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This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: The first course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Topics include limits and continuity, the derivative and its applications including related rates and optimization, L'Hopital's rule, antiderivatives, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, integration by substitution. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Prerequisites: MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: A university-parallel course in chemistry for the science major. The first half of a comprehensive first-year survey of chemistry. Topics include the basics of matter, atoms and molecules, chemical reactions, bonding, molecular geometry and gases. Students registering for this course should have previously taken high school chemistry or equivalent. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: MAT 0300 or MAT 1450 or MAT 1470 or MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 or MAT 2270 or MAT 2280 or MAT 2290
Corequisites: CHE 1251
Corequisites: CHE 1211
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the prerequisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the corequisite course ENG 0101, English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.
Notes: or HIS 1111, PHI 2205, REL 1111, REL 1112, REL 2204, REL 2255
Term hours subtotal:
16
Description: The second course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Techniques of integration, applications of integration, numerical integration, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, power series, parametric equations, polar coordinates, conic sections.
Prerequisites: MAT 2270 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: Fundamentals of mechanics including kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, oscillations, gravity, fluids, waves and sound, thermodynamics and kinetic theory, using calculus as appropriate. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: MAT 2270
Corequisites: PHY 2207
Description: Lab for General Physics I.
Corequisites: PHY 2201
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Notes: or COM-2206
Description: English Composition II, building on the skills in English Composition I, develops rhetorical literacy through research, critical reading and multigenre writing tasks. Through major and minor, cumulative and stand-alone assignments, students construct arguments and analyses, ethically incorporating academic sources while developing their own voices as writers and citizens.
Prerequisites: ENG 1101
Term hours subtotal:
16
Description: An examination of what is meant by culture and a review of the various theories and methods in Cultural Anthropology. Includes a comparison of the similarities and differences among world cultures as well as comparative analysis of family organization, religious beliefs, educational systems, economics and governmental systems.
Notes: or ECO 2160
Term hours subtotal:
3
Description: Vectors in the plane and space, dot and cross product of two vectors. Lines, planes and surfaces in space, vector-valued functions, arc length and curvature. Functions of several variables, partial derivatives with applications, multiple integrals with applications, line integrals, surface integrals, vector fields, Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem.
Prerequisites: MAT 2280 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: Vectorial treatment of forces and moments. Analysis of trusses and frames. Centroids, friction and moment of inertia. Internal shear and moment for beams. Virtual work. This calculus-based course is designed for Engineering University Transfer students. Two classroom, three lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: MAT 2270 and PHY 2201
Description: Surface processes of wind, water and ice in changing Earth's surface, plate tectonics; interior forces that cause earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building. Introduction to natural resources; impact of natural hazards on human populations; and impact of human activities in the natural world. Laboratory component stresses introduction to and use of basic scientific method and problem solving. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: or BIO 1171, BIO 1272, CHE 1221, CHE 2111
Corequisites: GLG 1111
Description: Identification of minerals, sediments and rocks; interpretation of topographic maps and geologic maps. This is a face-to-face laboratory and must be taken concurrently with Physical Geology.
Corequisites: GLG 1101
Description: Designed for students who are planning on using Black Studies to enhance their knowledge and career in Social Work, Public Education, Urban Planning, Management, Business Administration Nursing, or any other field in which racial sensitivity is important.
Term hours subtotal:
15
Description: Solutions and applications of ordinary differential equations including separable, exact, homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear equations and others. Numerical approximation methods as well as substitutions, the total differential, separation of variables, integrating factors, undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, Laplace Transforms and power series methods are covered.
Prerequisites: MAT 2280 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: Stress and deformations, torsions, shear and moments in beams, stresses in beams, beam deflections, combined stresses and eccentric loading. This course is calculus based. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: MEE 2101
Description: Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies; acceleration, work, energy, impulse and momentum of particles and rigid bodies. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: MEE 2101
Description: Historical survey of photography as an art form from its beginnings in the 1830's until the present day; developments in photographic processes, artistic trends, and study of major photographic artists.
Notes: or MUS 2118
Term hours subtotal:
13
Description: The first course of a two-semester university-parallel sequence for biology and science majors. Topics include scientific method; chemical and biochemical foundations; cell structure, function and reproduction; cellular respiration, photosynthesis, Mendelian genetics, chromosomal genetics, molecular genetics, protein synthesis, gene regulation, genomes, viruses and biotechnology. Three classroom, six lab hours per week.
Notes: Consult with UD advisor for options. Additional course beyond degree requirements that may be taken at Sinclair to reduce the per-semester course load at UD. Additional courses are not financial aid eligible.
Prerequisites: MAT 0100 or MAT 0600
Description: Develop proficiency in CAD software to develop civil-construction working drawings. Proper generation of plans to connect the earth's topography and land records will be emphasized. One classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Additional course beyond degree requirements that may be taken at Sinclair to reduce the per-semester course load at UD. Additional courses are not financial aid eligible.
Description: This course covers the fundamental principles of distance, elevation and angular measurements used in the practice of engineering surveys. It also includes basic error theory in field observations and mathematical calculations, level circuit and traverse field techniques and basic principles of digital map making. Two classroom, three lab hours per week.
Notes: Additional course beyond degree requirements that may be taken at Sinclair to reduce the per-semester course load at UD. Additional courses are not financial aid eligible.
Prerequisites: MAT 1200 or Other (appropriate Math placement test score)
Term hours subtotal:
11