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SOC 2325 - Marriage and the Family
Credits: 3
This course is designed to examine some important aspects of courtship, marriage and family life. Contemporary premarital and dating problems and adjustment, marital and domestic problems, family planning, the changing society will be among the topics considered.
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SOC 2350 - Race & Ethnic Relations
Credits: 3
This course examines social relations among majority and minority groups by devoting particular attention to race and ethnic relations in the United States. The sociological approach to this topic emphasizes power structures, economic relationships, and cultural traditions historically and today. Attention is devoted both to social psychological issues such as prejudice and social structural issues such as inequality.
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SOC 2470 - Internship: Sociology
Credits: 1-4
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
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Social Work |
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SOWK 1001 - Intellectual Community in Social Work: Mechanisms of Oppression
Credits: 3
Mechanisms of Oppression provides a theoretical examination of the mechanisms of oppression. Content focuses on individual, group, and societal functioning. Also provides an introduction to the profession of social work and a foundation in information literacy. Offered: All Semesters
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SOWK 2000 - Introduction to Social Work
Credits: 3
This course views social work and social work values through the lens of current/modern culture to build empathy, understanding, and reinforce the values of social work that are interwoven throughout our lives.
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SOWK 2200 - Social Work, Social Justice, and Modern Culture
Credits: 3
This course views social work and social work values through the lens of current/modern culture to build empathy, understanding, and reinforce the values of social work that are interwoven throughout our lives. Text will include a novel, code of ethics, as well as various other items from modern culture such as articles, films, music, etc.
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SOWK 2300 - Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Credits: 3
This course surveys the issue of domestic violence and sexual assault from both an information and advocacy perspective. Battering and sexual assault within families and within society will be explored as will elder abuse. Training will include means of responding to the victim and to addressing the wider social implications of violence.
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SOWK 2400 - Introduction to Ethical Social Work Practice
Credits: 1
This course will give students a look into the professional ethics that are applied when working in a human services field. Students need to understand the basic ethics associated with these types of careers, how they apply in practice settings, and will give insight into how some situations may be handled differently that one might originally consider.
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SOWK 2500 - Case Management and Documentation
Credits: 3
This course covers the basic elements of case management including interviewing, assessing need, identification of resources, and documentation utilizing the values and ethics of the social work profession. Students will develop foundational skills such as rapport-building, information-gathering, and record-keeping in order to identify client needs, secure identified resources, and build community connections to assist clients achieve set goals. (Offered every Fall semester.) Offered: Offered every Fall semester
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Spanish |
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SPAN 1010 - First Year Spanish I
Credits: 4
This course covers the fundamentals of grammar, pronunciation, reading, writing, and speaking on a basic level. Students also learn about the culture and history of various Spanish-speaking countries. By the end of the course, successful students will be able to communicate (read, write, listen, speak) on a basic level in the present tense about everyday topics such as greetings, introductions, classes, friends and family, hobbies, and vacation. Note: A student who has successfully completed two years or more of high school Spanish with a “B” or better should not enroll in this beginning class.
