Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to accounting concepts and procedures for an organization. The emphasis is upon the
accounting cycle as well as the recording, summarizing, and interpretation of accounting information.

Prerequisite: ACCT 201 Principles of Financial Accounting
This course focuses on the design and analysis of automated accounting systems for businesses. It includes the
examination of payroll, receivables and payables, charts of accounts, and accounting reports as well as internal
control and security issues.

Prerequisite: None

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of biology. It includes cell structure, chemistry and function,
adaptation, and ecology.

Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to the functions of business and management strategies in the areas of marketing,
human resources, finance, and technology. Real-world cases are discussed to highlight business practices of
organizations that students can relate to. Course activities involve students in writing, investigating, problemsolving, demonstrating, and reporting. The emphasis is upon the basic principles and practices of businesses. This
course is interactive and includes hands-on activities and group discussions

Prerequisite: None
This course helps students in examining the theory, techniques, and applications of management systems. Planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling are issues addressed. Topics include environmental influences, organization
design and structure, motivation, total quality management, ethics, production and international Management.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand and appreciate the marketing concepts; how to identify, understand and satisfy
the needs of customers and markets; identify the marketing mix components; explain the environmental factors
which influence consumer and organizational decision-making processes; outline a marketing plan; and interpret
marketing research data to forecast industry trends and meet customer demands.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces personal skills, talents and abilities, study habits, research methodology, and other soft skills
to help students go through their undergraduate studies with more success. Students will also be assisted to review
the fundamental courses they have taken so far to determine which specialization they are deciding to choose in their
degree program.

Prerequisite: None
BUSS 280 is an introductory course in statistics designed to provide students with the basic concepts of data
analysis and statistical computing. Topics discussed include displaying and describing data, the normal curve,
regression, probability, statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests with applications in the real
world. The main objective is to provide students with pragmatic tools for assessing statistical claims and conducting
their own statistical analyses.

Prerequisite: BUSS 280
In today’s competitive world, quantitative analysis is essential tool for business decision making. The objective of
this course is to introduce students with basic statistical and mathematical methods and models for solving business
problems and make decisions. The course will provide students with hands on skills in the application of various
data analytical tools.

Prerequisite: None
This course will introduce students with individual, group, and organizational issues that affect business
organizations and more importantly focusing on issues that influence job performance and organizational
commitment. Topics, such as motivation, organizational justice, individual differences, team dynamics, leadership,
and organizational culture, will be discussed.

Prerequisite: None
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a collection of individuals who share a deep passion and drive for a particular
problem, topic, or concern to then combine and further their collective knowledge to cultivate and foster their work.
While CoPs are specifically not organizations, the need for businesses and organizations to further their internal
learning and development is clearly a benefit to the organization. This course examines CoPs within organizational
contexts as a means of helping the institution to become stronger as a learning organization. Students will develop a
project over the semester analyzing the community/communities of practice within an organization with a focus on
improving the organization’s capacities.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of project management practice from the standpoint
of the manager who must organize, plan, implement, and control non-routine activities to achieve schedule, budget,
and performance objectives. Topics include project life cycles, project organization, project charters, work
breakdown structures, responsibility matrixes, as well as basic planning, budgeting, and scheduling systems.
Planning and control methods such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts and the Earned Value management system.

Prerequisite: None
Students who enroll in this course must possess and demonstrate appreciable pre-knowledge of the fundamental
concepts, and principles of project management. This course therefore proceeds with intermediate levels of work
conducted in the practice of project management. Students will explore the strategic decision-making processes for
the creation of a project charter or work order. All lectures, discussions, and student assignments shall be directed to
reinforce how a project is conducted and applied to create the value proposition desired by organizational
stakeholders.

Prerequisite: None
Students who enroll in this course must possess and demonstrate appreciable pre-knowledge of the fundamental
concepts, and principles of project management. This course therefore proceeds with intermediate levels of work
conducted in the practice of project management. Students will explore the strategic decision-making processes for
the creation of a project charter or work order. All lectures, discussions, and student assignments shall be directed to
reinforce how a project is conducted and applied to create the value proposition desired by organizational stakeholders

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand and appreciate human behavior in organizational settings; interface between
human behavior and organization; study the ways people act within groups and apply them to make businessesoperate more effectively. This course focuses on improving productivity, quality, and assisting managers to design
more positive organizations.

