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Legal Assisting |
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LGST 210 - Laws of Domestic Relations (3)
This course examines domestic relations law including case preparation and the rules and procedures of the family court system. Topics covered include child custody, divorce procedures, and dispute resolution options such as mediation and arbitration.
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LGST 220 - Civil Litigation (3)
This course provides an overview of the civil litigation process from initial interview through trial procedures including the preparation of pleadings and trial documents. Topics covered include civil procedure, discovery, and statutes relevant to the civil litigation process.
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LGST 230 - Criminal Law and Procedure (3)
This course provides an overview of criminal law beginning with the arrest and investigation through the trial process. Case studies and historical cases in criminal law will be reviewed and analyzed. Other topics covered include legal terminology, rights of criminal defendants, and courtroom activities.
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LGST 240 - Administrative Law (3)
This course introduces the body of law created by administrative agencies to implement their power and duties. Procedures and application of administrative rules, regulations, orders, and decisions will be examined.
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LGST 272 - Real Estate & Property Law (3)
This course introduces students to the role of the paralegal in real estate and property law. Topics covered include basic concepts concerning titles to property, rights that attach to real property, care with respect to property, real estate closings, and rental property procedures.
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LGST 275 - Wills, Trusts, & Estates (3)
This course introduces students to the role of legal assistants in estate and planning practice. Topics covered include the rules governing control and disposition of property, forms of property ownership, wills, trusts, estate succession, and federal gift and estate taxes.
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LGST 292 - Internship (1-6)
Cooperative education allows students to acquire essential, practical skills by being exposed to the reality of the work environment beyond the boundaries of campus. Students will be required to complete a minimum of 100 hours working in the field, and a required 1 credit hour live course. The live course component will prepare all paralegal students to complete the Certified Legal Assistant Exam. Minimum 2.0 GPA required. See Academic Advisor.
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Manufacturing Technology |
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MTEC 101 - Master Planning of Resources (2)
This course explains the principles and processes of master planning of resources; describes the techniques and methods of demand management, sales and operations planning, and master scheduling; examines the development of operations plans in differing operational environments; and explains the process for developing, validating, and evaluating performance at all levels of master planning of resources.
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MTEC 102 - Basic Supply Chain Management (2)
This course will define the role, objectives and responsibilities of materials management. The course will describe and compare basic forecasting techniques; explain the materials requirements planning (MRP) process; describe the objectives of capacity management and its relation to priority planning; review the function of inventories and the objectives of inventory management; identify the costs of quality; explain the importance of purchasing, its objectives, and the steps in the purchasing process; define JIT; and show how TQM can reduce lead-times, lot size, and work in process.
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MTEC 103 - Execution & Control of Operations (2)
This course explains how to schedule production and process manufacturing plans relative to authorizing, releasing, prioritizing, and sequencing work; identifies the interfaces and data exchanges required to execute a plan; demonstrates how various facility layouts influence scheduling and workflow; explains bottleneck resource management and lead time control techniques; identifies reporting activities and collection techniques; identifies appropriate requirements for storage, location, and transportation; explains how to execute quality initiatives; and describes process capabilities, quantity audits and ways to assess supplier performance.
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MTEC 104 - Just-in-Time/Total Quality Management (2)
This course defines the concept of JIT including implementation and principles and discusses the concept of TQM. Topics covered include continuous improvement methodologies and techniques; root cause analysis; the importance of using statistical methods for control processes (SPC); how to perform a process capability analysis; layout and workplace organization; and the importance of involvement and empowerment of employees for JIT and TQM to be successful.
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MTEC 105 - Detailed Scheduling/Planning (2)
This course is designed to identify types of inventory and how they are assessed; describe order review methodologies and how to apply them in different types of inventory strategies; identify lot sizing techniques and the effects of order quantity constraints and modifiers; describe safety stock processes; explain how to calculate inventory performance; review MRP; define capacity measurement tools and how to use capacity data for decision making; and explain why and how to develop relationships with suppliers.