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SPAN 1020 - First Year Spanish II
Credits: 4
This course covers the fundamentals of grammar, pronunciation, reading, writing, and speaking on a basic level. Students also learn about the culture and history of various Spanish-speaking countries. By the end of the course, successful students will be able to communicate (read, write, listen, speak) on a basic level about everyday topics such as daily routines, food, holidays, health, and housing, clothing, and shopping. Past tense is introduced.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1010 or successful completion of two years of high school Spanish or the equivalent
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SPAN 2030 - Second Year Spanish I
Credits: 4
This course includes grammar review and study, composition, conversation and reading of short stories, dramas and poems.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1020 or successful completion of three years of high school Spanish or the equivalent
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SPAN 2040 - Second Year Spanish II
Credits: 4
This course includes grammar review and study, composition, conversation and reading of short stories, dramas and poems.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2030 or successful completion of four years of high school Spanish or the equivalent
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SPAN 2140 - Introduction to Reading
Credits: 3
This course lets students practice their language skills by introducing them to a varied selection of readings and other cultural media in a language immersive class. This is a course designed for intermediate and high intermediate language students. Throughout the development of the course, students study a wide variety of materials such as short stories, newspaper articles, songs, websites, documentaries, and films that provide examples of significant cultural aspects of the Spanish-speaking world. Through the study of these, students will acquire an ample cultural knowledge, while at the same time they will be exposed to different oral and written registers of the language. Through the comprehension and analytical discussion of these materials, students will be able to practice and improve their communicative abilities. Although is it not a course focused on grammar, the study of the materials will provide a space to work on refining a proper use of language.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2030 or equivalent
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Statistics |
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STAT 2010 - Business Statistics
Credits: 4
This course is designed to provide majors in accounting, business administration, economics, management and marketing with training in basic statistical concepts with emphasis on applications to business programs. Credit cannot be earned in more than one of the following: STAT 2010, STAT 2050 , and STAT 2070 .
Prerequisite: MATH 1400 (C or better) or higher, or Math ACT score of 23 or higher, or ALEKS score of 46-60
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STAT 2050 - Fundamentals of Statistics
Credits: 4
The presentation and application of statistical inference. Topics include measures of central tendency, variance and standard deviation, probability modes, inference for means and proportions, analysis of variance for one-way classification, and an introduction to linear regression and correlation. Credit cannot be earned in more than one of the following: STAT 2010 , STAT 2050, or STAT 2070 .
Prerequisite: MATH 1000 (C or better) or MATH 1400 (C or better) or higher, or Math ACT score of 23 or higher, or ALEKS score of 46-60
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STAT 2070 - Statistics for Social Science
Credits: 4
Presentation of central ideas of descriptive statistics and statistical inference, as applied to questions in the social sciences. Topics include graphs, averages, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing and relationship between variables. Associated computer skills will also be introduced. Credit cannot be earned in more than one of the following courses: STAT 2010 , STAT 2050 , or STAT 2070.
Prerequisite: MATH 1000 (C or better) or MATH 1400 (C or better) or higher, or Math ACT score of 23 or higher, or ALEKS score of 46-60.
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Technology |
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TECH 1000 - Introduction to Technical Mathematics
Credits: 3
This first course in technical mathematics is intended for students with minimal mathematics background, who wish to prepare for further study in technical areas. Topics include algebra, geometry, measurements, proportions and applied trigonometry. Use of the hand held calculator is emphasized throughout the course.
Prerequisite: MATH 0900 (C or better); or MATH 0710 (B or better) and MATH 0740 (B or better) and MATH 0750 (B or better); or appropriate Math Placement Test Score
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TECH 1550 - General Metallurgy
Credits: 3
This course introduces the student to the mechanical, physical and chemical properties of metals and the methods by which these properties can be changed by alloying, heat treating and mechanical deformation.
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TECH 1600 - Industrial Safety
Credits: 3
This course will investigate several areas of occupational safety and industrial hygienes. Personal Safety including basic protection, safety hazards, safety equipment, lifting and good housekeeping; Fire Safety including fire chemistry, types of fire, portable and built in extinguisher systems; Respiratory Protection including respiratory hazards, air purifying respirators and use and care of apparatus; Hazardous Substances including common industrial hazards such as corrosive, flammable, explosive, toxic, radiological and biological hazards.
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TECH 1680 - Reading Technical Schematics
Credits: 3
This course presents students with fundamental knowledge relative to reading and interpreting technical symbols used in industrial schematics. Specific topics addressed in this course are electrical, piping, and fluid power systems, and interpretation of basic assembly drawings.
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TECH 1681 - Reading Technical Schematics for Industry
Credits: 1
This course presents students with fundamental knowledge relative to reading and interpreting technical symbols used in industrial schematics. This course concentrated on fluid power and electrical schematics.
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Theatre |
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THEA 1100 - Beginning Acting
Credits: 3
The basic course in principles and practice of acting, examining the fundamental principles of oral and physical interpretation and providing practical experience in a variety of theatrical activities.
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THEA 1110 - Acting for Musical Theatre
Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of acting in musical theatre. Topics of focus will be song interpretation, truthful acting, and auditioning for musical theatre.
Prerequisite: THEA 1100
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THEA 1360 - Fundamentals of Music for Theatre Majors
Credits: 3
Basics of music theory to include music notation, rhythm, pitch, scales, key signatures, triads, and basic ear training and keyboard skills, specific to the needs of Musical Theatre. Assumes little or no music theory background.
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THEA 1700 - Voice for the Actor
Credits: 2
This class will explore the anatomy and physiology of the human vocal tract. Students will examine how sound is created and identify the muscles and articulators used to create human speech. The student will learn how to use the voice effectively and efficiently to promote vocal health. Students will study the International Phonetic Alphabet and learn the symbols that correspond with vowels and consonants. The students will put this knowledge into practice by scoring and preparing a Shakespearian Sonnet as well as dialect work.
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THEA 2010 - Theatrical Backgrounds Drama I
Credits: 3
An Introductory course focusing on Aristotle’s principles of drama (plot, character, language, spectacle, music and theme) and how each principle is used to help create the dramatic structure of the story within a wide variety of historical plays.
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THEA 2050 - Theatre Practice
Credits: 1
This course encompasses individually supervised practical training in performance and production. A maximum of 4 credits may count toward graduation.
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THEA 2100 - Acting II
Credits: 3
This course will continue to use “you” (yourself) as the source and foundation of true emotion and behavior. Skills of relaxation, trust, observation, substitution, sense memory, emotional memory, imagery, inner objects, professionalism, concentration, actor scoring, script analysis, and believability will be examined more thoroughly than in Beginning Acting through participation in class acting exercises, monologue and scene work, analysis and improvisation. Emphasis will be placed on learning multiple approaches to organic character development and relationship. Specific topics of study include: energy, connection, breath, spatial awareness, inner objects, endowing, the “moment before”, centers, physicality, animal work and other image based characterization, and improvisation.
Prerequisite: THEA 1100
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THEA 2160 - Stage Make-Up
Credits: 2
This class is designed to teach students fundamental techniques in stage make-up design and application.
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THEA 2340 - Musical Theatre Voice Lesson
Credits: 1
Solo instruction in singing techniques and performance styles associated with Musical Theatre. Includes demonstration, brief lecture, discussion, and active participation through singing, analyzing, movement, and performance.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
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THEA 2790 - Stage Management
Credits: 3
This course is a practical study of the art of stage management. Techniques necessary for efficient theatre production and a conceptual oveNiew of the rehearsal and performance process will be stressed. This course will prepare the student to work as a stage manager in any performing arts setting, including preproduction work, how to run the rehearsal process and the responsibilities of the stage manager during a performance. Finally, the course will cover human behavior within a theatre organization and will help develop the student’s ability to manage such an organization. Topics will include production research, planning, organization, auditions, rehearsal rules, managing rehearsals, information distribution, technical and dress rehearsals, pre-performance preparation, funning a show, organizational structure and human behavior.
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Truck Driver Training |
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TTD 1500 - Novice CDL Training
Credits: 6
This course prepares the student to take the state required CDL test. It is designed primarily for the energy service industry. On and off highway terrains are utilized as well as late model tractors and loaded trailers, tankers, and high center point of gravity loads may be used in training. Simulation may also be used to replicate dangerous, expensive, or hard-to duplicate scenarios. Upon completion of this course, students must make arrangements to take the DOT test to be issued their commercial driver’s license. This course is approved for S/U grading.
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Welding |
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WELD 1720 - Oxyacetylene Welding
Credits: 2
The student will develop welding safety and good shop practice skills. Topics of study include: Oxyacetylene welding and brazing of mild steel; Oxyfuel Safety; Oxyfuel Welding and Brazing Equipment and Oxyfuel Welding and Brazing Performance tasks.
