Non-Credit: Basic Skills (NCBS)
NCBS 403A • BRIDGE TO COLLEGE LEVEL MATHEMATICS I
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| Hours: | 25 lecture per quarter (25 total per quarter) |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills, 3 Levels Below Transfer |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
Part one of a bridge to college level mathematics program for students who seek to refresh mathematical reasoning, computational skills, and test-taking strategies. Topics include mathematical skills from arithmetic and pre-algebra.
NCBS 403B • BRIDGE TO COLLEGE LEVEL MATHEMATICS II
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 25 lecture per quarter (25 total per quarter) |
| Advisory: | Completion of NCBS 403A. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills, 2 Levels Below Transfer |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
Part two of a bridge to college level mathematics program for students who seek to refresh mathematical reasoning, computational skills, and test-taking strategies. Topics include mathematical skills from beginning algebra and intermediate algebra.
NCBS 404A • MATH PREPARATION FOR TRADES I: PLUMBING, PIPEFITTING, HVAC, SHEET METAL, ELECTRICAL
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2 lecture per week (24 total per quarter) |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills, 3 Levels Below Transfer |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
Preparation for the mathematics aptitude tests for the trades. Operations and applications of fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions, and geometric formulas.
NCBS 404B • MATH PREPARATION FOR TRADES II: ELECTRICAL
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2 lecture per week (24 total per quarter) |
| Advisory: | Competency with topics in NCBS 404A. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills, 2 Levels Below Transfer |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
Review of algebra topics in preparation for the electrical apprenticeship program. Solving linear equations in one variable, graphing linear functions, solving systems of linear equations, properties of exponents, multiplying and factoring polynomials.
NCBS 405 • SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION: PHYSICAL SCIENCE, MATH & ENGINEERING
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 60-360 hours laboratory total per quarter. |
| Degree and 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 |
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-C, 1BH, 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-B, 12A-B, 18, 20A, 22A, 30A-E, 31A-B, 40A, 47A, 48A, 49, 50A-C, 53A-D, 55A-D, 56B, 63A, 64A, 77A-B, 80A, 84A; ECON C2001, C2002, 9, 9H, 25, 25H, 54H; ENGR 6, ENGR 10, ENGR 11, ENGR 28, ENGR 35, ENGR 37, ENGR 37L, ENGR 45, ENGR 47, ENGR 61A, ENGR 61B, ENGR 76A; GEOG 1; MATH 1A-D, 1AH-BH, 1AHP-BHP, 2A-B, 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; STAT C1000.
NCBS 410C • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR STAT C1000
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | STAT C1000. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Statistics. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in STAT C1000 at Foothill College. Topics include a review of skills, including percents, rounding, order of operations, interpretation of graphs, solving linear equations, solving inequalities, and applying formulas.
NCBS 411A • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 1A
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 1A. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Calculus I. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 1A at Foothill College and who want extra support in calculus. Topics include: a review of skills developed in precalculus, including developing a knowledge of function families with their graphs and behavior, transformations, average rate of change, inverses, and compositions.
NCBS 411B • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 1B
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 1B. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Calculus II. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 1B at Foothill College and who want extra support in calculus. Topics include: a review of skills developed in precalculus, including advanced algebra manipulations, polar curves and parametric equations, and advanced graphing skills.
NCBS 411C • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 1C
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 1C. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Calculus III. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 1C at Foothill College and who want extra support in calculus. Topics include: a review of skills developed in precalculus, including developing a knowledge of function and relationship families with their graphs and behavior, transformations, domain and range, distance formulas, vectors, parametric equations, and the geometry of lines and triangles.
NCBS 411M • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 1A - MPS
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 5 lecture per week (60 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 1A. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Calculus I. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 1A for the Math Performance Success program (MPS) at Foothill College and who want extra support in calculus. Topics include: a review of skills developed in precalculus, including developing a knowledge of function families with their graphs and behavior, transformations, average rate of change, inverses, and compositions.
