MATC 2022-23 Catalog

DMS – ELCTEC

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

classroom. Throughout this course, we will challenge one another to grow not only in our understanding of the issues that a ff ect urban education, but also insofar as our own personal philosophies of teaching are constantly evolving. Service-learning is a vehicle we will use to get hands-on experience tackling issues impacting urban education. Prerequisite(s): Complete EDF-249 or SOCSCI-249 with minimum grade of C. EDF-254 Credits: 2 Field Experience in Urban K-12 Classrooms This is a fi eld experience/service learning course, which provides students who are completing the Teacher Education track opportunity to (1) deepen their understanding of how race, language, and socio-economic status impact teaching and learning, (2) observe and participate in classroom management strategies, (3) become familiar with the organization, culture, and curriculum of schools and classrooms in the Milwaukee Public Schools system. Students complete 40+ hours of observation, which is accepted toward fi eldwork requirements at several Schools of Education. Prerequisite(s): Complete EDF-253 or SOCSCI-253. Also a TB test and criminal background check are required for school placement. EDF-255 Credits: 3 Introduction to Teaching This course is intended for students who wish to pursue a degree in education at a four-year college. The course introduces students to the profession of education and the roles of teachers. It provides an understanding of the context in which education is delivered in culturally pluralistic settings and an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in the interpersonal, observational and organizational skills that underlie teaching. Prerequisite(s): Complete EDF-253. Completion of or currently enrolled in EDF-254. ELCTEC – Electronics Technology (Department: 605) ELCTEC-105 Credits: 3 DC/AC 3 Advanced Circuits This course covers the advanced circuit analysis concepts and techniques used by electronic engineering technologists. Advanced circuit analysis techniques such as superposition, nodal analysis, and Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems will be applied to complex numbers in AC circuits. Computer simulations will be used to reinforce theoretical analyses. Students will perform laboratory experiments and prepare technical reports. Prerequisite(s): Complete ELCTEC-111 or ELCTEC-116 and ELCTEC-120 or ELCTEC-118 and MATH-197 or MATH 230. Completion of or currently enrolled in ELCTEC-121.

DMS-224

Credits: 3

ECON-218

Credits: 3

Vascular Imaging 2 Prepares learners to perform abdominal vascular and physiologic peripheral vascular exams. Prerequisite(s): Must be admitted to the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program (10-526-2). Complete DMS-223.

International Economics Explores theories of trade, barriers and bene fi ts to trade, exchange rate systems, the role of central banks, trade de fi cits and surpluses and balance of payments. ECON-219 Credits: 3 Personal Finance and Consumer Economics This course is designed to provide the necessary knowledge to make the student more informed about personal fi nances and to help develop life-long habits in planning, spending, saving and consumption decision principles in the market-oriented global economy, including the limits to growth resulting from limited natural resources. Analyzes the mixed economy, which is a combination of private enterprise and government actions. Explains how an economy can achieve both a comfortable standard of living and ecological sustainability. ECON-225 Credits: 3 Healthcare Economics Healthcare Economics is a basic course in economics with an emphasis in healthcare. Topics include supply and demand, cost/ bene fi t, resource allocation and production as well as the conditions under which healthcare is provided by government. EDF – Educational Foundations (Department: 809) EDF-249 Credits: 2 Orientation to Urban Teaching This course is designed for students who are interested in exploring a career in urban K-12 teaching. Students learn about themselves in relationship to the children they may teach. Students explore di ff erent licensure areas and the pathways toward becoming a teacher. Readings and topics are chosen in order to explore how race, class, and ethnicity a ff ect the dynamics of teaching learning relationships in schools. EDF-253 Credits: 3 Issues in Urban Teaching This course is designed to expose you to issues in urban education. Some of you may have already spent considerable time in classrooms as teacher aides or paraprofessionals, or maybe even as teachers. The majority of us spent time in schools as students. Now we are preparing to enter the vital and rewarding fi eld of teaching. As we prepare for this role reversal, we must have a deeper understanding of schooling, particularly in urban settings, so that we can begin to tackle the challenges we will face both within and outside of the making. ECON-223 Credits: 3 Ecological Economics This course explores basic economic

ECON – Economics (Department: 809) ECON-195

Credits: 3

Economics This course is designed to give an overview of how market-oriented economic systems operate, and it surveys the factors that in fl uence national economic policies. Basic concept and analysis are illustrated by reference to variety of contemporary problems and public issues. Concepts include scarcity, alternative economic system, growth, supply and demand, monetary and fi scal policy, in fl ation, unemployment, ecological, and global economic issues. ECON-201 Credits: 3 Principles of Microeconomics This course covers the following topics: price mechanisms, price determination in the products and factors markets, analysis of market structures, business decisions with regard to cost analysis, output determinations and employing factors of production. Other topics such as regulation vs. deregulation, international trade and economic development will also be discussed. ECON-202 Credits: 3 Principles of Macroeconomics This course covers national income and product analysis, fi nancial institutions and the Federal Reserve System and macroeconomic models and their application to the problems of in fl ation, unemployment and business fl uctuations. The lines between economic problems, theory and public policy are emphasized. ECON-215 Credits: 3 Economics of Discrimination Economic theory is used to examine discrimination with an emphasis on the labor market and inequality in the U.S. Topics include: fundamental economic theory, the labor market, the basis and measurement of discrimination, inequality, and the laws and policies relating to discrimination. ECON-216 Credits: 3 Urban Economics Urban economics provides research about the built environment. Using the tools of economic analysis, urban economics describes the outcomes of public and private decision-making with regard to land use and clusters of populations and their transportation. Prerequisite(s): Complete ECON-195, ECON-201 or ECON-202.

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