Overview
Complete your Associate in Arts Degree, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA) with an emphasis in Teacher Education in preparation for transferring to a four-year university.
Sample Schedule
This Sample Schedule is provided as a guide for a full-time student starting in fall quarter whose goal is to earn the Associate in Arts Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA). The courses are designed with the appropriate number of credits to meet degree requirements and are organized in a recommended sequence. Please consult an advisor to schedule courses and develop a personalized educational plan.
Your personal Educational Plan will vary based on many factors including:
- The quarter you begin
- How many classes/credits you plan to take in each quarter
- Your Math and English placement
- If you have credits you have already taken and plan to transfer them
- The college you are interested in transferring to
- If you start in our Transitional Studies program
Transfer and Degree Requirements
Students working toward their transfer degree typically take a variety of courses designed to fulfill the general requirements of most four-year colleges and universities. Students intending to transfer to a four-year college for further study are encouraged to work closely with their advisor and transfer institution to explore the requirements of the college they wish to attend after Peninsula. Most institutions have separate admission criteria, which may be based on grades, prerequisite coursework, test scores, and other considerations. Our Sample Schedule is designed to provide you with faculty recommended courses to complete your Associate in Arts Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA) degree with an emphasis in Teacher Education and is not a major ready pathway for every institution.
Transfer Institution Information
Students can continue their academic studies at Peninsula College in the Bachelor of Applied Management degree (BAS). Please contact the BAS advisor for additional information at BAS@pencol.edu.
Students must select credits from three distribution lists: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities. A specific course may be credited toward no more than one distribution requirement. A minimum of fifteen credits in two separate subject areas must be selected from each list. For Natural Sciences, at least five credits must be a lab. For Humanities, no more than five credits can be a Humanities-Performance course and no more than five credits may be applied in world languages at the 100 level.
Program Outcomes
Program outcomes are listed on the Area of Study webpage.
First Quarter
Meet with your advisor to talk about your long-term schedule and create an educational plan to complete your degree.
This course provides support, develops positive connections, and opens learning opportunities to help students identify and pursue their academic and career goals. Through a process of self-discovery, students cultivate a deeper understanding of themselves that highlights their unique strengths and identifies areas for growth. Students will also learn how to navigate college systems and understand its specialized vocabulary and procedures. Throughout, this course reassures students of all backgrounds and abilities that they belong. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)
This class has a fee of $12.13.
Credits: 5
Active reading, effective writing, and critical thinking, using subjective and objective approaches. Introduction to research techniques. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Communication Skills)
Credits: 5
Examines elements that create differences within society and exposes learners to a variety of cultural ideas that will lead to a better understanding of people who are different. Culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, religion, disabilities, age, and gender issues will be examined. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Second Quarter
You’re doing it! Check in with your advisor to stay on track.
Build a functional understanding of the foundation of child development from conception through early adolescence in all domains of development as seen through various developmental theories. The impact of culture, race, gender identity, socioeconomic status, family status, and exceptionalities on overall development will be examined as well as current research regarding brain development. Methods of observing and documenting developmental growth will be examined. This class may include students from multiple sections. STARS approved. (Formerly EDUC& 114, Elective)
Credits: 5
Reading and writing using analytical and critical approaches. One or more research papers. Builds on concepts introduced in ENGL& 101. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Communication Skills)
Credits: 5
Humanities or MATH 106
×Designed for future K-6 teachers. Focus is on mathematical concepts, including counting, number sense, operations, algorithms, fractions, ratio, and proportion. Method topics include teaching strategies, assessment methods, and processes of doing mathematics as related to elementary mathematics. This course does not fulfill the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)
Credits: 5
Humanities
CreditsCatalog #Subject 5Art
Study of two and three dimensional art concepts. Lectures and selected art projects. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The art of ancient civilizations, beginning with Paleolithic cave painting and megalithic monuments. Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Minoan, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine artistic traditions are studied in light of their cultural origins. Illustrated lectures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The art of western civilization from the early middle ages through the French revolution is considered. Periods explored include the Islamic, Carolingian, Celtic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, and Rococo. Illustrated lectures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The art of the modern age is explored. Developments studied include Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, the Fauves, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Surrealism, Regionalism, Abstraction, Pop Art, and Post Modernism. Illustrated lectures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
American Sign Language
Expanded study of ASL with emphasis on conversation skills and story telling; continued expansion of knowledge of Deaf culture and Deaf community. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Communication Study
Examines vital issues for people who use mass media or are affected by it. Emphasis on freedom of expression, censorship, fair trial, privacy, ethics, law, media economics, technology, effectiveness in communicating to audiences and relationships to social, cultural, and political values in the United States and throughout the world. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
In this course, students will be introduced to the various forms of professional communications. Students will create multimedia stories for web, radio/streaming/podcasting, online publications, and public relations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to Photojournalism I Foundation class in use of cameras, lenses, light, composition, timing, and field techniques. Emphasis on news and feature photography with principles applicable to all visual communications, including video. Produce black and white photos for assignments, mass communications, including the students news service The Buccaneer. Provide own DSLR camera equipment or mobile device and USB drive for photo storage and field work. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
This hands-on, project-based course introduces students to the basics of storytelling through creating their own podcasts, exploring their own voices and the voices of their communities. Students will examine different narrative styles and podcast types as well as interview techniques. Students will apply this knowledge while learning to plan, create, and publish podcast episodes. They can expect to become proficient in pitching ideas for stories, recording and interviewing, story boarding and writing scripts, as well as editing and crafting audio. Student may collaborate as groups or work individually to create their podcasts. Eligibility for college level English recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Social media weaves a comforting security net for some and a withering web for others. An in-depth look at storytelling practices and civic engagement using emerging web tools. The tools of mobile technology in social media will be explored as they effect civic engagement, cultures, and communities around the world. Explore the phenomena of Twitter, Reddit, and the rise of information empires in the ascent of Facebook, our chosen family and fate. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Learn in incremental stages to gather information through direct observation, interviewing, document searches, web searches, and database mining with software, such as Access and Excel, and to build a report. Use the tools of reporting to increase the accuracy and depth of news stories with an emphasis on public affairs. Learn the philosophy and anatomy of a narrative story, drawn from short story fiction and creative news stories. These tools will be applied in the pursuit of reporting basic news and to exploring trends, creating profiles, and dissecting organizations in more advanced stories. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The editing class will engage students in the discipline of editing text and images for publication. News copy desk operations will be introduced, including headline writing, dummying, page design, pagination, creating news graphics, photo cropping, photo editing, and photo packaging. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Building on the skills from CMST 150, Introduction to Podcasting, this advanced, hands-on workshop focuses on creating a podcast series, with students producing a pilot episode of a story of their choice. Throughout the course, students will engage in all aspects of podcast production-from developing the show, managing files, and creating artwork to distribution. Along the way, they'll explore how storytelling relates to human experience, culture, and society, and experiment with different narrative structures and genres. The course also encourages students to think critically about the ethical, artistic, and intellectual dimensions of their creative choices, including how to engage their audience. Working solo or in teams, students will take their projects from initial idea to final edit, while giving and receiving feedback in a supportive, collaborative setting. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Communication Study (2)
Interpersonal communication theory and practice is explored in this class in regards to both dyad and group settings. Communications process is explored through analysis of several areas, including: perception, listening, self disclosure, speech apprehension, ethics, nonverbal communication, conflict, power, and dysfunctional communication relationships. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores classic and modern elements of persuasion and applies that understanding to assemble, deliver, and evaluate extemporaneous speeches. Eligibility for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL& 101 is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Drama
Introduction to history, art, and craft of theater. Plays are read and discussed. Play production is studied from the viewpoints of the playwright, actor, director, and theater technicians. Attendance at current community theater production is desirable. ENGL& 101 highly recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
English
