Bradford Central School
ACE courses offered 2024-25
Explores interrelationships between organisms and the environment. The impact of human
activities such as pollution, resource use and population growth. Basic ecological
concepts provide a foundation for understanding environmental problems and global
change. Labs will illustrate the complexity associated with environmental change and
emphasize sustainability. Laboratory includes the observation of plants, algae, bacteria
and animals.
Cannot receive credit for BIOL 1030 after successfully completing BIOL 1500.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences and Critical Thinking.
Credits: 4
Essay writing designed to sharpen the student's perceptions of the world and to facilitate
communications with correctness, clarity, unity, organization, and depth. Assignments
include expository writing, argumentation, and research techniques.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Written Communication and Information
Literacy.
Credits: 3
Essay writing course designed to advance critical, analytical, and writing abilities
begun in ENGL 1010. Literary analysis essays and interpretation on works of fiction,
poetry, and drama.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Humanities.
Credits: 3
Dreams and concepts brought to the New World and their development into America's
institutions and social fabric. Conflict and consensus among groups, dilemmas facing
revolutionaries and reformers, and ways economic, political and social changes have
occurred.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in US History/Civic Engagement.
Credits: 3
End of Civil War to the present. Topics include industrial-urbanization, racism, sexism,
the new manifest destiny, political changes, and the growth of a modern nation.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in US History/Civic Engagement.
Credits: 3
An intuitive approach to statistics. Analysis and description of numerical data using
frequency distributions, histograms and measures of central tendency and dispersion,
elementary theory of probability with applications of binomial and normal probability
distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, chi-square,
linear regression, and correlation.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4
This course is designed to prepare students for calculus. Topics include problem solving,
algebraic and graphical analysis, equations, inequalities, absolute values, polynomial,
rational, exponential, logarithms, trigonometric and circular functions, inverses,
polar coordinates and conics.
Cannot take both MATH 1411-1412 and 1413 for credit.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4
The first semester of differential and integral single variable calculus. Basic theory
using algebraic and trigonometric function and applications are covered concurrently.
Topics include limits, derivatives, considered algebraically and graphically, differentials
and their use as approximations, the indefinite and definite integrals with applications
to areas, volumes, surface area, arc length, moments and center of mass.
Cannot receive credit for this course and MATH 1510-1520.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4
A continuation of Calculus I. Topics include calculus of conics, logarithmic, exponential,
and hyperbolic functions, techniques of integration, infinite series, parametric equations
and polar coordinates.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4
Develops self-awareness and audience awareness through oral presentation. Organize
and present material in a variety of speaking occasions, including information, visualization,
demonstration, argumentation, persuasion, and ceremonial.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Communication.
Credits: 3
