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Dental Laboratory Technology |
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DL 480 - Dental Laboratory Internship
Credit Hours: 2
A course designed to enhance the interaction between the technician and the dentist. The technician will assist clinical and surgical procedures and design prostheses in the clinical atmosphere. The technician will be more cognizant of patient needs.
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DL 663 - Advanced Ceramics
Credit Hours: 1
A comprehensive study of the physical and mechanical properties of porcelain and precious and non-precious metals. Various techniques for bonding porcelain will be practiced. The fabrication of porcelain units includes the preparation of dies, firing and glazing.
Concurrent registration in DL 664.
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DL 664 - Lab for DL 663
Credit Hours: 1
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DL 666 - Lab DL 665
Credit Hours: 1
The techniques used in the arrangement of anatomical, semi-anatomical and nonanatomical artificial teeth on a semi adjustable articulator will be included in both lecture and laboratory exercise.
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Dietetic Technology-Nutrition Care |
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NT 228 - Food Selection and Preparation
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an introduction to the science of food selection and preparation with an emphasis on the chemical and physical changes that occur in processing, storing and cooking. Attention is given to preserving the nutritional and sensory characteristics of food by focusing on purchasing considerations, optimal storage conditions and appropriate preparation and cooking techniques. The function of ingredients is addressed as are cultural food consumption patterns and trends.
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NT 232 - Nutrition Care I
Credit Hours: 3
This introductory course presents the principles of nutrition including all nutrients, their sources and their requirements. Carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and water are discussed. The use of dietary guides, nutrient charts, food exchange lists and computerized diet analysis programs for the planning and evaluation of a healthy diet are discussed.
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NT 234 - Health Field Orientation
Credit Hours: 2
This first half of a series examines the health field, the role of the Dietetic Technician and the interrelationships with other health care professionals. An introduction to medical terminology is provided.
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NT 236 - Nutrition Care II
Credit Hours: 3
A study of nutrients and their requirements through all stages of the life cycle with focus placed on the role of nutrition in wellness promotion. The impact of psychological, social and economic factors effecting nutrient requirements is considered.
Prerequisites: NT 232, NT 234.
Corequisites: BI 178, NT 237, NT 238.
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NT 237 - Clinic for Nutrition Care II
Credit Hours: 3
This clinical experience is conducted in a combination of wellness settings and acute care hospitals. This hands-on practicum emphasizes wellness promotion in a variety of community settings. Hospitals provide an introduction to the nutrition care process and highlight the role of the dietetic technician. Written and verbal communication skills are emphasized, including interviewing, counseling and educational material preparation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites or Co-requisite BI 178.
Corequisites: NT 236, NT 238.
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NT 238 - Education for Dietetic Majors
Credit Hours: 3
Communication, educational principles and techniques in interviewing, counseling and teaching individuals and groups in clinical settings is presented. Student preparation of instructional materials and use of instructional media is included.
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NT 275 - Introduction to Food Systems Management
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to the functions and tools of food systems management in health care facilities is provided in this first of a two-part course. Included are management roles of dietetic professionals, levels and tools of management, policies and procedures, human resource management, new York State safety and sanitation for health care, HACCP, food borne illness, menu planning and marketing.
Prerequisites: NT 228.
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NT 376 - Food Systems Management
Credit Hours: 3
A continuation of Introduction to Food Systems Management (NT275) including the application of nutrient modification to menu writing, purchasing, recipe standardization production and delivery systems, receiving and storage, inventory, equipment, cost analysis and financial control for health care food service. Waste management and management information systems in health care are also discussed.
Prerequisites: NT 228,NT 275.
Corequisites: NT 377.
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NT 377 - Field Experience for Food Systems Management
Credit Hours: 3
This supervised practice provides field experience in health care settings focusing on practical application of knowledge provided in management courses. Projects include human resource functions, meal planning, food production, sanitation and safety, standardized recipes, purchasing, inventory, cost control and quality assurance. A capstone experience is provided with practice assuming the role of a food service manager in a health care facility.
Prerequisites: NT 228,NT 275.
Corequisites: NT 376.
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NT 382 - Nutrition Care III
Credit Hours: 3
Application of principles of normal nutrition to disease conditions which occur most frequently in adults and require dietary modifications. Nutrient content of modified diets is included. The nutrition care process in introduced.
Prerequisites: NT 236,NT 237,NT 238, CH 250, CH 251, BI 178,NT 228.
Corequisites: NT 383.
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NT 383 - Clinic for Nutrition Care III
Credit Hours: 4
This supervised clinical practice in acute care settings focuses on the application of knowledge presented in nutrition Care III. The nutrition care process and nutrition care of patients is practiced. Focus is placed on screening, interviewing and counseling of patients on specialized diets. Calculation of modified diets and medical record documentation is also emphasized.
Prerequisites: NT 236,NT 237,NT 238, CH 250, CH 251, BI 178,NT 228.
Corequisites: NT 382.
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NT 384 - Dietetics Seminar
Credit Hours: 2
This senior level course allows students to apply critical thinking skills to ethical and technological issues impacting the field of Dietetics. Professional standards and issues are presented. Public policy development as related to dietetics is discussed. Also included is preparation for the Registration Examination for Dietetic Technicians, the employment application process and initiation of the Professional Development Portfolio.
Prerequisites: NT 382,NT 383.
Corequisites: NT 385, NT 386.
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NT 385 - Nutrition Care IV
Credit Hours: 3
Nutrition care of residents in long term care is introduced along with geriatrics. Medical nutrition therapy for various diseases and health conditions which require dietary modifications including cancer, renal diseases, hepatic diseases, disorders of the GI tract, as well as those conditions less commonly encountered such as PKU and inborn errors of metabolism are also studied.
Prerequisites: NT 382,NT 383.
Corequisites: NT 384, NT 386.
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NT 386 - Clinic for Nutrition Care IV
Credit Hours: 3.5
This advanced course provides the supervised practice rotation in long term care settings with a focus on the application of the MDS and care planning along with practical application of knowledge presented in nutrition Care IV. Practice in interviewing, counseling and group nutrition presentations for the geriatric clientele in health facility settings is provided. Calculation and planning practice for more complex dietary modifications is included. This rotation culminates in a capstone activity of assuming the role of a dietetic technician on a full-time basis in a health care facility.
Prerequisites: NT 382,NT 383.
Corequisites: NT 384, NT 385.
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NT 387 - Health Care Delivery Systems
Credit Hours: 2
This continuation of Health Field Orientation provides a broad understanding of the methods of delivery of health care in the United States. Health care is explored including its history, delivery systems, manpower, distribution of resources, cost, finance, health policy, technology and future outlook.
Prerequisites: NT 234.
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DT 101 - Introduction to Drama and Theatre
Credit Hours: 3
Broad informal introduction to central theatrical and literary elements of drama. Readings from classical and modern plays and surrounding criticism includes use of available presentations (radio, film, TV, recordings). Firsthand experience of local theatre provokes analysis of theatre as a present and living form of human expression.
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DT 102 - Contemporary Theatre Workshop
Credit Hours: 3
Various approaches to acting as a disciplined form of expression and communication. Physical and vocal exercises, breath control, yoga, games, sensitivity exercises, improvisation, spatial explorations, movement and behavior analysis lend new individual and group awareness. Some character study and scene work applied toward end of semester.
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DT 310 - 19th Century Russian Theatre
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces the student to the original sources of Russian theatre culture and the peculiarity of Russian drama and its development. Selected works of Puskin, Gogol, Ostrovsky, Turgenev and Tolstoy with some foundation dramatists will be investigated through stage depiction with discussion.
Prerequisites: Pre/co-requisite student must be enrolled or have completed EN 110.
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DT 320 - 20th Century Russian Theatre
Credit Hours: 3
This course involves the main aspects of Russian theatre from the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. The content includes the Moscow Art theatre and its repertoire, the most outstanding achievements of Russian theatre during the soviet period and the method of Stanislavsky with its global influence on drama performance.
Prerequisites: Pre/co-requisite Student must be in or have completed EN 100.
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DT 440 - Introduction to Theatre
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to the theatre experience. This course will involve a survey of the development of theatre, acting theory and techniques, directing theory and methods and basic principles of stage design and stagecraft. Study will involve the relationship of these elements to the script and will emphasize the theatre as a form of cultural and social expression.
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DT 445 - Fundamentals of Acting
Credit Hours: 3
A lecture and workshop course in the fundamentals of acting: concentration, imagination, voice and movement techniques. Scene study, character development, physical and psychological theories will be studied during the semester with an emphasis on performance.
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DT 450 - Introduction to Stagecraft
Credit Hours: 3
A study of technical theatre involving design for the set, lighting, makeup and costume with emphasis on the practical techniques essential to realizing those designs. The course will include stage construction and set painting, lighting techniques and practice, as well as methods for makeup and costume construction.
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DT 455 - Theatre Workshop
Credit Hours: 3
This is a workshop rehearsal performance course which will involve the student in the production of live stage theatre, children’s theatre, or dramatic reading for the college and surrounding community. The students will develop their productions for performance on campus, at other schools, in libraries, etc.
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DT 460 - Theatre Practicum
Credit Hours: 1
Course emphasis is on participation in college theatre productions. Students will be directly involved in both technical theatre construction and stage acting performances. Students may enroll four times for a maximum of four semester hours of credit.
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Early Childhood |
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CC 150 - Child Care for Infants and Young Children
Credit Hours: 3
l needs of the infant and young child and relates them to the daily care of children. Nutrition, health, safety and common childhood illnesses will be examined. Special emphasis will be placed on the need to sensitize adults to the individual needs of the young child, the need for appropriate infant – adult relationships, the development of language and the need for quality child care situations. Course explores the influence of diverse family structures and the many behaviors of the growing child’s personality and behavior. This course is open to students in developmental reading and writing.
