Meets MnTC Goal Area 5. This course examines historical and current theoretical perspectives of personality, including psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioral/social-learning, cognitive, biological and trait theories. This course is designed to examine the methods involved in personality psychology research, the ways in which humans differ with regard to personality, the variables that influence personality and how personality might influence behavior, as well as the development and assessment of personality.

This course covers procedures to test, troubleshoot and rebuild power shift and other specialized transmissions used on agricultural, industrial and diesel trucks. This course also includes final drives and related components including removal, repair, installation and adjustment of major units and components.

This course is designed to test troubleshooting skills and knowledge. Students will be presented with motorcycle problems and, using a systematic approach, students will identify and repair the unit. This course is designed to simulate the role of a technician in a dealership. Students will be expected to write a work order, estimate repairs, make the repair and finalize the work order.

More than 70 percent of equipment failures in industry and manufacturing are self-induced by a company's own maintenance workers, policies or attitudes, resulting in downtime or lost production. This course covers the best maintenance practices as determined by top industrial and manufacturing companies. This course covers permanent repairs as related to specific tasks such as bearing replacement, chains, belts, coupling, lubrication, proper alignment and packing and seals.

This course promotes the application of fundamental skills while providing holistic nursing care to a diverse group of patients. The course incorporates the concepts of quality and safe patient care, professional behavior, therapeutic communication and self-evaluation.

This course covers such contemporary career topics as employer expectations, job market trends and networking, and various aspects of the employment search process including legal and ethical issues. To apply their knowledge of the employment process, students develop resumes, letters and applications, as well as identify and use effective interviewing techniques. This course emphasizes a comprehensive knowledge of career processes that will serve students throughout their working lives.

Meets MnTC Goal Area 2, 6 and 7. This course is an in-depth study of literature that has been banned or challenged. The course focuses primarily on the study of literature, but part of the lectures, discussions and student responses will address the topic of censorship. Students will read from a variety of genres.

This course will deal with use of force issues relating to correctional officers, defensive tactics and control techniques, proper restraint techniques and less-than-lethal weapons training. Lecture and practical applications are included in the course. Minnesota Police Officer Standards and Training Board learning objectives relating to physical control and less-than-lethal weapons are also covered.

Meets MnTC Goal Area 6. Students participate as a production crew member and/or as a run crew member on a main stage or approved theatrical production in various technical areas, including set construction and props, lighting and sound, make-up and costuming, stage managing, etc. Students do not need prior experience, but skills with tools or an interest in building would be beneficial. Students will complete required lab hours and exhibit essential skills of communication, cooperation, respect and responsibility. Students will arrange their lab hour schedule with the director after they have enrolled in the course. The course may be repeated twice.

Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2 and 3. This course is the second of a two-course series (CHEM1111 and CHEM1112) intended for science majors. Students will learn the general chemistry principles: intermolecular forces, properties of solids and liquids, solution chemistry, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base equilibrium, solubility equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and possibly coordination chemistry and an introduction to environmental chemistry. The course includes a lab. Students completing the two-semester sequence will be competent in all the areas listed in General Chemistry I & II of the Minnesota State Chemistry Transfer Pathway.