Prerequisite: BUSS 290
The course provides students with foundations of key concepts for establishing a comprehensive data management
system and strategy for a large organization, ensuring that its operational and financial needs are efficiently,
effectively, and securely addressed. The course will have an emphasis on real-case scenarios that companies face
when addressing global operational and analytical data challenges. This course will also address current trends in
managing business structured data as organizations move to the cloud-based computing services.

Prerequisite: BUSS 330
In this course students will be able to design and create data visualization by using available or their own data
derived from primary or secondary sources. The learning process includes data collection, organizing, modeling,
creating various forms of data visualizations graphics and dashboard. Students will also learn, evaluate and
demonstrate the effectiveness of visualization in business decision. Students will also be challenged to think
critically through reading current and past published papers and real business visualization works. Students will
create their own data visualizations and presentations.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of project management practice from the standpoint
of the manager who must organize, plan, implement, and control non-routine activities to achieve schedule, budget,
and performance objectives. Topics include project life cycles, project organization, project charters, work
breakdown structures, responsibility matrixes, as well as basic planning, budgeting, and scheduling systems.
Planning and control methods such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts and the Earned Value management system.

Prerequisite: BUSS 110 
This course is designed to provide initial overview of the consulting profession with a subsequent emphasis on
organization consulting issues. Effort will be placed on developing proficiencies in a range of skills required to
practice consulting. The course is relevant to those who are specifically interested in consulting careers and whose
current or future jobs involve staff consulting or line management using consultants.

Prerequisite: None
This course creatively utilizes cases, role plays, and scenarios to help build skills and understanding of negotiations
and organizational conflict. Students will work individually and in team negotiations, engaging in discussions, and
accessing resources to enhance the ability to navigate through complex situations. Students will experience active
learning through the use of case analyses and readings as well as experiencing real world negotiations from a wide
range of contexts. These scenarios range some simple two-party negotiations to complex multi-party negotiations
and will support the development of skills, strategies, and tactics that are applicable in work environments as well as
in all facets of life. Students will learn to communicate more effectively, recognize and develop alternatives as well
as overcome barriers, and utilize existing strengths in each class.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand the practices and processes that is used to manage innovation effectively;
understand innovation issues from the entrepreneur and manager’s perspective; understand the management of
innovation from a strategic perspective and the relationship between processes and structures for innovation in
firms, the strategies for exploitation and the environment in which these must be designed e.g., competition, rate of
technological change, sources of innovation.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will learn the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources that is
essential both now and in the future. It also provides the background one need to create, manage and analyze a
business plan.

Prerequisite: None
This course offers an opportunity to discuss and apply principles, tools, and methods to successfully implement
growth and sustainability for an organization.  The objective of this course is to deliver the appropriate knowledge
on the process of change management. Topics discussed in this course will include: strategies to design, implement,
communicate, and sustain change; techniques for mapping and assessing when and where change is needed in an
organization; organizational development techniques; as well as barriers and enablers to fostering an environment
conducive to change and innovation.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students practical, real-world understandings of several dimensions of leadership such as the nature
of new realities and how one can improve insights into them and how one can identify and overcome resistance to
change. As the world changes, our leadership styles and abilities also need to adapt and change. In this course we
will examine the change environment and why organizations often fail at implementing change, because
understanding the pathologies of change will provide the foundation that we will build upon to learn about the
strategies and forces we need to understand to help us drive successful change.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will be introduced and trained about various entrepreneurial marketing concepts and
applications that will increase the likelihood of successful business ventures.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will learn and see how to develop and grow organization by designing the culture, structure,
strategies, and policies that encourage & support internal entrepreneurial ventures.

Prerequisite: None
The course focuses on the analyses, decisions, and actions that an organization undertakes in order to gain and
maintain competitive advantage. The extensive use of case studies focuses students on diagnosis of problems and
opportunities as well as the development of alternative courses of action and implementing organizational leadership
and strategic management.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps students with a fundamental understanding of the principles and analytics of asset management.
Students who are interested to a career in asset, portfolio, private wealth, endowment, or pension fund management
will find this course very useful. A fundamental understanding of the issues in asset management, will also be
helpful in other areas of finance such as investment banking, insurance, accounting, and personal finance.

