BUS219 - Team Building and Conflict Resolution
Effective interpersonal skills are essential for professionals as they communicate, collaborate, and negotiate with other individuals and groups within and outside an organization. Successful learners develop the professional interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management, and dispute resolution skills necessary for success in today’s complex business environments. This complexity includes elements such as the social, cultural, and economic diversity of the workforce in domestic and global environments. Learners apply these skills in a series of scenarios including those related to personnel, team, contractual, procedural, change, and other stakeholder concerns. Credit Hours: Lecture-3, Lab-0, Credits-3 Prerequisite(s): BUS131
BUS226 - Principles of Marketing
This is a course in which the main functions, institutions, and concepts of marketing are studied. This course provides students with an understanding of the marketing function. Topic areas include: the traditional areas of product, price, promotion, and placement—plus the growth of ethnic marketing and marketing ethics. Case studies are used to relate lecture topics to the real business world.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
BUS231 - Business Law
This course examines the contemporary legal environment as it relates to business. Among the topics covered are: the origins of law and the legal system, the ethics and social responsibility of business, contracts, agency relationships, and the Uniform Commercial Code.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
BUS239 - Principles of Finance
This course explores the concepts of financial management in all types of organizations. Students are introduced to understanding and analyzing financial statements, the management of cash flow, the concept of financial risk and return, the importance of time value of money, the concept of organizational budgeting and capital structure and the cost of capital.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 0, Lab – 3, Credits – 3
Books
Dahlquist, Julie and Knight
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BUS247 - Principles of Macro-Economics
This course provides students with an overview of macroeconomics including exploring fundamental economic concepts and economic systems. Students will be exposed to the concepts of income formation, the fluctuations in economic systems, money, banking, and fiscal policies. Additionally, students will study the theory of economic growth and development, comparative economic systems, and economic stabilization policies.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 0, Lab – 3, Credits – 3
BUS290 - Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
This course prepares students to initiate new business ventures and prepare a business plan that may be used to generate financing and to begin operations in a new business enterprise. Students will gain an understanding of the critical factors that are involved in the idea formation, conception, and development of new business ventures. Course topics will include analyzing the market potential for new products and services, the acquisition of capital to finance new ventures, and the organization and operation of the new business.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 2, Lab – 2, Credits – 3
BUS300 - Data Analytics
Whether an inventory, nursing, quality, or human resources manager, or a professional in another field, knowing what information is needed to make a decision and how to analyze that information is critical. Learners explore methods to determine what information is needed and the types and sources of information required for different types of decisions encountered in their major field of study. Utilizing pre-selected or researched qualitative and quantitative practical knowledge for understanding topics such as motivation, leadership, managerial decision-making, group processes, and conflict resolution. Credit Hours: Lecture-3, Lab-0, Credits-3 Prerequisite(s): BUS131
BUS400 - Internship
In order to launch a new business, operate a current organization or expand operations, a solid business plan is needed. Students will study and create and fully integrated business plan. Areas covered will include product or service overview, establishing and defining goals, market and situational analysis, strategy and implementation, financial plan and forecasting, and organization and management team. Credit Hours: Lecture-3, Lab-0, Credits-3 Prerequisite(s): CAPSTONE COURSE-MUST BE TAKEN AT END OF PROGRAM
CAT101 - Introduction to Alternative Health Therapies
This course provides an overview of alternative health practices being integrated into therapeutic treatments by a growing number of health-care clients. Discussions of alternative health therapies, such as herbal medicines, traditional Chinese medicine/acupuncture, essential oils, and medical cannabis, are an integral part of the course. The history and evolution of selected alternative health practices, how they work, and their relationship to traditional Western medicine are discussed. Additionally, the model of “wellness” versus dis-ease treatment and the mind-body connection are explored and evaluated.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
CAT108 - The Science of Medical Cannabis
This course introduces and examines both the endocannabinoid system as well as the pharmacology of cannabis. The course begins by identifying the differences between sativa, indica, and hybrid cannabis strains in order to understand what works best for various health issues. Special emphasis will be on the mechanics of cannabinoid receptors, and the effect of endocannabinoids on body systems. Topics covered include drug actions, dose-response relations, pharmacokinetics, drug delivery systems, drug metabolism, drug interaction, and toxicity agents.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
CAT131 - Legal Aspects of Alternative Health Therapies
This course compares and contrasts the laws enacted by the Federal government versus the State governments. As of 2019, a total of 34 states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands have approved a comprehensive, publicly available medical marijuana/ cannabis programs. In addition, several states have legalized recreational marijuana, which adds to the legal quagmire that has resulted because the Federal government still classifies marijuana as a controlled substance, just like cocaine or heroin. Beyond the issues that exist with the cannabis industry, other legal issues associated with some alternative health practices, like Chelation, will be examined.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
CAT140 - Alternative Health Therapies I
This course examines how alternative health therapies are applied for healthcare and wellness. The therapies that will be explored and (in some cases) experimented with include herbal medicines, traditional Chinese medicine/acupuncture, essential oils, Reiki, aromatherapy, acupressure, mind-body interventions, as well as other alternatives to Western healthcare models. Students will also research and identify toxic combinations, controversial alternative medications, and the lack of government oversight on many of these alternative health therapies.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 2, Credits – 4
CAT145 - Alternative Health Therapies II
This course examines the ways cannabis-based interventions can offer pain relief as well as provide many other palliative-based care options. On-going research demonstrates how marijuana works on the brain’s cannabinoid receptors providing additional opportunities for other therapeutic uses. Methods of ingestion, such as dosing with extracts and CBD oils, vaping, smoking a flower, and eating edibles, will be examined to assess efficacy. Students will also compile a safety reference guide to ensure that their clients’ well-being is the most important aspect of any health therapy.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 2, Credits – 4