This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: An extensive examination of media theory and social effects. Topics covered include history, practices and functions of the press, television, radio, film, advertising, digital media and public relations. Course investigates mass media's influence on modern society.
Notes: Keep all materials from this course for COM capstone.
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: This course is designed to help new students make a successful transition to Sinclair Community College. Topics include college resources; academic, career and personal services available through Sinclair; learning styles; the learning process; financial responsibility; stress and wellness; and computer literacy through eLearn and library resources.
Term hours subtotal:
7
Description: The principles and functions of newspapers, including current changes and challenges. Students will learn basic and advanced reporting skills, including how to interview, gather information and write news stories. Computer skills are required.
Notes: Keep all materials from this course for COM capstone.
Prerequisites: ENG 1101
Description: English Composition II, building on the skills in English Composition I, develops rhetorical literacy through research, critical reading and multigenre writing tasks. Through major and minor, cumulative and stand-alone assignments, students construct arguments and analyses, ethically incorporating academic sources while developing their own voices as writers and citizens.
Prerequisites: ENG 1101
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.
Description: The course will explore various applications of mathematics in the social, finance, health and environmental fields with emphasis on developing informational, technological, logical, and visual reasoning skills. Topics from numeracy, probability and statistics, finance, mathematical modeling with linear, statistical, and exponential functions, and other areas of mathematics will be covered. Note: Students who have not completed the required pre-requisite courses listed, but have successfully completed MAT 0100 with a grade of "C" or better, or MAT 0600 with a grade of "P", can register for MAT 1445 together with the co-requisite course MAT 0445, Quantitative Reasoning Booster. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: Any Mathematics, Statistics & Logic elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Prerequisites: MAT 0200 and Other (With a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Exploration of the development, maintenance and termination of interpersonal relationships. The focus is on effective verbal and nonverbal interactions between two people, highlighting methods of initiating and maintaining effective communication with, and understanding of, others through learning and applying interpersonal communication theory.
Notes: Keep all materials from this course for COM capstone.
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Notes: Keep all materials from this course for COM capstone (including video recordings).
Description: University-parallel course covering history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Students will develop and advance journalistic principles to address the challenges today's journalists encounter, gain skills to report and write news stories for print, broadcast and on-line media platforms and develop the basic skills for creating multimedia stories.
Notes: Keep all materials from this course for COM capstone.
Prerequisites: ENG 1101
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements, from prehistory to the seventeenth century.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: A critical analysis of contemporary American society with review of major sociological theories, research methods, culture, socialization, groups, social structure, social institutions, deviance, social inequalities, social processes and social change.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Description: Basic nature of philosophy, its relationship to physical and social sciences and theology and its value to the individual.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Focusing on development of effective small group decision-making and leadership skills, stressing better methods of expressing oneself and understanding others through learning group communication, theory and participating in small group decision-making experiences.
Notes: Keep all materials from this course for COM capstone.
Description: Students earn credits toward degree requirements for work learning experience. Students already working may apply to use that experience to meet internship requirements. Students establish learning outcomes and prepare related reports and/or projects each term. Seven work hours per credit hour each week.
Notes: Requires COM department permission is required
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: An introduction to the characteristics and processes of Earth's atmosphere and how it interacts with the planet's surface, oceans, and human activity. The course focuses on how these interactions work to produce weather events and climate extremes and how they affect people. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Demonstration of communication skills and competencies through the development of a communication portfolio; independent study under the direction of a Communication faculty member. Five directed practice hours per week.
Notes: Independent Study only. COM department permission is required.
Prerequisites: COM 2201 and COM 2206 and COM 2211 and COM 2220 and COM 2225 and Other (One additional COM or JOU course) and Approval of Department
Description: Emphasis on Charles Darwin, speciation, fossils, radiometric dating, natural selection, mutations, macroevolution, mass extinctions, coevolution, sexual reproduction, human evolution and religious issues.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Description: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are widely used technologies to create and display content on the web. HTML is the primary language used for creating web pages including basic text formatting, linking between pages and adding images and other media. CSS is a styling language that enables the separation of content from style and provides precision control over the display including layout, colors and fonts. Students will learn to apply best practices for web design and create sites that enhance the usability and interactivity of the pages.
Term hours subtotal:
7
Description: In this course, students will be encouraged to think independently, be expected to argue a point logically, and sharpen their critical thinking skills. More particularly, we will explore the geographies implicit in globalization and specifically think about our connections (and disconnections) to distant places, the uneven geographies of globalization (evident in both processes and outcomes), and how people's actions through social, economic, and political processes, produce and transform place. This course has a particular focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion asking how cultures are shaped by the intersections of a variety of factors (i.e. race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion among others) and providing a space to demonstrate empathy through considering how to understand and interpret others' worldview. The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to thinking geographically through the understanding of how to use maps and the significance of place on identity.
Notes: Any Ohio Transfer 36 elective may be used for this requirement. View options at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Description: Basic parameters of music through a survey of styles from Gregorian Chant to jazz and current popular styles focusing on melody, rhythm, harmony, performance media and form.
Notes: Any Ohio Transfer 36 elective may be used for this requirement. View options at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
6