"Harrisburg Area Community College" Open Courses

This course provides a survey of theories and etiology of abnormal behavior, descriptions of symptoms, and therapy techniques and theories of prevention.

This biology course covers basic body organization, functional biochemistry, cytology and histology, and a study of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, circulatory, lymphatic, and respiratory systems.

Topics include quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions; differential calculus of single variable and of several variables; and techniques of integration.

This course provides a general review of microbiology, with an emphasis on pathological mechanisms of infectious disease and the prevention infectious disease in healthcare and extended-care facilities.

This course studies fundamental algebraic operations, exponents, and radicals, systems of equations, higher degree equations, logarithms, matrices, inequalities, and applications.

Topics in this course include fundamental operations, special products and factors, functions and fractional equations, exponents, radicals, and quadratic equations.

Areas of study include fundamental algebraic operations, exponents and radicals, systems of equations, higher degree equations, logarithms, matrices, and inequalities.

Pick up tips on learning the grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation of beginning Spanish.

Learn the grammatical structure, vocabulary, and sound system of American English.

Work on your pronunciation in this podcast series.

Learn how to write clear, coherent paragraphs and work on basic grammar and sentence-combining skills.

This course examines and applies major principles of psychology.

This course examines American history from the eve of Columbus's encounter with the Americas up until the Civil War.

Topics include the nervous, respiratory, digestive, and cardiovascular systems.

This course is geared towards students who have limited backgrounds in algebra and covers fundamental operations, special products and factors, functions and fractional equations, exponents, radicals, and quadratic equations.

Learn advanced topics on worksheets, graphics, functions, formatting, and macro features of Excel 2007.

Learn about what goes into the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products, including the strategic decisions made, marketing, risk management, and public policy.

This course provides an introduction to criminal justice, including its philosophic basis and historical development; agencies and processes;

Geared towards students with no prior experience in a dental office, this course covers the basics of the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene.

This course covers concepts related to human disease, including the etiology, symptoms, and treatment of the most common disorders and diseases of each body system.

Learn about the solar system, including the sun, major and minor planets, the Earth-moon system, asteroids, comets, meteors, and the physical laws of motion and the properties of light.

Topics include describing and summarizing data both graphically and numerically, probability, various distributions, parametric estimation and tests of significance, and exploration of bivariate data.

Learn about the physical features of stars, stellar distances and motion, evolution and star types, and the Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies.

Study the history of the labor movement,

This course provides an overview of human development, including basic concepts and principles of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development at each major stage of life.

American writers from 1865 to the present are covered, including Twain, Cather, Hemingway, Baldwin, Morrison, and major poets.

This course examines British literature from 1790 to 1945, including literary works from the Romantic, Victorian, and 20th-century periods.

This course provides a comprehensive study of the structure and function of microorganisms.

This is a comprehensive study of the structure and function of microorganisms.

Learn how to use commonly used features, tools, and actions.