2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 111
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Distinguish between poisoning by ingestion, inhalation,
and injection.
• Recognize conditions relating to drug and alcohol abuse.
• Identify key components and normal functions of the
urinary system.
• Describe detailed pathophysiology and assessment of
urinary system disorders.
• Identify abdominal and genitourinary disorders, acute
abdominal pain, and systemic illnesses.
• Apply management and treatment priorities for
toxic syndromes.
• Discuss the pathophysiology of blood and hematological
disorders.
• Apply the theory of thermoregulation to various
patient presentations.
• Distinguish among the recognition, transmission, and
pathophysiology of infectious diseases.
• Discuss the individual's (student paramedic) role in the
prevention of disease transmission.
• Discuss the critical principles of behavior emergencies.
• Identify potential causes of behavioral and
psychiatric illnesses.
• Distinguish varied methods of approaching violent and
non-violent patients (adult or child).
• Describe the physiologic process of menstruation and
ovulation.
• Describe the structure and function of processes during
pregnancy.
• Describe detailed assessment and management of
obstetrical and gynecological emergencies.
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 220
Concepts and Practices I
This course is designed for the student who is prepared
to participate in clinical experiences which should occur
after the student has demonstrated competence in skills
and knowledge in the didactic and laboratory components
of the program. The student will have the opportunity to
achieve proficiency by performing skills on actual patients
in a clinical setting. Alternative learning experiences
(simulations, programmed patient scenarios, etc.) will be
developed. Proficiency in performing all steps and
procedures safely and properly will be thoroughly
discussed.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Demonstrate safe practices in the pre-hospital environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to serve as a team leader in a
variety of pre-hospital emergency responses.
• Recognize the need for advanced life support interventions.
• Demonstrate the proper application and performance of
basic life support skills.
• Demonstrate proper performance of advanced life support
procedures and skills.
• Apply the appropriate advanced life support skills in an
emergency situation.
6 Credits 4 Weekly Lecture Hours
4 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 221
Concepts and Practices II
This course is a continuation of Paramedic Concepts and
Practices I and will incorporate the skills and practices that
each student would need to accomplish during the inhospital
and field time clinical sessions. The clinical
document outlines the specific encounters with the patient
that each student must successfully achieve during clinical
and hospital sessions. In addition, topics such as intravenous
medication bolus through intravenous line, communicating,
relaying patient information, and trauma will be discussed,
as well as numerous miscellaneous procedures.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Perform a comprehensive identification, assessment and
management of a variety of advanced life support
patients in the in-hospital and pre-hospital settings.
• Demonstrate knowledge of communication systems for
reporting patient care and interventions.
• Demonstrate appropriate patient communication techniques.
• Document all patient assessments and advanced life
support interventions accurately.
• Maintain equipment and vehicles in a ready state of
response for all types of emergency conditions.
6 Credits 4 Weekly Lecture Hours
4 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ENG 025
(ENG) English
Basic & Essential Writing
This course is designed for students who have knowledge
of sentence structure. The purpose of this course is to
develop writing skills. Students will start with a focus on
writing clear, Standard English sentences with appropriate
use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling and will
progress to writing short paragraphs.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Comprehend verbal and written directions.
• Identify the parts of speech.
• Analyze the structure of sentences.
• Construct simple and compound sentences with
appropriate usage, punctuation and spelling.
• Demonstrate improvement in written vocabulary.
• Brainstorm effectively.
• Recognize and correct common errors in usage,
punctuation, and sentence structure.
• Analyze the structure of a paragraph.
• Outline and write a short paragraph with a main idea
and supporting details.
• Combine simple sentences correctly.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 050
Developmental English
Comprehensive review and writing practice in the fundamentals
of English grammar, work choice, punctuation,
and paragraph construction. Students may test out of this
course at any time in accord with College policy and with
the agreement of their instructor. Credits from the course
are not applicable toward a degree.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Writes a paragraph of substantial length.
• Identifies a sufficiently limited topic.
• Provides a topic sentence containing an appropriately
limited subject and controlling idea.
• Demonstrate clear awareness of purpose by using an
applicable paragraph pattern.
• Integrates a body of relevant and specific details with a
consistent point of view, effective transitions, and a
concluding sentence - all elements working to keep the
paragraph clearly focused on the topic.
• Applies conventional punctuation, capitalization, spelling
and grammar practices regularly enough so as not to
frustrate readers or repeatedly distract them from the
content of the paragraph.
• Employs a range of sentence variety relevant to audience
and purpose.
• Understands that writing is a process and is able to
identify and use steps in the process to produce
successful paragraphs.
• Recognizes the multi-paragraph essay format and
understands its similarities to single paragraph writing.
Prerequisite: Placement testing determines the correct
beginning course for each DCCC writing student. Many
students place directly into ENG 050 upon entry into the
College.
If students must begin writing instruction at a simpler
remedial level, they will be placed into ENG 025: Basic and
Essential Writing. Students who are required to take ENG
025 must pass that course before beginning ENG 050
Students who are required to take REA 050, Reading II,
must pass that course and ENG 050 before they are eligible
for ENG 100
ESL students must pass ELS 044, Intermediate Writing II
before beginning ENG 050.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 100
English Composition I
This course reviews the principles of composition,
including rhetoric, grammar and usage, and emphasizes
the writing of analytical essays and the study of principles
underlying critical thinking.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Demonstrate effective writing strategies after reading and
assessing a variety of texts.
• Write assignments that consider various writing
situations in terms of audience, purpose, tone,
organization, format, style, point of view, and diction.
• Generate ideas, limit a topic, and formulate a thesis,
utilizing prewriting techniques.
• Provide specific, concrete details to support the thesis.
• Organize essays using appropriate types of development
such as description, narration, definition,
comparison/contrast, causal relationship, classification,
example, process analysis, and argumentation.
• Compose an original, unified, multi-paragraph essay with
introduction, conclusion, and transitions.
• Revise, edit, and proofread writing to produce final
drafts with a minimum of errors in grammar, mechanics,
and diction.
• Access and evaluate source material using current
information literacy techniques.
• Summarize, paraphrase, and quote source material using
MLA documentation.
• Prepare a documented essay free of plagiarism.
Prereq. ENG 050 and REA 050
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 112
English Composition II
Composition II is a writing course with emphasis on
both literature and research. The course develops critical
thinking through the study of literature, the use of
advanced research techniques, and the writing of
analytical/critical and researched essays. Upon successful
completion of this course, students should be able to:
• Formulate an analytical/argumentative thesis.
• Express ideas logically and clearly in a coherent essay
with sound, supportive data.
• Compose original, analytical/critical essays in response
to literature.
• Analyze the short story, poetry and drama using the
elements of literature such as plot, setting, character,
point of view, form, tone, style, symbolism, and theme,
from different critical perspectives.
• Access and evaluate source material using current
information literacy skills.
• Summarize, paraphrase, quote and synthesize source
material using MLA documentation.
• Apply research skills by composing a multi-source paper
that proves a scholarly thesis and is free of plagiarism.
• Revise, edit, and proofread to produce polished, final
drafts with a minimum of errors in grammar, mechanics
and diction.
Prereq. ENG 100
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours