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• PTA 208: Clinical Practice II

  12.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Clinical training will provide learning experiences for the physical therapist assistant student in departments of physical therapy under the guidance and supervision of licensed physical therapists. The student will be provided with opportunities to apply the newly acquired skills in treatment programs as assigned by the clinical supervisor while spending at least seven full weeks in each of two different physical therapy settings, for a total of at least fourteen weeks of clinical practice. This clinical experience will include treatment of patients common to a general hospitals, extended care or nursing facilities, out-patient physical therapy settings, and rehabilitation hospitals. Students are required to write a resume, construct a patient education brochure, and prepare and present an in-service presentation to physical therapy staff members and the college community. Attendance at an introductory orientation session, an open laboratory, a program seminar, and a job fair is mandatory. In order to register for this course, students must pass a written and practical exam to be certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation including infant and adult airway foreign body airway obstruction, adult and infant one rescuer CPR, adult two rescuer CPR, and the use of an automatic external defibrillator.
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• RES 110: Real Estate Law

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Provides a basic knowledge of real estate law. Decisions in court cases, state and national law concerning various legal aspects of the exchange of real estate are studied. A student must attend 80% of the class for the course to be used as credit to sit for the State Licensing Examination.
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• RSS 099: Basic Skills Reading

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course is designed to develop and strengthen the reading comprehension of students who intend to pursue a college program of study, but who need serious and sustained remediation of their reading for more than one semester in order to prepare for the demands of reading-based college courses. Students are required to keep appointments with reading lab instructors. Students may be required to complete reading lab assignments.
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• RSS 100: Critical Reading

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Designed to increase effectiveness in college reading and related study activities. Special attention is given to improving comprehension of a wide variety of college-level reading materials through critical reading and metaphoric thinking.
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• RSS 101: Effective Study Skills

  1.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Designed to teach effective study skills. Topics include adjusting to college, listening and note taking, time management, reading and marking a textbook, test taking, and effective study habits. Skills will be taught utilizing content course materials. The course is especially appropriate for returning adults and for students who wish to strengthen study skills.
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• RSS 102: College Experience

  1.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course is designed to establish a connection between students and LCCC's campus and resources. Topics will include self-awareness, goal setting, organization and time management, academic planning, library orientation, student life, diversity and wellness.
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• RSS 103: Vocabulary Improvement

  1.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Designed to increase vocabulary so that a student may function independently in college courses. Because of the positive correlation between a powerful vocabulary and academic success, students will be given the opportunity to increase their vocabulary through dictionary work, Thesaurus exercises, analogies, and contextual and etymological studies. Attention will be given to learning words through word structure and to the development of a technical vocabulary. Memory strategies will be included.
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• RSS 104: Student Success

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Designed to enhance student success by providing an opportunity for students to learn and adopt methods that promote effectiveness in academic and non-academic pursuits. Academic survival skills such as notetaking, listening, textbook study strategies, time management, concentration, motivation and test-taking will be taught with an emphasis on their application to course work in other disciplines. In addition, the course promotes development of life management skills such as stress management, leadership, effective communication, and career planning.
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• RSS 106: Math Study Skills

  1.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Designed to provide effective study strategies to improve the student's learning experiences in math. Lessons focus on the development by the student of an individual, unique system of math study skills that can be used from one math course to the next. In addition, students will explore the development of the necessary affective characteristics of successful math students; more specifically, strategies and tools to overcome math or test anxiety and to acquire a stronger, more positive self perception as capable students.
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• RSS 201: Adult Literacy Tutor Training

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Designed to provide literacy tutors with training in the More than 20% of residents in the Carbon County Area do not areas of instructional methods, diagnosis, materials have a high school diploma. This special state-funded grant allows studenst to earn three college credits while learning to be adult literacy tutors. Students will support literacy participants in helping their children with school work, preparing for teacher conferences, completing job applications, studying for employment tests, and earning their GED. Adult Literacy Tutor Training will include 40 hours of "hands-on" experiance with individuals and in classroom training. Enrollment is limited; register early. selection, record keeping, and lesson planning, as well as teaching students with special needs such as ESL, learning disabilities, Adult Basic Education, and GED preparation. In addition, course participants are required to apply their newly acquired skills through supervised literacy tutoring (4 hours per week). All applicants will be interviewed prior to registration. For additional information, call 610-799-1940
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