Course Description: Important aspects of the respiratory care profession including professionalism, critical thinking, problem solving and alternative practice areas; preparation for credentialing examination through the NBRC and state licensure.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Develop practical skills of public speaking by implementing the following principles: research, organization, audience analysis, effective use of language, and presentation of techniques. Learn how to change a speech for different occasions and audiences, how to support ideas, and how to select and organize materials. Through techniques taught, gain confidence and master skills to present relevant information in academic, business, and social settings. A minimum of 4 speeches will be delivered to an audience.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. Textbook provided. Meeting times: 2nd hour, MTRF 8:47-9:38 and W 8:44-9:33Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. Textbook provided. Meeting times: 4th hour, MTRF 11:33 - 12:24 and W 11:04 - 11:53Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This Hybrid meets every Thursday. No class on 3/19.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This Hybrid meets every Thursday. No class on 3/19.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Halstead High School students only. Textbook available through Learning Zone for HS students.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Textbook supplied to student. Buhler High School students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Moundridge High School students only. Textbook provided. Meets 2nd hour, 8:51 - 9:39 AM.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hesston High School students only. MTF-11:49AM-12:40PM, R-11:42AM-1:03PM.Students will access materials in Learning Zone.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Haven High School students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Trinity High School students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Smoky Valley High School students only. Textbook provided. Hybrid class - additional classwork to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Smoky Valley High School students only. Textbook provided. Hybrid class - additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Medicine Lodge High School students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hutchinson High School students only.
Course Description: This course involves the study of communication in human relationships with emphasis on the patterns and processes of face-to-face communication. The study of interpersonal communication is important for anyone who wants to learn better methods of building meaningful relationships with a spouse, colleague, supervisor or friend. The course stresses how to become a more effective and competent communicator by its analysis of personal communication goals, communication barriers, relational breakdowns, and conflict scenarios. Features include structural experiences, readings from special studies, group interaction, and personal feedback exercises. Written and oral presentations are fundamental to the course objectives.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The trainer's role in injury prevention: recognition, evaluation, management, treatment, disposition, rehabilitation, education and counseling of an injured athlete.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Development and interaction of the individual in society with consideration of the culture, structures, functions of societies, social groups and institutions with emphasis on social interaction and its relation to personality and human action.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: High School students only. Hybrid class - additional classwork to be completed online. Textbook provided.Meeting Times:
Days: MF
Times: 2:18 PM - 3:10 PM
Campus: McPherson
Building: McPherson Center
Room: MCT112
Days: W
Times: 1:42 PM - 2:35 PM
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HIGH STUDENTS ONLY! Textbook is through Cengage Unlimited.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Textbook supplied to student. Buhler High School students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Smoky Valley High School students only. Textbook provided. Hybrid class - additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hesston High School students only. Textbook is provided by Free Textbook Program.
Course Description: Practical approach to mate selection, courtship and the adjustments of marriage and development of attitudes necessary for building a happy marriage.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Practical approach to mate selection, courtship and the adjustments of marriage and development of attitudes necessary for building a happy marriage.
Spring
Section Type: Honors
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Recognizing and alleviating stress. Identifying and gaining control of factors that contribute to how a person handles stressful situations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Recognizing aggressive behavior and developing assertiveness to effectively communicate with others.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Anthropological approach to the study of past and present human societies.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Analysis of relationships among ethnic and racial groups, recent social trends and the nature and causes of prejudice and discrimination with emphasis on intergroup education, methods of research and programs designed to reduce intergroup tension.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The system perspective of social work begins with a historical foundation to current field of practice in intervention, social justice, and diversity and their impact on equality and human welfare.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Problems of personal, social disorganization; adolescence, juvenile delinquency, crime, mental illness, unemployment and family instability; methods of prevention and treatment.
Course Notes: SO100 Fundamentals of Sociology.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Fundamentals of pronunciation and minimum essentials of grammar. The oral approach is used with emphasis on understanding, speaking, reading, and writing phrases of practical value. Hispanic life and culture are studied. For students who have no Spanish or one semester of high school Spanish.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. Meeting times: 1st or 3rd hours.
Course Description: Fundamentals of pronunciation and minimum essentials of grammar. The oral approach is used with emphasis on understanding, speaking, reading, and writing phrases of practical value. Hispanic life and culture are studied. For students who have no Spanish or one semester of high school Spanish.
Spring
Section Type: Honors
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: A reading, writing, listening, and speaking course: continuation of SP101: Elementary Spanish I or SP104: Elementary Spanish II.
Course Notes: SP101 Elementary Spanish I, or Departmental Consent, or SP104 Spanish II.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: A reading, writing, listening, and speaking course: continuation of SP101: Elementary Spanish I or SP104: Elementary Spanish II.
Course Notes: SP101 Elementary Spanish I, or Departmental Consent, or SP104 Spanish II.
Spring
Section Type: Honors
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: Learn specific specialty surgical procedures, supplies, instruments and employability skills. Principles learned in Introduction to Surgical Technology, Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology, Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology Laboratory, and Surgical Procedures I will be applied to various specialty surgical procedures.
Course Notes: BI103 Human A&P, and Surgical Technology Acceptance, and HR105 Medical Terminology.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Class to meet as arranged in accordance with clinical schedule, beginning 1/12/26, from 8:30am-10:30am. Students must achieve at least 75% to progress in the program.
Course Description: Clinical component in the surgical environment.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: Clinical component in the surgical environment.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00