Active Course List

2024-2025


Construction Management

The course will involve students in a Capstone Project where students integrate the coursework concepts of the core program through research, application and presentation.

Prerequisites:
CM 340
Areas of Interest:
Architecture and Construction
Programs:
Construction Management (BS)

A seminar course that involves a critical evaluation of an area in the construction management discipline and/or industry. Topics vary from year to year. Students are usually required to make a presentation to the class.

Prerequisites:
Senior Standing or instructor permission
Areas of Interest:
Architecture and Construction
Programs:
Construction Management (BS)

Students will complete their Internship experiences

Prerequisites:
CM 300, CM 310, CM 330
Areas of Interest:
Architecture and Construction
Programs:
Construction Management (BS)

An in-depth study on a topic of particular interest to the student. Project must be approved by project supervisor and department chairperson.

Areas of Interest:
Architecture and Construction

Corrections

Implications of Sociological Knowledge for the administration of Human Services programs. Theoretical and practical aspects of administration with the Social Service systems.

Prerequisites:
SOC 101
Areas of Interest:
Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security

Capstone is an evaluative course which allows students to document their learning and provide an assessment of their personal learning and the effectiveness of the Corrections Program. To be taken concurrently with CORR 496. Prereq: Completion of all other required CORR courses.

Prerequisites:
Completion of all other required CORR courses.
Areas of Interest:
Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security

This course focuses on the experiences of women in the criminal justice system-as victims, offenders, and professionals. Women's involvement in this system (whether they were a defendant, an attorney, an inmate, a correctional officer of a crime victim) has often been overlooked or devalued. The goal of this course is to bring the special needs and contributions of women in the criminal justice system into sharper focus.

Philosophy, historical developments, and theoretical basis of probation, parole, and other community corrections programs. Evaluation of traditional and innovative programs in Community Corrections.

Examines the rights of inmates, probationers, and parolees.

Principles and methods of individual and group counseling with juvenile and adult offenders; development of interpersonal helping skills.

Counseling and Student Personnel

The purpose of this course is to help students develop critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills necessary to manage the challenges they face now (choice of major) and in the future (career choice and balancing work and life roles). Meets General Education requirements for critical thinking.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 11 - Performance and Participation

An introduction to basic processes and skills related to facilitating effective change. Selected topics (chemical use and abuse, facilitating diversity, working in groups) related to personal, social and interpersonal issues effecting families, and professionals will be presented.

Strategies for establishing a group. A review of concepts related to group membership, group member roles and group techniques, therapeutic factors and leadership roles. An experiential component is included in this course.

Provides the developing helping professional with an introduction to basic helping skills: attending, listening, responding to content and affect, probing, and providing feedback. The course is experiential in nature and includes small group interaction, videotaping, and role-playing simulations.

Programs:
Alcohol & Drug Studies Minor | Ethnic Studies (BS) Racial/Ethnic Communities in the United States

Understanding the impact of chemical dependency on the family. Family counseling skills and relapse prevention strategies will also be included.

Programs:
Alcohol & Drug Studies Minor

Strategies for establishing a group. A review of concepts related to group membership, group member roles, and group techniques, therapeutic factors, and leadership roles. An experiential component is included in this course.

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training

Provides the developing helping professional with an introduction to basic helping skills: attending, listening, responding to content and affect, probing, and providing feedback. The course is experiential in nature and includes small group interaction, videotaping, and role playing simulations.

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training
Programs:
Dietetics (MS) | Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

Understanding the impact of chemical dependency on the family. Family counseling skills and relapse prevention strategies will also be included.

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training
Programs:
Counseling and Student Personnel (MS) Mental Health Counseling

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training

Philosophies and strategies of professional counseling. Overview of counseling literature, field of counseling, and development of the professional counselor.

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training
Programs:
Counseling and Student Personnel (MS) Mental Health Counseling

Students will explore the functional areas represented by the student affairs profession and will examine current issues and problems facing student affairs and higher education. Philosophical and historical underpinnings of the student affairs profession will also be examined.

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training
Programs:
College Student Affairs (MS)

This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of current models and practices in the administration and finance of student affairs programs in higher education through a social justice framework. Models of planning and management, techniques related to budgeting and staffing, and current issues and trends in student affairs administration and finance are also explored.

Areas of Interest:
Education and Training
Programs:
College Student Affairs (MS)