2010-2011 College Catalog - North Florida Community College

114COURSE DESCRIPTIONSHEV 0160. CHILD CAREPROGRAM DIRECTOR: TheChild Care Center DirectorProgram focuses on broad,transferable skills for theprogram directors/managersin the Early Childhoodindustry. Topics include:Reflective ManagementPractices; Organizational,Fiscal, Personnel, and FacilitiesManagement; Managing Healthand Safety Issues as well asFood Service; EducationalProgramming and FamilySupport; Marketing and PublicRelations; Assessment andEvaluation; Leadership andAdvocacy. This class meetsthe Overview of Child CareManagement requirement forthe Florida Department ofChildren and Families (DCF)Director Credential, which isrequired for directors of licensedchild care facilities in Florida.HEV 0162. CHILD CAREDEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST:This course will enablethe student to acquire theprofessional development andleadership skills necessary toeffectively motivate children andto interact professionally withchildren, parents, and staff;demonstrate activities that areanti-bias, nonviolent and froma multicultural perspective;demonstrate the ability toprovide for inclusion of specialneeds children; demonstratementoring skills for teambuilding and collaboration;demonstrate currency in trendsand issues in early childhoodeducation. This courseincludes supervised direct fieldexperience, which enables thestudent to put into practicethe concepts learned in theclassroom. Special fees apply.Prerequisite: HEV 0156. Specialfees apply.COLLEGE PREPARATORYENC 0001C.FUNDAMENTALS OFACADEMIC READINGAND WRITING: CollegePreparatory. Zero Credit, FourHours. (Fall, Spring) This courseintroduces essential readingand writing skills necessary forimproved comprehension andcommunication. It is designedto assist students in buildingreading and comprehensionskills and to build proficiencyin language usage. Instructionand practice will be providedin such reading skills asdictionary use, vocabulary incontext, main ideas, inferences,supporting details, andpatterns of organization aswell as mechanical correctnessin language usage and thedevelopment of a central ideain the paragraph. This coursemust be completed with a gradeof C or higher. Prerequisite: Theappropriate score on a postsecondary education readinesstest; scores designated byNFCC. THIS COURSE DOES NOTSATISFY GENERAL EDUCATIONREQUIREMENTS.ENC 0020C.BASIC WRITING SKILLSII: College Preparatory. ZeroCredit, Four Hours. (Fall,Spring, Summer) This course isdesigned to improve upon thelanguage usage and mechanicalskills learned in Fundamentalsof Academic Reading andWriting, with emphasis placedon the construction of wellwrittensentences, paragraphs,and essays. Successfulcompletion of this courserequires students to pass thegrammar and writing portionsof the Florida College BasicSkills Exit Test. Prerequisite: Agrade of “C” or better in ENC0001C or the appropriate scoreon a post secondary educationreadiness test designated byNFCC. THIS COURSE DOES NOTSATISFY GENERAL EDUCATIONREQUIREMENTS.MAT 0002C.BASIC MATHEMATICS:College Preparatory. ZeroCredit, Four Hours. (Fall,Spring) This course is designedfor students who need toimprove basic arithmetic skillsnecessary for success in MAT0024C, Introductory Algebra. Itprovides instruction and practicein computation involvingwhole numbers, fractions,decimals, ratio and proportion,operations with integers andpercent. This course must becompleted with a grade of “C”or higher. Prerequisite: Theappropriate score on a postsecondary education readinesstest designated by NFCC.THIS COURSE DOES NOTSATISFY GENERAL EDUCATIONREQUIREMENTS.MAT 0024C.INTRODUCTORY ALGEBRA:College Preparatory. ZeroCredit, Four Hours. (Fall,Spring, Summer) This courseis designed to assist studentsin developing skills for collegelevelmathematics work. Itprovides instruction and practicein language and operationson sets; operations on signednumbers; simple linearequations and inequalities inone variable; operations onpolynomials, including beginningtechniques of factoring;integer exponents; a briefintroduction to radicals; rationalexpressions; introduction tographing; and applications.Successful completion of thiscourse requires students topass the math portion of theFlorida College Basic Skills ExitTest. You may need accessto an online learning site,which is free with a new text,2010-2011 NFCC College Catalog