Course Description: Imaging of the central nervous system and skull using radiographic imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomography physics and instrumentation.
Course Notes: RA205 Radiographic Exposures III with a Grade of C or Higher.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: RA201 Clinical Training I should be taken as a corequisite.Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: RA201 Clinical Training I should be taken as a corequisite.
Course Description: Entry level introduction regarding respiratory care history from conception to its current goals and standing, including medical terminology, hospital and respiratory care department structure and management, health care delivery systems, psychosocial aspects of patient care and medical ethics. A clinical session (shadowing) will allow the student an orientation rotation at a program clinical site.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: A systematic approach to cardiopulmonary assessment across the life-span. Evaluation of the respiratory plan of care including physical, lab, and diagnostic findings. Performance within the simulation lab, including: assessment skills, development of a plan of care, arterial blood puncture, acid-base interpretation, and other potential lab findings.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The study of neonatal lung development, gas exchange, circulation, along with neonatal and pediatric examination, assessment, disorders, diseases, therapeutic interventions
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Basic principles involved in routine general floor therapeutic modalities by the respiratory therapist; application and selection of proper modalities for various patient situations; introduction to some of the equipment used to deliver therapeutic modalities.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Advanced course dealing with concepts of respiratory failure, managing artificial airways, intervention of mechanical ventilators. Respiratory care protocols utilized in providing care for the critically ill patient. Indication of mechanical ventilation, classification of mechanical ventilators, physiological effects of positive pressure, modes of ventilation, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, patient monitoring and assessment, patient weaning, and discontinuation of ventilator support.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Advanced level simulation laboratory and clinical experience with emphasis on patient assessment, practical application of advanced therapies, and documentation techniques as applicable to the respiratory patient in the critical care setting. (180 Clinic hours, 45 lab hours)
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: The role of the surgical technologist, computer skills, physical aspects of the surgical environment, and safety concepts including the principles of electricity related to these are taught in this course. Role of the surgical technologist and introduction to the surgical environment.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Learn specific core surgical procedures, supplies, and instruments along with the principles of physics and robotics. Principles learned in Introduction to Surgical Technology, Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology, and Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology Laboratory will be applied to various core surgical procedures including the principles of physics and robotics.
Course Notes: Surgical Technology Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Students must obtain at least 75% in the course to continue in the program.
Course Description: The skills necessary to function as a beginning surgical technologist are taught. These include basic concepts necessary to establish, maintain, and coordinate the methods required for good patient care in the operating room. Pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative patient care concepts and responsibilities of the surgical technologist.
Course Notes: Surgical Technology Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Students must maintain at least a 75% by the end of the didactic portion of the course to be able to participate in clinical and continue in the program.
Course Description: The skills necessary to function as a beginning surgical technologist are taught. These include basic concepts necessary to establish, maintain, and coordinate the methods required for good patient care in the operating room. Pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative patient care concepts and responsibilities of the surgical technologist.
Course Notes: Surgical Technology Acceptance.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Clinical component in the surgical environment.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Job/site safety and precautions for job/site hazards; uses of personal protective equipment (PPE); safety equipment and procedures related to safe work practices and environment; fire prevention and protection techniques; and Hazardous Communications (HazCom) including Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: This section reserved for AET/MET/IET/IMM/HVAC Program Students on Main CampusCredit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: NEWTON AND AREA WIDE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY!Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: NEWTON AND AREA WIDE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY!Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Ag Diesel Mechanics program students ONLY.
Course Description: Job/site safety and precautions for job/site hazards; uses of personal protective equipment (PPE); safety equipment and procedures related to safe work practices and environment; fire prevention and protection techniques; and Hazardous Communications (HazCom) including Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: For Main Campus Students enrolled in the full Certificate A or B program only.Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only.Meeting Times:
Days: MTRF
Times: 12:29 PM - 3:10 PM
Campus: McPherson
Building: McPherson High School
Room: MHS01
Days: W
Times: 11:56 AM - 2:35 PM
Campus: McPherson
Building: McPherson High School
Room: MHS01
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Identification of the alphabet of lines, common views, industry related materials, abbreviations, American Welding Society (AWS) welding symbols and International Organization Standardization (ISO) welding symbols; interpretation of title block, bill of materials, revision history and isometric shapes to sketch blueprints using orthographic projection practices; application of mathematical equations and basic measuring tools used in welding blueprints.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. No books required.Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Through classroom and/or lab/shop learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: describe the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process (SMAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of
the SMAW workstation; associate SMAW electrode classifications with base metals and joint criteria; demonstrate proper electrode selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of
weld beads with selected electrodes in the flat position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the horizontal position; perform basic SMAW welds on selected weld joints; and perform visual inspection of welds.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: ALSO meets Mondays & Thursdays from Dec 3 - Dec 17, McPherson High School students only. No books required.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Class meets daily from 9/28-10/23. Class meets on MWF only from 10/26-12/16.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Class meets daily from 9/28-10/23. Class meets on MWF only from 10/26-12/16.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course runs WED/FRI from 08/26/2026 - 11/20/2026; then will run, MON/WED/THURS/FRI from 11/30/2026 - 12/18/2026 = 37 days of class and 92.5 contact hours
Course Description: Continuation of WE104 Shielded Metal Arc Welding; reviewing safety, electrode identification, workstation setup and use of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) equipment to perform welds on plate using E6010 (fast freeze, cellulosic) and E7018 (low hydrogen) electrodes in the vertical (3F & 3G) and overhead (4F & 4G) positions to meet requirements of the latest version of the American Welding Society D1.1/D1.1M:20XX Structural Welding Code-Steel.
Course Notes: WE104 SMAW w/Grade of C or Higher, or Departmental Consent.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Types of mechanical and thermal cutting equipment and processes used in the welding trade; safe and correct set up, operation and shut down of the Oxy-Fuel Cutting (OFC) workstation, Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC) workstation, and Carbon Arc Cutting with Air (CAC-A) workstations, safe and proper operation of a metal shear, iron worker type equipment, band saw, bench and angle grinders, and inspection of quality and tolerance of cuts according to industry standards.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. No books required.Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Through classroom and/or shop/lab learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: explain gas metal arc welding process (GMAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of the GMAW
workstation.; correlate GMAW electrode classifications with base metals and joint criteria; demonstrate proper electrode selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the flat position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the horizontal position; produce basic GMAW welds on selected weld joints; and conduct visual inspection of GMAW welds.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Continuation of WE110 Gas Metal Arc Welding; reviewing of safety, workstation set up; electrode classifications; proper electrode selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; and the use of .035 and .045 electrode diameters in the short circuit and pulse spray transfer methods; performing welds in the vertical (3F & 3G) and overhead (4F & 4G) test positions to meet requirements of the latest version of the American Welding Society D1.1/D1.1M:20XX Structural Welding Code-Steel.
Course Notes: WE110 Gas Metal Arc Welding w/Grade of C or Higher.
Fall 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00