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  • EDU 142: Understanding Emotional Intelligence

    1.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course focuses on the basics of helping students develop pertinent skills regarding Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Traditional IQ testing is not the best indicator of who will be successful in life. Rather, EQ has been shown to have a higher correlation with future achievement. Students will recognize and develop relevant skills pertaining to EQ. Students must learn to be optimistic, delay gratification, control anger, read social situations accurately and show empathy, which are skills that can be taught in a classroom setting.
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  • EDU 143: Working With Multiple Intelligence

    1.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course will address the concept of Multiple Intelligence. Traditional learning stresses the development of verbal and problem-solving skills. Research has routinely shown that many students would benefit from a broader approach to education. The course will focus on ways to develop the proposed eight domains of intelligence: verbal/linguistic, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, logical/mathematical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, musical/rhythmic and naturalistic.
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  • EDU 155: Humor in the Classroom

    1.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course explores the use of humor as a method of creating an environment conducive to learning in a classroom or in other situations where growth and learning are the expected outcomes.
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  • EDU 202: Educational and Assistive Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course is for students planning careers in education. Students examine how to use technology to assist diverse learners to meet designated learning outcomes. Students also learn to prepare and integrate a wide range of multi-media technologies as they develop standards-based instructional units. Students implement techniques for technology integration that address varied classroom populations. Ten hours of field experience are required throughout the semester. Students must have three current clearances: FBI Fingerprint Clearance, a Pennsylvania State Police Criminal History Clearance, and a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Child Abuse History Clearance and meet the local requirements of the field placement site, including the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) Verification Clearance. Prerequisite:    Take one of the following: EDU 125 or ECD 101 or permission of the instructor  
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  • EDU 205: English Language Learners in the Classroom

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course explores the role of the classroom teacher in meeting the academic needs of linguistically and culturally diverse learners. Topics include an introduction to language acquisition theory, cultural communication and learning styles, the role of culture in academic achievement and cultural and linguistic bias in instructional strategies, materials and assessment. Ten hours of field experience are required throughout the semester. Students must have three current clearances: FBI Fingerprint Clearance, a Pennsylvania State Police Criminal History Clearance, and a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Child Abuse History Clearance and meet the local requirements of the field placement site, including the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) Verification Clearance. Prerequisite:    Take one of the following: EDU 125 or ECD 101 or permission of the instructor  
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  • EET 103: Introduction to Electronics

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course covers the basic principles of electronics, with a survey of charge, voltage, current and resistance, DC & AC distribution systems, Ohm's Law and power formulas, series/parallel circuits, Kirchhoff's Laws, RC, RL and RLC circuits, time-dependent behavior, and an introduction to operational amplifiers, timers and other circuit elements. Theory is applied to laboratory work with a concentration on construction and testing of actual circuits and the use of modern measurement techniques, culminating in the execution of a design project. No previous experience in electronics or science is required.
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  • EET 114: Electronic Fabrication

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course prepares students to develop correct soldering practices, including placement, identification and solderability. The course will provide information on through-hole, as well as surface-mount soldering. Students will complete a through-hole project.
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  • EET 119: Engineering Circuits 1

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course prepares students in electrical circuits analysis. Emphasis is on direct current systems. Topics include Kirchhoff's laws, Thevenin's theorem, Norton's theorem, network equations, induction, capacitance and resistor-capacitor (RC) transients. Prerequisite:    EET 103 or Equivalent practical experience as determined by the Department  
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  • EET 201: Electronics 1

    4.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course delineates the principles and use of discrete electronic devices such as bipolar and field effect transistors,triac and silicon controlled rectifiers. Students will apply these devices to basic circuits such as small signal and power amplifiers and power control systems. Prerequisite:    EET 103   
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  • EET 208: Digital Electronics

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Allegheny County

    This course is designed to teach students the basics of digital electronic devices and their applications through a series of hands-on exercises performed in the lab. Logic gates and truth tables will be utilized throughout the course to reinforce digital circuit operations.
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