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.
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.
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
BUS1000
4
Course Description:
This course presents fundamental business concepts and contemporary issues to introduce the student to the purposes and functions of business.
EXT2940
4
Course Description:
Successful completion of all other required core coursework and approval of the Medical Program Coordinator or Dean. To be taken during the final quarter of instruction.
MAA1150
4
Course Description:
This course instructs medical assistant students in routine procedures for assisting physicians with patient examination. Proficiency is developed in taking vital signs, including blood pressure readings, temperature, pulse, and respiration. Students also learn and practice aseptic techniques, position and draping for physical exams, taking medical history, and measuring height and weight. Students complete mandatory training in Universal Precautions and OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard during this course.
MAS1250
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide therapeutic massage students with the ethical principles in the practice and business of massage therapy, including the role and benefits of therapeutic massage, and the basics of safe application. The focus is on identifying the bones and major bony landmarks as well as the major muscles of the human body. The students will develop skills in providing two basic massages. The student will also be introduced to documentation forms.
MAS1300
4
Course Description:
This course instructs therapeutic massage students in progressive knowledge of skeletal (voluntary) muscles; emphasizing their origins, insertions, nervous system innervation, and how this applies to soft tissue manipulation. Further instruction is given to joints and their movements, along with Passive Range of Motion stretching.
MAS1320
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the therapeutic massage student with the necessary knowledge of basic pharmacology for the safe application of massage therapy for clients using common medications. The course will focus on the classifications of medications, routes of administration, their names, uses, potential side-effects, and massage implications. The students will also receive instruction on federal regulations and the use of drug reference resources.
MAS1330
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the therapeutic massage student with the skills and knowledge necessary to perform an orthopedic and soft tissue assessment for the purpose of providing safe and effective therapeutic massage. Emphasis is placed on assessment protocols, communication to establish the therapeutic relationship, and clinical documentation guidelines used to develop an individualized treatment plan. Assessment skills include obtaining client history, observation, palpation, functional testing, pain assessment, and identifying contraindications.
MAS1350
4
Course Description:
This course instructs therapeutic massage students in the use of professional equipment and products used in therapeutic clinical massage. Students will be taught Swedish massage techniques, and also fundamental massage techniques and considerations for working with special populations. Basic training in reflexology and the application of hydrotherapy will be provided.
MAS1450
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide an integrated approach to massage therapy, emphasizing deep tissue and neuromuscular therapy. It will incorporate and expand on techniques used in Swedish and other forms of circulatory massage. The course will also introduce methods to assess and address soft tissue dysfunction.
MAS2100
4
Course Description:
This course is directed toward massage therapists and their role in sports medicine. The procedures of physical therapy and physiotherapy in the prevention and treatment of injuries will be presented, and the student will be trained in massage techniques to maintain the health and well-being of the athlete, and enhance athletic performance. Emphasis is placed on assessment, contraindications, and active treatment methods to promote healing, relieve discomfort, and reestablish range of motion.
MAS2150
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide knowledge of the physiological and emotional effects, and therapeutic benefits of massage. The emphasis is on the mind/body connection as it pertains to the practice of therapeutic massage. Also provided is a foundation on ethical and professional boundaries, including scope of practice boundaries.
MAS2200
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to expand massage knowledge and skills with the application of current trends within the massage industry, including massage and spa techniques. The emphasis is on current techniques commonly recognized by practitioners in the field and the effective organization and management of the client session.
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.
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.
PHY1160
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the therapeutic massage student with the necessary knowledge of disease process in chronic and acute pathologies for the safe application of massage therapy. The focus will be on the implications, contraindications, and application of therapeutic massage in relation to common diseases of the distinctive human body systems. The course includes education in the cause and transmission of diseases, signs and symptoms, factors that aggravate or relieve disease symptoms, the healing process, the stages of terminal diseases, and approaches used by other health care professionals.