New & Replacement Courses-Spring 2008

Course Descriptions

AC 475 Nursing Assessment with N 475 for WDC Students (0 cr)

CHI 303 Chinese IV (3 cr)

Chinese IV is the capstone course in our two year Chinese language series. As an HFA 310 offering, this course will assist students to develop their Aesthetic Engagement, Developing a Global Perspective, and Valuing skills in our "classroom without walls" component. We will work with materials collected by our returning study abroad students, with the Chinese festival calendar, with field trips to Chinese art collections, restaurants and markets, and interviews with local Chinese personalities, and with literary pieces and writing. Students will develop their skills in Communication and Analysis through their work on refining their pronunciation, expanding their vocabularies, and working with more complex sentence structures. They will acquire new decoding strategies for both written and spoken communication based on identifying boundaries between known and unknown vocabulary. The class will continue to forge ahead with the web-based textbook, while supplementing this with audio and video lessons from other online sources. Finally, we will explore the benefits of Chinese language proficiency in relation to each student's career aspirations and how they can continue to advance independently or at the graduate level. HFA 310 course

DA/MU/TA 250 Musical Theatre: on Stage & Screen (4 cr)

In this studio-and-discussion class, students will study the most popular theatrical genre of the 20th and 21st Centuries--the musical. By analyzing scripts, libretti, scores and production practices, the students will explore the musical's evolution in terms of form and content. Using performance-based analytic frameworks, the students will investigate the relationship among spoken text, music, movement and visual production practices. Through cultural and historical analysis, students will explore how the musical reflects or envisions political, economic, and social realities. The students will also analyze how the medium of film has influenced the musical's development. These multi-dimensional analyses will assist students in making creative physical, vocal and music choices to present scenes from musicals in class. HFA 210/310 course.

ED 325A Lit in Middle Childhood-ELM (3 cr)

The student examines the primary grade literacy curriculum, focusing on language, reading, writing, and literature. Among issues addressed are phonics, spelling, grammar, and sight and reading vocabulary. The student learns to make sound decisions, teach literacy learning strategies, select appropriate materials, and design developmentally appropriate learning experiences and assessments for the middle childhood/primary grade learner.

MGT 630 Actg w/Innovation, Creativity & Imag (3 cr)

Students expand their discipline knowledge in the Core Knowledge Areas to create business models that are responsive to the diversity and global nature of today's business. Students participate in global, wordly, multicultural, and interdisciplinary experiences that foster the development of the new attitudes, mindsets, and values required of today's manager-leaders. Students view their work and workplaces through the lens of other cultures and peoples. The course provides a unique foundation for managing and developing people as well as understanding the more macro forces that shape the context of business in the 21st century.

MSN 600 Orientation to MSN Program (0 cr)

MSN 702 Prom Hlt/Pract Based Research (2 cr-replaces MSN 701B)

This course completes and refines the knowledge transformation cycle by assessing and communicating the outcomes of scholarly inquiry. Thus, topics include appraisal of practice guidelines, creation of evaluative instruments, and dissemination of findings. Using two case examples, the course revisits the link among nature-of-inquiry questions, analytic frameworks, methodological designs, and data-analysis techniques to evaluate their collective "fit". This is used as a means to evaluate the quality of the evidence and appropriateness of the findings and to underscore that the ultimate goal is to substantiate and facilitate desirable client outcomes. Finally, an opportunity is provided for protection-of-human-participant training. Students also receive instruction in the School of Nursing's Department Review Commitee processes.

MSN 750A Capstone: Scholarship to Adv Nurs (1 cr-replaces MSN 750)

In this capstone course, students research and reflect on social, political, and economic health-related education and practice issues.

They use a practitioner-based research inquiry process to study select complex issues confronting health and illness in today's cost-conscious health-care world. Through their experiences with a small-scale practice research project, they develop skills in conceptualizing researchable questions; designing research projects; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data; communicating their findings; and identifying potential limits and benefits of their inquiry for their own professional practice.

RL 250 Judaism, Christianity, Islam (4 cr)

In this course students will explore the three monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam. One-thrid of the course will be devoted to each religion, and four broad themes--monotheism, salvation, ethics and community--will be probed in each religious traditions. The themes will allow the students to compare and contrast the three religions. The course will introduce the students to the scriptures of the three faiths--the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament and the Quran. The students will also explore how the three faiths have developed historically and how they have interacted with each other throughout history from their beginnings down to the present. HFA 210/310 course.

SPI 100 Bilingual Assessment (replaces SLC 101)

This bilingual assessment is required of all students who wish to pursue a support in Spanish/English Health Care Interpretation. Students will be assessed for their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in both Spanish and English. Students who are not successful in their assessment but show that with further work they have the potential for success on the assessment, would be required to take SLC 403 and successfully reassess before entering the program.

SPI 310 Cult Comp/Hlth Care Intrepretation

This course is primarily designed for students in the Spanish/English Health Care Interpretation Support Area. However, it is also open to any student interested in understanding the multicultural aspects of health care. The course focuses on the theoretical frameworks defining culture, cultural competence and cultural proficiency, examines the CLAS standards (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards in Health Care) from the federal Office of Minority Health, discusses diversity and immigration in the United States, and present issues in the transcultural communication. The final portion of the course focuses specifically on the Latino culture and health care as it relates to the issued previously presented. HFA 310 course.

WE 117 Coaching Competitive Athletics

Beginning coaches will learn how to structure a practice, create a conditioning program, scout opponents, and explore coaching philosophies.

WE 118 Beginner’s Golf

Learn the basics of golf including rules of the game, scorekeeping, etiquette and play. Students must have their own golf clubs and will be responsible for paying admission to local courses.

WE 119 Skills for Life Management

This course will include basic information about experiences that are common to female college students presented in a non-judgmental way.

Topics will include: making a game plan that you can stick to (academic, personal, work, wellness, social), managing personal finances, building a support network, on-campus resources and comunity resources, and good decision-making.

WE 120 Bosu Ball

Use the Bosu Ball to get a full body workout that includes cardio, toning and balance. No experience necessary.