Elective Courses

Focuses on health promotion for the well individual and family in the community. Explores health risk across the lifespan and strategies effective in risk reduction. Prerequisites: NUR 305RN, NUR 335RN.

The movement of goods from production to delivery to distribution channel intermediaries. Distribution channels, traffic management, warehousing, inventories, organization, control, and communication. Heavy emphasis is given to distribution system design and analysis.The movement of goods from production to delivery to distribution channel intermediaries. Distribution channels, traffic management, warehousing, inventories, organization, control, and communication. Heavy emphasis is given to distribution system design and analysis.

The nature and importance of the procurement function in modern business organizations. Principles, tools, methods, and techniques employed for the acquisition of materials, suppliesand equipment.

The historical and philosophical foundations of contemporary corrections are the focus of this course. Topics will include institutional and community-based corrections and cross-cultural comparisons.

The management of the physical storage, retrieval and inbound/outbound shipment of materials. Cube utilization, materials handling hardware, automatic storage/retrieval systems organization, transportation mode selection and rate analysis. The impact of transportation deregulation will also be discussed.

This course offers an in depth examination of the nature and scope of victimization; current research and policy trends; the victim’s role within the criminal justice system and the criminal justice system’s response to victimization.

Intensive work in creative non-fiction, including the memoir, personal essay, epistolary forms, and travel writing. Frequent writing assignments designed to help students find an individual writing voice and hone their skills in prose. Culminates in a portfolio of original prose and a public reading for the college community

An introduction to quality control, its basic concepts, organization/management of quality, quality costs, problem solving techniques, fundamentals of statistics, acceptance sampling, control charts, reliability, quality audits, and quality improvement.

Focuses on growth and development from newborn to senescence. Provides the framework for understanding the person and factors that predispose individuals to health-wellness and disease-illness. Includes understanding of physical, cognitive, emotional, social and environmental factors influencing development. Cultural influences on the person emphasized through discussion and case studies.

In-depth study of a topic in the fine and performing arts. Topics may be interdisciplinary or focus on one field in the arts (e.g., Far Eastern Art; Rock & Rap; The 60’s). Some attendance at performances and art exhibits required. This course may be repeated once for credit.

Please contact your instructor for specific topic.

This is an introduction to the multidisciplinary field of Program Evaluations with a special concentration to evaluations on the welfare and well-being of disenfranchised populations and social justice. Throughout this course students will learn the steps necessary to conduct ethically sound program evaluations studies.

Widespread use of psychoactive substances was a component of human behavior before the advent of civilization. In this course, we will examine the how and why of human drug use. We will focus on the biological mechanisms of drug action and how this in turn affects human behavior. We will also explore drug use/abuse from a societal perspective across different times and cultures. Taking a social justice perspective, we will examine how current drug laws affect society at-large, how the enforcement of certain drug laws affects under-represented groups, and whether/how anti-drug laws are effective at curbing drug abuse and its associated criminal behaviors.

This internship experience provides the student with an opportunity to explore the chiropractic profession by observing a Chiropractor professional in his or her work setting. It also allows the student to gain exposure to the inner workings of a Chiropractic office and helps students to build professional networks. This course can be repeated one time in a different setting and with the approval of the internship coordinator.

Uses concepts of growth and development, family theory, and the nursing process to interact with children and families for health promotion and illness prevention. Course centers on care of women during antepartum; birth; postpartum: newborns and children during wellness and illness. Focuses on priority setting strategies for family centered education. Requires1 clinical day.

In-depth study of the latest developments in technology and the arts (digital video, 3-D animation, the Internet). This course may be repeated once for credit.

Please contact your instructor for specific topic.

Techniques and strategies for managing manufacturing and service sectors. Provides perspectives for the production areas which include product planning, product/process design, facility layout, capacity planning, aggregate planning, materials, inventory control, scheduling and quality control.

This course concerns statutory and case law pertaining to crime. Both substantive and procedural law will be considered.

This course concerns statutory and case law pertaining to crime. Both substantive and procedural law will be considered.

Basic concepts needed for marketing research. Students will study problem formulation, research design, data collection, questionnaire construction sampling techniques, analysis and reporting. Students will design and implement a marketing research project.

Principles of behavioral and social science concepts applied to marketing situations. The importance of understanding consumer behavior in demand, brand, pricing, advertising, motivation and positioning decisions will be explored.

Focuses on research as a foundation for practice, education, and health care policy. Introduces the concepts and processes of nursing research and evidence based practice to enable students to become critical consumers and evaluators of research findings for use in practice. Includes weekly laboratory session that focus on different styles of writing and the effectiveness of the writing as a means of professional communication.

Introduces the concepts and processes of nursing research and evidence based practice to enable students to become critical consumers and evaluators of research findings. Focuses on the utilization and application of research and evidence based findings in practice. 

(Also ENG 356) Major figures in the literature of Latin America and the Caribbean in translation. Writers will include: Allende, Borges, Vargas, Llosa, Fuentes, Hijuelos, Wolcott, Marquez, and Paz.

Application of marketing principles to industrial (Business-to-business) situations. Students will study the unique marketing situations found in non-consumer product, price, distribution and promotional decisions. Demand for industrial products will be studied. Intermediaries and distribution channels will be evaluated.

(Also LAC 356) Major figures in the literature of Latin America in translation. Majors figures will include, Allende, Borges, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Neruda, and Vargas Llosa.