2018-2019 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Courses
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100-299 - Lower division undergraduate |
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300-499 - Upper division undergraduate |
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500-699 - Graduate |
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700-799 - Doctoral |
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FIN 319 - Financial Institutions
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: ECON-201
This course examines the functions and practices of the major types of financial institutions in our economy. Students will understand the basic operations of - and issues surrounding - commercial banks, thrifts, insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, finance companies, venture capital firms, investment banks, and brokerage firms. Students will also learn the basic functions of the Federal Reserve System.
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FIN 350 - Survey of Careers In Finance
Credits: One (1)
This course will expose students to various careers in financial services, including corporate finance, commercial banking, investment banking, financial advising, money management, insurance, operations support, compliance, etc., for those trying to choose a career path.
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FIN 351 - Succeeding as a Financial Advisor
Credits: One (1)
This course is intended to provide prospective and new financial advisors with the perspective required to be a better decision maker and to avoid some of the most common pitfalls of new advisors.
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FIN 352 - Investment Banking
Credits: One (1)
This course is an in-depth look at raising capital on Wall Street through investment banking. Students will learn to distinguish between primary and secondary markets, equity issues, bond issues, IPOs, private placements, and careers in investment banking.
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FIN 353 - Financial Services Compliance And The Regulatory Environment
Credits: One (1)
Financial Services firms all share a common concern - regulatory compliance. This course covers the core compliance issues that someone considering, or training for, a career in financial services will face, including ethics, privacy, advertising and correspondence, trading and prohibited transactions, product appropriateness, fiduciary requirements and social networking.
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FIN 354 - Commercial Bank Management
Credits: One (1)
This course is an introductory look at how commercial banks are managed. Students will examine interest rate risk management, loan portfolios and the regulatory environment of commercial banks. Careers in commercial banking will be explained.
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FIN 355 - Understanding Insurance
Credits: One (1)
This course covers the role of insurance in managing risk. Various types of insurance, including property/casualty, life, health, disability, professional and mortgage, will be explained. Students will examine careers in the insurance industry.
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FIN 356 - International Financing Decisions
Credits: One (1)
This course examines international financing considerations regarding foreign direct investment, international capital andamp; money markets, multi-national firm operations, and the diversification of portfolios through foreign securities. Additionally the course will cover importing andamp; exporting procedures, international trade law, customs andamp; compliance, intercom terms andamp; insurance, financing foreign trade, and currency risk.
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FIN 357 - Securities Operations
Credits: One (1)
This course will examine the mechanics of trading securities, options, and futures. This includes quotation, order activation, order execution, settlement, and clearing. Students will examine various order types, required documentation andamp; communications, relevant regulations, and prevalent procedures associated with trading various financial instruments. Additionally, students will learn about the tools necessary for the transfer of funds, the systems in place for trading of financial instruments, and the technical necessities of a modern broker-dealer.
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FIN 370 - Intermediate Finance
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-312
This is an advanced course in financial management of corporations. Topics include valuation techniques, risk and capital budgeting, capital markets, investment banking, long term debt and lease financing, common and preferred stock financing, dividend policy and retained earnings and international financial management. Emphasis will be put on current events in finance and the relationship between finance and the economy.
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FIN 401 - Financial Industry Exam Preparation 1
Credits: Three (3)
This course prepares students for licensing in the securities industry. The course exposes students to topics in the securities industry, including governmental regulation, necessary documentation, the role of a broker/dealer, the role of a registered representative, opening client accounts, equity securities, debt securities, options, funds, annuities, and suitability requirements.
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FIN 415 - Securities Analysis/Investment Techniques
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-312
Students are introduced to financial investment alternatives, security markets, analytical techniques and portfolio management theories.
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FIN 420 - Sport Finance
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-312
This course explores contemporary examples from marketing sponsorship, facility construction and sport law to illustrate the crucial role that money plays in any sport business. Emphasis is placed on understanding how the receipt, disbursement and utilization of funds can foster future growth in the sport businesses. The course will deal with such issues as sports financial analysis, capital structuring and capital budgeting, profitable distribution systems and the management of financial risk.
Cross-listed: SPTM-420
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FIN 421 - Portfolio Management
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-415 recommended
A study of the practical management of portfolios containing varied financial assets, the course examines the issues in, and the procedures for, portfolio management. The emphasis is on personal portfolio management by individual investors. The course assumes a basic knowledge of securities and personal financial planning.
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FIN 430 - Money and Banking
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: ECON-201 and ECON-202
This course helps students understand the functions of money and the financial system in the economy. Students will analyze interest rates and the applications of the time-value-of-money concept. They will learn the basics of central banking and the Federal Reserve System. After taking this course, students will understand the workings of the financial system and the goals and limitations of monetary policy; they will have a more informed perspective on the various issues surrounding money, banking, and government policies related to money and banking.
Cross-listed: ECON-430
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FIN 450 - Financial Planning
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-215
This course involves the study of financial planning and the process involved in helping clients determine and meet their financial objectives. Investment strategies and wealth management will be considered along with retirement planning and the transfer of an individual’s estate after death.
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FIN 470 - International Trade and Money
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: ECON-201 and ECON-202
This course studies the economic principles involved in international trade and finance. It is designed to provide the student with the conceptual tools needed to analyze such international economic issues as import tariffs and quotas, import liberalization, loss of jobs to foreign countries, free-trade agreements, and exchange-rate fluctuations. The general topics to be covered in this course include the pure theory of trade, the theory of trade policy (such as trade restrictions and economic integration), international economic institutions, foreign-exchange markets and exchange rates, and the international monetary system.
Cross-listed: ECON-470
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FIN 491 - Finance Senior Experience
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-370,FIN-319, and FIN-415
Students will gain experience as an intern or will participate in a specialized finance project which relates directly to their career choice in finance. Emphasis will be put on current events in the field offinance.
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FIN 496 - Special Studies
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
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FIN 497 - Topics in Finance
Credits: Three (3)
This course will cover timely advanced topics within financial services.
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FIN 499 - Financial Services Internship
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of supervising faculty
Internship in Financial Services.
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FIN 601 - Financial Industry Exam Preparation 1
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-630
This course prepares students for licensing in the securities industry. The course exposes students to topics in the securities industry, including governmental regulation, necessary documentation, the role of a broker/dealer, the role of a registered representative, opening client accounts, equity securities, debt securities, options, funds, annuities, and suitability requirements. Additionally, this course challenges student to apply security industry fundamentals through projects and case studies.
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FIN 620 - Financial Statement Analysis
Credits: Three (3)
This course will provide the skills necessary to interpret and analyze financial statement information by discussing the four key financial statementsand analyzing the financial information to evaluate profitability, liquidity and risk. Topics also covered include traditional ratio analysis and interpretation, accounting rules and quality of earnings, warning signs of financial distress, and SEC reporting requirements.
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FIN 621 - Investment Alternatives And Portfolio Construction
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-630
The practical management of portfolios containing varied financial assets. This course examines the issues in, and the procedures for, portfolio management. There is an emphasis on personal portfolio management by individual investors.
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FIN 625 - Financial Institutions, Money and the Economy
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FIN-630
This course helps students understand the functions of money and the financial system in the economy. It examines the functions and main products and services of the major types of financial institutions, and how they manage their business risks. Students will analyze the operations of – and the issues faced by – commercial banks, thrifts, insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, finance companies, venture capital firms, investment banks, and brokerage firms.
Students will review the applications of the time-value-of-money concept and analyze the behavior of interest rates. They will study the economics of money supply, the banking system, and monetary policy. Students will learn the basics of central banking and the Federal Reserve System. After taking this course, students will understand the workings of the financial system and the goals and limitations of monetary policy; they will have a more-informed perspective on the various issues surrounding money, finance, and government policies related to money and banking.
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FIN 630 - Corporate Financial Policies
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: ACCT-610
Students examine areas of concern for financial managers: the
financial analysis of the firm, including ratio analysis and fixed
and variable cost analysis.
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FPAR 206H - Cultural Studies of Rock’N’Roll
Credits: Four (4)
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course will explore rock andamp; roll’s origins, contexts, images, lyrics, and the music itself. Students will consider how the music creates meaning and what the relationship of rock andamp; roll is to American culture and history.
Cross-listed: HUM-206H
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FPAR 210 - Performance Workshop I
Credits: Three (3)
A course designed for people who desire experience for public presentations and/or performances. Various strategies will be employed including acting, oral interpretation, mime and improvisation.
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FPAR 211 - Performance Workshop II
Credits: Three (3)
This course continues the individual and group performance work of FPAR 210.
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FPAR 261 - Writing for Stage and Screen I: Storytelling
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL101
This workshop-style course focuses on the art and craft of dramatic writing. By first examining dramatic works of literature as well as cinematic screenplays, students will learn and practice style and techniques that are geared towards composition for a visual medium, whether that be in theatre or film. Then, students will compose and workshop their own original story outline that will become either a short 10-minute play or screenplay of a short 10-minute film. Students will then have the opportunity to either stage their short play or shoot their short film using their iPads.
