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Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Degree Overview
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The mission of the BS degree program in Business Administration is to allow students to build on a core of knowledge gained through the Associate’s degree or its equivalent to focus on one of the upper level concentrations. The primary goal of the degree program is to prepare students for the dynamic, changing realities of today’s global business environment.
Program Requirements and Online Options
Students can complete the program through classroom instruction, online instruction, or a combination of both.
Credits Required
Number of Classes
Core Component
63
14
Concentration
18
4
Electives
45
10
Arts and Sciences
54
12
Total Required for Graduation
180
40
Core Courses
Concentration: Finance and Accounting
Concentration: Human Resources
Concentration: Informatics
Concentration: Management
Concentration: Marketing
Undeclared Concentration
Elective Pool
Arts and Sciences
Introduction to Business - BUS100
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course provides a background on business and management. Students will discuss human relations, organizational structure, communications, technology in business, and strategic planning.
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Principles of Accounting I - BUS112
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course is an introduction to the basics of accounting procedures. Topics include, accounting techniques and cycles, billings, balance sheets, and financial statements.
Sales and Marketing - BUS120
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the student to effective methods for marketing products and services. Direct mail, print time and other advertising techniques are discussed. Problem solving relative to customer relations is addressed. Consumer profiled, organizational personalities, and demographics are presented as components of market research and analysis.
Principles of Accounting II - BUS122
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS112
This course expands the students knowledge of preparing balance sheets and financial statements. The student will prepare general ledger entries, prepare payroll, and discuss budget control.
Principles of Management - BUS135
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course presents management theory and the functions of planning, organizing, directing, staffing and controlling. This course also focuses on the application of management principles to realistic work-related situations.
Business Law - BUS200
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: Student must take any 100 level course beforehand
This course is an introductory to law and ethics and outlines the ethical responsibilities managers face when conducting business. This course includes vulnerability to lawsuits and litigation. American and international perspective and interpretations of laws and ethical standards are discussed.
Human Resource Management - BUS210
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent
This introductory course concentrates on human resource management issues confronting organizations. These issues include organizational practices and legal aspects of recruitment, selection, training, orientation, and performance appraisals. Labor relations are discussed.
Business Communications - BUS220
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course prepares the student for communication in the workplace. The student will prepare memorandums, letters, proposals, presentations, newsletters, and flyers. Discussions will focus on information exchange in and outside of the organization. Students presentations will be critiqued on message intended and message received.
Operations Management - BUS235
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent
This course addresses the management of operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Diverse activities such as production process, raw materials purchase, scheduling, and quality control will be discussed.
International Business - BUS240
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent
This course discusses how the global economic, political , and cultural environment affects domestic and international businesses, international operations and dependency, and public policy decisions.
Principles of Economics - BUS250
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent
This course examines supply and demand, market demand and elasticity, cost theory, market structures, pricing theory, and consumer behavior. Regulation, antitrust policy, and income distribution are also discussed.
Microeconomics - BUS302
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS250 or Equivalent
In this course, students learn to apply an analytical approach to the study of how individuals and societies deal with the fundamental problem of scarce resources. This approach is applied to everyday decisions faced by individuals as they try to maximize their utility, to businesses that try to maximize profits and to the whole of society as it attempts to use its resources efficiently.
Business Ethics - BUS360
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course analyzes basic principles of business ethics, moral reasoning and the capitalistic market economic system. Topics include a framework for moral reasoning, government regulation, ethics of bribery, price fixing, pollution, resource depletion, product safety, consumer protection as well as rights and duties of employees and corporations.
Business Administration Senior Project - BUS490
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: Student must have completed 160 out of 180 Qtr Credit hours before becoming eligible to take this course
Students will work under the supervision of a faculty advisor to further refine and develop their skills and knowledge through a student-created independent project. Project proposals must be submitted to the faculty advisor of the student's choosing and approved by the advisor and the dean before the student may register for this course. Faculty committee will determine the student's final grade for the project.
Financial Management - BUS300
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS122 or Equivalent
This course teaches the concepts and skills of financial planning within a business. Concepts covered include how to use financial statements and how to plan appropriate action. Specific topics are preparing budgets, analyze investment options, and assess risk and return of financing business endeavors.
Taxation Principles - BUS320
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS122 or Equivalent
This course provides a sufficient understanding of the tax environment to evaluate business transactions. Fundamental tax concepts are applied to a variety of business, investment, employment, and personal transactions. Topics include business formation, capital expenditures, employee and executive compensation, international and multi-state operations and disclosure.
Managerial Accounting - BUS340
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course covers financial accounting concepts and managerial accounting topics. The course introduces finance and its importance and relevance to business operations. It covers the internal financial environment of a business. Topics include financial statements analysis, cost accounting, job order costing, and process product costing.
Advanced Financial Management - BUS400
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS340
This course continues materials in BUS340 and adds topics such as capital budgeting, capital structure and leverage, distributions, dividends, current asset management and financing. Hybrid financing, mergers, LBOs, and holding companies.
Accounting Information Systems - BUS420
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on the impact of information technology on accounting including developments in the Internet, electronic commerce, EDI and databases. Additionally, the course provides information on developing, implementing, and maintaining an accounting information system. It also addresses the increasingly competitive business environment and techniques to reap the most value at the least cost.
Business Forecasting and Simulation - BUS440
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course examines the application of economics theory and methodology needed by business managers to forecast both technical and non-technical needs. Topics include tools and techniques for analysis, consumer and firm behavior, product demand, evaluation of decisions, technology benefits and challenges and interactions between firms and the marketplace.
Personal Financial Management - BUS450
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the student to the concepts, tools, and applications of personal finance and investments. The course assumes little or no prior knowledge of the subject matter and focuses on helping the student understand the process of financial planning and the logic that drives it.
Staffing and Employment - BUS350
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS210
This course examines current issues affecting staffing and employment practices and the impact on the organization’s ability to compete in the market place, to develop and maintain a successful workforce, and comply with the various regulations governing staffing and employment practices are discussed in this course. Major topics include: technical issues involved in developing and implementing selection programs within organizations; how to achieve a successful person/job and governing staffing / employment practices, and staffing procedures, policies, techniques and problems, and the role of public policy on staffing/ employment practices.
Workplace Safety - BUS351
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS210
This course is designed to educate and increase student’s awareness of internal and external factors that could negatively affect occupational safety in the workplace and understand the practices that can maintain and/or improve workplace safety. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) responsibilities for administering and enforcing programs, regulations, and standards designed to reduce injuries and illness on the job are also examined. Techniques to improve workplace safety and health for all workers by reducing hazards while increasing employer and worker awareness of commitment to and involvement with safety and health are also discussed.
Employment Law - BUS352
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS210
This course provides an overview of key legislation that impacts employee rights, training, consumer protection, compensation, benefits, employee and labor relations, and health, safety, and security. The importance of effective management practices to ensure regulatory compliance in the areas of employee and employer rights and responsibilities, job analysis, performance appraisal, and workplace behavior will also be reviewed.
Labor Management Relations - BUS353
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
The historical, current and legal analysis of labor relations in the United States and its impact on an organization’s ability to compete in the marketplace, to develop and maintain a successful workforce, and comply with the various statutory and common law regulations governing labor/management relations are discussed in this course. Major topics include growth/trends in the labor markets, collective bargaining, impact of labor relations on the organization’s strategies, analysis of federal labor laws, NLRA certification process, methods employed by management to avoid unions, methods employed by unions to represent bargaining units, and strikes and lockouts.
Compensation Management - BUS354
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course involves the study of laws, theories, and practices related to compensation administration and benefits. This course prepares students entering the human resource management field in solving specific problems and avoiding expensive errors to the organization.
Managing People - BUS355
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the role of managers in managing people, arguably the most important resource in an organization. The course describes the strategies managers can adopt to manage people, people-organizational linkages and impact of dynamic changes on these areas.
Diversity in the Workplace - BUS425
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course examines the management of a diverse workforce and the benefits of creating this diversity. Topics include understanding human behavior in an organization, changing marketplace realities, employment systems, affirmative action, behavior modification for employees and other topics related to a multicultural workforce.
Java Programming - CIS207
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
In this course, the student will gain an understanding of object-oriented programming concepts with specific emphasis on Java. This hands-on training class focuses on applet and application development. Basic constructs are explained with greater detail than in regular programming courses. Students will learn how to create Java applets and applications; enhance a Web site with Java applets; write multithreaded Java applets and applications; develop platform-independent graphical user interfaces. Lab exercises reinforce ideas and concepts learned with Java.
Concepts of Database Management - CIS209
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course presents the various ways to represent data to the student. It provides an overview of the concepts involved in the five structure models of database management: (1) simple; (2) hierarchical; (3) network; (4) relational; and (5) object-oriented databases. Discussed topics also include abstract data types, recursion, mathematical induction, estimating, algorithm analysis, lists, stacks, queues, sorting and searching, indexing, file processing, constructing and transversing graphs and trees, and hard or impossible problems.
Internet Concepts - CIS211
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
In this course students are introduced to all aspects of the Internet, including: its history, how to connect to it and for what and how it is used. Applications will include email, the World Wide Web, on-line services, databases, searching. This course familiarizes students with the Internet and lays the foundation for the design and creation of a Website. The course will cover how to use HTML & other Internet technologies to develop Web pages and how to enhance the appearance of Web pages to communicate more effectively. The functions of information technology that support e-business are emphasized.
Database Programming I - CIS232
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
Data Modeling and Relational Database Design (DMRDD), including the use of Entity Relationship (ER) modeling is discussed in detail using practical business examples. Normalized, stable, maintainable and well-defined relational databases are analyzed. Rules and constructs of Structured Query Language (SQL) and SQL*Plus, including various elements of the SELECT statement will be used to create, store, retrieve, and manipulate data in an Oracle database.
Database Programming II - CIS237
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: CIS232
This course includes an introduction to the Forms module of Developer 2000 and the underlying PL/SQL language. PL/SQL language topics include: retrieval and manipulation of data, creation of conditional control and looping constructs, application of cursors, as well as, sharing code blocks by multiple forms. Students will build and test forms using Oracle Forms and will utilize check boxes, list items, radio buttons and event-related triggers.
Managing Information Systems - CIS300
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course will focus on information system which supports business decisions, internal business processes, customer relations, and interaction with suppliers. It deals with the organizational foundations of such systems, their strategic role, and the organizational and management changes driving electronic commerce, electronic business and the emerging digital firm. The course includes an overview of the hardware, software, data storage, and telecommunications technologies needed for information systems. The impact of such systems on the reengineering of critical business processes and on the decision making cycle are discussed in detail.
E-Business IT Infrastructure - CIS305
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course discusses the basic networking infrastructure used in e-business and the typical multi-tiered e-business architectures. Technologies include the OSI Reference Architecture, IP protocol, (connection establishment, error control, congestion control) and the HTTP protocols. Topics also include load balancers, web servers, application servers, and database servers in an e-business site architecture as well as software architecture elements.
Database Administration I - CIS378
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course introduces concepts and methods to manage databases. Topics include differences between system administration and database administration, the types of tasks expected in database administration, database design (including logical and physical models), choosing and installing a database, database updates and releases, monitoring database performance, participating in application software design reviews for database issues, establishing an effective database change management process, insuring the integrity and security of the database, database backup and recovery, database warehousing, and how to handle disasters.
Business Information Systems Security - CIS435
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on the development of a security policy that balances access, protection and cost, and the importance of a global policy that is consistent and of even strength throughout the organization. Topics include security threats, security tools, system security, firewalls, voice systems, and security deployment and management. This course deals primarily management and enforcement of security system requirements, rather than with the actual configuration of hardware.
Financial Management - BUS300
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS122 or Equivalent
This course teaches the concepts and skills of financial planning within a business. Concepts covered include how to use financial statements and how to plan appropriate action. Specific topics are preparing budgets, analyze investment options, and assess risk and return of financing business endeavors.
International Business Strategies - BUS305
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: BUS240 or Equivalent
This course focuses on the strategies and structures of international businesses. Topics include cultural differences, economics and politics of international trade and investment, functions and form of the global monetary system, and assessment of the special roles of an international business's various functions.
Entrepreneurial Leadership - BUS325
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
Through the study of successful leaders and their companies, students learn techniques to move a company from mediocre to great. Topics include goal setting, culture development, vision, profits, technology, effects of change, discipline, and necessary leadership qualities.
New Venture Creation - BUS375
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course provides research and knowledge about the entrepreneurial process. Materials will include the driving forces of entrepreneurship: opportunity recognition, team, resource requirements, and effective business plan. Topics include equity creation, recognizing opportunities, effect of the internet, attitudes and behaviors, rewards and incentives, ethics, finance, and business plan.
Project Management - BUS380
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course will allow students to manage a project within their major field of study. Students prepare a project plan that includes details of their project, deliverables, dates when they will be completed, and the associated learning that will be exhibited. Students implement their plan and record weekly status on their progress, issues, decisions, and learning. At the conclusion of the course, students complete their projects and summarize their results in a final report.
Business Law: Legal Environment for Business - BUS405
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: Student must take at least one 100 level Business course prior to taking BUS 405
This course addresses the changing dynamics of business in the legal system. Covered are the basic theories of business law including the legal environment and legal theory and structure of the legal system. The course goes beyond the basic concepts and addresses challenging issues such as contract law, Uniform
Commercial Code (UCC), and copyright, trademark and protection of intellectual property.
Organizational Theory and Development - BUS415
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course examines the field of organizational development and provides a background in organizational development theory and application. Topics include history of organizational development theory, models for organizational structure and change, and advances in organizational development theory.
Quality Management and Productivity - BUS416
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course examines the concepts of continuous improvement and quality management, viewing quality as a systematic process that improves customer satisfaction. The course covers methodologies that will aid managers in assuring that the company’s quality system is effectively meeting the company’s continuous improvement goals.
Buyer Behavior - BUS361
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on understanding and influencing consumer perceptions and buying decisions. Integrated into the process is the role of marketing research and the basic methods and techniques needed to interpret information relevant to targeting markets, positioning products, and designing effective marketing communications.
Sales Management - BUS362
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course provides an in-depth review of a variety of methods that businesses use to communicate with and influence customers and prospective customers. Methods covered include advertising, direct marketing, public relations, sales promotion, individual selling, and others.
Strategic Issues in Marketing - BUS363
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course develops the marketing principles by which products and services are designed to meet customer needs, priced, promoted, and distributed to the end user. The focus is on the application of these marketing principles to a wide range of customers, both internal and external. Topics include new product/service introduction and segmentation and positioning strategy.
Marketing Research - BUS364
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course covers basic research methodology applied to marketing issues. Students study methods and techniques for collection, analysis, and interpretation of primary and secondary data for customer and business marketing.
Marketing on the Internet - BUS365
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course will provide students with the skills and knowledge needed to generate viable business via the internet. This course will explore strategic directions, branding, business cases, and life-cycle management of products for developing products for a digital world.
International Marketing - BUS366
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course covers the concepts and practices of marketing in the global environment. The modifications and adaptations required to meet the challenges and different problems associated with international marketing will be the major focus of this course. Also covered is how to integrate strategies with international marketing functions.
Business to Business Marketing - BUS367
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course develops the students’ understanding of the various concepts in organizational buying and enables them to comprehend the buying processes of business markets. With value created and delivered in the marketplace as its cornerstone, this curse equips the students with necessary marketing tools to deal with issues related to business markets.
Competitive Strategies - BUS430
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course addresses the complex future faced by existing businesses. Materials will cover strategic and organizational issues, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, technological change, strategic alliances, and the challenges of creating and serving markets around the world. Topics include strategic goals, competitive environment, value chains, focus strategies, ethics, diversification, globalization, cooperation and competition, organization design practices, and implementing change.
College Composition - ENG111
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on reviewing grammar, sentence structure, punctuation skills, and style points required for effective written communication. Students use a standard handbook and apply proofreading skills to all types of written communications. The student is guided in learning writing as a process: understanding audience and purpose, exploring ideas and information, composing, revising, and editing.
Current Topics in English - ENG290
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None.
This course concentrates on current issues in English including, but not limited to, introductory topics in understanding and creating various genres of English communication such as narrative prose, technical communication, poetry, and cinematic forms.
Oral Communications - ENG310
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course presents the principles and functions of spoken communications. The student learns how to prepare to deliver various types of oral presentations. Emphasis is on planning and on how to orient content to a particular audience. Students present short talks and plan and present longer, more formal speeches on assigned topics and/or on topics of choice.
Advanced Composition and Research - ENG320
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: ENG111 or equivalent
This course emphasizes advanced writing and research including understanding the documentation process, presenting material in academic form, and academic research techniques. Materials may Include MLA and APA styles effective use of internet research tools, critical reading processes, and research writing techniques.
Special Topics in English - ENG490
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: ENG111 or equivalent.
This course concentrates on special topics in English. Topics may include, but are not limited to, advanced topics such as English philology and etymology, as well as advanced topics in rhetoric and critical interpretation of texts.
Principles of Ethics - HUM110
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on the application of ethics to personal and professional life. Positive and negative sides of behavior and how this affects self-image and self-respect will be discussed.
Spanish I - HUM210
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course uses vocabulary and structure through a series of activities designed for realistic communication which allow students to achieve both written and spoken Spanish language skills. Through reading, dialogue, and associated study, students develop an understanding of the language and cultural distinctions of Spanish speakers worldwide.
Special Topics in the Humanities - HUM290
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None.
This course concentrates on current issues in the humanities. Topics may include, but are not limited to, introductory topics in philosophy, religion, culture, and/or language arts.
World Literature - HUM320
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course emphasizes an understanding and appreciation of world literature. Materials covered Include Western and non-Western literary endeavors. Focus will be on similarities among the various literatures, analysis of literary genre, and appreciation of voice.
The American Experience - HUM330
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course emphasizes the development of American values and Institutions through analysis of social, political, and economic materials. The course examines the Influence of political, economic, social, and environmental factors as it explores Ideas of Individualism, success, and national character. Materials may include historical documents, literature, and social, political, and artistic works.
Understanding World Cultures - HUM410
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course discusses civilizations and cultures as they evolved from Eastern, Western, African and South American influences. The student is enabled to relate diverse cultures to their impact on contemporary society, politics, and world events.
Spanish II - HUM420
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: HUM310
This course reviews the fundamentals of the Spanish language and provides special attention to the continuing development of students' conversational and reading skills. Students build upon their understanding of the language in both written and oral forms.
Special Topics in the Humanities - HUM490
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None.
This course concentrates on special topics in the humanities. Topics may include, but are not limited to, advanced topics in ethics, philosophy, religious and cultural studies, and/or language arts.
Special Topics in Humanities II - HUM491
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course concentrates on special topics in the humanities. Topics may include, but are not limited to, advanced topics in ethics, philosophy, religious and cultural studies, and/or language arts.
Special Topics in Humanities III - HUM492
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course concentrates on special topics in the humanities. Topics may include, but are not limited to, advanced topics in ethics, philosophy, religious and cultural studies, and/or language arts.
Fundamentals of Mathematics - MAT110
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course provides an introduction to the basic techniques of mathematics and applies them to problem solving in different areas of business and industry. This course does not count towards the Bachelor's program.
College Algebra - MAT210
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course explores a series of algebraic concepts including rational expressions, radicals and exponents, quadratic equations, systems of equations, and applications.