Prerequisite: None
This seminar course seeks to deepen the understanding of the impact of rapid technological change on sustainable
development, especially the consequences for the central principle of the 2030 Agenda of “leaving no one behind”,
and the implications for the science, technology and innovation community. It gives students the opportunities, to
look at the role of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy vis-à-vis sustainability. It helps to identify
strategies, policies and immediate actions to take to use science, technology and innovation to empower people,
especially those who are vulnerable, and ensure inclusiveness and equality.

Prerequisite: BUSS 155
This course provides an opportunity for students to utilize their academic experience either through a research paper
or a project with their main focus on continuing their graduate studies or applying their skills in real world cases
through an employment. Students will present their research findings in a seminar.

Prerequisite: BUSS 350
In this course, students will learn how to evaluate data in context, developing decision models, interpret data trends,
and receive an overview of decision support management techniques such as predictive modeling, risk assessment
and optimization, and analytics algorithms, which will set the stage for more advanced study in subsequent courses.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines processes through which goods and services are acquired in the project management
environment. Topics include contract and procurement strategies, legal issues, contract pricing alternatives,
technical, management and commercial requirements, RFP development, source selection, invitations to bid, bid
evaluation, risk assessment, and contract negotiation and administration. By the end of the course, students will have
a broad overview and understanding of the procurement cycle and how it relates to contracts, projects and
management

Prerequisite: None
This course exposes students to a variety of ways to identify, analyze, and to mitigate the full range of project risks.
The course also explores the six risk management processes as outlined in the PMBOK Guide: Risk Management
planning, Risk Identification, Qualitative Risk Analysis, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Risk Response Planning, and
Risk Monitoring & Controlling. Using a practitioner approach, students learn risk management techniques by
applying them to problems raised in case studies.

Prerequisite: None
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the analytical and real-world tools necessary for effective
evaluation and implementation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) process and implementation.

Prerequisite: BUSS 360
This course helps students to understand the entire venture capital cycle; that is to say; financial and operational
activities of venture capital; assessing opportunities; valuing ventures; negotiating and structuring investments;
managing investments and exiting. Overall, students will gain skills, confidence and strategies to maximize venture
capitalists’ investment return in emerging businesses and minimize potential financial risks.

Prerequisite: None
Credit Hour Breakdown: 135 hours of internship
This course is a major field experience for the student candidate of project management education. As a practicum
therefore, the goal of this course is to provide opportunity for the student to be exposed to project management work
at the ground level. Presumably the student comes to this course having thoroughly understood all pertinent
information of the knowledge domain, and so on,  the project management framework, processes, theories,
techniques, etc., this course therefore allows the student to observe, participate in, and test out how a project work is
initiated, planned, implemented, validated for quality and performance, and eventually closed.

Prerequisite: BUSS 130 
In this course students will learn and see how business examine how organizations capitalize on social media and
consumer-to-consumer interactions to support their marketing efforts. Students will gain the theoretical knowledge
needed to create engaging content for platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, as well as the
ability to identify influencers, deliver content to a targeted audience, and measure the success of the efforts.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps student’s understandings of process-oriented view of the flow of materials, information, products
and services through and across organizational functions. It also helps to enhance their knowledge on how to
carefully analyze, document and continuously assess the efficiency and effectiveness of business process to
minimize cost and maximize value creation.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps student’s understandings of the method of using emergence to elicit local knowledge and use the
integrated knowledge to manage projects more effectively. It also helps students to appreciate and value planning
and implementation of project interface management program.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students to understand the new digital economy; economic value of digital economy; manage to
deliver in the digital world; quantitative reasoning; information technology and SMAC (social media, mobile,
analytics and cloud computing) revolution. This course also helps students to apply the knowledge and run business
better in today’s environment and transform the nature of business in the future.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with key methods of predictive analytics and advanced BI concepts for business
decision-making context. And using real business cases and data, it illustrates to students the application and
interpretation of these methods. The course will cover R Programming, trends in predictive analytics, and
understanding available application programs that can be deployed within the business enterprise.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will study various tools for generating marketing insights from data in market segmentation,
targeting and positioning, satisfaction management, customer lifetime analysis, customer choice, product and price
decisions using conjoint analysis and search analytics. This is a hands-on course based on the Marketing
Engineering (Enginius) approach and Excel software that will be applied to actual business situations. Students will
develop a market analytics project by collecting and analyzing primary or secondary data.

