This course offers communication experiences intended to improve students’ public speaking and listening skills across a broad spectrum of situations including intercultural communication, public communication, small group communication and interpersonal communication.

This course provides a conceptual and practice-oriented approach to define a business problem, design and test solution logic, implement and code the logic through sound structured programming techniques. It uses the C# .NET programming language to develop programs that are robust and easy to maintain using the Windows GUI framework. This course covers programming constructs such as data types, control structures, exception handling, methods and even handlers, arrays and collections, and file I/O. This course has a significant component of object-oriented programming and covers classes, inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism.

The purpose of this course is to study child and adolescent development through the psychological principles of teaching and learning. This course will place an emphasis on understanding the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of children and adolescents. In particular, emphasis will be placed on the nature and conditions of learning, including the major types of learning, critical aspects of learning, and any problems that may be encountered when working as a professional educator in a school setting. Additionally, a focus will be placed on data-based decision making and intentional teaching, or the ability to provide purposeful instruction. Important legislation that governs education will be discussed with a focus on increased accountability for teachers and its impact on the assessment process.

Spanish 101 is the first course in the Spanish language sequence. In this elementary level course, students will develop an understanding of grammar concepts. Through textbook-based activities, written assignments, reading activities, and speech acts, students will practice grammatical forms and new vocabulary in guided, meaningful settings. Course materials are selected and designed to aid students in developing an understanding of diverse Spanish-speaking cultures.

Sociology is a special field of behavioral science that examines social relationships in a systematic way. It studies people in interaction with each other on a personal level, within and across social organizations, and across larger social systems.