Corning-Painted Post High School

ACE courses offered 2024-25

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Vocabulary and concepts of accounting and bookkeeping for the small business. Provides some knowledge of accounting for working in a business environment and some skills to do the accounting in a small business organization. 
Cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been earned for ACCT 1030.
Credits: 4

The four arithmetic processes and the algebra of business. Application of mathematics to typical business problems. Taxes, insurance, payroll, depreciation, trade and cash discounts, markup, simple interest and bank discounts, and financial statement analysis.
Credits: 3

Basic areas of personal finance, such as banking, home financing, insurance, investments, credit financing, and retirement planning.
Credits: 3

Introduction to computer aided design (CAD) techniques. Teaches commands necessary to generate basic three dimensional part models, assemblies and two-dimensional engineering drawings through use of a computer using the solid modeling program, Solid Works.
Credits: 3

Theories and applications of computers. Includes computer architecture, hardware, software, number coding, problem solving paradigms, microcomputer applications, network technology, computer ethics, computer careers, e-commerce, and system software.
Credits: 4

The aims of public education in our society; philosophical, historical, economic, political and social bases of our educational system. Current trends in education; popular myths about the teaching profession; roles, responsibilities, problems and concerns of teachers.
Credits: 3

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

Aspects of engineering study and the engineering profession. Methods of solution of engineering problems.
Credits: 2

Development of greater facility in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding the language through a systematic review of its structures. Representative readings introduce the civilization of France.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in World Languages.
Credits: 4

A thorough analysis of the language. Intensive discussion of grammar, usage, style, and vocabulary, enhancing expression through composition, oral reports, and more informed class discussions and conversations.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in World Languages.
Credits: 4

Designed to assist first-year students in adjusting to the college environment as well as becoming familiar with strategies for success. A general orientation to the resources of the college, essential academic success skills to better understand the learning process, and career exploration will be covered.
Credits: 3

Surveys the cultural and continuities of selected world societies during the early modern and modern eras, from the sixteenth century CE to the present. Students will utilize methods of the social sciences by researching, interpreting, and communicating and understanding of primary and secondary historical sources. This world history course studies human patterns of interaction with a particular focus on change over time, global exchange, and those phenomena that connect people, places and ideas across regional boundaries, with an emphasis on the shaping of the modern age and the implications for the future of the global community.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in World History/Global Awareness.
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

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

Engineering graphics fundamentals, incorporating both manual and computer-aided drafting. Includes freehand sketching, principles of applied geometry, multiview drawings, dimensioning, sectioned views, pictorials, conventional drawing practices and standards, and an introduction to AutoCAD.
Credits: 3

Development of facility in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding the language through a systematic review of its structure. Representative readings as an introduction to Spanish civilizations.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in World Languages.
Credits: 4

A thorough analysis of the language; intensive discussion of grammar, usage, style and vocabulary, enhancing expression through composition, oral reports, and more informed class discussions and conversations.
Credits: 4