Academic and Career Pathways Areas of study in business will teach you how to plan, Courses within this ACP will provide a strong foundation for organize, and execute industry-relevant skills that require transfer in the fields of medical practice, nursing, nutrition, ethics and operations management in the fields of and physical education. finance, accounting, sales, marketing, hospitality, and The career-track certificate and degree programs will entrepreneurship whether you are aspiring to work for a prepare you for careers in surgical technology, registered corporation or own your own business. nursing, athletic training, fitness, yoga, medical assisting, Hands-on technology-related areas of study will teach you nursing assisting, medical coding, and other health-related how to design new products, perform architectural drafting, fields. provide computer support, manage and ensure the security of computer networks, develop web applications, design Careers in Health Sciences* multimedia productions, or maintain and repair cars. Registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, certified Careers in Business and Technology* nursing assistants, surgical technologists, public health nurses, and school nurses. Accountants, bookkeepers, tax preparers, marketing Medical assistants, medical records technicians, and specialists, market analysts, social media specialists, e- medical coders. commerce specialists, financial managers, entrepreneurs, Athletic trainers, fitness trainers, yoga teachers, yoga and operational managers. physical therapists, and dietitians. Administrative assistants, hotel managers, front and back Physician assistants, health care managers, nurse office managers, and event planners. practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, Help desk support, cybersecurity, tech support and network physicians, and pharmacists. support specialists, network administrators, computer systems analysts, security analysts, data analysts, and *Many of these careers require a bachelor’s degree or higher. information technology managers. Graphic designers, web designers, and web developers. For more career, job outlook, and salary information, visit Architectural drafters, engineering technicians, and product MiraCosta’s Career Coach tool at miracosta.emsicc.com. designers. Automotive mechanics and auto parts specialists. Languages, Communication, and *Many of these careers require a bachelor’s degree or higher. Humanities For more career, job outlook, and salary information, visit MiraCosta’s Career Coach tool at miracosta.emsicc.com. Health Sciences miracosta.edu/academics/degree-and-certificate-programs/ miracosta.edu/academics/degree-and-certificate-programs/ health-sciences languages-communication-and-humanities Do you enjoy helping people? Do you want to make a Are you inspired by the use of language and communication difference in people’s lives? The Health Sciences ACP will to shed light on global issues, struggles, and stories? Would prepare you for careers and transfer study in the world of health you like to build a world where people connect to each other research, medical treatments, nursing, healing practices, through language, ideas, and cultural expression? athletic training, fitness, and nutrition. Join this ACP and start exploring career opportunities in one of the fastest growing The knowledge and skills gained through the Languages, sectors! Communication, and Humanities ACP will prepare you for career and transfer opportunities in a broad range of fields, such as teaching, translation and interpretation, journalism, media, entertainment, marketing, public relations, government, international business, international relations, and law. 101MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Academic and Career Pathways Careers in Languages, Communication, *Many of these careers require a bachelor’s degree or higher. and Humanities* For more career, job outlook, and salary information, visit Teachers, professors, and educators. MiraCosta’s Career Coach tool at miracosta.emsicc.com. Diplomats, Foreign Service officers, lawyers, and historians. Language interpreters, translators, and linguists. Social and Behavioral Publishers, journalists, writers, copywriters, and public Sciences relations, advertising, and marketing professionals. *Many of these careers require a bachelor’s degree or higher. For more career, job outlook, and salary information, visit MiraCosta’s Career Coach tool at miracosta.emsicc.com. Math and Sciences miracosta.edu/academics/degree-and-certificate-programs/ miracosta.edu/academics/degree-and-certificate-programs/ math-and-sciences social-and-behavioral-sciences Do you like making logical connections, conducting Are you intrigued by human behavior? Are you curious about experiments, and discovering and analyzing how something how societies meet their needs? The Social and Behavioral works? The Math and Sciences ACP is designed for those who Sciences ACP will introduce you to cultures and societies are curious about the world and how it works. Our programs from around the world and throughout history to help you serve as building blocks to any certificate, associate degree, understand the social, political, psychological, and economic or bachelor's degree, and they can prepare you for a career forces that shape our world today. in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Courses within this ACP will prepare you for careers and transfer in administration of justice, anthropology, early childhood You will have many options to choose from in the Math and education, economics, geography, human development, Sciences ACP, such as biology, chemistry, biomanufacturing, psychology, political science, religious studies, and sociology. biotechnology, mathematics, physics, computer science, earth sciences, landscape architecture, viticulture, and horticulture. Careers in Social and Behavioral Sciences* Careers in Math and Sciences* Attorneys, criminologists, police officers, corrections officers, court reporters, and paralegals. Lab technicians, lab assistants, chemical technicians, Economists, public policy analysts, social workers, biomanufacturing specialists, and crime lab analysts. anthropologists, psychologists, mental health counselors, Engineers, computer programmers, software developers, and marriage and family therapists. database managers, and video game developers. Preschool teachers, daycare managers, elementary school/ Landscape architects, sustainable agriculture managers, middle/high school teachers, professors, and counselors. pest control specialists, horticulturalists, and food scientist technicians. *Many of these careers require a bachelor’s degree or higher. Economic analysts, research analysts, statisticians, information scientists, and database administrators. For more career, job outlook, and salary information, visit Chemists, mathematicians, and research scientists. MiraCosta’s Career Coach tool at miracosta.emsicc.com. Biologists, ecologists, biochemists, marine biologists, meteorologists, physicists, and oceanographers. Medical doctors, pharmacists, and dentists. 102 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
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Areas of Study & Courses How to Read Course The course description summarizes the purpose and key Descriptions topical areas of the course and includes special requirements if any exist. Some course descriptions end with information about How to Read Course Descriptions whether the course was \"formerly\" another course, how many times the course may be repeated, or whether the course is Courses listed in this catalog apply to the fall 2021, spring offered on a \"pass/no pass\" basis. Some course descriptions 2022, and summer 2022 terms. Courses are numbered within identify UC credit limitations, and some indicate an instructional alphabetically arranged subject areas. (Please refer to the materials fee is required as a condition of enrollment in the Credit Courses (p. 20) section of the catalog for more detailed course. (Please refer to the Fees (p. 23) section of the catalog information about course numbering.) for information about required instructional materials fees.) Course numbers 0-49: Basic skills or college preparatory When a course description ends with a C-ID number, students courses that are not associate-degree applicable. can be assured the course will be accepted in lieu of a Course numbers 50-99: Associate-degree applicable course bearing the same C-ID designation at another courses; not intended for transfer to a four-year university. community college. The C-ID designator means the course is Course numbers 100-299: Associate-degree applicable comparable in content and scope to a similar course offered courses; intended for transfer to a four-year university. by participating California community colleges. (For a list of Course numbers 300-400: Upper-division courses; available MiraCosta College courses that have a C-ID, see the C-ID only to students in the baccalaureate degree program in Courses page (p. 26) under Admissions & Registration.) biomanufacturing at MiraCosta. Accounting Other course description information includes the following: Accounting offers theoretical and practical courses for Units: The semester credit for the course. One unit of credit students planning to transfer as accounting majors, career is defined as one hour of lecture or three hours of laboratory and technical courses that lead to certificates of proficiency work each week. and achievement, and professional development courses Prerequisites: A requirement that must be met in order to designed to improve workplace skills, including course paths demonstrate current readiness for enrollment in the course. for preparation for profession certification exams such as the When courses in a subject must be taken in a particular IRS Enrolled Agent certification and the Certified Bookkeeper order, the prerequisites indicate the required sequence. credential. Career options in accounting include positions in Corequisites: A course students must take in the same the private and public sectors, tax preparation, finance and semester/term in order to enroll in the course. banking, business ownership, and management. Advisories: Recommended preparation the student is advised but not required to have before or in conjunction Academic and Career Pathway: Business and Technology with the course. Enrollment Limitations: Some courses place restrictions Contact Information on enrollment. Most of these restrictions prevent students from duplicating coursework. Others specify something Chair: Delores Loedel Department: Business the student must do prior to enrolling in a course, such as audition or obtain special approval. Some enrollment Dean: Al Taccone Office: Building OC4800, limitations restrict the number of units a student can earn or the number of courses a student can take within a group of https://www.miracosta.edu/ 760.795.6811 courses that share a similar primary educational objective. Acceptable for Credit: CSU means the course is accepted academics/degree-and- for transfer at any California State University (CSU) campus; UC means it is accepted for transfer at any University of certificate-programs/business- California (UC) campus. Some courses can be used to satisfy general education or major requirements while and-technology/accounting/ others transfer as elective credit. UC Credit Limitation means credit for the course may have UC transfer restrictions; index.html these restrictions are identified at the end of the course description. Lecture and Lab Hours: The number of hours the course meets for lecture and/or lab per week. Course Typically Offered: Indicates patterns of course offerings; however, students should check the class schedule for the current semester's offering. (Note: MiraCosta College reserves the right to cancel any course due to insufficient enrollment or other circumstances beyond the district's control.) 104 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Full-Time Faculty ACCT 148 Computer Accounting 3 or ACCT 104 Eric Carstensen Payroll Accounting Michael Deschamps ACCT 158 Delores Loedel or BUS 204 Business Mathematics 3 or BUS 204H Business Statistics BUS 120 Associate Degrees or BUS 120H Business Statistics (Honors) or BUS 130 Associate in Arts Degrees Introduction to Business 3 Accounting BUS 140 Bookkeeping or BUS 140H Introduction to Business (Honors) Students may earn one of the above-named associate degrees BUS 290 Entrepreneurship and Small Business by completing its respective certificate of achievement or BUS 290H Management requirements and the general education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate in Arts degree (see Associate CSIT 110 Legal Environment of Business 3 Degrees (p. 69)). Students should meet with a MiraCosta or CSIT 128 counselor to identify required courses and to develop a written Legal Environment of Business (Honors) educational plan for the specific degree or certificate they wish Total Units to earn. Business Communication 3 Certificates Business Communication (Honors) Certificate of Achievement Computer Applications 3 Accounting Microsoft Excel for Business Accounting offers theoretical and practical courses for students planning to transfer as accounting majors, career 30 and technical courses that lead to certificates of proficiency and achievement, and professional development courses Certificate of Achievement designed to improve workplace skills. Career options in Bookkeeping accounting include positions in the private and public sectors, tax preparation, finance and banking, business ownership, and Accounting offers theoretical and practical courses for management. students planning to transfer as accounting majors, career and technical courses that lead to certificates of proficiency and achievement, and professional development courses designed to improve workplace skills. Career options in accounting include positions in the private and public sectors, tax preparation, finance and banking, business ownership, and management. Students interested in accounting-related careers may choose Bookkeepers generally work under supervision. They make the Accounting or Bookkeeping certificate program. entries in special journals, posts to subsidiary ledgers, and verifies and files source documents. Appropriate training Accountants generally work without continuous supervision. includes accounting, business mathematics, and computer They have full responsibility for entries to general journals, office skills. posting to general ledgers, year-end adjustments, and financial statements. An accountant often supervises one or more A strong demand by the community for bookkeepers assures bookkeepers and is the primary accounting specialist in opportunities within this field. The following courses may be a small business. In addition to the training needed by a taken in any sequence as long as all prerequisites are met. bookkeeper, an accountant needs extra accounting, business communication, law, income tax, and management training. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement A strong demand by the community for accounting specialists Upon completion of the this program, the student will be provides opportunities within this field. able to analyze and record business transactions using double-entry accounting as well as construct and interpret required financial statements. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement The following courses may be taken in any sequence as long as all prerequisites are met. Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to successfully construct and analyze accounting information Required courses: 3 for the purposes of making business decisions. ACCT 104 Payroll Accounting 3-4 ACCT 145 Individual Income Tax The following courses may be taken in any sequence as long as Taxation of Business Entities 3 all prerequisites are met. or ACCT 146 Ethics, Representation, Practice, and 2 or ACCT 147 Procedures 3 Required courses: Computer Accounting ACCT 148 IRS Volunteer Preparation ACCT 201 Financial Accounting 4 ACCT 149 Business Mathematics ACCT 158 Business Statistics or ACCT 201H Financial Accounting (Honors) Business Statistics (Honors) or BUS 204 ACCT 202 Managerial Accounting 4 or BUS 204H or ACCT 202H Managerial Accounting (Honors) ACCT 145 Individual Income Tax 4 or ACCT 146 Taxation of Business Entities 105MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses CSIT 110 Computer Applications 3 Certificate of Proficiency Income Tax Preparer or CSIT 128 Microsoft Excel for Business This certificate of proficiency is designed for entry-level tax Choose one sequence below: 8 preparer positions. All tax preparers in the State of California are required to demonstrate a minimum level of qualified ACCT 101 Practical Accounting tax education. This certificate allows students to apply for & ACCT 102 and Practical Accounting II the California Registered Tax Preparer's certificate as well as introduces them to the process and requirements of becoming ACCT 201 Financial Accounting an IRS certified volunteer. & ACCT 202 and Managerial Accounting or ACCT 201H Financial Accounting (Honors) & ACCT 202H and Managerial Accounting (Honors) Total Units 25-26 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Certificate of Proficiency Upon successful completion of this certificate, the student Accounting Assistant will be able to meet the requirements for the California Registered Tax Preparers certificate as well as the IRS Tax This certificate introduces students to the basic components Volunteer certificate. of billing, cost, and accounting functions. Most of the courses in this certificate can be applied to the Accounting and Required courses: Individual Income Tax Bookkeeping Certificates of Achievement. ACCT 145 IRS Volunteer Preparation 4 ACCT 149 2 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Total Units 6 Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to analyze and record business transactions using double- Certificate of Proficiency entry accounting as well as construct and interpret required Income Tax Professional financial statements. The Income Tax Professional Certificate trains students to work Required courses: in an entry-level assistant position with an experienced tax 4 preparer or a commercial tax preparation service. ACCT 101 Practical Accounting 3 3 ACCT 104 Payroll Accounting Program Student Learning Outcome Statement 3-4 ACCT 148 Computer Accounting Upon completion of this program, the student will be able 13-14 to successfully analyze financial information and complete One of the following: a moderately challenging tax return suitable for filing with both the IRS and the California Franchise Tax Board. ACCT 102 Practical Accounting II ACCT 158 Business Mathematics CSIT 110 Computer Applications Required courses: ACCT 145 Individual Income Tax CSIT 128 Microsoft Excel for Business ACCT 146 Taxation of Business Entities 4 ACCT 147 Ethics, Representation, Practice, and 4 Total Units Procedures 3 Total Units Certificate of Proficiency 11 Computerized Accounting Applications Certificate of Proficiency This certificate introduces students to the basic components Payroll Professional of the most generally used computerized accounting systems in today's business settings. Most of the courses in this This certificate introduces students to the basic components certificate can be applied to the accounting and bookkeeping of the payroll function. The courses in this certificate can be certificates of achievement. applied to the Certificate of Achievement in Bookkeeping. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Upon successful completion of this program, students will Program Student Learning Outcomes be able to analyze and record business transactions in the computerized accounting environment. Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to apply knowledge of applicable laws to compute payroll, Required courses: Payroll Accounting complete federal and state tax schedules, and accurately ACCT 104 Computer Accounting 3 prepare financial information for analysis and informed ACCT 148 Fundamentals of Computer 3 business decisions. CSIT 120 Information Systems 3 Microsoft Excel for Business Required courses: Practical Accounting or CSIT 128 9 ACCT 101 Financial Accounting 4 Total Units Financial Accounting (Honors) or ACCT 201 Payroll Accounting 3 or ACCT 201H ACCT 104 106 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ACCT 158 Business Mathematics 3 ACCT 145: Individual Income Tax Total Units 10 Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Courses Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 4 hours. ACCT 101: Practical Accounting Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 4 Prerequisites: None This course covers federal and California individual income Acceptable for Credit: CSU tax preparation and planning. Topics include filing status, Lecture 4 hours. exemptions, income and exclusions, business expenses, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer itemized deductions, credits, capital gains, depreciation, tax payments, California tax, IRS and FTB, and audits. This California This introduction to the field of accounting includes completion Tax Education Council (CTEC) approved course fulfills the of an accounting cycle and related bookkeeping for sole 60-hour 'qualifying education' requirement for California tax proprietorship service and merchandising businesses. Topics preparers and prepares students to meet the federal guidelines include analyzing and recording business transactions, end- for paid tax preparers. of-period adjustments, preparation of financial statements, and the closing process. The course also covers cash receipts, ACCT 146: Taxation of Business Entities disbursements and control, and payroll, and it emphasizes a Units: 4 practical approach to accounting through problem solving. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU ACCT 102: Practical Accounting II Lecture 4 hours. Units: 4 Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Prerequisites: ACCT 101. Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course introduces the tax issues facing the various types of Lecture 4 hours. business entities that operate in the United States. It emphasizes Course Typically Offered: Spring the U.S. tax code and regulations that relate to these entities, and it examines the transactions that most commonly affect This course continues the introduction to accounting studied in them. This course also assists students in preparing to sit for the ACCT 101. Topics include bookkeeping for sole proprietorship, IRS Enrolled Agent exam. partnership and corporate merchandising businesses with an emphasis on bad debts, notes receivable and payable, ACCT 147: Ethics, Representation, Practice, and Procedures inventory, property, plant, equipment, and intangible assets, Units: 3 financial statement analysis, and cash flow. The course Prerequisites: None emphasizes a practical approach to accounting through Advisory: ACCT 145 or ACCT 146. problem solving. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours. ACCT 104: Payroll Accounting Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course covers income tax issues that relate to the Advisory: ACCT 101 or ACCT 201. requirements of individuals who have the legal right to prepare Acceptable for Credit: CSU tax returns on behalf of individuals, business entities, and Lecture 3 hours. estates and trusts. These requirements include ethical conduct, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring practice privileges, and assessment and appeal procedures that must be followed in representing clients before the IRS This course provides a comprehensive overview of federal and other tax agencies. This course also assists students in and state payroll laws and their effect on payroll records and preparing to sit for Part 3 of the IRS Enrolled Agent exam. required government reports. Topics include laws affecting employers, human resource department procedures and ACCT 148: Computer Accounting record keeping, payroll accounting system procedures, and Units: 3 payroll forms and publications. Prerequisites: None Advisory: ACCT 101 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course teaches students how to apply fundamental accounting concepts and principles and analyze business events using commercial business accounting software. Students enter accounting transactions, make adjustments and corrections, create and analyze financial reports, produce and compare financial statements, create a company file, calculate payroll, use advanced software features for loan and asset tracking, and make end-of-year adjustments. 107MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ACCT 149: IRS Volunteer Preparation ACCT 201H: Financial Accounting (Honors) Units: 2 Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Advisory: ACCT 101. Lecture 2 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Course Typically Offered: Fall ACCT 201. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC The IRS volunteer programs, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Lecture 4 hours. (VITA) and Facilitated Self Assistance (FSA), offer accounting Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and business majors the opportunity to learn the valuable skill of tax preparation in a real world setting. Students apply their This course offers highly motivated students an opportunity to knowledge about existing tax law to prepare tax returns using explore what financial accounting is, why it is important, and IRS professional tax preparation software. Upon successful how it is used by investors and creditors to make decisions. completion of the components of this course, students are This course covers the accounting information system and the eligible to become IRS-certified volunteers. recording and reporting of business transactions with a focus on the accounting cycle, the application of generally accepted ACCT 158: Business Mathematics accounting principles, the classified financial statements, Units: 3 and statement analysis. Topics include issues relating to Prerequisites: None asset, liability, and equity valuation, revenue and expense Acceptable for Credit: CSU recognition, cash flow, internal controls, and ethics. As an Lecture 3 hours. honors course, it provides students the opportunity to conduct Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer supervised independent accounting research and to lead and participate in collaborative and instructor-led discussions. UC This course meets the needs of business students who wish CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ACCT 201 or ACCT 201H. C-ID to gain proficiency in mathematical applications used in the ACCT-110. business world. It prepares students for the study of accounting as well as for pre-employment mathematics tests common ACCT 202: Managerial Accounting to office employment. Applications include trade and cash Units: 4 discounts, markups and markdowns, simple interest and Prerequisites: ACCT 201 or ACCT 201H. simple discount, compound interest, annuities and sinking Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in funds, consumer credit, building wealth through investments, ACCT 202H. mortgages, and insurance. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 4 hours. ACCT 201: Financial Accounting Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Units: 4 Prerequisites: None This course examines how managers use accounting Advisory: ACCT 101. information in decision-making, planning, directing operations, Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in and controlling. It focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost ACCT 201H. behavior, cost structure, and cost-volume-profit analysis. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Topics include profit planning, standard costs, operations and Lecture 4 hours. capital budgeting, cost control, and accounting for costs in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer manufacturing organizations. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ACCT 202 or ACCT 202H. C-ID ACCT-120. This course explores what financial accounting is, why it is important, and how it is used by investors and creditors to make decisions. It covers the accounting information system and the recording and reporting of business transactions with a focus on the accounting cycle, the application of generally accepted accounting principles, the classified financial statements, and statement analysis. Topics include issues relating to asset, liability, and equity valuation, revenue and expense recognition, cash flow, internal controls, and ethics. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ACCT 201 or ACCT 201H. C-ID ACCT-110. 108 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ACCT 202H: Managerial Accounting (Honors) ACCT 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Units: 4 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: ACCT 201 or ACCT 201H. Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per ACCT 202. unit. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll Lecture 4 hours. in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring internship studies concurrently. Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course offers highly motivated students an opportunity Course Typically Offered: To be arranged to examine how managers use accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing operations, and Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are controlling. It focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such behavior, cost structure, and cost-volume-profit analysis. students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their Topics include profit planning, standard costs, operations discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and capital budgeting, cost control, and accounting for and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, costs in manufacturing organizations. As an honors course, employability skills development, and examination of the world it provides students the opportunity to conduct supervised of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may independent accounting research and to lead and participate not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative in collaborative and instructor-led discussions. UC CREDIT work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship LIMITATION: Credit for ACCT 202 or ACCT 202H. C-ID ACCT-120. studies during community college attendance. ACCT 292: Internship Studies Administration of Justice Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None The Administration of Justice discipline examines the structure, Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per functions, laws and procedures, and decision-making unit. processes of agencies that deal with crime management, Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center such as police, prosecutors, courts, and correctional facilities. approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative Students take administration of justice courses to prepare for work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. a criminal justice, criminology, or law enforcement major, Acceptable for Credit: CSU to fulfill general education requirements, or for professional Course Typically Offered: To be arranged development. Career options include work in federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, correctional agencies and This course provides students the opportunity to apply the institutions, and private security agencies. theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance. Academic and Career Pathway: Social and Behavioral Sciences Contact Information Chair: Steve Isachsen Department: Administration of Dean: Al Taccone Justice https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OC4800, academics/degree-and- 760.795.6811 certificate-programs/social- and-behavioral-sciences/ administration-of-justice/ index.html 109MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Full-Time Faculty ADM 200 Concepts of Criminal Law * 3 6 Ruben Gomez List A: 6 Units. Select two courses. (It is recommended you select courses that meet lower-division major Associate Degrees preparation requirements at your intended transfer university.) Associate in Arts Degree Law Enforcement ADM 210 Criminal Procedures Students may earn the above-named associate degree by ADM 220 Criminal Evidence completing a certificate of achievement and the general education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate ADM 230 Policing in a Diverse and in Arts degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should Multicultural Society meet with a MiraCosta counselor to identify required courses and to develop a written educational plan for the specific ADM 270 Crime and Delinquency degree or certificate they wish to earn. ADM 280 Criminal Investigation Associate in Science Degree Administration of Justice for Transfer List B: 6-7 units. Select two courses. 6-7 Students completing this associate degree will have Any course not selected in List A. completed lower-division major preparation requirements for a criminal justice/criminology degree, an emphasis or ADM 107 Introduction to Computer/Digital option within a criminal justice/criminology degree, or a Forensics degree considered similar to criminal justice/criminology at a participating California State University (CSU) campus. ADM 240 Written and Oral Communication in Following transfer to a participating CSU campus, students will the Administration of Justice be required to complete no more than 60 units to obtain a bachelor's degree; however, some CSU campuses accepting ADM 250 Police Field Operations this degree may require additional lower-division major preparation. This degree may not be appropriate preparation ADM 260 Organized Crime, Gangs, and for students transferring to a CSU campus not accepting this BTEC 180 degree or to a university or college that is not part of the CSU Terrorism system. Students should consult with a MiraCosta counselor Biostatistics * for further information regarding the most efficient pathway to transfer as a criminal justice major and to determine which CSU or BUS 204 Business Statistics campuses are participating in this program. or BUS 204H Business Statistics (Honors) or MATH 103 Statistics or PSYC 104 Statistics for Behavioral Science or PSYC 104H Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) or SOC 125 Introduction to Statistics in Sociology PSYC 101 General Psychology * or PSYC 101H General Psychology (Honors) SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology * or SOC 101H Introduction to Sociology (Honors) To complete the degree, students must fulfill the following Total Units 18-19 requirements: Complete a minimum of 60 CSU-transferable semester units. * Course satisfies a general education requirement on Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or \"P\" the CSU-GE or IGETC general education (GE) pattern. To or better. ensure this degree is completed with no more than 60 units, Complete the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or IGETC (Plan C students should select courses that will also satisfy a GE (p. 84))* general education pattern. requirement. Note: All of the statistics and honors courses Obtain a minimum CSU-transferable GPA of 2.0. listed are also GE courses. Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta College. NOTES: * Students completing IGETC may be awarded the degree, 1. This is not an approved pathway for transfer to CSUSM. but they must complete a course from Area IC: Oral Please consult a counselor for more information on this Communication to meet CSU admission requirements. major at CSUSM or refer to the articulation agreement at ASSIST.ORG. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement 2. Students are strongly advised to select courses that meet Upon completion of this program, the student will be lower-division major preparation requirements at their prepared for further academic study and transfer to a CSU transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, baccalaureate degree program; and/or employment in and American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. entry-level positions in the criminal justice system. Certificate Required Core (6 units): Certificate of Achievement ADM 100 Introduction to the Administration of 3 Law Enforcement Justice * As the criminal justice system responds to the increasing or ADM 100H Introduction to the Administration of complexities of our society, education becomes even more Justice (Honors) essential for those seeking careers as peace officers as well as for law enforcement personnel seeking advancement within 110 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses the field. The law enforcement certificate includes courses ADM 100H: Introduction to the Administration of Justice covering the most significant knowledge, skills, and abilities (Honors) that better facilitate a student's success in acquiring and Units: 3 being successful in law-enforcement related jobs. In addition, Prerequisites: None successful completion of the certificate requirements provides Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in an excellent foundation for transfer and the pursuit of higher ADM 100. degrees in law-enforcement related fields. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Upon completion of this program, the student will be This course explores the roots of our current justice system and prepared for further study and/or employment in entry-level the interaction of its various subsystems (law enforcement/ positions in the criminal justice system. prosecution, judicial, and corrections) to each other and to the overall social system. It emphasizes the organizational Required courses: structure and legal consideration relevant to each subsystem. Topics include the origin of law, theories of crime causation, ADM 100 Introduction to the Administration of 3 criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing philosophies Justice and alternatives. The course also introduces students to the 3 research methodology and sources of information/statistics or ADM 100H Introduction to the Administration of 3 relevant to the discipline. As an honors course, it provides a Justice (Honors) 3 rigorous and enriched opportunity for highly motivated students 3 to engage in enhanced discussions and conduct in-depth ADM 200 Concepts of Criminal Law 3 research and interviews about criminal-justice-related issues. UC ADM 210 Criminal Procedures 9 CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ADM 100/ADM 100H or SOC 105. C-ID AJ-110. ADM 220 Criminal Evidence 27 ADM 107: Introduction to Computer/Digital Forensics ADM 230 Policing in a Diverse and Units: 3 Multicultural Society Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU ADM 240 Written and Oral Communication in Lecture 3 hours. the Administration of Justice Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Select at least 9 elective units from the following: This course introduces students to computer/digital crime and abuse and the methods used to properly conduct a computer/ ADM 107 Introduction to Computer/Digital digital forensics investigation. Designed for law enforcement Forensics investigators, corporate security officials, and network and computer security administrators, the course includes an ADM 250 Police Field Operations overview of computer/digital forensics as a profession; the ADM 260 computer investigation process and related legal issues; the Organized Crime, Gangs, and type and frequency of computer/digital-related crime; a basic ADM 270 Terrorism overview of the Internet, networks, and network infrastructure protection; operating systems, data and disk structures, data Crime and Delinquency acquisition and analysis, and technical writing; and a survey of computer/digital forensics tools. ADM 280 Criminal Investigation SOC 105 Introduction to Justice Studies ADM 200: Concepts of Criminal Law Units: 3 Total Units Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Courses Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring ADM 100: Introduction to the Administration of Justice Units: 3 The course explores the basic concepts of criminal law, Prerequisites: None including its philosophy and development, relationship to the Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in U.S. government's structure, elements of a crime, inchoate ADM 100H. offenses, and capacities and defenses. The course covers Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC specific violations and legal issues related to crimes against Lecture 3 hours. persons, property crimes, organized crime, white collar crime, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer environmental crime, public safety and terrorism offenses, alcohol and drug offenses, and offenses against justice and This course explores the roots of our current justice system and public administration. C-ID AJ-120. the interaction of its various subsystems (law enforcement/ prosecution, judicial, and corrections). It emphasizes the organizational structure and legal consideration relevant to each subsystem. Topics include the origin of law, theories of crime causation, criminal procedure, and sentencing philosophies and alternatives. The course also introduces students to sources of criminal justice information and statistics. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ADM 100/ADM 100H or SOC 105. C-ID AJ-110. 111MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ADM 210: Criminal Procedures ADM 240: Written and Oral Communication in the Units: 3 Administration of Justice Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Prerequisites: None Lecture 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall The course explores the basic concepts of criminal procedure with special emphasis on constitutional principles that apply to This course focuses on the written and oral communication skills investigative techniques involving search and seizure, electronic necessary for success in the criminal justice system to include surveillance, temporary detention, arrest, identification the application of relevant legal considerations. It emphasizes procedures, and interrogation. The course also covers legal incident report writing, interview/interrogation documentation, issues that relate to initial entry into the judicial system, pre- and note-taking. The course also identifies and develops oral trial, trial, sentencing, punishment, appeal, and post conviction communication skills related to voluntary citizen contact, crisis relief. C-ID AJ-122. intervention, custodial situations, and testimony. ADM 220: Criminal Evidence ADM 250: Police Field Operations Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course focuses on the various types of evidence and the This course focuses on the duties, responsibilities, and ethical rules governing admissibility in criminal proceedings with an considerations of patrol officers during field operations. It emphasis on the Federal Rules of Evidence and the California emphasizes the different types of patrol and investigations, Evidence Code. Topics include relevance, materiality, witness commonly encountered situations, techniques employed to testimony, hearsay, impeachment, competence, chain of address those situations, and the legal authorities related to custody, and privileges. The course also addresses admissibility such actions. Topics include written and oral communication of evidence related to confessions, searches, in/out of court skills, interview/interrogation, report writing, use of force, trial identifications, and other investigative techniques, including preparation and testimony, and the officer's role in community the criminal processes where admissibility is determined. C-ID policing practices and the criminal justice system in general. AJ-124. ADM 260: Organized Crime, Gangs, and Terrorism ADM 230: Policing in a Diverse and Multicultural Society Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course traces the origins and evolution of domestic and This course examines how diverse populations and multicultural transnational organized criminal and terrorist enterprises. It communities affect the organization of law enforcement emphasizes their illicit activities, including drug trafficking, vices, agencies and the relationships between police and the gangs, and international and domestic terrorism. The course communities they serve. It emphasizes the history, issues, and explores the impact such activities and enterprises have had challenges associated with policing in communities of diverse on society, law enforcement, homeland security, and U.S. and multicultural populations, considering such factors as race, transnational relations. ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, social class, and culture. The course also explores strategies for improving ADM 270: Crime and Delinquency communication skills and relationships between police and the Units: 3 community. C-ID AJ-160. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course focuses on the nature and extent of the most significant types of criminal and delinquent behavior of juvenile offenders as well as the major theories and factors that may explain such behavior. The course also explores the origin and development of the juvenile justice system and examines the relevant crime control strategies, treatment and rehabilitation programs, and the criminal justice processes applicable to juvenile procedures. C-ID AJ-220. 112 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ADM 280: Criminal Investigation ADM 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Units: 3 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Lecture 3 hours. unit. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or This course focuses on the fundamentals of criminal internship studies concurrently. investigations, including investigative techniques relevant to Acceptable for Credit: CSU particular types of crime (e.g., fingerprint/DNA collection, other Course Typically Offered: To be arranged scientific evidence, surveillances, eyewitness identification, interviews, interrogations, and searches) and the relevant legal Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are and ethical considerations related to such techniques. The employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such course reviews crime scene management and processing, students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their including chain of custody issues and available scientific tests, discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities with an emphasis on recording, collecting, and preserving and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, physical evidence. Students also learn the importance of employability skills development, and examination of the world documentation and preparation for testimony at various legal of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may proceedings. C-ID AJ-140. not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship ADM 292: Internship Studies studies during community college attendance. Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None American College Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per English unit. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center The American College English (ACE) area of study provides approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative advanced English skill instruction to bilingual or multilingual work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. students who desire the development of stronger academic Acceptable for Credit: CSU writing, reading, vocabulary, and oral communication skills Course Typically Offered: To be arranged for success in college courses. ACE courses emphasize critical thinking and clear communication to prepare students for This course provides students the opportunity to apply the all college-level work. The ACE 149 and ACE 150 composition theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship courses are UC/CSU transferable and lead students directly to position in a professional setting under the instruction of a ENGL 100. faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals Contact Information employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world Chair: Mary Gross Department: English as a of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new https://www.miracosta.edu/ Second Language site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience academics/degree-and- Office: Administration (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance. certificate-programs/esl/ Building, San Elijo Campus, ADM 296: Topics in Administration of Justice american-college-english.html 760.634.7879 Units: 1-3 Prerequisites: None Full-Time Faculty Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1 hour. Mary Gross Lecture 2 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Administration of Justice that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. 113MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Courses government service, field research, contract archaeology, museums, zoological parks, and nonprofit organizations. ACE 149: Introduction to Academic Writing for Students from Multilingual Backgrounds Academic and Career Pathway: Social and Behavioral Units: 4 Sciences Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Contact Information ENGL 49 or ESL 149. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Chair: Lynne Miller Department: Social Science Lecture 3.