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WELD 1725 - Oxyacetylene Cutting
Credits: 1
Topics of study include Oxyacetylene cutting of circles, bevel edges, straight cuts and free-hand pipe beveling. Flame cutting equipment techniques will be taught using a hand-held cutting torch, a straight line track burner, and a coordinate shape cutter.
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WELD 1755 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding
Credits: 3
The student should be able to discuss SMAW, its processes and principles; have a basic knowledge of welding power supplies, tools and equipment and be able to discuss electrical safety. Topics of study include an introduction to welding, principles of arc welding and shielded metal arc electrodes.
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WELD 1760 - Advanced Shield Metal Arc Welding
Credits: 3
The student should be able to weld tee joints in the horizontal position using E-7024 welding electrodes as well as single and multi-pass welds in the vertical-up and overhead positions using E-6010 and E-7018 welding electrodes. The student will become familiar with air-arc cutting and gouging techniques.
Prerequisite: WELD 1755
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WELD 1770 - Gas Metal - Flux Core Arc Welding
Credits: 3
The student will learn the processes and principles of GMAW and FCAW. The student will be able to differentiate between short-circuit and spray-arc transfer, and know the different types of electrode wires and shielding gases used in GMAW and FCAW. The student will use short-circuit, dual shield, and the flux cored processes for welding tee joints, V-groove butt joints on mild steel and aluminum.
Prerequisite: WELD 1840
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WELD 1774 - Gas Metal Arc Welding Pipe
Credits: 3
The student will learn the techniques necessary to create full penetration welds on schedule 40 carbon steel pipe in all positions using the Gas Metal Arc process with ER70S filler metal with a 75/25 Argon/CO2 shielding gas.
Prerequisite: WELD 1770
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WELD 1776 - Flux Cored Arc Welding- Pipe
Credits: 3
The student will learn the techniques necessary to make code quality FCA welds on pipe in all positions using GMAW root and hot passes and FCAW on the remaining fill and cap. Such welds will be made on 6” schedule 80 pipe or larger. E70-T1 or equivalent will be used as the filler metal with a 75/25 Argon/CO2 shielding gas.
Prerequisite: WELD 1774
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WELD 1780 - Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Plate
Credits: 4
The student will learn the processes, principles and equipment involved in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding. The student should be able to discuss electrical safety in GTAW, how to properly handle welding and cooling systems, and solve problems concerning GTAW. Topics of study include GTAW welding on carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum plate using 16 gauge and 3/8” mild steel plate.
Prerequisite: WELD 1840 and WELD 1950
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WELD 1840 - Groove Welding Plate
Credits: 3
The student will learn to weld open Single V-groove butt joints in the flat, horizontal, vertical-up and overhead position with and without backing strips. Students will use E-6010 welding electrodes for root beads and E-7018 welding electrodes for fill and cap. Students will learn to prepare bend test specimens for destructive testing and be given an opportunity to certify upon completion of this course.
Prerequisite: WELD 1760
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WELD 1850 - Fundamentals of Fabrication
Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide skills and knowledge for structural steel and some pipe layout. Students will draft their own projects, learn and identify welding and drafting symbols. Students will also learn to record time spent on a project and as well as the total cost of the project. Taught in Outreach only.
Prerequisite: WELD 1755 and WELD 1760
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WELD 1950 - SMAW Stainless Steel Basic
Credits: 3
This course is intended to introduce the student to the basics of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) of Stainless Steel welding on plate. The course includes an introduction to the AWS electrode classification system for stainless steel covered electrodes, their characteristics and uses.
Prerequisite: WELD 1760
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WELD 1960 - Submerged Arc Welding
Credits: 2
Students will learn the basics of the Submerged Arc Welding Process. Topics include; SAW processes and safety, SAW power sources and equipment, SAW electrodes and fluxes, and SAW procedures and joint designs.