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MTEC 106 - Strategic Management of Resources (2)
This course teaches students how to recognize the need for integration of the manufacturing process with the company strategy. Students learn how to identify strategy components; understand the alignment of resources with strategic marketing objectives; review JIT and TQM; learn how forecast accuracy is measured; identify the elements of customer service; learn the concepts of supply chain management; identify the phases of project management; understand performance measurement systems; and learn the roles and responsibilities of change management.
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MTEC 110 - Brain Smart Management (2)
This course is designed to teach specific behaviors to alter a one’s own behavior as the first and most important factor in influencing the behavior of others. The focus of the course is to change oneself in order to change corporate culture.
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MTEC 111 - Quality of Leadership (2)
This course introduces the student to the concepts of leadership including influence, characteristics, and dimensions of leadership. The course reviews the situational leadership model and promotes exemplary leadership practices. The student learns the methods to challenge the process, inspire a shared vision, enable others to act, provide feedback, model the way for success, and encourage the heart. The student will leave the course with a personal action plan for further implementation.
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MTEC 199 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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MTEC 292 - Manufacturing Occupational Internship (1-6)
Students learn how to translate classroom theory and methods into professional skills and opportunities.
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MTEC 293 - Manufacturing On-the-Job Training (1-13)
This course is designed to award credit to those employees who have participating in a supervised on-the-job training program within the manufacturing facility. Credit is awarded upon receipt of a letter from the director of human resources stating successful completion of on-the-job training assignments and the total number of actual hours involved in the training.
Hours (Credit hours earned for On-the-Job Training are calculated as 1 credit hour = 150 actual hours. Therefore a student must work 1,950 actual hours to receive 13 credit hours.)
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Mathematics |
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MATH 101 - Introduction to Mathematics (3)
During this course topics to be covered are sets, mathematical logic, mathematical system, systematic counting, and probability. History of mathematics, critical thinking skills, problem solving, and use of technology will be incorporate throughout the course.
Prerequisite(s): ACFN 085 or required placement scores.
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MATH 105 - Algebra (3)
Topics explored in this course include properties of the real numbers, radicals and rational exponents, operations on polynomials and rational expressions, solutions of linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, systems of linear equations and inequalities, functions including graphs and composite functions: properties of linear functions, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions. Other topics included if time permitting concern conic sections, sequences, and counting/probability theory.
Prerequisite(s): ACFN 085 or required placement scores.
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MATH 106 - Trigonometry (3)
A study of the trigonometric functions and identities, multiple angle formulas, inverse trigonometric functions, deMoivre’s theorem and complex numbers, applications.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 105 or satisfactory placement score.
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MATH 107 - Applied Algebra and Trigonometry (3)
Computational fluency and applied problem solving with the following topics will be stressed: Whole Numbers; Rational Numbers; Ratio, Percent, & Proportion; Estimation; Exponents & Roots; Scientific Notation; the Metric System; Length; Area; Volume; Mass; Electrical Formulas & Laws; Power; Basic Trigonometry; and Vectors.
Prerequisite(s): ACFN 085 or placement.
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MATH 154 - Finite Mathematics (3)
This course introduces students to selected topics from finite mathematics. Mathematical models for the analysis of decision-making problems are examined. Topics include the echelon method for solving linear equations, matrix manipulations, optimization by linear programming including the simplex method, risk decisions using probability, expected value, and statistics. Additional topics may be chosen from network models or game theory and students will explore the uses of mathematics.
Prerequisite(s): ACFN 085 or satisfactory placement score.
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MATH 299 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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Media Studies |
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MDIA 101 - Introduction to Media Studies (3)
This course introduces students to the concepts and theories of media and society and surveys their systems and roles in society. Emphasis is placed on media in the United States, including historic development and technological innovation of conventional print and electronic media.
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MDIA 102 - Intro to Adobe Photoshop (3)
This course will introduce students to working with photographs and drawings focusing on web site graphics. Basics of the digital image, photo collage, banner graphics and simple animation for web sites will also be covered. Topics to be covered include: file formats, scanning, digital retouching, image selections and masking, layering, vector graphics, creating symbols, working with a time line and creating an interactive file.
