FIFA), 1 Unit Badminton I which is the governing body of soccer 54 Lab hours (Formerly PE 107, PE 1-07) in the world and the United States Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Soccer Federation (USSF), which KINA 103 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or is the governing body of soccer in Softball I appropriate assessment the United States recognize Futsal (Formerly PE 103, PE 2-03) Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU as its own sport consisting of a Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 smaller, fast-paced technical game. appropriate assessment; READ 022 or units credit for PE activity courses) FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game will appropriate assessment This is a beginning badminton class be introduced to the students. The Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU designed for the student to gain course will develop skills, provide (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 experience of various degrees of knowledge of the rules and instruct units credit for PE activity courses) This course is designed for the begin- competitive play. Instruction in the students to demonstrate Futsal tech- ning student who wishes to gain the serve, drive, drop, smash, clears, niques, recognize tactical situations fundamental skills of softball. It is rules and court etiquette are taught so and improve physical fitness. designed to present the following the student can perform at a competi- 1 Unit skills to the student; throwing, bat- tive level. 54 Lab hours ting, bunting and defense. Addition- 1 Unit ally, the individual field positions 54 Lab hours and the responsibilities of team work will be emphasized. 1 Unit 54 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 251 KINA 113 KINA 124 This class is designed to improve Golf I Self Defense muscle tone, flexibility and cardio- (Formerly PE 113, PE 1-13) (Formerly PE 124) vascular endurance through exercises Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or using water as a means of resistance. appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Students will have the opportunity appropriate assessment appropriate assessment to improve overall body strength and Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: CSU conditioning through callisthenic (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 This course is designed for all exercises and routines done in the units credit for PE activity courses) students interested in developing water. Students who are overweight, Golf I is designed for the begin- both personal safety and self-defense pregnant, elderly, recovering from ning golfer who wants to gain the techniques through scenario and injuries or who haven’t exercised fundamental skills that form the basis martial arts training. Through dif- recently would find this class appro- of good golf technique. The goal of ferent forms of martial arts training, priate. this class is for the student to learn students will practice both defensive 1 Unit to play a respectable game of golf, to and offensive moves against various 54 Lab hours avoid embarrassment, and to enjoy forms of attacks. Proficiency in the time outdoors with friends. Etiquette, practical, effective, and tactical use of KINA 133 rules and course play are included. movement, leverage and strikes will Wrestling I 1 Unit be stressed. (Formerly PE 133, PE 1-33) 54 Lab hours 1 Unit Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 022 or KINA 117 appropriate assessment Swimming I KINA 130 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (Formerly PE 117, PE 1-16) Lifelong Fitness Laboratory (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or (Formerly PE 130, PE 1-30) units credit for PE activity courses) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This wrestling class is designed for appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or the beginner as well as for the student Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU appropriate assessment who wishes to increase their knowl- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU edge and skill through practice and units credit for PE activity courses) (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 competition. It is designed to present This course is a beginning class designed to equip students with basic units credit for PE activity courses) the following skills to the student: water skills and knowledge in order This 45 hour self-paced physical escapes, pinning combination take- to make them reasonably safe while fitness laboratory is designed for all downs, and strategies. The student in the water. It is suitable for all stu- students of the college to develop will learn basic definitions, terminol- dents interested in basic swimming. and encourage positive attitudes and ogy and rules of wrestling. This class 1 Unit habits with regards to health-related will include information on proper 54 Lab hours fitness components, including cardio- nutrition and fitness conditioning. vascular fitness, flexibility, and mus- 1 Unit KINA 120 cular strength and endurance. Each 54 Lab hours Swim for Fitness student, upon entry, will be assessed (Formerly PE 120, PE 220) for risk factors and medical history, KINA 134 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or as well as body composition, cardio- Fitness Through Rhythmic Aerobics appropriate assessment; READ 022 or vascular fitness, muscular strength (Formerly PE 134, PE 1-34) appropriate assessment; KINA 117 and endurance, and flexibility to Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU establish an individual fitness profile. appropriate assessment; READ 022 or (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 From this profile, an individual exer- appropriate assessment units credit for PE activity courses) cise prescription will be developed. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU This is a swimming/fitness course Fitness activity will primarily utilize (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 designed to provide the individual who has beginning swimming exercise equipment organized into an units credit for PE activity courses) skills an opportunity to master the aerobic super circuit with additional This course is designed to meet the fundamentals of physical fitness as activity prescribed in the aerobics needs of daily physical exercise they relate to swimming as an aerobic machine area, body parts weight for life long fitness and health. It is activity. Emphasis will be placed on training area, and flexibility area. It is designed to present the following aerobic training with some training at expected that the student will attend skills to the student: rhythmic aero- the anaerobic threshold and anaero- an average of three 50 minute exer- bics, step aerobics, core fitness and bic levels. This class is suitable for all cise sessions each week. Additional flexibility training. Additionally, the students interested in swimming as a assessment at the conclusion of the student will learn basic definitions fitness activity. semester will provide data necessary and terminology of the current fitness 1 Unit to evaluate the accomplishment of arena, assisting them with life long 54 Lab hours stated goals. Offered on a pass/no fitness goals. Instruction in proper pass basis. diet, heart rate monitoring, skill profi- KINA 121 1 Unit ciency and fitness program planning Track and Field 54 Lab hours will be provided to each student. This (Formerly PE 121, PE 1-21) class is designed for students who Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU KINA 132 are interested in starting an exercise (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Aqua Aerobics program, or developing an active units credit for PE activity courses) (Formerly PE 132, PE 1-32) lifestyle. This is a course in the fundamentals Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 1 Unit and techniques of the various track and field events. appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 54 Lab hours 1 Unit appropriate assessment 54 Lab hours Transfer to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 units credit for PE activity courses) 252 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog KINA 136 the following skills to the student: KINA 148 Pilates Mat I cycling, running, swimming, interval Strength Training (Formerly PE 136) training and introduction to weight (Formerly PE 148, PE 1-51) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or training. Additionally, the student Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or will learn basic definitions and ter- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment minology of the current fitness arena, appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU assisting them with life long fitness Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 goals using a variety of cardiovascu- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 units credit for PE activity courses) lar mediums. units credit for PE activity courses) This course introduces students to the 1 Unit This course is designed for students basic Pilates floor exercises, which are 54 Lab hours who would like to learn the basic fun- designed to increase strength in the damentals of strength and condition- abdominal and spinal musculature. KINA 140 ing. Students will be introduced to Students will engage in activities and Walking for Fitness a variety of routines that will enable exercises designed to increase aware- (Formerly PE 140, PE 135) them to develop a personal exercise ness of body alignment, increase Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or plan. strength in the torso, spine and limbs, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 Unit increase endurance, learn breath- appropriate assessment 54 Lab hours ing techniques to utilize in strength Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU training exercises, increase coordina- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 KINA 158 units credit for PE activity courses) tion, improve balance, and will learn Yoga I This course is designed to meet the about the muscle groups and their needs of daily physical exercise (Formerly PE 158) actions being utilized in the course. for life long fitness and health. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is suitable for students Walking is one of the safest and most appropriate assessment; READ 023 or interested in dance. Hatha Yoga, effective forms of exercise to improve appropriate assessment athletics and individuals seeking to health, and develop and maintain Transfer to: UC (credit limit*), CSU increase strength to better support the physical fitness. The course provides (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 spine in everyday activities. cardiovascular conditioning through units credit for PE activity courses) 1 Unit the activity of walking. Instruction This course is designed for the begin- 54 Lab hours in proper diet, heart rate monitoring, ning student who would like to learn skill proficiency and fitness program the fundamental physical Asanas KINA 138 planning will be provided to each (poses) of Hatha Yoga as well as Fitness for Independent Living student. This class is designed for stu- Pranayama (breathing techniques) (Formerly PE 138) dents who are interested in starting and Dhyana (meditation techniques). Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or an exercise program, or developing The goal of the course is to integrate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or an active lifestyle. the mind, body, and spirit and to give appropriate assessment 1 Unit the student tools to better manage Transfer to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 54 Lab hours stress, alleviate physical tensions, and (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 encourage optimum fitness. In this KINA 142 units credit for PE activity courses) Techniques of Running introductory course, students learn This course is designed to help (Formerly PE 142, PE 1-42) proper physical alignment in the increase fitness levels for the senior Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU standing poses (Sun Salutation Series population. It is also appropriate (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 A-C, Warrior 1-2, Downward Dog, for individuals who are physically units credit for PE activity courses) Upward Dog, Cobra, Triangle, Cres- challenged, engage in limited activity, This advanced course is designed for cent), the floor poses (Staff, Lotus, and those recovering from injury those students who desire instruction Cobbler, Twists, Backbends), and in or long term illness. The purpose and training for competitive distance elementary inversions (Inverted Leg of the class is to condition students running. Rest, Headstand Preparation, Wall- for strength and flexibility as well 1 Unit Dog Preparation). as balance, coordination and agility. 54 Lab hours 1 Unit These skills are important factors in 54 Lab hours achieving and maintaining the ability KINA 147 to function in daily activities and live Off-Season Conditioning for KINA 159 independently. Intercollegiate Sports Cross Training for Intercollegiate 1 Unit (Formerly PE 147, PE 1-47A) Athletics 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or (Formerly PE 159) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Prerequisite: Participation in Intercol- appropriate assessment legiate Sports KINA 139 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Cross Training for Fitness Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 assessment (Formerly PE 139) units credit for PE activity courses) Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is designed for all stu- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or dents preparing for specific physical units credit for PE activity courses) appropriate assessment fitness related to off-season intercol- This course is designed for any Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU legiate athletic participation. The student preparing for intercollegiate (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 purpose of the course is to develop athletic competition. This cross- units credit for PE activity courses) a level of physical fitness, strength training course is designed for the This cross-training course is designed and conditioning that will enhance advanced student-athlete who wishes for the beginning as well as advanced the athlete’s ability to be successful to increase all aspects of their fitness levels through a variety of strength, student who wishes to increase their in intercollegiate competition. This course may be repeated three times flexibility, aerobic and anaerobic cardiovascular fitness level through activities. The specific physical fitness a variety of aerobic and anaerobic for credit. routines required by the intercol- activities. It is designed to present 1 Unit legiate athlete during the off-season 54 Lab hours will be addressed. The purpose of the 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 253 course is to develop a level of physi- KINA 171 be required to spend a minimum cal fitness, strength and conditioning Women’s Intercollegiate Tennis Team of 11.25 hours a week preparing for that will enhance the athlete’s ability (Formerly PE 171, PE 8-02A) competition with other colleges. This to be successful in intercollegiate Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate course may be repeated three times competition. This course may be assessment for credit. repeated three times for credit. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 2 Units 1 Unit (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 180 Lab hours 54 Lab hours units credit for PE activity courses) This is an advanced course designed KINA 175 Intercollegiate Athletics for students who will be competing Women’s Intercollegiate Cross-Country Coeducational Teams at the collegiate level in the sport of Team women’s tennis. Students will be (Formerly PE 175, PE 8-06A) FEDERAL LAW –TITLE IX required to spend a minimum of Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (86.41-Athletics) 10.125 hours a week preparing for assessment The Federal Law states the following: competition with other colleges. This Transfer to: UC (credit limit *), CSU “No person shall, on the basis of sex, course may be repeated three times (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 be excluded from participating in, for credit. units credit for PE activity courses) be denied the benefits of, be treated 3 Units This is an advanced course designed differently from any other person or 162 Lab hours for students who will be competing otherwise be discriminated against at the collegiate level in the sport of in intercollegiate athletics.” The law KINA 172 women’s cross country. Students will continues to state that colleges may operate separate teams for members Women’s Intercollegiate Volleyball be required to spend a minimum of of each sex. However, where the Team 10.125 hours a week preparing for college operates a team in a particular (Formerly PE 172, PE 8-03A) competition with other colleges. This sport for members of one sex, and no Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate course may be repeated three times comparable team for members of the assessment for credit. other sex, members who have been Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 3 Units excluded may try out for the team (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 162 Lab hours offered, unless the sport involved units credit for PE activity courses) is deemed a “CONTACT SPORT”. This is an advanced course designed KINA 176 Contact sports include football, wres- for students who will be competing Women’s Intercollegiate Soccer Team tling, and basketball, and other sports at the collegiate level in the sport of (Formerly PE 176, PE 8-07) whose basis of major activity involves women’s volleyball. Students will Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate bodily contact. be required to spend a minimum of assessment 10.125 hours a week preparing for Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Men’s Teams competition with other colleges. This (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Teams are limited to enrollment for course may be repeated three times units credit for PE activity courses) those students who are candidates for credit. This is an advanced course designed for specific teams. The teams spend 3 Units for students who will be competing a minimum of 10 hours a week in preparation for regularly scheduled 162 Lab hours at the collegiate level in the sport of competition with other colleges. women’s soccer. Students will be KINA 173 required to spend a minimum of Women’s Teams Women’s Intercollegiate Softball Team 10.125 hours a week preparing for Teams are limited to enrollment for (Formerly PE 173, PE 8-04A) competition with other colleges. This those students who are candidates for Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate course may be repeated three times specific teams. The teams spend assessment for credit. a minimum of 10 hours a week in Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 2 Units preparation for regularly scheduled (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 162 Lab hours competition with other colleges. units credit for PE activity courses) This is an advanced course designed KINA 180 KINA 170 for students who will be competing Men’s Intercollegiate Baseball Team Women’s Intercollegiate Basketball at the collegiate level in the sport (Formerly PE 180, PE 9-00A) Team of women’s softball. Students will Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (Formerly PE 170, PE 8-00A) be required to spend a minimum of assessment Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate 10.125 hours a week preparing for Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU assessment competition with other colleges. This (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU course may be repeated three times units credit for PE activity courses) (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 units credit for PE activity courses) for credit. This is an advanced course designed This is an advanced course designed 3 Units for students that will be competing for students who will be competing 162 Lab hours at the collegiate level in the sport at the collegiate level in the sport of men’s baseball. Students will be of women’s basketball. This class is KINA 174 required to spend a minimum of offered for 11 consecutive weeks to Women’s Intercollegiate Swim Team 10.125 hours a week preparing for run concurrent with the intercolle- (Formerly PE 174, PE 8-05A) competition with other colleges. This giate basketball season as determined Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate course may be repeated three times by the CCCAA governing body. assessment for credit. Students will be required to spend a Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 3 Units minimum of 7.36 hours a week for 11 (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 162 Lab hours weeks preparing for competition with units credit for PE activity courses) other colleges. This course may be This is an advanced course designed repeated three times for credit. for students who will be competing 1.5 Units at the collegiate level in the sport of 81 Lab hours women’s swimming. Students will 254 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog KINA 181 This is an advanced course designed KINA 190 Men’s Intercollegiate Basketball Team for students who will be competing Men’s Intercollegiate Soccer Team (Formerly PE 181, PE 9-01A) at the collegiate level in the sport (Formerly PE 190, PE 9-11) Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate of men’s swimming. Students will Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate assessment be required to spend a minimum of assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 10.125 hours a week preparing for Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 competition with other colleges. This (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 units credit for PE activity courses) course may be repeated three times units credit for PE activity courses) This is an advanced course designed for credit. This is an advanced course designed for students who will be competing for students who will be competing 3 Units at the collegiate level in the sport at the collegiate level in the sport 162 Lab hours of men’s soccer. Students will be of men’s basketball for pre- season required to spend a minimum of conditioning and play. This class is KINA 186 10.125 hours a week preparing for offered for 11 consecutive weeks to Men’s and Women’s Intercollegiate competition with other colleges. This run concurrent with the intercolle- Track and Field Team course may be repeated three times giate basketball season as determined (Formerly PE 186, PE 9-07A) for credit. by the CCCAA governing body. Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate 3 Units Students will be required to spend a assessment 162 Lab hours minimum of 7.36 hours a week for 11 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU weeks preparing for competition with (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 KINA 201 other colleges. This course may be units credit for PE activity courses) Tennis II repeated three times for credit. This is an advanced course designed (Formerly PE 201, PE 1-01) 1.5 Units for students who will be competing Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 81 Lab hours at the collegiate level in the sport appropriate assessment; READ 022 or of track & field. Students will be appropriate assessment; KINA 101 KINA 182 required to spend a minimum of 10 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Men’s Intercollegiate Cross-Country hours a week preparing for competi- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Team tion with other colleges. This course units credit for PE activity courses) (Formerly PE 182, PE 9-02B) may be repeated three times for This is an intermediate tennis class designed to take the student beyond Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate credit. recreational skills. Advanced instruc- assessment 2 Units tion in the serve, groundstrokes, Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 180 Lab hours volley, and playing strategy is given. (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 The lob and smash are introduced. units credit for PE activity courses) KINA 188 1 Unit This is an advanced course designed Men’s and/or Women’s Intercollegiate 54 Lab hours for students who will be competing Water Polo Team at the collegiate level in the sport of (Formerly PE 188, PE 9-09A ) KINA 202 men’s cross country. Students will Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Intercollegiate Baseball II be required to spend a minimum of assessment (Formerly PE 202, PE 2-01) 10.125 hours a week preparing for Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Advisory: KINA 102 competition with other colleges. This (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU course may be repeated three times units credit for PE activity courses) (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 for credit. This is an advanced course designed units credit for PE activity courses) 3 Units for students who will be competing This course is designed for the 162 Lab hours at the collegiate level in the sport of advanced baseball student interested men’s and women’s water polo. in competing at the collegiate level. KINA 184 Students will be required to spend Instruction will focus on advanced drills in the area of offense, defense Men’s and Women’s Intercollegiate a minimum of 10.125 hours a week and pitching. Special attention will Golf Team preparing for competition with other be placed in preparing students for (Formerly PE 184, PE 9-04A) colleges. This course may be repeated intercollegiate competition. This Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate three times for credit. course may be repeated three times assessment 3 Units for credit. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 162 Lab hours 1 Unit (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 54 Lab hours units credit for PE activity courses) KINA 189 This is an advanced course designed Men’s Intercollegiate Wrestling Team KINA 203 for students who will be competing (Formerly PE 189, PE 9-10) Off Season Softball at the collegiate level in the sport of Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (Formerly PE 203, PE 2-04) men’s and women’s golf. Students assessment Advisory: KINA 103 will be required to spend a minimum Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU of 10 hours a week preparing for (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 competition with other colleges. units credit for PE activity courses) units credit for PE activity courses) 2 Units This is an advanced course designed This course is designed for the 180 Lab hours for students who will be competing advanced softball student competing at the collegiate level in the sport at the collegiate level. Instruction will focus on advanced drills in the area of KINA 185 of men’s wrestling. Students will offense, defense and pitching. Special Men’s Intercollegiate Swim Team be required to spend a minimum of attention will be placed in preparing (Formerly PE 185, PE 9-06A5) 10.125 hours a week preparing for students for intercollegiate competi- Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate competition with other colleges. This tion. This course may be repeated assessment course may be repeated three times three times for credit. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU for credit. 1 Unit (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 3 Units 54 Lab hours units credit for PE activity courses) 162 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 255 KINA 204 KINA 207 KINA 213 Volleyball II Badminton II Golf II (Formerly PE 204, PE 1-05) (Formerly PE 207, PE 1-08) (Formerly PE 213, PE 1-14) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Prerequisite: KINA 113 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; KINA 104 appropriate assessment; KINA 107 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU appropriate assessment (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU units credit for PE activity courses) units credit for PE activity courses) (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 This course is designed for interme- This is an intermediate level badmin- units credit for PE activity courses) diate volleyball students who have ton class designed for the student to Golf II is designed for the intermedi- previously played volleyball and are develop the ability to make appropri- ate to advanced golfer who wants looking to improve their skill and ate responses (relative on their own take their golf game beyond basic knowledge of the game. Students will abilities) to the particular problems fundamentals. Every year thousands develop the intermediate skills of set- posed by the game. Advanced of people choose golf as their favorite ting, serving, passing, spiking, team instruction is given in the basic sports activity. Once learned, golf Offense of 6-1, 5-1 and defensive strokes as well as the introduction of becomes an enjoyable lifetime recre- coverage. Rules and class competition Indonesian serve, around-the-head ation. Golf II students will build on are included. shot, hairpin and flick shot. the skills learned in Golf I. A major 1 Unit 1 Unit portion of class time is spent on the 54 Lab hours 54 Lab hours golf course applying the techniques learned in Golf I. KINA 205 KINA 209 1 Unit Basketball II Soccer II 54 Lab hours (Formerly PE 205, PE 2-06) (Formerly PE 209) Prerequisite: KINA 105 or instructor Prerequisite: KINA 109 KINA 217 approval for admission Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Swimming II Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 022 or (Formerly PE 217, PE 1-17) assessment appropriate assessment Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: CSU assessment; KINA 117 (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 This advanced soccer activity class is Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU units credit for PE activity courses) designed for all students interested (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 This course is designed for the in developing the physical, techni- units credit for PE activity courses) intermediate to advanced basketball cal and tactical elements of the game This is an intermediate class designed player who wants advanced level of soccer. The course will include to provide the individual with the basketball development. Students analysis of fundamental skills, game opportunity to learn the elements will participate in full court team strategy, team offense and team of good swimming. Students will play, receive advanced instruction defense through participation and sharpen their technique in the basic on strategies, offensive and defensive an overview of rules. This is an strokes learned in Swim I. Basic skills and concepts, analyze intercol- advanced soccer class designed to components of distance training will legiate and professional game film take the student beyond recreational be covered along with conditioning and learn intercollegiate and profes- skills. Team tactics, strategies and methods. Safety and rescue skills are sional rules. systems of play will be emphasized. also included. 1 Unit 1 Unit 1 Unit 54 Lab hours 54 Lab hours 54 Lab hours KINA 206 KINA 211 KINA 218 Off Season Women’s Intercollegiate Off Season Intercollegiate Tennis Swimming III Volleyball Training Prerequisite: Participation in (Formerly PE 218, PE 1-18) (Formerly PE 206, PE 1-06) Intercollegiate Sports Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Prerequisite: Participation in Intercol- Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 legiate Athletics assessment units credit for PE activity courses) Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU This is an advanced swimmer’s class (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 designed to provide the individual units credit for PE activity courses) units credit for PE activity courses) with the opportunity to master the This course is designed for the This course is designed for the coordination of six swimming strokes advanced volleyball student inter- advanced tennis student interested in order to swim effectively with ested in competing at the collegiate in competing at the collegiate level. ease, endurance, and versatility in level. Instruction will focus on Instruction will focus on training and the water. More advanced safety and advanced techniques in serving, conditioning, and will also include rescue skills are also included. passing, setting, hitting, plus jump advanced strategies, on court drilling 1 Unit serving, jump set, jump attack, vari- and match play experience. Special 54 Lab hours ous defensive patterns and team play attention will be placed on preparing training and conditioning. Special students for intercollegiate competi- KINA 230 attention will be placed on preparing tion. This course may be repeated Lifelong Fitness Center II - students for intercollegiate competi- three times for credit. Cardiovascular Fitness tion. This course may be repeated 1 Unit (Formerly PE 230) three times for credit. 54 Lab hours Prerequisite: KINA 130 1 Unit Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or MATH 020C or appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 256 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 women’s basketball during confer- those interested in furthering their units credit for PE activity courses) ence play. This class is offered for 11 understanding of the effects of exercise This class is a course designed to give consecutive weeks to run concurrent on the mind and body. This is the final the student skills and information to with the intercollegiate basketball course offered in the Fitness Specialist improve their own cardiovascular season as determined by the CCCAA Certificate Program. fitness. This class will involve instruc- governing body. Students will be 2 Units tion and practice in techniques that required to spend a minimum of 7.36 18 Lecture hours will promote cardiovascular fitness: hours a week for 11 weeks prepar- 54 Lab hours running, jump rope, core training, ing for competition with conference aerobic activity, aerobic circuit and colleges. This course may be repeated KIN 122 resistance bands. The student will three times for credit. Nutrition for Sport and Fitness learn about the importance of blood 1.5 Units (Formerly PETH 122) pressure, heart rate and diet in rela- 81 Lab hours tion to cardiovascular disease. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 1 Unit KINA 281 appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or 54 Lab hours Men’s Intercollegiate Basketball appropriate assessment Team II KINA 239 Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Transfers to: CSU Physical Fitness II assessment This course provides an overview of (Formerly PE 239, PE 1-40) Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU the role of nutrition to increase energy Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 and enhance performance. Nutri- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 units credit for PE activity courses) ent needs before, during, and after units credit for PE activity courses) This is an advanced course designed exercise are evaluated for their effect on This second-level course is designed for students who will be competing optimal health. Carbohydrate loading, to provide men and women a more at the collegiate level in the sport of popular diets and supplementation in-depth experience in physical men’s basketball during conference are discussed. This course is designed fitness. Emphasis will be placed on and post season play. This class is for the student pursuing a career in techniques of conditioning in order to offered for 11 consecutive weeks to the fitness industry, a certificate in the promote the goal of lifelong fitness. run concurrent with the intercolle- proposed Fitness Specialist Program, 1 Unit giate basketball season as determined as well as those interested in furthering 54 Lab hours by the CCCAA governing body. their understanding of the effects of Students will be required to spend a nutrition on the mind and body. KINA 258 minimum of 7.36 hours a week for 11 3 Units Yoga II weeks preparing for competition with 54 Lecture hours (Formerly PE 258) conference colleges. This course may be repeated three times for credit. Prerequisite: KINA 158 KIN 126 1.5 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Principles of Strength and Conditioning 81 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PETH 126) appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfer to: CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed for interme- appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or diate students who would like to appropriate assessment advance their physical asanas (poses) KINESIOLOGY of Hatha Yoga as well as Pranayama Transfers to: CSU (breathing techniques) and Dhyana THEORY This course is designed to include the (meditation techniques). The goal of (Formerly Physical necessary information needed for those the course is to integrate the mind, intending to teach strength and con- body, and spirit and to further chal- Education) ditioning. The course covers anatomy lenge the students in their physical Division of Kinesiology, Dance, and and physiology, bioenergetics, biome- chanics, training adaptations, exercise practice by increasing sustainment, Athletics perfecting alignment, and by incor- and equipment selection, training porating twists and wraps. Parivrtta techniques, program design, and safety Trikonasana, Prasarita Padot- KIN 115 factors. This course is designed for the tanasana, Malasana, Garudasana, Fitness Specialist Internship student pursuing a career in the fitness Natasajasana, Utthita Hasta Padan- (Formerly PETH 115) industry, a certificate in the Fitness gustasana, Chaturanga Dandasana, Prerequisite: Completion of the following Specialist Program, or those interested Purvottanasana, Navasana, Virasana, courses with a grade of “C” or better: KIN in furthering their understanding of Ustrasana, Matsyasana, Sarvan- 122, KIN 126, KIN 131, KIN 146, KIN the effects of exercise on the body and gasana, Suryya Namaskar B will be 127, KIN 128, KIN 145, MGMT 130 mind. covered in depth during the course. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units 1 Unit appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or appropriate assessment KIN 127 KINA 270 Transfers to: CSU Exercise Physiology Women’s Intercollegiate Basketball This course will provide students with (Formerly PETH 127) Team II practical experience in the field of exer- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: KINA 170 cise and fitness. Emphasis is placed on appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate participant screening, evaluation, and assessment appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or exercise program design, self-market- appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU ing, fitness specialist/client relation- (*The UC will grant a maximum of 4 Transfers to: CSU ships and professional responsibility in This course provides an overview units credit for PE activity courses) a fitness setting. This course is designed This is an advanced course designed of how the body functions under for the student pursuing a career in for students who will be competing conditions of exercise stress and how at the collegiate level in the sport of the fitness industry, a certificate in the fitness training affects health and Fitness Specialist Program, as well as 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 257 wellness. Emphasis will be placed on KIN 145 Training, First Aid, and Water Safety muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, Theory and Analysis of Fitness Instructor cards. This class satisfies one bioenergetics, and other physiological Instruction course of the Physical Education activ- processes that are affected by exercise. (Formerly PETH 145) ity requirements. The effects of various diseases will also Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units be addressed. This course is designed appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 36 Lecture hours for the student pursuing a career in appropriate assessment 54 Lab hours the fitness industry, a Certificate in the Transfers to: CSU Fitness Specialist Program, or those This course provides an introduction to KIN 188 interested in furthering their under- the principles and techniques involved Theory and Practice of Coaching standing of the effects of exercise on the in teaching group exercise and devel- (Formerly PETH 188) body and mind. oping a personal trainer/client relation- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units ship. Emphasis is placed on client appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours assessment, communication skills, appropriate assessment program design, exercise adherence, Transfers to: CSU KIN 128 teaching strategies, and professional The purpose of this course is to explore Fitness Testing and Exercise Prescription responsibility and liability. This course the impact that coaches have on athletic (Formerly PETH 128) is designed for the student pursuing a programs in the community. This Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or career in the fitness industry, a certifi- course is designed for all students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cate in the Fitness Specialist Program, interested in coaching individual and appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or as well as those interested in furthering team sports. The course will cover appropriate assessment their understanding of the effects of topics such as role of the coach, athlete Transfers to: CSU exercise on the mind and body. motivation, coaching leadership, coach- This course provides an overview of 2 Units ing work teams, coaching technology, how to assess cardiorespiratory endur- 36 Lecture hours and effective coaching practice. At the ance, muscular strength and endur- end of the course, students will have ance, flexibility, body fat, pulmonary KIN 146 more insight into coaching in various function, blood pressure, postural Training Principles for Special athletic programs. analysis, and functional movement, Populations 3 Units and evaluate the results. Emphasis is (Formerly PETH 146) 54 Lecture hours placed on determining the appropriate Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or test, conducting the test, interpreting appropriate assessment; READ 023 or KIN 191 the results, and creating an exercise appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or Health: Personal Issues program. This course is designed for appropriate assessment (Formerly PETH 191, PETH 010) the student pursuing a career in the Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or fitness industry or a certificate in the This course provides an overview of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Fitness Specialist Program, as well as the exercise implications for special appropriate assessment those interested in furthering their populations related to age, medical Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU understanding of the effects of exercise condition and level of fitness. Empha- (*Students will receive credit from UC for on the body. sis is placed on cardiac conditions, only one of the following courses: KIN 191, 3 Units diabetes, physical disabilities, HIV and KIN 192, or KIN 196) 54 Lecture hours AIDS, asthma, sensory impairments, This course is designed for all stu- seniors, children, mentally impaired dents that are physically active and KIN 131 and pregnant and post partum women interested in learning how to improve Structure and Analysis of Movement and the issues and barriers to exercise. and maintain their personal health. (Formerly PETH 131) This course is designed for the student Topics covered include the general Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or pursuing a career in the fitness indus- health principles, nutrition and diet, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or try, a certificate in the Fitness Specialist physical fitness, stress management, appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or Program, as well as those interested sexuality and reproduction, drug/ appropriate assessment in furthering their understanding of alcohol use and abuse, consumer and Transfers to: CSU the effects of exercise on the mind and safety issues and the process of death. This course provides an overview of body. Students learn how to develop sound the study of movement as it relates to 2 Units health principles through text readings, exercise under both normal and injury 36 Lecture hours lectures, assignments/labs and guest conditions. Students will learn the basic speakers. anatomical principals used specifically KIN 157 3 Units in the area of human performance. Theory of Lifeguard Training and Water 54 Lecture hours Emphasis is placed on applying body Safety alignment, range of motion, stabiliza- (Formerly PETH 157, PE 4-02) KIN 192 tion, and acceleration principles to the Prerequisite: Swim 500 yards continuously Health: Women’s Personal Health analysis of movement. This course is Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly PETH 192, PETH 011) designed for the student pursuing a assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or career in the fitness industry, a certifi- Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cate in the Fitness Specialist Program, This course is designed for all stu- appropriate assessment or those interested in furthering their dents who are interested in becom- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU understanding of the biomechanical ing employed as a lifeguard and/or (*Students will receive credit from UC for effects of exercise on the body. water safety instructor. Students who only one of the following courses: KIN 191, 3 Units successfully pass the requirements KIN 192, or KIN 196) 54 Lecture hours as established by the American Red This course is designed for all students Cross will receive Red Cross Lifeguard interested in expanding their knowl- edge regarding health problems and 258 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog social issues unique to women. Physi- KIN 195 KIN 198 ological and psychological aspects of Contemporary Issues in Athletics and Contemporary Issues Related to Athletic nutrition, hygiene, sexuality and repro- Sports Participation duction, drugs and chemicals, and (Formerly PETH 195, PETH 020) (Formerly PETH 198, PE 198) common diseases are among the many Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or topics covered. Guest speakers, videos, appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or current events, and text readings will appropriate assessment appropriate assessment assist the student in developing sound Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU health principles. This course will examine the impact of This course is designed for students athletics, sports, and physical educa- who are interested in athletic competi- 3 Units tion in American society. The topics in tion. This course presents an overview 54 Lecture hours this course will focus on racism, gender of contemporary societal issues that equity, ethics, drug abuse, sexual abuse have a significant impact on the abil- KIN 193 in sports, and the issue of children in ity of athletes to be successful in a Standard First Aid and CPR competitive sports activities. Coaching competitive environment. Topics to be (Formerly PETH 193, PE 012) methodologies and future trends in covered in this course include decision Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or athletics, physical activities, and physi- making skills, substance abuse, sexual appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cal education will be discussed. An behavior, eating disorders, and athletic appropriate assessment emphasis will be placed on developing eligibility requirements. Transfers to: UC, CSU an appreciation for sports, athletics, 1 Unit This course is designed for students and physical education. Upon the 18 Lecture hours pursuing a career working with the successful completion of this course, public and for those who want to fur- students will have satisfied the (Title V) KIN 290 ther their understanding of handling requirements for the State of California Cooperative Work Experience/Internship emergency situations. The student will that allows them to high school sports for Athletic Training Related Fields learn how to give immediate care to teams. (Formerly PE 290) the suddenly injured or ill person. In 3 Units Prerequisite: KIN 197 and a current CPR addition, students will learn techniques 54 Lecture hours card Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or for control of bleeding, splinting, KIN 196 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or transporting victims, emergency Health: Fitness and Wellness appropriate assessment procedures, one person C.P. R. and the (Formerly PETH 196, PETH 021) Transfers to: CSU use of an AED. Students will have the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course supports and reinforces opportunity to apply these technical appropriate assessment; READ 023 or on-the-job training in the field of procedures in class. This course fulfills appropriate assessment athletic training under supervision of the requirements for American Red Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU a college instructor and is facilitated Cross certifications in both Standard (*Students will receive credit from UC for by the use of learning objectives. The First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resus- only one of the following courses: KIN 191, student will be working in a skilled or citation (C.P.R.). KIN 192, or KIN 196) professional level assignment in their 3 Units This course is designed for all students area of vocational interest and will 54 Lecture hours who are interested in learning the value meet performance objectives related to of life-long, healthy lifestyles. Students instruction that are above and beyond KIN 194 will be given the tools to assist them the conditions of regular employment. Introduction to Kinesiology in making positive life-style changes This course is intended for students (Formerly PETH 194, PE/TH 194, 015) based on a personal health/fitness whose job is related to the field of Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or profile. Topics covered include: basic athletic training and have completed appropriate assessment; READ 023 or anatomy and physiology, nutrition, or enrolled in the appropriate course- weight control, tobacco and alcohol, work. “Contact the CWE office regard- appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or muscle fitness, flexibility, stress reduc- ing re-enrollment procedures”. MATH 020C or appropriate assessment tion, and cardiovascular functioning. Student Unpaid Internship: Transfers to: CSU 3 Units 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours This course is designed for those 54 Lecture hours Student Paid Internship: students who are interested in pursu- 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours ing a career in the field of kinesiology. KIN 197 1 to 2 Units The philosophy, history, ethical and Prevention and Treatment of Athletic 3 Lecture hours scientific foundations of kinesiology Injuries 60 to 150 hours will be covered. The concepts of basic (Formerly PETH 197, PE 197) movement and performance move- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or KIN 297 ment in relationship to kinesiology will appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advanced Athletic Training be examined. Students will explore the appropriate assessment Prerequisite: KIN 197 sub-disciplines of motor learning, bio- Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or mechanics, exercise physiology, sport This course introduces the basic appropriate assessment; READ 023 or sociology, sport psychology, and sport concepts of athletic training, including appropriate assessment nutrition. Professional career oppor- instruction for prevention, recogni- Transfers to: CSU tunities in health/fitness, therapeutic tion, management and treatment of This course introduces the advanced exercise, teaching, coaching and sport common injuries in a physically active concepts of athletic training, includ- population. The skills of basic strap- ing instruction for evaluation and management will be examined. The ping, bracing padding and taping for rehabilitation of common athletic challenges for kinesiology, future of the prevention and support of injuries injuries. Advanced taping and brac- kinesiology, sport and health/wellness will be presented and practiced. This ing techniques will also be presented are also addressed. class is recommended for those inter- and practiced. This class is designed 3 Units ested in becoming a Certified Athletic for students interested in becoming a 54 Lecture hours Trainer. Certified Athletic Trainer or those who 3 Units are preparing for a career in any allied 54 Lecture hours health care profession. 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 259 Study and design of landscape will be conducted from small local scale to LANDSCAPE larger regional scale through in-class Division of Career & assignments, multi-week projects, LIBRARY Technical Education model-making, and readings. Com- Division of Library LAND 095 prehension of topography and design & Instructional Support Introduction to Landscape Design & of landform through 2D and 3D Maintenance model studies will also be included. LIB 101 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 4 Units Fundamentals of Library Research appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours (Formerly LIB 001) appropriate assessment; ENGT 105 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This introductory landscape design appropriate assessment; READ 023 or course is designed for the non- appropriate assessment; CIT 100A scientist and specifically for amateur Transfers to: UC, CSU This course promotes information garden enthusiasts interested in LATIN literacy by introducing students learning landscape design from a to the resources available in an professional landscape architect.The Division of Communications academic library, including books, class is a comprehensive overview of & Languages online catalogs, online databases, and general landscape design including Web sources. Students learn how to topics of landscape design, irrigation, LATN 101 define their research problem, apply plant identification and maintenance. Latin I appropriate search tools, analyze The class sessions are combination (Formerly LATIN 101, 001) and evaluate information and search lecture lab with hands-on design les- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or strategies, and use information ethi- sons and plant identification. There appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cally and legally. The critical thinking will be a field trip to local nurseries or appropriate assessment skills and research strategies learned demonstration gardens. Transfers to: UC, CSU in this class will benefit students who need to find information for college- 3 Units Latin 101 introduces students to the level research assignments, career 45 Lecture hours classics, enhances their understand- 27 Lab hours demands, and lifelong learning. ing of basic grammar, exposes them 3 Units to authentic pronunciation, increases 54 Lecture hours LAND 102 their knowledge of vocabulary Introduction to Landscape Architecture derivatives, and acquaints them with & Design Roman history and culture. This class Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or LITERATURE is designed for students who plan to Division of Communications appropriate assessment; READ 023 or major in Classics, History, Philoso- appropriate assessment; ENGT 105 phy, or Languages and would also & Languages Transfers to: CSU be important for those going into LIT 102 This introductory course is for law, medicine, and other fields where students interested in the field of Approaches to Literature Latinate terminology is common. (Formerly LIT 001B) Landscape Architecture or Landscape 3 Units Design. Fundamental principles Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment and concepts essential to landscape Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate design development will be intro- LATN 102 assessment duced through lectures, readings, Latin II Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU discussions, field trips, and assign- (Formerly LATIN 102, 002) (*Students will receive credit from UC for ments. Natural and human determi- Prerequisite: Successful completion only one of the following courses: LIT 102 nants that shape the landscape will of LATN 101 or LIT 102H) be explored in addition to the study Transfers to: UC, CSU This course is designed for students of the theory, history, and role of the Latin 102 increases students’ under- who wish to study the four general landscape architecture profession in standing of the classics, enhances literary forms: poetry, drama, short environmental design. their understanding of grammar and story, and novel. Emphasis is placed 4 Units vocabulary, exposes them to authen- on critical thinking, critical reading, 54 Lecture hours tic pronunciation, increases their and composing. Compositions will be based upon discussion, analysis and 54 Lab hours knowledge of vocabulary derivatives, interpretations of literature, and upon and acquaints them further with the relationship of Western and Non- LAND 103 Romance languages and the Latinate Landscape Architecture Theory and Western literature to contemporary vocabulary of English. The history thought. Form and culture of the Roman Empire, Prerequisite: LAND 102 3 Units including the spread of the Empire, 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or institutions, literature, and the arts appropriate assessment; READ 023 or will be further explored. This class LIT 102H appropriate assessment; ENGT 101; is designed for students who plan to Approaches to Literature Honors ENGT 105 major in Classics, History, Philoso- Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or Transfers to: CSU phy, or Languages and would also better This is a continuation course to be important for those going into Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate LAND 102, Introduction to Land- law, medicine, and other fields where assessment scape Architecture and Design. This Latinate terminology is common. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU course expands upon fundamental 3 Units (*Students will receive credit from UC for landscape design principles and 54 Lecture hours only one of the following courses: LIT 102 concepts. The course examines theory or LIT 102H) and methods pertaining to landscape This course is designed for students architecture design and site planning. who wish to study the four general literary forms: poetry, drama, short 260 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog story, and novel. Emphasis will be LIT 112A LIT 112B placed on critical thinking, critical American Literature American Literature reading, and composing. Composi- Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly LIT 112B) tions will be based upon discus- appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or sion, analysis and interpretations of Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or literature, and upon the relationship of assessment appropriate assessment Western and Non-Western literature to Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU contemporary thought. This course is (*Students will receive credit from UC (*Students will receive credit from UC intended for students eligible for the for only one of the following courses: LIT Honors Program. for only one of the following courses: LIT 112A or LIT 112AH) 3 Units 112B or LIT 112BH) This course explores a range of 54 Lecture hours This course is designed for students American literature, with a focus on interested in exploring American liter- major texts and writers from the early LIT 110 ature from the mid-nineteenth century settlement to 1865. Representative Postcolonial Literature to the present. It introduces students, writers include Bradstreet, Bradford, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or through class discussions and written Franklin, Douglass, Paine, Lincoln, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or essays, to representative writers of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Melville, appropriate assessment this period such as Emily Dickinson, and Dickinson. Course reading and Transfers to: UC, CSU Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Robert writing assignments explore major This course is an introduction to Frost, Zora Neale Hurston, William cultural and historical themes, includ- postcolonial literature - the literature Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ten- ing the pre-colonial exploration of the of peoples, nations, and cultures nessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, Americas, Native American literary which have at one time in their history Henry David Hwang, Toni Morrison, contributions, the Revolutionary and been colonized by another country. Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Civil Wars, transcendentalism, and The course will explore the themes of Kingston, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, and romanticism. This course is designed identity formation and nationhood others. for students interested in exploring in works by African, South Asian, 3 Units various genres of literature, students Middle Eastern, Latin American, and 54 Lecture hours interested in learning more about Caribbean authors. Assigned readings cultural expression in the Americas, may come from a variety of genres LIT 112BH and students majoring in English or including essays, short stories, novels, American Literature Honors Liberal Studies. and poetry. This course is beneficial (Formerly LIT 112B) 3 Units for English majors, future elementary Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or 54 Lecture hours and secondary teachers, and students better interested in the broadening their Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate LIT 112AH knowledge of diverse literature. assessment American Literature Honors 3 Units Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (Formerly LIT 112A) 54 Lecture hours (*Students will receive credit from UC Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade for only one of the following courses: LIT “C” or better; READ 023 or appropriate LIT 110H 112B or LIT 112BH) assessment Postcolonial Literature Honors This course is designed for students Corequisite: ENGL 101 for new students Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or interested in exploring American liter- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU better ature from the mid-nineteenth century (*Students will receive credit from UC Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate to the present. It introduces students, for only one of the following courses: LIT assessment through class discussions and written 112A or LIT 112AH) Transfers to: UC, CSU essays, to representative writers of This course explores a range of This course is an introduction to this period such as Emily Dickinson, American literature, with a focus on postcolonial literature - the literature Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Robert major texts and writers from the early of peoples, nations, and cultures Frost, Zora Neale Hurston, William settlement to 1865. Representative which have at one time in their history Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ten- writers include Bradstreet, Bradford, been colonized by another country. nessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, Franklin, Douglass, Paine, Lincoln, The course will explore the themes of Henry David Hwang, Toni Morrison, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Melville, identity formation and nationhood Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong and Dickinson. Course reading and in works by African, South Asian, Kingston, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, and writing assignments explore major Middle Eastern, Latin American, and others. This course is intended for stu- cultural and historical themes, includ- Caribbean authors. Assigned readings dents eligible for the Honors Program. ing the pre-colonial exploration of the may come from a variety of genres 3 Units Americas, Native American literary including essays, short stories, novels, 54 Lecture hours contributions, the Revolutionary and and poetry. This course is beneficial Civil Wars, transcendentalism, and for English majors, future elementary LIT 114 romanticism. This course is designed and secondary teachers, and students Children’s and Adolescent Literature for students interested in exploring interested in broadening their knowl- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or various genres of literature, students edge of diverse literature. This course appropriate assessment; READ 023 or interested in learning more about is designed for students eligible for the appropriate assessment cultural expression in the Americas, honors program. Transfers to: UC, CSU and students majoring in English 3 Units This course is an introduction to or Liberal Studies. This course is 54 Lecture hours children’s and adolescent literature designed for students eligible for the in its three general literary forms: the honors program. short story (including myths, legends, 3 Units fairy tales, and folk tales), the novel, 54 Lecture hours and poetry. Stress is placed upon critical thinking, critical reading, and composing. This course will explore 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 261 works of children’s literature from interested in exploring various genres LIT 130H ancient times to the present, analyze of literature, students interested in Women and Literature Honors the literary elements of these works, learning more about Mexican cultural Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of assess their value for both children expression, and students majoring in “C” or better and adults, and examine the historical Chicano Studies. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate and cultural environments in which 3 Units assessment they were written, including but 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU not limited to Asian, Latino, Native This course explores women writ- American, and African cultures. This LIT 117H ers, their lives, the roles they play in course is beneficial for English majors, Mexican Literature in Translation culture and society, and how they students planning to transfer to a uni- Honors have influenced the world. Students versity, parents, and future elementary Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or will examine topics such as female and secondary teachers. better authorship, literary influence, evolu- 3 Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate tion of technique, the effects of race 54 Lecture hours assessment and class, and the environments in Transfers to: UC, CSU which works were written, including LIT 114H This course explores a range of but not limited to American, British, Children’s and Adolescent Literature Mexican literature in English transla- Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Honors tion, with a focus on major literary and African cultures. Stress is placed Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of influences and achievements from on critical thinking, critical reading, “C” or better the pre-Hispanic era to the twentieth and composing. Feminist, literary, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate century. Course reading and writ- and political theory will be explored. assessment ing assignments explore indigenous Special emphasis may be placed on Transfers to: UC, CSU literatures and myths, chronicles of a period, genre, theme, or literary This course is an introduction to the Spanish conquest, literature of grouping. This course is beneficial for children’s and adolescent literature the colonial period, high culture and English majors, students planning to in its three general literary forms: the folklore of the eighteenth century, transfer to a university, and anyone short story (including myths, legends, political and modernist literature of interested in learning about women fairy tales, and folk tales), the novel, the nineteenth century, and poetry and literature. This course is intended and poetry. Stress is placed upon and prose of the twentieth century. for students eligible for the honors critical thinking, critical reading, and This course is designed for students program. composing. This course will explore interested in exploring various genres 3 Units works of children’s and adolescent of literature, students interested in 54 Lecture hours literature from ancient times to the learning more about Mexican cultural present, analyze the literary elements expression, and students majoring LIT 140 of these works, assess their value for in Chicano Studies. This course is Introduction to the Novel both children and adults, and examine intended for students eligible in the Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the historical and cultural environ- honors program. appropriate assessment ments in which they were written, 3 Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate including but not limited to Asian, 54 Lecture hours assessment Hispanic, Native American, and Afri- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU can cultures. This course is beneficial LIT 130 (*Students will receive credit from UC for for English majors, students planning Women and Literature only one of the following courses: LIT 140 to transfer to a university, parents, Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or or LIT 140H) and future elementary and second- appropriate assessment This course introduces students to a ary teachers. This course is designed Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate variety of approaches to the novel. for students eligible for the honors assessment Course readings will focus on novels program. Transfers to: UC, CSU selected from different historical 3 Units This course explores women writ- periods and within a variety of cul- 54 Lecture hours ers, their lives, the roles they play in tural traditions. Students will gain culture and society, and how they an understanding of the features that LIT 117 have influenced the world. Students distinguish the novel as a literary Mexican Literature in Translation will examine topics such as female genre: narrative structure, point of (Formerly LIT 017) authorship, literary influence, evolu- view, character development, setting, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tion of technique, the effects of race theme, style, imagery and symbol. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and class, and the environments in This course is designed for students appropriate assessment which works were written, including interested in learning more about liter- Transfers to: UC, CSU but not limited to American, British, ary expression and students intending This course explores a range of Asian, Hispanic, Native American, to major in a literary or arts-related Mexican literature in English transla- and African cultures. Stress is placed field of study. tion, with a focus on major literary on critical thinking, critical reading, 3 Units influences and achievements from and composing. Feminist, literary, 54 Lecture hours the pre-Hispanic era to the twentieth and political theory will be explored. century. Course reading and writ- Special emphasis may be placed on LIT 140H ing assignments explore indigenous a period, genre, theme, or literary Introduction to the Novel Honors literatures and myths, chronicles of grouping. This course is beneficial for Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or the Spanish conquest, literature of English majors, students planning to better the colonial period, high culture and transfer to a university, and anyone Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate folklore of the eighteenth century, interested in learning about women assessment political and modernist literature of and literature. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU the nineteenth century, and poetry 3 Units (*Students will receive credit from UC for and prose of the twentieth century. 54 Lecture hours only one of the following courses: LIT 140 This course is designed for students or LIT 140H) 262 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog This course introduces students to a LIT 142H LIT 144A variety of approaches to the novel. Introduction to Shakespeare Honors World Literature Course readings will focus on novels Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or selected from different historical better appropriate assessment periods and within a variety of cul- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate tural traditions. Students will gain assessment assessment an understanding of the features that Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU distinguish the novel as a literary This course is designed for students This course introduces students to a genre: narrative structure, point of who wish to increase their knowledge wide range of world literature from view, character development, setting, and appreciation of Shakespeare’s art, antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the theme, style, imagery and symbol. his life and times, and his exploration Renaissance. Although the emphasis is This course is designed for students of the human condition. The major on continental literature and Western interested in learning more about liter- works of Shakespeare are explored civilization, the course may include ary expression and students intending in the context of the dramatic genre, significant works from African, to major in a literary or arts-related the Elizabethan theater, and the Asian, Middle Eastern, and/or Latin field of study. This course is intended social, religious, and political milieu American traditions. Course reading for students eligible for the honors of Renaissance England. Representa- and writing assignments emphasize program. tive tragedies, comedies, histories, literary periods and literary history, 3 Units romances, poetry, and the sonnet cycle the different genres of literary expres- 54 Lecture hours are studied. This course is intended sion, and literature as a reflection of for students eligible for the Honors major cultural events and beliefs. This LIT 141 Program. course is designed for students inter- Introduction to Poetry 3 Units ested in learning more about literary Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours expression and students intending to appropriate assessment major in a literary or arts-related field Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate LIT 143 of study. assessment Exploring Authors 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU (Formerly LIT 043A) 54 Lecture hours This course introduces students to Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or a variety of approaches to poetry. appropriate assessment LIT 144B Course readings will include poems Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate World Literature on diverse topics representing the fun- assessment Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or damental modes, historical periods, Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment and cultural traditions. Students will This one-unit course is designed Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate gain an understanding of the features for students who wish to study the assessment that distinguish poetry as a literary literary works of one author in depth. Transfers to: UC, CSU genre, including techniques of sound, Students will compare and contrast This course introduces students to a tropes and figurative language, and all genres and literary criticism of wide range of world literature from thematic development. The course is the author’s works in class discus- the seventeenth century to the present. appropriate for both English majors sions and in essay form. Students Although the emphasis is on continen- and those students who wish to should consult the class schedule for tal literature and Western civilization, expand their knowledge and apprecia- the author selection as it varies each the course may include significant tion of poetry. semester. works from African, Asian, Middle 3 Units 1 Unit Eastern, and/or Latin American tradi- 54 Lecture hours 18 Lecture hours tions. Course reading and writing assignments emphasize the European LIT 142 LIT 143H Enlightenment, romanticism, real- Introduction to Shakespeare Exploring Authors Honors ism, modernism, and literature as a (Formerly LIT 042) Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or reflection of major cultural events and Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or better beliefs. This course is designed for appropriate assessment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate students interested in learning more Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate assessment about literary expression and students assessment Transfers to: CSU intending to major in a literary or arts- Transfers to: UC, CSU This one-unit course is designed for related field of study. LIT 144A need This course is designed for students students who would like the opportu- not be taken before LIT 144B. who wish to increase their knowledge nity to study the literary works of one 3 Units and appreciation of Shakespeare’s art, author in depth. Students will com- 54 Lecture hours his life and times, and his exploration pare and contrast the author’s works of the human condition. The major in class discussions and in essay form. LIT 145 works of Shakespeare are explored Students should consult the class Introduction to the Short Story in the context of the dramatic genre, schedule for the author selection as Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the Elizabethan theater, and the it varies each semester. This course appropriate assessment social, religious, and political milieu many be taken once and repeated Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate of Renaissance England. Representa- two times for credit. This course is assessment tive tragedies, comedies, histories, designed for students eligible for the Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU romances, poetry, and the sonnet cycle Honors Program. (*Students will receive credit from UC for are studied. 1 Unit only one of the following courses: LIT 145 3 Units 18 Lecture hours or LIT 145H) 54 Lecture hours This course is designed for students interested in exploring short fiction from a variety of different periods and traditions in order to increase appre- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 263 ciation, understanding, and enjoyment LIT 146B and writing assignments emphasize of its various forms and techniques. British Literature dramatic form and structure, the Students will compare and contrast Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or aesthetics of drama, and drama as authors’ works in writing and class appropriate assessment a reflection of major cultural events discussion. The course emphasizes the Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate and beliefs. This course is designed short story as a genre from the Nine- assessment for students interested in a detailed teenth century to the present. Transfers to: UC, CSU exploration of a specific genre of litera- 3 Units This course is designed for students ture, students intending to major in a 54 Lecture hours interested in learning about British lit- literary or arts-related field of study, erature written from the beginning of and students intending to enter the LIT 145H Introduction to the Short Story Honors the nineteenth century to the present. teaching profession. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade “C” The following major British writers 3 Units or better will be discussed: Austen, Words- 54 Lecture hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate worth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, assessment Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, LIT 149 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, and others. Introduction to Chicana/Chicano (*Students will receive credit from UC for 3 Units Literature only one of the following courses: LIT 145 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or or LIT 145H) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or The course is designed for students LIT 146BH appropriate assessment interested in exploring short fiction British Literature Honors Transfers to: UC, CSU from a variety of different periods and Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or This course explores a range of traditions in order to increase appre- better Chicana/Chicano literature, with a ciation, understanding, and enjoyment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate focus on major texts from 1848 to the of its various forms and techniques. assessment present. Course reading and writing Students will compare and contrast Transfers to: UC, CSU assignments explore major cultural authors’ works in writing and class This course is designed for students themes, including identity issues. discussion. The course emphasizes the interested in learning about British lit- Assigned readings may be from a vari- short story as a genre from the Nine- teenth century to the present. This erature written from the beginning of ety of genres including essays, poetry, course is designed for students eligible the nineteenth century to the present. fiction, oral histories, corridos, and for the honors program. The following major British writers autobiography by writers throughout 3 Units will be discussed: Austen, Words- the Southwest. This course is designed 54 Lecture hours worth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, for students interested in exploring Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, various genres of literature, students LIT 146A Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, and others. This interested in learning more about British Literature course is designed for students eligible Chicana/o cultural expression, and Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or for the Honors Program. students majoring in Chicano Studies. appropriate assessment 3 Units 3 Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU LIT 147 LIT 299 This course is designed for students Cinema as Literature Directed Study: Literature who are interested in learning about (Formerly LIT 047) (Formerly LIT 100) British literature from the Old English Prerequisite: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU period to the beginning of the nine- appropriate assessment Independent Study/Directed Study teenth century. The following major Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate is intended for students who have British writers will be discussed: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, assessment the ability to assume responsibility Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Transfers to: UC, CSU for independent work and to prepare Johnson, Boswell, Fielding, and others. This course is for students interested written or oral reports and/or appro- 3 Units in learning about the aesthetics of priate projects. To enroll in an inde- 54 Lecture hours film making, especially with regard pendent study/directed study course, to adaptation of literature to the students must possess a 2.5 overall LIT 146AH cinematic medium. Films will be grade point average, a 3.0 grade point British Literature Honors analyzed and evaluated according average in the discipline of study Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or to their historical, social, cultural, being requested, or receive an excep- better aesthetic, and technical significance. tion from the instructor. Independent Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Both American and international film Studies/Directed Studies may be assessment making will be covered. developed from any topic arising from Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units or related to a course of study that This course is designed for students 54 Lecture hours will result in developing depth and who are interested in learning about breadth in that subject area. Students British literature from the Old English LIT 148 will be expected to meet on a regular period to the beginning of the nine- Introduction to Dramatic Literature basis with their faculty sponsor and teenth century. The following major Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or submit a final report or project, and British writers will be discussed: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or student progress shall be evaluated at Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, appropriate assessment regular intervals. Academic standards Johnson, Boswell, Fielding, and others. Transfers to: UC, CSU for Independent Studies/Directed This course is designed for students This course introduces students to Studies shall be the same as those eligible for the Honors Program. a wide range of dramatic literature, for other courses. Units are awarded 3 Units from the plays of ancient Greece to in accordance to Title V regulations 54 Lecture hours contemporary drama. Students will with one unit of credit awarded for 54 study representative plays from sev- hours of Directed Studies, six (6) hours eral literary periods. Course reading of which must be with an instructor. 264 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog The instructor is responsible for moni- LOG 110 merce. Topics covered in the course toring student progress through the Warehouse Management include analysis of the major forms semester. Students may take directed Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of transportation, such as motor, study courses for a maximum of four appropriate assessment; READ 023 or rail, air, water, pipeline, inter-modal, (4) units within a discipline, and may appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or and international; the integration of not accumulate more than a total of appropriate assessment; CIT 042; LOG transportation forms into a distribu- twelve (12) units college wide. 101 tion system; carrier management and 1 to 4 Units Transfers to: CSU selection, including rate structures, 54 to 216 Lab hours This course is intended for students scheduling, outsourcing, private fleet seeking a career in logistics or supply operations, and transportation cus- chain management. This course tomers; government regulations on provides the essential skills for tariffs; and transportation of hazard- LOGISTICS warehouse managers, with emphasis ous materials. Division of Business on the planning, protection, produc- 3 Units tivity, and quality control functions 54 Lecture hours LOG 101 in warehouse and distribution Supply Chain Management operations. Topics include warehouse LOG 125 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or design and layout, effective com- Contract Management appropriate assessment; READ 023 or munications, industry terminology, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or technology, distribution systems, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- inventory management and protec- appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or ate assessment; CIT 042 Transfers to: tion, accountability, auditing, and appropriate assessment; CIT 042; LOG CSU safety rules and regulations. This 101 This course is intended for students course is intended for students seek- Transfers to: CSU seeking a career in logistics or supply ing a career in logistics or supply This course is intended for students chain management. The course chain management. seeking a career in logistics or supply presents the tools and techniques for 3 Units chain management. The course the design and improvement of any 54 Lecture hours provides a study of the legal and supply chain, through the optimal regulatory requirements applicable to use of information, materials, and LOG 115 contracts for product transportation technology to improve efficiency Inventory Management and logistics functions and consid- and reduce costs. The student will Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or erations for drafting and negotiating examine the processes for plan- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or contracts with freight carriers, ware- ning, sourcing, making, delivering, appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or housemen and other logistics service and returning products in order to appropriate assessment; CIT 042; LOG providers. integrate suppliers and customers 101 2 Units into an organization’s supply chain. Transfers to: CSU 36 Lecture hours The student will receive an overview This course is intended for students of career opportunities within the seeking a career in logistics or supply LOG 130 logistics and supply chain manage- chain management. The course Computerized Logistics ment field. reviews the concepts and techniques Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units available for planning and controlling appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours inventories. The student will examine appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or methods to determine the appropri- appropriate assessment; CIT 042; LOG LOG 105 ate amount of inventory to carry; the 101 Purchasing Management relationship between inventory as Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or a physical asset and an accounting This course is intended for students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or asset; the difference between raw seeking a career in logistics or supply appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or material, work-in-process, and fin- chain management. The course MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- ished goods inventories; controlling provides a study of the need and use ate assessment; CIT 042; LOG 101 the physical locations of inventory; of computers in the supply chain and Transfers to: CSU recognizing and analyzing inventory logistics industry and an introduc- This course is intended for students dysfunctions; bar code technolo- tion to the software that is available, seeking a career in logistics or supply gies; and protecting inventory from such as enterprise resource planning, chain management. This course natural, technological, and man-made demand planning, and warehouse explores the basic purchasing func- disasters. management. tions including establishing purchas- 3 Units 3 Units ing requirements and quantities, 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours developing purchasing policies and procedures, receiving acceptable LOG 120 LOG 135 goods, arranging for packaging Transportation Management Quality Management Concepts and shipping, managing inventory Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or control, and the integration of the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or purchasing activities with other busi- appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or ness functions. appropriate assessment; CIT 042; LOG MATH 050D or MATH 053 or appropri- 3 Units 101 ate assessment; CIT 042; LOG 101 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU This course is intended for students This course is intended for stu- seeking a career in logistics or supply dents seeking a career in logistics chain management. The course pro- or supply chain management. The vides a study of traffic management course provides a study of the basic principles and techniques that facili- principles, objectives, and policies tate distribution of the world’s com- of a quality management program. 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 265 Topics include the implementation customer service skills, learn how tive supervision. Topics include an of continuous quality improvement to handle difficult customers, and overview of management principles and the understanding of the various learn how to deal with a diverse in direct and straightforward terms, quality philosophies, such as Dem- business environment. The emphasis critical concepts and insights into real ing’s 14 points, process management, of the class will be on learning new world practice and challenges. ISO 9000 certification, Six Sigma techniques and then applying them 3 Units efforts, the Baldridge award criteria, in work situations. 9-week course, 2 54 Lecture hours and an introduction to statistical sessions each semester. process control. 3 Units MGMT 108 3 Units 54 Lecture hours Business Writing 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or MGMT 072 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Professionalism in Business appropriate assessment; MGMT 050 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Transfers to: CSU MANAGEMENT appropriate assessment; READ 022 or The course covers the principles of appropriate assessment effective writing in business. Exten- Division of Business The purpose of this course is to sive experience is provided using the develop an attitude of profession- different forms of business writing- MGMT 050 alism in students and to provide memorandums, letters, reports, and Business English them with the soft skills necessary resumes. Cultural differences and Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or to succeed in the workplace. The their impact on communicating in appropriate assessment; READ 022 or everyday courtesies that put others at business will be studied. This course appropriate assessment ease in the business environment and is designed for students pursuing This course is designed for the student guidelines for handling the new chal- careers in business. who is seeking a career in business and lenges that have become part of the 3 Units wants a review of the fundamentals American workplace are an integral 54 Lecture hours of English. Topics include grammar, part of this curriculum. Workplace sentence structure, paragraph develop- behavior, social etiquette, and profes- MGMT 120 ment, punctuation, capitalization, sional appearance form the core areas Human Relations in Business spelling, and vocabulary building as of study. This is a nine-week module. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or they apply to effective business com- 1.5 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or munication. 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 3 Units Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours MGMT 101 This course is designed for the Introduction to Business student who is seeking a career in MGMT 052 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or management or is currently in a lead- Business Mathematics appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ership role and wants a better under- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or standing of human relation skills and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment techniques. Topics covered in the appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or Transfers to: UC, CSU course include leadership, teamwork, MATH 020C or appropriate assessment. This course is designed for the communication, group problem solv- This course consists of the fundamen- student who has an interest in a ing, diversity, motivation, and mana- tal operations of business which are career in business. Topics cover busi- gerial organizations. These topics will mathematical in application. Topics ness operations, strategies for both, apply to both a diverse and competi- covered include percent, payroll, domestic and international markets, tive environment. mathematics of buying and selling, economic factor, legal regulations, 3 Units simple and compound interest, annu- management, leadership, market- 54 Lecture hours ities, business and consumer loans, ing, financial operations, account- taxes and insurance, depreciation, ing controls, and e-commerce. This MGMT 130 financial statements, and business course will count toward a business Small Business Management- statistics. This course provides solid certificate or degree in business and Entrepreneurship preparation for students going on to will transfer to a four-year school. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or further study in accounting, manage- 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ment, marketing, retailing, real estate, 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 or office administration. Transfers to: CSU 3 Units MGMT 105 This course is designed for those 54 Lecture hours Elements of Supervision students interested in small business, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or either in a domestic or international MGMT 070 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or market. Topics include start-up meth- Customer Service appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 ods and techniques, management and Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Transfers to: CSU operations, marketing, financing and appropriate assessment; READ 022 or This course is designed for the cash management, location strategies, appropriate assessment student who is considering a career personnel practices, buying and sell- This course is designed for students in management and is seeking an ing strategies, and e-commerce. This who need to develop their skills as entry-level career position with a course will also provide students with customer service representatives. company in retailing, industry, or the an opportunity to develop a business Students will learn how to identify government. This course examines plan as it pertains to their small busi- customer behavior, determine cus- the role of the first-line manager and/ ness interest. tomer needs through active listening, or supervisor within the organiza- 3 Units improve their verbal and nonverbal tion and emphasizes the application 54 Lecture hours communications, develop telephone of management functions in effec- 266 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog MGMT 140 MGMT 143 MGMT 150 Introduction to International Business Import and Export Business Principles of Management Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU This course is designed to provide This introductory course is designed This course is designed for the students with a global perspective of to provide students with an under- student who is seeking a career in business and acquaint students with standing of International Trade, management or for the student who the relationship of culture, politics, specifically with regard to Import/ needs to expand his/her knowledge laws, and economics to operation Export. The course is designed for of management techniques and orga- in today’s complex global business those who want to enter the field of nizational methods. In this course, environment. The subjects covered Trade and International Business or students will learn the theory and will include international trade and for those who wish to further their application of managerial functions finance, confidentiality and privacy, knowledge and understanding of as it applies to planning, organizing, international marketing, and interna- International Business and Interna- leading, and controlling organiza- tional human resources management. tional Trade. tions. Additional topics to be covered This course is designed for students 3 Units will include the history of manage- looking for entry-level positions in 54 Lecture hours ment, and practical management the field of international business. techniques, practices, and problem 3 Units MGMT 144 solving methodologies. The topics 54 Lecture hours International Banking and Finance of employee empowerment, charac- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or teristics and qualities of successful MGMT 141 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or managers, and contemporary trends International Marketing appropriate assessment in management will also be explored Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: CSU in this course. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or The introductory course provides 3 Units appropriate assessment an understanding of international 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU finance, international banking, This course is designed to provide monetary systems, sources of funds, MGMT 155 students with an in-depth study of methods of payments and methods Principles of Leadership international marketing. for assessing financial risk. It includes Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or International market opportunities appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and the determination of marketing an understanding and appreciation of the relationship between government appropriate assessment objectives will also be explored. The Transfers to: CSU students will evaluate the marketing (international, national, and local) and international banks. The course This course is intended for pro- research data and analyze selected fessionals who want to develop approaches that affect the marketing is designed for students who want to enter the International Finance/Bank- an understanding of leadership mix for specific markets to coor- principles. The course explores the ing field or for those who wish to dinate strategies in global world differences between leadership and markets. This course is designed for further their knowledge and under- management, the approaches used to the marketing-oriented students and standing of International Banking & define leadership, and methods used those interested in furthering their Finance. to assess leadership behavior. Various knowledge and understanding of 3 Units instruments for assessing leadership international business. 