Courses

How to work with families of children with special needs, including supporting them in assessment, intervention planning, and providing supports. Includes families' legal rights, determining their existing assets, determining their needs, using adult learning theory, and determining family outcomes. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course.

This course provides students with practical study and experience in successful strategies for agencies, organizations, businesses, ministries and mission organizations as they pursue balanced media coverage and respond to requests for interviews, data or other questions aimed at publication or broadcast on various deadlines. Ethics of media relations practice from a Christian worldview are applied to the media marketplace through discussion and project-driven experience.

Study of group dynamics and group management as they relate to youth and adolescents. Focus on different types of settings in which adolescents are served by groups and the different types of groups utilized in youth work. Social, cultural, gender, racial, and other differences in group composition will be explored.

This course provides entering students with an introduction to the ACT WorkKeys System. Students will complete WorkKeys assessments in the areas of Applied Mathematics, Reading for Information, and Locating Information. Upon completion, students will be advised of their performance on the assessments and of the methods available to improve their individual performance levels.

This course provides students with an introduction to the ACT WorkKeys System. Students will complete WorkKeys assessments in the areas of Applied Math, Workplace Documents, and Graphic Literacy. Upon completion, students will be advised of their performance on the assessments and of the methods available to improve their individual performance levels.

Analysis of motions necessary to perform industrial operations; motion economy; development of ratings, allowances, standard data, formula construction, work sampling, wage payment and performance training.

Analysis of historical and contemporary theories of work motivation and related research.

This highly interdisciplinary course deals with the problems, purpose and function of work in our daily lives, especially as they affect our character development and define us as human beings. Given the profound effects of work on our total development and happiness, it is crucial to examine critically what we choose to do and, therefore, become.

Examination of the concepts of workplace diversity through historical, societal, practical, and theoretical lenses. This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to be culturally aware managers and employees.

This course will explore known physical and chemical hazards found in the workplace. We will begin with the importance of key events and milestones in the history of worker safety and health and explore the ethical, legal, and social implications associated with the workplace environment. We will review the roles and responsibilities of government, non-government agencies, private organizations, businesses, and industry in worker safety and health. Offered once a year.