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2024 - 2025 Catalog Year
Modern Languages (Full-time)

Degree: Associate of Arts
Division: Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences

This pathway was built to include the Global Studies short-term certificate, which is optional. If you are not interested in the Global Studies certificate, other course selections are possible. Speak with your advisor about any changes you’d like to make.

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.

Fall Semester (First Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: Foundation for understanding, speaking, reading and writing Spanish. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.

Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.

Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.

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: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.

Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36

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:

14

Spring Semester (First Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: Foundation for understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.

Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.

Prerequisites: SPA 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

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)

Description: Introduction to Far Eastern religions and cultural traditions, including beliefs, practices, stories and rituals, and historical context.

Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36 For Global Studies certificate, choose one program elective from: REL 1111 or REL 1112

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

Summer Semester (First Year)
Elective course signified by
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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: Communication Elective: Choose from COM 2206, COM 2211, COM 2225

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 Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36 For Global Studies certification, choose one program elective from: GEO 1101, GEO 1102, or GEO 1201

Description: Development of the people of the United States in political, social, economic and cultural areas from Reconstruction to the present.

Notes: Any Ohio Transfer 36 elective may be used for this requirement. View options at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36

 

Term hours subtotal:

9

Fall Semester (Second Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: Reviews and extends basic principles through composition and conversation, stressing fluency. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.

Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.

Prerequisites: SPA 1102

Description: Surface processes of wind, water and ice in changing Earth's surface, plate tectonics; interior forces that cause earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building. Introduction to natural resources; impact of natural hazards on human populations; and impact of human activities in the natural world. Laboratory component stresses introduction to and use of basic scientific method and problem solving. 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

Corequisites: GLG 1111

Description: Identification of minerals, sediments and rocks; interpretation of topographic maps and geologic maps. This is a face-to-face laboratory and must be taken concurrently with Physical Geology.

Corequisites: GLG 1101

Description: Survey of eastern Asia from earliest times to the present, including economic, political, religious and colonial influences on modern nations of Asia, with special emphasis on twentieth- and twenty-first- century issues and problems.

Notes: Any Ohio Transfer 36 elective may be used for this requirement. View options at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36 For Global Studies certificate, choose one program elective from: HIS 1101, HIS 1111, HIS 1112, HIS 2215, HIS 2216, HIS 2217, HIS 2219, HUM 1125, or PHI 2205

Description: Principles and techniques of international politics, including theories, organizations and different world perspectives.

Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36 For Global Studies certificate, choose one program elective from: PLS 2200, PLS 2220, or PLS 2860

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

Spring Semester (Second Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: Reviews and extends basic principles through composition and conversation, stressing fluency. Work outside of class and/or in the language laboratory is required.

Notes: Choose from 2 years of a single language OR Choose to take 2 different languages. May choose from CHN, FRE, GER, JPN, and SPA.

Prerequisites: SPA 2201

Description: The Earth in space, physical evolution of the oceans, atmosphere and continents, origin of life and its evolution, physical and biological development of the North American continent. Lab component stresses further application of scientific method and problem solving. 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

Prerequisites: GLG 1101 and GLG 1111

Corequisites: GLG 1211

Description: Rates of change, age dating, fossils, depositional environments, stratigraphy, correlation, facies, and interpretation of geologic maps. This is a face-to-face laboratory and must be taken concurrently with Historical Geology.

Prerequisites: GLG 1101 and GLG 1111

Corequisites: GLG 1201

Description: A survey of Latin American history and culture from pre-colonial times to the present, tracing colonial influences, 20th century revolutions, dictatorships and democratic alternatives and the evolution of global economics, U.S. and Organization of American States policies.

Notes: Any Ohio Transfer 36 elective may be used for this requirement. View options at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36

Description: An examination of what is meant by culture and a review of the various theories and methods in Cultural Anthropology. Includes a comparison of the similarities and differences among world cultures as well as comparative analysis of family organization, religious beliefs, educational systems, economics and governmental systems.

Notes: Multicultural elective. Choose from electives found at the following link: https://www.sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/multicultural-electives/ Choose SOC 1145 for Global Studies certificate

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

This information is for planning purposes only. Sinclair College will make every effort to offer curriculum listed above but reserves the right to change, add and cancel curriculum offerings for unforeseen circumstances. View current catalog.