Study of the major genres of multicultural literature, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Focus on understanding key concepts to increase appreciation and knowledge. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Discover successful ways of exploring fiction. Study of form and structure, as well as major novelists and short-story writers, past and modern. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Approach poetry successfully. Study of poetic form and structure, as well as major poets and poems, past and present, American and worldwide. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Helps to understand and experience a diversity of dramatic literature, from the Greeks through the Renaissance to modern and contemporary playwrights. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
General introduction to the works of Shakespeare, emphasizing the plays: tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances. Approaches Shakespeare both as poetry and as drama, concerning itself with language and with staging. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Survey of British literature from diverse periods. Selections will vary by quarter but will include classic and influential texts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Theme-based study of selected masterpieces of British literature in context. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Survey of classic works as well as new voices from the beginning of American literature to the present. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Theme-based study of selected masterpieces of American literature in context. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Survey of world literature from diverse cultures and periods, including historical contexts. Selections will vary by quarter but will include translations from African, Eastern, Latin, and Western literatures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Theme-based study of selected masterpieces of African, Asian, European, and American literature in context. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Students will learn the elements of art and apply them to critiques of art works submitted to Tidepools art and literature magazine. Students will also learn the elements of fiction and poetry, and use them to critique creative writing submissions. Students will gain editing skills and practice communication skills while selecting, editing, and preparing art and creative writing for publication. Students will learn ethical, historical, and philosophical aspects of editing while serving as editors and will create and release a print magazine along with promotional materials, and will author and edit press releases, posters, and advertisements. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Students will learn the elements of art and apply them to critiques of art works submitted to Tidepools art and literature magazine. Students will also learn the elements of fiction and poetry, and use them to critique creative writing submissions. Students will gain editing skills and practice communication skills while selecting, editing, and preparing art and creative writing for publication. Students will learn ethical, historical, and philosophical aspects of editing while serving as editors and will create and release a print magazine along with promotional materials, and will author and edit press releases, posters, and advertisements. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Students will learn the elements of art and apply them to critiques of art works submitted to Tidepools art and literature magazine. Students will also learn the elements of fiction and poetry, and use them to critique creative writing submissions. Students will gain editing skills and practice communication skills while selecting, editing, and preparing art and creative writing for publication. Students will learn ethical, historical, and philosophical aspects of editing while serving as editors and will create and release a print magazine along with promotional materials, and will author and edit press releases, posters, and advertisements. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An examination of the variety and diversity of literature that forms a part of the imaginative experience of children and adolescents, as well as a part of a larger literary heritage, viewed in the light of their social, psychological, political, and moral implications. Exploration of book format, major genres, and works buy notable authors and illustrators. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An examination of literary works from a variety of cultural perspectives. Contemporary texts and local guest speakers from different cultures increase students’ awareness and understanding of the values, beliefs, stories, interests, and experiences of those cultures. Students define their own cultural identity and participate in service learning. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Film
Study of film as visual text, including key terms, primary practitioners, and major developments. Examination of film as transmitter of themes and values. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to authorship in the cinema. Examination of the work of a major director or directors. Exploration of the director's life, film style, and themes. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to study of film genre through looking at either one or several film genres, including literary, mythic, historic, and theoretical aspects. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of connected works of literature and film. The films and texts may be direct adaptations of each other or may be connected thematically. The course will focus on a specific overall theme, genre, historical period, and/or author. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
French, Klallam, Makah, Quileute, and Spanish
Audio/oral approach, emphasizing speaking the language and incorporating short stories, comprehensive reviews and language drills. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
This is a continuation of KLA 122. We will continue deepening and expanding our understanding of the Klallam language. More on transitive and passive constructions; expressions of time, place, and path; discourse structure and storytelling patterns will be covered with ample practice in use. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Builds grammatically to future tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Builds grammatically to "intentive" (future) tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Continues Spanish I and II emphasis on the four skills of mastering a second language, listening, reading, writing, speaking. Introduction to culture of the Spanish-speaking countries. Learner-centered instruction. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Integrated Studies
Introduction to a range of artistic and intellectual expressions of what it means to be human. Areas explored may include architecture, dance, film, language, literature, music, painting, philosophy, photography, sculpture, and/ or theater. Discussion of these expressions, themes and styles, as well as their cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of thematic and stylistic connections between art forms, focusing on both theory and creative application. Art forms may include painting, photography, sculpture, dance, poetry, fiction, theater, film, and music. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of women’s voices and works in the Arts and Humanities from specific time periods and mediums. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Historical as well as cross-cultural study of popular literary and nonliterary texts, such as novels, magazines, comic books, films, television shows, advertisements, social media, superhero tales, music videos, and fashion trends. Focus on popular myths, icons, heroes, and/or rituals that have affected peoples’ lives and attitudes. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of a theme, area of knowledge, or period of intellectual history, focusing on seminal ideas and paradigm shifts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to a range of artistic and intellectual expressions of what it means to be human with particular attention to distinct paradigms that reflect indigenous history, culture, arts, and philosophies. Areas of attention/concentration include but are not limited to architecture, dance, film, language, literature, music, painting, philosophy, sculpture, and performance. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Include the study of a range of artistic and intellectual expressions of what it means to be human with particular attention to language revitalization, place-based knowledge and expression, and interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. Co-taught with an instructor of record and at least one but up to three co-teachers who are culture teachers or language teachers from indigenous tribes including but not limited to the Tribes of the Olympic Peninsula. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An introductory course that explores the nature of knowledge and its pursuit from the primary academic disciplines of mathematics, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. An emphasis is placed on establishing linkages across these disciplines to expand the realm of possible discourse. Students will develop and apply critical thinking, communication, and self-assessment skills, along with the ability to integrate multiple perspectives. As part of the class, students will engage in interdisciplinary readings and discussions of seminal ideas on a common theme to be determined by the instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Makah
MAKAH 223 focuses on the use of relative clauses. Students learn to use informational question words like who or where and use them as relative clauses. The course also focuses on the interactive pronoun suffixes. Traditional Makah stories will guide the curriculum. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Music
Exploration of how and why we listen to music. Examination of the many roles that music plays in various world cultures. Musical examples drawn from Asia, Africa, Indonesia, North and South America (including Native American tribal groups), jazz, blues, and the Western classical tradition. No prior musical experience is necessary. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Develops musicianship through study and application of compositional elements. Emphasis on musical notation, aural skills, and aesthetic musical values. Each quarter prerequisite to the next or by permission of instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
A cultural/sociological history of pop music in the USA. Musical antecedents (blues, country, rhythm and blues) and outside influences (African drumming, Latin rhythms, folksingers) will be included, but the focus will be on the pop music of this period. The music will be addressed within the context of societal issues such as racism, conformity, generational conflict, governmental repression and censorship. This class my include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Philosophy
Examination of central issues from each major branch of philosophy. Emphasis on understanding and evaluating diverse answers to philosophical questions about human knowledge, existence, and moral values. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Study of informal logic. Emphasis on methods for identifying arguments, detecting common fallacies, and applying principles of correct inductive reasoning. Designed to improve rational thinking skills as applied to both belief and action. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to moral theory and its application to contemporary moral issues. Potential topics include nihilism, relativism, utilitarianism, Kant, legal punishment, distributive justice, terrorism, abortion, animal rights, and euthanasia. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Humanities-Performance
Max five credits allowed as performance.
