Mesalands Community College

Agri-Business

The Agri-Business Associate of Applied Science degree combines business courses with animal science and general education courses. The Agri-Business degree at Mesalands is designed to prepare students for transfer to a four-year college or university. Students may also gain entry-level employment upon completion of the degree.

Artistic Silversmithing Certificate (One Semester)

The Artistic Silversmithing Certificate program is designed to enable students in the acquisition of skills necessary for self-employment or employment with a major manufacturer in the field of traditional western culture arts. Western culture arts include custom designing, fabricating, and the engraving of bits, spurs, various buckles, bracelets and pendants worn and used in traditional western culture.

Artistic Silversmithing Certificate (One Year)

The Artistic Silversmithing Certificate program is designed to enable students in the acquisition of skills necessary for self-employment or employment with a major manufacturer in the field of traditional western culture arts. Western culture arts include custom designing, fabricating, and the engraving of bits, spurs, various buckles, bracelets and pendants worn and used in traditional western culture.

Business Administration, General Option

The Business Administration program provides the means for students to acquire skills in accounting, business communications, business law, computers, economics, and management. These skills will enable students to enter the business world. This program is designed to provide the first two years of business courses for those students who plan to pursue a four-year degree.

Cowboy Arts/Western Artistic Silversmithing and Fabrication

The Artistic Silversmithing program is designed to enable students in the acquisition of skills necessary for self-employment or employment with a major manufacturer in the field of traditional western culture arts. Western culture arts include custom designing, fabricating, and the engraving of bits, spurs, various buckles, bracelets and pendants worn and used in traditional western culture.

Education: Bilingual Option

The Bilingual option is an internationally significant field that crosses many disciplines. Students will be provided with opportunities to become teachers and educational leaders who work with children to develop a democratic and pluralistic society.

Education: Early Childhood Option

The Early Childhood option provides opportunities for students to bring together subject matter knowledge, appropriate strategies, and interpersonal skills essential to provide successful learning experiences for children. Students will be versed in individualized instruction and sensitive to developmental and sociocultural issues involving the learner.

Education: Elementary Education Option

The Elementary Education option provides opportunities for students to explore a variety of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students also learn appropriate strategies and the interpersonal skills essential to provide successful learning experiences for children in a diverse society.

Education: Secondary Education Option

The Secondary Education option provides students with the opportunity and experience to work with children from a broad range of cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Students will be prepared for career roles as teachers of science, social sciences, humanities, educational leaders, researchers, media, and computer specialists.

Farrier Science

Farrier Science is primarily a self-employed field; therefore, farriers must be knowledgeable and skilled in all facets of the business. The Farrier Science degree program offers hands-on practical experience in horsemanship, trimming and shoeing, and forging and welding. Instruction in anatomy and physiology, business management, and other aspects of horseshoeing are provided in the classroom.

Farrier Science Certificate

The Farrier Science Certificate is designed to give students hands-on experience in horseshoeing and blacksmithing as well as familiarize students with the principles and theories of trimming and balancing horses according to their conformation and use. The certificate program is comparable to those offered in private horseshoeing schools.

Fine Arts: Bronze Metal Casting

Mesalands Community College has one of the largest institutional foundries in the southwest. Students have the opportunity to explore traditional metal casting processes or digital casting processes. Students are able to work in various metals such as bronze, aluminum, and cast iron.

Fine Arts: Digital Media Arts Option

The Digital Media Arts option allows students to explore new media technologies into their art practice. Students have the opportunity for course work in the growing fields of Internet art, game art, digital narrative and animation, comic and illustration, and digital fabrication.

Fine Arts: Digital Media Arts Track: Animation and Game Art

Design a career that you will love as a 3-D animator or game artist. MCC's Animation and Game Art track provides you with the tools and training you need to take a project from concept to reality, while encouraging your creativity.

Fine Arts: Digital Media Arts Track: Comic Illustration and Character Design

Illustrators and cartoonists are communicators. Illustrators often use imagery to interpret texts or ideas, while cartoonists use image and text together to tell a story. Students have the opportunity to explore traditional illustration techniques including drawing with ink, brush, watercolor, collage, etching and beyond.