Cross-listed: ENGL 261/361, FPAR 361
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FPAR 297 - Special Studies
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
Prerequisite: Program Director Approval
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.For more information and a listing of current offerings, please see additional descriptions at www.maryville.edu/specialstudies.
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FPAR 497 - Special Studies
Credits: Three (3) to Four (4)
Prerequisite: Program Director Approval
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.For more information and a listing of current offerings, please see additional descriptions at www.maryville.edu/specialstudies.
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FREN 101 - Elementary French
Credits: Three (3)
This course introduces structures of French with emphasis on basic grammar and colloquial language.
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FREN 102 - Elementary French II
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: FREN-101
This course reviews basic grammar and conversation with emphasis on composition, reading and speaking French.
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FRSC 119 - Murder to Trial
Credits: Three (3)
This course introduces students to the
interrelationship between the investigation of a
crime, the process of forensic evidence and the
use of that evidence at trial. Students will be
taken to a mock crime scene where they will learn
through experience as they collect evidence they
will process in the lab and conclude with a mock
trial.
Cross-listed: CRIM-119
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FRSC 151 - Introduction to Forensic Science
Credits: Four (4)
Prerequisite: CHEM-103
Corequisite: FRSC-151L
Introductory course that highlights all aspects of forensics as an umbrella of the work associated in the forensic process. The course will introduce topics such as ethics, observing and obtaining physical evidence, as well as a survey of the techniques and instrumentation (chromatography, spectrophotometry, mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, scanning electron microscopy, immunoassay techniques, polymerase chain reaction, spatter patterns, digital imaging, document examining, and electronic data collection and storage) used in the analysis of physical evidence (organic and inorganic materials, soil, glass, body fluids, hair, fibers, paint, DNA, bloodstains and patterns, arson evidence, fingerprints, explosive residue, tool marks, documents, and computer and internet evidence).
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FRSC 151L - Required Lab - Frsc 151
Credits: Zero (0)
Corequisite: FRSC-151
Introductory laboratory experience that accompanies Introduction to Forensic Science
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FRSC 211 - Introduction to Criminal Investigations
Credits: Three (3)
This course is a comprehensive approach to the examination and treatment of physical evidence as it relates to the criminal justice system. Students will be involved in an interactive learning experience tied to the securing and preserving of crime scenes and maintaining the integrity of trace evidence for future court proceedings.
Cross-listed: CRIM 211
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FRSC 303 - Forensic Biology
Credits: Four (4)
Corequisite: FRSC-303L
This course covers biological evidence and techniques used in forensic science. Concepts and application of serology and molecular biology techniques to analyze biological evidence collected during criminal investigations, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and other RNA/DNA techniques.
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FRSC 303L - Required Lab - Frsc 303
Credits: Zero (0)
Corequisite: FRSC-303
Laboratory experience that accompanies Forensic Biology.
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FRSC 311 - Forensic Chemistry
Credits: Four (4)
Prerequisite: CHEM-204, CHEM-353
Corequisite: FRSC-311L
This course focuses on the analytical and instrumental methods used in the forensic sciences with a particular emphasis on the analysis and characterization of trace evidence, to include separations, mass spectrometry, and atomic/molecular spectroscopy.
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FRSC 311L - Required Lab - Frsc 311
Credits: Zero (0)
Corequisite: FRSC-311
Laboratory experience that accompanies Forensic Chemistry.
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HCPM 100 - Introduction to Healthcare Management - Part 1
Credits: Three (3)
This course lays the foundation of the healthcare system as it relates to healthcare management. It focuses on the history, evolution, and development of the present American health care system including the role of the various health care providers.
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HCPM 101 - Introduction to Healthcare Management - Part 2
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-100
This course offers an overview of healthcare practice management principles and functions within ambulatory healthcare settings and organizations. Topics include business operations, care systems, and organizational dynamics and leadership.
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HCPM 109 - Healthcare Management Terminology
Credits: Three (3)
A basic-level medical terminology course for those who plan to be involved or are already involved in the health professions field the course will cover the definition, spelling and pronunciation of medical word roots and combining forms, prefixes, suffixes and medical abbreviations. Healthcare management business terminology is also addressed in this course.
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HCPM 210 - Professionalism and Communications in the Healthcare Setting
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-100 or HEPR 107
Students will gain knowledge of how to effectively communicate within healthcare settings. Consideration will be giving to understanding the range of stakeholders in healthcare settings, the impact of social media, how to effectively communicate with patients and families, and the role of communicating for purpose and policy change. In addition, students will develop personal communication skills and gain understanding of the importance of collaborative problem-solving, cultural sensitivity, and the need for continuous learning through presentations, case studies and written assignments.
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HCPM 230 - Human Resource Management
Credits: Three (3)
Human resources management includes legal, behavioral, and administrative aspects of personnel management. Students will enhance their managerial skills through deeper understanding of recruitment and retention of personnel, training and evaluation practices, compensation and benefit systems, in addition to the impact of legal and regulatory environment.
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HCPM 331 - Healthcare Compliance and Quality
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-211
This course is an in-depth examination of quality and regulatory compliance issues associated with a healthcare management environment. It offers a broad base of foundational compliance knowledge with real-world solutions, as well as the study and application of regulatory requirements for quality and performance improvement. Topics include an overview of the OIG recommended Compliance Program for Physicians, coding/billing and reimbursement issues, and discussions related to compliance with regulations and statutes, e.g.,OSHA, CLIA, HIPAA Privacy and Security, and other quality-based programs affecting healthcare such as pay-for-performance and RAC programs. Students will explore quality improvement techniques with an emphasis on the roles of patient and health professional in improving healthcare delivery, outcomes tracking, analysis, and impact on practice performance and patient care.
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HCPM 341 - Revenue Cycle Management
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-109, and HCPM-211
Revenue cycle management is critical to the success of the medical practice.Practice topics include evolution of the third-party payer system, revenue cycle basics, claims generation and processing, reporting and analysis, valuation of the accounts receivable, collection of accounts, and building an effective revenue cycle team. In addition, the coding aspects will be discussed as they pertain to effective billing processes and strong practice compliance. Students will learn how to manage the practice’s revenue cycle and their responsibility to the physician owners.
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HCPM 360 - Healthcare Informatics
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-100 or HEPR 107
Students will learn about the evolution of software and technology in the healthcare environment and learn how to identify what technology is appropriate based on the needs, size, specialty and sophistication of a healthcare organization. They will also gain an understanding of federal mandates, such as Meaningful Use, “MACRA”, “MIPS”, etc., related to technology. A discussion of privacy and security standards as related to HIPAA, including the application of HIPAA requirements as related to healthcare management software, will be undertaken. Students will learn how to maneuver through the software and technology selection, negotiation and implementation process through case studies and written assignments.
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HCPM 451 - Medical Law and Risk Management
Credits: Three (3)
Course participants will examine decision making along the legal and ethical dimensions of healthcare management. Course concepts include the current health care environment and the types of practices and licensing and certification of health care professionals; criminal law and torts that are relevant to the health profession, as well as ethical theories, morality, employee and patient rights and responsibilities, consent, legal reporting, professional liability, and end-of-life issues. Additionally, students will explore various risk management strategies, including the development, implementation, and maintenance of policies and procedures to prevent or minimize the impact of adverse events.
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HCPM 455 - Financial Management in Healthcare
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-211, and HCPM 341
This course applies financial management principles to healthcare management and healthcare systems. Topics will include resource allocation, cost analysis, and funding sources as well as how financial decisions are made, reported, and implemented in healthcare management.
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HCPM 456 - Patient Partnering/Population Health Management
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-211 and HCPM 331
Patient partnership and engagement is the key to a successful practice and healthcare system. In this course, students will have the opportunity to examine formal and informal programs and strategies used to make this partnership and engagement enhance the medical practice’s performance, quality care and outcomes, and patient satisfaction.
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HCPM 490 - Healthcare Management Practicum & Seminar
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-456
The Practicum is designed to give students the opportunity to learn about practice management by immersing themselves in the daily activities of a practice management professional. During the practicum, students often observe meetings, work collaboratively on site projects, conduct informational interviews, with the goal of increased understanding of the profession and potential career paths. It requires a minimum of 60 hours at a pre-approved healthcare practice/facility. Specific assignments during the practicum will be tailored to the opportunities available at the assigned site. The onsite portion is accompanied by classroom discussions focused on personal and professional growth.
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HCPM 491 - Healthcare Management Capstone
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HCPM-490
The capstone project is the culmination of the student academic experience. In this course students will examine current healthcare policy and emerging trends. They will be asked to identify one or more current problem, initiative, or issue in healthcare management and analyze that topic from multiple perspectives drawing on knowledge gained throughout the program. The goal of the capstone is to develop a deeper understanding of a topic of importance in healthcare management, to study available options, programs, and relevant research, and to generate and present practical solutions to clients and colleagues.
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HEPR 103 - Introduction to Deaf Studies
Credits: Three (3)
Students will be presented with basic factual information about individuals having severe hearing loss/deafness. Topics to be discussed will include prevalence of hearing loss/deafness, various cultures within the Deaf community, rearing children who are deaf, social stigmas associated with deafness, educational and employment opportunities available, various forms of sign language used in the Deaf community, and future of sign language usage within the hearing impaired/Deaf population in light of increased cochlear implant surgery.
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HEPR 107 - Foundations of Health Care
Credits: Three (3)
The course offers an initial study of individual health with an
emphasis on wellness and prevention. The second focus of the course
is on the history, evolution, and development of the present
American health care system including the role of the various
health care providers.
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HEPR 108 - Medical Terminology
Credits: Three (3)
A Medical Terminology course for health professionals consisting of information regarding the pronunciation, spelling, definitions of medical terms; an in-depth review of Greek-Latin roots/prefixes/suffixes, medical abbreviations, medical chart review; and supplemental studies of documentation which will enhance the application of the acquired medical terminology in clinical settings.
Note: Some sections of this course may be offered online.
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HEPR 109 - Healthcare Management Terminology
Credits: Three (3)
A basic-level medical terminology course for those who plan to be involved or are already involved in the healthcare management field. The course will cover the definition, spelling and pronunciation of medical word roots and combining forms, prefixes, suffixes and medical abbreviations. Healthcare mangement terminology is also addressed in this course. This survey course is not recommended for students majoring in the health professions.
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HEPR 150 - Intro to Gerontology
Credits: Three (3)
This course provides a multidisciplinary perspective of the
biological, psychological and sociocultural aspects of aging. An
overview of the issues that significantly impact the older adult,
their family and society is presented. The demographics profile of
America’s older adult serves as a basis for explaining issues
related to physical and mental health changes, role transitions,
care and living arrangements for the older adult.
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HEPR 197 - Aging and Physiological Adaptation
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the processes of aging, using several theoretical frameworks and practice models to promote understanding of the biophysical and psychosocial domains of the aged person. Strategy and intervention toward health promotion is emphasized.
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HEPR 204 - American Sign Language I
Credits: Three (3)
This course introduces the students to American Sign Language, the language used by members of the Deaf community in the United States and Canada. Focuses on dialogues in ASL, basic expressive and receptive skills in ASL, grammar rules. Awareness of deaf culture also is included.
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HEPR 205 - American Sign Language II
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR-204
American Sign Language 2 is a continuation of the basic aspects of American Sign Language (ASL) taught in ASL 1 with an emphasis placed on the progressive development of expressive and receptive skills. Students will focus on mastering fingerspelling, giving directions, numbers, facial expression and sentence structure. Students will also further develop the conversational/cultural behaviors necessary to hold a beginning-level conversation. Along with the focus on language, will be a deeper understanding of Deaf Culture
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HEPR 206 - American Sign Language III
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR-205
This class will continue to focus on vocabulary expansion, idioms, manual and non-manual aspects of ASL, ASL linguistics, cross-cultural communication and cultural knowledge at an advanced level. At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to communicate fluently with native ASL signers. Material covered in class will provide linguistic principles of American Sign Language at the advanced level and grammatical structures for complex sentences. ASL expressive presentations will be performed in small groups and on an individual basis. An increased focus is on the improvement of a student’s ability to express him/herself using ASL.
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HEPR 220 - Introduction to Health Professions
Credits: 3
This course is primarily for students planning a career in health care or a health related field. It will provide an introduction to a variety of health professions, strategies for career planning and include the concepts of professionalism, ethics, interdisciplinary health care, as well as world health issues and health policies. The course will also include basic health care skills and practices including universal precautions and body mechanics. This course is not meant for the Pre-Med major, but does not exclude the Pre-Med Student from enrollment.
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HEPR 228 - Introduction to Positive Psychology
Credits: Three (3)
Positive Psychology is an emerging field that involves the study of satisfaction among workers, policies that result in the strongest civic engagement, and how people’s lives can be most worth living. Positive Psychology focuses on building factors such as resilience, coping skills, protective factors, and strengths so that people may not just face and manage the problems of life but flourish and thrive. This course will involve an exploration of positive emotion, meaning and purpose, positive relationships, and positive accomplishments. Students will also learn about factors that influence levels of happiness, and strategies to increase well-being, life satisfaction, and longevity.
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HEPR 242 - Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
Credits: Three (3)
This course presents the behavioral, affective, cognitive, physiological and causative theories of delirium and dementia. The assessment of individuals with cognitive impairment and interventions for the related disorders are discussed. The course also examines the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on the total family functioning. The impact of this disease on the physical, emotional and social health of the caregiver is explored. Caregiver burden is defined and ways of assisting the caregiver are outlined.
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HEPR 244 - Changing Face of Aging in a Multicultural Society
Credits: 3 (Three)
This course explores the social issues associated with aging and their effect on the elderly person. The course will examine the societal and cultural viewpoints that surround social issues. In addition, an examination of caregiving and its relationship to culture will be emphasized.
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HEPR 298 - Pharmacological and the Elderly
Credits: Three (3)
The course focus is pharmacological therapies prescribed for common
illnesses in the aged, with regard to complex drug regimes,
polypharmacy, potential for drug-drug interruptions, side effects,
and drug metabolism in the elderly. In the course, health promotion
and disease prevention behaviors are discussed in relation to
physiological changes associated with aging and disease states.
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HEPR 299 - Exercise and Rehabilitation In The Aged
Credits: Three (3)
This seminar course discusses the issues and concerns about
exercising and rehabilitation programs in aged population. Topics
discussed in class include: effect of exercise on the older adult,
physiological characteristics of the elderly, precautions for the
aged, starting an exercise program, and rehabilitation concerns for
the older adult.
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HEPR 300 - Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the theoretical and conceptual aspects of cultural healthcare. Topics include culture and ethnicity, cultural variations in response to actual or potential problems of health and illness; review of research literature; and methods of caring for and treat individuals with culturally influenced responses.
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HEPR 307 - Issues in ASL/Deaf Studies I
Credits: Three (3)
Contemporary issues dealing with individuals having significant hearing impairment or deafness will be covered in four units. Topics will include: (1) Deafness in the Media/Movies, (2) Black Deaf People’s Studies, (3) Deaf Women’s Studies, and (4) Employment for Individuals with severe hearing impairment or deafness.
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HEPR 308 - Issues in ASL/Deaf Studies II
Credits: Three (3)
A continuation of contemporary issues facing individuals with severe hearing impairment or deafness. Topics to be discussed will include (1) ramifications from acquired severe hearing impairment/deafness, (2) dynamics of oppression from hearing loss, (3) oral traditions in the Deaf community, and (4) educational options for those with severe hearing loss/deafness.
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HEPR 310 - History of Health Care
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the history of a health profession from its
earliest beginnings to the present. The development of the
profession from a social and cultural aspect is emphasized.
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HEPR 314 - Chinese Medicine
Credits: Three (3)
This course will explore the history, principles, practices, use and outcomes of traditional Chinese medicine. It provides an overview of the field and focuses on specific traditional Chinese medicine practices and how they are utilized in alternative, complementary and integrative healing. Cultural, ethical, legal and professional issues will be explored.
Observations and interviews of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners will be utilized.
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HEPR 332 - Awareness Through Movement
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the principals of movement
developed by Moshe Feldenkrais. It utilizes his
book, Awareness Through Movement and his ideas of
precisely directed attention during gentle easy
movement to develop the sense of self that allows
for improved action in the surrounding
environment.
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HEPR 333 - Movement Techniques for Health Care Providers
Credits: Three (3)
This course will explore specific movement techniques that are useful in the practice of Music Therapy and other health professions, including Laban Movement Analysis, Hatha Yoga, and Pilates. Students will gain physical confidence and technical skills while learning to adapt movement techniques to serve a variety of client populations.
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HEPR 334 - Movement Techniques for Health Care Providers II
Credits: Two (2)
This course examines physical, philosophical, psychological and
spiritual disciplines that are based on the premise that the mind
and the body must be developed together in order to achieve optimal
health and happiness. Students will use their own lives as
laboratories for applying these techniques and reaping the
benefits. Students will learn how to utilize these disciplines to
achieve self-awareness, personal goals, and professional success.
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HEPR 350 - Counseling for Health Care Professionals
Credits: Three (3)
This course is an introduction to more effective ways to communicate, skills/techniques of counseling and the dynamics of the professional/client relationship. Where possible, application is made to the health profession setting.
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HEPR 355 - Counseling Skills for Healthcare Professionals
Credits: 3 (Three)
This course provides an introduction to core counseling skills that incorporates therapeutic listening and empathy communication techniques, crisis management, etc. related to professional/client relationships across cultures-specifically in health profession settings.
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HEPR 370 - Fitness, Wellness And Nutrition
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM-104, and BIOL-394
This course will provide a thorough introduction, discovery, analysis, and integration of the normal components of exercise, fitness, nutrition, and wellness throughout the lifespan. Bioenergetics, neuromuscular and metabolic response and adaptations to exercise, environmental influences, and training optimization will be addressed.
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HEPR 400 - Health Care Ethics
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR-107
This course provides an overview of the discipline of ethics in the healthcare context. Ethical theories and approaches are studied, followed by an exploration of general bioethics issues. The course then proceeds into a more specific focus on ethical issues that will face the individual health care practitioner. The goal of this course is to provide the basic ethical tools necessary for recognizing ethical issues and working toward the resolution of ethical problems.
Self-awareness tools, case studies, and exams and assignments that emphasize analysis and application will be used to facilitate the development of the ethical dimension of the students growth as competent and caring health care professionals.
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HEPR 420 - Clinical Epidemiology
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR-108
This course introduces the student to epidemiological methods: the study of disease occurrences in the human populations, making predictions about individual patients regarding diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and to the application of epidemiological data in clinical patient care. A core component of the course will be using four different recurrent models to emphasize epidemiological methods and ideas
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HEPR 430 - Genetics for Health Care Professionals
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL-102
An interprofessional course for students in the health professions. Students will study transmission genetics, DNA and chromosomes, population genetics, genetics of immunity and cancer and ethical aspects of genetic counseling.
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HEPR 440 - Health Care Systems
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR-107, and HEPR-400
This course is designed to integrate information about health care systems and the delivery of health care in the United States. Future trends, historical development, political, economic, scientific, educational, and social factors in health care will be assimilated. Information pertaining to ideas, beliefs, customs, and practices concerned with ensuring health, as well as preventing and curing illness and diseases will be presented. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and Disablement models will be integrated throughout this course. As a capstone course, information presented in health care systems will be synthesized, evaluated, and experienced through a service learning project.
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HEPR 460 - Public Health
Credits: Three (3)
Prerequisite: HEPR 107, HCPM 100
An introductory survey course providing an overview of public health in the United States, its core functions, and specific health issues that impact the health of the population.
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HEPR 470 - Healthcare Policy
Credits: 3 (Three
Prerequisite: HEPR 107, HCPM 100
Students will examine the policy, structure, and trends of heathcare delivery in the US, and then compare those to health services in other countries across the globe.
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HEPR 495 - Healthcare Capstone
Prerequisite: Senior Status, taken in last term
This program culminating course will review, synthesize, and summarize the fundamental understandings that were taught in the General Studies with Concentration Healthcare Program. It provides students the opportunity to see the relevancy of their coursework and how it applies to careers in health sciences. This information will be used to develop a detailed project proposal and complete a final capstone project linking the student’s chosen area of concentration with career and intellectual interests. The final written project will consist of research, reviews, analysis, and recommendations based on the proposal that the student defines. A presentation of the project is required.
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HEPR 496 - Special Studies
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
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HIST 103 - American Foreign Policy Since WWII
Credits: Three (3)
This class investigates the controversies and questions at the heart of modern American diplomacy. World War II made the United States a global hegemonic power, and its decades-long cold war with the USSR prompted new debates and challenges about the use of legitimacy of that power, both at home and abroad. Students will examine U.S. diplomatic decisions from WWII to the present, asking such questions as: what was the legacy of FDR’s conduct in the war, and how have the doctrines of subsequent presidents, from Truman through Trump, shaped U.S intervention abroad? How much power does the president really have in dictating foreign policy? Was the Cold War avoidable, and how has the threat of nuclear annihilation transformed diplomacy? What grounds, if any, has the U.S. had to intervene in the self-determination of other nations, from Vietnam to Iraq? What moral and ethical considerations shape diplomatic decisions? Students will investigate these and other questions in order to gauge the impact of the U.S. on global diplomacy through the twenty-first century.
Cross-listed: PSCI-103
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HIST 110 - Women in American History
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the impact of historical events on the lives of American women and, in turn, the many roles women played in shaping American history. Topics include native American women’s lives; gender and family life under slavery; the impact of industrialization on women of different classes; the ideology of separate spheres; women’s political activities including the anti-slavery movement, the suffrage movement, the 19th Amendment, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1960s; and transformations in the lives of modern women including work, politics, sexuality, consumption patterns, and leisure activities.
Cross-listed: WS-110
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HIST 115 - History of American Indians
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores topics in American Indian History.
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HIST 121 - American History to 1877
Credits: Three (3)
“Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.” Joseph Ellis’ quotes encapsulates the driving questions of this course: what are the many meanings of America, and how can we understand the historical development of the United States? This course investigates the “creation” of America, and the development of American identities, from the pre-colonial period to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Topics will include: the peoples and cultures of North America circa 1491; encounters between indigenous peoples and early European colonizers; the political and religious tenor of the early British colonies; American independence and westward expansion; slavery and the Atlantic world; and the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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HIST 122 - American History Since 1877
Credits: Three (3)
This course studies 19th Century industrialization, the labor movement, imperialism, the Progressive Era, World War I, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War.