Applies principles of art, combining theories of creative thinking and modern design. Problems in organization of compositional elements and two dimensional space concepts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Color theory based on traditional and contemporary color theories. Study of painting, materials, and techniques. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
This course is an introduction to the elements and principles of three dimensional design. We will work with diverse materials to create sculptural forms that develop each student’s personal expression and critical thinking skills. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Intensive study of line, value, perspective, and form, using various drawing mediums that offer a new way of seeing through investigation of visual language of drawing. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Intensive study of color and drawn forms offers new approach for seeing. Time divided between traditional and contemporary drawing techniques. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Experimental drawing, experience of drawing and seeing and possibilities of extending traditional concepts about drawing. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Printmaking from past through present. Study and application of basic printmaking techniques, concepts, and media. Covers linocuts, woodcuts, multicolor prints, and experimental monotypes. Introduces relief and intaglio techniques, with an emphasis on small editions. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
This class has a $20 printmaking course fee.
Credits: 5
Painting from past through present. Exploration of beginning painting techniques, concepts, composition problems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
The course is an introduction to creating drawings based on in-class observations of a range of posed models. The class also provides an overview of the drawing process as a form of visual thinking in relation to rendering the human figure through a variety of techniques and art-making materials ranging from charcoal and graphite to color pastels and acrylic paint. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
This course is an introduction to ceramics based materials and creative process, with emphasis on personal expression through diverse practices. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative hand building techniques and processes to create three dimensional sculptural forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.
Credits: 5
This course is an introduction to ceramics materials and creative processes, using the potter’s wheel. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative throwing techniques and firing processes to create functional forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.
Credits: 5
Acting I is an introduction to craft: the balance of external technique and internal elements in order to create a flexible but consistent process that can be used to create believable characters in a variety of settings. The class is a combination of theory and practice. Students are exposed to major post-Stanislavkian acting theories that are applied in scene and partner work. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Beginning writing in fiction and poetry, other modes by request. Workshop approach, with discussion of work by class members and instructor. Reading of contemporary fiction, poetry, and theory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Beginning script writing for film and television. Combination small lecture/workshop approach focusing on techniques, formats, and structure of scripts; plot and character development. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Humanities + Choose an Art course.
MATH 106 is offered every other Winter (even year). If MATH 106 is not offered this quarter, take a Humanities course. Students intending to transfer to a four-year college for further study are encouraged to work closely with their advisor and transfer institution to explore the Math requirements of the college they wish to attend after Peninsula.
Third Quarter
Now is the time to explore transfer options. Make a transfer appointment with your advisor or the Career and Transfer Center.
Teaching strategies for language acquisition and literacy skill development are examined at each developmental stage (birth-age 8) through the four interrelated areas of speaking, listening, writing, and reading. This class may include students from multiple sections. STARS approved.
Credits: 3
Integrate the family and community contexts in which a child develops. Explore cultures and demographics of families in society, community resources, strategies for involving families in the education of their child, and tools for effective communication. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Credits: 3
ENGL 240 or MATH 108
×An examination of the variety and diversity of literature that forms a part of the imaginative experience of children and adolescents, as well as a part of a larger literary heritage, viewed in the light of their social, psychological, political, and moral implications. Exploration of book format, major genres, and works buy notable authors and illustrators. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Methods topics include teaching the usage of technology. Math topics include algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics. This course satisfies the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree, provided that Math for Elementary Teachers I has also been completed satisfactorily. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
HIST 216 or IIS 101
×This course will examine the environmental history of the Greater Pacific Northwest; the geographic area defined by the Columbia River watershed, including the coastal areas of present-day Oregon, extending north through the Salish Sea including into Canada. Topics covered will include natural history of the Pacific Northwest, the experience of native indigenous people as past, present, and on-going stewards of the land, the historical dynamic of the PNW as a meeting point of multiple cultures, and how historical cultural, social and economic values influence interaction with the environment as a set of changing relationships over time. It will also ask the class as a community and as individuals to reflect on how we understand and value our environment, how we interact with people and place, and how we engage with the past. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to American Indian and Indigenous Studies, a field of research grounded in the study of American Indian and indigenous peoples. This field emphasizes individual and community wellness, political self-determination, cultural revitalization and cross-cultural understanding. This course presents foundational terms, concepts and ideas and is recommended for all students but is particularly relevant for those who will pursue a degree in Native American Studies or Indigenous Studies or American Indian/Indigenous Studies. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
MATH 108 is offered every other Spring (even year). If MATH 108 is not offered this quarter, take Children’s Literature (ENGL 240). Students intending to transfer to a four-year college for further study are encouraged to work closely with their advisor and transfer institution to explore the Math requirements of the college they wish to attend after Peninsula.
Fourth Quarter
Transfer applications are open. We are here to help with the transfer process.
Introduction to the structural and functional characteristics of life. Surveys the evolutionary, ecological, cellular, and genetic biology of living organisms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
CMST& 210 or CMST& 220
×Interpersonal communication theory and practice is explored in this class in regards to both dyad and group settings. Communications process is explored through analysis of several areas, including: perception, listening, self disclosure, speech apprehension, ethics, nonverbal communication, conflict, power, and dysfunctional communication relationships. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores classic and modern elements of persuasion and applies that understanding to assemble, deliver, and evaluate extemporaneous speeches. Eligibility for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL& 101 is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An introductory course in understanding educational programs, and state and federal laws regarding the education of children with special needs. An overview of current issues, trends, and resources affecting services and programs for children with special needs. This class may include students from multiple sections. STARS approved. (Elective)
Credits: 3
Fifth Quarter
You’re knocking on the door! Check your Degree Progress Report to avoid any surprises and then apply for graduation.
Collect and record observation and assessment data in order to plan for and support the child, the family, the group, and the community. Practice reflection techniques, summarizing conclusions, and communicating findings. This class may include students from multiple sections. STARS approved.
Credits: 3
Take any course 100 level or above.
Elective
×Take any course 100 level or above.
Humanities or MATH 106
×Designed for future K-6 teachers. Focus is on mathematical concepts, including counting, number sense, operations, algorithms, fractions, ratio, and proportion. Method topics include teaching strategies, assessment methods, and processes of doing mathematics as related to elementary mathematics. This course does not fulfill the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)
Credits: 5
Humanities
CreditsCatalog #Subject 5Art
Study of two and three dimensional art concepts. Lectures and selected art projects. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The art of ancient civilizations, beginning with Paleolithic cave painting and megalithic monuments. Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Minoan, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine artistic traditions are studied in light of their cultural origins. Illustrated lectures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The art of western civilization from the early middle ages through the French revolution is considered. Periods explored include the Islamic, Carolingian, Celtic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, and Rococo. Illustrated lectures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The art of the modern age is explored. Developments studied include Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, the Fauves, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Surrealism, Regionalism, Abstraction, Pop Art, and Post Modernism. Illustrated lectures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
American Sign Language
Expanded study of ASL with emphasis on conversation skills and story telling; continued expansion of knowledge of Deaf culture and Deaf community. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Communication Study
Examines vital issues for people who use mass media or are affected by it. Emphasis on freedom of expression, censorship, fair trial, privacy, ethics, law, media economics, technology, effectiveness in communicating to audiences and relationships to social, cultural, and political values in the United States and throughout the world. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
In this course, students will be introduced to the various forms of professional communications. Students will create multimedia stories for web, radio/streaming/podcasting, online publications, and public relations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to Photojournalism I Foundation class in use of cameras, lenses, light, composition, timing, and field techniques. Emphasis on news and feature photography with principles applicable to all visual communications, including video. Produce black and white photos for assignments, mass communications, including the students news service The Buccaneer. Provide own DSLR camera equipment or mobile device and USB drive for photo storage and field work. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
This hands-on, project-based course introduces students to the basics of storytelling through creating their own podcasts, exploring their own voices and the voices of their communities. Students will examine different narrative styles and podcast types as well as interview techniques. Students will apply this knowledge while learning to plan, create, and publish podcast episodes. They can expect to become proficient in pitching ideas for stories, recording and interviewing, story boarding and writing scripts, as well as editing and crafting audio. Student may collaborate as groups or work individually to create their podcasts. Eligibility for college level English recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Social media weaves a comforting security net for some and a withering web for others. An in-depth look at storytelling practices and civic engagement using emerging web tools. The tools of mobile technology in social media will be explored as they effect civic engagement, cultures, and communities around the world. Explore the phenomena of Twitter, Reddit, and the rise of information empires in the ascent of Facebook, our chosen family and fate. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Learn in incremental stages to gather information through direct observation, interviewing, document searches, web searches, and database mining with software, such as Access and Excel, and to build a report. Use the tools of reporting to increase the accuracy and depth of news stories with an emphasis on public affairs. Learn the philosophy and anatomy of a narrative story, drawn from short story fiction and creative news stories. These tools will be applied in the pursuit of reporting basic news and to exploring trends, creating profiles, and dissecting organizations in more advanced stories. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
The editing class will engage students in the discipline of editing text and images for publication. News copy desk operations will be introduced, including headline writing, dummying, page design, pagination, creating news graphics, photo cropping, photo editing, and photo packaging. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Building on the skills from CMST 150, Introduction to Podcasting, this advanced, hands-on workshop focuses on creating a podcast series, with students producing a pilot episode of a story of their choice. Throughout the course, students will engage in all aspects of podcast production-from developing the show, managing files, and creating artwork to distribution. Along the way, they'll explore how storytelling relates to human experience, culture, and society, and experiment with different narrative structures and genres. The course also encourages students to think critically about the ethical, artistic, and intellectual dimensions of their creative choices, including how to engage their audience. Working solo or in teams, students will take their projects from initial idea to final edit, while giving and receiving feedback in a supportive, collaborative setting. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Communication Study (2)
Interpersonal communication theory and practice is explored in this class in regards to both dyad and group settings. Communications process is explored through analysis of several areas, including: perception, listening, self disclosure, speech apprehension, ethics, nonverbal communication, conflict, power, and dysfunctional communication relationships. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores classic and modern elements of persuasion and applies that understanding to assemble, deliver, and evaluate extemporaneous speeches. Eligibility for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL& 101 is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Drama
Introduction to history, art, and craft of theater. Plays are read and discussed. Play production is studied from the viewpoints of the playwright, actor, director, and theater technicians. Attendance at current community theater production is desirable. ENGL& 101 highly recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
English
Study of the major genres of multicultural literature, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Focus on understanding key concepts to increase appreciation and knowledge. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Discover successful ways of exploring fiction. Study of form and structure, as well as major novelists and short-story writers, past and modern. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Approach poetry successfully. Study of poetic form and structure, as well as major poets and poems, past and present, American and worldwide. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Helps to understand and experience a diversity of dramatic literature, from the Greeks through the Renaissance to modern and contemporary playwrights. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
