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• FIN 110: Music Appreciation

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course introduces students to music by examining the art form from a variety of different time periods, cultural movements, and creators, incorporating the elements of music and the instrumentation used by musical artists. Students will explore the significance of surroundings and time periods and how they influenced and were influenced by the music of the day. This course promotes enjoyment and understanding of music through use of recorded music and song literature.
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• FIN 205: Humanities Through the Arts

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course explores human values, attitudes, and ideas by examining the history and nature of creative expression representing a variety of art forms, including architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, film and video, photography, drama, music, and literature. Students will examine art forms from a variety of different time periods, cultural movements, and creators, incorporating the terms, processes, and tools used by artists. Prerequisite:    ENG 110
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• HST 110: Western Civilization (1600 to Present)

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course surveys the social, political, economic, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the Western World, the interactions of the West with other regions of the world, the regions of the Western World with each other, and how the West influences and is influenced by other regions of the world from the Seventeenth Century through the present.
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• MTH 120: Foundations of Math

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course promotes interpretation and communication of quantitative information presented in verbal, symbolic, graphical, or numerical form, and the ability to draw conclusions about and make decisions with quantitative information. An understanding of mathematical and statistical concepts is built through the development of number sense and problem-solving skills as applied to financial literacy, mathematical perspective, logical reasoning, linear and exponential models, conversions, descriptive statistics, probability, and data. Corequisite:    See NPRC Placement Standards for Mathematics
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• MTH 130: College Algebra

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course promotes interpretation and communication of relationships and functions presented in verbal, symbolic, graphical, or numerical form. An understanding of algebraic concepts and the ability to apply algebraic skills and reasoning to linear, quadratic, cubic, radical, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions is developed using modeling, algebraic manipulation, and exploration of data to determine the solution set for equations and inequalities and their associated systems with and without the use of technology. The course explores conic sections from the perspective of pattern recognition with focus on graphing and application to solving nonlinear systems of equations and inequalities. The course develops basic understanding of matrix operations and the use of matrix concepts to solve linear systems. Corequisite:    See NPRC Placement Standards for Mathematics
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• MTH 225: Applied Statistics

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course develops problem-solving and decision-making skills by applying concepts related to descriptive measures, elementary probability, and statistical inference procedures including estimation and hypothesis testing to a variety of situations with wide applications. The course explores statistical concepts including random sampling, confidence interval estimation, chi-square testing, regression analysis and correlation, and analysis of variance. Corequisite:    See NPRC Placement Standards for Mathematics
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• PHL 110: Introduction to Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course examines the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence beginning with the dawn of philosophical awareness among the ancient Greek philosophers. Traditional and modern approaches to the understanding of the human condition are incorporated with consideration given to the importance of skepticism and critical reasoning in human affairs. The relationship between certainty, belief, and doubt is explored, and the boundaries of human knowledge is examined.
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• PHY 150: Applied Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course establishes foundational principles and processes of physics from a conceptual and applied approach. Using large-scale and small-scale perspectives, the basic concepts of measurement, motion, forces, energy transformation and transfer processes, heat, electricity, magnetism, and wave properties associated with sound and light are examined.
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• PHY 151: Applied Physics Lab

  1.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course investigates the foundational principles and processes of physics through a broad range of laboratory activities and experiments designed to explore how measurement, motion, forces, energy transformation and transfer processes, heat, electricity, magnetism, and wave properties associated with sound and light relate to the physical world. Prerequisite:    PHY 150 Corequisite:    PHY 150
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• POL 210: US Government and Politics

  3.00 Credits

  Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

  
  This course examines the historical backgrounds, governing principles, and institutions of the government of the United States. The course explores the content and application of the Constitution and identifies the duties of, and interactions between, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. The course analyzes politics, the political process, and political events, including the roles played by, and stances of, political parties and interest groups. The course explores the relationship of individual values to political views and develops the ability to formulate and articulate ones own political views.
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