This optional 4-credit certificate course allows you to transition out of the nursing associate degree program by earning a practical nursing certificate. Study the scope of practice for a practical nurse, including communication, ethical and legal issues, and leadership skills while gaining experience in a clinical setting.
Upon passing this certificate course, you’ll be eligible to take the NCLEX-PN exam to become a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). Students need to be enrolled in or have completed a nursing program to register for this certificate.
Learn the basics of crop production and foundational farm machinery skills along with advanced geospatial technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS). Understand how these technologies are used to enhance agricultural equipment for precision planting, harvesting and other applications, and gain the fundamental computer skills you’ll need in the field.
Study the foundations of the soil science and crop production systems that underlie all agricultural production and ensure healthy plant growth for the global food system. You’ll gain an understanding of both large- and small-scale production, soil and growing conditions, and learn the fundamentals of planning, planting and managing crops.
Learn a broad spectrum of plant and soil fundamentals with this certificate. Gain skills in horticulture, crop production, soil science, and farm and ranch management, with an introduction to the computer skills managers and scientists need.
Learn fundamental agriculture and power mechanic skills and the basics of agricultural machinery and welding, with an introduction to essential computer skills.
Build your pilot career with private pilot ground and flight training, instrument rating, which teaches you to fly in more difficult weather conditions and commercial ground and flight training on small and multi-engine aircraft. Your core and elective classes help build communication and other professional skills that help prepare you to enter the job market.
Gain skills in blueprint reading and cost analysis related to construction management. Learn how to interpret blueprints and other building trades and architecture documents and study estimating techniques used to verify the cost and time requirements for building construction projects.
Along with general requirements to prepare you to transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the science of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory. Learn about cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, sex, gender, sexuality, and social psychology and choose from specialty psych courses including death and dying, growth and development and abnormal psychology. This is a liberal arts associate of arts (A.A.) degree with designation (DWD).
Along with general requirements to prepare you to transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the science of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory. Learn about cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, sex, gender, sexuality, and social psychology. This is a liberal arts associate of science (A.S.) degree with designation (DWD).
Along with general requirements to prepare for transfer to a bachelor's degree at a 4-year school, study the academic discipline of public health. Students gain an understanding of how to confront systemic health challenges to provide optimal health to whole populations in courses which provide an introduction to the knowledge required for careers in community and public health. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).