General introduction to the works of Shakespeare, emphasizing the plays: tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances. Approaches Shakespeare both as poetry and as drama, concerning itself with language and with staging. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Survey of British literature from diverse periods. Selections will vary by quarter but will include classic and influential texts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Theme-based study of selected masterpieces of British literature in context. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Survey of classic works as well as new voices from the beginning of American literature to the present. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Theme-based study of selected masterpieces of American literature in context. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Survey of world literature from diverse cultures and periods, including historical contexts. Selections will vary by quarter but will include translations from African, Eastern, Latin, and Western literatures. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Theme-based study of selected masterpieces of African, Asian, European, and American literature in context. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Students will learn the elements of art and apply them to critiques of art works submitted to Tidepools art and literature magazine. Students will also learn the elements of fiction and poetry, and use them to critique creative writing submissions. Students will gain editing skills and practice communication skills while selecting, editing, and preparing art and creative writing for publication. Students will learn ethical, historical, and philosophical aspects of editing while serving as editors and will create and release a print magazine along with promotional materials, and will author and edit press releases, posters, and advertisements. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Students will learn the elements of art and apply them to critiques of art works submitted to Tidepools art and literature magazine. Students will also learn the elements of fiction and poetry, and use them to critique creative writing submissions. Students will gain editing skills and practice communication skills while selecting, editing, and preparing art and creative writing for publication. Students will learn ethical, historical, and philosophical aspects of editing while serving as editors and will create and release a print magazine along with promotional materials, and will author and edit press releases, posters, and advertisements. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Students will learn the elements of art and apply them to critiques of art works submitted to Tidepools art and literature magazine. Students will also learn the elements of fiction and poetry, and use them to critique creative writing submissions. Students will gain editing skills and practice communication skills while selecting, editing, and preparing art and creative writing for publication. Students will learn ethical, historical, and philosophical aspects of editing while serving as editors and will create and release a print magazine along with promotional materials, and will author and edit press releases, posters, and advertisements. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An examination of the variety and diversity of literature that forms a part of the imaginative experience of children and adolescents, as well as a part of a larger literary heritage, viewed in the light of their social, psychological, political, and moral implications. Exploration of book format, major genres, and works buy notable authors and illustrators. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An examination of literary works from a variety of cultural perspectives. Contemporary texts and local guest speakers from different cultures increase students’ awareness and understanding of the values, beliefs, stories, interests, and experiences of those cultures. Students define their own cultural identity and participate in service learning. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Film
Study of film as visual text, including key terms, primary practitioners, and major developments. Examination of film as transmitter of themes and values. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to authorship in the cinema. Examination of the work of a major director or directors. Exploration of the director's life, film style, and themes. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to study of film genre through looking at either one or several film genres, including literary, mythic, historic, and theoretical aspects. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of connected works of literature and film. The films and texts may be direct adaptations of each other or may be connected thematically. The course will focus on a specific overall theme, genre, historical period, and/or author. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
French, Klallam, Makah, Quileute, and Spanish
Audio/oral approach, emphasizing speaking the language and incorporating short stories, comprehensive reviews and language drills. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
This is a continuation of KLA 122. We will continue deepening and expanding our understanding of the Klallam language. More on transitive and passive constructions; expressions of time, place, and path; discourse structure and storytelling patterns will be covered with ample practice in use. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Builds grammatically to future tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Builds grammatically to "intentive" (future) tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Continues Spanish I and II emphasis on the four skills of mastering a second language, listening, reading, writing, speaking. Introduction to culture of the Spanish-speaking countries. Learner-centered instruction. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Integrated Studies
Introduction to a range of artistic and intellectual expressions of what it means to be human. Areas explored may include architecture, dance, film, language, literature, music, painting, philosophy, photography, sculpture, and/ or theater. Discussion of these expressions, themes and styles, as well as their cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of thematic and stylistic connections between art forms, focusing on both theory and creative application. Art forms may include painting, photography, sculpture, dance, poetry, fiction, theater, film, and music. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of women’s voices and works in the Arts and Humanities from specific time periods and mediums. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Historical as well as cross-cultural study of popular literary and nonliterary texts, such as novels, magazines, comic books, films, television shows, advertisements, social media, superhero tales, music videos, and fashion trends. Focus on popular myths, icons, heroes, and/or rituals that have affected peoples’ lives and attitudes. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Exploration of a theme, area of knowledge, or period of intellectual history, focusing on seminal ideas and paradigm shifts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to a range of artistic and intellectual expressions of what it means to be human with particular attention to distinct paradigms that reflect indigenous history, culture, arts, and philosophies. Areas of attention/concentration include but are not limited to architecture, dance, film, language, literature, music, painting, philosophy, sculpture, and performance. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Include the study of a range of artistic and intellectual expressions of what it means to be human with particular attention to language revitalization, place-based knowledge and expression, and interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. Co-taught with an instructor of record and at least one but up to three co-teachers who are culture teachers or language teachers from indigenous tribes including but not limited to the Tribes of the Olympic Peninsula. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
An introductory course that explores the nature of knowledge and its pursuit from the primary academic disciplines of mathematics, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. An emphasis is placed on establishing linkages across these disciplines to expand the realm of possible discourse. Students will develop and apply critical thinking, communication, and self-assessment skills, along with the ability to integrate multiple perspectives. As part of the class, students will engage in interdisciplinary readings and discussions of seminal ideas on a common theme to be determined by the instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Makah
MAKAH 223 focuses on the use of relative clauses. Students learn to use informational question words like who or where and use them as relative clauses. The course also focuses on the interactive pronoun suffixes. Traditional Makah stories will guide the curriculum. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Music
Exploration of how and why we listen to music. Examination of the many roles that music plays in various world cultures. Musical examples drawn from Asia, Africa, Indonesia, North and South America (including Native American tribal groups), jazz, blues, and the Western classical tradition. No prior musical experience is necessary. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Develops musicianship through study and application of compositional elements. Emphasis on musical notation, aural skills, and aesthetic musical values. Each quarter prerequisite to the next or by permission of instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
A cultural/sociological history of pop music in the USA. Musical antecedents (blues, country, rhythm and blues) and outside influences (African drumming, Latin rhythms, folksingers) will be included, but the focus will be on the pop music of this period. The music will be addressed within the context of societal issues such as racism, conformity, generational conflict, governmental repression and censorship. This class my include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Philosophy
Examination of central issues from each major branch of philosophy. Emphasis on understanding and evaluating diverse answers to philosophical questions about human knowledge, existence, and moral values. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Study of informal logic. Emphasis on methods for identifying arguments, detecting common fallacies, and applying principles of correct inductive reasoning. Designed to improve rational thinking skills as applied to both belief and action. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to moral theory and its application to contemporary moral issues. Potential topics include nihilism, relativism, utilitarianism, Kant, legal punishment, distributive justice, terrorism, abortion, animal rights, and euthanasia. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Humanities-Performance
Max five credits allowed as performance.
Applies principles of art, combining theories of creative thinking and modern design. Problems in organization of compositional elements and two dimensional space concepts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Color theory based on traditional and contemporary color theories. Study of painting, materials, and techniques. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
This course is an introduction to the elements and principles of three dimensional design. We will work with diverse materials to create sculptural forms that develop each student’s personal expression and critical thinking skills. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Intensive study of line, value, perspective, and form, using various drawing mediums that offer a new way of seeing through investigation of visual language of drawing. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Intensive study of color and drawn forms offers new approach for seeing. Time divided between traditional and contemporary drawing techniques. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Experimental drawing, experience of drawing and seeing and possibilities of extending traditional concepts about drawing. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Printmaking from past through present. Study and application of basic printmaking techniques, concepts, and media. Covers linocuts, woodcuts, multicolor prints, and experimental monotypes. Introduces relief and intaglio techniques, with an emphasis on small editions. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
This class has a $20 printmaking course fee.
