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Course Subject: ACCT Course Number:2111
Course Title:Financial Accounting Goal Areas:n/a Credits:4
Course Description:This course is a study of the accounting principles and concepts used to understand and develop financial statements. Topics include accruals and deferrals, revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities, equities, and cash flows. The course will analyze current industry financial statements from the point of view of investors and creditors for profitability, liquidity and risk. | Financial Accounting | View-ACCT2111 | n/a | 4 |
Course Subject: BUS Course Number:2200
Course Title:Principles of Management Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:This course is an introduction to the functions of management: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. The course explores how each of the management functions are implemented to impact organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Local, national, and global environments are presented as strategic factors to be understood by contemporary managers. The importance of managing competitively and intelligently within a diverse environment is stressed. Situational cases are completed to reinforce decision-making in each of the function areas. | Principles of Management | View-BUS2200 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:1200
Course Title:Construction Graphics Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:Study of graphic solutions to problems conditioned by traditional and emerging construction document standards. Students will produce construction graphics using computer-assisted processes. The principles of construction graphics are applied to the visualization, communication, and graphical analysis of problems. | Construction Graphics | View-CMSV1200 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2100
Course Title:Soils and Concrete Technology Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:This course familiarizes students with the history and fundamentals of concrete, admixtures, soils and aggregates. The student will understand the interactions of concrete, weather, and soil conditions; the proper placement of concrete; bearing capacity of soils; and the basic principles of concrete and soil inspection.
| Soils and Concrete Technology | View-CMSV2100 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2875
Course Title:Mechanical and Electrical Systems Goal Areas:n/a Credits:4
Course Description:This course will prepare students to identify, analyze, and evaluate all aspects of building mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. The students will explore a variety of systems found typical in both residential and commercial buildings and will have the opportunity to gain detailed knowledge on how systems are designed, constructed, and perform. This course is designed for construction managers, project superintendants, code officials, and other construction related industry professionals. | Mechanical and Electrical Systems | View-CMSV2875 | n/a | 4 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2885
Course Title:Construction Estimating Goal Areas:n/a Credits:4
Course Description:This course explores the basic techniques and guidelines of estimating. The student will develop skills to prepare cost estimates considering the important aspects of material takeoffs, labor, equipment, and time. Practical, step-by-step cost estimating procedures will be applied to an actual building project.
| Construction Estimating | View-CMSV2885 | n/a | 4 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2890
Course Title:Building Organization and Technology Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:This course is an introduction to the varied technology that comprise buildings and an exploration into the sequential process of building construction. Theories of building types, functional organizations, and material applications are presented. This course also includes the identification of historic basis for, and comparison between, basic building materials and construction methods. The importance of building assembly sequences also is presented. | Building Organization and Technology | View-CMSV2890 | n/a | 3 |
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| Program Electives |
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| Program Electives - 6 credits |
Course Subject: BUS Course Number:1220
Course Title:Effective Supervision or Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:This course focuses on the skills necessary to be successful when supervising and collaborating with others. Students will apply and develop skills in management functions, decision making, time management, communications, conflict resolution, leadership, quality improvement, motivation and personnel development.
BUS 1100 or BUS 1110 or business background recommended
| Effective Supervision or | View-BUS1220 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:1000
Course Title:Construction Professionalism Seminar or Goal Areas:n/a Credits:4
Course Description:This course is designed to be an introduction to careers in the construction industry. It will be an exploration of the breadth and depth of construction opportunities and the diversity of the occupational career pathways open to students. The differences between residential, commercial, civil, industrial, and specialty construction will be explored as well as exposure to the different occupation opportunities as a tradesperson, project manager, staff management specialist, design professional and business owner. Industry standards and expectations will be part of the course, and at its completion students will have had the opportunity to complete course work to receive an OSHA 10 hour training certification.
| Construction Professionalism Seminar or | View-CMSV1000 | n/a | 4 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:1300
Course Title:Legal Aspects of Construction or Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:Students will study the basic principles of law and its impacts on the business of construction contracting. Topics will include contracts, property law, mechanics liens, drafting a bid, ethics, employment issues, wage laws and hiring practices in both a union and a non-union work setting. The focus of the course is on construction contracting businesses, their employees and customers.
| Legal Aspects of Construction or | View-CMSV1300 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2200
Course Title:Construction Quality Assurance and Quality Control or Goal Areas:n/a Credits:4
Course Description:Students will be introduced to QA/QC and the concept of Construction Quality Management in the residential, commercial and civil construction industries. It will emphasize QA/QC in civil construction and focus on the types of materials, construction methods and quality control necessary for building road, bridges, underground utilities and other types of civil construction projects. Students will have the option to obtain a Minnesota Department of Transportation Concrete Field 1 certification as part of this course.
Prerequisite: CMSV 2100 Concrete and Soil Technology
| Construction Quality Assurance and Quality Control or | View-CMSV2200 | n/a | 4 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2870
Course Title:Construction Management or Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:Students in this course examine estimating, purchasing, bidding, scheduling, coordinating, expediting, and supervising work and dealing with public agencies, the design professions, suppliers, and subcontractors as these activities relate to the operation of a building contracting company. | Construction Management or | View-CMSV2870 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2895
Course Title:Construction Management Internship or Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:Provides the student an opportunity to observe and participate in all aspects of construction management that are typically encountered in the construction workplace. | Construction Management Internship or | View-CMSV2895 | n/a | 3 |
Course Subject: CMSV Course Number:2900
Course Title:Construction Scheduling Goal Areas:n/a Credits:3
Course Description:This course explores the basic techniques and guidelines of the critical path method (CPM), and the precedence diagramming method (PDM) scheduling. The student will develop skills to prepare construction schedules by considering the important aspects labor, equipment, and time cost scheduling. Practical step-by-step scheduling techniques will be applied to an actual construction project. | Construction Scheduling | View-CMSV2900 | n/a | 3 |
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| General Education Courses |
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Course Subject: ART Course Number:2300
Course Title:Architectural History Goal Areas:06,08 Credits:2
Course Description:This course is a survey of the history of Western architecture from pre-history to the present day. The student will gain knowledge and understandings of the characteristics of the architecture of Western cultures, the ideas and intentions which motivated builders, as well as terminology related to architectural design and construction. | Architectural History | View-ART2300 | 06,08 | 2 |
Course Subject: COMM Course Number:1110
Course Title:Principles of Interpersonal Communication Goal Areas:01,07 Credits:3
Course Description:This introductory course looks at communication in one-to-one relationships in friendships, families, the workplace, and elsewhere. Students will be challenged to discover and assess their own communication strengths and weaknesses as they define and discuss what it means to be a competent interpersonal communicator. Course content includes both theory and practice (skill development). | Principles of Interpersonal Communication | View-COMM1110 | 01,07 | 3 |
Course Subject: ECON Course Number:1070
Course Title:Principles of Microeconomics Goal Areas:05 Credits:3
Course Description:This course covers theories of consumer and producer behavior as well as market structure, the role of government in the economy, distribution of income, externalities, and taxes.
| Principles of Microeconomics | View-ECON1070 | 05 | 3 |
Course Subject: ENGL Course Number:1202
Course Title:College Writing II Goal Areas:01 Credits:2
Course Description:This class focuses on the research process, textual analysis of primary and secondary sources, rhetorical strategies for argument and persuasion, and successful integration of sources into a longer academic paper utilizing MLA (or other, as appropriate) documentation format. The class may be disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or topical in content, as noted on the class registration site.
Prerequisite: Engl 1200 or 1201 with a grade of C or higher | College Writing II | View-ENGL1202 | 01 | 2 |
Course Subject: PHYS Course Number:1201
Course Title:Principles of Physics I Goal Areas:03 Credits:5
Course Description:This course is the first of an algebra-based two-semester introductory physics sequence.Topics to be covered include: motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's laws of motion, energy, momentum, rotational motion, static equilibrium, oscillations, gravitation, fluids. Concepts of right-triangle trigonometry will be introduced as needed. (4 hours lecture, 2 hours lab).
