HCR 840 - Computer Load Calculations

1. Enter and/or change client information
2. Enter and/or change building information
3. Properly choose a state or province from which you want a location to properly determine your calculations
4. Enter and/or change wall information
5. Properly identify wall construction material
6. Properly identify and choose insulation
7. Properly identify and choose windows and construction type
8. Enter and/or change door information
9. Properly choose a door construction type
10. Enter and/or change ceiling information
11. Properly choose a ceiling construction type
12. Properly identify and choose roofing material
13. Enter or change floor information
14. Properly choose floor construction type
15. Enter or change penetration information
16. Enter or change heating zone information
17. Enter or change cooling zone information
18. Generate reports
19. Choose proper reports type
20. Choose specific zones or materials for reports
21. Rotate building
22. Change infiltration ratings

HCR 932 - Internship

1. Locate an approved internship for work experience
   1. Follow up on available internships
   2. Interview for internship positions
2. Complete work agreement contract for internship employment
   1. Record accurate information necessary for employment experience
   2. Obtain appropriate signatures for endorsement purposes
   3. Maintain contract in personal/intern coordinator file
3. Complete 240 hours of approved internship experience
   1. Complete a certified time record form
   2. Verify total time recorded with appropriate documentation
4. Complete weekly report forms properly
5. Maintain a journal of experiences, job techniques, or details of the internship
6. Record hours worked each day of the week
7. Verify and maintain report in personal intern/coordinator files
8. Obtain a satisfactory employer performance evaluation
9. Demonstrate positive employer relations
10. Meet client project expectations
11. Accept additional responsibility as assigned
12. Initiate tasks without being told
13. Maintain a high level of motivation
14. Demonstrate leadership skills
15. Organize weekly reports

HIS 112 - West Civ: Ancient to Early Mod

1. Define civilization
2. Describe the defining characteristics of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the origins and development of Judaism
   1. Differentiate Judaism from traditional Near Eastern reli­gions
   2. Identify Near Eastern religious ideas that may have influenced Judaism and Christianity
   3. Discuss how the Hebrew faith bound the Jews politically
4. Demonstrate an understanding of Greek history 800-350 B.C
   1. Describe the influence of geography on early Greek development
   2. Explain the evolution of the polis and hoplites and the importance of both in Greek society
   3. Discuss the differing histories of Athens and Sparta politically and culturally
5. Discuss the origins of Greek philosophy and science
   1. Describe theories used to explain the early beginnings of Greek philosophy and science
   2. List key Greek intellects and the contributions they made in the evolution of Western intellectual history
6. Examine the origins and achievements of Hellenistic Civilization and its diffusion.
   1. Compare and contrast the political, social and economic characteristics of Hellenic and Hellenistic civilizations
   2. Describe and analyze the philosophic, religious, scientific and economic developments of the Hellenistic Age
7. Discuss the Roman Republic as a civilization
   1. Discuss the Greek and Etruscan influences on the early Romans
   2. Describe Roman expansion in Italy
   3. Assess the importance of Roman culture in shaping the social and political character of the ancient Romans
   4. Assess the importance of engineering and architectural achievements of the Romans
   5. Discuss the wars with Carthage and the Hellenistic kingdoms that lead to Roman dominance of the Mediterranean world
   6. Determine the factors that contributed to the breakdown of the Old Republic
   7. Assess the roles of the Gracchi, Marius, Sulla and Julius Caesar in the breakdown of the Old Republic
8. Compare and contrast the governments of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
9. Describe the imperial system created by Caesar Augustus
10. Examine the Imperial System 14 Ad to 300 AD
    1. Describe the political changes implemented by Augustus
    2. Discuss the role of the military in the Empire
    3. Describe the arts, literature and architecture in the Empire beginning with Augustus
    4. Discuss the Pax Roman
11. Explain the origins of Christianity.
    1. Explain the universal or catholic character of its appeal and diffu­sion
    2. Discuss the significance of St. Paul and his teachings
    3. Compare and contrast the religions of ancient Rome and Christiani­ty
    4. Explain the conversion of Rome to Christianity
12. Explain the importance of Byzantine civilization
    1. Identify the successes and failures Byzantium had in maintaining its political and military dominance in the East
    2. Evaluate Byzantium’s cultural achievements and influences on the Christian West and Islam
13. Explain the importance of Muhammad and the rise of Islam
    1. Discuss the role of the Arabs and Islamic civilization in the forma­tion of the Middle East
    2. Compare and contrast the role of women in Islam and Islamic society and in Christianity and Christian civilization
    3. Discuss the impact of Islam and Islamic civilization on medieval Europe
    4. Compare and contrast Islam and Christianity
14. Appraise the forces, cultures, and idea systems forming the early middle ages
    1. Discuss the synthesis of Roman, Christian and Germanic culture in making early Europe
    2. Explain the impetus for Germanic migration and conquest
15. Explain the importance of the papacy, the Carolingians, and monasticism in making the “first Europe.”
    1. Discuss the importance of Charlemagne and the accomplishments of the Carolingian Renaissance
    2. Assess the role of monasticism in Christianization, cultural preser­vation, and church reform
    3. Account for the breakdown of the “first Europe” and the rise of feudalism
    4. Account for the factors that brought European economic, cultural, and political revival and stability after 1000, such as Gregorian Reform
16. Demonstrate an understanding of your comprehension of medieval social history
    1. Describe peasant society to evaluate the degree of social mobility among medieval people
    2. Explain the role of women in medieval life at all social levels
    3. Examine the health and welfare of medieval people and the role of diet in their lives
17. Examine the achievements and failures of the High and Late Middle Ages
    1. Discuss the impact of the Norman Conquest on England
    2. Examine the differing successes of the monarchies of France, England, and Germany in establishing unity, order, and stability in the High and Late Middle Ages.
    3. Discuss the continual conflict between church and state
    4. Analyze the factors that led to the revival of commerce and the revitalization of urban life
    5. Explain the importance of cathedrals and universities in the emerging civilization of the High Middle Ages
    6. Explain the catastrophe of the Black Death and Hundred Years’ War, and its impact on European life
    7. Explain the near collapse of the papacy and the decline of the church in the late Middle Ages
18. Define the Renaissance and its origins
    1. Compare the Renaissance as it developed in Italy and Northern Europe
    2. Discuss the developments of renaissance political organizations and the concept of power
    3. Discuss the artistic and scientific achievements of the Renaissance
19. Examine and explain the origins and dynamics of the Reformation
    1. Assess the ideas, origins and impacts of Martin Luther, John Calvin, the Anabaptists, and the Anglicans
    2. Discuss the development of the Counter Reformation
    3. Examine the impact of the Renaissance on the Reformation
20. Discuss the origins and motivations for European exploration of other worlds
    1. Analyze the impact of Europe on newly encountered civilizations as well as the effect of the Columbian Exchange on Europe
    2. Analyze European motivations to discover and colonize other cultures
    3. Discuss the general evolution of the culture and history of the three dominate civilizations in the Americas: Aztec, Mayan and Incan, at the time of European contact
21. Analyze the development of absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy between 1500 and 1725.
    1. Identify and evaluate these two types of government by examining France and England
    2. Examine the rise of Peter the Great and the Westernization of Russia
    3. Examine the emergence of Brandenburg-Prussia as a European Power
22. Discuss the origins of modern science, the scientific view and its impact on European traditional ways of religion and life
23. Demonstrate effective communication and critical thinking skills through writing

HIS 113 - West Civ: Early Modern to Pres

1. Explain the rise of the modern state
   1. Discuss absolutism
   2. Discuss constitutional monarchy
   3. Discuss liberal democracy
   4. Discuss totalitarianism
2. Analyze the origins and varieties of ideologies
   1. Explain conservatism
   2. Explain liberalism
   3. Explain nationalism
   4. Explain socialism
   5. Explain communism
   6. Explain fascism
   7. Explain religious fundamentalism
3. Analyze the concept of a modern society and the process of modernization
4. Analyze the rise and varieties of economic transformations
   1. Examine the agricultural revolution
   2. Examine the industrial revolution
5. Analyze a few of the many political transformations
   1. Examine the French Revolutions
   2. Examine the Russian Revolution
   3. Examine the Nazi Revolution
6. Discuss the purposes origins of the many wars
   1. Discuss the imperial wars of the 18th century
   2. Discuss the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
   3. Discuss the origins of World War I.
   4. Discuss the origins of World War II
7. Examine the world wide confrontation of the Cold War
   1. Discuss the origins of the Cold War
   2. Discuss the many impacts of the Cold War
   3. Discuss the demise of the Cold War
8. Examine the rise of modern science and intellectual culture
   1. Discuss the scientific revolution of early modern Europe
   2. Discuss the Enlightenment
   3. Discuss Darwinism
   4. Discuss the continuing scientific achievements in modern society
   5. Discuss the importance of religion
9. Explain the many impacts of the West on the non-western World
   1. Discuss the West’s impact on Japan
   2. Discuss the West’s impact on China
   3. Discuss the West’s impact on Africa
10. Discuss the relationship between the West and the Middle East from Napoleon to the present
11. Analyze the origins of the European Union
12. Explain the concept and process of modernization as it relates to the West and non-Western world in respect to
    1. Mass society
    2. Health and longevity
    3. Sexuality, gender and gender relations, and family
    4. Social structure

HIS 150 - U.S. History to 1877

1. Contrast various Native American cultures in terms of religion, attitudes toward the environment, and culture
   1. Appraise the conflicting aspects of Native American and European culture
   2. Assess the impact of the Europeans on Native American culture
2. Differentiate among the patterns of settlement of the European powers after 1492
   1. Summarize the locations of colonization of the European coun­tries
   2. Assess the affects on those areas of European colonization in terms of political and economic systems, religious traditions, societal and cultural values
   3. Conclude as to the consequences of the lateness of English and French coloni­zation in the New World
3. Outline, specifically, the patterns of English settlement after 1607
   1. Differentiate among the various regions of the English colonies
   2. Explain the differences among the English colonies in terms of economic basis, political systems, religious preferences
   3. Describe the major features of social life in the colonies focusing on the family and the role of women
   4. Interpret the importance of such early political mile­stones as the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
   5. Identify specifically the economic bases of the various regions of the America colonies such as commerce in New England and agriculture in the South
   6. Dissect the various motives behind emigration from Europe
   7. Outline the theory and the operation of mercantilism as an over­all; economic system, including the Navigation Acts
   8. Relate the early advent of slavery and the development of the plantation system, its economic and social implica­tions in coloni­al America
   9. Appraise the conflicts and contrasts in intellectual and religious life in colonial America including the implica­tions of the Great Awakening and the Enlighten­ment
4. Examine the various “wars of empire” in the late-1600s and early-1700s and the circumstances which led to the Revolutionary War
   1. Investigate the impact of England’s “new imperial policy” on the colonials after 1763, including the passage of the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts
   2. Analyze the concept of revolution, its prerequisites, and our founding fathers’ role in it
   3. Evaluate the causes of the Revolutionary War
   4. Contrast the advantages and disadvantages of both sides going into the Revolu­tionary War
   5. Summarize the major strategies and battles of the Revolu­tionary War
   6. Distinguish the major provisions of the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution
   7. Examine the main political, religious, social, and econom­ic consequences of the American Revolution
   8. Defend the assertion that the War was one of independence and not a revolu­tion
5. Analyze the political and constitutional developments and issues in the early national period
   1. Compare the types of state governments set up after the Revolu­tion
   2. Contrast the government under the Articles of Confedera­tion with the govern­ment under the Constitution
   3. Analyze the basic concepts included in the Articles and compare its innate conservatism with the radicalism of the Constitution
   4. Investigate the various political, economic, religious, and social issues which were dealt with during the Federal­ists and Republi­can periods. 5.5 Trace the early development of the two-party sys
   5. Explain the major changes that took place as the Republi­cans came into power in 1801 and relate this to national policy
   6. Reconstruct the circumstances and issues that led to the War of 1812 and judge its consequences
   7. Justify the assertion that nationalism was triumphant in the period after the War of 1812
   8. Identify the prerequisites of industrialization and show America’s developments in that direction
   9. Illustrate the constitutional nationalism of the Supreme Court under John Marshall
6. Explain the events and developments of the antebellum period in terms of their significance to North-South relations
   1. Relate the Missouri Compromise to the issue of westward expan­sion and slavery
   2. Examine the rise of Jacksonian politics, expansion of the elector­ate and the election of Andrew Jackson
   3. Explain the distribution of wealth in the United States in the era of the com­mon man
   4. Identify the issues of Jackson’s presidency, especially the nullifi­cation contro­versy, and relate them to their significance in nation­al politics
   5. Criticize the claim that Jackson wanted a “just and liberal policy” toward the Indians
   6. Trace the rise of the Whigs and the return to a two-party system
   7. Explain the importance of Clay, Webster, and Calhoun in early-nineteenth-century American politics
   8. Evaluate the term “manifest destiny” and the events which led to it completion of it during the 1840s up to and in­cluding the Mexican War
   9. Assess the significance of the Compromise of 1850, espe­cially as it relates to the slavery issue
   10. Explain the shaping of a national economy during the ante­bellum years, including the significance commercial, agricultural, and early manufacturing sectors
   11. Relate the various reform movements before the Civil War, includ­ing educa­tional reform, the temperance movement, the early women’s movement, and the abolition movement
   12. Compare the North and the South in economic, social, and political terms, focusing on angry abolitionism and the South’s defense of slavery
   13. Discuss the romantic movement, identifying various liter­ary figures and their importance
7. Explain the various events of the 1850s which would lead to the Civil War
   1. Identify the importance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the formation of the Republican party
   2. Evaluate the Dred Scott decision in terms of its constitu­tional reasoning
   3. Relate the Lincoln-Douglas debates to their national im­portance beyond Illinois
   4. Explain how the circumstances of the 1860 presidential election “led” to the beginning of the Civil War
   5. Recapitulate the early secessions during the months before Lin­coln took office
8. Evaluate the Civil War in terms of its causes, the military strat­egies involved and its major consequences
   1. Measure the relative strengths and weaknesses of each side as well as their respective war aims, logistics, and mili­tary strategies
   2. Analyze the early battles with the goal of understanding the difficulty Lincoln experienced in the early days
   3. Examine the “home front” on both sides during the war so as to understand its relative effects
   4. Define the statement that Lincoln’s Emancipation Procla­mation emancipated no slaves
   5. Measure the various human, economic, political, social, and psychological costs of the Civil War
9. Explain the major issues and consequences of Reconstruction after the Civil War
   1. Assess the important constitutional, political, and other issues presented by Reconstruction
   2. Compare presidential and Radical Reconstruction in terms of their goals, methods, and consequences
   3. Evaluate President Johnson’s performance during the early phases of presiden­tial Reconstruction
   4. Relate the circumstances surrounding the impeachment of Presi­dent Johnson to their constitutional and political importance
   5. Explain the election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 in terms of how Reconstruction was ended
   6. Evaluate the long-term political, constitutional, econom­ic, and social conse­quences of Reconstruction

HIS 153 - U.S. History since 1877

1. Summarize the causes, timeframe, scope, and effects of industrialization after the Civil War
   1. Explain the influence of the railroads, steel manufacturing, oil and other components of the industrial economy
   2. Evaluate the response of government, including the courts, and the political system to the effects of industrialization
   3. Interpret the various historical interpretations as to the consequences of industrialization
   4. Assess the social, cultural, and intellectual consequences of industrialization, especially the concentration of wealth and power
   5. Discuss working conditions in American factories including those of women and children
   6. Chronicle the rise of the labor movement in the post-Civil War years
   7. Summarize the ways in which industrialization affected education
   8. Interpret the changing role of agriculture in industrializing America
2. Assess the political climate in the United States in the post-Civil War years
   1. Examine the issues that were involved in various presidential elections, including the crucial election of 1876
   2. Compare and contrast the stands of the Democratic and Republican parties on the issues of the day, especially the tariff and labor issues
   3. Relate the extent to which the politics of the era were corrupt
   4. Analyze the impact of the women’s suffrage movement discussing leaders and issues
   5. Examine the importance of the gold and silver controversy in the political climate
   6. Investigate the importance, both short term and long term, of the crucial election of 1896
3. Assess America’s changing role in the world during the late-1800s
   1. Appraise the specific foreign policy issues and circumstances which presented themselves during the post-Civil War years
   2. Evaluate the causes, the course, and the overall importance of the Spanish-American War in foreign policy terms
   3. Rate the assertion that the United States came out of the Spanish-American War as a world-class power
   4. Evaluate the circumstances relating to increased American influence in Hawaii and the American takeover of the Philippines focusing on the imperialist and anti-imperialist arguments
   5. Assess the American issuance of the Open Door policy in China within the overall world foreign policy context and its significance in Asia generally
4. Explain the various forces, issues, and personalities involved in the progressive movement in the early 1900s
   1. Summarize the writings, ideas, and influence of the muckrakers
   2. Explain the impact of the progressive movement on local, state, and national politics, mentioning important individuals and parties such as Robert La Follette and the “Wisconsin Idea” and the Progressive party
   3. Relate the relationship between the late-nineteenth-century women’s movement and the progressive movement in general
   4. Evaluate the impact of progressive legislation through Wilson’s administration
   5. Explain the significance of the Niagara movement and the birth of the NAACP in terms of minority involvement in American culture
   6. Confirm or refute the position that women and blacks benefited minimally during the movement
   7. Analyze the policies of the Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson administration policies so as to measure each in terms of its support for progressivism
   8. Conclude as to whether progressivism can said to be “triumphing” in the years leading up to World War I and whether the war “killed” progressivism
   9. Summarize key foreign policy issues during the progressive period, such as the construction of the Panama Canal
5. Explain the causes, the circumstances leading to, the course of, and the consequences of World War I
   1. Examine the circumstances leading to World War I in Europe and American efforts to remain neutral in its early days
   2. Justify American entry into the war given the circumstances
   3. Summarize what American did to mobilize for the war once in, emphasizing the role of the national government and the role of women
   4. Explain the major strategies and battles of the war emphasizing American involvement
   5. Examine the various major provisions and shortcomings of the Treaty of Versailles
   6. Analyze as a political and a foreign policy issue Wilson’s efforts to create the League of Nations including the consequence of its rejection by the United States
6. Contrast the political, cultural and social mood of the country during the 1920s as opposed to the progressive era
   1. Justify the assertion that elections of 1920 represented a “return to normalcy”
   2. Interpret how the manner in which political issues were dealt with explained the mood of the country during the 1920s
   3. Summarize the presidential campaigns as indicators of the 1920s
   4. Assess the growth of consumerism during the 1920s
   5. Analyze the changing role of women during the 1920s
7. Summarize the various causes and consequences of the Great Depression
   1. Compare the various historical arguments as to who or what “caused” it to happen
   2. Describe the Depression’s severity in macroeconomic and microeconomic terms
   3. Describe the Depression’s severity in personal terms
   4. Assess the Depression’s impact in political terms culminating in the election of Franklin Roosevelt
   5. Contrast the various New Deal programs in terms of their goals and their successes and failures
   6. Show how the New Deal was “under attack” by various persons and groups and by the United States Supreme Court, mentioning such decisions as Schechter Poultry v. U.S..
   7. Contrast the programs and personnel of the New Deal as it evolves during Roosevelt’s presidency
   8. Estimate the impact of the Depression and the New Deal on organized labor in America, minorities, and women
8. Analyze the various foreign policy issues facing the United States during the 1930s leading to World War II
   1. Criticize or defend the idea that America was isolationist during this period and that this in part led to the war
   2. Explain the war debt and reparations issues in terms of how they related to the United States
   3. Analyze the reasons for the rise of totalitarianism during the 1920s and 1930s in various countries and America’s response to this
   4. Trace the specific circumstances which led to war between the United States and both Germany and Japan including American efforts to maintain neutrality
   5. Summarize the American mobilization for World War II mentioning specific acts and actions, including the roles of women and minorities
   6. Identify, briefly, the strategies and major battles of World War II, in the various theaters emphasizing the differences of opinion among the Allies over strategy
   7. Compare the various conferences during World War II in terms of their goals and short-and long-term consequences
   8. Describe the political, military, diplomatic, economic, and human costs and consequences of World War II
9. Assess the political and military circumstances leading to the Cold War and its consequences
   1. Dissect the various causes of the Cold War with regard to various parts of the world
   2. Relate the various specific crises and issues through which the Cold War evolved, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin crisis
   3. Explain the role of the political and economic organizations set up at the end of and after World War II
   4. Justify the assertion the Korean War was an example of the “Cold War turning hot”.
   5. Evaluate the early and later development of the Vietnam War as an example of Cold War conflict
   6. Examine the conflict in the Middle East (1948-present) in terms of its relevance to the Cold War conflict
   7. Judge as to the long-term consequences of the Cold War in terms of U.S.-Soviet relations
10. Analyze American domestic policy during the post-World War years with the goal of understanding the role of government in general and specifically the national government
    1. Compare post-war presidential policies in the areas of economic, social welfare, civil rights, women’s and civil liberties and labor policies
    2. Compare and contrast the relative strengths of the Republicans and the Democrats during the 1950s, focusing on the elections of 1952 and 1956, relating to any possible shift in the electorate
    3. Summarize the evolution of the civil rights movement from the late-1940s through the 1960s, focusing on such things as the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the integration of the Little Rock schools
    4. Analyze the 1960s as “years of turmoil” mentioning specifics such as the youth and anti-war movements showing their roots
    5. Measure the role of the Supreme Court in the 1960s and 1970s, mentioning specific court decisions, such as Miranda v. Arizona and Baker v. Carr, and their consequences
    6. Compare and contrast Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon civil rights policies
11. Illustrate why the 1970s were such a difficult period both in terms of foreign and domestic policy
    1. Examine the coming to power of Richard Nixon and what is said about the changed political climate of the country
    2. Compare the economic, social welfare, military and civil rights and civil liberties policies of the Nixon administration with its predecessors
    3. Evaluate how the foreign policy of the Nixon administration was unique in terms of the old Cold War policies (detente).
    4. Dissect Nixon’s Viet Nam policy as to its goals and degree of success
    5. Identify the main causes and consequences of the “Watergate” affair and how it led to the fall of President Richard Nixon
    6. Explain the roots of the so-called energy crisis of the 1970s and evaluate its main consequences, including the rise of the environmental movement
12. Assess where you think America is as it heads into its third century
    1. Evaluate the significance of the women’s movement from the 1960s to the present
    2. Justify the assertion that the civil rights movement has either transformed or ended
    3. Assess the results of the civil rights movement as an indicator of how much progress has been achieved
    4. Illustrate the increased importance of interest groups in American politics, including abortion groups, environmental groups, the gun lobby, etc
    5. Support the claim that the election of Ronald Reagan represented a revolution and assess the success and failures of the Reagan presidency
    6. Evaluate the domestic and foreign policy successes and failures of the Bush administration in terms of what it says or doesn’t say about the “end” of the Reagan Revolution

HIS 201 - Iowa History

1. Describe the major physical characteristics of Iowa: glaciation, climatic characteristics, soil, water and mineral, resources, and overall topography
   1. Explain the impact of climatic changes on Iowa from earliest geologic times to the present
   2. Demonstrate knowledge of how Iowa’s flora and fauna have evolved relative to changing physical characteristics
   3. Assess the overall impact of the glaciers in ‘creating’ modern day Iowa’s land forms and soil types
   4. Discuss how the Native American’s relationship to the environment differed from that of the first Europeans and how those differences have altered Iowa’s physical characteristics
2. Identify and explain the different cultural traits of Native Americans in Iowa
   1. Trace the chronological evolution of the first Iowans from the earliest Paleo-Indians to their final removal in 1851
   2. Compare and contrast the cultural differences between Plains and Woodland Native Americans
   3. Examine archeological evidence from throughout Iowa to determine differences in American Indian life styles throughout the last 10,000 years
   4. Determine the long term impact of Native Americans on Iowa history, i.e., place names, historical and cultural legacy, etc.
   5. Outline how Native Americans differed from the first Europeans regarding religion, political and social organizations, economics, and their relationship to the land
3. Discuss the changes taking place in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and how they influenced the early exploration and settlement of Iowa
   1. Summarize key events in Spain, France and England during 17th and 18th centuries and how they influenced initial contact with what would eventually become Iowa
   2. Explore the different motives for each country’s interest and involvement in the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys
   3. Examine who the key early European explorers were and how their efforts contributed to a better understanding of the ‘future’ Iowa
   4. Summarize the impact of the fur trade on Native Americans
   5. Outline the process of how the area Iowa was a part of became part of the United States
   6. Evaluate the circumstances leading up to, and the outcomes resulting from, the first treaties between Native Americans and the American Settlers
4. Outline the process of Iowa’s admission as a territory and summarize the key issues that needed to be resolved before Iowa was admitted for statehood
   1. Show understanding of the process involved in Iowa’s achieving territory status
   2. Discuss what impact the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War would have on the ‘future’ Iowa territory
   3. Analyze the major obstacles blocking Iowa’s admission to the Union – the questions of boundaries, black Iowans, and the doubts about banks
   4. Explain the role and influence of national party politics on Iowa as a territory and its early statehood years
5. Describe life in frontier Iowa from the Territorial Period to the Civil War, focusing on early farming, religion, transportation and politics
   1. Describe the pattern of settlement of frontier Iowa from East to West.
   2. Identify who the first settlers were; where they had come from, and what their journey to get here was like
   3. Relate what frontier life was like in areas such as agriculture, religion, family life and politics by reading primary source accounts, such as diaries, etc
   4. Assess the dangers and hardships of living on the Iowa frontier
6. Review the national debate over slavery and how it lead to a major political realignment in Iowa in the 1850s
   1. Trace the origins of slavery in the United States and how it becomes increasingly divisive as an issue after 1830
   2. Examine the early presence and status of African Americans in the Iowa Territory and early statehood
   3. Explain how both nationally and here in Iowa, the debate over slavery weakened the Democratic Party and helped create the Republican Party
   4. Summarize the roles played by key abolitionists in Iowa during the 1850s.
7. Summarize Iowa’s involvement in the Civil War
   1. Outline the major national events that led to south Carolina’s secession from the Union and the creation of the Confederacy
   2. Broadly follow Iowa’s involvement in the Civil War in such areas as tropp contributions, participation in key battles, outstanding military and civilian leaders, and the war’s impact on the ‘home front.
   3. Analyze the quality and significance of Iowa’s Republican leaders at the state and national level, during the Civil War period, i.e., Grimes, Kirkwood, Harlan, Wilson, Dodge, etc.
   4. Evaluate the war’s impact on Iowa, both immediate and long-term
8. Examine major political, social and economic trends in Iowa following the Civil War and how it was influenced by Reconstruction at the national and state level
   1. Identify the key issues of Reconstruction after the Civil War, i.e., the status of Blacks, President Johnson’s impeachment, ‘state’s rights,’ etc., and discuss the role Iowans played in these
   2. Relate how the war’s end increased the influence of railroads on Iowa agriculture and in Iowa’s politics
   3. Examine how the War’s end led to a dramatic increase in immigration, as well as a broadening of cultural diversity in the makeup of Iowans
9. Illustrate the problems and changes to Iowa agriculture during the last quarter of the 19th Century
   1. Show how and why Iowa agriculture first underwent dramatic changes in the 1870-1900 period and then how and why it lost its political influence and clout
   2. Explain what purpose third parties or political movements play in U.S. politics and why a number of agrarian radical groups arose in Iowa during that same period
   3. Examine economic depressions and recessions during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s and evaluate their overall impact on Iowa agriculture
10. Discuss the divisiveness in Iowa’s Republican Party and how it led to a major split into conservative and progressive factions
    1. Compare and contrast the rural Populist movement to the more urban Progressive movement and discuss what effect that had on Iowa
    2. Relate how and why Iowa’s Republican Party experienced serious problems and divisiveness between conservatives and progressives from 1901 to 1920
    3. Show examples of the impact of the Progressive reform movement on Iowa and who some of its leaders were
    4. Illustrate with examples how Iowa entered a “Golden Age of Agriculture” from approximately 1900-1920
11. Explore the impact of World War I on life in Iowa
    1. Analyze the conditions and causes internationally that brought about World War I and the immediate U.S. and Iowa response
    2. Summarize the key reasons the U.S. entered the War, the major ways Iowa contributed to the War effort, and Herbert Hoover’s role
    3. Understand the legal and moral implications of the treatment of U.S. citizens of German descent throughout the U.S., but particularly in Iowa
    4. List the reasons why the treaty ending World War I was flawed, hurt Iowa agriculture, and ‘planted the seeds’ for World War II
12. Indicate how the farm policies of the 1920s led to growing political and social unrest
    1. Discuss how demobilzation from World War I ignored problems for farmers in the 1920s.
    2. Explain President Harding and Coolidge’s policies of ‘a return to normalcy’ and ‘laissez-faire capitalism’ and their impact on Iowa
    3. Identify the causes, leaders, and key events of the period of agricultural, political and social unrest from 1923-1933
    4. Summarize Herbert Hoover’s presidency, both its’ successes and its’ failures
    5. Examine the causes of the stockmarket ‘crash’ of 1929; the ‘Great Depression’ of 1929-1933; and, how the two events were interrelated
13. List the ways in which the Depression era left a lasting impact on the state of Iowa and list the major New Deal legislation that came in response
    1. Study the impact of the ‘Great Depression’ on Iowa – economically, agriculturally, socially, etc
    2. Analyze the changes in political parties and their philosophies because of the Great Depression
    3. Outline the major New Deal programs and their impact on Iowa
    4. Discuss the roles played by prominent Iowans, i.e., Wallace, Lewis, Hopkins, Sunday, etc., during the 1930s.
14. Discuss World War II and its impact on life in Iowa
    1. Compare the U.S. position in World War II prior to Pearl Harbor to our ‘neutrality’ from 1914-17 in World War I
    2. Identify the major contributions Iowa made to the overall effort in World War II
    3. Summarize the impact, both imediate and long-term, of World War II on Iowa and Iowans
15. Show how a major political realignment in recent years has led to a competitive two-party state
    1. Analyze how after 70 years of domination, the Republican Party’s grip on partisan politics was broken
    2. Show what factors led to a resurgence in the Democratic Party
    3. Discuss the future implications of a decline in partisanship, more registered Independents, lower voter turnouts, more single issue politics, and a general cynicism among voters
16. Review how modernization, industrialization, automation and urbanization have dramatically changed agricultural practices in Iowa since World War II
    1. Examine the challenges to Iowa’s agricultural future – environmental concerns, decreasing political clout, less independence and autonomy, and an aging farm group
    2. Assess the growing rivalry between urban and rural interests for political influence, limited tax dollars, and the social and cultural direction Iowa should go
17. Based on Iowa’s post World War II demographic changes, discuss options for Iowa’s future in the following areas: education, business agriculture, social and political
    1. Review Iowa’s most important assets and liabilities as we prepare to enter the 21st Century
    2. Develop a vision of what you would like Iowa to look like in the year 2050
    3. Prioritize what Iowa’s greatest failures have been in the last quarter of the 20th Century and develop a strategy to address and correct those