Credits: 5
Painting from past through present. Exploration of beginning painting techniques, concepts, composition problems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
The course is an introduction to creating drawings based on in-class observations of a range of posed models. The class also provides an overview of the drawing process as a form of visual thinking in relation to rendering the human figure through a variety of techniques and art-making materials ranging from charcoal and graphite to color pastels and acrylic paint. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
This course is an introduction to ceramics based materials and creative process, with emphasis on personal expression through diverse practices. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative hand building techniques and processes to create three dimensional sculptural forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.
Credits: 5
This course is an introduction to ceramics materials and creative processes, using the potter’s wheel. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative throwing techniques and firing processes to create functional forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.
Credits: 5
Acting I is an introduction to craft: the balance of external technique and internal elements in order to create a flexible but consistent process that can be used to create believable characters in a variety of settings. The class is a combination of theory and practice. Students are exposed to major post-Stanislavkian acting theories that are applied in scene and partner work. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Beginning writing in fiction and poetry, other modes by request. Workshop approach, with discussion of work by class members and instructor. Reading of contemporary fiction, poetry, and theory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Beginning script writing for film and television. Combination small lecture/workshop approach focusing on techniques, formats, and structure of scripts; plot and character development. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)
Credits: 5
Natural Sciences
×Anthropology
A survey of humankind from a biological perspective. Includes human evolution and variation, hominid phylogeny and taxonomic theory, and the interaction between human biology, behavior, and culture. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Astronomy and Physics
Introduction to the universe, with emphasis on conceptual, as contrasted with mathematical, comprehension. Modern theories and observations; ideas concerning nature and evolution of galaxies; quasars, stars, black holes, planets, and solar system. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
An introduction to physics intended for students not majoring in science. Topics include basic coverage of motion, force, energy, momentum, gravity, electricity and magnetism, light, waves, and relativity. Course includes one lab credit. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Basic principles of physics presented without use of calculus. Suitable for students majoring in technically oriented fields other than engineering or the physical sciences. Mechanics. Working knowledge of algebra and trigonometry: one year high school physics is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Basic principles of mechanics and experiments in mechanics for physical science and engineering majors. One year high school physics is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Biology
Introduction to the structural and functional characteristics of life. Surveys the evolutionary, ecological, cellular, and genetic biology of living organisms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Includes process of science, overview of central ideas of biology (unity, diversity, interdependence, evolution), basic chemistry concepts, biomolecules, cell structure, cell physiology (including enzyme function, energetics, synthesis of DNA, RNA and protein), cell reproduction, introduction to genetics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
First course in the three-quarter sequence of introductory biology for science students. An introduction to evolutionary and ecological processes involved in the generation of our planet’s biodiversity, including a review of patterns and processes that influence the origin, evolution, distribution, and abundance of living things. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Second course in the three-quarter sequence of introductory biology for science students. Introduction to structure and function of biomolecules, cells, and membranes; photosynthesis and respiration; molecular origin of life; phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of prokaryotes; and molecular genetics and genomics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Third course in the three-quarter sequence of introductory biology for science students. Introduction to the study of the structure and function of plants and animals and how they cope with varying environmental conditions. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Structure and function of the human body. Homeostasis; tissues; integumentary, skeletal, nervous, and muscular systems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms. Includes microbial structure, metabolism, genetics, ecology, technological applications, microbial diseases of humans, immunology, public health, and medical control strategies. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Hands-on approach utilizing facilities at local marine laboratory, field trips, and group projects to learn biological concepts relevant to marine biology. Emphasis on local organisms and ecology. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
First course in the two-quarter sequence of introductory biology for forestry students. Topics include cell structure and function, cellular energy metabolism, photosynthesis, genetics, and various facets of zoology, including anatomy and physiology, physiological ecology, and development. Current research will be used to illustrate the scientific and social importance of these topics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Second course in the two-quarter sequence of introductory biology for forestry students. Topics include plant growth and survival, photosynthesis, and plant/ environmental interactions, evolution and diversity of living plants and animals, fundamentals of ecology, and conservation biology. Current research will be used to illustrate the scientific and social importance of these topics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Botany
Introduction to general plant biology. Anatomy, physiology, and diversity of common protists, fungi, and plants, with emphasis on plants of the Pacific Northwest. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Chemistry
Introduction to chemistry covering selected principles and their effect on ourselves and our environment. Intended for non-science majors wishing to improve their science literacy and develop a long-term interest in science. Includes online lab. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
For individuals with little or no chemistry background. Atomic nature of matter, chemical bonding, periodic table, chemical reactions, phases of matter, solutions, equilibrium, reaction rates, and nuclear reactions. Includes laboratory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Presents organic chemistry and biochemistry, with emphasis on functional groups, synthesis, and biochemical applications. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 6
For science and engineering majors. This course focuses on the fundamentals of chemical structures: atomic nature of matter, atomic structure, periodic trends, quantum concepts, molecular structure, and chemical reactions. Three hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy
Only five credits from this category can count toward the Natural Sciences distribution.
