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ESLR
0072 Basic Reading and Vocabulary
(4-0-4)
This course focuses on reading short, simple sentences supported by pictures;
present, past, and future tense forms; common idioms; drawing simple contextual
conclusions; and content based vocabulary.
Placement: Placement from ESOL skills assessment test.
Offered: On demand.
ESLR
0082 Intermediate Reading and Vocabulary
(4-0-4)
This course focuses on the use of contextual clues to predict meaning and ideas
within a paragraph. Limited occupational, academic, internet, or news items are
studied, as well as skimming, scanning, distinguishing between main and
supporting ideas, and developing spelling and vocabulary skills through the use
of key terms in readings.
Placement: ESLR 0072 with a grade of C or better or a qualifying score on the
ESOL skills assessment test.
Offered: On demand.
ESLR
0092 Advanced Reading and Vocabulary
(4-0-4)
This course focuses on understanding contextual meaning, word forms,
synonyms, and connotation. Distinction between fact and opinion in writing is
studied, as well as paraphrasing sentences, and reading articles, periodicals,
academic texts with more abstract and grammatical complexity, and internet
research.
Placement: ESLR 0082 with a grade of C or better or a qualifying score on the
ESOL skills assessment test.
Offered: On demand.
ETHI
1101 Issues in Ethics
(2-0-2)
A general introduction to ethical theories and their application to current moral
issues. Emphasis is placed on the student developing a decision-making
scheme to apply to moral dilemmas. Credit may not be received for both ETHI
1101 and PHIL 2030.
Corequisite: Minimum COMPASS reading score of 74 or enrollment in READ
0099.
Prerequisite: None.
Offered: On demand.
FIAR
2250 Humanities Through the Arts
(3-0-3)
Humanities through the Arts provides an interdisciplinary view of the West in art,
music, and literature from the Renaissance through the 21st century. FIAR 2250
and ART 1100 are related courses; only one can count toward graduation.
Prerequisites: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099.
Offered: On demand.
FOSC
2100 Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science
(2-2-3)
COURSE MUST BE TAKEN AT ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY AND
TRANSFERRED TO DARTON STATE COLLEGE.
Lecture and laboratory course designed to teach investigators techniques in the
analysis of physical evidence; designed for professional lab technicians or
criminalists; laboratory report on measurements of mass and density, microscopy
of hairs and fibers, development and comparison of latent fingerprints, calibration
of UV spec and GC-MS.
Corequisites: None.
Prerequisite: None.
Offered: On demand.
