This program prepares students for administrative careers in a broad variety of health care settings.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Perform within the ethical and legal parameters of an administrative medical office professional.

🗸 Locate, use and refer to credible professional and technical resources as needed in day-to-day office business.

🗸 Apply observation, adaptability, critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to continuously improve patient interactions, administrative operations and staff relations in the medical office.

🗸 Succinctly and accurately communicate and follow through with patients and members of the healthcare team using various modalities, including up-to-date computer technology.

🗸 Implement efficient time-management techniques to ensure smooth patient flow in a medical office.

Those who complete the MPC Great Books Program receive a Certificate of Achievement recognizing them as a “Great Books Scholar.” This designation aids in transfer and scholarship applications, enhances resumes for future employers, and signifies verbal fluency and cultural literacy.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Express, orally and through cogent writing, a thorough knowledge and understanding of Great Books concepts, traditions of inquiry, and critiques.

🗸 Provide evidence of a thorough, comprehensive knowledge of particular literary, historical, and philosophical works and their presentation of perennial, enduring questions.

🗸 Consider ideas syntopically and discuss the products of the Western literary and cultural tradition as an ongoing Great Conversation.

The Creative Writing Certificate of Achievement program provides students the opportunity to pursue their interest in writing through intensive study and practice of the literary arts. Students create original, polished creative work in multiple genres and discuss creative works in a supportive writing workshop environment. The program benefits students planning to major in Creative Writing at a four-year institution and anyone with an interest in exploring their creativity and developing stronger writing, reading, and critical thinking skills.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Read, analyze and write works of creative prose and poetry.

🗸 Suggest improvements (in writing and in discussion) to works evaluated, using concepts and vocabulary appropriate to the relevant literary genre.

🗸 Revise their own works of creative prose and poetry, applying concepts and techniques appropriate to the relevant literary genre.

This program prepares students for entry-level positions as medical insurance coding specialists.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Succinctly and accurately communicate and follow up with members of the healthcare team using various modalities including up-to-date computer technology.

🗸 Apply accurate procedure and diagnostic codes to medical insurance claims based upon supporting medical information and in accordance with legal regulations and ethical guidelines.

🗸 Locate, use and refer to credible professional and technical resources as needed in coding and billing procedures.

🗸 Apply critical thinking, adaptability and problem-solving techniques to continuously improve billing operations and staff relations in the medical office.

🗸 Implement efficient time-management techniques to ensure smooth billing operations and contribute to smooth patient flow in a medical office.

This certificate gives students a grounding in sustainable landscape irrigation based on local practices. It includes the opportunity to become certified as a Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL). QWEL is a widely recognized certification based on principles of sustainable landscape design and water conservation in the design and management of landscape irrigation systems.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Pass the Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper exam.

🗸 Conduct a landscape water audit and make recommendations to enhance efficiency.

🗸 Design a small landscape irrigation system appropriate to the soil and plant materials.

🗸 Determine the water needs of landscape species.

🗸 Explain and apply the evapotranspiration rates of the Monterey Peninsula throughout the irrigation season.

🗸 Explain and choose appropriate irrigation components for water delivery and scheduling.

The Intermediate Level Certificate of Completion, which is attained upon the successful completion of English as a Second Language courses in level 3, signifies an intermediate level of mastery in reading, writing, and speaking skills in English as a Second Language.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Write a focused, unified paragraph with a topic sentence, using a variety of structures, and vocabulary on familiar topics.

🗸 Show developing mastery of new vocabulary in either oral or written communication.

🗸 Read and understand simplified academic, literary, and personal texts that range from 1-3 pages in length.

🗸 Demonstrate comprehension of 2-3 minute oral discourse on familiar topics/current issues, with the ability to respond with developing fluency.

The English as a Second Language High-Beginning Level Certificate of Completion, which is attained upon the successful completion of English as a Second Language courses in level 2, signifies a high-beginning level of mastery in reading, writing, and speaking skills in English as a Second Language.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Identify main ideas and supportive details of a one page simplified text reading.

🗸 Use simple present, past, and future tenses in simple and complex sentences.

🗸 Write a unified paragraph with appropriate sentence boundaries.

🗸 Understand English used in shared, personal experiences.

🗸 Speak for 1-2 minutes on personal and familiar topics using a combination of phrases, sentences, and pronunciation generally understood by native speakers.

🗸 Apply new vocabulary in either oral or written communication.

The Advanced Level Certificate of Completion, which is attained upon the successful completion of English as a Second Language courses in level 5, signifies an advanced level of mastery in reading, writing, and speaking skills in English as a Second Language.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Compose a persuasive essay with a clear thesis statement, introduction, body, and conclusion.

🗸 Read and distinguish the characteristics of a range of professional, academic, and literary texts.

🗸 Demonstrate knowledge of interpersonal communication principles through a variety of interpersonal situations in written and oral assignments.

🗸 Give informative and persuasive speeches related to cross-cultural communication, incorporating secondary sources to support ideas.

Engineering involves the use of science and mathematics to develop products, systems, or services that benefit society. This program prepares students for transfer into an Engineering baccalaureate program by providing coursework aligned with three key discipline clusters:

🗸 Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace, and Manufacturing

🗸 Electrical

🗸 Computer and Software

The Engineering Certificate of Achievement is intended to provide the shortest pathway to transfer with the greatest amount of major preparation, and includes a minimal set of General Education classes required for admissions to most university engineering baccalaureate programs.

Since individual university engineering transfer requirements differ, please confirm course selection with an MPC counselor.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Use the engineering method to solve technical problems or create products or processes.

🗸 Use the scientific method to investigate phenomena in the natural world and use concepts, experiments, and/or theory to explain them.

🗸 Analyze and evaluate complex issues or problems, draw reasoned conclusions and/or generate solutions, and effectively communicate their results.

The Engineering Fundamentals Certificate of Achievement combines a solid grounding in the basic principles that underly all engineering disciplines with a choice of electives that provide pathways to work experience or further study leading to the Engineering Certificate of Achievement or Associate in Science Degree.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

🗸 Use the scientific method to investigate phenomena in the natural world and use concepts, experiments, and/or theory to explain them.

🗸 Use the engineering method to solve technical problems or create products or processes.

🗸 Analyze and evaluate complex issues or problems, draw reasoned conclusions and/or generate solutions, and effectively communicate their results.