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MDIA 103 - Advanced Photoshop & Flash (3)
This project-based course will begin with a review of Photoshop basics and quickly move into intermediate and advanced concepts of layering, masks and channels. Students will move from basic photo correction techniques into enhanced tools and working with color correction across color spaces of RGB, CMYK, HSB and LAB. Students will work with the animation component of Photoshop® as well as Flash®. Team and Independent projects at both mid-term and finals will replace a traditional written exam.
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MDIA 104 - Web Page Design (3)
This is the foundation course for CIW (Certified Internet Webmaster) certification. Students learn how to code Web pages from scratch using HTML, XHTML, and XML incorporating Java Scripting. Students will explore basic and advanced tags by creating web pages utilizing tables, frames, audio, video, and java scripting.
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MDIA 105 - Internet Foundation (4)
This is the foundation course for CIW (Certified Internet Webmaster) certification. Students learn how to use key Internet technologies, such as Web browsers, e-mail, newsgroups, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Telnet and search engines. Students will learn how to create simple Web pages containing text, graphics, hyperlinks, tables, forms and frames. Students also learn fundamental networking concepts and practices, including network architecture and standards, networking protocols, TPC/IP, Internet servers, server-side scripting and database connectivity, and security.
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MDIA 106 - Site Designer (3)
The course focuses on theory, design, and web construction; along with information architecture concepts, web site management, scenario development and performance evaluations. Students learn how to create and manage Web sites with GUI editor based software programs. Students will learn and implement the latest strategies to develop web sites, evaluate design tools, discuss future technology standards, and explore the incompatibility issues surrounding current browsers.
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MDIA 121 - Intro to Digital Photography (3)
This course is an introduction to the use of digital photography techniques. This course will emphasize visualization, composition, and the aesthetics of digital photography. This course will also introduce the basic operations of the camera and electronic imaging as well as software applications to produce quality digital images.
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MDIA 199 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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MDIA 202 - Video Production (3)
Introduction to analog and digital video production and editing theories, effects, and techniques. Students will develop video products using analog and digital recording methods and computerized video editing systems and digital video effects programs and hardware and software issues relating to 3-dimensional graphics manipulation, video compression, and recording.
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MDIA 299 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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Medical Assisting |
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MAST 101 - Introduction to Medical Assisting (3)
This course is a foundation course for all medical assisting programs (clinical and/or administrative). Topics include medical assisting and other allied health disciplines as a profession, health care settings, the history of medicine, communication skills, coping skills, topics in psychology, and medical law and ethics. Emphasis is also placed on professionalism topics including personal traits of the health care professional, work place dynamics and career planning and employment.
Prerequisite(s): OFTC 100, ACFN 010 , and ACFN 085 or placement testing or concurrent registration.
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MAST 102 - Medical Terminology (3)
This course is an integral component in understanding the language of medicine. It is designed to give the student a foundation in the basic structure of medical terms, word building and definitions as well as the applications of medical terminology. A human body systems approach is utilized and topics covered in each system include anatomy and physiology overview, medical terms, symptoms and signs, diseases and disorders, treatments, procedures and devices.
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MAST 103 - Medical Office Management I (3)
This course is the first of two foundational courses in administrative medical assisting. Topics include the facility environment, computers in the ambulatory care setting, telecommunications, patient scheduling, medical records management, and written communications. Emphasis is placed on applications of electronic technology and fundamental writing skills as well as basic medical assisting clerical and operational functions.
Prerequisite(s): MAST 101 and OFTC 103 or concurrent registration.
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MAST 104 - Medical Office Management II (3)
This course is the second of two foundational courses in administrative medical assisting. Topics include daily financial practices, introduction to medical coding, insurance, billing and collections. Also, topics in accounting practices and facility and equipment management are covered. Bookkeeping principles are stressed in this course.
Prerequisite(s): MAST 103 .
