Description: Designed to prepare students to become peer tutors in the Reading and Writing Center. Participants learn specific tutoring techniques and discuss problems, questions, and challenges in tutoring reading. Tutors develop student-centered, non-intrusive tutoring skills. 27 hours lecture and 27 hours laboratory. (Letter grade or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Intended for readers who are interested in enhancing reading flexibility and effectiveness in comprehension, vocabulary, and study skills. Students practice using a variety of comprehension strategies, including computer assisted instruction. 36 hours lecture. (Letter Grade, or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Review and study of reading strategies for success in various college disciplines and for lifelong literacy. Students will receive instruction in academic, discipline-specific and practical lifelong reading skills. This course meets the graduation reading competency requirement. 54 hours lecture. (Letter Grade, or Pass/No Pass Option)
Description: The relationship between critical reading and critical thinking. Emphasis will be placed on the development of reading skills in the interpretation, analysis, criticism and advocacy of ideas encountered in academic reading. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: Intended for students who would like a review of reading comprehension strategies and foundational critical thinking skills to prepare for the rigors of college academic reading. Students will learn to apply active reading and thinking strategies to both expository and persuasive text. Instruction will also include basic approaches to analyzing arguments as well as writing evaluative responses. 54 hours lecture. (Non-degree credit course) (Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Intended for students currently enrolled in a content area lecture class where the curriculum and instruction depends on extensive textbook readings. Students will receive instruction on using different reading comprehension strategies designed for better understanding and retention of textbook material. 18 hours lecture. (Non-degree credit course) (Pass/No Pass only)
Description: Intended for students who experience difficulty in reading college-level materials. Instruction in reading skills and strategies along with practice work, in which a wide range of materials will be utilized. 54 hours lecture. (Pass/No Pass only)
Description: This self-paced course provides practice on individually prescribed learning plans designed to improve and develop reading skills. Instruction is provided on an individualized basis through conferences with the student. Subsequent enrollment in the course will provide the student further opportunities for additional skill and competency development within the subject matter. May be taken a total of four times. 27 hours laboratory. (Pass/No Pass only)
Description: An introduction to accounting principles and practice, as a manual and/or computerized information system that provides and interprets economic data for economic units within a global society. Includes recording, analyzing, and summarizing procedures used in preparing financial statements. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: A study of managerial accounting principles and information systems including basic concepts, limitations, tools and methods to support the internal decision-making functions of an organization. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: Conceptual and technical analysis of accounting information used by managers as they carry out their planning, controlling, and decision-making responsibilities. Includes coverage of just-in-time systems, activity-based costing, flexible manufacturing systems, computer-integrated performance measures, and the impact of automation on capital budgeting decisions. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: An introductory course for students who are non-accounting majors. The focus is basic bookkeeping and accounting principles for both merchandising and service oriented small business enterprises. Emphasis on the development of skills to record business transactions for cash and accrual methods, as well as the procedures to prepare financial statements and complete an accounting cycle. Attention is given to special journals, subsidiary ledgers, and payroll and banking procedures. 54 hours lecture. (Same as CAT-55) (Letter Grade, or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Presents the theory, procedures, and practice relating to product costs, including job order, process, and standard cost systems. Also includes analytical skills used to interpret accounting data used by management in planning and controlling business activities. Emphasizing the concept of "different costs for different purposes," this course focuses on cost accounting strategy and the decision making process and studies the development of detailed cost data essential to management for controlling operations, decision making, and planning. 54 hours lecture.(Letter grade only)
Description: Covers accounting for payroll and examines aspects of the Social Security Act, California Unemployment Insurance Act, and the California Worker's Compensation Insurance Act. Payroll principles applied through the use of microcomputers. 54 hours lecture. (Letter Grade, or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Theory and method of preparation of federal income tax returns for individuals. Actual forms are studied and returns are prepared. 54 hours lecture.(Letter grade, or Pass/No Pass option.)
Description: An introduction to computerized accounting, integrating the principles of accounting to an automated system in use by many accounting professionals. 54 hours lecture. (Letter Grade, or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Principles and practices of non-profit and governmental entities fund accounting. Topics include accounting concepts, types and structure of funds and accounts, and application of generally accepted accounting principles to non-profit and governmental organizations. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: Work Experience is designed to coordinate the student's on-the-job training with workplace skills designed to assist the student in developing successful professional skills. Each student will establish measurable learning objectives appropriate for their job and discipline. Students may earn up to four (4) units each semester, for a maximum of 16 units of work experience total. 60 hours of volunteer work or 75 hours of paid work during the semester are required for each unit. No more than 20 hours per week, out of the 60 or 75 requirement, may be applied toward the work requirement. The course consists of an 18 hours of orientation/professional skills development and 60 hours of volunteer work experience per unit with a maximum of 240 for four units per semester OR 75 hours of paid work experience per unit, with a maximum of 300 for four units per semester. (Letter grade or Pass/No Pass option)
Description: Learn the basics of small business bookkeeping using QuickBooks, financial reporting, and how to analyze and record financial transactions. Discusses accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll procedures, sales taxes and common banking activities. 16 hours lecture. (Pass/No Pass only)
Description: Develop and apply monthly procedures used in accounting for small business. Continue to build small business accounting knowledge, gain practical experience working with day to day transactions. Reconcile balance sheet accounts and examine/audit income statement accounts on a monthly basis. Prepare adjusting journal entries. Prepare financial statements. 16 hours lecture. (Pass/No Pass only)
Description: Develop and apply year end procedures used in accounting for small business using QuickBooks. Prepare closing journal entries for year end. Prepare reports for tax accountants. Purge files and prepare for the new year. 16 hours lecture. (Pass/No Pass only)
Description: The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is an initiative sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service. This course is intended to provide students with the opportunity to serve low to moderate-income taxpayers, which the IRS has defined for the scope of the program as those individuals and families making less than $54,000 per year. This course will teach students in income tax preparation, prepare students to apply for IRS VITA certification, in order to work with individuals and families with limited incomes to prepare tax returns - enabling them to receive proper tax credits and refunds. Completion of this course will allow students to volunteer, providing free, high-quality income tax service. 18 hours lecture.
Description: The history and philosophy of administration of justice in America; recapitulation of the system; identifying the various subsystems, role expectations, and their interrelationships; theories of crime, punishment, and rehabilitation; ethics, education, and training for professionalism in the system. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: An examination and analysis of due process in criminal proceedings from pre-arrest through trial and appeal utilizing statutory law and state and constitutional precedents. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: Historical development, philosophy of law and constitutional provisions; definitions, classification of crimes, and their application to the system of administration of justice; legal research, study of case law, methodology, and concepts of law as a social force. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: Origin, development, philosophy and constitutional basis of evidence; constitutional and procedural considerations affecting arrest, search and seizure; kinds and degrees of evidence and rules governing admissibility; judicial decisions interpreting individual rights and case studies. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
Description: Examines the complex, dynamic relationship between communities and the justice system in addressing crime and conflict with an emphasis on the challenges and prospects of administering justice within a diverse multicultural population. 54 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)
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