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Dean: Michael Fino Office: Building OC3600, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer https://www.miracosta.edu/ 760.757.2121 x6924 academics/degree-and- This course is designed for students from diverse language certificate-programs/social- backgrounds who are making a transition to the use of and-behavioral-sciences/ academic English and who require the development of writing anthropology/index.html skills. The course emphasizes critical thinking, reading, and writing. It provides practice in gathering, organizing, and Full-Time Faculty communicating information and in applying the principles and conventions of standard edited American English. UC CREDIT Lynne Miller LIMITATION: Credit for ACE 149 or ESL 149. Alexis Tucker Sade ACE 150: Introduction to College Composition for Students Associate Degrees from Multilingual Backgrounds Units: 4 Associate of Arts Degree Prerequisites: ACE 149, ENGL 49, ESL 149, or eligibility determined Anthropology for Transfer by the English placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Students completing this associate degree will have ESL 150. completed lower-division major preparation requirements Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC for an anthropology degree, an emphasis or option within Lecture 3.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. an anthropology degree, or a degree considered similar to Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer anthropology at a participating California State University (CSU) campus. This course, designed for students from diverse language backgrounds, offers intensive practice in the writing process, Following transfer to a participating CSU campus, students critical reading, and critical thinking. It also provides practice in will be required to complete no more than 60 units to obtain acquiring, synthesizing, and communicating information and a bachelor’s degree; however, some CSU campuses may in applying the principles and conventions of standard edited require additional lower-division major preparation. This American English. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ACE 150 or degree may not be appropriate preparation for students ESL 150. transferring to a CSU campus not accepting this degree or to a university or college that is not part of the CSU system. ACE 296: Topics in American College English Students should consult with a MiraCosta counselor for further Units: 1-3 information regarding the most efficient pathway to transfer as Prerequisites: None an anthropology major and to determine which CSU campuses Acceptable for Credit: CSU are participating in this program. Lecture 1 hour. Lecture 2 hours. To complete the degree, students must fulfill the following Lecture 3 hours. requirements: Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in American College English that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. Anthropology Anthropologists study human behavior from a biological, historical, cultural, and social perspective. Students take anthropology courses to prepare for a major or to fulfill general education requirements. A bachelor's degree in anthropology can lead to a career in data analysis, social services, education, journalism, advertising, international relations, 114 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Complete a minimum of 60 CSU-transferable semester units. ANTH 190H Primate Behavior and Ecology Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or \"P\" (Honors) * or better. COMM 215 Intercultural Communication * Complete the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or IGETC (Plan C GEOG 102 Cultural Geography * (p. 84))* general education pattern. HIST 107 East Asian Societies * Obtain a minimum CSU-transferable GPA of 2.0. HIST 142 Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta Mexican American History Since College. HIST 142H 1877 * * Students completing IGETC may be awarded the degree, HIST 146 Mexican American History Since but they must complete a course from Area IC: Oral 1877 (Honors) * Communication to meet CSU admission requirements. HIST 146H African American History Since 1877 Program Student Learning Outcomes MUS 113 RELG 101 * Upon successful completion of this program, students will be RELG 101H able to: SOC 207 African American History Since 1877 Total Units (Honors) * Demonstrate an appreciation for the biological and cultural The Music of Multicultural America * diversity of humans around the world. World Religions * Evaluate how biological and cultural processes have World Religions (Honors) * shaped the human species. Race and Ethnic Relations * Compare and contrast methods for collecting and analyzing evidence across the subfields of anthropology as 18-21 a science. * Course satisfies a general education requirement on Required courses: the CSU-GE or IGETC general education (GE) pattern. To ensure this degree is completed with no more than 60 units, ANTH 101 Biological Anthropology * 3 students should select courses that will also satisfy a GE requirement. Note: All of the statistics and honors courses or ANTH 101H Biological Anthropology (Honors) 3 listed are also GE courses. ANTH 102 Cultural Anthropology * 3 ** PSYC 104/PSYC 104H or SOC 125 is recommended to 3-5 complete this degree. or ANTH 102H Cultural Anthropology (Honors) NOTE: Students are strongly advised to select courses that ANTH 103 Introduction to Archaeology * meet lower-division major preparation requirements at their transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, and List A: Select a minimum of three units from the following. American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. NOTE: If ANTH 101L or ANTH 101LH is selected, an Courses additional course must also be selected from this list. ANTH 101: Biological Anthropology ANTH 101L Biological Anthropology Laboratory Units: 3 Prerequisites: None * Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101H. or ANTH 101LH Biological Anthropology Lab (Honors) Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. GEOG 104 World Geography * Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer MATH 103 Statistics *, ** This course examines the biological basis for animal forms and behaviors, including basic genetics and evolution theory; or PSYC 104 Statistics for Behavioral Science primate classification, ecology, and social behavior; the fossil and archaeological evidence for early human life; and the or PSYC 104H Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) evolutionary basis for modern human variation in appearance and behavior. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101 or or SOC 125 Introduction to Statistics in Sociology ANTH 101H. C-ID ANTH-110. List B: Select one course (3 units). 3-4 Any course from List A not already used. BIO 210 Human Anatomy or BIO 210H Human Anatomy (Honors) PSYC 205 Research Methods in Psychology or SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods in Sociology List C: Select one course (3 units). 3 Any List A or List B course not already used. ANTH 104 Native American Cultures * ANTH 105 Evolution of Human Behavior * ANTH 105H Evolution of Human Behavior (Honors) * ANTH 107 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality * ANTH 190 Primate Behavior and Ecology * 115MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ANTH 101H: Biological Anthropology (Honors) ANTH 102: Cultural Anthropology Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101. ANTH 102H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This honors course offers highly motivated students an This course explores how anthropologists study and compare advanced introduction to the study of human biology, human cultures, including variation in subsistence patterns, behavior, and evolution. Topics to be explored include the social and political organization, economic systems, systems scientific method; evolution theory; basic genetics; primate of communication, kinship and family structure, belief systems, classification, ecology, and social behavior; the fossil and aesthetic expression, and recognition of race, ethnicity, gender, archaeological evidence for early human lifeways; and the and sexuality. Cultural anthropology also explores how cultures evolutionary basis for modern human variation in appearance have been impacted by colonialism and are being shaped by and behavior. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101 or globalization and demonstrates the value of the discipline in ANTH 101H. C-ID ANTH-110. the form of applied anthropology. Anthropologists employ high ethical standards while exploring diversity in human culture and ANTH 101L: Biological Anthropology Laboratory highlight the importance of understanding and appreciating Units: 1 that diversity. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 102 or Prerequisites: ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. ANTH 102H. C-ID ANTH-120. Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H if prerequisite not met. Not open to students with ANTH 102H: Cultural Anthropology (Honors) prior credit in ANTH 101LH. Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: None Laboratory 3 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring ANTH 102. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Designed to accompany ANTH 101/ANTH 101H, this laboratory Lecture 3 hours. allows students to garner practical experience with the scientific Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring method, genetic models, simulations of evolutionary processes, primate skeletal anatomy, primate behavior and ecology, This honors course offers highly motivated students an human osteology, human variation, and casts and artifacts advanced introduction to the study of human culture. It representing selected stages in human evolution. UC CREDIT explores how anthropologists study and compare human LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101L or ANTH 101LH. C-ID ANTH-115L. cultures, including variation in subsistence patterns, social and political organization, economic systems, systems of ANTH 101LH: Biological Anthropology Lab (Honors) communication, kinship and family structure, belief systems, Units: 1 aesthetic expression, and recognition of race, ethnicity, gender, Prerequisites: ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. and sexuality. Cultural anthropology also explores how cultures Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in ANTH 101 or have been impacted by colonialism and are being shaped by ANTH 101H if prerequisite not met. Not open to students with globalization, and it demonstrates the value of the discipline in prior credit in ANTH 101L. the form of applied anthropology. Anthropologists employ high Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ethical standards while exploring diversity in human culture and Laboratory 3 hours. highlight the importance of understanding and appreciating Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring that diversity. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 102 or ANTH 102H. C-ID ANTH-120. Designed to accompany ANTH 101/ANTH 101H, this laboratory allows students to garner practical experience with the scientific ANTH 103: Introduction to Archaeology method, genetic models, simulations of evolutionary processes, Units: 3 primate skeletal anatomy, primate behavior and ecology, Prerequisites: None human osteology, human variation, and casts and artifacts Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC representing selected stages in human evolution. This honors Lecture 3 hours. lab offers highly motivated students a chance to explore each Course Typically Offered: Fall topic in greater depth and breadth. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101L or ANTH 101LH. C-ID ANTH-115L. This course explores archaeological theory and method, including techniques of field excavations and laboratory analysis. It also uses archaeological data to understand cultures of the past, including Stone Age lifeways, early farming cultures, and emergent civilizations around the world, such as the ancient Egyptians, Maya, and Inca. The course also examines current issues in cultural resource management, ethics in archaeology, and the role of archaeology within the broader field of anthropology. C-ID ANTH-150. 116 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ANTH 104: Native American Cultures ANTH 107: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course explores the diversity of Native American cultures, This course explores and compares the diverse cultural including PaleoIndians (known largely from archaeological categories of gender and sex including their grounding in evidence) and more recent groups (known from historical biological functions, belief systems, kinship, and popular documents and ethnographic accounts). The course representation across the globe. It explores sexuality as more employs the perspective of 'cultural ecology' to investigate than a biological process, viewing sexuality as a human how environments influence many facets of human culture, cultural expression. This course contextualizes gender, sex, including economic systems, social systems, family structure, and sexuality within broader cultural systems as well as global and art and ritual. interactions to understand how these categories are shaped and, in turn, shape our lives. ANTH 105: Evolution of Human Behavior Units: 3 ANTH 190: Primate Behavior and Ecology Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Prerequisites: None ANTH 105H. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ANTH 190H. Lecture 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This course explores the biological basis and evolutionary value of human behavior. Students explore current research This course explores principles of animal behavior and in genetics and epigenetics, neuroanatomy, physiology, ecology from an evolutionary perspective. Topics include and endocrinology to understand behaviors such as sex predator avoidance, foraging strategies, mating behaviors, differences in cognition, personality, parenting strategies, the development of social groups, culture and cognition, mating behaviors, and lifetime responses to stress. UC CREDIT and current issues in conservation. The course also addresses LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 105 or ANTH 105H. research methodology and requires an observational project of primates at the San Diego Zoo. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 105H: Evolution of Human Behavior (Honors) ANTH 190 or ANTH 190H. Units: 3 Prerequisites: None ANTH 190H: Primate Behavior and Ecology (Honors) Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Units: 3 ANTH 105. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 3 hours. ANTH 190. Course Typically Offered: Fall Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. This honors course offers highly motivated students an Course Typically Offered: Spring advanced opportunity to explore the biological basis and evolutionary value of human behavior. Students explore This honors course offers highly motivated students an current research in genetics and epigenetics, neuroanatomy, opportunity for advanced analysis of principles of animal physiology, and endocrinology to understand behaviors such behavior and ecology from an evolutionary perspective. Topics as sex differences in cognition, personality, parenting strategies, include predator avoidance, foraging strategies, mating mating behaviors, and lifetime responses to stress. This honors behaviors, the development of social groups, culture and course also challenges students to conduct independent cognition, and current issues in conservation. The course research. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 105 or also addresses research methodology and requires an ANTH 105H. observational project of primates at the San Diego Zoo.UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 190 or ANTH 190H. 117MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ANTH 292: Internship Studies Contact Information Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None Chair: Gilbert Neri Department: Art Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Dean: Jonathan Fohrman Office: Building OC2700, unit. https://www.miracosta.edu/ 760.795.6844 Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center academics/degree-and- approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative certificate-programs/creative- work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. and-applied-arts/art/ Acceptable for Credit: CSU index.html Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Full-Time Faculty Yoshimi Hayashi This course provides students the opportunity to apply the Gilbert Neri theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship Leah Cluff Dean Ramos position in a professional setting under the instruction of a Xuchi Eggleton faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Lauren Greenwald to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Associate Degrees employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Associate in Arts Degree must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new Art History for Transfer site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience Students completing this associate degree will have completed (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during lower-division major preparation requirements for an art history community college attendance. degree, an emphasis or option within an art history degree, or a degree considered similar to art history at a participating ANTH 296: Topics in Anthropology California State University (CSU) campus. Following transfer Units: 1-3 to a participating CSU campus, students will be required to Prerequisites: None complete no more than 60 units to obtain a bachelor’s degree; Acceptable for Credit: CSU however, some CSU campuses may require additional lower- Lecture 1 hour. division major preparation. This degree may not be appropriate Lecture 2 hours. preparation for students transferring to a CSU campus not Lecture 3 hours. accepting this degree or to a university or college that is Course Typically Offered: To be arranged not part of the CSU system. Students should consult with a MiraCosta counselor for further information regarding the This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in most efficient pathway to transfer as an art history major and Anthropology that are not included in regular course offerings. to determine which CSU campuses are participating in this Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own program. title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. Art The Art Department offers theoretical and practical courses in the traditional disciplines of art and art history as well as in new genre and photographic arts. Students take art courses to prepare for a major in art or art history, to meet general education requirements, or for personal growth. Career paths include working artist, teacher, graphic designer, photographer, sculptor, curator in a museum or gallery, conservator, appraiser, and work in related fields, such as marketing and advertising. Academic and Career Pathway: Creative and Applied Arts To complete the degree, students must fulfill the following requirements: Complete a minimum of 60 CSU-transferable semester units. Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or \"P\" or better. Complete the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or IGETC (Plan C (p. 84))* general education pattern. Obtain a minimum CSU-transferable GPA of 2.0. 118 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta California State University (CSU) campus. Following transfer College. to a participating CSU campus, students will be required to complete no more than 60 units to obtain a bachelor’s degree; * Students completing IGETC may be awarded the degree, however, some CSU campuses accepting this degree may but they must complete a course from Area IC: Oral require additional lower-division major preparation. This degree Communication to meet CSU admission requirements. may not be appropriate preparation for students transferring to a non-participating CSU campus or to a university or college Program Student Learning Outcome Statement that is not part of the CSU system. Students should consult with a MiraCosta counselor for further information regarding the Upon completion of this program, the student will possess most efficient pathway to transfer as a studio arts major and knowledge and mastery of a variety of art historical to determine which CSU campuses are participating in this methodologies, be able to identify major movements in program. art and architecture, and be able to convey ideas and concepts about artwork, artists, and the socio-cultural milieu To complete the degree, students must fulfill the following in which artworks were created. requirements: Required courses: Complete a minimum of 60 CSU-transferable semester units. ART 100 Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or \"P\" ART 258 Drawing and Composition * 3 or better. ART 259 Ancient to Gothic Art * 3 Complete the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or IGETC (Plan C 3 (p. 84))* general education pattern. History of Renaissance to Modern Art Obtain a minimum CSU-transferable GPA of 2.0. Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta * College. List A: Select one course. 3 3 ART 158 Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, * Students completing IGETC may be awarded the degree, ART 159 and the Americas * 3 but they must complete a course from Area IC: Oral Pre-Columbian Art * 18 Communication to meet CSU admission requirements. or ART 159H Pre-Columbian Art (Honors) List B: Select one course. ART 101 Design and Color * Program Student Learning Outcome Statement ART 103 3D Design * Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to define and demonstrate a variety of art-making ART 203 Figure Drawing I techniques and skills in both traditional and contemporary art processes and idioms. ART 207 Beginning Photography ART 216 Sculpture ART 225 Ceramics I ART 245 Digital Art and Media Required Core (12 units): List C: Select one course. ART 100 Drawing and Composition * 3 3 ART 260 History of Modern Art * ART 101 Design and Color * 3 3 or ART 260H History of Modern Art (Honors) ART 103 3D Design * 3 ART 270 History and Theory of Museum and ART 259 History of Renaissance to Modern Art 9 Gallery Exhibition * ART 271 Museum and Gallery Exhibition List A (select one course): Total Units ART 158 Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas * * Course satisfies a general education requirement on ART 254 Understanding and Appreciating the CSU-GE or IGETC general education (GE) pattern. To the Photographic Image * ensure this degree is completed with no more than 60 units, ART 258 Ancient to Gothic Art * students should select courses that will also satisfy a GE ART 260 History of Modern Art * requirement. Note: The honors courses listed are also GE ART 260H History of Modern Art (Honors) * courses. List B (select three courses): NOTE: Students are strongly advised to select courses that ART 102 Drawing and Composition II meet lower-division major preparation requirements at their transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, and ART 201 Objects and Ideas in Contemporary American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. Art * Associate in Arts Degree ART 202 Painting I: Acrylic Studio Arts for Transfer ART 203 Figure Drawing I Students completing this associate degree will have completed lower-division major preparation requirements for a studio arts ART 204 Painting I: Oils degree, an emphasis or option within a studio arts degree, or a degree considered similar to studio arts at a participating ART 205 Painting I: Watercolor ART 206 Mixed Media Figure Studies I ART 207 Beginning Photography 119MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 210 Printmaking I The Digital Photography certificate offers education and ART 216 Sculpture training in the use of digital cameras, related equipment, ART 217 Figure Sculpture I and editing tools and techniques for creating photographic ART 223 Woodworking and Furniture Design I portfolios, websites, and multimedia projects. Students produce ART 225 Ceramics I a professional-quality printed portfolio. The program's emphasis ART 230 Installation Art may be in fine art or commercial photography. ART 232 Video Art ART 234 Kinetic Art * Program Student Learning Outcome Statement ART 244 Digital Media for the Visual Artist * ART 245 Digital Art and Media Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to ART 251 Digital Photography identify major movements, artwork, and artists in historical and contemporary photography. The student will also Total Units 24 be able to demonstrate understanding of different photo techniques. * Course satisfies a general education requirement on the Required courses: CSU-GE or IGETC general education pattern. To ensure this degree is completed with no more than 60 units, ART 207 Beginning Photography 3 students should select courses that will also satisfy a general 3 education requirement. ART 244 Digital Media for the Visual Artist 3 ART 251 Digital Photography 3 6 ART 253 Applied Digital Photography 18 NOTE: Students are strongly advised to select courses that Select at least 6 units from the following: meet lower-division major preparation requirements at their transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, and ART 208 Advanced Photography American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. ART 245 ART 254 Digital Art and Media Associate in Arts Degree Digital Photography BUS 130 Understanding and Appreciating the Photographic Image Students may earn the above-named associate degree by completing a certificate of achievement and the general Entrepreneurship and Small Business education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate Management in Arts degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should meet with a MiraCosta counselor to identify required courses MAT 110 Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop and to develop a written educational plan for the specific MAT 210 degree or certificate they wish to earn. Digital Imaging 2: Advanced ART 292 Photoshop Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Internship Studies Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to identify major movements, artwork, and artists in historical Total Units and contemporary photography, and demonstrate an understanding of different photo techniques. Certificate of Achievement Museum Studies Certificate Certificate of Achievement The Museum Studies certificate is designed for students interested in transfer to four-year degree programs related Digital Photography to museum and gallery fields of study. The certificate offers education and experience related to the issues of exhibition, collection, preservation, and marketing of objects of display in museum or gallery spaces. Students produce a formal exhibition at MiraCosta College’s Kruglak Gallery. The student’s emphasis may be in either museum or gallery studies; emphases in museum display may cover a range of academic disciplines or specialties. 