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HIST 131 - World History to 1500
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores significant people, movements, events, and ideas in the major civilizations of the world to about 1500. Our class will permit students to compare civilizations, empires, religions, epistemologies, and cultures on a planetary scale. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Machiavelli’s The Prince, students will analyze primary sources to better understand human societies in their own words and works. This class will also incorporate the use of games, the sampling of global cuisines, and the analysis of art and music to achieve an in-depth, yet broad survey of human history to the Early Modern period
Cross-listed: HIST-331
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HIST 132 - World History since 1500
Credits: Three (3)
What does it means to live in a truly “globalized” world? How have human societies, and the identities of their members, changed in response to human migration on a planetary scale? This course investigates these and other questions about human cultural and civilizational encounters following the Colombian Exchange. Students will explore the most recent five hundred years of human history, interrogating the global impact of such phenomena as the Atlantic slave trade; the Reformation; the emergence of nation-states and European empires; the industrialization of nations and the embrace of capitalism; political revolutions and the unraveling of empires; the two world wars and the Cold War; climate change, and extremist terrorism.
Cross-listed: HIST-332
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HIST 200 - Historical Methods & Digital Humanities
Credits: Three (3)
This course introduces history majors and minors to the many skills sets required to pursue their careers in history and related fields. Students will develop an individual research project in their stated career trajectory (post-graduate study, public history, or alternative academic) which will be the first step in building their job market portfolio. The course will introduce students to traditional archival and digital research methods; reading and writing like an historian; academic publishing; and networking in academia. In this class, students will also begin to develop their public, professional personas as they build personal websites, craft their social media presence, and professionalize their CVs
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HIST 220 - Rebel Girls: Women and Gender in the West and the World
Credits: 3
This course prompts students to explore an intersectional range of women who profoundly transformed American and Western societies, from indigenous women’s lives to the Suffragettes to the Riot Grrls of Third Wave Feminism. The class takes a comparative approach, pairing American women and gender histories with the lives, achievements and struggles of women more globally. By the end of the course, students will have a firm grasp on the evolution of women’s history as a historical field and will have explored complex and dynamic notions of sex, gender, and race within that field. [M; W; S]
Note: CANNOT HAVE CREDIT FOR HIST 110/310
Cross-listed: WS-210
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HIST 225H - Pirates, Princes, Popes: The Medici and Early Modern Europe
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course explores the history of Florence, “the most turbulent city between Ghent in the 14th century and Paris in the 19th” and the dynasty which struggled to govern it over the course of four hundred years. Florentine history witnessed great revolutions in science and state building, in international commerce and overseas exploration. Between the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent in 1492 and the end of their line in 1737, the Medici transformed Florence from a weak city-republic to a state powerful enough to hold its own against the major continental monarchies. As one of the most politically cunning dynasties in Europe, the Medici indelibly shaped the course of western history. With humble beginnings as bankers and merchants, the Medici family rose to command the papacy in the sixteenth century, and a great pirate fleet in the seventeenth. By the end of the early modern era, they had intermarried with the most powerful royalty in Europe, and their patronage of artists like Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Vasari ensured that their influence on the religious, political, and cultural evolution of Europe would carry through to the present day.
Class participants will learn about the Medici and their world through secondary readings and such contemporary works as Machiavelli’s Il Principe or Pietro Aretino’s bawdy letters. By the semester’s end, students will have a firm grasp of key Renaissance and early modern developments in art and patronage; gender, sexuality, and power; epistemology and the history of science; and the emergence of nation-states and national identities in early modern Europe. [M; W; I]
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HIST 227H - Social Misfits and Empires, 1450 -1850
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This class explores histories of class, gender, race, religion, and systems of thought from the perspective of social outsiders in early modern empires. We will explore why and how certain kinds of people were pushed to the boundaries of their societies, and what their view looked like from the edge. In these centuries, humans redefined how and why people belonged to certain societies, and redefined what would happen to those who didn’t conform. Pirates of the Caribbean; colonies of escaped slaves; men and women who dared attempt their own interpretations of Christianity; Muslim travelers who admired Italian culture; women and children who confessed to being witches; madmen who murdered kings: all of these outsiders provide unique perspectives on the imperial powers which reshaped the early modern world. This period witnessed the emergence of nation-states and the development of modern science, but it also produced biological theories of race, new global pandemics, and genocide. Our class will seek to better understand the importance of the early modern period and its expanding empires through the eyes of those who were told they didn’t belong, and to learn what the experiences of outsiders can teach us about “otherness” and prejudice today. [M; W; C, I]
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