Course Descriptions

ACCT 103 - Introduction to Accounting

1. Explain the role of accounting in a business.
2. Analyze business transactions using the accounting equation.
3. Apply the rules of debits and credits to business transactions.
4. Prepare journal entries.
5. Prepare an income statement.
6. Prepare a statement of owner’s equity.
7. Prepare a balance sheet.
8. Complete the accounting cycle for a service company.
9. Prepare bank reconciliations.
10. Calculate payroll and related payroll taxes.
11. Process payroll transactions.
12. Process transactions using special journals and subsidiary ledgers.
13. Complete the accounting cycle for a merchandising company.

ACCT 138 - Income Tax Preparation

1. Categorize transactions for appropriate tax treatment.
2. Apply tax law provisions to individual taxpayer scenarios.
3. Differentiate between the Federal, State and City of Detroit income tax systems.
4. Characterize the elements of the Federal, State and City of Detroit income tax returns.
5. Prepare a comprehensive tax return utilizing income tax software.
6. Explore Internet-based resources available for income tax preparation.

ACCT 139 - Michigan Taxes

1. Apply state tax law provisions to individual taxpayer scenarios.
2. Apply local city tax law provisions to individual taxpayer scenarios.
3. Prepare individual and business tax forms for the State of Michigan.
4. Prepare individual tax forms for the Cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park.
5. Explore various tax issues which may need to be researched.
6. Investigate tax issues relating to interstate taxation.

ACCT 201 - Principles of Accounting 1

1. Explain the importance of ethical decisions in financial reporting.
2. Explain the role of accounting in a business.
3. Analyze business transactions using the accounting equation.
4. Apply the rules of debits and credits.
5. Prepare journal entries for business transactions, adjustments and closings.
6. Prepare financial statements.
7. Compute cost of goods sold and ending inventory.
8. Process transactions using special journals and subsidiary ledgers.
9. Determine the effects of errors on the financial statements.
10. Apply internal control principles.
11. Estimate uncollectible account expense using two different approaches.
12. Apply current accounting principles to long lived assets.
13. Apply current accounting principles to current liabilities and payroll.
14. Demonstrate partnership accounting.
15. Compute ratios.

ACCT 202 - Principles of Accounting 2

1. Apply current accounting principles to stockholder’s equity.
2. Apply current accounting principles to investments.
3. Apply current accounting principles to long term liabilities.
4. Prepare financial statements for a corporation.
5. Prepare statement of cash flows.
6. Evaluate the financial performance of a business.
7. Apply basic management accounting methods to a manufacturing or services business.
8. Apply proper accounting concepts to facilitate decision making.
9. Explain the importance of ethics in accounting.
10. Prepare a cost of goods manufactured report.
11. Prepare process costing production reports.
12. Analyze cost behaviors.
13. Determine the breakeven point in units and sales dollars.
14. Prepare budgets.

ACCT 206 - Accounting Internship

To register for the course the student must complete the prerequisites and secure employment. The instructor and career services can assist with job placement. Department approval is required before registering for this course.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.

Course Category: Occupational
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Course Competencies

1. Analyze business transactions for real-world scenarios.
2. Perform basic accounting functions for real work scenarios.
3. Maintain accounting records according to employer’s record retention policies.
4. Utilize accounting software and other technology to complete tasks as assigned.
5. Apply internal control procedures used within the accounting department.
6. Examine the significance of ethical conduct in accounting.
7. Relate with staff in a respectful and collaborative manner.
8. Cultivate essential professional skills such as communication, teamwork, time management, and problem-solving.
9. Perform other accounting or business duties as assigned by the supervisor.

ACCT 221 - Intermediate Accounting 1

1. Reconcile the differences between cash and accrual basis accounting.
2. Explain the current trends in the accounting standards setting process.
3. Explain the conceptual framework for accounting standards including: broad principles, basic assumptions, characteristics of accounting information and elements of financial statements.
4. Complete the accounting cycle for business transactions.
5. Prepare a Classified Balance Sheet, including disclosure requirements.
6. Calculate common liquidity, activity, profitability, and coverage ratios.
7. Prepare Income Statements, including disclosure requirements.
8. Compute other Comprehensive Income.
9. Determine proper use of time value of money concepts.
10. Apply current accounting principles to cash, cash equivalents, and receivables.
11. Apply current accounting principles to inventory.
12. Apply current accounting principles to operational assets.
13. Apply current accounting principles to investments.
14. Determine asset impairment.
15. Evaluate internal controls for cash.
16. Identify ethics violations.
17. Identify techniques for fair value measurement.

ACCT 222 - Intermediate Accounting 2

1. Apply current accounting principles to current liabilities.
2. Apply current accounting principles to long term liabilities.
3. Calculate effective interest method for bond amortization.
4. Apply appropriate accounting treatment to leases.
5. Allocate income tax expense.
6. Apply current accounting principles to revenue recognition.
7. Apply current accounting principles to pension plans.
8. Apply current accounting principles to equity transactions.
9. Prepare the Statement of Shareholders’ Equity.
10. Apply appropriate accounting treatment to share-based compensation.
11. Compute earnings per share.
12. Evaluate changes in accounting principles.
13. Correct accounting errors.
14. Prepare the Statement of Cash Flow using direct and indirect methods.
15. Analyze the effect of financial activities on a company’s financial position.
16. Identify subsequent events and related disclosure requirements.

ACCT 226 - Cost Accounting

1. Summarize the benefits of cost/managerial accounting.
2. Explain how cost/managerial accounting is used in organizational decision making.
3. Analyze financial activities and their effect on financial statements.
4. Explain internal controls.
5. Characterize costs based on cost behavior patterns.
6. Apply variable costing methods.
7. Apply absorption costing methods.
8. Apply activity-based costing and explain how it can support pricing and production decisions.
9. Examine cost variances.
10. Prepare budgets and pro-forma financial statements.
11. Apply cost/volume/profit techniques in pricing and production decisions.
12. Apply cost concepts in performance management.
13. Evaluate the concept of constraints and local sub-optimization.
14. Apply non-financial measures in performance management.
15. Utilize data analytics in decision making.

ACCT 238 - Federal Tax Accounting

1. Explain the impact of taxes on society.

2. Explain sources of primary and secondary tax authorities.

3. Determine filing status and exemptions for individuals.

4. Calculate individual federal income tax.

5. Prepare individual federal income tax returns.

6. Determine what income items are taxable and nontaxable.

7. Determine what items are deductible and nondeductible.

8. Calculate tax credits and payments.

9. Calculate capital gains and losses.

10. Calculate long-term asset cost, depreciation and adjusted basis.

11. Investigate a tax issue through basic tax research.

12. Explain the use of technology in tax compliance and planning.

13. Create tax planning strategies for certain situations.

14. Calculate individual federal estate and gift tax.

15. Explain the characteristics of partnership, C corporations and S Corporations.

ACCT 262 - Payroll Accounting

1. Examine various laws that affect the payroll operations and employment practices of a business.
2. Explain the major provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
3. Explain the various phases of the Social Security Act, the Federal Income Tax Withholding Law and other laws relating to the payment of wages and salaries.
4. Compute wages and salary.
5. Apply current tax rates and wages base for FICA (Social Security and Medicare) and SECA (self-employment).
6. Compute federal income tax withholdings.
7. Compute federal and state unemployment taxes.
8. Prepare various tax forms.
9. Prepare journal entries for payroll transactions.
10. Complete a payroll simulation project.

ACCT 263 - Computerized Accounting Using QuickBooks

1. Prepare an accounting information system for a small business using QuickBooks.
2. Produce a variety of output file formats with QuickBooks.
3. Customize a chart of accounts.
4. Create customer, vendor and employee accounts.
5. Categorize sales, cash and purchase transactions.
6. Document sales, cash and purchase transactions.
7. Reconcile a bank statement.
8. Adjust inventory accounts.
9. Process payroll.
10. Prepare financial statements and reports with QuickBooks.
11. Illustrate the uses of data analytics in accounting.

ACCT 330 - Managerial Accounting for a Food Service Operation

1. Explain the role of accounting in a food service industry.
2. Explain the role of ethics in a food service operation.
3. Develop sales forecasts for a food service operation.
4. Develop operating budgets for a food service operation.
5. Prepare Cost Volume Profit (CVP) Analysis.
6. Evaluate cost controls for inventory.
7. Evaluate labor costs and other expenses.
8. Evaluate labor productivity.
9. Analyze financial results for a food service operation.
10. Apply internal controls for cash and inventory.
11. Explore domestic and global market forces that impact food and beverage costs.
12. Explore industry specific technology used in a food service operation.

AHE 101 - Introduction to Healthcare

1. Explain terms related to healthcare delivery systems, including the use of prefixes, suffixes and roots for each anatomical system.
2. Examine the roles of health care facilities, patients, physicians, and allied health professionals and organizations.
3. Interpret the changes occurring in the healthcare delivery system in terms of patterns in organized form and increased governmental intervention in healthcare.
4. Examine the role of computer technology in healthcare.
5. Characterize major factors in healthcare legislation at the federal, state and local levels of government.
6. Illustrate the contributions of different disciplines and professions through public health initiatives.

ANTH 112 - Introduction to Anthropology

1. Apply the key concepts, methods and perspectives used in the major subfields of anthropology.
2. Outline the characteristics of culture.
3. Illustrate how anthropology can be applied to modern social problems.
4. Evaluate the relationship of language and culture.
5. Assess the characteristics and behavior of modern primates.
6. Outline trends in human physical evolution using fossil evidence.
7. Evaluate explanations for modern human physical diversity.
8. Summarize the major trends in cultural evolution.
9. Compare similarities and differences in cultures worldwide.
10. Assess the impact of change, including globalization, on global communities.

ANTH 117 - Introduction to Archaeology

1. Outline the history and development of archaeology as a subfield of anthropology.
2. Illustrate the application of science and theory in archaeology.
3. Summarize the process of archaeological site formation and preservation.
4. Illustrate methods used in contemporary archaeological fieldwork and laboratory analysis. 
5. Compare dating methods used in archaeology to establish chronologies.
6. Interpret archaeological data.
7. Explain how archaeological data is used to reconstruct past cultures.
8. Evaluate the contributions of historic archaeology to an understanding of the recent past.
9. Analyze the ethical and legal issues in archaeology today.
10. Illustrate how archaeology is used to address modern social problems.

ANTH 120 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology

1. Apply the topics and methods used in biological anthropology.
2. Analyze the development of the theory of evolution and natural selection.
3. Outline the role of genetics in the process of evolution.
4. Illustrate the physical characteristics common to all living primates.
5. Illustrate the social behaviors and culture of living primates.
6. Interpret the fossil history of primate evolution.
7. Analyze the evidence documenting the origin and evolution of early hominins. 
8. Interpret the biological and cultural evidence for the origin and evolution of the Genus Homo. 
9. Determine the trajectory of biocultural trends in human evolution.
10. Analyze patterns of modern human adaptation and variation.

ANTH 201 - Cultural Anthropology

1. Identify the key concepts, theories and perspectives of cultural anthropology.
2. Identify methods and ethics of anthropological fieldwork.
3. Describe the characteristics of culture.
4. Apply the concepts of holism, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
5. Identify how anthropological linguistics is used in the study of diverse cultures.
6. Compare basic sociocultural institutions such as kinship, economics, religion and politics from societies throughout the world.
7. Identify the interaction between culture and the environment.
8. Illustrate examples of globalization and cultural change.
9. Analyze modern problems from an anthropological perspective.

ANTH 211 - Myth, Magic, World Religions

1. Identify the concepts, methods and theories used in the anthropology of religion.
2. Apply the anthropological principles of ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and holism.
3. Identify common features of diverse religious traditions.
4. Identify insider and outsider perspectives on religious traditions.
5. Explain the varied functions of religious traditions in societies.
6. Describe archaeological evidence of religion.
7. Analyze religious traditions in small-scale societies from an anthropological perspective.
8. Analyze world religions from an anthropological perspective.
9. Identify patterns of religious change.
10. Identify examples of the role of religion in war and peace.

ANTH 214 - Native American Traditions

1. Apply the four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and biological anthropology) to the study of Native Americans.
2. Illustrate ethnocentric bias and examples of cultural relativism.
3. Summarize the concepts of culture, culture as adaption and culture area.
4. Explain archaeological theories of migration and Native origin stories.
5. Compare etic and emic perspectives on Native American cultures.
6. Outline the impact of key U. S. government policies on Native American communities.
7. Summarize changes in Native American cultures in response to contact with non-Native populations.
8. Explain how social, economic, political, and spiritual traditions vary by culture area.
9. Illustrate current issues important to  Native American communities.

ANTH 220 - Environmental Anthropology

1. Apply the key concepts, theories and perspectives of environmental anthropology.
2. Explain alternate cultural frameworks for understanding the environment. 
3. Outline adaptive strategies for diverse human populations in different time periods.
4. Evaluate the impact of human populations on environments.
5. Compare the impact of change, including globalization, on the environmental systems of a variety of global communities.
6. Assess the impact of social inequalities and structural discrimination on human populations and their ecosystems. 
7. Outline the origins and issues of the Anthropocene. 
8. Illustrate culturally appropriate strategies for conservation and sustainability.
9. Analyze case studies of environmental issues from an anthropological perspective.

ANTH 230 - Medical Anthropology

1. Apply the key concepts, theories and perspectives of medical anthropology.
2. Compare various cultural constructions of mental, spiritual and physical health; illness; and healing.
3. Outline lived experiences of health, illness and disability for individuals and social groups.
4. Explain the impact of human adaptive strategies on nutrition and health.    
5. Outline how social inequalities and structural discrimination impact disease, disability and health.
6. Compare public health practices and institutions across a variety of cultures.   
7. Interpret the impact of change, including globalization, on the origin, distribution and treatment of disease.
8. Apply medical anthropology to past and contemporary case studies involving disease and health care. 
9. Evaluate the future challenges to human health and the promises of medicine.

ANTH 290 - The Individual and Community - An Honors Capstone

1. Identify the key concepts, methods, and perspectives used in the social sciences.
2. Analyze social-cultural structures and dynamics at individual, group, community, and global levels.
3. Identify how social structures, institutions, and trends shape the lives of individuals in modern society.
4. Apply course concepts and social science theories to issues of diversity and inequality in society.
5. Evaluate underlying causes of contemporary social issues.
6. Conduct fieldwork in the community as part of a capstone service-learning project.
7. Work cooperatively with partners and in groups.
8. Illustrate the cultural context and function of a community organization as it relates to capstone fieldwork.
9. Present an analysis of a capstone service-learning project.

ARB 101 - Elementary Arabic 1

1. Determine the meaning of beginning Arabic texts.
2. Write grammatically correct sentences in beginning Arabic.
3. Discriminate distinctive beginning Arabic sounds.
4. Interpret the meaning of spoken beginning Arabic.
5. Pronounce beginning Arabic words, phrases and sentences correctly.
6. Speak Arabic clearly and accurately with beginning fluency.
7. Integrate beginning Arabic vocabulary into simple sentences, paragraphs and dialog.
8. Apply correctly beginning rules of Arabic grammar, syntax, tense and gender.
9. Communicate effectively in beginning Arabic through reading, writing, speaking and listening.
10. Compare beginning aspects of Arabic and English grammar and syntax.
11. Explore culture in this beginning Arabic course.
12. Acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for further exploration of the Arabic language and culture.

ARB 102 - Elementary Arabic 2

1. Determine the meaning of elementary Arabic texts.
2. Write grammatically correct sentences in elementary Arabic.
3. Discriminate distinctive elementary Arabic sounds.
4. Interpret the meaning of spoken elementary Arabic.
5. Pronounce elementary Arabic words, phrases and sentences correctly.
6. Speak Arabic clearly and accurately with elementary fluency.
7. Integrate elementary Arabic vocabulary into simple sentences, paragraphs and dialog.
8. Apply correctly elementary rules of Arabic grammar, syntax, tense and gender.
9. Communicate effectively in elementary Arabic through reading, writing, speaking and listening.
10. Compare elementary aspects of Arabic and English grammar and syntax.
11. Explore culture in this elementary Arabic course.
12. Acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for further exploration of the Arabic language and culture.

ARB 201 - Intermediate Arabic 1

1. Determine the meaning of intermediate Arabic texts.
2. Write grammatically correct sentences in intermediate Arabic.
3. Discriminate distinctive intermediate Arabic sounds.
4. Interpret the meaning of spoken intermediate Arabic.
5. Pronounce intermediate Arabic words, phrases and sentences correctly.
6. Speak Arabic clearly and accurately with intermediate fluency.
7. Integrate intermediate Arabic vocabulary into simple sentences, paragraphs and dialog.
8. Apply correctly intermediate rules of Arabic grammar, syntax, tense and gender.
9. Communicate effectively in intermediate Arabic through reading, writing, speaking and listening.
10. Compare intermediate aspects of Arabic and English grammar and syntax.
11. Explore culture in this intermediate Arabic course.
12. Acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for further exploration of the Arabic language and culture.

ARB 202 - Intermediate Arabic 2

1. Determine the meaning of advanced Arabic texts.
2. Write grammatically correct sentences in advanced Arabic.
3. Discriminate distinctive advanced Arabic sounds.
4. Interpret the meaning of spoken advanced Arabic.
5. Pronounce advanced Arabic words, phrases and sentences correctly.
6. Speak Arabic clearly and accurately with advanced fluency.
7. Integrate advanced Arabic vocabulary into simple sentences, paragraphs and dialog.
8. Apply correctly advanced rules of Arabic grammar, syntax, tense and gender.
9. Communicate effectively in advanced Arabic through reading, writing, speaking and listening.
10. Compare advanced aspects of Arabic and English grammar and syntax.
11. Explore culture in this advanced Arabic course.
12. Acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for further exploration of the Arabic language and culture.

ART 113 - Art Education

1. Investigate works of art which encourage positive behavior.
2. Explain the ways in which the visual arts can function within society.
3. Explore the interrelationship of various art forms.
4. Explain how the visual arts can enrich the school curriculum.
5. Design age/grade appropriate art projects to complement a variety of curricular areas.
6. Utilize the language of art and a variety of art materials and techniques.
7. Explore a variety of art materials and techniques appropriate to children at various stages of development.
8. Develop appropriate skill and sensitivity to evaluate childrens art work.
9. Select appropriate methods and approaches of teaching art to children.

ART 115 - Art History 1

1. Analyze the ways in which the visual arts can function within the context of society.
2. Examine the relationship of various art forms to each other.
3. Explore the most important developments and styles within the broad estate of art from Prehistory to the Renaissance.
4. Explain the basic design elements of painting, sculpture, and other art forms.
5. Explain the materials used to create a specific work of art.
6. Explain the elements of color and line used to create a specific work of art.
7. Explain the element(s) of form and focus used in a specific work of art.
8. Apply stylistic terminology to a specific work of art.
9. Explain how various works of art represent the artistic style or period in which they were created.
10. Explain how and why artists created their work.
11. Evaluate art works on a content level.
12. Analyze works of art from an historical context.

ART 116 - Art History 2

1. Analyze the ways in which the visual arts can function within the context of society.
2. Examine the relationship of various art forms to each other.
3. Explore the most important developments and styles within the broad estate of western art from the early Renaissance to the present.
4. Explain the basic design elements of painting, sculpture, and other art forms.
5. Explain the materials used to create a specific work of art.
6. Explain the elements of line and color used to create a specific work of art.
7. Explain the elements of form and focus in a specific work of art.
8. Apply stylistic terminology to a specific work of art.
9. Explore how various works of art represent the artistic style or period in which they were created.
10. Explore how and why artists created their work.
11. Investigate art works on a content level.
12. Analyze works of art from an historical context.

