Honolululu Community College - First Year Experience

Recommended Prep: Placement in ENG 22/60
Development of civilization from its prehistoric origins to the present.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Prerequisite: Placement in ENG 22/60
This course examines traditional Hawaiian and Pacific cultures and how outside western ideas and ideals have impacted upon island societies. Particular focus is on colonization and modernization and the conflicts they impose upon native Hawaiian and other Pacific peoples.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Prerequisite: "C" or higher in ENG 22/60 OR placement in ENG 100
Introduction to the rhetorical, conceptual, and stylistic demands of writing at the college level. Instruction in the composing process, search strategies, and writing from sources.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Prerequisite: ENG 20B & C & D & E OR "C" or higher in ESL 11 & 13 & 14 & 17 OR placement in ENG 22.
Intensive study of structure, usage, and vocabulary of English as a necessary prelude to effective writing. Emphasis is placed on the development of the paragraph to communicate ideas in short papers. Students are encouraged to exercise critical thinking and clear, correct language in their written communications.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Prerequisite: Placement in ENG 22/60
Basic social relationships, norms, social structures and processes affecting social change.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Recommended Prep: Placement in ENG 22/60
This course introduces students to the principles of communication. In addition to discussing theoretical materials, students have opportunities to experience speech in a variety of informal and formal activities, including person-to-person, small group, and public address situations.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Prerequisite: Placement in ENG 22/60
Principles of human behavior, individual differences, motivation, emotion, perception, learning.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Recommended Prep: Placement in ENG 22/60
Great philosophical issues, theories, and controversies.
(3 hrs. lect. per week)

Phil. 198 is a course that explores ideas about success and happiness. We will collaboratively critically examine contemporary American conceptions, and misconceptions, of success as well as some traditional philosophical approaches to it. The students will develop and discuss their own ideas about success and happiness. They will determine the knowledge and skills needed to achieve that success, and begin to acquire that knowledge and develop some of those skills while building a community of peers. They will also determine the relationship between the achievement of a higher education and the achievement of their goals, and be introduced to some of the services provided at Honolulu Community College that are available to help them.