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  • MPR 250: Video Production

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    Video production combines essential storytelling along with the technical skills needed to make the story come alive. The fundamentals of video production will be studied including the production process, the production team, the function and elements of the camera, proper mounting, balance, and composition. An introduction to creating, editing, and producing digital video, the course will enable students to use digital video terminology and video editing including adding transitions, special effects, music, sound effects, and voice-overs, graphics and titles.
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  • MPR 270: New Media Production

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    New media production offers hands-on instruction in multimedia and emerging new media technologies effectively for different types of communication. The scope of the course will cover application areas of new media. Digital, visual, and media literacy will be improved as content generators.
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  • MPR 290: Media Literacy

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    This course in media literacy introduces both theoretical and applied constructs and techniques in order to promote critical consumption and production of media content. Media analysis techniques, media reviews, and exercises are used to enhance overall student knowledge of the topic area.
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  • MUS 100: Introduction to Music

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    This course is an introduction to music which studies the elements of music (notation, scales, meter, rhythm, intervals) instruments of the orchestra, vocalization, and the lives and works of composers from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary eras. Use is made of recordings, concerts, and other media.
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  • MUS 200: History of Rock and Roll

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    Popular American Music in the Twentieth Century reviews the basic elements of music, surveys the history of popular music in America from the invention of the phonograph (1877) to the current dates, and explores the use of music as a social, cultural, and political mirror and influence on the society we live in. Supplemental recordings, concerts, and other media are used as tools in the study of American Popular Music.
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  • PHI 100: Critical Thinking

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    In this course, students develop the ability to form and critically evaluate arguments. In the beginning, special attention is given to informal logic (especially logical fallacies) and to understanding strong deductive, inductive, and abductive inferences. The remainder of the course is devoted to practical applications of critical thinking skills to topics such as claims made about ghosts, ESP, Astrology, UFO abductions, relativism, conspiracy theories, advertising, political speech, media, etc.
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  • PHI 110: Introduction to Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    This course introduces students to traditional philosophical problems. The course will survey basic topics in philosophy and the great ideas that changed history. Students will examine classical and contemporary texts on the nature of reality, truth, morality, goodness, justice, the possibility of knowledge, faith, reason, and the existence of God.
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  • PHI 200: Introduction to Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    We, typically, describe our actions as right or wrong, good or bad. In the first half of this course, we will address theoretical questions about the foundations of our standards of right and wrong and questions about systems for distinguishing right from wrong actions/character traits. The second half of the course will be devoted to applying our answers to the theoretical questions to specific issues, including drugs, casual sex, illegal immigration, torture, abortion, etc. In more technical terms, the course is a survey of metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
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  • PHY 102: Concepts of Physics

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    The course introduces students to phenomena, concepts, and principles of Physics at an introductory level. Topics will include light, waves, sound, energy, electricity, states of matter and Newton's Laws. This course is for students who may not have had prior Physics instruction. The course is required for Welding and Architectural/Civil (CAD) and Design Technology Majors but applicable for many other majors who need a three or four credit science. Prerequisite:    MAT 115, MAT 117, or MAT 131 Corequisite:    PHY 103
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  • PHY 103: Concepts of Physics Lab

    1.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

    The course illustrates many of the topics introduced in lecture through hands-on laboratory experiments. Experiments in laboratory are conducted, but not limited to, the topics of force, acceleration, gravity, friction, circular motion, matter, temperature, and the Law of Reflection. Prerequisite:    MAT 115, MAT 117, or MAT 131 Corequisite:    PHY 102
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