ART 117 - Foundations of Metal Sculpture

1. Document the intent for a metal sculpture.
2. Document the elements of subject, concept and medium in a metal sculpture.
3. Construct a metal sculpture using scavenged metal as a medium.
4. Resolve problems inherent in surface preparation and installation of metal sculpture.
5. Explain metal sculpture from a technical as well as an aesthetic perspective in an objective and conceptual way.
6. Explain how the appropriate processes and tools support the creation of metal sculpture as an art form.
7. Construct a metal sculpture that emulates another artist’s technique or concept.
8. Discuss how artistic insight is characterized in metal sculpture.
9. Summarize the boundaries of space, shape and form as part of the metal sculpture creation process.
10. Summarize the process involved in making a metal sculpture.

ART 120 - Drawing: Theory and Elements

1. Examine works of art where drawing was the primary approach to create emotion from the viewer.
2. Explain the ways in which drawings impact their intended audience.
3. Compare and contrast the relationship and importance of drawing to other art forms.
4. Analyze drawings, from established Art History sources, that effectively utilize traditional methods to achieve accurate spatial relationships to achieve accurate proportion.
5. Summarize how drawings show proportion and spatial relationships.
6. Analyze drawings, from established Art History sources, that effectively utilize traditional methods to achieve accurate value relationships to achieve form and dimension.
7. Critique drawings for basic form and dimension.
8. Explain how drawings create the illusion of depth by recording the effect of light on surfaces.
9. Illustrate drawings that utilize spatial differentiation.
10. Summarize how drawings show linear and atmospheric perspective.
11. Investigate compatibility of different drawing media with different surfaces.

ART 121 - 2D Design: Elements and Principles of Two-Dimensional Design

1. Identify how two-dimensional works of art evoke emotion within the viewer.
2. Explain how design impacts the intended audience.
3. Compare and contrast the interrelationship of design with other various art forms.
4. Summarize the elements and principles of design utilized in important two-dimensional historical works of art.
5. Identify how artists effectively use the elements and principles of design in both fine and applied art.
6. Summarize how artists apply basic color theory to two-dimensional design.
7. Explain the elements and principles of design used to create effective two-dimensional compositions.
8. Critique designs within a given set of conceptual and physical parameters.
9. Create two-dimensional work of art effectively incorporate all elements and principles of design.

ART 122 - 3D Design: Elements and Principles of Three-Dimensional Design

1. Summarize how three-dimensional art can evokes a response from the viewer.
2. Compare and contrast the interrelationship of three-dimensional art with other art forms.
3. Explain the ways in which three-dimensional form functions within society.
4. Compare and contrast the interrelationship of two-dimensional and three-dimensional design concepts.
5. Critique artists’ use of color on three-dimensional form.
6. Summarize the process of developing prototypes for large scale three-dimensional projects.
7. Determine different materials that can be used to construct three-dimensional form.
8. Evaluate different methods of joining materials in the construction of three-dimensional form.
9. Construct a three-dimensional form which includes environmental context as part of the design.

ART 127 - Illustration: Theory and Elements

1. Determine how illustrative works of art evoke a response from a viewer.
2. Summarize ways in which illustrative works function in society.
3. Compare and contrast how visual style and technique separates illustration from other forms of art.
4. Determine the steps that comprise the illustrative process.
5. Construct an illustration demonstrating the integration of the steps of the illustrative process.
6. Summarize basic drawing and painting techniques used in published illustrations.
7. Investigate the application of both dry and wet image transfer techniques.
8. Create illustrations that emulate the technique of a published illustrator.
9. Design illustrative works for a defined audience.

ART 128 - The Human Figure in Art 1: Theory and Elements

1. Compare works of art which incorporate the use of the human figure to evoke a response from the viewer.
2. Explain the relationship and importance of figure drawing to other art forms.
3. Evaluate how drawings of the human figure that demonstrate accurate spatial relationships.
4. Explain how drawings of the human figure demonstrate accurate value relationships.
5. Analyze linear drawings for accurately recording the basic conformation of a human figure.
6. Construct drawings that record light and shadow patterns on the topography of the human figure.
7. Explain how spatial differentiation relates to a contour drawing of a human figure.
8. Summarize how artists use positive and negative space in the placement of the figure on the drawing surfaces.
9. Determine how life drawing can function in society.

ART 133 - Ceramics 1: Theory and Elements

1. Investigate how ceramic works of art evoke a response from the viewer.
2. Explain the purposes and functions ceramics plays within society.
3. Compare the interrelationship of ceramics with various art forms.
4. Differentiate among the various hand-building techniques employed in published ceramic pieces.
5. Explain how to construct basic ceramic forms using the wheel.
6. Explain the stages utilized in creating ceramic art.
7. Analyze techniques and standards for safely loading and firing kilns.
8. Summarize the safety techniques and standards for clay and glaze management.
9. Explain one theory, method and technique from an art history ceramics source.

ART 134 - Ceramics 2: Theory and Elements

1. Explain why published clay artist want to evoke a response from the viewer.
2. Explain the similarities and differences ceramics has with other art forms.
3. Summarize how multiple construction techniques of handbuilding and wheel throwing have impacted ceramics as an art form.
4. Explain the techniques used by clay artists when creating art through coil and slab methods.
5. Investigate the formulas published clay artists have used in various glazing techniques.
6. Compare and contrast the properties of different clay bodies.
7. Explain what the requirements are for maintaining the structural integrity of large scale ceramic works.
8. Explain why safety requirements are necessary for ceramic vessels which are used for food preparation, storage and serving.
9. Compare and contrast ceramic theories, methods and techniques from different cultures and/or time periods.

ART 150 - Introduction to Fine Arts Entrepreneurship

2. Manage pricing and sales of art, including establishing fair market prices and producing a bill of sale.

3. Critique how artwork is displayed in an art gallery, museum or other professional venue.

4. Outline the process to submit art to an art show, gallery or other venue.

5. Investigate the benefits of membership in professional art organizations.

6. Evaluate different art venues that service the fine arts industry.

7. Compose professional documents commonly used in the art industry, such as an artist statement and personal biography.

8. Produce images of artwork that can be submitted to a fine arts gallery.

9. Create a long-term and short-term plan for maintaining a career in the fine arts industry.

10. Examine organizations and regulations that govern art licensing, copyrighting and liability.

11. Explore online and traditional resources that can support marketing and self-promotion of fine arts.

12. Create a professional portfolio specific to a career in the fine arts.

13. Evaluate different careers in the art industry, including entrepreneurship, as viable personal career options.

ART 180 - Foundations of Jewelry and Design

2. Apply the metal casting process for designs in jewelry and small metal objects.

3. Contrast different metals and other materials for jewelry making and casting.

4. Explore metal shaping and forming techniques related to jewelry making and other small metal objects.

5. Evaluate different surface finishes of metals.

6. Apply the appropriate joining process for jewelry making and small metal objects.

7. Examine various tools that are commonly used for jewelry making.

8. Investigate designs used for jewelry making and small metal objects.

9. Explore how stones are set when creating jewelry or small metal objects.

10. Explore how resins are used in the creation of jewelry or small metal objects.

11. Explore how metal is stamped when creating jewelry or small metal objects.

12. Apply different sizing techniques and tools for jewelry making as appropriate for varying designs.

ART 201 - Art Appreciation

1. Investigate works of art which encourage positive behavior.
2. Explain the ways in which the visual arts can function within society.
3. Explore the interrelationship of various art forms.
4. Interpret works of art using appropriate visual arts terminology and concepts.
5. Explain the role the visual arts have played throughout history and across cultures.
6. Compare art from many cultures and time periods.
7. Differentiate between the media and processes used to create art.
8. Investigate the major themes and purposes of art.
9. Explore how artists have used two- and three-dimensional media throughout history and across cultures.

ART 216 - Women in Art

1. Explain the basic design elements of painting, sculpture and other art forms.
2. Explain the materials used to create a specific art work.
3. Explain the elements of line and color used to create a specific work of art.
4. Explain the elements of form and focus in a specific work of art.
5. Analyze how women have influenced visual culture.
6. Compare works of art using stylistic terminology.
7. Compare works of art using concepts of gender differentiation.
8. Examine the concept of male-domination throughout the history of fine arts prior to the 20th century.
9. Analyze art as a result of its time and place in terms of its depiction of women.
10. Explain how gender influenced how the artists created their works.
11. Explain how gender influenced why the artists created their works.
12. Interpret art at a content level based on social constructs during time periods.

ART 217 - Advanced Metal Sculpture

1. Design a metal sculpture using a sketchbook, models and/or prototyping.
2. Explain drawings of a metal sculpture to get approval before fabrication begins.
3. Apply appropriate welding processes for fabrication of a metal sculpture.
4. Evaluate different metals for the metal sculpture creation process.
5. Operate fabrication equipment required for fabrication of metal sculpture.
6. Evaluate the boundaries of space, shape and form as part of the metal sculpture creation process.
7. Create a metal sculpture that evokes an emotion.
8. Create a metal sculpture that uses positive and negative space.
9. Predict problems inherent in surface preparation and installation of metal sculpture.
10. Produce a body of metal sculpture work that is cohesive in subject, concept and medium.
11. Write an artist’s statement that explains the subject, concept and medium of metal sculpture.
12. Evaluate metal sculpture from a technical as well as an aesthetic perspective in an objective and conceptual way.