120 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Program Student Learning Outcome Statement ART 228 Ceramics IV Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to Design CRC analyze and communicate critically formulated ideas and concepts about the care, display, maintenance, and/or ART 101 Design and Color sale of object collections as commonly found in museums or galleries. ART 201 Objects and Ideas in Contemporary Upon completion of this program, the student will Art have documentable experience in the care, display, maintenance, and/or sale of object collections. Digital CRC ART 244 Digital Media for the Visual Artist ART 245 Digital Art and Media Drawing CRC Required courses: ART 100 Drawing and Composition ART 270 History and Theory of Museum and 3 ART 102 Drawing and Composition II ART 271 Gallery Exhibition 3 ART 200 Drawing III Museum and Gallery Exhibition ART 203 Figure Drawing I Required - Choose 4 courses from the following (12 12 ART 213 Figure Drawing II units): ART 263 Figure Drawing III ART 158 Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Mixed Media Representation CRC ART 159 Pre-Columbian Art ART 206 Mixed Media Figure Studies I or ART 159H Pre-Columbian Art (Honors) ART 211 Mixed Media Figure Studies II ART 254 Understanding and Appreciating ART 261 Mixed Media Figure Studies III the Photographic Image New Genre CRC ART 258 Ancient to Gothic Art ART 230 Installation Art ART 259 History of Renaissance to Modern Art ART 232 Video Art ART 260 History of Modern Art ART 234 Kinetic Art or ART 260H History of Modern Art (Honors) Painting: Oil Based Media CRC Choose one of the following courses (1-3 units): 1-3 ART 204 Painting I: Oils ART 101 Design and Color ART 214 Painting II: Oils ART 201 Objects and Ideas in Contemporary ART 264 Painting III: Oils ART 223 Art Painting: Water Based Media CRC Woodworking and Furniture Design I ART 202 Painting I: Acrylic or ART 224 Woodworking and Furniture Design II ART 205 Painting I: Watercolor ART 292 Internship Studies ART 212 Painting II: Acrylic ANTH 102 Cultural Anthropology ART 215 Painting II: Watercolor or ANTH 102H Cultural Anthropology (Honors) ART 241 Painting III: Acrylic BUS 130 Entrepreneurship and Small Business ART 242 Painting III: Watercolor Management Photography CRC HIST 110 United States History to 1877 ART 207 Beginning Photography or HIST 110H United States History to 1877 (Honors) ART 208 Advanced Photography HIST 111 United States History Since 1877 ART 251 Digital Photography or HIST 111H United States History Since 1877 (Honors) ART 253 Applied Digital Photography Total Units 19-21 Printmaking CRC Courses Related in Content (CRC) ART 210 Printmaking I Active participatory art courses that are related in content ART 218 Printmaking II are grouped together. Students are allowed four enrollments within each CRC group, but each course may be taken only ART 221 Printmaking III once unless its catalog description indicates it is repeatable. Enrollments include any combination of course completions ART 222 Printmaking IV (with an evaluative or nonevaluative symbol recorded on the student's transcript), withdrawals, and repetition. Sculpture CRC ART 103 3D Design ART 216 Sculpture ART 217 Figure Sculpture I Ceramics CRC ART 219 Figure Sculpture II ART 225 ART 226 Ceramics I Woodworking CRC ART 227 Ceramics II Ceramics III ART 223 Woodworking and Furniture Design I ART 224 Woodworking and Furniture Design II 121MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 229 Woodworking and Furniture Design ART 103: 3D Design ART 239 III Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Woodworking and Furniture Design Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC IV Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Courses In this sculpture course, students examine the language of ART 100: Drawing and Composition three-dimensional form, structure, and space. The course Units: 3 develops personal expression, using a variety of themes and Prerequisites: None subject matter by ordering three-dimensional space through Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among basic materials, such as clay, plaster, metal, and wood. It ART 100, ART 102, ART 200, ART 203, ART 213, and ART 263. offers experiences with differing approaches within cultural Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC contexts and integrates history, theory, and criticism, showing Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. the interrelationship of the creative arts, humanities, and the self Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer in western and non-western cultures. (Materials Fee: $25) C-ID ARTS-101. This beginning course develops basic drawing skills. Students explore a variety of media and creative approaches, and they ART 104: Artists & Designers Now improve their perceptual abilities and personal expression. The Units: 3 course covers problems of value, structure, and composition Prerequisites: None using a variety of themes. It also integrates art history, theory, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC and criticism. C-ID ARTS-110. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring ART 101: Design and Color Units: 3 This course examines contemporary ideas and processes of art Prerequisites: None and design through the study of living artists and designers'. A Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC historical overview provides context to movements and issues Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. in art since the 1960s as preparation for visiting artists' and Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer designers' presentations, video screenings, and visits to art and design exhibitions and/or studios. Students gain insight Students explore and learn the language of design principles into ideas and material methods in diverse media including, and color theory through visual problem solving. They create but not limited to painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, design projects using acrylic paint, ink, drawing, and mixed photography, installation, 2D and 3D design production, and media on paper and other support surfaces. They also electronic media. This course is for beginning students in the research, analyze, and evaluate elements of design and color field of art and design and related disciplines. in a range of art disciplines, including painting and drawing, graphic design, print and digital media, sculpture and public ART 157: Art Orientation art, video and performance, architecture, and other popular Units: 3 arts. Students are required to attend field trips. C-ID ARTS-100, Prerequisites: None ARTS-270. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. ART 102: Drawing and Composition II Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Units: 3 Prerequisites: ART 100. This basic art appreciation course introduces world art forms, Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among techniques, traditions, and aesthetics. It emphasizes both ART 100, ART 102, ART 200, ART 203, ART 213, and ART 263. western and world art in historical and cultural contexts. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Students examine visual artworks related to mortality and Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. immortality, sustenance and survival, sexuality and gender, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring power and politics, and race and class. Students are required to visit a local public artwork or museum/gallery. This course provides for the continued development of basic drawing skills introduced in ART 100. It emphasizes a creative ART 158: Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas approach using black and white and color media while Units: 3 exposing students to a variety of contemporary approaches Prerequisites: None toward space, scale, and content. The course also encourages Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC students to develop personal expression through the combined Lecture 3 hours. manipulations of subject matter and materials. C-ID ARTS-205. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course introduces the non-Western arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. It explores methodology and materials in diverse media as they reflect various cultures from ancient to contemporary periods. Museum visits are required. C-ID ARTH-140. 122 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 159: Pre-Columbian Art ART 202: Painting I: Acrylic Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Advisory: ART 100 or ART 101 ART 159H. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 202, ART 205, ART 212, ART 215, ART 241, and ART 242. Lecture 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course covers the arts of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and South America. It surveys the various cultures This course covers composition, techniques, and theory of of those areas from ancient periods to the points of European painting using acrylic paint. Students investigate various acrylic contact, emphasizing content and style of materials in diverse painting techniques, art historical traditions, and theoretical media. Museum visits may be required. UC Credit Limitation: positions. Coursework includes lecture, lab, critique, and Credit for ART 159 or ART 159H. independent projects. Students may be required to attend field trips to art exhibitions. ART 159H: Pre-Columbian Art (Honors) Units: 3 ART 203: Figure Drawing I Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Prerequisites: None ART 159. Advisory: ART 100 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Lecture 3 hours. ART 100, ART 102, ART 200, ART 203, ART 213, and ART 263. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. This honors course introduces highly motivated students to Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring the arts of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and South America. It surveys the various cultures of those areas from This beginning drawing course focuses on representation ancient periods to the points of European contact, emphasizing of the human figure. Students work from nude models and content and style of materials in diverse media. Museum visits digital resources using materials such as charcoal, pencil, ink, may be required. UC Credit Limitation: Credit for ART 159 or and pastels. They learn how to depict action in quick gesture ART 159H. drawings as well as produce more complex tonal drawings with emphasis on composition and expression. Topics include ART 200: Drawing III basic anatomy, structure, and proportion with equal emphasis Units: 3 placed on line quality, value, and media control. C-ID ARTS-200. Prerequisites: ART 102. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among ART 204: Painting I: Oils ART 100, ART 102, ART 200, ART 203, ART 213, and ART 263. Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: None Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Advisory: ART 100 or ART 101 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. This advanced drawing course focuses on contemporary Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring drawing practices and conceptual thinking in the development of an individualized portfolio. Students apply subjective Students study past and present practices in painting and perspectives to selected subject matter and content using a work from various subjects, including still life, landscape, variety of drawing media and large scale formats. Field trips to figures, portraits, or mixed imagery, either from life or two- gallery and museum exhibitions, both on campus and in the dimensional references. Learning to be creative and analytical community, are required. in painting images and forms, students develop skills in painting techniques, color mixing, composition, design, and personal ART 201: Objects and Ideas in Contemporary Art concepts using traditional or water soluble oils. C-ID ARTS-210. Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course examines the ideas, concepts, and processes in contemporary art through presentations of vanguard artwork of the twenty-first century. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of contemporary art and artists in western and non- western cultures. Students create three-dimensional art projects using unconventional materials in tandem with traditional materials and methods. Students are required to attend field trips. (Materials Fee: $30.00) 123MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 205: Painting I: Watercolor ART 208: Advanced Photography Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: ART 207. Advisory: ART 100 or ART 101 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. ART 202, ART 205, ART 212, ART 215, ART 241, and ART 242. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. This course builds upon skills learned in Beginning Photography Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring (ART 207). Topics include intermediate and advanced techniques using a range of cameras and photographic This course investigates and experiences the unique processes. Students explore photography as a means of visual characteristics of watercolor painting. Course topics explore communication and creative expression, using darkroom compositional strategies, practical techniques, and theoretical materials, alternative photographic techniques, hybrid digital, concepts of painting using watercolor. Students study and and other analog processes to produce photographic work apply various painting techniques, art historical traditions, and within a contemporary context. The course culminates with a theoretical positions. Coursework includes lecture, lab, critique, professional portfolio of finished work. and independent projects. ART 210: Printmaking I ART 206: Mixed Media Figure Studies I Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Advisory: ART 100 or ART 204 Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course introduces woodcut, etching, lithography, and contemporary printmaking techniques. It emphasizes Working from a posed model, students explore various craftsmanship and individual expression and encourages approaches to representing the human figure using a choice experimentation in the use of materials. of media, including oils, acrylics, ink, or pastels. Students study form and structure, inspired by the rich world traditions of art ART 211: Mixed Media Figure Studies II history, contemporary art practices, and individual creativity. Units: 3 Prerequisites: ART 206. ART 207: Beginning Photography Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Units: 3 Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Prerequisites: None Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. This course provides students an opportunity to further their Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring investigation of the human figure in contemporary painting. Objectives include the development of personal vision and This analog photography course provides an in-depth study of alternative venues of expression. Students study twentieth and the camera and its functions, working with analog processing twenty-first century figurative artists, and they work from both live and printing techniques, lighting techniques, compositional models and photographic references using a variety of mixed and conceptual techniques, presentation, and exhibition media, including oil or acrylic paint. of finished work. Areas of emphasis include black-and- white-photography, working with light-sensitive materials, ART 212: Painting II: Acrylic exploring analog processes, and developing and executing Units: 3 photographic projects. Note: This is not a digital photography Prerequisites: ART 202. course, but in extreme or unusual circumstances, use of digital Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among media may be integrated into instruction. ART 202, ART 205, ART 212, ART 215, ART 241, and ART 242. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course emphasizes intermediate practices in acrylic painting. Students create expressive works using a variety of techniques and materials unique to acrylics. Students study historic and current painters and contemporary painting trends. The course utilizes digital technology for artistic research and development. 124 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 213: Figure Drawing II ART 217: Figure Sculpture I Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: ART 203. Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 100, ART 102, ART 200, ART 203, ART 213, and ART 263. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This introductory-level figure sculpture course uses the human form as subject matter. Students work from digital sources, In this intermediate life drawing course students create photos, imagination, and models. They develop conceptual drawings of human figures, promoting visual acuity while drawings and maquettes and work with a variety of materials, exploring expressive drawing techniques and concepts in such clay, plaster, metal, cardboard, and fabric, to produce contemporary studio practice. The visual forms of the figure finished artworks. (Materials Fee: $25) are strengthened through continued applications of two- dimensional drawing methods and practice. Figurative ART 218: Printmaking II subjects are derived from nude models in the classroom, digital Units: 3 resources, and photos. Prerequisites: ART 210. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 214: Painting II: Oils Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Prerequisites: ART 204. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Students study past and present practices in printmaking and Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. a variety of techniques to further their skills in the medium. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course furthers students' knowledge of woodcut, etching, lithography, and contemporary printmaking techniques. This course emphasizes intermediate practices in oil painting to It emphasizes print studio operations, particularly press create artwork in a context of personal meaning, narrative, and maintenance and the formulation of wet materials. relevance for portfolio development. Students study artworks specific to the history of oil painting and contemporary practice ART 219: Figure Sculpture II while building technical skill and exploring alternative methods Units: 3 and materials. The course introduces digital technology as a Prerequisites: None preparatory tool for artists. Advisory: ART 217 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 215: Painting II: Watercolor Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Prerequisites: ART 205. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among This intermediate-level figure sculpture course uses the human ART 202, ART 205, ART 212, ART 215, ART 241, and ART 242. form as subject matter. Students work from researched images, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC photos, imagination, and models. They develop conceptual Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. drawings and maquettes and work with a variety of materials, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring such as clay, plaster, metal, and wood, to produce finished artworks. (Materials Fee: $25) This course emphasizes intermediate practices in watercolor painting. Students continue to explore compositional methods ART 221: Printmaking III while developing a portfolio of expressive paintings using Units: 3 techniques and materials unique to watercolor. Students Prerequisites: ART 218. study historic traditions and contemporary painters, trends, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC theoretical positions, and methods. This course utilizes Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. digital and traditional technology for artistic research and Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring development. In this advanced-level printmaking course, students study ART 216: Sculpture past and present practices in printmaking and a variety Units: 3 of techniques to further their skills in the medium and Prerequisites: ART 103. their knowledge of woodcut, etching, lithography, and Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC contemporary printmaking techniques. The course covers Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. non-traditional print methods as well as mixed media printing Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer and emphasizes print studio operations, particularly press maintenance, and the formulation of wet materials. This course concentrates on the exploration and refinement of a wide range of sculptural techniques and strategies, and it includes three-dimensional art theory. Students work with traditional mediums, such as clay, wood, and metal. The course also introduces students to installation and public works as well as time-based and kinetic art. (Materials Fee: $25.00) 125MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 222: Printmaking IV ART 226: Ceramics II Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: ART 221. Prerequisites: ART 225. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course is designed for semi-professional students wishing Students study past and present practices in ceramics with a to major in art with an emphasis in printmaking. Students work variety of techniques and clay bodies to further their skills in the closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for medium. The course places a strong emphasis on ceramics a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting studio operations, particularly the formulation of clay bodies and analyzing one's artwork. Students should contact the and glazes. Topics include firing and construction of kilns. The instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the course emphasizes combining hand building and throwing medium. Students are required to visit exhibitions and attend techniques to produce artworks. (Materials Fee: $25.00) field trips to view artworks. ART 227: Ceramics III ART 223: Woodworking and Furniture Design I Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: ART 226. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This advanced-level ceramics course focuses on ceramics This course teaches woodworking skills and covers the nature studio operations, particularly the formulation of clay bodies of hardwoods and softwoods, the mechanics of shaping/ and glazes. Topics may include alternative firings and joining, and the proper and safe use of hand and power construction of kilns. The course emphasizes combining hand tools. It examines both traditional and contemporary work building and/or throwing techniques to produce artworks. The and emphasizes the creation of individual, unique designs. course covers a broad definition of ceramics as a medium and Students are required to pay a materials fee. NOTE: In times of investigates mixed medium designs. (Materials Fee: $25.00) unusual/extreme circumstances, instructional format, processes (construction and finishing techniques such as use of tools), ART 228: Ceramics IV assignments, and materials may be altered to accommodate a Units: 3 home studio or alternative modalities. (Materials Fee: $25) Prerequisites: ART 227. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 224: Woodworking and Furniture Design II Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Prerequisites: ART 223. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This course is designed for advanced students wishing to major Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. in art with an emphasis in ceramics. Students work closely Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting Students continue developing their woodworking skills by and analyzing one's artwork. Students should contact the examining traditional and contemporary woodworking designs instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the and practices and by learning intermediate-level hand medium. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and power tool techniques. The course emphasizes studio and/or online. (Materials Fee: $25.00) operations, particularly safety and electric and hand operated machine maintenance. It requires students to express concepts ART 229: Woodworking and Furniture Design III and ideas through the wood medium. NOTE: In times of Units: 3 unusual/extreme circumstances, instructional format, processes Prerequisites: ART 224. (construction and finishing techniques such as glazing/firings), Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC assignments, and materials may be altered to accommodate a Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. home studio or alternative modalities. (Materials Fee: $25) Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring ART 225: Ceramics I This advanced woodworking and furniture design course Units: 3 requires students to express concepts and ideas through Prerequisites: None the wood medium. Students continue developing their Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC woodworking skills by examining traditional and contemporary Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. woodworking designs and practices and applying these Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring references into their work. Topics include advanced-level hand and/or power tool techniques, studio operations, particularly This introductory ceramics course explores techniques, safety and electric and hand operated machine maintenance, materials, and traditions of pottery. It emphasizes hand building and mixed media woodworking techniques. (Materials Fee: and/or use of the potter's wheel and encourages the creative $25) use of clay, glaze, technique, and firing. (Materials Fee: $25) 126 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 230: Installation Art ART 241: Painting III: Acrylic Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: ART 212. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. ART 202, ART 205, ART 212, ART 215, ART 241, and ART 242. Course Typically Offered: Fall Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Installation art is a form of advanced multimedia sculpture Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring that is interactive and site-specific. In this in-depth and hands- on study of installation art, students learn about the historical This course teaches advanced acrylic painting practices. and theoretical development of contemporary art practices, Students further develop technical and conceptual skills such as installation, hybrid-media environments, land art, and acquired in previous sections, learn new techniques, traditional art media used in conjunction with photography, and produce a series of works that exhibit awareness of video, computing, and/or performance. Students also contemporary painting. Lectures interpret historic and current conceptualize and produce installation, interactive, and site- painters. Students continue to develop their own style and specific artworks. (Materials Fee: $25.00) their portfolios. The course utilizes digital technology, such as cameras, computers, and projection devices. ART 232: Video Art Units: 3 ART 242: Painting III: Watercolor Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: ART 215. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Course Typically Offered: Fall even years ART 202, ART 205, ART 212, ART 215, ART 241, and ART 242. Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course introduces video as a medium of artistic expression, Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. personal narrative, and cultural inquiry. Students examine the Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring art-historical origins of video and its evolution over time as well as its place in contemporary art. Through a project-based This course teaches advanced watercolor painting practices. structure, students learn historical, theoretical, and creative Students further develop technical and conceptual skills uses of video art through hands-on video capture, editing, and acquired in previous sections, learn new techniques, presentation in a gallery setting. and produce a series of works that exhibit awareness of contemporary painting. Lectures interpret historic and current ART 234: Kinetic Art painters. Students continue to develop their own style and Units: 3 their portfolios. The course utilizes digital technology, such as Prerequisites: None cameras, computers, and projection devices. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. ART 244: Digital Media for the Visual Artist Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring every 3rd sem Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course covers the history and practice of movement in Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC art. It combines the use, study, and practice of movement, Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. machines, and performance as a means of personal Course Typically Offered: Spring expression, social intervention, political act, and cultural reclamation and as a noncommercial strategy of This studio art course investigates the intersection of visual contemporary art. Students design, plan, and exhibit kinetic representation, contemporary art, and two-dimensional artworks that pertain to the historical movements covered. digital imaging and motion-based artwork from an aesthetic, historical, and artistic perspective for the contemporary ART 239: Woodworking and Furniture Design IV artist. Technical instruction in the course, through the use of Units: 3 digital imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop, globally Prerequisites: ART 229. supports the study of artistic and theoretical principles. Students Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC develop problem-solving and visual strategies that deepen Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. their understanding of the connection among technology, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring personal expression, and the universal language of art. Projects emphasize the creation of original artwork with current software This course is designed for semi-professional students wishing and hardware solutions. to major in art with an emphasis in woodworking and furniture design. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's artwork. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Students are required to visit exhibitions and attend field trips to view artworks. (Materials Fee: $25.00) 127MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 245: Digital Art and Media ART 254: Understanding and Appreciating the Photographic Units: 3 Image Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: None Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of digital art as well as hands-on This course surveys the history of still photography from the production of digital art using a broad range of applications discipline's inception to the present digital age. It explores the and computer hardware. The course introduces students to medium of photography as a form of visual communication in raster, vector, web, and time-based applications that allow historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts. Topics include them to learn the fundamentals of visual communication, the evolution of photographic images, process, delivery, and website production, manipulation of images, design elements, meaning. Students develop visual literacy through verbal and animation, sound, video and the production of multimedia written analyses. artworks. Students create digital projects that fuse the theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects of digitally based ART 258: Ancient to Gothic Art art through the practical application of computer-based skills. Units: 3 (Materials Fee: $15.00) C-ID ART-250. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 251: Digital Photography Lecture 3 hours. Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This course surveys Western art from antiquity through the Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Gothic period. It emphasizes the content and stylistic aspects Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer of major art works in painting, sculpture, architecture, and craft media. C-ID ARTH-110. This course uses digital cameras and the computer as tools to create photographic imagery. Students explore camera ART 259: History of Renaissance to Modern Art controls, principles of composition, and photographic theory Units: 3 and techniques using state-of-the-art hardware and programs. Prerequisites: None Students learn editing techniques appropriate for print and Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC electronic presentations. The course addresses ethical Lecture 3 hours. considerations regarding image manipulation and ownership. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Students may use digital camera images, scanned negatives, or slides to produce a final print portfolio. This course surveys Western art history from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Students examine how religious, cultural, ART 253: Applied Digital Photography and philosophical aspects of European and American society Units: 3 impacted and were influenced by art and architecture during Prerequisites: ART 251. this time. C-ID ARTH-120. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. ART 260: History of Modern Art Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course provides students with the opportunity to apply Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in skills acquired in ART 251 while developing a personal style. It ART 260H. offers a continued study of photographic theory, composition, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC content development, digital camera/hardware handling, Lecture 3 hours. studio lighting, and industry standards for color management, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring along with archival inkjet printing techniques. Students explore photography as a visual language and expressive medium, This course covers European and American art forms, primarily and they observe industry practices through onsite visits to local painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the beginning of business, galleries, and service bureaus. The course culminates modernism in the mid-19th century to contemporary art in with the creation and production of a professional portfolio of the 21st century. Students learn to delineate themes, styles, photographs. and techniques indicative of various time periods and to differentiate among 20th and 21st century art movements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ART 260 and ART 260H. C-ID ARTH-150. 128 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 260H: History of Modern Art (Honors) ART 264: Painting III: Oils Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: ART 214. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ART 260. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course furthers the development of contemporary painting practices in oil paint at an advanced level. Students develop This honors course introduces highly motivated students to a series of paintings based on a conceptual narrative and European and American art forms, primarily painting, sculpture, apply learned techniques and paint applications as explored and architecture, from the beginning of modernism in the through individual investigations and collective research. The mid-19th century to contemporary art in the 21st century. assigned projects integrate digital technology into the design, Students learn to delineate themes, styles, and techniques production, and documentation of the course work. Field trips indicative of various time periods and to differentiate among to galleries and museum exhibitions, both on campus and in 20th and 21st century art movements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: the community, are required. Credit for ART 260 or ART 260H. C-ID ARTH-150. ART 270: History and Theory of Museum and Gallery Exhibition ART 261: Mixed Media Figure Studies III Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: ART 211. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course introduces students to the history of museum Students advance their methods and practice in the and gallery exhibitions as well as to the theories behind investigation of the human figure as a departure point for historical and contemporary museum and gallery exhibition personalized content. Objectives include the advancement of design. It relates these ideas to art exhibitions and to those in conceptual strategies and a mastery of mixed media practice anthropological and science collections. Topics include the to create a portfolio of introspective figurative artworks. Students history of exhibition and display, exhibition design and layout, study contemporary and historical figurative artists as they collections management, and publicity. Museum visits may be work from both live models and photographic references required. using a variety of selected wet and dry mixed media along with alternative materials. Field trips to gallery and museum ART 271: Museum and Gallery Exhibition exhibitions, both on campus and in the community, are Units: 3 required. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU ART 263: Figure Drawing III Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: Spring Prerequisites: ART 213. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among This course introduces students to the practical requirements of ART 100, ART 102, ART 200, ART 203, ART 213, ART 263. operating a museum or gallery. It provides detailed information Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC about museum and gallery departments and roles as well as Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. experiences with planning, designing, installing, and publicizing Course Typically Offered: Spring exhibitions. Students in this advanced course create drawings of human ART 290: Landmarks of Art figures in the classroom and from invented, found, and Units: 3 appropriated sources. Students further develop technical Prerequisites: None and conceptual skills acquired in previous courses, learn Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC new techniques, and produce a series of works that exhibit Lecture 3 hours. awareness of contemporary figure drawing. The course Course Typically Offered: Fall emphasizes self-expression and experimentation as students develop their own style and portfolios. Field trips to gallery and This course examines art and architecture on-site within cultural museum exhibitions are required. and historical contexts. It surveys selected periods of Western and non-Western traditions and emphasizes understanding the visual arts representing the tradition and evolution of a culture, from ancient to contemporary periods. The course incorporates field trips to local artistic landmarks and emphasizes art appreciation in travel experiences. The course includes preparatory lectures and on-site discussions. Students are required to attend several field trips and provide their own transportation to each site. Field trip dates and locations will be announced on the first class meeting. 129MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ART 292: Internship Studies ART 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Units: 0.5-3 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per unit. unit. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. internship studies concurrently. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Education is This course provides students the opportunity to apply the intended for students employed in a job directly related to theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship their major. It allows such students the opportunity to apply position in a professional setting under the instruction of a the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the employability skills development, and examination of the world student's career plans. Students may not earn more than of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than community college attendance. 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during Astronomy community college attendance. Astronomy, the oldest of scientific studies, has played a vital ART 295: Visual Art/Professional Practice role in the development of modern science. Astronomers Units: 3 study the formation, composition, and evolution of various Prerequisites: None objects, such as planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, Acceptable for Credit: CSU and the universe itself. Students take astronomy courses Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. to prepare for a major in astronomy or to fulfill general Course Typically Offered: Spring education requirements. Career options include, but are not limited to, science journalist, museum or planetarium Designed for the student artist, this course examines director, observatory technician, telescope operator, optics or professional practices, career goals, and educational choices electronics technician, computer programmer, mathematician, in the visual arts. Students produce a professional portfolio that formal or informal educator, spacecraft or instrument engineer, includes documentation of artwork, resume, an artist statement and biography, digital image files, and printed images. Students also collaboratively organize, prepare, and produce an exhibition in a gallery setting. The course includes visits to museums, galleries, college art programs, artists#lectures and/ or design businesses. ART 296: Topics in Art Units: 1-3 Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1 hour. Lecture 2 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Art that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. 130 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses mission data analyst, earth or space scientist, and astronomer/ ASTR 120: Life in the Universe astrophysicist. Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Academic and Career Pathway: Math and Sciences Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Contact Information Course Typically Offered: Fall Chair: Joe Salamon(Physical Department: Physical Sciences This introductory course surveys the study for life in the Sciences) Office: Building OC3600, universe from the Big Bang to implications of contact with an Dean: Michael Fino 760.757.2121 x6924 extraterrestrial civilization while emphasizing the nature and https://www.miracosta.edu/ process of physical science. Topics include the formation and academics/degree-and- evolution of the universe; origin, evolution, and nature of life on certificate-programs/math- Earth; the definitions of life and habitability; potential in our solar and-sciences/astronomy/ system and beyond; methods of interstellar communication index.html and travel; implications of contact; science vs. pseudoscience; and the status of the search to-date. Full-Time Faculty ASTR 201: Introductory Astronomy Rica Sirbaugh French Units: 3 Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by Courses the math placement process. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC ASTR 101: Descriptive Astronomy Lecture 3 hours. Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: Spring even years Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This introductory course surveys the entire universe with an Lecture 3 hours. emphasis on analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer skills. Topics include celestial mechanics, electromagnetic radiation and atomic physics, relativity, stellar structure and This introductory course surveys the entire universe while evolution, black holes, formation and evolution of planetary emphasizing the nature and process of physical science. systems, galaxies, and cosmology. The course is directed Topics include the Earth-Sun-Moon system, Newtons laws and toward students with a strong preparation and interest in gravitation, historical astronomy, electromagnetic radiation, science and mathematics. optics and telescopes, stars, galaxies, cosmology, and astrobiology. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after ASTR 292: Internship Studies ASTR 201. Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None ASTR 101L: Descriptive Astronomy Laboratory Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Units: 1 unit. Prerequisites: ASTR 101 or ASTR 201. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in ASTR 101 or approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative ASTR 201 if prerequisite not met. work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides students the opportunity to apply the This is a hands-on introduction to the methods and techniques theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship of observational astronomy and data/error analysis. It position in a professional setting under the instruction of a emphasizes the collection, presentation, and interpretation of faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students astronomical observations. Students learn to use a planisphere, to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals read star charts, and operate small telescopes. Through indoor employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, activities, computer simulations, and by making naked-eye, employability skills development, and examination of the world binocular, and telescopic observations, students explore of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students such topics as seasons, lunar phases, rotation of the Earth, must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new optics, light and spectroscopy, planets, stars, galaxies, and site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than cosmology. 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance. 131MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Athletics ATHL 102: Intercollegiate Volleyball, Women Units: 3.5 Athletics courses emphasize advanced-level instruction Prerequisites: None and training in skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership Enrollment Limitation: Audition. necessary to participate in intercollegiate athletics. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Academic and Career Pathway: Health Sciences Laboratory 10.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Contact Information This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in Chair: Robert Fulbright Department: Kinesiology, volleyball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students Dean: Al Taccone Health and Nutrition develop team-playing skills by interacting with opponents, https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OC4800, teammates, coaches, and officials. (May be repeated three academics/degree-and- 760.795.6811 times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, certificate-programs/health- maximum credit, 4 units. sciences/athletics/index.html ATHL 103: Intercollegiate Beach Volleyball, Women Courses Units: 3.5 Prerequisites: None ATHL 100: Volleyball Techniques Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Units: 0.5-1 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: None Laboratory 10.50 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Course Typically Offered: Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. This course emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training Course Typically Offered: Fall in beach volleyball. Students develop skills, techniques, and strategies that are applied to intercollegiate beach volleyball competition. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. ATHL 117: Basketball Competition Units: 0.5-1 Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in basketball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students apply basketball rules to game situations and integrate strategies into competition and team play. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. ATHL 118: Basketball Techniques Units: 0.5-1 Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This activity class integrates basketball theory with practice in game situations. Topics include basketball techniques, strategies, and rules. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. This activity class integrates volleyball theory with practice in game situations. Topics include volleyball techniques, strategies, and rules. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. 132 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses ATHL 134: Soccer ATHL 188: Intercollegiate Soccer, Men/Women Units: 0.5-1 Units: 3.5 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Laboratory 10.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Typically Offered: Spring This soccer class emphasizes basic fundamentals of individual This class emphasizes an advanced level of instruction and play such as ball control, dribbling, trapping, shooting, and training in soccer skills, techniques, and strategies. Students passing. The course exposes students to the basic rudiments of demonstrate increased proficiency and skill attainment with offensive and defensive tactics through participation in game each repetition. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT situations, often using modified rules to emphasize specific skills, LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. and it introduces and reviews the rules of the game in context. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or Automotive Technology all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. The Automotive Technology program prepares students for ATHL 135: Soccer Competition entry-level automotive mechanic positions and provides training Units: 1 for persons already employed in the industry. Automotive Prerequisites: None courses also prepare students for various state licenses Enrollment Limitation: Audition. and national certifications, including tests administered by Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Automotive Service Excellence (ASE). Career options include Laboratory 3 hours. auto mechanic/repair technician, professional automotive Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer detailer, service manager, and parts specialist. Potential employers include automotive dealerships and independent This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training repair facilities. in soccer skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students apply soccer rules to game situations and integrate strategies Academic and Career Pathway: Business and Technology into competition and team play. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, Contact Information maximum credit, 4 units. Chair: Paul Katson Department: Automotive ATHL 171: Intercollegiate Basketball, Men/Women Units: 2 Dean: Al Taccone Technology Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Audition. https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OC4800, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 6 hours. academics/degree-and- 760.795.6811 Course Typically Offered: Fall certificate-programs/business- This class emphasizes an intermediate level of instruction and training in basketball skills, techniques, strategies, and and-technology/automotive- leadership. Students develop team-playing skills by interacting with opponents, teammates, coaches, and officials. Students technology/ develop increased proficiency and skill development with each repetition. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT Full-Time Faculty LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. Paul Katson ATHL 172: Intercollegiate Basketball, Men/Women Steve Vail (Advanced) Arnoldo Williams Units: 1.5 Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This class emphasizes instruction and training in advanced basketball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students develop team-playing skills by interacting with opponents, teammates, coaches, and officials. Students develop increased proficiency and skill development with each repetition. (May be repeated three times.) UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. 133MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Associate Degree afford students with limited time and/or economic constraints the means to quickly enter the industry as an entry level lube Associate in Arts Degree tech, lot porter, detailer, parts counter salesperson, technician's Automotive Technology assistant, or entrepreneur. Students may earn the above-named associate degree by Program Student Learning Outcome Statement completing a certificate of achievement and the general education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate Upon completion of this program, students will be prepared in Arts degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should to pass the G1 ASE examination. meet with a MiraCosta counselor to identify required courses and to develop a written educational plan for the specific Required courses: 4 degree or certificate they wish to earn. AUTO 100 Basic Motorcycle Maintenance and 4 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement AUTO 102 Small Engine Repair 4 Upon completion of this program, students will possess AUTO 105 Preventive Maintenance and Engine the knowledge and skills necessary to perform brake, Performance 4 suspension, engine, and electrical repair, service, and AUTO 135 16 diagnostic procedures as an entry-level automotive Total Units Automotive Reconditioning and technician. Detailing Certificates Auto Electronic Fundamentals Certificate of Achievement Certificate of Achievement Automotive Electronics, Computers, and Emissions Automotive Technology and/or HVAC This certificate is designed to prepare students for entry- The Automotive Electronics, Computers, Emissions/HVAC level auto mechanic positions at local dealerships and program includes course work in the theory and function of independent repair facilities. Courses are designed to prepare automotive electronics and computer systems. It emphasizes students for various state licenses and national certification. basic automotive electronics, diagnostics, drivability, heating, After completion of these courses, students are qualified ventilation, and air conditioning and/or emission controls, to take the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) tests in including smog-check procedures. engine performance, engine repair, brakes, and steering and suspension, and they will possess entry-level service and repair Program Student Learning Outcome Statement skills on hybrid and alternative-fuel powered vehicles. Students interested in the ASE Certificate as a Master Automobile Upon completion of this program, students will be able to Technician need to complete other specific courses listed in the synthesize knowledge of electrical systems and computer catalog to prepare for the additional test areas. technology to diagnose, service, and repair electrical and computer communication circuits as they relate to Program Student Learning Outcome Statement automotive drive-train and accessory systems, with an emphasis in emissions and/or heating, ventilation, and air Upon completion of this program, students will possess conditioning. the knowledge and skills necessary to perform brake, suspension, engine, and electrical repair, service, and Required courses: diagnostic procedures as an entry-level automotive 2 technician. AUTO 130 Basic Engine Performance 4 4 AUTO 135 Auto Electronic Fundamentals Required courses: 3-6 AUTO 235 Advanced Electronics and AUTO 135 Auto Electronic Fundamentals 4 Electronic Engine Control Systems 13-16 AUTO 140 Automotive Engine Technology 4 Select one of the following: AUTO 141 Automotive Engine Performance 4 and Drivability AUTO 125 CA Smog Technician Engine and & AUTO 225 Emission Control - Level 1 AUTO 160 Automotive Suspension, Steering, 4 and Smog Check Training and Alignment AUTO 220 Inspection Procedures - Level 2 AUTO 161 Automotive Brake Service and 4 HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Repair Conditioning AUTO 200 Automotive Hybrid and Alternative 4 Fuel Vehicles Total Units Certificate of Achievement Total Units 24 Automotive/Motorcycle Maintenance and Light Repair Certificate of Achievement California Smog Check Technician This four course certificate of achievement is designed to serve students who wish to learn automotive, small engine, and The California Smog Check Technician certificate prepares motorcycle maintenance and light repair. It is designed to students for the California Smog Technician Licensing Examination and entry-level positions as smog check 134 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses technicians and positions in the automotive reconditioning AUTO 200 Automotive Hybrid and Alternative 4 field. or AUTO 235 Fuel Vehicles Program Student Learning Outcome Statement AUTO 205 Advanced Electronics and Electronic or AUTO 225 Engine Control Systems Upon completion of this program, students will possess AUTO 220 Automotive Reconditioning and 2-4 the knowledge necessary to sit for the State of California Total Units Paint Fundamentals Smog Technicians Examination and the skills necessary for entry-level employment as a smog technician in a state- Smog Check Training Inspection approved smog test only or smog test and repair facility. Procedures - Level 2 HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air 3 Conditioning Required courses: 41-43 AUTO 102 Preventive Maintenance and Engine 4 Performance Certificate of Proficiency AUTO 125 CA Smog Technician Engine and 4 Automotive Electronics Emission Control - Level 1 This certificate prepares students for the Automotive Service AUTO 225 Smog Check Training Inspection 2 Excellence (ASE) Electrical/Electronic Systems (A6) examination Procedures - Level 2 3-4 as well as for entry-level employment in electrical and electronic areas of the automotive service industry. Please select one course from the following: AUTO 105 Automotive Reconditioning and Detailing Program Student Learning Outcome Statement AUTO 205 Automotive Reconditioning and Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient Paint Fundamentals in the theory and application of Basic and Advanced automotive electrical systems. BUS 135 Personal Selling Total Units 13-14 Required courses: AUTO 135 Certificate of Achievement AUTO 235 Auto Electronic Fundamentals 4 Master Technician 4 Total Units Advanced Electronics and Students interested in the ASE Certificate as a Master Electronic Engine Control Systems 8 Technician need to complete all of the required courses for the MiraCosta College Automotive Technology Certificate of Certificate of Proficiency Achievement as well as several other courses to prepare for the Automotive Quick Service Assistant additional test areas. Students may earn the MiraCosta College Master Technician Certificate of Achievement by completing This certificate offers training in basic automotive service the following courses. and maintenance along with the sales training needed for employment as a quick service technician. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient Program Student Learning Outcome Statement in theory, practiced in hands-on service, and sufficiently prepared to pass the national ASE examination for each of Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient the courses which make up the certificate of achievement. in basic automotive knowledge and relative business practices. Required courses: Required courses: AUTO 105 AUTO 102 Automotive Reconditioning and 4 Preventive Maintenance and Engine 4 or AUTO 125 Detailing BUS 135 Performance Total Units 3 AUTO 135 CA Smog Technician Engine and Emission Personal Selling 7 AUTO 140 Control - Level 1 AUTO 141 Auto Electronic Fundamentals 4 AUTO 155 Automotive Engine Technology 4 Certificate of Proficiency AUTO 156 Automotive Repair: Drive-Train Specialist Automotive Engine Performance 4 AUTO 160 and Drivability This certificate prepares students for entry-level auto mechanic positions at local dealerships and independent repair facilities. AUTO 161 Manual Transmissions and 4 The program focuses on diagnosis and repair of internal engine Transaxles components for domestic and import vehicles. Students take apart engines and transmissions and put them back together Automatic Transmissions and 4 from the ground up. This certificate prepares students for the Transaxles Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) examinations for engine repair and automatic and manual transmissions. Automotive Suspension, Steering, 4 and Alignment Automotive Brake Service and 4 Repair 135MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient Upon completion of this program, students will qualify for in the theory and practice of heavy line/drive-train service entry level positions at automotive facilities that service and and repair. repair electric, hybrid, and alternative fuel vehicles. Required courses: Basic Engine Performance Required courses: 4 AUTO 130 2 AUTO 102 AUTO 140 Automotive Engine Technology 4 Preventive Maintenance and Engine 2 AUTO 155 4 AUTO 130 Performance 4 Manual Transmissions and AUTO 200 AUTO 156 Transaxles 4 Basic Engine Performance 10 Total Units Total Units Automatic Transmissions and 14 Automotive Hybrid and Alternative Transaxles Fuel Vehicles Certificate of Proficiency Courses Automotive Alignment, Brakes, and Suspension AUTO 100: Basic Motorcycle Maintenance and Small Engine This certificate prepares students for the Automotive Service Repair Excellence (ASE) Suspension and Steering (A4) and Brakes (A5) Units: 4 examinations and for entry-level employment in the suspension Prerequisites: None and brake areas of the automotive service industry. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient This introductory course combines theory with practical in theory, practiced in hands-on service, and sufficiently experience to provide students with the necessary skills to prepared to pass the ASE examination in each of the perform two- and four-cycle small engine maintenance, tune- courses which constitute the certificate of proficiency. up, and repair. The course covers the operation, maintenance, and repair of landscaping management equipment as well Required courses: as an intensive study of the theory and repair of motorcycle systems. The course is designed for students without small AUTO 160 Automotive Suspension, Steering, 4 engine experience and those who wish to acquire entry level and Alignment skills in motorcycle maintenance and repair. AUTO 161 Automotive Brake Service and 4 AUTO 102: Preventive Maintenance and Engine Performance Repair Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Total Units 8 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Certificate of Proficiency Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Basic Engine Performance Designed to develop an understanding of the operation, care, This certificate prepares students for the Automotive Service preventive maintenance, and light repair of the automobile, Excellence (ASE) Engine Performance (A8) examination and for this course covers all major systems and components, including entry-level employment in the engine performance area of the tires, wheels, brakes, suspensions, characteristics of fuel, oil, automotive service industry. and lubricants; maintenance of smog devices; basic engine performance, automotive electronics procedures; and safety Program Student Learning Outcome Statement factors. Students apply hands-on service, diagnostic, and light repair procedures to prepare them for entry level positions in Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient the automotive industry. C-ID AUTO-110X. in the theory and practice of engine repair and engine performance. Required courses: Automotive Engine Technology AUTO 140 4 AUTO 141 Automotive Engine Performance 4 and Drivability Total Units 8 Certificate of Proficiency Basic Engine Performance, Electric, Hybrid, and Alternative Fuel Vehicles This certificate prepares students for entry level positions at automotive facilities that service and repair electric, hybrid, and alternative fuel vehicles. 136 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses AUTO 105: Automotive Reconditioning and Detailing AUTO 140: Automotive Engine Technology Units: 4 Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course covers interior and exterior detailing processes, This course introduces students to automotive engine including identification of paint condition and types, use of car- mechanical theory and repair. Topics include four-cycle care chemicals, machine polishing, maintenance of the paint engine theory and operation, lubrication and cooling system surface, and customer communication. The course also covers service and repair, and engine removal and installation. In inspection procedures for roadworthiness and safety, including the on ground or hybrid course students disassemble, inspect, an overview of the retail certification processes for used vehicles and assemble engine blocks and cylinder heads to factory prior to sale. specifications. In the 'online only' course students perform the same lab tasks in a virtual environment. This course prepares AUTO 125: CA Smog Technician Engine and Emission Control students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A1 Engine - Level 1 Repair examination. Units: 4 Prerequisites: None AUTO 141: Automotive Engine Performance and Drivability Acceptable for Credit: CSU Units: 4 Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Prerequisites: None Course Typically Offered: Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. This course (plus other requirements and course work) prepares Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring students to qualify for the California Smog Check Technician Examination using Nissan and other Asian manufacturer- This engine performance course covers diagnostics, service, specific and standard Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) and repair of fuel, ignition, starting, charging, emission, and materials. The course covers the following BAR-certified course: computer systems. Students use state-of-the-art equipment to Engine and Emission Control Training Level 1 (formerly known as diagnose and repair problems using proper repair techniques, the Clean Air Car course). automotive safety, and service protocol. This course helps prepare students for the Automotive Service Excellence AUTO 130: Basic Engine Performance (ASE) A8 Engine Performance examination and entry-level Units: 2 employment as engine performance technicians. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU AUTO 155: Manual Transmissions and Transaxles Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Units: 4 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course introduces students to the theory and operation Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. of the internal combustion engine. Topics include cooling, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring lubrication, ignition, fuel systems, and emission control systems, as well as maintenance and servicing procedures. It also This course introduces the theory, service, and repair of manual introduces students to hybrid technology and computerized transmissions (RWD) and manual transaxles (FWD). Students systems, and prepares them for AUTO 141 Automotive Engine learn to identify, evaluate, service, remove, and replace Performance and Driveability. transmissions and transaxles. Topics include theory, service, and repair of manual and hydraulic clutch systems and AUTO 135: Auto Electronic Fundamentals driveline components. (Note: When the course is taught online, Units: 4 the lab tasks and instructor demonstration are performed in a Prerequisites: None virtual environment.) The course helps students prepare for the Acceptable for Credit: CSU Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A3 Manual Transmission Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. examination. C-ID AUTO-130X. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course prepares students for the study of automotive electrical and electronic computer control systems. It covers the fundamentals of electricity, electromagnetism, electromagnetic induction, electronics, and D/C and A/C current theory. The course provides in-depth coverage of voltage, amperage, resistance, and Ohms Law, and it emphasizes electronic principles and proper use of a Digital Volt Ohm Meter (DVOM). Topics include the overall theory, service, and testing of the battery, charging system, starter, and ignition. This class prepares students for the ASE A6 Exam and California State Headlight Adjusters license. 137MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses AUTO 156: Automatic Transmissions and Transaxles AUTO 200: Automotive Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles Units: 4 Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Advisory: AUTO 102 or AUTO 130 Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 3.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course introduces the theory, service, and repair of automatic transmissions (RWD) and automatic transaxles This course covers the theory, service, safety procedures, and (FWD). Students learn to identify, evaluate, service, remove, and repair of automotive hybrid and alternative-fuel powered replace transmissions and transaxles. Topics include theory, vehicles. It emphasizes specialized tools, equipment, and service, and repair of electronic assist automatic transmission component failure analysis. Students learn the complex components and related driveline components. (Note: theories of high voltage DC electrical systems, regenerative When the course is taught online, the lab tasks and instructor braking, biodiesel, natural gas, propane, alcohol, hydrogen, demonstration are performed in a virtual environment.) This and algea-based alternative fuel systems, coupled with course helps prepare students for the Automotive Service manufacturer-specific service and repair protocol. This course Excellence (ASE) A2 Automatic Transmission examination. C-ID prepares students for entry-level employment as hybrid vehicle AUTO-120X. technicians and introduces them to existing and future alternative fuel technologies. Note: When the course is offered AUTO 160: Automotive Suspension, Steering, and Alignment 100 percent online, students perform lab tasks in a virtual Units: 4 environment. C-ID ALTF-100X. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU AUTO 205: Automotive Reconditioning and Paint Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Fundamentals Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 4 Prerequisites: None This course covers automotive passenger car and light truck Acceptable for Credit: CSU alignment, steering, and suspension systems. It emphasizes Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. the theory and function of modern front- and rear-wheel drive Course Typically Offered: Spring suspension systems and equipment, safety procedures, proper service techniques, component failure analysis, and repair. This course covers procedures for automotive reconditioning Students practice alignment procedures on state-of-the-art and paint refinishing fundamentals. Topics include exterior alignment equipment. This course prepares students for the and interior cosmetic reconditioning processes consisting of Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A4 Suspension and paint touch-up, bumper repair, interior surface repair, rotary Steering examination. Note: When the course is offered online, polishing, and introduction to paintless dent removal (PDR). The lab tasks and instructor demonstration are performed in a course also covers automotive business start-up procedures. virtual environment. AUTO 220: HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning AUTO 161: Automotive Brake Service and Repair Units: 3 Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Summer Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course covers the fundamental theories, diagnosis, service, This course covers the theory, service, and repair of hydraulic and repair practices of automotive air conditioning and brake, antilock brake, traction control, and regenerative brake heating systems. Topics include the procedures of recovering systems. Students learn complete service and repair of front the refrigerant, replacing parts, evacuating, charging the air and rear brake systems. The course includes measuring and conditioning units, retrofitting, and computer-controlled climate machining brake rotors and drums to factory specifications, control systems. This course helps prepare students to pass the using proper safety protocols, diagnostic strategies, and repair Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A7 heating, ventilation, techniques. Students practice these techniques on state-of- and air conditioning test. C-ID AUTO-170X. the-art stationary and on-the-car brake lathe equipment. This course prepares students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A5 Brakes examination. 138 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses AUTO 225: Smog Check Training Inspection Procedures - Level AUTO 296: Topics in Automotive Technology 2 Units: 1-3 Units: 2 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1 hour. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Lecture 2 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course (plus other requirements and course work) prepares students to qualify for the California Smog Check Technician This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Examination using Nissan and other Asian manufacturer- Automotive Technology that are not included in regular course specific and standard Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and materials. The course covers the Smog Check Training given its own title and 296 number designation in the class Inspection Procedures Level 2 BAR-certified course. schedule. AUTO 235: Advanced Electronics and Electronic Engine AUTO 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Control Systems Units: 1-4 Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: AUTO 135. Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Acceptable for Credit: CSU unit. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. This course covers advanced automotive electrical systems Acceptable for Credit: CSU and computerized engine control systems as they relate Course Typically Offered: To be arranged to fuel/air management, ignition, emission controls, and accessory electronics. It provides in-depth coverage of engine Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are management sensors, actuators, and transaxle electronic employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such controls, and it emphasizes OBD II systems and computerized students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their CAN BUS communications. The course includes infotainment discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities systems and hybrid/EV safety, and it prepares students for the and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, ASE A6 certifiction exam in automotive electrical and electronic employability skills development, and examination of the world systems. of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative AUTO 292: Internship Studies work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship Units: 0.5-3 studies during community college attendance. Prerequisites: None Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Biology unit. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center Biology is the science of life and living organisms, including their approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. Students take biology courses to prepare for a biology Acceptable for Credit: CSU major, to fulfill general education requirements, and to meet Course Typically Offered: To be arranged prerequisites for related courses. A bachelor's degree in biology can lead to careers in areas such as health sciences, This course provides students the opportunity to apply the biotechnology, research, environmental sustainability, marine theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship science, and education. position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Academic and Career Pathway: Math and Sciences to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance. 139MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta College. * Students completing IGETC may be awarded the degree, but they must complete a course from Area IC: Oral Communication to meet CSU admission requirements. ** Students must use the CSU-GE Breadth or IGETC general education pattern for STEM majors to complete the degree in 60 units. This allows for the completion of 6 units of non-STEM general education coursework after transfer. Please see a counselor for further details. Program Student Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of the program, students are able to: Contact Information apply their understanding of the interconnections and interactions of molecular, cellular, and organismal levels Chair: Suzie Bailey Department: Biological of biological organization to the evaluation of biological Dean: Michael Fino Sciences phenomena. https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OC3600, demonstrate their understanding of the relationship academics/degree-and- 760.757.2121 x6924 between molecular, cellular, and organism-level structure certificate-programs/math- and the relevant cellular, organismal, and ecological and-sciences/biology/ contexts in which they arose through adaptation. index.html apply the process of science and appropriate quantitative skills to the analysis, interpretation and evaluation of Full-Time Faculty Pedro Morgado biological phenomena at various levels of biological Jeanine Sepulveda organization. Suzie Bailey John Thomford Raymond Clark Tina Walker Required courses: Stacey Hull Janelle West BIO 202 Jeff Ihara BIO 204 Foundations of Biology: Evolution, 4 Himgauri Kulkarni Biodiversity, and Organismal Biology or BIO 204H Associate Degrees Foundations of Biology: 4 Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Associate in Science Degree and Molecular Biology Biology for Transfer Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Students completing this associate degree will have completed Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology lower-division major preparation requirements for a biology (Honors) degree, an emphasis or option within a biology degree, or a degree considered similar to biology at a participating List A: General Chemistry I: For Science 5 California State University (CSU) campus. Following transfer CHEM 150 Majors to a participating CSU campus, students will be required to complete no more than 60 units to obtain a bachelor’s or CHEM 150H General Chemistry I: For Science Majors degree; however, some CSU campuses may require additional CHEM 151 (Honors) lower-division major preparation. This degree may not be appropriate preparation for students transferring to a CSU or CHEM 151H General Chemistry II: For Science 5 campus not accepting this degree or to a university or college MATH 150 Majors that is not part of the CSU system. Students should consult with a MiraCosta counselor for further information regarding General Chemistry II: For Science Majors the most efficient pathway to transfer as a biology major and (Honors) to determine which CSU campuses are participating in this program. Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 5 To complete the degree, students must fulfill the following requirements: or MATH 150H Calculus and Analytic Geometry I (Honors) Choose one sequence below: 8 PHYS 111 Introductory Physics I & PHYS 112 and Introductory Physics II Complete a minimum of 60 CSU-transferable semester units. PHYS 151 Principles of Physics I Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or \"P\" & PHYS 152 and Principles of Physics II or better. Complete the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or IGETC (Plan C or PHYS 151H Principles of Physics I (Honors) (p. 84))* general education pattern.** or PHYS 152H Principles of Physics II (Honors) Obtain a minimum CSU-transferable GPA of 2.0. Total Units 31 140 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses NOTE: Students are strongly advised to select courses that BIO 105: Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society meet lower-division major preparation requirements at their Units: 3 transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, and Prerequisites: None American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. Advisory: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility determined by the English placement process. Courses Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. BIO 102: Introductory Biology: Ecology and Environmental Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Biology Units: 4 This introductory course relates basic biology to the emerging Prerequisites: None field of biotechnology. Topics include fundamental chemical Advisory: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility determined by processes common to all cells, biomolecular chemistry, cellular the English placement process. and molecular biology, classical and molecular genetics, and Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC the molecular basis of immunology and cancer. The course Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. highlights current advances in biotechnology, such as cloning, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring recombinant DNA technology, and gene therapy as well as the applications, social consequences, and ethical implications This general education life science course is intended for non- of biology and biotechnology in medicine and agriculture. science track students. Using an interdisciplinary approach, UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 103, BIO 105, BIO 110, or students explore ecology and address current environmental BIO 111. issues while seeking sustainable solutions. Course activities may include lectures, group work, lab observations and BIO 106: Introductory Biology: Infectious Diseases--A Global experimentation, simulation exercises, and/or field trips. Concern Units: 3 BIO 103: Introductory Biology: Animal Diversity Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Advisory: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 3 hours. BIO 202. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer (odd yrs) Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. This biology course introduces infectious diseases and Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer causative agents affecting human health on a global scale. It covers basic characteristics of selected pathogens This life sciences course challenges students to think critically and interrelationships between humans, other animals, and demonstrate hypothetico-deductive reasoning within basic and the environment. The course highlights ancient and biological concepts, such as evolution, ecology, behavior, recent outbreaks of human diseases and discusses factors physiology, and development, while focusing on diversity within contributing to disease emergence as well as mechanisms of the animal kingdom. This course is intended for non-science disease control and prevention. majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 103, BIO 105, BIO 110, or BIO 111. BIO 107: Introductory Biology: Marine Biology Units: 4 BIO 104: Introductory Biology: Botany (Plant Life) Prerequisites: None Units: 4 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: None Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This general education life science course introduces basic biological concepts in the context of learning about life in This introductory course examines plant anatomy, physiology, the ocean. The course emphasizes organismal diversity, how and classification. It provides a broad perspective of biological animals have adapted to the physical environment and concepts and principles and covers both unicellular and anthropogenic impacts on the ocean including fisheries multicellular systems. Topics include structure and function sustainability. The laboratory portion of the course combines of life, metabolism and manipulation of energy, cell division, classroom investigation with field exploration and emphasizes genetics, taxonomy, and the evolution and adaptation of living the scientific method, current research in the field of marine organisms. Field trips may be required. biology and the development of field sampling techniques. Students attend local field trips. 141MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses BIO 108: Introductory Biology: Ecology of the Oceans BIO 111: Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Units: 3 Professions (Lecture) Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, or ESL 150; MATH 28 or Lecture 3 hours. MATH 30; or eligibility determined by the English or math Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring placement process. Advisory: BIO 111L. This introductory general education life science course Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in examines the ocean from an ecological perspective. Topics BIO 110. include patterns observed in the marine realm, interactions Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC between organisms and their environment, the flow of energy Lecture 3 hours. through food webs, the structure of marine communities, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer and issues related to marine environmental sustainability and human impacts on ocean ecosystems. This entry-level course provides a broad perspective of biological concepts and principles with an emphasis on human BIO 109: Introductory Biology: The Fundamentals of Life on health. Topics include the process of scientific inquiry, the Earth biochemistry of biomolecules, metabolism and manipulation Units: 4 of energy by plants and animals, cell division, classical and Prerequisites: None molecular genetics, development, and the evolution and Enrollment Limitation: Not open to student's with prior credit in adaptation of living organisms. This course is designed for pre- BIO 202. health profession students. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC BIO 103, BIO 105, BIO 110, or BIO 111. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring BIO 111L: Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lab) This is a general course on the study of life and living systems Units: 1 for non-science track students. It introduces the fundamentals Prerequisites: BIO 111, and MATH 28 or MATH 30, or eligibility of biological mechanism and structure while surveying the determined by the math placement process. dominant forms of life on Earth: animals, plants, and microbes. Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in BIO 111 if prerequisite not met. Not open to students with prior credit in BIO 110: Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health BIO 110. Professions (Lecture/Lab) Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Units: 4 Laboratory 3 hours. Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, or ESL 150; MATH 28 or Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer MATH 30; or eligibility determined by the English or math placement process. This laboratory accompaniment to BIO 111 provides direct Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in participation in experiments, demonstrations, and discussions BIO 111 and BIO 111L. related to fundamental concepts in biology. This course further Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC develops the studentâs understanding of topics introduced in Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. the lecture. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer BIO 190: Survey of Human Musculoskeletal System This entry-level course provides a broad perspective of Units: 1 biological concepts and principles with an emphasis on human Prerequisites: None health. Topics include the process of scientific inquiry, the Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in biochemistry of biomolecules, metabolism and manipulation BIO 210 or BIO 210H. of energy by plants and animals, cell division, classical and Acceptable for Credit: CSU molecular genetics, development, and the evolution and Lecture 1 hour. adaptation of living organisms. The laboratory component Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer of this course provides direct participation in experiments, demonstrations, and discussions related to fundamental This course examines the anatomy and physiology of the concepts in biology. This course is designed for pre-health human musculoskeletal system. Upon successful completion, profession students. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 103, students will be able to demonstrate locations, actions, BIO 105, BIO 110, or BIO 111. and roles of skeletal muscles and their associated skeletal attachments. Students study the gross and microscopic anatomy of bones, skeletal muscles, and joints in the human body in health and in disease states through work with human skeletons and models. This course is designed for students enrolled in selected occupational health programs. 142 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses BIO 202: Foundations of Biology: Evolution, Biodiversity, and BIO 210: Human Anatomy Organismal Biology Units: 4 Units: 4 Prerequisites: BIO 110, BIO 111, or a minimum 3-unit course in Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by biology that presents principles of cellular life in its curriculum. the math placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Advisory: BIO 102 or any college-level biology course with BIO 210H. an organismal or populational focus (e.g., BIO 103, BIO 104, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC BIO 106, BIO 107, BIO 109, BIO 110, BIO 204, BIO 220, or BIO 230). Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 6 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course follows a systemic approach by combining microscopic studies of tissues (histology) and organs This course surveys the organismal/meta-organismal half along with gross/visual anatomical studies of the human of biological disciplines. Topics include the taxonomy body. Students learn dissection techniques by working with and physiology of prokaryotes and basal eukaryotes; the preserved mammalian specimens, including human cadavers. taxonomy, developmental biology, and physiology of plants Because the course presents applied clinical situations, it and animals; and single-species population dynamics and is recommended for students majoring in the allied health interspecies interactions in communities. The laboratory field, massage therapy, kinesiology, and physical education. emphasizes evolutionary process and mechanism, phylogeny UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 210 or BIO 210H. C-ID reconstruction, comparative anatomy/physiology/survey of BIOL-110B. plants and animals, and life history evolution. C-ID BIOL 135S (with BIO 204/BIO 204H) and BIOL-140. BIO 210H: Human Anatomy (Honors) Units: 4 BIO 204: Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Prerequisites: BIO 110, BIO 111, or a minimum 3-unit course in Genetics, and Molecular Biology biology that presents principles of cellular life in its curriculum. Units: 4 Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Prerequisites: CHEM 150 or CHEM 150H. BIO 210. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC BIO 204H. Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 6 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course offers highly motivated students an enriched opportunity to understand normal human anatomy and to This course surveys the molecular half of biological disciplines. explore select pathologies (abnormal anatomy). It targets Topics include biological molecules, metabolic biochemistry, students looking for a more challenging academic experience cell biology, molecular biology, and genetics. The laboratory that will include some human dissection and advanced emphasizes modern methods in cell and molecular biology, reading of published scientific material. This enhanced course classical genetics, and experimental design. UC CREDIT blends the systemic approach to the study of human anatomy LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 204 or BIO 204H. C-ID BIOL-135S (with with select regional dissections. It combines microscopic studies BIO 202) and BIOL-190. of tissues (histology) and organs with gross/visual anatomical studies of the human body. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 204H: Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, BIO 210 or BIO 210H. C-ID BIOL-110B. Genetics, and Molecular Biology (Honors) Units: 4 BIO 220: Human Physiology Prerequisites: CHEM 150 or CHEM 150H. Units: 4 Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Prerequisites: BIO 110, BIO 111, BIO 204, BIO 204H, BIO 210, or BIO 204. BIO 210H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Advisory: CHEM 115, CHEM 112, or CHEM 115H. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course surveys the molecular half of biological disciplines. Topics include biological molecules, metabolic biochemistry, This course presents the interrelationships of the various organ cell biology, molecular biology, and genetics. The laboratory systems, based upon the molecular and cellular activities emphasizes modern methods in cell and molecular biology, of the organs that comprise those systems. It emphasizes classical genetics, and experimental design. This honors course the integration of body systems for maintaining homeostasis offers highly motivated students the opportunity to complete, through regulated metabolism and coordinated flow of document, and discuss independent scientific research. information. This course is designed for students majoring in UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 204 or BIO 204H. C-ID pre-medicine, pre-nursing, allied health fields, and physical BIOL-135S (with BIO 202) and BIOL-190. education. C-ID BIOL-120B. 143MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses BIO 230: Introduction to Microbiology BIO 296: Topics in Biology Units: 5 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: BIO 220, CHEM 115, CHEM 115H, CHEM 112, Prerequisites: None CHEM 140, CHEM 150, or CHEM 150H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 1 hour. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 6 hours. Lecture 2 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 4 hours. This course introduces the fundamental concepts of Course Typically Offered: To be arranged microbiology and the use of the scientific method applied to the study of bacteria and other microorganisms. Topics include This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in the history, morphology, genetics, and physiology of microbes. Biology that are not included in regular course offerings. Each The laboratory emphasizes methods for isolating, culturing, Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title identifying, enumerating and controlling bacteria. and 296 number designation in the class schedule. BIO 290: Human Dissection Laboratory BIO 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Units: 1 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: BIO 210 or BIO 210H. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Laboratory 3 hours. unit. Course Typically Offered: Summer Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or This supervised study of human dissection techniques internship studies concurrently. includes a review of dissection procedures as well as practical Acceptable for Credit: CSU experience with human cadavers. The course follows a regional Course Typically Offered: To be arranged approach to human anatomy and covers all major muscle groups, organs, nerves, and blood vessels of the body. It is Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Education is intended for students who are interested in normal anatomy of intended for students employed in a job directly related to the human body, pathology, and the pursuit of careers in the their major. It allows such students the opportunity to apply medical field. the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. BIO 292: Internship Studies Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, Units: 0.5-3 and examination of the world of work as it relates to the Prerequisites: None student's career plans. Students may not earn more than Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience unit. (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center community college attendance. approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. BIO 340: Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Acceptable for Credit: CSU Units: 3 Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Prerequisites: BIO 105, BIO 110, BIO 111, BIO 204, or BIO 204H, and CHEM 150 or CHEM 150H. This course provides students the opportunity to apply the Enrollment Limitation: Only open to students enrolled in the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship bachelor's degree program in biomanufacturing at MiraCosta position in a professional setting under the instruction of a College. faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Lecture 3 hours. to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world This course focuses on the molecular basis of human disease. of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Topics include genetic, metabolic, signaling, developmental, must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new and infectious diseases as well as the biological mechanisms site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than of immunity, cancer, and aging. This course develops students' 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience understanding of the biological basis of human disease that will (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during allow them to evaluate technological advances in therapeutics community college attendance. and diagnostics. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. 