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Areas of Study & Courses Upon successful completion of this program, students will MATH 30: Elementary Algebra be able to analyze problems, evaluate expressions, and Units: 4 interpret and apply the results. Prerequisites: MATH 28 or eligibility determined by the math placement process. Required Core: Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 5 Lecture 4 hours. MATH 150 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Calculus and Analytic Geometry I (Honors) or MATH 150H Designed to prepare students for intermediate algebra, this course teaches simplifying algebraic expressions involving MATH 155 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II 4 polynomials and rational terms; factoring; solving linear or MATH 155H 4 equations; solving quadratic and rational equations using Calculus and Analytic Geometry II factoring; analyzing graphs of linear equations; and solving MATH 260 (Honors) applied problems. Calculus and Analytic Geometry III MATH 64: Intermediate Algebra Units: 4 or MATH 260H Calculus and Analytic Geometry III Prerequisites: MATH 30 or eligibility determined by the math (Honors) placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in List A: Select one course. 4 MATH 64S. Lecture 4 hours. MATH 265 Differential Equations Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer or MATH 265H Differential Equations (Honors) This algebra course covers radicals, exponents, concepts of relations and functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, MATH 270 Linear Algebra linear and quadratic functions, and the solutions of equations from these topics. or MATH 270H Linear Algebra (Honors) 3-5 List B: Select one course. MATH 64S: Intermediate Algebra with Integrated Support Units: 6 MATH 226 Discrete Mathematics Prerequisites: MATH 30 or eligibility determined by the math placement process. or MATH 226H Discrete Mathematics (Honors) Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in MATH 32 or MATH 64. MATH 103 Statistics Lecture 5 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer or MATH 103S Statistics with Integrated Support This algebra course covers radicals, exponents, concepts of CS 111 Introduction to Computer Science I: relations and functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, Java linear and quadratic functions, and the solutions of equations from these topics. It includes just-in-time support for these topics CS 150 C++ Programming and is intended for students who are eligible for enrollment in PHYS 151 Principles of Physics I MATH 30, Elementary Algebra. Review topics include solving Principles of Physics I (Honors) and graphing linear equations and inequalities in one and two or PHYS 151H variables, solving and graphing systems of equations in two variables, factoring, algebraic operations on polynomial and Total Units 20-22 rational expressions, solving quadratics using factoring, and rational equations and inequalities. NOTE: Students are strongly advised to select courses that meet lower-division major preparation requirements at their transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, and American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. Courses MATH 28: Math Fundamentals I Units: 4 Prerequisites: None Lecture 3.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course covers the fundamentals of real numbers, pattern recognition and generalization, graphs and functions, basics of exponents, and solving of proportions and equations. It develops the relationship between realistic applications and quantitative reasoning. (Materials Fee: $20.00) 301MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MATH 102: Math Fundamentals: Mathematics for Life MATH 103S: Statistics with Integrated Support Units: 3 Units: 5 Prerequisites: Elementary algebra or eligibility determined by Prerequisites: MATH 28 or MATH 30 or eligibility determined by the math placement process. the math placement process. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. MATH 103. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. This course covers the fundamentals of logic, including Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer fallacies, inductive and deductive reasoning, conditional statements, and the evaluation of arguments; the basic This course introduces the use of probability techniques, ideas of finance, including simple and compound interest, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate amortized loans, and retirement accounts; ideas of probability decision-making. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability and applications of probability to realistic situations; and and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation problem solving. The course provides students with a strong and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi-square, and foundation in quantitative reasoning and mathematical t-tests; and application of technology for statistical analysis, concepts applicable to everyday life situations and long-term including the interpretation of the relevance of statistical decision-making strategies. (Materials Fee: $20.00) findings. Students use appropriate statistical techniques to analyze and interpret applications based on data from a broad MATH 103: Statistics range of disciplines. The course includes just-in-time support Units: 4 for these topics. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180/ Prerequisites: MATH 28 or MATH 30 or eligibility determined by BTEC 180H, BUS 204/BUS 204H, MATH 103/MATH 103S, PSYC 104/ the math placement process. PSYC 104H, or SOC 125. Some CSU campuses may also impose Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in this credit limitation. MATH 103S. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MATH 105: Concepts and Structures of Elementary Lecture 4 hours. Mathematics I Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Units: 3 Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by This course introduces the use of probability techniques, the math placement process. hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC decision-making. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi-square, and t-tests; and application of technology for statistical analysis, This course covers set theory, problem solving, systems of including the interpretation of the relevance of statistical numeration, elementary number theory, numerical operations, findings. Students use appropriate statistical techniques to and arithmetic algorithms. It emphasizes cognitive learning and analyze and interpret applications based on data from a broad the development of problem solving strategies and techniques. range of disciplines. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180/ Students work collaboratively in groups and/or independently BTEC 180H, BUS 204/BUS 204H, MATH 103/MATH 103S, PSYC 104/ using manipulatives and models to explore structures and PSYC 104H, or SOC 125. Some CSU campuses may also impose formulate concepts. It is required for students working toward a this credit limitation. multiple subject credential in elementary education. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 105 or MATH 106. MATH 106: Concepts and Structures of Elementary Mathematics II Units: 3 Prerequisites: MATH 105. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This continuation of MATH 105 covers the mathematical concepts needed for teaching elementary school mathematics. Core topics include the real number system, geometry, Pythagorean theorem, measurement in both the English and metric systems, transformations, and symmetry. Students must demonstrate their understanding of the concepts and structures of elementary mathematics using critical thinking. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 105 or MATH 106. 302    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MATH 112: Algebraic Concepts for Problem Solving MATH 126S: Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra with Integrated Units: 3 Support Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by Units: 5 the math placement process. Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC the math placement process. Lecture 3 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer MATH 126. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This course uses algebraic concepts to solve applied problems. Lecture 5 hours. It addresses application problems that incorporate linear, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. The course covers some applied modeling, including This course covers advanced algebra topics including functions break even analysis, market equilibrium, linear modeling, and and their properties. Topics include one unit of intermediate exponential growth, decay, and their models. The course also algebra review, linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, addresses mathematical topics such as optimization, rates of exponential, and logarithmic functions and their applications, change, and linear systems. graphs of functions, inverse functions, and systems of equations and inequalities. MATH 115: Calculus with Applications Units: 5 MATH 131: Pre-Calculus II: Trigonometry and Analytic Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by Geometry the math placement process. Units: 4 Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Prerequisites: MATH 126, MATH 126S, or eligibility determined by MATH 115S. the math placement process. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 5 hours. MATH 131H. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 4 hours. This course relates calculus to real-world applications in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer social science, economics, and business. Topics include an extensive and just-in-time algebra review, graphing, This course covers basic concepts of analytic geometry limits, derivatives of polynomials of one variable, maxima and trigonometry, including definitions and properties of and minima, integration, derivatives of logarithmic and trigonometric functions. Topics include solutions of applied exponential functions, development of integration techniques, problems involving right triangles; graphs of trigonometric an introduction to multi-variable calculus, and their application functions; trigonometric identities; trigonometric equation to problems. This course is designed primarily for students solving; evaluation of inverse trigonometric functions, polar majoring in social science, economics, and business who coordinates, and vectors. The course also covers conics, require calculus and is not recommended for mathematics, systems of non-linear equations, and sequences and series. physical science, engineering, or biological science majors. UC UC CREDIT LIMITATION: MATH 126 and MATH 131/MATH 131H CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 115, MATH 115S, MATH 150, combined, maximum credit 5 units. or MATH 150H. C-ID MATH-140. MATH 126: Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 64, MATH 64S, or eligibility determined by the math placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in MATH 126S. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course covers advanced algebra topics including functions and their properties. Topics include linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their applications, graphs of functions, inverse functions, and systems of equations and inequalities. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: MATH 126 and MATH 131 combined, maximum credit, 5 units. 303MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MATH 131H: Pre-Calculus II: Trigonometry and Analytic MATH 150H: Calculus and Analytic Geometry I (Honors) Geometry (Honors) Units: 5 Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 131, MATH 131H, or eligibility determined by Prerequisites: MATH 126, MATH 126S, or eligibility determined by the math placement process. the math placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in MATH 150. MATH 131. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 5 hours. Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This first in a three-semester calculus sequence is designed This course covers basic concepts of analytic geometry for highly motivated mathematics, science, and engineering and trigonometry, including definitions and properties of majors. Topics include limits and continuity; differentiation of trigonometric functions. Topics include solutions of applied algebraic functions and their inverses, trigonometric functions problems involving right triangles; graphs of trigonometric and their inverses, and exponential functions and their inverses; functions; trigonometric identities; trigonometric equation integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus; and solving; evaluation of inverse trigonometric functions, polar applications of differentiation and integration. The course coordinates, and vectors. The course also covers conics, provides mathematically talented students the opportunity systems of non-linear equations, and sequences and series. to obtain a level of rigor above the level currently available The course provides mathematically talented students the in existing courses. It emphasizes logical reasoning, problem opportunity to obtain a level of rigor above the level currently solving, and applications. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for available in existing courses. It emphasizes logical reasoning, MATH 115, MATH 115S, MATH 150, or MATH 150H. C-ID MATH-211. problem solving, and applications. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: MATH 126 and MATH 131/MATH 131H combined, maximum MATH 155: Calculus and Analytic Geometry II credit 5 units. Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 150 or MATH 150H. MATH 150: Calculus and Analytic Geometry I Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Units: 5 MATH 155H. Prerequisites: MATH 131, MATH 131H, or eligibility determined by Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC the math placement process. Lecture 4 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer MATH 150H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This second course in a three-semester calculus sequence Lecture 5 hours. covers advanced integration techniques, improper integrals, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer infinite sequences and series, conic sections, parametric equations, polar coordinates, and applications of integration. This course is the first in a three-semester calculus sequence The course is designed for mathematics, science, and designed for mathematics, science, and engineering majors. engineering majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 155 Topics include limits and continuity; differentiation of algebraic or MATH 155H. functions and their inverses, trigonometric functions and their inverses, and exponential functions and their inverses; MATH 155H: Calculus and Analytic Geometry II (Honors) integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus; and Units: 4 applications of differentiation and integration. UC CREDIT Prerequisites: MATH 150 or MATH 150H. LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 115, MATH 115S, MATH 150, or Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in MATH 150H. C-ID MATH-211. MATH 155. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This second course in a three-semester calculus sequence covers advanced integration techniques, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, conic sections, parametric equations, polar coordinates, and applications of integration. The course is designed for mathematics, science, and engineering majors. The course provides mathematically talented students the opportunity to obtain a level of rigor above the level currently available in existing courses. It emphasizes logical reasoning, problem solving, and applications. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 155 or MATH 155H. 304    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MATH 226: Discrete Mathematics MATH 260H: Calculus and Analytic Geometry III (Honors) Units: 4 Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 150, MATH 150H, CS 150, or eligibility Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H. determined by the math placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in MATH 260. MATH 226H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This third course in a three-semester calculus sequence offers Designed for students majoring in mathematics or computer an enriched experience for highly motivated students. It covers science, this course introduces discrete mathematics, including vectors in the plane and three-dimensional space, quadratic logic, methods of proof, number theory, sets, counting, discrete surfaces, vector-valued functions, functions of several variables, probability, relations, recursion, recurrence relations, Boolean partial differentiation and multiple integration, vector fields, algebra, graphs, trees, and networks. Topics are illustrated and line integrals. The course is designed for mathematics, with applications to computer science, including design and science, and engineering majors and for students interested analysis of algorithms, undecidability, program correctness, in a thorough analysis of concepts, proofs of main results, and and digital logic design. UC Credit Limitation: Credit for connections with other disciplines, particularly probability, MATH 226 or MATH 226H. physics, and economics. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 260 or MATH 260H. C-ID MATH-230. MATH 226H: Discrete Mathematics (Honors) Units: 4 MATH 265: Differential Equations Prerequisites: MATH 150, MATH 150H, CS 150, or eligibility Units: 4 determined by the math placement process. Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in MATH 226H. MATH 265H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 4 hours. Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Designed for students majoring in mathematics or computer This course introduces the theory and applications of ordinary science, this course introduces discrete mathematics, including differential equations of first and higher (mostly second) logic, methods of proof, number theory, sets, counting, discrete order as well as systems of linear differential equations. It probability, relations, recursion, recurrence relations, Boolean includes both quantitative and qualitative methods. The course algebras, graphs, trees, and networks. As an honors course, deals with theoretical aspects of existence and uniqueness it offers an enriched experience for highly motivated students of solutions as well as techniques for finding solutions using to analyze applications of formal logic to mathematics, analytical, numerical, method of power-series, and Laplace other sciences, and everyday life. Topics are illustrated with transformations. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 265 or applications to computer science, including design and MATH 265H. C-ID MATH-240. analysis of complexity of algorithms, undecidability, program correctness, and digital logic design. UC Credit Limitation: MATH 265H: Differential Equations (Honors) Credit for MATH 226 or MATH 226H. Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H. MATH 260: Calculus and Analytic Geometry III Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Units: 4 MATH 265. Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 4 hours. MATH 260H. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. This course introduces the theory and applications of ordinary Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer differential equations of first and higher (mostly second) order as well as systems of linear differential equations. It This third course in a three-semester calculus sequence covers includes both quantitative and qualitative methods. The course vectors in two- and three-dimensional space, quadratic deals with theoretical aspects of existence and uniqueness surfaces, vector-valued functions of several variables, partial of solutions as well as techniques for finding solutions using differentiation and multiple integration, vector fields, line analytical, numerical, method of power-series, and Laplace integrals, and conservative fields. The course is designed for transformations. The course provides mathematically talented mathematics, science, and engineering majors. UC CREDIT students the opportunity to obtain a level of rigor above the LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 260 or MATH 260H. C-ID MATH-230. level currently available in existing courses. It emphasizes logical reasoning, problem solving, and applications. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 265 or MATH 265H. 305MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MATH 270: Linear Algebra MATH 296: Topics in Mathematics Units: 4 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H. Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Acceptable for Credit: CSU MATH 270H. Lecture 1 hour. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 2 hours. Lecture 4 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course introduces students to the concepts of linear algebra. Topics include matrix algebra, Gaussian elimination, This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in determinants of a matrix, properties of determinants, vector Mathematics that are not included in regular course offerings. spaces and their properties with an introduction to proofs, linear Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own transformations, orthogonality, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. and computational methods. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 270 or MATH 270H. C-ID MATH-250. Media Arts & Technologies MATH 270H: Linear Algebra (Honors) Units: 4 The Media Arts & Technologies program provides a focused Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H. sequence of courses for students who wish to transfer to Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in a four-year institution or gain employment in the fields of MATH 270. graphic design, web and interactive design, video production, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC animation, digital media, and print production and delivery. Lecture 4 hours. Career options include graphic design, user interface (UI) Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring design, user experience (UX) design, web design, web development, multimedia programming, video editing, This course introduces students to the concepts of linear video production, media content development, information algebra. Topics include matrix algebra, Gaussian elimination, architecture, graphics production, and layout design. Specific determinants of a matrix, properties of determinants, vector career positions include graphic designer, web designer, spaces and their properties with an introduction to proofs, video editor, web developer, user interface (UI) designer, user linear transformations, orthogonality, eigenvalues and experience (UX) designer, interactive designer, art production eigenvectors, and computational methods. The course assistant, video production assistant, special effects artist, provides mathematically talented students the opportunity background artist, product modeler, product animator, and to obtain a level of rigor above the level currently available storyboard artist. in existing courses. It emphasizes logical reasoning, problem Academic and Career Pathway: Creative and Applied Arts solving, and applications. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 270 or MATH 270H. Contact Information MATH 292: Internship Studies Chair: Karl Cleveland Department: Media Arts and Units: 0.5-3 Dean: Al Taccone Technologies Prerequisites: None https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OC4600, Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per academics/degree-and- 760.795.6811 unit. certificate-programs/creative- Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center and-applied-arts/media-arts- approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative and-technologies/index.html work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Full-Time Faculty Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Min Choi This course provides students the opportunity to apply the Karl Cleveland theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship Leigh Cotnoir position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Associate Degrees to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Associate in Arts Degrees employability skills development, and examination of the world Graphic Design of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Web Development and Design must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than Students may earn one of the above-named associate degrees 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience by completing a certificate of achievement and the general (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate community college attendance. in Arts degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should 306    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses meet with a MiraCosta College counselor to identify required MAT 290 Portfolio Development courses and to develop a written educational plan for the Total Units specific degree or certificate they wish to earn. 30 Certificates Note: MAT 292 or MAT 296 may be substituted for courses within this certificate with approval of the MAT Department Chair. Certificate of Achievement Graphic Design Certificate of Achievement Video and Media Design This certificate provides students with the design and technical skills needed to gain employment in the graphic design field This certificate provides the skills students need to gain with organizations and small businesses that design and employment in the corporate, broadcast, technical, distribute publications in both print and digital media. Students educational, and entertainment industries. Students learn who complete this certificate will also be prepared to work as how to create video programs and digital media content freelancers or pursue a graphic design degree at a four-year for broadcast, cable, DVD, Internet, and mobile delivery as university. Students learn principles and professional practices well as for dedicated computer presentations. Students gain in graphic design and publishing using current computer skills in all phases of video production, 3D and traditional software applications as well as concept development through animation techniques, special effects, DVD authoring, and project planning and management. Employment opportunities project management. Employment opportunities include video include graphic designer, graphic artist, imaging specialist, editor, video production assistant, camera operator, product photographic assistant, layout artist, and graphic production animator, DVD author, mobile content developer, special assistant. effects artist, and special effects animator. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Upon completion of this program, the student will be Upon completion of this program, the student will be able able to plan, design, and produce professional-level to plan, design, and produce professional-level videos, graphic designs that apply design, layout, and typographic interfaces, applications, or experiences that integrate principles and demonstrate effective communication media, utilize appropriate tools and techniques, and solutions. demonstrate effective communication solutions. Foundation courses (15 units): Foundation courses (15 units): MAT 110 Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop 3 MAT 110 Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop 3 3 MAT 120 Media Design 1: Production 3 MAT 120 Media Design 1: Production 3 3 3 MAT 125 Web Design 1: Fundamentals 3 MAT 125 Web Design 1: Fundamentals 3 MAT 135 Graphic Design 1: Principles 3 12 12 MAT 135 Graphic Design 1: Principles MAT 160 Video 1: Production 3 3 MAT 155 Graphic Design 2: Typography Emphasis courses (select 12 units): 30 Emphasis courses (select 12 units): MAT 140 3D Animation 1: Maya At least 6 units must be at the 100-level and at least 3 MAT 150 Animation and Interactivity units must be at the 200-level selected from the courses MAT 200 below. Video 2: Post-Production and MAT 270 Special Effects MAT 145 UI/UX Design Advanced Design Studio MAT 170 Digital Illustration 1: Adobe Illustrator MAT 180 Digital Publishing: Adobe InDesign Elective courses: MAT 185 Graphic Design 3: Design and Students may substitute 3 units from these elective Layout courses below in lieu of 3 units from the emphasis courses listed above. MAT 210 Advanced Digital Imaging & Illustration MAT 190 Programming for Animation, Interactivity, and Games MAT 230 Advanced Publishing: Output for Print MAT 292 Internship Studies MAT 270 Advanced Design Studio FILM 101 Introduction to Film or FILM 101H Introduction to Film (Honors) Elective courses: Film History II: 1945-Present FILM 112 Students may substitute 3 units from these elective courses below in lieu of 3 units from the emphasis or FILM 112H Film History II: 1945-Present (Honors) courses listed above. MTEC 110 Recording Arts I MAT 105 History of Graphic Design Required to graduate (3 units): MAT 150 Animation and Interactivity MAT 290 Portfolio Development MAT 292 Internship Studies Total Units Required to graduate (3 units): 307MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses Note: MAT 292 or MAT 296 may be substituted for courses within Note: MAT 292 or MAT 296 may be substituted for courses within this certificate with approval of the MAT Program Director. this certificate with approval of the MAT Program Director. Certificate of Achievement Certificate of Proficiency Web Development and Design Digital Media Foundations This certificate trains students in the skills necessary to gain This certificate provides students with a broad-based employment in the dynamic field of web and interactive media foundation in media arts. It includes core classes in the areas content design, development, and delivery. Students gain of digital imaging, graphic design, web design, and video and skills in all phases of website design, including site planning media production. It is designed for students seeking stronger and information architecture, user experience design (UX), digital literacy and media design skills for their current or future user interface (UI) and graphic design, content management, jobs. It also allows students to gain broad exposure to the web programming and production, animation and motion varying disciplines within media arts while taking a sequence of graphics, audio and video integration, and designing for courses that counts toward the certificate of achievement and interactivity. Employment opportunities include web designer, associate degree programs offered by the department. web developer, web producer, front end developer, interaction designer, interactive developer, UI designer, UX designer, UX Program Student Learning Outcome engineer, production assistant, information architect, mobile content designer, creative director, and project manager. Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to demonstrate proficiency with digital media production Program Student Learning Outcome Statement tools and design techniques.  Upon completion of this program, the student will be Required courses:   3 able to plan and develop professional-level graphical MAT 110 Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop 3 user interfaces, web pages, and websites that utilize MAT 120 Media Design 1: Production 3 appropriate tools and techniques and demonstrate MAT 125 Web Design 1: Fundamentals 3 effective communication solutions. MAT 135 Graphic Design 1: Principles 12 Foundation courses (15 units): Total Units MAT 110 Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop 3 Certificate of Proficiency 3 Digital and Print Publishing MAT 120 Media Design 1: Production 3 3 This certificate provides focused skills necessary to gain MAT 125 Web Design 1: Fundamentals 3 employment in the field of digital and print publishing. Students MAT 135 Graphic Design 1: Principles 12 gain specific skills in graphic design, image manipulation, page layout, digital illustration, and preparation for final output. MAT 165 Web Design 2: WordPress and Site 3 Graduates of this program are able to move into employment Production 30 opportunities as graphic artists, digital imaging assistants, layout artists, and graphic production assistants. In addition, Emphasis courses (select 12 units): students majoring in English who are transferring to a four-year At least 3 units must be advanced 200-level courses. university gain the skills necessary for self-publishing their written work. MAT 145 UI/UX Design MAT 150 Animation and Interactivity MAT 175 Web Design: JavaScript and jQuery Program Student Learning Outcome Statement MAT 190 Programming for Animation, Upon completion of this program, students will be able MAT 225 Interactivity, and Games to demonstrate proficiency with digital imaging and print publishing tools and techniques. MAT 270 Web Design 3: Custom Sites and Professional Practices Advanced Design Studio Elective courses: Required courses:   3 MAT 110 Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop 3 Students may substitute 3 units from these elective MAT 170 Digital Illustration 1: Adobe Illustrator 3 courses below in lieu of 3 units from the emphasis MAT 180 Digital Publishing: Adobe InDesign 3 courses listed above. MAT 230 Advanced Publishing: Output for Print 12 BUS 133 Project Management or MAT 155 Graphic Design 2: Typography CS 130 Total Units Fundamentals of Scripting CSIT 146 Languages E-Commerce and Web Presence CSIT 155 Social Media for Business Certificate of Proficiency MAT 292 Internship Studies Graphic Communication Required to graduate (3 units): This certificate forms a solid foundation in graphic design proficiency. These skills are essential in all types of visual MAT 290 Portfolio Development media where a message must be conveyed to a specific Total Units 308    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses target market. This certificate is designed to be completed in Program Student Learning Outcome Statement conjunction with other MAT certificates to enhance a student’s ability to create more effective and dynamic communication or Upon completion of this program, students will be able to for professionals who would like to enhance their job skills. demonstrate proficiency with web design and development tools and techniques. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Required courses:   Upon completion of this program, students will be able to Five of the following: 15 demonstrate proficiency with graphic design principles and 15 techniques. CSIT 146 E-Commerce and Web Presence Choose 15 units from the following courses: 15 MAT 125 Web Design 1: Fundamentals 15 MAT 145 UI/UX Design MAT 105 History of Graphic Design MAT 150 Animation and Interactivity MAT 135 Graphic Design 1: Principles MAT 165 Web Design 2: WordPress and Site MAT 155 Graphic Design 2: Typography MAT 175 Production MAT 170 Digital Illustration 1: Adobe Illustrator Web Design: JavaScript and jQuery MAT 180 Digital Publishing: Adobe InDesign MAT 190 Programming for Animation, MAT 185 Interactivity, and Games Graphic Design 3: Design and Layout MAT 225 Web Design 3: Custom Sites and Professional Practices Total Units Total Units Certificate of Proficiency Video and Animation Courses This certificate forms a solid foundation in the skills students MAT 105: History of Graphic Design need to create video, special effects and animation media Units: 3 programs for delivery in traditional formats, over the Web, or via Prerequisites: None mobile devices. Career opportunities include video editor, video Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC production assistant, special effects artist, background artist, Lecture 3 hours. product modeler, product animator, and storyboard artist. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Program Student Learning Outcome Statement The course surveys the origin and evolution of graphic design from the nineteenth century to the present day. It explores the Upon completion of this program, students will be able development and influence of graphic communication through to demonstrate proficiency with video and animation genre, design, style, and format from historical, multicultural, production tools and techniques. and global perspectives. Topics include the influence of art and technology on graphic design, types of graphic representation, Required courses: 3D Animation 1: Maya   significant historical design movements, and the importance MAT 140 Animation and Interactivity 3 of graphic design in contemporary culture and a global MAT 150 Video 1: Production 3 economy. MAT 160 Video 2: Post-Production and 3 MAT 200 Special Effects 3 MAT 110: Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop Units: 3 Total Units 12 Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Certificate of Proficiency Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Web Design Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This certificate provides the focused skill set necessary to This foundation course introduces students to the aesthetic, gain employment in website design. Depending on which technical, and conceptual practices of digital imaging. courses are selected, students gain specific skills in web Students use Adobe Photoshop to edit imagery and create markup, web programming and production, graphics artwork and graphic designs for print or web output. Students production, web animation techniques, UI and UX design, generate artwork that involves photo editing, tonal and content management, and website planning and architecture. color correction, masking, layer adjustments, painting Graduates of this program will be able to move into techniques, blending, and advanced compositing. Through employment opportunities in web design, web development, hands-on instruction and multiple projects, students explore interactive design, content development, user interface (UI) efficient workflows, professional practices, layout and design design, and user experience (UX) engineering. techniques, typography, application of color, and more. 309MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MAT 120: Media Design 1: Production MAT 145: UI/UX Design Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall This course introduces the fundamental skills needed for This course provides an introduction to user interface (UI) the design and production of multimedia projects and and user experience (UX) design and prototyping. Students interactive media. Topics include capturing and editing video, learn user-centered design approaches to research, design, images, audio, motion graphics, basic 3D animations, and prototype, and test user interfaces for screen-based media, interactive media design. The course also covers digital media such as websites and apps. Topics include UX research presentation formats, services, and platforms and the basics of and strategy, user personas and user scenarios, information network protocol. architecture, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, and industry tools and techniques. Students collaborate to MAT 125: Web Design 1: Fundamentals design and prototype digital products. Units: 3 Prerequisites: None MAT 150: Animation and Interactivity Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Units: 3 Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Prerequisites: None Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Advisory: MAT 120 Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course introduces the fundamentals of building webpages, Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. including HTML coding, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring image optimization, web typography, interface design, basic JavaScript, and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for This course introduces students to 2D animation and interactive uploading websites. Students also learn about browser and media design techniques and tools. Students learn to integrate platform issues, modern coding best practices, responsive animation, text, graphics, audio, and video to create rich, design, and management techniques for personal websites. interactive user experiences. The course emphasizes design principles for time-based media and effective user interface MAT 135: Graphic Design 1: Principles and interaction design. Students produce animation projects Units: 3 and interactive applications for delivery on the Web and other Prerequisites: None platforms. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. MAT 155: Graphic Design 2: Typography Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course introduces the visual communication principles Advisory: MAT 135 and concepts of successful graphic design. Topics include Acceptable for Credit: CSU form, color palettes, text/image relationships, typography, Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. grid structures, and layout design. The course develops and Course Typically Offered: Fall refines each student's personal design sensibility by applying appropriate and conceptual design thinking within cultural and This course covers the essential concepts of typographic design historical contexts. and its incorporation into all forms of visual communication. Topics include historical development and cultural impacts, MAT 140: 3D Animation 1: Maya type design, the anatomy of letterforms and the use of words, Units: 3 and structural and experimental design. Students develop a Prerequisites: None solid understanding of how to use type and letterforms to solve Advisory: MAT 120. design and typographic problems. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. MAT 160: Video 1: Production Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course introduces students to the concepts and design of Advisory: MAT 120. 3D modeling, animation, and rendering using Autodesk Maya. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Topics include storyboard development and visualization, Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. efficient modeling and texturing techniques, 3D environment Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring design (including lighting and camera angles), object and camera animation, and rendering considerations. The This course offers detailed coverage of the video production course also covers proper formats for delivery through various environment. It covers the process of creating and editing video mediums. programs from concept and storyboards through shooting and recording, culminating in acquiring, editing, and mastering a digital video production. Topics also include proper formats for delivery through various mediums. 310    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MAT 165: Web Design 2: WordPress and Site Production MAT 180: Digital Publishing: Adobe InDesign Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Advisory: MAT 125 Advisory: MAT 110 and MAT 170 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This intermediate-level course builds on the skills developed This course introduces students to Adobe InDesign, the in MAT 125 and introduces students to WordPress and other page layout software program used by professional graphic content management systems (CMS). Students plan and designers to publish ads, business cards, brochures, postcards, design websites using UI/UX tools and gain skills authoring newsletters, magazines, books, and more. It involves and implementing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in hand- considerable hands-on instruction and projects similar to coded sites and within CMS platforms.Topics include site those faced by today’s designers. Students learn how planning, content strategy, image preparation, web animation, to prepare documents for professional publication, how to responsive design, CMS solutions, hosting platforms, and site format type, import images, use styles, generate tables, create management. swatches, and apply shortcuts. Students learn typographic and publishing techniques, basic design principles, and how to MAT 170: Digital Illustration 1: Adobe Illustrator apply spot and process color. Students examine, troubleshoot, Units: 3 and package digital files for output to a commercial press and Prerequisites: None for the Web. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. MAT 185: Graphic Design 3: Design and Layout Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course addresses vector-based illustration topics, tools, and Advisory: MAT 135 techniques related to visual art and design. Particular focus is Acceptable for Credit: CSU placed on project ideation, iterative process, and application Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. of elements and principles of art and design. Technical topics Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring include digital vector tools for drawing, pattern development, application of texture and color, grid-based design, and This course covers the process of creating effective, efficient, workflow using Adobe Illustrator and related software. and dynamic layouts to solve complex design problems. Students explore every stage of the design process, including MAT 175: Web Design: JavaScript and jQuery research, concept and design development, and applying Units: 3 intuitive design, structural hierarchy, and grid systems. The Prerequisites: MAT 125. course emphasizes developing a conceptual problem-solving Advisory: MAT 165. approach and refining a personal design sense. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. MAT 190: Programming for Animation, Interactivity, and Course Typically Offered: Spring Games Units: 3 This course introduces web design students to JavaScript Prerequisites: None and jQuery for interactive web development, including how Advisory: MAT 150 JavaScript can be used in conjunction with HTML and CSS Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC to add interactivity, animation, visual effects, and advanced Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. functionality to web pages. Students explore interface design Course Typically Offered: Fall even years and core programming concepts in JavaScript and jQuery to create rich user experiences, manage dynamic content, create This course emphasizes creative coding and programming for animation, and make web pages more interactive and intuitive. interactive media, including 2D games, web, and multimedia Students learn to design and script user interface elements applications. Students learn to code within the context of the common on websites, such as content sliders, interactive visual arts using JavaScript, Processing, and/or JavaScript galleries, and more. Students also learn to use the HTML5 frameworks such as p5.js, CreateJS, or PhaserJS. Students canvas element with JavaScript to draw, animate, and create explore the creative and technical aspects of designing interactive graphics for HTML5 games or web applications. interactive user experiences that integrate media, animation, Topics also include integrating and customizing jQuery plugins, and interactivity. Additional topics include user interface working with AJAX, and using API interfaces to web services, design, experience design, interactive storytelling, game such as maps and social media. design, animation techniques, and developing content for delivery across a variety of platforms and devices. 311MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MAT 200: Video 2: Post-Production and Special Effects MAT 230: Advanced Publishing: Output for Print Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Advisory: MAT 110 or MAT 160. Advisory: MAT 180 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Typically Offered: Spring odd years This course offers detailed coverage of the video post- This advanced publishing course takes students through the production environment. Students learn techniques for creating process of producing and printing a press-ready publication complex video sequences by combining video, animated at a professional printing company. Students explore print graphics, Foley effects, advanced editing techniques, green technologies (e.g., offset printing, variable-data printing, and screen, and other special effects using industry-standard direct digital printing), learn the steps required for prepress, software. The course emphasizes instruction in advanced video production, binding, trimming, and finishing, and apply editing techniques, as well as final project output for delivery prepress techniques using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, through various presentation platforms. and Adobe Illustrator. The course includes a professional print bureau tour. MAT 210: Advanced Digital Imaging & Illustration Units: 3 MAT 270: Advanced Design Studio Prerequisites: MAT 110. Units: 3 Advisory: MAT 170 or MAT 135. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Advisory: This class is not advised for beginning students. It is Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. intended for intermediate and advanced students majoring in Course Typically Offered: Fall Graphic Design, Web Design and Development, or Video and Media Design. This course builds upon knowledge and skills gained in Acceptable for Credit: CSU MAT 110. Through the use of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. and related software, students create multiple projects Course Typically Offered: Spring utilizing advanced digital imaging and illustration production techniques. Students develop higher-level compositing and This capstone course provides advanced students firsthand illustration skills, with focus on creative processes, advanced experience in the function of a professional studio environment technical processes, workflow integrations, and conceptual where they create real-world projects for real-world clients. development. Students build their portfolio and experience client relations, project development and management, problem solving, team MAT 225: Web Design 3: Custom Sites and Professional management, asset management, and business practices. Practices Units: 3 MAT 290: Portfolio Development Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Advisory: MAT 165 Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Advisory: It is recommended that students complete most Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. courses within a MAT certificate or degree program before Course Typically Offered: Spring enrolling in MAT 290. Acceptable for Credit: CSU In this advanced course, students plan, design, and develop Lecture 3 hours. complex, real-world, custom websites in a team environment Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring using modern web standards, professional practices, and workflows. Students integrate HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Students develop a professional portfolio that showcases their PHP programming skills and learn how to customize and design, media, and/or artistic skills and completed projects. create WordPress themes. Additional topics include working Topics also include developing a personal brand and related with clients, user experience design (UX), site planning marketing materials, such as a website, resume, business and research, content strategy, information architecture card, and cover letter. The portfolio's content and format are development, user interface design (UI), usability analysis, and determined by individual student goals in order to market emerging industry trends. themselves as a freelancer or prospective employee. 