AC 210 - Financial Accounting

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Non-Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand what information is being presented by the income statement and balance sheet. 
• Describe the monthly accounting cycle, its adjustments, and its results. 
• Define what is meant by “profit” and “loss” and how they may be influenced by the choice of accounting methods. 
• Describe the effect economic stimulus and taxation policies (at the federal level) have on accounting choices. 
• Read and understand the annual report of a corporation.

AC 211 - Managerial Accounting

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Non-Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Differentiate between management and financial accounting.
• Demonstrate cost principles and the proper financial statement classification and reporting of costs by various types of companies.
• Explain cost components and their relationship to changes in volume and other factors.
• Develop a comprehensive financial budget.
• Analyze budget variances.
• Evaluate long-term capital investment decisions.

AC 305 - Consumer Behavior

AC 310 - Intermediate Accounting I

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Non-Proctored Final Exam

Credits: 3

AC 311 - Intermediate Accounting II

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Non-Proctored Final Exam

Credits: 3

AC 312 - Federal Income Taxes

Interactivity: Weekly Discussion

Final: No final project.

Credits: 3

AC 313 - Cost Accounting

AC 315 - Accounting Information Systems

AC 351 - Accounting for Governmental and Non-profit Entities

AC 401 - Auditing

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Credits: 3

AC 410 - Advanced Accounting

• Assignments: 5 Units
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: None

1. Demonstrate an understanding of different types and methods of business expansions and combinations.
2. Prepare journal entries using the cost, equity, or fair value method for accounting for investments.
3. Develop a consolidation worksheet using spreadsheet software, such as Microsoft Excel, which includes calculations and elimination entries for the consolidation of a subsidiary under various acquisition scenarios.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of accounting procedures used in consolidating a subsidiary when there are intercompany asset or debt transfers.
5. Prepare journal entries for the operation of a partnership, including formation, allocation of partnership profit or loss, changes in membership, and liquidation.
6. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the major concepts of governmental accounting.
7. Demonstrate an understanding of financial reporting and journal entry concepts for various types of private, not-for-profit entities.

AC 420 - Advanced Topics in Financial Accounting

BA 201 - Introduction to Microeconomics

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Discuss current topics in microeconomics.
• Identify key terms and concepts in economics.
• Illustrate key concepts and economic theories.
• Apply the supply and demand principles to real-world situations.
• Evaluate current economic conditions to predict future outcomes.

BA 202 - Introduction to Macroeconomics

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Examine current topics in Macroeconomics.
• Compare key terms and concepts in economics.
• Demonstrate key concepts and economic theories.
• Apply key concepts and principles to real world situations. 

BA 301 - Legal Environment of Business I

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand how the American legal system is structured and why the structure can influence strategy decisions.
• Describe the steps in the litigation process.
• Specify the basic elements of common crimes and torts.
• Explain how tort law intersects with economics and social attitude.
• Identify the laws relevant to the employment relationship, and understand the rights and obligations involved.
• Define the meaning of contract, and explain how one is formed and breached.
• Read and understand court opinions, and recognize how decisions are reached.
• Assess the challenges faced by the legal system in light of modern technology and the global economy.

BA 306 - Business Ethics

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the ethical component of a dilemma that arises in a business setting.
• Develop alternate solutions to the problems presented that reflect sound business practices.
• Evaluate the ethical considerations of alternate solutions according to accepted models of ethical decision-making in business.
• Analyze the impact, costs, and consequences of the alternate solutions.
• Create a final solution that reflects sound and accepted business and ethical decision-making practices.
• Understand how to integrate ethical considerations and decisions into existing business strategy.

 

Credits: 3

BA 350 - Management Information Systems for Managers

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the benefits and limitations of various computer-based information systems commonly used in business.
• Describe the managerial issues raised by information systems.
• Explain the role and effect of information technology on business decision-making.
• Understand the role of the manager in a global economy facilitated by information technology.

FI 301 - Business Finance

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None 

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand the role of the corporate financial manager and the three main policy questions he/she faces: Investment, Capital Structure, and Dividend decisions.
• Determine the Statement of Cash Flow, given a Statement of Earnings and a Statement of Financial Position.
• Apply common financial ratios in evaluating both actual and pro-forma financial statements.
• Apply common sizing in financial analysis and planning.
• Utilize the Time Value of Money formulas to evaluate various alternatives.
• Utilize the Discounted Cash Flow metrics such as Net Present Value, expected Net Present Value , Modified Internal Rate of Return, and Modified Profitability Index in order to evaluate proposed projects.
• Determine the Weighted Average Cost of Capital and its component parts for the Cost of Debt, Cost of Preferred Stock, and the Cost of Common Stock, the latter, by using the Capital Asset Pricing Model as well as other techniques.

IN 310 - International Marketing

MG 101 - Introduction to Management

 Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe what management is and how it affects the successful operation of an organization.
• Explain the challenges involved in effective decision making and the role leadership plays in the successful deployment of the decision.
• Identify organizational structures and how they reinforce the strategic intent of the organization.
• Discuss how effective human resources practices support the success of the organization.
• Describe a strategic planning process and identify the manager’s role in this process.

MG 302 - Human Resources Management

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Analyze the diverse functions of human resources management.
• Explain the benefits of technology on the human resources function.
• Restate the trends and challenges to current HR departments and staff.
• Apply the components of a job analysis and job descriptions.
• Design a plan for employee training.
• Restate the principles of human capital management.

MG 307 - Small Business Management

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Assess the personality characteristics typical of an entrepreneur.
• Identify the practical business skills needed to operate a small business.
• Communicate in the language of small business.
• Demonstrate the ability to assess the validity of a business idea.
• Develop a comprehensive business plan (including the marketing and financial sections).
• Assess factors demonstrating small business growth and their consequences.
• Discuss technology applications for improving small business margins.
• Illustrate the relationship of administrative, internal systems to external systems of sales and customer service.

MG 309 - Organizational Behavior

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Describe organizational theories, concepts, terminology, and core disciplines and relate their implications to “real world” individuals, groups, and structures. 
• Identify individual behavior traits and interpret their influences upon work-group effectiveness. 
• Recognize inherent political and social processes within an organization and, through analysis, propose changes that will enable feelings of self-worth, motivation, and effectiveness. 
• Demonstrate awareness for the implications of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and perception on organizations. 
• Identify and acknowledge certain personal qualities which influence your leadership style and decision-making.

MG 311 - Organizational Change: Restructuring the System

MG 320 - Conflict Management and Mediation

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe the nature and causes of conflict.
• Identify communication skills and negotiation techniques for conflict resolution.
• Demonstrate knowledge of mediation and the role of the mediator.
• Identify facilitative strategies for the mediator.
• Apply conflict-resolution skills and mediation methods in the workplace and other real-life situations.

MG 330 - International Management

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Research Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Identify the key formal and informal institutions which shape the business environment and understand the challenges they create for firms that decide to expand internationally. 
• Be familiar with the choices a firm has in deciding how to enter a foreign market, including the relative advantages and disadvantages of each option. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of how a firm’s international strategy affects organizational structure and staffing, and the management complexity which globalization introduces. 
• Explain why it is important but difficult to establish and implement ethical norms across an international business.

MG 410 - Strategic Management

Interactivity: Discussion Board

5 Units

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Explain the perplexities of multifunctional-organizational problems pertaining to the strategic-management process, stakeholders, and corporate missions. 
• Explain the unique challenges of top management, as opposed to functional management, by learning about how to identify opportunities and threats, external and internal analysis.
• Evaluate current ideas, issues, and problems associated with executive management and strategy in a global environment. 
• Identify the important facts, terminology, concepts, principles, and theories in the arena of strategy. 
• Describe the various models and methods used to conduct external and internal analysis. 
• Demonstrate the importance of ethical principles and organizational values within the context of making socially responsible management choices.

MK 201 - Introduction to Marketing

MK 201 emphasizes basic decision-making tools and analytic processes used by the marketing manager.  Topics include product policy and new product development; distribution channels and systems; personal and mass selling techniques; pricing; promotion; and marketing program implementation.  Emphasis will be placed on the formulation of a comprehensive marketing plan for a product or service that the adult learner selects and will bring to market.

During the course, you will practice some analytical and creative skills to build a Marketing Plan for a small business or nonprofit venture of your own, or a product or service offering of your employer.  More work will have to be done, particularly in financial projections, before you can ”go to the bank” with a plan, but the course will give you a model on which you may get started.

Assignment Overview
Assignments: 5 Units

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Provide an introduction and exposure to, and an understanding of, the marketing concept.
• Develop an ability to analyze and assess an organization and its products and services.
• Develop awareness and a practical knowledge of the marketing mix, especially as evidenced within your own company or organization, and as utilized by your company’s/organization’s senior management.
• Gain a working familiarity with the terminology, objectives, and issues that concern and impact marketing in the twenty-first century.
• Demonstrate decision-making abilities as you bring a product and/or service to market via a marketing plan.
• Demonstrate strategic thinking relative to marketing decisions.
• Describe essential principles of consumer behavior in relation to marketing.
• Perform a competitive analysis.
• Assess your own company’s ability to effectively market itself.

MK 301 - Advertising

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Value the role of Advertising as part of the marketing mix. 
• Assess the importance of target markets and segmentation in the development of advertising. 
• Recognize the role of message in the communications mix. 
• Evaluate the role of media in the advertising and communications mix. 
• Integrate Advertising into other elements of the communications mix.

MK 302 - Marketing Research

MK 305 - Consumer Behavior

MK 307 - Customer Service (& CRM)

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: PowerPoint Presentation

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

1. Define Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
2. Identify the history and development of CRM.
3. Examine the increasing roles of how technology is contributing to providing higher levels of customer satisfaction.
4. Evaluate the impact of CRM on sales and marketing strategies in the development of customer value, retention, and loyalty.
5. Identify the growing role of CRM and its future.

MK 310 - E-Marketing

MK 401 - Marketing Management

SA 301 - Principles of Sales (Salesmanship)

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Recognize the parallelism of professional-selling skills to persuasion/influencing-skills that are needed by business professionals, including those who are in nonsales positions.
• Describe the importance of professional development as a critical factor that contributes to a sales rep’s success, including key areas in which a sales representative would want to gain expertise.
• Apply key communication tools and learning to your day-to-day business environment to facilitate your ability to be seen by others as a persuasive and influential individual.

  Additionally, you will gain an understanding of the following:

• The Selling Cycle – The Buying Cycle
• FAB – Features, Advantages, Benefits
• Selling/Persuading/Communication Techniques
• Effective Professional Presentation Techniques
• Sales, as part of the marketing concept
• Interactions with People – Managing YOUR interpersonal relationships
• Dressing for success.  

SA 304 - Sales Management

AT 106 - Art in the Modern World

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Research Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Analyze a work of art from a historical and cultural perspective.
• Apply the Critical Process to works in the arts (Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Judge).
• Use Intuitive and Aesthetic response to express sophisticated ideas and pose insightful questions about contexts, processes, and criteria when evaluating art.
• Identify painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Explore the role of the artist and critic in a particular society and culture.
• Evaluate and critique original works of art in a museum or gallery setting.
• Interpret and evaluate the impact of visual arts in contemporary society and culture.

 

Credits: 3

AT 108 - Music Appreciation

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand the development of music from earlier times to the twentieth century.
• Recognize visually and aurally the basic elements of music.
• Have an acquaintance with some of the masterworks of music.
• Develop insight and discernment when listening to music.
• Develop a deeper appreciation for the music of other times.
• Experience enthusiasm in discovering “what’s going on” in the music.

BA 111 - The Effective Communicator

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None
 

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Apply to your business activities a clear and practical understanding of effective ways to communicate.
• Learn and use the tools of business writing for immediate results and for career enhancement.
• Develop and practice the skills of meeting management and business presentations.
• Create and maintain a strategic approach to managing one’s own workplace-communication activities.

 

 

Credits: 3

CH 105 - Chemistry for the Health Sciences

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Effectively utilize concepts used in chemistry.
• Organize your observations and present the data obtained from the laboratory exercises.
• Gain insight in the use of the scientific method as it is applied to scientific exploration.
• Use library and Web research to solve problems and encourage critical-thinking skills.

CJ 307 - Criminology

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand the deeper implications of crime and theories of causation.
• Recognize the framework of the criminal justice system in the United States.
• Comprehend the cost of crime in dollars and in human suffering.
• Demonstrate your awareness of how individuals and communities react to crime.

CJ 311 - American Criminal Justice System

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the major goals of the criminal justice system which are guaranteeing due process, preventing crime, protecting life and property, apprehending offenders, and enforcing the law. 
• Identify the major components of the criminal justice system.
• Identify the major agencies within each of the criminal justice system components.
• Define the typical responsibilities of each agency involved in the detection, prosecution, and detention of a crime.
• Define key terms related to the criminal justice system.
• Identify major issues and problems with law enforcement, prosecution, and corrections today.
• Identify the different models of the court system, their functions, and methods.
• Identify the myths of the correctional system today.
• Describe the future as it relates to the different parts of the criminal justice system.

 

Credits: 3

CJ 312 - Criminal Law and Procedure

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Have a brief understanding of the history behind criminal law and procedure as well as display an understanding of the requirements for warrants and field interrogations.
• Demonstrate, through essays, that you have adequate knowledge of the procedural issues dealing with arrests/bookings, vehicle searches, and evidence (not covered by a reasonable expectation of privacy).
• Display, through essays, knowledge of the legalities involved in eavesdropping and wiretapping, varying expectations of privacy (international borders and closed containers), and a defendant’s right against self-incrimination.
• Explore and demonstrate knowledge relative to identification procedures, a defendant’s right to counsel, other criminal trial issues, and First Amendment issues.
• Have thorough knowledge of the Exclusionary Rule and the Civil Rights Act. This will be demonstrated through both essays and the Position Paper.

CJ 322 - Victimology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Explain the development of the field of victimology.
• Identify conceptual boundaries of victimology.
• List the basic concepts and literature within various subareas of victimology.
• Explain policy developments and practical application that stem from this concern over victims.
• Describe the progress away from a criminal justice system toward achieving a victim justice system.
• Identify major issues in the scientific study of victims.
• Identify the topics studied by victimologists.
• Describe the victim movement and identify how it increased public interest in victims of crime.
• Describe the future of victimology as it relates to the criminal justice system.

CJ 323 - Introduction to Corrections

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Define corrections.
• Distinguish between probation and parole.
• Identify the primary purposes of sentencing guidelines.
• Describe how pre-release centers, work release, and pre-release counseling assist offenders who are preparing to return to society.
• Identify the major reasons for incarceration.
• Develop an understanding of how life is for inmates inside prison/jail and what occurs during the reentry process.
• Understand the philosophical rationales of punishment.
• Understand the importance of key court cases related to the field of corrections.
• Identify key issues related to managing and working with inmates.
• Describe key issues in corrections related to gender, race, and ethnicity.

CO 111 - The Effective Communicator

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Apply to your business activities a clear and practical understanding of effective ways to communicate.
• Learn and use the tools of business writing for immediate results and for career enhancement.
• Develop and practice the skills of meeting management and business presentations.
• Create and maintain a strategic approach to managing one’s own workplace-communication activities.

ED 222 - Fundamentals of Training

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Define and understand training as a profession.
• Develop a personal understanding of training, education, learning, and teaching.
• Develop and apply trusted-training strategies and techniques.
• Assess and evaluate various competencies of learners.
• Utilize technology in training that will enhance participation, learning, and the experience of the learner.
• Design a training session including the planning, assessment of needs, implementation of strategies, and evaluation of results.

ED 301 - Educational Psychology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to illustrate, in writing, an understanding and application of content as it applies to the following:

• Developmental and behavioral theories in education.
• Strategies used to encourage motivation and thoughtful learning.
• Teaching to diverse learning styles.
• Creating learning environments.
• Formative and summative assessment tools.

ED 308 - Adult Learning

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Formulate a profile of today’s adult learner.
• Differentiate between adult learning and childhood learning.
• Evaluate the implications of teaching style and learning preferences on adult learning.
• Assess newer approaches to adult learning.
• Discriminate between the main theories and educational philosophical viewpoints of adult learning.
• Examine the main assumptions about development throughout adulthood.
• Analyze the meaning of lifelong learning and its implications for adult learners.
• Synthesize your learning from this course with your own adult experiences and contribute to others’ learning experiences.

ED 322 - Advanced Training Perspectives

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Analyze training needs and performance problems.
• Prepare learning outcome statements.
• Measure and evaluate training results.
• Develop and design appropriate training methods.
• Develop and use effective coaching techniques.
• Demonstrate professional training skills such as analysis, evaluation of training, design, management, development, and coordination of training.

ED 401 - Measurements and Evaluation

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Calculate and apply descriptive statistics for analyzing, interpreting, and reporting assessment data.
• Define the different types of reliability and validity, and describe how they are used to evaluate aspects of a test or testing procedure.
• Explain the major categories of tests according to the procedures used (e.g. group vs. individual, standardized, diagnostic, and informal) as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each procedure.
• Describe a situation and demonstrate the purpose for the applications of tests in a specific professional setting (i.e. education, health care, business, etc.).
• Describe the history of assessment and analyze current issues and ethical standards in testing.
• Relate learning to previous and future personal and professional uses of testing procedures.

 

Credits: 3

EH 102 - Introduction to Literature

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the style of selected authors and the content of their works.
• Recognize what is unique about fiction, poetry, and drama.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the diversity of values guiding writers and their works.
• Recognize what is unique about the literature of different time periods.

EH 106 - English Composition I

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the principles of basic grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• Use these principles as a basis for effective written communication.
• Compose short essays for a particular audience and purpose written in clear, well-organized, grammatically correct, and mechanically sound prose.
• Apply APA formatting requirements to compositions.

EH 107 - English Composition II

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessement: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Approach writing as a process: prevision, vision, revision.
• Understand the relationship between reader and writer (audience and purpose).
• Recognize that effective writing is clear, complete, concise, and correct.
• Use weekly writing, reading, and discussion as the impetus for one’s own critical thinking in writing essays.
• Conduct basic library research, evaluate the credibility of sources, and use source material to support a personal point of view.
• Demonstrate the ability to comprehend, summarize, synthesize, analyze, and evaluate information.

EH 203 - American Literature I

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Proctored Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Examine the connection between history and literature.
• Evaluate the impact of religion on the writings of the early Colonial Period.
• Analyze the different stylistic approaches individual authors used in their writings.

EH 204 - American Literature II

Interactivity: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the style of selected authors and the content of their works. 
• Recognize what is unique about the different trends in American Literature. 
• Establish the connection between American Literature and American History.

EH 205 - Early British Writers

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Identify the style of selected authors and the content of their works. 
• Recognize what is unique about the trends in Early British Literature. 
• Make the connection between history and literature. 
• Demonstrate your understanding of the diversity of values guiding individual writers and their works.

EH 310 - Special Topics: Lilterature of the ‘60’s & ‘70’s

ES 101 - Introduction to Environmental Science

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of ecological principles and population dynamics, their impact on the environment, and their effect of environmental degradation on public health. 
• Research an environmental issue that is of personal interest and become proficient in writing a research paper in scientific format. 
• Examine personal beliefs regarding the environment and understand how individual and collective behavior affects environmental and human health. 
• Improve understanding of the variety of ways that organisms interact with both the physical and the biological environment, and how different processes affect organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems. 
• Express personal thoughts, understandings, and conclusions that pertain to current environmental and public health-related problems. 
• Enhance intellectual curiosity and critical-thinking skills by gathering and evaluating knowledge beyond the course material.

 

Credits: 3

HY 101 - Western Civilization I

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Essay

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Recognize the contributions that the great civilizations of the West have made to the modern world.
• Analyze why civilizations rise and fall.
• Critically read and interpret both primary and secondary sources.
• Explain how the great questions of history, and of our humanity, were addressed by different civilizations at different times and how these questions are still important for us in our continual quest to understand our humanity.

HY 102 - Western Civilization II

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Show an understanding of the basic chronology of the development of Western Civilization in the Modern Age.
• Show a mastery of basic historical-research and-writing skills (i.e., working with primary sources, developing an historical essay, examining contrasting points of view). 
• Articulate the major intellectual, social, and political trends that have made western culture unique. 
• Articulate how these uniquely western ideas spread to different areas of the world and the impact that these ideas have had on the development of the modern world. 
• Decipher historical trends and see how these trends have led to contemporary situations.

HY 201 - History of the United States I

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Demonstrate how socially constructed notions of gender, race, ethnicity, and class have shaped the reality of American lives. 
• Assess the impact of historical events on the social, political, and economic status of diverse groups of Americans. 
• Analyze artifacts, artworks, primary-written documents, and literary contributions of Americans and how they contributed to the American cultural fabric.

 

Credits: 3

HY 202 - History of the United States II

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate how socially constructed notions of gender, race, ethnicity, and class have shaped the reality of American lives. 
• Assess the impact of historical events on the social, political, and economic status of diverse groups of Americans. 
• Analyze artifacts, artworks, primary-written documents, and literary contributions of Americans and how they contributed to the American cultural fabric. 
• Write an historical essay with proper APA citation.

HY 211 - The Course of Irish History

HY 332 - History of the Modern Middle East

HY 421 - Special Topics: Feminism in the United States

This course explores how gender and feminist movements have shaped the experience of American women in their social, political, and professional roles. This evaluation includes the impact of class, race, and ethnicity on gender roles and the expectations for women from the early 20^th century to the present modern day era.  Additionally, students will explore the cultural influences of women throughout this time period including contributions to the disciplines of science, history, philosophy, literature, and art.  Throughout the course, students will investigate themes of continuity, community, family, and change in the lives of American women.

 

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer 2013: Semester 201404

ITM 209 - Integrating People and Technology in Office Suite Applications

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Use proper email etiquette.
• Become self-sufficient in finding office application functions by using Help screens, tutorials, and Internet resources.
• Use Microsoft Office 2007.
• Create an audio and video slide show from a digital-camera download.
• Use compression software to transfer large files and multiple files.
• Use a chat session.
• Create a Web site with links to other sites, documents, and pages.

MA 105 - College Algebra

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Apply your knowledge of algebra to solve linear equations and inequalities.
• Use your problem-solving skills to create mathematical models.
• Perform operations of real numbers, polynomials, and radicals.
• Apply your knowledge of algebra to solve quadratic equations.
• Solve exponential equations.
• Solve logarithmic equations.

MA 107 - Contemporary Mathematics

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Open-Book Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Be equipped with new strategies for solving problems.
• Look for ways to quantify many of your decisions.
• Understand the power of mathematical models.
• Understand the limitations of mathematical models.
• Analyze, present, and interpret data.
• Be critical of presented data and its analysis.
• Be more comfortable with mathematical terms and approaches.
• Have more confidence in your mathematical ability.

MA 205 - Elementary Statistics

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Proctored Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Apply your working knowledge of the basic concepts used in statistics.
• Interpret statistics used in journal articles in your field.
• Demonstrate your familiarity with interpreting the output of the statistical-software-package Minitab.
• Build upon this foundation for further work in statistics.

NN 101 - Introduction to Nutrition

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Online Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Discuss the factors that influence food choices.
• Discuss the research process and explain why scientific research is the source of valid nutrition information.
• List the energy-producing nutrients and describe the functions of each in the body.
• Describe the roles of vitamins, minerals, and water in the body, and list significant food sources of each.
• Describe the influence of diet and exercise on body composition, obesity, and degenerative disease.
• Discuss the importance of optimum nutrition for wellness at different stages of the life cycle.
• List hazards to a safe food supply, and discuss methods to prevent food-borne illnesses.
• Describe how poverty, overpopulation, and environmental degradation contribute to world hunger and the diminution of an adequate and safe worldwide food supply.

NN 202 - Nutrition for Health Care Professionals

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe the multiple factors that influence nutritional intake and identify the essential nutrients required for optimal health.
• Describe the energy-producing nutrients, and include the key roles of each in the body.
• Describe the functions of essential vitamins, minerals, and water, and identify significant sources of these nutrients.
• Identify the parameters of nutritional assessment used for healthy individuals and include those parameters used for individuals stressed by illness.
• Describe the basic processes involved in the digestion, absorption, and metabolism of food.
• Describe the special-nutrient requirements of individuals at various stages in the life cycle.
• Describe appropriate nutritional intervention in various diseases or conditions.
• Recognize the significance of nutrition as it impacts health and health-care delivery.

 

Credits: 3

PE 412 - Special Topics: Exercising for Fitness and Health

PH 201 - Introduction to Greek Philosophy

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to have a strong basic-philosophical vocabulary. Words are, after all, the legs of the educational journey and, in philosophy, definition and verbal precision are to be valued above all else because it is upon words that we hang our ideas. This course will also be an excellent preparation for courses in Comparative Religions and Ethics.

Credits: 3

PH 202 - Philosophy of Human Nature

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper and Proctored Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe and contrast the main philosophical principles of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and discuss what you see as their strengths and weaknesses.
• Discuss and critique the central features of Descarte’s rational philosophy and the critiques of rationalism put forth by the British-Empiricists Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
• Articulate and contrast Kant’s ontological philosophy and Hegel’s historically-oriented philosophy.
• Identify the main principles of existentialism and postmodernism, and discuss what you see as their strengths and weaknesses.
• Compare and contrast ancient, modern, and postmodern philosophy, and demonstrate how each period might philosophize about a particular idea or cultural issue.

PH 204 - Philosophy of Gender

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe and give examples of how philosophy underlies the way people have attached meaning to life and ordered their behavior and beliefs accordingly, throughout history and across cultures. 
• Identify contemporary issues that pertain to gender, and analyze them to explore how an understanding of gender also influences many social and political issues. 
• Compare and contrast some of the complex and diverse gender experiences that occur across cultures, age differences, and sexual orientations. 
• Cite examples from your personal, family, workplace, or social relationships that reflect an understanding that a philosophy of gender impacts your daily life. 
• Synthesize course materials to articulate how this course has influenced your own philosophy of gender. 
• Identify situations where a clearer and renewed understanding of gender issues might reshape our individual, social, or political lives.

PH 210 - Ethics

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe the major ethical principles of Cultural Relativism, Natural Law Theory, Psychological Egoism, Utilitarianism, Moral Ethics, Social Contract Theory, and others. 
• Evaluate and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of the major ethical theories. 
• Discuss the major ethical debates of our time and describe the arguments both for and against them. 
• Formulate and describe your own ethical principles. 
• Apply the knowledge gained to your own life and to the ethical issues you feel strongly about.

PY 101 - Introduction to Psychology

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Assignment

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Acquire knowledge on a broad range of topics in psychology.
• Use multiple perspectives and scientific procedures to investigate and understand human behavior and mental processes.
• Critically evaluate and apply the factors and interactions explaining human behavior and mental processes to additional areas of inquiry.

PY 207 - Psychopathology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Recognize the signs and symptoms of the mental disorders classified in the DSM-IV. 
• Recognize that any discussion of abnormal behavior must include thought and consideration of the cultural and societal context in which the behavior occurs. 
• Communicate what it means to live with a mental illness in our society. 
• Apply your knowledge and ability to utilize the DSM-IV. 
• Apply your knowledge to contemporary issues in the field of mental health. 
• Utilize critical thinking skills to analyze, assess, synthesize, and apply your understanding.

PY 211 - Lifespan Development

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Explain at least four major theories of human development.
• Describe the methods used to study human development and be able to critically evaluate research findings and conclusions.
• Explain several ways in which sociocultural influences affect human development.
• Apply the concepts of developmental psychology to relevant practical issues that may arise in your day-to-day personal and professional life.
• Reflect on an important developmental experience in order to gain new insights into your own growth and development.

PY 301 - Personality Theory

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
To understand and evaluate the leading theories of personality development, students will analyze and critique the theories of Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Skinner, Rogers, Maslow, Beck, and others. We will discuss both the philosophical and empirical validity of concepts such as the self, traits, temperament, conditioning, and so on, as they relate to the formation of personality.

Credits: 3

PY 304 - Learning Theories

 Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Compare and contrast classical and contemporary theories of learning.
• Summarize and apply learning enhancement techniques.
• Distinguish between classical and operant conditioning.
• Compare and contrast reinforcement and punishment, and apply one or the other.
• Design and implement variable reinforcement schedules.
• Explain that learning leads to memory and that memory enhances performance.
• Assess the benefits of using breadth and depth with regard to enhancing learning, memory, and performance.
• Explain the multifaceted nature of learning and memory.
• Distinguish between implicit and explicit processing with regard to learning and memory.
• Summarize memory changes over the life span, with particular regard to fluid and crystallized intelligence.

PY 305 - Social Psychology

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Research Project and Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• List at least three major theorists/researchers in the social-psychology field. 
• Define social psychology, conformity, prejudice, aggression, and persuasion. 
• Explain four ways that mass media influence people’s choices. 
• Name the components of Cognitive Dissonance Theory. 
• Define self-justification and self-presentation. 
• Discuss at least five important social problems and the significance of social psychology as related to these problems. 
• List five reasons why research is conducted in social psychology. 
• Explain three factors that contribute to our selection of an intimate partner. 
• Define and differentiate between stereotype and prejudice. 
• Discuss framing and its impact on our social cognition.

PY 306 - Adolescent Psychology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Research Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Compare and contrast developmental theories. 
• Discuss your own position about human development as it is seen in the United States. 
• Outline some of the significant issues facing adolescents. 
• Reflect more clearly on your own adolescence and recognize some of the factors that influenced your development.

PY 307 - Educational Psychology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to illustrate, in writing, an understanding and application of content as it applies to the following: 

• Developmental and behavioral theories in education. 
• Strategies used to encourage motivation and thoughtful learning. 
• Teaching to diverse learning styles. 
• Creating learning environments. 
• Formative and summative assessment tools.

PY 401 - Measurements and Evaluation

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Calculate and apply descriptive statistics for analyzing, interpreting, and reporting assessment data.
• Define the different types of reliability and validity and describe how they are used to evaluate aspects of a test or testing procedure.
• Explain the major categories of tests according to the procedures used (e.g., group vs. individual, standardized, diagnostic, and informal) as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each procedure.
• Describe a situation and demonstrate the purpose for the applications of tests in a specific professional setting (i.e., education, health care, business, etc.).
• Describe the history of assessment and analyze current issues and ethical standards in testing.
• Relate learning to previous and future personal- and professional-uses of testing procedures.

