CM 107: COLLEGE COMPOSITION I
(5 Credits)
Students will learn how to communicate effectively in their professional field using various writing styles. Students will also identify and further develop their own writing process. Grammar and mechanics will be reviewed, helping students focus on the areas that will improve their writing.
Prerequisites Required:
Any Academic Strategies course or any Eight Skills of the Effective Student course
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182
CM 220: COLLEGE COMPOSITION II
(5 Credits)
This course helps students apply research and
critical thinking skills to develop effective arguments. Students
will create professional writings, incorporating post-draft
revision strategies, working constructively with
colleagues.
Prerequisites Required:
Any College Composition I
course
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182
CS 204: PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE
(3 Credits)
This
course introduces students to multidisciplinary techniques and concepts
pertinent to lifelong career development and professionalism. Students explore
career planning as a strategy and professionalism as a method in order to
pursue employment interests and career goals. Concepts include various professional
communication skills appropriate for the global workplace, interpersonal relationship
management, professional behavior, financial decision making, marketability,
and using proper technologies to manage professional identities.
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182
MM 212: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
(5 Credits)
This course covers topics of algebra,
including linear functions, equations, and inequalities, systems
of equations in two variables, polynomial functions, rational and
radical equations and inequalities, exponential and logarithmic
functions, ratios, proportions, variation, and
graphing.
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182
SC 246: FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY
(5 Credits)
Fundamentals
of Microbiology will review basic microbial cell structure, function, and genetics.
The role of microorganisms and their affect on humans and the environment will
also be explained. Aspects of medical and public health will be emphasized, as
will bacterial and viral diseases, parasites, immunology, and epidemiology.
Course material and labs are directly relevant to studies in health sciences, biological
sciences, nursing, and genetics.
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182
SS 236: PEOPLE, POWER, AND POLITICS-AN INTRODUCTION TO
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
(5 Credits)
The purpose of this introductory-level
American government course is to provide students with crucial
knowledge about how government works and about how they, as
individual citizens, fit within that system. Focus is on the
rights and obligations of citizens under the democratic political
system established under the U.S. Constitution; the branches and
levels of government; and the role of the media. This fundamental
knowledge combined with critical thinking skills will be valuable
personally and professionally.
Prerequisites Required:
Any College Composition I
course
SS 211: THE 1960S—RESHAPING THE AMERICAN DREAM
(5 Credits)
This course will take an in-depth look at the 1960s as a significant era in American history. Adopting multiple perspectives, we will explore the societal impact of such issues as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Countercultural, Civil Rights, and Feminist Movements, the advent of the birth control pill, and many others. Through exploring the music, political climate, and advancements in technology and medicine of this historical era, we will discover how our individual lives and society as a whole were forever changed.
Prerequisites Required:
Any college composition course
SS 250: THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION—A SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
(5 Credits)
This is a social science survey course that will examine science and technology from a variety of social science disciplines including sociology, psychology, history, political science, anthropology, and economics. The use of science and technology has been a driving force behind all of human history, and even more so today. This course will take an interactive approach to study the relationship between humanity and technology throughout time and across the globe.
Prerequisites Required:
Any College Composition I Course
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182
HU 200: CRITICAL EVALUATION IN THE HUMANITIES
(5 Credits)
In this course, students will explore the impact of creative expression on cultures from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. By studying examples from the arts and humanities, students investigate how humans have the potential to shape history. Students develop skills to evaluate and analyze forms of creative expression, and discover how to apply these skills to their career goals, community, and daily experience.
Prerequisites Required:
Any College Composition course
HU 245: ETHICS
(5 Credits)
In this course, students develop sound ethical
reasoning and judgment through the study of practical
applications of ethical theories. Topics studied include ethics
as it relates to business, health care, society, and the
environment. Emphasis is on practical applications of ethical
principles and analytical methods.
Prerequisites Required:
CM 220
HU 250: HUMANITIES AND CULTURE
(5 Credits)
This course is a survey of human social and cultural life through an introduction to humanist theories and historical subject matter. Beginning with village settlement and the rise of cities and ending with the development of modern nations, students study the expression of human ideas and traditions through material and nonmaterial culture. Through readings and discussions, students are introduced to humanist studies and learn to appreciate cultural continuity and change as defining characteristics of the human experience.
Total
Core
Credits:
33
Total Program Credits: 182