ART 221 - Watercolor Painting 1: Theory and Elements

1. Explain how watercolor and water-based media works of art evoke a response from the viewer.
2. Determine how watercolor and water-based media paintings can function within society.
3. Compare watercolor and water-based media paintings to other art forms.
4. Explain how a watercolor and water-based media artist utilizes layers of color and value to create form and atmospheric perspective.
5. Investigate which watercolor and water-based media artists utilize experimental methods and materials.
6. Explain how an artist would construct a watercolor and water-based media painting from direct observation that records the effect of light on natural surfaces.
7. Research different theories of watercolor and water-based media painting within established Art History sources.
8. Construct a watercolor and water-based media painting employing the white of the paper as the lightest value and moving progressively to the darker values.
9. Explain why published watercolor and water-based media artists use washes, masking and glazing techniques.
10. Compare and contrast how water media behaves on different types of surfaces.

ART 222 - Watercolor Painting 2: Theory and Elements

1. Determine why watercolor and water-based media paintings evoke positive responses from the viewer.
2. Determine how watercolor and water-based media works of art evolved through art history.
3. Compare and contrast the characteristics and applications of opaque and transparent watercolor and water-based media.
4. Differentiate the properties of watercolor and water-based media paints (i.e. opaque, transparent, staining, non-staining) that are unique to this art form.
5. Summarize the characteristics and application of transparent water-based media.
6. Evaluate how a watercolor and water-based media artist utilized washes to create a desired effect.
7. Construct a painting that utilizes masking techniques to emulate a published work of art. S
8. ummarize why watercolor and water-based media artists utilize glazing techniques.
9. Critique published watercolor and water-based media artists’ use of the elements and techniques for watercolor and water-based media paintings.
10. Design a series of watercolor and water-based media paintings utilizing a defined theory.

ART 227 - Outdoor Metal Sculpture

1. Design an outdoor metal sculpture using a sketchbook, models and/or prototyping.
2. Evaluate the boundaries of space, shape and form as part of the outdoor metal sculpture creation process.
3. Explore different spaces and venues for different types of outdoor metal sculpture.
4. Explain the design of an outdoor metal sculpture project to get approval before fabrication begins.
5. Create a kinetic sculpture out of metal.
6. Source materials such as aluminum, stainless steel or mild steel.
7. Apply appropriate welding processes for fabrication of an outdoor metal sculpture.
8. Operate fabrication equipment for manufacture of outdoor metal sculpture.
9. Evaluate how sculpture will withstand the outdoor elements for all seasons.
10. Determine proper preparation of work to maintain surface condition.
11. Produce a bill of materials required for an approved outdoor metal sculpture project.
12. Appraise safety of elements of fabrication, transportation, installation and viewing of sculpture.
13. Install sculpture outdoors.
14. Evaluate outdoor metal sculpture from a technical as well as an aesthetic perspective in an objective and conceptual way.

ART 228 - The Human Figure in Art 2: Theory and Elements

1. Summarize what emotions works of art incorporating the use of the human form may evoke from a viewer.
2. Compare and contrast the relationship and importance of portraiture and figure drawing to other art forms.
3. Differentiate drawings that correctly reveal the proportion of the human head.
4. Explain why artists use “bony landmarks” of the human skeleton to create proportional drawings.
5. Create drawings that accurately incorporate the major superficial muscles of the human figure.
6. Compare and contrast published works of art that use linear drawings to record the basic conformation of a human head and figure.
7. Explain why the compatibility of different media and surfaces used in works of art is an important element.
8. Determine theories and elements of life drawing from established Art History sources.
9. Summarize how historical art works incorporating the use of the human figure have impacted modern works of art.

ART 231 - Painting 1: Theory and Elements

1. Explain how painting evokes a response from the viewer.
2. Determine how the art of painting can function within society.
3. Summarize the relationship and importance of painting to other art forms.
4. Determine the process used in preparing colors with a limited palette.
5. Investigate the various methods artists use to apply paint to a surface.
6. Explain how artists create form using a limited palette.
7. Explain why artists use value gradations.
8. Assess the interaction of hard edges and soft edges in painting.
9. Create original compositions using knowledge of color theory and paint application.

ART 233 - Ceramics 3: Theory and Elements

1. Analyze how clay artists can evoke a positive response from the viewer.
2. Compare and contrast ways in which ceramics, as an art form, can function within society.
3. Categorize theories based on elements, techniques and application for ceramics.
4. Summarize what equipment facilitates the construction of simple to complex ceramic forms.
5. Compare and contrast the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional ceramic forms.
6. Summarize the history of patterns used throughout world cultures as it relates to tile making.
7. Construct uniform tiles utilizing an art history source as a guide.
8. Predict the plasticity, shrinkage and absorption of various clay bodies.
9. Explain the process and standards clay artists utilize for surface decoration, including the creation of original stamps for imprinting on clay surfaces.

ART 234 - Ceramics 4: Theory and Elements

1. Predict what type of response a ceramic work of art would evoke from the viewer.
2. Predict future ways in which ceramics can function within society.
3. Summarize how ceramics impacted other art forms throughout art history.
4. Determine safe and effective chemical compositions for glaze formulas.
5. Critique a ceramic sculpture constructed by using the additive method.
6. Analyze the steps for effective use of kilns in creating ceramic pieces.
7. Recommend steps clay artists follow for effective use of kilns when creating ceramic pieces.
8. Interpret how mold making techniques played a role in the history of ceramics.
9. Validate published works of art based on theories, techniques and applications.

ART 235 - Painting 2: Theory and Elements

1. Compare and contrast paintings which encourage positive responses from a viewer.
2. Explain the ways in which painting can function within society.
3. Critique paintings comprised of a triadic color theme.
4. Analyze paintings with a complementary color theme.
5. Critique paintings comprised of an analogous color theme.
6. Summarize how color theory evokes an emotional response.
7. Summarize the process for creating a diptych or a triptych.
8. Create a series of stylistically or thematically consistent paintings.
9. Compare and contrast different methods of painting from established art history sources.

ART 246 - Sculpture 1: Theory and Elements

1. Explain how sculptures can evoke a response from the viewer.
2. Explain the ways in which sculpture functions within society.
3. Document the relationship and importance of sculpture to other art forms.
4. Summarize the processes involved in creating a sculpture.
5. Explain how sculpture is constructed using hand-building techniques for clay.
6. Determine what materials and tools are available to sculptors.
7. Document the process for creating plaster molds.
8. Differentiate between additive and reductive sculpture.
9. Construct assemblages from found materials referencing art history sources.

ART 247 - Sculpture 2: Theory and Elements

1. Critique published sculptures on the type of response they would evoke from a viewer.
2. Summarize how sculpture elements and techniques impacted art history.
3. Compare and contrast how sculpture aligns with other art forms.
4. Summarize the process sculptors follow when creating a wall relief using either bas relief or high relief.
5. Investigate how elements are used to create a series of related sculptures.
6. Summarize why sculptors use specific materials and tools when creating different types of sculptures.
7. Explain the concept of kinetic sculpture, including mobiles.
8. Construct a sculpture that emulates a published sculptor’s approach or philosophy.
9. Defend sculpture as a recognized art form, utilizing art history sources.

ART 248 - Portfolio Preparation

1. Assess the strengths and weaknesses within their own work prior to development of their portfolio.
2. Analyze the individual works included within their portfolio from a fine art context.
3. Create a portfolio to meet the specific requirements of art institutions to which they seek admission.

BIOL 100 - Introduction to Biology

1. Explain how the scientific method is used to acquire new knowledge.
2. Analyze the claims of others in a scientific context.
3. Relate the structure and function of living things to their chemical basis.
4. Identify the structural organization of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
5. Outline the acquisition and transformation of energy in photosynthesis.
6. Relate dietary energy to cellular respiration.
7. Differentiate between mitosis and meiosis.
8. Relate DNA to inheritance and gene expression.
9. Examine how scientists use biotechnology for practical purposes.
10. Explore principles of genetics and basic patterns of human inheritance.
11. Relate mutation and the process of natural selection to the evolutionary adaptation of organisms.
12. Explore the diversity of life on earth.
13. Examine human evolution and the origins of life.
14. Compare populations, communities and ecosystems.
15. Characterize the movement of energy through organisms and the environment.
16. Examine chemical cycling between organisms and the environment.
17. Identify human impacts on the environment.
18. Apply the steps of the scientific method to scientific laboratory investigations.
19. Determine the length, volume, temperature and mass of objects using standard metric units of measure.
20. Use basic lab equipment to analyze scientific data.
21. Explore basic principles of human physiology.

BIOL 101 - General Biology

1. Identify in the correct order the steps of the scientific method.
2. Arrange the levels of biological organization from least complex to most complex.
3. Differentiate between a scientifically valid question, hypothesis and prediction.
4. Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning with respect to their use in scientific investigation.
5. Explain how DNA accounts for both the diversity and unity of life on Earth.
6. Relate the process of natural selection to evolutionary adaptation in populations of organisms.
7. Relate the structure and function of living organisms to their chemical basis.
8. Identify the structural and functional differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
9. Predict the effect of solutions with different tonicities on plant and animal cells.
10. Relate the role of enzymes in biochemical pathways and cellular metabolism.
11. Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration contribute to the cycling of carbon atoms on Earth.
12. Differentiate between mitosis and meiosis.
13. Relate the process of mitosis to asexual reproduction, growth, tissue repair and cancer.
14. Describe how meiosis and sexual reproduction contribute to genetic variation in species.
15. Explain the chromosomal basis for inheritance.
16. Relate the role of DNA and RNA to gene expression.
17. Interpret how the genetic code on DNA directs protein synthesis.
18. Identify the practical applications of DNA technology.
19. Summarize how evolutionary adaptations have led to the anatomical and physiological differences between the major taxonomic groups of organisms.
20. Relate the role of plant tissues and organs to plant development, growth, nutrition and reproduction.
21. Relate the structure of animal tissues, organs and organ systems to their functions.
22. Compare how abiotic (physical and chemical) and biotic (living) factors influence life in the biosphere.
23. Relate the processes of energy flow and chemical cycling to ecosystem ecology.
24. Determine the length, volume, temperature and mass of objects using standard metric units of measurement.
25. Demonstrate the proper use of the light microscope.
26. Prepare biological specimens for microscopic examination.
27. Construct an appropriate graph to display scientific data.