NCBS 433 • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 33
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 33. |
| Advisory: | Demonstrated proficiency in English by placement via multiple measures OR through an equivalent placement process OR completion of ESLL 125 & ESLL 249. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Math for Financial Thriving. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 33 at Foothill College. Topics include: a review of computational skills developed in beginning and intermediate algebra, including proportional reasoning, order of operations, simplifying expressions, solving equations, use of variables, creating and using graphical displays.
NCBS 440A • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 40A
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 40A. |
| Advisory: | Demonstrated proficiency in English by placement via multiple measures OR through an equivalent placement process OR completion of ESLL 125 & ESLL 249. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Quantitative Reasoning. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 40A at Foothill College. Topics include: a review of computational skills developed in beginning and intermediate algebra, including proportional reasoning, order of operations, simplifying expressions, solving equations, use of variables, creating and using graphical displays.
NCBS 443A • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR C S 3A
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | C S 3A. |
| Degree and Credit Status: | Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in C S 3A. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in C S 3A at Foothill College. Topics include: installation of an integrated development environment and other software, navigating a file system hierarchy, developing a logic-based approach to programming, identifying errors in a program using a debugger and other means.
NCBS 447 • SUPPORT FOR MATH 47
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 3 lecture per week (36 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 47. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
Core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Path to Calculus. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 47 at Foothill College and who want extra support. Topics include a review of skills, including developing a knowledge of function families with their graphs and behavior, transformations, average rate of change, inverses, and compositions. Family functions include linear, quadratic, and power.
NCBS 448A • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 48A
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 2.5 lecture per week (30 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 48A. |
| Advisory: | Demonstrated proficiency in English by placement via multiple measures OR through an equivalent placement process OR completion of ESLL 125 & ESLL 249. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Precalculus I. Intended for students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 48A at Foothill College. Topics include: a review of computational skills developed in beginning and intermediate algebra, including factoring, graphing linear equations, solving absolute value equations and inequalities, analyzing functions, including quadratic functions.
NCBS 449 • FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 4 lecture, 2 laboratory per week (72 total per quarter) |
| Advisory: | Intermediate Algebra or equivalent. |
| Degree and Credit Status: | Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Non-Credit Course (Receives no Grade) |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
Introduction to basic computer programming concepts using an object-oriented language. Topics include the software life-cycle, procedural vs. object-oriented programming, IDE and debugging, documentation, and coding conventions. Using an object-oriented computer language, students will explore data types, basic data structures and algorithms, control structure, console and file I/O, functions, error handling and testing.
NCBS 451M • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 48A - MPS
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 5 lecture per week (60 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 48A. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Precalculus I. Intended for students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 48A for the Math Performance Success program (MPS) at Foothill College. Topics include: a review of computational skills developed in beginning and intermediate algebra, including factoring, graphing linear equations, solving absolute value equations and inequalities, and analyzing functions, including quadratic functions.
NCBS 452M • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 48B - MPS
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 5 lecture per week (60 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 48B. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Precalculus II. Intended for students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 48B for the Math Performance Success program (MPS) at Foothill College. Topics include a review of skills, including developing a knowledge of exponential, logarithmic, polynomial, and rational functions.
NCBS 453M • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR MATH 48C - MPS
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 5 lecture per week (60 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | MATH 48C. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Precalculus III. Intended for students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 48C for the Math Performance Success program (MPS) at Foothill College. Topics include a review of skills, including developing a knowledge of function families with their graphs and behavior, transformations, average rate of change, inverses, and compositions. Functions include trigonometric functions, and polar and parametric equations.
NCBS 454M • JUST-IN-TIME SUPPORT FOR STAT C1000 - MPS
| Units: | 0 |
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| Hours: | 5 lecture per week (60 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | STAT C1000. |
| Degree and Credit Status: |
Non-Degree-Applicable Non-Credit Course Basic Skills |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | None |
| Grade Type: | Pass/No Pass Only |
| Repeatability: | Unlimited Repeatability |
A just-in-time approach to core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Statistics. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in STAT C1000 for the Math Performance Success program (MPS) at Foothill College. Topics include a review of skills, including percents, rounding, order of operations, interpretation of graphs, solving linear equations, and applying formulas.