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Dental HygieneCredits

Combines the sciences and knowledge in the discipline of dental hygiene that permits systhesis and application of periodontal treatment techniques. Surgical and aggressive management of medically compromised periodontal patients will be addressed in this course.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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Students will discover research and writing careers for dental hygienists. Course will provide awareness of the American Dental Hygienists' Association research agenda. Various research methods will be explored and students will develop skills related to locating and evaluating scientific literature to make evidence-based decisions. Professional writing skills will be developed throughout the course.

Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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Demonstration of oral health delivery in community based clinics embracing oral health promotion efforts as a methodology. Increasing demand for care, dental services and prevention resulting in reduction of oral diseases and improved community oral health.

Prerequisites:
DHYG 444
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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Applies content from Principles of Educational Methods to support the role of dental hygiene educator in didactic and clinical instruction. Active participation in course design, delivery and evaluation in classroom, on-line or clinical format with emphasis on competency based instruction.

Prerequisites:
DHYG 445
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This course is designed to facilitate critical thinking skills related to drugs used in dentistry and medicine with emphasis placed on the impact of the dental hygiene diagnosis.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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Students will learn the characteristics of direct restorative materials. In a laboratory settings on typodont, students will place, contour, and adjust direct restorative materials. This is the first course in a series.

Prerequisites:
DHYG 322, DHYG 326
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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Students work on patients in a clinical setting to place, contour, and adjust direct restorative materials in accordance with MN Statute. This is the second course in a series.

Prerequisites:
DHYG 322, DHYG 326, DHYG 460
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This course is the final clinical course in a series of courses in which students gain clinical proficiency by completing required patient experiences and final clinical test to fulfill State of Minnesota requirements to earn a certificate in restorative functions.

Prerequisites:
DHYG 322, DHYG 326, DHYG 460, DHYG 461
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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Independent individual study is only offered for currently enrolled dental hygiene students admitted to the program. Requires special permission from department chair to register for course.

EconomicsCredits

Brief description of the operation of the US economic system illustrated by a discussion of current economic policies, issues, and problems. No credit toward a major, minor, or area with economics as a core, or if credit has been earned in ECON 201 and/or ECON 202, or equivalent.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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This course will examine the gendered nature of public policy using standard microeconomic tools. It examines the impact of public policy on employment discrimination, reproductive rights, and sexual orientation.

Basic statistical methods including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, sampling, problems of estimation and hypothesis testing in the case of one and two sample meaans and proportions. Chi-Square, one-way analysis of variance, simple regression and correlation analysis, and brief introduction to multiple regression analysis. Use of computer statistical packages required.

Prerequisites:
MATH 112 or equivalent
Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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This course will introduce the student to the use of mathematics in economic analysis. Topics include optimization methods, comparative statics, and linear algebra.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201, ECON 202, ECON 207, MATH 112 or equivalent
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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A descriptive and analytical study of the basic principles of money, banking, and finance as they are related to business and public policy.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201 and ECON 202
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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Elementary economic background and analysis of housing, medical care, inflation, unemployment dilemma, pollution, poverty and affluence, balance between public and private sectors, transportation, urban problems, and other issues will be covered in this course.

Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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This course will provide tools for analyzing the effects of economic globalization on employment, distribution of income, economic development and socio-economic issues from a gender perspective.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201 or ECON 202
Graduation Requirements:
Diverse Cultures - Purple | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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A survey of imperfect competition, multiple-product firms, multiple-plant firms, and interest theory, designed to develop a system of economic thought.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201, ECON 202 and ECON 301
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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Study of factors determining aggregate level of production, employment, inflation, and implications of monetary and fiscal policies.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201, ECON 202 and ECON 301
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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Employment, wages, and economic security. The structure and impact of labor organizations and labor legislation.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201 and ECON 202
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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A detailed examination of the Federal Reserve System and monetary policy. The topics will include a history of the Federal Reserve and its monetary tools and strategies: Monetarism, the demand for money, the money supply process, and the impact of financial deregulation on federal policy.

Prerequisites:
ECON 305
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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Students examine the economics of unions, including the history of union activity, the development and impact of labor laws on labor markets, the economics of strikes and alternative dispute resolution systems, and the impact of unions on wages and price levels.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201 and ECON 202
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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Economic forces which account for the development of cities and application of principles to some of the major problems of the modern urban community.

Prerequisites:
ECON 201 and ECON 202
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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This course introduces economic concepts and techniques in the study of environmental management and natural resource use. Topics covered include nonmarket valuation of the environment, benefit-cost analysis, public goods and externalities, the extraction of exhaustible and renewable resources, and the economics of pollution control.

Prerequisites:
ECON 202
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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