HIS 211 - Modern Asian History

1. Evaluate the social, cultural and political histories and customs of the various East and Southeast Asian peoples
   1. Discuss the rise of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism and Islam and the roles they played in the various cultures
   2. Investigate the impact of ethnic diversities and treatment of minorities in Southeast and East Asian societies
   3. Assess the causes for interaction between the cultures including isolationist practices
   4. Explain “Orientalism’s” effect upon Western attitudes toward the region
   5. Analyze the impact of early Western incursions into these cultures
   6. Discuss the growth of commerce in East and Southeast Asia
2. Discuss the significance of the Meiji Restoration in Japan
   1. Explain the causes of the Meiji Restoration
   2. Discuss the impact of the Meiji Restoration upon Japan and its neighbors
   3. Understand the changes the Meiji Restoration brought about to Japanese societal struggle
   4. Explain the rapid rate of Japanese modernization
3. Critique the significance and impact of changing ideologies including nationalism and communism
   1. Contrast competing claims of imperialism in Southeast Asia with Thailand’s independent resistance
   2. Identify and discuss the reasons for the rise of nationalist movements
   3. Assess the motivations and struggles of Ho Chi Minh and Sukarno
   4. Explain the causes of the Qing Reforms in China
   5. Assess and discuss the appeal of Marxist-Leninism in East and Southeast Asia, including China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Philippines, Cambodia, and others
   6. Discuss the reactions of Western powers to the rise of Asian nationalism
4. Assess the cultural works in East and Southeast Asia and their impact upon their respective societies
   1. Identify the cultural struggles between European occupiers and indigenous cultural movements in Southeast Asia
   2. Identify and discuss the contributions of Lu Xun and Kita Ikki
   3. Discuss the reasons for and the motivations of the New Cultural Movement
   4. Explain the significance of the “Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism
   5. Discuss the influence of Japan’s “Angry Young Men” in relationship to Kita Ikki
5. Assess the transformation of the Pacific Rim and the impact of Japanese-American relations prior to and during the Second World War
   1. Examine China’s experience with the West at the turn of the 20th century
   2. Analyze Japan’s involvement in Western Affairs at the turn of the century through the First World War
   3. Discuss the reasons for Japan’s aggressive actions in Asia after 1920
   4. Explain the significance of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines
   5. Assess the political, social, and economic changes created by the United States’ post-Second World War occupation of Japan
   6. Discuss Japan’s motivations for the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
   7. Assess American attitudes toward the Japanese, Chinese, and colonized Asians during and immediately following the Second World War
6. Interpret the new post-Second World War Asian reality
   1. Appraise the new “two Koreas”
   2. Identify the causes for Japan’s post-war recovery and commercial rise
   3. Explain the post-war internal Chinese struggle
   4. Explain the impact of the Korean War on the region
   5. Discuss the changes in the Japanese political system after the Second World War
   6. Analyze the “creation” of Southeast Asia as a region and the struggle with national interests
   7. Discuss the role of women in East and Southeast Asia
7. Analyze and discuss the reasons for the post-war economic growth and industrialization in East and Southeast Asia
   1. Discuss the causes for Taiwan and South Korea’s industrial growth and successes
   2. Discuss the significance of Confucian philosophy on Asia’s “New Capitalism”.
   3. Assess the Asian methods of corporate management, the role of culture, and “timing”
   4. Assess the significance and successes of the “Newly Industrialized Economies” (NIE’s).
   5. Identify the impact of international organizations such as ASEAN and SCO on the economic and social performance of the region
8. Evaluate the changes in China during and after Mao Zedong
   1. Discuss the political reforms of Mao Zedong and their effects upon Chinese society
   2. Identify Chinese political, economic and societal imperatives
   3. Assess the significance of China’s democratic transition
   4. Analyze the changes in post-Mao China
   5. Critique the changes in post-Deng China
9. Evaluate the rise of democratic movements among Asian peoples
   1. Assess the progress of democratic movements in Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines
   2. Identify the legacy of “Pork Barrel Democracy” in the Philippines
   3. Discuss the determinates of democratic change on political culture, ethnic rivalries, and socioeconomic development
   4. Assess and discuss the rapid economic growth in South Korea as it relates to increasing political freedom and self-determination
10. Assess the impact of American attitudes toward Asia from 1776 through the Cold War
    1. Analyze the earliest interactions between China and America post-Independence
    2. Identify the causes for the American “loss of China”.
    3. Discuss the transfer of power from a colonial legacy to that of self-governance
    4. Summarize the rivalry in Asia during the Cold War
    5. Assess the impact of American occupation in Japan and Asia after the Second World War
    6. Assess the significance of the Korean War on the United States and Asian nations
    7. Evaluate the causes and significance of the Vietnam War
    8. Discuss the strategies of “containment” in Asia
    9. Assess the significance of the United States opening relations with China
11. Predict American’s future as a Pacific nation
    1. Discuss the impact of Asia’s economic growth upon the world economic markets
    2. Assess the significance of Asian immigration to the United States
    3. Discuss the reasons for the United States new direction in Asia
    4. Define the idea of “Charting” and “Pivoting” regarding economic and political trends
12. Evaluate the significance of Russia’s role in Pacific Asia today
    1. Discuss the role of Pacific Asia in relation to Glasnost
    2. Discuss the geographical, historical and new myths Russia has in regards to Asian peoples
    3. Assess Russia’s claim for Far Eastern identity
    4. Analyze recent Russian leaders’ relationship with Asia through bilateral agreements and IGOs

HIS 216 - History of Modern Russia

1. Summarize the effects of the continuation of Romanov rule on Russia
   1. Understand the Russian governmental actions to maintain Romanov rule
   2. Know the general problems of Russia’s war effort (1904-05).
   3. Determine how the Russian government changed from absolute monarchy to parliamentary form
   4. Explain the economic steps taken to reform Russia’s economy
   5. Understand the impact of Russian orthodoxy on political and cultural change
   6. Comprehend the difficulty of governing a multi-ethnic nation
2. Analyze the rise to political leadership of the Communist Party (Social Democrats (b)) [Bolshevik].
   1. Explain how Russia’s efforts in WWI enriched the political atmosphere for revolution
   2. Understand how a weak Tsar aided political unrest
   3. Describe the political chaos of 1917
   4. Identify influence of the two major Bolshevik leaders: Lenin and Trotsky
   5. Learn how Lenin’s political education developed
   6. Understand how the Bolsheviks consolidated power during the 1920s
   7. Examine the increasing economic penetration of Russia into the world’s economy
   8. Access the impact of collectivization of agriculture and industrialization upon the population and transformation of Russia into an industrial power
3. Explain how Stalin rose to control the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)/USSR
   1. Understand Stalin’s accumulation of dictatorial power
   2. Comprehend how other Bolshevik “leaders” failed to understand Stalin
   3. Understand how Trotsky failed to secure his leadership following Lenin’s death
   4. Learn how Stalin shifted political position to enhance his political power
4. Examine the steps Stalin used to develop total control of the USSR
   1. Understand how Stalin manipulated the leadership of the CPSU to gain control of the USSR’s political system
   2. Examine the importance of the 1930s “purge” period
   3. Comprehend how the use of terror produced trust in Stalin by the general population of the USSR
   4. Understand the importance of “show trials” for the consolidation of political power by Stalin
   5. Describe how the secret (in camera) trial of the military leadership weakened the USSR (1937-38)
5. Address the impact of WWII on the USSR
   1. Describe what Finland taught the USSR about modern military tactics
   2. Determine what advantage Germany and the USSR obtained from the Soviet- German Non-Aggre
   3. Understand how Germany stunned the USSR after Operation Barbarossa
   4. Explain how the Soviet Union contributed to the defeat of Germany in WWII
   5. Understand the role of the Soviet Union in international diplomacy during WWII
6. Describe the effect of the political pressure of the Soviet Union on the world after WWII
   1. Identify the characteristics of a totalitarian state
   2. Understand the meaning of “Cold War”.
   3. Comprehend the impact of the Korean War on world political thought towards the USSR
   4. Learn the political manipulation by Khrushchev to become the leader of the USSR/CPSU
7. Analyze the difficulties and successes of the Khrushchev period
   1. Understand USSR’s growing influence on “third world” countries
   2. Discuss Khrushchev’s visit to Iowa/US in 1959
   3. Understand how Khrushchev agricultural plans failed
   4. Discuss USSR-US relationship changes because of the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting
8. Demonstrate how the conservative Bolsheviks maintained power after the fall of Khrushchev
   1. Understand the increasing voices of dissent in the USSR created difficulties for the USSR
   2. Explain how Soviet leadership tried to increase consumer choices in the market
   3. Identify increasing unrest amid Soviet satellite nations
9. Summarize the succession of Soviet leaders from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
   1. Explain how post Brezhnev leaders continued past political practices
   2. Explain how economic stagnation hampered the USSR
10. Describe the rise of Gorbachev
    1. Understand the attempt at political change by Gorbachev
    2. Explain how Chernobyl generated international crises
    3. Determine the USSR’s reaction to restive satellites in the 1980’s
    4. Understand how Gorbachev dealt with Afghanistan
    5. Examine the causes of the final collapse of the USSR
11. Examine the rise to power of Boris Yeltsen
    1. Understand the impact of a Duma on Russian political developments
    2. Identify political changes on the Russian political system after Gorbachev
    3. Know the impact of Russia’s ethnic policy on internal unrest
    4. Know how the lack of economic planning corrupted Russia
12. Analyze the reign of Vladimir Putin
    1. Understand how Putin was elected
    2. Explain how Putin used political power to gain economic stabilization
    3. Describe how Putin retains political power
    4. Explain Putin’s reversion to Stalinist control systems

HIS 249 - Study Abroad: Brit Life & Culture

1. Examine the history and culture of London.
   1. Explain how life in London has changed from prehistoric times to the beginning of World War I, after visiting the Museum of London.
   2. Explain the difference between ancient Britain and the contemporary United Kingdom.
   3. Describe the history and current role of the Lord Mayor of London.
   4. Describe the highlights of one of the many London tours that emphasize a particular area or famous person, such as the Inns of Court, Charles Dickens or Jack the Ripper Tour.
   5. Examine the variety of orators who openly share their opinion about political issues and the state of the world, after visiting Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of Great Britain.
   1. Describe the Roman Empire’s contribution to British development and identity
   2. Identify the significance of William the Conqueror and 1066 in British history.
   3. Explain how Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland have played a role in the historical development of Great Britain.
   4. Read either Jane Austin’s The History of England or Charles Dickens’s A Child’s History of England (or a similar work assigned by your instructor) and compare these historical accounts with the notes from the lecture in class.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the Monarchy and Royal Family.
   1. Use specific examples from the history of the monarchy and explain primogenitor and its role in the succession of the throne.
   2. Summarize the role of Henry VIII in development of the Anglican Church
   3. Examine the impact of the monarchy on British life and culture during the era depicted in one of the many films about the English Monarchy, such as Elizabeth, The Young Victoria, The Queen, or Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
   4. Compare the class lecture notes with the information found in one of the following, or a similar work suggest by your instructor: Peter Fearon’s Behind the Palace Walls: The Rise and Fall of Britain?s Royal Family, Robert Hardmon’s A Year with the Queen or William T. Vollman’s The Royal Family.
4. Explain social class and its meaning in contemporary British society.
   1. Discuss historical and modern issues of social class.
   2. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the middle class and nobility.
   3. Discuss the presentation of social classes as demonstrated in a film such as Remains of the Day or Upstairs/Downstairs, or another film suggested by your instructor.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of theatre in British culture.
   1. Evaluate a minimum of two London theatre productions.
   2. Discuss the historical significance of replication of the Globe Theatre in London.
   3. Discuss the history of theatre in London.
6. Examine the role of Parliament and politics in British culture.
   1. Summarize the guided tour of the Houses of Parliament.
   2. Explain the sovereign’s role in British Parliament.
   3. Distinguish the difference between the Houses of Parliament and the political system in the United States.
   4. Explain the difference between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
7. Examine Great Britain’s relationship with the European Union.
   1. Explain the political, economic and social implications of not belonging to the EU.
   2. Summarize why Great Britain has maintained the British pound.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of Anglo-American relationship.
   1. Distinguish motivations of British and Americans during the American Revolution.
   2. Examine events involving 19th Century Anglo-American cooperation.
   3. Examine modern events involving Anglo-American cooperation. In particular, emphasize the relationships between United States Presidents and Great Britain’s Prime Ministers.
9. Demonstrate an understanding of World War II and the Blitz.
   1. Describe the Blitz experience that is simulated in the Imperial War Museum.
   2. Describe a typical British home and backyard that existed during WWII.
   3. Discuss how the British people rallied to save St. Paul’s during the Blitz.
   4. Examine the role of Anglo-American cooperation in the successful invasion of France in 1944.
10. Explore London’s architecture.
    1. Explain how twentieth century London architecture is vastly different from previous centuries.
    2. Explain the rebuilding of London after the Blitz.
    3. Discuss the historical and architectural differences between two royal residences, such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London.
    4. Contrast the architectural differences Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s, and discuss their roles in London’s history.
11. Investigate places such as Stonehenge and Salisbury, Oxford, Cambridge or Bath.
    1. Identify and discuss the relevance of appropriate landmarks and buildings found in these destinations.
    2. Select a specific site, such as Stonehenge near Salisbury or the Roman baths in Bath, or a concept such as the evolution of the university at Oxford or Cambridge and discuss its significance in British history.
12. Investigate such places as the Globe Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, Houses of Parliament, the Victoria and Albert Museum, or the British Museum.
    1. Describe the history and relevance of these galleries or museums.
    2. Explain the historical significance and major difference between the National Portrait Gallery and other museums such as the National Gallery or the Tate Modern.
    3. Explore the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum and discuss the historical significance and the current controversy that exists concerning these reliefs from the Parthenon in Athens.

HIS 257 - African-American History

1. Summarize the timeframe, culture, and effects of Ancient Egyptian culture on other African cultures, especially West African cultures
   1. Explain the religion of Ancient Egypt
   2. Discuss the political structure of Ancient Egypt
   3. Describe the economy of Ancient Egypt, especially the significance of slavery
   4. Evaluate the intellectual development of Ancient Egypt, particularly geometry and its relationship to architecture and construction
   5. Assess and appreciate Egyptian art
2. Summarize the timeframe, culture, and impact of the West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, and the Congo on West African tribes from Senegal to Angola
   1. Explain the animist and Muslim religious traditions of the West African coast
   2. Describe the family-centered, predominately patriarchal political system
   3. Describe the predominantly agricultural and artisan economy of West Africa
   4. Evaluate the intellectual development of the West African kingdoms, particularly the University of Sankore in Timbuctu
   5. Identify the distinctive artistic styles of the Bambera, Akan, Senufo, Benin, Fang, and Congo cultures
3. Summarize the causes, timeframe, operation, and effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
   1. Explain the relationship between the rise of Islam, the closure of European trade with the Middle East and Far East, the development of European navigation, the circumnavigation of Africa, and the European discovery of the Americas
   2. Discuss the epidemiological impact of European diseases on native Americans vis a vis Africans
   3. Assess the economic impact of European discovery of Mexican gold and Peruvian silver.
   4. Evaluate the participation of African coastal tribes in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
   5. Describe the African resistance to the trade and the role of abolition societies in the termination of the trade in the early 19th century
4. Summarize the timeframe, causes, and effects of the change of indentured to enslaved African labor in the British colonies
   1. Discuss the legal status of the first twenty Africans brought to Jamestown, VA in 1619, especially that of Anthony Johnston
   2. Describe the rise of discriminatory treatment of African servants 1619-1661, particularly the John Punch case of 1640
   3. Chronicle the establishment of Slave Codes for Africans in all thirteen of the British colonies, beginning with that of Virginia in 1661 and concluding with that of Georgia in 1750
5. Assess the role of free and enslaved African Americans in the American Revolution and the issue of slavery
   1. Discuss the significance of Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Salem Poor etal
   2. Evaluate Washington’s order excluding African Americans from the Continental Army and Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
   3. Interpret Washington’s inclusion of African Americans in 1777 and the beginning of abolition in northern states beginning with Vermont in 1777 and concluding with New Jersey in 1804
6. Summarize the development of the Free Antebellum Community 1780-1860
   1. Assess the political status of free African Americans from the Quok Walker case (1780) to Dred Scott (1857).
   2. Analyze the economic status of free African Americans from Paul Cuffee (Boston shipper) to Joseph Jenkins Roberts (Richmond, VA. merchant) to Jean-Claude Metoyer (Louisiana free black slave-owner).
   3. Evaluate the social structure of the free black community including the high percentage of two-parent families, dominance of the father, and significance of church (A.M.E.) and fraternal orders (Masons, Odd Fellows).
   4. Describe the literature of Phillis Wheatley, George Moses Horton, William Wells Brown, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the art of Robert Duncanson, Julien Hudson, and Patrick Reason, and the drama of Ira Aldridge
7. Summarize the timeframe, geography, politics, economics, sociology, religion, and art of Antebellum slavery
   1. Explain the relationship between the development of the United States, the spread of slavery, and the Internal Slave Trade
   2. Discuss the centrality of the slavery issue in national politics from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the Compromises of 1820 and 1850
   3. Analyze the various economic theses of slavery from Phillips to Fogel and Engerman
   4. Assess the dialectical relationship between “whites” and “blacks” in the Slave Society as described by Genovese, Blassingame, and Levine
   5. Discuss the impact of African Americans’ interpretation of Christianity in terms of deliverance on American protestantism
   6. Describe the public and private architecture, interior decoration and craft-work (pottery, basketry, weaving, and quilting) of enslaved
8. Summarize the causes, timeframe, people, events and organizations of the movement to abolish slavery
   1. Identify the colonial era/enlightenment era ideas antithetical to enslavement (i.e., unalienable rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), and the Revolutionary era abolition from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania
   2. Assess the significance of the successful slave revolt in Haiti (1793-1805) led by Toussaint and Dessalines
   3. Evaluate the role of “black” and “white” abolitionists such as David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
9. Assess the role of African Americans and the issue of slavery in the victory of the United States over the Confederate States in the Civil War 1861-65
   1. Evaluate the initial rejection of African American volunteers by the U.S. Army in 1861, the admission of them in July 1862, and the eventual participation of about 200,000 African Americans to the Union victory
   2. Assess the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation on the flight of some 500,000 enslaved persons, the loss of that labor to the Confederate economy, and to the neutrality of European nations
   3. Analyze the impact of heroic service of African Americans, including fourteen Medal of Honor winners, in the U.S. Army on the African American community
10. Summarize the timeframe, geography, and political, economic and social issues of the Reconstruction era
    1. Distinguish between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction
    2. Identify the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
    3. Compare “Radical” Republicans, “Black” Republicans, “Scalawags,” and “Carpetbaggers.”
11. Summarize the timeframe, geography, and political, economic, and social issues of the Segregation era
    1. Identify segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching and their relationship to Social Darwinism, white racism, and imperialism of the late 19th century
    2. Describe the various types of segregation laws
    3. Discuss the various responses of African Americans to segregation including protest, legal suit, migration, emigration, and accommodation
    4. Assess the response of Booker T. Washington to segregation, etc
    5. Assess the response of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois to segregation, etc
    6. Evaluate the organized response to segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching by the Afro-American League, the Niagara Movement, the N.A.A.C.P., the National Urban League, the American Negro Academy, and the Association for the Study of African American
    7. Evaluate the effectiveness of “The Great Migration” to segregation, etc
12. Summarize the timeframe, geography, causes, ideas, institutions, and leaders of “The New Negro
    1. Describe the relationship between W.W. I and “the New Negro.”
    2. Assess the significance of Marcus Garvey to the New Negro Movement
    3. Evaluate the significance of the Harlem Renaissance to the New Negro Movement
    4. Identify the key figures of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, “Duke” Ellington, “Ma” Rainey, “Bessie” Smith, Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, and Aaron Douglas
13. Summarize the timeframe geography, and political, economic, social and religious changes that occurred in the African American community during the Great Depression and New Deal
    1. Describe the causes for the change in political allegiance by African Americans from the Republican party to the Democratic party
    2. Discuss the reasons for African American support of the C.I.O. and the significance of their membership in the U.S.W., U.M.W., and U.A.W
    3. Assess the significance of the Scottsboro case
    4. Evaluate the significance of Jesse Owens’ four gold medal victories in the Berlin Olympic Games
    5. Evaluate Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt’s support for the N.A.A.C.P. and particularly for Marion Anderson’s concert
14. Summarize the chronology, issues, and results of World War II
    1. Discuss the “Double V” Campaign of the African American press
    2. Describe the March on Washington, D.C., Movement of A. Philip Randolph and Executive Order 8802
    3. Chronicle the breakdown of discrimination against African Americans in the armed forces during WW II.
    4. Assess the impact of the Second Great Migration during WW II
    5. Evaluate the significance of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) to the end of segregation, etc
15. Summarize the timeframe, causes, major events, organizations, and leaders of the Civil Rights movement
    1. Discuss the groundwork of the Civil Rights Movement conducted by the N.A.A.C.P. and especially Charles H. Houston to the Brown v. State Board of Education, Topeka decision
    2. Evaluate the role of the Cold War, television and religion in the Civil Rights Movement
    3. Assess the significance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement
    4. Describe the actions of S.N.C.C. and C.O.R.E. in the Civil Rights Movement
    5. Evaluate the effectiveness of the Civil rights Acts of 1957, 1964, 1965, and 1968 in eliminating segregation, disfranchisement, and racist violence against African Americans
    6. Discuss the “militant’ idea and actions of ‘Black Power,” the Black Panthers, the Black Manifesto, and others
16. Summarize the chronology, issues, and leadership in the Struggle for Equality
    1. Assess the political success of Jesse Jackson in the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, and the unofficial campaign of Colin Powell for 1996
    2. Describe the central ideas of Afrocentrism as advocated by Dr. Mokefi Asanti and others

HIS 266 - The Civil War

1. Grasp the political, social, and economic realities of the Civil War, in both the North and the South
2. Know the chronology of the key events in the Civil War
3. Understand the Civil War in the context of the history of warfare; it was the bloodiest of all wars, the first of the modern wars, and the last of the old fashioned wars
4. Comprehend that the causes of the Civil War are a matter of debate
5. Appreciate that the Civil War was a turning point in American history that has shaped the American character and helped to mold political, economic, and social institutions
6. Realize that the Civil War left numerous issues unresolved, many which will continue to challenge the nation into the 21st century
7. Compare and contrast the political systems of the 19th and 20th centuries with regard to centralization, size complexity, etc

HIS 280 - Family History Research

1. Develop a basic understanding of the basics of genealogy and family history.
   1. Differentiate between genealogy and family history.
   2. Contrast primary and seocndary sources and original documents and derivative ones.
   3. Compare the validity/reliability of various sources.
   4. Distinguish among various genealogical forms such as family group sheets, ancestry charts, etc.
   5. Explain basic genealogical terminology and family relationships.
   6. Introduce various examples of software used in genealogy record-keeping.
   7. Assess the importance of historical context.
   8. Analyze the importance of critical, analytical thinking.
2. Know the various information sources both on-line and on-site.
   1. Develop the ability to use general search engiens and subscription-based and free genealogy sites.
   2. Compare variousebsites that focus on specific areas/subfields of genealogy.
   3. Discover how to use email in making contacts and gathering information; specific tips.
   4. Demonstrate familiarity with the use of mailing lists.
   5. Use message boards to post queries.
   6. Be sensitive to various on-line dos and don’ts.
   7. Familiarize yourself with on-site such as country courthouses, historical societies, libraires, cemeteries.
3. Discover ways to obtaining, organizing and sharing research.
   1. Explain the importance of recordkeeping through such means as research and corresondence logs.
   2. Develop the proper kinds of paper recordkeeping techniques and computer data bases.
   3. Develop methods of sharing research through the Internet and by other means of communciation.
4. Assess the basic methods of collecting genealogical information.
   1. Explain the importance of chronology in collecting and arranging information.
   2. Demonstrate basic interviewing techniques and the importance of oral history.
5. Demonstrate how use census records as a means of gather genealogicl information.
   1. Examine the various census forms, and explain how they have changed over the decades.
   2. Explain where to find census records especially in the Internet.
   3. Develop an understanding of various search strategies.
   4. Assess the value of other census populations and non-population records.
6. Classify and use various kinds of vital statistics such as birth, death, and marriage certificates, wills and inventories, other legal documents, land records, and the like.
7. Classify all kinds of non-government primary sources such as church records, diaries and journals, letters and correspondences, obituaries, family bibles, and local newspapers..
8. Examine such secondary sources as local histories, biographies, history texts, oral histories, etc.
9. Appraise immigration and naturalization records.
   1. Develop a familiarity with ethnicity, American and European history and immigration patterns.
   2. Locate and contrast information from passenger lists.
   3. Examine the basic naturalization process and explain how to locate and use naturalization documents.
10. Glean information from military records.
    1. Demonstrate a familiarity with American military history, wars, and military organization.
    2. Evaluate military records as DD-214s and draft cards.
11. Design and execute a genealogical research trip.
12. Demonstrate knowledge of various genealogical special topics.
    1. Develop a basic understanding of photographic analysis.
    2. Compose a family history.
    3. Assess information from DNA tests and medical histories.
    4. Discuss special populations such as African Americans and Native Americans.
    5. Explain the difficulties and methods associated with researching ancestors outside the United States.

HIT 120 - Pharmacology for HIT

Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Describe different pharmacy settings (hospital, retail, internet).

2. List the major chain pharmacies in the U.S.

3. Name several major pharmaceutical companies and key products.

4. Describe the role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs).

5. Explain a typical example of prescription drug coverage through private insurance.

6. Discuss prescription drug coverage through Medicare Part D.

7. Identify the dollar amount spent in the U.S. each year for pharmaceuticals.

2. Examine basic knowledge of drug terminology, forms, and routes of administration.

1. Define these terms: therapeutic effect, side effect, adverse effects, target organ.

2. Compare between prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

3. Differentiate between generic name and trade name/brand name.

4. Describe a drug formulary, prior authorization, and step therapy.

5. Differentiate between a local and systemic drug effect.

6. Explain the concept of medication reconciliation.

7. Summarize drug forms and routes of administration.

8. Define nine forms in which drugs are manufactured.

9. Identify eight routes of drug administration.

3. Discuss systems of measurement and the prescription.

1. Name at least three common metric abbreviations used in drug dosages.

2. Define Latin abbreviations indicating frequency of dosing.

3. Identify the basic components of a prescription.

4. Describe which health care professionals are authorized to write prescriptions.

5. Explain the flow of a prescription from time of writing to fulfillment.

4. Describe the basics of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing).

1. Define e-prescribing.

2. Name the participants in e-prescribing including Surescripts the nation’s e-prescription network to enable electronic prescribing and facilitate the secure exchange of health information.

3. Explain how e-prescribing differs from traditional prescription methods.

4. List the basic steps of e-prescribing.

5. Describe the benefits and drawbacks of e-prescribing.

6. Summarize the current use of e-prescribing.

7. Give examples of where to go to learn more about e-prescribing.

8. Discuss what is being done to ensure the security and privacy of prescriptions and personal health information.

9. Explain how the federal government is encouraging e-prescribing.

5. Compare the top 200 Drug list - brand Name, generic name and common use(s)

1. Compare brand and generic names of the top 200 drugs.

2. Identify the common use(s) of the top 200 drugs.

3. Explain the relationship between the medical diagnosis and the drugs.

4. Demonstrate proper pronunciation and spelling of drugs and related terminology.

HIT 125 - Essentials of Health Records

1. Characterize the patient record.
   1. Define a health record.
   2. Differentiate among various types of patient records formats.
   3. Explain the purpose of patient record and provider documentation completion responsibilities.
   4. Explain the flow of post discharge processing of health information.
   5. List and explain the major functions of a health information management department.
   6. Explain the principles and process flow of an incomplete record system.
   7. Compare paper-based verses electronic records processing.
   8. Explain mehods for correcting errors in documentation.
   9. Discuss the importance of authentication of records.
   10. Differentiate between licensure, accreditation, regulations and list accrediting and licensure organizations/government agencies.
2. Examine the content of the patient record and health record data.
   1. Explain general documentation requirements of health records and their compliance with accreditation standards and federal and state laws and regulations.
   2. Describe the contents of inpatient, outpatient and physician office records.
   3. Differentiate among administrative and clinical data collected on patients.
   4. Describe the flow of clinical data through an acute care facility.
   5. List and understand the required reports and data elements in clinical reports and health record.
   6. Given a data element, identify the appropriate orginal source of data.
   7. List elements of Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS).
   8. Distinguish between data and information.
   9. Define primary and secondary data.
   10. Distinguish between characters, fields, reports, files.
3. Explain indexes, registries, research studies and health data collection.
   1. Define key terms related to indexes, registries and health data collection.
   2. Identify, describe and understand purpose of registries maintained by health care facilities and state and federal agencies.
   3. Explain the purpose of a master patient index.
   4. Discuss the importance of maintaining accurate and permanent retention of MPI.
   5. Describe the differences and advantages/disadvantages between manual and computerized MPI.
   6. Discuss clinical research and trails including Medicare qualifying trials, IRB and research informed consent.
   7. Discuss the characteristics of health data collection and ensuring data quality.
   8. List and explain key data categories.
   9. Define data sets used in health care and identify their applications and purposes.
4. Examine the role of medical transcriptionists.
   1. Define medical transcription.
   2. Describe duties performed by transcriptionists.
   3. Identify the types of documents produced.
   4. Explain the uses of transcribed data.
   5. List basic competencies of medical transcriptionists.
   6. Name the reference materials used by transcriptionists.
   7. Identify work settings for transcriptionists, including home based offices.
   8. Differentiate between clinical and hospital transcription.
   9. Discuss how accurate transcription contributes to safer and higher quality care.
5. Describe health information technologies used for medical transcription
   1. Describe the flow of data from the point of care to transcription to health care information systems.
   2. Identify equipment used for transcription.
   3. Describe the role of the Internet in transcription.
   4. Identify privacy and security controls for transferring data via the Internet.
   5. Understand compliance with style and formatting requirements.
   6. Describe speech recognition technology.
6. Describe the job outlook for medical transcriptionists.
   1. Summarize education and training requirements for a transcriptionist.
   2. Discuss certification opportunities.
   3. Explain the increasing demand for transcription services.
   4. Describe compensation methods for transcriptionists.
7. Characterize the role of the EHR in facilitating complete documentation, efficient workflow and timely communications among clinicians, staff and patients.
   1. Understand the applications used for practice management and EHR including the purpose, advantages/disadvantages and an overview of flow of patient information.
   2. Explain the transformation of data into information and the professions who play a key role in the process, what tools and applications are used to collect data and laws and standards that govern health information.
   3. Identify data elements that make up administrative data and learn the steps necessary to make an appointment and register a paient, collect administrative/demographic data and capture insurance information.
   4. Use an EHR for data collection and maintenance of past medical, surgical family and social histories and understand importance of data accuracy and proper handling of inconsistent, unclear or incorrect data.
   5. Examine the care providers collection and use of healthcare data including documentation of patient’s history of present illness, review of system, physical exam and meaningful use requirements in relation to maintaining a problem list, e-prescribing and computerized order entry.
   6. Define the claims management process including use of superbill, ICD-9-CM, CPT, HCPCS coding and understand the basics and importance of billing and coding procedures and policies and standards to ensure compliance with regulations and agency requirements.
   7. Describe the regulations such as HIPAA and HITECH including privacy and security standards and methods to maintain security safeguard data integrityy and audit compliance with access and release of information. Using EHR understand Meaningful Use of electronic data for continuity of care and accounting for data disclosures.
   8. Examine the management of information and communication utilizing an EHR as a communication tool, imprinting documents in nonelectronic format, use of templates for standardized data collection, importance of screen customization for flexibility to care providers to improve satisfaction of using electronic tools and use of alert system including task list and system flags to improve patient outcomes.
   9. Use the EHR database to write custom and system generated reports and explore database in its use in decision support for clinical and administrative reasons and data collection resulting in information for credentialing process.
   10. Explain the future of electronic environment in healthcare including health informatics, telemedicine, telehealth and patient medical homes and devices that make collection and sharing of health information more timely and efficient but remains secure.

HIT 162 - Data Security for Health IT

1. Explain medical records privacy and ethical issues related to patient information
   1. Discuss the implications of the HIPAA privacy and security rules for the protection of information
   2. Explain the potential risks to and vulnerabilities of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization’s sensitive information
   3. Discuss reasonable and appropriate policies and procedures to comply with regulatory requirements
   4. Define breach as it pertains to personal health information
   5. Describe required notification and reporting practices triggered by a breach occurrence and the role of Office of Civil Rights.
2. Differentiate methods to maintain data quality
   1. Define data integrity and data mining and their relevance to health care
   2. Discuss strategies to ensure data integrity, accuracy, and quality
   3. Differentiate between online, offline, and out-sourced data storage and how storage conditions affect data integrity
   4. Discuss the significance of data cleansing for data warehousing and data mining
   5. Examine data sharing and transfer, consent, and considerations
3. Discuss mitigation strategies to security threats by personnel and other internal influences
   1. Discuss social engineering tactics
   2. Identify competing and conflicting personnel interests
   3. Explain the impact that Internet technology, cloud environment and/or social networking has on health information security
   4. Describe end-user roles of organizations’ systems security policies
   5. Discuss importance of routine security training
4. Outline mitigation strategies to technical and physical vulnerabilities
   1. Explain physical access & appropriate deterrents for unauthorized parties
   2. Discuss sources of printed and electronic waste and proper disposal techniques
   3. Examine the fundamentals of network security including topology and devices
   4. List acceptable authentication and permission mechanisms
   5. Describe protocols for data encryption and digital signatures
   6. Explain the importance of activity logs and system benchmarks
5. Examine implications for use of mobile and wireless devices in healthcare information systems

1. Describe mobile devices and apps security, convenience, accuracy, efficiency, and productivity
2. Examine the fundamentals of wireless devices, authentication, encryption, and Wi-Fi connections
3. Discuss administrative, physical, and technical safeguards

HIT 290 - Reimbursement Methods

1. Evaluate healthcare reimbursement methodologies.
   1. Differentiate common national models of healthcare delivery.
   2. Describe the characteristics of the US healthcare delivery sector.
   3. Explain the influence of the federal government in the US healthcare sector.
   4. Summarize the history of development of health insurance in US.
   5. Differentiate payment methods on unit of payment, time frame, and risk.
   6. Summarize types of healthcare reimbursement methodologies.
   7. Compare and contrast fee-for-service reimbursement from episode-of-care reimbursement.
   8. Describe trends in the healthcare sector.
   9. Define terms associated with healthcare reimbursement methodologies.
2. Examine clinical coding and coding compliance.
   1. Differentiate the difference code sets approved by the healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
   2. Describe the structure of approved code sets.
   3. Examine coding compliance issues that influence reimbursement.
   4. Explain the roles of various Medicare improper payment review entities.
3. Characterize voluntary healthcare insurance plans
   1. Discuss major types of voluntary healthcare insurance plans.
   2. Differentiate individual healthcare plans from employer-based healthcare plans.
   3. Review types of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans and state healthcare plans for the medically uninsurable that are available.
   4. Explain the provisions of healthcare insurance policies and the elements of a healthcare insurance identification card.
   5. Review the filing process of a healthcare insurance claim.
   6. Discuss remittance advices and explanations of benefits.
   7. Define basic language associated with reimbursement by commercial healthcare insurance plans and by Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.
4. Distinguish the different government-sponsored healthcare programs.
   1. Differentiate among and to identify the various government-sponsored healthcare programs.
   2. Summarize the history of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in America.
   3. Review the effect that government-sponsored healthcare programs have on the American healthcare system.
5. Outline managed care plans.
   1. Define and trace the origins of managed care.
   2. Delineate characteristics of managed care in terms of quality and cost-effectiveness.
   3. Describe common care management tools used in managed care.
   4. Discuss accreditation processes and performance improvement initiatives used in managed care.
   5. Define cost controls used in managed care.
   6. Summarize contract management and carve-outs.
   7. Define types of managed care plans along a continuum of control.
   8. Describe the use of managed care in states? Medicaid programs, Children?s Health Insurance Program, and Medicare.
   9. Discuss types of integrated delivery systems.
   10. Define terms commonly used in managed care.
6. Examine Medicare-Medicaid prospective payment systems for inpatients
   1. Differentiate major types of Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment systems for inpatients.
   2. Define basic language associated with reimbursement under Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment systems.
   3. Explain common models and policies of payment for inpatient Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment systems.
   4. Describe the elements of the inpatient prospective payment system.
   5. Examine the elements of the inpatient psychiatric prospective payment system.
   6. Differentiate critical access hospital reimbursement with other prospective payment systems
7. Distinguish ambulatory and other Medicare-Medicaid reimbursement systems
   1. Differentiate major types of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement systems for beneficiaries.
   2. Define basic language associated with reimbursement under Medicare and Medicaid healthcare payment systems.
   3. Explain common models and policies of payment for Medicare and Medicaid healthcare payment systems for physicians and outpatient settings.
   4. Identify the elements of the relative value unit and major components for the resource-based relative value scale payment system.
   5. Describe the elements of the ambulance fee schedule and the end-stage renal disease prospective payment system.
   6. Explain the elements of the outpatient prospective payment system and the ambulatory surgical center payment system.
   7. Discuss the elements of the payment systems for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
   8. Summarize the elements of the hospice services and payment systems.
8. Differentiate Medicare-Medicaid prospective payment systems for postacute care
   1. Define the postacute care settings.
   2. Differentiate the Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment systems for healthcare services delivered to patients in postacute care.
   3. Describe Medicare’s all-inclusive per diem rate for skilled nursing facilities.
   4. Explain Medicare’s prospective payment systems for long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
   5. Summarize Medicare’s per-episode payment system for home health agencies.
   6. Distinguish the specialized collection instruments, standardized base rates, and case-mix groups that exist in postacute care.
   7. Describe basic language associated with reimbursement under Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment systems in postacute care.
   8. Explain the grouping models and payment formulae associated with reimbursement under Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment systems in postacute care.
9. Examine revenue cycle management
   1. Describe the components of the revenue cycle.
   2. Define the components of the structure and maintenance of the charge description master
   3. Discuss compliance guidance resources and tools available to assist with maintenance of the charge description master.
   4. Explain the purpose of how a revenue cycle management team can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the revenue cycle process with utilizing key performance indicators and developing different methods of revenue cycle analysis.
   5. Review different methods of revenue cycle analysis such as case-mix index analysis, MS-DRG relationships reporting, outpatient code editor review, site of service review IP vs OP, E/M coding review, etc.
10. Characterize value-based purchasing, pay for performance and accountable care organizations
    1. Describe the origins and evolution of value-based purchasing, pay-for-performance and accountable care organizations.
    2. Discuss models of value-based purchasing, pay-for-performance and accountable care organizations.
    3. Examine models of value-based purchasing and pay for reporting programs implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for various healthcare settings and payment systems
    4. Explain how compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services value-based purchasing programs affects healthcare reimbursement for a facility, entity, or a professional.

HIT 315 - Electronic App for Health Data

1. Evaluate various types of clinical and administrative health software off-campus and/or through in-class demonstration.
   1. Evaluate types of electronic applications in the health care setting such as electronic health records, billing system, e-prescribing, computerized physician order entry, etc.
   2. Review databases/patient registries, clinical decision support systems, population health management, health information exchange and other administrative and/or clinical reporting systems.
2. Examine a variety health IT data resources.
   1. Examine government resources and websites such as: the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics, CMS quality Payment Program etc.
   2. Compare resources and websites of associations such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, e-Health Initiative, American Medical Informatics Association, American Nurses Association and Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, etc.
3. Create different presentations of various types of data.
   1. Design charts/graphs using software: bar/column, line, comparison and stack, histogram; frequency polygon, etc.
   2. Discuss the presentation methods of data based on visualization best practices.
4. Generate the retrieval, summation and presentation of health information utilizing data analytic tools.
   1. Explain data analytic tools utilized in the healthcare industry to present health information.
   2. Create spreadsheet applications such as pivot tables and vlookup to perform analysis between data sets and format health data for presentations and decision-making.
   3. Create database applications to analyze and format health data for presentations and decision-making.
5. Outline how the field of health information technology can benefit from the integration of human factors in the systems design process.
   1. Explain usability and its relationship to HIT systems and how it pertains to EHRs, and describe common challenges.
   2. Examine the impact of HIT usability on user satisfaction, adoption, and workarounds, including error rates and unintended consequences and identify strategies to prevent/address HIT usability obstacles.
   3. Discuss how cognitive, physical, and organizational ergonomics can be applied to human factors engineering.
   4. Correlate the systems-centered approach to error and patient safety and the different dimensions of the concept of human error and the methods used for measuring mental workload and information overload.
   5. Summarize how human factors analysis can be applied to the study of medical devices.
6. Examine process analysis and workflow redesign and how it can greatly facilitate the implementation of health IT.
   1. Summarize the purpose of process analysis and redesign in clinical settings.
   2. Explain how healthcare process analysis and redesign and meaningful use are related.
   3. List the components of clinical workflow and the value of process mapping.
   4. Examine standard process mapping symbols, conventions and the information that can be generated.
   5. Explain process notation methods and the process aspects and map notations.
   6. Identify potential impacts of HIT implementation on workflow and of workflow analysis on HIT implementation.
   7. Review the importance of continual customer interviews to ensure processes meet their needs.

HIT 339 - Quality Management

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Summarize factors that influence consumers’ perception of quality products and services.
2. Explain the relationship between cost and quality.
3. List the quality characteristics important to healthcare consumers, purchasers, and providers. 
4. Describe the varied dimensions of healthcare quality. 

2. Outline the quality management building blocks.

1. List the three primary quality management activities: measurement, assessment, and improvement.
2. Explain quality pioneers’ contributions to, and influence on, the manufacturing industry. 
3. Summarize factors that prompted healthcare organizations to adopt quality practices originally developed for use in other industries.
4. Outline external forces that influence quality management activities in healthcare organizations.

3. Relate how measuring performance is the starting point of quality management activities.

1. Describe how to apply structural, process, and outcome measures to evaluate quality.
2. List common performance measures of healthcare services.
3. Apply the steps involved in developing performance measures. 
4. Name national groups influencing healthcare performance measurement priorities.
5. Explain how healthcare organizations select performance measures. 
6. Compare the difference between measures of healthcare services and measures of clinical decision making. 
7. Identify the role of balanced scorecards in performance measurement.  

4. Explain improvement project teams.  

1. Discuss the role of improvement project participants and beneficial and disruptive team behaviors.
2. Explain the purpose of a team charter. 
3. Summarize leadership skills needed to manage team meetings effectively. 
4. Explain stages of team development.
5. Identify strategies for preventing improvement project failures.

5. Examine improving patient safety.

1. Contrast quality management and patient safety. 
2. Define measures of patient safety. 
3. Use prospective risk and root cause analysis to improve patient safety in healthcare processes. 
4. Explain patients’ role in reducing adverse events. 

6. Characterize the systems approach to achieving safe and reliable healthcare.

1. Describe the roles of human factors engineering and reliability science in the improvement of healthcare services. 
2. Explain the importance of reliability in the delivery of healthcare services and how process reliability is measured and managed.
3. Compare strategies to improve the reliability of healthcare processes that address the needs of staff and the work to be done. 
4. Summarize how the effectiveness of improvement actions is measured and how gains are sustained. 

7. Examine utilization management in managing the use of healthcare resources.

1. Define the purpose of utilization management and the fiscal impact of utilization and case management activities. 
2. Summarize utilization management measurement, assessment, and improvement activities.
3. Compare the role of physicians and non-physicians in managing the use of healthcare resources. 
4. Explain how clinical practice guidelines are used for utilization management purposes. 
5. Define case management, care coordination, and continuum of care.
6. Explain Medicare’s requirements for utilization management

8. Outline the quality framework of a healthcare organization.

1. List groups responsible for quality in a healthcare organization and typical participants in healthcare quality management activities. 
2. Explain the purpose and content of a quality management plan. 
3. Summarize aspects of organizational culture that influence the effectiveness of quality management and strategies for overcoming environmental characteristics inhospitable to quality improvement. 
4. Compare the relationship between quality improvement and strategies for ensuring individual competency. 
5. Discuss the role of the organizations governing board and medical staff in maintaining a competency evaluation system for physicians and licensed independent practitioners. 
6. Explain medical staff credentialing, reappointment, and professional practice evaluation process. 

9. Describe information management as a component of quality management.  

1. Explain purpose of data collection and information management.
2. List information resources.
3. Discuss risk management.
4. Identify data collection methods.
5. Review basic statistics, displays and reporting techniques. 
6. Define the computerization/automation of quality management data and the management of documentation

10.     Summarize federal quality improvement legislation and initiatives

1. List federal programs and quality improvement organizations.
2. Define key legislative acts and their importance to quality management.
3. Summarize key federal incentive and penalty payment programs focused on health care quality and the requirements of quality reporting.
4. Explain the principles of the 2009 HITECH Act, including the concept of “meaningful use” and the use of electronic health records to improve quality and reporting of quality data today and beyond.
5. Describe how patient satisfaction survey requirements fit into federal programs.

HIT 360 - Introduction to HIT

1. Explain the current healthcare environment
   1. Review the U.S. health care delivery system
   2. Summarize key issues facing today’s health care providers
   3. Describe types of health care providers and health care settings
   4. Discuss payment mechanisms
   5. Explain the role of government in health care
   6. Describe roles of health information management/health IT professionals
2. Evaluate the health care technology environment
   1. Examine components and information systems in the HIT environment
   2. Evaluate and research trends in healthcare clinical, administrative and financial applications
   3. Discuss current federal e-health initiatives and efforts to create a eHealth Exchange
   4. Explain highlights of the 2009 ARRA HITECH Act and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
   5. Describe current Iowa-based e-health initiatives, including the Iowa e-health project
   6. Define CPOE, eRx, CDS, EHR, PHR, e-health, HIE, telehealth
   7. Summarize recognized e-health resource websites, including healthit.hhs.gov, ehealthinitiative.org
   8. Describe recognized e-health professional associations, such as HIMSS and AHIMA, and available health IT professional certifications
   9. Discuss consumer access to electronic health information
3. Examine the current emphasis on electronic health records (EHRs).
   1. Summarize the advantages of electronic health records over paper-based and hybrid health records
   2. Describe the current state of EHR adoption and the common implementation challenges
   3. Explain the Medicare and Medicaid incentive and quality payment programs that provide financial incentives and penalties to providers and healthcare organizations
   4. Differentiate between Medicare and Medicaid Meaningful Use incentive programs
   5. Summarize the common health information standardized data and code sets and types of data
   6. Discuss types of data standards and their importance
4. Discuss electronic health information exchange
   1. Describe the concepts of regional health information organizations (RHIOs), health information exchanges (HIEs) and eHealth Exchange (formerly NwHIN) and the ONC grant program utilized for the development of HIEs
   2. Explain how standards are needed to support transitions of care, lab exchange, patient engagement and public health measures to meet interoperability needs of HIEs
   3. Review the benefits and challenges of HIEs including privacy and security issues
   4. Define the terms HL7, C-CDA, S&I (formerly HITSP), NIST, HISP and how they relate to HIE
   5. Summarize governance and funding models for HIEs
   6. Review the importance of consumer involvement in HIE & personal health record development
   7. Define a Transitions of Care Summary/Summary of Care Record/Continuity of Care Document (CCD) as it relates to the Summary of Care Meaningful Use objective
   8. Explain the concept of “middleware” and how it relates to HIE
   9. Discuss HIE readiness and the changing workflow to incorporate HIE and EHR use as they impact providers and health care organizations
   10. Report on a local meeting that was attended related to HIT/HIE, such as the Iowa e-health Advisory Council, IA-HIMSS chapter meeting, IA-AHIMA chapter meeting, etc
5. Outline basic principles of systems analysis and design
   1. Explain systems analysis in healthcare information technology
   2. Describe the system development life cycle
   3. List systems design steps
   4. Describe sources of information for technology evaluation
   5. Compare the selection of a design approach: Build or Buy
   6. Discuss supporting business needs
   7. Explain interoperability and standards
   8. Differentiate between requests for information and requests for proposal
6. Explain system selection, implementation, support & maintenance
   1. Describe the components of system selection
   2. Discuss vendor demonstrations
   3. Summarize the system implementation process
   4. Review training needs
   5. Understand Help Desk logs and log analysis
   6. Explain disaster recovery, backup, contingency planning and downtime procedures
7. Summarize systems testing and evaluation
   1. Explain testing and evaluation
   2. Discuss post-implementation review/maintenance and support
8. Examine systems privacy and security
   1. Describe systems privacy and security
   2. Differentiate between privacy vs. security
   3. Describe the basic concepts of HIPAA and how it relates to electronic data
   4. Explain key components of privacy and security laws and individual rights
   5. Summarize the compliance process
   6. Define access, authorization, authentication and audits
   7. Discuss privacy and security incidents/breaches
9. Explain the role of administration leadership/management in health IT
   1. Discuss leadership and management roles
   2. Describe strategic planning and alignment within the organization

HIT 390 - Intro HIT Project Management

Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Describe reasons projects are initiated in healthcare.
2. Define a project, project management and responsibilities of project manager.
3. Discuss differences of major types of management in order to appreciate how project manager fits. 
4. Summarize tools available for use when choosing a project.
5. Explain how organizational structure can have influence on way projects are chosen.
6. List the series of events in the project life cycle.

2. Examine project initiation.

1. Discuss importance of project sponsor.
2. Define project charter, project plan, scope statement, project stakeholders, stakeholder register, scope creep, work breakdown structure and what they include.
3. Identify project stakeholders.
4.  Develop a stakeholder register and work breakdown structure (WBS).
5. Identify reasons for project success and failure.

3. Evaluate managing time, costs and procurement activities and tools and quality management.

1. Define project time management scheduling activities and their tools.
2. Discuss different time estimates.
3. Use a project network diagram to calculate critical path and start/end/float.
4. Explain definitions related to scheduling controls and tools such as milestone, lead/lag time, dependencies, float, duration, effort, critical path, task relationships, etc.
5. Create cost estimates for tasks in a project.
6. Explain cost estimates, use of project resources, types of cost categories and types of estimating.
7. Examine project quality management including project planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
8. Explain components of quality management plan, tools and approaches to defining quality and basic statistical concepts used in quality assessment. 
9. Discuss common project management software tools used in today’s health IT workplace.