Fine Arts: Studio Art Option

The Studio option offers the student the opportunity to study various studio media. Our spacious labs will provide you with access to professional quality equipment, including a full metal fabrication shop, woodshop, 3D printers, full printmaking lab, ceramic kilns, electric pottery wheels and the historic metal-casting foundry.

Fine Arts: Studio Art Proficiency

The Certificate in Art Studio Proficiency allows students from across campus, regardless of their major or degree program, to engage in a structured, meaningful art studio experience. The program provides a course of study in four focus areas: 2D, 3D, 4D, or Photography. Students select one of these tracks and complete the courses required of this area of study.

General Studies: Occupational/Experiential Learning Option

The experiential learning program allows students to apply work experience and training toward an Associate of Applied Science degree. It is a way for students to earn course credits at Mesalands for completed on-the-job training and courses where certificates are given. Experiential learning allows the student to improve upon their certificate and obtain an Applied Science degree.

Human Services: Social Services Certificate

The Human Services/Social Services certificate program provides foundational knowledge and skills for entry-level positions in human services organizations, preparing individuals for careers in areas like social work, community support, and advocacy.

Human Services: Social Work Option

The Social Work Program provides the student with an introduction to the field of social work and the social welfare system, the human behavior content required of human services workers, and social welfare policy analysis skills. The curriculum may serve as a preparatory foundation for those interested in continuing their study at the Bachelor of Social Work level.

Liberal Arts: University Studies Option

The University Studies option provides opportunities for students to explore studies in areas of student interest while developing proficiencies in the liberal arts and the selected areas of interest. Graduates of the program, however, are strongly encouraged to complete coursework in which the academic disciplines (transferable electives) demonstrate a common area of interest.

Natural Sciences: Geology Option

This program provides a primary education in the natural sciences. Students will be exposed to the fundamentals of geology, biology, and computer science. The geology program emphasizes practical knowledge through field trips and laboratory work. Courses take advantage of the rich natural resources of the mesa country of eastern New Mexico, a state-of-the-art, computer-interactive science laboratory, and the College's natural history museum, the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum.

Natural Sciences: Paleontology Option

This program provides a primary education in the earth and biological sciences with an emphasis on paleontology. Students will be exposed to the fundamentals of geology, biology, and paleontology. The Paleontology option emphasizes fossils, particularly their collection, preparation, and study.

Nurse's Assistant Certificate

This program prepares students to enter the nursing profession as an entry level nursing assistant. Upon successful completion of this certificate, the student will meet all federal certification standards for a nursing assistant and be prepared to sit for the New Mexico Nurse's Aide Registry exam.

Nursing

Mesalands' nursing courses emphasize a holistic approach that encourages students to embrace the concepts of clear communication, critical thinking and compassion when caring for patients. The Nursing program curriculum includes classroom, laboratory, and supervised clinical instruction that combines an essential set of arts and sciences classes with the nursing courses.

Phlebotomy Certificate

This program is designed to provide students with the necessary skills for gainful employment as a phlebotomist. Working under the supervision of a clinical laboratory supervisor, the phlebotomist is responsible for the proper collection, processing and testing of blood specimens and various other medical samples in accordance with OSHA safety regulations and standards.

Public Administration: Law Enforcement

Technical and Professional Writing

Wind Energy Technology

The Wind Energy Technology program at Mesalands Community College offers training to meet the growing demand for qualified wind energy technicians to provide maintenance on wind turbines.

Wind Energy Technology Certificate (One Semester)

The Wind Energy Technology Certificate program is designed to give students a selection of courses to enhance professional opportunities in the growing field of wind energy. The Wind Energy Technology Certificate provides instruction in turbine maintenance, electrical theory, monitoring and communications technology, safety, motors, generators, and mechanical systems. Students who complete these courses will be prepared to ease the shortage of trained wind energy technicians.

Wind Energy Technology Certificate (One Year)

The Wind Energy Technology Certificate program is designed to give students a selection of courses to enhance professional opportunities in the growing field of wind energy. The Wind Energy Technology Certificate provides instruction in turbine maintenance, electrical theory, monitoring and communications technology, safety, motors, generators, and mechanical systems. Students who complete these courses will be prepared to ease the shortage of trained wind energy technicians.