Courses

This course is focused on helping students execute a doable research project with the help and guidance of an instructor. The student will largely be engaged in independent work that is developed and checked with the help of the instructor. Research or other work related to a student's independent project. This is a 1-3 hour course repeatable up to six hours.

This course is focused on helping students execute a doable research project with the help and guidance of an instructor. The student will largely be engaged in independent work that is developed and checked with the help of the instructor. Research or other work related to a student's independent project. This is a 1-3 hour course repeatable up to six hours.

This course will use a sociology of family lens to examine the topics of foster care and adoption. We will examine what sociological research tells us about the experiences of children, parents, and staff in these institutions. In doing so, we will pay particular attention to race and class, including global issues of inequality.

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This course is designed to prepare the student to provide care for the childbearing client, family and the pediatric client. Emphasis is place on the concepts of normal pregnancy and childbirth, complications in pregnancy and childbirth, oxygenation, sexuality, grief/loss, mood/affect, development, family, health-wellness-illness such as nutrition, patient education, and health promotion, communication, safety, and advocacy.

This course will examine family violence from both a personal and social perspective. Re-search and theory in family violence will be discussed, along with types of relationships, incidence, prevalence, inter-personal dynamics, contributing factors, consequences, social response and services. Prevention strategies will be explored.

Explores a range of crimes that occur in the family setting, including violence between intimate partners, child abuse, and neglect. Theoretical factors, as well as how the criminal justice system responds to both victims and perpetrators of family violence, will be examined.

This course will involve a comprehensive study of the fashion industry along with essential marketing and economic principles that impact all businesses. Students will examine the use of technology throughout the industry, especially analytics, marketing technologies, online marketing strategies, social media platforms, and retail merchandising that are critical to fashion industry success.

This course covers the basics of identifying fastening techniques, interpreting technical data, and creating working drawings. Topics include utilization of technical data, identifying thread types, graphic representation of threaded fasteners, utilization of other fastening techniques, welding symbol identification, and welding symbol usage in working drawings.

Application and analysis of feature writing techniques for arts and entertainment coverage, sports coverage, personality profiles, reviews and long-form journalism with an emphasis on AP style.