BIOL 103 - Health Education

1. Summarize the multiple dimensions of health.
2. Explain the sources of stress and approaches to stress management.
3. Explain the components of physical fitness and the importance of exercise over the lifespan.
4. Determine the sources of nutrients and the necessity of a healthy diet.
5. Explore the relationship between healthy body weight and wellness.
6. Analyze the causes of substance abuse and addiction.
7. Explore the cardiovascular system and interventions for disease.
8. Characterize cancer and other chronic conditions.
9. Evaluate causes and transmission of infectious diseases.
10. Examine factors that influence sexuality, sexual behavior, and fertility.
11. Evaluate health information and health care providers.
12. Analyze the impact of environmental factors on health.

BIOL 104 - Conservation and Natural Resources

1. Explain the basic principles of ecology.
2. Discuss the importance of species, genetic, and ecosystem diversity as measures of biological diversity.
3. Explain the relationship between economic progress and environmental protection.
4. Prioritize environmental problems in terms of their severity and urgency.
5. Compare the impact of various threats to global biodiversity.
6. Explore the efforts of global organizations that focus on conservational biology.
7. Contrast the population dynamics of less developed and more developed countries.
8. Analyze the effect of individual ecological footprints on the earth’s ability to sustain life.
9. Investigate the “Circle of Poison” as it relates to the global use of chemical pesticides.
10. Evaluate opposing viewpoints regarding environmental controversies.
11. Summarize the history and current status of invasive species in the Great Lakes.
12. Examine the economic and ecological impact of non-aquatic invasive species on ecosystems.
13. Identify specific case studies of international, national, and local efforts to promote conservation practices.
14. Demonstrate an awareness of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability at the individual level.

BIOL 105 - Basic Human Anatomy and Physiology

1. Compare the different levels of organization of the human body.
2. Apply anatomical and directional terminology to the human body.
3. Explain cellular structure, function and metabolism.
4. Analyze the functions of major tissue types.
5. Explain the role of the major organ systems in maintaining homeostasis.
6. Differentiate between the bones of the human skeleton.
7. Characterize the structure and function of the human muscular system.
8. Outline how the nervous system regulates the processes of the human body.
9. Relate the actions and control of the hormones of the endocrine system.
10. Explain the role of the digestive system in the ingestion, absorption, and excretion of nutrients.
11. Characterize the structures and functions of the cardiovascular system.
12. Analyze the processes involved in respiration.
13. Examine the role of the lymphatic system in immunity.
14. Analyze the processes of filtration, reabsorption, and secretion in urine formation.
15. Contrast the structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems.
16. Compare the regulation of water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance in the human body.
17. Explain the association of the major organ systems with health and disease.

BIOL 107 - Introduction to Microbiology

 

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1. Summarize the major events associated with the history of microbiology.
2. Identify the key characteristics of the major groups of organisms studied in microbiology (bacteria, algae, protozoa, fungi, viruses and multicellular parasites).
3. Summarize the various ways microbes impact our daily lives.
4. Distinguish between prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
5. Compare the metabolic pathways in various microbes.
6. Describe how genetic information is inherited, exchanged and acquired by microbes.
7. Outline the steps, mechanisms and applications associated with genetic engineering.
8. Compare the nutrient and physical requirements for the growth of microbes.
9. Describe the various physical and chemical methods used to control microbial growth.
10. Summarize the principles for appropriate use of antimicrobial agents.
11. Characterize the various modes of disease transmission and factors that contribute to pathogenicity.
12. Identify healthcare associated infections and their prevention.
13. Describe principles and techniques (including vaccination) that can be used to protect patients and healthcare professionals from the spread of infectious disease.
14. Contrast innate (nonspecific) and adaptive (specific) immune defenses.
15. Analyze the factors and mechanisms involved in immune disorders and hypersensitivity.
16. Explain the importance of epidemiology to public health.
17. Outline the use of microorganisms in bioremediation, biotechnology and food production.
18. Classify microbial diseases of the major organ systems of the human body.

BIOL 114 - Basic Human Nutrition

1. Evaluate the recommended requirements for each of the six classes of nutrients.
2. Categorize nutrients into the appropriate class.
3. Explain the digestion, absorption and metabolism of nutrients in the human body.
4. Examine the role of nutrition in optimizing health and preventing disease throughout the human life cycle.
5. Identify disease processes that require special nutritional support.

BIOL 115 - Nutrition

1. Contrast the basic food groups.
2. Evaluate the recommended requirements for each of the six (6) classes of nutrients.
3. Summarize the main steps in the body’s metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
4. Explain how a surplus of the three energy yielding nutrients contributes to body fat stores.
5. Examine dietary strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight.
6. Compare the nutritional needs throughout the different stages of life.
7. Analyze dietary intake for calories and nutrients.
8. Interpret the information found on food labels.
9. Relate nutrition to food additives, vegetarianism, exercise, health foods, genetically modified foods, food fads, and fallacies.
10. Contrast how over nutrition and under nutrition can lead to disease.

BIOL 120 - Principles of Biology 1

1. Apply the steps of the scientific method to scientific laboratory investigations.
2. Distinguish between scientific hypothesis, theory and law.
3. Evaluate empirical data through the use of statistical analyses.
4. Produce accurate scientific laboratory reports.
5. Arrange the levels of biological organization from least to most complex.
6. Explain the chemical basis for the structure and function of living things.
7. Relate the properties of water to their importance in supporting life.
8. Demonstrate the proper use of the compound light microscope.
9. Identify the structural and functional differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
10. Demonstrate, through experimentation, the role of enzymes in biochemical pathways and cellular metabolism.
11. Explain how metabolism is subject to the universal laws of energy.
12. Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration contribute to the carbon cycle on Earth.
13. Differentiate between anaerobic and aerobic metabolism.
14. Integrate the steps of a signal transduction pathway with the control of cellular metabolism.
15. Relate the process of mitosis to asexual reproduction, growth, tissue repair and cancer.
16. Explain how meiosis and sexual reproduction contribute to genetic variation in species.
17. Demonstrate, through experimentation, how the principles of Mendelian inheritance can be used to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
18. Explain how the genetic code on DNA directs protein synthesis.
19. Differentiate between the process of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
20. Relate the virus life cycle to AIDS and other viral diseases.
21. Operate biotechnology apparatus to extract, isolate and analyze DNA samples.
22. Explain the practical applications of DNA technology.
23. Explain how the process of natural selection leads to evolutionary adaptation in populations of organisms.

BIOL 130 - Principles of Biology 2

1. Explain how natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow can alter allele frequencies in a population.
2. Explain how geographic and reproductive isolation leads to speciation and maintains species diversity.
3. Explain how structural and functional adaptations contribute to prokaryotic success.
4. Identify the factors that promote genetic diversity in prokaryotes.
5. Contrast the differences between Domain Bacteria and Domain Archaea.
6. Evaluate, through experimentation, the effectiveness of antibiotics and disinfectants on the growth of gram negative and gram positive bacteria.
7. Differentiate the major groups of protists through the examination of living and preserved specimens.
8. Identify the key evolutionary adaptations that led to the emergence of seed plants.
9. Identify the major clades of land plants.
10. Identify, through dissection and microscopic examination, the anatomical structures involved in plant growth, development and nutrient transport.
11. Characterize the unique features of the fungal life cycle.
12. Summarize the key roles fungi play in nutrient cycling, ecological interactions and human welfare.
13. Distinguish the key characteristics shared by members of the animal kingdom.
14. Construct a phylogenetic tree that accurately reflects the evolutionary history of major animal phyla.
15. Identify, through the examination of living and preserved specimens, characteristics and species belonging to the major invertebrate phyla.
16. Relate the events of the Cambrian explosion to the vast diversity of animal species.
17. Identify, through the examination of living and preserved specimens, characteristics and species belonging to the major vertebrate phyla.
18. Outline the major evolutionary events within the hominids that led to the emergence of modern humans.
19. Identify, through dissection, the structure and function of organ systems in invertebrates and vertebrates.
20. Explain how both genetic makeup and environment contribute to the development of animal behavior.
21. Explain how the interactions between organisms and the environment determine species diversity and composition.
22. Identify the dynamic biological processes that influence population density, dispersion and demographics.
23. Assess the ecological health and stability of aquatic ecosystems through the collection and analysis of physical and biological data.
24. Outline the principles of energy transfer and nutrient cycling within ecosystems.
25. Explain how human activities can disrupt chemical cycles on Earth and lead to global ecological problems.

BIOL 140 - Scanning Electron Microscopy

1. Prepare organic and inorganic specimens for scanning electron microscopy imaging and analysis.
2. Operate the scanning electron microscope and related controls to mount, image and analyze organic and inorganic samples.
3. Interpret electron micrographs.
4. Explain the principles and operation of electron optics.
5. Explain electron beam and specimen interactions.
6. Explain the principles of energy and wave-dispersive X-ray analysis.
7. Demonstrate routine and preventive maintenance associated with daily operation of the scanning electron microscope.
8. Determine optimum imaging parameters and settings based on the sample’s composition and properties.
9. Analyze a sample’s elemental composition using energy and wave-dispersive x-ray techniques.
10. Summarize image and analysis data to produce a sample findings report.
11. Organize data and images acquired during laboratory sessions in an electronic portfolio or data store.
12. Develop an analysis protocol to determine a sample’s physical and compositional properties.

