Odessa-Montour Central School

ACE courses offered 2024-25

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The modern aspects and techniques of biology will be emphasized. BIOL 1510 will cover scientific methodology, biochemistry, cell structure and physiology, genetic mechanisms, plant structure and physiology, taxonomy, and bacterial, protist, fungal, and plant diversity. 
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.
Credits: 4

Emphasizes the modern aspects of biology and its techniques. Includes evolution, animal diversity, human and animal anatomy/physiology, animal behavior, reproduction and development, and ecology. Laboratory requires dissection of a preserved fetal pig and various vertebrate organs, as well as the use of living invertebrates and fish.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences and Critical Thinking.
Credits: 4

Elasticity of supply and demand, utility theory, production cost analysis, profit maximization, monopoly and government regulation, labor organization, international trade and finance, economics of growth, resource depletion, and pollution.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Social Sciences.
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

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

Theories and practices of American Federal Government with emphasis on the national level. Changing relationships between the branches of the national government, policy formulation, political parties, pressure groups, and the growth of presidential powers.
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

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