Prerequisite: WELD 1774 and WELD 1776
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WELD 2515 - Pipe Weld I:Schedule 40
Credits: 3
This course is intended to teach the student the basics of SMAW welding on pipe in the 2G, 5G vertical-up and 6G vertical-up positions. The student will learn to differentiate between basic categories of pipe welding, select proper electrodes for pipe welding, discuss joint preparation and learn methods for destructive and non-destructive pipe testing. E-6010 welding electrodes will be used on root beads and E-7018 will be used on the fill and cap passes. Students will be given an opportunity to pass a pipe weld certification test upon completion of the course.
Prerequisite: WELD 1840
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WELD 2525 - Pipe Weld II: Schedule 80 Pipe
Credits: 3
This self-paced course is offered all semesters as both a day and an evening class, and students employed in shift-work may attend either session. Topics of study include welding to specifications V-groove joints on schedule 80 pipe in the 2G, 5G and 6G positions. The SMAW process will be used and E-6010 will be used on the roots and E-7018 will be used on all filler passes. All welding in this block will be done in the vertical up and horizontal up method. All welds will be tested with the destructive bend tester and the tests for certification may also be radiographed.
Prerequisite: WELD 2515
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WELD 2530 - Downhill Pipe Welding
Credits: 3
The student will weld to specifications V-groove butt joints in the 2G, 5G vertical-down and the 6G vertical-down positions. The E-6010 electrode will be used for the root pass and when required, for the hot pass. E-7010, or 70(E-8010), will be used for the fill and cap passes. Performance tests in this course will be conducted to the specifications of the American Petroleum Institute’s 1104 code procedures.
Prerequisite: WELD 1840
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WELD 2540 - Pipe Layout and Fabrication
Credits: 4
The student will learn to calculate run, set and travel for pipe runs, rolling offsets, two-piece parallel offsets and other pipe run configurations. The student will learn to use the framing square, the pipe wrap-around, two hole pins and other pipe fitting tools to layout, fit up and tack weld pipe assemblies. The student will use
Prerequisite: WELD 2525
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WELD 2630 - Welding for the Arts I
Credits: 3
This course is intended to introduce the student to the basics of gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and how it can be applied to basic welding projects such as metal sculpture, auto repair, metal fence building and theatre set production. The student should be able to discuss GMAW, its processes and principles, have a basic knowledge of welding power supplies, tools and equipment and be able to discuss electrical safety. for welding majors.
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WELD 2635 - Welding for the Arts II
Credits: 3
This course is a continuation of Welding for the Arts I. This segment concentrates on the use of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) as applied to metal sculpture, auto repair, fence building and theatre set production. Students will be required to fabricate a metal sculpture, or other weldment, as a final project. This course is not intended for Welding majors.
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WELD 2650 - Gas Tungsten Arc Welding–Pipe
Credits: 3
Topics of study include (GTAW) heliarc welding on schedule 40 2” pipe and schedule 80 6” pipe. Both sizes of pipe will be welded in the 2G, 5G and 6G positions. Root and hot passes will be welded with heliarc and the remaining passes with 7018.
Prerequisite: WELD 1780
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WELD 2660 - Stainless Steel Pipe Welding
Credits: 3
The student will learn the procedure for GTAW of stainless steel on carbon steel 6” pipe for the root and the second pass, and SMAW stainless steel for the remainder of the filler passes and cap. The student will also learn other welds on 6” pipe done using the GTAW process with stainless steel all the way out. Welds will be made in the 2G, 5G, and 6G positions.
Prerequisite: WELD 2560
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WELD 2670 - Welding Inspection Technology
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to give the student a basic understanding of weld inspection procedures, welding codes and standards, destructive and non-destructive inspection techniques and the preparation of supporting documents.
Prerequisite: WELD 1840
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WELD 2810 - Certification Test Training
Credits: 0.5
This course is an introduction to the proper techniques and practices needed to meet the requirements of Weld Certification Testing.
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