BIOL 236 - Human Anatomy and Physiology

1. Apply anatomical and directional terminology to the human body.
2. Compare the chemical, cellular, tissue, organ and organ-system levels of organization of the human body.
3. Explain the negative-feedback control mechanisms for homeostasis.
4. Characterize the major tissue types, their location and functions.
5. Summarize the structure and function of the integumentary system.
6. Compare the anatomical structure, shape and markings of the bones of the axial and appendicular skeletons.
7. Classify the different types of joints and their movements.
8. Explain the structure and function of the muscular system.
9. Summarize the organization of the brain, spinal cord and nerve fibers in the nervous system.
10. Outline the steps and mechanisms associated with the generation of action potential and transmission of nerve impulses.
11. Evaluate the structure and function of the special senses.
12. Evaluate the structure and function of the special senses.
13. Explain the structure and function of the endocrine glands in the human body.
14. Compare the mechanisms of hormonal action associated with surface and intracellular receptors.
15. Characterize the structure and function of the cellular and non-cellular components of the blood.
16. Differentiate between the various types of blood cells.
17. Compare the ABO and Rh blood types and their compatibilities.
18. Explain the structure and function of the heart and the events of the cardiac cycle.
19. Relate the conduction system of the heart to an electrocardiogram.
20. Differentiate between the different types of blood vessels and their functions.
21. Examine the factors and mechanisms involved in the regulation of blood pressure and blood flow.
22. Outline the blood flow in the blood vessels of the pulmonary and systemic circulations.
23. Explain the mechanisms associated with the process of blood/lung and blood/tissue capillary exchange.
24. Summarize the structure and function of the lymphatic system.
25. Differentiate between innate and adaptive immunity.
26. Explain the structure and function of the respiratory system.
27. Determine respiratory volumes and capacities.
28. Analyze the exchange and transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide by the blood.
29. Explain the structure and function of the digestive system.
30. Explain the structure and function of the urinary system.
31. Compare the process of renal filtration, reabsorption, and secretion in the formation of urine.
32. Analyze the mechanisms of regulation of water, electrolyte and acid-base balance.
33. Summarize the structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems.
34. Explain the hormonal control of spermatogenesis and oogenesis.
35. Differentiate the stages of human development.

BIOL 237 - Principles of Human Anatomy and Physiology 1

1. Compare the different levels of organization of the human body.
2. Explain control mechanisms for homeostasis.
3. Apply anatomical and directional terminology.
4. Explain the structure and function of the cell and its components.
5. Characterize major tissue types and their functions.
6. Summarize the structure and function of the integumentary system.
7. Outline the organization of bone tissue.
8. Compare the bones and bone markings of the axial and appendicular skeletons.
9. Differentiate among the types of joints and their associated movements.
10. Contrast the organization of the three types of muscle tissue.
11. Explain how muscles produce movement.
12. Identify the origins, insertions and actions of skeletal muscles.
13. Summarize the organization of the nervous system.
14. Outline the process of nerve impulse conduction.
15. Explain the structure and function of the brain and spinal cord.
16. Explain the function of the autonomic nervous system.
17. Evaluate the structure and function of the special senses.
18. Explain the structure and function of the components of the endocrine system.

BIOL 238 - Principles of Human Anatomy and Physiology 2

1. Characterize the structure and function of the cellular and noncellular components of blood.
2. Differentiate between the various types of blood cells.
3. Compare ABO and Rh blood types and their compatibilities.
4. Explain the structure and function of the heart.
5. Relate the conduction system of the heart to an electrocardiogram.
6. Characterize the events of the cardiac cycle.
7. Differentiate between the various types of blood vessels and their functions.
8. Examine the factors that control blood pressure and blood flow.
9. Outline the major circulatory routes.
10. Explain the mechanisms of capillary exchange.
11. Summarize the structure and function of the lymphatic system.
12. Differentiate between innate and adaptive immunity.
13. Distinguish between cell-mediated immunity and antibody-mediated immunity.
14. Explain the structure and function of the respiratory system.
15. Determine respiratory volumes and capacities.
16. Analyze the exchange and transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
17. Explain the structure and function of the digestive system.
18. Examine the role of enzymes in chemical reactions.
19. Summarize metabolic reactions involved in nutrient processing.
20. Explain the structure and function of the urinary system.
21. Compare the processes of renal filtration, reabsorption, and secretion in the formation of urine.
22. Analyze the mechanisms of the regulation of water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance.
23. Summarize the structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems.
24. Explain the hormonal control of spermatogenesis and oogenesis.
25. Differentiate the stages of human development.

BIOL 243 - Microbiology

1. Summarize the major events associated with the history of microbiology.
2. Demonstrate the proper use of a light microscope.
3. Prepare slides for microbiological examination.
4. Apply aseptic techniques for the transfer and handling of microorganisms and instruments.
5. Demonstrate proper use of microbiological media and test systems including isolating colonies, maintaining pure cultures and using biochemical test media.
6. Operate standard microbiology laboratory equipment correctly.
7. Apply safety, protective and emergency procedures in a microbiological laboratory.
8. Identify the key characteristics of the major groups of organisms studied in microbiology (bacteria, algae, protists, fungi and viruses).
9. Explain normal flora.
10. Explain several ways in which microbes affect our lives.
11. Identify the significance of Koch’s Postulates.
12. Contrast cell walls of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
13. Differentiate bacteria and viruses.
14. Compare the various metabolic pathways in microbes.
15. Explain the purpose of Bergey’s Manual.
16. Explain the process of DNA replication.
17. Explain protein synthesis including transcription, RNA processing and translation.
18. Explain how genetic mutation and recombination provide material for natural selection.
19. Outline the steps, mechanisms, and applications associated with genetic engineering.
20. Compare the bacterial chromosome and plasmid DNA.
21. Explain the function of the DNA operons with specific examples.
22. Summarize important diseases caused by microorganisms (etiological agents) and their mode of transmission.
23. Classify viruses based on their nucleic acid type and structure.
24. Explain nosocomial infections and their importance.
25. Evaluate the various physical and chemical methods used to control microbial growth.
26. Characterize the various host-microbes interactions.
27. Contrast innate and adaptive defenses.
28. Compare the origin and differentiation of the B-cells and T-cells in the human body.
29. Examine the factors and mechanisms involved in immune disorders and hypersensitivity.
30. Outline the use of microorganisms in environmental and industrial applications.
31. Identify basic epidemiological techniques and their applications.

BMET 116 - Biomedical Instrumentation Terminology and Safety 1

1. Explain the components that make up an ECG Waveform.
2. Explain the components that make up a Blood Pressure Waveform.
3. Illustrate the components of an ECG Waveform in relationship to a Blood Pressure Waveform.
4. Explain how to use a Safety Analyzer.
5. Explain how to use a Defibrillator Analyzer.
6. Explain how to use a Non Invasive Blood Pressure Tester.
7. Explain how to use a Patient Simulator.
8. Explain safety precautions taken when working in the hospital environment.
9. Explain the structure of a Biomedical Engineering Department.

BMET 130 - Introduction to Biomedical Imaging

1. Explain radiology safety procedures related to biomedical imaging.
2. Evaluate radiology protection standards for patients, staff and service personnel.
3. Outline the biological effects of radiation on patients and staff.
4. Distinguish electrical and high-voltage safety procedures.
5. Summarize radiology physics as it relates to biomedical imaging applications.
6. Define common radiology terms used in the biomedical imaging field.
7. Differentiate clinical applications of biomedical applications for patients and clinicians.
8. Outline the health and safety standards for biomedical imaging set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Joint Commission for hospital accreditation, local governments and state governments.
9. Differentiate between radiology modalities used in imaging.
10. Explain image storage systems and transfer protocols.

BMET 204 - Biomedical Instrumentation Terminology and Safety 2

1. Differentiate between hospital departments.
2. Evaluate job market opportunities both local and national.
3. Develop a presentation explaining the use of medical equipment to the Medical Staff.
4. Summarize the components of a Biomedical Engineering Department.
5. Apply concepts necessary for passing the BMET Certification Exam.
6. Network with other BMET’s.
7. Explain how to use a Watt Meter.
8. Explain how to use an Electrosurgical Analyzer.
9. Explain the necessary steps to take an ECG.
10. Explain the necessary steps to take a Blood Pressure.
11. Explain how to use an Infusion Tester.
12. Explain the necessary steps to take a Pulse Oximetry reading.

BMET 256 - Biomedical Equipment Internship 1

1. Identify the basic operations of each department of the hospital.
2. Identify the physiological principles applicable to each department of the hospital.
3. Identify equipment operations for each department of the hospital.
4. Summarize the organization, policies and procedures of a Biomedical Engineering Technology Department.
5. Calibrate medical equipment accurately.
6. Work with hospital staff in a respectful and collaborative manner.
7. Troubleshoot equipment problems effectively.
8. Respond accordingly to instructions and concerns of superiors, co-workers and other hospital staff.
9. Demonstrate proper use of biomedical test equipment.
10. Adhere to applicable safety procedures.
11. Repair medical equipment properly.

BMET 257 - Biomedical Equipment Internship 2

1. Explain the role of Biomedical Engineering Technology in patient health and safety.
2. Operate biomedical test equipment accurately.
3. Maintain professional behavior in all situations with all hospital staff, patients and others.
4. Prevent equipment problems through responsible maintenance and anticipation of potential issues.
5. Complete all documentation in an accurate and timely manner.
6. Select appropriate techniques and approaches for repairing medical equipment.
7. Manage time appropriately.
8. Adapt knowledge and procedures to work in changing situations.
9. Exhibit a professional demeanor in stressful situations.
10. Communicate effectively in varied professional interactions.

BDT 101 - Brewing Science

1. Examine the biological, chemical and physical properties of the four major components of beer: malt, hops, water and yeast.
2. Assess ingredient specifications and processing methods and their effects on fermented and distilled beverages.
3. Correlate the chemical and biological reactions and their byproducts that occur throughout the brewing and distillation processes with their influence on the final product.
4. Break down the brewing and distillation processes, steps and their function for beer and distilled beverage production.
5. Evaluate beers, beer ingredients and other fermented or distilled beverages using a deductive sensory evaluation process involving appearance, aroma and taste.
6. Explain the physical and biochemical mechanisms by which beer and distilled spirits are matured and finished.
7. Explain the role of enzymes related to the malting, mashing, fermentation and maturation processes and their effect on the final product.
8. Outline the role of microorganisms related to fermentation, maturation, food safety and spoilage.
9. Explain the structure and function of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and other biological molecules as they relate to ingredients and raw materials processing, the brewing process, beverage finishing and maturation and their effect on the final product.
10. Solve mathematical problems involving systems of measurement, temperature scales, density, energy, process efficiency, solution concentration and unit conversions.
11. Explain the general properties of gases and liquids related to temperature and pressure.
12. Demonstrate common laboratory equipment and methods used to measure temperature; gas pressure; fluid density; sugar content; alcohol; CO2 volumes; pH; yeast cell density; and wort, beer and distillate properties.
13. Correlate the inputs and outputs of the brewing and distillation processes with their impact on environmental quality and environmental sustainability.

BDT 110 - Brewhouse Operations and Technology

1. Identify the components of a commercial brewhouse and their function.
2. Analyze the flow of product in the brewhouse and critical considerations at each state of the operation.
3. Explain factors to be considered when designing/sizing a brewhouse operation with regard to operating costs, local, state and federal regulations, safety and product quality.
4. Summarize the electrical, steam, heating and refrigeration systems found in a commercial brewhouse.
5. Correlate options for energy use, water use, effluent, CO2 venting and waste disposal and their effect on the plant’s environmental impact.
6. Compare the different types of pumps, their operating principles and applications.
7. Operate common types of control and monitoring systems, including valves, temperature and pressure monitors.
8. Explain yeast propagation, pitching rates and viability monitoring.
9. Outline the safety and sanitation requirements and policies of a brewhouse operation.
10. Characterize various types of packaging lines and their requirements.
11. Manage receiving, storage and handling of raw materials in a brewery operation.
12. Perform common methods and techniques of monitoring and verifying product quality.

BDT 122 - Beer Styles, Sensory Skills, Beer Flavor Evaluation

1. Describe how beer’s history has contributed to the development of modern beer styles.
2. Discuss the contemporary American Craft Beer industry and its contributions to modern beer styles.
3. Examine the basic physiology of our sensory system and its relation to how we perceive flavor.
4. Analyze the four raw beer ingredients, their specifications, and their processing methods for use in beer.
5. Examine the properties of the raw ingredients and their contributions to beer flavor development.
6. Evaluate beer using a sensory evaluation process involving aroma, appearance, and overall flavor.
7. Practice identifying beer flavor descriptors using the Beer Flavor Map.
8. Correlate the stages of the brewing process with their influence on the final product’s flavor.
9. Correlate the variety of beer styles with the combination of ingredients, sensory characteristics, and processing methods that distinguish each.
10. Judge beer using the Beer Judge Certification Program method & criteria.
11. Analyze flavor, provenance, and prevention of brewing process beer defects.
12. Analyze flavor, provenance, and prevention of beer service-related defects.

BDT 140 - Marketing and Operations Management

1. Analyze the craft brewing industry, its history, competitive dynamics, trends and opportunities.
2. Outline the 3-Tier System, the role of producers, distributors, and retailers and regulations governing each.
3. Summarize options for structuring a brewing business with regard to types of licenses, distribution regulations and the 3-Tier System.
4. Explain principles of marketing, including market segmentation, target marketing, brand positioning, pricing and promotion.
5. Develop a sales forecast and production plan for a craft beverage operation.
6. Outline the key interactions between the sales and distribution functions.
7. Explain the importance of economic and environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
8. Summarize the characteristics of consumer behavior that are of particular interest to the beverage industry.
9. Develop a comprehensive business plan for starting and operating a craft beverage business.
10. Interpret labeling requirements and regulations related to fermented beverage production, distribution and sale.

BDT 210 - Cellaring, Packaging and Quality Management

1. Correlate fermentation management processes and methods with flavor and fault development.
2. Explain the importance of cleanliness and sanitation at different stages in the brewing process.
3. Characterize the various parameters used for quality measurements of beer.
4. Analyze beer for faults and defects using a sensory analysis process.
5. Practice analytical techniques used to detect bacteria, wild yeast and other contaminants.
6. Practice yeast harvesting, propagation and storage techniques in a commercial brewery.
7. Summarize quality control and management considerations for various packaging options.
8. Demonstrate specialized equipment used to test and monitor the finished product, detect contamination and measure quality parameters.
9. Determine proper carbonation levels based on beer style.
10. Outline clean-in-place procedures, equipment and chemicals. D
11. emonstrate the safe operation of bottling and canning lines in a commercial brewery.
12. Explain the regulation of temperature throughout the brewing process and its effect on the finished product.

BDT 220 - Advanced Brewing and Distillation

1. Contrast the methods and practices used for brewed and distilled products.
2. Develop specialty and seasonal beer formulas.
3. Outline the product development process.
4. Characterize the relationship between raw materials, process methods and the influence on the final product.
5. Explain the different types of distillers, their operation and their application.
6. Explore advanced mashing and fermentation schedules for brewing and distilling.
7. Summarize the operation and management of a commercial distillery.
8. Compare the regulatory and tax requirements of breweries and distilleries.
9. Differentiate safety considerations unique to distilleries.
10. Specify the use of specialty malts, fruits, adjuncts and other ingredients found in specialty beers, their introduction into the brewing process and their influence on the final product.
11. Explain the history of beer and distilled spirits production and trends in technology.
12. Explain clarification and filtration processes in a commercial brewery.

BDT 231 - Craft Beer Management and Service

1. Interpret regulations and requirements relevant to serving alcoholic beverages to the public.
2. Solve problems related to managing a beverage operation.
3. Characterize the service requirements of beer, including glassware selection, serving temperature, and service technique.
4. Model techniques and behaviors to responsibly serve alcoholic beverages.
5. Outline customer service requirements in a beverage service/tasting room setting.
6. Summarize beer dispensing systems, their components, and maintenance.
7. Demonstrate proper procedures for beer service.
8. Demonstrate proper safety and sanitation procedures used in a beverage service environment.
9. Differentiate beer styles related to customer interaction to match a beverage to the customer’s taste.
10. Explain the components and function of beer draught systems, products dispensed, and proper tuning.
11. Explain the business responsibilities of a beverage operations facility, including staff selection and training.
12. Demonstrate the principles of pairing beer with food.

BUS 101 - Introduction to Business

1. Compare the organization of large and small business entities.
2. nalyze the impact of business ethics and social responsibility in achieving competitive advantage.
3. Differentiate between opportunities and potential challenges related to international business.
4. Evaluate the impact of legal and economic systems on the business environment.
5. Assess the role of e-commerce in the business and consumer markets.
6. Outline human resource functions in business and their impact on organizational success.
7. Explore the roles of marketing strategy in customer relationship management.
8. Analyze the accounting and financial management functions and their impact on internal and external stakeholders.
9. Characterize the role of computers and related technologies in support of organizational activity.

BUS 103 - Organizing a Small Business

1. Assess entrepreneurship as a viable career option by exploring its advantages and disadvantages.
2. Compare various forms of business ownership and the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative.
3. Write a business plan.
4. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing an existing business or a franchise as business ownership alternatives.
5. Identify the target market most applicable to a given small business.
6. Evaluate pricing strategies for new and existing products and services.
7. Select advertising strategies most applicable to a given small business.
8. Outline the factors involved in evaluating potential business locations.
9. Forecast startup costs and sales for a given, newly formed small business.

BUS 104 - Operating a Small Business

1. Determine risk management programs in a small business.
2. Develop human resource management practices for small business.
3. Evaluate family business succession plans.
4. Explore basic business law principles.
5. Develop a supply chain management strategy for a small business.
6. Select debt and equity finance options for a small business.
7. Analyze E-commerce opportunities for small business.
8. Apply business ethics and social responsibility to small business practices.
9. Assess small business practices in the global marketplace.

BUS 116 - Project Management

1. Explain why project management is crucial in today’s world.
   • Understand why project management is becoming a popular practice in business.
   • Understand why project management is such a challenge.
   • Understand the concept of project “success,” including various definitions of success.
   • Recognize the development of project management professionalism in the discipline.
   • Recognize how learning about project management enhances critical employability skills, such as communication, critical thinking, collaboration, knowledge application and analysis and business ethics.
2. Apply financial and nonfinancial criteria to assess the value of projects.
   • Explain the six criteria for a useful project selection screening model.
   • Evaluate a variety of screening and selection models such as the checklist model and the simplified scoring model to select projects.
   • Learn how to apply financial models, such as discounted cash flow analysis, net present value and internal rate of return.
   • Understand various types of project costs, such as direct/indirect, recurring/nonrecurring, fixed/variable and normal/expedited.
   • Recognize the nature of the control cycle and the four key steps in a general project control model.
3. Differentiate the stages of the project life cycle.
   • Explain the stages of the project life cycle: conceptualization, planning, execution and termination.
   • Distinguish the activities that typically occur at each stage of a project:
     • Conceptualization - initial goals, technical specifications, scope of work, identify resources, stakeholders
     • Planning - specifications, scheduling, work packages, process for completion
     • Execution - Develop a project execution plan.
     • Termination - four main forms, seven key steps, reasons for early termination, final report
4. Summarize the significant role that organizational culture plays in managing projects.
   • Identify critical project stakeholders and how to manage them.
   • Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of three basic forms of organizational structure and the implications for managing a project.
   • Identify the key roles project champions play in project success.
   • Recognize the important role ethics plays in project leadership.
   • Understand the steps in project team building.
5. Describe the characteristics of effective project teams and traits of effective project team leadership.
   • Explain the steps involved in project team building and stages in the development of groups.
   • Know the characteristics of effective project teams and why teams fail.
   • Recognize the important role ethics plays for successful project leadership.
   • Identify the principles that typify the new project leadership.
   • Recognize key behaviors in which project leaders engage to support their projects.
6. Explain the elements necessary in effective project planning, including scope, scheduling, accountabilities, cost, risks and others.
   • Identify the steps in developing a scope statement.
   • Understand and apply key project scheduling terminology, such as scope, work breakdown schedule, work package, project network diagram, path, event, etc.
   • Develop an activity network using Activity on Node (AON) technique.
   • Understand the various types of common project costs and key differences between them.
   • Define the four key stages in project risk management and the steps necessary to manage risk.
7. Apply strategies for managing various stakeholders.
   • Identify various internal and external project stakeholders.
   • Understand the key concepts of corporate culture, how cultures are formed and the implications of corporate culture on the project management process.
   • Describe the nature of conflict and evaluate response methods.
8. Evaluate how managing projects involves balancing the technical and sociocultural dimensions of the project.
   • Describe how to achieve cross-functional cooperation in teams.
   • Understand how project management is a “leader-intensive” profession.
   • Identify the key roles project champions play in project success.
   • Construct and comprehend Gantt charts.
   • Evaluate alternative means to accelerate projects, including their benefits and drawbacks.
9. Analyze different kinds of projects and how projects differ from routine operations.
   • Distinguish between the role of a manager and the characteristics of a leader.
   • Understand the concept of project “success,” including various definitions of success, as well as the alternative models of success.
   • Recognize the basic properties of projects, including their definition.

