The following is a complete listing of courses offered at MCC. You can also visit our
page for a list of course requirements necessary to complete your degree.
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| AAD - Applied Art and Design |
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| ACC - Accounting |
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| ACD - Alcohol/Chemical Dependency |
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| AGS - Agricultural Studies |
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| ANT - Anthropology |
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| ARA - Arabic/Foreign Language |
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| ART - Art |
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| ASL - American Sign Language/Foreign Language |
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| ATP - Automotive Technology |
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| BIO - Biology |
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| BUS - Business |
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| CDL - Interdisciplinary |
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| CE - Disney College Program Internship |
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| CEL - Leadership |
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| CHE - Chemistry |
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| CHI - Chinese/Foreign Language |
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| CIN - Cinema Studies |
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| CIS - Computer Information Systems |
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| CIT - Civil and Construction Technology |
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| CLT - Clinical Laboratory Technician |
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| COM - Communication |
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| COS - College Success |
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| CPT - Computer Technology |
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| CRC - Computer Related Curricula |
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| CRJ - Criminal Justice |
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| CSC - Computer Science |
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| DAS - Dental Assisting |
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| DEN - Dental Hygiene |
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| EBL - Experience Based Learning |
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| ECE - Education and Early Care |
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| ECO - Economics |
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| EDU - Education |
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| ELT - Electrical Engineering Technology/Electronics |
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| EMS - Emergency Medical Services |
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| ENG - English Literature |
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| ENG - English Writing |
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| ENR - Engineering Science |
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| ESL - English For Speakers Of Other Languages (ESOL) |
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| FPT - Fire Protection Technology |
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| FRE - French/Foreign Language |
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| FSA - Food Service Administration |
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| GEG - Geography |
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| GEO - Geology |
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| GER - German/Foreign Language |
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| GLF - Golf Management |
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| HBR - Hebrew/Foreign Language |
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| HED - Health Education |
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| HED 101 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Care
1 Credit
This course emphasizes how to recognize and care for breathing and cardiac emergencies for adults, children and infants, heart disease and injury prevention, two rescuer CPR, use of resuscitation mask and valve, and identifying and caring for life-threatening bleeding. The student will be eligible for Certification in Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association.
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| HED 108 - Health, Family and Society
2 Credits
The focus of the course is to understand the societal influences and apply the concepts of wellness and holistic health within ourselves and our families. Specific issues will include multiple dimensions of health, prevention of lifestyle diseases, exploring choices that promote family and individual health and wellness, and creating a personal wellness plan.
MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HED 110 - Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles
2 Credits
This course is designed to identify factors that contribute to the most common lifestyle diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, chronic lung diseases, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression), and common infectious diseases (influenza, STI and HIV). Health promotion and disease prevention measures will be discussed with focus on nutrition, physical activity, emotional wellness, stress management, personal choices and behavior. Upon completion of the course the student will have a balanced health and wellness plan.
MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HED 114 - Health and Safety in the Workplace
2 Credits
This course is designed to help facilitate a high level of well-being for the worker and aid the individual in achieving desirable health and safety practices in their life and profession. Topics explored include home, fire, motor vehicle, occupational, recreational, school, natural and man-made disasters, and personal safety and wellness. Emergency care procedures are presented and students will demonstrate competency in recognition and care for breathing emergencies for adults, children, infants, one and two rescuer CPR, use of resuscitation mask, bag, valve, Automated External Defibrillator (AED), identifying and caring for life-threatening bleeding, sudden illness, and injuries. The student will learn how to create a plan for safety and wellness and will have the opportunity to obtain certification in CPR, AED (Basic Life Support) through the American Heart Association and First Aid through the American Red Cross.
MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HED 115 - Death and Dying
3 Credits
This course will discuss issues related to the experience of death, dying, loss and bereavement through a multi and cross-cultural lens of race, class and gender. The course will explore the historical and contemporary issues around community and individual health, life expectancy, mortality, and morbidity rates, as well as geographic, social and cultural aspects of loss. Students will explore the impact of the intersectionality of race, class, and gender, social justice, equity and access in lives of diverse communities as it pertains to loss. Topics include attitudes about death, loss in the lives of adults and children, modes of death, death and loss rituals within cultures and communities, suicide, violence, trauma, illness, disease, living wills, funeral plans as well as historical and current practices and trends in health care
New SUNY General Education: SUNY - Critical Thinking and Reasoning Competency, SUNY - Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Retiring SUNY General Education: SUNY-WC - Western Civilization (SWCV) MCC General Education: MCC-CT - Critical Thinking (MCT), MCC-GLO - Global Understanding (MGLO), MCC-SSD - Social Science and Diversity (MSSD), MCC-VE - Values and Ethics (MVE)
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| HED 116 - Issues in Child Development and Health
3 Credits
This course examines the influence of the social determinants of health/social factors on health content areas defined by the New York State Education Department. The course emphasizes research methodology in the social sciences, and critical reasoning, including argument analysis and development, to address critical health issues such as biological, psychological, cognitive, and sociological development, childhood stress, nutrition, physical activity, mental and emotional health, human sexuality, safety, violence, child abuse, death, family life, and environmental factors. The course will also integrate theories related to human behavior and include the creation of a wellness plan from an educator’s or caregiver’s perspective to serve as role modeling for youth, and provide the opportunity for certification in identifying and reporting suspected child abuse/maltreatment, and Safe Schools Against Violence in Education.
New SUNY General Education: SUNY - Critical Thinking and Reasoning Competency, SUNY - Social Sciences MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW), MCC-VE - Values and Ethics (MVE)
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| HED 118 - Introduction to Safety and Emergency Care
3 Credits
This course emphasizes the key areas of safety, accident prevention and mitigation across diverse populations. Safety topics explored include home, fire, motor vehicle, occupational, recreational, school, personal fitness/wellness, and natural and man-made disasters. Students will be required to analyze preventative measures and develop arguments pertaining to whether or not each measure is reliable, realistic, and potentially effective. They will create a health education/safety plan pertaining to a topic of personal interest. Emergency care procedures will be presented using scenarios that require students to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students will demonstrate competency in recognition and care for breathing emergencies for adults, children, infants, one and two rescuer CPR, use of resuscitation mask, bag, valve, Automated External Defibrillator (AED), identifying and caring for life-threatening bleeding, sudden illness, and injuries. Students will have the opportunity to earn American Heart Association Certification in Basic Life Support CPR and American Red Cross First Aid.
New SUNY General Education: SUNY - Critical Thinking and Reasoning Competency MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HED 130 - Foundations of Health and Wellness
3 Credits
This course focuses on social determinants and personal responsibility for health, including data-driven risk and protective factors and their relationship to individual and societal well-being, behaviors, economics, and disease, with application of a health behavior change plan utilizing evidence-based data and models. The course emphasizes research methodology in the social sciences, information literacy, and critical reasoning to address content areas spanning the dimensions of health, as well as health-related career options. This course satisfies part of the requirements for MCC Health and Wellness Coach Certification eligibility and also includes the opportunity for certification in Identification and Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse/Maltreatment.
New SUNY General Education: SUNY - Critical Thinking and Reasoning Competency, SUNY - Social Sciences MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW), MCC-VE - Values and Ethics (MVE)
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| HED 207 - Emotional Wellness
3 Credits
This course examines emotional wellness from a holistic point of view integrating the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of health. It emphasizes evidence-based primary and secondary prevention strategies related to the tenets of emotional wellness established by the National Institute of Wellness. Topics include: self-esteem, physical activity and emotional regulation, character building and happiness, anger management, value-based living, meditation, relationships, spirituality and resilience.
MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW), MCC-VE - Values and Ethics (MVE)
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| HED 208 - Chronic and Communicable Disease
3 Credits
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop a basic understanding of the biology of human diseases, disabilities and death, and to construct interventions to prevent or control them. Using the descriptive and analytic epidemiologic approaches the student will study selected diseases/conditions. Common infectious and chronic/lifestyle diseases will be explored. Using collected scientific data and scientific reasoning’s, students will create a healthy lifestyle plan that can be applied to current situations. The contemporary strategic plan for improving the nation’s health will be reviewed and discussed in conjunction with the diseases/disorders presented.
New SUNY General Education: SUNY - Natural Sciences (and Scientific Reasoning)
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| HED 209 - Drugs and Behavior
3 Credits
This course is designed to inform the student about the issue of chemical dependencies. Basic pharmacology and the effects of different psychoactive substances on the human body and how they impact physical and psychological health and wellness.The biological, psychological and sociological reasons for drug-seeking behavior will be discussed.Treatment,recovery,and prevention methods will be studied for effectiveness in physical health and wellness Topics pertaining to both legal and illegal drug use, abuse and dependency will be covered. This will be accomplished through the use of lectures, class discussions and reaction papers. The student upon completion will be able to develop their own personal health and wellness plan to live a substance abuse free life.
MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HED 210 - Integrative Health and Behavior Change Methods
3 Credits
This course provides an exploration and in-depth study into the field of integrative health and wellness from historical, political, economic and practical perspectives. Learners apply this knowledge base to the development of a variety of wellness coaching skills, such as consumer health navigation, wellness planning and motivational interviewing.
MCC General Education: MCC-BCO - Speaking (MBCO), MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HED 212 - Women's Health and Wellness
3 Credits
This course explores psychological and sociological, as well as historical, economic, and anthropological concepts related to health issues pertinent to women in their young adult years through middle to late adulthood. A conceptual framework based on theories in the social sciences, and integration of the scientific method and methods utilized by social scientists to obtain data, will be used to explore health and wellness issues, such as stress, psychosocial/socio-emotional wellness, exercise, nutrition, addiction, relationships, sexuality, disease and behavior choices to support self-care via a personal self-care/wellness plan.
New SUNY General Education: SUNY - Social Sciences MCC General Education: MCC-HW - Health and Wellness (MHW)
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| HEG - Health Education Global |
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| HIM - Health Information Technology |
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| HIS - History |
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| HMN - Humanities |
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| HON - Honors Studies |
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| HSM - Homeland Security Administration |
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| HSP - Hospitality |
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| HUM - Human Services |
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| HVA - Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning |
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| IDE - Interior Design |
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| ITA - Italian/Foreign Language |
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| JPN - Japanese/Foreign Language |
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| LAS - Liberal Arts |
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| LAW - Law |
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| LDS - Leadership |
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| MAR - Marketing |
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| MET - Mechanical Technology |
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| MIS - Management Information Systems |
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| MMP - Automotive Technology |
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| MTH - Mathematics |
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| MUS - Music |
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| NUR - Nursing |
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| OFT - Office Technology |
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| OPT - Optical Systems Technology |
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| PE - Physical Education--Coed |
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| PEC - Physical Education--Coed |
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| PEJ - Physical Education-Criminal Justice |
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| PEM - Physical Education--Men |
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| PEW - Physical Education-Women |
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| PHL - Philosophy |
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| PHO - Photography |
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| PHY - Physics |
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| PLE - Police: Law Enforcement |
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| PLS - Paralegal Studies |
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| POS - Political Science |
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| PPE - Physical Studies/Physical Education |
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| PSC - Public Safety Communications |
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| PST - Public Safety Training |
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| PSY - Psychology |
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| Public Speaking |
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| REA - Reading |
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| SCI - Science |
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| SCR - Computer Security |
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| SGT - Surgical Technology |
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| SKT - Tooling and Machining |
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| SMT - Sports Management |
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| SOC - Sociology |
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| SPA - Spanish/Foreign Language |
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| SPC - Speech Communication |
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| STT - Solar Thermal Technology |
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| SUS - Sustainability Studies |
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| SVL - Service Learning |
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| TAM - Tooling and Machining |
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| TEK - Technology |
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| THE - Theatre |
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| TOY - Toyota |
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| TRS - Transitional Studies |
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| TVL - Travel And Tourism |
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| XRT - Radiologic Technology |
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