An introduction to fundamentals of computer science. Topics covered include algorithmic design; problem-solving techniques for computer programming; fundamentals of digital logic and computer organization; the role of the operating system; introductory programming methodology, including variables, assignment statements, control statements and subroutines (methods); programming paradigms; the compilation process; theoretical limits of computation; database structures; and social and ethical issues. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
A study of a variety of mathematical topics for non-science majors. The topics covered may differ between sections, but may include problem solving strategies, logic, set theory, number theory, mathematics of finance, probability and statistics, or geometry. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Analysis of linear, piecewise, quadratic, polynomial, rational, inverse, exponential, and logarithmic functions; their applications; and their graphs. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Conic sections; trigonometric functions; identities; inverse trigonometric functions; trigonometric equations; solutions of right triangles; laws of sines and cosines; vectors; polar coordinates; and complex numbers. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to methods and applications of elementary descriptive and inferential statistics; summarizing data graphically and numerically, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation and linear regression. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Limits, rates of change, graphing, differentiating, optimizing, polynomials, integration, logarithmic and exponential functions, implicit differentiation, business applications. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Limits and continuity; techniques and applications of derivatives of algebraic and transcendental functions; an introduction to antiderivatives. This class may include students from multiple sections. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Integration involving algebraic and transcendental functions. Applications of integration, including an introduction to differential equations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Sequences and series, vector algebra and vector functions, functions of several variables, and partial derivatives. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Methods topics include teaching the usage of technology. Math topics include algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics. This course satisfies the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree, provided that Math for Elementary Teachers I has also been completed satisfactorily. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
The study of linear, quadratic, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, and solving their related equations; systems of equations; matrices; linear programming (graphically); and the mathematics of finance. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to first-order symbolic logic. Topics include symbolizing, truth tables, truth trees, proofs for sentence and predicate logic with identity, conditional and indirect proof, and invalidating interpretations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Environmental Science
Scientific approach to understanding nature and scope of contemporary problems in our environment. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
An interdisciplinary science course for both non-science majors and science students. Topics include the practice of environmental science, ecological principles, demographics, forest and wildlife resources, energy, planning, climate change, and pollution. Underlying scientific principles and practices, including the exploration and presentation of scientific uncertainty, are identified and related to societal issues. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores past and present contributions from major events and leaders to the sustainability movement. It combines the basic ways natural systems work with an understanding of economics, social equity, and ecology, followed by a critical analysis of the societal value and environmental impact of trends in sustainability. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Geography
Geodesy and mapping; introduction to atmospheric science, weather, climate, the oceans, hydrology, and the earth’s heat budget. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Geology
A survey of Earth science including topics on rock and mineral characteristics, natural hazards, surface and groundwater environments, marine and continental environments, resources, land-forms, and global climate change. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to geology and survey of the processes that shape the surface of the earth, including water, wind, ice, and gravity. Topics covered include: plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, the geologic time scale, and concepts of mineralogy and petrology. Lab included. Field trips may be required. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to historical geology and paleontology. Studies the formation and development through time of the solid Earth, atmosphere, and biosphere. Covers past movements and locations of the continents and interpretation of past environments as recorded in rock and fossil records as well as the history of life and how living organisms evolved over geologic time from the first single-celled organisms through the first invertebrates, vertebrates and plants, to the dinosaurs, and on to the rise of the mammals and early hominids. Includes the chance to examine fossils of early life, various invertebrates, fish, other prehistoric animals, and ancient plants. Lab included. Field trips may be required. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores processes that form and shape the earth. These processes comprise a series of integrated systems that interact to produce the earth's continents, oceans, atmosphere, and life. Lab included. Field trips may be required. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Nutrition
Basic principles of nutrition across the lifespan. Details the digestive process, the digestion and absorption of macro and micronutrients including vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Examines the role of nutrition in the maintenance of optimal health and disease prevention. Includes analysis of personal dietary habits and the components of a healthful diet. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Oceanography
General survey of geological, physical, chemical, and biological oceanography. Includes history of oceanography, origin of ocean basins, plate tectonics, sea floor, waves, tides, currents, properties of water, composition of seawater, ocean productivity, pelagic environment, benthic environment, coastal processes, marine resources, and pollution. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Formerly OCEA& 101, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Zoology
Introduction to the animal phyla. Studies of animal anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, and evolution illustrate the diversity and unity of animal life. Emphasis on animals of the Pacific Northwest. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Humanities + Choose an Art course.
MATH 106 is offered every other Winter (even year). If MATH 106 is not offered this quarter, take a Humanities course. Students intending to transfer to a four-year college for further study are encouraged to work closely with their advisor and transfer institution to explore the Math requirements of the college they wish to attend after Peninsula.
Sixth Quarter
You're almost done! Time to order that cap and gown. Good luck on your final quarter!
ENGL 240 or MATH 108
×An examination of the variety and diversity of literature that forms a part of the imaginative experience of children and adolescents, as well as a part of a larger literary heritage, viewed in the light of their social, psychological, political, and moral implications. Exploration of book format, major genres, and works buy notable authors and illustrators. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)
Credits: 5
Methods topics include teaching the usage of technology. Math topics include algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics. This course satisfies the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree, provided that Math for Elementary Teachers I has also been completed satisfactorily. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
HIST 216 or IIS 101
×This course will examine the environmental history of the Greater Pacific Northwest; the geographic area defined by the Columbia River watershed, including the coastal areas of present-day Oregon, extending north through the Salish Sea including into Canada. Topics covered will include natural history of the Pacific Northwest, the experience of native indigenous people as past, present, and on-going stewards of the land, the historical dynamic of the PNW as a meeting point of multiple cultures, and how historical cultural, social and economic values influence interaction with the environment as a set of changing relationships over time. It will also ask the class as a community and as individuals to reflect on how we understand and value our environment, how we interact with people and place, and how we engage with the past. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to American Indian and Indigenous Studies, a field of research grounded in the study of American Indian and indigenous peoples. This field emphasizes individual and community wellness, political self-determination, cultural revitalization and cross-cultural understanding. This course presents foundational terms, concepts and ideas and is recommended for all students but is particularly relevant for those who will pursue a degree in Native American Studies or Indigenous Studies or American Indian/Indigenous Studies. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Natural Sciences
×Anthropology
A survey of humankind from a biological perspective. Includes human evolution and variation, hominid phylogeny and taxonomic theory, and the interaction between human biology, behavior, and culture. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Astronomy and Physics
Introduction to the universe, with emphasis on conceptual, as contrasted with mathematical, comprehension. Modern theories and observations; ideas concerning nature and evolution of galaxies; quasars, stars, black holes, planets, and solar system. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
An introduction to physics intended for students not majoring in science. Topics include basic coverage of motion, force, energy, momentum, gravity, electricity and magnetism, light, waves, and relativity. Course includes one lab credit. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Basic principles of physics presented without use of calculus. Suitable for students majoring in technically oriented fields other than engineering or the physical sciences. Mechanics. Working knowledge of algebra and trigonometry: one year high school physics is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Basic principles of mechanics and experiments in mechanics for physical science and engineering majors. One year high school physics is recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Biology
Introduction to the structural and functional characteristics of life. Surveys the evolutionary, ecological, cellular, and genetic biology of living organisms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Includes process of science, overview of central ideas of biology (unity, diversity, interdependence, evolution), basic chemistry concepts, biomolecules, cell structure, cell physiology (including enzyme function, energetics, synthesis of DNA, RNA and protein), cell reproduction, introduction to genetics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
First course in the three-quarter sequence of introductory biology for science students. An introduction to evolutionary and ecological processes involved in the generation of our planet’s biodiversity, including a review of patterns and processes that influence the origin, evolution, distribution, and abundance of living things. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Second course in the three-quarter sequence of introductory biology for science students. Introduction to structure and function of biomolecules, cells, and membranes; photosynthesis and respiration; molecular origin of life; phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of prokaryotes; and molecular genetics and genomics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Third course in the three-quarter sequence of introductory biology for science students. Introduction to the study of the structure and function of plants and animals and how they cope with varying environmental conditions. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Structure and function of the human body. Homeostasis; tissues; integumentary, skeletal, nervous, and muscular systems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms. Includes microbial structure, metabolism, genetics, ecology, technological applications, microbial diseases of humans, immunology, public health, and medical control strategies. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Hands-on approach utilizing facilities at local marine laboratory, field trips, and group projects to learn biological concepts relevant to marine biology. Emphasis on local organisms and ecology. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
First course in the two-quarter sequence of introductory biology for forestry students. Topics include cell structure and function, cellular energy metabolism, photosynthesis, genetics, and various facets of zoology, including anatomy and physiology, physiological ecology, and development. Current research will be used to illustrate the scientific and social importance of these topics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Second course in the two-quarter sequence of introductory biology for forestry students. Topics include plant growth and survival, photosynthesis, and plant/ environmental interactions, evolution and diversity of living plants and animals, fundamentals of ecology, and conservation biology. Current research will be used to illustrate the scientific and social importance of these topics. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Botany
Introduction to general plant biology. Anatomy, physiology, and diversity of common protists, fungi, and plants, with emphasis on plants of the Pacific Northwest. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Chemistry
Introduction to chemistry covering selected principles and their effect on ourselves and our environment. Intended for non-science majors wishing to improve their science literacy and develop a long-term interest in science. Includes online lab. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
For individuals with little or no chemistry background. Atomic nature of matter, chemical bonding, periodic table, chemical reactions, phases of matter, solutions, equilibrium, reaction rates, and nuclear reactions. Includes laboratory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Presents organic chemistry and biochemistry, with emphasis on functional groups, synthesis, and biochemical applications. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 6
For science and engineering majors. This course focuses on the fundamentals of chemical structures: atomic nature of matter, atomic structure, periodic trends, quantum concepts, molecular structure, and chemical reactions. Three hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy
Only five credits from this category can count toward the Natural Sciences distribution.
