#12 06 Courses #1 - Multiple Choices
#12 06 Courses #1 - Multiple Choices
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246 • Phoenix College 2005-20<strong>06</strong> Catalog<br />
Course Descriptions<br />
COM/THP271<br />
Voice and Diction<br />
3 credits 3 periods lecture<br />
Exercises and techniques to free the voice<br />
and improve projection, resonance, and<br />
articulation. Covers international<br />
phonetic alphabet and standard stage<br />
speech. Prerequisites: None.<br />
COM281<br />
Communication Activities<br />
1 credit 3 periods lecture + lab<br />
Designed to provide students with<br />
competence and confidence in a variety<br />
of speech situations beyond the<br />
classroom setting. May include<br />
presentations to service organizations<br />
and/or competition at other colleges and<br />
universities. Prerequisites: None.<br />
COM298AA-AC<br />
Special Projects<br />
1-3 credits 1-3 periods lab<br />
Organized and tailored around the<br />
interests and needs of the individual<br />
student. Structured to provide an<br />
atmosphere of individualized research<br />
and study paralleled by professional<br />
expertise and guidance. Professional<br />
type facilities and equipment are made<br />
available for student use. Allows the best<br />
aspects of independent study and<br />
individualized learning to be combined<br />
to maximize student development.<br />
Prerequisites: None.<br />
CPD – Counseling & Personal<br />
Development<br />
CPD100<br />
Orientation for Student Development<br />
1 credit 1 period lecture<br />
Offered to orient new students to college<br />
life. Emphasis on assessing students'<br />
academic potential, facilitating curricular<br />
advisement and registration procedures,<br />
learning academic survival skills, and<br />
becoming aware of all services available<br />
to students on campus and in the<br />
community. Prerequisites: None.<br />
CPD101<br />
Personal Development<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Designed to assist students in<br />
developing confidence in making<br />
personal, social, and educational<br />
decisions. Examination and assessment<br />
of individual needs, interests, abilities,<br />
and values to develop and strengthen<br />
interpersonal communication, enhance<br />
transitional skills, and identify realistic<br />
life planning goals. Prerequisites: None.<br />
– CPD102 Counseling Topics –<br />
Counseling courses offered as special topics<br />
for students. Emphasis on skill development<br />
in areas of personal concern.<br />
CPD102AA<br />
Assertiveness Training<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Designed to help students differentiate<br />
assertive, non-assertive and aggressive<br />
behavior, overcome blocks to acting<br />
assertively, establish boundaries, and<br />
develop effective verbal and nonverbal<br />
assertive behavior. Group discussion,<br />
role playing, and videotape feedback are<br />
used to enable students to express<br />
feelings, beliefs, and opinions in a direct,<br />
appropriate manner. Prerequisites:<br />
None.<br />
CPD102AB<br />
Career Exploration<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Designed to assist students making<br />
career choices. Focuses on selfassessment<br />
in terms of educational and<br />
career opportunities and reasonable<br />
possibilities in the world of work.<br />
Includes assessment for personal/career<br />
interests, values, needs, attitudes, skills,<br />
and other potential, and exploration of<br />
occupational information to establish<br />
career and educational goals.<br />
Prerequisites: None.<br />
CPD102AD<br />
Eliminating Self-Defeating Behavior<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Designed to help students change<br />
behaviors that work against their<br />
potential, i.e., inferior feelings, shyness,<br />
nervousness, stage fright,<br />
underachievement, etc. Focus on<br />
identifying undesirable thoughts,<br />
emotions and behaviors, for the purpose<br />
of developing alternative, and more<br />
desirable thoughts, emotions, and<br />
behaviors. Prerequisites: None.<br />
CPD102AE<br />
Exploration of Values<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Designed to explore values as guidelines<br />
to directions taken in life. Emphasis on<br />
value definition and personal value<br />
clarification. Includes strategies for<br />
implementing knowledge of personal<br />
values in various life roles. Prerequisites:<br />
None.<br />
CPD102AH<br />
Stress Management<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Reviews the sources of stress, the<br />
physiological effects and the<br />
psychological impact of stress on the<br />
individual. Provides strategies to reduce<br />
stress. Prerequisites: None.<br />
CPD102AN<br />
Anger Management<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Provides an understanding of the<br />
emotion of anger, explores the types,<br />
origins and typical reactions to anger.<br />
Covers stress and the need for stress<br />
management in relation to anger.<br />
Examines personal anger patterns and<br />
feelings, and the use of effective<br />
interpersonal communications in<br />
effective anger management.<br />
Prerequisites: None.<br />
CPD102AR<br />
Relaxation Training<br />
1 credit 1 period lecture<br />
Emphasis on specific relaxation<br />
techniques to alleviate dysfunctional<br />
tension. Use of progressive relaxation<br />
methods to reduce stress. Discussion of<br />
other modalities of relaxation.<br />
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.<br />
CPD102AS<br />
Conflict Resolution<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Developing new skills for dealing<br />
effectively with everyday conflict and<br />
improving quality of one's own life.<br />
Opportunity to discuss issues and seek<br />
cooperative resolutions. Prerequisites:<br />
None.<br />
CPD102AT<br />
Building Self-Esteem<br />
2 credits 2 periods lecture<br />
Practice in specific methods for building<br />
and keeping self-esteem. Personal<br />
assessment of attitudes, values, support<br />
systems, and goals. Prerequisites: None.