Current Topics in Mathematics - MAT290
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course concentrates on current issues in mathematics. Topics may include, but are not limited to, set theory, algebraic concepts, geometry, and probability.
Statistics - MAT310
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course presents material essential in an increasing number of professional fields by providing a new type of competence, quantitative literacy. Topics include descriptive statistics; collecting and interpreting data; inferential statistics; probability; consumer mathematics; management mathematics; and growth and scaling.
Calculus - MAT410
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: MAT210 or equivalent
This course focuses on techniques of differential and integral calculus likely encountered in professional activities and real-world situations. Students will gain a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts of calculus through a problem-solving approach. Topics include functions, graphs, and limits; differentiation; derivatives; exponential and logarithmic functions; integration; and variables.
Special Topics in Mathematics - MAT490
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor
This course concentrates on special topics in mathematics. Topics may include, but are not limited to, mathematical history and philosophy, Euclidian and non-Euclidian geometries, linear algebra, polar coordinates, vectors, partial derivatives, line integrals, and multiple integrals, as well as applications for these topics.
Social Psychology - PSY110
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course provides an application of the Psychological principles to the development of a stable social framework within business and personal environments.
Current Topics in Psychology - PSY290
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None.
This course concentrates on current issues in psychology. Topics may include, but are not limited to, introductory topics in learning, memory, motivation, emotion, states of consciousness, psychological assessment, mental health, psychology of personality, and creativity.
Organizational Behavior - PSY310
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites:
Human Growth & Development - PSY320
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course emphasizes the psychological, cognitive, emotional, and social development of the human organism. Materials include those related to the various stages of the life span, and the developmental Influence of social class, the family, the school, and the group. A focus is placed on the abilities, needs, problems, and concerns of humans to change throughout life, and how people are shaped by their experiences throughout their development.
Critical Thinking and Reasoning - PSY340
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to help students develop thinking skills and make good judgments. Participants are exposed to both logical and illogical thinking processes as a means to develop their skills in reasoning, analysis and the use of logical arguments. Various kinds of arguments are presented and analyzed, and logical fallacies are explored with the goal of reaching sound conclusions. Deductive and inductive reasoning are examined as are the criteria for sound reasoning and common reasoning mistakes people make. Students debate issues from different sides with both logical and illogical arguments.
Special Topics in Psychology - PSY490
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: PSY110 or equivalent.
This course concentrates on special topics in psychology. Topics may include, but are not limited to, advanced topics in deviant behavior, psychological testing and assessment, religious behavior, neurophysiology, and psychology and the law.
General Science - SCI110
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course examines scientific concepts and principles in an integrated manner to provide an overview of the sciences. Topics include physics, astronomy, chemistry, earth science, and biology as a means to address areas such as growing global population, limited resources and the fragile environment.
Microbiology - SCI250
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course examines the structure, nutrition, growth, genetics, classification, and ecology of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. Attention will be given to methods of microbial control, and the human immune response to microbes. Students will also learn the fundamentals of microscopy, laboratory safety, scientific method and techniques of experimentation. Laboratory component required
Current Topics in Science - SCI290
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None.
This course concentrates on current issues in science. Topics may include, but are not limited to, introductory topics in meteorology, geology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and the space sciences.
Introduction to Biochemistry - SCI360
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: SCI110
This course examines the basic structures and functions of carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides and proteins and their role in human metabolism. Vitamins, co-enzymes, and minerals are examined and pathways for xenobiotic metabolism are discussed.
Impact of Science and Technology - SCI410
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of science and future thinking. The content demonstrates how scientific and technological advances have significantly impacted all aspects of contemporary life.
Special Topics in Science - SCI490
Credits: 4.5Prerequisites: None
This course concentrates on special topics in science. Topics may include, but are not limited to, advanced topics in interdisciplinary topics such as the history of science and technology, cross-cultural studies of science, cosmology, biotechnology, the use of science and technology to enhance human abilities and quality of life, and techniques for assessment and remediation of science and technology hazards.