144 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Biotechnology Areas of Study & Courses Bachelor's Degree Bachelor of Science Degree The expanding field of biotechnology devotes itself to improving Biomanufacturing human health through the research, development, testing, manufacturing, and marketing of products related to the The biomanufacturing bachelor’s degree program develops biomedical and agricultural industries. The Biotechnology the skills, abilities, and knowledge students need to work in the program provides both the theoretical background and unique environment of biological production. It emphasizes practical experience necessary to gain employment in the the applied, quantitative analysis of biomanufacturing process biotechnology industry. Career paths include research, design and performance to prepare students for employment development, quality control and assurance, manufacturing, in technical or quality positions in the manufacturing sector of analytical testing, and lab technician work. the biotechnology industry, which includes biotherapeutics, diagnostics, supplies and services, and industrial products. Bachelor's Degree Program The biomanufacturing bachelor’s degree program requires the The college is now offering a bachelor's degree in completion of 120 semester units, including 45 units of upper- biomanufacturing. The program builds upon the associate division coursework with a minimum of 12 units in residence at degree program in biomanufacturing, allowing students who MiraCosta College. complete the associate degree or equivalent coursework from other colleges to enter as juniors and earn a baccalaureate. The program builds upon the college's associate degree Information about the program, including eligibility program in biomanufacturing, allowing students who requirements, the application process, and upper-division complete the associate degree or equivalent coursework tuition, is available under Bachelor's Degree. from other colleges to enter as juniors and earn a bachelor's degree. Students earning the college's associate degree in Academic and Career Pathway: Math and Sciences biomanufacturing must complete either the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or the IGETC (Plan C (p. 84)) general education pattern Contact Information to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biomanufacturing. Chair: Barbara Juncosa Department: Biotechnology Lower-Division Major Preparation Dean: Michael Fino Office: Building OC3600, https://www.miracosta.edu/ 760.757.2121 x6874 Overall GPA of 2.0 for all coursework academics/degree-and- Completion of the following lower-division course certificate-programs/math- requirements with no grade less than \"C\" or \"P\": and-sciences/biotechnology/ index.html BTEC 108/BTEC 108H or General biology (BIO 105 or equivalent) Full-Time Faculty CHEM 150/CHEM 150H CHEM 151/CHEM 151H Dominique Ingato BTEC 107 Barbara Juncosa BTEC 110/BTEC 110H Wally Perez Medina BTEC 120 BTEC 210 BTEC 211 BTEC 221 BTEC 222 ENGL 100/ENGL 100H Statistics (BTEC 180/BTEC 180H or equivalent) Application for Admission Students complete the standard online application to the college as well as the Application for the Bachelor of Science in Biomanufacturing, which is available on the Biomanufacturing 145MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Bachelor’s Degree Program webpage (see miracosta.edu/ BTEC 108 Biomanufacturing: From Gene to 3 bachelors). Applications for the fall 2022 cohort become Product available on August 1st and are due in mid-November for priority consideration and are accepted on a rolling basis after or BTEC 108H Biomanufacturing: From Gene to Product this priority deadline until the cohort is full. (Honors) or BIO 105 Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society Certain lower-division courses must be completed or in progress in order to submit an application for admission to the program. BTEC 110 Basic Techniques in Biotechnology 5 Please see the Biomanufacturing Bachelor’s Degree Program webpage for details. or BTEC 110H Basic Techniques in Biotechnology (Honors) Admission/Selection Criteria BTEC 120 Business and Regulatory Practices in 3 BTEC 180 4 Qualified applicants are selected for admission based on a Biotechnology comprehensive review process that gives additional weight to Biostatistics * the following: or BTEC 180H Biostatistics (Honors) BTEC 210 Data Analysis with Excel 1 Percentage of lower-division major preparation completed BTEC 211 Technical Writing for Regulated 1 at the time of applying. Environments Completion of an associate degree in biomanufacturing, research and development, or equivalent. BTEC 221 Bioprocessing: Cell Culture and 1.5 Completion before entry date of BTEC 221 and BTEC 222 (or Scale-up equivalent). Completion of additional 200-level biotechnology, biology, BTEC 222 Bioprocessing: Large Scale 1.5 or chemistry courses or 100-level physics courses not listed in Purification the program requirements. Completion (or partial completion) of CSU-GE (Plan B CHEM 150 General Chemistry I: For Science 5 (p. 78)) or IGETC (Plan C (p. 84)). Majors * GPA in lower-division major preparation courses. Employment in the biotechnology/biomedical industry, or CHEM 150H General Chemistry I: For Science Majors including internships. (Honors) Relevant life experiences or special circumstances, such as disabilities, low family income, first generation college CHEM 151 General Chemistry II: For Science 5 student, DACA/AB 540, former foster youth, veteran status, Majors * and other criteria. or CHEM 151H General Chemistry II: For Science Majors ENGL 100 (Honors) Composition and Reading * 4 or ENGL 100H Composition and Reading (Honors) Required upper-division courses: For more specific information about the comprehensive review BTEC 300 Supply Chain and Enterprise 3 process, please see miracosta.edu/bachelors. Resource Planning in Biomanufacturing Upper-Division Tuition BTEC 310 Biomanufacturing Process Sciences 5 Upper-division coursework costs $130 per unit, which is an BTEC 320 Design of Experiments for 4 additional $84 per unit currently charged for lower-division Biomanufacturing coursework. BTEC 330 Advanced Topics in Quality 4 Program Student Learning Outcome Statements Assurance and Regulatory Affairs BTEC 340 Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing 3 Upon completion of this program, students will be able to BTEC 360 Design of Biomanufacturing 3 Facilities, Critical Utilities, Processes, design and execute a project that identifies possible and Equipment options of new biomanufacturing technologies that serve as process improvements, including technical and financial BTEC 400 Bioprocess Monitoring and Control 4 benefits, and write a report evaluating those options with a final recommendation. BTEC 410 Methods in Quality, Improvements, 4 perform an investigation that requires them to analyze an Investigations, and Audits Out of Specification (OOS) occurrence during a production step in the manufacture of a biological substance, perform BTEC 460 Capstone Seminar in 3 the analysis to justify the batch disposition, and incorporate Biomanufacturing Technologies this into a CAPA (Corrective Action Preventative Action) report. BTEC 470 Capstone Seminar in 3 Biomanufacturing Quality BIO 340 Molecular Mechanisms of Disease 3 BUS 302 Leadership and Personal 3 Development Required lower-division courses: PHIL 302 Bioethics 3 BTEC 107 Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging 3 Trends, Careers, and the Local Industry 146 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses Remaining required lower-division general education 38 or BTEC 108H Biomanufacturing: From Gene to Product and elective coursework. 120 or BIO 105 (Honors) Total Units Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society * Course satisfies a general education requirement on the CSU- BTEC 110 Basic Techniques in Biotechnology 5 GE or IGETC general education pattern. or BTEC 110H Basic Techniques in Biotechnology 3 Associate Degrees BTEC 120 (Honors) 4 Associate in Science Degree BTEC 180 Business and Regulatory Practices in Biomanufacturing Biotechnology Students may earn the associate degree by completing the Biostatistics Certificate of Achievement in Biomanufacturing as well as a general education (GE) pattern of courses. To be eligible for or BTEC 180H Biostatistics (Honors) 1 admission to the bachelor's degree program, students must BTEC 210 1 complete either the CSU-GE (Plan B (p. 78)) or the IGETC (Plan BTEC 211 Data Analysis with Excel C (p. 84)) pattern. Students should meet with a MiraCosta counselor to develop a written educational plan for the specific Technical Writing for Regulated degree they wish to earn. Environments Research and Development BTEC 221 Bioprocessing: Cell Culture and 1.5 Scale-up Students may earn the associate degree by completing the Certificate of Achievement in Research and Development as BTEC 222 Bioprocessing: Large Scale 1.5 well as the general education courses required for MiraCosta Purification College's Associate in Science degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should meet with a MiraCosta counselor to CHEM 150 General Chemistry I: For Science 5 identify required courses and to develop a written educational Majors plan for the specific degree or certificate they wish to earn. or CHEM 150H General Chemistry I: For Science Majors Certificates (Honors) Certificate of Achievement CHEM 151 General Chemistry II: For Science 5 Biomanufacturing Majors This program expands on the skills and theoretical foundation or CHEM 151H General Chemistry II: For Science Majors presented in the bioprocess technology certificate to further (Honors) prepare entry-level technicians for employment in the regulated environment of biomanufacturing. Technicians in this field ENGL 100 Composition and Reading 4 must learn and implement laboratory procedures and use or ENGL 100H Composition and Reading (Honors) specialized laboratory equipment in the production of a cell- based product. Competency in organizational, computational, Select two courses from the following: 2 and communication skills is required. This program is designed to give students the theoretical background and practical BTEC 201 Advanced Cell Culture experience necessary to work effectively in biomanufacturing at the entry level as well as to prepare them for advancement to BTEC 203 Techniques in DNA Amplification the baccalaureate degree in biomanufacturing at MiraCosta BTEC 204 Recombinant DNA College. Graduates of this program can expect to be employed in various capacities, including quality control, quality BTEC 206 Principles of Separation and HPLC assurance, production, process development, and analytical BTEC 207 testing. Techniques in Immunochemistry BTEC 231 and ELISA BTEC 292 Gene Editing Techniques: CRISPR- Cas9 Internship Studies BTEC 299 Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Total Units 39 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Certificate of Achievement Bioprocess Technology Upon completion of this program, students will be able to successfully perform a technical laboratory task common This certificate provides a foundation in, and practical to the biomanufacturing environment by employing the application of, the technologies employed by biotechnology appropriate equipment and tools safely and effectively. companies engaged in the production of cell-derived products from small to large scales. Through a combination of applied Required courses: lecture and hands-on laboratory instruction, students acquire BTEC 107 the confidence, competence, and compliance for technical Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging 3 work in a regulated environment. Bioprocess technologies BTEC 108 Trends, Careers, and the Local 3 encompass the operation of specialized equipment and Industry instrumentation used to produce biopharmaceuticals or reagents utilized by biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and Biomanufacturing: From Gene to academic research labs. Students learn to grow a variety Product of cells, express a biomolecule of interest, and recover the desired biomolecule through a series of purification steps. They 147MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses learn to follow good manufacturing practices by maintaining Required courses: records in order to comply with quality system requirements BTEC 107 and government regulations. This certificate is designed for Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging 3 bioprocess-technician skill development as well as professional BTEC 108 Trends, Careers, and the Local development for those already employed in the industry. or BTEC 108H Industry or BIO 105 or BIO 204 Biomanufacturing: From Gene to 3-4 or BIO 204H Product Program Student Learning Outcome Statement BTEC 110 Upon completion of the program, students will be able or BTEC 110H Biomanufacturing: From Gene to Product to successfully perform a technical laboratory task by (Honors) employing the appropriate equipment and tools, safely and BTEC 120 effectively. Total Units Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society Required courses: Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell BTEC 110 Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology or BTEC 110H Basic Techniques in Biotechnology 5 Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology Basic Techniques in Biotechnology (Honors) (Honors) Basic Techniques in Biotechnology 5 BTEC 120 Business and Regulatory Practices in 3 Biotechnology Basic Techniques in Biotechnology (Honors) BTEC 211 Technical Writing for Regulated 1 3 Environments Business and Regulatory Practices in Biotechnology BTEC 221 Bioprocessing: Cell Culture and 1.5 Scale-up 14-15 BTEC 222 Bioprocessing: Large Scale 1.5 Certificate of Achievement Purification Research and Development Select at least one course from the following: 1-3 This certificate is designed to meet the increasing need for entry-level laboratory technicians, especially in the field of BTEC 107 Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging research and development. Technicians in this field must Trends, Careers, and the Local be proficient in the application of scientific methodology to Industry solve problems. They must learn and implement laboratory procedures and use specialized laboratory equipment. BTEC 108 Biomanufacturing: From Gene to Competency in organizational, computational, and BTEC 108H Product communication skills is required. This program is designed BTEC 210 to give students the theoretical background and practical Biomanufacturing: From Gene to experience necessary to be a bench-level scientist in Product (Honors) both academic and industrial settings. Completion of this program prepares students to gain entry-level employment, Data Analysis with Excel or with additional coursework students can transfer to four-year institutions in the biosciences. Graduates of this BTEC 292 Internship Studies biotechnology program can expect to be employed in various BTEC 299 capacities, including quality control, applied research, product Occupational Cooperative Work development, analytical testing, and academic (basic) Experience research. Total Units 13-15 Certificate of Achievement Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Laboratory Skills Upon completion of the program, students will report This certificate is designed to meet the increasing need for that they were sufficiently developed to meet employer trained and competent associates in laboratory environments. expectations for entry-level performance in a technical The required courses provide students with fundamental laboratory. laboratory skills to start or enhance a career in the biosciences. Students completing this certificate can expect employment Required courses: utilizing their technical skills in the performance of tests BTEC 107 and routine tasks inherent to a wide range of laboratory Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging 3 environments. This certificate is intended for the development of BIO 105 Trends, Careers, and the Local general laboratory skills as well as professional growth for those or BIO 204 Industry already employed in the industry. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Upon completion of the program, students will be able Introductory Biology: Biotechnology 3-4 to successfully perform a technical laboratory task by in Society employing the appropriate equipment and tools, safely and effectively. Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology 148 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses or BIO 204H Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Courses BTEC 110 Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology (Honors) BTEC 107: Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging Trends, Careers, and the Local Industry Basic Techniques in Biotechnology 5 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None or BTEC 110H Basic Techniques in Biotechnology Acceptable for Credit: CSU (Honors) Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring BTEC 120 Business and Regulatory Practices in 3 Biotechnology This course introduces students to the emerging role of biotechnology in modern society. It examines the origins and BTEC 180 Biostatistics 4-5 impact of the biotechnology industry from physiological and or BTEC 180H Biostatistics (Honors) socio-cultural aspects, including how biotechnology advances have transformed individual lives and communities. Topics or MATH 150 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I include new technologies in development and the role of or MATH 150H biotechnology in addressing societal challenges, such as BTEC 210 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I (Honors) the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Students are oriented to biotechnology careers, employment trends, and Data Analysis with Excel 1 the required high-tech, high-touch workforce skills necessary for success in a globally and locally robust professional CHEM 150 General Chemistry I: For Science 5 environment. or CHEM 150H Majors BTEC 108: Biomanufacturing: From Gene to Product CHEM 151 General Chemistry I: For Science Majors Units: 3 or CHEM 151H (Honors) Prerequisites: None Advisory: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H ENGL 100 General Chemistry II: For Science 5 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Majors Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring General Chemistry II: For Science Majors (Honors) This course serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of biomanufacturing with content appropriate for a wide Composition and Reading 4 range of students, including non-science majors. Topics include a general examination of biological and chemical principles or ENGL 100H Composition and Reading (Honors) 2 as they relate to the development, production, recovery, Select at least 2 electives from below: and analysis of products made by living organisms. Lecture content emphasizes the use of living systems to produce BTEC 201 Advanced Cell Culture therapeutics, foods, cosmetics, and fuels. The course addresses BTEC 203 Techniques in DNA Amplification how biomanufacturing may impact current societal challenges BTEC 204 Recombinant DNA with a discussion of the scientific, business, and legal/ethical issues. BTEC 206 Principles of Separation and HPLC BTEC 207 BTEC 108H: Biomanufacturing: From Gene to Product (Honors) Techniques in Immunochemistry Units: 3 BTEC 231 and ELISA Prerequisites: None Advisory: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H BTEC 292 Gene Editing Techniques: CRISPR- Acceptable for Credit: CSU Cas9 Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Internship Studies This course serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary BTEC 299 Occupational Cooperative Work field of biomanufacturing with content appropriate for a wide Experience range of students, including non-science majors. Topics include a general examination of biological and chemical principles Total Units 35-37 as they relate to the development, production, recovery, and analysis of products made by living organisms. Lecture content emphasizes the use of living systems to produce therapeutics, foods, cosmetics, and fuels. The course addresses how biomanufacturing may impact current societal challenges with a discussion of the scientific, business, and legal/ethical issues. This honors course offers highly motivated students the opportunity to complete, document, and discuss independent scientific research. 149MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
Areas of Study & Courses BTEC 110: Basic Techniques in Biotechnology BTEC 180: Biostatistics Units: 5 Units: 4 Prerequisites: BIO 105. Prerequisites: MATH 28, MATH 30 or eligibility determined by the Advisory: MATH 64, MATH 64S and ENGL 100, or ENGL 100H math placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in BIO 105 if Advisory: BIO 110, BIO 111, BIO 105, BIO 202, BIO 204, BIO 204H, prerequisite not met. BTEC 108, or BTEC 108H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 6 hours. BTEC 180H. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. This course focuses on the basic laboratory skills needed for Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring employment in the biotechnology/biomanufacturing industry. Students learn laboratory safety and documentation while This introductory statistics course covers the principles acquiring skills in the maintenance and calibration of basic and practice of statistical design and analysis for scientific lab equipment, calculation and preparation of lab solutions experimentation. Topics include hypothesis formation, and media, and routine handling of cell cultures. Students also experimental design and execution, data analysis, and develop fundamental skills in spectroscopy, centrifugation, communication with application to scientific fields, such as the performance of assays, gel electrophoresis, and the purification biological and health sciences. The course includes laboratory and handling of biological molecules, such as proteins. application with extensive use of computer software for (Materials Fee: $30.00) statistical analysis and simulation. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180, BUS 204/BUS 204H, MATH 103, PSYC 104/SOC 104, BTEC 110H: Basic Techniques in Biotechnology (Honors) PSYC 104H/SOC 104H, or SOC 125. Some CSU campuses may Units: 5 also impose this credit limitation. Prerequisites: BIO 105, BIO 204, BIO 204H, BTEC 108, or BTEC 108H. BTEC 180H: Biostatistics (Honors) Advisory: MATH 64, MATH 64S and ENGL 100, or ENGL 100H Units: 4 Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in BIO 105, Prerequisites: MATH 28, MATH 30 or eligibility determined by the BIO 204, BIO 204H, BTEC 108, or BTEC 108H if prerequisite not met math placement process. and not open to students with prior credit in BTEC 110. Advisory: BIO 110, BIO 111, BIO 105, BIO 202, BIO 204, BIO 204H, Acceptable for Credit: CSU BTEC 108, or BTEC 108H. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 6 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring BTEC 180. Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course focuses on the basic laboratory skills needed for Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. employment in the biotechnology/biomanufacturing industry. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Students learn laboratory safety and documentation while acquiring skills in the maintenance and calibration of basic This introductory statistics course covers the principles lab equipment, calculation and preparation of lab solutions and practice of statistical design and analysis for scientific and media, and routine handling of cell cultures. Students also experimentation. As an honors course, it offers an enriched develop fundamental skills in spectroscopy, centrifugation, experience for highly motivated students through more in-depth performance of assays, gel electrophoresis, and the purification coverage of course topics and the opportunity to analyze and handling of biological molecules, such as proteins. This data for an independent project. Topics include hypothesis honors course offers highly motivated students the opportunity formation, experimental design and execution, data analysis, to complete, document, and discuss independent scientific and communication with application to scientific fields, such research. (Materials Fee: $30.00) as the biological and health sciences. The course includes laboratory application with extensive use of computer software BTEC 120: Business and Regulatory Practices in Biotechnology for statistical analysis and simulation. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Units: 3 Credit for BTEC 180/BTEC 180H, BUS 204/BUS 204H, MATH 103, Prerequisites: None PSYC 104/PSYC 104H, or SOC 125. Some CSU campuses may Acceptable for Credit: CSU also impose this credit limitation. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course examines basic business principles and practices utilized in the discovery, development, and production phases of new product development. It explores the role of governmental oversight and regulation in assuring the safety, efficacy, and quality of a biotechnology product. 150 MiraCosta College 2021-2022 Catalog
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