4. Review communications and change control relating to the project execution phase.

1. Describe the process of communicating including methods, barriers, and ways to improve communication skills.
2. Explain the importance of a communication management plan, how to execute it utilizing a communications plan and types of performance reporting that should be done on any project.
3. Discuss change and its impact on a project and project managers as change agents.
4. Summarize change control processes used to monitor and control change such as Gate. 

5. Examine managing project risk and close-out.

1. Discuss the categories of risk management: risk management, risk identification, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, response planning and monitoring and controlling risks.
2. Prepare a risk register including assessing project risks.
3. Define risk, risk identification, risk analysis, risk register, earned value management tool, risk assessment.
4. Explain the value of project close-out and collecting lessons learned.
5. Discuss project closure and closing out the team.

6. Discuss the importance of utilizing team management skills, leadership and power and negotiating and conflict management.

1. Explain the five stages of team development.
2. Discuss the importance of teams and motivation of team members.
3. Describe leadership vs management.
4. Summarize leadership theories.
5. Discuss types of power and how organizational structures influence power.
6. Examine key points and components of negotiations.
7. Explain the types, approaches and tactics of negotiations. 
8. Describe how to manage conflict and hostile aggressive individuals.

7. Describe contracting and procurement as they relate to project management.

1. Define the five elements of a contract.
2. Discuss types of contracts and the two elements for organizing for contracting. 
3. Explain the steps in the procurement process.
4. Summarize three things needed for a legal contract and the importance of closing out a contract.

HIT 420 - Legal Aspects of Health Info

1. Characterize the legal system and requirements which govern healthcare in the United States.
   1. Differentiate between public and private law and compare and contrast contract and tort law.
   2. Differentiate between the substantive and procedural aspects of criminal law.
   3. Describe the branches of governments and their roles in creating, administering and enforcing law.
   4. List and describe quasi-legal requirements to which health care organizations are subject.
   5. Compare subject matter jurisdiction between the federal and state court systems and differentiate between subject matter and personal jurisdiction
   6. Explain the basic differences between a trial and an appeal and identify the steps in a civil lawsuit.
   7. Distinguish among the different forms of discovery and explain the uniqueness of e-discovery and electronically stored information
   8. Differentiate between the types of alternative dispute resolution.
2. Examine the judicial process of health information.
   1. Define the following legal terms associated with the role of a health record in a lawsuit: evidence, admissible and hearsay and explain why health records are considered hearsay evidence.
   2. Explain how the health information professional establishes the foundation and trustworthiness requirements for admitting the health record into evidence
   3. Explain the use and application of the physician-patient privilege
   4. Discuss the differences among a subpoena, subpoena ad testifcandum and a subpoena duces tecum
   5. Compare a court order authorizing disclosure of health information and a subpoena
   6. Compare the three recommended responses of a health information professional to the presentation of a subpoena and assess the steps to take when presented with an invalid subpoena duces tecum.
3. Examine the principles of liability in healthcare and what constitutes ethics.
   1. Describe each of the following relationships: physician-patient, hospital-patient, and hospital-physician.
   2. Summarize theories of liability
   3. Explain defenses and limitations of liability.
   4. Differentiate between ethics, moral, values, etiquette, and law
   5. Discuss ethical concepts and theories and their applications to the health care field.
4. Explain ethical challenges and how to address them through ethical decision making
   1. Summarize the ethical decision making process.
   2. Describe the factors that influence the ethical decision-making process including code of ethics, patient rights and other factors that play a role in resolving ethical dilemmas.
   3. Identify ethical challenges in general and their application to the roles of supervision, the field of health care and the specialized area of health information management.
5. Characterize the legal requirements governing the content, retention, and destruction of health information.
   1. Summarize the multiple functions and use of the medical record
   2. Identify and explain how the sources of law influence the content of the health record.
   3. Distinguish between authorship and authentication
   4. Differentiate between proper and improper methods for a health provider to correct the health record and the procedures used to comply with or refuse a patient?s request to correct the record.
   5. Identify factors influencing and the role a statute of limitations plays in a record retention policy
   6. Explain appropriate record destruction and the importance of keeping permanent evidence of a record’s destruction.
6. Outline patient rights, confidentiality and access to health information pursuant to state and federal law.
   1. Explain the interrelationship between confidentiality and privacy and the three sources of law on which the right of privacy is based.
   2. Discuss open record statutes, privacy statutes and physician-patient privilege.
   3. Describe the types of restrictions that confidentiality statutes and ethical guidelines place on HIV/AIDS information.
   4. Explain informed consent and the scope of informed consent doctrine.
   5. Distinguish between advance directive, living will and durable power of attorney.
   6. Discuss the ownership of health information
   7. Explain the notice of use and disclosure of information practices, consent and authorization.
   8. Examine the rights of access of patients and third parties to patient-specific health information.
   9. Summarize the general principles of disclosure of health information including the core elements of a valid release of information form.
7. Examine specialized patient record disclosure of health information.
   1. Discuss regulations governing release of information of substance abuse treatment and the types of legal processes issues to access patient records.
   2. Examine regulations for mental health/developmental disability care records
   3. Explain regulations relating to home health and benefits and risks associated with genetic information.
   4. Examine regulations relating to HIV information voluntary, mandatory and anonymous testing.
8. Describe risk, quality, and utilization management and the legal bases and requirements for the programs.
   1. Explain how the three components of patient record requirements relate to risk management.
   2. Summarize the purpose and definition risk management and incident reports and the discovery and admissibility of incident reports.
   3. Discuss peer review privileges and medical staff disciplinary process within quality management.
   4. Describe the utilization review process.
9. Examine the legal issues associated with electronic health records as it relates to accreditation, licensure and liability
   1. Compare the three broad categories of laws and regulations governing the creation and storage of an electronic record including business record exception.
   2. Describe physical security, personnel security and risk prevention techniques covered under HIPAA security rule.
   3. Discuss the security issues associated with the use of the Internet and e-mail.
10. Explain health care fraud and abuse.
    1. Explain the meaning of fraud and abuse and the major laws supporting prosecution for it.
    2. Describe the roles of various law enforcement agencies in the prosecution of health care fraud and abuse.
    3. Explain the meaning of compliance and components of compliance programs.

HIT 429 - Quality Improvement

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Demonstrate an understanding and reflecting on the contents of the varied dimensions of health care quality 
2. Identify the major stakeholders in health care quality. 
3. Discuss the meaning of quality improvement.
4. Describe the three primary quality improvement activities. 
5. Identify regulatory agencies, accreditation organizations, and other groups that influence health care quality improvement activities. 
6. Describe common components of the quality improvement system in a healthcare organization.
7. Identify the role and responsibilities of quality improvement system participants. 
8. Describe the purpose of a quality improvement plan and basic plan elements. 
9. Explain federal quality improvement legislation/initiatives and federal incentive programs that promote the use of health IT for quality improvement.

2. Examine measuring health care performance.

1. Examine the role of measurement in quality improvement activities. 
2. Discuss the differences between structure, process and outcome performance measures.
3. Identify factors that influence the choice of measures used within a healthcare organization.
4. Explain the purpose of performance measurement sets.
5. Use performance measurement development steps to create valid and reliable measures.
6. Explain why and how performance goals are established.
7. Demonstrate an understanding of methods used to collect measurement data. 
8. Identify national groups involved in developing health care performance measures. 

3. Discuss strategies and methods to report measurement data results.

1. Discuss methods use to collect measurement data
2. Describe advantages and drawbacks of common measurement data sources
3. Identify issues to be considered in the development of data collection plans.
4. Explain the rationale for e-measures
5. Describe measurement sampling techniques

4. Evaluate health care performance utilizing quality management tools and activities.

1. Discuss the role of assessment in quality management activities
2. Identify common report formats for displaying performance measurement data
3. Compare and contrast different graphic data displays
4. Explain methods for interpreting healthcare performance measurement data.
5. Describe how statistical process control is used to evaluate performance.
6. Explain the role of comparative performance data in performance assessment
7. Discuss purposes of risk adjusting outcome measurement results
8. Evaluate performance results warranting further investigation.

5. Differentiate an understanding of improvement projects and performance improvement models.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of how improvement projects are formed
2. Compare similarities and differences of common performance improvement models.
3. Differentiate steps of common performance improvement models.
4. Explain how to select individuals for an improvement team.
5. Discuss the importance to establish project objectives
6. Describe stages of improvement team development

6. Choose and use improvement tools and techniques

1. Demonstrate an understanding of tools and techniques used to improve performance
2. Describe frequently used quantitative and qualitative improvement tools.
3. Use improvement tools during different steps of an improvement project
4. Differentiate between improvement models and improvement tools.
5. Discuss techniques for achieving more reliable performance
6. Explain process changes that improve efficiency and reduce mistakes.

7.  Explain techniques utilized by healthcare organizations to improve patient safety.  

1. Identify techniques to evaluate and improve the safety of healthcare processes. 
2. Describe how to use root cause analysis to investigate adverse patient events.
3. Explain failure mode and effects analysis and how it is used to improve the safety of healthcare processes.

HIT 450 - Health Statistics

1. Explain health statistics, data analytics and data and how they apply in health care.
   1. Explain the importance of statistics and data analytics in healthcare.
   2. Identify the users and uses of health care data.
   3. Describe the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics.
   4. Classify the levels of data measurement.
   5. Differentiate between populations and samples.
   6. Distinguish common health care data sets and databases.
2. Solve basic math concepts, central tendency and dispersion.
   1. Solve calculations with fractions, decimals and percentages.
   2. Demonstrate the function of rates, ratios, and proportions in health care statistics.
   3. Explain and calculate frequencies and frequency distribution.
   4. Identify and calculate the most useful measure of central tendencies for a given data set.
   5. Compute and define dispersion using, range, variance and standard deviation from a frequency distribution.
3. Evaluate data presentation using tables, charts and graphs used to communicate findings.
   1. Construct a variety of tables.
   2. Compare samples of tables to determine missing or faulty elements.
   3. Construct and interpret tables, pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, pictograms, scatter diagrams, and histograms.
   4. Compare how each of the graphic displays is best used.
   5. Critique samples of charts and graphs to determine missing or faulty elements.
   6. Explain presentation tools and their uses.
4. Examine different types of health statistics calculated by healthcare organizations and public health.
   1. Differentiate between inpatient and outpatient and other types of health care settings.
   2. List the types of beds in an inpatient facility and describe bed count.
   3. Describe inpatient census, inpatient service days, how they are calculated and complete the calculations.
   4. Compute occupancy rates in a facility, length of stay, average length of stay, leave of absence days and bed turnover rate.
   5. Explain and compute morbidity rates in health care settings and rates for infections, general complications and various patient populations.
   6. Explain and compute consultation rates and mortality rates for patient populations.
   7. Define, discuss trends and calculate obstetric and autopsy rates.
   8. Define key terms and list sources of public health data.
   9. Compare among crude, specific and adjusted rates.
   10. Explain formulas for public health statistics.
   11. Calculate sample public health data using various morbidity and mortality rates.
5. Analyze measuring HIM productivity, reimbursement and compliance statistics utilized in healthcare.
   1. Apply productivity standard to various functions within HIM.
   2. Examine inpatient prospective payment systems (DRG) and case mix index, and how the calculations are performed.
   3. Examine case mix index data and standards to identify trends.
   4. Solve and define calculations used for compliance and accreditation purposes.
6. Examine budgets and other calculations used financially in a department
   1. Distinguish between a capital and an operational budget.
   2. Determine return on investment (ROI) and the payback period for a capital expenditure.
   3. Explain and determine monthly budgets and compute budget variances.
7. Evaluate what constitutes quality data.
   1. Explain the importance of data quality and define the characteristics of quality data.
   2. Define data scrubbing terminology.
   3. Analyze a data set for data cleansing issues.
   4. Define data mapping terminology.
   5. Evaluate a mapped data set for errors.
8. Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics used in healthcare.
   1. Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics.
   2. Explain the importance and types of random sampling in inferential statistics.
   3. Define confidence intervals, levels, significance, hypothesis testing and probability.
   4. Calculate and define standard error.
   5. Define and identify type I and type II errors.

HIT 520 - Internship I

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 8
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Formulate Health Information Technology Internship goals.

2. Define clear job responsibilities for the internship.

3. Use professionalism and communication skills throughout internship experience.

2.  Assess field experience completed.

1. Demonstrate appropriate skills in a variety of tasks assigned while working under supervision.

2. Identify work-related problems that arise and develop solutions using positive work attitudes.

3. Assess internship progress at halfway point and plan goals for completion of goals by semester’s end.

4. Identify and recommend opportunities for skill acquisition throughout internship.

5. Discuss job performance evaluation.

3. Explain internship experience and learnings.

1. Review and evaluate internship job site performance

2. Summarize internship experience with a written and oral report.

4. Organize job search skills.

1. Compose a resume for an entry-level health IT position.

           2. Demonstrate successful job interview skills.

5. Demonstrate ethical principles of behavior in office setting, including following all HIPAA requirements.

HIT 521 - Internship II

Credits: 4
Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 16
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Formulate Health Information Technology Internship II goals.

2. Define clear job responsibilities for the internship setting.

2. Evaluate field experience completed.

1. Demonstrate appropriate skills in a variety of tasks assigned while working under supervision.

2. Identify work related problems that arise and develop solutions using positive work attitudes.

3. Assess internship progress at halfway point and plan goals for completion of goals by semester’s end.

4. Identify and recommend opportunities for skill acquisition throughout internship.

5.  Discuss job performance evaluation

3. Explain internship experience and learnings.

1. Review and evaluate internship job site performance.

2. Summarize internship experience with a written and oral report.

4. Report on HIT professional association meeting or other HIT professional meeting that was attended such as (IA HIMSS, IA-AHIMA, Iowa e-Health Project, HFMA, IHA, etc.).

5. Use professional image and dress throughout internship.

 1. Demonstrate a professional appearance and manner including ethical principles of behavior in the office setting and follow all HIPAA requirements.

2. Show a professional attitude by actively participating in learning and meeting all deadlines.

3. Use interpersonal communication skills that promote collaboration and teamwork to create and maintain effective working and customer relationships.

6. Organize job search skills.

1. Formulate plan for an employment search.

2. Demonstrate successful job interview skills.

HON 100 - Introduction to Honors

1. Identify the criteria required to remain in the DMACC Honors Program.
   1. Examine the criteria.
   2. Describe the overall goals for personal commitment.
2. Create an honors project for each honors discipline course.
   1. Design a proposal for an honors-worthy project for each discipline course.
   2. Reflect on each meeting with the discipline professor in a double-entry journal.
3. Evaluate factors that shape leadership identity.
   1. Identify personal strengths and potential for growth, and the importance of resiliency.
   2. Develop skills necessary to communicate with diverse groups.
4. Create an e-portfolio.
   1. Update and upload your personal education plan for DMACC.
   2. Update and upload your personal education or work plan beyond DMACC.
5. Examine experiential learning.
   1. Explain the differences between community service, service learning, and experiential learning.
   2. Identify the qualities that leaders possess in experiential learning.
6. Participate in a group experiential-learning project.
   1. Identify the need for service within our communities, groups, and organization.
   2. Partner with an existing group or organization to conduct a experiential-learning project.
   3. Assess the experiential-learning project after completion.
7. Articulate a personal leadership philosophy.
   1. Define leadership in terms of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for effective leadership.
   2. Examine how leadership philosophies have changed throughout history.
   3. Articulate a personal philosophy of leadership.
8. Evaluate personal ethical priorities.
   1. Investigate the complexities inherent in ethical leadership.
   2. Define the elements of ethical leadership.
   3. Identify the impact ethical behavior has on effective leadership.

HON 200 - Honors Capstone

1. Identify the criteria required to complete the DMACC Honors Program.
2. Modify an electronic portfolio to showcase academic course work, service learning, and leadership activities throughout the time at DMACC.
   1. Demonstrate proficiency in content and format of selected pieces.
   2. Show an understanding of ethical dimensions and consequences of plagiarism.
   3. Complete a cover letter suitable for a 4-year institution, scholarship or job opportunity.
3. Identify the elements of effective team building.
   1. Explain the significance of team building as a leadership skill.
   2. List several ways to augment team building efforts and improve teams.
4. Evaluate the elements and processes involved in decision-making.
   1. Identify the role of leadership in effective group decision-making.
   2. Explain the value of clearly defined goals.
   3. Apply concepts of effective goal setting to personal, interpersonal, and career development.
5. Analyze the role of conflict in a group setting.
   1. Assess the importance of a leader’s role in guiding through conflict.
   2. Identify practical approaches and techniques for guiding through conflict.
6. Assess a group leadership project upon completion.
   1. Plan a group leadership project.
   2. Participate in a group leadership project.
7. Evaluate the role of a leader in initiating change and helping others to adjust to change.
   1. Define the importance of initiating and leading change as a leadership skill.
   2. Identify positive and negative effects of change.
   3. Evaluate personal readiness to respond to change.
   4. Summarize ways to overcome resistance to change.
8. Appraise your preparation for your career.
   1. Investigate the importance of networking.
   2. Apply concepts of networking into your personal and professional development.
   3. Discover ways of succeeding in an interview.
   4. Revise your Leadership Philosophy.

HSC 101 - Emergency Care

1. Interpret Emergency Care/First Aid/Osha standards pertaining to the Auto and Building Trades industries
   1. Review and define emergency events
   2. Outline the function of and protections provided by of  the Good Samaritans Law
   3. Interpret and discuss the differences between informed and  implied consent in emergency care
   4. Review the regulations from OSHA pertaining to blood borne pathogen management
   5. Understand the OSHA requirement for when and how to report a serious accident or death on a job site
   6. Review the OSHA workers bill of rights      ​
2. Evaluate an injured or ill person by use of the scene safety, primary and secondary survey methodology
   1. Demonstrate universal precautions for handling emergencies and disposing of contaminated materials
   2. Understand the dangers of blood borne pathogens
   3. Analyze the nature of the pts presentation and when to summon emergency providers
   4. Use BCLS shells to correct airway, breathing and circulation problems discovered in the primary survey
   5. Demonstrate the correct procedures for rescue breathing, CPR, and FBOA management for an adult, child and infant
   6. Express a minimal knowledge of the circulatory, respiratory, and skeletal systems
   7. Identify and manage the signs and symptoms of shock
   8. Identify and manage common medical emergencies including seizures, respiratory events, abdominal pain, diabetic issues, burns, heat and cold emergencies, poisonings and drug overdose/impairment
   9. State and demonstrate correct methods for controlling bleeding including direct pressure and tourniquet
   10. State the principals of care along with signs and symptoms for open and closed fractures and soft tissue injuries

HSC 105 - Intro to Health Occupations

1. Contrast various health care careers available to determine those which are of interest
   1. Explore roles of the team of persons providing care to clients
   2. Identify health care careers which are available, including description, duties, educational requirements and employment opportunities
   3. Describe the general educational requirements of various degrees granted on completion of training for various health careers
   4. Explain certification and licensing requirements for various health careers
   5. Explain the skills and attitudes needed for success in various health careers
2. Explore the differences and similarities among health care settings, services and providers
   1. Describe the settings where health care is delivered
   2. Describe the services offered in various health care settings
   3. Describe the role of different health care providers in the health care settings
   4. Explain the influences of governmental and nongovernmental organizations have on the delivery of health care services
3. Discuss current issues and trends in health care
   1. Describe societal trends in health care delivery
   2. Explain how funding of health care affects its delivery
   3. Explain how financing of health care influences the ethics of its delivery
4. Identify behaviors indicating attitudes consistent with those of health care professionals
   1. Describe those behaviors which are demonstrated by health care professionals
   2. Examine personal hygiene and grooming consistent with the expectations of a health care professional
   3. Demonstrate characteristics of flexibility and adaptability to change in the provision of health care
   4. Demonstrate an appreciation of the unique features of other health care professionals and clients
5. Discuss interpersonal communication and demonstrate the process of language, listening skills, and nonverbal communications
   1. Identify examples of verbal and non-verbal communication skills
   2. Name at least three factors that influence the transmission of a message
   3. Name at least three factors that influence the receipt of a message
   4. Discuss the impact of medical terminology on communication within the health care team
6. Recognize legal and ethical standards that affect workers within the health care industry
   1. Define basic legal terminology
   2. Define ethics
   3. List current ethical issues in health care
   4. Contrast one’s personal ethics to professional code of ethics
   5. Explain legal duties required of health care workers including

HSC 109 - Explore Hlth Career/Bldg Team

1. Assess at least eight types of health care facilities in the basic health care system
   1. Define the function of each health care facility
   2. Examine the patients or clients who utilize each type of health care facility
   3. Compare and contrast profit and non-profit organizations
2. Analyze two government agencies associated with health care
   1. Describe the services offered by each agency
   2. Summarize the purpose of each agency
3. Compare the educational requirements of the allied health careers
   1. Identify associate degree careers
   2. Identify bachelor’s degree careers
   3. Identify master’s degree careers
   4. Summarize the certification, registration, and licensure as pertaining to the allied health careers
4. Identify at least ten health careers
   1. Describe three duties or responsibilities of each career
   2. Describe the educational requirements of each career
   3. Discuss the employment opportunities of each career
   4. Define resources to obtain additional information
5. Examine time management/coping skills
   1. Identify individual day, evening activities for time management
   2. Organize and plan a chart for productivity and leisure time
   3. Identify coping skills for a healthy life style
6. Examine law and ethics in the health care industry
   1. Research patient rights
   2. Explain Living Wills and Living Trust
   3. Discuss euthanasia
7. Examine the various areas of communication skills
   1. Explain the communication process as it relates to listening, nonverbal behavior, reporting, and recording
   2. List three factors that can interfere with the communication process
8. Research and assess the use of computers in the health care system
   1. Identify the three major components of a computer system
   2. Compare and contrast computer capabilities and limitations
   3. Describe computer applications currently used in the health care system
   4. Define, pronounce and spell all key terms
9. Examine the study of anatomy and physiology in the health care careers
   1. Develop knowledge of medical terminology to include prefixes, suffixes, and root words
   2. Apply the appropriate terminology to major organs and systems in the body
   3. Identify the major functions of the body systems
   4. Compare the interrelationship of the body system
   5. Describe the basic diseases affecting each of the body systems
   6. Define, pronounce and spell key terms
10. Evaluate infection control
    1. Differentiate between antiseptic, disinfection, and sterilization
    2. Wash hands according to recommended aseptic techniques
    3. Observe universal precautions while working in the laboratory or clinical area
11. Assess essential job seeking skills
    1. Prepare a letter of application
    2. Prepare a resume
    3. Assess interviewing techniques
    4. Demonstrate job seeking skills

HSC 120 - Medical Terminology I

1. Analyze medical terms by dividing them into component parts
   1. Define and recognize root, combining vowel, and combining forms.
   2. Construct and deconstruct medical terms into roots and combining forms.
2. Build words using a prefix and/or suffix.
   1. Define the term “prefix.”
   2. Identify the prefixes of commonly used medical terms.
   3. Define the term “suffix.”
   4. Identify the suffixes of commonly used medical terms.
   5. Link word elements of prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining forms together to construct medical terms.
3. Understanding medical elements.
   1. Connect the singular and plural components of medical terms.
   2. Employ the phonetic system used to pronounce medical terms.
4. Understand the concept of treating the body as a whole by:
   1. Relating individual body systems to the organization and function of the body as a whole.
   2. Integrate medical terms that describe the different anatomic positions, planes, and directions of the body.
   3. Recognize body cavities.
   4. Describe the 9 regions of the abdominopelvic region.
5. Use medical terms to accurately communicate and document in any healthcare setting.
   1. Learn correct spelling of medical terms.
   2. Learn correct pronunciation of medical terms.
6. Identify the medical meaning of word parts pertaining to the following body systems: digestive, urinary, male/female reproductive, nervous, and cardiovascular.
   1. Describe basic anatomy using appropriate medical terms.
   2. Understand basic concepts of diseases and conditions of each system.
   3. Identify and understand common medical abbreviations.

HSC 121 - Medical Terminology II

1. Analyze medical terms by dividing them into component parts
   1. Redefine word root, combining vowel, combining form, suffix and prefix as elements of medical terms
   2. Review basic combining forms and meanings
   3. Review basic diagnostic and procedural suffixes
   4. Review basic prefixes used in medical language
2. Build medical terms by using the component parts
3. Relate the medical terms to the structure and function of the human body as well as to specified body systems
   1. Define additional terms that apply to the structural organization of the body
   2. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the nervous system
   3. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the blood system
   4. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the lymphatic and immune systems
   5. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the musculoskeletal system
   6. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the endocrine system
   7. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the skin
   8. Use combining forms and suffixes related to the eye/ear
4. Pronounce the medical terms
5. Spell the medical terms
6. Form plurals of the medical terms
7. Use the medical dictionary for meaning, spelling and pronunciation of the medical terms
8. Recognize medical abbreviations related to the nervous system, blood system, lymphatic/immune systems, musculoskeletal system, endocrine system, skin, eye, and ear

HSC 159 - ESL Prep for Healthcare Educ.

