Course description

This course introduces students to the development and value of business enterprises in society. Students will examine the dynamics of business decisionmaking and demonstrate the ability to identify, describe and apply essential business concepts, theories and practices. The relationships among business activities will be studied to determine their interactions with the economic, political, legal, global and social environments. This course will satisfy the University requirements for General Education, Area 5, Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Course Goals

Upon the completion of this course students will have a foundation in the following areas:

1. History and structure of business and economies

2. Business disciplines of management, marketing, finance and accounting and
    how they work together within an organization

3. Team building and group dynamics

4. Reading and interpreting key financial indicators as they relate to current
    business operations

5. Coordination and improvement through quality and operations management,
    productions processes and information systems

6. Need to respond to changes in the dynamic social, economic, political forces,
    global competition, technological change and other institutions.

Course description

CIS 1020 is directly related to your ability to meet three goals for undergraduate students: 

1. Communicate effectively. 

2. Understand and use computer-based information systems and
    infrastructures. 

3. Practice acceptable standards of ethical and professional behavior. 

Course Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this course should: 

1. Appreciate the way computer applications are applied in business settings. 

2. Demonstrate end-user proficiency in computer tools

3. Develop skills that transform data into meaningful information.

Students must demonstrate the ability to use computer knowledge and skills required for future college courses and operating businesses. To successfully complete CIS 1020, the student must achieve an overall grade of a C or better.

Course description

This course is designed to give the student a background in the elements of finite mathematics that will be needed in their future studies. Included will be the following topics: linear equations, linear inequalities, matrices, linear programming, mathematics of finance, difference equations, mathematical models, sets, counting, and introduction to probability.

Prerequisite: A passing grade (C or better) in MATH 110 or a satisfactory score on an appropriate placement exam (ACT, SAT, or Mathematics Department Placement Examination). MATH 111 is recommended.

Course Goals

To be able to read, understand, and communicate (both verbally and in writing) mathematics. To gain the basic knowledge about linear functions, matrices, financial computations, and probability and to apply them in the business setting. These skills support some of the objectives as stated in the BBA program; mainly to understand essential business knowledge and make effective business decisions.

This course satisfies the requirement of the General Education Proficiency 3: College-Level Mathematics or Quantitative Reasoning. This course is a prerequisite course for STAT 2160, which requires a passing grade of C or better in this course.

Course description

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to material in broad categories of physics including kinematics, dynamics, simple harmonic motions, fluids and heat.

The main objectives of this course are to introduce the basic concepts and principles of physics, to understand these concepts and principles through a broad range of interesting applications to the real world, and to thoroughly exercise students in the art of problem solving.

Course Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this course should: 

1. Have conceptual understanding of physics principles

2. Be able to relate basic physics principles to day-to-day application 

3. Improve reasoning skills 

To successfully complete PHYS 1130, students must achieve an overall grade of a C or better.

Course description

A course which meets, when taken in conjunction with physics 1130, the General Education Area VI; Natural Sciences with Laboratory graduation requirement. Welcome to the physics laboratories. In these classes you will have to have the opportunity to interact with the topics of physics in direct hands on fashion. I have a few things to say about the class.

In this course you will explore our physical world using the techniques and methods of scientists. You will study the basic concepts of mass, length, density, speed and acceleration. You will explore how forces interact with matter and cause acceleration and torques. From there you will build upon this knowledge by adding wave and sound to your repertoire. The goals of this course are to develop rudimentary laboratory skills and to develop the physics concepts outlined above. This will be performed in a laboratory setting in small groups. Students will have to use teamwork and the scientific method to show they are developing these skills.

Course description

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the information and skills that are necessary for making positive health decisions. Students will be introduced to concepts associated with skills required for healthy living as well as the negative consequences associated with poor health choices.

Course Goals

The goal of this course is to have students, through class lectures, assignments, and discussions, become able to change their negative health behaviors to positive health behaviors. At the conclusion of this course, the students will be able to: (1) Develop a personalized approach to health and wellness; (2) Develop skills to cope with stress; (3) Explain the mind-body connection with health and disease; (4) Explain how social support affects health; (5) Explain spirituality and how it affects health; (6) Develop a personalized fitness program; (7) Design a nutritional plan for wellness; (8) Explain how body composition affects health; (9) Develop a personal weight management program; (10) Explain guidelines for preventing cardiovascular disease; (11) Taking charge of personal safety; (12) Becoming a responsible consumer; and (13) Explain ways to prevent substance abuse. 

Course description

This course is an introduction to American Literature that concentrates on the literary, philosophical, idealogical, cultural and social values of contemporary American authors, whose literature spans the second half of the 20th century and the early years of this one. The works chosen from the above volumes by such literary giants as Tennessee Williuams, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke and William Faulkner will be supplemented by additional works by such writers as Arthur Miller, Tom Robbins and Kurt Vonnegut. In addition the works of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Eminem are introduced to cover the more modern phenomenon of  poetry into song. All of this will be discussed and debated in light of learning about the historical and social forces and their background that led to so much change in American values.

Course Goals

Participants in Literary Interpretation (ENGL 1100) will be encouraged to read and discuss texts that examine concepts of writing poetry and prose within the context of American societal changes. This course will demand that students comprehend the social and political forces that uprooted conservative America during the 1960‟s and early 1970‟s; students will also become aware how American writers contributed to and shaped this Cultural Revolution.

Course description

The goal of this course is to acquire knowledge of several religions. The religious traditions that we will study offer a variety of views about the meaning of life, and the principal goals and aspirations of individuals and societies. We will be learning some basic facts about these religions. For example, what do Muslims believe about death and the afterlife? What is the Christian conception of evil? How can religious studies encourage active engagement in the world? Questions of a theoretical and conceptual nature will also occupy our attention. What is religion? How should we define it? Why is it so widespread? Why does it persist? How are religions different and what do they have in common? At the end of our course, we may not have reached final answers to many of these questions, but we should have a deeper understanding of the nature of religion, the diversity of religious traditions, and the interplay of religion and culture.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze religious traditions in terms of basic cross-cultural categories (i.e.
    Smart’s seven dimensions);

2. Trace the historical development of three religious traditions (i.e. Christianity,
    Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Chinese Religions);

3. Explain the differences in worldviews between the above-mentioned religious
    traditions. 

Course description

This course is an introductory English writing course that concentrates on the rhetorical functions of writing with a comprehensive focus on analyzing the structural and thematic elements of basic literary genres: poetry and prose (with particular emphasis on the latter category). Students will encounter narrative genres, such as memoirs and profiles, and also write argumentative and descriptive essays.  Students will learn how to write a literacy narrative, a persuasive essay, a creative folklore-related text, as well as a short report concerning an important issue for the local community. Through class discussion and peer review, students will develop skills in composing their own examples of these genres.

Course Outcomes

Participants in Thought & Writing (ENGL 1050) will be encouraged to read and discuss texts that examine concepts of research and writing in school and “real world” settings. This course will demand that students ask themselves questions as writers, readers, and scholars. Participants will examine their own writing, as well as that of their peers, in order to analyze the ways in which writers produce texts.    

Course description

This class is a student-centered introductory exploration of environment science through an interdisciplinary lens. Students are expected to read and analyze course materials, and be able to produce student-created work based on in-depth analysis of provided materials.

The course is student-driven, with expected 50% student-talk-time in the first half (Part One) of the course due to oral assignments and the Socratic Method, and around 90% student-talk-time in the last half (Part Two) of the course due to presentations.

For each hour of class time, three hours of study outside of class are expected. All reading assignments are expected to be finished prior to the start of class, and outside research and work will be expected at several points in the syllabus. The course is divided into Foundations (Part One), and Issues/Solutions (Part Two). Slightly more classroom time is devoted to Foundations, whereas slightly more student work outside the classroom is expected for Issues/Solutions.