Prerequisite: Successful completion of either MATH 1150 or MATH 1180 with a C or better OR eligibility for either MATH 1170 or MATH 1221 through College math placement score. | Principles of Physics I | View-PHYS1201 | 03 | 5 |
Course Subject: PSYC Course Number:1150
Course Title:General Psychology Goal Areas:05 Credits:3
Course Description:This course provides an overview of topics in psychology. Topics may include history of psychology, research methods, physiological psychology, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning, memory, motivation and emotion, personality, stress and coping, abnormal behavior, therapy, and social psychology. Students are strongly encouraged to check with an advisor to determine if this is the appropriate course for their degree/program. | General Psychology | View-PSYC1150 | 05 | 3 |
| College Writing I |
Course Subject: ENGL Course Number:1200
Course Title:Gateway College Writing or Goal Areas:01 Credits:4
Course Description:This class provides extended practice in critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will develop an effective writing process and work to achieve college-level competence in reading and responding to texts, visuals, events, and ideas in a variety of written formats, with an emphasis on the academic essay. Audience awareness, interpretation and analysis, logical reasoning, and persuasive and argumentative skills will be developed. MLA style documentation of primary sources will be included.
| Gateway College Writing or | View-ENGL1200 | 01 | 4 |
Course Subject: ENGL Course Number:1201
Course Title:College Writing I Goal Areas:01 Credits:4
Course Description:This class provides extended practice in critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will develop an effective writing process and work to achieve college-level competence in reading and responding to texts, visuals, events, and ideas in a variety of written formats, with an emphasis on the academic essay. Audience awareness, interpretation and analysis, logical reasoning, and persuasive and argumentative skills will be developed. MLA style documentation of primary sources will be included. | College Writing I | View-ENGL1201 | 01 | 4 |
| Pre-Calculus or College Algebra and Pre-Calculus |
Course Subject: MATH Course Number:1170
Course Title:Pre-Calculus or Goal Areas:04 Credits:4
Course Description:This is a comprehensive course in trigonometry and extended topics in algebra. Topics include trigonometric functions and their graphs, inverse trigonometric functions and their graphs, trigonometric identities and equations, applications of trigonometry, conic sections, the binomial theorem, and sequences and series. Additional topics may include mathematical induction, combinations and permutations, and systems of nonlinear equations.
Prerequisites: College math placement level or successful completion of Math 1150 with grade of "C" or better | Pre-Calculus or | View-MATH1170 | 04 | 4 |
Course Subject: MATH Course Number:1180
Course Title:College Algebra and Pre-Calculus Goal Areas:04 Credits:5
Course Description:This course is a very accelerated combination of Math 1150 and 1170 in one semester. It is recommended for strong students or can be used also as a refresher course for students who have successfully completed those two courses in the past. Topics include polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric functions, vectors, conic sections, and sequences and series. Additional topics may include polar coordinates or parametric equations. | College Algebra and Pre-Calculus | View-MATH1180 | 04 | 5 |
| Ethics or Environmental Ethics |
Course Subject: PHIL Course Number:1020
Course Title:Ethics or Goal Areas:06,09 Credits:3
Course Description:This course will introduce students to both the methods and issues connected with thinking about morality and ethical systems. Moral skepticism will also be examined. The aim of this class is to allow students to be more aware of their own ethical modes of thinking and the diversity of ways morality enters into human lives.
| Ethics or | View-PHIL1020 | 06,09 | 3 |
Course Subject: PHIL Course Number:1200
Course Title:Environmental Philosophy Goal Areas:06,10 Credits:3
Course Description:Environmental Philosophy is concerned with developing rational and moral theories of dealing with our environmental concerns and discussing ways of putting them into practice. Using a variety of specific philosophical perspectives, we will examine the effects of population growth, ecosystem destruction, species extinction, pollution, climate change, resource extraction, agriculture, etc. on humans and the environment. We will develop ways of understanding relationships between humans and the environment and ways of acting on our responsibilities to the natural world and its inhabitants.
| Environmental Philosophy | View-PHIL1200 | 06,10 | 3 |
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| MnTC Electives |
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| Electives to reach 30 MnTC credits and 60 total credits |
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| NHCC Residency and GPA |
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| 15 Credits must be earned at NHCC |
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| | Total Credit Required | 60 |
| Notes: | It is recommended that students intending to transfer to the University of Minnesota B.A.S. or Minnesota State University Moorhead B.S. program consult with a counselor about the best course selection options. Students may best be served by choosing MATH courses to fulfill the electives. University of Minnesota students should take MATH 1200 or 1221. Minnesota State University Moorhead students should take MATH 1200. It is further recommended that students intending to transfer to the Minnesota State University Moorhead B.S. program should select BUS 1220 and BUS 1300 as electives. |