SO 201 - Principles of Sociology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Define and assess the sociological perspective and its development in studying human behavior.
• Explain and compare the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and apply them in order to understand, assess, and determine ways to improve social patterns, through independent and/or collaborative problem-solving assignments.
• Describe the methods (qualitative and quantitative) and the technology used in sociological research, and its application, and be able to apply the steps in the research process through either the design and/ or implementation of a sociological study.

SO 301 - Social Problems

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Analyze the impact of social institutions in our American society. 
• Recognize the variety of problems that face each of us as citizens of the United States. 
• Analyze the causes and consequences of problems based on the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist frameworks. 
• Value other nations, the social problems they face and how they are attempting to solve their problems. 
• Identify the complexity of social problems and their solutions.

SO 302 - Social Psychology

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Research Project and Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• List at least three major theorists/researchers in the social psychology field. 
• Define social psychology, conformity, prejudice, aggression, and persuasion. 
• Explain four ways that mass media influence people’s choices. 
• Name the components of Cognitive Dissonance Theory. 
• Define self-justification and self-presentation. 
• Discuss at least five important social problems and the significance of social psychology as related to these problems. 
• List five reasons why research is conducted in social psychology. 
• Explain three factors that contribute to our selection of an intimate partner. 
• Define and differentiate between stereotype and prejudice. 
• Discuss framing and its impact on our social cognition.

SO 309 - Human Behavior and Development

Interactivity: Discussion Board

 

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Recognize that there are many ways of examining and understanding human development and behavior throughout the lifestyle.
• Critically analyze the information provided about development and behavior through the use of varied resources, including your textbook, but also, by expressing your efforts to review material found in life experience, learning exercises, interviews with other persons who work in related fields, Web sites, and so forth. Go wild.
• Understand the critical relationships between the impact of history and culture on human development and behavior, and be able to express, in your written assignments and on the Discussion board, what you have learned.
• Gain a further appreciation for diversity, often as it is explained by a better understanding of those elements and influences of socioeconomic status, culture, bias, value systems, and so forth. 
• Gain a better understanding of ourselves as experienced through our own internal and external development.

 

Credits: 3

SO 310 - Aging in America

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• View aging as a biopsychosocial process rather than a simple event and understand self, family, colleagues, and clients as aging individuals.
• Differentiate between normal changes of aging and illness states common in aging individuals. 
• Apply major theories of aging from biology, psychology, and sociology to interpret how people age in U.S. society.
• Identify societal, community, and health-care resources for positive and successful aging. 
• Identify some of the political, social, and economic issues important to health-care systems as they deal with the needs of aging clients. 
• Recognize the wide range of existing alternatives for delivery of health care to aging people and identify opportunities for development of additional services based on identified needs and societal trends.

SO 320 - Race and Ethnic Relations

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Recognize the sociological perspective, or the interplay of the individual and society and how individuals are shaped by the cultural context of the societies in which they live. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of majority/minority group relations, and how these relationships have come to be. 
• Identify the various forms of prejudice and discrimination, and theories that seek to explain them. 
• Examine the development of racial categories throughout the history of the United States. 
• Examine the relationship between and among related factors such as immigration and religion in connection to race and ethnicity. 
• Analyze and examine how the relationships among cultural, economic, political, social, and historical events shape various ethnic- and racial-group experiences in the United States. 
• Evaluate how race relations around the world are similar to and different from the U.S. experience.

SO 321 - Special Topics: The Sociology of Work

This course provides an introduction to the sociology of work. Topics will include a number of important sociological themes: the history of work and labor, how and what we define as work, sectors of the economy, and the challenge of work/family balance.  We will study these topics with material at both the macro level of analysis (e.g., the occupational structure, the U.S. and global economies, changes of technology and demographics) and the micro level of analysis (e.g., the demands of workplaces and occupations on workers’ sense of self and identity; the influence of work on families), and with both qualitative and quantitative data.

 

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer 2013; Semester 201403; Summer 2011; Semester 201203

HA 205 - American Health Care Systems

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Assimilate your experiential learning as a health care professional and/or consumer with the reading, to grasp the complexities, benefits, and barriers to health care in the United States. 
• Understand the concepts of health and health care as they relate to the U.S. Health Care System outcomes and individual health care seeking behaviors. 
• Compare the U.S. health status to other industrialized countries. 
• Describe individual attributes and other factors affecting health care seeking behaviors in the United States. 
• Discuss the public health responsibilities of local, state, and federal government. 
• Understand the impact of competition and regulation on health care quality. 
• Explain the benefits and barriers to health care usage created by different types of health insurance. 
• Describe the various levels of health care along the continuum of care in the U.S. Health Care System. 
• Learn why the U.S. Health Care System encourages care of the sick rather than prevention of illness. 
• Describe the types of care the Health Planning Commission attempts to ensure for all residents. 
• Explain at least two critical issues facing the U.S. Health Care System. 

HA 214 - Health Care Informatics

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Understand health information management, from paper-based to computerized systems. 
• Assimilate the core components of health information management systems and how they integrate. 
• Analyze how health information systems may be used strategically to improve health care outcomes and efficiency. 
• Demonstrate the process of choosing and implementing a health information system. 
• Identify the ethical issues inherent to health information management and how computerization may ameliorate or exacerbate each issue. 
• Explain the role communication plays in developing and maintaining a health information system.

HA 302 - Human Resources Management

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Demonstrate knowledge of the organizational, legal, and environmental forces that create the framework for human resource management. 
• Evaluate and redesign processes and programs to target the organizational mission and goals. 
• Understand the strategic components of human resource management, and analyze opportunities in your workplace. 
• Apply the principles and practices of this course in the health care field, particularly as it relates to the following:
  • Diverse personnel working in the healthcare field.
  • The role of human resource management as it applies to all aspects of the workplace.
  • Changes in the workplace due to changes in the demographics of the workforce.
  • The relationship of workplace components and their collective ability to meet health care industry demands.
  • Legal requirements pertaining to the labor force.

HA 330 - Health Care Administration: Management Foundations

Interactivity: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon the completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Describe the relationship of organization theory to the practice of health care administration. 
• Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between health care organizations and other organizations. 
• Outline the various managerial roles in health care organizations. 
• Explain the theories of motivation and perception and apply them to health care management. 
• Discuss the social structure of work groups in health care organizations. 
• Apply the principles of work design, organization design, and organizational change in health care organizations. 
• Demonstrate the principles of communication and coordination. 
• Distinguish the difference between power, influence, and authority in health care organizations. 
• Discuss important relationships between health care organizations and their environments. 
• Identify critical factors in achieving organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

HA 343 - Health Care Financial Management

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Exam

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should understand the following:

• Basic accounting and financial management concepts and terminology.
• Financial analysis and its role in managerial decision making.
• Cost determination and allocation as a management tool.
• The role of budgets, and how to develop them, interpret them, and use them to manage more effectively.
• How to manage assets, make capital investment decisions, and secure capital financing.

HA 350 - Leadership in Health Administration

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Identify and discuss the theoretical and applied components of effective leadership and management in health care. 
• Define the role vision plays in leadership. 
• Examine and apply the leadership skills you have achieved.

HA 353 - Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Explain key concepts regarding the legal aspects of health care administration. 
• Apply major theories and doctrines that frame health care law. 
• Describe the basis, structure, and process of the legal system in the United States today. 
• Evaluate the scope of accountability of organizations, health care administrators, and trustees in various situations. 
• Discuss legal issues and accountabilities regarding professional licensure and scope of practice. 
• Determine the administrative obligations in relation to consents, protections, confidentiality, and patients’ rights. 
• Describe the legal aspects of antitrust, corporate status, and corporate compliance in health care today. 
• Assess and discuss the relationship between the law and legal doctrines, and personal and clinical ethics in administrative decision making.

HA 355 - Ethics in Health Care

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Research Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Explain the theories and principles relevant to health care ethics.
• Identify and discuss the ethical issues inherent in the provision of individual health care, including the evolving responses to new ethical problems.
• Apply ethical theories and principles to health care problems facing the health services administrator and the structures of organizational governance.
• Recognize, discuss, and analyze critical ethical issues in health care delivery within our society.
• Analyze and articulate reasoned approaches to resolve ethical concerns in health care delivery.

HA 360 - Introduction to Managed Care

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will gain an understanding of the following: 

• The evolution of managed care, including the driving forces which have caused this evolution. 
• Current trends in managed care and how market dynamics have changed over time. 
• The basic models of managed care organizations, their advantages and disadvantages. 
• The pros and cons of the various delivery-system responses to managed care. 
• The types of contractual arrangements being used by physicians and hospitals. 
• Managed care firms handling and processing of information. 
• The various approaches to utilization management used by managed care organizations. 
• Implications of increasing managed care in the state and federal health care programs.

HA 410 - Quality in Health Care Administration

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Discuss Total Quality Improvement (TQI)/Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). You will also understand and discuss that CQI is a management method that is associated with the health care elements of teams, quality councils, statistical process control, customer satisfaction measures, benchmarks, and process engineering.
• Assess and discuss the importance of measurement and statistical analysis in CQI and know and understand the tools used in the CQI process such as flowcharts, run charts, cause-and-effect diagrams, Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), and Cause-and-effect diagrams, and so on.
• Define all the “customers” in health care and the concerns of both the internal and external customers. You will better understand and be able to illustrate the importance of customer satisfaction as it relates to health care.
• Discuss and illustrate the transformation of health care organizations in becoming learning organizations of Continuous Quality Improvement and performance improvement.
• Discuss and appraise the involvement of managed care, technology, public policy, purchasers, and quality improvement collaboratives with the CQI implementation in health care organizations.
• Discuss and illustrate the impact of health care disintermediation on CQI in healthcare

HA 454 - Strategic Planning in Health Care Organizations

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Recognize and explain the value of strategic planning in health care organizations.
• Apply a basic strategic planning process to the case study.
• Identify organizational factors that could impact the strategic planning process and outcomes.
• Explain the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in the strategic planning process.
• Perform a basic environmental assessment considering both internal and external factors.
• Apply the elements of effective mission and vision statements.
• Construct applicable goals, objectives, and implementation plans.
• Describe an ongoing planning process including: regular progress reports, annual updates, and when a significant plan redraft is indicated.
• Identify challenges for health care organizations over the next one to five years.

LTC 210 - Introduction to Long-Term Care Administration

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Describe the current long-term care system in the United States and how it came to be, as well as how it differs from the ideal system. 
• Identify the characteristics of the ideal long-term care system, and compare and contrast it with the current system. 
• Describe the ways in which the providers of long-term care services interact with each other and with other components of the long-term care system, that is, consumers, payers, and regulators. 
• Identify and discuss the management/ leadership skills needed for success in long-term care administration. 
• Discuss the trends affecting the long-term care system today, those likely to shape its future, and how managers will need to behave in order to improve the overall long-term care system.

LTC 310 - Aging in America

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• View aging as a biopsychosocial process rather than a simple event and understand self, family, colleagues, and clients as aging individuals. 
• Differentiate between normal changes of aging and illness states common in aging individuals. 
• Apply major theories of aging from biology, psychology, and sociology to interpret how people age in U. S. society. 
• Identify societal, community, and health care resources for positive and successful aging. 
• Identify some of the political, social, and economic issues important to health care systems as they deal with the needs of aging clients. 
• Recognize the wide range of existing alternatives for delivery of health care to aging people, and identify opportunities for development of additional services based on identified needs and societal trends.

LTC 352 - Long-Term Care Laws and Regulations

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Differentiate between the organizational structures within government branches and their respective roles in the formation of Long-Term Care Rules and Regulations. 
• Appraise and implement a practical Resident Bill of Rights In-Service Plan for all employees and residents. 
• Differentiate End-of-Life treatment components. 
• Submit acceptable plans of corrections to Federal and State Long-Term Care Regulatory agencies. 
• Identify alternatives to nursing home care.

LTC 448 - Issues in Long-Term Care Policy

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will understand and will be able to discuss the following:

• The forces causing change in the long-term care system. 
• The continuum of care as a basis for formulating policy. 
• Policy, regulation, and quality considerations and their effects on long-term care. 
• Long-term care financing problems and options for solving those problems. 
• Ethical issues affecting how long-term care is delivered. 
• Likely future trends and issues in long-term care.

LTC 450 - Nursing Home Administration

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Online Final Exam, Password Protected

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Explain the nature of the nursing home environment and its unique requirements for administration.
• Determine how to apply the philosophies, theories, principles, and concepts of management to nursing home settings.
• Analyze the nature of the interactions among the various segments of the nursing home organization.
• Clarify the appropriate roles of customers in the long-term care system and the role of the nursing home administrator in meeting the needs of those customers.
• Locate and review the legal and regulatory requirements and their impact on administration of a nursing home organization.

LTC 456 - Assisted Living Administration

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course you should have:

• Expanded your knowledge and skills in assisted living administration.
• Understood that traditional methods of management are unlikely to produce the appropriate level of care necessary in the assisted living field.

 

Credits: 3

LTC 460 - Administrative Internship

• To provide a planned, progressively comprehensive, supervised training program, combining academic learning with practical experience. 
• To introduce the intern to a dimension of health care management that will expand his or her knowledge base. 
• To require the intern to apply management principles learned in class to real-life situations and problems. 
• To provide an opportunity for interaction between the intern and health care professionals, and to instill in the intern an appreciation of professional attitudes and values. 
• To reinforce, in the intern, a sense of responsibility toward the profession of health care management, colleagues, resident/patients or clients, and the community. 
• To allow the intern an opportunity to assume administrative responsibility. 
• To develop the intern’s communication skills through written reports (including the Project Paper), and through interactions such as meetings and presentations. 
• To engage the intern in a participatory learning experience that will benefit the organization providing the field experience. 
• To develop a confident, professional administrator, possessing the necessary skills and expertise. 
• To assist the intern in preparation for any required licensure exams.

RS 412 - Senior Seminar

NU 300 - Professional Transitions for RN to BSN Students

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify personal and professional goals for furthering your nursing education. 
• Analyze potential role conflicts and stressors that may become barriers to completing this course. 
• Identify strategies for coping with these role conflicts and stressors as they arise. 
• Locate and critically analyze articles from peer-reviewed nursing journals and credible health-related Web sites. 
• Use reflection as a tool to evaluate your progress in meeting your educational goals. 
• Examine the historical and theoretical development of the profession within the framework of the meta-paradigm for nursing (person, environment, health, and nursing), and in the context of contemporary practice. 
• Develop a personal definition and philosophy of professional nursing within the context of the meta paradigm for nursing. 
• Identify and apply a nursing theory or conceptual model that most closely matches your current professional nursing practice. 
• Describe how the use of computers and advances in technology impact the cost and quality of health care and your practice. 
• Describe how evidenced-based practice supports improved client care. Conduct a literature review to discover evidence-based practice standards to improve the health of your client population. 
• Discuss how you would integrate health protection and health promotion into your plan of care for a group of clients from your practice area. 
• Analyze your self-care strategies for a balanced life. 
• Discuss the impact that the local community environment and the global community environment play in the health of clients. 
• Describe the professional nurse’s role in influencing public policies that deal with global health. 
• Describe resources available to the you to assist in providing culturally competent care. 

 

Credits: 3

NU 309 - Nursing Research

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand the basic concepts and terms of qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and evidence-based nursing research.
• Develop the ability to read, interpret, evaluate, and apply a variety of research reports to individual nursing-practice arenas.
• Differentiate between evidence-based, applied, and basic research methods.
• Identify the role of research questions, problems, and hypotheses as guiding frameworks for a research study.
• Evaluate the role of the literature review and sampling techniques in guiding a research study.
• Differentiate between reliability, relevance, trustworthiness, and validity.
• Relate the key elements of the research-critique process in examining qualitative, quantitative, evidence-based, and mixed-method research designs.

NU 311 - Pharmacology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Define key terminology used in pharmacology. 
• Correlate the nursing process with the study of pharmacology. 
• Identify the legal and ethical principles of medication administration. 
• Apply the pharmaceutical, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic phases of drug activity, and alterations in these, to specific medications. 
• Utilize the nursing process, cultural assessments, critical-thinking skills, and experience to explain the principles of medication administration to clients. 
• Formulate teaching plans for clients in relation to their prescribed medications. 

NU 312 - Pathophysiology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Research Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Define the terminology and the pathological processes throughout the course. 
• Describe the normal structure and function of cell, tissue, organ, and body systems. 
• Correlate normal body functioning to physiologic changes that occur as a result of disease processes. 
• Apply the sciences of pathophysiology to common system disorders across the lifespan. 
• Utilize the nursing process, critical-thinking skills, experience, and basic concepts of pathophysiology to case studies/activities.

NU 313 - Evidence Based Practice in Family Care & Health Promotion

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project/Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Review evidence-based practice in nursing as it relates to families.
• Differentiate between the concepts of health promotion and illness prevention.
• Discuss theories, models, and frameworks used to guide evidence-based practice with families and in health promotion/illness prevention.
• Explore current research findings as they relate to family care, health promotion, and illness prevention.
• Review Healthy People 2010, and the goals for families outlined in HP 2010.
• Discuss health promotion as an intervention strategy, and as a national health goal.
• Discuss change theory and its relevance to designing a family health-promotion plan.
• Use evidence-based practice guidelines for develping a culturally relevant, evidence-based family health-promotion plan.

NU 405T - Community Nursing Theory

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Describe the nursing and public health historical influences that have shaped twenty-first century community-oriented nursing practice. 
• Compare theoretical models that are applicable to serving communities and populations. 
• Describe contemporary public health and nursing theory in relation to population-focused care. 
• Illustrate evidence-based nursing process as it is used in community-oriented nursing settings. 
• Apply the concept of community as the focus of care. 
• Correlate epidemiology, disease surveillance, and public health assurances with the roles fulfilled by community nurses. 
• Investigate how community-oriented nursing policy and practice advance local, national, and global health. 
• Explain the effects of cultural and social values and beliefs on community health outcomes. 
• Compare health promotion, health protection, and disease prevention. 
• Distinguish population-focused nursing across the life span with the health needs of vulnerable groups. 
• Complete a community health assessment that draws on nursing and public health science to assess the health needs of a select community as preparation for the Clinical Capstone experience.

NU 406T - Nursing Leadership and Management Theory

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Exam 

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Provide safe, effective care to families, groups, and communities through accurate use of the nursing process. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and practice of leadership and management in nursing. 
• Demonstrate critical thinking to analyze data and problem solve complex leadership/management nursing case studies. 
• Demonstrate holistic care, professional appearance and behavior. 
• Use effective verbal and non-verbal communication. Use email to communicate with faculty.Use the Internet to identify patient resources. Demonstrate effective writing and organizational skills. 

NU 407P - Evidence Based Practice Clinical Capstone

• Demonstrate integration of all prior course work through provision of safe, competent care. 
• Demonstrate critical thinking in independently appraising new situations. 
• Identify and prioritize needs from assessment data using appropriate criteria drawn from public health theory.
• Consistently apply nursing process to develop, evaluate, and revise plans of care. 
• Identify resources in the community and make appropriate referrals or plans for coordination of care; use effective verbal, non-verbal, and written communication with preceptor, agency personnel, and clients, including the development of a formal written proposal for project development; apply leadership/management theories to describe interactions within clinical situations, and leaders’ effectiveness in such interactions.
• Actively and appropriately participate in agency projects or conferences, including demonstrating effective problem solving and conflict resolution within groups or between individuals; identify value systems of groups and communities and accept their rights to function according to their own value systems.
• State and apply legal, moral, ethical, and Christian humanistic principles in the care of patients, groups, or communities; seek out, critique, and utilize findings from published research in clinical decision making.

NU 421 - Approved Electives

NU 421 - Special Topics: Sleep Promotion

Sleep is a major body function and it is often one of the first bodily functions disrupted or impaired when any type of disruption of homeostasis appears in any body system. Sleep disruption often results in sleep impairment that is a major health risk factor from a variety of perspectives. The focus of this course is on examining normal sleep cycles and characteristics of normal sleep states, examine variables impacting the normal sleep cycle, manifestations of sleep impairment, examine traditional and non-traditional pharmacological, and non-pharmacological interventions for sleep disorders and examine evidence-based research and care to foster and promote healthful sleep patterns for patients across the lifespan.

Prerequisites & Notes
This course is available to GPS students as a Summe Session course only.

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer Session 2012; Semester 201303, 201304

NU 421A - Special Topics: Families at Risck

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course introduces high risk factors in contemporary American families that can be barriers to families accessing quality health care. Evidenced based assessment and intervention strategies will be explored to guide a more trauma sensitive, holistic practice.  Students will apply the nursing process and use therapeutic communication techniques to identify, assess, research, implement and evaluate families’ health care needs and offer “best care” treatments. This course is designed to promote creativity fueled by intellectual curiosity.

Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered to GPS students as a summer course only.

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer 2013; Semester 201403

NU 421a - Special Topics: Genomics/Ethnopharmacology - morning section

NU 421b - Special Topics: Genomics/Ethnopharmacology - afternoon section

TH 101 - Introduction to Catholic Doctrine and Theology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
 Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

•  Recognize the depth and breadth of Catholic doctrine and teaching found in, and based on, the Apostles and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creeds.
•  Explain the relationship between faith, believing, doctrine/dogma, and theology.
•  Define key Christian concepts and their development.
•  Use the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a theological source book.
•  Identify the role of the distinctively Catholic in Catholic doctrine and theology.

 

Credits: 3

TH 102 - Introduction to the New Testament

 

Prerequisites & Notes
TH 104

Assignment Overview
Assignments: 5 Units

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate a positive familiarity with the four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and St. Paul.
• Recognize the literary forms used within the New Testament.
• Understand the perspectives of the Gospel writers as they relate to the communities for/to which they were writing.
• Note the contemporary historical influences on the Gospels and the writings of St. Paul.
• Recognize the various problems associated with the study of the New Testament.

TH 104 - Introduction to the Old Testament

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Recognize the literature of the Old Testament and be knowledgeable of significant books and passages of the Old Testament.
• Explain the religion and history of ancient Israel that are reflected in the Old Testament.
• Take TH 102 Introduction to the New Testament.

 

Credits: 3

TH 105 - Exploring Christian Theology and Faith

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

Give evidence of having reflected deeply upon the sources, doctrines, and teaching of Christian faith by:

•  Defining key Christian concepts and their development.
•  Describing key events and persons in Christian history.
•  Offering an explanation for some pivotal historical decisions in Christian history.

Give evidence of having understood the faith expressions of some other contemporary and historical Christians by:

• Discussing the contents of select original texts with other students and the instructor.
• Discerning elements of Christian faith within the life experiences of select men and women.
• Describing a synthetic understanding of their faith in comparison to the faith as described in scripture and theology.