BUS 120 - Strategic Selling

1. Determine the appropriate sales strategy for an approved business.
2. Reflect on the benefits of developing selling skills.
3. Characterize the principles of ethical sales practices.
4. Demonstrate effective communication skills and customer relationship strategies.
5. Identify effective methods to find prospects and build a customer base.
6. Deliver a sales presentation.
7. Apply sales and negotiation principles.
8. Explore methods to ensure customer retention.
9. Adapt selling strategies to global markets.

BUS 122 - Advertising

1. Analyze the impact of advertising on consumer behavior.
2. Apply the requirements for effective advertising.
3. Outline a market research plan for an approved business.
4. Determine the effectiveness of various marketing communication methods.
5. Assess various forms of media available for advertising.
6. Determine the appropriate advertising strategy for an approved business.
7. Create effective advertising.
8. Develop advertising strategies for the global marketplace.
9. Explore business ethics and social responsibility in advertising practices.

BUS 123 - Consumer Behavior

1. Discover the benefits of studying consumer behavior.
2. Examine internal and external influences on consumer behavior.
3. Analyze the consumer purchase decision.
4. Explore factors that influence consumer behavior from the viewpoint of the individual, households, and society.
5. Analyze how cultural differences and multicultural influences impact consumer buying.
6. Investigate the various promotional strategies for customer retention.
7. Examine ethical issues in consumer behavior.
8. Explore psychographic influences on consumer purchases.
9. Outline factors that affect adoption or resistance to market innovations.

BUS 202 - Business Ethics

1. Explore the evolution and importance of business ethics.
2. Apply business ethics and social responsibility to business practices.
3. Determine the impact of business ethics on stakeholder relationships.
4. Examine the regulatory environment affecting ethical behavior.
5. Assess emerging business ethics issues.
6. Characterize the elements utilized in ethical decision making.
7. Evaluate the influence of corporate culture on business ethics.
8. Determine the components involved in the development and maintenance of ethics programs.
9. Analyze global issues related to business ethics.

BUS 204 - Personal Finance

1. Develop strategies for obtaining, managing and conserving assets.
2. Assess the key elements of successful career planning.
3. Evaluate tools for conducting monetary asset management activities.
4. Explore strategies for obtaining credit and managing debt.
5. Apply the appropriate steps for the acquisition of a major purchase.
6. Employ risk-management principles to address threats to income and assets.
7. Evaluate financial strength and progress.
8. Characterize the impact of income taxes on financial planning.
9. Differentiate between various investments and the related risk factors.
10. Monitor personal spending over a specific period of time.

BUS 207 - Business Law 1

1. Demonstrate the function of law.
2. Discuss the various sources of law.
3. Explore the relationship between business law, business ethics and corporate social responsibility.
4. Differentiate between the respective legal process of a crime and a tort.
5. Prescribe the appropriate components of a valid and enforceable contract.
6. Evaluate the contractual rights and duties of third parties.
7. Determine when a contract is deemed performed and remedies for failure to perform.
8. Investigate liability-related issues in business transactions.
9. Examine methods to perfect types of securities.
10. Differentiate between creditors and debtor’s rights in different types of bankruptcies.

BUS 208 - Business Law 2

1. Characterize the components of a negotiable instrument.
2. Evaluate the rights and liability of each party involved in a negotiable instrument transaction.
3. Assess the relationship between personal property, possession and the legal rights of all parties.
4. Characterize the elements of a property transaction and the legal rights and obligations of all parties.
5. Relate the legal structure, purpose and role of a will, trust and estate.
6. Explore the legal rights, obligations and duties of each party in an agency and employment relationship.
7. Summarize the legal structure and operations of various types of business entities.
8. Assess the authority, duties and rights of a partnership and its implication on the law.
9. Analyze the legal implications of corporate management and financing transactions.

BUS 215 - E-Commerce

1. Summarize the role of electronic commerce in relation to business activities.
2. Characterize the technological infrastructure supporting electronic commerce activities.
3. Examine the Internet marketing environments for selling goods and services on the Web.
4. Explore electronic-based strategies for business-to-business commerce.
5. Evaluate the benefits of electronic commerce tools including social networking, mobile commerce and online auctions.
6. Identify the influence of ethics and the regulatory environment on electronic commerce.
7. Assess the technology utilized in an electronic commerce system.
8. Characterize the business process elements of an effective electronic commerce system.
9. Develop plans for implementing electronic commerce.

BUS 217 - Business Management

1. Relate historical management perspectives to current practice.
2. Explore the structure and environments in which managers operate.
3. Outline the role of planning and strategy in an organization.
4. Apply various perspectives on decision making to business conditions.
5. Outline the elements involved in the evolution of an organization.
6. Explore management challenges related to human resources.
7. Relate the role of leadership to motivational techniques.
8. Illustrate the process of organizational communication.
9. Examine the components involved in the effective management of operations.

BUS 220 - Organizational Behavior

1. Develop strategies for energizing a workforce through leadership, motivation, and communication.
2. Characterize effective leadership styles.
3. Explore current leadership challenges in managing a global and diverse workforce.
4. Assess organizational structures, cultures, and political behaviors.
5. Demonstrate essential business communication skills.
6. Determine effective methods for dealing with ethical dilemmas from a leadership point of view.
7. Identify actions a leader can take to improve team performance.
8. Demonstrate human resource management practices, including interviewing and appraising employees.
9. Apply managerial-level problem-solving and resolution methods.

BUS 226 - Principles of Marketing

1. Explain how marketing provides value to internal and external stakeholders.
2. Develop a marketing plan.
3. Assess how factors in the external environment influence global marketing strategies and outcomes.
4. Compare the way marketers practice business ethics and social responsibility.
5. Analyze the roles of research, marketing information systems and decision support systems in marketing decision making.
6. Describe the stages in developing an integrated marketing communication plan.
7. Explain the need for market segmentation in today’s business environment.
8. Summarize the process of developing advertising campaigns.
9. Examine the role of personal selling within the context of the promotion mix.

BUS 230 - Human Resource Management

1. Explain the functions and responsibilities of strategic human resource management in support of the organizational mission and objectives.
2. Outline the major human resource functions, including strategic planning, recruitment, employment, training and development, compensation and benefits and employee relations departments.
3. Summarize the laws affecting equal employment, human resource selection and development, safety and health, compensation and benefits and employee relations.
4. Prepare valid job specifications and selection instruments including application blanks, employment tests and interview questions.
5. Prepare valid selection instruments to conduct effective interviews and performance reviews.
6. Determine how globalization affects human resource management practices and decisions.
7. Analyze dynamic personnel problems.
8. Outline the various methods of compensation management and the mechanics of each of the major job evaluation systems.
9. Explore issues of employee rights and the role of ethics in the management of human resources.

BUS 240 - International Business

1. Explore the impact of culture on business activities for a focus country.
2. Evaluate the major legal and ethical issues facing international companies.
3. Characterize the level of economic development for a focus country.
4. Examine the benefits of international trade and why trade occurs.
5. Identify the methods governments use to promote and restrict international trade.
6. Evaluate the regional integration efforts of a focus country.
7. Justify one of the varied marketing strategies available to international companies for a focus country.
8. Select a mode of entry for an international business into a focus country.
9. Develop an international marketing plan for a chosen product or service into a focus country.
10. Examine the impact of globalization.

BUS 292 - Business Internship

1. Analyze business skills to real world projects.
2. Utilize time management skills by creating and using schedules and work plans.
3. Adapt within the social, organizational and technical systems of the workplace.
4. Evaluate information so that output can conform to the employer’s product or service needs.
5. Solve assigned business-related employer problems through data analysis and information.
6. Practice tactful and professional oral and written communication.
7. Relate with staff in a respectful and collaborative manner.
8. Perform duties in a professional manner (e.g. dress, professional ethics and formal communication).
9. Perform other business duties as assigned by a supervisor.

BUS 303 - Entrepreneurship 1

1. Assess entrepreneurship as a viable career option.
2. Evaluate various forms of business ownership.
3. Develop a business plan.
4. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing an existing business or franchise as business ownership alternatives.
5. Determine the target market most applicable to an approved small business.
6. Evaluate pricing strategies for new and existing products and services.
7. Create an advertising strategy for an approved small business.
8. Evaluate potential business locations.
9. Forecast startup costs and sales for an approved small business.