Dental Assisting - One-Year Certificate of Completion (CC1)
The Dental Assisting One-Year Certificate of Completion trains individuals in a broad range of clinical and administrative skills, such as preparing patients for dental treatment, assisting a dentist with patient care, performing expanded functions procedures, taking dental radiographs and dental impressions, performing disinfection and sterilization procedures, scheduling patients and appointment procedures, and creating and maintaining legal records. Graduates are prepared for the Dental Assisting National Board examinations and the Oregon Expanded Function Dental Assistant certificate.
Courses
- AH 105 — Math for Health Sciences (3 Credits)
- AH 115 — Cultural Responsiveness in Health Sciences (3 Credits)
- BA 178 — Customer Service (3 Credits)
- BA 214 — Business Communications (4 Credits)
- COMM 115 — Introduction to Intercultural Communication (4 Credits)
- COMM 218Z — Interpersonal Communication (4 Credits)
- COMM 219 — Small Group Communication (4 Credits)
- DA 110 — Basic Dental Assisting (4 Credits)
- DA 115 — Dental Science (5 Credits)
- DA 120 — Advanced Dental Assisting (4 Credits)
- DA 125 — Dental Infection Control (3 Credits)
- DA 130 — Dental Materials I (4 Credits)
- DA 131 — Dental Materials II (4 Credits)
- DA 134 — Dental Radiology I (3 Credits)
- DA 135 — Dental Radiology II (4 Credits)
- DA 145 — Preventive Dentistry (3 Credits)
- DA 150 — Intro to Dental Office Management (3 Credits)
- DA 151 — Dental Computing (2 Credits)
- DA 160 — Oral Medicine (3 Credits)
- DA 181 — Dental Seminar I (1 Credit)
- DA 182 — Dental Seminar II (1 Credit)
- DA 190 — Dental Assisting Practicum I (1-5 Credits)
- DA 191 — Dental Assisting Practicum II (1-8 Credits)
- HHP 252 — First Aid & AHA Basic Life Support Provider CPR (3 Credits)
- PSY 101 — Applied Psychology (3 Credits)
- PSY 201Z — Introduction to Psychology I (4 Credits)
- PSY 215 — Developmental Psychology (4 Credits)
- PSY 216 — Social Psychology (4 Credits)
- WR 121Z — Composition I (4 Credits)