Undergraduate Course Catalog Descriptions

ACC
ACC 205 Principles of Accounting I: Financial (3)
This course will provide an introduction to the world of accounting by illustrating the use of financial statements as the primary means of communicating financial information to both managers and investors.

ACC 206 Principles of Accounting II: Managerial (3)
This course will examine the world of managerial accounting by illustrating the use of budgets, cost and variance analysis used by a company's managers in decision-making. Special emphasis will be paid to studying the manufacturing sector of our economy.

ACC 307 Intermediate Accounting I (3)
This course is an in-depth study of financial accounting topics with a focus on theory and problems. Prereq: ACC 205, 206

ACC 308 Intermediate Accounting II (3)
This course covers recent developments in accounting, valuation and reporting practices. Emphasis is placed on assets, liabilities, shareholder's equity income determination and preparation and analysis of financial statements. Prereq: ACC 205, 206, 307

ACC 310 Cost Accounting (3)
Examines methods used in the planning and control functions. Particular focus is placed on job cost and process cost systems, cost behavior, budgeting and the analysis of cost, volume and profit. Prerequisite: ACC 206

ACC 311 Intermediate Accounting III (3)
This course will emphasize proper accounting treatment and reporting of investments, income taxes, pension and post-retirement benefits and leases. Also, the statement of cash flows, accounting changes and error analysis, and full disclosure of financial reporting covered. Prereq: ACC 205, 206, 307, 308

ACC 404 Auditing (3)
Course considers appropriate audit standards. Emphasis placed on concepts of ethics and responsibility as well as internal controls and procedural tests. Prerequisite: ACC 311

ACC 410 Advanced Accounting (3)
Examines accounting issues related to business combinations, consolidations, foreign branches and subsidiaries as well as non-profit organizations. Prerequisite: ACC 311

ACC 413 Individual Taxes (3)
Study of fundamental tax law applicable to individuals. Prerequisite: ACC 311

ACC 414 Corporate Taxation (3)
Study and application of federal tax law to corporations and other entities. Prerequisite: ACC 413

ADM
ADM 322 International Management (3)
This course examines principles of management as they apply to a global economy. Topics include: the conduct of global business, development of worldwide business sites, formation of alliances, customs and cautions in interpersonal relationships.

ADM 440 Research Principles in Organizational Management (3)
This course focuses on the principles of data collection and analysis for maximization of effort. Effective data collection in real-time and retrospective customer satisfaction survey mechanisms, interpretation of data and response recommendations studied. Prerequisite: BUS 210, MKT 209

ADM 450 Senior Seminar (3)
This course is an analysis and synthesis of policy implications of administration and leadership and culminates with each participant presenting a media-based seminar identifying a major issue. This comprehensive exercise will include ethics and correct practice integrated with both immediate and future implications of the selected issue.

BIO
BIO 105 Fascinating Science for the Non-Scientist (3)
This course will explore some the most import and interesting scientific discoveries of all time. Using readings from popular scientific literature, these concepts will be explored and discussed in a qualitative fashion, avoiding rigorous quantitative methods that would require advanced mathematics.

BIO 201 Introduction to Environmental Science (3)
A survey of all areas of environmental science, with an emphasis on developing the skills necessary to locate and interpret environmental information relevant to business decision making or everyday life. All media (air, water, and soil/sediments) will be explored as well as human toxicology, techniques for cleaning up environmental contamination, and procedures for assessing and preventing eco/bio terrorism.

BUS
BUS 200 Small Group and Team Communication (3)
This course will provide an understanding of the basic characteristics and functioning of small groups and teams in order to understand and promote success. Topics such as group development, diversity in teams, leadership within the context of small groups and technology for today's teams will be explored.

BUS 201 Business Information Application (3)
This course looks at aspects of competition and business impact; IS planning, communication and information. Quantitative applications incorporated. Special emphasis is placed on information and database end-user needs.

BUS 202 Diversity in the Workplace (3)
This course will explore issues in diversity in both the global business world and in one's personal life. Close attention will be paid to examples that include race, gender, culture, and sexual orientation.

BUS 204 Ethical Issues in Business (3)
This course examines issues of corporate and nonprofit ethics and conduct of business. Guidelines for ethical practice, significant ethical problems, development of a personal and ethical model are studied.

BUS 209 Business Law (3)
An examination of legal issues impacting corporations.