312    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MAT 292: Internship Studies Medical Administrative Units: 0.5-3 Professional Prerequisites: None Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per The Medical Administrative Professional program prepares unit. students to work in medical office settings. The program Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center includes training in medical office procedures as well as HIPAA approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative compliance, electronic health record, medical coding, and work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. health insurance practices. Students are encouraged to Acceptable for Credit: CSU complete an internship in a medical facility. Career options Course Typically Offered: To be arranged include employment in physician offices, hospitals, surgical centers, clinics, and various government agencies. This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship Academic and Career Pathway: Health Sciences position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Contact Information to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Chair: Alison Phinney Department: Nursing and employability skills development, and examination of the world Dean: Al Taccone Allied Health of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OCT420, must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new academics/degree-and- 760.757.2121 x 6466 site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than certificate-programs/ 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience health-sciences/medical- (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during administrative-professional/ community college attendance. index.html MAT 296: Topics in Media Arts & Technologies Full-Time Faculty Units: 1-3 Prerequisites: None Rich Dicker Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1 hour. Associate Degree Lecture 2 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Associate in Arts Degree Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Medical Office Professional This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Students may earn the above-named associate degree by Media Arts and Technologies that are not included in regular completing a certificate of achievement and the general course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class in Arts degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should schedule. meet with a MiraCosta counselor to identify required courses and to develop a written educational plan for the specific MAT 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience degree or certificate they wish to earn. Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: None Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per unit. Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll complete all the steps in the Documentation Cycle and the in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or Patient Billing Cycle by creating a patient medical record internship studies concurrently. with all documents labeled and identified by step number. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Certificates Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are Certificate of Achievement employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such Medical Assistant students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities This certificate program provides students with the necessary and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, skills and knowledge to work as medical assistants in a variety employability skills development, and examination of the world of practice settings, such as in medical offices, acute care of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may settings, and clinical or allied health and ambulatory care not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative facilities. Course content includes medical terminology, office work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship systems and procedures, medical coding, medical insurance studies during community college attendance. and billing, electronic health records, patient advocacy, HIPAA compliance, basic anatomy and physiology, medical 313MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses back office support, and bloodborne and airborne pathogen MAP 64 Medical Insurance and Billing 3 standards. 9 Select at least 9 elective units from the following: 21 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement MAP 52 Medical Keyboarding and Document Production Upon completion of the program, students will demonstrate MAP 56 Introduction to Patient Advocacy proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing when communicating with patients and healthcare team; MAP 70 Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogen logically problem-solve in the healthcare setting; and Standards become employable in an entry-level healthcare career upon completion of their certificate of achievement. MAP 80 Medical Assistant--Clinical Back Office I Prerequisite courses: Students must have completed MAP 292 Internship Studies the following courses before applying to the Medical MAP 299 Assistant Program: Occupational Cooperative Work NURS 151 Experience NURS 151 Body Systems Survey for Health Body Systems Survey for Health Professions Professions NURS 155 Basic Medical Terminology NURS 155 Basic Medical Terminology Total Units Required courses: MAP 50 Introduction to Medical 3 Certificate of Achievement Administrative Careers Patient Care Coordinator 3 MAP 56 Introduction to Patient Advocacy 3 A Patient Care Coordinator is employed in outpatient facilities such as a doctor’s office or specialty clinic. Serving as a patient MAP 60 Introduction to the Electronic Health 3 advocate, they perform a wide variety of functions, including Record 3 monitoring and coordinating patient treatment plans, ensuring 1 complete and accurate documentation and registration, MAP 62 Medical Coding coordinating continuity of care between services and insurance 3 companies, discussing, consulting, and coordinating the needs MAP 64 Medical Insurance and Billing of patients and family members, and facilitating the education 3 of patients and family members about health conditions, MAP 70 Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogen medications, and instructions. This certificate is designed to Standards 4 offer students the skills and knowledge necessary for entry-level employment in outpatient healthcare settings. MAP 80 Medical Assistant--Clinical Back 3 Office I 29 MAP 82 Medical Assistant--Clinical Back Office II MAP 90 Medical Assistant Clinical Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Preceptorship NURS 153 Pathophysiology for Health Upon completion of this program, students will have Professions developed skills necessary to obtain entry-level employment in a variety of outpatient medical office settings. Total Units Certificate of Achievement Required courses:   Medical Office Professional HEAL 180 Introduction to Public Health 3 This certificate prepares students to work in medical office 3 settings. Students receive training in HIPAA compliance MAP 50 Introduction to Medical procedures, basic computer competencies, medical office Administrative Careers 3 procedures, medical terminology, basic anatomy, electronic health record input and maintenance, and billing and coding MAP 52 Medical Keyboarding and 3 practices used in hospitals, medical offices, and clinics. Document Production 3 MAP 56 Introduction to Patient Advocacy 3 3 MAP 60 Introduction to the Electronic Health 1 Record Program Student Learning Outcome Statement 3 MAP 62 Medical Coding 3 Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to MAP 64 Medical Insurance and Billing 3 complete all the steps in the Documentation Cycle and the Patient Billing Cycle by creating a patient medical record MAP 70 Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogen with all documents labeled and identified by step number. Standards NURS 153 Pathophysiology for Health Professions Required courses:   MAP 50 3 NURS 155 Basic Medical Terminology Introduction to Medical 3 MAP 60 Administrative Careers 3 Complete 3 units from the following: MAP 62 Introduction to the Electronic Health MAP 80 Medical Assistant--Clinical Back Record Office I Medical Coding MAP 292 Internship Studies 314    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MAP 299 Occupational Cooperative Work MAP 64 Medical Insurance and Billing NURS 151 Experience Total Units Total Units 12 Body Systems Survey for Health Professions Courses 31 MAP 50: Introduction to Medical Administrative Careers Units: 3 Certificate of Proficiency Prerequisites: None Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This certificate prepares students to perform specialized work related to insurance and coding in medical settings. This course introduces the documentation and revenue cycle operations of a medical office, clinic, or hospital office Program Student Learning Outcome Statement environment. Topics include the duties and responsibilities of the receptionist, scheduler, insurance biller, medical coder, Upon completion of this program, students will be able to transcriptionist, medical records auditor, HIPAA compliance create and submit CMS 1500 forms after identifying  the officer, health information technician, and office manager as correct ICD and CPT codes within the parameters of the well as information on professional development and industry designated insurance carrier. certifications for administrative medical personnel. Program prerequisite: MAP 52: Medical Keyboarding and Document Production Units: 3 NURS 155 Basic Medical Terminology 3 Prerequisites: None 3 Lecture 3 hours. Required courses: Introduction to the Electronic Health 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MAP 60 Record 3 3 This keyboarding and document production course for medical MAP 62 Medical Coding office professionals combines medical terminology with 15 advanced word processing skills. Exercises include practicing MAP 64 Medical Insurance and Billing keyboarding drills, creating medical documents, and inserting electronic entries. The course emphasizes medical terminology, Select at least 3 elective units from the following: procedures, phrases, and commonly used terms. MAP 50 Introduction to Medical MAP 56: Introduction to Patient Advocacy Administrative Careers Units: 3 Prerequisites: None MAP 52 Medical Keyboarding and Lecture 3 hours. Document Production Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MAP 292 Internship Studies Total Units Certificate of Proficiency This course introduces students to the general practices and Medical Office Specialist competencies of a patient advocate. It develops skills to help the patient advocate navigate through the complexities of This certificate prepares students to work in health information today's rapidly evolving healthcare system from the patient's management offices. Students receive training in all of the perspective. Students discuss the cultural, social, hereditary, medical administrative tasks performed to manage health and environmental influences on human behavior and records, patient management plans, and patient education. personality development, including behaviors associated with Students acquire skills and training to obtain employment in all death, dying and grieving, cultural beliefs, mental health, health care facilities/settings. values, and practices regarding health and illness. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement MAP 60: Introduction to the Electronic Health Record Units: 3 Upon completion of this program, students will be able Prerequisites: None to identify and perform job tasks (such as receptionist, Lecture 3 hours. scheduler, biller, coder, patient educator) of a medical Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring administrative assistant. Required courses:   MAP 50 Introduction to Medical 3 This course provides students with an overview of all the Administrative Careers information entered into and extrapolated from an electronic 3 health record (EHR) as well as in-depth and practical training MAP 56 Introduction to Patient Advocacy 3 on EHR software. Students examine specific sections of the EHR in relation to health information management. MAP 60 Introduction to the Electronic Health 3 Record Select one course from the following: MAP 52 Medical Keyboarding and Document Production MAP 62 Medical Coding 315MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MAP 62: Medical Coding MAP 82: Medical Assistant--Clinical Back Office II Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: MAP 70 and MAP 80 Lecture 3 hours. Corequisite: MAP 90. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This course provides entry-level training in medical coding. Students develop an understanding of Current Procedural This course expands medical assistant proficiency in medical Terminology (CPT), International Classification of Diseases- back office support. It presents students with the basic Clinical Modification(ICD-CM) Volumes I and II, and HCFA principles of performing and analyzing an electrocardiogram Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) as they are (ECG), pulmonary function testing, capillary puncture, used in medical claims processing and record management. and venipuncture. Topics include a review of the anatomy, Students review both paper and electronic medical physiology and electrophysiology of the heart and circulatory documentation to assign specific codes for diagnoses and system; basic components of an ECG, normal and abnormal billing. cardiac rhythms, review of the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, Clinical Lab Improvement Act (CLIA) MAP 64: Medical Insurance and Billing approved pulmonary function tests, capillary puncture Units: 3 techniques, and venipuncture. Students are instructed in Prerequisites: None methods of quality control for specimen collection, transport, Lecture 3 hours. and testing while they learn to screen patients for various Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring diagnostic tests and test result reporting. This course provides an overview of health insurance. It MAP 90: Medical Assistant Clinical Preceptorship introduces procedures for submitting insurance claims Units: 4 for reimbursement to major health insurance carriers and Prerequisites: MAP 80 government agencies. Corequisite: MAP 82. Laboratory 12 hours. MAP 70: Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogen Standards Course Typically Offered: Spring Units: 1 Prerequisites: None This course provides medical assisting students with a hands- Lecture 0.50 hour, laboratory 1.50 hours. on, unpaid clinical experience in a health care facility. Students Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring apply the skills they have learned from their courses in a safe, ethical, and legal manner. The course emphasizes enhancing This course presents the California Occupational Safety and communication skills, professionalism, and interpersonal Health Administration (OSHA) Bloodborne and Airborne relationships. Topics include goal setting, employability skills Pathogen standards that protect health care workers from development, and examination of the world of work as it relates contracting infectious diseases, such as hepatitis, HIV-AIDS, to medical assisting. Each student works with their preceptor for and tuberculosis. Topics include compliance requirements, 192 hours utilizing a variable time schedule. exposure control measures, exposure determination, protective equipment, and post exposure practices. MAP 292: Internship Studies Units: 0.5-3 MAP 80: Medical Assistant--Clinical Back Office I Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Prerequisites: None unit. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center Course Typically Offered: Fall approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. This course expands medical assistant proficiency in Acceptable for Credit: CSU medical back office support. Students are introduced to the Course Typically Offered: To be arranged medical laboratory and equipment. The course emphasizes assisting physicians with exams and minor office surgical This course provides students the opportunity to apply the procedures. Topics include principles and practices of infection theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship control, patient medical history and documentation, basic position in a professional setting under the instruction of a pharmacological concepts, and basic drug administration. faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Students perform CLIA approved procedures on urine, fecal, to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals and microbiologic specimens. 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. 316    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MAP 296: Topics in Medical Administrative Professional Contact Information Units: 1-3 Prerequisites: None Chair: Matthew Falker Department: Music Lecture 1 hour. Dean: Jonathan Fohrman Office: Building OC2700, Lecture 2 hours. https://www.miracosta.edu/ 760.795.6844 Lecture 3 hours. academics/degree-and- Course Typically Offered: To be arranged certificate-programs/creative- and-applied-arts/music/ This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in index.html Medical Office Professional that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, Full-Time Faculty and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. Christy Coobatis Dan Siegel Matthew Falker Stephen Torok MAP 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Arlie Langager Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: None Associate Degree Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per unit. Associate in Arts Degree Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll Music  in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. The study of music provides students with the opportunity Acceptable for Credit: CSU to develop skills and theory in instrumental, vocal, and Course Typically Offered: To be arranged composition. Students select many of their own courses based on their own goals for musical growth. All students, however, Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are need a foundation of theory, musicianship, and keyboarding employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such proficiency as well as private study and ensemble participation. students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities The Music program offers lower-division preparation for students and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, who plan on transferring to pursue a bachelor's degree in employability skills development, and examination of the world music. Students planning to transfer and/or earn this associate of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may degree may also need to complete additional requirements not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative or electives required by the transfer institution, as many CSUs work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship and UCs have unique admissions and preparation-for-the-major studies during community college attendance. requirements. Students should meet with a MiraCosta College counselor to identify required courses and to develop a written Music plan for their targeted university. The Music program offers courses in both traditional and To earn this associate degree, students must fulfill the commercial music for students who following requirements: plan on transferring as music majors to four-year institutions, for those who need to satisfy general education requirements, and Complete a minimum of 60 degree-applicable units of for those who wish to earn a certificate or associate degree in credit (including major and general education courses). traditional or commercial music. Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or “P” or better. The program provides performance opportunities for music Complete a general education pattern of courses majors, non-music majors, and non-traditional students looking (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). to participate in music classes. Obtain a minimum GPA of 2.0. Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta Careers in traditional music include professional performance, College. conducting, arts management, composing, academic research, and public and private teaching. Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Academic and Career Pathway: Creative and Applied Arts  Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to demonstrate the ability to hear, identify, and work conceptually with the elements of music through the successful study of music theory and analysis, ear training, and piano keyboard proficiency. Music Major Core Courses (Required) MUS 101 Music Theory I 3 3 MUS 102 Music Theory II 1 1 MUS 103 Musicianship I 1 MUS 104 Musicianship II MUS 128 Piano for Music Majors I 317MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 145A Performance Lab I .5 MUS 292 Internship Studies MUS 145B Performance Lab II .5 EDUC 115 Foundations of Teaching as a MUS 201 Advanced Music Theory 3 Profession MUS 203 Advanced Musicianship 1 Option 2 - Music Education/Composition/Therapy/ 4 Studies (Select 9 units). Performance Ensembles (4 units to be selected from the MUS 100 Introduction to Music Theory following): MUS 150A Contemporary Big Band I MUS 113 The Music of America MUS 150B Contemporary Big Band II or MUS 116 A Survey of World Music MUS 115 History of Classical Music MUS 250A Contemporary Big Band III MUS 250B Contemporary Big Band IV or MUS 119 Jazz History or MUS 119H Jazz History (Honors) MUS 152A Small Group Jazz Ensemble I MUS 152B Small Group Jazz Ensemble II MUS 120 Piano I MUS 121 Piano II MUS 252A Small Group Jazz Ensemble III MUS 252B Small Group Jazz Ensemble IV MUS 129 Piano for Music Majors II MUS 131 Guitar II MUS 161A Concert Chorale I MUS 141 Vocal Fundamentals MUS 161B Concert Chorale II MUS 261A Concert Chorale III MUS 144A Individual Instruction I MUS 144B Individual Instruction II MUS 261B Concert Chorale IV MUS 165A Chamber Choir I MUS 155A Popular Music Ensemble I MUS 155B Popular Music Ensemble II MUS 165B Chamber Choir II MUS 265A Chamber Choir III MUS 188 Technology for Music Majors MUS 228 Advanced Piano MUS 265B Chamber Choir IV MUS 166A Vocal Jazz Ensemble I MUS 229 Jazz/Commercial Piano MUS 241 Advanced Vocal Techniques MUS 166B Vocal Jazz Ensemble II MUS 266A Vocal Jazz Ensemble III MUS 244A Individual Instruction III MUS 244B Individual Instruction IV MUS 266B Vocal Jazz Ensemble IV MUS 245A Performance Lab III MUS 170A Symphony Orchestra I MUS 170B Symphony Orchestra II MUS 245B Performance Lab IV MUS 253 Jazz/Commercial Improvisation MUS 270A Symphony Orchestra III MUS 270B Symphony Orchestra IV MUS 255A Popular Music Ensemble III Students should select Option 1 or Option 2 based on 9 MUS 255B Popular Music Ensemble IV their interest of study following transfer. MUS 292 Internship Studies Option 1 - Music Performance (6 required units plus 3 EDUC 115 Foundations of Teaching as a elective units) Profession MUS 144A Individual Instruction I Total Units 27 MUS 144B Individual Instruction II Courses Related in Content (CRC) MUS 244A Individual Instruction III Active participatory music courses that are related in content are grouped together. Students are allowed four enrollments MUS 244B Individual Instruction IV within each CRC group, but each course may be taken only once unless its catalog description indicates it is repeatable. MUS 245A Performance Lab III Enrollments include any combination of course completions (with an evaluative or nonevaluative symbol recorded on the MUS 245B Performance Lab IV student's transcript), withdrawals, and repetition. MUS 228 Advanced Piano or MUS 229 Jazz/Commercial Piano Three elective units to be selected from the following. MUS 115 History of Classical Music Ear Training CRC MUS 119 Jazz History MUS 103 Musicianship I MUS 119H Jazz History (Honors) MUS 104 Musicianship II MUS 129 Piano for Music Majors II MUS 203 Advanced Musicianship MUS 131 Guitar II Guitar CRC MUS 141 Vocal Fundamentals MUS 130 Guitar I MUS 228 Advanced Piano MUS 131 Guitar II MUS 229 Jazz/Commercial Piano Individual Instruction CRC MUS 241 Advanced Vocal Techniques MUS 145A Performance Lab I MUS 253 Jazz/Commercial Improvisation MUS 145B Performance Lab II 318    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