Prerequisites: None.
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CC 200 - Early Childhood Education I
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the student to Early Childhood Education. Examines the role and career of the Early Childhood professional. Introduces the student to NAEYC Core Values/Code of Ethical Conduct. Discusses the history and theory of Early Childhood Education. Discusses the social, intellectual, emotional and physical development of the young child; the child’s needs and how the Early Childhood professionals and centers meet these needs. Introduces the activities and materials of Early Childhood Education with an emphasis on literacy. Reviews regulations and what constitutes quality Early Childhood programs. Students are required to visit and write a report on one Early Childhood Education Center in the Buffalo metropolitan or suburban area.
Prerequisites: Completion of Developmental Reading and Writing (if necessary), or by permission of department.
Concurrent registration in CC 201.
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CC 201 - Lab for CC 200
Credit Hours: 1.5
Course correlated with CC 200 Early Childhood Education I. CC 201 is held at an off-site high quality early childhood program designed to introduce students to working with young children and their teachers. Under the direct supervision of the ECC instructor, students will have the opportunity to interact with and observe children and staff in a professional setting.
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CC 202 - Early Childhood Education II
Credit Hours: 3
Using NAEYC’s principles of developmentally appropriate practice, students will examine development from birth through age 8 and the importance of the relationship between development and caring for young children, including children with special needs. Special attention will be given to developmentally appropriate guidance techniques at each stage. Students will also have the opportunity to examine and visit a variety of high quality early childhood programs within the community. Builds on concepts introduced in CC 200. Cultural diversity will be emphasized.
Prerequisites: CC 200 or by permission of the department.
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CC 203 - Lab for CC 202
Credit Hours: 1.5
Course correlated with CC 202 Early Childhood Education II. CC 203 is held at an off-site high quality early childhood program and is designed to continue to provide students with experience working with young children and their teachers. Under the direct supervision of the ECC instructor, students will continue to interact with and observe children in a professional setting. They will also plan and implement developmentally appropriate interactions and activities for the young.
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CC 204 - Early Childhood Education III
Credit Hours: 3
Building on NAEYC’s Core Values, Code of ethical Conduct and Principles of DAP, with an emphasis on an anti-bias approach, students will explore teacher/family partnerships. Emphasis will be placed on the teacher’s role in establishing and maintaining relationships with the families of the children they care for and teach and effective methods of communicating with families in quality early childhood programs. Exploring current trends and issues, students will continue to examine and visit a variety of high quality early childhood programs within the community.
Prerequisites: CC 200 or CC 202, or by permission of the department.
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CC 205 - Lab for CC 204
Credit Hours: 1.5
At a variety of off-site early childhood programs and working with the cooperating teacher and under the supervision of the ECC instructor, students will continue to interact with, observe and plan for children. They will expand their role in the classroom and plan more in depth activities as they learn to work more closely with the cooperating teachers and become part of a team.
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CC 206 - Student Teaching & Seminar
Credit Hours: 6
Supervised student teaching experience in one early childhood education center for the minimum of 130 hours. The seminar and assignments are designed to support the students in their field experiences. Activities, lesson plans and a capstone project will be examined and individual student experiences will be discussed, both in seminar and in individual conferences. A series of special classes, class visits and speakers will expose the students to many of the educational and cultural institutions of their community and enlarge the experiences they will bring to young children and their own knowledge of Early Childhood Education.
Prerequisites: CC 200, CC 202, CC 204, CC 205, or by permission of the department.
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CC 253 - Infant and Toddler Programs
Credit Hours: 1
This course will provide students with an overview of quality curriculum planning for infants and toddlers. Environmental design, selection and use of materials and child-caregiver interactions will be discussed. Students will also be exposed to methods of recordkeeping, ways to share information with parents and a review of development as it relates to group care. Nutritional guidelines for infants and toddlers, getting up, daily routines and observation will also be included.
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CC 256 - Special Education in Early Childhood
Credit Hours: 1
Designed to provide students and child care professionals with up-to-date and accurate information on special education, including history, legislation, characteristics of disabilities and service providers. Emphasis will be placed on identification, assessment, early intervention, local programs and adapting early childhood education for children with special needs.
Prerequisites: CC 200 or by permission of the department.
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CC 300 - Curriculum Planning for Children
Credit Hours: 3
Explains the curricula for young children in a variety of educational settings. Considers curricula objectives, development levels, theories and learning experiences to equip the student with knowledge and skills necessary in planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum for young children (methods and materials). Reviews NAEYC’s position of effective curriculum and assessment. Discusses the implications of brain research, gender/individual differences and Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence on the young child. A series of lectures, hands on workshops and field trips to various early childhood settings enhance understanding of appropriate early childhood curriculum.
Prerequisites: CC 200 or CC 202 and PS 201 or by permission of the department.
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CC 360 - Creative Art Experience for Young Children
Credit Hours: 3
Explores the creative arts as a process of discovery, exploration, decision making and creativity in the life of the young child. Considers ways in which parents and teachers may encourage and enrich the creative experience in the developing young child. Participants will have an opportunity to explore the creative arts and processes for themselves. Open to students in developmental reading and writing.
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Economics |
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EC 100 - Introduction to Economics
Credit Hours: 3
An exploration, awareness and understanding of the economic forces that affect your life. The economics you ought to know to be an informed person.
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EC 101 - Consumer Issues
Credit Hours: 3
An analysis and application of consumer issue principles to the solutions or problems of both individual and society. To develop attitudes, knowledge and practices which will enable the student to become a more effective buyer in the marketplace.
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EC 102 - Macroeconomics
Credit Hours: 3
An analysis of money, credit and of the structure of national income to prepare for studies of the problems of economic growth, unemployment, inflation and balance of payments. The usefulness of modern monetary and fiscal remedies is evaluated.
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EC 103 - Microeconomics
Credit Hours: 3
Traditional value theory on the pricing of products and factors of production to give insights into the nature of a market economy and the way it achieves both the allocation of resources and distribution of income.
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EC 104 - Industrial Relations
Credit Hours: 3
A description and analysis of the roles of labor and management in the economy of the United States. Approximately half of the class time is devoted to labor-management relations, including the evolution and growth of the American labor movement and the development and structure of American business management. A study is made of the legal framework within which labor-management relations are conducted and the responsibilities of each in a democratic system of government.
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EC 201 - Money and Banking
Credit Hours: 3
Monetary theory and policy is combined with a study of the functions and operations of commercial and central banks. The approach is analytical, descriptive and historical.
Prerequisites: EC 102.
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Electrical Engineering Technology |
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EL 010 - Introduction to Electrical Technology I
Credit Hours: 2 Not for degree credit
Orientation to college and electrical engineering technology; study habits; fundamentals of materials; current; charge; voltage; resistance; power; Ohm’s Law; Kirchhoff’s Laws defined; schematic interpretation; data taking; technical writing skills and report organization.
Concurrent registration in MT 013 or higher.
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EL 060 - Residential Wiring
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to residential wiring, electrical safety and the national Electrical Code (NEC); Electrical plans and symbols; switches and receptacles; branch circuit calculations and design; ground fault interrupters; conductors; wiring methods; outlet boxes; grounding and bonding; appliances and motors; low voltage wiring and service-entrance equipment. Laboratory projects provide practical experience in use of tools and wiring techniques.
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EL 110 - Electricity I
Credit Hours: 4
Electron theory; conductors; insulators; electromotive force; direct current; conventional current; voltage; resistance; factors affecting resistance; Ohm’s law; resistors in series; parallel and series/parallel; distribution of voltage and current; voltage and current divider rule; electrical power; Kirchhoff’s laws; source conversion; superposition; Thevenin theorem; capacitors or inductors in series or parallel; energy storage and time constant. Use of Multisim software.
Prerequisites: IE 110
Concurrent registration in MT 126 or MT 122.
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EL 111 - Lab for EL 110
Credit Hours: 1
Experiments emphasis: use of voltage, current, power and resistance measuring instruments; factors affecting resistance; distribution of voltage, current and power in series; parallel and series/parallel DC resistor circuits; maximum power theorem; Kirchhoff’s Laws; Thevenin theorem verified; RC time constant; data taking and well-organized reports.
Concurrent registration in EL 110.
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EL 113 - Computer Aided Design
Credit Hours: 1.5
Course includes symbols and standards and computer aided design using AutoCAD. The student will learn operation of a CAD station, editing, graphic primitives, linetypes, layers, blocks, libraries, dimensioning, isometric and orthographic views.
Concurrent registration in MT 007, MT 121 or higher level Math course.
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EL 121 - Computer Applications in Electronics
Credit Hours: 1
Introduction to Visual BASIC as a software tool for technology-based applications solutions. Events, data types, input/output, procedures, control of program flow. I/O programming applications using switches, LED’s, serial and parallel ports. Electronic simulation using Multisim.
Concurrent registration in EL 110.
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EL 150 - Electricity II
Credit Hours: 4
Alternating current and voltage; sine wave form and values; complex numbers; polar/rectangular conversion; phase relationship; vector representation; AC series; parallel and series/parallel; R, C and L circuits; phasers; Kirchhoff’s Law; network theorems; determinants; maximum power transfer applied to AC; Resonance; Polyphase systems; delta-wye connections; three-phase voltage; current and power; vector representation; balanced and unbalanced loads and transformers.
