Course Description: Opportunities to practice physical therapist assisting skills. Assignments on the basis of demonstrated need for additional knowledge and/or skill in a given are to hospitals, nursing homes, sub-acute hospitals, pediatric facilities. Opportunities to advance skills to an independent level. (Full-time for 5 and 6 weeks).
Course Notes: PT217 Clinical Practice I.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Full-time for 5 weeks.
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 2026
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.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.
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 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
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 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
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 2026
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Recognizing aggressive behavior and developing assertiveness to effectively communicate with others.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Anthropological approach to the study of past and present human societies.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Clinical component in the surgical environment.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: Review of math principles, through fraction and decimal measurements and equivalents, ratios, powers and roots, and basic geometry for industrial technology program majors.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hutchinson Correctional Students ONLY
Course Description: Skills required for success in the workplace with focus on the development of positive work habits and communication skills.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 2.00
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.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
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.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Through classroom and/or lab/shop learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: explain the gas tungsten arc welding process (GTAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of the
GTAW workstation; relate GTAW electrode and filler metal classifications with base metals and joint criteria; build proper electrode and filler metal selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes and filler material in the flat position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes and filler material in the horizontal position; perform basic GTAW welds on selected weld joints; and perform visual inspection of GTAW welds.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. No books required.Meeting Times:
Days: MTRF
Times: 12:28 PM - 3:10 PM
Campus: McPherson
Building: McPherson High School
Room: MHS01
Days: W
Times: 11:57 AM - 2:35 PM
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Through classroom and lab/shop activities; FCAW safety, electrode classifications; proper electrode selection and use based on metal types, thicknesses, weld positions, and multi-pass vs single pass weld requirements; safe set up of FCAW workstation, welding with self-shielded and gas-shielded .045 or larger electrode diameters; in the horizontal (2F & 2G) 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: WE110 Gas Metal Arc Welding w/Grade of C or Higher, or Departmental Consent, and WE111 Gas Metal Arc Welding II w/Grade of C or Higher.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Advanced training in; welding qualification, visual inspection processes, welder testing, related terminology, metal and consumable identification, welding processes in relation to the welding codes used in the structural, pipeline, aerospace, manufacturing and energy sectors through the practical application and successful completion of welder qualification tests.
Course Notes: WE217 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding III, and WE218 Shielded Metal Arc Welding III.
Spring 2026
Credit Hours: 4.00