GST BOCES-Coopers Plains Campus, Painted Post

Understanding of individual and workplace needs as they relate to professionalism, team building, and career growth. Topic areas include human relations, business ethics, business etiquette, team building concepts, and career enrichment. Discussion, participation, and role-playing exercises. May be taught in a simulated work environment.

Credits 3

Basic areas of personal finance, such as banking, home financing, insurance, investments, credit financing, and retirement planning.

Credits 3

Theories and applications of computers. Includes computer architecture, hardware, software, number coding, problem solving paradigms, microcomputer applications, network technology, computer ethics, computer careers, e-commerce, and system software. Lecture/Laboratory. Shelf Life Alert.

Prerequisites: Eligible to take a college-level composition course and completion of all developmental mathematics requirements.

Credits 4

A theoretical overview of networks. Introduction to the OSI model, communications media, various network equipment, data transmission, protocols, topologies, architectures, Local area networks, Wide area networks, Routing and Routing protocols, IP addressing and structured cabling.

Prerequisite: Ready to take a college-level composition course and have no developmental reading and mathematics requirements. Lecture/Laboratory.

Credits 4

Essay writing designed to sharpen the student's perceptions of the world and to facilitate communications with correctness, clarity, unity, organization, and depth. Assignments include expository writing, argumentation, and research techniques. Writing Process.

Prerequisites: Placement, ENGL 0980, or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 0999. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Written Communication and Required Competency in Information Literacy

Credits 3

Essay writing course designed to advance critical, analytical, and writing abilities begun in ENGL 1010. Literary analysis essays and interpretation on works of fiction, poetry, and drama. Writing Process.

Prerequisites: ENGL 1010. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Humanities

Credits 3

Designed to assist first-year students in adjusting to the college environment as well as becoming familiar with strategies for success. A general orientation to the resources of the college, essential academic success skills to better understand the learning process, and career exploration will be covered. Lectures/Discussions/Activities.

Credits 3

Develops self-awareness and audience awareness through oral presentation. Organize and present material in a variety of speaking occasions, including information, visualization, demonstration, argumentation, persuasion. Lecture/Presentations. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Oral Communication.

Credits 3