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MAST 105 - Insurance Billing & Coding (3)
The focus of this course is on the process of using source documents to apply diagnostic and procedural codes to patient records for the purpose of filing insurance claims. Topics covered include health insurance specialist as a career, introduction to health insurance, managed health care, life cycle of an insurance claim, legal and regulatory issues, ICD-9-CM coding, CPT coding, HCPCS coding, CMS reimbursement methodologies, coding for medical necessity and the essentials of CMS-1500 claim instructions. Also, insurance carriers such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Medicare, Medicaid and others are covered.
Prerequisite(s): MAST 101 and OFTC 103.
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MAST 106 - Medical Office Management (5)
This course is a foundational course in administrative medical assisting. Topics include: the facility environment, computers in the ambulatory care setting, telecommunications, patient scheduling, medical records management, written communications, daily financial practices, introduction to medical coding, insurance, billing and collections, accounting practices, and facility and equipment management are covered. In addition, more advanced topics are covered: management styles, risk management, importance of teamwork, supervising personnel, procedure manual, HIPAA implications, marketing functions, records and financial management, liability coverage, human resource management such as recruiting and hiring office personnel, dismissing employees, and complying with personnel laws are covered. Good record keeping principles are stressed in this course. Emphasis is placed on applications of electronic technology and fundamental writing skills as well as basic medical assisting clerical and operational functions.
Prerequisite(s): MAST 101 & MAST 102 or concurrent registration.
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MAST 202 - Clinical Medical Assistant I (3)
This course offers the medical assistant student the opportunity to learn basic clinical theory and skills that are utilized within medical practices. Areas covered include emergency/first aid procedures, infection control, and medical asepsis, sterilization, taking a medical history, patient charts and documentation, vital signs and measurements, physical examination and specialty examinations. Emphasis is placed on listening and observational skills, patient care and instruction, as well as sound fundamental diagnostic and treatment modalities.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 100 or concurrent registration.
Corerequisite(s): MAST 203 .
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MAST 203 - Pharmacology for the MA (3)
Basics of pharmacology and administration of medications are the focus of this course. Included topics are medical uses of drugs, drug names, history and sources of drugs, drug regulations and legal classifications of drugs, drug reference and standards, classification of drugs, principal actions of drugs, drug routes, forms of drugs, storage and handling of medications, emergency drug supplies and drug abuse. Also, covered are legal and ethical implications, drug dosage, medication labels, calculation of drug dosages, medications measured in units, calculation of age specific drug dosages, administration of medication by various routes including parenteral, oral and inhalation, administration of allergenic extracts, and principles of IV therapy. Emphasis is placed on the “rights” of medication administration.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 100 or concurrent registration.
Corerequisite(s): MAST 202 .
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MAST 205 - Diagnostic Lab Procedures (3)
This course is designed to give the student exposure to procedures conducted in a physician office laboratory setting. Topics covered include safety and regulatory guidelines, introduction to the medical laboratory, hematology tests, urinalysis, basic microbiology testing, and several CLIA waved tests such as blood glucose and cholesterol testing.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 100 , MAST 202 and MAST 203 .
Corerequisite(s): MAST 204 and MAST 206 .
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MAST 206 - Clinical Medical Assistant II (5)
This course builds on topics covered in MAST 202 - Clinical Medical Assistant I (3) . Examinations and procedures of various body systems such as the urinary system and urinary catheterization and the digestive system and fecal occult blood testing are covered. In addition, assisting with office/ambulatory surgery, diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation and therapeutic modalities and nutrition in health and disease, safety and regulatory guidelines, introduction to the medical laboratory, hematology tests, urinalysis, basic microbiology testing, and several CLIA waved tests such as blood glucose and cholesterol testing are covered.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 100 & MAST 202 .
Corerequisite(s): MAST 203 and PLBT 101 .
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MAST 208 - Advanced Medical Office Management (3)
This course is designed for students who want to pursue a management position in a medical office. Topics covered include management styles, risk management, importance of teamwork, supervising personnel, procedure manual, HIPAA implications, marketing functions, records and financial management, and liability coverage. In addition, topics in human resource management such as recruiting and hiring office personnel, dismissing employees, and complying with personnel laws are covered.
