NWTC College Program Guide 2025-2026 | Page 452

Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. Students should take this course in their first semester.( Pre-requisite: None.) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
College Technical Math 1A 10804113 Topics include solving linear equations; graphing; percent; proportions; measurement systems; computational geometry; and right triangle trigonometry. Emphasis will be on the application of skills to technical problems.( Prerequisite: Next Gen Arithmetic score greater / equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater / equal to 250; OR ACT Math score greater / equal to 15 AND ACT Rdg score greater / equal to 16; OR preparatory courses-contact an academic advisor 920- 498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
AutoCAD for Civil Engineering 10607112 Develops the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of AutoCAD by working with templates; creating and manipulating layers; basic drawing, editing, and inquiry commands; and blocks, attributes, and plotting. Course Typically Offered:
Geomatics for Telecomm 10451106 Provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of basic surveying principles, instruments in the field, making computations, and generating computerized maps.( Co-Requisite: 10- 607-112, AutoCAD for Civil Engineering) Course Typically Offered:
Telecomm Project Data Collect 10451107 Prepares students for the different methods of data collection and data management for Telecommunications projects.( Co-Requisite: 10-607-112, AutoCAD for Civil Engineering) Course Typically Offered:
Utility Safety 10451110 Learn utility system safety terminology, definitions, and practices. Define safety responsibility, rules and regulations. Demonstrate safe work procedures on a simulated energized system using testing tools. Course Typically Offered: Fall
Civil 3D-Intro 10607114 Develops the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of working with survey data, points, alignments, surfaces, and profile in Civil 3D.( Pre-Requisite: 10-607-112, AutoCAD for Civil Engineering.) Course Typically Offered:
Telecomm Design-Field Princ. 10451108 Creates an experience consistent with projects in industry. Students will learn how to field buried cable projects to aerial projects and also learn industry equipment that operates on these projects.( Pre-Requisite: 10-607-112, AutoCAD for Civil Engineering. Co-Requisite: 10-607-114, Civil 3D-Intro) Course Typically Offered:
Telecomm Designs-Office Princ. 10451207 Focuses on taking the data from field collection and creating the product that a utility crew would use to place the communications facility. Learners will develop plan sets consistent with industry standards.( Pre-Requisite: 10-607- 112, AutoCAD for Civil Engineering. Co-Requisite: 10-607-114, Civil 3D-Intro) Course Typically Offered:
Data Communications Systems 10451205 Starts from the basics and gives the learner the tools to design and maintain industrial communications systems. You ' ll learn the underlying principles behind today ' s industrial communications systems. Course Typically Offered:
Analog and Digital Telephony 10451204 Develops the knowledge and understanding of Analog and Digital signals with respect to communications. Course Typically Offered:
Telecommunications Networks 10451202 Prepares students for the differing telecommunications networks that are utilized in the industry. Course Typically Offered:
Introduction to AC / DC 10660116 Introduces the concepts of AC and DC power and basic circuits. Using a multimeter, students learn about voltage, current, and resistance in both AC and DC circuits. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Telecomm Emerging Tech 10451201 Provides students with tools to analyze telecommunications policy and regulations and their impacts on the telecommunication markets. We first review telecommunications industry / organizational structure and concepts of telecommunication technologies. We then discuss key elements of information and communication( ICT) policy and discuss ICT policies and national broadband plans from selected countries. Finally we discuss impact of policy on current and emerging topics such as broadband, VoIP and cognitive radio. The course has an emphasis on policies in developing countries and emerging markets but combines other multidisciplinary aspects related to technology, economics, law. Course Typically Offered:
Fiber Optic Splicing & Testing 10451203 Introduces how power systems work differently in the telecommunications industry. Course Typically Offered:
Advanced Optical Networking 10451206 Covers Microprocessor logic, instruction, and clocked sequential circuits; memory devices; data acquisition, manipulation and transfer circuitry; machine and assembly languages; and microprocessor support devices.( Co-Requisite: 10-451-203, Fiber Optic Splicing & Testing Procedures) Course Typically Offered:
Telecomm Internship 10451109 Allows students to apply the theory, skills, and techniques they ' ve learned in the Telecommunication industry. Course Typically Offered:
English Composition 1 10801136 Learners develop knowledge / skills in planning, organizing, writing, editing. Students will also analyze audience / purpose, use elements of research, format documents using standard guidelines, and develop critical reading skills.( Prerequisite: High school GPA greater / equal to 2.6; OR ACT Reading score greater / equal to 16 AND English greater / equal to 18; OR Next Gen Reading score greater / equal to 250 AND Writing score greater / equal to 260; OR " preparatory course( s)", contact academic advisor at 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
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