6 courses with the subject SAB, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SAB 110Intro to Addiction & Recover 3 0 03
Course Offering Availability: Fall This course provides an overview of the core concepts in addiction and recovery. Topics include the history of substance use, effects on society members, treatment of addiction, and preventive measures. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the origins of substance use, addiction, prevention, treatment, and recovery. SAB 120 Intake and Assessment 3 0 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Spring This course covers processes for rapport building and procedures used to identify and evaluate individuals' strengths and weaknesses. Topics include diagnostic evaluation and placement, effective interviewing and communication techniques, and use of assessment tools. Upon completion, students should be able to establish rapport with individuals, recognize disorders, and obtain information for referrals and placement. SAB 125 AR Case Management 2 2 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Spring This course covers activities which bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action. Emphasis is placed on coordinated services for client care. Upon completion, students should be able to develop a service plan, work with various resources, and measure individuals' progress toward goals. SAB 135 Addictive Process 3 0 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Fall This course covers the physical, emotional, psychological, and cultural aspects of the addictive process. Emphasis is placed on disorders related to addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, work, gambling, internet, and relationships. Upon completion, students should be able to identify the effects, prevention strategies, and treatment methods associated with addictive disorders. 341 2026-2027 VGCC Catalog
Total Hours for Semester 15 TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS REQUIRED FOR DEGREE: 68 [Effective fall 2022: In order to graduate, Social and Human Services students must maintain a grade of "C" or higher in their major courses (all tracks). A grade less than a “C” in any major course must be repeated.] Addiction and Recovery Studies Certificate (C45380E) COURSE AND HOUR REQUIREMENTS Course Credits
Course Offering Availability: Spring This course provides theory and skills acquisition by utilizing intervention strategies designed to obtain therapeutic information, support recovery, and prevent relapse. Topics include counseling individuals and dysfunctional families, screening instruments, counseling techniques and approaches, recovery and relapse, and special populations. Upon completion, students should be able to discuss issues critical to recovery, identify intervention models, and initiate a procedure culminating in cognitive/behavioral change.
Course Offering Availability: Fall This course introduces systems of diversity, ethics, and trends in addiction and recovery. Topics include confidentiality, assessment of personal values, professional responsibilities, competencies, and ethics relative to multicultural service provision. Upon completion, students should be able to apply and discuss multiple diversity and ethical scenarios applicable to addiction and recovery services. SEC 110 Security Concepts 2 3 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Fall This course introduces the concepts and issues related to securing information systems and the development of policies to implement information security controls. Topics include the historical view of networking and security, security issues, trends, security resourses, and the role of policy, people, and processes in information security. Upon completion, students should be able to identify information security risks, create an information security policy, and identify processes to implement and enforce policy. SEC 150 Secure Communications 2 2 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Spring This course provides an overview of current technologies used to provide secure transport of information across networks. Topics include data integrity through encryption, Virtual Private Networks, SSL, SSH, and IPSec. Upon completion, students should be able to implement secure data transmission technologies. SEC 160 Security Administration I 2 2 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Fall This course provides an overview of security administration with an emphasis on designing secure network architectures. Topics include networking technologies, TCP/IP fundamentals, network protocols, traffic analysis, monitoring strategies, and established security best practices. Upon completion, students should be able to use advanced network analysis tools to monitor network traffic and develop security measures to safeguard against various threats. SEC 175 Perimeter Defense 1 4 0 3 Course Offering Availability: Spring This course introduces the principles of securing networks using routers and firewalls. Topics include networking protocols, threat mitigation, firewall configuration, authentication, authorization, intrusion detection, encryption, IPSec, VPNs, and remote access technologies. Upon completion, students should be able to secure internal networks using router and firewall technologies. 342 2026-2027 VGCC Catalog