54 Lecture hours are examined and discussed. Other 3 Units topics examined include leadership 54 Lecture hours MGMT 146 in teams and leadership of change Human Resources Management initiatives. MGMT 142 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 3 Units International Management appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or MGMT 160 appropriate assessment Transfers to: CSU Principles of Project Management Transfers to: CSU This course is designed for the (Formerly CIT 195) This course is designed to provide student who wants to study employ- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or students with a compressive over- er-employee relationships with appropriate assessment; READ 023 or view of the management practice as particular emphasis on the challenges appropriate assessment; CIT 101 it relates to international business. An facing an expanding multicultural Transfers to: CSU emphasis will be placed on the plan- workforce in Southern California. This course develops the project ning, problem solving, organizational Topics include: legal framework; management skills needed to define, structure, human resource manage- personnel policies and procedures; plan, lead, monitor, and complete ment, and production management as implementing equal employment projects in any type of industry. it relates to international competition. and affirmative action; legal aspects Specific topics include managing These functions of management will of supervision; training and develop- project integration, scope, time, cost, all be evaluated and examined under ment; interviewing; testing; wage and quality, human resources, commu- international competitive situations salary administration, job analysis nications, risks, and procurement. In and cross cultural boundaries. This and description; recruitment; trans- addition, the five phases of a project course is designed for international fers; promotions; and principles of are explored; initiating, planning, business major and those interested collective bargaining. executing, controlling, and closing. in furthering their knowledge of busi- 3 Units This course is intended for profes- ness culture, strategy and behavior sionals who want to learn or improve issues in the global context. 54 Lecture hours the skills of project management. 3 Units 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 267 MGMT 162 their impact on communicating in same as those for other courses. Units Project Cost & Schedule Management business will be studied. This course are awarded in accordance to Title Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or satisfies the business communications V regulations with one unit of credit appropriate assessment; READ 023 or component for the Associates of Sci- awarded for 54 hours of Directed appropriate assessment; CIT 101 ences Degree in Business Administra- Studies, six (6) hours of which must Transfers to: CSU tion for transfer (TMC). be with an instructor. The instructor This course is intended for students 3 Units is responsible for monitoring student seeking a career in project manage- 54 Lecture hours progress through the semester. ment. Time, cost, and budget esti- Students may take directed study mates are the basis for project control. MGMT 290 courses for a maximum of four (4) This course explores the tools and Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- units within a discipline, and may techniques used to estimate proj- ship for Business Management Related not accumulate more than a total of ect tasks, costs, and resources, and Fields twelve (12) units college wide. monitor performance against those Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 to 4 Units estimates over the life of the project. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 to 216 Lab hours 2 Units appropriate assessment 36 Lecture hours Transfers to: CSU This course supports and reinforces MGMT 164 on-the-job training in business and Project Risk Management industrial establishments under MARKETING Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or supervision of a college instruc- Division of Business appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tor and is facilitated by the use of appropriate assessment; CIT 101 learning objectives. The student will MRKT 170 Transfers to: CSU be working in a skilled or profes- Elements of Marketing This course is intended for students sional level assignment in their area Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or seeking a career in project manage- of vocational interest and will meet appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ment. Managing project risk depends performance objectives related to appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 upon developing an understanding instruction that are above and beyond Transfers to: CSU of the sources of problems in projects, the conditions of regular employ- This course is designed for the and then working to minimize threats ment. This course is intended for student who is interested in a career and maximize opportunities wher- students whose job is related to the in marketing or gaining an entry- ever feasible. This course explores field of Business Management and level marketing position with a the tools and techniques used to plan have completed or enrolled in the retail, industrial, service, or con- risk management, identify risks, appropriate coursework. “Contact the sumer product company. Discussion perform qualitative and quantitative CWE office regarding re-enrollment of marketing concepts, strategies, risk analysis, plan risk responses, and procedures”. monitor and control risk responses. Student Unpaid Internship: and techniques will take place in 2 Units 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; an environment that reflects new 36 Lecture hours 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours technologies and international com- Student Paid Internship: petitiveness. The topics in the course MGMT 166 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; will include marketing concepts, Project Management Practicum 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. functions, operations, and organiza- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 1 to 4 Units tions of retail and wholesale enter- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Lecture hours prises; distribution channels; market appropriate assessment; CIT 101 60 to 300 hours research; advertising; marketing Transfers to: CSU costs; pricing; cooperative marketing, This course is intended for students MGMT 299 marketing legislation and regulations seeking a career in project manage- Directed Study: Management and trends. ment. This is a hands-on capstone Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units course providing students with prac- Independent Study/Directed Study 54 Lecture hours tice in the five project management is intended for students who have process groups and the nine knowl- the ability to assume responsibil- MRKT 171 edge areas. Students will simulate ity for independent work and to Consumer Behavior a project based on case studies. The prepare written or oral reports and/ Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or case studies will require the comple- or appropriate projects. To enroll in appropriate assessment; READ 023 or tion of project planning documents an independent study/directed study under typical business constraints. course, students must possess a 2.5 appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 The case studies will be completed in overall grade point average, a 3.1 Transfers to: CSU a team environment. grade point average in the discipline This class investigates and analyzes 2 Units of study being requested, or receive the reasons why consumers select, 36 Lecture hours an exception from the instructor. purchase, use, and dispose of goods Independent Studies/Directed Stud- and services to satisfy their personal MGMT 208 ies may be developed from any topic and household needs. Topics to be Business Communications arising from or related to a course of explored include consumer culture, Prerequisite: ENGL 101 study that will result in developing group influence, consumption pat- Transfers to: CSU depth and breadth in that subject terns, and consumer attitudes and This course covers the principles of area. Students will be expected to lifestyles as well as other relevant effective writing in business. Exten- meet on a regular basis with their fac- topics. This class is appropriate for sive experience is provided using the ulty sponsor and submit a final report the marketing major and anyone who different forms of business writing— or project, and student progress shall wants to know why people buy. memorandums, letters, reports, and be evaluated at regular intervals. 3 Units resumes. Cultural differences and Academic standards for Independent 54 Lecture hours Studies/Directed Studies shall be the 268 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog MRKT 172 small businesses. (*Students will receive credit from UC for Advertising and Promotion 3 Units only one of the following courses: MSCM Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours 103 or MSCM 128) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course in mass media surveys appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 MRKT 175 the history, format, laws, and signifi- Transfers to: CSU Retail Management cant contributors in American mass This course is designed to intro- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or communications. Through projects duce students to the creative and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and readings, students research and competitive field of advertising and appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 discuss such issues as free press, promotion. Course content includes Transfers to: CSU fair trial, foreign communications sys- understanding the target audience, This course is designed for the stu- tems, and the relationship between developing marketing and advertis- dent pursuing a career in retail man- free media and a democratic society. ing plans, engaging in the creative agement or desiring to own their own 3 Units process through strategy and execu- retail business. Class discussions will 54 Lecture hours tion, and integrating marketing com- explore the topics of customer buying munications elements as they relate behavior, retail market strategy, retail MSCM 134 to personal selling, sales promotion, site location, and human resources Documentary Film direct marketing, and electronic, digi- management. Case studies and expe- (Formerly MASSC 134, 034) tal, and print media. This course is riential exercises will be used to help Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate for the marketing major students understand additional topics appropriate assessment; READ 022 or or anyone interested in advertising including customer service, store appropriate assessment and promotion. management, retail pricing, supply Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units chain management, and merchandise This is an inquiry into the origin, 54 Lecture hours management. purpose, development, and current 3 Units trends of the documentary (non- MRKT 173 54 Lecture hours fiction) film. The class will view and Principles of Selling critique the great documentaries Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ranging from Nanook of the North to appropriate assessment; READ 023 or MASS Woodstock. The future of the medium appropriate assessment in business, government, education, Transfers to: CSU COMMUNICATIONS Division of Communications and television will also be discussed. This course is designed for the 3 Units & Languages student interested in a sales position 54 Lecture hours or those currently in the sales field MSCM 103 needing further training or hoping to Survey of Motion Picture, Radio and transition to a management or mar- Television keting manager position. The course MATHEMATICS (Formerly MASSC 103, 003) will focus on relationship selling Division of Mathematics & Sciences Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and developing productive selling appropriate assessment; READ 022 or environments. In addition, prospect- MATH 009 appropriate assessment ing techniques, approach strategies, Enrichment Activities for Mathematics Transfers to: UC (credit limit *), CSU presentation and demonstration This course is designed to support the (*Students will receive credit from UC for skills, overcoming selling objections, objectives of the corequisite mathe- only one of the following courses: MSCM and closing techniques will provide matics course. Activities are designed 103 or MSCM 128) the core of the material covered in to further student understanding and This course presents a broad survey this course. appreciation of mathematical prin- of the history, theory, aesthetic princi- 3 Units ciples. Applications and explorations ples, and production techniques used 54 Lecture hours of concepts covered in the corequisite in the making of motion pictures, course are emphasized. These instruc- radio, and television programs. Stu- MRKT 174 tional activities are not available for dents will view or listen to numerous Small Business Marketing and discussion/lecture format and are not television shows, motion pictures, Advertising required for the grade in the corequi- films, and radio programs in order to Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or site course. become familiar with various produc- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 0 Units tion techniques and methods of criti- appropriate assessment; MGMT 101 0 Lab hours cally evaluating media presentations. Transfers to: CSU Guest lecturers and field trips to film, This class provides useful and effec- MATH 020 TV shows, and radio studios may be tive marketing and advertising tools Basic Mathematics scheduled. and techniques to those students who (Formerly MATH 068A) 3 Units have or would like to own a small Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 54 Lecture hours business. A special emphasis is placed appropriate assessment; READ 021 or on the fundamentals of marketing appropriate assessment; Individual mod- MSCM 128 and guerilla marketing and advertis- ules to be taken in sequence. Mass Media in Modern Society ing techniques. Topics for discussion This course is designed for students (Formerly MASSC 128, 028) will include marketing plan strate- who need a review of the basic princi- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or gies, marketing research, marketing ples and skills of arithmetic. The gen- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or channel management, retail and eral areas of review are: operations appropriate assessment pricing strategies, and cost-effective with whole numbers and fractions; Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU guerilla advertising techniques for operations with decimals and pro- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 269 portional thinking; percent problems MATH 021 ing styles and attitudes and behaviors and applications to percents. Students Basic Mathematics and Study Skills that are beneficial to success in may enroll in MATH 020 in a lecture Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 024 or mathematics. This is a non-degree section for three units of credit or in appropriate assessment; READ 022 or credit course. individual one-unit modules: MATH appropriate assessment 4 Units 020A, 020B, and 020C in the Math This course is designed for the stu- 72 Lecture hours and Science Center (MSC). This is a dent who needs an introduction to non-degree credit course. the study skills required to succeed MATH 028 3 Units in a college mathematics course, What’s Math got to do with it? 54 Lecture hours as well as a comprehensive review Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in of the basic principles and skills of Math 020 or 030 MATH 020A mathematics. The general areas of Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 024 or Basic Mathematics A mathematics review are operations appropriate assessment; READ 021 or (Formerly MATH 068A) with whole numbers and fractions, appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or operations with decimals, percent This course is designed for the stu- appropriate assessment; READ 021 or problems and applications to percent, dent who struggles with mathemat- appropriate assessment; Individual mod- and proportional thinking. Special ics. It explores why it is important to ules to be taken in sequence. attention is given to the following study mathematics and to develop a This course is designed for students study skills: reading a math book, number sense. The student will gain who need a review of the basic completing homework assignments, an understanding of attitudes and principles and skills of arithmetic. See taking notes, studying for exams, behaviors that are beneficial to suc- MATH 020 for more information. approaching word problems, and get- cess in mathematics and will learn to 1 Unit ting help. Other topics include learn- avoid those that are counterproduc- 18 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours MATH 020B Basic Mathematics B (Formerly MATH 068B) Prerequisite: MATH 020A with a “C” or better Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 021 or appropriate assessment; Individual mod- ules to be taken in sequence. This course is designed for students who need a review of the basic principles and skills of arithmetic. See MATH 020 for more information. 1 Unit 18 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours MATH 020C Basic Mathematics C (Formerly MATH 068C) Prerequisite: MATH 020B with a “C” or better Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 021 or appropriate assessment; Individual mod- ules to be taken in sequence. This course is designed for students who need a review of the basic princi- ples and skills of arithmetic. See MATH 020 for more information. 1 Unit 18 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours 270 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog tive. Each student will be provided MATH 030B MATH 049 with a multitude of study skills that Prealgebra B Introduction to MESA are appropriate for individual learn- Prerequisite: MATH 030A with a “C” Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing styles. The student will learn or better appropriate assessment; READ 023 or how to stay motivated; read the math Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment book; complete homework assign- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This standalone one-unit course is ments; take notes; study for exams; appropriate assessment designed for students who participate approach word problems and get This course is designed primarily for in the MESA (Mathematics, Engineer- help. The students will be introduced students who know the fundamentals ing, Science Achievement) program of arithmetic, and have had little or to the tutoring software packages that at Rio Hondo College. The course will no background in algebra. See MATH are bundled with most text books introduce students to Science-Tech- 030 for more information. and provide free help. Concurrent 1 Unit nology- Engineering-Mathematics enrollment in Math 020 or Math 030 18 Lecture hours (STEM) career paths, transfer require- is required. This will provide the 54 Lab hours ments, internships and scholarships student with immediate application availabilities. The course introduces of the skills learned and support MATH 030C StrengthsQuest and will assist the throughout the semester. Prealgebra C student in compiling strengths-based 1 Unit Prerequisite: MATH 030B with a “C” resumes and personal statements. 18 Lecture hours or better Students are expected to be concur- 18 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or rently enrolled in at least one math- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ematics or science course. MATH 030 appropriate assessment 1 Unit Prealgebra This course is designed primarily for 18 Lecture hours (Formerly MATH 055) students who know the fundamentals Prerequisite: MATH 020 or MATH 021 of arithmetic, and have had little or MATH 050 or MATH 020C with a “C” or better or no background in algebra. See MATH Elementary Algebra appropriate assessment 030 for more information. (Formerly MATH 50) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 1 Unit Prerequisite: MATH 030 or MATH 18 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 030D or MATH 033 with a grade of “C” 54 Lab hours appropriate assessment or better or appropriate assessment This course is designed primarily for Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or MATH 030D students who know the fundamentals Prealgebra D appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of arithmetic, and have had little or Prerequisite: MATH 030C with a “C” appropriate assessment no background in algebra. The course or better This course is an introduction to the strengthens the student’s arithmetic Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or basic principles and skills of algebra. and informal geometry skills, pro- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or It is designed primarily for those vides an introduction to the abstrac- appropriate assessment students who have no prior train- tions of algebra using fundamental This course is designed primarily for ing in algebra or need a review of principles of rational numbers, order students who know the fundamentals the fundamentals of algebra. Topics of operations, and solving linear of arithmetic, and have had little or include: numbers and their proper- equations. Students may enroll in no background in algebra. See MATH ties, operations with real numbers, MATH 030 in a lecture section for 030 for more information. exponents, solutions and graphs four units of credit, or individual one- 1 Unit of linear equations, slopes of lines, unit modules 030A, 030B, 030C, and 18 Lecture hours system of linear equations and appli- 030D in the Math and Science Center 54 Lab hours cations, operations with polynomials (MSC). including factoring, solving quadratic 4 Units MATH 033 equations, operations with simple 72 Lecture hours Fast-Track Prealgebra rational and radical expressions. Stu- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or dents may enroll in MATH 050 in a MATH 030A appropriate assessment; READ 022 or lecture section for four units of credit, Prealgebra A appropriate assessment or individual one-unit modules 050A, Prerequisite: MATH 020 or MATH 021 This is the first of three math 050B, 050, and 050D in the Math and or MATH 020C with a “C” or better or courses designed to allow students Science Center (MSC) or online. appropriate assessment to complete developmental math 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or courses at a faster rate of speed than 90 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or the traditional lecture course. This appropriate assessment course combines topics from both MATH 050A This course is designed primarily for Basic Math and Prealgebra, includ- Elementary Algebra A students who know the fundamentals ing operations with whole numbers, Prerequisite: MATH 030 or MATH of arithmetic, and have had little or integers, fractions, decimals and pro- 030D or MATH 033 with a grade of “C” no background in algebra. See MATH portional thinking, percent problems or better or appropriate assessment 030 for more information. and applications to percents, as well Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 1 Unit as an introduction to algebraic think- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 18 Lecture hours ing using fundamental principles appropriate assessment 54 Lab hours of expressions and solving linear This course is an introduction to the equations. basic principles and skills of algebra. 4 Units It is designed primarily for those 72 Lecture hours students who have no prior training 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 271 in algebra or need a review of the MATH 053 who have completed an elementary fundamentals of algebra. See MATH Fast-Track Elementary Algebra algebra course and need to complete 050 for more information. Prerequisite: MATH 030 or MATH an additional course in algebra before 1 Unit 030D or MATH 033 with a grade of proceeding to a college level transfer- 22.5 Lecture hours “C” or better or appropriate skill level as able course. This course is a study 54 Lab hours determined by participation in the math of linear and quadratic equations placement process and inequalities, system of linear MATH 050B Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or equations, polynomials, exponents Elementary Algebra B appropriate assessment; READ 022 or and radicals, relations and functions, Prerequisite: MATH 050A with a grade appropriate assessment graphs of functions, exponential and of “C” or better or appropriate assess- This is the second of three math logarithmic expressions and their ment courses designed to allow students applications. Students may enroll in Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or to complete developmental math MATH 070 in a lecture section for appropriate assessment; READ 023 or courses at a faster rate of speed than four units of credit or in individual appropriate assessment the traditional lecture course. It is one-unit modules: MATH 070A, This course is an introduction to the designed primarily for those students 070B, 070C, and 070D in the Math basic principles and skills of algebra. who need to learn the fundamentals and Science Center (MSC) or online. It is designed primarily for those of algebra. This course consists of 4 Units students who have no prior training topics including solutions and graphs 90 Lecture hours in algebra or need a review of the of linear equations and inequalities, fundamentals of algebra. See MATH slopes of lines, systems of linear MATH 070A 050 for more information. equations and applications, opera- Intermediate Algebra A 1 Unit tions with polynomials including Prerequisite: MATH 050, MATH 050D, 22.5 Lecture hours factoring and solving quadratic or MATH 053 with a grade of “C” or 54 Lab hours equations. better or appropriate assessment 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or MATH 050C 72 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Elementary Algebra C appropriate assessment Prerequisite: MATH 050B with a grade MATH 060 Transfers to: CSU if taken prior to the of “C” or better or appropriate assess- Geometry Fall Semester, 1988 ment (Formerly MATH 052) This course is designed for students Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH who have completed an elementary appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 050D or MATH 053 with a grade of “C” algebra course and need to complete appropriate assessment or better or appropriate assessment an additional course in algebra before This course is an introduction to the Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 024 or proceeding to a college level transfer- basic principles and skills of algebra. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or able course. See MATH 070 for more It is designed primarily for those appropriate assessment information. students who have no prior training This course is an introduction to 1 Unit in algebra or need a review of the the elements of geometry, includ- 22.5 Lecture hours fundamentals of algebra. See MATH ing points, lines, planes, and angles. 54 Lab hours 050 for more information. These elements are used in conjunc- 1 Unit tion with triangles, polygonal and MATH 070B 22.5 Lecture hours circular figures in both two and three Intermediate Algebra B 54 Lab hours dimensional configurations. Formu- Prerequisite: MATH 070A with a grade of las for computing lengths, areas, and “C” or better or appropriate assessment MATH 050D volumes are presented through the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Elementary Algebra D use of applications. This course is appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: MATH 050C with a grade intended for students who have not appropriate assessment of “C” or better or appropriate assess- had or completed two semesters of Transfers to: CSU if taken prior to the Fall ment high school geometry or who need Semester, 1988 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or a refresher prior to taking trigonom- This course is designed for students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or etry, technology courses, mathemat- who have completed an elementary appropriate assessment ics for elementary teachers or other algebra course and need to complete This course is an introduction to the courses with a geometry prerequisite. an additional course in algebra before basic principles and skills of algebra. 3 Units proceeding to a college level transfer- It is designed primarily for those 54 Lecture hours able course. See MATH 070 for more students who have no prior training information. in algebra or need a review of the MATH 070 1 Unit fundamentals of algebra. See MATH Intermediate Algebra 22.5 Lecture hours 050 for more information. (Formerly MATH 010) 54 Lab hours 1 Unit Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH 22.5 Lecture hours 050D or MATH 053 with a grade of “C” MATH 070C 54 Lab hours or better or appropriate assessment Intermediate Algebra C Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: MATH 070B with a grade appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of “C” or better or appropriate assess- appropriate assessment ment Transfers to: CSU if taken prior to the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Fall Semester, 1988 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed for students appropriate assessment 272 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog Transfers to: CSU if taken prior to the to complete developmental math MATH 130 Fall Semester, 1988 courses at a faster rate of speed Statistics This course is designed for students than the traditional lecture course. (Formerly MATH 012) who have completed an elementary This course is designed for students Prerequisite: MATH 070, MATH 070D, algebra course and need to complete who have completed an elementary or MATH 073 with a grade of “C” or an additional course in algebra before algebra course and need to complete better or appropriate assessment proceeding to a college level transfer- an additional course in algebra before Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate able course. See MATH 070 for more proceeding to a college level transfer- assessment; READ 101 or appropri- information. able course. This course is a study of ate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit systems of linear equations in more 1 Unit limit*), CSU (*Students will receive than two variables, radical and ratio- 22.5 Lecture hours credit from UC for only one of the fol- nal expressions and equations, com- 54 Lab hours plex absolute value equations and lowing courses: MATH 130 or MATH inequalities, relations and functions, 130H) MATH 070D synthetic division, graphs of func- This course is designed for students Intermediate Algebra D tions, exponential and logarithmic majoring in business, social sci- Prerequisite: MATH 070C with a grade expressions and their applications, as ences, and life sciences. This course of “C” or better or appropriate assess- well as complex numbers. provides an overview of descriptive ment 4 Units and inferential statistics. The students Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 72 Lecture hours learn to read, interpret and present appropriate assessment; READ 023 or data in a well-organized way. This appropriate assessment MATH 103 includes frequency distributions, Transfers to: CSU if taken prior to the Math Tutoring Skills graphs, measures of central tendency Fall Semester, 1988 Prerequisite: MATH 070 or appropriate and variability, correlation and This course is designed for students assessment linear regression. While discussing who have completed an elementary Prerequisite/Corequisite: ED 090 Trans- inferential statistics, the students algebra course and need to complete fers to: CSU learn to make generalizations about an additional course in algebra before This course is designed for students populations. This includes probabil- proceeding to a college level transfer- who seek to peer-tutor and students ity, sampling techniques, confidence able course. See MATH 070 for more who aim to tutor at elementary, intervals, and hypothesis tests. information. middle, high school or college. The 4 Units course will provide the student 1 Unit 72 Lecture hours with the skills to appropriately help, 22.5 Lecture hours explain, and assist others solve math 54 Lab hours problems without assistance. MATH 130H 0.5 Units Statistics Honors MATH 072 9 Lecture hours Prerequisite: MATH 070, MATH 070D, The Mathematics of Money or MATH 073 with a grade of “C” or Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH MATH 104 better or appropriate assessment; Mini- 050D with a grade of “C” or better or Math Tutoring Discussion mum GPA of 3.0; Completion of ENGL appropriate assessment Prerequisite/Corequisite: MATH 103 101 with a grade of “C” or better Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: CSU Advisory: READ 101 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed for stu- assessment appropriate assessment dents who currently peer-tutor and Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU The Mathematics of Money is students who tutor at elementary, (*Students will receive credit from UC designed for students pursuing an middle, high schools or college. The for only one of the following courses: associate’s degree who do not plan discussion will assist the students MATH 130 or MATH 130H) to transfer to a four-year school. Stu- with solving problems that occur in This course is designed for students dents will consider the mathematics tutoring situations and expand their majoring in business, social sci- of exponential growth and decay and mathematical problem solving skills. ences, and life sciences. This course the use of logarithms as they relate 0.5 Units provides an overview of descriptive to investing and borrowing money 9 hours and inferential statistics. The students including compound interest, credit learn to read, interpret and present cards, and installment loans. Other MATH 120 data in a well-organized way. This Finite Mathematics topics include probability and statis- includes frequency distributions, (Formerly MATH 011) tics, especially related to gambling graphs, measures of central tendency Prerequisite: MATH 070 or MATH and insurance. 070D with a grade of “C” or better or and variability, correlation and 4 Units appropriate assessment linear regression. While discussing 72 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or inferential statistics, the students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or learn to make generalizations about MATH 073 appropriate assessment populations. This includes probabil- Fast-Track Intermediate Algebra Transfers to: UC, CSU ity, sampling techniques, confidence Prerequisite: MATH 050 or MATH This course is designed for students intervals, and hypothesis tests. This 050D or MATH 053 with a grade of majoring in business and social sci- course is intended for students who “C” or better or appropriate skill level as ences. Topics will include: modeling meet Honors Program requirements. determined by participation in the math with linear equations, matrix theory, 4 Units placement process linear programming, set theory, 72 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or counting, probability, and statistics. appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 4 Units appropriate assessment 72 Lecture hours This is the third of three math courses designed to allow students 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 273 MATH 140 This course will cover linear, qua- Mathematics for Elementary Teachers dratic, polynomial, power, exponen- MATH 180 (Formerly MATH 016A) tial, and logarithmic functions and Pre-Calculus Prerequisite: MATH 070 or MATH their applications from a graphical, (Formerly MATH 004) 070D or MATH 073 with a grade of “C” numerical, and analytical point of Prerequisite: MATH 175 with a grade of or better or appropriate assessment view. The course also will cover “C” or better or appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or systems of equations and inequalities Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and sequences and series. The course appropriate assessment; READ 101 or appropriate assessment serves as preparation for students appropriate assessment. Transfers to: UC, CSU planning to take Elements of Calculus Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU This course is designed to deepen (MATH 170). Graphing technology (*Students will receive credit from UC and extend the student’s under- will be required. for only one of the following courses: standing of the foundations of the 4 Units MATH 160 or MATH 165 or MATH mathematics taught in elementary 72 Lecture hours 180) school. Because it is intended for the This course is designed to prepare student preparing to teach at that MATH 170 students for the study of calculus. It level, it frequently refers to and uses Elements of Calculus presents a comprehensive study of materials and methodology appropri- (Formerly MATH 013) linear, quadratic, polynomial, expo- ate for students at that level, but it is Prerequisite: MATH 160 with a grade of nential, logarithmic, rational, and not a methods course. The course is “C” or better or appropriate assessment trigonometric functions. Inequalities, concept-driven with an emphasis on Advisory: ENGL 101; READ 101 introductory analytical geometry, problem solving. Concrete manipu- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU polar coordinates, polar equations latives are used to give meaning (*Students will receive credit from UC and their graphs, DeMoivre’s Theo- to abstract mathematical concepts. for only one of the following courses: rem and an introduction to sequences Topics include numeration and place MATH 170, MATH 190, or MATH are also included. This course is a value concepts, models and algo- 190H) prerequisite for MATH 190. rithms for operations with whole This is a one-semester course in the 4 Units numbers, integers, fractions and deci- fundamentals of algebra-based calcu- 72 Lecture hours mals, and the structure and proper- lus and its applications to the fields of ties of the real number system. business, economics, social sciences, MATH 190 4 Units biology and technology. Course Calculus I 72 Lecture hours topics include graphing of functions, Prerequisite: MATH 180 with a grade of derivatives and integrals of polyno- “C” or better or appropriate assessment MATH 141 mials, exponential and logarithmic Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Mathematics for Elementary Teachers functions, applications of derivatives appropriate assessment; READ 101 or (Formerly MATH 016B) and integrals, multi-variable deriva- appropriate assessment Prerequisite: MATH 060 and MATH tives and differential equations. Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 140 with a grade of “C” or better 4 Units (*Students will receive credit from UC Transfers to: CSU Math 141 is a con- 72 Lecture hours for only one of the following courses: tinuation of Math 140. MATH 170, MATH 190 or MATH Topics include probability, sta- MATH 175 190H) tistics, informal geometry in two Plane Trigonometry MATH 190 is a semester course and three dimensions, coordinate (Formerly MATH 090, 033) designed primarily for those students geometry, measurement, similarity, Prerequisite: MATH 060 and MATH planning to pursue programs in tessellations, constructions, and an 070 or MATH 070D or MATH 073 with engineering, mathematics, computer introduction to Euclidean geometry. a grade of “C” or better or appropriate science, and physical sciences. This Manipulatives and appropriate tech- assessment course includes topics of differential nology are used as tools for explora- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and integral calculus of a single vari- tion and problem solving. This course appropriate assessment; READ 023 or able. is intended for elementary education appropriate assessment 4 Units majors planning to teach in elemen- Transfers to: CSU 90 Lecture hours tary or middle schools. This course is designed for students 4 Units who are majoring in math, science, MATH 190H 72 Lecture hours and engineering. This course equips Calculus I Honors students with the skills necessary for Prerequisite: MATH 180 with a grade of MATH 160 success in pre-calculus. It presents “C” or better or appropriate assessment; College Algebra the concepts of plane trigonometry ENGL 101 with a grade of “C” or better (Formerly MATH 002) using a functions approach. Included or appropriate assessment Prerequisite: MATH 070 or MATH is a study of basic relations, functions, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 070D or MATH 073 with a grade of “C” and transformations, as well as circu- assessment or better or appropriate assessment lar functions, trigonometric functions Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of angles, identities, inverse functions (*Students will receive credit from UC appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and their equations and solutions of for only one of the following courses: appropriate assessment triangles. MATH 170, MATH 190 or MATH Transfers to: UC (credit limit *), CSU 3 Units 190H) (*Students will receive credit from UC 72 Lecture hours MATH 190H is a semester course for only one of the following courses: designed primarily for those students MATH 160 or MATH 165 or MATH 180) 274 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog planning to pursue programs in MATH 260 study that will result in developing engineering, mathematics, computer Linear Algebra depth and breadth in that subject science, and physical sciences. This Prerequisite: MATH 191 with a grade of area. Students will be expected to course includes topics of differen- “C” or better meet on a regular basis with their fac- tial and integral calculus of a single Transfers to: UC, CSU ulty sponsor and submit a final report variable. This course is intended for This course is an introductory study or project, and student progress shall students who meet Honors Program of linear algebra with applications be evaluated at regular intervals. requirements. to problems in the physical and Academic standards for Independent 4 Units social sciences. It includes a study Studies/Directed Studies shall be the 90 Lecture hours of vectors, systems of linear equa- same as those for other courses. Units tions, matrices, determinants, the are awarded in accordance to Title MATH 191 Fundamental Theorem of Invertible V regulations with one unit of credit Calculus II Matrices, Eigenvalues and Eigenvec- awarded for 54 hours of Directed Prerequisite: MATH 190 or MATH tors, orthogonality, vector spaces and Studies, six (6) hours of which must 190H with a grade of “C” or better or proof by mathematical induction. be with an instructor. The instructor appropriate assessment This course is required for Engineer- is responsible for monitoring student Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing, Physics, Computer Science and progress through the semester. appropriate assessment; READ 101 or Mathematics majors. Students may take directed study appropriate assessment 4 Units courses for a maximum of four (4) Transfers to: UC, CSU MATH 191 is 72 Lecture hours units within a discipline, and may a semester course which continues the not accumulate more than a total of study of calculus begun in MATH 190. MATH 270 twelve (12) units college wide. The course includes techniques of Differential Equations 1 to 4 Units integration, improper integrals, anti- (Formerly MATH 007) 54 to 216 Lab hours derivatives, application of the definite Prerequisite: MATH 250 with a grade of integral, differential equations, Taylor “C” or better polynomials, series, vectors, the dot Transfers to: UC, CSU product and the cross product. This This course is a study of ordinary dif- MUSIC course is the second course of the cal- ferential equations with applications Division of Arts & Cultural Programs culus sequence required of engineer- in the physical and social sciences. MUS 101 ing, physics, and mathematics majors. The course includes a study of linear Fundamentals of Music 4 Units and nonlinear first-order differential (Formerly MUSIC 101, 001) 90 Lecture hours equations, linear higher order differ- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate ential equations, systems of differen- assessment MATH 250 tial equations, power series solution Transfers to: UC, CSU Calculus III of differential equations, and Laplace This is a course designed for the Prerequisite: MATH 191 with a grade of transforms. This course is a continu- student interested in the fundamen- “C” or better ation of MATH 190, MATH 191, and tals of music theory. Included in this Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or MATH 250 and is required for all class will be a study of basic notation, appropriate assessment; READ 101 or Engineering, Physics, and Mathemat- rhythm reading, major and minor appropriate assessment ics majors. scale construction, simple musical Transfers to: UC, CSU 4 Units analysis and basic chord construction. This course involves a study of func- 72 Lecture hours 3 Units tions of two or more variables using 54 Lecture hours the principles of calculus, vector MATH 299 analysis, and parametric equations. Directed Study: Mathematics MUS 103 Included is a study of solid regions (Formerly MATH 100) Music Theory I using partial differentiation, vector Transfers to: UC, CSU (Formerly MUSIC 103, 003A) analysis, and multiple integration. Independent Study/Directed Study Prerequisite: MUS 101 with a “C” or better This course also includes a study is intended for students who have Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate of vector calculus topics, such as the ability to assume responsibil- assessment line and surface integrals, Green’s ity for independent work and to Transfers to: UC, CSU Theorem, Stokes’ Theorem, and the prepare written or oral reports and/ This course is designed for the Divergence Theorem. This is the or appropriate projects. To enroll in student who wants to study the basic third course of the calculus sequence an independent study/directed study materials of harmony and musician- required of engineering, physics, and course, students must possess a 2.5 ship: scales, keys, intervals, chords, mathematics majors. overall grade point average, a 3.0 chord connections, part writing, and 4 Units grade point average in the discipline inversions. Also included is ear train- 90 Lecture hours of study being requested, or receive ing, melodic and harmonic dictation, an exception from the instructor. and harmonic analysis. Required of Independent Studies/Directed Stud- all music majors. ies may be developed from any topic 3 Units arising from or related to a course of 54 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 275 MUS 104 MUS 110 MUS 119 Music Theory II College Community Orchestra Advanced College Community (Formerly MUSIC 104, 003B) (Formerly MUSIC 110, 111) Orchestra Prerequisite: MUS 103 with a “C” or Advisory: MUS 101 Prerequisite: MUS 110 better Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate This course is designed for the instru- This course is designed for the more assessment mental music student who wants to advanced instrumental music student Transfers to: UC, CSU become familiar with the vast body who wants to become more famil- This course is designed for the of orchestral music. It provides play- iar with the vast body of orchestral student who wants to study the ers an opportunity to develop their music. It provides advanced players harmonic practices of the eigh- own musical capabilities as well as an opportunity to further develop teenth and nineteenth centuries. participating in ensemble playing. their own musical capabilities as well Advanced stages of chromaticism Students are expected to provide as participate in ensemble playing. which includes tonicization, modula- their own instruments. This course Students are expected to provide tion, modal mixture, and sequential may be taken once and repeated three their own instruments. This course movement both tonal and real will be times for credit. may be taken once and repeated three incorporated into the harmonic study. 1 Unit times for credit. Techniques and orchestration of 54 Lab hours 1 Unit instruments are studied and applied 54 Lab hours to melodic and motivic construction MUS 116 in a formal compositional context. Music Ensemble for Diverse MUS 120 3 Units Instruments I Vocal Arts Ensemble I 54 Lecture hours (Formerly MUSIC 116) (Formerly MUSIC 120, 022A) Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or MUS 106 This course is designed for the appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Beginning Musicianship I electric and acoustic instrumental appropriate assessment (Formerly MUSIC 106) student, the vocal student, and the Transfers to: UC, CSU Prerequisite: MUS 101 with a “C” or novice to perform together in one This course is designed for the better ensemble. The ensemble content, student who seeks an opportunity Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate which will depend upon the instru- to perform in a vocal ensemble. assessment mental and vocal makeup of the class, Participation in public performance is Transfers to: UC, CSU will include a diversity of approaches required. The repertoire will include This course is designed for the stu- that might include Latin, Asian, a diversity of selections including dent who wants to develop beginning Popular and contemporary Classical classical choral literature, world aural skills, sight-reading, sight-sing- Music. music, popular and contemporary ing and rhythmic interpretation skills. 2.5 Units music. Previous choral experience is It is recommended for all instrumen- 27 Lecture hours not required. talists, singers and composers. 54 Lab hours 2 Unit 3 Units 27 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours MUS 117 27 Lab hours Music Ensemble for Diverse Instru- MUS 107 ments II MUS 129 Beginning Musicianship II (Formerly MUSIC 117) Music in Latin American Culture (Formerly MUSIC 107) Prerequisite: MUS 116 (Formerly MUSIC 129) Prerequisite: MUS 106 Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate This course is designed for the inter- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or assessment mediate electric, acoustic instrumen- appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU tal and vocal students to perform Transfers to: UC, CSU This beginning level course is together in one ensemble. The This course is a survey course designed for the student who wants ensemble content, which will depend designed for the student seeking to continue developing aural skills, upon the instrumental and vocal an introduction to music in Latin sight-reading, sight-singing and makeup of the class, will include a American culture. The course will rhythmic interpretation skills. It is diversity of approaches that might focus on the diverse musical cultures recommended for all instrumental- include Latin, Asian, of South America, Central America, ists, singers and composers. Popular and contemporary Classical Mexico and the Caribbean. Emphasis 3 Units Music. will be placed on rhythmic styles and 54 Lecture hours 2.5 Units structures, as well as, specific social, 27 Lecture hours cultural, and historical backgrounds. 