Courses

An examination of humans from biological and evolutionary perspectives. Content includes non-human primates, human origins, modern human variation and adaptation, forensic anthropology, and interactions between human biology and culture.

An introduction to physical geography, surveying weather, climate, vegetation, soils, land-forms, water resources, and their spatial interrelations and distributions.

This course introduces students to the profession of physical therapy. Topics include professional responsibilities and core values; legal and ethical responsibilities in physical therapy practice; current trends in physical therapy; communication skills; cultural competency and health disparities and research and evidence-based practice.

This course provides an introduction to the Plumbing construction trade. The knowledge and skills required to succeed in the Plumbing industry are emphasized. Topics include general safety rules and practices, introduction to construction and the pipe trades, and work ethics, communication, and affective skills and practices.

This course is an introduction to the field of Political Science. The course surveys the general topics studied in the field (such as power, agenda-setting, collective action) as well as the sub-fields that are focuses of the discipline: American Government, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. At the core of the course is the question of how human societies decide who gets what, where, when, and how.

Students are introduced to various qualitative and quantitative methods used in the social sciences. They learn how to find, evaluate and ethically use appropriate information to conduct political science research. They construct research questions and write research papers using case studies, comparative methods and statistics.

This course introduces new Business Intelligence and Data Analytics students to methods used for creating, handling, and processing data sources. This course emphasizes a hands-on, practical approach to data processing and analysis with SAS, an industry-standard business intelligence and statistical software package available for MS Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating system.

Project Management has become critical to the effective and efficient implementation of tasks across diverse industries. From the design, planning, implementation, and completion, this course helps students understand the tools and techniques necessary to properly manage project. Students will participate in "hands-on" examples design to help them understand the foundations of project management.

An introductory course in psychotherapy providing counseling and communications skills for pre-professionals.

This course introduces students to Public Administration, which is a sub-field of Political Science. Administrative aspects of Political Science will be examined, focusing on concepts and methods used to analyze public policy, political systems, governmental structures, bureaucracy, government and public management, and public policy decision making.