NWTC College Program Guide 2024-2025 2024 - 2025 | Seite 404

Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college and employment. This course encourages students to develop a growth mindset and make wise choices. Students should take this course in their first semester.( Pre-requisite: None.) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Careers in Business 10105100 Course provides an overview of the interconnectedness among careers within Business. Learn how various fields within the broader industry each play an integral role and how a personal brand fits into preparing you for your career choice.( Corequisite: 10-890-101, College 101) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Supervisory Personal Skills 10196164 The Supervisors Personal Skills course is designed to equip participants with essential skills required to manage change, handle stress, communicate assertively, and develop emotional intelligence in their role as supervisors. The course focuses on developing skills critical to personal leadership success and improving the overall performance of the organizations. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Team Building / Prob Solve 10196189 Benefits and challenges of group work, necessary roles in a team, stages of team development, meeting facilitation, different approaches to problem solving, consensus, data acquisition, analysis, developing alternative solutions, implementation and evaluation. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Project Mgmt Fundamentals 10196188 The role of project management, developing a project proposal, demonstration of relevant software, working with project teams, sequencing tasks, charting progress, dealing with variations, budgets and resources, implementation, and assessment. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Mathematical Reasoning 10804134 All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement.( Prerequisite: Next Gen Arith score greater / equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater / equal to 250; OR TABE A 9 / 10 Math greater / equal to 12.7 AND Rdg greater / equal to 8.8; OR TABE 11 / 12 Math greater / equal to 780 AND Rdg greater / equal to 567; OR ACT Math score greater / equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater / equal to 16; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Career Fundamentals 10105103 Create professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, understand interviewing techniques, participate in a mock interview, evaluate outcomes of interview, and prepare for Career Experience.( Prerequisites: 10-105-100, Careers in Business OR 10-107-117, Careers in IT OR 10-201-100, Careers In Digital Arts) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Leadership Development 10196190 Leadership effectiveness and organization requirements, individual and group motivation strategies, vision, mission and goals, ethical behavior, leadership style and adaptation, impacts of power and influence, employee development, coaching, managing change, and conflict resolution. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Lean Operations 10182111 Develop knowledge skills, process of lean operations management / JIT, quality management, quality control, continuous improvement methodologies, statistical process control chart interpretation, material handling and production logistics. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Lean Manufacturing 10182112 Develop knowledge skills process of lean manufacturing / JIT environment, systems approach, productivity attainment, line balancing, kaizen, Kanban, 5S system, value stream mapping, human resource development and lean operations management.( Corequisite: 10-182-111, Lean Operations) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
MS Excel Intro 10103131 Creating worksheets; enter data, make modifications, work with formulas and functions, create and enhance charts, manage data, transform data, conditional formatting, importing / exporting data, introduction to PivotTables and PivotCharts. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Business Finance / Budgeting 10101184 Fiscal and monetary aspects of business. Each learner will demonstrate application of business types, cycles, forecasting, budgeting, expense control, and financial statement interpretation relevant to the supervisor as a non-accountant.( Prerequisite: 10-804-134, Mathematical Reasoning) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Lean Six Sigma 10182114 Develop a general awareness of Lean Six Sigma: what it is, why it matters, what makes it successful. This course provides an overview of Six Sigma concepts and language and an introduction to the Define- Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control( DMAIC) process improvement cycle. This course will prepare you to take the green belt six sigma certification.( Corequisite: 10-182-112, Lean Manufacturing) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Making Decisions With Data 10196221 Introduction to the fundamental processes and methodologies of the emerging role of data driven decision-making in organizations. Drawing upon quantitative concepts, tools, and analyses from several disciplines, the learner will obtain skills necessary to demonstrate the usefulness of these tools and analyses in providing optimal technical options in decision-making situations. The emphasis of the course is on the interpretation of the results and subsequently present insights from which effective data driven decisions can be made to benefit internal and external consumers. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
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