Course Number
Course Name
Credit Hours
Foundation
CD2600
2
Course Description:
This course provides information and resources important for anyone’s career development. It uses guest presenters and mock interviews, in addition to individual consultations, to provide career guidance. The class starts by having the students perform a self-assessment of their interests and values while at the same time, focusing on their professional goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how to create a successful resume no matter where a person is in their career path. In addition, it highlights how to apply a variety of other job search documents and needing to execute follow-up. Instructors illustrate traditional and nontraditional methods of job searching to include some of the latest online resources. A significant element of this course is training students to have great interviewing skills. Additional time is spent researching employers, exploring employment opportunities available in the area, and setting up interviews with prospective employers. Toward the end of this course, students also learn value of teamwork and being successful in their career. By applying these techniques and suggestions in this course, students are able to approach their career exploration and job search with a more confident and winning attitude. This course is scheduled during the final or next to last quarter of the program.
CPU1000
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with an introduction to computers and computer literacy. Students will gain a basic understanding of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications through a hands-on approach.
CPU2120
4
Course Description:
This course prepares students for an in-depth study of word processing techniques. Students completing this course are able to perform word processing functions ranging from document editing and formatting to graphics and web design. The class is structured to provide students with hands-on opportunities to practice and apply their skills.
CPU2200
4
Course Description:
This course prepares students for an in-depth study of spreadsheet techniques. Students learn skills that will enable them to organize and analyze numerical data, perform calculations, graph data, develop reports, create macros, use data analysis tools, and incorporate the use of the Internet. The class is structured to provide students with hands-on opportunities to practice and apply their skills.
INF1100
2
Course Description:
This course introduces students to lifelong learning skills necessary to critically assess and use information. The student will learn techniques to effectively locate, evaluate, and select information, to think critically about research strategies, ethical use of resources, and to apply these concepts to research using Learning Resource Center resources.
PSY1050
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to enhance the college learning experience and prepare students for personal and professional success. Concepts presented include managing change, setting and achieving goals, and thinking in ways to create success. This course also incorporates assessments that will increase one’s self-awareness, and improve the student’s interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
General Education Courses
COM1050
4
Course Description:
This course focuses on helping students develop writing, researching, and critical thinking skills through writing paragraphs and essays using different rhetorical styles. Students also gain experience with peer reviewing. Students are required to earn a grade of C or higher to satisfy the requirements of this course.
ECN2000
4
Course Description:
This course is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources among competing interests. Students learn about different economic systems, as well as the production, distribution, and use of material goods and services. This course presents economics as a method of thought and a way of taking hold of a problem, breaking it down, and working systematically through a solution.
MAT1500
4
Course Description:
This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, the Cartesian coordinate system, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.
PSY2000
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to develop students’ basic skills of logical reasoning relative to problem solving and related argument analysis. Learning to provide evidence and well-reasoned support for asserted solutions and/or positions within frameworks of clarity, depth, precision, relevance, and fairness are central to the course.
SPC1010
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with the basic skills necessary to organize their thoughts and communicate effectively through public speaking. Students learn to research, organize, and properly convey oral messages. Through practical classroom application, students gain sound experience in the art of oral presentation.
Professional
ACC1010
4
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the process used to analyze, record, classify, summarize, and interpret financial information. They are shown how to assemble financial statements following the steps in the accounting cycle. The Combination Journal is used to record transactions of a service business. Students will receive an overview of payroll accounting.
BUS1050
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with a basic understanding of mathematics concepts and methods applied to business situations. Topics covered include banking, markups and markdowns, trade and cash discounts, payroll, simple and compound interest, and promissory notes and the discount process. The course also covers annuities, installment buying and charge credit cards, home ownership expenses, interpreting financial reports, and depreciation.
BUS3650
4
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with an understanding of terms, definitions, and formulae used in computing statistics. Topics studied include: presentation and interpretation of numerical data, measures of central tendency, dispersion, probability, continuous and discrete probability distribution, regression and chi-square distribution.
FIN3500
4
Course Description:
This course is an examination of financial management, forecasting, and analysis. Topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, working capital management, time value of money, and capital budgeting. Students will apply these concepts to real world situations to develop managerial skills.
HCM2010
4
Course Description:
This course examines the organization of health services and entities in the U.S. by examining individual service units and their interplay. Learners will examine different functional units in depth, and determine how they inter-relate. Special consideration will be given to current and perceived potential changes in the health services environment and their effects on the individual components and their relationships.
HCM3100
4
Course Description:
Understanding the strategic, operational, administrative and financial structures that compromise a health services organization will be explored by learners. Strategy formulation and comparative advantages of growth options will be addressed as well as the fiscal implications. Learners will also be tasked with determining the effect of process quality on the firm’s operations.
HCM3250
4
Course Description:
This course requires learners to holistically examine their personal value systems while probing current challenges in the health services industry. Learners begin by defining and describing values and missions at the personal level, and then they apply these ethical structures to the workplace. These exercises are complemented by assessing a variety of current issues within health services that entail ethical decision making models.
