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NCBS 405: SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION: PHYSICAL SCIENCE, MATH & ENGINEERING

Foothill College Course Outline of Record

Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Summer 2025
Units: 0
Hours: 60-360 hours laboratory total per quarter.
Degree & Credit Status: Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course
Basic Skills, 1 Level Below Transfer
Foothill GE: Non-GE
Transferable: None
Grade Type: Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade)
Repeatability: Unlimited Repeatability

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students can identify one study strategy to increase course success
  • Students can identify one strategy to reduce anxiety in class and on exams

Description

An open-entry, open-exit course for student-centered academic support, through supplemental instruction and use of technology resources, to strengthen prerequisite knowledge and skills developed in a referring course or courses as follows: ACTG 1A-C, 1AH-CH, 51A-C, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 64A-B, 65, 66, 67, 68A-C, 75, 76; ANTH 1; ASTR 10A-B, 10BH, 10L; BIOL 1A-D, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 28, 36AH-CH, 40A-C, 41, 45; CHEM 1A-C, 12A-C, 12AL-CL, 25, 30A-B; C S 1A-C, 2A-C, 3A-C, 8A, 10, 11A, 12A, 18, 20A, 22A, 30A-E, 31A, 40A, 48A, 49, 50A-C, 53A-D, 55A-D, 56B, 63A, 64A, 77A-B, 80A, 84A; ECON 1A-B, 9, 9H, 25, 25H, 54H; ENGR 6, 10, 11, 28, 35, 37, 37L, 45, 47, 61A, 61B, 76A; GEOG 1; MATH 1A-D, 1AH-BH, 1AHP-BHP, 2A-B, 10, 12, 17, 22, 33, 40A, 42, 47, 48A-C, 105, 180, 217, 248A; NCBS 403A-B; PHYS 2A-C, 2AM-CM, 4A-D, 6, 12.

Course Objectives

The student will be able to:

  1. Identify as an important member of the Foothill community who belongs in higher education.
  2. Approach a course with the confidence to learn and synthesize new concepts and skills.
  3. Use online course management system(s) to practice problem solving in Accounting, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, or Physics courses.
  4. Identify and use appropriate computer software to generate assigned class reports for Accounting, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, or Physics courses.
  5. Identify and use appropriate computer software to create additional practice problems for mastery of course content in Accounting, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, or Physics.
  6. Use individualized instruction to enhance learning in Accounting, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, or Physics courses.

Course Content

  1. Use online course management system(s), for example:
    1. Problem-solving using software
      1. Pearson product: MyMathLab, MyLabsPlus, MyLab, Mastering Chemistry
      2. Wiley product: Wiley Plus
      3. Cengage product: Webassign
      4. McGraw-Hill product: ALEKS, McGraw-Hill Connect
      5. Canvas
  2. Identify and use appropriate computer software, for example:
    1. In-class reports generated by using software
      1. Maple
      2. Mathematica
      3. Geometer's Sketchpad
      4. Excel
      5. SPSS
      6. Graphical Analysis
      7. SpartanView
      8. Microsoft Word
    2. Additional practice problems using software
      1. McGraw-Hill product: ALEKS, McGraw-Hill Connect
      2. Cengage product: Webassign
      3. Wiley product: Wiley Plus
      4. Pearson product: MyMathLab, MyLabsPlus, MyLab, Mastering Chemistry
  3. Use individualized instruction
    1. Apply knowledge obtained to enhance learning in Accounting, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, or Physics courses
      1. Individualized instruction
      2. Computer research
      3. Use of software

Lab Content

  1. Determining different approaches to solving problems.
  2. Exploring applications of scientific and mathematical rules and postulates.
  3. Determining limitations of software.

Special Facilities and/or Equipment

Internet access and computers.

Method(s) of Evaluation

Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:

Completion of homework problems as assigned by course instructor
Completion of additional problems beyond those assigned by course instructor
Completion of lab reports

Method(s) of Instruction

Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:

Work in groups
Individualized instruction
Use of computer and other technology resources

Representative Text(s) and Other Materials

Students will use textbook(s) in the referring course(s).

Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments

  1. Homework assignments
    1. Problems are assigned by course instructor
    2. Completion of assignments both online and hand-written
  2. Laboratory assignments
    1. Problems are assigned by course instructor
    2. Completion of assignments both online and hand-written
  3. Additional coursework
    1. Practice worksheets provided by instructor that showcase basic and more challenging problems
    2. Reading textbook

Discipline(s)

Accounting or Anthropology or Biological Sciences or Chemistry or Computer Information Systems or Computer Science or Economics or Engineering or Geography or Mathematics or Physics/Astronomy