2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

158 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
RTH 203 Respiratory Therapy
Practicum IV
This course is a supervised clinical practice.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Administer bronchopulmonary hygiene and ventilator
support to neonatal and pediatric patients.
• Perform respiratory care in the subacute setting.
• Administer bronchopulmonary hygiene and ventilatory
support to critically ill adult patients.
• Perform and recommend cardiovascular diagnostic
testing as appropriate to respiratory care.
Prereq. RTH 201, RTH 204 Coreq. RTH 202, RTH 205
6 Credits 12 Weekly Laboratory Hours
RTH 204 Pulmonary Pathophysiology
Clinical Rounds I
This course is a supervised clinical study of pulmonary
pathophysiology.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe the etiology, pathology, functional abnormality,
PFT results, pulmonary assessment data, clinical
features, treatment and prognosis of the major diseases
effecting the respiratory system.
Prereq. RTH 105 Coreq. RTH 200, RTH 201
2 Credits 4 Weekly Laboratory Hours
RTH 205 Pulmonary Pathophysiology
Clinical Rounds II
This course is a supervised clinical study of pulmonary
pathophysiology.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe the etiology, pathology, functional abnormality,
PFT results, pulmonary assessment data, clinical
features, treatment and prognosis of the major diseases
effecting the respiratory system.
Prereq. RTH 201, RTH 204 Coreq. RTH 202, RTH 203
2 Credits 4 Weekly Laboratory Hours
RTH 206 Respiratory Therapy
Summer Clinical III
This course is a supervised clinical practice.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Administer and evaluate the results of
polysomnographic testing.
• Perform and recommend invasive cardiovascular
diagnostic testing as appropriate to respiratory care.
• Administer bronchopulmonary hygiene and ventilatory
support to critically ill adult patients.
Prereq. RTH 203, RTH 205
4 Credits
(RUS) Russian
RUS 101 Elementary Russian
Special Studies
This course introduces students to the Russian language
by focusing on the development of functional competence
in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing),
as well as the expansion of cultural knowledge. Students
completing this course will learn about the basic structure
of Russian grammar and writing as well as become familiar
with elementary conversational skills.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Recognize the essential differences between the Russian
and English pronunciation systems
• Understand in oral and written form first-level content
words and grammatical principles
• Read aloud in Russian with due attention to principles
of good pronunciation including word stress and
intonation patterns
• Produce appropriate pattern and sentence transformation
• Write in dictation from with a reasonable degree of
accuracy from materials that have been studied
• Recall familiar facts of Russian and Slavic civilizations
from reading assignments
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SCI 100
(SCI) Science
Man & Environment
A study of the design of the natural world and the impact
of humans on the environment. It also includes a study of
the environmental problems created by our technology.
Topics include basic ecology, the population explosion,
energy and pollution. Field trips may be included.
This course is an elective designed for non-science majors.
Upon satisfactory completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Analyze the design of the real world.
• Describe the dynamics of the population of different
species excluding man in the biosphere.
• Interpret the dynamics of population and future
implications if population growth remains unchecked.
• Analyze the energy alternatives to meet the demands of
technology and growing population on the world's
natural resources.
• Analyze adverse effects of modern societal values and
priorities on the biosphere.
• Formulate applications of environmental concepts to
one's interests through integration activities.
Prereq. REA 050 or Equiv.
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
SCI 105
Introduction to Nanotechnology
This course will cover the application of nano-technology
to electronic, chemical, and biological fields including a
review of the basic science concepts. The impact of the
commercialization of nanotechnology on society and the
environment will be discussed. It is intended primarily
for students in any of the various technology programs
who will seek employment as laboratory technicians in
research and industrial laboratories. Emphasis will be
placed on providing a broad overview of the field.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of scientific notation
and size relationships between nanometers and other
metric measures.
• Describe the societal impacts of nanotechnology on
modern society.
• List at least five biological applications of
nanotechnology.
• Find, using Internet research, five commercial
applications of nanotechnology.
• Describe the structures known as nanotubes and bucky
balls, and one current application of each form.
• Describe the application of nanotechnology
in environmental and medical sensors to
electronic monitoring.
• Define key nanotechnology concepts such as "buttomup",
"self-assembly", and "molecular recognition".
• Discuss instrumentation, such as SEM and STM, which
is used at the nano level.
• Hypothesize future applications of nanotechnology.
Prereq. REA 050
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SCI 110
History of Science
This course, designed as a non-laboratory science
option for non-science majors or as an open elective for
Natural Science majors, traces the philosophical, cultural,
intellectual, and technological developments that influenced
the evolution of modern science. By examining these
developments made over a span of two millennia,
students in the course identify the people, places, ideas,
and discoveries that led to fundamental shifts in worldviews
resulting in changes in the way people obtain knowledge
about, investigate, and understand the physical world.
Specifically, the course explores the origin and influence of
scientific methodologies by tracing the changing role of
experimenters, their experiments, and the tools they
used. In addition, students document the converging
influences that resulted in the Scientific Renaissance and
the Scientific Revolution. The course concludes by
highlighting important scientific discoveries up to the
present day and the continuing struggle between science
and long-held misconceptions and beliefs.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Develop an answer to the question ‘What is science?’,
state the basic assumptions underlying modern science,
and discuss the origins of these assumptions
• Define ‘scientific paradigm’, describe its influence on the
development of science, and outline the factors that
result in a change of the scientific paradigm
• List the characteristics of a scientific methodology
• Understand the role politics, religion, and commerce
played in the history of science
• Explain the difference between deductive and inductive
arguments and their role in the study of the physical
world, identify people who employed them, and give
examples of each form
• Describe the approaches and contributions to science of
Greek, Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and European thinkers
and identify the people and places associated with
these approaches and contributions
• Outline the changing role of experimentation in the
history of science, the tools used in the experiments,
and describe their influence on the origin of
scientific methodology
• List examples and relate the significance of the people,
places, ideas, and discoveries that were part of the
Scientific Renaissance
• Describe the emergence of the Scientific Revolution from
the Scientific Renaissance and provide examples of
important scientific discoveries over the past three
hundred years
• Identify current areas where scientific research is in
conflict with popular beliefs and analyze a selected
conflict by examining all arguments put forth in the
context of the scientific method and the history
of science
Prereq. ENG 100
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 100
(SOC) Sociology
Human Relations
This course is designed as an introduction to the
basic principles of sociology with emphasis on human
relationships in community and industrial settings.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Explain the importance of human relations in the
community and occupational spheres.
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