Prerequisites: EL 110
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EL 153 - Electronic Fabrication
Credit Hours: 1.5
Topics include: lab safety; soldering, desoldering and rework of through-hole and SMT printed-circuit boards; cable fabrication and testing electromechanical construction project including layout, fabrication and assembly; use of drill press, shears, hole punch and bend brake and electrical power wiring using the national Electrical Code.
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EL 154 - Electronics I
Credit Hours: 3
Presentation of solid-stat physics concepts underlying semi-conductors; P-N materials, diode characteristics; LED, half-wave and bridge rectifiers; simple capacitor filter; Zener characteristics; use as a voltage regulator; bipolar and FET transistor theory and characteristics; switching-mode operation; circuit configurations; biasing and amplification.
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EL 155 - Lab for EL 154
Credit Hours: 1.5
Introduction to oscilloscope measurement of DC/AC amplitude, frequency and time; characteristics of diodes, zener diodes, bipolar and FET transistors; device application to clippers, clampers, power supplies, regulators, switching mode operation, DC biasing and small signal branching and loops; introduction to Multisim, DC bias and transient analysis.
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EL 156 - Digital Logic
Credit Hours: 3
Logic circuits and Boolean algebra; logic circuit design; logic families operation and specification; flip-flops; registers; counters; data handling; decoder and multiplexer; number systems and codes; arithmetic functions; input/output circuits and memory circuits.
Concurrent registration in EL 154, EL 157.
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EL 157 - Lab for EL 156
Credit Hours: 1.5
Experiments and demonstrations using integrated logic circuits to develop logic designs and combinational logic circuits, flip-flops, data registers, counters, encoding and decoding circuits, arithmetic circuits and RAM operation.
Concurrent registration in EL 156.
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EL 161 - Lab for EL 150
Credit Hours: 1
Experiments emphasis: use of AC voltage, current and power measuring instruments; measurement of voltage; current and power in series; parallel and series/parallel RC; RL and RLC single phase circuits; vector diagrams of circuit voltage and current; power factor improvement; current, voltage and power in three-phase circuits; balanced and unbalanced loads; delta-wye connections; data collection and analysis and well-organized reports.
Prerequisites: EL 111 and concurrent registration in EL 150
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EL 170 - Electric Power Systems
Credit Hours: 3
An overview of the electric power system from generation, transmission, distribution and delivery of electric power. Topics include: methods of generating electricity such as hydro, thermal coal, thermal nuclear, solar and gas turbine, transmission system voltages and construction, along with Wye and Delta distribution systems, transformers, single phase and three phase banks for common delivery voltages, electric service construction and building wiring methods and electric safety.
Corequisites: EL 150.
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EL 173 - Electric Power Overhead Construction
Credit Hours: 4
Learn the skills necessary for the construction and maintenance of overhead electric distribution systems. Topics include: climbing of wood poles, performing construction from an overhead position, use of ropes and rigging equipment.
Prerequisites: EL 170
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EL 200 - Microcontrollers
Credit Hours: 3
This course includes a study of microcontroller hardware, software, interfacing, applications and troubleshooting. The architecture, instruction set and programming of a modern microcontroller are covered. Special features including A/D conversion and PWM control are included. Applications to data acquisition and control are presented.
Prerequisites: EL 156 and EL 157
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EL 201 - Lab for EL 200
Credit Hours: 1
Experiments with a modern microcontroller include arithmetic logic, digital I/O, serial communications, interrupt operations, data acquisition and PWM control. Programming is via a cross assemble with download from a host computer.
Concurrent registration in EL 200 required.
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EL 204 - Electronics II
Credit Hours: 3
Analysis of small and large signal BJT and FET amplifier response; broad band frequency characteristics; multi-stage circuits; power amplifiers; operational amplifier circuits; active filters; linear integrated circuits (LIC), timers and three-terminal regulators; characteristics and circuit use of SCRs, DIACs and TRIACs.
Prerequisites: EL 154
Concurrent registration in EL 205.
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EL 205 - Lab for EL 204
Credit Hours: 1.5
Experiments demonstrate the characteristics of various transistor and FET amplifiers, operational amplifiers, timers, three-terminal regulators, SCR circuits and multi-stage amplifiers.
Concurrent registration in EL 204.
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EL 206 - Machines and Controls
Credit Hours: 3
Magnetics; electromagnetics; B-H curves; Faraday’s Law; ideal transformers; practical transformer; losses; hysteresis; eddy currents; equivalent circuit, Lenz’s Law; short circuit/open circuit testing; introduction to heat, torque, speed, inertia; DC motor theory; shunt, series, compound motor characteristics; armature reaction; Lorentz’s Law; review of three phase power; AC motor theory; induction, synchronous, three phase and single phase motors.
Prerequisites: EL 150
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EL 207 - Lab for EL 206
Credit Hours: 1.5
Transformer experiment; turns ratio; Edison system; autotransformer; transformer polarity test; short and open circuit tests; transformer loading characteristics; DC motor operating characteristics; shunt, series, compound, dynamic braking; AC three phase induction motor operating characteristic; variable speed drives; data taking, analysis and well organized report.
Prerequisites: EL 161
Concurrent registration in EL 206.
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EL 208 - Microcomputers
Credit Hours: 3
This course covers microcomputer hardware and software with the focus on preparing the student for configuring, operating, maintaining and servicing personal computers. Topics include: system architecture and hardware, peripherals installation, BIOS routines, batch files, assembly language and debug, the operating system, interrupts, POST tests and diagnostics.
Prerequisites: EL 156
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EL 209 - Lab for EL 208
Credit Hours: 1.5
Experiments explore personal computer architecture, hardware, software, configuration, maintenance and diagnostics. Batch file and assembly language programming are used to configure and diagnose computer systems.
Concurrent registration in EL 208.
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EL 256 - Control Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Process control concepts; analog and digital signal conditioning; position, motion, force and process variable sensors; discrete state control; DC servo motors; stepper motors; linear actuators; control circuits; PID control; analog controllers; digital controllers; control loop characteristics and tuning; virtual instruments; data acquisition and control using Lab VIEW.
Prerequisites: EL 204
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EL 257 - Lab for EL 256
Credit Hours: 1.5
Experiment topics include: position, motion, force and process variable sensor characteristics; analog and digital signal conditioning; servo and stepper motor characteristics; control circuit hardware; virtual instruments and control using Lab VIEW; PID control; analog and digital controllers; control loop characteristics and tuning.
Concurrent registration in EL 256.
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EL 258 - Data Communication
Credit Hours: 3
Communications media; the telephone system; line types and conditioning; error detection and correction; data link protocols; modems and modulation techniques; multiple-channel data communications; network models including OSI; network architecture and protocols including X.25, IEEE 802.3 and 802.5; fiber optic communications; network software and management Internet and email.
Concurrent registration in EL 250 and EL 259.
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EL 259 - Lab for EL 258
Credit Hours: 1.5
Experiment topics include: UART characteristics; serial communications and protocols; modem characteristics and data links; CRC error detection; phone line and central office circuits; modulation schemes including PAM and QAM; T1 system; LAN setup; Internet access setup and use; e-mail setup and use.
Concurrent registration in EL 258.
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EL 260 - Programmable Logic Controllers
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to PLCs, PLC architecture; memory addressing and I/O addressing; scan time; ladder logic programming; timers and counters; I/O modules; arithmetic instructions; sequencer instructions and troubleshooting PLC systems. Experiments include: PLC I/O characteristics; sinking and sourcing; reading digital inputs and producing on-off outputs; window comparators and alarms; motor control logic; time delays and timer intervals; counting events; reading AC inputs and controlling AC loads; sequencer control; troubleshooting PLC systems and PLC communications.
Prerequisites: EL 156
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EL 270 - Electronic Communication
Credit Hours: 3.5
This course is an introductory study of communications theory, systems and circuits. Analog topics include: modulation techniques, Noise, tuned circuits, oscillators, AM, FM and SSB modulation, demodulation, mixers, transmission lines and applications. Basic breadboard and simulation experiments include resonance, oscillators, class C tuned amplifiers, modulators, detectors, filters and mixers. Additional and/or substitute experiments and simulations selected from frequency multipliers, PLL, transmission lines, transmitters, receivers, PCM and other topics as approved by instructor.
Prerequisites: EL 204
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EL 272 - Embedded C Applications
Credit Hours: 3.5
Introduction to embedded applications. Survey of flash-based microcontrollers used for embedded designs. Use of an integrated development environment. C language fundamentals including data types, variables, expressions, input/output, procedures and control of program flow including decision structures and loops. Embedded applications hardware, programming and troubleshooting. Typical applications include closed loop process control, motion control, keypad and LCD display interfacing, remote controls, signal measurement, security systems and power control.
Prerequisites: EL 200
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Emergency Management |
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ER 150 - Principles of Emergency Management
Credit Hours: 2
Principles of Emergency Management is intended to provide information that will enable persons just entering the profession or expanding their roles to have the ability to work with emergency management issues. The course provides an overview of the characteristics, functions and resources of an integrated emergency management system and how various emergency management services work together in an integration of resources and capabilities. Emphasis will be placed on how this system is applied to all hazards for all government levels, across the four phases and all functions of emergency management.
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ER 152 - Public Safety Critical Incident Management
Credit Hours: 1
Public Safety Critical Incident Management provides students with information relevant to public safety forces (fire, police and emergency medical services) roles and responsibilities when responding to an emergency. Additionally, the course also provides information dealing with support service agencies and emergency situations. The course provides information to encourage cooperation of all groups and agencies at the scene of an emergency, with a key component focusing on the goals and critical tasks of each public safety agency operating at a given scene.