1. Compare healthcare in various countires and cultures
   1. Describe the healthcare delivery system with which the student is familiar
   2. Summarize the American healthcare delivery system
   3. Recognize areas in which personal cultural values and norms differ from those of the American healthcare system
   4. Identify the personal impact of altering personal cultural values for practice within the U.S. healthcare/educational system
2. Examine the philosphical tenets of the American healthcare/educational system
   1. Recognize learning as a learner-centeres, active, life-long process
   2. Understand the concepts of the health promotion and wellness on the health continuum
   3. Describe the concept of Holistic Care
   4. Implement principles of professional behavior appropriate for the clinical area and classroom
3. Demonstrate usage of health specific verbal and nonverbal communication skills including listening, speaking, writing, recording, and body language
   1. Utilize the correct pronunciations of medical language
   2. Identify culturally correct communication strategies in the health care field
   3. Identify common barriers to effective communications that are caused by inaccurate pronunciation
   4. Identify actions for addressing miscommunication in the healthcare setting
   5. Participate in academic discussions/reports using proper syntax and vocabulary
4. Develop skill in the use of colloquial, general and professional medical english when applied to the study of Musculoskeletal system
   1. Define key career specific terms
   2. Pronounce key career specific terms
   3. Spell key career specific terms
   4. Apply career specific language, written and oral, as related to the components, functions, treatments, interventions, and assistance of the Musculoskeletal System
5. Develop skill in the use of colloquial general and professional medical english when applied to the study of the cardiovascular system
   1. Define key career specific terms
   2. Pronounce key career specific terms
   3. Spell key career specific terms
   4. Apply career specific language, written and oral, as related to the components, functions, treatments, interventions, and assistance of the Cardiovascular System
6. Develop skill in the use of colloquial general and professional medical english when applied to the study of the Respiratory system
   1. Define key career specific terms
   2. Pronounce key career specific terms
   3. Spell key career specific terms
   4. Apply career specific language, written and oral, as related to the components, functions, treatments, interventions, and assistance of the Respiratory system
7. Develop skill in the use of colloquial general and professional medical english when applied to the study of the Gastrointestinal system
   1. Define key career specific terms
   2. Pronounce key career specific terms
   3. Spell key career specific terms
   4. Apply career specific language, written and oral, as related to the components, functions, treatments, interventions, and assistance of the Gastrointestinal system
8. Develop skill in the use of colloquial general and professional medical english when applied to the study of the Neurological system
   1. Define key career specific terms
   2. Pronounce key career specific terms
   3. Spell key career specific terms
   4. Apply career specific language, written and oral, as related to the components, functions, treatments, interventions, and assistance of the Neurological system
9. Develop skill in the use of colloquial general and professional medical english when applied to the study of Wounds, Viral an Bacterial Infections
   1. Define key career specific terms
   2. Pronounce key career specific terms
   3. Spell key career specific terms
   4. Apply career specific language, written and oral, as related to the components, functions, treatments, interventions, and assistance related to wounds, viral and bacterial infections
10. Explore colloquial, general and professional medical english applicable to pharmacological principles and interventions
    1. Demonstrate knowledge of terminology related to pahrmacological interventions
    2. Demonstrate knowledge of terminology related to medication administration
    3. Demonstrate how safety can be compromised by inaccurate communication
11. Develop skills which will lead to success in a healthcare course/program and setting
    1. Discuss critical thinking as it is used in the study of implementation of health care
    2. Recognize limitations, the need for assistance and sources of academic/clinical support

HSC 172 - Nurse Aide

1. Communicate effectively with resident/patient, health facility staff and resident/patient family/visitors
   1. Use correct medical terminology and abbreviations
   2. When required, answer telephone properly
   3. Record and report pertinent observations related to resident/patient procedures and conditions
   4. Report and record procedures accurately
   5. Record/report intake and output
   6. Listen effectively
   7. Communicate effectively with residents/patients with hearing/seeing disabilities
   8. Communicate effectively with residents with cognitive impairment
   9. Use therapeutic communication when require-cueing, validation therapy
2. Interact appropriately with residents/patients, health facility staff and resident/patient family/visitors
   1. Use the philosophy of restorative/rehabilitation when providing care
   2. Identify basic emotional needs
   3. Identify basic changes in normal growth and development and apply in care situation
   4. Identify the physical/social/emotional changes that occur in elderly and chronically ill
   5. Differentiate between the care needs of the acutely and chronically ill
   6. Identify the special needs of residents/patients with disabilities, including physical problems, mental illness, mental retardation, and dementias
   7. Encourage resident/patient to be as independent as possible
   8. Respect and defend resident rights
3. Use ethical/legal principles in providing care and fulfilling job responsibilities
   1. Describe various types of care facilities
   2. Differentiates between various types of health care facilities and their administrative structure
   3. Identify the relationship between various governmental and private agencies that provide guidelines for resident/patient care
   4. Identify roles of various health care personnel within facilities, especially the role of the nurse aide
   5. Demonstrate responsibility concerning resident/patient rights
   6. Practice confidentiality
   7. Recognize ethical responsibilities
   8. Follow instructional policies and procedures
4. Practice safety measures in providing resident/patient care
   1. Use correct hand washing techniques
   2. Use CDC guidelines (universal precautions) in providing care
   3. Maintain a safe, clean environment
   4. Use correct body mechanics
   5. Follow emergency procedure for fire and other disasters
   6. Provide emergency care for choking resident/patient
   7. Position resident/patient’s call light within reach
   8. Promote a restraint free environment and, when necessary, properly and safely apply restraints
5. Use information on care plan to assist the resident/patient with personal hygiene
   1. Bathe resident/patient or assist with bathing
   2. Assist resident/patient with tub bath/shower/whirlpool
   3. Perform perineal care
   4. Perform or assist with oral hygiene including mouth and denture care
   5. Perform a resident/patient back rub
   6. Apply care for a resident/patient’s nails
   7. Assist with or shave resident/patient
   8. Assist resident/patient with dressing/undressing
   9. Assist resident/patient with hair care
   10. Assist resident/patient with adaptive devices, including sensory devices
   11. Assist resident/patient with nutritional needs (special diets).
   12. Feed resident when needed
   13. Makes occupied and unoccupied bed
6. Perform special procedures for the resident/patient
   1. Provide for resident/patient privacy
   2. Position resident/patient in correct body alignment
   3. Transport resident/patient, using correct equipment
   4. Assist resident/patient in standing and ambulating
   5. Observe and maintain urinary drainage system
   6. Assist resident/patient with bladder/bowel training
   7. Assist resident/patient with elimination needs
   8. Measure and record temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure
   9. Use techniques that help prevent pressure sores
   10. Perform passive range of motion
   11. Direct active range of motion
   12. Measure and record resident/patient height and weight
   13. Identify the five steps of approaching death or reactions or approaching death
   14. Explain the procedure for post-mortem care
   15. Identify ways to ease the impact of loses
   16. Apply anti-embolism elastic (TED Hose).

HSC 182 - Advanced Nurse Aide

1. Compare the hospital (acute) care facility with long term care facility
   1. List the purposes of acute care hospitals
   2. Discuss different methods of organizing nursing care in acute care hospitals
   3. Identify new skills you will need to work as a nurse aide in acute care
   4. Communicate effectively in acute care setting
   5. Discuss ethical/legal role of nurse aide in acute care
2. Provide safe nursing care in acute care setting
   1. Explain correct procedure for admitting a patient
   2. List six rules to follow in taking care of a patient’s valuables
   3. Correctly transfer a patient
   4. Explain correct procedure for discharging a patient
   5. Review methods for infection control
   6. Safely use isolation techniques when required
   7. Encourage the patient to follow diet requirements
3. Care for patients on special units
   1. Provide basic pre-operative care
   2. Provide safe post-operative care
   3. Recognize how care may change because of patient’s age and condition
4. Provide/assist with special procedures
   1. Safely administer enemas
   2. Collect specimen for testing as directed
   3. Safely administer heat and cold applications as ordered
   4. Provide care for the patient with an orthopedic condition
   5. Recognize emergency situations and describe the nurse aide’s role in an emergency

HSC 183 - CCDI-Dementia Illness Training

1. Describe Alzheimer’s disease
   1. Describe characteristics of Alzheimer?s disease
   2. List the stages of Alzheimer’s disease
   3. Discuss criteria used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
2. Discuss methods of assessment for Alzheimer?s patient
   1. Describe current assessment tools
   2. Use the Global Deterioration Scale
   3. Use the Mini Mental Status Exam
3. Discuss challenging behaviors of the Alzheimer?s patient
   1. Describe therapeutic interventions
   2. List the ten absolutes when communicating with an Alzheimer’s patient
   3. Prepare scenarios depicting challenging behaviors
4. Discuss nutritional needs of the Alzheimer?s patient
   1. Discuss physiological/medical concerns
   2. Discuss environmental issues
   3. Discuss cognitive/psychological concerns
5. Describe appropriate activities for the Alzheimer’s patient
   1. Assess appropriateness for an activity
   2. List five activities to use for an Alzheimer’s patient
   3. Plan an activity for an Alzheimer’s patient
6. Describe ways to avoid caregiver burnout
   1. List activities the caregiver can do to decrease stress
   2. Plan an activity/game for a care giver
   3. Discuss outside resources available to the caregiver

HSC 231 - Medical Science Observation I

1. Perform all work at the field experience as specified by the job description at a satisfactory level as determined by the supervisor
2. Demonstrate the ability to perform in the work environment
   1. Observe other staff as they work with clients
   2. Provide direct service to clients, while under close supervision
   3. Respond appropriately to clients within the scope of the program and services which are provided by the agency
3. List goals to field experience activities
   1. Develop objectives that measure directed activities and performance standards
   2. Identify goals of field experience activities
   3. Develop an awareness of the psychological impact on the disabled patient and how it can alter personalities
   4. Define and understand the various areas that involve medical health care and the types of patients treated in these areas
   5. Define appropriate dress, behavior and appearance for the field experience
   6. Define and understand safety concerns for self and clients
4. Describe duties completed through field experience
   1. Define skills and knowledge used in professional setting
   2. Recognize the importance of retraining and learning new skills
5. Document progress of field experience
   1. Write down weekly journal of experience
   2. Examine strengths and weaknesses of each experience
6. Demonstrate professionalism and self-discipline in all aspects of work at the field experience
   1. Attend work punctually at all scheduled times
   2. Complete all work in a timely manner, meeting all assigned deadlines
   3. Take initiative in seeing work that needs to be done and volunteering to do it
   4. Adhere to professional standards of conduct as discussed in course work and as specified by the field experience agency and supervisor
7. Evaluate one’s own progress in developing the skills as a professional
   1. Identify strengths and weaknesses of one’s own performance at the field site
   2. Identify areas of the profession where the student’s strengths can be used effectively
   3. Describe the student’s skills and style of work performance
   4. Describe the student’s interaction with other professionals, including supervisor, co-workers, and any professionals from other agencies that the student interacted with
   5. Assess the degree to which the student has met the supervisor’s expectations, particularly those specified in the individual student job description

HSC 232 - Medical Science Observation II

1. Perform all work at the field experience as specified by the job description at a satisfactory level as determined by the supervisor
2. Demonstrate the ability to perform in the work environment
   1. Observe other staff as they work with clients
   2. Provide direct service to clients, while under close supervision
   3. Respond appropriately to clients within the scope of the program and services which are provided by the agency
3. Describe duties completed through field experience
   1. Define skills and knowledge used in professional setting
   2. Recognize the importance of retraining and learning new skills
4. Document progress of field experience
   1. Identify the basic health terminology used in the medical field
   2. Write down weekly journal of experience
   3. Examine strengths and weaknesses of each experience
5. Demonstrate professionalism and self-discipline in all aspects of work at the field experience
   1. Attend work punctually at all scheduled times
   2. Complete all work in a timely manner, meeting all assigned deadlines.
   3. Take initiative in seeing work that needs to be done and volunteering to do it
   4. Adhere to professional standards of conduct as discussed in course work and as specified by the field experience agency and supervisor
6. Evaluate one’s own progress in developing the skills as a professional.
   1. Identify strengths and weaknesses of one’s own performance at the field site
   2. Identify areas of the profession where the student’s strengths can be used effectively
   3. Describe the student’s skills and style of work performance
   4. Describe the student’s interaction with other agencies that the student interacted with
   5. Assess the degree to which the student has met the supervisor’s expectations, particularly those specified in the individual student job description
7. Preparing for the graduate level experience
   1. Discuss course requirements
   2. Describe and prepare resume
   3. Documenting field experience of volunteer hours
   4. Explain and apply interviewing practices

HSC 240 - Human Nutrition

1. Identify factors which influence food choices.
2. Classify nutrients
   1. Differentiate between essential and nonessential nutrients
   2. Distinguish between nutrient classes
   3. List the differences between organic and inorganic nutrients
   4. Distinguish between energy yielding and non-energy yielding nutrients
   5. Differentiate macronutrients from micronutrients
3. Define kilocalorie
4. Use food planning systems and diet evaluation methods
   1. Match foods with the food group to which they belong using the new Daily Food Guide
   2. Identify the numbers of servings required for each food group using the new Daily Food Guide and the approximate amounts of foods required to count as a “serving”.
   3. Identify how the exchange system works and why foods can be exchanged for one another in this system
   4. Identify the uses of the exchange system
5. Assess diets
   1. Identify stages and types of nutritional deficiencies
   2. Describe dietary assessment methods used to evaluate diets of populations, households and individuals
   3. Identify the correct meaning of the acronym “RDA”.
   4. Identify the intended use of the RDA, and the limitations of how they might be used in other ways
   5. Identify cases when an estimated safe and adequate intake of a nutrient is used instead of a RDA
   6. Identify dietary goals and guidelines of the US Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Humans Needs (196-77)
   7. Analyze diets for nutrient composition
   8. Suggest changes that would improve diets, based upon the nutrient composition of the diets
6. Interpret food labels
   1. Identify the meanings of labeling terms, especially those with legal ramifications
   2. Interpret the meanings of food label content lists
   3. Identify the use of the USRDA
7. Summarize the processes of digestion, absorption, transport and metabolism of nutrients
   1. Identify the path which food takes through the digestive system
   2. Identify the components of the circulatory and lymphatic systems that relate to absorption and transport of food
   3. Define digestion
   4. Identify foods that are digested and those that are not
   5. Identify characteristics of enzymes
   6. Identify the processes, the mechanisms and enzymes, and the names used to describe the “food” as it passes through the digestive system
   7. Match digestive enzymes with their substrates and products
   8. Identify problems associated with digestion and the consequences of those problems
   9. Identify mechanisms of absorption by description and the nutrients absorbed via each mechanism
   10. Identify factors required for transport of nutrients, and routes by which they are transported in the body
   11. Identify the proportion that is usually absorbed of nutrients of different classes
   12. Distinguish between anabolism, metabolism and catabolism
   13. Identify the molecule that is the energy currency of the body
   14. Identify steps in cellular respiration and products of these steps
   15. Identify the biochemical pathways by which different nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and lipids) are metabolized
   16. State the differences between glucogenic and ketogenic amino acids
   17. Identify the roles of the brain, muscle, adipose tissue and liver in integration of metabolism
   18. Label the differences in the functions among insulin, glucagon, epinephrine and norepinephrine, and cortisol
8. Summarize characteristics of carbohydrates and carbohydrate consumption
   1. Identify the nutrient class that provides the bulk of keel in any society
   2. Identify the keel provided per gram of carbohydrates
   3. Distinguish complex carbohydrates from simple sugars
   4. Identify the unit molecules of carbohydrates
   5. Identify foods that contribute largely to US consumption of sucrose
   6. Identify those in the population that consume the largest amounts of sucrose
   7. Identify sources of fructose in the diet
   8. Identify the most probable fate of fructose consumed when energy is not needed
   9. Identify a definition of dextrins
   10. Differentiate between insoluble and soluble fiber by sources and metabolic effects
   11. Identify undigestible sugars by name and source
   12. Identify sugar alcohols by name and by their effects when consumed in large quantities
   13. Identify the primary sources of carbohydrates on Earth and the basic reaction involved
   14. Differentiate between foods by the type of carbohydrates they provide
9. Describe carbohydrate and metabolism
   1. Identify roles of carbohydrates in the body
   2. Identify names used to describe deviations from a normal blood glucose
   3. Identify factors that help to control blood glucose
   4. Identify causes and treatments of diseases associated with problems in carbohydrate metabolism and nutrition
10. Describe ethanol metabolism
    1. Identify the route and site of absorption of ethanol and the approximate percentage absorbed
    2. Identify the alcohol blood level that represents intoxication and that which can result in respiratory arrest
    3. Identify the metabolic pathways used to get energy out of alcohol and the keel provided
    4. Identify problems and possible benefits associated with alcohol consumption
11. Summarize characteristics of lipids
    1. Outline the differences among classes of lipids by their unit molecules
    2. List the differences among saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids by description
    3. Employ polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acid ratios to determine the characteristics of a food fat source or a diet
    4. Identify the differences in food fat sources by their relative fatty acid composition
12. Summarize the characteristics of lipid metabolism
    1. Identify roles of serum lipoproteins
    2. Identify the blood concentrations of cholesterol associated with
    3. Identify the possible metabolic fates of cholesterol
    4. Identify descriptions of essential fatty acid deficiency
    5. Identify roles of lipids in the diet and in the body
    6. Identify diseases associated with lipids
    7. Identify dietary changes that will cause no harm and provide possible disease-prevention benefits
13. Classify food lipids
    1. Differentiate visible from invisible fats by description and their usual percentage contribution to total dietary fat
    2. Identify the essential fatty acids by name, description and metabolic roles
    3. Differentiate among types of alterations made to fats in foods
14. Summarize characteristics of amino acids and proteins
    1. Identify the parts of an amino acid
    2. Identify the part of an amino acid that always contains nitrogen
    3. Differentiate essential from non-essential amino acids by name and description
    4. Identify characteristics of each level of protein structure
    5. Identify the usual percentage of protein that is nitrogen
15. Summarize characteristics of protein metabolism
    1. Identify factors involved in protein synthesis
    2. Identify factors that supply and deplete the amino acid pool
    3. Identify functions of protein in the body
    4. Identify the components of nitrogen balance, and factors affecting nitrogen balance
    5. Identify factors affecting protein need, and how protein need is estimated
    6. Identify the percentage of daily keel that should come from protein
    7. Identify diseases associated with protein nutrition by description and treatments
16. Evaluate dietary proteins and their uses
    1. Use different methods to rate protein quality
    2. Differentiate among complete, partially complete, and incomplete proteins
    3. Identify what is meant by complementing and supplementing proteins
    4. Identify advantages of cooking protein foods
    5. Differentiate among omnivores, vegetarians, ovolactovegetarians and vegans
    6. Recognize problems and benefits of different diets
17. Relate energy metabolism to foods
    1. Define calorie
    2. State the differences among the methods of determining the energy content of foods
    3. Identify processes that are part of basal metabolism
    4. Identify factors affecting basal energy needs
    5. Identify conditions used to measure the basal metabolic rate and the resting metabolic rate
    6. Identify methods used to measure energy expenditure
    7. Identify the energy balance equation and its implications
    8. Identify the rule of thumb for estimation of BMR
    9. Identify reasons why energy needs vary greatly between individuals
    10. Identify factors that influence food/kcal intake
    11. Identify effects of prenatal energy deprivation
18. Describe methods and purposes of obtaining an ideal body weight
    1. Identify methods used to measure body fatness
    2. Identify risks and causes of obesity
    3. Identify requirements and characteristics of a good reducing diet
    4. Identify non-caloric food additives
19. Match vitamins with their letter or chemical names, their provitamins or precursors, their functions, their food sources, and their deficiency diseases or symptoms
20. Describe water metabolism
    1. Identify the body’s greatest and most frequent nutrient need
    2. Identify the sources of metabolic water and the relative contribution of each source
    3. Outline how factors like age, exercise and obesity affect body water
21. Identify elements that are electrolytes and recognize their functions and food sources
    1. Identify the functions of minerals and identify factors (dietary, lifestyle, age, and others) which affect these functions and how they affect these functions
    2. Identify factors affecting absorption of minerals, how they affect absorption, and the relative proportions of minerals usually absorbed
22. Identify factors that interfere with vitamin and mineral metabolism and how they do so
23. Identify nutrient interactions
24. Identify substances in foods that are not nutrients
25. Describe nutrition through the life cycle
    1. Identify factors which may affect birth weight of an infant
    2. Identify factors which affect childbirth for a woman
    3. Identify nutrients that should be increased in pregnancy and those where avoidance of a megadose is important
26. List the differences between cow’s milk, infant formula, and mother’s milk and the differences between mother’s milk (mature) and colostrum
    1. Identify factors essential for infants
    2. Identify differences in how adolescent boys and girls mature and how this affects their diets
    3. Identify factors that influence the nutritional health status of elderly

HSC 281 - Limited Radiology

1. Recognize the legal and ethical responsibilities of the role of the “limited radiographer.”
   1. Identify what health professionals may order radiographs
   2. Identify who may administer radiographs
   3. Point out who has custody of x-rays
   4. Identify who is responsible for interpreting radiographs
2. Explain guidelines for the loan of x-ray films
3. Explain confidentiality guidelines as they relate to patient medical information
4. Explain the function of x-ray machines and technical factors for exposing diagnostic radiographs
   1. Describe the structure of matter and its relationship to the production of radiographs
   2. Discuss basic principles of magnetism and how it is used in producing x-rays
   3. Describe how principles of electricity are applied to the production of radiographs
   4. Differentiate x-ray waves from other waves
   5. List the basic components of the x-ray tube
   6. Describe the role of the target in the production of x-rays
   7. Describe components of x-ray circuit
   8. Explain the use of the various controls on the control panel
   9. Explain how Photon tissue interactions are used in achieving a good radiograph
5. Demonstrate Correct procedure for apply “limited” diagnostic x-rays
   1. Describe how an image is formed as a result of performing a radiograph
   2. Explain the various factors related to photographic effect on films
   3. Calculate the effect various milliamperages (mA) will have on a radiograph
   4. Describe the effect the exposure time has on a radiograph
   5. Differentiate mA from mAs
   6. Describe how mA is calculated for an exposure
   7. Determine how Focal Film Distance is calculated for an exposure
   8. Describe the effect of kilovoltage in producing radiographs
   9. Describe how an image is formed as a result of performing radiographs
   10. Describe methods to properly maintain screens
   11. Explain how various body tissues modify the x-ray beam
   12. Explain the effects grids have on radiographs
   13. Select the proper grid
   14. Apply the principles of coning
6. Maintain darkroom for film processing
7. Process film to achieve optional results and prevent retakes
8. Apply terms related to film processing
9. Develop film properly/correctly
10. Explain the components and purposes of radiographic films
11. Explain the effect of chemicals on developing film
12. Calculate temperature and time for correctly developing film
13. View radiographs and determine their quality
    1. Discuss the technique and conditions that affect the quality of radiographs
    2. Describe the individual components of radiographic quality
    3. Define radiographic detail
    4. Explain the relationship of radiographic detail to selected techniques and factors
    5. Define radiographic magnification
    6. Explain the relationship of radiographic magnification to selected factors
    7. Define distortion on a radiograph
    8. Describe how to prevent distortion on a radiograph
14. Recognize the potential dangers of radiation and safety practices to protect self and the patient
    1. Describe the role of the Iowa Department of Health in radiation protection
    2. Define terms related to radiation exposure
    3. Describe the interaction of radiation with matter
    4. Identify probable genetic effects of radiation
    5. Identify acute and long term somatic effects of radiation
    6. Discuss principles that influence personnel and patient protection
    7. Recognize methods of protection in administering diagnostic radiographs
    8. Discuss environmental protection, listing causes of problems and describing methods and rules to limit causes
    9. Describe causes of overexposure for personnel
    10. List methods to decrease and monitor overexposure
    11. Describe methods to protect patients from overexposure
15. Define quality assurance
    1. State the rationale for quality assurance
    2. Describe five of the seven common quality assurance tests
16. Discuss terminology and basic guidelines used for radiographic examination of all body parts
    1. Define body parts
    2. Describe various radiographic projections and positions
    3. List basic guidelines for radiographing patients
17. Perform a diagnostic radiograph of the chest
    1. Review normal anatomy of thoracic bones, lungs, and trachea
    2. Prepare and position patient for chest radiograph
    3. Select the correct basic projections for radiographs of the lungs.
    4. Perform the following correctly
    5. Select correct technical factors for radiographs of the chest
    6. Discuss modifications to be made for pathology of chest
    7. Evaluate the quality of radiographs of the chest regarding technical factors, positioning, and processing, given radiograph of the chest
18. Perform a diagnostic radiograph of the upper extremity
    1. Review normal anatomy of the upper extremity
    2. Select the basic projections for each upper extremity part
    3. Perform the following, correctly
    4. Select the correct radiographic considerations for each special projection of the wrist
    5. Select the correct radiographic considerations for each special projection of the elbow
    6. Select correct technical factors for upper extremity radiography
    7. Explain special considerations for radiographs of upper extremities
    8. Identify the projections and evaluate them in relation to the following, given radiographs of the upper extremity
19. Perform a diagnostic radiograph of the lower extremity
    1. Review normal anatomy of the lower extremity
    2. Select the basic projection for each lower extremity part
    3. Perform the following correctly
    4. Select the correct radiographic consideration for each special projection
    5. Select correct technical factors for lower extremity radiography
    6. Explain special considerations for radiographs of lower extremity
    7. Identify the projections and evaluate them in relation to the following, given radiographs of the lower extremity

HSV 109 - Intro to Human Services

1. Explain the history and early influences on the development of the social welfare institution
2. Interpret the relationship between society’s value system and existing welfare programs
3. Describe the basic concepts which underlie the human services delivery system
4. Utilize principles of systems analysis to develop an understanding of the political, social and economic theories which influence trends in the social welfare system
5. Cite major contemporary welfare legislation
6. Describe the complexity and diversity of agencies which deliver human services
7. Identify the services which are provided by the major types of human services agencies
8. Recognize the roles and responsibilities of professionals and middle level workers in human services agencies
9. Demonstrate academic self-discipline
10. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend reading material in human services and news media
11. Demonstrate logical and analytical thinking

HSV 130 - Interviewing/Interper Relation

1. Demonstrate knowledge of important concepts in interviewing
   1. Describe three communication models
   2. List the advantages and disadvantages of open questions
   3. List the advantages and disadvantages of closed questions
   4. List the advantages and disadvantages of directive interviews
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of nondirective interviews
   6. List the advantages and disadvantages of scheduled interviews
   7. List the advantages and disadvantages of nonscheduled interviews
   8. Describe listening levels
2. Establish interpersonal relationships with interviewees
   1. Talk with people comfortably
   2. Demonstrate open body language
   3. Describe open and closed body language observed in student interviews
   4. Sense impact of self on interviewee
   5. Interpret nonverbal behaviors, emotions, and physical characteristics which the student observes
   6. Respond appropriately to interviewee nonverbal communication
   7. Probe interviewee responses
   8. Reflect the feelings and content of interviewee responses
3. Conduct ten survey interviews
   1. Choose interviewing strategies appropriate for a survey
   2. Write the interview schedule
   3. Pretest the interview schedule
   4. Interview ten people using the survey schedule and record their responses
   5. Tabulate the results of the survey
   6. Write a report of the survey results
4. Conduct an assessment appraisal interview
   1. Choose interviewing strategies appropriate for an assessment interview
   2. Research the problem to be assessed to determine the criteria for an assessment
   3. List the criteria to be used for the assessment
   4. Write three or more open questions which can be used to gather information about each criterion in the assessment
   5. Write the assessment interview schedule
   6. Conduct an assessment interview using the schedule
   7. Record interviewee responses
   8. Record nonverbal behaviors and emotions which the student observed
   9. Organize interviewee verbal and nonverbal responses into an assessment
   10. Report the interview responses in a written human services assessment
5. Conduct a complete history interview
   1. Choose interviewing strategies appropriate for a complete history interview
   2. Research the areas which will be included in the history to determine the criteria for assessment
   3. List the criteria to be used for the assessment in each area of the history
   4. Write three or more open questions which can be used to gather information about each criteria in each area of the history
   5. Write an interview schedule for a complete history
   6. Conduct a complete history interview using the schedule
   7. Record interviewee responses
   8. Record nonverbal behaviors and emotions which the student observed
   9. Organize interviewee verbal and nonverbal responses into a complete history
   10. Report interviewee responses in a written human services history
6. Demonstrate human services self discipline
   1. Meet assigned deadlines
   2. Attend class regularly
   3. Participate in class activities and discussion in a meaningful way
   4. Give feedback to classmates to help them develop their interviewing skills
7. Demonstrate logical and analytical thinking
   1. Write survey results, an assessment, and a history using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling
   2. Write survey results, an assessment, and a history that report interview information in a clear and comprehensible manner, that are well-organized, and that distinguish between fact and opinion
   3. Write survey results, an assessment, and a history in which opinions are supported with facts from the interviews, evidence, and/or reason, and in which conclusions follow from the evidence presented

HSV 133 - Conflict Resolution

1. Understand the theory, underlying concepts and steps in conflict resolution
   1. Students will be able to describe the history of conflict resolution
   2. Students will be able to describe and demonstrate the introductory phase of conflict resolution
   3. Students will be able to describe and demonstrate the story gathering phase of conflict resolution
   4. Students will be able to describe and demonstrate the resolution phase of conflict resolution
2. Students will be able to differentiate conflict resolution from other forms of intervention such as counseling/therapy, advocacy, arbitration and litigation
   1. Students will compare and contrast conflict resolution with counseling/therapy
   2. Students will compare and contrast conflict resolution with advocacy
   3. Students will compare and contrast conflict resolution with arbitration
   4. Students will compare and contrast conflict resolution with litigation
3. Students will demonstrate basic skills associated with the mediation/conflict resolution process and link these processes to mediation theory
   1. Students will demonstrate the introductory stage of mediation
   2. Students will demonstrate the story-gathering stage of mediation
   3. Students will demonstrate the resolution stage of mediation
   4. Students will explain how these stages relate to mediation theory
4. Students will have the opportunity to explain mediation techniques used to resolve an impasse and techniques used to work with challenging people in mediation
   1. Students will be able to explain and demonstrate ways of dealing with an impasse
   2. Students will be able to describe types of challenging behaviors in mediation and demonstrate techniques for working with them
5. Students will clarify their own conflict resolution style and comfort with conflict
   1. Students will examine different styles of conflict and identify their own conflict resolution style and comfort with conflict
   2. Students will observe how conflict is presented in the media
   3. Students will keep a conflict journal
6. Students will be introduced to culturally sensitive principles that may apply to conflict resolution
   1. Students will examine cultural differences in conflict
   2. Students will be able to list cultural differences and how they may impact mediation
   3. Students will be able to demonstrate strategies for dealing with cultural conflicts in mediation
7. Students will understand the concept to restorative justice
   1. Students will be able to define restorative justice
   2. Students will be able to compare and contrast restorative justice with retributive justice
   3. Students will be able to list and explain restorative justice practices

HSV 135 - Women’s Issues

1. Explain the definition and history of American feminism
   1. Correctly define the word ?feminist?.
   2. Identify the American Women?s Rights Movement and achievements of this movement
   3. Identify gender inequities that still exist in America today
   4. Identify the definition of and need for gender-specific services
2. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of loss of a child
   1. Identify issues of death of a child
   2. Identify issues of infertility
   3. Identify issues of giving a child up for adoption
   4. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience about loss of a child
   5. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who have lost a child
   6. Recognize one’s own feelings about the loss of a child
3. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of abuse
   1. Identify issues of domestic abuse
   2. Identify issues of sexual abuse
   3. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience about abuse
   4. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who have experienced abuse
   5. Recognize one’s own feelings about abuse
4. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of relationships.
   1. Identify issues of divorce and it?s impact on women and girls
   2. Identify issues of lesbians
   3. Identify issues of traditional wife/mother vs. career roles
   4. Identify issues of grief
   5. Identify issues of young mothers
   6. Identify issues of relational aggression among girls
   7. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience because of relationship issues
   8. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who have relationship issues
   9. Recognize one’s own feelings about these relationship issues
5. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of health and mental health issues
   1. Identify issues of addictions
   2. Identify issues of disabilities
   3. Identify issues of abortion
   4. Identify issues of childbirth
   5. Identify issues of women who work in the medical field
   6. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience because of health issues
   7. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who have health and mental health issues
   8. Identify and define issues of snare and guild and how women are impacted by them
   9. Recognize one’s own feelings about these health issues
6. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of poverty
   1. Identify issues of poverty
   2. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience because of poverty
   3. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who are poor
   4. Recognize one’s own feelings about persons who are poor
7. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of their employment
   1. Identify issues of employment of minority women
   2. Identify issues of sexual harassment and discrimination
   3. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience because of her treatment in the workplace
   4. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who experienced issues in the workplace
   5. Recognize one’s own feelings about working women
8. Explain some of the issues that impact minority women in America
   1. Correctly define discrimination and racism
   2. Understand the concept of “white privileged”.
   3. Identify issues of minority women in America today
9. Explain some of the gender specific issues and problems women face in our society because of the criminal justice system
   1. Identify issues of women in prison
   2. Perceive some of the feelings which a woman may experience within the criminal justice system
   3. Describe some of the resources available to serve people who are in or have been in the criminal justice system
   4. Recognize one’s own feelings about women in prison
10. Demonstrate academic self-discipline
    1. Meet assigned deadlines
    2. Attend class regularly
    3. Participate in class activities and discussions in a meaningful way
11. Demonstrate logical and analytical thinking
    1. Write class essays using correct grammar, punctuation and spelling
    2. Write essays that answer questions, address issues in a clear and comprehensive manner, are well-organized and distinguish between fact and opinion
    3. Research chosen class project topic and write research papers that are clear, comprehensive, well-organized and distinguished between fact and opinion

HSV 185 - Discrimination and Diversity

1. Demonstrate awareness of individual cultural experiences and cultural heritage
   1. Describe personal culture
   2. Share family cultural stories, legends and tales
   3. Explore personal environment, family dynamics, and values
   4. Understand the personal lens through which we view the world
   5. Explain unconscious ethnocentrism
2. Demonstrate awareness of overt and covert racism
   1. Give examples of overt racism
   2. Give examples of covert racism
   3. Identify overt and covert racism in the media
3. Analyze stereotypes, assumptions, and labels present today
   1. Challenge personal assumptions, stereotypes or biases
   2. Give examples of stereotypes, assumptions, and labels regarding the following areas; race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, age, ability and culture
   3. Explain how stereotypes, assumptions, and labels can affect people
   4. Identify areas in people?s lives that influence assumptions or biases
   5. Give examples of ways to overcome personal biases in order to work effectively with diverse populations
4. Critically examine majority group domination of minority groups
   1. Explain “white privilege”.
   2. Describe difference in power based on race, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, age, ability, etc
   3. Give examples of unequal systems in America today
   4. Participate in sensitivity activity
5. Develop culturally-sensitive practice skills
   1. Identify questions to ask client in order to gather important cultural information
   2. Demonstrate how to properly work with interpreters
   3. Perform assessments that ask culturally-sensitive questions
   4. Develop a case plan that addresses cultural needs of client
6. Demonstrate an understanding of intercultural counseling/communication
   1. Read about counseling techniques for various populations of people
   2. Present information regarding a specific population
   3. Describe how to effectively work with individuals and their families who are culturally different from themselves
   4. Role-play situations in which intercultural communication techniques are displayed

HSV 220 - Intro to Counseling Theories

1. Demonstrate basic knowledge of psychoanalysis as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with psychoanalysis
   2. Describe the historical development of psychoanalysis
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of psychoanalysis
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use psychoanalysis in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of psychoanalysis
2. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Individual Psychology as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Individual Psychology
   2. Describe the historical development of Individual Psychology
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Individual Psychology
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Individual Psychology in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Individual Psychology
3. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Transactional Analysis as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Transactional Analysis
   2. Describe the historical development of Transactional Analysis
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Transactional Analysis
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Transactional Analysis in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Transactional Analysis
4. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Rational-Emotive Therapy as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Rational-Emotive Therapy
   2. Describe the historical development of Rational-Emotive Therapy
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Rational-Emotive Therapy
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Rational-Emotive Therapy in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Rational-Emotive Therapy
5. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Reality Therapy as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Reality Therapy
   2. Describe the historical development of Reality Therapy
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Reality Therapy
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Reality Therapy in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Reality Therapy
6. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Behavioral Therapies as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Behavioral Therapies
   2. Describe the historical development of Behavioral Therapies
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Behavioral Therapies
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Behavioral Therapies in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Behavioral Therapies
7. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Gestalt Therapies as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Gestalt Therapies
   2. Describe the historical development of Gestalt Therapies
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Gestalt Therapies
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Gestalt Therapies in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Gestalt Therapies
8. Demonstrate basic knowledge of Person Centered Therapy as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with Person Centered Therapy
   2. Describe the historical development of Person Centered Therapy
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of Person Centered Therapy
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use Person Centered Therapy in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Person Centered Therapy
9. Demonstrate basic knowledge of family systems theory as used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
   1. Explain the major terms and concepts associated with family systems theory
   2. Describe the historical development of family systems theory
   3. Explain the theoretical perspective of family systems theory
   4. Describe how mental health professionals use family systems theory in the treatment process
   5. List the advantages and disadvantages of family systems theory
10. Compare the major therapies used by mental health professionals in the treatment process
11. Demonstrate academic self-discipline
    1. Meet assigned deadlines
    2. Attend class regularly
    3. Participate in class activities and discussions in a meaningful way
12. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend reading material in human services
    1. Read most or all of the assigned material
    2. Use the terminology and concepts associated with the individual theories in discussion and writing assignments
13. Demonstrate logical and analytical thinking
    1. Write essays using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling
    2. Write essays that answer questions and address issues in a clear and comprehensible manner, that are well-organized, and that distinguish between fact and opinion
    3. Write essays in which both facts and opinions are supported with evidence and/or reason, and in which conclusions follow the evidence presented

HSV 255 - Addictive Disease Concepts

1. Explain the biological, psychological, sociological, and moral theories of addiction
   1. Discuss genetic predisposition and brain chemistry from current research
   2. Relate depression, anxiety and personality disorders to the psychological theory
   3. Illustrate the relationship of poverty, crime, and role conflict to the social dimension
   4. Summarize how values, belief systems, and choice enter into the moral concept
2. Explain the historical development of attitudes toward addiction in the United States
   1. Identify significant persons who influence thinking
   2. List organizations and agencies that contributed to education and services
   3. Relate events that contributed to problems and solutions
   4. Discuss the scope of addiction
3. Illustrate destructive behaviors that are currently interpreted as forms of non-chemical addiction
   1. Outline addictive agents other than chemicals
   2. Outline activities that have addictive potential
   3. Discuss addiction in types of relationships
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the categories, classes and names of the most common chemicals of abuse and dependency
   1. Give examples of analgesics, sedatives, stimulants, hallucinogens, and OTC substances
   2. List benzodiazepine, amphetamine and barbiturate classes and their abuse potential
   3. Name generic and brand names of prescription drugs of abuse
5. Explain the signs and symptoms of chemical addiction according to diagnostic criteria currently used
   1. Explain the medical, psychological and social features in diagnosis
   2. Explain DSM-TR diagnosis criteria for substance use disorders
   3. Outline the 6 Dimensions of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
6. Explain how special needs groups in the population are affected by chemical addiction
   1. Discuss the impact of clinical addiction on ethnic minorities
   2. Discuss the impact of clinical addiction on gay/lesbians
   3. Discuss the impact of clinical addiction on the disabled
   4. Discuss the impact of clinical addiction on the elderly
   5. Discuss the impact of clinical addiction on youth and adolescents
   6. Discuss the impact of clinical addiction on women (and pregnancy).
   7. Discuss the impact of co-occurring disorders
7. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of chemical addiction on the lives of family members and friends
   1. Outline the relationship patterns
   2. Discuss the related issue of enabling
   3. Discuss the related issue of codependency
8. Identify the types of intervention used in chemical addiction
   1. Outline evidenced based practices
   2. Review pharmological interventions
   3. Review legal interventions: commitment process/commital
9. Examine rehabilitation services currently available for chemical addiction
   1. Investigate levels of care used by healthcare organizations
   2. Analyze specific components of treatment
   3. Examine the significance of support groups in recovery
10. Demonstrate academic self-discipline
    1. Keep up with reading assignments
    2. Attend class regularly
    3. Participate in class discussions in a meaningful way
11. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend literature of the field of addiction
    1. Read, for understanding, all assigned addiction related material
    2. Use the terminology and concepts associated with addiction in discussions and writing assignments
12. Demonstrate logical and analytical thinking
    1. Write answers to test questions using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling
    2. Write answers to test questions in a clear and comprehensible manner, addressing issues and distinguishing between fact and opinion
13. Identify ethical behavior
    1. Outline principles of ethical behavior as identified by Iowa Board of Certification
    2. Discuss ethical dilemmas

HSV 286 - Intervention Theories/Prac I

1. Identify many of the agencies which provide services in the Human Services field using First Call for Help.
   1. Identify services provided by various agencies
   2. Identify eligibility requirements of clients
   3. Identify client referral processes
2. Perform an assessment of client needs
   1. Gather relevant data
   2. Identify needs, citing facts that indicate the need
   3. Select appropriate agencies which provide services which could meet the client needs, using First Call for Help
   4. Write human services assessments which could be used to refer clients for services
3. Compare case management and planning techniques used by human services agencies
   1. Identify strengths and weaknesses of rules and regulations
   2. Identify strengths and weaknesses of client contracts
   3. Identify strengths and weaknesses of management by objectives (MBO).
4. Develop one’s own learning goals and objectives for the field experience using MBO processes
   1. Identify student interests using values classification strategies
   2. Identify student skills using skills inventories
   3. Formulate goal statements, objectives and evaluation procedures
   4. Identify career interests using career life planning
5. Investigate the working environment of human services agencies by visiting at least 3 agencies
   1. Produce research questions
   2. Examine human service agencies of interest
   3. Identify the roles, responsibilities and relative power of human services professionals and middle level workers at those agencies
   4. Report learning in writing and in oral reports to the class
6. Choose a field experience site consistent with the student’s interests, abilities and goals
   1. Identify at least 3 agencies where the student could do field experience and reach the learning goals which the student has written
   2. Obtain a “job interview” with a potential supervisor at each agency to discuss the possibility of a field experience, the student’s goals, the “Field Experience Guidelines”, and the supervisor’s expectations
   3. Negotiate a contract for field experience with the supervisor
7. Develop a contract which has been negotiated with the supervisor of the agency
   1. Prepare a job description reflecting the student’s understanding of the supervisor’s expectations concerning job duties, competencies which are needed, and performance standards
   2. Confirm with the supervisor that the job description accurately reflects his/her expectations
   3. Modify the student’s learning goals, if necessary
   4. Complete the “Plan for Field Experience”.
   5. Complete the “Release of Information”.

HSV 803 - Seminar

Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

1. Evaluate learning goals for field experience site.

1. Develop a minimum of 3 learning goals related to field experience site.

2. Share learning goals with instructor and field experience supervisor.

3. Assess progression of learning goals.

2. Write professional documentation through assessment, behavioral observations, progress notes and/or meeting minutes of people at the student’s internship.  Documentation will be consistent with all professional standards of human services recording.

1. Observe client verbal and nonverbal behaviors.

2. Describe client behaviors clearly, concisely, and factually.

3. Write documentation, behavioral observations or progress notes using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

4. Write clinical documentation, behavioral observations or progress notes that are free of judgmental, and discriminatory statements.

3. Articulate learning about skills gained through field experience.

1. Maintain a documentation of skills learned at internship site, observations, questions and number of hours worked.

2. Identify areas of critique or concern about social issues and treatment of specific populations.

3. Process and include previous course learning and application of theories, cultural competence and knowledge within the context of internship.

4. Discuss personal strengths and weaknesses. 

4. Demonstrate academic and human services standards of self-discipline.

1. Meet all assigned deadlines and classes.

2. Demonstrate compliance of NASW, ACA, or IBC Codes of Ethics. 

3. Participate in class activities and discussion in a meaningful way.

HSV 804 - Internship

1. Perform all work at the internship as specified by the job description at a satisfactory level as determined by the supervisor.
2. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with clients in a human services setting.
   1. Observe other staff as they work with clients or in job role.
   2. Provide direct service to clients or agency project, while under supervision.
   3. Respond appropriately to clients and agency within the scope of the program and services which are provided by the agency.
3. Document observations and services in professional human services records suitable for medical and/or legal purposes.
   1. se correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
   2. Write all documents in a clear and comprehensible manner, that are well organized, and that distinguish between fact and opinion.
   3. Write behavioral observations with possible interpretations are supported by evidence from verbal and nonverbal behavior.
   4. Document work at the field experience site by completing all written assignments required by HSV803 Human Services Seminar.
4. Reach the learning goals and objectives specified in the student’s individual learning contract.
5. Demonstrate human services professionalism and self discipline in all aspects of work at the field experience.
   1. Attend work punctually at all scheduled times.
   2. Complete all work in a timely manner, meeting all assigned deadlines.
   3. Maintain NASW, IBC or ACA Code of Ethics at all times.
   4. Take initiative in seeing work that needs to be done and volunteering to do it.
   5. Adhere to professional standards of conduct as discussed in human services courses and as specified by the field experience agency and supervisor.
6. Evaluate personal progress in developing the skills of a professional human services worker.
   1. Assess strengths and weaknesses of your performance at the field site.
   2. Identify areas of the human services profession where your strengths can be used effectively.
   3. Assess their skills and style of interacting with clients.
   4. Describe their interaction with human services professionals including the supervisor, co-workers, and any professionals from other agencies which the student interacts.
   5. Evaluate the degree to which they have met the supervisor’s expectations, particularly those specified in the individual job description and learning contract.

HSV 811 - Pract: Chem Depend Counsel I

1. Observe chemical dependency counselors in their performance of the following
   1. Conduct individual and group counseling sessions with chemi­cally dependent clients and their families
   2. Assess needs of CD clients and their families
   3. Develop treatment plans
   4. Evaluate outcomes of client treatment
   5. Interpret client behaviors and information provided by the client
   6. Provide feedback to influence clients to enable them to understand and change their own behaviors
   7. Present educational material to large groups
2. Read comprehensive assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, social histories, discharge summa­ries, and referrals
3. Perform the following counselor functions under close supervision
   1. Conduct individual and group counseling sessions with chemically dependent clients and their families
   2. Assess needs of CD clients and their families
   3. Develop treatment plans
   4. Evaluate outcomes of client treatment
   5. Interpret client behaviors and information provided by the client
   6. Give feedback to influence clients to enable them to understand and change their own behaviors
   7. Present educational material to large groups
   8. Write an assessment, treatment plan, progress notes, a social history, a discharge summary, and referrals
4. Plan the following counselor functions independently under general supervision
   1. Conduct individual and group counseling sessions with chemically dependent clients and their families
   2. Assess needs of CD clients and their families
   3. Develop treatment plans
   4. Evaluate outcomes of client treatment
   5. Interpret client behaviors and information provided by the client
   6. Give feedback to influence clients to enable them to understand and change their own behaviors
   7. Present educational material to large groups
   8. Write an assessment, treatment plan, progress notes, a social history, a discharge summary, and referrals
5. Perform the above (4.1 through 4.8) counselor functions under general supervision
6. Exemplify professional behavior as specified in the Iowa Board of Substance Abuse Counselor Certification code of Ethics and Confidentiality
7. Demonstrate professional self-discipline
   1. Attend all scheduled work assignments
   2. Meet assigned deadlines
   3. Identify work that needs to be done at the work site and volunteer to do it
   4. Participate in all work activities in a meaningful way

HSV 812 - Pract: Chem Depend Counsel II

1. Observe chemical dependency counselors performing the following functions
   1. Conducting individual and group counseling sessions with chemically dependent clients and their families
   2. Assessing needs of CD clients and their families
   3. Developing treatment plans
   4. Evaluating outcomes of client treatment
   5. Interpreting client behaviors and information provided by the client
   6. Giving feedback to influence clients to enable them to understand and change their own behaviors
   7. Presenting educational material to large groups
2. Read assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, social histories, discharge summaries, and referrals
3. Perform the following counselor functions under close supervision
   1. Conduct individual and group counseling sessions with chemically dependent clients and their families
   2. Assess needs of CD clients and their families
   3. Develop treatment plans
   4. Evaluate outcomes of client treatment
   5. Interpret client behaviors and information provided by the client
   6. Give feedback to influence clients to enable them to understand and change their own behaviors
   7. Present educational material to large groups
   8. Write an assessment, treatment plan, progress notes, a social history, a discharge summary, and referrals
4. Plan specific counselor functions independently
5. Perform the following counselor functions independently under general supervision
   1. Conduct individual and group counseling sessions with chemically dependent clients and their families
   2. Assess needs of CD clients and their families
   3. Develop treatment plans
   4. Evaluate outcomes of client treatment.
   5. Interpret client behaviors and information provided by the client
   6. Give feedback to influence clients to enable them to understand and change their own behaviors
   7. Present educational material to large groups
   8. Write an assessment, a treatment plan, progress notes, a social history, a discharge summary, and referrals
6. Exemplify professional behavior as specified in the Powell CDC or other facility and Iowa Board of Substance Abuse Counselor Certification code of Ethics and Confidentiality
7. Demonstrate professional self-discipline
   1. Attend all scheduled work assignments
   2. Meet assigned deadlines
   3. Identify work that needs to be done at the work site and volunteer to do it
   4. Participate in all work activities in a meaningful way

HUM 116 - Encounters in Humanities

1. Analyze the relationship between differing perceptions and the arts
   1. Characterize various human perspectives regarding art
   2. Explain the role of cultural and historical contexts in perceptions of art
   3. Discuss the role of individual perception in art, with regard to specific reasons people perceive the arts differently
   4. Examine works of art
2. Examine the history and role of the arts in human societies
   1. Identify relationships between the development of human societies and art
   2. Interpret the social, cultural, and historical context of an artistic movement, artist, or specific work of art
   3. Discuss significant historical events within a specific time period
   4. Examine important social and scientific developments as they relate to the arts
   5. Assess the historical relevance of an artistic movement, artist, or individual work of art
3. Examine characteristics of specific artistic styles and movements
   1. Differentiate between individual artist trademarks and intricacies
   2. Distinguish characteristics of specific artistic styles such as classic, romantic, impressionist, modern, and contemporary
   3. Compare works of art by the same artist, by other artists, within a movement, and with other movements
   4. Examine historical and cultural contexts for themes and principles in the arts
   5. Compare distinguishing themes or principles in the arts
4. Formulate in writing an informed response to the arts
   1. Discuss creative purpose and design
   2. Assess varying definitions of “art”
   3. Characterize the relationship between form and content
   4. Describe important biographical, social, cultural, and historical events reflected in artwork
5. Examine artistic themes and principles reflected across multiple cultures
   1. Contrast definitions of art across regions and cultures
   2. Demonstrate understanding of multicultural artistic perspectives
   3. Discuss varying global and regional influences in contemporary art
   4. Discuss the role cultural differences play in perception
6. Compose a written analysis of the experience of viewing at least two artistic events including, but not limited to, exhibits, galleries, plays, concerts, or installations
   1. Illustrate meaningful aspects of the viewing experience
   2. Examine responses by audiences and critics and their contexts
   3. Demonstrate thoughtful reflection upon a personal experience of the arts
   4. Interpret the work exhibited or performed
7. Compose effective writing that demonstrates understanding of course competencies
   1. Generate writing as an active process, using planning, drafting, revising, and editing
   2. Apply standard rules of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling
   3. Produce analyses or interpretations through written assignments
   4. Understand definitions and consequences of plagiarism
   5. Integrate sources effectively within the given context
   6. Document sources using MLA style

HUM 120 - Introduction to Film

1. Interpret film according to narrative and dramatic principles
   1. Define narrative and dramatic elements such as character, plot, setting, motif, symbol, theme, etc.
   2. Discuss narrative and dramatic elements in a wide range of films
   3. Analyze narrative and dramatic elements in a wide range of films
2. Analyze film according to principles of mise en scene
   1. Define elements of mise en scene such as setting, lighting, staging, and shot composition
   2. Discuss elements of mise en scene in a wide range of films
   3. Analyze elements of mise en scene in a wide range of films
3. Analyze film according to principles of cinematography
   1. Define elements of cinematography such as movement of the camera, lenses, film stock, and special effects
   2. Discuss elements of cinematography in a wide range of films
   3. Analyze elements of cinematography in a wide range of films
4. Analyze film according to principles of editing
   1. Define modes and elements of editing such as continuity, montage, parallel, cross-cutting, analytical, transitions, etc.
   2. Discuss elements of editing in a wide range of films
   3. Analyze elements of editing in a wide range of films
5. Analyze film according to principles of sound
   1. Define elements of sound such as dialogue, music, and effects
   2. Discuss elements of sound in a wide range of films
   3. Analyze elements of sound in a wide range of films
6. Evaluate film according to the theory of style
   1. Define film style
   2. Analyze elements of narration, mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound as it relates to film style
7. Critique film by applying at least five critical theories
   1. Define aspects of at least five critical theories (Formalist, Genre, Auteur, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Historical, Apparatus, Race/ethnicity, Gender, Queer, etc.)
   2. Discuss aspects of at least five critical theories (Formalist, Genre, Auteur, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Historical, Apparatus, Race/ethnicity, Gender, Queer, etc.) in a wide range of films
   3. Analyze aspects of at least five critical theories (Formalist, Genre, Auteur, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Historical, Apparatus, Race/ethnicity, Gender, Queer, etc.) in a wide range of films
8. Assess films from a diverse range of cultures and historical periods
   1. View films from a diverse range of cultures and historical periods, such as: Silent, German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism, Classical Hollywood, European Art Cinema, New Waves (French, British, Hollywood, Czech, etc.), Blockbuster
   2. Discuss the cultural context and significance of films from various historical periods
   3. Analyze the cultural context and significance of films from various historical periods
   4. Compare/contrast film technique, technology, and style among films from various cultures and historical periods
9. Create effective writing to demonstrate understanding of course goals
   1. Produce analyses or interpretation through written assignments
   2. Use filmic terminology appropriate to genres and/or theories
   3. Practice academic English and current MLA citation guidelines

HUM 121 - America in the Movies

1. Interpret film according to narrative and dramatic principles
   1. Define narrative and dramatic elements such as character, plot, setting, motif, symbol, theme, etc.
   2. Discuss narrative and dramatic elements in a range of films
   3. Analyze narrative and dramatic elements in a range of films
2. Analyze film according to principles of mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound
   1. Define elements of mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound
   2. Discuss elements of mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound in a range of films
   3. Analyze elements of mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound in a range of films
3. Examine the history of Hollywood film with a particular focus (survey, genre, auteur, topic, etc.)
   1. View films from a broad historical background, from 1890s to the present
   2. Discuss important historical events, their representations in film, and their influence on film material and form
   3. Analyze the evolution of film throughout history
4. Assess the social and cultural context of film
   1. Identify cultural values reflected in films
   2. Discuss cultural values evidenced in films and the ways in which art reflects culture
   3. Compare and contrast cultural values in film throughout history
5. Compare and contrast how other cultures and film industries intersect with Hollywood
   1. Identify other cultural or industrial alternatives to Hollywood filmmaking
   2. Illustrate how other cultures or film industries have imitated, appropriated, or critiqued Hollywood style and vice versa
6. Critique film by applying at least five critical theories
   1. Define aspects of at least five critical theories (Formalist, Genre, Auteur, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Historical, Apparatus, Race/ethnicity, Gender, Queer, etc.)
   2. Discuss aspects of at least five critical theories (Formalist, Genre, Auteur, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Historical, Apparatus, Race/ethnicity, Gender, Queer, etc.) in a range of films
   3. Analyze aspects of at least five critical theories (Formalist, Genre, Auteur, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Historical, Apparatus, Race/ethnicity, Gender, Queer, etc.) in a range of films
7. Create effective writing to demonstrate understanding of course goals
   1. Produce analyses or interpretation through written assignments
   2. Use filmic terminology appropriate to genres and/or theories
   3. Use academic English and current MLA citation guidelines

HUM 249 - Study Abroad: BritLife & Culture

1. Examine the history and culture of London.
   1. Explain how life in London has changed from prehistoric times to the beginning of World War I, after visiting the Museum of London.
   2. Compare the information from the lecture on the history and culture of London with part of one of the following selections, or a similar work suggested by your instructor: Edward Rutherford’s London: The Novel, Peter Acroyd’s London: The Biography, or Andrew Duncan’s Secret London: Exploring the Hidden City, with Original Walks and Unusual Places to Visit.
   3. Describe the highlights of one of the many London tours that emphasize a particular area or famous person, such as the Inns of Court, Charles Dickens or Jack the Ripper Tour.
   4. Examine and analyze the variety of orators who openly share their opinion about political issues and the state of the world, after visiting Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of Great Britain.
   1. Compare the cultural differences between England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
   2. Examine a contemporary understanding of Great Britain’s people, culture and places of beauty after reading one of the following by Bill Bryson?Icons of England or Notes from a Small Island (or a similar work assigned by your instructor).
   3. Compare the historical accounts referenced in the lecture on the history of Great Britain with the accounts discussed in one of the following: Jane Austin’s The History of England or Charles Dickens’s A Child’s History of England (or a similar work assigned by your instructor).
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the Monarchy and Royal Family.
   1. Discuss the current cultural impact of the royal family on British society.
   2. Compare one of the works by a famous painter, such as Vermeer, exhibited in the Queen’s Gallery, which is one of the most valuable collections of art in the world, with another painting by the same master that can be found in the National Gallery.
   3. Examine the impact of the monarchy on British life and culture during the era depicted in one of the many films about the English Monarchy, such as Elizabeth, The Young Victoria, The Queen, or Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
   4. Compare the class lecture notes with the information found in one of the following, or a similar work suggested by your instructor: Peter Fearon’s Behind the Palace Walls: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Royal Family, Robert Hardmon’s A Year with the Queen or William T. Vollman’s The Royal Family.
4. Explain social class and its meaning in contemporary British society.
   1. Explain historical and modern issues of social class.
   2. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the middle class and nobility.
   3. Discuss the presentation of social classes as demonstrated in a film such as Remains of the Day or Upstairs/Downstairs, or another film suggested by your instructor.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of theatre in British culture.
   1. Evaluate a minimum of two London theatre productions.
   2. Reflect on personal responses to all theatre performances.
   3. Analyze additional theatre options, such as fringe theatre, opera or ballet.
   4. Discuss multiple examples of street theatre.
6. Examine the role of Parliament and politics in British culture.
   1. Summarize the guided tour of the Houses of Parliament.
   2. Analyze the discussion held about British politics with an MP.
   3. Distinguish the difference between the Houses of Parliament and the political system in the United States.
7. Examine Great Britain’s relationship with the European Union.
   1. Explain the political, economic and social implications of not belonging to the EU.
   2. Summarize why Great Britain has maintained the British pound.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of Anglo-American relationship.
   1. Examine how British pop music influenced American composers.
   2. Compare a current British sitcom with a similar American counterpart.
9. Demonstrate an understanding of World War II and the Blitz.
   1. Summarize the Blitz experience after a visit to the Imperial War Museum.
   2. Summarize the importance of the World War II paintings in the Imperial War Museum.
   3. Discuss how the British people rallied to save St. Paul’s during the Blitz.
10. Investigate London’s architecture.
    1. Identify and explain a variety of architectural styles found within London.
    2. Explain the rebuilding of London after the Blitz.
    3. Explain the differences between a palace and a castle.
    4. Examine the architectural exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
11. Investigate places such as Stonehenge and Salisbury, Oxford, Cambridge or Bath.
    1. Identify and discuss the relevance of appropriate landmarks and buildings found in these destinations.
    2. Compare the local cuisine to American cuisine.
12. Investigate such places as the Globe Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, Houses of Parliament or the Imperial War Museum.
    1. Explain the purpose and relevance of these galleries or museums.
    2. Explain the differences from these venues of importance from other London sites such as the Tower of London, the National Gallery or the Tate Modern.

IND 124 - Control Systems Overview

1. Identify components of a hydraulic control system
   1. Describe the operation of directional control valves
   2. Describe the operation of pressure control valves
   3. Describe the operation of hydraulic actuators
2. Identify components of a pneumatic control system
   1. Describe the operation of compressors
   2. Describe the differences between hydraulic and pneumatic valves and actuators
3. Identify the components of an electrical control system
   1. Describe the operation of electric motors
   2. Describe the operation of motor starters
   3. Describe the operation of switches
   4. Describe the operation of relays
   5. Describe the operation of timers
   6. Describe the operation of various sensors
   7. Describe the operation of various actuators
4. Identify the components of a programmable controller control system
   1. Describe the operation of the processor
   2. Describe the operation of the discrete input/output section
   3. Describe the operation of operator panels

IND 144 - Pump Overhaul and Repair

1. Review the purpose for and history of pumps
   1. Describe the two basic types of pumps
   2. Discuss how pumps were developed
2. Explain the principles of operation of positive displacement pumps
   1. Classify positive displacement pumps
   2. Discuss the differences between the ideal and the real positive displacement pump curves
3. Disassemble, inspect, and reassemble a gear type positive displacement pump
   1. List the types of gear pumps
   2. Identify the parts of a gear pump
   3. Explain the operation of a gear pump
   4. State the factors that effect the efficiency of a gear pump
4. Disassemble, inspect, and reassemble a vane type positive displacement pump
   1. List the types of vane pumps
   2. Identify the parts of a vane pump
   3. Explain the operation of a gear pump
   4. State the factors that effect the efficiency of a gear pump
5. Disassemble, inspect, and reassemble a rotary piston pump
   1. List the types of piston pumps
   2. Identify the parts of a piston pump
   3. Explain the operation of a gear pump
   4. State the factors that effect the efficiency of a gear pump
6. Disassemble, inspect and reassemble a reciprocating pump
   1. List the types of reciprocating pumps
   2. Identify the parts of a reciprocating pump
   3. Explain the operation of a reciprocating pump
   4. State the factors that effect the efficiency of a gear pump
7. Discuss the various types and applications of special service pumps
8. Disassemble, inspect and reassemble a diaphragm, submersible, and jet pump
   1. Identify the parts of a diaphragm, submersible, and jet pump
   2. Point out the different types of suction and discharge valves for a diaphragm pump
   3. Explain the operation of a diaphragm, submersible, and jet pump
   4. State the factors that effect the efficiency of a diaphragm, submersible and jet pump
9. Explain the principles of operation of a centrifugal pump
   1. Classify centrifugal pumps
   2. Discuss the pump laws for a centrifugal pump
   3. Describe the effect of the introduction of the system curve on the pump curves
10. Packing and Mechanical seal systems
    1. Summarize the differences between packing and mechanical seal systems
    2. List the advantages of mechanical seals and packing
    3. List the disadvantages of mechanical seals and packing
    4. Discuss the principles of operation of mechanical seals
    5. Identify the precautions to be taken when replacing mechanical seals
11. Calculate the amount of shims required to align a prime mover to a mechanical device
    1. Define the following terms: “Soft-foot”, Angular misalignment, and Parallel
    2. Outline the four step alignment process
12. Disassemble, inspect, reassemble, and align a centrifugal pump
    1. Identify the parts of a centrifugal pump
    2. Explain the operation of a centrifugal pump
    3. State the factors that effect the efficiency of a centrifugal pump

IND 146 - Mech Power Transmission I

1. Describe the components of a chain drive system
   1. Identify the different parts of a chain drive system
   2. Differentiate between the different types of chains
2. Determine the type and size of chain drives to use for different applications
   1. Explain the use of the different types of hubs for sprockets
   2. Demonstrate the ability to match chain to application
   3. Identify the different types of keys and keyseats used to retain sprockets on the shaft of chain driven systems
3. Discuss the component parts of a v-belt drive system
   1. Identify the different types of belts used
   2. Explain the construction of the typical v-belt
   3. Identify and explain the types of sheaves used in belt drive systems
4. Determine the proper type and size of v-belt drive to be used for different applications
   1. Show the proper assembly of a belt drive system
   2. Demonstrate the proper belt tension measurement process
   3. Identify the inspection and replacement criteria for belt drives
5. Explain the component parts of a flat belt conveyor system
   1. Discuss the construction and joining methods for flat belts
   2. Identify the components used to adjust flat belts
6. Determine the proper type and size of flat belt drive
   1. Demonstrate the proper assembly of a flat belt system
   2. Practice the adjustment of a flat belt conveyor system
7. Determine speed ratios for chain and belt drive systems
   1. Define the components of the ration
   2. Demonstrate the ability to determine ratio required for different applications

IND 147 - Mechanical Power Trans II

1. Identify Mechanical Power Transmission terms
   1. Define the following terms: Pitch Diameter, pitch circle, Outside Diameter, Diameter Pitch, Addendum, Dedendum, Clearance, Whole Depth, Working Depth, Pitch, Circular Pitch, Face of the tooth, Flank of the tooth, Face of the gear, Fillet, Pressure angle,
   2. Identify and label the different types of gears provided for the assigned exercise
2. Configure a gear box arrangement to provide the proper speed ratio for an assigned exercise
   1. Determine the gear ratio for assigned exercise
   2. Demonstrate the ability to fit gears together and measure backlash
3. Describe the applications of rolling element bearings in industry
   1. Identify the types of bearings used in industry
   2. Determine bearing size and fit from reference charts
   3. Demonstrate the ability to identify bearing failure and determine cause
4. Demonstrate the ability to properly install and remove bearings
   1. Select the proper bearing to be installed.
   2. Inspect and measure bearings
5. Discuss the purpose for clutch/brake assemblies in industrial equipment
   1. Identify the parts of an electric brake/clutch assembly
   2. Explain the operation of an electric brake/clutch assembly
6. Demonstrate the ability to incorporate an electric clutch/brake assembly into assigned exercise
   1. Assemble a drive assembly using an electric brake/clutch
   2. Determine the point of clutch engagement/disengagement
7. Discuss of couplings in power transmission systems
   1. Identify the different types of couplings
   2. Assemble the different coupling types
8. Explain the importance of proper equipment alignment
   1. Define the following terms: Angular misalignment, Parallel misalignment, Soft-foot
   2. Discuss the effects of improper alignment
9. Perform a minimum of a three-point equipment shaft alignment
10. Demonstrate the ability to complete the four-step alignment procedure

INF 110 - Fundamental Informatics

1. Identify the major steps of the systems development process and state the goal of each.
2. Define the types of roles, functions, and careers available in informatics.
3. Explain how the use of information systems to add value to the organization can also give an organization a competitive advantage
4. Develop a plan for selecting computer hardware to meet the evolving needs of the organization and its supporting information systems
5. Explain why systems and application software are critical in helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals
6. Identify several key software issues and trends that have an impact on organizations and individuals
7. Describe the relational database model and outline its basic features
   1. Identify the common functions performed by all database management systems, and identify popular database management systems
   2. Identify and briefly discuss current database applications
8. Identify several network types and describe the uses and limitations of each
9. Describe how the Internet works, including alternatives for connecting to it and the role of Internet service providers
   1. Outline a process and identify tools used to create Web content.
   2. Define the terms intranet and extranet and discuss how organizations are using them
10. Identify several advantages associated with the use of electronic commerce and mobile commerce
    1. Identify the key components of technology infrastructure that must be in place for e-commerce and m-commerce to work
    2. Identify key control and management issues associated with transaction processing systems
11. Discuss information systems in the functional areas of business organizations.
    1. Identify and describe the basic components of a decision support systems.
    2. State the goals of a group support system and identify the characteristics that distinguish it from a decision support system
    3. Identify the fundamental uses of an ESS and list the characteristics of such a system
    4. List and discuss the use of other special purpose systems
12. List some of the tools and techniques used in knowledge management.
    1. Define the term artificial intelligence and state the objective of developing artificial intelligence systems
    2. List the characteristics and basic components of expert systems.
    3. Define the term virtual reality and provide three examples of virtual reality applications
13. Identify the key participants in the systems development process and discuss their roles.
    1. Discuss the key features, advantages, and disadvantages of the traditional, prototyping, rapid application development, and end-user systems development life cycles
    2. Discuss the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools and the object-oriented approach to systems development.
    3. State the purpose of systems analysis and discuss some of the tools and techniques used in this phase of systems development
    4. State the purpose of systems implementation and discuss the various activities associated with this phase of systems development
    5. State the importance of systems and software maintenance and discuss the activities involved
    6. Describe the systems review process
    7. Identify specific measures to prevent computer crime.
14. Identify specific actions that must be taken to ensure the health and safety of employees as it relates to the use of technology in the work place
15. Outline criteria for the ethical use of information systems.

INF 130 - Social Informatics

1. Identify the major components of technical communications
   1. Identify digital and human components of technical communications.
   2. Describe roles played by technical communicators
   3. List characteristics of effective technical communications.
   4. Prepare an effective technical document.
2. Analyze a technical documents purpose and audience
   1. Identify ways to deal with audience resistance to a technical document
   2. Develop a plan to gather responses to a technical issue and outline ways to deal with the responses.
3. Identify ethical issues related to technical communications documents
4. Outline the major steps in the research process.
   1. Discuss how to achieve adequate depth in the research process
   2. Explain tools used to interpret research findings.
   3. Discuss primary versus secondary sources and how to properly document them
5. Outline steps for evaluating and interpreting technical information
   1. Identify the importance of knowing the source, evidence and findings.
   2. Discuss ways to avoid distorted or unethical findings
   3. Discuss the impact of audience and culture on research findings.
6. Identify techniques for summarizing research findings and complex information.
   1. Discuss special types of technical summaries and explain why they are needed.
   2. Discuss ethical and global considerations when summarizing information
7. Identify different types of work place documents including: storyboarding, paragraphing, sequencing and chunking
8. Discuss editing for professional style and tone
   1. Edit a technical document for clarity.
   2. Edit a technical document for conciseness.
   3. Edit a technical document for fluency.
9. Identify techniques for designing visual information presentations
   1. Discuss when to use visuals and how to choose the right visual.
   2. Identify guidelines for using tables, graphs, charts, graphics, photographs and videos
   3. Explain how to properly obtain and cite visuals
   4. Discuss ethical and cultural issues related to the use of visuals
10. Analyze page design for a work place document
    1. Discuss guidelines for shaping, styling, emphasizing, using headings and proper orientation
    2. Discuss design in the context of digital documentation
11. Identify steps for designing and testing digital documents for usability
12. Discuss professional and ethical issues related to business email, on line chat, office memos, and work place letters
13. Discuss technical definitions, descriptions, specifications, and marketing material
    1. Identify different types of technical definitions and situations requiring them
    2. Identify different types of technical descriptions and situations requiring them.
    3. Identify different types of technical specifications and situations requiring them.
    4. Identify different types of technical marketing material and situations requiring them.
14. Identify formats for instructional documents and guidelines for developing them.
    1. Discuss digital, online and video instruction
    2. Evaluate the usability of an instructional document
15. Identify different types of informal reports including: trip reports, feasibility reports, expense reports, recommendation reports, justification reports, and peer review reports.
16. Explain the importance of Analytical Reports and Proposals and outline techniques for using them effectively
17. Discuss legal and ethical issues related to the use of web pages, blogs, wikis, and social networks

INF 220 - Human-Computer Interaction

1. Identify the scientific methods, which interface researchers should follow to validate their designs.
   1. List reason why some people resist using computers and explain how proper design can resolve some of their issues and concerns.
   2. Give example of technology applications or products that meet the needs of certain groups of people.
   3. Explain why cultural differences need to be considered when designing user interfaces.
   4. List examples of how user interfaces can be designed to meet the needs of special populations of users.
2. Identify the fundamental rules of user interface design.
   1. Explain how a designer can create a user interface that alerts users to time dependent information or abnormal events.
   2. Explain ways to improve an interface to prevent the occurrence of errors.
   3. Discuss why it is important to organize menus functionally and make it difficult for users to take irreversible actions.
3. Outline the stages of system/application design.
   1. Analyze user designs using different types of inputs such as textboxes, radio button, and combo boxes in terms of speed or performance and error rates.
   2. Outline the four pillars of design and explain why each is important.
   3. Explain the importance of ethnographic observation including: preparation, field study, analysis and reporting.
   4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of participatory design.
   5. Analyze the components of a social impact statement.
   6. Discuss legal issues related to design such as copyright laws, patents, privacy, liability and freedom of speech.
4. Discuss the importance of evaluating and testing user interface designs.
   1. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of types of expert reviews including: Heuristic evaluation, Guideline review, Consistency inspection, Cognitive walkthrough, Formal usability inspection and Metaphors of human thinking.
   2. Outline goals to be ascertained through the use of survey instruments.
   3. Discuss procedures for setting objective and measurable goals for hardware and software performance testing.
5. Discuss different types of active use testing.
   1. Explain how interviews and focus groups can be useful.
   2. Identify tools for continuous user perfromance data logging.
   3. Discuss online suggestion boxes, email trouble reports, sikis and news groups.
   4. Explain how controlled experiments can fine tune the human-computer interface of actively used systems.
6. Discuss examples of Direct-Manipulation Systems.
   1. Explain the advantages of WYSIWYG user interfaces.
   2. Identify technologies that were derived from word processors.
   3. Outline the evolution of Direct-Manipulation Systems.
   4. Identify problems associated with direct manipulations systems.
   5. Identify Direct-Manipulation development tools.
   6. Identify features of effective 3D interfaces.
7. Discuss complicating factors in the architecture of remote environments.
8. Explain Virtual and Augmented Reality user interfaces.
9. Identify task related organization tools used in a graphical user interface.
   1. Explain the features of different types of menus including: binary menus, multi-item menus, toolbar menus, scrolling menus, fisheye menus, sliders, embedded menus, and hotlinks.
   2. Discuss task-related grouping in tree organization.
   3. Outline guidelines for item presentation sequence.
   4. Discuss advantages of Data Entry with menus: Form Fill-in, dialog Boxes, and Alternatives.
   5. Identify uses for audio menus and menus for small displays.
10. Discuss functionality to support user’s tasks.
    1. Outline steps for designers to follow when creating functionality to support user’s tasks.
    2. Identify Command-Organization Streategies including: command sets, command plus arguments and Hierarchical commnd structure.
    3. Outline guidelines for using abbreviations.
11. Discuss different types of interaction devices and identify their features.
    1. Identify advantages and disadvantage of different types of keyboard layouts.
    2. Identify advantages and disadvantage of different types of pointing devices.
    3. Explain how speech and auditory interfaces work.
    4. Discuss how different display technologies work and identify advantage and disadvantage of each.
    5. Discuss how display technologies can be utilized by users with special needs.
12. Identify characteristics and examples of collaboration and social media participation.
    1. Explain how asynchronous distributed interfaces work.
    2. Explain how synchronous distributed interfaces work.
    3. Explain how face to face interfaces work.
13. Identify design strategies focused of quality of service.
    1. Outline the criteria designers of response times and display rates in human computer interaction must consider.
    2. Identify strategies that can reduce user frustration.
14. Discuss how user experiences play a critical role in influencing software acceptance.
    1. Develop error messages that provide positive guidance and have a conducive tone.
    2. List strength and weakness of anthropomorphic interfaces that present computers as people.
    3. Explain Mullet and Sano’s categories of design principles.
    4. Discuss guidelines for web page design.
    5. Discuss guidelines for Windows page design.
15. Discuss paper versus online manuals comparing strengths and weakness of each.
16. Discuss different types of information searches and how they are performed.
    1. Identify techniques for searching in Textual Documents and Database Querying.
    2. Explain how multimedia document searches are performed.
    3. Discuss advanced filtering and search interfaces.
17. Define and explain information visualization also known as visual data mining.
    1. Outline the seven basic tasks of visual data mining.
    2. Explain the challenges for information visualization.

INF 230 - Organization Informatics

1. Discuss how information systems are transofrming business and what their relationship is to globalization.
   1. Explain why information systems so essential for running and managing a business today.
   2. Define what exactly an information sysem is and how it works.
   3. Identify its management, organization, and technology components.
   4. Explain why complementary assets are essential for ensuring that information systems provide genuine value for an organization.
2. Discuss how systems serve the various levels of management in a business.
   1. Explain how enterprise applications, collaboration and communication systems, intrnets improve organizational performance.
   2. Outline the difference between e-business, e-commerce, and e-government.
3. Discuss the impact of information systems on organizations.
   1. Explain how Porter’s competitive forces model helps companies develop competitive strategies using information systems.
   2. Analyze how the value chain and value web models help businesses identify opportunities for strategic information system applications.
   3. Explain how information systems help businesses use synergies, core competencies, and network-based strategies to achieve competitive advantage.
4. Discuss ethical, social, and political issues that are raised by information systems.
   1. Identify specific principles for conduct that can be used to guide ethical decisions.
   2. Explain why contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectural property.
   3. Outline ways information systems affected everyday life.
5. Discuss IT infrastructure and what makes up its components.
   1. Outline the stages and technology drivers of IT infrastructure evolution.
   2. Identify the current trends in computer hardware platforms.
   3. Identify the current trends in software platforms.
   4. Discuss the challenges of managing IT infrastructure and management solutions.
6. Discuss major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why a relational DBMS so powerful.
   1. Identify some important principles of database design.
   2. Identify the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases to improve business performance and decision making.
   3. Explain why information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance are essential for managing the firm’s data resources.
7. Discuss the principal components of telecommunications networks and key networking technologies.
   1. Identify the main telecommunications transmission media and types of networks.
   2. Explain how the Internet and Internet technology work, and how they support communication and e-business.
   3. List the principal technologies and standards for wireless networking, communication, and Internet access.
   4. Explain why radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensor networks valuable for business.
8. Discuss the most important tools and technologies for safeguarding information resources.
   1. Explain why information systems are often vulnerable to destruction, error, and abuse.
   2. Compute the business value of security and cotnrol.
   3. Identify the componets of an organizational framework for security and control.
9. Explain how enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence.
   1. Outline how supply chain management systems coordinate planning, production, and logistics with suppliers.
   2. Identify how customer relationship management systems help firms achieve customer intimacy.
   3. Analyze the challenges posed by enterprise applications.
10. Discuss the unique features of e-commerce, digital markets, and digital goods.
    1. Explain how Internet technology changed business models.
    2. Outline various types of e-commerce and how e-commerce has changed consumer retailing and business-to-business transactions.
    3. Identify the role of m-commerce in business and what are the most important m-commerce applications.
    4. List the principal payment systems for electronic commerce.
11. Discuss the role of knowledge management and knowledge management programs in business.
    1. Discuss the types of systems used for enterprise-wide knowledge management and explain how they provide value for businesses.
    2. Identify the major types of knowledge work systems and explain how they provide value for firms.
    3. Discuss the business benefits of using intelligent techniques for knowledge management.
12. Discuss the role of information systems in helping people working in a group make decisions more efficiently.
    1. Identify different types of decisions and explain how the decision-making process works.
    2. Outline how information systems support the activities of managers and management decision making.
    3. Explain how decision-support systems (DSS) differ from MIS and how they provide value to the business.
    4. Discuss how executive support systems (ESS) help senior managers make better decisions.
13. discuss how building new systems produce organizational change.
    1. Identify the core activities in the systems development process.
    2. Identify the principal methodologies for modeling and designing systems.
    3. Discuss alternative methods for building information systems.
    4. Research new approaches for system-building in the digital firm era.
14. Discuss the objectives of project management and explain why is it so essential in developing information systems.
    1. Identify methods that can be used for selecting and evaluating information systems projects and aligning them with the firm’s business goals.
    2. Outline how firms can assess the business value of information systems projects.
    3. Identify the principal risk factors in information systems projects.
    4. Identify strategies that are useful for managing project risk and system implementation.
15. Discuss major factors that are driving the internationalization of business.
    1. Outline alternative strategies for developing global businesses.
    2. Explain how informaiton systems can support different global business strategies.
    3. Discuss the challenges posed by global informaiton systems and outline management solutions for these challenges.
    4. Discuss the issues and technical alternatives to be considered when developing international inforamtion systems.

INF 310 - Informatics Security

1. Define inforamtion technology security and the need for it.
   1. Describe essential IT security terminology.
   2. Explain what it means to harden security.
   3. List examples of cyber crime.
2. Discuss basic information technology security procedures.
   1. Describe the importance of security, even in daily routines.
   2. Outline the step to harden your operating system and deploy patches.
   3. Explain the importance of creating strong passwords.
3. Discuss the essential elements of desktop security.
4. Explain how to transfer, share, hide, encrypt, back up, and restore files.
5. Discuss the importance of administering Windows securely.
   1. Explain how to administer Windows securely using the Event Viewer, enabling auditing, and reading the logs.
   2. Describe the structure of the Windows Registry and how to back up and restore it.
   3. Explain how to use common built-in commands to administer Windows.
6. Discuss security threats and different kinds of attacks.
   1. Explain social engineering and phishing.
   2. Explain how viruses work including Trojans and Worms.
   3. Explain how malware works including Spyware and Adware.
   4. Explain how Keyloggers work including software and hardware.
   5. Explain what a denial of service attack is and how it can affect information systems.
   6. Identify different techniques for Spamming and explain why it can be harmful to information systems.
   7. Identify both positive and negative use of Port Scanners.
   8. Explain how Password crackers work and identify both positive and negative uses for them.
7. Outline guidelines for Incident response.
   1. Define an incident response.
   2. Recall how to respond to different incidents.
8. Discuss what Secure Internet Access means.
   1. Explain how to restrict access to specific internet sites.
   2. Define cookies and explain how to deal with them.
   3. Provide some guidelines on how to use P2P networks securely.
9. Discuss how employees and customers working on the Internet can effect information systems.
   1. Describe how to wrok safely in Web-based and mail client e-mail systems.
   2. Explain how to transact business safely.
   3. Provide some general guidelines to communicate safely via the internet including the use of mobile devices.
10. Identify an area of specialization and discuss how security can affect its information systems.
    1. Research and report security threats and vulnerabilities related to an area of specialization.
    2. Identify hardware that can be used to protect against security threats and vulnerabilities related to an area of specialization.
    3. Identify software that can be used to protect against security threats and vulnerabilities related to an area of specialization.
    4. Develop a plan to protect against security threats and vulnerabilities related to an area of specialization the plan must include both hardware and software.
    5. Develop an incidence response plan to related security threats and vulnerabilities related to an area of specialization.