Prerequisite: None
In this course, students will be introduced with knowledge why and how analytics are important in HR, learn and
apply an analytic and process model using excel and Power BI to drive the most important data methods and
techniques for organizing, analyzing and presenting for business decisions.

Prerequisite: BUSS 130 
In this course students will learn the theories, technologies and practical applications of product design, development
and management for long-term success and survival in intensively competitive global market.

Prerequisite: BUSS 130
In this course students will be introduced and trained about the most effective techniques for identifying targeted
marketing on the social media platforms, with emphasis on the creation of customer bases that represent a welldeveloped online market segments for a company.

Prerequisite: None
This course intends to direct students to acquaint the practical sustainable business consulting practices. It will help
to direct students how to business practices gear towards improving the communities in which they operate. It will
also be exposed them how to design a given consultancy work in different areas of businesses.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with analytical methods in predicting outcomes and future trends from existing data to
help discover new relationships; to evaluate outcomes for business optimization (e.g., revenues, profits, market
share, probability of making a sale, probability of losing a client, etc.) based on other historical data predictors (e.g.,
marketing expenditures, quality assurance investments, sales force size, etc.).

Prerequisite: None
The course focuses on the analyses, decisions, and actions that an organization undertakes in order to gain and
maintain competitive advantage. The extensive use of case studies focuses students on diagnosis of problems and
opportunities as well as the development of alternative courses of action and implementing organizational leadership
and strategic management.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will learn the concept of dilemma; that is; an argument presenting two or more equally
conclusive alternatives and vigorous debate and ultimately solutions.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 90 credits 
This course will introduce students with new changes, new practices and issues emerging in Business Analytics
(BA) and the way those changes contribute to the effective practice of BA. Student will read and discuss on various
cases studies to practically understand various contemporary BA issues related to business.

Prerequisite: None
Credit Hour Breakdown: 135 hours of internship
This course intends to provide students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills from a planned work
experience in the Data analytics specialization. In this course student will be exposed to a real-life business problem
and apply the theoretical and quantitative analytical skills to recommend solutions to the decision makers. The entire
course outcome is designed in cooperation with the student, the professor, the program chair and career service of
the university. Internships provide entry-level, career-related experience, and marketable skills and competencies
that are highly demanded by the future employers.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with a hands-on understanding and experience related to their degree. The objective is
to let students access information that will help them complete a semester-wide individual project that produces a
applies skills and concepts used throughout their program. Students develop their project under the direct
supervision of the faculty advisor of the course. Students are required to attend as many meetings/seminars as
needed as specified by the faculty advisor.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 90 credits 
In this course students will learn the theory of entrepreneurship and its practical implementation and contemporary
issues in entrepreneurship

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamentals of chemistry including atomic and molecular structure, thermo-chemical
changes, and conservation of energy.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides the skills needed to prepare and deliver informative and persuasive speeches. Students will focus
on adapting communication styles and content to diverse speakers and audiences. This course emphasizes how to
compose meaningful and coherent messages, conduct research, and develop effective presentation skills. Students will
be required to deliver several oral presentations in front of the class during the semester.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces core programming basics—including data types, control structures, algorithm development,
and program design with functions—via the Python programming language. The course discusses the fundamental
principles of Object-Oriented Programming, as well as in-depth data and information processing techniques.
Students will problem solve, explore real-world software development challenges, and create practical and
contemporary applications using graphical user interfaces, graphics, and network communications

Prerequisite: None
This course explores legal and ethical issues in computer and network security. Students will discover what the laws
are concerning computer and network security, including the legal boundaries for breaking into systems without
authorization. The course will also cover the issues related to creating security policies for organizations, as well as
the ethical responsibilities of protecting network and computer systems, and the ethical boundaries related to
accessing other organizations systems.

Prerequisite: None
This course explores legal and ethical issues in computer and network security. Students will discover what the laws
are concerning computer and network security, including the legal boundaries for breaking into systems without
authorization. The course will also cover the issues related to creating security policies for organizations, as well as
the ethical responsibilities of protecting network and computer systems, and the ethical boundaries related to
accessing other organizations systems

Prerequisite: None
This course covers strategic partnerships concepts which are connected to the organization revenue and competitive
advantage. Additional topics such as structure to partnerships will be covered including choosing partners, rolling
out partnerships and managing strategic partnerships.

Prerequisite: None
The course provides an overview of several related topics in information security and assurance. The topics covered
include: security architecture, security models, access control systems and methodology, applications and systems
security, operation security, database security, cryptography, physical security, network and Internet security,
business continuity planning, security management and law and ethics in information assurance.

Prerequisite: None
The course covers the technology involved and management of Client Server architecture. The procedures, rules,
and guidelines for handling technology such as LAN management and application development. Management
structures and processes to manage cline server environment will be discussed. Concurrent processing, program
interface and algorithms in client server design will be covered. Other topics that will be discussed are: The UDP,
TCP server, Windows Server administration, applications server, web servers and remote access technologies.
Socket programming will be used in project. Students will be free to use either Java or Python for programming.

Prerequisite: COMP 110 
Design and analysis of the structure and function of modern computer systems. Topics studied include
combinational and sequential logic, number systems and computer arithmetic, hardware design and organization of
CPU, I/O systems and memory systems, instruction set, performance characterization and measurement. Tradeoff
parameters such as performance (speed), hardware complexity (cost), memory footprint and power consumption are
analyzed, current trends and developments in computer architecture and organization.

Prerequisite: COMP 110 
The course is an introduction to the fundamentals of operating systems. Topics include concurrent processes and
synchronization mechanisms; processor scheduling; memory management, virtual memory; paging, file
management; input/output management; deadlock management; interrupt structures, interrupt processing; device
management; performance of operating systems; synchronization in a multi-programmed operating system and with
virtual memory management. Formal principles are illustrated with examples and case studies of one or more
contemporary operating systems.

Prerequisite: COMP 110 
This course includes the fundamentals of network standards, concepts, topologies and terminologies of LANs,
WANs, IP addressing, subnet masking and network design, and various protocols (TCP/IP, UDP…). This course
teaches concepts of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Networking Reference Model, technologies used in
wireless networking including Bluetooth, WiMAX, and RFID, network cabling, routing Protocols (static and
dynamic) and network switch. Also, this course teaches optical networking and VoIP, network security with
encryption techniques as Public-Key Cryptography and Industrial Networks.

Prerequisite: None
This course covers Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL which is widely adopted body of knowledge
and best practices for successful IT Service Management. It covers concepts of ITIL which can be applied to an
organization’s activities.

Prerequisite: None
Topics covered in this course include practices of project management, project’s life cycle, roles, and skills
necessary to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control and close a project. Completion of this course will
help to prepare students for the CompTIA Project+ Certification Exam

Prerequisite: None
The course is an introduction to computer security. Course topics include: computer security incident response
process; computer criminal evidence collection, analysis and handling, email investigation, malicious code
investigation, network traffic analysis and router investigation, hacker tools analysis, and computer/network forensic
report writing. The course identifies and examines information security threats, information security methods, and
implementation approaches used in information technology industry.

Prerequisite: None
This course explores one of the most rapidly growing areas of law. Students will take an in-depth look at the social
costs and moral problems that have arisen by the expanded use of the Internet and offers up-to-date legal and
philosophical perspectives on the global scale for the business community. The course will feature current research,
theoretical frameworks, and case studies, that will highlight the ethical and legal practices used in computing
technologies, increase the effectiveness of computing students and professionals in applying ethical values and legal
statutes, and provide insight on ethical and legal discussions of real-world applications.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamental concepts for design and development of database systems. Topics include:
review of relational data model and the relational manipulation languages SQL and QBE; integrity constraints;
logical database design, dependency theory and normalization; query processing and optimization; transaction
processing, concurrency control, recovery, and security issues in database systems; object-oriented and objectrelational databases; distributed databases; emerging database applications.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will learn artificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques, methods, and software to
design and develop systems to solve business problems like analytics to make decisions. Deep learning and
Cognitive computing will be discussed along with the impact of robotics applications in industry and its effect on
jobs with some legal implications. New generation of expert systems will be covers. IoT technologies as an enabler
to analytics will be covered.