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ER 160 - Developing Volunteer Resources
Credit Hours: 1
Developing Volunteer Resources allows students to learn the necessary skills to be able to make appropriate volunteer assignments, structure programs to maintain or increase the skill levels of volunteers and motivate volunteers to both maintain readiness and operate effectively during emergency situations.
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ER 162 - Resource and Donations Management
Credit Hours: 2
This course is designed to provide Resource Management Coordinators with the knowledge and skills they need to perform resource management functions within the overall framework of the emergency operations center (EOC). This performance- based course is intended to introduce local officials (i.e., representatives of local governments and leaders of local voluntary organizations) to the concept of donations management and their roles and responsibilities in the donations management process.
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ER 170 - Public Information Officer Basic Course
Credit Hours: 3
The Public Information Officer (PIO) Basic course provides students with the basic skills needed to perform public information duties as they relate to emergency management. The course focuses on the definition of the job of the public information officer. The course assists participants with building the skills needed for this position, such as oral and written communications, understanding and working with the media and the basic tools and techniques PIOs need to do the job.
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ER 178 - Emergency Response Planning
Credit Hours: 3
Planning is an essential function of an effective emergency management program and serves as a tool for emergency professionals in improving disaster management and public safety policies. The Emergency Response Planning course provides emergency management and public safety personnel with the knowledge, skills and ability to develop or enhance their Comprehensive Emergency Management plans. The course will highlight the importance of building an integrated system for emergency planning that uses multi-agency teams to address mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
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ER 180 - Emergency Management Leadership
Credit Hours: 2
The Emergency Management Leadership course is designed to provide students with the skills necessary to lead and influence others in the demanding setting of emergency management by increasing their range of skills in a variety of interpersonal areas: conflict management, use of power group dynamics, leadership and influence. Students are taught to clearly identify problems and their root causes as an important step in the process to be able to determine the appropriate type of decision-making style. Using a suggested process of problem solving, participants will be able to apply creative solutions to both emergency and non-emergency situations in an emergency management situation. Students may not receive credit for both course and PSY 211.
Prerequisites: ER 150.
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ER 182 - Basic Incident Command System
Credit Hours: 1
The Basic Incident Command System course is designed to increase the participants’ knowledge and understanding of the Incident Command System. Utilizing lectures and small group activities, participants will acquire the ability to organize and manage an incident through implementing the ICS. The material covered during the course includes an introduction to the principles and features of ICS, organizational overview, incident facilities, incident resources and common responsibilities of key ICS positions.
Prerequisites: ER 152.
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ER 184 - Emergency Response to Terrorism
Credit Hours: 1
The Public Safety Emergency Response to Terrorism course provides the knowledge and skills needed by public safety forces that respond to terrorists acts. The course provides public safety and related support personnel the information to understand terrorism, its root causes and motivations. The course provides methods to enable students to recognize circumstances indicating a potential terrorist attack and to protect themselves from a variety of potential dangers.
Prerequisites: Open to ER students only or POI.
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ER 252 - Disaster Response and Recover Operations
Credit Hours: 2
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts and operations applicable in a disaster environment, particularly for major disasters, and enhance understanding of what the proper roles and responsibilities of various local and state emergency management officials. Students will study the many disciplines for response and recovery and discuss who they are, why they matter and how these roles and responsibilities relate to those carried out by the federal government. To foster multi-level partnership, the course emphasizes the problem-solving aspects of disaster operations as well as associated coordination requirements.
Prerequisites: ER 150.
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ER 256 - Mitigation for Emergency Managers
Credit Hours: 1.5
This course addresses the important roles of the emergency program manager or other local government representative in mitigation. It provides the emergency manager direction on how to implement into a locality recognized and accepted national mitigation strategies. The course provides students information helpful in the coordination of public safety agencies, local businesses and professional organizations. Also provided in the course is information on funding mitigation efforts through public and private sources. Prerequisite: ER 150. F/S (C, S)
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ER 262 - Intermediate Incident Command System
Credit Hours: 1.5
The Intermediate Incident Command System course is designed to increase the participants’ knowledge and understanding of the Incident Command System. Utilizing lectures and small group activities, participants will acquire the ability to organize and manage staffing. The material covered during the course includes organization and staffing, organizing for incidents and events, incident resource management, air operations and incident and event planning. Prerequisite: ER 182. F/S (C, S)
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ER 270 - Multi-Hazard Emergency Response Planning for Schools
Credit Hours: 1
This course will provide participants with the basic information and tools needed to develop effective plans for the wide array of potential emergencies that schools may face. Participants completing the course will be able to explain the importance of effective planning to others and lead individuals in their schools and community through the process of developing and effective multi-hazard program.
Prerequisites: ER 178.
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ER 278 - Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Credit Hours: 1.5
The EOC Management course provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to design, initiate, build and operate an Emergency Operations Center. The curriculum is designed using a performance-based approach, which emphasizes learning activities that are easily transferable to the job.