Offer an articulate and well-reasoned rationale for one’s own faith or for one’s own beliefs and attitudes with respect to the faith of those people who have been surveyed in the course by:

• Completing a summative essay incorporating, by reference, the doctrinal, historical, objective, and subjective elements of the course.
• Incorporating a strongly personal statement of faith and values in comparison (building upon, disagreeing with, adding on to, subtracting from) to the doctrinal, historical, objective, and subjective elements of the course.

 

Credits: 3

TH 210 - Fundamental Doctrines and their Development

• Assignments: 5 Units
• Interactivity: Discussion Participation

1. Explain the relationship between faith and reason.
2. Explain the relationship between faith and theology.
3. Demonstrate your understanding of the importance of revelation as God’s self-communication to the world.
4. Recognize the difference between the traditional Christian thinking about God and the modern confusions that lead to agnosticism and atheism.
5. Describe why grace and freedom are both essential elements of the Catholic faith.
6. List the reasons why the interpretation of the Bible within the Church is neither fundamentalism nor rationalism.
7. Describe the inseparability of the message of Jesus and his identity as the Word of God.
8. Name the key historical moments in the development of the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity.
9. List the reasons why the Church and her sacraments are an essential dimension of God’s saving action in the world.

TH 211 - Foundations of Catholic Spirituality

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the unique features of Catholic spirituality as Catholic.
• Reflect intellectually on the sources of Catholic spirituality.
• Recognize that life in Christ is the essence of Catholic spirituality.
• Discuss how the saints are unique sources for understanding Catholic spirituality.
• Identify the roles that prayer, meditation, and contemplation play in Catholic spirituality.
• Explain how Catholic spirituality is related to the social doctrine of the Church.

TH 220 - Fundamentals of Moral Theology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Describe what faith and reason reveal about the nature of human personhood, especially man as created in the image of God, as bodily and spiritual, and as social.
• Explain how Christian moral teaching responds to the basic human question, “How does one attain happiness?”
• Analyze the prevailing moral relativism, describing how it distorts human freedom.
• Explain how Baptism inserts us into new life in the Spirit of Jesus Christ and transforms one interiorly, in terms of both the natural law and the New Law of grace.
• Discuss how the virtues perfect the human person, enabling the spontaneous living-out of the Ten Commandments.
• Apply moral reasoning to analyze bioethical and sexual issues, showing the intrinsic connection between moral theology and Catholic social doctrine.

TH 222 - World Religions

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Explain key themes and terms in the academic study of religion.
• Discuss key themes, terms, tenets, and practices in the Hindu worldview and tradition.
• Discuss key themes, terms, tenets, and practices in the Buddhist worldview and tradition.
• Discuss key themes, terms, tenets, and practices in the Islamic worldview and tradition.
• Discuss key themes, terms, tenets, and practices in the Jewish/Christian worldview and tradition.

 

Credits: 3

TH 224 - Pastoral Ministry

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Project

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Define key terminology concerning pastoral ministry.
• Identify the task, nature, and purpose of pastoral ministry.
• Correlate the history of pastoral ministry and its development with the contemporary understanding of ecclesial ministry.
• Identify the vocations and ministries within the Church.
• Explain the definition, purpose, and nature of Church.
• Identify the ministry of the Apostles and their co-workers on whom the Churchs foundations are built.
• Recognize the elements of the call narrative and understand one’s own call emanating from our Baptism.
• Examine the pastoral initiatives set forth for the third Millennium.

TH 226 - Liturgy and Sacraments

TH 309a - Special Topics

TH 309a - Special Topics: Paul and John: Insights from the First Century for the Year of Faith

 

Prerequisites & Notes
This course is available to GPS students as a Summer Session course only.

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer Session 2013:Semester 201403

TH 309b - Special Topics: Hearts Aflame: Confession and Love in St. Augustine

 

Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered to GPS students as a summer course only.

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer 2013; Semester 201404

TH 309c - Special Topics: Ecclesiology (Theology of the Church)

TH 311 - Church History I: Early and Medieval Catholicism

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Explore the way Church structures, especially the papacy and the episcopacy, evolved in the first millennium as well as more of the Churchs history. 
• Identify some of the ways (political, social, and educational) in which the Church responded to the declining Roman Empire in the West. 
• Appreciate the role of monasticism, beginning with the desert fathers and culminating in the new mendicant orders of the Middle Ages, including its missionary activities. 
• Understand the cultural and theological background to the East-West Schism. 
• Recognize the difference between a patristic/monastic style of theology and the scholastic style that emerged in the twelfth century. 
• Use historical examples to illustrate the social and embodied nature of the Spirit-led Church as it extends the Incarnation of Christ in the world. 
• Evaluate and consult online reference and primary source materials that provide details of topics in Church history that go beyond the introductory level.

TH 312 - Church History II: Modern Catholicism

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• List the ways Church structures, especially the papacy and the episcopacy, evolved from the Middle Ages until the present. 
• Identify some of the ways (theological, political, social, and educational) in which the Church responded to the growth of nation states and the rise of modernity. 
• Trace in outline the evolving role of religious orders, especially the new congregations that were formed during the Catholic Reformation. 
• Write a summary of the cultural and theological background issues surrounding the Reformation and the Churchs response, especially in the Council of Trent. 
• Write a summary of the cultural and theological background issues surrounding the rise of the Enlightenment and the Church’s struggle to come to terms with Modernity. 
• Use historical examples to illustrate the social and embodied nature of the Spirit-led Church as it extends the Incarnation of Christ in the world. 
• Evaluate and consult online reference and primary source materials that provide details of topics in Church history that go beyond the introductory level.

TH 315 - Theology of Ecumenism

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Explain the Biblical foundations of ecumenism. 
• Describe the essential elements of ecclesiology, especially how they relate to or impact ecumenism. 
• Explain your experience and understanding of ecumenism based on your own religious tradition and apply those elements to the historical and theological study of ecumenism. 
• Engage in a dialogue with other religious traditions. 
• Summarize the principles found in the Second Vatican Councils Decree on Ecumenism and explain its impact on the advancement of ecumenism. 
• Describe the role of the world Council of Churches with regard to the mainline Protestant traditions and explain its impact on ecumenism. 
• Identify some of the current obstacles to unity and offer some practical solutions to these challenges. 
• Complete an ecumenical project.

TH 330 - Christology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Reflect intellectually on the living reality of the crucified and risen Christ. 
• Recognize the New Testament as the source and norm of the Church’s Christology. 
• Discuss, based on the faith of the Church, the mystery of Christ that both transcends human understanding and makes life in the universe and the universe itself intelligible. 
• Identify the developments of Christology in the Fathers of the Church, the early Ecumenical Councils, the great Medieval theologians, representative Protestant theologians, and contemporary Catholic theologians. 
• Synthesize the conclusions of Christology with the doctrine of the Trinity.

TH 335 - Catholic Social Teaching

TH 340 - Theology of the Body

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Identify the structure of the theology of the body and its main points. 
• Explain the major themes of John Paul II’s theology of the body. 
• Analyze the text against the background of Catholic doctrine concerning theological anthropology, sin, and sexual ethics. 
• Assess the theological value of John Paul II’s theology of the body.

TH 400P - Topics in Theological Studies

• Deepen your understanding of an aspect of your course of study. 
• Integrate your understanding of various subjects in your area of study.

TH 405P - Practicum in Theological Studies

TH 527a - Special Topics: Paul and John: Insights from the First Century for the Year of Faith

 

Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered to GPS students as a summer course only.

Credits: 3 Offered: Summer 2013: Semester 201403