BUS 210 Statistics (3)
This course examines general statistical theory applied to business and organizational management. Descriptive statistics, probability, sampling processes, hypothesis testing and survey development are included.

CMI
CMI 102 Introduction to Computers (3)
Overview of basic computing skills related to the conduct of business operations. Special attention to the Microsoft Office suite, Internet tools, and other techniques for maximizing the desktop or networked computer system. No previous computer knowledge required, although home or work access to a computer is strongly recommended. Content and case studies comprise the delivery of the session sequence

EC
EC 320 Marketing and the Internet (3)
This course will examine marketing theory analysis specifically targeted to the Internet and its constituencies. Site development, product front-end displays, consumer feedback mechanisms and evaluation of effectiveness techniques will be covered.

EC 322 Strategy of E-Commerce (3)
This course offers rationale for Internet uses for the promotion of business, nonprofit campaigns and other on-line applications. Techniques of attracting site visitors, tracking behavior, and determining use patterns are explored. A case-based approach recognizes both failures and successes in the E-commerce arena.

EC 323 Web Site Design Principles (3)
This course is a practical introduction to web site design from a business manager's perspective. Site planning and design, usability, graphic formats, and software tools are explored. Project completion of a sample business site culminates the course experience.

ECO
ECO 202 Economic Principles I: Microeconomics (3)
This course will study use and allocation of limited productive resources, value, price and income distribution. Implications of economic efficiencies and welfare will be covered. Prerequisite: Understanding of high school mathematics.

ECO 203 Economic Principles II: Macroeconomics (3)
This course will examine the theory of macroeconomics and explain the money, goods, services, and labor markets. National income and evaluation mechanisms will be discussed. Study the effects of governmental fiscal and monetary policies.

ENG
ENG 101 English Composition I (3)
This course is designed to improve one's written communication skills. The process of expressing oneself in writing will be emphasized. Learn to edit, revise, and write for different audiences. Create portfolio of one's work.

ENG 102 English Composition II (3)
This course examines the practical uses of writing-composing formal essays, persuasive writing, and research papers. The importance of language and word choice will be discussed.

ENG 201 World Literature (3)
Contemporary non-western and post-colonial literature, including short stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Critical reading and writing skills will be developed through in-class discussions, presentations, and several written response and analytical papers.

ENG 204 20th Century American Essay (3)
This course will examine the American essay as a unique literary form. Authors' abilities to experiment with structure and language will be covered. The essay will be studied as a reflection of social, political and historical faces of 20th century American culture.

ENG 211 Speech Communication I (3)
This course will introduce students to speech giving and rhetorical acts such as leading problem-solving groups. Students get hands-on experience in preparing and presenting speeches about personal experience, demonstration, information, and persuasion.

ENG 221 Interpersonal Communications (3)
Designed to introduce the student to a myriad of communication situations, primarily in the business environment. Areas include organizational communication, small group communication, the interview process, negotiation, and leadership skills. Students will participate via class presentations, group discussions and in-class exercises.

ENG 240 American Business in American Literature (3)
The course will explore how various American writers viewed American Business over the centuries. The course will be especially interested in how and why those views changed and what might have been occurring in America that would have impacted on the writers' opinion of American Business.

ENG 242 Short Story (3)
This course introduces students to the short story. Students will explore a variety of perspectives, themes and styles while developing critical reading and response skills. Several written response and/or analytical papers will be required.

FIN
FIN 301 International Finance (3)
This course explores the tools and mechanisms used to make sound financing decisions. The role of insurance, hedging, payment solutions for exporting and importing, and E-commerce tools in international trade are covered. Principal financial institutions that assist trade both in the US and among her trading partners will be discussed.

FIN 302 Money, Banking and Financial Markets (3)
Study of US monetary and financial systems and its impact on the domestic economy. Prerequisite: ECO 205, ECO 206

FIN 303 Investments and Security Analysis (3)
Covers investing in debt, equity and other negotiable instruments. Topics include trading on securities markets, mutual funds, margin accounts, etc. Prerequisite: FIN 310, 302

FIN 304 Debt Instruments (3)
Study the valuation of fixed income securities and investment strategies utilizing them. Topics include bond valuation, immunization, interest rate structures and default. Prerequisite: FIN 310

FIN 305 Mergers and Acquisitions (3)
Covers major concepts and applications in corporate restructuring. Students will study and analyze results of this activity in the last decade. Prerequisite: ACC 206, FIN 310, 302

FIN 306 Venture Capital Financing (3)
Provides institutional background required to participate in the venture capital and new issues markets. Emphasis placed on valuation, capital structure, liquidity and control. Prerequisite: FIN 310, 302

FIN 307 Equity Instruments and Markets (3)
Study of the valuation of equity securities and investment strategies utilizing them. Considerations include valuation, types of equity securities and associated risk. Prerequisite: FIN 310, 302

FIN 310 Corporate Finance (3)
Theory and practice of corporate finance. Economic and financial theory is combined with practice and cases to provide understanding of a critical area of corporate management. Prerequisite: ACC 206

FIN 404 Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
Course identifies and tracks the wealth creation cycle beginning with start-ups through various types of equity financing. Reviews the final result of harvesting created wealth through a final sale, merger or initial public offering. Prerequisite: FIN 310

FIN 405 Personal Finance (3)
Studies the problems and solutions to individual and family financial issues. Specifics include debt management, credit, savings, investments, risk, budgeting, etc.

FIN 406 Working Capital Management (3)
Familiarizes students with techniques and practices of short-term corporate finance. Major focus is on the management of the firms' liquid assets and the necessity of good forecasting techniques.

FIN 425 Principles of Risk & Insurance (3)
Studies methods used in analyzing and managing risk with alternative tools and techniques such as loss control, risk retention and transfer. Concepts of risk are considered from both a business and personal perspective.

HIS
HIS 204 United States and Vietnam (3)
This course examines the relationship between the US and Vietnam from approximately 1950 to approximately 1975. A historical focus is taken, emphasizing national, group, and individual values on both sides and the conflict and interplay between those values.

HIS 220 Race and Ethnicity in the United States (3)
This course will, from a historical prospective, examine the factors of race and ethnicity in the United States to determine: relevance, effect on one's place in society, and evolution.

HIS 232 The American Presidency (3)
This course will examine the history of the American Presidency from George Washington to George W. Bush. In particular, students will analyze why some presidents have been more successful than others throughout the course of American history. By implementing perspectives from both the individual and the historical era, this course will expose students to the broader trends in American history.

HIS 233 Pennsylvania Business History (3)
This course will examine the process of industrialization in Pennsylvania. Emphasis will be placed on the nineteenth-century, post bellum period and upon the key industries such as textiles, iron, coal, oil, steel, and the railroads. In addition, students will explore how the businesses played an important role in the national economy. In order to broaden the students’ understanding of all people involved in the process, other methods of historical analysis will include race, gender, ethnicity, technology, labor, religion, and the environment.

HIS 234 Consequences of European Industrialization (3)
This course will examine the practice of European colonialism and imperialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particular emphasis will be place on the Second Industrial Revolution that transformed the national economies of Europe and propelled entrepreneurs and governments to explore and to exploit the raw materials and international markets in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

HRA
HRA 320 Elements of Supervision (3)
This course analyzes the employer/employee relationship. The roles of evaluator, mentor, educator and manager will be defines. Processes of employee evaluation and effective feedback will be covered.

HRA 321 Managing and Resolving Conflict (3)
This course offers a process-based approach to issues involving conflict in the workplace. Individual and group conflicts, hostile audiences, methods of conveying "bad news," and recognition of problems relating to the disgruntled employee will be covered.

HRA 322 Principles of Negotiation and Collective Bargaining (3)
This course takes a case-based approach to forming an agreement in accord with sound negotiation theory and practice. Understanding diverse viewpoints and elements of compromise are stressed. Issues relating to a unionized environment are highlighted.

HRA 323 Employment Law and Compensation (3)
This course covers concepts of personnel recruitment, retention and compensation policies. Development of sound employment policies consistent with all regulation and best-practice principles will be studied. Wage and hour issues and development of realistic and equitable compensation schedules will be examined.

HUM
HUM 200: Contemporary Issues (3)
Provides an understanding of the importance of the relationship between the liberal arts and the business world by exploring topics from an interdisciplinary perspective and developing critical thinking, independent research, and college level writing skills

HUM 201 Western Arts and Culture I (3)
This course is a comprehensive survey of the cultures of the Western world from prehistory to the Early Renaissance. Art, architecture, music, religion, philosophy, and literature, are studied to gain an understanding and appreciation of past civilizations.

HUM 202 Western Arts and Culture II (3)
This course is a comprehensive survey of the cultures of the Western world from the High Renaissance to modern times. Literature, art, architecture, music, philosophy, religion, and history are studied to gain an understanding and appreciation of the past.

HUM 203 Nonwestern Art (3)
Comprehensive survey of the arts and cultures of the nonwestern world. Art, architecture, and history are studied to gain an understanding and appreciation of the cultures of people from foreign lands.

HUM 220 Film Study: Labor Resistance (3)
This course looks at American films that highlight Hollywood engagements with the themes of labor and resistance. Students will investigate the interdisciplinary nature of film through research, critical viewings, class discussions and written responses.

INT
INT 200 Introduction to Essentials of International Trade (3)
This course looks at the role of US business in the global economy and focuses on topics in world trade and investments, especially economic relationships among nations. Cultural diversities and their impact in international commerce will be discussed.

INT 301 Developing International Business Strategy (3)
This course offers methods for creating a strategy consistent with a firm's mission. Topics include: ways to identify trade trends, analyze industry/country attractiveness, and gauge the competitors' strengths. Entry strategies and localization issues will be covered.

ISM
ISM 200 Communication Methods and Technology (3)
This course examines concepts of information transmittal in organizations, Internet and intranet user needs, personal productivity for managers and staff, principles of inter-organizational communication using technology and information management.

ISM 201 Decision Support Systems (3)
This course offers the opportunity to study applications of decision support systems and expert systems in a business environment. Relationships between decision support systems, expert systems, and data base management systems are explored.

ISM 202 Management Role of the Information Systems Specialist (3)
This course examines the organizational structure integrating information requirements, analysis and implementation of technological resources. End-user interactions, personal needs assessments and user systems planning covered.

ISM 203 Network Management (3)
This course examines principles and practices in developing organizational network structures. Common architectural formats, implementation, end-user applications and training are included.

ISM 300 Practical Applications of Information Systems (3)
Methods of achieving business value technology. Value of IS and persons involved. Sample value standards, end-user benefits, approaches to change management and financial metrics.

ISM 301 E-mail Systems Administration (3)
Policies and procedures of an E-mail corporate environment, managing such policies, security and legal issues. Record retention and peer-to-peer networking. Overview of managing corporate electronic communication.

ISM 302 Designing with the User (3)
Development of services as the responsibility of the IS manager or manager in charge of the IS function. Business solutions, work group computing, knowledge management, support and help desk management, project design and evaluation.

ISM 323 Help Desk Implementation and Management (3)
This course looks at concepts in implementing and managing help desk applications; user need evaluations, financial considerations, personnel selection and organization-wide implementation and training.

ISM 325 System Security and Information Protection (3)
This course focuses on the development of effective firewalls, user access keys and privacy assurance, fraud prevention and detection, hot-site management and monitoring.

ISM 329 Wireless Applications in Information Management (3)
This course examines applications, software and hardware requirements relating to wireless applications; Internet development, wireless classroom applications, PDA utilization and related end-user needs; cost analysis and structural architecture.

MGT
MGT 207 Principles of Management (3)
This course offers an overview of the administrative task and foundations of leadership and management. Planning, organizing, staffing, developing, reviewing, evaluating and budgeting will be discussed. Significant case reviews included.

MGT 242 Creativity in Business (3)
This course will explore historical and contemporary approaches to creativity as related to innovation. Students will identify and apply a personal creative knowledge to life and business contexts. Through creative risk opportunities, a variety of exercises and business examples, students will broaden perspectives and personal creative strategies.

MGT 300 Behavioral Theory of Organizations (3)
The course will analyze organizational function according to popular theories. Special emphasis will be placed on single and double-loop learning, the concept of the learning organization, and the role of individuals in coping with and promoting change.

MGT 303 Gender and Cultural Issues in the Workplace (3)
This course examines issues arising from gender or cultural differences brought about by stereotypes or misconceptions. Emphasis is placed upon value of cultural diversity and global development in a business enterprise. The class has a case based approach.

MGT 304 Issues in Human Resources (3)
This course examines human resources (HR) functions and responsibilities. The relationship and role of the HR department within organizations will be covered, taking into account relevant regulations, policies and procedures. Special emphasis will be paid to the development of effective employment handbooks, etc.

MGT 305 Management Information Systems (3)
This course will deconstruct the elements of a comprehensive management information system for utilization within an organization-including systems design, implementation, and evaluation. An MIS system project assignment will reinforce course principles.