Prerequisite(s): MAST 216 .
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MAST 214 - MA Review and Certification Prep (2)
This course provides the student with a review of all of the major administrative, clinical and general competencies covered in the medical assistant programs. Upon successful completion of this course and all other program requirements, the medical assistant certificate and degree students are eligible to sit for national certification as a Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) through American Medical Technologists.
Prerequisite(s): , MAST 104 , MAST 105 , MAST 202 and MAST 203 .
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MAST 216 - Clinical & Administrative Externship (4)
This course provides the student with hands-on clinical and administrative experience in a medical office setting. The student will work for a total of one hundred sixty (160) uncompensated hours in a medical office. Clinical and administrative competencies will be evaluated by a medical office preceptor(s) and under the direction of a medical assistant instructor. The student needs to contact the medical assistant programs department upon registering for this course. Early registration is encouraged to allow time to make arrangements with a medical office site. Students must have received a grade of “C” or better in ALL MAST and PLB courses prior to registering for this course. In addition, students must provide proof of valid/current BLS for Healthcare Providers and First Aid certification to the medical assistant department prior to the start of the externship.
Prerequisite(s): , OFTC 103, MAST 101 , MAST 103 , MAST 104 , MAST 105 , MAST 202 , MAST 203 , MAST 204, MAST 205 , MAST 206 , MAST 214 and PLBT 101 .
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Music |
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MUSC 111 - Introduction to Music (3)
This course provides training and experiences which will enable the student to acquire a historical-social-aesthetic perspective, to comprehend musical concepts, to discriminate quality levels, to select satisfying and stimulating musical experiences, and to empathize with the creators and performers of music.
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MUSC 199 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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MUSC 299 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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Nursing |
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NURS 101 - Foundations of Nursing Practice (4)
This is the initial course in nursing upon which all other nursing courses build and expand. It is designed to develop in the student a holistic awareness of persons. The student also begins to recognize health problems. The nursing process, critical thinking, therapeutic nursing interventions, communication, and service are introduced and emphasized throughout the course.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 120 /CAHS 121 , CAHS 122 /CAHS 123 and ENGL 101 .
Corerequisite(s): NURS 103 Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 125 , CAHS 125L, COMM 202 .
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NURS 103C - Clinical Nursing (2)
This course assists the student in developing patient care skills in supervised clinical agencies.
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NURS 103L - Clinical Nursing Laboratory (2)
This course assists the student in developing patient care skills in a supervised laboratory setting.
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NURS 105 - Introduction to Professional Nursing (3)
This course is designed as an introduction to the concepts of professional nursing practice. Concepts of professional nursing practice including the nursing process, code of ethics, role of nurses, and the health care team and other topics required for entry into the nursing program are presented. Students will be exposed to the use of select electronics databases as information sources, as well as in the techniques of professional writing.
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): NURS 105 Hours Clock hours 9 hours/week.
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NURS 108 - Basic Nursing Skills (3)
The focus of this skill lab course is the development and acquisition of the technical/psychomotor skills required for nursing practice. Students will apply new and previously learned scientific principles to procedures required for the delivery of nursing care.
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NURS 110 - Adult Health Nursing I (3)
This course focuses on the practice of holistic nursing with persons experiencing common medical/surgical problems. Persons with diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, integumentary problems, immunologic and infectious diseases, sensory deprivation, and cancer are examined. In addition, the students explore the art of self-care as it relates to caring for others.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 101 , 103.
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 210 , PSYC 203 .
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NURS 112C - Adult Health Nurse I Clinical (2)
This continues the development of nursing care skills in a variety of clinical agencies. Patient situations are correlated to lecture content in NURS 110 .
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NURS 112L - Adult Health Nurse I Lab (1)
This continues the development of nursing care skills in a supervised laboratory setting. Specific skills are correlated to lecture content in NURS 110 .
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NURS 114 - Family Health Nursing I (2)
This course focuses on the care of families during the reproductive years utilizing the nursing process with emphasis on health promotion and maintenance.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 101 , 103.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 116 . Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 210 , PSYC 203 .
