Courses
HRTM 201 INTRO TO HOSPITALITY &TOURISM 3.0 Credit(s)
Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism explores the vast nature of the Tourism and Hospitality Industries. This class is focused on learning about the industry segments by exploring career paths and opportunities for employment. Guest lectures, field trips and creating a digital resume-like presentation will all be utilized to introduce the student to the industry and to the program.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
HRTM 202 INTRO CULINARY HOSPITALITY & SANITATION 3.0 Credit(s)
Many hospitality enterprises are focused on food as a product that is offered to the public. Food brings people together, this class will focus on basic culinary skills in a commercial kitchen setting (learning to use a knife safely and the Mother sauces). We hold the safety of the public in our hands and this course will include a nationally recognized food safety credential ServSafe - food handling certificate.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
HRTM 207 MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES 3.0 Credit(s)
Explores the contemporary human resources function and basic processes involved in the recruitment, selection, training, development, and evaluation of an organization's human resources. Additional topics include today's emphasis on talent management as well as legal issues in HR management, labor relations, performance assessment and improvement, career paths, termination, compensation and benefit systems, and managing diversity. Prerequisite: MGT 101. Prerequisite: Take MGT-101
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
CPE 211 CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS WITH LAB 4.0 Credit(s)
This course will examine the fundamentals of electric circuits and network analysis, frequency response, Laplace transforms, Fourier series, operational amplifiers, AM radio, and filters. Prerequisite: Take MA-152
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CPE 212 DIGITAL DESIGN WITH LAB 4.0 Credit(s)
This course will examine the number systems; computer aritmetic; analysis and synthesis of combinational and sequential logic circuits, use of a hardware description language; organization and structure of computing systems.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MGT 270 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will introduce the student to social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurism focuses on developing sustainable business solutions to social problems at a micro-level which can be replicated on a large scale. The course will focus on introducing students to current global movements and the social forces driving current social enterprises and understand the mechanisms other social entrepreneurs are using to create successful social enterprises. Students will develop a business concept which addresses how best to solve some of the most pressing global issues confronting people today.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
PH 280 PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
Study of the human person from a Catholic philosophical perspective, including the topics of intersubjectivity, transcendence, human nature, freedom and the nature of the will, and the problem of death.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 263 POST COLONIAL WOMEN WRITERS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will focus on contemporary literature written by women from former British colonies in South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, examining themes related to the postcolonial experience.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 262 WITCHES IN LITERATURE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines depictions of witches in literature, focusing primarily on American literature. The course also considers the cultural meanings of witchcraft, paganism, and related spiritual practices and how those are reflected in the literature. Students will also analyze the cultural and political meaning of witchcraft and witch hunts. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 246 DISABILITY STORIES 3.0 Credit(s)
This Humanities (English) elective examines the way that American authors have represented disability, both physical and mental, and explores what these representations reveal about the world in which we live. The class will distinguish between nonfictional narratives composed by writers with disabilities and fictional texts written about characters who have been marked as different or abnormal. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 247 DARWIN AND LITERATURE 3.0 Credit(s)
This Humanities (English) elective, inspired by my own research, examines the way that American authors have influenced and been influenced by the science of evolution. Although Charles Darwin was British, he had a tremendous impact not only on Western civilization and European thought, but also on a period of writing called American literary naturalism. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 248 POSTAPOCALYPTIC LITERATURE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course analyzes postapocalyptic literature, including related genres such as dystopian fiction. The course also considers the social, cultural, and literary contexts of the texts. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 278 AMERICAN ETHNIC FICTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines contemporary fiction by a variety of Ethnic American writers(Irish, Italian, Jewish, African, Native, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern) to explore how these different groups have had to grapple with issues of identity and community as they have become part of American culture. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 279 TRAUMA IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 3.0 Credit(s)
This interdisciplinary course examines the representation of various types of psychological trauma in contemporary fiction. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
RAD 200 RADIOGRAPHY & CLINICAL EDUCATION 5.0 Credit(s)
This course provides instruction in the radiographic positioning of structures and organs of the human body and is a continuation of Radiographic Procedures (RAD112). This will include the positioning of the cranium, facial bones, and paranasal sinuses which will be learned along with specialized positioning for trauma, and pediatric radiography. Furthermore, this course will provide instruction on mobile and surgical positioning in accordance with their specific exams. The course also includes: an introduction to image acquisition and evaluation, equipment operation, and quality control. This course will be supplemented with instruction and application in the skills lab and assigned three days a week of clinical experience. 5 credits Pre-Requisites: Successful completion of RAD 101, RAD 112. Must be completed prior to taking this course. Prerequisite: Take RAD-112 RAD-101
Offered: Summer Semester All Years