MUS 245A Performance Lab III Areas of Study & Courses MUS 245B Performance Lab IV Courses Large Classical Instrumental Ensemble CRC MUS 100: Introduction to Music Theory Units: 3 MUS 170A Symphony Orchestra I Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 170B Symphony Orchestra II Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer MUS 270A Symphony Orchestra III This basic music theory course teaches students to read MUS 270B Symphony Orchestra IV and write musical notation and develops related listening skills. Topics include basic music terminology, rhythm and Large Classical Vocal Ensemble CRC pitch notation, piano keyboard, clefs, meter signatures, key signatures, scales, intervals, and triads. C-ID MUS-110. MUS 161A Concert Chorale I MUS 101: Music Theory I MUS 161B Concert Chorale II Units: 3 Prerequisites: MUS 100. MUS 261A Concert Chorale III Advisory: MUS 103 or MUS 128 or MUS 145A or Concurrent enrollment in appropriate level piano class. MUS 261B Concert Chorale IV Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Large Instrumental Jazz Ensemble CRC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS 150A Contemporary Big Band I This course begins with a short review of music fundamentals and emphasizes music theory topics, such as triads, seventh MUS 150B Contemporary Big Band II chords, and their inversions, and the study of diatonic harmony including topics such as basic counterpoint, non-harmonic MUS 250A Contemporary Big Band III tones, secondary dominants, and four-part writing (voice leading) in the Baroque style. Students are required to attend MUS 250B Contemporary Big Band IV live musical performances. C-ID MUS-120. Piano CRC MUS 102: Music Theory II Units: 3 MUS 120 Piano I Prerequisites: MUS 101. Corequisite: MUS 104. MUS 121 Piano II Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in MUS 129. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 128 Piano for Music Majors I Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall MUS 129 Piano for Music Majors II This continuation of MUS 101 introduces intermediate-level MUS 228 Advanced Piano analysis and compositional techniques found in 17th through 19th century Western classical music. The course emphasizes MUS 229 Jazz/Commercial Piano four-part diatonic and chromatic chorale writing and related analysis techniques in both major and minor keys, and Popular Music CRC integrates intermediate ear training concepts from MUS 104. Topics include diatonic and chromatic chord progressions, MUS 155A Popular Music Ensemble I secondary chords, augmented sixth chords, Neapolitan sixth chords, chorale analysis techniques, and simple musical MUS 155B Popular Music Ensemble II forms. The course also emphasizes the recognition and correct compositional use of modulation techniques including pivot MUS 255A Popular Music Ensemble III chord, secondary dominant, and common tone modulations. C-ID MUS-130. MUS 255B Popular Music Ensemble IV Small Classical Vocal Ensemble CRC MUS 165A Chamber Choir I MUS 165B Chamber Choir II MUS 265A Chamber Choir III MUS 265B Chamber Choir IV Small Instrumental Jazz Ensemble CRC MUS 152A Small Group Jazz Ensemble I MUS 152B Small Group Jazz Ensemble II MUS 252A Small Group Jazz Ensemble III MUS 252B Small Group Jazz Ensemble IV Vocal Jazz Ensemble CRC MUS 166A Vocal Jazz Ensemble I MUS 166B Vocal Jazz Ensemble II MUS 266A Vocal Jazz Ensemble III MUS 266B Vocal Jazz Ensemble IV Vocal Technique CRC MUS 141 Vocal Fundamentals MUS 241 Advanced Vocal Techniques 319MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 103: Musicianship I MUS 114: History of Rock and Roll Units: 1 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course provides ear training for musicians and is strongly This course surveys the history of rock and roll from its origin in recommended for students enrolled in theory classes. The American popular music to the present. It relates the stylistic course builds an aural foundation to music theory, including changes that have occurred in rock and roll to the social basic pitches, rhythms, major and minor scales, and primary events that surround them. The course also examines historic harmonies. C-ID MUS-125. and current rock subcultures and the attitudes surrounding them. MUS 104: Musicianship II Units: 1 MUS 115: History of Classical Music Prerequisites: MUS 103. Units: 3 Corequisite: MUS 102. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course provides intermediate-level ear training for the music This course introduces students to the canon of Western major and integrates with the theory concepts being learned in classical music through a survey of great composers from the MUS 102. The course continues to develop an aural foundation medieval period to the present. Methods include historical to music theory, including basic pitches, rhythms, major and analysis of each style period and extensive guided listening. The minor scales, and primary harmonies. Students are required to course also considers sociological influences on art and music. attend live musical performances. C-ID MUS-135. MUS 116: A Survey of World Music MUS 112: American Popular Music 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: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course introduces students to selected musical cultures This course surveys popular music in America from colonial from around the world, exploring their stylistic features, times to the present. Students analyze the broad variety of organology, and cultural significance, along with the historical, music particular to American heritage in context with the social, political, and geographical factors that shaped them. social, cultural, and musical developments of the times. Genres It emphasizes approaching music from an ethnomusicological examined include folk, religious, blues, Tin Pan Alley, jazz, perspective—questioning how and why human beings rhythm and blues, country, soul, rock, disco, hip-hop, rap, and are musical and how their musics relate to broader questions electronica. Students are required to attend a live musical of identity, communication, and belief systems. Through performance. exploration of these musics, students refine listening and critical skills related to music. MUS 113: The Music of America Units: 3 MUS 119: Jazz History Prerequisites: None Units: 3 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Prerequisites: None Lecture 3 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer MUS 119H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This course surveys a variety of music genres that evolved from Lecture 3 hours. the merging of different cultural traditions into distinctively new Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer American music styles. The styles students examine include the music of the early colonists to spirituals, the blues, and jazz as This course assists students in developing an appreciation well as Norteño, salsa, zydeco, Hawaiian, and klezmer. and respect for jazz and blues as original and uniquely American art forms. The topic, viewed through historical, cultural, and sociological lenses, focuses upon the evolutionary development of the music and artists responsible for its creation. Students gain an understanding of basic and jazz- specific musical concepts, the profound impact of African- American artists, and how jazz influenced all American popular music. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MUS 119 or MUS 119H. 320    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 119H: Jazz History (Honors) MUS 128: Piano for Music Majors I Units: 3 Units: 1 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Advisory: MUS 100 MUS 119. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: Lecture 3 hours. No course within this grouping is repeatable. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. This honors course offers highly motivated students an intense Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring introduction to American jazz and blues history. The topic, viewed through historical, cultural, and sociological lenses, This course provides technical knowledge and skills of piano focuses upon the evolutionary development of jazz music and for all music majors. Students learn to play scales, arpeggios, the artists responsible for its creation. Methods include historical and chords. The course emphasizes the construction of triads and sociological analysis of each style period and extensive and seventh chords. Students prepare and play beginning-level guided listening. The course emphasizes understanding the piano repertoire in classical and jazz/contemporary styles, and impact of cultural, sociological, racial, and other influences they are required to attend a live professional or educational upon the development of jazz and the influence of jazz upon piano performance. C-ID MUS-170. all of American popular music. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MUS 119 or MUS 119H. MUS 129: Piano for Music Majors II Units: 1 MUS 120: Piano I Prerequisites: MUS 128. Units: 1 Advisory: MUS 100 Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable. No course within this grouping is repeatable. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 0.50 hour, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides technical knowledge and skills of piano This beginning piano class develops piano skills through the for all music majors at an intermediate level. Students play use of standard songs and appropriate-level piano literature. more advanced scales, arpeggios, and chords. Students It also introduces fundamental musical notation. Students are also prepare and play intermediate-level piano repertoire in required to attend a professional piano performance. classical and jazz/contemporary styles, and they are required to attend a live professional piano performance. C-ID MUS-171. MUS 121: Piano II Units: 1 MUS 130: Guitar I Prerequisites: None Units: 1 Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Prerequisites: None MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC No course within this grouping is repeatable. Lecture 0.50 hour, laboratory 1.50 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 0.50 hour, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides fundamental guitar performance training and music reading for students with any level of This piano class continues to develop beginning piano skills prior experience on the instrument, including those with no through the use of standard songs and appropriate level piano experience. Topics include music theory, guitar ergonomics, literature. The course continues to develop student knowledge musicianship skills, and note reading performance in the first of music fundamentals, including notation, scales, and chords. position in an ensemble and as a soloist. Students are required Students are required to attend a live professional piano to possess a steel string or classical guitar. performance. 321MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 131: Guitar II MUS 145A: Performance Lab I Units: 1 Units: .5 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Advisory: MUS 130. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 144, MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 244, MUS 245A, MUS 245B. Lecture 0.50 hour, laboratory 1.50 hours. NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable. Course Typically Offered: Fall odd years Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 1.50 hours. This course focuses on intermediate-level technical studies Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring based on various aspects of intermediate-level music theory, such as key, rhythm, and form. Melodies, chord progressions, This first course in a four-semester sequence introduces improvisation, and chord voicing are incorporated within song performance techniques in a group environment. Students arrangements to develop playing skills appropriate within the observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer context of live performance. Students study, practice, and musicians and complete other performance-related activities. perform songs and exercises utilizing various positions and The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction voicings on the instrument within popular, classical, and jazz courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is styles in both solo and ensemble settings. open to all students. MUS 141: Vocal Fundamentals MUS 145B: Performance Lab II Units: 1 Units: .5 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: MUS 145A. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Lecture 0.50 hour, laboratory 1.50 hours. MUS 144, MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 244, MUS 245A, MUS 245B. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This voice class addresses functional techniques in singing for Laboratory 1.50 hours. students seeking to develop specific vocal and musical abilities. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Areas covered include breathing, voice placement, diction, phrasing, and interpretation. Students are required to attend a This second in a four-course series further explores performance live musical concert. techniques in a group environment. Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer musicians and MUS 144A: Individual Instruction I complete other performance-related activities. The course Units: 1 is closely affiliated with the individual instruction courses. It is Prerequisites: None required of all music performance majors but is open to all Corequisite: MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 245A, or MUS 245B. students. Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 150A: Contemporary Big Band I Lecture 1 hour. Units: 1 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Audition and maximum of four This course is the first semester of private study for music majors. enrollments among MUS 150, MUS 150A, MUS 150B, MUS 250A, Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on beginning-level classical and MUS 250B. or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC repertoire in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire is Laboratory 3 hours. performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS-160. This first course in a four-course series concentrates on the MUS 144B: Individual Instruction II preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big Units: 1 band jazz. Beginning students study music from a wide Prerequisites: None variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to Corequisite: MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 245A, or MUS 245B. contemporary styles. The course introduces aspects of large Enrollment Limitation: Audition. jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, Lecture 1 hour. instrumental blend, sight reading, and correct intonation. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/ or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-180. This course is the second semester of private study for music majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on intermediate- level classical or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and repertoire in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID MUS-160. 322    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 150B: Contemporary Big Band II MUS 155A: Popular Music Ensemble I Units: 1 Units: 1 Prerequisites: MUS 150A Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 150, MUS 150A, MUS 150B, MUS 250A, and MUS 250B. Laboratory 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This first course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and This second course in a four-course series concentrates on vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire the preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/ of popular music styles. Students are required to play an big band jazz. Intermediate students study music from a wide instrument or sing and participate in on- and off-campus variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to performances. contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of large jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, MUS 155B: Popular Music Ensemble II rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, Units: 1 instrumental blend, sight reading, and correct intonation. Prerequisites: MUS 155A. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/ Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-180. Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS 152A: Small Group Jazz Ensemble I Units: 1.5 This second course in a four-course series, designed for Prerequisites: None acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists Enrollment Limitation: Audition and maximum of four and vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the enrollments among MUS 152, MUS 152A, MUS 152B, MUS 252A, repertoire of popular music styles. Students are required to and MUS 252B. play an instrument and/or sing and participate in on- and off- Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC campus performances. Laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS 161A: Concert Chorale I Units: 1 This first course of a four-course series concentrates on Prerequisites: None beginner-level preparation and performance of small group Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Maximum of four enrollments jazz. Students study jazz from a wide variety of historical eras, among MUS 161, MUS 161A, MUS 161B, MUS 261A, MUS 261B. ranging from the 1940s bebop style to contemporary styles. The NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable. course introduces and reinforces fundamental aspects of jazz Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC performance, including rhythmic and stylistic interpretation. Laboratory 3 hours. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/ Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-185. In this first in a four-course series, students gain basic MUS 152B: Small Group Jazz Ensemble II technical vocal skill proficiency as they rehearse and perform Units: 1.5 accompanied and a cappella music in a large ensemble. Prerequisites: MUS 152A. Students work to advance music literacy skills and build vocal Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among and choral strength, accuracy, and flexibility appropriate MUS 152, MUS 152A, MUS 152B, MUS 252A, and MUS 252B. for the study of major choral works that represent a broad Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC spectrum of history. Laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS 161B: Concert Chorale II Units: 1 This second course of a four-course series focuses on Prerequisites: MUS 161A. intermediate-level preparation and performance of small Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among group jazz. Intermediate-level students study jazz from a wide MUS 161, MUS 161A, MUS 161B, MUS 261A, MUS 261B. NOTE: No variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1940s bebop style course within this grouping is repeatable. to contemporary styles. The course reinforces fundamental Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC aspects of jazz performance, including increasingly complex Laboratory 3 hours. rhythmic and stylistic interpretation. It also introduces concepts Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring of conversational jazz performance and beginning-level jazz improvisation. Students are required to attend both on- and off- In this second in a four-course series, students gain campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-185. fundamental technical vocal skill proficiency as they rehearse and perform accompanied and a cappella music in a large ensemble. Students work to advance music literacy skills and build vocal and choral strength, accuracy, and flexibility appropriate for the study of major choral works that represent a broad spectrum of history. 323MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 164: Musical Theater Ensemble MUS 166A: Vocal Jazz Ensemble I Units: 1 Units: 1.5 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Corequisite: DRAM 204 Advisory: MUS 100 and MUS 141 Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 166, MUS 166A, MUS 166B, MUS 266A, and MUS 266B. Laboratory 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Spring Laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides students with the opportunity to perform in main-stage musical productions. Topics include vocal Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire production, story and character development, and ensemble through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They skills. The singing cast is selected by audition, and all students present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout participate in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre the community as well as concert tours. Students develop Festival competition. (May be repeated three times.) beginning vocal or instrumental skills, sight reading skills with basic intervals and rhythms, and perform at least one solo MUS 165A: Chamber Choir I using basic melodic shaping and jazz improvisation concepts. Units: 1.5 Students are required to attend professional jazz performances. Prerequisites: None First level of four semester enrollments. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS 165, MUS 165A, MUS 165B, MUS 265A, and MUS 265B. MUS 166B: Vocal Jazz Ensemble II Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Units: 1.5 Laboratory 4.50 hours. Prerequisites: MUS 166A Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS 166, MUS 166A, MUS 166B, MUS 266A, and MUS 266B. In this first in a four-course series, students learn how to perform Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC representative choral music literature with basic technical vocal Laboratory 4.50 hours. skill in a small ensemble. Topics include beginning-level vocal Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring production, ensemble skills, music history and theory, and performance skills. Students are required to participate in on- Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire and off-campus performances and concert tours. through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout MUS 165B: Chamber Choir II the community as well as concert tours. Students develop Units: 1.5 beginning-intermediate vocal or instrumental skills, sight Prerequisites: MUS 165A. reading skills with beginning-intermediate intervals and Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among syncopated rhythms, and perform at least one solo using MUS 165, MUS 165A, MUS 165B, MUS 265A, and MUS 265B. melodic shaping and intermediate improvisation concepts, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC using a student-prepared lead sheet. Students are required Laboratory 4.50 hours. to attend professional jazz performances. Second level of four Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring semester enrollments. In this second in a four-course series, students learn how to MUS 170A: Symphony Orchestra I perform representative choral music literature with intermediate- Units: 1 level technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics include Prerequisites: None intermediate-level vocal production, ensemble skills, music Enrollment Limitation: Audition and maximum of four history and theory, and performance skills. Students are enrollments among MUS 170, MUS 170A, MUS 170B, MUS 270A, required to participate in on- and off-campus performances MUS 270B. and concert tours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This beginning course in a four-course series concentrates on the preparation and performance of symphonic orchestral literature. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary styles. The course introduces beginning-level characteristics of classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balance, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off- campus and/or virtual performances. 324    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 170B: Symphony Orchestra II MUS 203: Advanced Musicianship Units: 1 Units: 1 Prerequisites: MUS 170A. Prerequisites: MUS 104. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Corequisite: MUS 201. MUS 170, MUS 170A, MUS 170B, MUS 270A, MUS 270B. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides advanced-level ear training for the music This second course in a four-course series concentrates on major and integrates with the theory concepts being learned in intermediate-level preparation and performance of symphonic MUS 201. Topics include scale degree recognition with different orchestral literature. Students study music from a wide variety tonics, rhythm identification and dictation, intervals, cadences, of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary interval and melodic dictation, and predominant chord styles. The course reinforces aspects of classical performance, identification. Students are required to attend live musical including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section performances. C-ID MUS-145. and ensemble balances, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students MUS 228: Advanced Piano are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual Units: 1 performances. Prerequisites: MUS 128. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS 188: Technology for Music Majors MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: Units: 2 No course within this grouping is repeatable. Prerequisites: MUS 100. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU Laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring This course provides piano and advanced musicianship skills This survey course presents an introduction to technological training. Topics include complex notation, scales, chords, tools for students in music performance, music education, transposition, and sight reading. Students develop advanced- and general education. It is designed to introduce basic level piano performance skills using appropriate literature, and studio recording concepts, live sound systems, digital audio they study prominent piano composers and different eras of workstations, MIDI, and music notation software for the piano literature. Students are required to perform in public performance of classical and jazz/commercial music. at least once and attend a live professional classical piano performance. C-ID MUS-172. MUS 201: Advanced Music Theory Units: 3 MUS 229: Jazz/Commercial Piano Prerequisites: MUS 102. Units: 1 Corequisite: MUS 203. Prerequisites: MUS 128. Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in MUS 228. Advisory: MUS 152A or MUS 253 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Lecture 3 hours. MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: Course Typically Offered: Spring No course within this grouping is repeatable. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This course introduces advanced analysis and compositional Laboratory 3 hours. techniques found in 18th through 20th century Western Course Typically Offered: Fall classical music. Topics include secondary dominants, modal mixture, and augmented and Neapolitan sixth chords as This course provides jazz piano performance training and well as chorale analysis and binary and ternary musical covers advanced musicianship skills. It includes contemporary forms. The course integrates advanced ear training concepts notation, scales, chords, transposition, and sight reading. from MUS 203, emphasizes the recognition and correct Students continue to develop advanced level jazz piano compositional use of modulation techniques, including pivot performance and accompanying skills using appropriate chord, secondary dominant, and common tone modulations, literature, and they study prominent pianists and the different and it reviews four-part diatonic chorale writing and related eras of jazz piano history. Students are required to attend a live analysis techniques in both major and minor keys. C-ID MUS-140 professional piano performance and perform in public at least and C-ID MUS-150. once. 325MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 241: Advanced Vocal Techniques MUS 245B: Performance Lab IV Units: 1 Units: .5 Prerequisites: MUS 141. Prerequisites: MUS 245A. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Laboratory 3 hours. MUS 144, MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 244, MUS 245A, MUS 245B. Course Typically Offered: Spring odd years NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC This voice class covers advanced techniques in singing for Laboratory 1.50 hours. students seeking to further develop specific vocal training and Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring musical abilities. Topics include tone color, vowel modification, diction for languages, and interpretation for varying musical This final course in a four-semester series explores advanced styles. performance techniques in a group environment. Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer MUS 244A: Individual Instruction III musicians and complete other performance-related activities. Units: 1 The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction Prerequisites: None courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is Corequisite: MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 245A, or MUS 245B. open to all students. Enrollment Limitation: Audition. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 250A: Contemporary Big Band III Lecture 1 hour. Units: 1 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Prerequisites: MUS 150B. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among This course is the third semester of private study for music MUS 150, MUS 150A, MUS 150B, MUS 250A, and MUS 250B. majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on classical or Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and Laboratory 3 hours. repertoire at an intermediate-advanced level in preparation for Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring transfer auditions. Repertoire is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID MUS-160. This performance group concentrates on the preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big band jazz. MUS 244B: Individual Instruction IV Intermediate-advanced students study music from a wide Units: 1 variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to Prerequisites: None contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of large Corequisite: MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 245A, or MUS 245B. jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, Enrollment Limitation: Audition. rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC instrumental blend, sight reading, and correct intonation. Lecture 1 hour. Improvisation is introduced. Students are required to attend Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. Third level of four semester enrollments. C-ID MUS-180. This course is the fourth semester of private study for music majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on advanced MUS 250B: Contemporary Big Band IV classical or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, Units: 1 and repertoire in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire Prerequisites: MUS 250A. is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS-160. MUS 150, MUS 150A, MUS 150B, MUS 250A, and MUS 250B. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 245A: Performance Lab III Laboratory 3 hours. Units: .5 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Prerequisites: MUS 145B. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among This fourth in a four-course series concentrates on the MUS 144, MUS 145A, MUS 145B, MUS 244, MUS 245A, MUS 245B. preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable. band jazz. Advanced students study music from a wide Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to Laboratory 1.50 hours. contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of large Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, This third in a four-course series explores intermediate- instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and advanced performance techniques in a group environment. improvisational skills. Students are required to attend both on- Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and and off-campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-180. peer musicians and complete other performance-related activities. The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is open to all students. 326    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 252A: Small Group Jazz Ensemble III MUS 255A: Popular Music Ensemble III Units: 1.5 Units: 1 Prerequisites: MUS 152B. Prerequisites: MUS 155B. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU MUS 152, MUS 152A, MUS 152B, MUS 252A, and MUS 252B. Laboratory 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This third course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and This third course in a four-course series concentrates on vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire intermediate-advanced level preparation and performance of popular music styles. Students are required to play an of small group jazz. Intermediate-advanced-level students instrument and/or sing and participate in on- and off-campus study jazz from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from performances. the 1940s bebop style to contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of jazz performance, including increasingly MUS 255B: Popular Music Ensemble IV complex rhythmic and stylistic interpretation, and emphasizes Units: 1 the concepts of interactive jazz performance and intermediate- Prerequisites: MUS 255A level jazz improvisation. Students are required to attend both Acceptable for Credit: CSU on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-185. Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS 252B: Small Group Jazz Ensemble IV Units: 1.5 This fourth course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic Prerequisites: MUS 252A. and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire MUS 152, MUS 152A, MUS 152B, MUS 252A, and MUS 252B. of popular music styles. Students are required to play an Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC instrument and/or sing and participate in on- and off-campus Laboratory 4.50 hours. performances. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MUS 260: Commercial Music Composition This final course in a four-course series concentrates on Units: 2 advanced-level preparation and performance of small group Prerequisites: MUS 100. jazz. Advanced- level students study jazz from a wide variety Acceptable for Credit: CSU of historical eras, ranging from the 1940s bebop style to Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of jazz Course Typically Offered: Spring performance, including advanced rhythmic and stylistic interpretation. It emphasizes interactive jazz performance This course covers the essential elements necessary to and advanced-level jazz improvisation and introduces jazz compose music in the contemporary commercial realm: arranging for the small group. Students are required to attend harmony, melody, form, and style. Students apply strategies of both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID effective songwriting through analysis and composition. The MUS-185. course is designed for students with an understanding of basic harmony and fundamental musical abilities. C-ID CMUS-150X. MUS 253: Jazz/Commercial Improvisation Units: 2 MUS 261A: Concert Chorale III Prerequisites: None Units: 1 Enrollment Limitation: Audition and not open to students with Prerequisites: MUS 161B. prior credit in MUS 153. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 161, MUS 161A, MUS 161B, MUS 261A, MUS 261B. NOTE: No Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. course within this grouping is repeatable. Course Typically Offered: Spring even years Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 3 hours. This course introduces students to melodic improvisational Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring techniques used in jazz and many commercial musical styles. Participants study the art of constructing an appropriate linear In this third in a four-course series, students gain intermediate melodic solo in a variety of common styles, including swing, technical vocal skill proficiency as they rehearse and perform Latin, bop, funk, fusion, and soul. The course relates music accompanied and a cappella music in a large ensemble. theory and improvisation to chord/scale relationships and Students work to advance music literacy skills and build vocal modes, modal chord progressions, blues, rhythm changes, and and choral strength, accuracy, and flexibility appropriate standard major and minor chord progressions. for the study of major choral works that represent a broad spectrum of history. 327MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 261B: Concert Chorale IV MUS 266A: Vocal Jazz Ensemble III Units: 1 Units: 1.5 Prerequisites: MUS 261A. Prerequisites: MUS 166B Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS 161, MUS 161A, MUS 161B, MUS 261A, MUS 261B. NOTE: No MUS 166, MUS 166A, MUS 166B, MUS 266A, and MUS 266B. course within this grouping is repeatable. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 4.50 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire In this final course in the concert chorale series, students gain through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They advanced technical vocal skill proficiency as they rehearse present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout and perform accompanied and a cappella music in a large the community as well as concert tours. Students develop ensemble. Students work to advance music literacy skills and intermediate vocal or instrument skills, sight reading skills with build vocal and choral strength, accuracy, and flexibility chromatic intervals and advanced rhythms, and perform at appropriate for the study of major choral works that represent a least two solos with jazz phrasing and advanced improvisation, broad spectrum of history. using student-prepared lead sheets on music notation software. Students are required to attend professional jazz performances. MUS 265A: Chamber Choir III Third level of four semester enrollments. Units: 1.5 Prerequisites: MUS 165B. MUS 266B: Vocal Jazz Ensemble IV Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Units: 1.5 MUS 165, MUS 165A, MUS 165B, MUS 265A, and MUS 265B. Prerequisites: MUS 266A Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among Laboratory 4.50 hours. MUS 166, MUS 166A, MUS 166B, MUS 266A, and MUS 266B. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Laboratory 4.50 hours. In this third in a four-course series, students learn how to perform Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring representative choral music literature with intermediate- advanced technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire include intermediate-advanced-level vocal production, through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They ensemble skills, music history and theory, and performance present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout skills. Students are required to participate in on- and off-campus the community as well as concert tours. Students develop performances and concert tours. advanced vocal or instrumental skills, sight reading skills with all intervals and advanced syncopated rhythms, and perform at MUS 265B: Chamber Choir IV least two solos with jazz phrasing and advanced improvisation, Units: 1.5 using fully arranged student-prepared lead sheets on music Prerequisites: MUS 265A. notation software. Students are required to attend professional Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among jazz performances. Fourth level of four semester enrollments. MUS 165, MUS 165A, MUS 165B, MUS 265A, and MUS 265B. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC MUS 270A: Symphony Orchestra III Laboratory 4.50 hours. Units: 1 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Prerequisites: MUS 170B. Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among In this final course in a four-semester series, students learn MUS 170, MUS 170A, MUS 170B, MUS 270A, MUS 270B. how to perform representative choral music literature with Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC advanced technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics Laboratory 3 hours. include advanced-level vocal production, ensemble skills, Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring music history and theory, and basic performance skills. Students are required to participate in on- and off-campus performances This performance group concentrates on intermediate- and concert tours. advanced level preparation and performance of symphonic orchestral. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary styles. The course reinforces many aspects of classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balance, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. Third level of four semester enrollments. 328    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MUS 270B: Symphony Orchestra IV Music Technology Units: 1 Prerequisites: MUS 270A. The Music Technology program offers courses for students Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among who wish to earn a certificate or an associate degree in music MUS 170, MUS 170A, MUS 170B, MUS 270A, MUS 270B. technology or who plan on transferring as a music major to a Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC four-year institution. Areas of focus include audio production, Laboratory 3 hours. audio for media, sound reinforcement, and the principles of Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring business in the field of music and media. Academic and Career Pathway: Creative and Applied Arts This fourth course in a four-course series concentrates on advanced-level preparation and performance of symphonic Contact Information orchestral literature. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary Chair: Matthew Falker Department: Music styles. The course introduces and reinforces many aspects of Dean: Jonathan Fohrman Office: Building OC2700, classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic https://www.miracosta.edu/ 760.795.6844 interpretation, section and ensemble balance, instrumental academics/degree-and- blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice certificate-programs/creative- strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off- and-applied-arts/music- campus and/or virtual performances. technology/index.html MUS 292: Internship Studies Full-Time Faculty Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None Christy Coobatis Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Dan Siegel unit. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center Associate Degree approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. Associate in Arts Degree Acceptable for Credit: CSU Music Technology Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Students may earn the above-named associate degree by This course provides students the opportunity to apply the completing a certificate of achievement and the general theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship education courses required for the Associate in Arts degree position in a professional setting under the instruction of a (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should meet with faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students a MiraCosta counselor to identify required courses and to to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals develop a written education plan for the specific degree or employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, certificate they wish to earn. employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Program Student Learning Outcome Statement must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during teach methods to use current technologies to create a community college attendance. high-quality musical presentation suitable for broadcast and live sound within a given timeline. MUS 296: Topics in Music work within a group to produce an audio recording and Units: 1-4 live sound presentation using audio equipment, such as Prerequisites: None mixers, audio recorders, signal processors, patch bays, and Acceptable for Credit: CSU microphones. Lecture 1 hour. choose, position, and configure microphones and Lecture 2 hours. preamplifiers to accurately capture, store, amplify and Lecture 3 hours. distribute audio. Lecture 4 hours. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Certificates This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Certificate of Achievement Music that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Music Technology Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. This certificate prepares students for jobs in the field of audio recording, production, and audio in live performance presentations. The curriculum includes in-depth study of recording arts from general study to production of a final product suitable for presentation within a portfolio. Students 329MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses learn all aspects of the process from the perspective of a CSIT 120 Fundamentals of Computer recording engineer to that of a performer. Information Systems CSIT 155 Social Media for Business Program Student Learning Outcome Statement CSIT 160 Technology, the Individual, and Society Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to DRAM 110 Voice and Diction FILM 101 Introduction to Film use current technologies to create a high-quality musical Introduction to Film (Honors) presentation suitable for broadcast and live sound within a or FILM 101H Media Design 1: Production given timeline. MAT 120 Web Design 1: Fundamentals work both individually and within a group to produce MAT 125 Animation and Interactivity an audio recording and live sound presentation using MAT 150 Video 1: Production audio equipment, such as mixers, audio recorders, signal MAT 160 Web Design 2: WordPress and Site processors, patch bays, and microphones meeting current MAT 165 Production industry standards. Portfolio Development deliver the completed audio presentation within current, MAT 290 commonly accepted distribution methods such as Total Units 29-31 fixed-media movable storage (e.g., flash drive, disks) or mainstream Internet delivery sites (e.g., Dropbox, Youtube, Vimeo, and Facebook). Music technology core coursework: Certificate of Achievement Business of Music and Media MTEC 110 Recording Arts I 2 2 This program begins with the fundamentals of intellectual MTEC 111 Recording Arts II 2 property and contract law and expands to the strategies of 2 exploitation of creative works in today's marketplace. Students MTEC 120 Digital Audio Production I 2 who complete the Business of Music and Media program can 2 apply their skills to professional positions in all facets of the MTEC 130 MIDI 2 entertainment industry. 2 MTEC 140 Sound Reinforcement I 2 2 MTEC 141 Sound Reinforcement II 2 3 MTEC 150 Audio Equipment Maintenance Program Student Learning Outcome Statement 2-3 MTEC 210 Recording Arts III Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to 2-3 MTEC 211 Recording Arts IV MTEC 220 Digital Audio Production II demonstrate an understanding of intellectual property laws as they specifically apply to the entertainment industry. MTEC 230 Electronic Music and Sound Design understand the process of affiliation with the appropriate organizations for the registration and collection of copyright Choose 3 units from the following music theory and royalties. performance training courses: demonstrate the ability to understand and interpret contracts and terminology specifically found in the MUS 100 Introduction to Music Theory entertainment industry. MUS 120 Piano I MUS 121 Piano II MUS 130 Guitar I Required courses:   3 MUS 131 Guitar II FILM 112 Film History II: 1945-Present MUS 141 Vocal Fundamentals or FILM 112H Film History II: 1945-Present (Honors) MTEC 160 Business of Music and Media I MUS 161A Concert Chorale I MTEC 260 Business of Music and Media II 3 2 Select one course from the following: MTEC 160 Business of Music and Media I MUS 112 American Popular Music 3 9 MUS 260 Commercial Music Composition Business Electives - select nine units from the following: Select at least one course from the following for a BUS 130 Entrepreneurship and Small Business minimum of 2 units: Management MTEC 292 Internship Studies BUS 131 Management Principles BUS 136 Human Relations in Business MTEC 299 Occupational Cooperative Work Experience BUS 130 Entrepreneurship and Small Business BUS 140 Legal Environment of Business Management or BUS 140H Legal Environment of Business (Honors) BUS 132 Marketing Internship - select two units from the following: 2 BUS 138 Business Promotion MTEC 292 Internship Studies COMM 106 Group Communication MUS 292 Internship Studies CS 150 C++ Programming Total Units 22 CS 151 Advanced C++ Programming CSIT 110 Computer Applications 330    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses Certificate of Proficiency MTEC 120: Digital Audio Production I Music Technology Units: 2 Prerequisites: None The Music Technology Certificate is designed to provide Advisory: MTEC 110. concepts and application of principles needed to successfully Acceptable for Credit: CSU operate and maintain audio equipment. The curricula Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. ranges from the recording studio to stage and touring. Upon Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring successful completion a student will possess skills necessary for employment as an audio technician, producer, engineer and This course is a survey of the various procedures and music products salesperson. technology used in contemporary audio production in the digital domain. Course work includes the Avid Pro Tools 101 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Certification Test. Students are required to own or have ongoing personal access to a working copy of the Avid ProTools Digital Upon completion of this program, a student will be able to Audio Software application and a suitable computer. C-ID achieve proficiency in various aspects of music technology CMUS-120X. such as equipment setup, procurement, and application. MTEC 130: MIDI Required courses: Lighting Design for Theatre,   Units: 2 DRAM 141 Television, and Film 3 Prerequisites: None Business of Music and Media I Acceptable for Credit: CSU or MTEC 160 Recording Arts I 2 Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. MTEC 110 Digital Audio Production I 2 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring MTEC 120 MIDI 2 MTEC 130 Sound Reinforcement I 2 This survey course explores the full range of Musical Instrument MTEC 140 Audio Equipment Maintenance 2 Digital Interface (MIDI) capable software and hardware MTEC 150 13 including associated production techniques for music Total Units composition, performance, and recording. Courses MTEC 140: Sound Reinforcement I Units: 2 MTEC 110: Recording Arts I Prerequisites: None Units: 2 Acceptable for Credit: CSU Prerequisites: None Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Advisory: MTEC 120, MUS 100, and MUS 144A. Course Typically Offered: Fall Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. This course provides an overview of live concert sound Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer reinforcement. Topics include theory and application of individual sound system components, such as microphones, This first in a sequence of four recording arts courses presents mixers, amplifiers, wireless microphones and speakers. an introductory overview of the audio production process. Topics include the physics of sound, transducers, audio MTEC 141: Sound Reinforcement II processors, and recording-studio logistics. C-ID CMUS-130X. Units: 2 Prerequisites: MTEC 140. MTEC 111: Recording Arts II Acceptable for Credit: CSU Units: 2 Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Prerequisites: MTEC 110 and MTEC 120. Course Typically Offered: Spring Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in MTEC 120 if MTEC 120 prerequisite not met. This course covers advanced topics in sound system design, Acceptable for Credit: CSU stage management/organization, and sound checks. Topics Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. include troubleshooting, live concert recording, and live Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring concert interfacing with wireless microphones, MIDI, and video systems. This is the second in a series of four courses designed as the study of the theory and application of methods and tools in the field of recording arts and audio production. 331MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses MTEC 150: Audio Equipment Maintenance MTEC 220: Digital Audio Production II Units: 2 Units: 2 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: MTEC 120. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Typically Offered: Spring This course introduces audio maintenance, calibration, and This course is an in-depth study of advanced digital audio minor repair as well electronic building tips as they pertain to production techniques in the Avid Pro Tools software music, theater, and related application of practical electronics. environment. Specific subject areas include system setup, Students learn basic electronic principles and how they relate multi-track recording, editing, mixing, mastering, and the to signal flow and troubleshooting in various audio and related synchronization of audio with video. Course work includes the technical environments. Topics include signal path, circuit Avid Pro Tools 110, and 201 certification tests. Students are testing, component matching, power rating, and parallel and required to own or have ongoing personal access to a working series type wiring as well as hands-on work with basic electronic copy of the Avid ProTools Digital Audio Software application maintenance/repair kits. The course emphasizes safety issues and a suitable computer. with electricity. MTEC 230: Electronic Music and Sound Design MTEC 160: Business of Music and Media I Units: 2 Units: 3 Prerequisites: MTEC 130. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall This course provides an in-depth study and application of This course explores the essential topics relevant to computer-generated and controlled sound devices within the participation in the contemporary music and media industry: current MIDI standard as defined by the MIDI Manufacturer's intellectual property rights, copyright law, publishing Association. Topics include the MIDI data stream and current administration, performing rights organizations, music licensing, specification, sound synthesis, networked MIDI systems, contracts, and artist representation. C-ID CMUS-140X. programming sound and stage control parameters, advanced music sequencer operation, and editing. Students program MTEC 210: Recording Arts III integrated MIDI systems for music composition, recording, and Units: 2 performance. Prerequisites: MTEC 111. Acceptable for Credit: CSU MTEC 260: Business of Music and Media II Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Units: 2 Course Typically Offered: Fall Prerequisites: MTEC 160. Acceptable for Credit: CSU This third in a four-course sequence provides an in-depth Lecture 2 hours. technical and applied study of recording techniques covered Course Typically Offered: Spring in the previous recording arts courses. Topics include effects and dynamics processing and complex routing used in the Catalog Description This second in a two course series covers context of the multi-track recording and mixdown. Students effective methods of exploitation and monetization of creative work within a group and utilize studio time to complete works in the current industry marketplace. Specific topics assignments within a given timeline. include careers in music and media, independent music production and distribution, synchronization and licensing, MTEC 211: Recording Arts IV music submissions, marketing and publicity, and attaining Units: 2 practical goals. Prerequisites: MTEC 210. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This fourth and final course in the recording arts technology sequence involves technical, personnel, and musical elements for final production of commercial music projects. Students individually organize and complete an outlined production of a workforce-ready product in a multi-track recording facility. 332    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses MTEC 292: Internship Studies Nursing Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None The Registered Nursing (ADN) and Licensed Vocational Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Nursing (LVN) Programs prepare students to care for patients in unit. hospitals and other healthcare agencies through coursework in Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the nursing approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative discipline. These programs emphasize nursing theory and work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. clinical practice for direct patient care. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Licensure This course provides students the opportunity to apply the Upon successful completion of the Associate Degree Nursing theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship (ADN) program, graduates are eligible to apply for the National position in a professional setting under the instruction of a Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses. Upon faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students successful performance on the examination, they are licensed to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals as registered nurses (RNs). employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world Students completing the Certificate of Achievement in Licensed of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Vocational Nursing Program may take additional courses in must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new general education to receive their Associate in Arts in Licensed site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than Vocational Nursing (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Upon 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience completion of the LVN associate degree program, graduates (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during are eligible to apply for the National Council Licensure community college attendance. Examination for Vocational Nurses; if successful, they are licensed as vocational nurses (LVNs). MTEC 296: Topics in Music Technology Units: 1-3 Point System Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU A point system using multi-criteria approved by the California Lecture 1 hour. Community Colleges Chancellor's Office is used to accept Lecture 2 hours. students into the RN program. A list of this criteria is located on Lecture 3 hours. the nursing website (www.miracosta.edu/nursing). Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Music Technology that are not included in regular course Students accepted into the RN program must take the Test offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) and receive a composite given its own title and 296 number designation in the class score of 62 percent or higher in order to begin the program. The schedule. score on the first TEAS test taken is the one used for the points, not additional ones. Students who do not receive at least a MTEC 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience 62 percent will be counseled and have a remediation plan Units: 1-4 designed. They will have one year to complete the remediation Prerequisites: None plan before retesting for admittance. This program has been Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, PO Box 499210, unit. Sacramento, CA 94244-2100. Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or Academic and Career Pathway: Health Sciences internship studies concurrently. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Contact Information Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Chair: Alison Phinney Department: Nursing and Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are Dean: Al Taccone Allied Health employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OCT420, students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their academics/degree-and- 760.757.2121 x 6466 discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities certificate-programs/health- and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, sciences/nursing/index.html employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may Full-Time Faculty Emily Mercuri not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative Michelle Odom work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship Giana Carey Allison Perkins studies during community college attendance. Yvette Duncan Alison Phinney Roland Estrella Susan Simpson Yana Gardiner Korey A. Goulette Jenna Magallanes 333MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses Associate Degrees Program Student Learning Outcome Statement Associate in Arts Degree Upon completion of this program, the student will be able Licensed Vocational Nursing to manage and promote effective care while maintaining a safe environment by integrating nursing process, Students may earn the above-named associate degree by clinical reasoning, and skill competency to intervene completing a certificate of achievement and the general therapeutically for the health of the patient. education courses required for MiraCosta College's Associate in Arts degree (see Associate Degrees (p. 69)). Students should Track I: Generic ADN meet with a MiraCosta counselor to identify required courses and to develop a written educational plan for the specific Students must have completed the following prerequisite degree or certificate they wish to earn. courses before applying to the Registered Nursing (ADN) program: Program Student Learning Outcome Statement BIO 110 Introductory Biology: Preparation for 3-4 Upon completion of this program, the student will be Pre-Health Professions (Lecture/Lab) able to promote and maintain a safe environment by or BIO 111 integrating nursing process and skill competency to * intervene therapeutically for the health of the patient. BIO 210 or BIO 210H Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre- Associate in Science Degree Health Professions (Lecture) Registered Nursing BIO 220 Track I - Generic ADN BIO 230 Human Anatomy 4 Track II - LVN-RN (ADN) ENGL 100 Human Anatomy (Honors) 4 The Registered Nursing program offers two tracks for students: or ENGL 100H Human Physiology * Track I and Track II. Track II is for California Licensed Vocation Total Units Nurses only. Students must possess a valid LVN license to Introduction to Microbiology 5 complete Track II. Composition and Reading * 4 Applications for admission are available on the Nursing Composition and Reading (Honors) webpage. Requirements include an overall grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 for Human Anatomy (BIO 210 or 20-21 BIO 210H), Human Physiology (BIO 220), and Microbiology (BIO 230) with no grade less than \"C\" for each course and no Required courses:   more than one repetition of any of these courses. Students 3 must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 for all college coursework COMM 101 Public Speaking * taken. The selection criteria for admission to the program is consistent with California Community Colleges Chancellor's or COMM 106 Group Communication Office standards for Statewide Alignment of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) prerequisites. The criteria can be found on the or COMM 207 Interpersonal Communication nursing webpage (www.miracosta.edu/nursing). NURS 180 Fundamentals of Nursing 4 Students accepted into the Registered Nursing program must take the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) and receive NURS 181 Medical Surgical Nursing I 4 a composite score of 62 percent or higher in order to begin the program. Study materials for the test can be found at NURS 182 Maternal-Child Nursing 5 www.atitesting.com. Students who do not receive at least a 62 percent will be counseled and have a remediation plan NURS 183 Medical Surgical Nursing II 4.5 designed. They will have one year to complete the remediation plan before retesting for admittance. This program has been NURS 281 Medical Surgical Nursing III 7 approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, PO Box 499210, Sacramento, CA 94244-2100. NURS 282 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing 3.5 NURS 283 Medical Surgical Nursing IV 7 NURS 284 Contemporary Nursing Practice and 1.5 Leadership PHAR 201 Pharmacology Review and Update 2 3 Select at least three units from the following: * CHLD 113 Child and Adolescent Growth and Development GERO 101 PSYC 100 Introduction to Aging Psychology of Personal Growth PSYC 101 General Psychology PSYC 101H General Psychology (Honors) PSYC/SOC 103 Social Psychology SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology SOC 101H Introduction to Sociology (Honors) SOC 102 Contemporary Social Problems Additional associate degree requirements: 3 GE Area C (Plan A) *** Prerequisite Units 20-21 Total Units 67.5-68.5 334    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses Track II: LVN-RN (ADN) GERO 101 Introduction to Aging PSYC 100 Psychology of Personal Growth California Licensed Vocational Nurses are eligible to apply PSYC 101 General Psychology for a one-year LVN-RN transition program, also known as the Registered Nursing (LVN-RN) Step-Up program in pursuit of PSYC 101H General Psychology (Honors) the Associate Degree in Nursing. First-year nursing coursework credit is granted with evidence of an active California LVN PSYC/SOC 103 Social Psychology license in good standing and evidence of graduating from a program approved by the Board of Vocational Nursing and SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology Psychiatric Technicians (BVNPT). Students complete a transition course and two subsequent semesters for eligibility to apply to SOC 101H Introduction to Sociology (Honors) take the National Council License Exam for Registered Nursing (NCLEX). For those students who have received their license SOC 102 Contemporary Social Problems through challenging the NCLEXPN, pediatric and obstetrical content will need to be verified by the ADN director. Please Additional associate degree requirements:** 3 make an appointment with the ADN director to determine how GE Area C (Plan A) *** to satisfy this requirement. Prerequisite Units 22-23 Students accepted into the LVN-RN (ADN) (Track II) program must take the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) and Total Units 52.5-53.5 receive a composite score of 62 percent or higher in order to begin the program. Study materials for the test can be found * These courses may also satisfy a general education (GE) at www.atitesting.com. Students who do not receive at least requirement and apply to GE Areas A, B, D and E. Cultural a 62 percent will be counseled and have a remediation plan Diversity, which is a required GE category (Area F), is designed. They will have one year to complete the remediation embedded throughout the Nursing program curriculum. Each plan before retesting for admittance. This program has been course has a component that promotes sensitivity to cultural approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, PO Box 499210, diversity and fosters an understanding of the student's role in Sacramento, CA 94244-2100. the global community. Students completing this degree will substantially meet this requirement. Students are not required Students must have completed the following prerequisite to satisfy the GE Area G: American Institutions and History courses before applying to the Registered Nursing (LVN-RN) requirement due to Board of Registered Nursing licensing program: requirements. BIO 110 Introductory Biology: Preparation for 3-4 **To obtain the associate degree, students must complete Pre-Health Professions (Lecture/Lab) at least 60 units and satisfy the college's mathematics or BIO 111 competency requirement. The Nursing Department * recommends students take a statistics course to satisfy BIO 210 this graduation requirement. All means of demonstrating or BIO 210H Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre- mathematics competency are explained in the college Health Professions (Lecture) catalog and in the Administrative Procedure 4100. BIO 220 BIO 230 Human Anatomy 4 **S*tudents with a bachelor's or an associate degree from a ENGL 100 United States regionally accredited college in a non-nursing Human Anatomy (Honors) 4 field are required to complete only the coursework necessary or ENGL 100H Human Physiology * 5 for the Registered Nursing program, including prerequisites PHAR 201 Introduction to Microbiology * 4 and nursing coursework. These students are not required to Total Units Composition and Reading * complete any other courses required by the college for an associate degree. Composition and Reading (Honors) Non-Degree 30-Unit Option for LVNs Pharmacology Review and Update 2 Any LVN licensed in the state of California is eligible to apply for the non-degree 30-Unit Option LVN-RN program, for which 22-23 MiraCosta College acts as a facilitator. Prescribed by the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), this option allows students Required courses:   with a current California LVN license to meet the minimum requirements to sit for the Registered Nursing licensure exam by COMM 101 Public Speaking * 3 completing a maximum of 30 units. or COMM 106 Group Communication 2.5 7 or COMM 207 Interpersonal Communication At MiraCosta College this option requires the following: 3.5 NURS 280 Transition from LVN to RN 7 Prerequisite course requirements: NURS 281 Medical Surgical Nursing III 1.5 BIO 220 Human Physiology 4 5 NURS 282 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing 3 BIO 230 Introduction to Microbiology 2.5 NURS 283 Medical Surgical Nursing IV Nursing course requirements: 7 NURS 284 Contemporary Nursing Practice and NURS 280 Transition from LVN to RN 3.5 7 Leadership NURS 281 Medical Surgical Nursing III Select at least three units from the following: * NURS 282 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing CHLD 113 Child and Adolescent Growth and NURS 283 Medical Surgical Nursing IV Development 335MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses NURS 284 Contemporary Nursing Practice and approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, PO Box 499210, Total Units Leadership * Sacramento, CA 94244-2100. 29 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement * NURS 284 is optional. Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to promote and maintain a safe environment by The 30-Unit Option has both advantages and disadvantages. integrating nursing process and skill competency to The primary advantage is that students take fewer courses to intervene therapeutically for the health of the patient. become licensed and do not repeat any content included in their vocational nursing program (such as pediatrics and Required courses: Certified Nursing Assistant   maternity). Disadvantages include the following: NURS 60 Body Systems Survey for Health 6.5 NURS 151 Professions 3 Students who complete this option are not awarded a Licensed Vocational Nursing I degree or certificate from MiraCosta College and are not NURS 170 Licensed Vocational Nursing II 7.5 entitled to wear the Nursing Program pin. NURS 171 Licensed Vocational Nursing III 7.5 NURS 172 Licensed Vocational Nursing IV 7.5 Students who complete this option, subsequently become NURS 173 Licensed Vocational Nursing V 7.5 California RNs, and then wish to become licensed in NURS 274 Licensed Vocational Nursing VI 7.5 another state will likely find they do not meet RN licensure NURS 275 Basic Pharmacology--Dosages and 7.5 requirements outside of California. PHAR 100 Calculations 3 Applicants who desire the 30-Unit Option complete the same Total Units application form required for LVN-ADN Step-Up students 57.5 and indicate this choice on the application form where appropriate. Students may apply upon completion of the Note: Clinical instruction is conducted in area hospitals. program prerequisite courses. Applications are available on the Nursing webpage. Certificate of Proficiency Certified Nursing Assistant Certificates The Certified Nursing Assistant certificate introduces students Certificate of Achievement to the basic information and nursing skills needed to pass the Licensed Vocational Nursing state exam required for Nurse Aide Certification, which enables students to work in acute care, long-term care facilities, and  The MiraCosta College Licensed Vocational Nursing program home nursing. is a six-quarter program leading to a certificate as a vocational nurse. Those who qualify for enrollment receive intensive Program Student Learning Outcome Statement training and in-class work as well as clinical practice in direct patient care. The clinical practice is constantly supervised Upon completion of this program the student will by licensed or registered nurse specialists who guide and demonstrate safe and effective basic care and comfort to teach students. Upon satisfactory completion of the program, the health care consumer. graduates are eligible to take the National Licensure Examination for Vocational Nurses to achieve licensure. The Required courses: Certified Nursing Assistant   licensed vocational nurse may seek employment in hospitals, NURS 60 6.5 skilled nursing facilities, clinics, physicians' offices, or various Total Units 6.5 government agencies, as well as serve as a private-duty nurse in hospitals or homes. Certificate of Proficiency Home Health Aide NURS 151, NURS 60, and PHAR 100 are prerequisites and must be completed prior to applying for enrollment in the LVN The Home Health Aide (HHA) certificate prepares students who program. Once prerequisites are completed, students may are licensed as nursing assistants to care for elderly, recovering, submit an application packet for admission into the program. or disabled persons in their own homes or in licensed residential For admission requirements, go to http://www.miracosta.edu/ care facilities. Topics covered include basic nursing services, instruction/nursing/lvnprogram.html. food preparation, and household services. Federal guidelines do not require a competency exam prior to certification as Students accepted into the program must take the Test of an HHA. Certification is based upon verification of successful Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) Version V and receive a completion of an approved HHA training program. composite score of 58 percent or higher in order to begin the program. Study materials for the test can be found at Program Student Learning Outcome Statement www.atitesting.com. Students who do not receive at least a 58 percent will be counseled and have a remediation plan Upon completion of this program the student will designed. They will have one year to complete the remediation demonstrate safe and effective basic care, comfort and plan before retesting for admittance. This program has been environmental maintenance to the health care consumer in the home setting. 336    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses Required courses: Certified Nursing Assistant   NURS 153: Pathophysiology for Health Professions NURS 60 Home Health Aide 6.5 Units: 3 NURS 64 2 Prerequisites: NURS 151. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Total Units 8.5 Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Courses This pathophysiology course is intended for students who NURS 60: Certified Nursing Assistant are preparing for a career in health professions. The course Units: 6.5 focuses on disease processes in the human body from a Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility systems approach and includes an analysis of the most determined by the English placement process; AHA BLS Provider common and significant diseases. Students use appropriate card. (Submit valid SSN, MCC physical, current flu shot, and TB medical terminology to examine the signs, symptoms, etiology, clearance to T420 two weeks before first class meeting.) diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 4 hours, laboratory 7.50 hours. NURS 155: Basic Medical Terminology Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Units: 3 Prerequisites: None This course covers basic nursing skills, including fundamentals Acceptable for Credit: CSU of nursing, nutrition, gerontology, and home nursing. It is Lecture 3 hours. a prerequisite for MiraCosta's Licensed Vocational Nursing Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer program and has been approved by the California Department of Public Health for the Certified Nursing Assistant certification. This course covers the origin, correct spelling, pronunciation, Upon successful completion of the course, students may meaning, and correct usage of common medical terms and seek employment in long-term and skilled nursing facilities, their application to clinical records and reports. It emphasizes acute care, and in-home care. Students with prior convictions the roots, prefixes, suffixes, medical abbreviations, symbols, and for misdemeanors or felonies will need to be cleared by the terms commonly used in medical records. California Department of Public Health. This is done with a Live Scan on the second day of class. NURS 166: American Medical Corps Transition to Vocational Nurse NURS 64: Home Health Aide Units: 3 Units: 2 Prerequisites: 12 months' experience as a Medical Corps Prerequisites: Current California Certified Nursing Assistant Member or equivalent. certificate; and current physical and TB test (done within a Acceptable for Credit: CSU year) on MiraCosta physical form; and current American Heart Lecture 3 hours. Association Basic Healthcare Provider CPR card. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring This course introduces the American military medical member to the role of vocational nurse through a review of basic This 48-hour course is designed for the certified nursing assistant nursing skills, the nursing process, communication, medication to meet the state requirement of 40 hours to obtain a Home administration/pharmacology, adult growth and development, Health Aide Certificate. Topics include the role of the home obstetric and pediatric, gerontology, medical/surgical health aide, federal and state requirements for the home health nursing, oncology, and hematology. The related anatomy, aide, interpretation of medical and social needs of people pathophysiology, pharmacology, psychosocial, and nutritional being served, personal care services, nutrition and cleaning, considerations of patients are integrated with their respective and care tasks in the home. units. NURS 151: Body Systems Survey for Health Professions NURS 170: Licensed Vocational Nursing I Units: 3 Units: 7.5 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: NURS 60 or a current California CNA license; and Acceptable for Credit: CSU PHAR 100; and NURS 151 or BIO 210, BIO 210H, or BIO 220; and Lecture 3 hours. admission to the LVN program. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 9 hours. This basic anatomy and physiology course is intended for Course Typically Offered: Fall even years students who are preparing for a career in health professions. The content is presented from simple to complex, beginning This course introduces the beginning vocational nursing student with cellular functioning and progressing through the various to therapeutic communication, the nursing profession, basic organ systems. Students learn how an organ is anatomically nursing skills, basic pharmacology, and the nursing process. designed to perform a specific physiological task and how (Materials Fee: $113.48) each organ system plays a role in maintaining homeostasis. 337MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses NURS 171: Licensed Vocational Nursing II NURS 181: Medical Surgical Nursing I Units: 7.5 Units: 4 Prerequisites: NURS 170. Prerequisites: NURS 180 (ADN). Acceptable for Credit: CSU Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 9 hours. Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 6 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring odd years Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course introduces the vocational nursing student to This course introduces the basic concepts required to care for nutrition, medication administration, gerontology, adult growth adult patients with stable and/or less complex medical-surgical and development, the diabetic patient, and the integumentary health problems. It emphasizes the management of unmet system. Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, needs and the nursing process as organizing frameworks pharmacology, psychosocial, and nutrition considerations of for providing nursing care. Students integrate and apply the patients. theoretical concepts and clinical skills in acute, long-term, and perioperative/ambulatory care settings as well as college NURS 172: Licensed Vocational Nursing III laboratory simulations. Units: 7.5 Prerequisites: NURS 171. NURS 182: Maternal-Child Nursing Acceptable for Credit: CSU Units: 5 Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 9 hours. Prerequisites: NURS 181 (ADN). Course Typically Offered: Summer odd years Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 6 hours. This course introduces the vocational nursing student to Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring perioperative and medical-surgical nursing, the genitourinary and gastrointestinal systems, and communicable diseases. This course relates the nursing process to the needs of maternity Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, and pediatric patients and their families. Students adapt psychosocial, pharmacology, and nutrition considerations. previously learned skills and knowledge to the observation and direct care of normal- and high-risk populations. The integration NURS 173: Licensed Vocational Nursing IV of students' clinical experiences may include acute, long-term, Units: 7.5 and perioperative/ambulatory care settings as well as college Prerequisites: NURS 172. laboratory simulations. Non-clinical and clinical activities may Acceptable for Credit: CSU be presented in an online format. (Materials Fee: $667.00) Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 9 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall odd years NURS 183: Medical Surgical Nursing II Units: 4.5 This course introduces vocational nursing students to the Prerequisites: NURS 181 (ADN). nursing care of the neurological, endocrine, oncology, Acceptable for Credit: CSU orthopedic, and rehabilitation patient as well as the patient Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 7.50 hours. with a hematological and lymphatic disease. Each unit Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, psychosocial, pharmacology, and nutrition considerations. This course continues the study of caring for adult patients with unmet medical needs. It emphasizes perioperative health NURS 180: Fundamentals of Nursing care needs across the adult life span and respective nursing Units: 4 interventions. Clinical simulations and experiences provide Prerequisites: None students with opportunities to apply theoretical concepts, Enrollment Limitation: Admission to RN program. improve clinical judgment, and broaden clinical skills in acute, Acceptable for Credit: CSU long-term, perioperative/ambulatory, and/or college nursing Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 6 hours. lab care settings. Non-clinical activities in this course may be Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring presented in an online format. This entry-level nursing course introduces students to the core concepts, principles, and clinical skills common to all areas and levels of the nursing practice. It provides the platform upon which all subsequent nursing courses build. Its integration of clinical experiences may include acute, long-term, and perioperative/ambulatory care settings as well as college laboratory simulations. (Materials Fee: $697.00) 338    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses NURS 185: Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory I NURS 275: Licensed Vocational Nursing VI Units: 1 Units: 7.5 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: NURS 274. Enrollment Limitation: Students must be accepted for re-entry Acceptable for Credit: CSU into the ADN, LVN, or LVN-RN programs. Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 9 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: Summer even years Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course introduces the advanced vocational nursing student to the nursing care of obstetric, gynecologic, pediatric, This course gives students the opportunity to apply related and mentally ill patients as well as growth and development theoretical concepts with supervised practice of fundamental of the child and adolescent. Each unit integrates related patient care skills and procedures that are presented in anatomy, pathophysiology, psycho-social, pharmacology, beginning nursing courses. Topics include the nursing process, and nutrition considerations. The course includes professional patient assessment, fundamental nursing skills, and medication adjustment to prepare the nursing student for employment. administration. This course is intended for beginning nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program, NURS 280: Transition from LVN to RN Licensed Vocational Nursing Program (LVN), and LVN-RN Units: 2.5 Nursing Program. This course is also open to accepted re-entry Prerequisites: None students who need to remediate skills prior to returning to the Enrollment Limitation: Acceptance into LVN to RN program. nursing program. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 3 hours. NURS 186: Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory II Course Typically Offered: Summer Units: 1 Prerequisites: None This course facilitates the transition of the licensed vocational Corequisite: NURS 182 or NURS 183. nurse (LVN) into the roles and responsibilities of the registered Acceptable for Credit: CSU nurse (RN). It introduces the philosophy and conceptual Laboratory 3 hours. framework of the RN as member of the discipline and provider Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer of care. The course content focuses on competencies expected of the graduate Associate Degree Nurse (ADN), This course provides students with the opportunity to apply including clinical reasoning skills, role development, clinical related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of skills, and the nursing process. patient care skills and procedures related to specialty patient populations. Topics include the nursing process, patient NURS 281: Medical Surgical Nursing III assessment, intermediate nursing skills, and medication Units: 7 administration. This course is intended for nursing students Prerequisites: NURS 183 (ADN) or NURS 280 (LVN to RN). in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and LVN-RN nursing Acceptable for Credit: CSU program. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 12 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring NURS 274: Licensed Vocational Nursing V Units: 7.5 This course continues the study of caring for adult patients with Prerequisites: NURS 173. unmet medical needs. It examines the effect of complex and Acceptable for Credit: CSU chronic health problems on the physiologic and psychosocial Lecture 4.50 hours, laboratory 9 hours. integrity of the adult and elderly patient. Students apply Course Typically Offered: Spring even years theoretical concepts, improve clinical judgment, and broaden clinical skills in acute, long-term, perioperative/ambulatory, This course introduces the advanced vocational nursing and/or college nursing lab settings. Non-clinical activities may student to the nursing care of patients with circulatory and be presented in an online format. (Materials Fee: $667.00). respiratory diseases and disorders as well as home health/ hospice and leadership. Each unit integrates related anatomy, NURS 282: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing pathophysiology, pharmacology, psychosocial, and nutrition Units: 3.5 considerations. The course also covers leadership, supervision Prerequisites: NURS 183 (ADN) or NURS 280 (LVN to RN). skills, and interpersonal relationships. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 4.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course introduces students to the theory and practice of nursing as related to mental health and illness. It examines how mental healthcare problems impact client integrity in various healthcare settings, and it emphasizes how therapeutic communication establishes and maintains effective nurse-client relationships. Non-clinical activities may be presented in an online format. 339MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses NURS 283: Medical Surgical Nursing IV NURS 288: Nurse Externship Units: 7 Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: NURS 281 and NURS 282. Prerequisites: NURS 183 (Generic RN) or NURS 280 (LVN-RN Acceptable for Credit: CSU Bridge) Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 12 hours. Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Nursing Program and Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per unit. Acceptable for Credit: CSU This course focuses on the theory and practice of nursing Laboratory 12 hours. necessary to assist the acute and critically ill across the lifespan Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring in achieving client integrity. It emphasizes refining use of the nursing process to provide nursing care for individuals with This course provides registered nursing (RN) students an complex and acute health problems. Students apply advanced opportunity to obtain clinical experience in the application theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, and psychomotor skills of all previously learned knowledge and skills. Students work in practical situations. Non-clinical activities may be presented collaboratively with a faculty mentor, RN supervisor, and in an online format. members of the health care team to meet job-oriented learning objectives. Under an RN's supervision, students are provided NURS 284: Contemporary Nursing Practice and Leadership opportunities to increase their nursing judgment and enhance Units: 1.5 their nursing skills as preparation for their role as professional Prerequisites: NURS 281 and NURS 282 graduate nurses. A maximum of 16 units may be earned during Acceptable for Credit: CSU community college attendance. Lecture 1.50 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring NURS 290: Critical Care Units: 1.5 This course facilitates the student's transition to entry-level Prerequisites: None registered nursing practice. It presents management and Enrollment Limitation: Instructor Consent. Students need to be leadership concepts that are applicable to a variety of health in the last semester of an RN program or equivalent. care settings. Topics include transitioning from student to Acceptable for Credit: CSU registered nurse, decision-making, organization, values Lecture 1.50 hours. clarification, resource allocation, and health care trends. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring NURS 285: Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory III This course introduces students to critical care concepts Units: 1 and care of critically patients experiencing varied disorders. Prerequisites: None It discusses the relationship of pathophysiology to clinical Corequisite: NURS 281 or NURS 282. manifestations that patients experience and the interventions Acceptable for Credit: CSU the registered nurse needs to implement to improve Laboratory 3 hours. patient outcomes. Topics include rhythm and 12 lead Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and treatment, shock syndromes, medications used to maintain hemodynamic This course provides students with the opportunity to apply stability and perfusion, maintenance of artificial airways, and related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of patient mechanical ventilation. care skills and procedures for patients across the lifespan. Topics include the nursing process, patient assessment, advanced nursing skills, and medication administration. This course is intended for nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and LVN-RN nursing programs. NURS 286: Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory IV Units: 1 Prerequisites: None Corequisite: NURS 283. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides students with the opportunity to apply related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of patient care skills and procedures for critically ill patients. Topics include the nursing process, patient assessment, critical care nursing skills, and medication administration. This course is intended for nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and LVN-RN Nursing Programs. 340    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses NURS 292: Internship Studies Nutrition Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: None The Nutrition discipline includes courses that provide students Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per with the scientific basis and applied knowledge of food and unit. nutrition. The courses fulfill general education requirements and Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center also enable students to transfer and pursue majors in nutrition approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative or other health-related majors. Nutrition majors work in health- work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. care facilities, community and public health organizations, Acceptable for Credit: CSU academia and research, the food industry, health/fitness and Course Typically Offered: To be arranged sports industries, journalism, and general business corporate wellness programs. This course provides students the opportunity to apply the Academic and Career Pathway: Health Sciences theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a Contact Information faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals Chair: Casey McFarland Department: Kinesiology, employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Dean: Al Taccone Health and Nutrition employability skills development, and examination of the world https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OC4800, of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students academics/degree-and- 760.795.6811 must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new certificate-programs/health- site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than sciences/nutrition/index.html 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during Full-Time Faculty community college attendance. Gail Meinhold NURS 296: Topics in Nursing Units: 1-3 Associate Degree Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU Associate in Science Degree Lecture 1 hour. Nutrition and Dietetics for Transfer Lecture 2 hours. Lecture 3 hours. The Associate in Science in Nutrition and Dietetics for Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Transfer (AS-T) degree is intended to meet the lower-division requirements for nutrition and dietetics majors, an emphasis This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in or option within a nutrition or dietetics major, or a major Nursing that are not included in regular course offerings. Each considered similar to a nutrition and dietetics major at a Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title participating California State University (CSU) campus. and 296 number designation in the class schedule. The degree prepares students for a career in nutrition and dietetics and to function in a variety of nutrition, public health, NURS 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience and clinical settings. Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: None Following transfer to a participating CSU campus, students will Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per be required to complete no more than 60 units to obtain a unit. bachelor’s degree; however, some CSU campuses accepting Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll this degree may require additional lower-division major in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or preparation. This degree may not be appropriate preparation internship studies concurrently. for students transferring to a CSU campus not accepting this Acceptable for Credit: CSU degree or to a university or college that is not part of the CSU Course Typically Offered: To be arranged system. Students should consult with a MiraCosta counselor for further information regarding the most efficient pathway to Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are transfer as a nutrition or dietetics major and to determine which employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such CSU campuses are participating in this program. students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities To complete the degree, students must fulfill the following and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, requirements: employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may Complete a minimum of 60 CSU-transferable semester units. not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative Complete all courses required in the major with a “C” or \"P\" work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship or better. studies during community college attendance. 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. 341MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses Complete a minimum of 12 units in residence at MiraCosta Certificate College. Certificate of Proficiency * Students completing IGETC may be awarded the degree, Fitness Nutrition Specialist but they must complete a course from Area IC: Oral Communication to meet CSU admission requirements. This certificate provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully work with clients and athletes seeking basic Program Student Learning Outcome Statement nutritional guidance and to fight the battle against global obesity. It is designed for students currently working on or Upon successful completion of this program, students will be holding the Personal Fitness Trainer Certificate of Achievement. able to relate and apply the key theories and concepts of Upon completion of the certificate program, students may nutrition to advanced academic study. consider sitting for the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Fitness Nutrition Specialist exam, the American Council Required Core Courses: on Exercise (ACE) Lifestyle & Weight Management Coach exam, and/or the International Fitness Professionals Association NUTR 100 Nutrition Today * 3 (IFPA) Sports Nutrition Specialist exam. or NUTR 100H Nutrition Today (Honors) 3 Program Student Learning Outcome Statement: PSYC 101 General Psychology * or PSYC 101H General Psychology (Honors) Upon completion of this program, students will be able to counsel healthy clients on basic nutritional guidelines and CHEM 150 General Chemistry I: For Science 5 on weight loss. Majors * or CHEM 150H General Chemistry I: For Science Majors Required courses:   BIO 230 NUTR 100 (Honors) 5 Nutrition Today 3 Introduction to Microbiology * or NUTR 100H KINE 204 List A: Select two courses. 8-9 Nutrition Today (Honors) NUTR 105 BTEC 180 Biostatistics * Techniques and Analysis of Fitness 3 HEAL 205 and Weight Training or BTEC 180H Biostatistics (Honors) or NUTR 108 or BUS 204 Business Statistics Total Units Human Performance and Sports 3 Nutrition or BUS 204H Business Statistics (Honors) or MATH 103 Statistics Integrative Health and Wellness 3 or PSYC 104 Statistics for Behavioral Science Cultural Aspects of Foods and Nutrition or PSYC 104H Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) 12 or SOC 125 Introduction to Statistics in Sociology Courses CHEM 151 General Chemistry II: For Science NUTR 100: Nutrition Today Majors * Units: 3 Prerequisites: None or CHEM 151H General Chemistry II: For Science Majors Advisory: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility determined by (Honors) the English placement process. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in List B (choose one course): 3 NUTR 100H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC NUTR 108 Cultural Aspects of Foods and Lecture 3 hours. Nutrition * Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer NUTR 120 Principles of Food Science with Lab Total Units 27-28 * Course satisfies a general education requirement on the CSU- This course relates scientific concepts of nutrition to the function GE or IGETC general education (GE) pattern. To ensure this of nutrients in basic life processes. It emphasizes individual degree is completed with no more than 60 units, students needs; functions and sources of nutrients; current nutrition and should select courses that will also satisfy a general education health issues; scientific method for analysis and evaluation of requirement. Note: All of the statistics and honors courses nutrition information; dietary guidelines and current nutrition listed are also general education courses. recommendations; digestion, absorption, and metabolism; health, fitness, and disease; nutrition in the life span; and NOTE: Students are strongly advised to select courses that food safety. Students evaluate their food intake using several meet lower-division major preparation requirements at their methods, including a computer diet analysis. UC CREDIT transfer university and to complete the History, Constitution, and LIMITATION: Credit for NUTR 100, NUTR 100H, NUTR 105, or American Ideals requirement prior to transfer. NUTR 125. C-ID NUTR-110. 342    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses NUTR 100H: Nutrition Today (Honors) NUTR 120: Principles of Food Science with Lab Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Advisory: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility determined by Advisory: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H. the English placement process. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. NUTR 100. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. This course focuses on the application of food science Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer principles with emphasis on ingredient function and interaction, food preparation techniques, sensory evaluation standards, This course relates scientific concepts of nutrition to the food safety and sanitation, and nutrient composition of food. function of nutrients in basic life processes. It emphasizes Scientific food principles are studied and then practically individual needs; functions and sources of nutrients; current applied to laboratory problems. nutrition and health issues; scientific method for analysis and evaluation of nutrition information; dietary guidelines and NUTR 125: Nutrition and Aging current nutrition recommendations; digestion, absorption, Units: 3 and metabolism; health, fitness, and disease; nutrition in the Prerequisites: None life span; and food safety. Students evaluate their food intake Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC using several methods, including a computer diet analysis. Lecture 3 hours. As an honors course, it offers expanded analysis of lecture Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring materials, increased dependence upon student participation on a daily basis, and the opportunity for students to conduct This course focuses on the specific nutritional needs research in relevant areas of interest, and thus targets highly and problems in older adults. Topics include nutritional motivated students who are looking for a more challenging requirements, diet modifications, body system changes, body academic experience. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for weight issues, nutrition-related chronic diseases, barriers to NUTR 100, NUTR 100H, NUTR 105, or NUTR 125. C-ID NUTR-110. proper nutrients, drug/nutrient interactions, and community resources to assist the aging population. Diet and nutritional NUTR 105: Human Performance and Sports Nutrition issues related to aging in a contemporary society are examined Units: 3 from physiological, sociological, psychological, and economic Prerequisites: None perspectives. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for NUTR 100, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC NUTR 105, or NUTR 125. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer NUTR 292: Internship Studies Units: 0.5-3 This course introduces nutrition concepts to individuals Prerequisites: None interested in sports, fitness, and health for various stages of the Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per life cycle. It emphasizes current theories and practices related unit. to nutrition and athletic performance. Topics include macro Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center and micro nutrient intakes, hydration, pre- and post-event food, approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative supplements and ergogenic aids, weight control, and body work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. composition related to performance. The course also examines Acceptable for Credit: CSU the cultural, sociological, and psychological influences related Course Typically Offered: To be arranged to nutrition, fitness, and athletic achievement. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for NUTR 100, NUTR 100H, NUTR 105, or This course provides students the opportunity to apply the NUTR 125. theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a NUTR 108: Cultural Aspects of Foods and Nutrition faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Units: 3 to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals Prerequisites: None employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC employability skills development, and examination of the world Lecture 3 hours. of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than This course examines the regional, ethnic, cultural, religious, 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience historical, and social influences on food patterns, cuisines, and (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during health as well as how food is viewed as an expression of cultural community college attendance. diversity. Students discuss, sample, and assess traditional foods of geographic areas and cultures. They also explore geographic factors in food availability, global food issues, dietary habits, religious influences on food culture, and nutrition problems of various ethnic groups. The course also addresses nutrition consequences of ethnic food choices and sanitation and safety practices. 343MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses NUTR 296: Topics in Nutrition Courses Units: 1-3 Prerequisites: None OCEA 101: Introduction to Oceanography Acceptable for Credit: CSU Units: 3 Lecture 1 hour. Prerequisites: None Lecture 2 hours. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Lecture 3 hours. OCEA 101H. Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Nutrition that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title This course explores the major processes and features of the and 296 number designation in the class schedule. world's oceans. Topics include the origin and history of the ocean basins, atmospheric circulation and weather, ocean NUTR 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience circulation, and the dynamics of waves, tides, and coastlines. Units: 1-4 The course also reviews marine life (including plankton, nekton, Prerequisites: None benthos, and marine mammals), explores the oceans as a Acceptable for Credit: CSU resource for people, and considers human impacts on marine Course Typically Offered: To be arranged environments. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for OCEA 101 or OCEA 101H. Cooperative Work Experience is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major. It allows such OCEA 101H: Introduction to Oceanography (Honors) students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their Units: 3 discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities Prerequisites: None and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in employability skills development, and examination of the world OCEA 101. of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students may Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative Lecture 3 hours. work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring studies during community college attendance. This course offers highly motivated students an enriched Oceanography introduction to the scientific study of the oceans. The course explores the major processes and features of the world's Oceanography is the scientific study of the ocean and its oceans, including plate tectonics, the origin and history of phenomena. Students take courses to prepare for a major in the ocean basins, atmospheric circulation, weather and oceanography and to fulfill physical science general education climate, ocean circulation, and the dynamics of waves, tides, requirements. Career options include teaching, research, and coastlines. The course also reviews marine life (including marine product sales, marine safety, and a variety of positions plankton, nekton, benthos, and marine mammals), explores in private and public environmental agencies. the oceans as a resource for people, and considers human impacts on marine environments. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit Academic and Career Pathway: Math and Sciences for OCEA 101 or OCEA 101H. Contact Information OCEA 101L: Introductory Oceanography Laboratory Units: 1 Chair: Erika Peters (Physical Department: Physical Sciences Prerequisites: OCEA 101 or OCEA 101H. Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in OCEA 101 or Sciences) Office: Building OC3600, OCEA 101H if prerequisite not met. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Dean: Michael Fino 760.757.2121 x6924 Laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring https://www.miracosta.edu/ This course is designed to accompany Oceanography 101 academics/degree-and- or 101H. It offers hands-on experience with oceanographic materials and techniques in both the laboratory and field. certificate-programs/math- Topics include reading navigational charts and topographic maps, interpreting sea floor features, analyzing seawater and-sciences/oceanography/ chemistry, and studying waves and tides. On field trips, students study waves, currents, and coastal processes, examine index.html organisms in coastal marine habitats and at an aquarium, and participate in a half-day scientific ocean voyage. Full-Time Faculty Roberto Falero Eric Snortum John Turbeville 344    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses OCEA 292: Internship Studies PHAR 201: Pharmacology Review and Update Units: 0.5-3 Units: 2 Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Enrollment Limitation: Admission into the RN program or have unit. an LVN or RN license. Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center Acceptable for Credit: CSU approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative Lecture 2 hours. work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course reviews pharmacology principles, safe medication administration, and dosage calculations. It emphasizes This course provides students the opportunity to apply the therapeutic drug use in relation to health problems and theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship updates information regarding drug classifications and position in a professional setting under the instruction of a prototype agents. faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals PHAR 292: Internship Studies employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Units: 0.5-3 employability skills development, and examination of the world Prerequisites: None of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new unit. site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. community college attendance. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: To be arranged Pharmacology This course provides students the opportunity to apply the The Nursing and Allied Health Department offers pharmacology theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship courses as part of the Nursing program. position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students Academic and Career Pathway: Health Sciences to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Contact Information employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students Chair: Alison Phinney Department: Nursing and must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new Dean: Al Taccone Alllied Health site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Building OCT420, 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience academics/degree-and- 760.757.2121 x6466 (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during certificate-programs/health- community college attendance. sciences/nursing/index.html PHAR 299: Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Courses Units: 1-4 Prerequisites: None PHAR 100: Basic Pharmacology--Dosages and Calculations Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Units: 3 unit. Prerequisites: MATH 28 or eligibility determined by the math Enrollment Limitation: Career Center approval. May not enroll placement process. in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or Acceptable for Credit: CSU internship studies concurrently. Lecture 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course introduces important concepts, methods, and Occupational Cooperative Work Experience Education is principles of administering medications. Topics include drug intended for students employed in a job directly related to action and drug interaction, drug classifications, terminology, their major. It allows such students the opportunity to apply pertinent abbreviations, legalities, pharmacokinetics, and the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and pharmacodynamics as well as problem solving for accurate to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. measurement of medications using the apothecary and metric Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, systems, conversion of these systems, ratio, proportion, and and examination of the world of work as it relates to the other formulas. student's career plans. 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. 345MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses Philosophy PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality Units: 3 Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of reality, Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility knowledge, and values based on logical reasoning. Students determined by the English placement process. take philosophy courses to prepare for a major or to fulfill Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in general education requirements in humanities or critical PHIL 101H. thinking. With a bachelor's degree in philosophy, students Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC pursue careers in education, business, government, journalism, Lecture 3 hours. computer science, publishing, and writing. A philosophy Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer major also provides excellent undergraduate preparation for graduate studies in the discipline, law school, MBA programs, This introduction to philosophical inquiry emphasizes problems medical school, and professional seminary. of knowledge and reality through the analysis of classical and contemporary works on such issues as free will, personhood, Academic and Career Pathway: Languages, knowledge and belief, the existence of God, and the nature of Communication, and Humanities reality. The course encourages students to think independently and formulate their own tentative conclusions. UC CREDIT Contact Information LIMITATION: Credit for PHIL 101 or PHIL 101H. C-ID PHIL-100. Chair: Isabel Luengo Department: Philosophy and PHIL 101H: Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality Dean: Russell Waldon Religious Studies (Honors) https://www.miracosta.edu/ Office: Administration Units: 3 academics/degree-and- Building, San Elijo Campus, Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility certificate-programs/ 760.634.7876 determined by the English placement process. languages-communication- Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in and-humanities/philosophy/ PHIL 101. index.html Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Full-Time Faculty Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Isabel Luengo This course introduces highly motivated students to the Jeffrey Murico methods and topics of philosophy through the analysis and discussion of classical and contemporary works. It explores Courses metaphysical and epistemological questions, such as free will, personhood, knowledge and belief, the existence of God, PHIL 100: Critical Thinking and the nature of reality. The course encourages students to Units: 3 think independently and rationally and to formulate their own Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility tentative conclusions after considering several alternatives and determined by the English placement process. objections to their positions. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC PHIL 101 or PHIL 101H. C-ID PHIL-100. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer PHIL 102: Contemporary Moral Problems Units: 3 This course develops critical thinking skills that can be applied Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility in all areas of life. Topics include the structure and evaluation determined by the English placement process. of arguments, fallacies, credibility, rhetorical devices, and Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC explanations. Using examples from the news media, social Lecture 3 hours. media, advertising, political speeches, and other real-life Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring sources, students learn the distinction between claims and theories that make sense and claims and theories that do not This course examines the nature of morality as it applies to survive rational scrutiny. a variety of personal and social issues through the reading and analysis of classical and contemporary works. It explores major ethical theories, including utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, natural law theory, social contract theories, and feminist ethics. The course emphasizes the application of ethical theory to contemporary moral issues, such as war, pornography, euthanasia, animal rights, and abortion. C-ID LPPS-120. 346    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses PHIL 110: Introduction to Logic PHIL 292: Internship Studies Units: 3 Units: 0.5-3 Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, or ESL 150; MATH 64, MATH 64S, Prerequisites: None or MATH 102; or eligibility determined by the English or math Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per placement process. unit. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center PHIL 110H. approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. Lecture 3 hours. Acceptable for Credit: CSU Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course introduces logic with an emphasis on propositional This course provides students the opportunity to apply the logic. Topics include deductive and inductive reasoning, theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship informal fallacies, validity, truth tables, translations, quantifiers, position in a professional setting under the instruction of a and proofs. This course is open to any student, but it may be of faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students particular interest to philosophy, math, and computer science to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for PHIL 110 or PHIL 110H. employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, C-ID PHIL-110. employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students PHIL 110H: Introduction to Logic (Honors) must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new Units: 3 site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, or ESL 150; MATH 64, MATH 64S, 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience or MATH 102; or eligibility determined by the English or math (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during placement process. community college attendance. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in PHIL 110. PHIL 296: Topics in Philosophy Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Units: 1-3 Lecture 3 hours. Prerequisites: None Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Acceptable for Credit: CSU Lecture 1 hour. This course introduces logic with an emphasis on symbolic logic Lecture 2 hours. and is intended for highly motivated students who can benefit Lecture 3 hours. from greater depth and rigor. Topics include deductive and Course Typically Offered: To be arranged inductive reasoning, informal fallacies, validity, truth tables, translations, quantifiers, and proofs. The course introduces This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in more advanced problems and proof methods, and it may be of Philosophy that are not included in regular course offerings. particular interest to philosophy, math, and computer science Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for PHIL 110 or PHIL 110H. title and 296 number designation in the class schedule. C-ID PHIL-110. PHIL 302: Bioethics PHIL 221: Philosophy of Religion Units: 3 Units: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H. Prerequisites: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility Enrollment Limitation: Only open to students enrolled in the determined by the English placement process. bachelor's degree program in biomanufacturing at MiraCosta Advisory: PHIL 101 or PHIL 101H. College. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Course Typically Offered: Spring This course examines the application of ethical theory to issues This course introduces the philosophical study of both religion in biology and medicine through case studies and classical and the central concepts found in Eastern and Western and contemporary readings in ethical theory and applied religious traditions, as well as traditions that fall outside the ethics. It explores major ethical theories, including utilitarianism, boundaries of such classical distinctions (e.g., Indigenous and Kantian ethics, natural law theory, social contract theories, Africana traditions). It encourages students to think rationally, and feminist ethics, as they apply to contemporary issues critically, and independently about the beliefs of religious in biology and medicine, such as cloning, transplantation, adherents. Topics include arguments for theism and atheism, defining life and death, genetic testing and manipulation, the the validity of religious experience, the problem(s) of evil, the ethical conduct of research and experimentation, and the just meaning of karma, concepts of God and Ultimate Reality, the distribution of scarce medical resources. This course is open possibility of miracles, and the value of religion. only to students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program in biomanufacturing at MiraCosta College. 347MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses Physical Science DESN 107 History of Western Architecture-A GEOG 108 Sustainable Perspective Physical science, the study of the nature and properties of Total Units energy and nonliving matter, is an interdisciplinary field that Environmental Sustainability and includes astronomy, geology, physics, and chemistry. Students Society take physical science courses to explore the discipline, satisfy general education requirements, and meet one of the science 12-13 requirements for the liberal studies (K–5) teaching major. Courses Academic and Career Pathway: Math and Sciences PHSN 106: Introduction to Physical Science: Physics and Contact Information Chemistry Units: 3 Chairs: Kristine Arquero Department: Chemistry and Prerequisites: None (Chemistry), Erika Peters Physical Sciences Advisory: ACE 150, ENGL 50, ESL 150, or eligibility determined by (Physical Sciences) Office: Building OC3600, the English placement process. Dean: Michael Fino 760.757.2121 x6924 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC https://www.miracosta.edu/ Lecture 3 hours. academics/degree-and- Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring certificate-programs/math- and-sciences/physical- This course introduces the non-scientist to the fundamental science/index.html concepts of physics and chemistry. Physics topics include motion, force, work, energy, gravity, electricity, magnetism, Certificates light, and subatomic particles and forces. Chemistry topics include chemical and physical properties of elements and Certificate of Achievement compounds, the periodic table, atomic theory and structure, Sustainability Studies chemical bonding, and nuclear structure and processes. This course also teaches students how to analyze and solve Sustainability entails lifelong behaviors that ensure societal problems using critical thinking and the scientific method. UC well-being and survival in the natural world. This certificate CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after college course in prepares students to make sustainability decisions regarding chemistry or physics. the physical, social, and economic environments in which they live. Students are strongly encouraged to work with a MiraCosta PHSN 108: Introduction to Climate Change counselor to ensure that this pathway certificate is incorporated Units: 3 into their selected general education pattern. Prerequisites: None Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Program Student Learning Outcome Statement PHSN 108H. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring Upon completion of this program, the student will be able This course explores the principles underlying the to analyze sustainability issues and evaluate the effect on interdisciplinary and rapidly growing field of climate science physical, social, and economic environments. and climate change. Topics include the Earth's climate system and climate history, the physics and chemistry of Select one course: 3 greenhouse gases, and evidence for climate change. The 3-4 course investigates human influences on the climate system, EART 106 Earth and Space Science including greenhouse gas emissions and potential impacts of 6 climate change. It also considers various possible responses to EART 106H Earth and Space Science (Honors) climate change, including alternative energy production, policy responses, and adaptation. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for GEOG 101 Physical Geography PHSN 108 or PHSN 108H. PHSN 106 Introduction to Physical Science: Physics and Chemistry PHSN 108 Introduction to Climate Change PHSN 108H Introduction to Climate Change (Honors) Select one combined lecture and lab course or a correlating lecture and lab course. BIO 102 Introductory Biology: Ecology and Environmental Biology BIO 108 Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology & 108L and Sustainability and Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability Lab HORT 115 Soil Science Complete the courses below. 348    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog

Areas of Study & Courses PHSN 108H: Introduction to Climate Change (Honors) Contact Information Units: 3 Prerequisites: None Chair: Erika Peters (Physical Department: Physical Sciences Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Sciences) Office: Building OC3600, PHSN 108. Dean: Michael Fino 760.757.2121 x6924 Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC https://www.miracosta.edu/ Lecture 3 hours. academics/degree-and- Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring certificate-programs/math- and-sciences/physics/ This course offers highly motivated students an enriched index.html opportunity to explore the principles underlying the interdisciplinary and rapidly growing field of climate science Full-Time Faculty and climate change. Topics include the Earth's climate system and climate history, the physics and chemistry of Khang Nguyen greenhouse gases, and evidence for climate change. The Erika Peters course investigates human influences on the climate system, Joe Salamon including greenhouse gas emissions and potential impacts of climate change. Students investigate and evaluate various Courses possible responses to climate change, including alternative energy production, policy responses, and adaptation. UC PHYS 111: Introductory Physics I CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for PHSN 108 or PHSN 108H. Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 131 or MATH 131H. PHSN 292: Internship Studies Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Units: 0.5-3 PHYS 111H, PHYS 151, or PHYS 151H. Prerequisites: None Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. unit. Course Typically Offered: Fall Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative This first course of a two-semester physics sequence covers the work experience and/or internship studies concurrently. properties of matter, mechanics, heat, and waves, including Acceptable for Credit: CSU sound. It is intended for students majoring in pre-medicine, Course Typically Offered: To be arranged pre-dentistry, pre-optometry, and similar areas. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or This course provides students the opportunity to apply the PHYS 151/PHYS 151H, PHYS 152/PHYS 152H, and PHYS 253/ theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship PHYS 253H. C-ID PHYS-105, PHYS-100S (with PHYS 112). position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students PHYS 111H: Introductory Physics I (Honors) to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals Units: 4 employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, Prerequisites: MATH 131 or MATH 131H. employability skills development, and examination of the world Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students PHYS 111, PHYS 151, or PHYS 151H. must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience Course Typically Offered: Fall (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance. This first course of a two-semester physics sequence covers the properties of matter, mechanics, heat, and waves, including Physics sound. It is intended for students majoring in pre-medicine, pre- dentistry, pre-optometry, and similar areas. This honors course Physics is the scientific study of the basic forces of nature, offers highly motivated students the opportunity to conduct including such topics as mechanics, heat, electricity, self-directed research as well as independent exploration of magnetism, waves, optics, quantum mechanics, and atomic laboratory equipment and software. and nuclear structure. Students take courses to prepare for a physics major, to fulfill general education requirements, and to meet prerequisites for related courses and programs, including engineering, science, and computer science. Career options for those with a bachelor's degree in physics include engineering, research, and teaching in universities, government, and private industry. Academic and Career Pathway: Math and Sciences 349MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog    

Areas of Study & Courses PHYS 112: Introductory Physics II PHYS 151H: Principles of Physics I (Honors) Units: 4 Units: 4 Prerequisites: PHYS 111 or PHYS 111H. Prerequisites: MATH 150 or MATH 150H. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in PHYS 112H, PHYS 152, PHYS 151. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This second of a two-course physics sequence covers light, This course provides a thorough understanding of the electricity, magnetism, and atomic physics. UC CREDIT fundamental principles of physics in the area of mechanics LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or and fluids. It is intended primarily for engineering, physics, PHYS 151/PHYS 151H, PHYS 152/PHYS 152H, and PHYS 253/ mathematics, and science majors. This honors course offers PHYS 253H. C-ID PHYS-110, PHYS-100S (with PHYS 111). highly motivated students the opportunity to conduct self- directed research as well as independent exploration of PHYS 112H: Introductory Physics II (Honors) laboratory equipment and software. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Units: 4 Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151/ Prerequisites: PHYS 111 or PHYS 111H. PHYS 151H, PHYS 152/PHYS 152H, and PHYS 253/PHYS 253H. Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in C-ID PHYS-205 and PHYS-200S (with PHYS 152/PHYS 152H and PHYS 112, PHYS 152, PHYS 152H, PHYS 253, or PHYS 253H. PHYS 253/PHYS 253H). Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. PHYS 152: Principles of Physics II Course Typically Offered: Spring Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 155 or MATH 155H and PHYS 151 or This second of a two-course physics sequence covers light, PHYS 151H. electricity, magnetism, and atomic physics. This honors course Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in MATH 155 or offers highly motivated students the opportunity to conduct MATH 155H if math prerequisite not met. Not open to students self-directed research as well as independent exploration of with prior credit in PHYS 152H. laboratory equipment and software. Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. PHYS 151: Principles of Physics I Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Units: 4 Prerequisites: MATH 150 or MATH 150H. This course provides a thorough understanding of Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in the fundamental principles of physics in the areas of PHYS 151H. thermodynamics, electricity, electrical circuits, magnetism, and Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC electromagnetic fields. It is intended for engineering, physics, Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. mathematics, and science majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151/ PHYS 151H, PHYS 152/PHYS 152H, and PHYS 253/PHYS 253H. This course provides a thorough understanding of the C-ID PHYS-210 and PHYS-200S (with PHYS 151/PHYS 151H and fundamental principles of physics in the area of mechanics PHYS 253/PHYS 253H). and fluids. It is intended primarily for engineering, physics, mathematics, and science majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151/ PHYS 151H, PHYS 152/PHYS 152H, and PHYS 253/PHYS 253H. C-ID PHYS-205 and PHYS-200S (with PHYS 152/PHYS 152H and PHYS 253/PHYS 253H). 350    MiraCosta College 2023-2024 Catalog