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NURS 116 - Family Health Nursing Clinical I (2)
This course provides students with the opportunity to care for antepartal, intrapartal, and postpartal families in acute care and community settings.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 114 .
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NURS 118 - Health & Wellness (2)
This course will focus on concepts of health screening, patient education, complementary therapies and environmental safety needs in a variety of client settings and among a variety of age groups.
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 120 , CAHS 121 , CAHS 122 , CAHS 123
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NURS 124 - Medical Management II (3)
This theory course will include pathophysiology, system specific assessments, diagnostic and lab values, complications of diagnostic tests, therapeutic procedures, potential and actual complications of procedures, unexpected results of procedures, and emergency situations related to: Urinary and renal: urinary diversions, renal failure, UTI, calculi, nephritis, enuresis Immune and HIV: autoimmune diseases, LE, allergy and anaphylaxis, hives Hematological: anemia, sickle cell, ITP, hemophilia, splenic disease and injury Cancer including leukemia & radiation therapy.
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NURS 150 - Health Assessment (3)
This course provides theory and practice in comprehensive health assessment. Health history taking methods, physical examination skills, health promotion techniques, clinical assessment tools, and the use of age related data instruments will be the content foci for lectures and clinical experiences. This course has a lab component.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 105 and NURS 108 .
Hours 2 hours classroom, 3 hours clinical practice/week.
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NURS 155 - Family Health Nursing (3)
This course provides theory related to nursing care, health, and illness needs of the clients throughout the life span. Issues related to family structure and wellbeing are incorporated into the content.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 105 , NURS 118 .
Corerequisite(s): NURS 108
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NURS 160 - Clinical Nursing I (2)
This clinical course will provide opportunities for direct nursing care to clients in a variety of settings, including long term care, acute care, and community agencies where students may apply content from all theory courses to date and specifically Health Assessment and Family Health Nursing.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 105 , NURS 108
Corerequisite(s): NURS 150 , NURS 155 Hours Clock hours: 6 hours/week.
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NURS 165 - Pharmacology & Pathophysiology for Nurses (4)
This course combines two related science fields essential to nursing. Basic principles of pharmacology including pharmakinetics, pharmaceutics and pharmacodynamics are presented; as well as emphasis on selected disease processes including inflammation, immunity, vascular control mechanisms and basic genomics.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 220 , CAHS 221 , NURS 105 , NURS 108
Corerequisite(s): NURS 150
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NURS 180 - LPN-to-RN Role Transition (5)
For LPN to RN articulation students only. This course will assist the student who has met the eligibility requirements for the LPN-to-RN articulation to make the transition from the LPN role to the Registered Professional Nurse role. An emphasis will be placed on advancing into professional nursing practice through a combination of lecture seminar and clinical experiences Successful completion of this course allows the student to be exempt from NURS 101 and NURS 103 and receive three additional credits for degree.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 , CAHS 120 /CAHS 121 , CAHS 122 /CAHS 123 .
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 125 /125L, COMM 202 .
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NURS 201 - Mental Health Nursing (2)
This course focuses on the practice of nursing with persons experiencing mental disorders. Neurobiological, psychological, and sociological theories are explored. Emphasis is placed on the continued development of therapeutic communication skills.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 110 , 112, NURS 114 , NURS 116 .
Corerequisite(s): NURS 202 , NURS 203 , 204. Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 220 /CAHS 221 , SOCI 203 .
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NURS 202 - Adult Health Nursing II (3)
This course focuses on utilizing the nursing process in providing holistic care for persons that are experiencing complex health disorders. Emphasis is placed on individuals experiencing disorders of the cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and musculoskeletal systems.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 110 , 112, NURS 114 , NURS 116 .
Corerequisite(s): NURS 201 , NURS 203 , 204. Pre-requisite/Co-requisite(s): CAHS 220 /CAHS 221 , SOCI 203 .
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NURS 203 - Mental Health Clinical Nursing (2)
This course assists students in establishing, maintaining, and terminating effective interactions with individuals and groups of people exhibiting psychosocial problems across the continuum of care.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 201 .
