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: Foundation for understanding, speaking, reading and writing Spanish. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.
Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.
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.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Description: This course is designed to help new students make a successful transition to Sinclair Community College. Topics include college resources; academic, career and personal services available through Sinclair; learning styles; the learning process; financial responsibility; stress and wellness; and computer literacy through eLearn and library resources.
Term hours subtotal:
14
Description: Foundation for understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.
Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.
Prerequisites: SPA 1101
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
Description: Explores the nature and content of the humanities by examining and analyzing various cultures from the past. In addition, this course provides an introduction to human thought, creativity and human forms of expression by examining the links between historical realities and human culture.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
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: Multicultural elective. Choose from one of the following courses: AFR 1100, ART 2236, GEO 1101, GEO 1201, HUM 1130, LIT 2217, LIT 2234, PLS 2200, PLS 2220, PSY 1160, PSY 2225, REL 1111, REL 1112, SOC 1145, SOC 1219, SOC 2215
Term hours subtotal:
13
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: Communication Elective: Choose from COM 2206, COM 2211, COM 2225
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Any other college level English course)
Description: Development of the people of the United States in political, social, economic and cultural areas from Reconstruction to the present.
Notes: Any course from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Description: A critical analysis of contemporary American society with review of major sociological theories, research methods, culture, socialization, groups, social structure, social institutions, deviance, social inequalities, social processes and social change.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Prerequisites: DEV 0015
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Reviews and extends basic principles through composition and conversation, stressing fluency. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.
Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.
Prerequisites: SPA 1102
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: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Corequisites: GLG 1111
Description: Identification of minerals, sediments and rocks; interpretation of topographic maps and geologic maps. Laboratory must be taken concurrently with Physical Geology.
Corequisites: GLG 1101
Description: Survey of eastern Asia from earliest times to the present, including economic, political, religious and colonial influences on modern nations of Asia, with special emphasis on twentieth- and twenty-first- century issues and problems.
Notes: Any course from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Description: Principles and techniques of international politics, including theories, organizations and different world perspectives.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Term hours subtotal:
13
Description: Reviews and extends basic principles through composition and conversation, stressing fluency. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.
Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.
Prerequisites: SPA 2201
Description: The Earth in space, physical evolution of the oceans, atmosphere and continents, origin of life and its evolution, physical and biological development of the North American continent. Lab component stresses further application of scientific method and problem solving. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Prerequisites: GLG 1101 and GLG 1111
Corequisites: GLG 1211
Description: Rates of change, age dating, fossils, depositional environments, stratigraphy, correlation, facies, and interpretation of geologic maps. Laboratory must be taken concurrently with Historical Geology.
Prerequisites: GLG 1101 and GLG 1111
Corequisites: GLG 1201
Description: A survey of Latin American history and culture from pre-colonial times to the present, tracing colonial influences, 20th century revolutions, dictatorships and democratic alternatives and the evolution of global economics, U.S. and Organization of American States policies.
Notes: Any course from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Description: The course will explore various applications of mathematics in the social, finance, health and environmental fields with emphasis on developing informational, technological, logical, and visual reasoning skills. Topics from numeracy, probability and statistics, finance, mathematical modeling with linear, statistical, and exponential functions, and other areas of mathematics will be covered. Note: Students who have not completed the required pre-requisite courses listed, but have successfully completed MAT 0100 with a grade of "C" or better, or MAT 0600 with a grade of “P�, can register for MAT 1445 together with the co-requisite course MAT 0445, Quantitative Reasoning Booster. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: Math Elective: Choose from MAT1445 or MAT1470
Prerequisites: MAT 0200 and Other (With a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Term hours subtotal:
13