Prerequisite: None
The course covers the financial tools managers use to address the questions such as the financial condition of the
company or organization, the company’s or organization’s long-term investment, how to raise money for the
investment, how the company or organization meets daily financial requirements. Topics include accounting
statements, types of costs, profit, financial markets, investment decision tools, net present value, free cash flows,
project financing, risk management, cost of capital, long-term and short-term financing, and equity financing for
entrepreneurs. Discussion also covers mergers and acquisition activities, governance and ethics. Business cases from
contemporary companies or organizations and readings relevant to technology management are used to illustrate the
application of financial concepts.

Prerequisite: None
The course covers the financial tools managers use to address the questions such as the financial condition of the
company or organization, the company’s or organization’s long-term investment, how to raise money for the
investment, how the company or organization meets daily financial requirements. Topics include accounting
statements, types of costs, profit, financial markets, investment decision tools, net present value, free cash flows,
project financing, risk management, cost of capital, long-term and short-term financing, and equity financing for
entrepreneurs. Discussion also covers mergers and acquisition activities, governance and ethics. Business cases from
contemporary companies or organizations and readings relevant to technology management are used to illustrate the
application of financial concepts.

Prerequisite: None
The course covers how to develop completed browser-based business application., how to use common web tools to
develop business applications. The following topics are covered such as HTML, common web technologies. This
course also covers how developers can use technology to develop and deploy business applications that user’s
access via the Web.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides an overview of the systems development life cycle when designing a business project. It
introduces tools and methods for the analysis and design of information systems and the management and
organizational skills needed for their implementation. Information analysis in entity-relationship modeling and
process modeling in data flow diagrams will be covered as the key skills in structured system analysis and design.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 90 credits completed
The course covers contemporary issues in information technology management. The following topics are covered,
management issues in network, service, helpdesk, application, development and other phases of the information
technology project life cycle.

Prerequisite: None
Microeconomics mainly studies the economic choices facing the individual entities, including consumers and
business firms. This course covers the basic topics of economic tradeoffs, supply and demand model, concept of
elasticity, consumer choice model, theories of cost and production, and the firm’s behavior and performance under
different market structures. The course also introduces the students to the problems of market failure and public choice,
and the impacts of public policy on consumers and business firms.

Prerequisite: None
Macroeconomics is primarily concerned with economic analysis and policy making at the national level. This course
introduces the students to the basics of national income determination, measurements of inflation and unemployment
rates, economic fluctuations, and economic growth. The course also covers the foundations of aggregate demand and
aggregate supply, the basics of the classical and Keynesian models, the tools of fiscal and monetary policies, and an
introduction to macroeconomic policy debates.

Prerequisite: None
Academic Writing focuses on reviewing the fundamentals ofstandard written English for academic purposes. Students
will practice writing common forms of academic documents and demonstrate the ability to successfully use APA
formatting. This interactive class provides students with an opportunity to improve their academic writing skills
necessary for success in college and beyond.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides a survey of physical, cultural, and economic aspects of world regions. It serves as an introduction
to how constituent parts of the world differ from one another in their associated resources, cultures, and economics.
Attention is given to the interrelationships, interdependencies, and associations that bind together the diverse
communities of the world.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides an introduction to the dynamics of the earth –volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics, rivers and
streams, groundwater, glaciers, waves, wind, and landslides –with an emphasis on the environment applications of
these processes. This course also covers tools of the geologist, for example maps and aerial photographs.

Prerequisite: None
This course compares political processes and governing structures in European nations, the former Soviet Union,
China, and the United States.

Prerequisite: None
This course compares political processes and governing structures in European nations, the former Soviet Union,
China, and the United States.

Prerequisite: None
The class is designed to provide students with a core understanding of American politics and society and inspire their
interest and possibly involvement in the American political system. It is comprised of three main modules. The first
part of the course explores the historic, cultural and religious origins of the American state and focuses on the issues
of American exceptionalism, national identity, religious roots and early political development. The second module
centers on the key principles, institutions, and decision-making processes of the American political system, and
evaluates the basis strengths and weaknesses of American modern governance. Finally, module three, examines some
of the most current and prominent dilemmas in modern American life, including the politics of race, social security,
health care and gender issues.

Prerequisite: None
World History is the only course offering students an overview of the entire history of humankind. The major emphasis
is on the study of significant people, events, and issues from the earliest times to the present. Traditional historical
points of reference in world history are identified as students analyze important events and issues in western
civilization as well as in civilizations in other parts of the world.

Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to provide a conceptual understanding and overview of the major disciplines of the humanities
including music, theatre, cinema, visual arts, philosophy, and literature. This course will help students hone their
critical thinking, interpretation, and discussion skills.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to develop each student’s capacity to learn in order to apply that capacity to selffulfillment and social performance throughout life. Since life’s conditions are always changing and requiring new
knowledge and skills, we often find ourselves in the role of beginner. As a beginner, we can allow ourselves to live
with wonder, to give ourselves permission to make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes. We can learn to trust
those who can teach us as we advance from beginner through competence, proficiency, and expertise to eventual
mastery in those areas of life to which we dedicate ourselves. Students will explore learning styles and learning design
principles to support learning and the capacity to learn. Students will explore the language of being though speech
acts and practices of presence. Students will become observers of their own speaking and listening, and through
language and learning, students will understand and develop new worldviews and possibilities in life.

Prerequisite: None
We commonly speak of thinking patterns in one of two models. Some begin with the general or big picture and move
to the specifics in an effort to find a solution to the challenge or opportunity each situation presents. Others use the
pattern of moving from the specific to the general pattern by focusing on the details and aligning them so a big picture
view can emerge. This course is designed to allow us to integrate both types of thinking into a holistic approach for
developing our worldview. It introduces a cohesive and comprehensive system of thinking that provides a
methodology for looking at the macro and micro issues simultaneously. The course introduces us to a practical and
usable change technology that helps us align and connect all the variables, stakeholders, cultures, sub-cultures, and
other interests of a complete system.

We begin by exploring the holistic model of worldviews developed by Clare Graves and Don Beck and conclude with
an emphasis on the application of the model to real-world issues. Students will be able to incorporate these practices
into the assessment and development of their particular worldview and take effective action in developing solutions
at macro and micro levels across multiple domains of human concerns.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to broaden the student’s worldview in the context of global citizenship. Being a global
citizen requires an understanding and awareness of the context of that citizenship through an exploration of the
conditions shaping our future from a global perspective. The first part of this course defines the meaning and
practices of global citizenship. In subsequent weeks, students will explore the nature of globalization through lenses
of power, interdependence, issues of sustainability, conflict at international and regional levels, and corporate
responsibility. In later weeks of the course, possible actions for addressing global issues are introduced.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to broaden the student’s worldview and engender pro-social values and practices.
Being a global citizen includes cultural awareness, embracing diversity, promoting social justice, and
responsibilities to act. This course explores the concept of citizenship, what constitutes meaningful citizenship, and
the global dimensions of citizenship. Students will explore worldviews and values aligned with being a global
citizen. Furthermore, students will explore the commitments and practices of being a global citizen and the
differences it can make.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
This course is intended to prepare students for the study of calculus. It includes a review of algebra; arithmetic
operations, fractions, factoring, the quadratic formula, radicals, and exponents. This course also serves as an
introduction to linear, polynomial, trigonometric, rational, and logarithmic functions. Graphs of functions are also
covered throughout the course.

Prerequisite: MATH 160
This course covers functions, limits, the derivative, maximum and minimum problems, the integral and transcendental
functions.

Prerequisite: None
This course introducesthe study of philosophy through the history of philosophical thought and texts. It also introduces
a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and perspectives with an emphasis on the systematic questioning of basic
assumptions about knowledge, meaning, reality, and values.

Prerequisite: None
This course covers the principles of mechanics, heat, electricity, magnetism, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines human and animal behavior, relating experimental studies to practical problems. It includes
topics such as learning, memory, motivation, stress, emotion, intelligence, development, personality, therapy,
psychopathology, and social psychology.