MGT 306 Research Principles and Marketing Methods (3)
This course examines principles of data collection and analysis for maximization of effort. Effective collection in a real-time environment, retrospective customer satisfaction survey mechanisms, and interpretation of data and response recommendations will be covered.

MGT 317 Security Management for Organizations (3)
This course is intended to be a comprehensive look at the security function within a business or corporation. It will look at legal aspects of security as well as the physical, personnel and information security within an enterprise. Since the attacks of 9/11, the world has become a much different place and security has assumed an even more integral role within a corporation. Due to this newfound importance, it is necessary for all business students to have an understanding of the basic tenets of security management. At the completion of the course the student will have an overall view on how security should be managed and the importance of security in today's enterprise.

MKT
MKT 209 Marketing: Theory and Practice (3)
This course is a practical exploration of the dynamic field of marketing. Learn about developing marketing strategy, customer satisfaction and loyalty, E-commerce, and segmentation. Students create a marketing plan, tying theory together with "hands-on" application of actual marketing practice.

MKT 302 Consumer Behavior (3)
This course examines the analysis of consumer buying patterns, sales strategies, target marketing and the analysis of research results for rapid response to data. Emphasis placed on implications of consumer use of the Internet and E-commerce as a buying medium.

MKT 320 Managing Sales (3)
This course examines management of the sales force. Topics include selling policies and organizational structure, training, compensation, territory assignment and trend analyses. Participant-driven case development provides culminating course focus.

MKT 321 International Marketing (3)
This course examines foreign trade, world marketing environment and world market techniques and patterns. International marketing management; trade regulation, customs compliance and international commerce regulating marketing practices are included.

MKT 322 Principles and Techniques of Advertising (3)
This course will focus on advertising and sales promotion management, with an emphasis on media strategy, advertising campaigns, legal implications, budgeting and consumer response and behavior.

MKT 323 Public Relations (3)
This course will examine the role of public relations as a managerial function within organizations and as an influence in this era of global communication. Central to the course is the study of research methods, theory, ethics, and laws. Case studies encourage students to apply PR problem-solving strategies, tactics, and techniques.

MTH
MTH 101 College Mathematics (3)
Review and application of mathematical principles used in everyday conduct of business and for computational necessity. Application of basic functions, ratios and proportions, estimation, rate, time and distance, measures of central tendency. Applications to common scenarios such as forecasting and modeling. Pre and post testing allows for participant insight.

NUR
NUR 303 End of Life Care Issues (3)
Issues for terminally ill client, family, health care providers examined in relationship to psychological, cultural, spiritual, ethical and legal influences.

NUR 352 Family Assessment (3)
This course refines family assessment and data collection skills. A multidimensional approach to understanding family health and adaptation to acute or chronic illness across the lifespan is presented. Field experiences provide an opportunity to utilize assessment strategies and develop a comprehensive, family-oriented database. Current family health issues examined. Prereq: PSY 303 or equivalent human development course

NUR 354 Research in Nursing and Health (3)
This course encourages students to use critical thinking skills to understand the research process, so that they are able to read, interpret, and begin to evaluate research findings for application to nursing practice. Prereq: BUS 210

NUR 356 Culture and Health Care (3)
This course focuses on culture as a determinant of one's health beliefs and practices. Theories of health and culture are described, as well as socioeconomic factors impacting care delivery. Differences in health care values and beliefs existing between health care professionals and some members of ethno/cultural groups are discussed. Methods of providing culturally sensitive care are identified.

NUR 401 Community Health Nursing I (3)
Students examine the components of aggregate and community-focused care. Theories from the public health and nursing sciences are examined as the basis for the development of the role of the community/public health nurse. Assisting aggregates toward healthy adaptation in the promotion of health and prevention of disease is a course focus. Policy, political process and change explored. A clinical setting for concurrent clinical experience is selected to develop the leadership role in community-focused care. Two and one half hours classroom and five and one half hours clinical per week. Prereq: NUR 352, NUR 356

NUR 402 Community Health Nursing II (3)
The student has the opportunity to synthesize and apply nursing and public health knowledge through continued development of a community health planning and promotion project initiated during NUR 401. Concurrent clinical experiences are provided. Two and one half hours classroom and five and one half hours clinical per week. Prereq: NUR 401

NUR 450 Contemporary Issues in Health Care Delivery (3)
This course offers an overview of the health care system, including studying the delivery system in a historical context, and comparing the US model with those of other countries. Legal, ethical, financial, and quality of care issues peculiar to the system, as well as implications for the profession, are examined. Political, economic, and social influences on health policy and reform efforts are explored.

NUR 452 Leadership in Nursing Practice (3)
This course presents the concepts of leadership, management, professionalism, and the interaction among these elements. Seminar format is used to expand student knowledge of nurse decision-making and change theory. Enhanced personal and organizational awareness, motivation, and communication within working relationships is explored to guide the student toward ethical, effective, and meaningful leadership.

PHL
PHL 101 Philosophy (3)
This course will challenge and support participants to develop the basic skills employed in philosophical thinking. Major philosophical questions to be addressed include: human nature, the nature of reality and being, the existence of God, sources of knowledge, and the foundations of ethics and morality.

PHL 102 Logic (3)
This course is designed to develop the individual's aptitude for understanding the relationships between language and logic, and to strengthen skills in logic, critical thinking, and reasoned decision-making through familiarization with the basic methods of argument composition and analysis.

PHL 304 Contemporary Moral Issues (3)
This course challenges students to develop the conceptual and reasoning skills necessary for addressing the moral issues confronted in everyday life and enable them to make better decisions. A final paper will involve presenting and defending a moral issue.

POL
POL 210 International Relations

PRM
PRM 320 Elements of Planning (3)
This course examines the planning process and the significant philosophies inherent to planning as a process and an administrative component. Participants culminate course experience with a comprehensive plan leading up to the implementation phase.

PRM 321 Essentials of Project Design (3)
This course studies principles of project conceptualization and the project-team process. It examines the major steps in accomplishing tasks through the project method. Special attention directed toward the nature of a project and its organizational parameters.

PRM 322 Implementation of Project Plans (3)
This course offers a series of exercises designed to demonstrate issues and problems in the Implementation phase of planning. Obstacles to progress, physical and human limitations, special interventions for accomplishment are included.

PRM 323 Progress Measurement and Reporting (3)
This course examines the methods and materials of performance management and reporting in addition to defining and evaluating projects. Topics include charting and monitoring techniques and software applications for project monitoring. Evaluation techniques from conceptualization through hand-off to end-user will be covered.

PRM 324 Project Communication Techniques (3)
This course offers an analysis of factors that both enhance and detract from effective communication among diverse cultures and fragmented segments within society. Techniques will be evaluated which respect, minimize misunderstanding, and provide references for project management.

PRM 325 Quality Assurance & Improvement in the Planning Process (3)
This course studies the methods and materials of measuring and monitoring quality in project development and implementation. With a continuum-based approach, it includes accepted measures of quality evaluation.

PRM 440 Research Principles and Methods (3)
This course provides students with the understanding of research methods and the skills of inquiry along with research principles that can guide decision-making throughout the research process.

PSY
PSY 201 General Psychology (3)
This course provides an overview of a science that seeks to answer questions about how we think, feel, and act by studying behavior and mental processes. Environmental and genetic influences on behavior, child development, states of consciousness, the learning process, memory, intelligence, motivation, and stress and health will be discussed.

PSY 204 Theories of Personality (3)
This course presents an overview of historical and contemporary major personality theories, focusing on them as conceptual tools for understanding individuals in terms of personality development, personality traits, levels of motivations, and adaptive behavior.

PSY 303 Human Development (3)
This course provides a general introduction to human growth and development across the lifespan with emphasis on the psychological, physical, intellectual, social and moral development of the individual.

REL
REL 104 World Religions (3)
This course is a survey of the central beliefs and distinctive practices of seven major faith traditions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam; Hinduism and Buddhism; Confucianism and Taoism. Participants will compare and contrast these in order to discover commonalties.

REL 201 Adult Spirituality (3)
This course will explore the issues involved in personal spiritual growth. One's spiritual journey, the notion that one's spiritual force is from within, and receptivity to higher powers will be discussed.

REL 215 Religion in America (3)
This course will provide a descriptive and analytical introduction to religion in the United States. Learners will examine major religious denominations which have dominated the American scene from Colonial to modern times. A historical approach will be taken.

REL 301 Catholic Health Care Issues (3)
Philosophical and theological foundations upon which Roman Catholic principles of health care ethics are built. It presents these principles as articulated by the Church and demonstrates how to apply the principles to specific cases of debated health care issues.

SOC
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology (3)
This course examines human social life and helps participants understand fundamental aspects of sociological research. Perspectives, concepts, and research methods sociologists use to better understand the social being are explored.



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