Student Catalog 2011-2012 - West Georgia Technical College

Course DescriptionsThe instructional course categories are general core courses, occupational courses, and electivecourses.General Education courses–Common to many majors, general education courses include English orlanguage arts, speech communications, humanities/fine arts, social or behavioral sciences, mathematics,science, and computer literacy.Occupational courses–These courses are intended to develop skills and related knowledge for jobperformance and are part of the course sequence of an occupational program offered by the College.They are designed primarily for job preparation and/or upgrading and not for general educationpurposes.Elective courses–The administration of the College, the program faculty, and the program advisorycommittee cooperate in establishing and utilizing a system to recommend needed and feasible electivecourses; advisors will determine the appropriateness of a student’s choice of elective courses. Theadmissions requirements and prerequisites for the elective course must be met.O.B.I –Occupation-based instruction is defined as instruction that emphasizes supervised workexperience activities requiring the application of occupational competencies. These activities includesupervised educational work experiences, internships, practicums, and other specialized and/orinnovative learning arrangements.Prerequisite–A course that is required prior to taking another course or a more advanced course.Other conditional criteria required or necessary as a prior condition, such as placement scores orprogram admission.Corequisite–A course required to be taken during the same semester as another; simultaneousenrollment.General education, occupational, occupation-based, and elective courses are specified inindividual program descriptions in a previous section of this catalog. Prerequisites andcorequisites for each course are listed in this section of course descriptions.220Student Catalog 2011-2012. May 1, 2011