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(Prerequisites: ARTS 1410)

This course introduces the making of photographic images from a cinematographic point of view. The course covers technical information on camera use and functionality, composition and visual design, digital workflow and editing, and professional functions of manipulating and enhancing images. The basics of photography are compared and applied to cinematographic images.

(Prerequisites: none)

This course will cover introductory principles of leadership. Specifically, the course outlines principles of personal leadership, followed by consideration of principles related to organizational leadership, including the execution of the most important priorities. It concludes with a self-assessment as well as a presentation on how each leader can improve his/her team’s engagement in community policing.

(Prerequisites: Reading Skills 2, Dept. approval required)

In this immersive research course, students engage in hands-on, collaborative research to explore Albuquerque's Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI) Effect. Through fieldwork, data collection and analyses, participants investigate the factors contributing to the UHI, its impact on the local environments, and potential mitigation strategies. This course equips students with critical research skills while fostering a deeper understanding of urban climate challenges. (Lab, 3 contact hours, 1 credit hour)

(Prerequisites: None)

This course helps students improve basic math skills in preparation for the Spanish high school equivalency exam. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and delivery of the course is in Spanish. Math word problems are used, as well as analytical reading and writing assignments that require logical reasoning. Math skills are enhanced by work with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios and proportions, algebra, measurement, and geometry.

(Prerequisites: None) 

This course helps students improve basic language arts skills in preparation for the Spanish high school equivalency exam. An English component is also included. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and delivery of the course is in Spanish. Reading skills are taught through literature, social studies, and science. Students learn strategies for finding main idea, drawing conclusions, and making inferences. Writing instruction proceeds from sentence and paragraph structure to essay development. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling techniques are integrated as needed.

0 Credit Hours

(Prerequisites: departmental approval and co-enrollment)                        

Child Development develops English language skills needed to complete academic requirements and work in professional early childhood education positions. Language instruction is contextualized to the ECED class in which students are co-enrolled, and presented through project-based instruction, group work, short lessons, and individual assistance. (2.5 contact hours, lecture)

(Prerequisites: None) 

This course is taught by a native speaker from the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Ethnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ) in Mexico through real time distance-learning video conferencing. IDIEZ instructors teach modern Nahuatl spoken in the Huasteca Veracruzana region of Mexico. Nahua culture, history, and modern-day life are at the center of this basic-level course.

(Prerequisite: Intermediate knowledge of Spanish, SPAN 2110 or appropriate place score)

This course is offered through a partnership with Centro Tinku, based in Cusco, Peru. Centro Tinku instructors are native Quechua speakers and teach using real time distance-learning video conferencing. Andean culture, history and modern-day life are at the center of this basic-level course. In order to take Quechua, students must have at least an intermediate level of Spanish.

3 credit hours

(Prerequisites: None)

The goal of this course is to develop your ability to use everyday expressions to accomplish necessary, everyday tasks, like greetings, exchanging information, purchasing goods, and navigating daily life. The course will involve reading, writing, basic grammar, listening, and speaking. The focus in this course is communicative and will point on real contemporary situations and contexts of use. In addition to the real-time online instruction, the course is supported by two in-person Maya speakers at UNM.

1 Credit Hours

(Prerequisite: None)

This course will explore jobs, careers, and internships in the major subfields of science and math. We will focus on workforce areas of need in New Mexico. Students will meet STEM professionals from a variety of subfields, take fieldtrips to STEM job sites, and also learn about internships and higher learning opportunities.

(Prerequisites: None)

This course includes targeted test preparation for the GED and HiSET Math subject test in the areas of 1) geometry; 2) ratios, proportions, percent, basic data and probability; 3) linear equations and inequalities, graphing and functions; 4) polynomials, and 5) rational expressions as fundamental skills required to be successful on the GED or HISET Math subject test. Pre-requisite: TABE 11/12 Math Score of 537 or higher. (22.5 contact hours)

(Prerequisites: None)                                                   

This course is for students who are preparing for the high school equivalency exam. Emphasis is placed on improving reading and writing skills. Informational texts will be used primarily for this course, with time spent on literary, social studies, and science topics. Students will practice reading texts at or above the 9th grade level during the term. By the end of the course, students should be reading at or above a 9th grade level. Pre-requisite: TABE Language Arts score of 547 or higher. (22.5 contact hours)

(Prerequisites: None) 

This course helps students improve basic math skills in preparation for the Spanish high school equivalency exam. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and delivery of the course is in Spanish. Math word problems are used, as well as analytical reading and writing assignments that require logical reasoning. Math skills are enhanced by work with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percent, ratios and proportions, algebra, measurement, and geometry.