Dual Enrollment

FALL 2026
Critial Thinking and Media Literacy
Journalism 109

Students in this course develop and refine critical thinking and writing skills through the lens of media literacy, with an emphasis on analytical reading and writing. Students will critically evaluate the quality of information sources, recognize the difference between news and opinion, evidence and inference, media bias, and audience bias, and will use inductive and deductive reasoning to evaluate claims, using argument and analysis. They develop and apply reading skills in the interpretation, analysis, criticism, and advocacy of ideas encountered in academic readings across the curriculum and Internet media sources. Students develop tools to evaluate creditability, truth, and accuracy through the critical examination of news, opinion, advertising, public relations, entertainment, and social media, in various formats including books, films,

FALL 2026
American Sign Language 1
ASL 001

This course is designed to provide language acquisition and language learning intervention strategies, including American Sign Language, for Deaf and hard of hearing children.

FALL 2026
Introduction to Business
BUS 001

Students engage in a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. The course demonstrates how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design, leadership, human resource management, risk management and insurance, organized labor practices, ethics and social responsibility, marketing, organizational communication, e-business/technology, entrepreneurship, legal, accounting, and financial practices, and the stock and securities market; and therefore how they affect a business's ability to achieve its organizational goals. 

FALL 2026
Introduction to Public Speaking
COMM C1000

In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches.