Active Course List

2024-2025


Nursing

This clinical seminar focuses on collaboration of interprofessional teams and the roles of advanced practice nurses within this collaboration. Development of a framework for identifying, implementing, and evaluating a collaborative effort is emphasized.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
Programs:
Nursing Practice (DNP) | Nursing Practice (from MSN) (DNP)

This seminar and practicum course focuses on program implementation and evaluation data collection. The DNP student works with a preceptor at the clinical site applying interprofessional team leadership and informatics skills related to evidence-based clinical program implementation and management.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
Programs:
Nursing Practice (DNP) | Nursing Practice (from MSN) (DNP)

This course focuses on program evaluation and dissemination. The DNP student works with a preceptor to disseminate program outcomes and demonstrate the applicability of findings for the clinical setting and the profession.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
Programs:
Nursing Practice (DNP) | Nursing Practice (from MSN) (DNP)

This course provides the opportunity to complete outcomes of clinical assessment, implementation, and evaluation of the DNP project.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science

This course provides Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students with the opportunity to focus or expand their scholarship or knowledge to support their future practice as a DNP. The students will work with a graduate nursing faculty member in defining the goals and creating a plan to achieve this.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science

DNP Workshop

Areas of Interest:
Health Science

Enrollment for direct advanced nursing practice in a precepted clinical setting for post-masters students in the DNP program who need additional practice hours to fulfill the 1000 clinical practice hour requirement. May be repeated. Prerequisite: admission to post-masters DNP program. Pass/No credit. 1 semester credit = 50 clinical hours.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science

This course allows continuing enrollment in the DNP program to complete the capstone project. It continues registration after completion of all other program requirements and may not be used to meet any other program or graduation requirement.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science

Philosophy

Introduction to the nature of philosophy and specific, basic problems.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Philosophy Minor

This course considers historical and contemporary analyses of the mind in relation to the body and the connection of the mind-body problem to other issues concerning both religion and science.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Philosophy Minor

Traditional syllogistic logic and an introduction to the elements of modern symbolic logic.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Philosophy (BA)

This course explores what makes reasoning scientific as distinguished from non-scientific. Issues are inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, fallacies, hypothetico-deductive reasoning, falsifiability, and scientific knowledge.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Philosophy Minor

To what extent do the differences among races and between genders represent biological differences, and to what extent are they constructed by society? Is racism best conceptualized as an additional burden to sexism or as one different in kind?

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 7 - Human Diversity | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA) | American Indigenous Studies (BS) | Ethics Minor | Ethnic Studies (BS) Business/Corporate | Ethnic Studies (BS) International Community and Human Services | Ethnic Studies (BS) Local Community and Human Services | Ethnic Studies (BS) Public/Government | Ethnic Studies (BS) Racial/Ethnic Communities in the United States | Philosophy Minor

Survey of Asian philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Philosophy Minor

Discussion of the ways that a culture both creates human community and shapes self-identity. Exploration of similarities and differences between and interdependence among cultural traditions, and of vocabularies for assessing traditions.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Accounting (BS) | Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Ethics Minor | Ethnic Studies (BS) Business/Corporate | Ethnic Studies (BS) International Community and Human Services | Ethnic Studies (BS) Local Community and Human Services | Ethnic Studies (BS) Public/Government | Ethnic Studies (BS) Racial/Ethnic Communities in the United States | Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance | Finance (BS) General Finance | Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance | International Business (BS) | Management (BS) | Management (BS) Business Management | Management (BS) Human Resource Management | Marketing (BS) | Philosophy Minor

Ethical perspectives relevant to issues such as euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplant, patients' rights, abortion, etc.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Accounting (BS) | Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance | Finance (BS) General Finance | Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance | Health Informatics (BS) | International Business (BS) | Management (BS) | Management (BS) Business Management | Management (BS) Human Resource Management | Marketing (BS) | Philosophy Minor

Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.V

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies

Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.V

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Accounting (BS) | Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Business Law (CERT) | Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance | Finance (BS) General Finance | Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance | International Business (BS) | Management (BS) | Management (BS) Business Management | Management (BS) Human Resource Management | Management Information Systems (BS) | Marketing (BS) | Philosophy Minor

Questions about human responsibilities to other animals and the environment gain urgency as environmental crises become more prevalent, and animal species continue to be eliminated. Learn about, critique, and apply the principles underlying evaluations of human environmental conduct.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Goal Area 10 - People and the Environment | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Accounting (BS) | Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance | Finance (BS) General Finance | Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance | International Business (BS) | Management (BS) | Management (BS) Business Management | Management (BS) Human Resource Management | Marketing (BS) | Philosophy Minor

Consideration of the basic philosophical approaches to the idea of justice and how this idea relates to other fundamental ideas in political philosophy, ethics, and law.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Accounting (BS) | Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Corrections (BS) | Criminal Justice (BS) | Ethics Minor | Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance | Finance (BS) General Finance | Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance | International Business (BS) | Management (BS) | Management (BS) Business Management | Management (BS) Human Resource Management | Marketing (BS) | Philosophy Minor | Policing Studies (BS)

Study of the elements of first order symbolic logic, i.e., the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus, and its applications to ordinary language and mathematics.

Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Human rights and responsibilities in relation to the organization of society and government.

Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | International Relations (BA) | International Relations Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Topics in normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical theory.

Prerequisites:
Select one course: PHIL 120W, PHIL 222W, PHIL 224W, or PHIL 226W
Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

This course will introduce students to important texts in moral and social philosophy that provide the foundation for modern economics. In addition, we will discuss philosophical accounts of rationality, well being, and freedom and their relevance to economic analysis.

Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Programs:
Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor