Northwest Career College School Catalog - 2018

MOS101 – Microsoft Office Fundamentals (40 Contact Hours/4 ABHES Quarter Credit Hours)
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: The course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of Microsoft Office products.
Students will learn and perform basic techniques in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This
course is delivered via distance education. Computer and Internet Access are required to complete this
course.
PHIL101 – Ethics/Applied Ethics (50 Contact Hours/5 ABHES Quarter Credit Hours)
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course examines the dynamic role of ethics in modern society and provides students
with a foundation for examining the wide variety of ethical issues facing humanity today. Students will
explore the relationship of science and ethics, the nature of virtue, the relationship between religion and
ethics, the nature and existence of free will, and the question of moral responsibility.
PHIL102 – Critical Thinking (50 Contact Hours/5 ABHES Quarter Credit Hours)
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course is designed to develop students' basic critical thinking skills by means of
several fresh materials and strategies: an easy progression from familiar, social examples to more
complex, political and commercial examples; strong use of graphics; incorporation of multi-cultural
examples and readings throughout; and an emphasis on print and electronic media as a way of
illustrating the use of critical thinking skills in everyday life. The goal of this course is to train students
how to evaluate the claims that responsible citizens, consumers, and social beings confront daily and
how to construct and present effective arguments for their own beliefs.
PHIL103 – Research Methodology (50 Contact Hours/5 ABHES Quarter Credit Hours)
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course offers a step-by-step, systematic approach to conducting research. Emphasis is
on using critical thinking, efficient research techniques, and the Internet to produce an in-depth white
paper.
PSY101 – Introduction to Psychology (50 Contact Hours/5 ABHES Quarter Credit Hours)
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course introduces human behavior. It includes the study of the theories and concepts
of psychology including the scope of psychology, biological foundations and the brain, sensation,
perception, motivation, personality, learning and memory, emotion, states of consciousness, personality
theories, cognition, life-span development, and applied psychology.
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