Prerequisites: Open to ER students only or POI.
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ER 280 - Emergency Program Management
Credit Hours: 3
The Emergency Exercise Program Management course is intended to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to develop and conduct disaster exercises that will test a community’s emergency operations plan and operational response capability.
Prerequisites: ER 150.
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ER 282 - Advanced Incident Command System
Credit Hours: 1.5
The Advanced Incident Command System course is designed to increase the participants’ knowledge and understanding of the inherent flexibility of the Incident Command System to manage major or complex incidents. Utilizing lectures and small group activities, participants will acquire the ability to organize and manage major or complex incidents. The material covered during the course includes command and general staff duties and responsibilities, unified command, major incident management and area command structures.
Prerequisites: ER 262.
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ER 284 - Terrorism Response Planning
Credit Hours: 2
This course will help emergency planners, first responders and others at all levels to review their preparedness efforts and response capabilities to a terrorist incident. It will also assist participants in the ongoing re-evaluations of their threats, their current emergency operations plan and the implications of a terrorist incident on continuity of critical services and long-term recovery.
Prerequisites: ER 178.
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EG 001 - Emergency Medical Technology I—Basic
Credit Hours: 3.5
The fundamentals of basic life support, human anatomy and physiology, assessment- based care of medical and trauma emergencies, extrication and transportation form the core of this course. Cardio electrophysiology, rhythm recognition using semi-automatic defibrillators is taught. Basic cardiology, rhythm recognition and cardiac defibrillation using semiautomatic equipment and assistance with patients prescribed medications are also included. Guest lecturers from in-hospital and pre-hospital field units are utilized and students are required to spend 10 hours of clinical observation in the area emergency departments. The clinical sites require verification of physical exam and immunizations.
Corequisites: EG 002.
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EG 002 - Emergency Medical Technology II—Basic
Credit Hours: 3.5
A continuation of EG 001. Successful completion may lead to new York State Basic EMT Certification.
Corequisites: EG 001.
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EG 003 - Advanced Medical Emergency Technology Recertification / Paramedic
Credit Hours: 3
This course is a review of EG 001, EG 002 and all EMT/Paramedic certificate course material as well as an update in state-of-the-art technology, technique and current protocol philosophy leading to eligibility to sit for the combined new York State EMT Basic and Paramedic recertification examination.
Corequisites: EG 004, EG 020.
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EG 004 - Advanced Medical Emergency Technology Recertification II/ Paramedic
Credit Hours: 2
A continuation of co-requisite EG 003. Successful completion may lead to new York State recertification as an EMT/P.
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EG 007 - EMT/Intermediate Original ‘85 Certification
Credit Hours: 7.1
An advanced course for the basic EMT dealing with body fluids and electrolytes, advanced airway management and cardiac defibrillation. Mechanisms of fluid and electrolyte balance, shock, IV Therapy and its possible complications, the techniques of esophageal and endotracheal intubation, cardiac pathophysiology, dysrhythmia recognition and automatic defibrillation are stressed. This course is designed for EMTs who are members of certified ALS volunteer, municipal, or commercial units operating under the medical direction of a physician. International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) certification, Pediatric Intermediate Life Support qualification and Basic EMT (EG001, 002) review and recertification are included within this course. Successful students will take the new York State Basic and Advanced Skills exam and sit for combined NYS recertification and Intermediate certification exam.
Prerequisites: EG 001, EG 002 plus six months experience as a Basic EMT. (Application must be made to the EMT department including current immunization status and must include a signed NYS DOH form #3312, verification of membership indicating current active status on an EMS field unit.)
Corequisites: EG 048 and EG 051.
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EG 009 - Basic Emergency Health Care
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to train students in AHA cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and in hemorrhage control, management of fractures, treatment of various types of shock and management of poisoning victims in order to stabilize an individual prior to the arrival of paramedical personnel or the delivery of the victim to a hospital. Emphasis in the first three weeks is human anatomy and physiology relevant to emergency health care problems. Other topics covered include patient assessment, triage, mechanisms of injury and the attitude and performance expected of persons delivering emergency health care. It is recommended for students in any curricula.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites.
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EG 010 - EMT/Intermediate ’85 Recertification
Credit Hours: 5.5
This course meets the newly released national and state criteria for EMT/Intermediate training. A review of EG 001, EG 002, EG 047 or 007, EG 048 and EG 051 material with an update of protocols, knowledge and skill techniques, the new course brings students to state-of-the-art and eligibility to sit for the combined new York State Basic and Intermediate EMT recertification examination to retain new York State certification for an additional three-year period. AHA CPR requalification and Pediatric Intermediate Life Support qualification is included. International Trauma Life Support certification is included.
Prerequisites: EG 001, EG 002, EG 047 or 007, EG 048, EG 051. Students must be currently active in the field as EMT/Is, and apply to the EMT department.
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