An introduction to fundamentals of computer science. Topics covered include algorithmic design; problem-solving techniques for computer programming; fundamentals of digital logic and computer organization; the role of the operating system; introductory programming methodology, including variables, assignment statements, control statements and subroutines (methods); programming paradigms; the compilation process; theoretical limits of computation; database structures; and social and ethical issues. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
A study of a variety of mathematical topics for non-science majors. The topics covered may differ between sections, but may include problem solving strategies, logic, set theory, number theory, mathematics of finance, probability and statistics, or geometry. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Analysis of linear, piecewise, quadratic, polynomial, rational, inverse, exponential, and logarithmic functions; their applications; and their graphs. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Conic sections; trigonometric functions; identities; inverse trigonometric functions; trigonometric equations; solutions of right triangles; laws of sines and cosines; vectors; polar coordinates; and complex numbers. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to methods and applications of elementary descriptive and inferential statistics; summarizing data graphically and numerically, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation and linear regression. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Limits, rates of change, graphing, differentiating, optimizing, polynomials, integration, logarithmic and exponential functions, implicit differentiation, business applications. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Limits and continuity; techniques and applications of derivatives of algebraic and transcendental functions; an introduction to antiderivatives. This class may include students from multiple sections. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Integration involving algebraic and transcendental functions. Applications of integration, including an introduction to differential equations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Sequences and series, vector algebra and vector functions, functions of several variables, and partial derivatives. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Methods topics include teaching the usage of technology. Math topics include algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics. This course satisfies the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree, provided that Math for Elementary Teachers I has also been completed satisfactorily. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
The study of linear, quadratic, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, and solving their related equations; systems of equations; matrices; linear programming (graphically); and the mathematics of finance. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to first-order symbolic logic. Topics include symbolizing, truth tables, truth trees, proofs for sentence and predicate logic with identity, conditional and indirect proof, and invalidating interpretations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Environmental Science
Scientific approach to understanding nature and scope of contemporary problems in our environment. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
An interdisciplinary science course for both non-science majors and science students. Topics include the practice of environmental science, ecological principles, demographics, forest and wildlife resources, energy, planning, climate change, and pollution. Underlying scientific principles and practices, including the exploration and presentation of scientific uncertainty, are identified and related to societal issues. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores past and present contributions from major events and leaders to the sustainability movement. It combines the basic ways natural systems work with an understanding of economics, social equity, and ecology, followed by a critical analysis of the societal value and environmental impact of trends in sustainability. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Geography
Geodesy and mapping; introduction to atmospheric science, weather, climate, the oceans, hydrology, and the earth’s heat budget. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Geology
A survey of Earth science including topics on rock and mineral characteristics, natural hazards, surface and groundwater environments, marine and continental environments, resources, land-forms, and global climate change. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to geology and survey of the processes that shape the surface of the earth, including water, wind, ice, and gravity. Topics covered include: plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, the geologic time scale, and concepts of mineralogy and petrology. Lab included. Field trips may be required. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Introduction to historical geology and paleontology. Studies the formation and development through time of the solid Earth, atmosphere, and biosphere. Covers past movements and locations of the continents and interpretation of past environments as recorded in rock and fossil records as well as the history of life and how living organisms evolved over geologic time from the first single-celled organisms through the first invertebrates, vertebrates and plants, to the dinosaurs, and on to the rise of the mammals and early hominids. Includes the chance to examine fossils of early life, various invertebrates, fish, other prehistoric animals, and ancient plants. Lab included. Field trips may be required. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
Explores processes that form and shape the earth. These processes comprise a series of integrated systems that interact to produce the earth's continents, oceans, atmosphere, and life. Lab included. Field trips may be required. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Nutrition
Basic principles of nutrition across the lifespan. Details the digestive process, the digestion and absorption of macro and micronutrients including vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Examines the role of nutrition in the maintenance of optimal health and disease prevention. Includes analysis of personal dietary habits and the components of a healthful diet. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Oceanography
General survey of geological, physical, chemical, and biological oceanography. Includes history of oceanography, origin of ocean basins, plate tectonics, sea floor, waves, tides, currents, properties of water, composition of seawater, ocean productivity, pelagic environment, benthic environment, coastal processes, marine resources, and pollution. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Formerly OCEA& 101, Natural Sciences, Elective)
Credits: 5
Zoology
Introduction to the animal phyla. Studies of animal anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, and evolution illustrate the diversity and unity of animal life. Emphasis on animals of the Pacific Northwest. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)
Credits: 5
MATH 108 is offered every other Spring (even year). If MATH 108 is not offered this quarter, take Children’s Literature (ENGL 240). Students intending to transfer to a four-year college for further study are encouraged to work closely with their advisor and transfer institution to explore the Math requirements of the college they wish to attend after Peninsula.