HCM3300
4
Course Description:
Learners will explore the managerial applications of law in the health services setting. Current U.S. law as it pertains to the daily operations of existing and proposed health services concerns will be examined. Additionally, current U.S. law as it relates to areas of controversy and concern in the U.S. health care system will be examined and debated.
HCM3650
4
Course Description:
Learners are challenged to apply theory from coursework in a replicated health services work setting. Students work in conjunction with their faculty advisor to identify, develop and implement a mock Project Assignment. The final product of the course is a detailed thesis concerning the project and its outcomes.
HCM4050
4
Course Description:
The effective implementation of new initiatives with the health services field is vital. In this course, learners will identify best practices in identification, development, funding and implementing of new initiatives in a variety of health services domains. Initiatives for underserved and/or at-risk populations will be examined. Learners will generate complete implementation plans for a proposed initiative.
HCM4100
4
Course Description:
Learners are challenged to optimize organizational quality and efficiency through the use of effective management techniques. Appropriate health services management styles and techniques are evaluated. Effective communication is stressed at both the interpersonal and formal levels. The impact of diversity on management actions is also explored. Learners will distill these concepts and synthesize a personal management style.
HCM4250
4
Course Description:
Learners will examine the role of health services in society. This evaluation will include a survey of current trends as they relate to health services as well as possible future changes and challenges. Additionally the course will probe the relationship of government involvement in health services and its effect on society as well as health services organizations.
HCM4400
4
Course Description:
This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to quality management. The student will gain an understanding of historical and theoretical underpinnings of quality management, national and international quality standards, and methods for collecting and managing quality data.
HCM4650
4
Course Description:
Learners are challenged to apply advanced theory from coursework in a health services setting. Students will work in conjunction with their faculty advisor to identify, develop, implement and evaluate a project. The final product of the course will be a detailed thesis concerning the project and its outcomes.
INS1220
4
Course Description:
This course teaches students how to complete forms for various types of medical health insurance. It familiarizes students with the history of health insurance in America, the importance of accurate completion of claims, and the terminology common to all insurance carriers.
MED1010
4
Course Description:
This course introduces building and utilizing a medical vocabulary through the use of prefixes, suffixes, word roots, and combining forms/vowels. Emphasis is placed on correct spelling, pronunciation, and knowing the correct definitions of many medical terms.
MED1020
4
Course Description:
This course addresses medical ethics, medical practice acts, legal responsibilities of the health professional, liability, and the civic duties of the health professional.
MED2200
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with a basic understanding of their duties and responsibilities in the administrative front office. It also develops communication skills for working within the medical office. The course includes instruction on taking medical histories, filing, financial administration, telephone procedures, appointment scheduling, duties as receptionist, processing mail, and care of the facilities and medical equipment. It also includes developing a professional image, good interpersonal relationships with other office personnel, and the right attitude for the professional medical office.
MED2210
4
Course Description:
This course offers medical software training using current, realistic medical office cases while building transferable computerized medical billing and scheduling skills. Students who complete this course will learn the appropriate terminology and skills to use any patient billing software program with minimal additional training. As students progress through this class they learn to gather patient information, schedule appointments and enter transactions.
MED2320
4
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to healthcare in the U.S., an overview of the health record and health information management services, and history and organization of the American Health Information Management Association. A study of the principles of law as applied to the health care field with particular reference to all phases of health information management practice is discussed. This course also covers the study of various healthcare programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and peer review organizations. It includes a study of the manner in which healthcare facilities assure the quality of care they provide. Lastly, a study of computers and technology currently in use and future systems designed for use in the field of health information management will be covered.
MGT2000
4
Course Description:
This course provides valuable information for students who will be entering business as employees and who eventually may have the opportunity to manage a business for others. Also, students who may eventually own and operate their own business will benefit greatly from this course. The material is presented to aid students in learning the appropriate terminology used in business and the many activities involved in the successful operation of a business.
MGT3250
4
Course Description:
This course investigates the behavior of people within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organizations' effectiveness. Three levels of behavior are studied: individual, individuals within a group, and inter-group behavior within organizations.
MKG1200
4
Course Description:
This course introduces basic marketing terminology and concepts. A foundation is presented for understanding and applying basic marketing principles such as the relationship between the company, its products, distribution, promotion and pricing.
PHY1020
4
Course Description:
This course is a study of several systems of the human body. Cells and tissues, the integumentary system, the musculoskeletal system, the nervous system, senses, urinary system, and fluid and electrolyte balance will be covered. The course is designed to enable students to understand the health problems of patients as they relate to the various systems.
PHY1030
4
Course Description:
This course covers several human body systems including circulatory, respiratory, blood, acid-base balance, endocrine, immunity and digestion, as well as principles of nutrition and metabolism, reproduction, and growth and development. The course is designed to enable students to understand the health problems of patients as they relate to the various systems.
PHY1260
4
Course Description:
This course is a study of how normal physiology processes are altered by disease. This course includes causes of disease, neoplasms, congenital diseases, urinary system diseases, reproductive system diseases, digestive system diseases, respiratory system diseases, circulatory system diseases, nervous system diseases, endocrine system diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, skin, eye, ear, childhood diseases, pain management, and holistic health.