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• SMT 215: Materials Modification In Nano

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Covers in detail the processing steps used in modifying material properties in nanofabrication. Included will be growth and annealing processes utilizing and vertical furnaces as well as rapid thermal annealing. The impact of thermal processing on defects, gettering, impurities and overall electrical, mechanical, optical, electrical and chemical properties will be studied. The student will grow and measure gate and field oxides, implant and activate source and drain regions, and evalute thermal budget requirements using state-of-the-art tools. Included also will be other modification technologies such as ion implantation, diffusion and surface prepatation and treatment. Substrate preparation processing such as slicing, etching, polishing and epitaxial growth will be covered.
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• SMT 216: Charac Pack & Test of Nanofab

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Examines a variety of techniques and measurements essential for controlling device fabrication and final packaging. Monitoring techniques such as residual gas analysis (RGA), optical emission spectroscopy (OES) and end point detection will be discussed. Characterization techniques such as: SEM, XPS/Auger, surface profilometry, advanced optical microscopy, optical thin film measurements, ellipsometry, and resistivity/conductivity measurements will be used on real samples. Basic electrical measurements on device structures for yield analysis and process control will also be stressed. These will include breakdown measurements, junction testings, and C-V and I-V tests and simple transistor characterization. In addition, we will examine mechanical as well electrical characteristics of some simple MEMs devices and chemical and biological responses of nanofabricated biomedical structures. The student will also learn about the manufacturing issues involved in subjects such as interconnects, isolation, and final device assembly. Aluminum, refractory metals and copper depositon techniques and characterization will be discussed in detail along with topics such as diffusion barriers, contact resistance, electromigration, corrosion, stress effects, and adhesion. The importance of planarization techniques such as depostion/etchback adn chemical/mechanical polishing will be emphasized. Lastly, packaging procedures such as die separation, inspection bonding, sealing and final test for both conventional IC's and novel MEM and biomedical devices will be examined.
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• SOC 150: Introduction to Sociology

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course introduces students to the scientific study of society. We examine the way our society is structured and the social inequalities that shape the lives of different classes, racial and ethnic groups, and genders. We explore how social institutions create these inequalities and how they teach us to understand and take action in our world. We study some of the consequences of globalization for work, wealth, inequality, migration, and social change.
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• SOC 151: Modern Social Problems

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course offers a sociological approach to the study of social problems. Students will examine how a problem comes to public attention, how it is defined, how data are used or misused in the presentation of a problem, and how political ideology affects what solutions are offered for a problem. Course materials will give special attention to the role of the media in highlighting certain problems and in shaping an audience's perspective on those problems. Students will investigate the social-structural conditions that produce particular problems and explore the ways in which a variety of problems are connected to one another. They will look at the political and economic interests that are tied to those social structures and consider how those interests affect policy. Throughout the course, students will evaluate "solutions" put forward by various advocates and agenices and identify ways in which individuals can become involved in shaping policy debates and/or taking political action. The particular problems addressed will vary, but may include: poverty, heterosexism, violence, substance use/abuse, access to health care, educational disparities, environmental pollution, war and genocide, and/or the exploitation of labor.
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• SOC 154: Women & Gender Studies

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary course is a preliminary exploration of the ever-burgeoning literature of Women's Studies. It will expose students to recent discussions about the origins of present attitudes about women in Western society; critical analysis of the situation of women in patriarchal cultures; and efforts by women to achieve self-defined female identity. Drawing on materials from literature, history, religion, biology, psychology, feminist analysis, anthropology, and sociology, the course will investigate culture beliefs about women's "nature" and role at different times and places; various attempts to explain the origins and persistence of female subordination; and women's efforts to define a new identity through political and creative activity.
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• SOC 155: Mass Culture

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  Surveys popular culture in America as a mirror of American life. Popular music, sports, movies, radio, TV advertising, books, and the industries that support them will be surveyed and analyzed. Hero worship, romance and sex, and the dream of success are examined as major themes of American pop culture. The various relationships between pop culture and education, leisure, family relations and the role of women and minorities are also examined.
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• SOC 207: Latin American Studies

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course is an introduction to the study of Latin America and the Caribbean. Taking into consideration the region's complexity, this class examines the geography, politics, history and culture of the area as well as the nuances of its peoples and societies. Students will explore different approaches to the understanding of the area's economic development, the internal and external struggles over political power and forms of rule, and the intricacy of the region's relationship with the Unites States. Topics also include racial and ethnic identity, gender and sexuality dynamics, migration and the migrant experience, and the emergence of new cultural expressions.
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• SOC 250: Criminology

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course offers students a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice in American society. The class investigates differing definitions of the crime problem and explores how people learn about crime, what behaviors they fear, and why some but not all harmful acts are punished by the criminal justice system. Course materials examine connections between biological and social factors that affect violent and impulsive behaviors in certain communities. The class explores how the policies and practices of the criminal justice system respond to street crime and how those responses affect the lives of low-income and racially marginalized populations. The course evaluates the effectiveness of various criminal justice policies.
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• SOC 251: The Family

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course involves an analysis of historic and contemporary trends in marriage and family relationships in American society with an emphasis on sociological theory and research. It explores family structures, functions, and processes through the life cycle as well as social challenges impacting the institution of marriage and family.
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• SOC 253: Diversity and Inequality

  3.00 Credits

  Lehigh Carbon Community College

  
  This course examines the social systems of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality as they intersect in U.S. society. Students will develop a conceptual framework for understanding systems of power and oppression on both the micro level of lived experience and the macro level of social instituitions. That theoretical framework will be used to analyze how systems of inequality were constructed historically and how they are perpetuated, resisted, and transformed in contemporary society.
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