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| Contact: | Jeff Lowrance 704-216-3467 lowrancej@rowancabarrus.edu |
For Immediate Release
Starts in October
SALISBURY, N.C. — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College’s 8-week “mini-semester” begins Oct. 18. The 8-week semester gives students the opportunity to earn full course credits in a condensed period of time.
The mini-semester
course offerings include:
- North Carolina business taxes;
- Accounting software applications;
- Business law;
- Principles of management;
- Survey of economics;
- AC circuit analysis;
- Nail manicure technology;
- Routing basics;
- Introduction to political science;
- Real estate broker pre-licensing;
- Windows single user;
- Linux/UNIX administration; and
- Internet/web fundamentals.
Mini-semester classes meet one, two or three times a week, with morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Credit hours range from two to six. For a complete listing and schedule of mini-semester classes, see the RCCC website at: http://www.rowancabarrus.edu/schedule/fall07/minimester2.pdf.
RCCC will hold mini-semester registration on Oct. 16, from 9-10 a.m., and 5-6 p.m., in the north and south campus Student Services office. RCCC’s north campus is located at I-85 and Jake Alexander Blvd., in Salisbury. The south campus is at 1531Trinity Church Rd., just off I-85 at exit 55, in Concord. Call RCCC Students Services for more details – 704-216-3593 or 3637.
RCCC offers day and evening classes, internet classes, college classes for high school students, and tuition-free classes for persons 65 and older. RCCC trains and educates students for jobs available now and in the future, like those in biotechnology. Students wanting to pursue a four-year degree can take the first two years of college at RCCC, close to home and at an affordable price. RCCC also offers GED and basic skills programs and English-as-a-second-language classes.
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. RCCC offers approximately 40 programs of study in business, health and human services and engineering technologies at multiple campus locations. RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an enrollment of approximately 20,000 adult students. RCCC programs include an associate degree in arts and sciences, an associate degree in applied science, and diploma and certificate programs focusing on workforce training, continuing education and basic skills education.
In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus, under construction in Kannapolis, N.C.
For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.