54 Lab hours 3 Units 54 Lecture hours MUS 130 Music History and Literature Before 1750 (Formerly MUSIC 130, 030A) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU This course is designed for the stu- dent who seeks an introduction to the major composers and musical move- ments from antiquity to the 1700’s. 276 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog The course focuses on learning, MUS 134 various musical periods and styles. reasoning, and writing about these Rio Hondo College Singers I Public Performance is required. periods with the goal of understand- (Formerly MUSIC 134, 125) Enrollment criteria requires an audi- ing their social, political, and cultural Prerequisite: MUS 120 and audition tion. contexts. In addition, these periods Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 and 2 Units will be compared to contemporary appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 27 Lecture hours culture and its social, political, and appropriate assessment 27 Lab hours cultural framework. Transfers to: CSU 3 Units This course is designed for students MUS 139 who seek to broaden their under- 54 Lecture hours Advanced Vocal Ensemble standing of choral literature by performing increasingly difficult (Formerly MUSIC 139) MUS 131 choral works. Attention is given to Prerequisite: MUS 120 with a grade of Music History and Literature After 1750 the refinement and polishing of tech- “C” or better (Formerly MUSIC 131, 030B) nique through rehearsal and perfor- Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or mance of choral music from various This course is designed for the more appropriate assessment; READ 023 or musical periods and styles. Enroll- advanced vocal student who seeks appropriate assessment ment criteria include an audition. an opportunity to perform in a vocal Transfers to: UC, CSU 2 Units ensemble. The repertoire will include This course is designed for the stu- 18 Lecture hours a diversity of approaches that might dent who seeks an introduction to the 54 Lab hours include Latin, Asian, Popular and major composers and musical move- contemporary Classical Music. ments from 1750 to the present. The MUS 135 2 Units course focuses on learning, reason- Music in Film 27 Lecture hours ing, and writing about these periods Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 27 Lab hours with the goal of understanding their appropriate assessment; READ 023 or social, political, and cultural contexts. appropriate assessment MUS 140 In addition, these periods will be Transfers to: UC, CSU Beginning Voice This course is a survey of the art and compared to contemporary culture (Formerly MUSIC 140, 040A) craft of film music as practiced by and its social, political, and cultural prominent film composers and sound Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate framework. designers. Emphasis will be placed assessment 3 Units on history and function from 1930 Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lecture hours to the present, as well as cultural This course is designed for students context. The class is designed for who wish to learn the vocal tech- MUS 132 students interested in learning how niques used in signing Opera, Pop, History of Rock and Roll music influences film. Folk, Rock and Jazz. Emphasis is (Formerly MUSIC 132) 3 Units placed upon selection of material Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours dependent upon the abilities of the appropriate assessment; READ 023 or student. No previous musical experi- appropriate assessment MUS 136 ence is necessary. Transfers to: UC, CSU History of Jazz 1 Unit This course is a survey course Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 18 Lecture hours designed for the student who seeks appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 27 Lab hours an introduction to Rock and Roll. appropriate assessment The course will focus on rock and Transfers to: UC, CSU MUS 142 roll music, its origins and its many This course is a survey course Intermediate Voice designed for the student who seeks sub-styles. (Formerly MUSIC 142, 041A) an introduction to Jazz. The course The social, political and economic will focus on jazz music, its origins Prerequisite: MUS 140 with a “C” or influence the music has had on soci- and its many sub-styles. The social, better ety and other types of music will also political and economic influence the Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate be examined. music has had on society and other assessment 3 Units types of music will also be examined. Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lecture hours 3 Units This course is designed for students 54 Lecture hours who wish to further develop the MUS 133 techniques acquired in Beginning Music Appreciation MUS 138 Voice. A comprehensive study of (Formerly MUSIC 133, 033) Masterworks Chorale style and artistic interpretation will Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Prerequisite: Audition be included. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 1 Unit appropriate assessment appropriate assessment 18 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU 27 Lab hours This course is a survey of musical practices from various periods of This advanced level course is MUS 145 music history with an emphasis on designed for students who seek social, political and commercial con- to broaden their understanding Beginning Piano I texts. Types of music to be covered of choral literature by performing (Formerly MUSIC 145, 045A) will include Classical, Jazz, Rock, difficult choral works such as the Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Blues and World Music. This course B minor Mass by Bach, Elijah by assessment is targeted for students seeking to Mendelssohn, or Messiah by Handel Transfers to: UC, CSU fulfill the general education require- accompanied by orchestra or other This class is for the student interested ment in the arts. instrumental ensemble. Attention is in beginning piano skills, and in the 3 Units given to the refinement and polishing understanding of music through the 54 Lecture hours of technique through rehearsal and study of simple piano pieces. The performance of choral music from development of skills at the begin- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 277 ning level may be used in the playing MUS 150 MUS 156 of various styles including Classical, Beginning Guitar Intermediate Musicianship I Pop, Jazz and Rock. Individual pieces (Formerly MUSIC 150, 050) Prerequisite: MUS 107 are performed in class. No previous Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Transfers to: UC, CSU experience is necessary. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed for the stu- 1.5 Units appropriate assessment dent who wants to further develop 18 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU aural skills, sight-reading, sight- 27 Lab hours This course is designed for the stu- singing and rhythmic interpretation dent interested in beginning guitar skills beyond the beginning level. It MUS 146 skills and in the understanding of is recommended for all instrumental- Beginning Piano II music through the study of simple ists, singers and composers. (Formerly MUSIC 146, 045B) guitar pieces. The development of 3 Units Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate skills at the beginning level may be 54 Lecture hours assessment used in the playing of various styles Prerequisite: MUS 145 with a “C” or including Classical, Pop, Jazz, Rock MUS 157 better and Blues. No previous musical expe- Intermediate Musicianship II Transfers to: UC, CSU rience is necessary. Prerequisite: MUS 156 This class is for the student interested 1.5 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU in beginning piano skills, and in the 18 Lecture hours This course is designed for the stu- understanding of music through the 27 Lab hours dent who wants to further develop study of simple piano pieces. The aural skills, sight-reading, sight- development of skills at the begin- MUS 151 singing and rhythmic interpreta- ning level may be used in the playing Intermediate Guitar tion skills beyond the introductory of various styles including Classical, (Formerly MUSIC 151, 051) intermediate level. It is recommended Pop, Jazz and Rock. Individual pieces Prerequisite: MUS 150 for all instrumentalists, singers and are performed in class. This course is Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or composers. a continuation of materials learned in appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 3 Units Beginning Piano I. appropriate assessment 54 Lecture hours 1.5 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU 18 Lecture hours This intermediate level course is MUS 158 27 Lab hours designed for students who seek to Masterworks Chorale II broaden their understanding of guitar Prerequisite: MUS 138 and Audition MUS 147 literature by performing moderately Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Intermediate Piano I difficult works. Attention is given appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly MUSIC 147, 046A) to the refinement and polishing of appropriate assessment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate technique through scales, arpeggios, Transfers to: UC, CSU assessment sight- reading, interpretation and This advanced level course is Prerequisite: MUS 146 with a “C” or tone production. designed for students who seek in better 1.5 Units -depth study of choral literature by Transfers to: UC, CSU 18 Lecture hours This course is designed for students performing complex choral works 27 Lab hours seeking to broaden their knowledge such as Beethoven’s Mass in C, Orff’s and understanding of piano litera- Carmina Burana, and Britten’s War ture. Varied works of intermediate MUS 154 Requiem accompanied by orchestra difficulty will be introduced. Atten- Guitar Ensemble or other instrumental ensemble, or tion is given to the refinement and (Formerly MUSIC 154) sung a cappella. Attention is given polishing of technique through scales, Prerequisite: Must have completed at least to every detail of musical develop- arpeggios, sight-reading, interpreta- one semester of guitar ment through rehearsal and perfor- tion and tone production. Transfers to: UC, CSU mance of choral music from various 1.5 Units This course will offer the opportunity musical periods and styles. Public 18 Lecture hours for guitarists, electric or acoustic, to performance is required. Enrollment 27 Lab hours perform together in an ensemble. criteria requires successful comple- The ensemble content will depend tion of MUS 138 and an audition. MUS 148 upon the makeup of the class and will 2 Units Intermediate Piano II include a diversity of approaches that 27 Lecture hours (Formerly MUSIC 148, 046B) might include Latin, Asian, Popular 27 Lab hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate and Classical Music. Recommended assessment for guitarist whether they be music MUS 165 Prerequisite: MUS 147 with a “C” or majors or not. Electronic Music I better 2 Units (Formerly MUSIC 165) Transfers to: UC, CSU Corequisite: MUS 180 This course is designed for students 27 Lecture hours Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate seeking to broaden their knowledge 27 Lab hours assessment and understanding of piano litera- Transfers to: CSU ture. More advanced solo literature of This course is designed for the intermediate difficulty will be intro- student who wants to learn the basic duced. Emphasis is placed on the elements involved in electronic music technical and interpretive demands including: fundamental elements of required to perform a varied reper- music, keyboard electronics, signal toire. processing, virtual synthesis which 1.5 Units may include Sylenth, Crystal, and 18 Lecture hours Gladiator, MIDI, simple computer 27 Lab hours software which may include Garage Band, and digital recording. Creat- 278 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ing electronic compositions will also or other instrumental ensemble, or MUS 217 be covered. Students should take sung accappella. Attention is given to Advanced Music Ensemble for Diverse Music 180 concurrently. This course every detail of musical development Instruments II is recommended for all students who through rehearsal and performance Prerequisite: MUS 216 intend to pursue music profession- of choral music. Public performance Transfers to: UC, CSU ally. is required. Students are expected to This course is designed for the 3 Units take on leadership roles as section advanced electric, acoustic instrumen- 36 Lecture hours leaders, mentors to new singers, and tal, and vocal students who want to 54 Lab hours committee work for the choral orga- interpret and perform ensemble reper- nization. Enrollment criteria requires MUS 167 toire at a professional level. The course Electronic Music II successful completion of MUS 158 content, which will depend upon the (Formerly MUSIC 167) and an audition. instrumental and vocal makeup of Prerequisite: MUS 165 with a “C” or 2 Units the class, will include a diversity of better 27 Lecture hours approaches that might include Latin, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 27 Lab hours Asian, Popular and contemporary assessment Classical Music. Transfers to: CSU MUS 180 2.5 Units This course is designed for the stu- Music Laboratory 27 Lecture hours dent who wants to continue the study (Formerly MUSIC 180, 044) 54 Lab hours of concepts and techniques needed to Corequisite: MUS 165 or 167 compose electronic music and is rec- Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate MUS 220 ommended for students who intend assessment Vocal Arts Ensemble II Transfers to: UC, CSU to pursue music professionally. Prerequisite: MUS 120 Various types of synthesis including This course is designed to provide students enrolled in electronic music Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or software analog synthesis and virtual appropriate assessment; READ 023 or analogue synthesis will be studied. courses with supervised study or appropriate assessment Software that will be used in the practice. course may include Reason and Logic 1 Unit Transfers to: UC, CSU Pro. Sequencing, recording via studio 54 Lab hours This course is designed for the software, notating compositions and intermediate vocal student who seeks creating music for dance and theatre MUS 181 an opportunity to perform in a vocal on the computer will be the primary Applied Music I ensemble. Participation in public per- focus of the course. Prerequisite: Audition formance is required. The repertoire 3 Units Corequisite: Enrollment in a Rio Hondo will include a diversity of sections 36 Lecture hours College Large Ensemble (either MUS 116 including intermediate level classi- 54 Lab hours or MUS 117 or MUS 120 or MUS 134 cal choral literature, world music, or MUS 138 or MUS 139) popular and contemporary music. MUS 168 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Successful completion of MUS 120 is Electronic Music III appropriate assessment; READ 023 or required to enroll. Prerequisite: MUS 167 appropriate assessment 2 Units Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU 27 Lecture hours This course offers individual instruc- This course is designed for the 27 Lab hours advanced electronic music student tion in voice, piano, guitar, band or orchestral instruments with an who wants to continue the study MUS 234 of concepts and techniques needed assigned instructor. Emphasis will Rio Hondo College Singers II to compose electronic music and be placed on study at the beginning is recommended for students who level of technique and repertoire. Prerequisite: MUS 134 intend to pursue music profession- Weekly, it includes one recital class, Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 and ally. Assignments in the course will and one individual lesson. Perfor- appropriate assessment include scoring music to stop-time mance for a faculty jury will be Transfers to: UC, CSU animation and motion picture scenes required at the end of the semester. This course is designed for students available on the internet. Advanced 2 Units with advanced skills in rehearsing notation techniques including full 27 Lecture hours and performing choral music. A wide score and individual parts will also 27 Lab hours variety of music selected from differ- be covered. ent musical periods and styles will be 3 Units MUS 216 selected for study and performance. 36 Lecture hours Advanced Music Ensemble for Diverse Enrollment criteria includes an audi- 54 Lab hours Instruments I tion and successful completion of MUS Prerequisite: MUS 117 134. MUS 178 Transfers to: UC, CSU 2 Units Masterworks Chorale III This course is designed for the 18 Lecture hours Prerequisite: MUS 158 and Audition advanced electric, acoustic instru- 54 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or mental, and vocal students to appropriate assessment broaden their abilities to perform MUS 240 Transfers to: UC, CSU in an ensemble. The course content, Advanced Voice This advanced level course is which will depend upon the instru- (Formerly MUSIC 240, 212) designed for students who seek in- mental and vocal makeup of the class, Prerequisite: MUS 142 with a “C” or depth study of choral literature by will include a diversity of approaches better performing complex choral works that might include Latin, Asian, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate such as Bach sacred and secular Popular and contemporary Classical assessment cantatas, Mozart and Haydn masses, Music. Transfers to: UC, CSU renaissance madrigals and sacred 2.5 Units This course is designed for the pieces, and contemporary choral 27 Lecture hours student interested in further devel- works accompanied by orchestra 54 Lab hours oping the interpretive and technical 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 279 demands inherent in advanced vocal MUS 290 be with an instructor. The instructor performance. Attention is given to a Cooperative Work Experience/ is responsible for monitoring student detailed study and analysis of vocal Internship for Music Related Fields progress through the semester. technique and interpretation. Public (Formerly MUSIC 290) Students may take directed study performance will be required. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or courses for a maximum of four (4) 2 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or units within a discipline, and may 27 Lecture hours appropriate assessment not accumulate more than a total of 27 Lab hours Transfers to: CSU twelve (12) units college wide. This course supports and rein- 1 to 4 Units MUS 245 forces on-the-job training in busi- 54 to 216 Lab hours Advanced Piano ness, industrial, non-profit, studio, (Formerly MUSIC 245, 047A) community and professional music Prerequisite: MUS 148 with a “C” or organizations under supervision of better a college instructor and is facilitated OPERATING Transfers to: UC, CSU by the use of learning objectives. The ENGINEERS This course is designed for the student will be working in a skilled student interested in further devel- or professional level assignment in Division of Career & oping the interpretive and technical their area of vocational interest and Technical Education demands inherent in advanced piano will meet performance objectives literature. Attention is given to a related to instruction that are above OENG 001 detailed study and analysis of various and beyond the conditions of regular Introduction to Apprenticeship musical periods and styles. employment. This course is intended (Formerly OPENGR 001) 2 Units for students whose job is related to Prerequisite: Registration as a State 27 Lecture hours the field of music and have com- Indentured Apprentice 27 Lab hours pleted or enrolled in the appropriate This course is designed to meet the coursework. Instructor approval needs of State Indentured Appren- MUS 251 is required to remain in the class. tices employed full-time in the oper- Advanced Guitar I “Contact the CWE office regarding ating engineer field. Topics covered (Formerly MUSIC 251, 052) re-enrollment procedures”. include: making yourself valuable, Prerequisite: MUS 151 with a grade of Student Unpaid Internship: safety, first aid, the cost of accidents, “C” or better 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; industry terminology, setting up a Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours string line, standard industry hand appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Student Paid Internship: signals, labor unions and learning to appropriate assessment 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; operate heavy equipment. Transfers to: UC, CSU 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours 2 Units This advanced level course is 1 to 4 Units 36 Lecture hours designed for students who seek 3 Lecture hours 36 Lab hours to broaden their understanding 60 to 300 hours of guitar literature by performing OENG 002 difficult works. Attention is given MUS 299 Grade Checking to the refinement and polishing of Directed Study: Music (Formerly OPENGR 002) technique through scales, arpeggios, (Formerly MUSIC 100) Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- sight- reading, interpretation, and Transfers to: UC, CSU tice in the Operating Engineers Trust tonal production, as well as analysis Independent Study/Directed Study Apprenticeship Program of various musical periods and styles. is intended for students who have Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 2 Units the ability to assume responsibil- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 27 Lecture hours ity for independent work and to appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 27 Lab hours prepare written or oral reports and/ appropriate assessment or appropriate projects. To enroll in This course is designed to meet the MUS 252 an independent study/directed study needs of State Indentured Appren- Advanced Guitar II course, students must possess a 2.5 tices employed full-time in the oper- Prerequisite: MUS 251 overall grade point average, a 3.0 ating engineer field. Topics covered Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or grade point average in the discipline include: safety consciousness, layout appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of study being requested, or receive and staking methods for subdivi- appropriate assessment an exception from the instructor. sions, streets, buildings, underground Transfers to: CSU Independent Studies/Directed Stud- structure excavation, right angle This advanced level course is ies may be developed from any topic triangles, and curve radii. designed for students who wish to arising from or related to a course of 2 Units improve their technique and skills by study that will result in developing 36 Lecture hours performing more difficult works. It depth and breadth in that subject 36 Lab hours is essentially a continuation of MUS area. Students will be expected to 251, Advanced Guitar I. The scales, meet on a regular basis with their fac- OENG 003 chord progressions, pieces and etudes ulty sponsor and submit a final report Equipment Operator assigned will be selected to advance or project, and student progress shall (Formerly OPENGR 003) the student’s technique, and reper- be evaluated at regular intervals. Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- toire from various periods and styles. Academic standards for Independent tice in the Operating Engineers Trust 2 Units Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Apprenticeship Program 27 Lecture hours same as those for other courses. Units Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 27 Lab hours are awarded in accordance to Title appropriate assessment; READ 022 or V regulations with one unit of credit appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or awarded for 54 hours of Directed appropriate assessment Studies, six (6) hours of which must This course is designed to meet the needs of State Indentured Appren- 280 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog tices employed full-time in the oper- OENG 013 OENG 016 ating engineer field. Topics covered Heavy Duty Repairman Heavy Duty Repairman include: preventive maintenance of (Formerly OPENGR 013) (Formerly OPENGR 016) heavy equipment, operation of heavy Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- equipment and political science. tice in the Operating Engineers Trust tice in the Operating Engineers Trust 2 Units Apprenticeship Program Apprenticeship Program 36 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 36 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or OENG 004 appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Plan Reading This course is designed to meet the This course is designed to meet the (Formerly OPENGR 004) needs of State Indentured Appren- needs of State Indentured Appren- Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- tices employed full-time in the oper- tices employed full-time in the oper- tice in the Operating Engineers Trust ating engineer field. Topics covered ating engineer field. Topics include: Apprenticeship Program include: the principles of hydraulics, clutches, mechanical transmissions, Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or how a hydraulic system works and differentials, final drives, crawler appropriate assessment; READ 022 or the practical uses of hydraulics. tractor undercarriage, and crawler appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or 2 Units tractor track assemblies. appropriate assessment This course is designed to meet the 36 Lecture hours 2 Units needs of State Indentured Appren- 36 Lab hours 36 Lecture hours tices employed full-time in the oper- 36 Lab hours ating engineer field. Topics covered OENG 014 include: reading and interpreting Heavy Duty Repairman OENG 021 grading plans for highways, streets (Formerly OPENGR 014) Grades and Plans and subdivisions. Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- (Formerly OPENGR 021) 2 Units tice in the Operating Engineers Trust Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- 36 Lecture hours Apprenticeship Program tice in the Operating Engineers Trust 36 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Apprenticeship Program appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or OENG 005 appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Skills Specialization appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or (Formerly OPENGR 005) This course is designed to meet the appropriate assessment Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- needs of State Indentured Appren- This course is designed to develop tice in the Operating Engineers Trust tices employed full-time in the oper- the ability to read grade plans, Apprenticeship Program ating engineer field. Topics covered establish lines and elevations from Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or include: diagnosis, service and repair previously established control points appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or of hydraulic valves, motors, pumps defined in the grade plans and learn appropriate assessment and cylinders; diagnosis and repair of how to check grade plans. This course is designed to meet the variable speed hydraulic drives; ser- 2 Units needs of State Indentured Appren- vice and maintenance of pneumatic 36 Lecture hours tices employed full-time in the oper- systems used on heavy equipment 36 Lab hours ating engineer field. Topics covered and heavy trucks. include: the labor movement in the 2 Units OENG 022 United States, relationship of politics 36 Lecture hours Structural Masonry Inspection to construction work, preventive 36 Lab hours (Formerly OPENGR 022) maintenance, and the operation of Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- heavy equipment. OENG 015 tice in the Operating Engineers Trust 2 Units Heavy Duty Repairman Apprenticeship Program 36 Lecture hours (Formerly OPENGR 015) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 36 Lab hours Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or tice in the Operating Engineers Trust appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or OENG 012 Apprenticeship Program appropriate assessment Heavy Duty Repairman Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is designed to meet the (Formerly OPENGR 012) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or needs of State Indentured Appren- Prerequisite: State Indentured Appren- appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or tices with the State of California who tice in the Operating Engineers Trust appropriate assessment are interested in the field of Operat- Apprenticeship Program This course is designed to meet the ing Engineers Inspectors. Topics Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or needs of State Indentured Appren- include industry safety, industry appropriate assessment; READ 022 or tices employed full-time in the terminology, masonry inspection appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or operating engineer field. Topics testing, blueprint reading, field inter- appropriate assessment covered include: internal combustion pretation, and successful completion This course is designed to meet the engine theory and servicing the fuel, of the industry standard certification needs of State Indentured Appren- lubricating, and governing systems of examination. tices employed full-time in the oper- gasoline and diesel engines. 4 Units ating engineer field. Topics covered 2 Units 54 Lecture hours include: the safe use oxyacetylene 36 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours cutting equipment, the technique of 36 Lab hours brazing, and electric arc welding. 2 Units 36 Lecture hours 36 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 281 OENG 023 ogy, prestressed concrete inspection, PHIL 101H Reinforced Concrete Inspection blueprint reading, field interpreta- Introduction to Philosophy Honors (Formerly OPENGR 023) tion, and successful completion of Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or Prerequisite: Must be an Indentured the industry standard certification better Apprentice in the Operating Engineers examination. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate State Apprenticeship Program 4 Units assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 54 Lab hours This course introduces philosophi- appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or cal ideas and methods concerning appropriate assessment OENG 026 knowledge, reality and values. This course is designed to meet the Soil Testing and Inspection Expected topics will include the needs of State Indentured Appren- (Formerly OPENGR 026) sources and limits of knowledge, and tices with the State of California who Prerequisite: Must be an Indentured the nature of reality. Other topics that are interested in the field of Operat- Apprentice in the Operating Engineers may be examined from a philosophi- ing Engineers Inspectors. Topics Training Trust Apprenticeship Program cal perspective include the nature of include industry safety, applications in the classification of Special Inspection the self, truth, ethics, religion, science, of reinforced concrete structure, Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or language, beauty and art, politi- sample testing, industry terminology, appropriate assessment; READ 022 or cal theory, or mind. This course is reinforced concrete inspection testing, appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or intended for those who meet Honors blueprint reading, field interpreta- appropriate assessment Program requirements. tion, and successful completion of This course is designed to meet the 3 Units the industry standard certification needs of State Indentured Appren- 54 Lecture hours examination. tices with the State of California who 4 Units are interested in the field of Operat- PHIL 110 54 Lecture hours ing Engineers Inspectors. Topics Critical Thinking 54 Lab hours include industry safety, industry (Formerly PHIL 005) terminology, inspection testing proce- Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or appropriate OENG 024 dures, blueprint reading, field inter- assessment Structural Steel/Welding Inspection pretation, and successful completion Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly OPENGR 024) of a certification class sponsored by assessment Prerequisite: Must be an Indentured the American Concrete Institute and Transfers to: UC, CSU Apprentice for the State of California in Nuclear Safety Course. This course is an introduction to the the Operating Engineers Training Trust 4 Units methods and techniques of informal Apprenticeship Program 54 Lecture hours reasoning. Topics include schema- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 54 Lab hours tizing and articulating arguments, appropriate assessment; READ 022 or causal arguments, analogical argu- appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or ments, testimony arguments, infor- appropriate assessment PHILOSOPHY mal fallacies, and others. Emphasis This course is designed to meet the Division of Behavioral on the application of critical thinking needs of State Indentured Appren- & Social Sciences for effective writing will be reflected tices with the State of California who in the frequency, scope, and nature are interested in the field of Operat- PHIL 101 of course writing assignments, which ing Engineers Inspectors. Topics Introduction to Philosophy will be evaluated with regard to both include industry safety, industry (Formerly PHIL 001) content and form. Students should terminology, structural steel/weld- Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate expect to write approximately 8000 ing inspection testing, analytical assessment; READ 023 or appropriate words in various writing assign- blueprint reading, field interpreta- assessment ments. This course is appropriate for tion, and successful completion of Transfers to: UC, CSU students seeking to improve their the industry standard certification This course introduces philosophi- writing and reasoning skills. examination. cal ideas and methods concerning 3 Units 4 Units knowledge, reality and values. 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours Expected topics will include the 54 Lab hours sources and limits of knowledge, and PHIL 112 the nature of reality. Other topics that Introduction to Logic OENG 025 may be examined from a philosophi- (Formerly PHIL 010) Prestressed Concrete Inspector cal perspective include the nature of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly OPENGR 025) the self, truth, ethics, religion, science, appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: Indentured Apprentice for language, beauty and art, political appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or the State of California in the Operating theory, or mind. This course is appro- MATH 030D or appropriate assessment Engineers Training Program priate for anyone seeking a broader Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or program of philosophical study, or to This course introduces the formal appropriate assessment; READ 022 or fulfill general Humanities or Philoso- methods and principles of deduc- appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or phy major requirements. tive logic. Topics include transla- appropriate assessment 3 Units tion between natural and formal This course is designed to meet the 54 Lecture hours language, syllogistic logic, and needs of State Indentured Appren- propositional logic. This course is tices with the State of California who especially recommended for students are interested in the field of Operat- of mathematics, business, computer ing Engineers Inspectors. Topics science, science, engineering, law, include safety, industry terminol- and humanities. 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 282 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog PHIL 120 cially relevant for students interested an exception from the instructor. Introduction to Ethics in political science, philosophy and Independent Studies/Directed Stud- (Formerly PHIL 014) law. This course introduces the ies may be developed from any topic Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate history and development of politi- arising from or related to a course of assessment; READ 023 or appropriate cal thought, and will consider the study that will result in developing assessment justification of the State, Libertarian- depth and breadth in that subject Transfers to: UC, CSU ism, Socialism, Communism, as well area. Students will be expected to This introductory level course is for as conceptions of rights and distribu- meet on a regular basis with their fac- students interested in the humanities, tions of goods. ulty sponsor and submit a final report law, medicine, politics, social science 3 Units or project, and student progress shall and related fields, and will expose 54 Lecture hours be evaluated at regular intervals. them to some of the most profound Academic standards for Independent moral and ethical questions in the PHIL 135 Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Western philosophical tradition. We Philosophy and Contemporary Issues same as those for other courses. Units will examine the concept of moral- (Formerly PHIL 003) are awarded in accordance to Title ity and values, representative ethical Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate V regulations with one unit of credit theories, and may include their appli- assessment; READ 023 or appropriate awarded for 54 hours of Directed cations to moral problems. assessment Studies, six (6) hours of which must 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU be with an instructor. The instructor 54 Lecture hours This introductory course explores the is responsible for monitoring student philosophical aspects of a variety of progress through the semester. PHIL 124 issues of contemporary interest. This Students may take directed study History of Philosophy: Ancient course is intended for all students courses for a maximum of four (4) Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate interested in applying methods of units within a discipline, and may assessment; READ 023 or appropriate philosophy to contemporary topics not accumulate more than a total of assessment which may include, but are not twelve (12) units college wide. Transfers to: UC, CSU limited to: war/terrorism, sex work, 1 to 4 Units This introductory level course is for cloning, euthanasia, suicide, philo- 54 to 216 Lab hours those interested specifically in the sophical issues pertaining to race or earliest stages of Ancient Western gender, genetic engineering, illicit philosophy. We address the develop- drug use, business ethics, or artificial ment of Greek philosophy from the intelligence. Pre-Socratics through Aristotle. We 3 Units PHOTOGRAPHY may also include Hellenistic, Roman, 54 Lecture hours Division of Arts & Cultural Programs medieval or non-western thinkers. Beyond a study of the figures and key PHIL 140 PHTO 185 ideas, we will discuss the early view Philosophy of Religion Introduction to Digital Photography of philosophy as a “way of life,” and Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or consider how these movements were assessment; READ 023 or appropriate appropriate assessment; READ 023 or intended to transform the lives of assessment appropriate assessment those who followed them. Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU 3 Units This introductory level course is This introductory course covers 54 Lecture hours intended for all students seeking a basic technical and conceptual skills thoughtful exploration of religious in digital photography, including PHIL 126 issues in a non-sectarian context, digital camera use, principles of History of Philosophy: Modern or as part of a broader program of photographic composition, digital Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate philosophical study. We will address image editing, and digital printing. assessment; READ 023 or appropriate Western religion from a philosophi- This course is designed for non-pho- assessment cal perspective, including arguments tography majors interested in gaining Transfers to: UC, CSU for and against the existence of God, experience with digital photography. This introductory level course is and an investigation into the status Students are required to supply their intended for all students interested in of religious beliefs. Additional topics own digital camera. the Modern period of Western Phi- may include a consideration of the 3 Units losophy (16th through 18th Century). evolution-creationism debate, and a 36 Lecture hours We emphasize broad epistemologi- discussion of religious pluralism. 72 Lab hours cal and metaphysical developments 3 Units through close analysis of primary 54 Lecture hours PHTO 190 texts. Philosophers to be studied will Beginning Photography include Descartes and other Rational- PHIL 299 (Formerly PHOTO 190, 014A) ists, Hume and other Empiricists, and Directed Study: Philosophy Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Kant. (Formerly PHIL 100) assessment; ART 120 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU 54 Lecture hours Independent Study/Directed Study This course is designed for students is intended for students who have who wish to study the basic techni- PHIL 128 the ability to assume responsibil- cal and conceptual approaches to Introduction to Political Philosophy ity for independent work and to contemporary photography. Tradi- Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate prepare written or oral reports and/ tional black and white photography assessment; READ 023 or appropriate or appropriate projects. To enroll in techniques are explored, with special assessment an independent study/directed study emphasis on the basic use of the 35 Transfers to: UC, CSU course, students must possess a 2.5 mm camera and enlarger as well as This course is for students interested overall grade point average, a 3.0 the processing of black and white in the relationship between political grade point average in the discipline film and printing paper. Students are systems and philosophy. It is espe- of study being requested, or receive 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 283 required to provide their own 35 mm digital printing, and the expression camera with manual controls. of ideas through digital photographs. 3 Units Students are required to supply their 36 Lecture hours own digital camera. 72 Lab hours 3 Units PHYSICAL SCIENCE 36 Lecture hours Division of Mathematics & Sciences PHTO 191 72 Lab hours Intermediate Photography PHYS 101 (Formerly PHOTO 191, 014B) PHTO 299 Physics and Chemistry for Teachers Prerequisite: PHTO 190 Directed Study: Photography (Formerly PHYS 001) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly PHOTO 100) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: UC, CSU Independent Study/Directed Study appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or This course is designed for students is intended for students who have appropriate assessment who have successfully completed the ability to assume responsibil- beginning photography and wish to ity for independent work and to Transfers to: CSU study more advanced technical and prepare written or oral reports and/ Designed for the future elementary conceptual approaches to contempo- or appropriate projects. To enroll in school teacher, this laboratory sci- rary black and white photography in an independent study/directed study ence course introduces students to a, 35mm film based, wet lab environ- course, students must possess a 2.5 the fundamentals of physics and ment. Techniques such as the use of overall grade point average, a 3.0 chemistry including properties of the studio lighting, light meters, toners, grade point average in the discipline states of matter, physical and chemi- hand coloring, and solarization are of study being requested, or receive cal changes, solutions and mixtures, explored, with special emphasis an exception from the instructor. motion, forces, energy and light. given to understanding the concep- Independent Studies/Directed Stud- 4 Units tual framework for the production ies may be developed from any topic 54 Lecture hours and analysis of both personal and arising from or related to a course of 54 Lab hours commercial photographic imagery. study that will result in developing Students are required to provide depth and breadth in that subject PHYS 102 their own 35mm camera with manual area. Students will be expected to Earth and Space Sciences for Teachers controls. meet on a regular basis with their fac- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units ulty sponsor and submit a final report appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 36 Lecture hours or project, and student progress shall appropriate assessment; MATH 050 or 72 Lab hours be evaluated at regular intervals. appropriate assessment Academic standards for Independent PHTO 290 Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Transfers to: CSU Medium and Large Format Photography same as those for other courses. Units Designed for the future elementary (Formerly PHOTO 290, 015) are awarded in accordance to Title school teacher, this laboratory sci- Prerequisite: PHTO 190 V regulations with one unit of credit ence course introduces students to Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate awarded for 54 hours of Directed the fundamentals of earth and space assessment Studies, six (6) hours of which must sciences including the universe, Transfers to: CSU be with an instructor. The instructor the solar system, the structure and This course is designed for students is responsible for monitoring student composition of the Earth, the Earth’s who have successfully completed progress through the semester. atmosphere, and the Earth’s water. beginning photography and wish to Students may take directed study 4 Units study more advanced technical and courses for a maximum of four (4) 54 Lecture hours conceptual approaches to contempo- units within a discipline, and may 54 Lab hours rary black and white photography not accumulate more than a total of using medium and large format films twelve (12) units college wide. and cameras in a traditional wet 1 to 4 Units lab environment. Special emphasis 54 to 216 Lab hours PHYSICS is given to the understanding and Division of Mathematics & Sciences analysis of photographic imagery. 2 Units PHY 120 18 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours PHYSICAL Physics for Everyday Use (Formerly PHY 021) PHTO 292 EDUCATION - REFER Prerequisite: MATH 050 with a grade of Digital Photography TO KINESIOLOGY “C” or better or appropriate assessment Prerequisite: PHTO 185 or PHTO 190 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Transfers to: CSU (*Students will receive no credit from UC This course is designed for students for PHY 120 if taken after PHY 150 or who have successfully completed PHY 211) PHTO 190 and have a working This course investigates the basic knowledge of basic camera controls characteristics of matter and the and photographic composition. It interactions that govern its behavior will cover use of digital cameras, and emphasizes how remarkable image editing and manipulation, everyday phenomena are. Examples from popular culture (movies, TV, and sports) are emphasized. Topics 284 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog include how to describe an object’s tion requirements for the major at the for one physics series: PHY 150 and PHY motion, how to explain changes in university. Topics include thermody- 160 or PHY 211, PHY 212, and PHY an object’s motion, the roles of work namics, electricity and magnetism, 213) and energy, and other topics. The oscillations, waves, optics and quan- This course is the third of a three-se- course is oriented to the non-science tum physics. mester sequence and is designed for major, stresses conceptual under- 4 Units students transferring to a four-year standing, and is intended to present 54 Lecture hours institution with majors in the sciences students with an opportunity to see 54 Lab hours and engineering. Topics covered are how our world works. electric fields, electric potential, cur- 4 Units PHY 211 rent, circuits, magnetic fields, Gauss’ 54 Lecture hours Physics for Scientists and Engineers - I law, Ampere’s law, Maxwell’s equa- 54 Lab hours (Formerly PHY 201) tions, induction, and electromagnetic Prerequisite/Corequisite: MATH 190 or waves. PHY 150 MATH 190H 4 Units General Physics - I Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 54 Lecture hours (Formerly PHY 001) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lab hours Prerequisite: MATH 175 with a grade of appropriate assessment “C” or better or appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit *), CSU PHY 299 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (*Students will receive credit from UC Directed Study: Physics appropriate assessment; READ 023 or for one physics series: PHY 150 and PHY (Formerly PHY 100) appropriate assessment 160 or PHY 211, PHY 212, and PHY Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC (credit limit *), CSU 213) Independent Study/Directed Study (*Students will receive credit from UC This course is the first of a three-se- is intended for students who have for one physics series: PHY 150 and PHY mester sequence and is designed for the ability to assume responsibil- 160 or PHY 211, PHY 212, and PHY students transferring to a four-year ity for independent work and to 213) institution with majors in the sciences prepare written or oral reports and/ This course is the first of a two-se- or appropriate projects. To enroll in mester sequence and is designed for and engineering. Topics covered an independent study/directed study students transferring to a four-year are kinematics, dynamics, energy, institution and planning careers in work, momentum, and conservation course, students must possess a 2.5 health professional fields such as principles. overall grade point average, a 3.0 medicine, dentistry, veterinary sci- 4 Units grade point average in the discipline ence, pharmacy, and optometry as 54 Lecture hours of study being requested, or receive well as those students in engineer- 54 Lab hours an exception from the instructor. ing technology and architecture. Independent Studies/Directed Stud- Students majoring in the biological PHY 212 ies may be developed from any topic sciences should consult a counselor Physics for Scientists and Engineers - II arising from or related to a course of as to whether this course satisfies (Formerly PHY 203) study that will result in developing the general preparation require- Prerequisite: PHY 211 with a grade of depth and breadth in that subject ments for the major at the university. “C” or better area. Students will be expected to Topics include kinematics, dynam- Corequisite/Prerequisite: MATH 191 meet on a regular basis with their fac- ics, energy, work, momentum, and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ulty sponsor and submit a final report conservation principles. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or or project, and student progress shall 4 Units appropriate assessment be evaluated at regular intervals. 54 Lecture hours Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Academic standards for Independent 54 Lab hours (*Students will receive credit from UC Studies/Directed Studies shall be the for one physics series: PHY 150 and 160 same as those for other courses. Units PHY 160 or PHY 211, PHY 212, and PHY 213) are awarded in accordance to Title General Physics - II This course is the second of a three- V regulations with one unit of credit (Formerly PHY 002) semester sequence and is designed awarded for 54 hours of Directed Prerequisite: PHY 150 with a grade of for students transferring to a four- Studies, six (6) hours of which must “C” or better year institution with majors in the be with an instructor. The instructor Transfers to: UC (credit limit *), CSU sciences and engineering. Topics is responsible for monitoring student (*Students will receive credit from UC covered include quantum physics, progress through the semester. for one physics series: PHY 150 and PHY physical optics, and thermodynamics. Students may take directed study 160 or PHY 211, PHY 212, and PHY 4 Units courses for a maximum of four (4) 213) 54 Lecture hours units within a discipline, and may This course is the second of a two- 54 Lab hours not accumulate more than a total of semester sequence and is designed twelve (12) units college wide. for students transferring to a four- PHY 213 1 to 4 Units year institution with majors in health Physics for Scientists and 54 to 216 Lab hours professional fields such as medicine, Engineers - III dentistry, veterinary science, phar- (Formerly PHY 202) macy, and optometry as well as those Prerequisite: PHY 212 with a grade of students in engineering technology “C” or better and architecture. Students major- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ing in the biological sciences should appropriate assessment; READ 023 or consult a counselor as to whether this appropriate assessment course satisfies the general prepara- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*Students will receive credit from UC 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 285 PAC 071 interested in becoming a Level III Public Safety Dispatcher Basic Course Reserve officer. This course covers POLICE ACADEMY Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or criminal law, evidence, investigations, Division of Public Safety appropriate assessment; READ 023 or firearms, arrest and control, vehicle appropriate assessment; PAC 040 operations, report writing, first aid/ PAC 040 This course meets the POST (Cali- CPR, cultural diversity, and other Basic Police Recruit Class fornia Commission on Peace Officer related police topics. It is the level Prerequisite: Medical clearance, Cali- Standards Training) requirements for of training which satisfies the legal fornia Department of Justice clearance the position of public safety dis- requirements for a Level III Reserve for firearms training, passing scores on patcher. The content of this course is officer. POST written and physical tests (agency a combination of the following topics: 6 Units sponsored cadets are exempt) Professional Orientation, Criminal 72 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Justice System, Law, Communication 112 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Technology, Telephone Procedures, appropriate assessment; PAC 4348L Radio Procedures, Missing Persons, PAC 075C This is a fundamental course which Domestic Violence, Referral Services, Basic Course - Module II (Ext) covers criminal law, evidence, pro- Cultural Diversity, Sexual Harass- Prerequisite: Successful completion of cedure and investigation, firearms, ment, Hate Crimes, Gang Aware- PAC 075B or POST Module III, current first aid, defense tactics, use of ness, Stress Management, Critical (within last 3 years) in PC 832 Arrest chemical agents and other related Incidents, Telecommunications and and Firearms training requirements, police subjects. This course meets the Practical Application Activities. passage of the POST-constructed Com- educational requirement for basic 1.5 Units prehensive Module III End-of- Course certification by the Commission on 120 Lecture hours Proficiency Test within the preceding 12 Peace Officer Standards and Training months, medical clearance, Department (P.O.S.T.). PAC 072 of Justice clearance for firearms training 24 Units Records Supervisor Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 772 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 163 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; PAC 040 This course is designed for those PAC 042 This course is designed to expose interested in becoming a Level II Police Supervision records supervisors and managers to Reserve officer. This course covers Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or the various aspects of their assign- criminal law, evidence, investigations, appropriate assessment; PAC 040 or PAC ment. They will learn procedures for firearms, arrest and control, commu- 075B, 075C, 075D minimizing civil liability, new laws nity relations, report writing, cultural This course is designed to explain and case decisions affecting records diversity, and other related police and apply the elements of supervi- maintenance, management strategies topics. It is training which satisfies sion oriented to law enforcement for dealing with personnel issues and the legal requirements for a Level II personnel. Methods of effective techniques for improving supervisory Reserve officer. leadership, motivation, communica- skills. 8 Units tion and techniques of training are 0.5 Units 90 Lecture hours presented. This course is certified 40 Lecture hours 162 Lab hours by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) for 80 PAC 073 PAC 075D hours/8 hours per day for 10 days. Basic Police Records Course Basic Police Recruit Class - Level I 1 Unit Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Module 80 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: Successful completion of appropriate assessment; PAC 040 PAC 075B and PAC 075C or POST PAC 043 This course provides police records Modules III and II, current (within last Advanced Officers Course personnel with the basic skills and 3 years) in PC 832 Arrest and Firearms Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or knowledge necessary to effectively training requirements, passage of the appropriate assessment; PAC 040 or PAC meet the demands of their specific POST-constructed Comprehensive 075B, 075C assignment. The course is certified by Module II End-of-Course Proficiency Test This course is designed for upgrading the California Commission on Peace within the preceding 12 months, medical currently employed law enforcement Officer Standards and Training. clearance, Department of Justice clear- personnel. The curriculum follows 0.5 Units ance for firearms training that recommended by the Commis- 40 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or sion of Peace Officer Standards and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Training. The course is designed to PAC 075B appropriate assessment keep peace officers informed of new Basic Course-Module III (Ext) This course is designed for those laws, recent court decisions, cur- Prerequisite: Medical clearance, Cali- interested in becoming a Level I rent enforcement procedures, new fornia Department of Justice clearance Reserve officer or a regular peace concepts in law enforcement, technol- for firearms training, passing scores on officer. This course covers criminal ogy, community relations and other POST written and physical tests (agency law, evidence, investigations, fire- refresher training as may be neces- sponsored cadets are exempt). arms, arrest and control, emergency sary. This description applies to all Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or vehicle operation, and other related PAC 043 series courses. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or police topics. It is the final level of 0.07 to 1.48 Units appropriate assessment training which constitutes satisfaction 2 to 40 Lecture hours This course is designed for those 2 to 40 Lab hours 286 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog of the Regular Basic Course training law enforcement duty. The topics PAC 081 requirement and the legal require- covered include human relations, Code Enforcement, Introduction to ments for a Level I Reserve officer. legal changes and a review of current Supervision 8 Units legal issues, conducting a preliminary Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 162 Lecture hours investigation, field tactics, the use appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 232 Lab hours of force and weaponry, and racial appropriate assessment; PAC 079; PAC profiling. 080 PAC 076 3 Units This course is designed as a variable Driver Awareness Instructor 96 Lecture hours format (2-40 Hours Lecture; 2-40 Prerequisite: Successful completion of a 40 Lab hours Hours Lab) course for current Code basic police academy Enforcement Officers or supervisors, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or PAC 079 new supervisors, or individuals who appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Code Enforcement Officer, Basic Course may desire to seek employment as a appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or supervisor of Code Enforcement Offi- This course is designed to develop appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cers. Major topics include; Budgeting, instructors for Driver Training appropriate assessment Community Relations and Media, Awareness courses for the training The course is designed to enhance the Personnel Issues and Counseling, of police officers in defensive driving student’s communication and field Leadership, Communication, Cost techniques. The student will develop investigation skills when working Recovery, and Report Writing. a training program including the as a Code Enforcement Officer. The 0.074 to 1.48 Units physical design for a training site. students will be introduced to the 2 to 40 Lecture hours In addition the student will plan following specific code enforcement 2 to 40 Lab hours and present a lesson on an assigned elements that will enable them to topic, as well as utilize rating forms perform their duties: Ethics, Basic PAC 082 to evaluate performance on driving Inspection Protocols, Vehicle Abate- Code Enforcement Officer, Intermediate exercises. ment, Zoning Code, Substandard Course 0.074 to 1.48 Units Housing, Drug Recognition and Gang Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 2 to 40 Lecture hours Awareness, Abatement of Dangerous appropriate assessment; READ 022 or 2 to 40 Lab hours Buildings and Substandard Housing, appropriate assessment; PAC 079 Report Writing, Right of Entry and This course is designed to enhance PAC 077 Inspection Warrants, Case Prepara- the communication and field inves- Driver Training Instructor tion for Administrative, Civil and tigation skills of Code Enforcement Prerequisite: Successful completion of a Criminal Cases. Officers that are currently working basic police academy 0.074 to 1.48 Units in that capacity. The students will Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 2 to 40 Lecture hours be introduced to the following code appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 2 to 40 Lab hours enforcement elements that will enable appropriate assessment them to perform their duties: Tactical This course is designed for those PAC 080 Communications, Use of Pepper who will serve as instructors for the Code Enforcement Officer, Advanced Spray, Basic Courtroom and Adminis- training of police officers in emer- Course trative Hearing Procedures, Problem gency vehicle operation techniques Prerequisite: PAC 079 Oriented Policing, Communication including collision avoidance, skid Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and Coordination Techniques, and control, use of lights and sirens, and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Animal Awareness, including Animal high speed pursuit driving. Students appropriate assessment Abuse and Animal Cruelty. will learn how to develop a training This course is designed to enhance 0.074 to 1.48 Units program. the communication and field inves- 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.74 to 1.48 Units tigation skills of Code Enforcement 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours Officers that are currently working 2 to 40 Lab hours in that capacity. The students will be PAC 083 introduced to the following specific Pre-Academy Physical Fitness PAC 078 code enforcement elements that will Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Requalification - Basic Course enable them to perform their duties: appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Prerequisite: Successful completion of Legal Aspects, Introduction to Electri- appropriate assessment a basic police academy and a California cal, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Fire This course is designed to help Department of Justice clearance for Codes, Vector Guidelines, Microbial prospective police cadets improve firearms training Contamination for Substandard their physical performance and Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Housing and Resolving Neighbor- keep informed of physical fitness appropriate assessment; READ 023 or hood Problems via Problem Oriented techniques prior to entering the Rio appropriate assessment Policing Techniques. Hondo Police Academy. The curricu- This course is designed for indi- 0.074 to 1.48 Units lum is geared toward and followed viduals who have completed a basic 2 to 40 Lecture hours by the California Commission on police recruit academy, but have 2 to 40 Lab hours Peace Officer Standards and Training. not been active in the law enforce- 0.296 to 1.48 Units ment field for at least three years. It 8 to 40 Lecture hours provides a review of the skills and 8 to 40 Lab hours knowledge needed to return to active 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 287 PAC 43001 PAC 43011 PAC 43017 Advanced Officer Development Juvenile Law and Procedures Presentation of Evidence (Formerly PAC 43.001, AJ 43.001) (Formerly PAC 43.011, AJ 43.011) (Formerly PAC 43.017, AJ 43.017) Prerequisite: Completion of basic peace Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or officer training or equivalent appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Juvenile Law and Procedures for This course is designed to provide the appropriate assessment Officer Development presents new student with the necessary informa- This course is designed to keep concepts in the law enforcement tion and skills needed to observe the senior peace officers informed as procedures. rules of evidence as they pertain to to the latest innovations in enforce- This course is designed to keep peace relevancy, types of evidence, authen- ment techniques and concepts which officers informed of current Federal tication and chain of custody. This include but are not limited to infor- and State Juvenile Law changes and course will provide the student with mation sharing; problem oriented recent requirements which affect the necessary information and skills policing models, and discretionary current law enforcement procedures. needed to function as a police officer. decision making. The curriculum fol- The curriculum follows that recom- 0.074 to 1.48 Units lows that recommended as refresher mended as refresher training by the 2 to 40 Lecture hours training by the California Commis- California Commission on Peace 2 to 40 Lab hours sion on Peace Officer Standards and Officer Standards and Training. Training. 0.074 to 1.48 Units PAC 43018 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours Investigative Report Writing 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours (Formerly PAC 43.018, AJ 43.018) 2 to 40 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or PAC 43015 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or PAC 43003 Laws of Arrest appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Community Relations (Formerly PAC 43.015, AJ 43.015) This course is designed to keep peace (Formerly PAC 43.003, AJ 43.003) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or officers informed of current Federal Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and State Investigative Report Writ- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 ing laws and recent requirements appropriate assessment; PAC 040 This course is designed to keep peace which affect current law enforcement This course is designed to keep peace officers informed of new Federal and procedures. Investigative Report officers informed of new community State Arrest Law changes and recent Writing for officer development pres- relations issues as well as federal and requirements which affect current ents new concepts in law enforcement state changes and recent require- law enforcement procedures. Laws of procedures. The curriculum follows ments which effect current law Arrest for Officer Development pres- that recommended as refresher train- enforcement procedures. Community ent new concepts in law enforcement ing by the California Commission on relations for officer development procedures. The curriculum follows Peace Officer Standards and Training. presents new concepts in law enforce- that recommended as refresher train- 0.074 to 1.48 Units ment procedures. The curriculum fol- ing by the California Commission on 2 to 40 Lecture hours lows that recommended as refresher Peace Officer Standards and Training. 2 to 40 Lab hours training by the California Commis- 0.074 to 1.48 Units sion on Peace Officer Standards and 2 to 40 Lecture hours PAC 43019 Training. 2 to 40 Lab hours Vehicle Operations 0.074 to 1.48 Units (Formerly PAC 43.019, AJ 43.019) 2 to 40 Lecture hours PAC 43016 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 2 to 40 Lab hours Search and Seizure appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PAC 43.016, AJ 43.016) appropriate assessment; PAC 040 PAC 43007 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is designed to keep peace Professional Standards appropriate assessment; READ 023 or officers informed of new vehicle (Formerly PAC 43.007, AJ 43.007) appropriate assessment; PAC 040 operations procedures affected by Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is designed to keep peace Federal and State changes and recent appropriate assessment; READ 023 or officers informed of new Federal and requirements which effect current appropriate assessment; PAC 040 State Search and Seizure changes and law enforcement procedures. Vehicle This course is designed to keep peace recent requirements which affect cur- Operations for Officer Development officers informed of new Ethical and rent law enforcement procedures. presents new concepts in law enforce- Professional Standards issues along Search and Seizure for Officer Devel- ment procedures. The curriculum fol- with Federal and State Law changes opment presents new concepts in law lows that recommended as refresher and recent requirements which effect enforcement procedures. The cur- training by the California Commis- current law enforcement procedures, riculum follows that recommended sion on Peace Officer Standards and and new concepts in law enforcement as refresher training by the California Training. procedures. The curriculum follows Commission on Peace Officer Stan- 0.074 to 1.48 Units that recommended as refresher train- dards and Training. 2 to 40 Lecture hours ing by the California Commission on 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours Peace Officer Standards and Training. 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 288 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog PAC 43020 PAC 43030 PAC 43036 Use of Force Preliminary Investigation Information Systems (Formerly PAC 43.020, AJ 43.020) (Formerly PAC 43.030, AJ 43.030) (Formerly PAC 43.036, AJ 43.036) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 This course is designed to keep peace Preliminary Investigation for Officer This course is designed to keep peace officers informed of current Use of Development presents new concepts officers informed of new Criminal Force, Federal and State laws and in law enforcement procedures. Justice Information Systems, current recent requirements which affect This course is designed to keep peace Federal and State laws and recent current law enforcement proce- officers informed of new Investiga- requirements which affect current law dures of the Use of Force for Officer tive Techniques, current Federal and enforcement procedures. Information Development and new concepts in State laws and recent requirements Systems for Officer Development law enforcement procedures. The cur- which affect current law enforcement presents new concepts in law enforce- riculum follows that recommended procedures. The curriculum follows ment procedures. The curriculum fol- as refresher training by the California that recommended as refresher train- lows that recommended as refresher Commission on Peace Officer Stan- ing by the California Commission on training by the California Commis- dards and Training. Peace Officer Standards and Training. sion on Peace Officer Standards and 0.074 to 1.48 Units 0.074 to 1.48 Units Training. 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours PAC 43024 PAC 43032 Handling Disputes Physical Fitness PAC 43038 (Formerly PAC 43.024, AJ 43.024) (Formerly PAC 43.032, AJ 43.032) Gang Awareness Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly PAC 43.038, AJ 43.038) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed to keep peace This course is designed to keep peace appropriate assessment; PAC 040 officers informed of new techniques officers informed of physical fitness This course is designed to keep peace for handling disputes, Federal and techniques, current Federal and State officers informed of new Gang Aware- State changes and recent require- laws and recent requirements which ness information, current Federal and ments which affect current law affect current law enforcement pro- State laws and recent requirements enforcement procedures. Handling cedures. Physical Fitness for officer which affect law enforcement pro- disputes for Officer Development development presents new concepts cedures. Gang Awareness for Peace presents new concepts in law enforce- in law enforcement procedures. Officer Development presents new ment procedures. The curriculum fol- The curriculum follows that recom- concepts in law enforcement proce- lows that recommended as refresher mended as refresher training by the dures. The curriculum follows that training by the California Commis- California Commission on Peace recommended as refresher training by sion on Peace Officer Standards and Officer Standards and Training. the California Commission on Peace Training. 0.074 to 1.48 Units Officer Standards and Training. 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours PAC 43035 PAC 43026 Firearms PAC 4304 Unusual Occurrences (Formerly PAC 43.035, AJ 43.035) Advanced Officer Training, District (Formerly PAC 43.026, AJ 43.026) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Attorney Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PAC 43.04) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 This course is designed to meet appropriate assessment; PAC 040 This course is designed to keep peace P.O.S.T. requirements for advanced This course is designed to keep peace officers informed of new Firearms officer training for District Attorney’s officers informed of new Unusual Techniques, current Federal and State investigators. The content shall be Occurrences Procedures, new Fed- laws and recent requirements which devoted to a combination of the eral and State changes and recent affect current law enforcement proce- following subjects: new laws; recent requirements which effect current law dures. Firearms for Officer Develop- court decisions and/or search and enforcement procedures. Unusual ment present new concepts in law seizure refresher; officer survival Occurrences for Officer Development enforcement procedures. The cur- techniques; new concepts; proce- presents new concepts in law enforce- riculum follows that recommended as dures; technology; and discretionary ment procedures. The curriculum fol- refresher training by California Com- decision making. lows that recommended as refresher mission on Peace Officer Standards 0.148 to 0.741 Units training by the California Commis- and Training. 8 to 40 Lecture hours sion on Peace Officer Standards and 0.074 to 1.48 Units Training. 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 289 PAC 43040 PAC 43049 PAC 43061 Weapons Violations First Aid/CPR Supervisory Course for Security (Formerly PAC 43.040, AJ 43.040) (Formerly PAC 43.049, AJ 43.049) (Formerly PAC 43.061, AJ 43.061) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 43060 This course is designed to keep peace This course is designed to keep peace This course is designed to keep officers informed of new Weapons officers informed of new first aid and officers and/or interested students Violations laws, current Federal and CPR techniques, current Federal and informed of new supervisory instruc- State laws and recent requirements State laws and recent requirements tion for security personnel, current which affect current law enforcement which affect current law enforcement Federal and State laws and recent procedures. Weapons Violations for procedures. First Aid/CPR for officer requirements which affect current law Officer Development presents new development presents new concepts enforcement procedures. Supervisory concepts in law enforcement proce- in law enforcement procedures. Course for Security presents new con- dures. The curriculum follows that The curriculum follows that recom- cepts in security procedures. The cur- recommended as refresher training mended as refresher training by the riculum follows that recommended by the California Commission on California Commission on Peace by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Officer Standards and Training. Peace Officer Standards and Training 0.074 to 1.48 Units 0.074 to 1.48 Units and Consumer Affairs. 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours PAC 43041 PAC 43055 Hazardous Materials Emergency Planning PAC 43062 (Formerly PAC 43.041, AJ 43.041) (Formerly PAC 43.055, AJ 43.055) Advanced Security Officer Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Development appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PAC 43.062, AJ 43.062) appropriate assessment; PAC 040 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Prerequisite: PAC 43060 This course is designed to keep peace This course is designed to keep peace Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or officers informed of new Hazardous officers informed of new areas of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Materials techniques, new Federal emergency planning training, current appropriate assessment and State changes and recent require- Federal and State laws and recent This course is designed to keep ments which effect current law requirements which affect current law senior security officers informed as enforcement procedures. Hazardous enforcement procedures. Emergency to the latest innovations in enforce- Materials for Officer Development Planning for officer development ment techniques and concepts presents new concepts in law enforce- presents new concepts in law enforce- which includes information sharing, ment procedures. The curriculum fol- ment procedures. The curriculum fol- problem oriented policing models lows that recommended as refresher lows that recommended as refresher and discretionary decision making. training by the California Commis- training by California Commission on The curriculum follows that recom- sion on Peace Officer Standards and Peace Officer Standards and Training. mended as refresher training by the Training. 0.074 to 1.48 Units California Commission on Peace Offi- 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours cer Standards and Training and the 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours California Department of Consumer 2 to 40 Lab hours Affairs. PAC 43060 0.074 to 1.48 Units PAC 43043 Security Basic Course 2 to 40 Lecture hours Impact Weapons (Formerly PAC 43.060, AJ 43.060) 2 to 40 Lab hours (Formerly PAC 43.043, AJ 43.043) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or PAC 4308 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment Techniques of Teaching Spanish appropriate assessment; PAC 040 This course is designed to keep any (Formerly PAC 43.08) This course is designed to keep officer and/or interested students Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or peace officers informed of new informed of new security basic appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Impact Weapons instruction, current instruction, current Federal and appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Federal and State laws and recent State laws and recent requirements This course is designed to acquaint requirements which affect current which affect current law enforcement the non-Spanish speaking public law enforcement procedures. Impact procedures. Security Basic Course service employee with development Weapons for Officer Development presents new concepts in security of course, lessons, dialogue and presents new concepts in law enforce- procedures. The curriculum follows vocabulary materials. Lesson prepa- ment procedures. The curriculum fol- that recommended for training by ration, aids, video tapes and narra- lows that recommended as refresher the California Commission on Peace tive recordings will be used to assist training by the California Commis- Officer Standards and Training and the student in developing a practical sion on Peace Officer Standards and Consumer Affairs. knowledge of Spanish. Training. 0.074 to 1.48 Units 0.074 to 1.48 Units 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours 290 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog PAC 4311 integrity, performance goals, prin- value of selected evidence types. Supervisory and Management Seminar ciples of instruction, and role model. An introduction to the criminalistics (Formerly PAC 43.11) 0.074 to 1.48 Units laboratory organization and function Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 2 to 40 Lecture hours will be presented. appropriate assessment; PAC 040 or PAC 2 to 40 Lab hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 075B, 075C, 075D 2 to 40 Lecture hours This course is designed to inform and PAC 4317 2 to 40 Lab hours update supervisors and managers Crime Scene Investigation in the public safety field. Classroom (Formerly PAC 43.17) PAC 4330 time will consist of lecture presenta- Prerequisite: AJ 275 Trial Preparation and Courtroom tions, participation in simulation Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Demeanor games, and the sharing of limited appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PAC 43.30) outside assignments. Students will appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 104; Prerequisite: AJ 104 have an opportunity to explore their AJ 208 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or own leadership styles, as well as This course is designed to present a appropriate assessment; READ 023 or the unique personality of the police detailed study of the various investi- appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 208; officer. Students will also develop gative and scientific aspects of crime AJ 275; PAC 4317; PAC 4328; PAC 4382 a better understanding of specific scene investigation. Emphasis will be This course is designed for students skills which will assist them in their placed on the collection, preservation, interested in a career in the field of roles. The course, while specifi- identification and packaging of evi- criminal justice, forensics and for cally designed for supervisors and dence. Several field problems will be crime scene personnel. The course managers, would also be of benefit conducted to give the student practi- will prepare students to give effective to individuals who are preparing for cal experience in the proper methods testimony in a court of law as related supervisory positions in the public of crime scene investigation. to recognizing, obtaining, developing safety field. 0.074 to 1.48 Units and preserving physical evidence. 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours The course will include courtroom 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lab hours demeanor, how to qualify as an 2 to 40 Lab hours expert witness, the study of direct PAC 4327 and cross examination questions and PAC 4313 Advanced Latent Fingerprints participation in moot court training. Law Enforcement Instructors (Formerly PAC 43.27) 0.074 to 1.48 Units Development Course Prerequisite: PAC 4380 2 to 40 Lecture hours (Formerly PAC 43.13) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 2 to 40 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 104; PAC 4337 appropriate assessment; PAC 040 AJ 208; AJ 275 Rangemaster Instructor School This lecture-workshop is designed This course is designed for students (Formerly PAC 43.37) for law enforcement training officers interested in the field of fingerprint Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and instructors. The student will comparison, forensics and law appropriate assessment; READ 023 or gain a knowledge of and the abil- enforcement. The course stresses appropriate assessment; PAC 040 ity to organize the law enforcement advanced fingerprint identification This is a variable format (2-40 Hours training functions within the agency techniques including the latest print of Instruction; 2-40 Hours of Lab) as demonstrated by a model which development techniques using vari- course designed to instruct the expe- they will develop during the course. ous powders, chemicals, and forensic rienced officer with the operation The student will develop the ability light sources. and maintenance of a firing range. to prepare a training program includ- 0.074 to 1.48 Units Teaching techniques and the use of ing course outlines, lesson plans and 2 to 40 Lecture hours revolvers, semiautomatic handguns, audio-visual aids. This ability will be 2 to 40 Lab hours rifles, shotguns and fully automatic demonstrated by actual presentation weapons will be emphasized. of each of the above items. Students PAC 4328 0.074 to 1.48 Units will gain the ability to make instruc- Advanced Crime Scene Techniques 2 to 40 Lecture hours tional presentations which they will (Formerly PAC 43.28) 2 to 40 Lab hours demonstrate to the class during Prerequisite: AJ 208 workshops. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or PAC 4339 0.074 to 1.48 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Tactics for Field Officers 2 to 40 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 104; (Formerly PAC 43.39) 2 to 40 Lab hours AJ 275; PAC 4317 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is designed for students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or PAC 4314 interested in a career in the field of appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Field Training Officer Course criminal justice and for crime scene This course is designed for field Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or investigation personnel. It presup- officers to combat complacency or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or poses a basic knowledge of the crime apathy that may have intruded into appropriate assessment; PAC 040 scene investigation process. Selected their behavior. It will reinforce their This course is designed to teach types of physical evidence will be mental attitude, physical awareness a Police Officer how to train new examined in depth to include the and training that is needed in han- recruits. This course includes training recognition, collection, and forensic dling the situational complexities that principles, civil liability, ethics and 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 291 officers are continually confronted as refresher training by the California evidence for use in a court of law. with in the field. It is also designed to Commission on Peace Officer Stan- 0.074 to 1.48 Units stimulate or renew their commitment dards and Training. 2 to 40 Lecture hours to good personal practices encour- 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours aging safety and the professional 2 to 40 Lecture hours delivery of service to the public. 2 to 40 Lab hours PAC 4358 0.074 to 1.48 Units Police Defensive Driving Course 2 to 40 Lecture hours PAC 4351 (Formerly PAC 43.58) 2 to 40 Lab hours Industrial Security Powers to Arrest and Prerequisite: Valid California Driver’s Baton Training License PAC 4342 (Formerly PAC 43.51) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Weapons, Semi-Automatic Handguns This course is designed for students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PAC 43.42) who are involved in private security. appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or The contents presented will give This course is designed to provide appropriate assessment; READ 023 or an overview of the role of security officers with an understanding and appropriate assessment; PAC 040 guards, First Aid basics, Powers to awareness of the problems inherent This course is designed for personnel Arrest and P.O.S.T. Certified Baton in the skills required for defensively who are concerned with semiauto- Training. driving a police vehicle in everyday matic pistols as a police service side 0.148 to 0.741 Units use. It is not a red light and siren, arm. Overall course will encompass 8 to 40 Lecture hours high speed pursuit, emergency Colt .45 semiautomatic, Smith and vehicle operation course. Rather, it is Wesson models 39 and 59, Browning PAC 4352 a course with the idea in mind that Hi-Power 9 millimeters, plus other Industrial Security Baton Powers to accidents can be prevented by giving uniform and off-duty semiautomatic Arrest, Firearms students a series of demonstrations, pistols. (Formerly PAC 43.52) lectures and practical exercises in 0.074 to 1.48 Units This course is designed for students basic police vehicle defensive driving 2 to 40 Lecture hours who are involved in private security. techniques which also includes the 2 to 40 Lab hours The contents presented will qualify use of the on-tract skid pan for actual students for certification with the driver training. The curriculum fol- PAC 4343 Department of Consumer Affairs in lows that recommended as refresher Special Weapons Training the areas of Powers to Arrest, Fire- training by the California Commis- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or arms, and Baton. sion on Peace Officer Standards and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 0.167 to 0.75 Units Training. appropriate assessment 8 to 40 Lecture hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units This course is designed to familiarize 2 to 40 Lecture hours both law enforcement and private PAC 4353 2 to 40 Lab hours security personnel with the latest Industrial Security; Baton, Powers to types of firearms. Emphasis will be Arrest, Chemical Agents PAC 4360 placed on the legal aspects of the use (Formerly PAC 43.53) Radar Traffic Enforcement of firearms and the safe handling of This course is designed for students (Formerly PAC 43.60) various types of firearms. who are involved in private security. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 0.074 to 1.48 Units The contents presented will qualify appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 2 to 40 Lecture hours students for certification with the appropriate assessment; PAC 040 2 to 40 Lab hours Department of Consumer Affairs in Radar Traffic Enforcement course the areas of Powers to Arrest, Chemi- covers the legal issues involved, the PAC 4350 cal Agents and Baton. nomenclature, concepts and practi- Crime Prevention Theory and Practice 0.148 to 0.741 Units cal operation of police speed control (Formerly PAC 43.50) 8 to 40 Lecture hours radar. This course is designed to Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or provide the student with the neces- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or PAC 4355 sary information and skills needed appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Advanced Police Video/Photography to function as a radar enforcement This course is designed to acquaint (Formerly PAC 43.55) officer. The curriculum follows that law enforcement personnel with Prerequisite: PHTO 190 recommended as refresher training the latest theories and techniques Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or by the California Commission on of crime prevention through oppor- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Peace Officer Standards and Training. tunity reduction. Emphasis will be appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 104; 0.074 to 1.48 Units placed on physical security devices AJ 208; AJ 275 2 to 40 Lecture hours and systems, community involve- This course is designed for students 2 to 40 Lab hours ment in prevention programs, evalu- interested in preparing for a career in ation of crime trends and prevention the field of crime scene video, pho- PAC 4362 techniques, development of preven- tography, forensics and law enforce- Child Abuse Investigation tion strategies and program materials, ment. The course introduces students (Formerly PAC 43.62) crime prevention and the community to the advanced use of various Advisory: PAC 040 planning process, ordinances, zoning video and photography techniques This course is designed to provide the and environmental design. The cur- employed during a police investiga- student with the necessary informa- riculum follows that recommended tion with special emphasis on docu- tion and skills needed to function as a menting a crime scene and preparing Child Abuse Investigator. Specifically, 292 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog this course covers child abuse laws, mended as refresher training by the PAC 4378 recognition of abuse, victim treat- California Commission on Peace PC 832 Communications and Arrest ment, interviewing and investigating Officer Standards and Training. Methods techniques, inter-agency coordination 0.074 to 1.48 Units (Formerly PAC 43.78) and court involvement. 2 to 40 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 0.148 to 0.741 Units 2 to 40 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 8 to 40 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; PAC 4376 PAC 4376 This course is designed to provide PAC 4365 PC 832 Arrest the student employed or seeking Vice Investigation Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or employment in public agencies and (Formerly PAC 43.65) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or currently have a working knowledge Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; PAC 040 of the law enforcement functions with appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed to provide the skills and information necessary appropriate assessment; PAC 040 the student, employed or seeking to satisfy state requirements for the This course is designed to provide the employment in public agencies, with PC 832 Communications and Arrest student with the necessary informa- the skills and information neces- Techniques course which covers tion and skills needed to function sary to satisfy the state requirements community relations, communica- as vice investigator. Specifically, for the PC 832 Arrest course which tions, report writing, arrest control this course covers the legal issues, covers the California justice system, and personal searches. This course types of offenses and investigative professional behavior, law, evidence can be taken alone or in combination techniques used in vice investigation. and discretionary decision making. with PAC 4376, PC 832 Arrest and/ The curriculum follows that recom- This course can be taken alone or in or PAC 4377, PC 832 Firearms to mended as refresher training by the combination with PAC 4377, PC 832 satisfy varying agency requirements. California Commission on Peace Firearms and/or PAC 4378, PC 832 The curriculum follows that recom- Officer Standards and Training. Communications and Arrest Methods mended as refresher training by the 0.074 to 1.48 Units to satisfy varying agency require- California Commission on Peace 2 to 40 Lecture hours ments. Officer Standards and Training. 2 to 40 Lab hours 0.074 to 1.48 Units 0.074 to 1.48 Units 2 to 40 Lecture hours 2 to 40 Lecture hours PAC 4366 2 to 40 Lab hours 2 to 40 Lab hours Basic Traffic Accident Investigation (Formerly PAC 43.66) PAC 4377 PAC 4380 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or PC 832 Firearms Fingerprint Classification appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly PAC 43.77) (Formerly PAC 43.80) appropriate assessment; PAC 040 Prerequisite: PAC 4376; Pursuant to Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is designed to provide the Section 13511.5 of the California Penal appropriate assessment; READ 023 or student with the necessary informa- Code, each student who is not sponsored appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 104; tion and skills to conduct basic traffic by a local or other law enforcement AJ 208; AJ 275 accident investigations. Specifically, agency, must submit written certification This course is designed for students this course covers the reporting inves- from the California Department of Justice interested in the field of fingerprint tigation, cause determination and certifying no criminal history background comparison, forensics and law prosecution aspects of traffic accident which would disqualify the student pur- enforcement. The course provides investigation. The curriculum follows suant to Section 12021.1 P.C. training in the study of the science that recommended as refresher train- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of fingerprints. Topics include the ing by the California Commission on appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ethics and professional conduct of Peace Officer Standards and Training. appropriate assessment fingerprint examiners, the historical 0.074 to 1.48 Units This course is designed to provide development of fingerprint science, 2 to 40 Lecture hours the student employed or seeking fingerprint pattern interpretation, 2 to 40 Lab hours employment in public agencies with the Henry System of fingerprint the skills and information necessary classification, the N.C.I.C. classifica- PAC 4367 to satisfy state requirements for the tion system, recording inked finger Intermediate Traffic Accident PC 832 Firearms course which covers and palm prints, and the automated Investigation firearms safety, care, cleaning, shoot- fingerprint identification system. (Formerly PAC 43.67) ing and qualification. This course can 0.074 to 1.48 Units Prerequisite: PAC 4366 be taken alone or in combination with 2 to 40 Lecture hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or PAC 4376, PC 832 Arrest and/or PAC 2 to 40 Lab hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 4378, PC 832 Communications/Arrest appropriate assessment; PAC 040 to satisfy varying agency require- PAC 4381 This course is designed to expand ments. Friction Skin Comparison on the student’s basic understand- 0.074 to 1.48 Units (Formerly PAC 43.81) ing of traffic accident investigation 2 to 40 Lecture hours Prerequisite: PAC 4380 and develop a working knowledge 2 to 40 Lab hours Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of the following subject areas: traffic appropriate assessment; READ 023 or engineering, point of impact deter- appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 104; mination, skid mark analysis, crime AJ 208; AJ 275 lab procedures and insurance fraud. This course is designed for students The curriculum follows that recom- interested in preparing for a career in 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 293 the field of fingerprint comparisons, POLS 110H POLS 130 forensics and law enforcement. The Government of the United States Comparative Government course provides training in the area Honors (Formerly POLYS 130, 003) of friction skin comparison. Topics (Formerly POLYS 110H) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or include the uniqueness of finger- Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a “C” or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or prints, principles of comparison better appropriate assessment and individualization, type of ridge Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Transfers to: UC, CSU characteristics, identification proto- assessment This course examines the politi- cols, and the conclusions a fingerprint Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU cal systems of selected industrial examiner can reach. (*Students will receive credit from UC democracies, dictatorships, and 0.074 to 1.48 Units for only one of the following courses: governments of the developing 2 to 40 Lecture hours POLS 110 or POLS 110H) world. Emphasis is placed on the 2 to 40 Lab hours This course surveys and analyzes the institutional development and politi- origins, principles, institutions, poli- cal processes and cultures within PAC 4382 cies, and politics of U.S. National and these countries. This course features Death Investigation California State Governments, includ- an examination of current political (Formerly PAC 43.82) ing their constitutions. Emphasis is problems and a comparison of such Prerequisite: PAC 4328 placed on the rights and responsibili- differing ideologies as Marxism, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ties of citizens, and an understanding democracy, theocracy, and totalitari- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or of the political processes and issues anism. This course is intended for the appropriate assessment; AJ 041; AJ 208; involved in the workings of govern- student interested in the study of for- AJ 275; PAC 4317 ment. This course fulfills the Ameri- eign governments and for those who This course is designed for students can Institutions requirement for the wish to major in political science. interested in a career in law enforce- Associate Degree. It also is suitable 3 Units ment and/or forensics. The course will present an advanced overview of for students wishing to expand their 54 Lecture hours techniques that are used and issues knowledge of local, state and national that surface during the initial investi- governments. This course is intended POLS 135 gation of the death of a human being. for students eligible for the Honors International Political Economy The course will also address the role Program. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of the Coroner’s office and their 3 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ability to scientifically investigate the 54 Lecture hours appropriate assessment cause and manner of any sudden, Transfers to: UC, CSU suspicious, or violent death. POLS 120 This is an introductory course 0.5 Units California State and Local Governments designed for students interested 24 Lecture hours (Formerly POLYS 120, 020) in economics and political science, Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or as well as anyone interested in the appropriate assessment global interconnectedness of the POLITICAL SCIENCE Transfers to: CSU world economy. The course focuses This course is an introduction to the on the relations between the politi- Division of Behavioral structure, functions, and politics of cal and economic systems within the & Social Sciences California governments including global economy. The course covers state, county, municipal and special the impact of political decisions on POLS 110 districts. world economies and international Government of the United States 3 Units organizations. Further emphasis is (Formerly POLYS 110, 002) 54 Lecture hours placed on a comparison-contrast of Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or various national economies. Geo- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or POLS 128 graphic areas of concern include appropriate assessment Introduction to Political Philosophy Africa, Europe, the Pacific Rim, the Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (Formerly POLYS 128) Middle East, Latin America, Russia, (*Students will receive credit from UC Advisory: ENGL 101 or appropriate China, and the United States. The for only one of the following courses: assessment; READ 023 or appropriate course is cross-listed as Economics POLS 110 or POLS 110H) assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU 135 and Political Science 135. Credit is This course surveys and analyzes the This course is for students interested given in either area, not both. origins, principles, institutions, poli- in the relationship between political 3 Units cies, and politics of U.S. National and systems and philosophy. It is espe- 54 Lecture hours California State Governments, includ- cially relevant for students interested ing their constitutions. Emphasis is in political science, philosophy and POLS 140 placed on the rights and responsibili- law. This course introduces the International Relations ties of citizens, and an understanding history and development of politi- (Formerly POLYS 140, 014) of the political processes and issues cal thought, and will consider the Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or involved in the workings of govern- justification of the State, Libertarian- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ment. This course fulfills the Ameri- ism, Socialism, Communism, as well appropriate assessment can Institutions requirement for the as conceptions of rights and distribu- Transfers to: UC, CSU Associate Degree. It also is suitable tions of goods. This course examines the structure for students wishing to expand their 3 Units and operation of the international knowledge of local, state and national 54 Lecture hours system. Emphasis is placed on the governments. nature and sources of conflict and 3 Units cooperation, issues of war and peace 54 Lecture hours 294 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog among states in the international POLS 299 of psychology and the various areas system, and international economic Directed Study: Political Science that comprise this diverse discipline. development. The impact of nation- Transfers to: UC, CSU Research and theories are presented, states, international organizations, Independent Study/Directed Study discussed, and evaluated. Topics cov- and non-governmental actors are all is intended for students who have ered include biological psychology, sensation and perception, lifespan examined. This course is suitable for the ability to assume responsibil- development, learning, memory, students who wish to expand their ity for independent work and to motivation and emotion, cognition, knowledge of international politics prepare written or oral reports and/ personality, psychopathology and and for those who wish to major in or appropriate projects. To enroll in social psychology. political science or international rela- an independent study/directed study 3 Units tions. course, students must possess a 2.5 54 Lecture hours 3 Units overall grade point average, a 3.1 54 Lecture hours grade point average in the discipline PSY 101H of study being requested, or receive Introductory Psychology Honors POLS 150 an exception from the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of Chicano Politics (Same as CHST 150) Independent Studies/Directed Stud- “C” or better (Formerly POLYS 150) ies may be developed from any topic Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 arising from or related to a course of Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU or appropriate assessment; READ 023 study that will result in developing (*Students will receive credit from UC appropriate assessment depth and breadth in that subject Transfers to: UC, CSU for only one of the following courses: PSY area. Students will be expected to 101 or PSY 101H) This course examines U.S. history meet on a regular basis with their fac- and political issues relevant to the This course is designed as a general ulty sponsor and submit a final report Chicano/Latino community, pro- introduction to psychology for psy- or project, and student progress shall vides an overview of Chicano/Latino chology majors, those with an interest demographics in the U.S, examines be evaluated at regular intervals. in psychology, or anyone with a Chicano/Latino political activism Academic standards for Independent desire to further their understanding and the rise of Chicano/Latino politi- Studies/Directed Studies shall be the of human behavior. It provides an cal leadership. This is an entry level same as those for other courses. Units overview of the field of psychology, course serving as an elective for both are awarded in accordance to Title introducing students to the research the Political Science and Chicano V regulations with one unit of credit methods used to advance the science Studies majors. awarded for 54 hours of Directed of psychology and the various areas 3 Units Studies, six (6) hours of which must that comprise this diverse discipline. 54 Lecture hours be with an instructor. The instructor Research and theories are presented, is responsible for monitoring student discussed, and evaluated. Topics cov- POLS 290 progress through the semester. ered include biological psychology, sensation and perception, lifespan Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- Students may take directed study development, learning, memory, ship for Political Science Related Fields courses for a maximum of four (4) motivation and emotion, cognition, units within a discipline, and may Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or personality, psychopathology and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or not accumulate more than a total of social psychology. This course is appropriate assessment twelve (12) units college wide. intended for those who meet Honors Transfers to: CSU 1 to 4 Units Program requirements. This course supports and reinforces 54 to 216 Lab hours 3 Units on-the-job training in governmental 54 Lecture hours positions under supervision of a college instructor and is facilitated PSY 112 by the use of learning objectives. The PSYCHOLOGY Lifespan Development student will be working in a skilled (Formerly PSY 012) or professional level assignment in an Division of Behavioral Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or area of local, county, state, or federal & Social Sciences appropriate assessment; READ 023 or government and will meet perfor- appropriate assessment mance objectives related to instruc- PSY 101 Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Introductory Psychology tion that are above and beyond the (*Students will receive credit from UC (Formerly PSY 001A) for only one of the following courses: PSY conditions of regular employment. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is intended for students 112 or CD 106) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course provides an overview whose intended job is related to the appropriate assessment of human psychological develop- field of government and have com- Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU ment across the lifespan. It addresses (*Students will receive credit from UC pleted or enrolled in the appropriate the physical, cognitive, social, and coursework. “Contact the CWE office for only one of the following courses: PSY 101 or PSY 101H) emotional changes that occur from regarding re-enrollment procedures”. the prenatal period through death. Student Unpaid Internship: This course is designed as a general introduction to psychology for psy- It explores the development issues 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; chology majors, those with an interest of stability vs. change, continuity vs. 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours in psychology, or anyone with a discontinuity, and nature vs. nurture, Student Paid Internship: desire to further their understanding and examines the perspectives of 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; of human behavior. It provides an major developmental theorists, 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. overview of the field of psychology, including Freud, Erickson, and 1 to 4 Units introducing students to the research Piaget. It explores current research 3 Lecture hours methods used to advance the science findings and their applicability to 60 to 300 hours ongoing developmental problems. 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 295 This course is appropriate for the of and attitudes towards drugs will majors, students looking to transfer student seeking to develop a better be addressed, as well as drug use as a Psychology major and students understanding of the development disorders, drug legislation, and treat- that are interested in learning about gains and losses that occur through- ment options. Societal and cultural the field of learning and memory. out our lives. differences will also be noted. 3 Units 3 Units 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours PSY 180 PSY 114 PSY 123 Positive Psychology Introduction to Abnormal Psychology Drug Education and Prevention Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU This course focuses on the research, This course is designed for students This course provides an introduction theories, and ideas surrounding, interested in furthering their under- to the study of abnormal behavior promoting, and maintaining well- for psychology majors, those with standing of substance dependence and those interested in working with being, good health, and happiness. an interest in abnormal psychology, Students will explore topics in the or anyone with a desire to further populations recovering from or at risk for such problems. It addresses field of positive psychology including their understanding of abnormality. but not limited to wellness, opti- The classification, assessment and the history, theories, models, and mism, flow, happiness, and positive treatment of psychological disorders approaches to substance abuse will be explored. Students will not education and prevention. In addi- thinking. This course is beneficial for only develop an understanding of the tion to an academic look at drug students that are Psychology majors, etiology and diagnosis of such disor- abuse, students will also explore and students looking to transfer as a Psy- ders, as based upon DSM-IV-TR cri- examine their own values and beliefs chology majors and students that are teria, but develop an appreciation of about substance use and misuse. The interested in learning about positive the cultural, historical and theoretical impact of public policy, the media, psychology. influences that affect the definitions and drug education programs on 3 Units and treatment of abnormal behavior. drug use will all be considered. 54 Lecture hours 3 Units 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours PSY 190 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences PSY 127 PSY 116 Prerequisite: MATH 070 or MATH Introduction to the Physiological Effects Introduction to Cross-Cultural 070D with a grade of “C” or better or Psychology of Drugs of Abuse Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 101 and READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU This course provides an overview This course provides an introduction This course is designed for students to the literature of Cross-Cultural interested in furthering their under- of the types of statistics that are Psychology. This course is organized standing of psychoactive drugs and important in the behavioral sciences. around understanding the historical those interested in working with The main focus of this course is on events leading to research in cross- populations recovering from or at hypothesis testing and the statistics cultural psychology, and the efforts risk for drug problems. It provides that are used to analyze it. Students to understand human behavior an examination of the pharmaco- will learn to present and interpret within an international and multi- logical actions of drugs of abuse and experimental data from the behav- cultural context. From this context, a how this relates to the physiological, ioral sciences. Topics covered include variety of psychological phenomena as well as the behavioral, effects of basic probability, measures of central will be studied including conscious- such drugs. The properties of drugs tendency, measures of variance, sam- ness, learning and memory, life-span that increase the likelihood of the pling, and inferential statistics. This development of dependence will be development, perception, cognition, course is designed for students major- emphasized. emotion, social psychology, and ing in psychology, sociology, political stress and coping. 3 Units 54 Lecture hours science, and anthropology. 3 Units 4 Units 54 Lecture hours PSY 170 72 Lecture hours PSY 121 Introduction to Learning and Memory PSY 200 Drugs, Society, and Behavior Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Research Methods in Psychology appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment (Formerly PSY 002) appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Prerequisite: PSY 101 Transfers to: CSU This course details the background Prerequisite/Corequisite: MATH 130 or This course is for the student who and research that led to the identifica- PSY 190 seeks a basic understanding of the tion of the different types of learning Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or effects of drugs of abuse and an and memory. Students will explore appropriate assessment; READ 023 or in-depth consideration of the societal topics in the field of learning and appropriate assessment aspects of psychoactive drugs. It is memory including but not limited to Transfers to: UC, CSU designed for those students interested classical conditioning, operant con- This course provides an introduc- in furthering their understanding of ditioning, instrumental conditioning, tion to the philosophy of science and short-term and long-term memory, psychoactive drugs and those inter- the examination of the hypothetical ested in working with populations forgetting, and models of learning and memory. This course is benefi- deductive methods and their relation- recovering from or at risk for drug ship to theory. Topics include: the problems. Current and historical uses cial for students that are Psychology 296 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog nature of experimental research and PSY 299 RDIO 136 design, experimental and non-exper- Directed Study: Psychology Radio Production imental research-including group (Formerly PSY 100) (Formerly RADIO 136, 036A) and single-subject designs, literature Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or review, research ethics, collection and Independent Study/Directed Study appropriate assessment; READ 023 or analysis of data, and writing APA- is intended for students who have appropriate assessment style reports. Collection, handling, the ability to assume responsibil- Transfers to: CSU and analysis of original empirical ity for independent work and to This course is intended as an intro- data, during class and outside of prepare written or oral reports and/ duction for students wanting to learn class, in both experimental and non- or appropriate projects. To enroll in experimental designs, are an integral an independent study/directed study the production and management component of the course. The course course, students must possess a 2.5 techniques in radio broadcasting. is designed for students intending to overall grade point average, a 3.0 Students will be shown basic tech- pursue a degree in psychology. grade point average in the discipline niques for writing and producing the 3 Units of study being requested, or receive commercial and public service type 36 Lecture hours an exception from the instructor. announcements. Students will be 54 Lab hours Independent Studies/Directed Stud- shown through lecture, demonstra- ies may be developed from any topic tion, and taped examples the proper PSY 210 arising from or related to a course of announcing and on-air presenta- Biological Psychology study that will result in developing tion techniques. Students will make (Formerly PSY 001B) depth and breadth in that subject demonstration tapes and air checks of Prerequisite: PSY 101 area. Students will be expected to examples of their work for submis- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or meet on a regular basis with their fac- sion to the instructor and the class appropriate assessment; READ 023 or ulty sponsor and submit a final report for evaluation. Selected students will appropriate assessment or project, and student progress shall Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU be evaluated at regular intervals. have an opportunity to air their pro- (*Students will receive credit from UC Academic standards for Independent grams over the campus radio station for only one of the following courses: PSY Studies/Directed Studies shall be the KRHC. 210 or PSY 210H) same as those for other courses. Units 4 Units This course is designed for the stu- are awarded in accordance to Title 54 Lecture hours dent who has an interest in under- V regulations with one unit of credit 72 Lab hours standing the biological processes that awarded for 54 hours of Directed underlie human behavior. The bio- Studies, six (6) hours of which must RDIO 236 logical basis of normal and abnormal be with an instructor. The instructor Advanced Radio Production behavior, including sensory systems, is responsible for monitoring student (Formerly RADIO 236, 036B) brain and behavior relationships, and progress through the semester. Prerequisite: RDIO 136 with a grade of underlying neurochemical processes Students may take directed study “C” or better will be addressed. The extent to courses for a maximum of four (4) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or which biological processes interact units within a discipline, and may appropriate assessment; READ 023 or with environmental influences to not accumulate more than a total of determine behavior will be explored. twelve (12) units college wide. appropriate assessment 3 Units 1 to 4 Units Transfers to: CSU 54 Lecture hours 54 to 216 Lab hours This course is intended as an advanced study for students wanting PSY 210H to learn production and manage- Biological Psychology Honors ment techniques utilized in radio Prerequisite: PSY 101 and ENGL 101 RADIO broadcasting. Students will be shown with a “C” or better. Enrollment is proper announcing and on-air pre- restricted to those who meet Honors Division of Communications sentation techniques through lecture, Program requirements (minimum GPA & Languages of 3.0) demonstration, and taped examples. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Students will have an opportunity to assessment RDIO 104 air their programs over the campus Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Introduction to Broadcasting Internet radio station KRHC. (*Students will receive credit from UC (Formerly RADIO 104, 004) 4 Units Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or for only one of the following courses: PSY 54 Lecture hours 210 or PSY 210H) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lab hours This course is designed for the stu- appropriate assessment dent who has an interest in under- Transfers to: CSU standing the biological processes that This course is an introduction into the RDIO 290 underlie human behavior. The bio- field of broadcasting in a survey form Cooperative Work Experience/ logical basis of normal and abnormal covering the vast areas of broadcast- Internship for Radio Related Fields behavior, including sensory systems, ing throughout the world. It is a Prerequisite: JOUR 147 brain and behavior relationships, and broad survey of the history, theory, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or and operation of radio and television underlying neurochemical processes appropriate assessment; READ 023 or will be addressed. The extent to broadcasting in the United States, which biological processes interact including legal and social aspects, appropriate assessment with environmental influences to networks, programming, production, Transfers to: CSU determine behavior will be explored. sales and advertising, and station This course supports and reinforces This course is intended for students personnel. At least one field trip to on-the-job training in radio related eligible for the Honors Program. a radio or television studio will be fields under supervision of a col- 3 Units scheduled each semester. lege instructor and is facilitated by 54 Lecture hours 3 Units 54 Lecture hours the use of learning objectives. The student will be working in a skilled 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 297 or professional level assignment in pass basis. All students are required an area of radio related fields and to concurrently enroll in the Reading will meet performance objectives READING Lab, READ 021L. related to instruction that are above 3 Units Division of Communications 54 Lecture hours and beyond the conditions of regular & Languages employment. This course is intended for students whose intended job is READ 021L READ 012 Reading Lab related to the field of radio and have Learning Strategies completed or enrolled in the appro- Prerequisite: Appropriate placement Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or through the Rio Hondo Assessment priate coursework. “Contact the appropriate assessment; READ 021 or CWE office regarding re-enrollment process appropriate assessment Corequisite: READ 021 procedures”. This course is designed for students Student Unpaid Internship: This course is a skills class designed entering college who need to develop to assist students in improving read- 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; their skills as learners. Students will 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours ing comprehension and vocabulary build and acquire study techniques through individually prescribed lab Student Paid Internship: in the areas of note taking, test 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; work. Students will complete reading taking, text reading, memorizing, tasks intended to complement the 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. time planning and communicating. 1 to 4 Units activities of their reading course. All The emphasis of this class will be on READ 021 students must enroll. This 3 Lecture hours learning new techniques and then 60 to 300 hours is a non-degree applicable course applying them to classes and work offered on a pass/no pass basis. situations. This is a non-degree credit RDIO 299 0.5 Units course and is offered on a pass/no 27 Lab hours Directed Study: Radio pass basis. (Formerly RADIO 100) 1.5 Units READ 022 Transfers to: UC, CSU 27 Lecture hours Independent Study/Directed Study Intermediate Reading Skills is intended for students who have (Formerly READ 053A) READ 020 Prerequisite: READ 021 or appropriate the ability to assume responsibil- Introductory Reading ity for independent work and to assessment (Formerly READ 054) Corequisite: READ 022L prepare written or oral reports and/ This is an introductory course for or appropriate projects. To enroll in This course is designed for students students with beginning reading who want to improve their reading an independent study/directed study skills. Students will learn meanings course, students must possess a 2.5 skills in order to succeed in other and the pronunciation of new words. college classes. Students will develop overall grade point average, a 3.0 In addition, students will practice grade point average in the discipline comprehension and vocabulary basic comprehension skills through through the reading of material of study being requested, or receive readings dealing with the workplace, an exception from the instructor. drawn from popular works, text- college, and everyday life. This books, magazines, and newspapers. Independent Studies/Directed Stud- course is appropriate for native and ies may be developed from any topic Areas addressed include determining second language learners. This is a main ideas, recognizing supporting arising from or related to a course of non-degree applicable course offered study that will result in developing details, identifying author’s organiza- on a pass/no pass basis. tion, and making inferences. This is a depth and breadth in that subject 3 Units non-degree applicable course and is area. Students will be expected to 54 Lecture hours meet on a regular basis with their fac- offered on a pass/no pass basis. All students are required to concurrently ulty sponsor and submit a final report READ 021 enroll in Reading Lab, Reading 022L. or project, and student progress shall Basic Reading be evaluated at regular intervals. 3 Units (Formerly READ 055) 54 Lecture hours Academic standards for Independent Prerequisite: Appropriate placement Studies/Directed Studies shall be the through the Rio Hondo Assessment same as those for other courses. Units READ 022L process Reading Lab are awarded in accordance to Title Corequisite: READ 021L V regulations with one unit of credit Prerequisite: READ 021 or appropriate This course is designed for students assessment awarded for 54 hours of Directed who want to improve their reading Studies, six (6) hours of which must Corequisite: READ 022 skills in order to succeed in other This course is a skills class designed be with an instructor. The instructor college classes. Students will learn is responsible for monitoring student to assist students in improving read- how to read and understand short ing comprehension and vocabulary progress through the semester. works of fiction and nonfiction as Students may take directed study through individually prescribed lab well as key vocabulary words associ- work. Students will complete reading courses for a maximum of four (4) ated with college and everyday life units within a discipline, and may tasks intended to complement the through context clues, word parts, activities of their reading course. All not accumulate more than a total of and dictionary usage. Students will twelve (12) units college wide. READ 022 students must enroll. This also learn to recognize transitions, is a non-degree applicable course 1 to 4 Units main ideas and supporting details. 54 to 216 Lab hours offered on a pass/no pass basis. This is a non-degree applicable 0.5 Units course and is offered on a pass/no 27 Lab hours 298 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog READ 023 Reading College Textbooks (Formerly READ 053B) SOCIOLOGY Prerequisite: READ 022 or appropriate REGISTERED Division of Behavioral assessment & Social Sciences This is a course designed for students DENTAL ASSISTING who need to improve their reading Division of Health Sciences SOC 101 competencies in order to succeed in & Nursing Introduction to Sociology other college classes. Areas of empha- (Formerly SOC 001A) RDA 051 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or sis will include reading strategies appropriate assessment; READ 023 or essential in such academic areas as Registered Dental Assisting I appropriate assessment social sciences, science, technology, Prerequisite: Acceptance into Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU business and humanities. The course Registered Dental Program (*Students will receive credit from UC also introduces academic vocabulary. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or for only one of the following courses: SOC 101 or SOC 101H) This is a non-degree credit course and appropriate assessment; READ 023 or This course is designed for those is offered on a pass / no-pass basis. appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or with an interest in Sociology, or 3 Units appropriate assessment anyone with a desire to further their 54 Lecture hours This is part one of a two-semester understanding of human group Registered Dental Assisting com- behavior and the organization of READ 101 petency based course. This course society. The student, using several theoretical points of view, will study Critical Reading includes patient care experience in a and analyze: (1) the organization of Prerequisite: READ 023 or appropriate fully equipped facility. Students who social life; (2) problems of inequal- assessment successfully complete the curriculum ity - of age, sex, race and ethnicity, Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or are qualified to take the California social class and life style; (3) the basic appropriate assessment Dental Board examination leading social institutions: family, religion, and economics; and (4) global issues Transfers to: CSU to licensure as a Registered Dental of technology, social movements and This course is designed to aid Assistant. At completion of the pro- social change. students in acquiring critical read- gram, the student will be certified by 3 Units ing and thinking skills across the the state of California to take dental 54 Lecture hours x-rays. Students who are interested disciplines. Emphasis is placed on the SOC 101H ability to analyze and evaluate mate- in the dental field are encouraged to Introduction to Sociology Honors rial by establishing thesis and sup- take this course. Prerequisite: Enrollment is restricted port as well as by analyzing elements 12 Units to those who meet Honors Program of argumentation. The course also 151 Lecture hours requirements (minimum GPA of 3.0) and 200 Lab hours completion of ENGL 101 with a “C” or focuses on vocabulary and the effects better of language on the reader. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 3 Units RDA 052 assessment 54 Lecture hours Registered Dental Assisting II Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Prerequisite: Enrollment in the RDA (*Students will receive credit from UC READ 134 Program and successful completion of for only one of the following courses: SOC 101 or SOC 101H) Effective Study Methods RDA 051with a grade of “C” or better This course is designed for those (Formerly READ 034) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or with an interest in Sociology, or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or anyone with a desire to further their appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; MATH 030 or understanding of human group appropriate assessment appropriate assessment behavior and the organization of society. The student, using several Transfers to: CSU This is part two of a two-semester theoretical points of view, will study This course is designed for students Registered Dental Assisting compe- and analyze: (1) the organization of who want to acquire study strate- tency based program. This course social life; (2) problems of inequal- gies for college success and lifelong includes patient care experiences in ity – of age, sex, race and ethnicity, learning. The class topics include a fully equipped facility and a 160 social class and life style; (3) the basic social institutions: family, education, student motivation techniques, time hour preceptor experience. Students politics, economics, and religion; management methods, book mark- who successfully complete the cur- and (4) global issues of population, ing approaches, memory processes, riculum are qualified to take the technology, social movements and lecture note-taking styles, test prepa- California Dental Board examination social change. This course is intended ration procedures, and test-taking leading to licensure as a registered for students eligible for the Honors Program. strategies. In addition, students will Dental Assistant. At the completion 3 Units explore more effective class-related of the program, the student will be 54 Lecture hours communications and creative think- certified by the state of California to ing styles while using college, inter- perform coronal polishing and place net, and community resources. By pit and fissure sealants. Student who learning, practicing, and implement- are interested in the dental field are ing the course theories and strategies, encourage to take this course. students will succeed in their educa- 12 Units tion, careers, and communities. 100 Lecture hours 3 Units 356 Lab hours 54 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 299 SOC 102 SOC 114 SOC 127 Major Social Problems Marriage, Family and Intimate Introduction to Criminology (Formerly SOC 001B) Relationships (Formerly SOC 027) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly SOC 014) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU This course is designed to provide Transfers to: UC, CSU This course is designed for students students with an understanding of This course is designed for the stu- interested in the subject of criminol- the definition, development, reduc- dent interested in examining, from a ogy. The scientific analysis of the tion and elimination of major social sociological perspective, issues such nature, extent, and causes of viola- problems in contemporary society. as marriage, family, and emerging tions of societal rules of behavior that Topics addressed include problems of alternative life styles which con- are formally defined as crime and mental and physical health including stitute the reality of life today. The delinquency will be emphasized. The addictions, crime and violence, social course explores love, sexuality, mate course includes an analysis of the inequality, terrorism and war, as well selection, and engagement preceding development of criminal law and the as technology and the environment. traditional marriage and family pat- administration of criminal justice, the Various social theories and relevant terns, extra-marital and non-marital patterns of criminality and delin- empirical research are critically exam- unions, singles, and future trends in quency, the impact of crime on social ined throughout the course. intimate relationship styles. change, and the labeling, identifica- 3 Units 3 Units tion, characteristics, and treatment of 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours criminals and delinquents. 3 Units SOC 105 SOC 116 54 Lecture hours Introduction to Human Sexuality Introduction to Race and Ethnic Rela- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or tions SOC 148 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly SOC 016) La Chicana: The Contemporary appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 Mexican-American Female (Same as Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or CHST 148) This course is designed for students appropriate assessment (Formerly SOCSCI 148, MACI 148, 048) interested in the social scientific study Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of human sexuality. The course pro- This course is designed for students appropriate assessment; READ 023 or vides students with knowledge about interested in understanding the com- appropriate assessment the processes and variation in sexual plexities of multi-ethnic, multi-racial Transfers to: UC, CSU functions, reproduction, intimate societies. This course presents an This introductory course explores relationships, sexual and gender role overview of the structure and charac- the racial/ethnic identity formation development and sexual activities. ter of racial and ethnic relations in the of Chicanas/Mexican origin women Numerous factors involved in human United States and abroad. Students in the United States. Course themes sexuality are explored, emphasiz- will gain knowledge of the treatment include an examination into the ing sexuality as a form of human and experiences of a variety of racial genesis of the term “Chicana”, the interaction. The social, cultural, and and ethnic cohorts and gain insight emergence of Chicana feminism, and historical contexts of human sexuality into the complex social features of the intersection of race, gender, class, will be critically analyzed. inter-group contact. and sexuality in relation to the forma- 3 Units 3 Units tion and study of Chicana identities. 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours This course is an interdisciplinary one, drawing on methodologies SOC 110 SOC 120 from racial/ethnic studies, women/ Human Sexuality from a Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Sex & Gender gender studies, queer studies, history, Perspective (Same as ANTH 110) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or literature, sociology, and popular (Formerly SOC 010) appropriate assessment; READ 023 or culture. This course is appropriate for Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment students interested in furthering their appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: UC, CSU understanding of the social con- appropriate assessment In this course we will explore how struction of the Mexican American Transfers to: UC, CSU gender shapes our lives and the woman. This course is designed to provide world around us. Using a sociological 3 Units the student who has an interest in perspective, we will examine gender 54 Lecture hours human sexuality with an introduction as a social construction rather than a to this subject as a form of culturally- simple biological difference. Topics SOC 299 influenced social interaction. Topics to be covered will include, but not Directed Study: Sociology addressed include historical views encompass, cultural ideas of gender, (Formerly SOC 100) of sexuality, gender identity, and the gender and the economy, politics, Transfers to: UC, CSU impact of cultural change on sexual the media, families, and education. Independent Study/Directed Study interest and activity. A social scien- This course is designed for men and is intended for students who have tific analysis of various aspects of women who want to learn more the ability to assume responsibil- human sexual behavior will be used about the social connections of ity for independent work and to to examine sexuality as a form of gender and how the importance of prepare written or oral reports and/ social interaction in a cultural context. gender differences are strengthened or appropriate projects. To enroll in Various social theories and relevant in our society today. an independent study/directed study empirical research are critically 3 Units course, students must possess a 2.5 analyzed from both a Western and 54 Lecture hours overall grade point average, a 3.0 non-Western perspective. grade point average in the discipline 3 Units of study being requested, or receive 54 Lecture hours an exception from the instructor. Independent Studies/Directed Stud- ies may be developed from any topic arising from or related to a course of study that will result in developing depth and breadth in that subject area. Students will be expected to meet on a regular basis with their fac- 300 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog ulty sponsor and submit a final report SPAN 102 SPAN 131 or project, and student progress shall Spanish II Spanish for Heritage Speakers II be evaluated at regular intervals. (Formerly SPAN 002) (Formerly SPAN 015B) Academic standards for Independent Studies/Directed Studies shall be the Prerequisite: Successful completion of Prerequisite: SPAN 130 with a grade of same as those for other courses. Units SPAN 101 or two years of high school “C” or better are awarded in accordance to Title Spanish Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU V regulations with one unit of credit Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU (*Students will receive credit from UC awarded for 54 hours of Directed (*Students will receive credit from UC for only one of the following sequences Studies, six (6) hours of which must be with an instructor. The instructor for only one of the following sequences of courses: SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 or is responsible for monitoring student of courses: SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 or SPAN 130 and SPAN 131) progress through the semester. SPAN 130 and SPAN 131) This course is a continuation of SPAN Students may take directed study This course is a continuation of the 130. It is designed to further improve courses for a maximum of four (4) study of the essentials of Spanish lan- the language skills of students with units within a discipline, and may not accumulate more than a total of guage: reading, listening, speaking, a Spanish language background. twelve (12) units college wide. and writing skills. The skills learned Emphasis will continue to be placed 1 to 4 Units in Spanish 101 will be reviewed. on the improvement of reading and 54 to 216 Lab hours The class will increase vocabulary, writing skills, focusing especially on grammar, and cultural knowledge accents and spelling. Aspects of the to improve on the reading, listening, culture and civilization of Spanish- speaking and writing skills presented speakers will be included in the SPANISH in Span 101. In this course the study readings of the literature of Spanish- Division of Communications & of verb tenses and constructions is speaking countries. This course is Languages completed. Various facets of Spanish- intended for students who are native speaking cultures will be analyzed speakers of Spanish. SPAN 101 via cross-cultural comparisons. In 3 Units Spanish I addition to classroom discussion, 54 Lecture hours (Formerly SPAN 001) students receive intensive indi- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or vidualized oral-aural practice in the SPAN 201 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or language laboratory via interactive Spanish III appropriate assessment websites, audio CDs, video programs, (Formerly SPAN 003) Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU and CD ROMs. This class is designed Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or SPAN 131 (*Students will receive credit from UC for those students who do not have with a “C” or better, or three years of for only one of the following sequences a Spanish language background high school Spanish of courses: SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 or who wish to learn to speak Spanish Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU SPAN 130 and SPAN 131) or who seek a degree in the Spanish (*Students will receive credit from UC for This course is an introduction to the language. only one of the following courses: SPAN essentials of Spanish language: read- 4 Units 201 or SPAN 201H) ing, listening, speaking, and writing 72 Lecture hours This is an intermediate level course in skills. Various facets of Spanish- 18 Lab hours which Spanish grammar is reviewed. speaking cultures will be analyzed It also includes intensive class- via cross-cultural comparisons. In SPAN 130 room practice in conversation and addition to classroom discussion, Spanish for Heritage Speakers I composition. In addition to class- students receive intensive indi- (Formerly SPAN 015A) room instruction, students receive vidualized oral-aural practice in the Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or intensive, individualized oral-aural language laboratory via interactive appropriate assessment practice in the language laboratory websites, audio CDs, video programs, Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU in which websites, video programs, and CD ROMs. This class is designed (*Students will receive credit from UC audio CDs, and CD ROMs are used. for those students who do not have for only one of the following sequences Many aspects of Spanish culture are a Spanish language background of courses: SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 or introduced in short stories by Latin who wish to learn to speak Spanish SPAN 130 and SPAN 131) American and Spanish authors. or who seek a degree in the Spanish This course is designed to improve Students strengthen their communi- language. the language skills of students with cation and writing skills by analyzing 4 Units a Spanish language background. these stories in Spanish. This course is 72 Lecture hours Emphasis will be placed on the designed/intended for students who 8 Lab hours improvement of reading and writing wish to broaden their knowledge in skills. Aspects of culture, civilization, Spanish as well as for those interested and literature from the Spanish- in pursuing a degree in the Spanish speaking countries will be included. language. 3 Units 4 Units 54 Lecture hours 72 Lecture hours 18 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 301 SPAN 201H SPAN 299 Spanish III Honors Directed Study: Spanish Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of Transfers to: UC, CSU “C” or better and SPAN 102 or SPAN Independent Study/Directed Study SPEECH 131 with a grade of “C” or better, or three is intended for students who have Division of Communications years of high school Spanish the ability to assume responsibil- & Languages Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU ity for independent work and to (*Students will receive credit from UC for prepare written or oral reports and/ SPCH 100 only one of the following courses: SPAN or appropriate projects. To enroll in Interpersonal Communication 201 or SPAN 201H) an independent study/directed study (Formerly SPCH 003) This is an intermediate level course in course, students must possess a 2.5 Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or which Spanish grammar is reviewed. overall grade point average, a 3.1 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Is also includes intensive class- grade point average in the discipline appropriate assessment room practice in conversation and of study being requested, or receive Transfers to: UC, CSU composition. In addition to class- an exception from the instructor. Interpersonal Communication is room instruction, students receive Independent Studies/Directed Stud- an introductory course focusing on intensive individualized oral-aural ies may be developed from any topic interactions between two people. practice in the language laboratory arising from or related to a course of Designed to provide students with in which websites, video programs, study that will result in developing greater understanding of commu- audio CDs, and CD ROMs are used. depth and breadth in that subject nication in every day activities, the Many aspects of Spanish culture are area. Students will be expected to course focuses on self-discovery introduced in short stories by Latin meet on a regular basis with their fac- and strengthening the self-image; American and Spanish authors. ulty sponsor and submit a final report discovering and understanding the Students strengthen their communi- or project, and student progress shall factors that influence communication cation and writing skills by analyzing be evaluated at regular intervals. behavior; and the establishment and these stories in Spanish. This course Academic standards for Independent maintenance of meaningful rela- is designed / intended for students Studies/Directed Studies shall be the tionships in professional and social who wish to broaden their knowl- same as those for other courses. Units settings. This course is designed for edge in Spanish as well as for those are awarded in accordance to Title speech communication majors or interested in pursuing a degree in V regulations with one unit of credit anyone with an interest in human the Spanish language. This course is awarded for 54 hours of Directed communication. intended for students eligible for the Studies, six (6) hours of which must 3 Units Honors Program. be with an instructor. The instructor 54 Lecture hours 4 Units is responsible for monitoring student 72 Lecture hours progress through the semester. SPCH 101 18 Lab hours Students may take directed study Public Speaking courses for a maximum of four (4) (Formerly SPCH 001A) SPAN 202 units within a discipline, and may Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Spanish IV not accumulate more than a total of appropriate assessment; READ 023 or (Formerly SPAN 004) twelve (12) units college wide. appropriate assessment Prerequisite: SPAN 201 or 201H with 1 to 4 Units Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU a grade of “C” or better or four years of 54 to 216 Lab hours high school Spanish (*Students will receive credit from UC Transfers to: UC, CSU for only one of the following courses: Spanish 202 is an intermediate level SPCH 101, SPCH 101H or SPCH 102) course designed to further improve This introductory course is designed the use of Spanish grammar, con- to prepare students to be effective versation, reading comprehension oral communicators in all aspects and composition. Various aspects of public presentations including of Spanish culture and literature design and delivery of the public are introduced through readings in speech. The course is appropriate for the textbook and in supplementary all students interested in developing readings. Students strengthen their communication and writing skills by their public speaking knowledge and analyzing literary selections that vary skills such as speech communication in style from simple journalist writing majors, future teachers, and future to highly original and complex liter- business leaders. ary works in Spanish. Students also 3 Units receive intensive, oral- aural practice 54 Lecture hours in the language laboratory in which websites, video programs, audio CDs, and CD ROMs are used. This course is designed /intended for students who wish to broaden their knowl- edge of Spanish as well as for those interested in pursuing a degree in the Spanish language. 4 Units 72 Lecture hours 18 Lab hours 302 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog SPCH 101H speaking such as law, political sci- SPCH 130 Public Speaking Honors ence, drama, and instruction. This Oral Interpretation Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of course may be taken once for credit (Formerly SPCH 030) “C” or better and repeated three times for credit. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 2 Units appropriate assessment; READ 023 or assessment 18 Lecture hours appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 54 Lab hours Transfers to: UC, CSU (*Students will receive credit from UC This communication course focuses for only one of the following courses: SPCH 111 on the oral performance of various SPCH 101, SPCH 101H or SPCH 102) This introductory course is designed Forensics: Debate Research and Practice forms of literature, such as poetry, to prepare students to be effective (Formerly SPCH 011B) prose, and drama. The skills needed oral communicators in all aspects Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or for making such public performances of public presentations including appropriate assessment; READ 022 or will be addressed and student knowl- design and delivery of the public appropriate assessment edge of the various forms of literature speech. The course is appropriate for Transfers to: CSU will be enhanced. Emphasis is placed all students interested in developing This course involves participation in on creating the essence of characters their public speaking knowledge and Rio Hondo’s Forensic Debate Team. in a text through facial, vocal, and skills such as speech communication Students research, structure, and kinetic methods. This course is appro- majors, future teachers, and future present debate cases. Students in priate for speech majors or anyone business leaders. This course is this course will improve their ability interested in public performance and designed for students eligible for the to debate at intercollegiate debate literature. Honors Program. tournaments. Emphasis is placed on 3 Units 3 Units successful participation in National 54 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) sanctioned tournaments. SPCH 132 SPCH 102 This course is recommended for Readers Theatre Fundamentals of Oral Communication students preparing for careers in law, (Formerly SPCH 132A, 132B) Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or political science, or community advo- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or cacy. This course may be taken once appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment and repeated three times for credit. appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 2 Units Transfers to: CSU (*Students will receive credit from UC 108 Lab hours This is a creative communication for only one of the following courses: course focusing on group presenta- SPCH 101 or SPCH 102) SPCH 112 tions of literature. Students will This is a course designed for stu- Forensics: Oral Interpretation perform pose, drama, and/or poetry dents who want a broad overview Laboratory in groups so that a communicative of communication. The principles of (Formerly SPCH 012) message emerges and fosters imagi- interpersonal communication, group Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or native responses in the minds of an communications, and public speaking appropriate assessment; READ 022 or audience. Emphasis is placed on the will be addressed. The roles of inter- appropriate assessment fusion between rhetoric, interpreta- personal and group communication Transfers to: CSU tion and acting. Readers Theatre is as they are used in everyday activities This course is designed to train stu- designed for Speech Communication and in the workplace will be covered. dents in the analysis and performance majors and those interested in litera- Students will develop, organize, of literature at speech events attended ture and performance. and deliver speeches for a variety of by the Forensic Speech Team. 3 Units public audiences and occasions. Students develop skills to interpret 54 Lecture hours 3 Units and perform literature ranging from 54 Lecture hours the play, screenplay, short story, SPCH 140 novel, and poetry. Students gain an Argumentation and Debate SPCH 110 understanding of character and scene (Formerly SPCH 040A) Forensics: Speech and Debate Team analysis as it applies to an oral inter- Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or (Formerly SPCH 011) pretation performance. This course is appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or recommended for students special- appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 022 or izing in communication, performance Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU appropriate assessment studies, and creative literature. (*Students will receive credit from UC Transfers to: CSU This course may be taken once and for only one of the following courses: This course trains students to partici- repeated three times for credit. SPCH 140 or SPCH 240) pate in Rio Hondo’s Forensic Speech 2 Units This course is an introduction to Team and/or to participate in com- 108 Lab hours the principles and techniques of munity speech activities. This course argumentation and debate. Effective emphasizes speech writing and/ methods of research, critical analysis, or presentation in debates, limited reasoning, refutation, and listen- preparation speeches, drama, poetry, ing are stressed. Through debate prose, humorous, informative, and participation and analysis, students persuasive speaking genres. This will gain the knowledge and skills to course is appropriate for students advocate and refute argumentative specializing in areas involving public positions. This course is particularly 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 303 appropriate for students anticipating TCED 046 entering occupations where argu- Industrial Design & Visual mentation, negotiation, and issue- TECHNICAL Communications analysis are likely to occur. Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 3 Units EDUCATION appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 54 Lecture hours Division of Career & appropriate assessment Technical Education Intended for students interested in SPCH 201 a career in Transportation Design or Advanced Public Speaking Product Design, this course intro- TCED 044 (Formerly SPCH 040B) duces the student to the fundamen- OSHA Workplace Safety Prerequisite: SPCH 101 with a grade of tals of industrial design drawing (Formerly TECED 044) “C” or better and communication. Course begins Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or with a lecture about possible career assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or opportunities which exists within This course is intended for the appropriate assessment this profession. Students will learn individual who needs an overview Transfers to: UC, CSU to improve hand/eye coordination and/or certification of both the Advanced public speaking provides through repetition of given drawing California and Federal OSHA Safety an introduction to the skill necessary task. Instruction emphasizes perfect- Regulations for the General Industry for publicly influencing others. A ing line, arc, circle and ellipse. Workplace. This course will cover major goal of the course is to develop Perspective drawing and shading a detailed overview of the rules the skills needed to engage in ethi- are introduced. Culmination of the and regulations, and discuss fire cal persuasion and public speaking course will require the student to pro- protection and prevention, material in general. Emphasis is placed on duce and present a solution to a given handling/storage/use and disposal, the historical origins of rhetorical design problem and produce visual hand and power tools, welding and communication and how it relates to aids to describe product proposal and cutting, electrical safety, and fall current day situations. Students will solution. protection. Upon completion of this explore the five canons of rhetoric 2 Units course, (as well as passing the final and apply them to creating and deliv- 18 Lecture hours exam), the student will receive a ering informative and persuasive 54 Lab hours 10-hour OSHA Training Certificate of presentations. This course is designed completion, which is good for life. for students who are interested in TCED 054 1 Unit refining the skills used by successful OSHA Workplace Safety II 18 Lecture hours public speakers. Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate 3 Units assessment TCED 045 54 Lecture hours This course is intended for the indi- Survey of Technology vidual who needs an intermediate- (Formerly TECED 045, 039) SPCH 240 level overview and/or the number Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Argumentation and Discussion of hours required for certification assessment (Formerly SPCH 040B) of both the California and Federal This course is an exploration of Prerequisite: SPCH 140 with a grade of OSHA Safety Regulations for the the various applied technologies “C” or better General Industry and Construction pertinent to society today. Students Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU Workplace. The course will cover a will receive an introduction to auto (*Students will receive credit from UC detailed overview of the rules and technology, auto collision, drafting/ for only one of the following courses: regulations, fire protection and pre- architecture, geographical infor- SPCH 140 or SPCH 240) vention, material handling/storage mation systems, and fabrication. This course gives the student and disposal, hand and power tools, Lectures/demonstrations will focus expanded practice and theory in welding and cutting, electrical safety, on practical applications and career argumentation. Students further fall protection, scaffolds, excavations, paths/job opportunities represented develop their argumentation knowl- concrete and masonry construction, by the disciplines discussed. Students edge and skills through debate partic- steel erection, demolition, cranes/ will be given hands-on opportunities ipation, observation, and discussion. hoists/elevators and conveyors, to explore skills associated with the This course is particularly appropri- lockout/tagout procedures, indus- discipline. This course will provide ate for students anticipating enter- trial hygiene and emergency action the student an introduction to five ing occupations involving extensive plans. Powered Industrial Trucks will different technology disciplines to argumentation and deliberation such also be covered during the course, help him/her determine a potential as law, communication, negotiation, meeting the requirement for OSHA career path and/or make them a and any area where argumentation Standard 1910.178. Upon completion more informed consumer of these and debate occur frequently. of this course, (as well as passing technologies. 3 Units the final exam and the powered 3 Units 54 Lecture hours industrial trucks operator safety 45 Lecture hours training), the student will receive a 27 Lab hours 30-hour OSHA Training Certificate of Completion, which is good for life, and a powered industrial truck Certi- fied Operator Card, which is good for 3 years. 4 Units 72 Lecture hours 304 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog TCED 060 TCED 090 Elementary Metallurgy Blueprint Reading for Manufacturing (Formerly TECED 060) Drawings TELEVISION Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate (Formerly TECED 090, 013) assessment Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Division of Arts & Cultural Programs This is an elementary course in the assessment TV 135 basic principles of metallurgy. It is This course presents an introduc- designed for Welding and Machine Creative Digital Video tion to the use of blueprints as used Shop majors, but is suitable for all (Formerly MASSC 135) in industrial applications. Principles technology students. Emphasis is Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or of reading drawings, specifications, placed on terminology, numbering appropriate assessment; READ 023 or projection principles, working draw- systems, methods of altering the appropriate assessment ings, details, assemblies and pictorial properties of metals, and the effect on Transfers to: UC, CSU fabrication. representation are discussed. The This is a basic course in film-style 2 Units course is helpful for apprentices and production techniques for drama and 36 Lecture hours employees in all areas of technology music videos. Topics will include including planning, purchasing, man- creating a story treatment, script writ- TCED 070 ufacturing, machine trades, welding, ing, story boarding, camera handling, Foundation Skills for Technical future engineers, and inspection. lighting, audio, and simple editing. Trades I 2 Units Students will work in teams and crew Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or 36 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; READ 023 or all positions, including writer, pro- 18 Lab hours appropriate assessment ducer, director, 1st assistant director, This course is part one of a two-part 2nd assistant director, lighting direc- TCED 299 series of courses designed to assist tor, gaffer, camera operator, boom Directed Study: Technical Education the student to become more effec- operator, and editor. Emphasis will (Formerly TECH 100) tive and efficient in fundamental be placed on defining the content, Transfers to: UC, CSU skills used in Technical Trades. The structure, and style of the produc- student will also gain an understand- Independent Study/Directed Study tion. This course may be of interest to ing of attitudes and behaviors that is intended for students who have students interested in both film and are beneficial to succeed in vocational the ability to assume responsibil- television production. settings and everyday life. Course ity for independent work and to 3 Units content includes units of measure prepare written or oral reports and/ 36 Lecture hours and measurement tools; converting or appropriate projects. To enroll in 54 Lab hours fractions, decimals, and percentages; an independent study/directed study graphs and charts; perimeter, area, course, students must possess a 2.5 and volume; and personal finance. overall grade point average, a 3.0 Emphasis will be placed on the practical application of these topics, grade point average in the discipline and the use of a variety of hands-on of study being requested, or receive THEATRE classroom activities is included. an exception from the instructor. Division of Arts & Cultural Programs 3 Units Independent Studies/Directed Stud- 54 Lecture hours ies may be developed from any topic THTR 101 arising from or related to a course of Theatre Arts Appreciation TCED 080 study that will result in developing (Formerly THEAT 101, 005) Foundation Skills for Technical depth and breadth in that subject Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Trades II area. Students will be expected to appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: TCED 070 meet on a regular basis with their fac- appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or ulty sponsor and submit a final report Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or or project, and student progress shall This course is designed for the stu- appropriate assessment be evaluated at regular intervals. dent interested in an overview of the This course is part two of a two-part Academic standards for Independent series of courses designed to assist entire field of theatre. The practice the student to become more effective Studies/Directed Studies shall be the and theory of the following will be and efficient in fundamental skills same as those for other courses. Units explored: costume, set and lighting used in Technical Trades. The student are awarded in accordance to Title design, acting, directing, playwrit- will also gain an understanding of V regulations with one unit of credit ing, criticism, play structure, theatre attitudes and behaviors that are bene- awarded for 54 hours of Directed architecture and producing. Included ficial to succeed in vocational settings Studies, six (6) hours of which must will be a brief historical overview. At and everyday life. Course content be with an instructor. The instructor least one field trip to a professional includes solving technical problems is responsible for monitoring student theatre production will be organized. using value analysis, graphs and progress through the semester. 3 Units charts, and personal growth. Empha- Students may take directed study 54 Lecture hours sis will be placed on the practical courses for a maximum of four (4) application of these topics, and the units within a discipline, and may use of a variety of hands-on class- not accumulate more than a total of room activities is included. 3 Units twelve (12) units college wide. 54 Lecture hours 1 to 4 Units 54 to 216 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 305 THTR 105 THTR 110 THTR 151 The History and Development of the Principles of Acting Theatre Crafts II Theatre (Formerly THEAT 110, 010A) (Formerly THEAT 151, 020B) (Formerly THEAT 105, 001) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Prerequisite: THTR 150 Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU This course is designed for the Transfers to: UC, CSU (*Students will receive credit from UC student who is interested in acting This course is designed for the stu- for only one of the following courses: and other areas of theatre, film and dent who wishes to expand the skills THTR 105 or THTR 105H) Television, whether as a profession and concepts acquired in Theatre This course is designed for the or as a hobby. The class explores the Crafts I (THTR 150). Topics such as student with an interest in history theory, practice and techniques of the technical phases of scene produc- or theatre. It will cover humanity’s acting. Emphasis is placed on theatre tion including construction, painting, relationship with theatre from primi- games and exercises culminating in rigging, placement and manipulation tive tribal cultures through today’s the presentation of scenes from con- of stage scenery, lighting equipment, large musicals and blockbuster hits. temporary dramatic literature. sound equipment, properties and The class explores the way societ- 3 Units wardrobe as well as the organization ies’ religious, political and social 36 Lecture hours and management of stage activity structures were presented and shared 54 Lab hours and stagecraft terminology are revis- through their theatre. The class will ited and expanded upon. The student investigate major plays, playwrights THTR 111 will additionally do extensive study and historic theatrical techniques Principles of Acting of the aesthetics and practical appli- through lectures, discussion, field (Formerly THEAT 111, 010B) cation principles of set design, sound trips and films. Prerequisite: THTR 110 design, and lighting design. Students 3 Units Transfers to: UC, CSU are assigned a specific crew duty such 54 Lecture hours This course is for the student who as light board operator, sound opera- wants to continue the exploration tor or stage crew lead with added THTR 105H of theories and techniques used in responsibility that directly relates to a The History and Development of the preparation for the interpretation of college theatre production. Theatre Honors drama through acting. The empha- 3 Units (Formerly THEAT 105H) sis will be placed on deepening the 18 Lecture hours Prerequisite: ENGL 101 with a grade of understanding of the acting process 108 Lab hours “C” or better through exercises, character analysis, Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate monologues, and scenes. THTR 152 assessment 3 Units Theatre Crafts III Transfers to: UC (credit limit*), CSU 36 Lecture hours (Formerly THEAT 152, 021) (*Students will receive credit from UC 54 Lab hours Prerequisite: THTR 151 for only one of the following courses: Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or THTR 105 or THTR 105H) THTR 150 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or This course is designed for the Theatre Crafts I appropriate assessment student with an interest in history (Formerly THEAT 150, 020A) Transfers to: UC, CSU of the theatre. It will cover human- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is designed for the stu- ity’s relationship with theatre from appropriate assessment; READ 022 or dent who wishes to further expand primitive tribal cultures through appropriate assessment the skills and concepts acquired in today’s large musicals and block- Transfers to: UC, CSU Theatre Crafts I and II. Technical buster hits. The class explores the The course is designed for the student phases of scene production includ- way societies’ religious, political and who wishes to gain a basic under- ing construction, painting, rigging, social structures were presented and standing of the technical phases of placement and manipulation of stage shared through their theatre. The scene production including construc- scenery, lighting equipment, sound class will investigate major plays, tion, painting, rigging, placement equipment, properties and wardrobe playwrights and historic theatrical and manipulation of stage scenery, as well as the organization and man- techniques through lectures, discus- lighting equipment, sound equipment, agement of stage activity and stage- sion, field trips and films. This course properties and wardrobe as well as the craft are examined in greater depth. is designed for students eligible for organization and management of stage The student will complete an in depth the Honors program. activity and stagecraft terminology. study of the theatrical design process 3 Units The student will study the aesthetics by designing sets, props, lights and 54 Lecture hours and practical application principles or sound for Rio Hondo theatrical of stage scenic, sound and lighting productions. Students are assigned a design. Students are assigned a specific specific crew lead with supervisory crew responsibility that directly relates responsibility that directly relates to a to a college theatre production. college theatre production. 3 Units 3 Units 18 Lecture hours 18 Lecture hours 108 Lab hours 108 Lab hours 306 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog THTR 153 THTR 159 THTR 170 Stage Lighting Stage Crew Activity Theatre Rehearsal and Performance Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or (Formerly THEAT 170, 030) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: THTR 101 or THTR 110 or Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; THTR 110 THTR 150 or THTR 170 or THTR 171 The course is designed for the student Transfers to: UC, CSU or THTR 180 Transfers to: UC, CSU to gain practical hands on techni- This course provides study and The course is designed for the student cal experience working backstage laboratory exploration of all aspects who wants to gain an understand- on Arts and Cultural Programs of theatre production. Students are ing and appreciation of the roles approved public performances of given an opportunity to be part of a light and lighting design play in theatrical, musical or dance produc- theatre company in the organization the theatrical production. Students tions and is taken in conjunction with of full-length and/or one-act plays. will gain understanding in lighting Technical Theatre courses. The course Students participate in theatre activ- design theory, function and esthetics. may be taken once and repeated three ity that may include acting, direction, Students will be able to hang, focus, times for credit. production and management under color, cable and strike conventional 0.5 to 3 Units the supervision and guidance of a fac- and automated lighting fixtures as 27 to 162 Lab hours ulty director. Before taking part in the well as identify and select appropri- class, acting students must audition ate types of lighting fixtures, cables, THTR 160 and tech students must interview. control and power distribution equip- Introductory Playwriting Screenwriting Productions will be presented for ment for a given purpose. Electrical (Formerly THEAT 160, 006) public performance and will be part and operational safety will receive Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or of the Kennedy Center/American special emphasis. Students will be appropriate assessment; READ 023 or College Theatre Festival Competition. able to operate lighting consoles at a appropriate assessment This course may be taken once and proficient level. Transfers to: CSU repeated three times for credit. 3 Units This course is designed for the stu- 3 Units 18 Lecture hours dent interested in the art of writing 18 Lecture hours 108 Lab hours for theatre or film. It will include 108 Lab hours writing exercises, theatre field trips THTR 154 and a final staged reading of finished THTR 171 Stage Audio scripts. Students will complete a one- Musical Theatre Rehearsal and Prerequisite: THTR 150 act or 10-minute play which will be Performance Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or considered for production the follow- (Formerly THEAT 171, 029A) appropriate assessment; READ 022 or ing semester. Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment 3 Units This course provides study and Transfers to: UC, CSU 36 Lecture hours laboratory exploration of all aspects This course is designed for the stu- 54 Lab hours of musical production. Students are dent who wants to gain an under- given an opportunity to perform in standing and appreciation of the THTR 161 one or more of the following areas: roles audio and audio design play Playwriting Screenwriting for Music: instrumental or vocal; Theatre: in the theatrical production. Stu- Production acting or technical; Dance; Art: scenic dents will gain an understanding in (Formerly THEAT 161, 007) design and/or scenic painting. Sing- audio design, function and esthetics. Prerequisite: THTR 160 ers and instrumental musicians, danc- Students will be able to rig, cable, Transfers to: CSU ers, actors and technicians explore the troubleshoot, strike and maintain This course explores the crafts of audition, preparation and presenta- analogue and digital audio equip- playwriting and screenwriting for the tional phases of the musical theatre ment as well as identify and select professional market. Students will production under the supervision appropriate types of microphones, write, rewrite and polish works writ- and guidance of a faculty director. cables, speakers and sound amplifica- ten with the intention of production. Productions will be presented for tion equipment for a given purpose. Students will read plays, screen- public performance. Enrollment is for Electrical and operational safety will plays, and teleplays that have been the duration of the preparation and receive special emphasis. Students produced recently. Theatre-going and presentation phases of production. will be able to operate audio mixing seeing newly released movies will be 3 Units consoles at a proficient level. encouraged. Students will realisti- 36 Lecture hours 3 Units cally appraise the marketability of 54 Lab hours 18 Lecture hours their scripts through staged readings 59.4 Other hours 108 Lab hours by student actors for an audience. 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 18 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 307 THTR 172 THTR 175 THTR 181 Performing and Preparing the Comedy The Original Play in Production Touring Theatre Local II Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Prerequisite: THTR 180 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; THTR 110 or appropriate assessment; THTR 110 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or THTR 150 THTR 150 or THTR 160 appropriate assessment Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU This course is designed for the This course is designed for the This course is designed for the student who wants to study aspects student who wants to be part of the student who wishes to expand the of theatre production as they are cre- process involved in the creation of a skills and concepts acquired in THTR ated and expressed through comedic new play. The class will explore how 180 regarding the rigorous require- drama. The class will explore comedy plays are structured and how charac- ments of touring a theatre produc- genres, acting techniques, physical ters fleshed out by living actors affect tion, including acting, directing, communication and comic objectives. the development of new theatre. scenic design, management, lighting, Students will be part of a full-length Playwrights, actors, directors and construction and maintenance of or one-act production or a combina- designers will learn how to collabo- props, costumes and sets. Students tion of both. Students may participate rate with each other. Students will be are assigned a specific responsibility in a variety of activities including involved in a new full-length, one- that directly relates to a production acting, directing, production, man- act, or devised play. Students may that tours locally. agement, etc. Auditions will deter- participate in a variety of activities 2 to 4 Units mine the specific assignment. including acting, directing, produc- 18 to 36 Lecture hours 3 Units tion, management, playwriting, dra- 54 to 108 Lab hours 18 Lecture hours maturg, etc. Auditions will determine 108 Lab hours most of the specific assignments. THTR 210 3 Units Acting Workshop: Devising THTR 174 18 Lecture hours (Formerly THEAT 210, 011) Introduction to Stage Costume 108 Lab hours Prerequisite: THTR 110 or THTR 150 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or THTR 153 or THTR 170 or THTR 171 appropriate assessment; READ 022 or THTR 180 or THTR 174 appropriate assessment Touring Theatre Local I Transfers to: UC, CSU Transfers to: UC, CSU (Formerly THEAT 180, 280) This class is for the student who This course is designed for the stu- Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or wants to create their own work, dent who seeks to gain an under- appropriate assessment; READ 022 or whether they are actors or non-actors. standing and appreciation of costume appropriate assessment The class will study the history of techniques used for the theatre and Transfers to: UC, CSU devising (also known as collective other entertainment industries. This course is designed for the creation), learn techniques of devis- The student will gain the practical student who wishes to gain a basic ing, and create, research, develop, knowledge and experience neces- understanding of the rigorous rehearse and present a devised proj- sary to work in a costume shop; an requirements of touring a theatre pro- ect. Some knowledge of traditional understanding of costume history; duction, including acting, lighting, theatre is helpful for this class. Some basic costume design including and maintaining props, costumes and semesters a public performance will sketching; basic costume construc- sets. Students are assigned a specific be presented. tion including alteration and sewing; responsibility that directly relates to a 3 Units costume design tools, materials and production that tours locally. 36 Lecture hours crafts; costume sourcing practices; 2 to 4 Units 54 Lab hours and, backstage costume preparation 18 to 36 Lecture hours and practices for productions. Stu- 54 to 108 Lab hours THTR 215 dents will be able to identify period Acting: A Course in Auditioning and costumes (garments and accessories), Cold Reading analyze the effectiveness of costumes (Formerly THEAT 215, 015) in a production, draft a pattern in Prerequisite: THTR 110 Transfers to: CSU order to sew/construct a garment, This course is designed to help and source costumes needed for a performers, at all levels of experience, production through vendors. prepare for audition. Areas covered 3 Units will be: selection of material, analyz- 36 Lecture hours ing the text, presentation of material, 54 Lab hours presentation of self for maximum effect, personal appearance, cold readings, relaxing for an audition; preparation of resumes and pictures. A repertoire of audition pieces will be developed throughout the semester. Whenever possible, guest lecturers will appear in the class and a simu- lated audition will aid the work. 1 Unit 18 Lecture hours 36 Lab hours 308 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog THTR 230 THTR 290 same as those for other courses. Units Principles of Directing Cooperative Work Experience/ are awarded in accordance to Title (Formerly THEAT 230, 012A) Internship for Theatre Arts Related V regulations with one unit of credit Prerequisite: THTR 110 Fields awarded for 54 hours of Directed Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly THEAT 290) Studies, six (6) hours of which must assessment Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or be with an instructor. The instructor Transfers to: UC, CSU appropriate assessment; READ 023 or is responsible for monitoring student This course is designed for the appropriate assessment progress through the semester. student who wants to develop their Transfers to: CSU Students may take directed study ability to work with actors, interpret This course supports and reinforces courses for a maximum of four (4) drama and to stage plays. It will on-the-job training in business, units within a discipline, and may cover the history and the techniques industrial, non-profit, studio, com- not accumulate more than a total of of the stage director. Emphasis is munity and professional theatre twelve (12) units college wide. placed on class activities such as organizations under supervision of 1 to 4 Units exercises and scenes. Career oppor- a college instructor and is facilitated 54 to 216 Lab hours tunities, stage management and by the use of learning objectives. The assistant directing are also covered. It student will be working in a skilled is a requirement for the Theatre Arts or professional level assignment in major. their area of vocational interest and VOCABULARY 3 Units will meet performance objectives 36 Lecture hours related to instruction that are above Division of Communications 54 Lab hours and beyond the conditions of regular & Languages employment. This course is intended THTR 231 for students whose job is related to VOCB 025 Intermediate Vocabulary Principles of Directing the field of theatre arts and have com- (Formerly VOCAB 025, READ 025) (Formerly THEAT 231, 012B) pleted or enrolled in the appropriate Advisory: READ 021 or appropriate Prerequisite: THTR 230 coursework. Instructor approval assessment Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate is required to remain in the class. This course is intended for students assessment “Contact the CWE office regarding who want to develop precollegiate- level reading, writing, and speaking Transfers to: UC, CSU re-enrollment procedures”. vocabulary. Students will learn the This course is designed for the stu- Student Unpaid Internship: meaning of new words commonly dent majoring in Theatre Arts. The 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; used in college textbooks and lec- class is a continuation of Theatre Arts 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours tures, and they will use them in writ- 230. Techniques in casting, rehears- Student Paid Internship: ten and spoken sentences. Students will also gain knowledge of word ing, picturization, characterization, 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; roots to reinforce their understand- tempo and climax in play direction 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours ing of words. This is a non-degree are covered. Students will direct a 1 to 4 Units course and is offered on a pass/no 10-minute play with other students. 3 Lecture hours pass basis. 3 Units 60 to 300 hours 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 36 Lecture hours 54 Lab hours THTR 299 VOCB 101 Directed Study: Theatre Vocabulary & Etymology THTR 286 (Formerly THEAT 100) (Formerly VOCAB 101, ENGL 010) Ballet Folklorico Transfers to: UC, CSU Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or appropriate assessment; READ 022 or (Formerly THEAT 286, 031A) Independent Study/Directed Study appropriate assessment Prerequisite: See request for exception is intended for students who have Transfers to: CSU Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or the ability to assume responsibil- This course offers the student an appropriate assessment; READ 022 or ity for independent work and to opportunity to develop a college level appropriate assessment prepare written or oral reports and/ vocabulary. The course emphasizes an understanding of the etymology, Transfers to: UC, CSU or appropriate projects. To enroll in definition, and usage of words so This course is designed to give a gen- an independent study/directed study that students gain a comprehensive eral knowledge of the regional dance course, students must possess a 2.5 understanding of the meanings styles of Mexico and its cultural overall grade point average, a 3.0 of words and how they are used. aspects. Instruction will focus on the grade point average in the discipline Additionally, students will study general and specialized terms used development of technique in Ballet of study being requested, or receive in courses across the curriculum. In Folklorico movements. Participation an exception from the instructor. order to internalize word meanings in public performance is required. Independent Studies/Directed Stud- successfully, students will work in 2 Units ies may be developed from any topic individual, small group, and whole 18 Lecture hours arising from or related to a course of class settings. 3 Units 54 Lab hours study that will result in developing 54 Lecture hours 18 Other hours depth and breadth in that subject area. Students will be expected to meet on a regular basis with their fac- ulty sponsor and submit a final report or project, and student progress shall be evaluated at regular intervals. Academic standards for Independent Studies/Directed Studies shall be the 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 309 VN 072L adrenal and pituitary glands. The Intermediate Medical-Surgical pathophysiology, assessment data, Nursing Lab nursing problems, medical and nurs- VOCATIONAL Prerequisite: VN 071L with a grade of ing interventions for patients with “Pass”; VN 074 and VN 075 with a endocrine problems are discussed. NURSING grade of “C” or better This course is open to students Division of Health Sciences & Corequisite: VN 073 enrolled in the Vocational Nursing This course will provide the student Program and is required for Voca- Nursing with the opportunity to use the nurs- tional Nursing licensure. ing process with increasing indepen- 1 Unit VN 061 dence in providing care for patients 18 Lecture hours Basic Fundamentals of Nursing in the clinical setting. The student (Formerly VN 101) will increase competency in data VN 076 collection and nursing skills. Special Nursing Care of Patients with Renal, Prerequisite: HS 060; PSY 101 Urinary and Gastrointestinal Problems Corequisite: VN 061L emphasis will be placed on the care of the patient with problems of the Prerequisite: VN 071L with a grade of This course is designed for the entry “Pass”; VN 074 and VN 075 with a level vocational nursing student with cardiovascular respiratory, gastro- intestinal and renal systems. This grade of “C” or better a focus on the nursing process and Corequisite: VN 073 its application in medical/surgical course is open to students enrolled in settings. The role of the Licensed the Vocational Nursing program and This course focuses on the application Vocational Nurse in providing care is required for Vocational Nursing of the nursing process in medical sur- for patients in a variety of situations licensure. Offered on a pass/no pass gical situations for the patient with basis. gastrointestinal and renal problems. is discussed. This course is open to 3.5 Units students enrolled in the Vocational Emphasis is placed on the application 189 Lab hours of principles of nutrition in caring Nursing program and is required for Vocational Nursing licensure. for patients with gastrointestinal and 3.5 Units VN 073 renal dysfunction. This course is open 63 Lecture hours Basic Pharmacology to students enrolled in the Vocational (Formerly VN 103) Nursing Program and is required for VN 061L Prerequisite: VN 061 with a grade of “C” Vocational Nurse licensure. Basic Fundamentals of Nursing or better and VN 061L with a grade of 3.5 Units Laboratory “Pass” 63 Lecture hours (Formerly VN 101L) Advisory: HS 045 and READ 023 or appropriate assessment VN 077 Prerequisite: HS 060; PSY 101 Nursing Care of Patients with Car- Corequisite: VN 061 This is an introductory course of basic techniques and computations used diovascular and Respiratory Nursing Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate Problems assessment in the administration of medications. Completion of the course prepares Prerequisite: VN 071L with a grade of This course is designed to provide the “Pass”; VN 074 and VN 075 with a entry level vocational nursing student the student to safely administer medi- cations to patients under the supervi- grade of “C” or better with the opportunity to learn basic Corequisite: VN 073 nursing skills in the Health Science sion of the nursing instructor. This Skills laboratory and the clinical set- course is open to students enrolled in Using the Systems Developmental ting within the context of the nursing the Vocational Nursing Program and Stress Model, The Nursing Process, process. The student will apply the is required for the Vocational Nurs- and Erickson’s Psycho-Social Theory role of the Licensed Vocational Nurse ing Licensure. of Human Development, this course 2 Units is designed to prepare the vocational in the clinical medical surgical set- 36 Lecture hours ting. This course is open to students nursing student with the founda- tional knowledge necessary to care enrolled in the Vocational Nursing VN 074 Program and is required for Voca- for patients with cardiovascular and Nursing Care of Patients with Respiratory disorders. This course tional Nursing licensure. Offered on a Integumentary/Orthopedic Problems pass/no pass basis. is open to students enrolled in the 5 Units and Concepts of Gerontologic Nursing Vocational Nursing Program. 270 Lab hours Prerequisite: VN 061 with a grade of “C” 3 Units or better and VN 061L with a grade of 54 Lecture hours VN 071L “Pass” Introduction to Medical-Surgical Using the Systems Developmental Nursing Lab Stress Model, The Nursing Process, Prerequisite: VN 061 with a grade of “C” and Erickson’s Psycho-Social Theory or better and VN 061L with a grade of of Human Development, this course “Pass” is designed to prepare the vocational This course will provide the student nursing student with the founda- with the opportunity to use the nurs- tional knowledge necessary to care ing process at a beginning level to for the aging patient, and patients care for patients in the clinical setting. with disorders of the musculoskeletal The student will develop competency and Integumentary systems. This in data collection and basic nurs- course is open to students enrolled in the Vocational Nursing Program. ing skills. Special emphasis will be 2.5 Units placed on the care of the patient with 45 Lecture hours problems of the endocrine, musculo- skeletal and integumentary systems, VN 075 as well as the older adult. This course Nursing Care of Patients with is open to students enrolled in the Endocrine Problems Vocational Nursing Program and (Formerly VN 114) is required for Vocational Nursing Prerequisite: VN 061 with a grade of “C” licensure. Offered on a pass/no pass or better and VN 061L with a grade of basis. 3.5 Units “Pass” 189 Lab hours This course focuses on the use of the nursing process in caring for individuals with disturbances of the pancreas, thyroid, parathyroid, 310 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog VN 081L VN 084 VN 087 Maternal and Pediatric Nursing Lab Maternal and Pediatric Nursing Nursing Care of Patients with Cancer Prerequisite: VN 072L with a grade of Prerequisite: VN 072L with a grade of (Formerly VN 118) “Pass”; VN 073, VN 074, VN 075, VN “Pass”; VN 073, VN 074, VN 075, VN Prerequisite: VN 072L and VN 081L 076 and VN 077 with a grade of “C” or 076 and VN 077 with a grade of “C” or with a grade of “Pass”; VN 073, VN 074, better better VN 075, VN 076, VN 077 and VN 084 Corequisite: VN 084 Corequisite: VN 081L with a grade of “C” or better This course will provide the stu- This course focuses on growth and This course focuses on the application dent with the opportunity to use development with concomitant prob- of the nursing process in medical- the nursing process with increasing lems traced from newborn through surgical situations for the patient independence in proving care for infancy, toddler, preschool, school- with cancer diagnoses of various patients in the clinical setting. The age and the adolescent. Nursing care body systems and immune deficiency student will increase competency in appropriate to the developmental disorders. Emphasis is placed on the data collection and nursing skills. stage of the child and the focus of the physical, psychological, and psycho- Special emphasis will be placed on pediatric problems including bio- social effects of diagnosis, medical the care of the pediatric, antepar- logical and psychological problem’s therapy, and nursing intervention tum, intrapartum, postpartum and affecting the well and hospitalized with the application of principles newborn patient. This course is open child and family. This course is open of nutrition, pharmacokinetics, and to students enrolled in the Vocational to students enrolled in the Vocational palliative care in caring for patients Nursing Program and is required for Nursing Program and is required for with cancer. The course is open to Vocational Nurse licensure. Offered the Vocational Nursing Licensure. students enrolled in the Vocational on a pass/no pass basis. 4 Units Nursing Program and is required for 2.5 Units 72 Lecture hours the Vocational Nurse licensure. 135 Lab hours 1 Unit VN 085 18 Lecture hours VN 082L Leadership & Supervision for the Advanced Medical/Surgical Nursing Vocational Nurse Laboratory (Formerly VN 119) (Formerly VN 019L) Prerequisite: VN 072L with a grade of WELDING Prerequisite: VN 081L with a grade of “Pass”; VN 073, VN 074, VN 075, VN Division of Career & “Pass” and VN 084 with a grade of “C” 076, and VN 077 with a grade of “C” or or better better Technical Education This course will provide the student This course will introduce principles with the opportunity to apply learned of leadership, group dynamics, WELD 040 leadership skills within the Voca- delegation, and effective communica- Introduction to Welding Processes tional Nurse scope of practice. The tion in working relationships for the (Formerly WELD 030) student will utilize the nursing pro- vocational nurse. Emphasis is placed Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or cess with increasing independence on delegation and supervision of and accountability in providing care nursing assistants, other vocational appropriate assessment; READ 023 or for patients in the clinical setting. nurses, and unlicensed assistive per- appropriate assessment Special emphasis will be placed on sonnel. The course is open to students This is an introductory class designed the care of medical/surgical patients enrolled in the Vocational Nursing to familiarize the student with several with complex problems, neurologi- Program and is required for the Voca- welding processes that are currently cal system disorders and oncologi- tional Nurse licensure. cal problems. The student will have 0.5 Units used in the welding and metal fabri- the opportunity to further develop 9 Lecture hours cation industry. This course offers an the necessary communication skills overview and basic introduction to needed to provide care for patients VN 086 the theory and practice of a variety of with mental health problems. This Mental Health and Neurological welding and metal cutting methods. course is open to students enrolled Nursing Problems in the Vocational Nursing Program Prerequisite: VN 081L with a grade of This course will emphasize safety, and is required for Vocational Nurse “Pass” and VN 084 with a grade of “C” theory, procedure, and practical skill licensure. or better development. 3.5 Units This course presents mental health 2 Units 189 Lab hours concepts that relate to emotional 18 Lecture hours issues influencing a patient’s well- 54 Lab hours VN 083 being and problems related to the Applied Pharmacology neurological system. Emphasis will (Formerly VN 014) be placed on the nursing process, as WELD 045 Prerequisite: VN 073 with a grade of “C” it relates to problems of neurologi- Introduction to Electric Arc Welding or better cal function and mental health. This (Formerly WELD 030B) Using the Systems Developmental course is open to those students Stress Model, The Nursing Process, enrolled in the Vocational Nursing Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate and Erickson’s Psycho-Social Theory Program and is required for Voca- assessment of Human Development, this course tional Nursing licensure. This course utilizes the basic prin- is designed to prepare the vocational 3 Units ciples and techniques of hot metal nursing student with the advanced 54 Lecture hours deposition and control with practice knowledge necessary to safely administer medications to patients in electric arc welding. Emphasis is and accurately assess the patient placed on safety, theory, procedure response to medication therapy and development of fundamental under the supervision of the nurs- skills. ing instructor. This course is open to 2 Units students enrolled in the Vocational 18 Lecture hours Nursing Program. 2 Units 54 Lab hours 36 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 311 WELD 050 WELD 060 WELD 075 Semi-Automatic Welding Processes Production Welding Techniques Certification Welding (Formerly WELD 034) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate (Formerly WELD 039B) Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate assessment; WELD 045 Prerequisite: WELD 050; WELD 055; assessment; WELD 045 or equivalent This is an intermediate level course WELD 060 work experience designed to introduce the student Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate This is an intermediate level course to welding techniques used in high assessment designed to introduce students to volume production manufacturing This course offers specialized training wire-fed, semi-automatic welding applications. This class will focus and instruction in structural steel processes for mass-production weld- on GMAW and GTAW for mild welding. Exercises will include verti- ing applications, i.e. Gas Metal Arc steel, stainless steel aluminum, and cal and overhead position welding Welding (GMAW), Flux Cored Arc will include pulsed-arc applications on 1 inch test plates for L.A. City Welding (FCAW), and Submerged for both processes. In addition, the Certification. Emphasis is placed on Arc Welding (SAW). This course student will be introduced to welding safety, structural steel welding codes, emphasizes safety, theory, character- fixtures, welding positioners and procedures and proper training to istics and settings for power supplies other auxiliary welding equipment. pass the written and performance and wire feeding units, electric cur- Emphasis will be placed on shop tests for the following certification: rent settings, electrode identification safety and on developing proper semi-automatic and shielded metal and selection, welding positions, and working procedures. arc welding. welding of ferrous and non-ferrous 4 Units 2 Units metals. Special emphasis will be 36 Lecture hours 18 Lecture hours placed on developing proficiency and 108 Lab hours 54 Lab hours speed for high volume production applications. WELD 065 WELD 080 2 Units Inert Gas Welding Certification Welding 18 Lecture hours (Formerly WELD 038A) (Formerly WELD 039B) 54 Lab hours Prerequisite: WELD 040 Prerequisite: WELD 060; WELD 065 Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate Advisory: READ 023 or appropriate WELD 055 assessment assessment; WELD 045 Manual Electric Arc Welding Processes This course offers specialized train- This course offers specialized training (Formerly WELD 036A) ing and introduction in theory and and instruction which are necessary Prerequisite: WELD 040 manipulative skills of the inert-gas to pass the written and performance Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or welding process. Discussed are the tests for the following certification appropriate assessment; READ 023 or use and adjustments of welding types and processes: light gage steel appropriate assessment equipment. Welding is practiced on and structural aluminum for the Los This course is intended for the ferrous metals, including stainless Angeles City Building Department. student who wants to progress to steel, and on non-ferrous metals such Emphasis is placed on safety, test an intermediate level of welding as aluminum. Necessary instruction preparation, procedures, and destruc- processes and further their skills in is provided to perform TIG welding tive testing. manual electric arc welding meth- on copper, magnesium, titanium, and 2 Units ods and techniques. This course cast iron. 18 Lecture hours emphasizes skills in Shielded Metal 4 Units 54 Lab hours Arc Welding (SMAW) and Gas 36 Lecture hours Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). The 108 Lab hours WELD 085 course also focuses on safety, theory, Metal Fabrication characteristics and settings for power WELD 070 Prerequisite: WELD 040; WELD 050; supplies and welding units, electric Advanced Inert Gas Welding WELD 055; WELD 065 current settings, electrode identifica- (Formerly WELD 038B) Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate tion and selection, welding positions, Prerequisite: WELD 065 assessment and welding of ferrous and non-fer- Advisory: READ 022 or appropriate This course offers specialized training rous metals. Special emphasis will be assessment in metal fabrication. Instruction will placed on developing proficiency and This is an advanced course in Gas include manipulative skills, layout speed for high volume production Tungsten Arc Welding (Heli-Arc). methods, safety, and how to operate a applications. Emphasis will be on specialty wide variety of machines to perform 4 Units and precision welding, including either a singular or sequential opera- 36 Lecture hours semi-automated methods. Neces- tion. 108 Lab hours sary instruction will be given on the 3 Units requirements for passing the Mil Std 27 Lecture hours 1595 A certification test. 81 Lab hours 4 Units 36 Lecture hours 108 Lab hours 312 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog WFT 042 WFT 044 Portable Pumps and Water Use (S211) Introduction to ICS (I100) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or WILDLAND FIRE appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment TECHNOLOGY This course provides students with This course provides an introduction Division of Public Safety practical knowledge and skills in to the Incident Command System the use of portable fire pumps and (ICS-100), the National Incident WFT 040 related equipment during wildland Management System (ICS-700), Firefighter Type 2 (S130) fire incidents. The course consists of the National Response Framework Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or three skill areas: supply, delivery, (ICS-800), and Emergency Support appropriate assessment; READ 023 or and application of water. Students Function #4 – Firefighting (ICS- appropriate assessment will be required to demonstrate their 804). This course also provides a This is the first course in the wildland knowledge of correct water use, basic basic introduction to wildland fire firefighter training series. This course hydraulics, and equipment care. Field management (S-110) and a basic provides students with entry level exercises, demonstrations, and evalu- working knowledge of the human firefighter skills for wildland fire ations will cover set up, operation, performance concepts in dynamic incidents. This course also provides and maintenance of pump equip- and high risk environments (L-180). instruction in wildland fire behavior, ment. This course meets the National This course meets the National hazard recognition, human factors Wildfire Coordinating Group’s Incident Management System (NIMS) in high risk environments, basic inci- (NWCG) requirements. and National Wildfire Coordinating dent command system, radio opera- 1 Unit Group (NWCG) National Standard tions, and documentation. Classroom 16 Lecture hours Curriculum. and field exercises will prepare the 12 Lab hours 1 Unit student for a position as a Firefighter 18 Lecture hours Type 2 (FF2). This course meets the WFT 043 National Wildfire Coordinating Wildland Fire Chain Saws (S212) WFT 045 Group’s (NWCG) requirements for Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ICS for Single Resources (I200) S-130/S-190/L-180/I-100 and J-158. appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Prerequisite: WFT 044 2 Units appropriate assessment Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or 32 Lecture hours This course provides the basic appropriate assessment; READ 023 or 12 Lab hours knowledge, understanding, function, appropriate assessment maintenance, and use of internal This course is designed to enable per- WFT 041 combustion engine powered chain sonnel to operate efficiently during Firefighter Type 1 (S131) saws. The student will also learn the an incident or event within the Prerequisite: WFT 040 tactical use of wildland fire chain- Incident Command System (ICS). The Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or saws. Field exercises support entry course focuses on the implementation appropriate assessment; READ 023 or level training for fighters with little or of ICS and single resources. Topics appropriate assessment no previous experience in operat- include ICS fundamentals review, This is the second course in the ing a chain saw. The field exercises leadership and management, delega- wildland firefighter training series. will provide students with hands-on tion of authority, management by This course prepares students with cutting experience in surroundings objectives, ICS functional areas and additional leadership and skills sets similar to fire line situations. This positions, briefings, organizational needed to make leadership and tactical is an entry level course for students flexibility, and transfer of command. decisions on wildland fire incidents. interested in wildland fire suppres- This course provides training and This course also provides instruc- sion and is highly recommended resources for personnel who are tion in the Risk Management Process, prior to enrolling in intermediate likely to assume a supervisory posi- fireline reference materials, portable level wildland fire related course. tion within the ICS. This course meets fire pump operations, and staging Students who have already com- the National Incident Management area standard operating procedures pleted this course may retake it in System (NIMS) National Standard and practices. Classroom and field order to advance their skill classifica- Curriculum. exercises will prepare the student for tion. This course meets the National 0.7 Units a position as a Firefighter Type 1 (FF1) Wildfire Coordinating Group’s 13 Lecture hours and will provide the skills necessary to (NWCG) requirements. become an Incident Commander Type 1 Unit WFT 046 5 (ICT5) and Staging Area Manager. 16 Lecture hours Intermediate ICS (I300) This course meets the National Wild- 16 Lab hours Prerequisite: WFT 045 fire Coordinating Group’s (NWCG) Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or requirements for S-131/S-133/S-211/ appropriate assessment; READ 023 or J236/RT-130. appropriate assessment 2 Units This course provides description 32 Lecture hours and detail of the Incident Command 12 Lab hours System (ICS) organization and opera- tions in supervisory roles on expand- ing or Type 3 incidents. Topics include ICS fundamentals review, incident/event assessment and agency guidance in establishing inci- 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 313 dent objectives, Unified Command, WFT 077 WFT 102 incident resource management, plan- Wildland Fire Academy Wildland Fire Fighter Safety and ning process, demobilization, transfer (Formerly FAC 4360 FAC 43.60) Survival of command, and close out. Students Prerequisite: Carry a 45 lb. pack three Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or will be organized into teams for miles within a 45 minute time period; appropriate assessment; READ 023 or classroom exercises that replicate an Must complete and pass a US Forest appropriate assessment incident operation. This course meets Service Physical Transfers to: CSU the National Incident Management Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or This course is one in a series of core Systems (NIMS) National Standard appropriate assessment; READ 023 or courses required for the Wildland Curriculum. appropriate assessment Fire Technology Certificate of 1 Unit This course is designed for those stu- Achievement and Associate of Sci- 24 Lecture hours dents who desire to gain certification ence Degree program. This course through the NWCG (National Wild provides students with information WFT 047 land Coordinating Group) as a Wild necessary to understand occupational Advanced ICS (I400) land Firefighter. This course provides safety and hazards associated with Prerequisite: WFT 046 training in hand crew formation, fire wildland firefighting operations. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or line construction and the use of wild Emphasis will be placed on situ- appropriate assessment; READ 023 or land equipment. Students will learn ational awareness, protective mea- appropriate assessment about wild land firefighter safety, sures, accident avoidance procedures, This course provides skills and fire behavior, protective clothing and the risk management process. resources required for advanced and wild land fire tools. This course Students will also review fire ground application of the Incident Com- includes arduous physical condition- near misses, entrapments, and fatali- mand System (ICS) organization ing as day and night time hikes and ties. This course meets or exceeds and operations. This course expands other outdoor activity is included. the National Wildfire Coordinating on ICS-100, ICS-200, and ICS-300 This academy provides the required Group’s (NWCG) requirements. courses and is intended for command training for the US Forest Service and 3 Units and general staff positions. Topics CAL Fire agencies as a wild land fire- 54 Lecture hours include ICS fundamentals review, fighter for certification purposes. major and/or complex incident/ 13 Units WFT 103 event management, area command, 162 Lecture hours Wildland Fire Operation and multiagency coordination. Group 216 Lab hours (Ground Air) exercises will emphasize advanced Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or ICS concepts. This course meets WFT 101 appropriate assessment; READ 023 or the National Incident Management Wildland Fire Behavior appropriate assessment Systems (NIMS) National Standard (Formerly FTECH 115) Transfers to: CSU Curriculum. Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or This course is one in a series of core 1 Unit appropriate assessment; READ 023 or courses required by the Wildland Fire 18 Lecture hours appropriate assessment; MATH 020 or Technology Certificate of Achieve- appropriate assessment ment and Associate of Science Degree Transfers to: CSU program. This course provides This course is one in a series of core students with information neces- courses required for the Wildland sary to understand ground and air Fire Technology Certificate of operations associated with wildland Achievement and Associate of Sci- firefighting operations. Emphasis ence Degree program. This course will be placed on incident command provides students with informa- system use, strategy, tactics, hazards, tion necessary to understand basic resource typing, management, and wildland fire behavior, wildland fire safety procedures during wildland predictions, and wildland fire opera- fire incidents. This course meets or tion safety. Wildland fire environ- exceeds the National Wildfire Coor- mental factors and the tools required dinating Group’s (NWCG) require- to monitor weather and fire behavior ments. will be discussed as it relates to 3 Units wildland fire predictions. This course 54 Lecture hours meets or exceeds the National Wild- fire Coordinating Group’s (NWCG) requirements. 3 Units 54 Lecture hours 314 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog WFT 104 WFT 105 WFT 290 Wildland Fire Investigation, Prevention Wildland Fire Logistics, Finance and Cooperative Work Experience/Intern- and Public Information Planning ship for Wildland Fire Technology Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Advisory: ENGL 030 or ENLA 034 or Related Fields appropriate assessment; READ 023 or appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment appropriate assessment appropriate assessment; READ 023 or Transfers to: CSU Transfers to: CSU appropriate assessment This course is one in a series of core This course is one in a series of core Transfers to: CSU courses required by the Wildland Fire courses required by the Wildland Fire This course supports and reinforces Technology Certificate of Achieve- Technology Certificate of Achieve- on-the-job training in the Wildland ment and Associate of Science Degree ment and Associate of Science Degree Fire Technology field under super- program. This course provides program. This course provides vision of a college instructor and students with information and skills students with information necessary is facilitated by the use of learning necessary to understand the roles and to understand the responsibilities objectives. The student will be work- functions of the Public Information and functions of the logistics, finance, ing in a skilled or professional level Officer (PIO, S-203), Fire Prevention and planning sections. Emphasis assignment in the area of Wildland Education Team Member (PETM, will be placed on how the different Fire Technology and will meet perfor- P-101), and the Wildland Fire Inves- incident command system sections mance objectives related to instruc- tigator (INVF, FI-110). Various wild- are organized and utilized during tion that are above and beyond the land fire associated class projects will wildland fire incidents. This course conditions of regular employment. challenge the student’s public speak- meets or exceeds the National Wild- This course is intended for students ing, report writing, and presentation fire Coordinating Group’s (NWCG) whose job is related to the field of fire skills.This course meets or exceeds requirements. technology and have completed or the National Wildfire Coordinating 3 Units enrolled in the appropriate course- Group’s (NWCG) requirements. 54 Lecture hours work. “Contact the CWE office 3 Units regarding re-enrollment procedures”. 54 Lecture hours Student Unpaid Internship: 1 Unit/60 hours; 2 Units/120 hours; 3 Units/180 hours; 4 Units/240 hours Student Paid Internship: 1 Unit/75 hours; 2 Units/150 hours; 3 Units/225 hours; 4 Units/300 hours. 1 to 4 Units 3 Lecture hours 60 to 300 hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 315 Non-credit Courses NBAS 004 NBAS 009 General Academic Advisement College Refresher Basic Skills/ NCIT 002 (Formerly NCBAS 004) Individual Study Citizenship Preparation Courses designed to assist awareness (Formerly NCBAS 009) This course will guide persons of college programs and services Courses for individual study in basic seeking United States Citizenship and exercising good judgment in the reading, writing and mathematics. in the steps required to become a selection of classes and an academic Areas covered can include any basic citizen. Students will prepare to take path. Topics can include basic skills skill that needs to be improved for the citizenship examination and will assessment, campus life, academic college learning and/or career and receive assistance in completing the and career choices, and other related personal growth. appropriate forms. subjects. 0 Unit 0 Unit 0 Unit 20 Lecture hours 45 Lecture hours 18 Lecture hours 20 Lab hours NBAS 005 NBAS 010 Personal and Career Exploration College Refresher Math/Individual NCOA 001 (Formerly NCBAS 005) Study Painting for Older Adults Courses to increase awareness of (Formerly NCBAS 010) This course offers the older adult processes for personal and career Courses for individual study in basic an individual approach to painting growth. Intellectual, social, emotional, mathematics. Areas to be covered can and creative arts. Topics can include and physical development; personal include whole numbers, fractions, art appreciation and art history; values clarification; decision making; decimals, percent, measurement, awareness of line, color, shape and identification of needs and methods applications in consumer math, and form; techniques in drawing and of satisfying; human sexuality other topics determined by individual progression through color mixing and family life; and accepting and student need. and canvas painting. Creativity and assuming responsibility for own 0 Unit general art knowledge will be taught behavior; and investigation into 40 Lab hours in a friendly and relaxed environment career and life planning alternatives allowing each artist to work at their can be explored. Included can be own pace. diagnostic testing, survey of interests, NCHS 001 0 Unit and capabilities, and development Health and Fitness 1 to 48 Lecture hours of positive self-image through group This is an open-entry, open-exit interaction. course to develop and enhance NCOA 002 0 Unit a student’s knowledge of the Music Workshop for the Third Age 18 Lecture hours importance of healthy lifestyles and Courses for instrumental and vocal to further develop skills which will musical experiences. Included can NBAS 008 facilitate a personal fitness program. be rehearsals and performances in Personal Learning Skills/Basic Skills Student’s will also participate in cooperation with the Rio Hondo (Formerly NCBAS 008) specific activities that develop an Chapter of Sweet Adelines; other This course assists the student individual’s level of physical fitness. local choral and/or singing groups; to become more effective and 0 Unit and instruction in learning to play a efficient in developing skills and 1 to 54 Lab hours musical instrument. knowledge necessary to function in 0 Unit a work setting. Skills may include NCHS 002 1 Lecture hours psychomotor skills, communication Beginning Jujitsu: Self Defense for 1 Lab hours skills and computer software skills. Adults Opportunities to develop critical This course is designed to teach the NCOA 007 thinking skills in simulated situations basic skills of self-defense. Students Chorus Singing for the Older Adult are provided. The student may use will be taught skills related to This course introduces older adult computer assisted instructional coordination, quick reflex response, students to a variety of choral programs, word processing, how to build stamina, speed, and music and explores its cultural and equipment related to the work strength. They will learn all phases of historical aspects. Students will setting, audiovisual materials and punches, blocks, kicks, hand releases gain knowledge of posture, vowel computer software to meet program and breaks, two-step fighting, judo modification, elements of phrasing objectives. Faculty and peers will and jujitsu falls. Students will practice and harmony. Students will perform provide tutoring services and assist strategies of protecting themselves vocal exercises and practice breathing students in completing assignments. from attackers. techniques appropriate for the older 0 Unit 0 Unit adult. 120 Lecture hours 48 Lecture hours 0 Unit 1 to 48 Lecture hours 316 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog NCOA 008 NCOA 014 NESL 016 Computers Unlimited for Older Adults Tai Chi Chuan for Older Adults ESL Intermediate Low This course is designed for the older This course introduces older adults Prerequisite: ESL 015 or equivalent adult who thinks he or she will never to a Chinese health exercise which is placement. learn to use a computer. Students will neither vigorous nor strenuous. It is This is a competency-based course build basic skills that will prepare suitable for older adults who want that focuses on expanded verbal them to write documents, send to exercise to gain or maintain good communication within routine e-mail, use online banking or simply health. It will strengthen the muscles situations common in English- enjoy surfing the Internet. Mastery of and organs, relax the mind and speaking environments. Emphasis the basic skills will let you grow from body, improve blood circulation, and is on communication within school, simple accomplishments to things increase memory and concentration. work, and community domains you never dreamed possible. Our 0 Unit combined with the introduction gentle, easy approach will show you 1 to 24 Lecture hours of academic English. Successful the many ways that computers can be completion of this course will prepare fun and interesting. NCOA 015 students to enter NESL 017. This 0 Unit Creative Writing for Older Adults course is designed for language 1 to 24 Lecture hours This course is for older adults learners at levels below Rio Hondo 1 to 8 Lab hours and teaches both beginning and College’s Credit ESL Program. experienced writers how to create 0 Unit NCOA 010 and shape autobiographies, fiction, 58.7 Lecture hours Hatha Yoga for Older Adults non-fiction and poetry into readable This class uses active and passive and publishable forms.Participants NESL 017 movements which are adapted for will put their experiences on paper ESL Intermediate High older adults. Movements include and analyze quality, selection and Prerequisite: ESL 016 or equivalent stretching, relaxation, and breathing structure of written materials through placement exercises. Students will learn repetitive group discussion and projects. This is a competency-based course skill building, weight bearing poses 0 Unit that builds upon the skills learned and become familiar with working 1 to 24 Lecture hours in NESL 016 and prepares English together in rhythm. learners to comprehend and 0 Unit communicate in written and spoken 1 to 48 Lecture hours English for a variety of audiences NESL 001 and purposes. Successful completion NCOA 012 English as a Second Language of this course will prepare students Physical Fitness for the Older Adult (Formerly NCESL 001) to enter NESL 018. This course is This physical fitness class is designed Entry level courses designed to designed for language learners at for the older adult and offers provide instruction in basic skills in levels below Rio Hondo College’s instruction in movement to maintain English and related subjects. Speaking, Credit ESL Program. and increase range of motion, listening, reading, writing and 0 Unit build muscle strength, maintain comprehension skills included. 58.7 Lecture hours coordination, flexibility and balance. 0 Unit Class topics include discussions on 1 to 72 Lecture hours NESL 018 nutrition, the effects of aging, safety ESL Advanced factors and memory skills. NESL 015 Prerequisite: ESL 017 or equivalent 0 Unit ESL Beginning placement 1 to 48 Lecture hours This is a competency-based This is the highest level Non-credit course that focuses on basic verbal ESL course. It focuses on advanced NCOA 013 communication within routine spoken and written communication Current Topics for Older Adults situations common in everyday life within English-speaking school, This course presents older adults within an English-speaking setting. work, and community domains in with various topics for discussion Emphasis is on communication a variety of formal and informal and class activities based on the within school, work, and community contexts. This course is designed student’s individual interests and domains. Successful completion of for language learners at levels backgrounds. Older adults will this course will prepare students below Rio Hondo College’s Credit explore international, national and to enter NESL 016. This course is ESL Program; however, upon its local events and issues from a current designed for language learners at successful completion, it will prepare and historical viewpoint. levels below Rio Hondo College’s them for direct entry. 0 Unit Credit ESL Program. 0 Unit 1 to 24 Lecture hours 0 Unit 58.7 Lecture hours 58.7 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 317 NESL 035 NVOC 0013 ESL Multi-Level Class A Concrete (Formerly NCESL 035) NVOC 001 (Formerly NCVOC 0013) This course focuses on preparing Asbestos Abatement Workers Training This course is designed to meet the students to use English to achieve Program needs of Indentured Apprentices tasks within a variety of real-life (Formerly NCVOC 001) with the State of California who are situations such as a doctor’s office This course is designed to train interested in the concrete field within or a department store. Students are students in recognizing procedures the carpentry industry. Modules instructed to be able to listen, speak, dealing with removal and/or cover the following topics: forming read, and write in English in context- encapsulation of asbestos. Other methods for flatwork, tilt-ups, wall specific environments. topics include products and materials forms, column forms, beams and 0 Unit that may become a hazard, options decking forms, stairs and ramps, 1 to 144 Lecture hours for dealing with asbestos, and foundations, walls, windows, potential health effects on exposure. welding, and bridge construction. NESL 036 0 Unit 0 Unit Family Literacy 18 Lab hours 20 Lecture hours (Formerly NCESL 036) 20 Lab hours This course focuses on engendering NVOC 0011 reading and literacy as a fundamental Acoustical NVOC 0014 component of a healthy, well- (Formerly NCVOC 0011) Finish Carpentry functioning family. The family- This course is designed to introduce (Formerly NCVOC 0014) oriented assignments promote the the learner to the standard methods This course is designed to meet the seamless integration of reading across of assemblies and codes required for needs of Indentured Apprentices school and home boundaries. acoustical ceiling construction. Upon with the State of California who 0 Unit completion of this course the learner are interested in the finishing field 1 to 72 Lecture hours will have a working knowledge of within the carpentry industry. assembling standard grid for ceilings Modules cover the following and soffits. Hand tools are mandatory. topics: cabinet construction, cabinet NHAN 001 0 Unit installation, cabinet fasteners, Art Workshop for the Handicapped 18 Lecture hours show cases, commercial fixtures, Courses for cultural enrichment and cabinet finishing, partitions, fitting awareness of many different forms of NVOC 0012 room structures, residential and art. Emphasis is on therapeutic value. Drywall/Lath commercial moldings, laminates, stair 0 Unit (Formerly NCVOC 0012) trims, doors, door frames, swinging 1 to 18 Lecture hours This course is designed to meet the door installation, security hardware, 1 to 18 Lab hours needs of Indentured Apprentices electronic doors and closers, and with the State of California who welding. are interested in the drywall/lath 0 Unit field within the carpentry industry. 20 Lecture hours NHEC 002 Course topics include: proper 20 Lab hours Soap Making as an Art and a Business techniques, procedures and tools (Formerly NCHECO 002) used in the drywall finishing trade, NVOC 0015 This course is designed for anyone basic framing/material identification, Floor Installation wanting to expand their creative basic lathing, framing of ceilings (Formerly NCVOC 0015) skills for personal satisfaction or and soffits, blueprints, suspended This course is designed to meet the as a business. Students will create ceilings, curves and arches, and light needs of Indentured Apprentices different kinds of soaps such as gage welding. Classroom instruction with the State of California who are glycerin or coconut soap. The use and practical hands-on finishing will interested in the floor field within of molds, layering of colors, and be applied. Drywall hand tools are the carpentry industry. Modules adding herbs and fragrances will be mandatory. cover the following topics: hand and discussed. 0 Unit power tools, jobsite preparation, and 0 Unit 140 Lecture hours hardwood installation. Students will 1 to 54 Lecture hours 140 Lab hours learn how to install, strip, and plank hardwood flooring in the most basic applications. 0 Unit 18 Lecture hours 318 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog NVOC 0016 NVOC 0020 NVOC 0024 Framing Scaffolding Acoustical (Formerly NCVOC 0016) (Formerly NCVOC 0020) (Formerly NCVOC 0024) This course is designed to meet the This course is designed to meet the This course is designed to expand needs of Indentured Apprentices needs of Indentured Apprentices on the usage of acoustical materials with the State of California who with the State of California who and products used in the acoustical are interested in the framing field are interested in the scaffolding industry. Upon the completion of this within the carpentry industry. field within the carpentry industry. class the learner will have a working Modules cover the following Modules cover the following topics: knowledge of glue up, concealed topics: wall framing, plates, wall safety procedures, regulations, ceilings/walls and the usage of layouts, structural connectors, industry rules, scaffold planning, compaso for ceilings and soffits. bracing, aligning, floor layouts, floor worksite applications, welded frame/ Hand tools are necessary. systems, stair building and layouts, mobile tower scaffolds, welded 0 Unit winders, curved stairs, building frame/tower scaffold applications, 18 Lecture hours exteriors, balconies, bay windows, tube and clamp assemblies and columns, pop-outs, trims, siding, worksite applications, scaffolding NVOC 0025 roof systems, hips, gable roofing, systems, shoring, re-shoring, rigging, Blueprints dormers, rafter construction, metal rigging safety, and estimating. (Formerly NCVOC 0025) framing, fasteners, metal trusses, and 0 Unit This course is designed to meet the panelized roof systems. 20 Lecture hours needs of Indentured Apprentices 0 Unit 20 Lab hours with the State of California who are 20 Lecture hours interested in the blueprint reading 20 Lab hours NVOC 0021 field within the carpentry industry. Cabinet/Millwork Course topics will include: basics NVOC 0017 (Formerly NCVOC 0021) of reading, understanding and Lath/Drywall This course is designed to meet the visualizing the blueprint, terms, (Formerly NCVOC 0017) needs of Indentured Apprentices symbols and definitions from several This course is designed to teach the with the State of California who trades will be incorporated into prints techniques and skills needed for are interested in the cabinetmaking showing residential/commercial freeform lathing. Skills such as proper field within the carpentry industry. buildings, slopes, grades, and layout, use of grids, proper tools, Course topics include: applications computer designs. Layout tools will methods to bend rebar and pencil rod, of wood products, hand and power be necessary. welding, cutting, halding and tying of tool usage, material usage, layout/ 0 Unit lath. Hand tools are mandatory. millwork, jigs/fixtures, architectural 20 Lecture hours 0 Unit details, shop drawings, estimating, 20 Lab hours 18 Lecture hours CAD/CAM and construction of a cabinet, along with current glues and NVOC 0026 NVOC 0019 abrasives. Computers Tilt-Up 0 Unit (Formerly NCVOC 0026) (Formerly NCVOC 0019) 140 Lecture hours This course is designed to meet the Students will be instructed in layout 420 Lab hours needs of Indentured Apprentices techniques for a typical tilt-up with the State of California who panel and the importance of 3-4-5 NVOC 0023 are interested in the computer methods of squaring a panel. They Health & Safety application field within the carpentry also will learn how to identify certain (Formerly NCVOC 0023) industry. Course topics will include: openings and the location of finish This course provides basic First Aid/ basic principles of computers, floor lines and roof lines through CPR Training in the performance general computer usage, processing, blueprints. of emergencies for conscious and spreadsheets, databases, and the 0 Unit unconscious victims, recognizing world wide web. Lab sessions include 18 Lecture hours signs of a heart attack and the proper individual computer use. techniques for administering CPR. 0 Unit These skills are presented for use on 20 Lecture hours adults, children and infants. First 20 Lab hours Aid training deals with controlling bleeding, burns, sprains, strains, NVOC 0027 poisoning, broken bones and caring Welding for victims of sudden illness. These (Formerly NCVOC 0027) classes meet or exceed California or This course provides an introduction Federal OSHA training requirements. to basic welding. Students will learn American Red Cross I.D. cards will about the various welding machines be issued upon successful completion as well as electrodes and their of the course. specific application. They also will 0 Units be instructed in the proper and safe 18 Lecture hours use of oxygen an acetylene torch. Demonstration and testing will be required. 0 Unit 18 Lecture hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 319 NVOC 0029 NVOC 014 real estate brokerage business. This Effective Supervision Certificate College Community Orchestra course is approved by the California Program This is an ongoing program designed Department of Real Estate as one (Formerly NCVOC 0029) for preparation for employment as of the required courses for the State This course is designed for musicians. Participants may perform Sanctioned Conditional Real Estate individuals promoted into with a symphony orchestra such as Sales Persons License. supervisory positions. The class Rio Hondo Community College. 0 Unit will assist employers who have 0 Unit 1 to 48 Lecture hours promoted line employees with little 1 to 8 Lecture hours or no formal supervision training, NVOC 039 as well as those anticipating a career NVOC 015 Real Estate Finance that includes supervising other Practical Experience in Fire Suppression (Formerly NCVOC 039) individuals. Topics will focus on six (Formerly NCVOC 015) This course is designed to help the areas comprised of basic supervisory This course is designed to provide new licensee, the experienced real skills and concepts. Students are fire technology students or those estate agent, the investor, and the provided with an overview of what involved in a related fire science lender gain a better understanding is expected of an effective supervisor subject to expand on their knowledge of the complex world of real estate and what skills are required to in the major points of fire service. finance. It covers all aspects of real successfully perform in that capacity. Topics include the traditions of the estate financing from filling out Real-life business situations are fire service, general development the loan application to closing the discussed and evaluated. Students of a firefighter, ethical and moral loan. The course details qualifying take knowledge gained back to standards, and other related issues standards, disclosure requirements, their respective work venues and pertaining to the fire service. and loan documents. This course conversely bring examples to the Students will receive individualized is approved by the California class for discussion. instruction tailored to their personal Department of Real Estate as one of 0 Unit plan of study. the electives for the State Sanctioned 18 Lecture hours 0 Units Conditional Real Estate Sales Persons 1 to 500 Lab hours License. NVOC 005 0 Unit Theatre Production Workshop NVOC 018 1 to 48 Lecture hours This course will introduce students ACEDD-GIS Skills Development to all aspects of preparing for and This course complements the CIV, NVOC 040 presenting a full theater production. ARCH, ENGT, LAND and GIS lab Real Estate Principles Topics covered will include technical and lecture courses and is designed (Formerly NCVOC 040) set-up of the stage, the dress to provide an additional opportunity This is a prerequisite course for the rehearsal, pre-show preparation, for students to practice concepts real estate licensing examination. techniques for striking the set and the covered in the corequisite courses In this course students will learn special needs of a traveling show. and enhance their board drafting information required for the 0 Unit and CADD skills for work place acquisition of a California real estate 18 Lecture hours productivity. These instructional license. Topics include the nature 18 Lab hours activities are not available in the of real estate, the foundation of our regular lecture / lab course and are property laws, land descriptions NVOC 008 not required for the grade in the and measurements, how titles are Fundamentals of Law Enforcement/ corequisite course. held, acquisition and transfer, deeds, Individual Study 0 Unit liens and encumbrances, elements (Formerly NCVOC 008) 1 to 200 Lab hours of a contract, landlord and tenant This course is designed to provide law, real estate mathematics and law enforcement students or NVOC 038 financing. In addition, you will be those involved in a related public Real Estate Practice introduced to the terminology and service subject to expand on their (Formerly NCVOC 038) forms commonly used in everyday knowledge in the major points of This class is an introduction to real estate transactions. This course law enforcement. Topics include professional aspects of the real estate is approved by the California history and general development of business. Topics include agency Department of Real Estate as a State law enforcement, ethical and moral responsibilities for the salesperson Sanctioned Pre-Licensing course. standards, California law, and other and the broker, office management, 0 Unit related issues. Students will receive how to list and prospect property, 1 to 48 Lecture hours individualized instruction tailored to selling and marketing techniques, their plan of study. advertising, financing, escrow and 0 Unit closing procedures. Students will 1 to 500 Lab hours acquire a general understanding of fields related to real estate such as finance, appraisal, escrow, and investing. The class will detail the areas necessary to conduct a modern 320 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog NVOC 041 NVOC 060 NVOC 062 Real Estate Appraisal Semi-Automatic Welding Processes Introduction to Fabrication Processes (Formerly NCVOC 041) (Formerly NCVOC 060) (Formerly NCVOC 062) In this course students will learn This is an intermediate level course This is a beginning level course the purpose and importance designed to introduce students to designed to introduce students to of appraisals, land values and wire-fed, semi- automatic welding various techniques, processes and their characteristics, the process processes for mass-production technologies used in the Fabrication of appraising, site analysis, and welding applications, i.e. Gas industry. This course will develop considerations. They will also obtain Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Flux skills necessary for translating knowledge of construction methods, Cored Arc Welding (FCAW), and dimensional information from a shop materials used in cost approaches, Submerged Arc Welding (SAW). This drawing or blueprint to metallic accrued depreciation analysis, income course emphasizes safety, theory, materials used for production of and expense analysis, capitalization characteristics and settings for power finished parts and assemblies. Topics theory, and techniques in the income supplies and wire feeding units, covered in this class will include approach method of appraising. This electric current settings, electrode basic blueprint reading, measurement course is approved by the California identification and selection, welding and measuring tools, layout, metal Department of Real Estate as one of positions, and welding of ferrous and cutting, drilling and tapping, and the electives for the State Sanctioned non-ferrous metals. Special emphasis metal forming. Emphasis will be Conditional Real Estate Sales Persons will be placed on developing placed on shop safety and safe and License. proficiency and speed for high proper use of equipment, tools and 0 Unit volume production applications. materials. 1 to 48 Lecture hours 0 Unit 0 Unit 1 to 18 Lecture hours 1 to18 Lecture hours NVOC 043 1 to 54 Lab hours 1 to 54 Lab hours Conversational Spanish This introductory class is designed NVOC 061 NVOC 063 for beginning Spanish speakers who Production Welding Techniques Intermediate Fabrication Processes are looking to learn Spanish for use in (Formerly NCVOC 061) (Formerly NCVOC 063) a workplace setting. This class will be This is an intermediate level course This course is designed to broaden of particular interest to supervisors designed to introduce the student the students’ skills and knowledge and managers that oversee a to welding techniques used in high of metal fabrication techniques. workforce of predominantly Spanish volume production manufacturing This course will introduce students speaking individuals. The focus is on applications. This class will focus to basic hand tools and power learning how to speak rather than on on GMAW and GTAW for mild tools commonly used in the metal grammar. The class will cover simple steel, stainless steel aluminum, and fabrication industry. Topics covered tenses – present, past, imperfect will include pulsed-arc applications in this class will include structural and future. Students will be asked for both processes. In addition, the fabrication, tube bending, stair layout to listen to Spanish radio, watch student will be introduced to welding and construction, and fabrication Spanish television, read Spanish fixtures, welding positioners and of components from sheet metal. newsprint and participate in Spanish other auxiliary welding equipment. Emphasis will be placed on shop conversations. Emphasis will be placed on shop safety and on developing proper 0 Unit safety and on developing proper working procedures. 14 Lecture hours working procedures. 0 Unit 0 Unit 1 to 18 Lecture hours NVOC 059 1 to 36 Lecture hours 1 to 54 Lab hours Introduction to Welding Processes 1 to 108 Lab hours (Formerly NCVOC 059) NVOC 100 This is an introductory class designed Basic Computer Skills Workshop for to familiarize the student with Healthcare Professionals several welding processes that are This course offers basic skills needed currently used in the welding and to perform tasks on computers and metal fabrication industry. This online. As the mandate for electronic course offers an overview and medical records is implemented, basic introduction to the theory incumbent medical workers will and practice of a variety of welding need to learn these basic computer and metal cutting methods. This skills to maintain their employment. course will emphasize safety, Topics include computer hardware, theory, procedure, and practical skill operating systems, cloud computing, development. office software applications, security 0 Unit and ethical use of electronic data. 1 to 18 Lecture hours 0 Unit 1 to 54 Lab hours 8 to Lecture hours 8 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 321 NVOC 1011 will use Computer Aided Drafting course is an intermediate application Orientation/Safety (CADD) software to complete study in computer aided design, (Formerly NCVOC 1011) projects relating to interpretation drafting, and graphics using the latest This course is designed to meet the of survey data, profiles and cross revisions of AutoCAD. Combined needs of Indentured Apprentices sections, land subdivision, site with previously learned technical with the State of California who are and grading plans, underground drafting conventions and basic interested in the general trade safety utilities and structures, concrete and AutoCAD operational skills, students within the carpentry industry. Course structural detailing. will use AutoCAD to produce topics will include: introduction to 0 Unit detailed drawings that involve the carpenter’s apprentice program, 36 Lecture hours model-space and paper-space, 2D hand tool safety, power tool safety, 72 Lab hours and 3D objects, block attributes and math, beginning blueprint reading viewport scales. Emphasis will be and layouts, trade history and job-site NVOC 150 placed on working with multiple safety. AutoCAD for Basic CADD Applications drawing files using external files to 0 Unit This course is for students preparing create mechanical, architectural and 20 Lecture hours for high technology careers who need civil projects. 20 Lab hours the skills necessary to function as 0 Unit an entry level CADD operator or to 45 Lecture hours NVOC 1012 apply CADD to specific disciplines of 54 Lab hours Health/Safety mechanical and architectural design, (Formerly NCVOC 1012) manufacturing, illustration and NVOC 241 This course is designed to meet the engineering related documents. An Civil Engineering Drafting & Design needs of Indentured Apprentices overview of computer graphics and This course is for all students interested in the career field of with the State of California who are CADD (Computer Assisted Design Civil Design Drafting and Civil interested in the general trade safety and Drawing) utilizing the latest Engineering. Civil Drafting and field within the carpentry industry. release of AutoCAD software will be Design is an intermediate level Course topics will include: Health provided. class in which the practices and the and Safety Certifications, job safety, Students will produce 2D preparation of drawings, pertaining fall protection, powder actuated orthographic, isometric, and basic 3D to the civil engineering field, will be tools, confined space entry, scaffold models solutions of mechanical and expanded to include the development training, rigging training, aerial architectural applications. of maps and drawings used for transportation, site development, lift training, and OSHA training. 0 Unit grading and drainage and road Certification can be earned in forklift, 54 Lecture hours alignment. The student will use scaffold, American Red Cross/CPR 54 Lab hours Computer Aided Drafting (CADD) and Ramset/ Redhead low velocity to complete the above mentioned powder actuated tools. NVOC 170 projects. Other topics to be covered 0 Unit MicroStation for Basic CADD will include specifications, site details 112 Lecture hours Applications for utilities and underground piping, structural plans and integration of 112 Lab hours This course is for students preparing Geographic Information Systems for high technology careers who need (GIS). NVOC 138 the skills necessary to function as 0 Unit Engineering Careers & Applications an entry level CADD operator or to 36 Lecture hours This course is for all students apply CADD to specific disciplines of 72 Lab hours interested in the career field of mechanical and architectural design, Engineering Design Drafting. manufacturing, illustration and NVOC 245 Civil Engineering Design & Modeling Engineering Careers and Applications engineering related documents. An This course is for all students will explore the career opportunities overview of computer graphics and interested in the career field of and training requirements in CADD (Computer Assisted Design Civil Design Drafting and Civil the field of engineering and and Drawing) utilizing the latest Engineering. Civil Design & engineering technology. Topics will release of MicroStation software will Modeling is an advanced level class include the history of engineering, be provided. Students will produce which includes design analysis and careers in engineering, ethics and 2D orthographic, isometric, and basic the preparation of drawings used responsibilities of the engineer, 3D models solutions of mechanical in the civil engineering field. The student will use civil engineering communicating and problem solving. and architectural applications. software, such as In-Roads and 0 Unit 0 Unit Land Desktop to design, analyze 27 Lecture hours 54 Lecture hours and develop projects relating to 36 Lab hours 54 Lab hours transportation, site development, grading, drainage and road NVOC 140 NVOC 200 alignment and alternatives. Other Civil Drafting Fundamentals Intermediate AutoCAD for Design and topics to be covered are terrain This course is for all students Production modeling, surface editing, alignment editing, plan, profile, cross-sections, interested in the career field of This course is for students pursuing earthwork computations and site Civil Design Drafting and Civil degrees or certificates in the planning design. Engineering. The course is study of Architecture and Engineering Design 0 Unit civil design drafting practices and Drafting Program and for those who 36 Lecture hours the preparation of drawings used in wish to enhance their AutoCAD 72 Lab hours the civil engineering field. Students skills for workplace productivity. The 322 / Rio Hondo College 2014-2015 Catalog NVOC 250 NVOC 261 NVOC 270 Parametric Modeling 3D Applications Revit for Advanced BIM Architectural, SolidWorks for 3D Modeling and for Mechanical Design Structural and MEP Applications Prototype Applications This course presents advanced Advanced BIM (Building Information This course presents an intensive applications of 2D and 3D Modeling) applications extends the study in 3D computer graphics Computer Aided Design Drafting fundamentals of the Arch 260 class and CADD (Computer Assisted (CADD) and an introduction to to include Structural, Mechanical, Design and Drafting) utilizing parametric modeling and rapid Electrical and Plumbing extensions the latest release of SolidWorks prototyping utilizing the latest of the Autodesk Revit Building Software. This course benefits all releases of Autodesk Inventor software. Students will work on both students in areas of study related series, SolidWorks, and other group and individual projects to to Engineering, Drafting, Design parametric modeling software to create and present three-dimensional and Computer Graphics. Students produce solutions for mechanical representation of architectural will produce three dimensional applications. Topics covered will solutions. Students will also learn parametric computer generated benefit all students in areas of study the basic process and workflow in virtual models incorporating related to Engineering, Drafting, creation of Revit Families for use in mechanical design refinements. The Design and Computer Graphics. building models. course emphasizes high technology Course emphasis is given to CADD 0 Unit skills which are necessary to function generated three dimensional 54 Lecture hours as a design professional to apply graphics using wire frame, surface 54 Lab hours 3D design graphics technology to modeling, and parametric solids. This specific disciplines of mechanical course may be taken once for credit NVOC 265 engineering, machine drafting and towards the major and repeated 2 Pressure Piping Design design, manufacturing, animation, times to enhance student skills and This course is for those students with modeling and illustration. Students proficiency levels. CAD experience who are interested will be introduced to a variety of 0 Unit in the career field of pressure means to directly produce prototype 54 Lecture hours piping design engineering. This models from CADD generated solid 54 Lab hours course presents the preparation of geometry. engineering detail drawings of piping 0 Unit NVOC 260 systems for commercial, utilities 54 Lecture hours Advanced Architecture Using Revit and and industrial plants. Included is 54 Lab hours 3D Software information and work dealing with This course is for students pursuing the location, installation, operation, NVOC 280 an advanced study of BIM (Building and maintenance of pumps, steam Advanced MicroStation for CADD & Information Modeling) applications turbines, compressors, tanks, heaters, BIM Applications as they relate to architecture and coolers, cooling towers, condenser, This course is for students pursuing the AEC industry (Architecture, reactors, boilers, chillers, heat an advanced study in MicroStation Engineering, Construction). Utilizing exchangers and special equipment. 3D parametric CADD (Computer the latest releases of 3D design 0 Unit Assisted Design and Drafting) and software such as Revit and AutoCAD 54 Lecture hours the BIM (Building Information Architecture and previously learned 54 Lab hours Modeling) approachto building technical and architectural drafting design using Bentley Architecture. conventions, students will produce NVOC 266 Students will apply previously two and three dimensional BIM Pressure Piping Applications learned drafting conventions to generated architectural drawings This course is for all students with a produce two and three dimensional and 3D virtual models. This course basic piping design understanding CADD and BIM generated benefits all students studying interested in the career field of mechanical and architectural Architecture, Civil, Engineering pressure piping design engineering. drawings and virtual design models. of all types, Drafting, Design and This course presents the advanced This course benefits all students Computer Graphics. High technology preparation of engineering detail studying Architecture, Civil, skills which are necessary to function drawings of piping systems for Engineering of all types, Drafting, as a designer or CADD Drafter are commercial, utilities and industrial Design and Computer Graphics. emphasized. plants. Included is advanced High technology skills which are 0 Unit information and layout work dealing necessary to function as a designer or 54 Lecture hours with the location, installation, CADD Drafter are emphasized. 54 Lab hours operation of pumps, steam turbines, 0 Unit compressors, vertical vessels, 54 Lecture hours horizontal vessels, tanks, heaters, 54 Lab hours coolers, cooling towers, condenser, reactors, boilers, chillers, heat exchangers and special equipment. 0 Unit 36 Lecture hours 72 Lab hours 2014-2015 Catalog Rio Hondo College / 323