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NURS 204C - Adult Health Nurse II Clinical (2)
This continues the development of nursing care skills in a variety of clinical agencies. Patient situation are correlated to lecture content in NURS 202 .
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NURS 204L - Adult Health Nurse II Lab (1)
This continues the development of nursing care skills in s supervised laboratory setting. Specific skills are correlated to lecture content in NURS 202 .
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NURS 205 - Adult Nursing Care I (5)
This course focuses on the knowledge, skills and values necessary for the delivery of comprehensive nursing care of the patient in the acute care setting. An integrated biological, psychological, socio-cultural, environmental and spiritual approach to the care of the patient and his family will be employed. A systems approach is used to organize content.
Prerequisite(s): All nursing courses to this point.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 210 , NURS 214
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NURS 206 - Adult Health Nursing III (3)
This course continues to focus on the practice of holistic nursing with persons experiencing common medical surgical problems. Emphasis is placed on individuals with alterations in genitourinary, hematological, neurological function and with burn injuries. In addition, the student explores the relationship of environment to health.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 201 , NURS 202 , NURS 203 , 204
Corerequisite(s): NURS 208, NURS 222 .
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NURS 208C - Adult Health Nurse III Clinical (2)
This continues the development of nursing care skills in a variety of clinical agencies. Patient situations are correlated to lecture content in NURS 208.
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NURS 208L - Adult Health Nurse III Lab (1)
This continues the development of nursing care skills in a supervised laboratory setting. Specific skills are correlated to lecture content in NURS 206 .
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NURS 210 - Mental Health Nursing (3)
This course provides theory of nursing care of clients with mental health needs. Using an integrative approach, course content is based on the biological, psychological, and socio-cultural aspects of behavioral disorders.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 105 , NURS 108 , NURS 150 , NURS 160 , NURS 165
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NURS 211 - Family Health Nursing II (2)
This course focuses on families with children emphasizing normal growth and development, health promotion, and maintenance through anticipatory guidance and continues developing the use of the nursing process. Select deviations from normal and restorative measures are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 110 , 112, NURS 114 , NURS 116 , NURS 201 , NURS 202 , NURS 203 , 204.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 213 .
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NURS 213 - Family Health Nursing Clinical II (2)
This course provides the student with the opportunity to care for children and families in a variety of settings.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 211 .
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NURS 214 - Clinical Nursing II (4)
This clinical course will provide opportunity for the student to provide direct patient care to a variety of clients and in a variety of clinical agencies. Specific clinical foci will include inpatient and outpatient care of the adult patient with physical and mental health problems. Content and skills gained in previous nursing courses will be integrated in this course.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 205 , 214 Hours Clock hours 12 hours/week.
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NURS 222 - Contemporary Nursing (3)
This course assists the student in examining a variety of issues involved in the practice of nursing within a changing society and health care environment. Topics explored include ethics, legal aspects, professional behaviors, lifelong learning, and patterns of health care delivery. This course must be taken in the students’ final semester.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 201 , NURS 202 , NURS 203 , 204.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 206 , 208, NURS 211 , NURS 213 .
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NURS 235 - Adult Nursing Care II (5)
This course continues the content from Adult Nursing Care I. A systems approach is used to organize content, but the complexity of the patient problems is greater.
Prerequisite(s): All nursing courses to this point.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 236 , NURS 238
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NURS 236 - Clinical Nursing III (5)
This clinical course incorporates all theory and skills accumulated from previous nursing courses and enable the student to provide nursing care to multiple patients and /or complex patients in a primarily acute inpatient setting. A one on one preceptorship with an RN in a selected clinical area is included in this clinical.
Corerequisite(s): NURS 235 , NURS 238 Hours Clock hours 15 hours/week.
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NURS 238 - Transition to Professional Nursing (2)
This course is intended to be taken during the final semester of the program.
Prerequisite(s): All nursing courses to this point.
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NURS 299 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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Orientation |
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ORIE 101 - Orientation to College (3)
A course designed to help the student bridge the transition to the college environment.