Prerequisite: None
This purpose of this course is to introduce students to the diversity in religions of the world and to provide an overview
of select religious traditions from around the globe. Students will learn to compare and contrast the various religions
to be covered including some of the following: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism,
Taoism, and new religious traditions. Students will be able to make cross-cultural connections through an
understanding of historical facts, religious institutions, and an understanding of the basic tenets and texts surrounding
the religious traditions covered in the course. The course will help students develop an understanding of the influence
of religion on culture, social and political systems, and personal action.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines patterns in political institutions, public policy, and conflict within and between communities
and interest groups.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to pursue the practices of learning and being. The content of this course includes concepts
and practices of observation, awareness of cognitive bias, brainstorming, critical thinking, problem-solving, decisionmaking, and priority-setting. The central goal of this course is to empower students to think more clearly and
analytically about what they believe and be more effective in social performance.
Human beings bring a wide range of cognitive biases to our worldview and these biases can lead us to reach invalid
conclusions and make decisions that make subsequent action both ineffective and inefficient. This course begins with
building capacity to observe with an emphasis on openness to a “world to word” way of being as opposed to projecting
our beliefs onto the world or living a “word to world” approach.
Tools and processes for exploring possibilities through brainstorming, critical thinking, problem-solving, decisionmaking, and priority-setting are introduced and practiced in a variety of situations inside and outside the classroom.
Throughout the semester, we will emphasize the application of course material to real-world issues. Students will be
able to incorporate these practices into the assessment and development of their particular worldview.

Prerequisite: None
Self-fulfillment is the combination of the hopes we have for our lives, as well as the plans we create to achieve them.
When you know what fulfills you, you can make a conscious effort to design your life around it. This course is about
discovery – exploring our livesfor what we find fulfilling and meaningful, declaring our commitments, and developing
plans and practices that move us forward in fulfilling our commitments and creating a meaningful life. We will focus
on learning and practicing how to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, cultivate what is best within yourself, and apply
principles of design thinking to enhancing your experiences of life across all domains of action including work, family,
community, personal development, and play.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and contribute
actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to explore possibilities and build your capacities for career success – regardless of what
you choose to do or the organizations you join. Over the next fifteen weeks, we will explore ideas, tools, and processes
for designing a career where you can find purpose and meaning, and develop those capabilities that are critical for
career success regardless of your work. As with the recommended (but not required) prerequisites, this course is built
on the foundations of self-awareness and reflection as essential conditions for realizing your full potential in all
domains of action and being. We urge you to focus on both conditions as you engage in each week’s assigned activities.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and contribute
actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to explore possibilities and build your capacity to have social impact through career
activities – regardless of what you choose to do or the organizations you join. Over the next fifteen weeks, we will
explore ideas, tools, and processes for creating social impact, help you find purpose and additional meaning for your
career through social impact, and help develop those capabilities that make social impact possible. As with the
recommended (but not required) prerequisites, this course is built on the foundations of self-awareness and
reflection as essential conditions for realizing your full potential in all domains of action and being. We urge you to
focus on both conditions as you engage in each week’s assigned activities.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
We spend a good part of our waking hours in the act of thinking, which could be described as private conversations
with ourselves. Some are of value in leading us to effective action and well-being. Others become barriers to action
and well-being. The purpose of this course is to introduce concepts, tools, and processes of thinking to help you take
effective action and find your way forward without being overwhelmed by life’s challenges. We will explore
approaches to thinking developed by philosophers over many centuries and discuss lessons learned from everyday
life in applying those approaches. This course will help you be more effective and efficient in finding solutions to
the challenges and opportunities you encounter throughout life.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to provide concepts, tools, and processes to help you engage in career planning
throughout your lifetime and prepare you for being a leader regardless of your roles and career path. The focus is on
generating career options, determining priorities, setting goals, developing plans, and taking action – always keeping
in mind that we live in a dynamic, complex, and evolving world. This ever-changing context of our lives requires us
to continue to learn and redesign throughout our lives in support of our evolving values, beliefs, worldviews, and
commitments as reflected in this quote:
“A well-designed life is a life that is generative – it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there
is always the possibility of surprise.” – Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Designing Your Life
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.