The Banking and Finance program introduces students to broad range of banking and finance including asset and liability management, financial decision making, financial markets and institutions, and gain practical knowledge of the core principles of accounting and economics. Coursework will include: 1) an overview of banking system; 2) specific banking functions and the role of banking in the economy; 4) review legal and regulatory issues, including compliance; and 5) explore the Federal Reserve System’s policies and operations.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

- Apply appropriate critical and problem solving skills to a banking situation dealing with services banks provide to the public.

- Critique the functions of money and evaluate which functions holds the greatest significance.

- Investigate the technology advances in the bank’s cash management systems, and evaluate the strength and weakness of each systems.

The Certificate of Achievement in Indigenous Languages and Cultures -Mam is designed to assist community members and students develop an understanding and appreciation of an indigenous language still spoken by thousands of Mam people in Central America, Mexico and United States. The certificate is designed to prepare community members and students to know the roots of their Mayan culture and civilization and the MayanMam speakers. Honoring a community-based approach, the Mam courses emphasize a deep knowledge and understanding of the language and the culture.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

   - Demonstrate oral competence in the Mam language

   - Demonstrate written competence in the Mam language.

   - Describe and analyze critically the intersections between Mam, Spanish, and English in the US.

   - Analyze and interpret pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary oral and written documents and texts of resistance created by the Mayan / Mam people.

The certificate in Database Management with SQL prepares students for careers as Database Administrators, or as software developers with skills in database programming. The program provides the analytical, methodological, and language skills required within the computer industry, and serves as a partial foundation for continued education at four-year institutions. It provides a “merit badge” certification of a skill set needed in a vital career field. See a counselor for more information.

Program Learning Outcomes:

- Develop Data Models such as Class Diagrams or Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) from business processes to support database analysis and design.

- Create and modify a database and its tables using Structured Query Language’s Data Definition Language (SQL-DDL) features.

- Write programs that store and modify data in database tables using Structured Query Language’s Data Manipulation Language (SQL-DML) features.

The certificate in Computer Systems Analysis prepares students for careers as Systems Analysts, or as software developers with duties in analysis and design. The program provides the analytical, methodological, and language skills required within the computer industry, and serves as a partial foundation for continued education at four-year institutions. It provides a “merit badge” certification of a skill set needed in a vital career field. See a counselor for more information.

Program Learning Outcomes:

- Explain the purpose of systems analysis and design, life cycle of systems design, iterative, and waterfall development processes, object oriented analysis and design.

- Gather data to identify client requirements and interpret and evaluate requirements for completeness, relevance, accuracy, and consistency. Clearly define problems, opportunities, or mandates that initiate projects, write clear and concise business requirements documents and convert them into technical specifications.

- Use UML in requirements, analysis, design, and documentation phases of software. Use a methodology for analyzing a business situation (a problem or opportunity), modeling it using Use Case & Class Diagrams, and specifying requirements for a system that enables a productive change in a way the business is conducted.

- Design high-level logical system characteristics (user interface design, design of data and information requirements), and prototype system artifacts to implement a solution.

- Analyze and articulate economic, ethical, cultural, and legal issues and their feasibilities among alternative solutions.

- Communicate effectively with various organizational stakeholders to collect information using a variety of techniques and to convey proposed solution characteristics to them.

The Architectural Department offers vocational and paraprofessional programs in architectural technology as well as preparation for transfer to four- and five-year architecture programs.

The curriculum provides necessary skills for employment in the design and construction fields. Students may prepare for positions as CAD drafting technicians, 3-D project renderers, and other similarly related occupations in public and private sector architecture and construction/building industry related offices. Supplemental courses offer students a broad architectural and general education background and enable them to continue their education in architecture at the university level.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

- Create a Building Design using manual/computer tools.

- Create Accurate Detailed Drawings

- Verbally and Graphically present ideas

The certificate in Computer Programming with Java prepares students for careers as software developers. The program provides the analytical, methodological, and language skills required within the computer industry, and serves as a partial foundation for continued education at four-year institutions. It provides a “merit badge” certification of a skill set needed in a vital career field. See a counselor for more information.

Program Learning Outcomes:

- Computer Software Development: Demonstrate the ability to apply data requirements, algorithmic principles, and software development practice in the modeling and design of computer-based systems in a way that proves comprehension of the tradeoffs involved in design choices.