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ORIE 199 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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Paralegal Studies |
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PARA 120 - General Law (3)
This course discusses various kinds of law: constitutional, civil, criminal, administrative, trends in legal practice, including specializations, hot topics and explores views of representing individuals who may be accused of certain types of crime, i.e., murder, rape, child molestation/abuse.
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PARA 199 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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PARA 235 - Torts/Causes of Action (3)
This course defines what a tort is and examines elements, proof, identification of different causes of action and remedies.
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PARA 270 - Real Estate/Wills and Estates (3)
This course examines real estate laws and drafting deeds, leases, contracts of sale, closing documents, and title searches. It serves as an overview of laws of probate, will drafting, and probate of estates.
Prerequisite(s): PARA 101 and PARA 102.
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PARA 293 - Paralegal On-the-Job-Training (1–13)
This course is designed to award credit to those persons who have participated in a supervised on-the-job training program in criminal justice. Credit is awarded upon receipt of a letter from the on-site supervisor stating successful completion of on-the-job training assignments and the total number of actual hours involved in the training.
Hours (Credit hours earned for On-the-Job Training are calculated as 1 credit hour = 150 actual hours. Therefore a student must work 1950 actual hours to receive 13 credit hours.)
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PARA 299 - Special Topics (1-4)
A special topic (ST) has a different course description for each course offered under the ST code. The division will keep a record of every special topics course offered with this subject code, including the course description.
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Philosophy |
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PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy (3)
This course introduces students to the major fields, problems, theories, and personalities of philosophy through the biographies and writing of leading thinkers.
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Phlebotomy |
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PLBT 101 - Phlebotomy (3)
This course prepares students with the fundamentals of phlebotomy. Both theory and hands-on experience are provided. Course content includes the history of phlebotomy, basic anatomy and physiology, infection control, specimen collection, various venipuncture techniques, dermal punctures, venipuncture complications, point-of-care testing, legal issues, and special non-blood specimen collection techniques.
Prerequisite(s): CAHS 100 and MAST 202 .
Corerequisite(s): MAST 206 .
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PLBT 102 - Phlebotomy Clinical Externship (3)
This course allows students to work in a CLIA approved laboratory setting and function under direct supervision of a phlebotomist. The externship is one hundred (100) uncompensated hours in length. Students are expected to perform a minimum of 100 successful blood collection procedures including venipunctures and dermal punctures. Phlebotomy competencies will be evaluated by a phlebotomy preceptor(s) and under the direction of a medical assistant instructor. The student needs to contact the medical assisting program department upon registering for this course. Early registration is encouraged to allow time to make arrangements for the externship experience. The student is expected to follow all policies and procedures of their designated externship site.
Prerequisite(s): PLBT 101 or CAHS 153 .
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Physical Therapy Assistant |
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PTA 101 - Intro to Physical Therapy (2)
History of the physical therapy profession and survey of general physical therapy services. Legal and ethical requirements for the physical therapist assistant are introduced. The Americans with Disabilities Act and architectural barriers are studied.
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PTA 102 - Patient & Professional Relationship (2)
Recognition of the reactions of the health care worker, patient, and family to illness and disability is discussed. The influence of race, class, age, ethnic origin, and gender on the physical therapist assistant and patient relationship is explored. The stages of adjustment to disability and death and dying are described. Communication skills between PTA, patient, family and other health care providers are developed.
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PTA 103 - Intro to Patient Care (3)
An introduction to basic patient care procedures such as positioning, transferring, ambulating, dressing, fitting ambulation aids, and taking vital signs. Universal Precautions, isolation, and aseptic principles will be presented. Skills in basic note writing will be developed.
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PTA 104 - Physical Agents (4)
This course includes the lecture and lab study of thermal agents, compression, and massage. Skills in surface anatomy and goniometry are developed. Topics include electrical stimulation, traction, and manual muscle testing. Upon completion, students are able to correctly and safely apply these techniques in a laboratory setting while assessing the physiologic response and observing indications and contraindications. Also, students can write appropriate progress notes, and demonstrate knowledge of the physiological principles involved.
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