Courses

This course provides the knowledge and skills to apply the coding of procedures for billing purposes using the Physicians Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) manual. Topics include: format of CPT manual, CPT manual coding guidelines, and coding using the CPT manual.

This course includes the sociological study of physical health and illness, therapy, rehabilitation and the organization of health care systems. It will examine help-seeking behaviors, utilization of health care services, issues of bioethics, and health care service provider roles, as well as race, class and gender stratification within the health care system.

Introduces the elements of medical terminology. Emphasis is placed on building familiarity with medical words through knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Topics include origins (roots, prefixes, and suffixes), word building, abbreviations and symbols, and terminology related to human anatomy.

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This course introduces the elements of medical terminology. Emphasis is placed on building familiarity with medical words through knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Topics include: origins (roots, prefixes, and suffixes), word building, abbreviations and symbols, and terminology related to the human anatomy.

This course provides students with an opportunity for in-depth application and reinforcement of principles and techniques in a medical laboratory job setting. This clinical practicum allows the student to become involved in a work situation at a professional level of technical application and requires concentration, practice, and follows through.

Medical virology is designed as an introduction to viruses that are involved in human disease. The student will obtain a broad, comprehensive understanding of the principles of virology using medical examples. The course will focus on a detailed study of the viral structure, replication gene expression, pathogenesis, and host defense. A laboratory component is included for the exploration of clinical virology techniques.

The course will assess the ability of the student to deliver safe medication by showing competency in medication calculation using algebra to solve word problems. Basic math concepts such as conversions, rounding, whole numbers vs. fractions and decimals, and determining drip factors and drip rates will all be an integral part of this course. None

Lecture based course in religious and secular art in the Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, or Northern Renaissance periods, c. 100-1500 CE, including selected scripture, painting and architecture in historical and cultural context. May be repeated up to 9 credit hours if the topic changes.

This course examines philosophy in transition from the medieval to the early modern era. Debates may concern the proper spheres of religious and secular power; engagements of Islamic, Jewish, or Christian thought with philosophical arguments (for example, about creation, self, or God); and Renaissance or early modern confrontations between traditional thought and new developments in philosophy and science.