- Programming Skills: Demonstrate an understanding and competence in the ability to analyze a problem, using algorithms to create computer systems and appropriate problem solving using a programming language

- Solve Business Problems with Computers: Interpret and analyze a business information problem and design, code, compile, test and debug a program solution in C++ using proper program syntax balancing efficiency and maintainability, and manage project tasks required for completion of a computer system development project.

The certificate in Computer Programming with C++ prepares students for careers as software developers. The program provides the analytical, methodological, and language skills required within the computer industry, and serves as a partial foundation for continued education at four-year institutions. It provides a “merit badge” certification of a skill set needed in a vital career field. See a counselor for more information.

Program Learning Outcomes:

- Computer Software Development: Demonstrate the ability to apply data requirements, algorithmic principles, and software development practice in the modeling and design of computer-based systems in a way that proves comprehension of the tradeoffs involved in design choices.

- Programming Skills: Demonstrate an understanding and competence in the ability to analyze a problem, using algorithms to create computer systems and appropriate problem solving using a programming language.

- Solve Business Problems with Computers: Interpret and analyze a business information problem and design, code, compile, test and debug a program solution in C++ using proper program syntax balancing efficiency and maintainability, and manage project tasks required for completion of a computer system development project.

Welding Technology offers an opportunity to learn cognitive and manipulative welding skills which prepare the student for employment in occupations that use welding applications.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

   - Students will recognize the value of wearing safety glasses in the lab by: 1) describing the dangers to the eyes in the welding lab, (such as UV rays, projectiles, chemicals and sparks/molten material); 2) complying consistently with the Department policy of always wearing safety glasses in the lab.

   - Students will determine several advantages and disadvantages of a given welding process, and differentiate between different welding processes.

   - Students will correctly list steps for setup and shut down of regulator and torch set for Oxy Acetylene welding. In the lab, they will perform these steps and correctly adjust for a neutral flame.

   - Students will set up an arc welding power supply and its related components for SMAW, GMAW and GTAW processes, strike an arc, and complete a weld in the flat position compliant with AWS D1.1 code standards.

The Certificate of Achievement in Wood Technology offers woodworking instruction for career-oriented students. The two primary objectives of the program is to make each student a safe machine and/or tool user, and to provide the student with the problem-solving tools that relate to four-dimensional wood-based construction. Students will learn throughout the program the fundamentals of wood technology: operational machine safety, material classifications, selections and applications, primary fabrication processes and techniques, advanced construction problems and techniques, application of hardware and finishes, modern Computer Numerical Control (CNC) based cabinet manufacturing methodologies. Employment-oriented students are assisted in finding work fabricating custom furniture, kitchen cabinets, commercial fixtures, architectural millwork, and a wide variety of other wood products.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

   - Skills: Students will develop a foundation of core skills necessary to effectively use hand tools, operate power tools, do design and layout for projects, and work with CAD/CAM software and CNC equipment that is current for the cabinet and furniture making industry.

   - Materials and Practices: Students will identify, analyze, evaluate and apply materials of the trade to the appropriate production standards creating efficient work flows for shop projects with optimal material use.

   - Communication and Calculate: Students will interpret, analyze and calculate in order to create architectural drawings and other shop documents used in the contemporary woodworking trade and communicate essential information from these documents to coworkers and clients with the appropriate nomenclature.

   - Safety: Students will evaluate, set up and operate stationary woodworking machines, portable power tools, and hand tools according to safe standard operational practices.

Laney College’s Wood Technology focused Digital Fabrication Technology Program prepares graduates for modern Digital Fabrication and Advanced Manufacturing careers in furniture, cabinet, industrial art, custom installation and parts manufacturing shops. These multi-disciplinary courses emphasize and expand on the fundamentals of computer-assisted design (CAD) and computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM) techniques. Students will learn intermediate and advanced skills in iterative, design-oriented thinking by employing rapid prototyping philosophy framed within a creative problem-solving mindset. Graduates will leave with the ability to: conceptualize a project, 3D model it in its entirety, create the project using computer numerically controlled (CNC) and advanced manufacturing equipment, rapidly analyze and improve a project through iteration, and finish a project using modern and hand techniques.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

   - Safety - Demonstrate proper safety protocols of all tools and equipment in the classroom.

   - Skills - Students will be able to use modern industrial computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment to produce projects and apply improvements within the prototyping process using engineering and design principles.

   - Materials and Practices - Students will identify, analyze, evaluate and apply the correct materials to the appropriate production parameters creating efficient work flows for projects with optimal material use.