NVCC 1996-1997 Catalog
Programs
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Northern Virginia Community College is a comprehensive
institution of higher education, offering programs of instruction
generally extending not more than two years beyond the high school
level.
Occupational Technical Education
The occupational and technical education programs are designed
to meet the increasing demand for technicians, clerical
workers, para-professionals, and skilled craftsmen for
employment in industry, business, the professions, and
government. These programs, which normally require two years
or less of training beyond high school, may include
preparation for agricultural, business, engineering, health
and medical, industrial, service, and other technical and
occupational fields. The curricula are planned primarily to
meet the needs for workers in the region being served by the
College, but the State Board for Community Colleges may
designate certain community colleges as centers to serve
larger areas of the state in offering expensive and highly
specialized occupational and technical education programs.
College Transfer Education
The College transfer program includes freshman and sophomore
courses in arts and sciences and preprofessional programs
meeting standards acceptable for transfer to baccalaureate
degree programs in four-year colleges and universities. NVCC
transfer courses closely parallel courses at four-year
institutions. Since requirements vary among four-year schools,
if you are planning to transfer, you should check the
requirements of the receiving institution before you plan your
course of study at NVCC. See "Transfer Credit &
Advanced Standing - Transferring to Other Colleges" in the
Administrative Section.
General Education
The courses in general education encompass the common
knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed by each individual to
be effective as a person, for personal effectiveness, as well
as for effectiveness as an employee, a consumer, and a
citizen. These include the basic courses required of all
students in the occupational and technical education program
and in the College transfer program.
Developmental Studies
Developmental or preparatory courses are offered to prepare
you for admission to the College transfer and occupational
technical programs. These developmental courses are designed
to develop the basic skills and understandings necessary to
succeed in other courses and curricula.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education programs are offered to enable you to
continue your learning experiences. This may include credit
and non-credit work offered during the day and evening hours.
Community Education
The College provides specialized services to help meet the
cultural and educational needs of the citizens of the Northern
Virginia area. These services include non-classroom and
non-credit cultural events, workshops, meetings, lectures,
conferences, seminars, short courses, and special community
projects which are designed to provide needed cultural and
educational opportunities for the citizens of the region. The
College works cooperatively with other local and state
agencies and with businesses interested in developing such
services. The College facilities also are available insofar as
possible to four-year colleges and universities desiring to
offer extension programs at the level of the third and fourth
year of college and of graduate education in the region,
subject to the prior approval of the State Council of Higher
Education for Virginia.
Special Training Program
Special training may be provided where specific job
opportunities are available. This special training is
coordinated with Virginia's economic expansion efforts and
with the needs of prospective or established employers.
Instruction is designed to assist Virginia residents in
gaining skills necessary for entering employment and/or to
retrain persons displaced from other jobs so that they may
obtain gainful employment. Such special training programs
shall be terminated at that point where the learning of skills
ends and the development of speed in these skills begins.
These programs, which are usually of a short-term nature, are
tailored to fit the exact needs of a company and shall
terminate when known new employment needs are met and when the
primary objective stated above has been met. The training
sites for these programs may be any suitable space within the
Commonwealth of Virginia approved by the Virginia Community
College System.
Virginia Works
Northern Virginia Community College is a participant in the
Virginia Community College System's Virginia Works
program, a community alliance that aims to provide a highly
skilled workforce now and in the future, and to strengthen the
quality and availability of workforce services to business and
industry. As a partner in this alliance, Northern Virginia
Community College stands ready to join with others to make
sure that Virginia Works! For more information, call
the director of Continuing Education and Workforce Development
on any NVCC campus.
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