10 Online Classes You Can Take at Valley

Don't feel like trekking through the snow this winter? Consider taking one of our online classes. Online classes offer flexibility, and allow you to learn from home!  Many of our online classes are common prerequisites. 

1. College Writing

ENG 110 College Writing 1 3-3-0 (Composition)/Online/Blended Contact Hours: 3 This college writing course will help students become more competent and confident writers. It will enable students to practice and become more skillful in the different stages of the writing process: generating ideas, planning and organizing, rough-draft writing, revising, refining, and proofreading. Students will write a variety of papers, no less than six, such as papers narrating and describing experiences, summarizing information, explaining an idea or concept, and supporting an opinion. Other assignments may include a journal, a letter seeking employment, a letter to the editor, and answering essay exams. Research skills, such as using the library and following appropriate documentation style in citing sources, will be taught. Students will improve their grammar, style, and thinking skills and learn how to produce writing necessary for success in further academic and employment pursuits. 

2. Legal Terminology

BUS 145 Legal Terminology 1-0-3 (Open Lab)/Online Contact Hours: 1 This web-based course presents hundreds of legal terms essential for the non-lawyer employed in the legal office environment. This course is self-taught and exams are taken in the Testing Center. Attendance to an orientation session is mandatory. Visit http://classes.kvcc.edu/techlab for more information. 

3. American History

HRY 103 American History Since 1865 3-3-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online Contact Hours: 3 This course surveys post-Civil War history including industrial and agricultural revolutions and their challenge to society, culture, and government in the United States. An analysis of America's participation in World War I and II and the major social, economic, political, and cultural movements of the twentieth century are included. 

4. WPE Contemporary Health Issues

WPE 125 3-3-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online/Blended Contact Hours: 3 This course is designed to identify and examine contemporary health issues. It explores the environmental, personal, and social factors affecting individual and societal mental and physical health. The course includes guidelines for becoming an intelligent consumer of health care products and services.

5. Arts and Culture

HUM 101 Arts & Culture  4-4-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online Contact Hours: 4 This course is a survey of different styles and approaches to visual art, music, architecture, dance, literature, philosophy, photography, and film throughout human history. Major emphasis is on the interrelationship between art and culture.

6. Interpersonal Communication

COM 113 Interpersonal Communication 3-3-0 (Composition)/Online/Blended Contact Hours: 3 Students will become aware of their present ways of communicating as well as alternative ways to improve their dyadic (one-on-one) communication skills. This course focuses on topics such as self-concept, perception, emotions, verbal and nonverbal communication, and listening. Activities may include large and small group discussions, role playing, and group presentations. Research writing is required. 

7. Business Principles/Practices

BUS 101 Business Principles/Practices  3-3-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online Contact Hours: 3 This is a survey of the functions related to general business operations such as the role of business in the community, the forms of ownership, the means of production in modern industry, the relationship of labor and management, the trends in contemporary business, the system of marketing, and the dimensions of business finance. It includes a hands-on study of the stock market. 

8. Promotional Strategies

BUS 206 Promotional Strategies 3-3-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online Contact Hours: 3 An academic investigation is provided in this class followed by practical applications of the step-by-step procedures involved in formulating advertising and public relations messages and transmitting them through various media and/or other promotional relation programs. 

9. American Government 

PSI 101 3-3-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online/Blended Contact Hours: 3 This course serves as an introduction to American Government by examining the characteristics of the legislative, executive and judicial branches. The course also looks at the role played by political parties, interest groups, the media, and foreign policy.

10. Introductory Psychology

PSY 150 3-3-0 (Lecture/Discussion)/Online Contact Hours: 3 This is a general introduction to the science of behavior. Topics include research methods and data analysis, child development, learning, applied behavior analysis, memory, intelligence, states of consciousness, the physiological bases of behavior, behavioral health, personality, abnormal behavior, and treatment techniques. 

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