INF 320 - Legal Informatics Issues

1. Discuss the status of the Technology Policy Environment in the United States.
   1. Explain the intellectual property system including patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks.
   2. Outline the public policy process in the united States.
   3. Explain the rising importance of the First amendment in technology policy disputes.
2. Discuss the status of the International Technology Policy Environment.
   1. Discuss unilateral measures, bilateral arrangements and multilateral approaches.
   2. Discuss international law as it relates to the Internet.
3. Explain the fundamental requirements for patent protection in the United States as it relates to technology.
   1. Discuss obtaining and defending patent rights in the United States and Globally.
   2. Discuss patent protection for computer programs and Internet business methods.
   3. Trace the history patent protection for computer programs and Internet business methods.
4. Discuss protection of secret information related to technology.
   1. Explain important aspects of trade secret laws.
   2. Explain the function of the Federal Economic Espionage Act.
5. Explain the fundamental aspects of copyright protection.
   1. Explain the rights provided by copyright.
   2. Explain fair use and other exception to copyright protection.
   3. Outline the steps taken to obtain copyright protection.
6. Discuss copyright protection for computer programs and digital media.
   1. Discuss the importance of distinguishing ideas from expressions in computer programs.
   2. Explain legal aspects of reverse engineering of computer programs and clean room techniques.
   3. Explain legal aspects of digital remixing of copyrighted content for audio and video.
7. Discuss copyright laws as they pertain to the Internet.
   1. Explain online service provider liability.
   2. Explain legal aspects related to peer-to-Peer file sharing networks.
   3. Discuss DMCA and copyright protection technologies.
   4. Discuss internet linking issues.
8. Explain procedures for protecting trademarks and product designs in international markets.
   1. Outline the fundamental principles of trademark protection.
   2. Explain reasons for conducting a trademark search.
   3. Explain trademark infringement and remedies.
9. Discuss domain names and other trademark issues on the Internet.
   1. Trace the history of problems with the Internet domain name systems.
   2. Discuss ICANN address domain name registration issues.
   3. Discuss trademark issues related to metatags, adware, auction sites, and social networking sites.
10. Discuss tort liability for physical and economical harms as they relate to technology.
    1. Define negligent conduct and explain causation issues.
    2. Explain strict product liability and consumer product safety regulations.
    3. Discuss intentional torts involving computer systems including: spam, viruses, Trojan horses, worms and fraud.
11. Discuss insrusions on privacy and other personal rights related to technology.
    1. Discuss sources of laws regulating privacy.
    2. Explain legal aspects related to monitoring communications and personal activities in the workplace.
    3. Discuss laws related to collection of personal information from the internet.
    4. Discuss content control, indecent speech, defamation, child protection and cyber bullying as they relate to internet activity.
12. Discuss important contract issues for technology companies.
    1. Explain express and implied warranties, limitations and remedies.
    2. Explain shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses as standardized forms in the consumer context.
    3. Explain the significance of the Uniform computer Information Transaction Act.
13. Discuss Antitrust and Anticompetitive Conduct.
    1. Outline the philosophical justification for Antitrust laws.
    2. Explain antitrust enforcement and remedies.
    3. Trace the history of the antitrust debate about Microsoft.
    4. Explain intellectual property as it relates to Antitrust and the Doctrine of Misuse.

INT 124 - Interior Design Analysis

1. Describe characteristics of the interior design industry
2. Identify interior ambience styles
   1. List characteristics of each
   2. Describe the ambience style that best fits your personal expression
3. Identify characteristics of major furniture styles
4. Explain shopping strategies for purchasing furniture
5. Describe how to check for quality in furniture
   1. List materials available
   2. Identify joining methods
   3. Describe various finishes
6. Describe the elements and principles of design
7. Describe the principles of color as they apply to interior design
   1. Identify the seven color schemes
   2. Discuss how color can create illusions in a room
   3. Describe how to successfully implement neutrals as a color decorating scheme
8. Evaluate the characteristics of various fabrics for home furnishings
   1. List properties that upholstery fabrics should possess
   2. Describe the window fabrics that are used for curtains/drapes
   3. Explain the fabrics used for the manufactured product category “linens.”
9. Explain the basic floor planning arrangement techniques
10. Select appropriate window treatments for various window styles
    1. Identify various window types
    2. Describe fabric techniques for window coverings
    3. Identify different characteristics of shades, shutters, and blinds
    4. Identify drapery/curtain hardware
    5. List steps in measuring for drapes
11. Discuss the various choices available to decorate walls and ceilings
    1. Describe wallpaper types and finishes
    2. Describe the different types of paint
    3. Describe painting techniques
    4. Describe fabric treatments for walls
12. Identify appropriate floor covering for various room functions
    1. List all floor covering options available
    2. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of each floor covering
13. Describe the functions of lighting in room design
    1. List the types of lighting appropriate for various rooms
    2. Identify various lighting fixtures
14. Describe techniques for creating personal touches in room design

INT 125 - Interior Design Planning

1. Apply design elements and principles in room planning and layout
2. Draw a room floor plan
   1. Take correct measurements
   2. Use standardized symbols of architects and interior designers
3. Create a plan within a specified budget
4. Plan a color scheme
   1. Demonstrate correct choices of colors for room lighting and function
   2. Use appropriate colors for a room’s proportions
   3. Use colors to convey the emotions and feelings desired in a room
   4. Incorporate patterns and texture
5. Work with various room decor styles to understand the components of each
6. Evaluate current trends in home furnishings in such areas as style, fabrication and color
7. Develop design plans for the various rooms of a home
   1. Identify special considerations unique to each room category
   2. Incorporate all components including wall color/coverings, flooring furniture, window treatments and lighting
   3. Create room arrangements indicating furniture placement and traffic flow
8. Present design plans in storyboard form consistent with processes used in the interior design industry

ITR 101 - Intro Interpret & Translation

1. Explain where meaning resides
   1. Explore the meanings of words in isolation and in context.
   2. Define the polysemous nature of words.
   3. Describe the usefulness and limitations of dictionaries.
   4. Predict how extra linguistic information can affect the translation of a text.
   5. Identify the linguistic level at which the purpose of a text becomes apparent.
2. Develop a learning portfolio of four ITR Research Areas.
   1. Design a cover page and table of contents.
   2. Identify four research areas.
   3. Develop 1-3 research questions for each research area.
   4. Compile at least one artifact for each research question.
   5. Write a one-page reflection on each of the research questions, incorporating at least one of the theoretical concepts or models explored in the course.
   6. Demonstrate consistent progress on the portfolio project by successfully completing each portfolio checkup.
   7. Present the learning portfolio in electronic form.
3. Demonstrate comprehension of communication and quality and its role in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define communication.
   2. Define quality
   3. Discuss the relevance of communication and quality to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   4. Apply the concepts of communication and quality to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   5. Summarize the importance of communication and quality to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
4. Demonstrate comprehension of the theory of fidelity and its role in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define fidelity.
   2. Discuss the relevance of fidelity to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   3. Apply the theory of fidelity to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   4. Summarize the importance of fidelity to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
5. Demonstrate comprehension of the Efforts Model and its role in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define the Efforts Model.
   2. Discuss the relevance of the Efforts Model to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   3. Apply the concepts of the Efforts Model to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   4. Summarize the importance of the Efforts Model to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
6. Demonstrate comprehension of the Gravitational Model and its role in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define the Gravitational Model.
   2. Discuss the relevance of the Gravitational model to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   3. Apply the concepts of the Gravitational model to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   4. Summarize the importance of the Gravitational Model to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
7. Demonstrate comprehension of the Comprehension Model and its role in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define the Comprehension Model.
   2. Discuss the relevance of the Comprehension Model to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   3. Apply the concepts of the Comprehension Model to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   4. Summarize the importance of the Comprehension Model to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
8. Demonstrate comprehension of the role knowledge acquisition plays in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define knowledge acquisition.
   2. Discuss the relevance of knowledge acquisition to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   3. Apply the concepts of knowledge acquisition to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   4. Summarize the importance of knowledge acquisition to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
   5. Define sight translation
   6. Define at least two situations in which sight translation is appropriate
9. Demonstrate comprehension of the role coping tactics play in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define coping tactics.
   2. Discuss the relevance of coping tactics to professional interpretation and translation in at least one class discussion thread.
   3. Apply the concepts of coping tactics to a typical interpretation or translation scenario.
   4. Summarize the importance of coping tactics to professional interpretation and translation in a well-written one-page reflection.
   5. Demonstrate beginning competency in simultaneous pre-interpretation through shadowing exercises
10. Develop beginning skills in consecutive interpretation
    1. Explain the concept of memory development
    2. Practice memory development in English
    3. Explain the purpose of notetaking in consecutive interpretation
    4. Practice notetaking in English
    5. Demonstrate beginning competency in consecutive pre-interpretation through re-telling exercises
11. Develop beginning skills in sight translation
    1. Identify the preparatory steps for sight translation
    2. Practice the preparatory steps for sight translation
12. Develop an awareness of the typology of interpreting errors
    1. Identify the interpreter errors that make up the typology
    2. Explain the consequences of each type of interpreter error
    3. Assess self and peer pre-interpreting skills by identifying errors
13. Explore the issues of interpreter ethics
    1. Define ethics and codes of conduct
    2. Comprehend the place of codes of conduct in a profession
    3. Contrast/compare ethical considerations for translators as compared to interpreters
14. Complete the foreign language proficiency assessment to receive a passing or baseline score for subsequent re-takes.
    1. Set up time with instructor to take exam at least once.
    2. Review exam with instructor to discuss results.

ITR 102 - Tools Interpret & Translate

1. Express the rationale for the proper use of technological tools and reference materials in interpretation and translation.
   1. Identify the technological tools and reference materials used in interpretation and translation.
   2. Distinguish the types and proper uses of lexicographical tools and reference materials.
   3. Evaluate technological tools and reference materials to choose at least two technological tools and two reference materials for personal glossary work.
2. Demonstrate ability to input language-specific characters in Windows applications.
   1. Identify the language-specific characters needed to input the student’s working language (other than English).
   2. Demonstrate ability to configure Windows for student’s working language (U.S. International keyboard for European language-based special characters, or language-specific keyboard for non-European language-based special characters).
   3. Use the selected keyboard and keystrokes to type words and phrases that illustrate the special characters needed for inputing the student’s working language (other than English).
   4. Contrast the keyboard configuration method of inputting special characters with other methods of inputting special characters (ASCII numbers, character maps, insert symbols, etc.).
   5. Discuss pros and cons of input methods with classmates.
   6. Report on experience with inputting special characters through a well-written, one-page written reflection.
3. Demonstrate ability to produce PDF versions of Microsoft Office documents and web pages.
   1. Explore the “Save as PDF” function in Microsoft Office.
   2. Dowload and install the PrimoPDF application.
   3. Prepare PDF versions of one Microsoft Office document and one web page with either the “Save as PDF” function or PrimoPDF.
   4. Contrast the “Save a PDF” function with the Primo PDF application.
   5. Discuss pros and cons of both methods of producing PDF versions with classmates.
   6. Report on experience with producing PDF versions through a well-written, one-page written reflection.
4. Demonstrate ability to download, play, record, and upload digital files using apersonal digital recorder.
   1. Install the digital recorder software successful.
   2. Download sample digital file and report on its content in class discussion.
   3. Demonstrate ability to configure software to produce digital files in .mp3 or .wma format, rather than .wav format.
   4. Prepare a digital recording that conforms to minimum standards of production (voice quality, volume, lack of hesitation words, appropriate tone).
   5. Upload digital recording to the distance learning platform.
   6. Report on experience with working with digital recordings through a well-written, one-page written reflection.
5. Demonstrate ability to loacte and evaluate internet search engines for use in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Identify at least one internet search engine in English and in student’s other working language.
   2. Use each identified internet search engine to successfully search for information on an assigned topic.
   3. Prepare and upload PDF version of each website located through the internet search engines.
   4. Evaluate reliability and usefulness of identified internet search engines with classmates.
   5. Report on experience with using internet search engines for teminology research through a well-written, one-page written reflection.
6. Demonstrate ability to locate and evaluate internet news sites for use in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Identify at least one internet news site in English and in student’s other working language.
   2. Use each identified internet news site to successfully search for information on an assigned news topic.
   3. Prepare and upload PDF version of each website located through the internet news sites.
   4. Compare terminology and point of view of assigned news topic located in English news site and news site from student’s other working language.
   5. Evaluate reliability and usefulness of identified internet news sites.
   6. Report on experience with using internet news sites for terminology research through a well-written, one-page written reflection.
7. Demonstrate ability to create e-glossary in Microsoft Excel for interpretation and translation work.
   1. Explore the features of Microsoft Excel through completing the online tutorial.
   2. Discuss the types of information and sorting columns that are relevant for a useful e-glossary.
   3. Research tranlastion equivalents of at least 10 terms in English and the student’s other working language.
   4. Prepare e-glossary of at least 200 terms with appropriate sorting columns.
   5. Demonstrate ability to sort and extract terms from e-glossary based on provided criteria.
   6. Discuss ideas for e-glossary with classmates.
   7. Report on experience with developing e-glossary through a well-written, one-page written relfection.
8. Demonstrate ability to locate and evaluate online reousrce materials for use in professional interpretation and translation.
   1. Define digital recording
   2. Characterize the issued regarding use of digital recording in modified consecutive interpreting
   3. Evaluate the potential usefulness of digital recording technology in different interpreting scenarios
9. Demonstrate ability to transfer inforamtion electronically through file attachments and use of removable storage media.
   1. Develop awareness of English and non-English search engines
   2. Develop skill in locating desired terminology by completing assignment
   3. Identify websites of use to the interpreter/translator
   4. Apply internet browsing mastery by incorporating researched terms into personal glossary
10. Identify and evaluate commonly-used Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools.
11. Develop and implement an Action Plan with respect to interpretation and translation tools.
12. For each goal, identify means of demonstrating achievement of the goal.

ITR 103 - Fund of Interpretation

1.  Discriminate among the modes of interpreting
   1. Explain the proper mode of interpreting for different interpreting situations.
   2. Identify the proper tools and positioning required by the different modes.
   3. Apply the correct mode(s) to different interpreting situations.
2. Demonstrate initial competency in general sight translation skills.
   1. Identify proper protocols for sight translation
   2. Examine textual problems posed by common sight translation texts.
   3. Assess self and peer performance in sight translation exercises.
   4. Demonstrate ability to perform acceptable sight translation based on non-specialized texts.
3. Demonstrate initial competency in general consecutive interpreting skills.
   1. Identify proper protocols for consecutive interpreting.
   2. Develop initial competency in notetaking skills
   3. Assess self and peer performance in consecutive interpreting exercises.
   4. Demonstrate ability to perform acceptable consecutive interpretation based on non-specialized texts
4. Demonstrate initial competency in general simultaneous interpreting skills.
   1. Identify proper protocols for simultaneous interpreting.
   2. Demonstrate growing competence in using simultaneous interpreting skills.
   3. Assess self and peer performance in consecutive interpreting exercises.
   4. Demonstrate ability to perform acceptable simultaneous interpretation based on non-specialized texts
5. Demonstrate continued development of lexicographical research through preparation and use of electronic personal glossary
6. Explore the issues of cultural competency as related to interpretation.
   1. Comprehend the assumptions underlying cultural competency.
   2. Examine personal beliefs regarding up to three current events.
   3. Identify differences in personal belief systems in materials from another culture.
   4. Explain the implications of cultural assumptions in translation.

ITR 104 - Fundamentals of Translation

1. Explore basic translation concepts
   1. Define basic vocabulary: text, source text, target text, source language, target language, strategy, strategic decisions, decisions of detail.
2. Distinguish between translation as product and translation as process.
   1. Distinguish between literal and idiomatic translations, and describe situations in which each one may be the preferred mode of translation
   2. Perform intralingual translation of a selected text.
   3. Perform a gist translation of a selected text
   4. Distinguish the degrees of freedom in translation: interlinear, literal, faithful, balanced, idiomizing, and free translations
   5. Assess the appropriateness of the different degrees of freedom in translation for selected texts.
3. Explore the cultural problems encountered in translation.
   1. Identify the basic principles of cultural transposition: exoticism, calque, cultural borrowing, communicative translation, and cultural transplantation.
   2. Explain the issues regarding the translation of names.
   3. Explain the role of compromise and compensation in inter-cultural translation
   4. Apply appropriate compensation strategies to the translation of an inter-cultural text.
4. Distinguish between the denotative meaning and the connotative meaning of a text
   1. Define synonymy, hypernymy, and hyponymy.
   2. Identify synonymy, hypernymy and hyponymy in examples from source language and target language
   3. Correctly translate the denotative meaning of an illustrative text.
   4. Define attitudinal meaning, associative meaning, affective meaning, allusive meaning, collocative meaning, and reflected meaning.
   5. Identify attitudinal meaning, associative meaning, affective meaning, allusive meaning, collocative meaning, and reflected meaning in examples from source language and target language
   6. Correctly translate the connotative meaning of an illustrative text.
5. Explore the formal properties of texts
   1. Identify basic phrase structure; sentence, phrase, word, morpheme.
   2. Explore discourse considerations in translation; cohesion and coherence, sentence splitting, textual restructuring, paragraphing, genre
   3. Identify metaphors in illustrative texts
   4. Develop basic translation techniques for metaphors
6. Explore language variety in texts.
   1. Define the basic principles of language variety; dialect, sociolect, code switching, social register, and tonal register
   2. Identify language variety in illustrative texts in source language and target language.
   3. Explain the effects of appropriate and inappropriate handling of language varieties in translation
7. Demonstrate continued development of lexicographical research.
   1. Include relevant terminology from assigned texts to electronic glossary.
   2. Provide appropriate translations from target language.
   3. Provide appropriate categorizations to glossary entries.
   4. Generate category-specific extracts from glossary

ITR 109 - Interp/Trans Ethics I

1. Explore prior attitudes about ethics and morals
   1. Identify and contrast culture-based values
   2. Identify and explore perceived ethical conflicts in daily and professional life
   3. Report on findings via a well-written, one-page reflection.
2. Demonstrate understanding of frameworks for intellectual and ethical maturity.
   1. Identify the stages of intellectual and ethical maturity.
   2. Apply the stages of intellectual and ethical maturity to analysis of case studies.
3. Demonstrate initial competency in recognizing and resolving conflicts.
   1. Identify conflicts as presented in case studies
   2. Discuss principles for resolving conflicts with classmates
   3. Develop and justify resolutions for resolving conflicts as presented in case studies
   4. Report on findings via a well-written, one-page reflection
4. Demonstrate understanding of core values
   1. Identify the concept of core values
   2. Explore individual and group core values.
   3. Apply core values analysis to case studies
   4. Report on findings via a well-written, one-page reflection
5. Demonstrate initial competency in ethical decision-making
   1. Identify the concept of ethical decision-making
   2. Discuss procedures for ethical decision-making
   3. Apply ethical decision-making to case studies
   4. Report on findings via a well-written, one-page reflection.
6. Demonstrate understanding of ethical business practices
   1. Describe the need for ethical business practices.
   2. Identify the consequences of lack of ethical business practices.
   3. Apply ethical business practices to case studies.
   4. Report on findings via a well-written, one-page reflection.
7. Explore the origins of professional codes of ethics for interpreters and translators.
8. Identify the basic canons of interpreter ethics: accuracy and completeness, representation of qualifications, impartiality and avoidance of conflict of interest, professional demeanor, confidentiality, scope of practice, assessing and reporting impediment
9. Demonstrate understanding of the duty of accuracy and completeness.
   1. Identify problems of accuracy and completeness in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of accuracy and completeness
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
10. Demonstrate understanding of the duty to represent qualifications accurately.
    1. Identify problems of representation of qualifications in model scenarios.
    2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of representation of qualifications
    3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles.
    4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.

ITR 209 - Interp/Trans Ethics II

1. Demonstrate understanding of the duty of impartiality and avoidance of conflicts of interest
   1. Identify problems of partiality and conflicts of interest in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of partiality and conflicts of interest
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles.
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
2. Demonstrate understanding of the need for professional demeanor.
   1. Identify problems of lack of professional demeanor in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of lack of professional demeanor
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles.
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the duty of confidentiality.
   1. Identify problems of breaches of confidentiality in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of breaches of confidentiality
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
4. Demonstrate understanding of the duty of accuracy and completeness.
   1. Identify problems of accuracy and completeness in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of accuracy and completeness
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles.
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
5. Demonstrate understanding of the limitation of scope of practice.
   1. Identify problems of scope of practice in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of scope of practice
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles.
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
6. Demonstrate understanding of the duty of assessing and reporting impediments to performance
   1. Identify problems of assessing and reporting impediments to performance in model scenarios
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of assessing and reporting impediments to performance
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
7. Demonstrate understanding of the duty to report ethical violations
   1. Identify problems of ethical violations in model scenarios.
   2. Discuss and evaluate possible solutions to problems of ethical violations
   3. Choose best solution to problem and justify it based on ethical principles.
   4. Present rationale in well-written, one-page reflection.
8. Demonstrate understanding of the duty to pursue professional development.
   1. Identify at least two avenues for obtaining professional development locally
   2. Discuss and evaluate types of professional development needed by interpreters and translators.
   3. Develop an Action Plan for professional development goals.
9. Identify disciplinary procedures for interpreters and translators in local jurisdiction.
   1. Identify the agency or institution governing interpreter/translator discipline.
   2. Describe the procedures for initiating disciplinary proceedings.
   3. Identify the due-process protections for the complainant and the respondent.
   4. Describe the possible outcomes of a disciplinary process
10. Explore the issues of cultural advocacy as related to codes of ethics
    1. Define the concept of cultural advocacy.
    2. Describe the controversy surrounding cultural advocacy in interpretation situations
    3. Incorporate examples of appropriate or inappropriate cultural advocacy to ethics scenarios and personal reflections
    4. Present a justification for or against cultural advocacy in a well-written, one page reflection

ITR 271 - Healthcare Term & Sight Trans

1. Identify the origins of medical terminology
   1. Identify the Latin origins of medical terminology in English
   2. Identify the Greek origins of medical terminology in English
   3. Contrast and compare 1 major difference between American medical terminology and medical terminology of source countries of clients
2. Identify the healthcare documents that are usually sight translated
   1. Describe the situation(s) in which each type of document is encountered.
   2. Identify the characteristics (formal vs. informal, English vs. other language, typed vs. handwritten) of each type of document.
3. Identify the specialized resources needed to conduct research in healthcare terminology
   1. Characterize a reliable terminological resource
   2. Identify 2-3 print resources in English
   3. Identify 2-3 electronic resources in English
   4. Identify 2-3 print resources in the other language
   5. Identify 2-3 electronic resources in the other language
4. Develop general sight translation skills
   1. Develop good command of both languages through sight translation practice and peer/instructor review
   2. Develop good public speaking skills; voice projection, clear enunciation, good posture, and smooth pacing through sight translation practice and peer/instructor review.
   3. Develop mental agility through sight translation practice and peer/instructor review
5. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for consents for treatment
   1. Analyze consents for treatment to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to consents for treatment in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to consents for treatment.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Perform sight translation of consent for treatment.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement.
6. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for advance directives
   1. Analyze advance directives to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to advance directives in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to advance directives.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Perform sight translation of advance directive.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
7. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for beneficiary notifications.
   1. Analyze beneficiary notifications to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to beneficiary notifications in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to beneficiary notifications.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Perform sight translation of beneficiary notifications
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
8. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for instructions for taking medication.
   1. Analyze instructions for taking medication to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to instructions for taking medications in personal electronic glossary
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to instructions for taking medication.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Perform sight translation of instructions for taking medication
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement

ITR 273 - Healthcare Interpretation I

1. Identify healthcare situations in which consecutive interpreting should be performed.
2. Develop listening/prediction techniques for healthcare consecutive interpretation
   1. Identify genres of texts/speeches encountered in healthcare contexts: narration of events, arguments for or against a position, persuasive texts, and descriptions.
   2. Use listening skills to develop structure maps or conceptual maps of different genres of healthcare discourse
   3. Use structure maps or conceptual maps to predict the flow of information in new examples of healthcare discourse
   4. Develop and implement a practice strategy for improving listening/prediction abilities in both languages
3. Develop analysis techniques for healthcare consecutive interpretation
   1. Define the major constituents of a sentence or idea (S-V-O).
   2. Identify the major constituents of each sentence or idea in a healthcare text.
   3. Compare and contrast the major constituents in English and the other language
   4. Develop and implement a practice strategy for improving SVO identification in both languages
4. Develop note-taking techniques for healthcare consecutive interpretation.
   1. Define the tools and format needed for effective note-taking.
   2. Describe the proper goal of effective note-taking
   3. Demonstrate ability to accurately note S-V-O units, links, and unpredictable information.
   4. Demonstrate ability to graphically represent the sequence of events: indentation, verticalization, lines.
   5. Demonstrate ability to use standard and personalized symbols in note-taking for consecutive interpretation
5. Develop recall techniques for healthcare consecutive interpretation
   1. Identify the issue of memory load according to the Efforts Model of interpretation
   2. Describe the difference between short term memory and long term memory.
   3. Identify the strategies for enhancing retention; segmentation (chunking), semantic retention, use of multiple intelligences for recall development.
   4. Explain the issue of semantic and non-semantic information in human services interpreting
   5. Demonstrate effective recall skills through extensive healthcare consecutive interpreting practice
6. Develop skills in positioning and situational control for healthcare consecutive interpretation
   1. Identify the factors requiring proper positioning of the interpreter in healthcare consecutive interpretation; audibility, non-verbal cues, unobtrusiveness.
   2. Explain the appropriate positioning of the healthcare interpreter in the following situations; admitting interviews, well baby visits, informational sessions, and standard doctor visits
   3. Demonstrate ability to use proper verbal and non-verbal protocols to control the rate of speech or to request repetitions during healthcare interpreting situations
   4. Explain and justify the need to use the third person when intervening as the interpreter in healthcare interpreting events
7. Demonstrate ability to interpret for healthcare situations.
   1. Identify terminology commonly occurring in healthcare situations
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for healthcare situations.
   4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for healthcare situations.
   5. Demonstrate ability to interpret for admitting interviews, well-baby visits, informational sessions, and standard doctor visits.
   6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement.
   7. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement

ITR 274 - Healthcare Interpretation II

1. Identify healthcare situations in which simultaneous interpretation should be performed.
2. Develop listening/prediction techniques for healthcare simultaneous interpretation.
   1. Identify genres of texts/speeches encountered in healthcare contexts: informational meetings, emergency room interventions, operating room procedures, mental health consultations/interventions.
   2. Use listening skills to develop structure maps or conceptual maps of different genres of healthcare discourse.
   3. Use structure maps or conceptual maps to predict the flow of information in new examples of healthcare discourse.
   4. Develop and implement a practice strategy for improving listening/prediction abilities in both languages
3. Develop shadowing and décalage techniques for healthcare simultaneous interpretation.
   1. Identify the issue of multi-tasking according to the Efforts Model of Interpretation
   2. Define shadowing
   3. Define décalage
   4. Develop shadowing ability and décalage technique through practice healthcare texts in both languages.
   5. Develop and implement a strategy for improving décalage technique in both languages
4. Develop note-taking techniques for healthcare simultaneous interpretation.
   1. Distinguish note-taking for simultaneous interpretation from note-taking for consecutive interpretation
   2. Demonstrate ability to accurately note unpredictable information
   3. Demonstrate ability to graphically represent the sequence of events: indentation, verticalization, lines
   4. Demonstrate ability to use standard and personalized symbols in note-taking for simultaneous interpretation
5. Develop skills in positioning and situational control
   1. Identify the factors requiring proper positioning of the interpreter in healthcare simultaneous interpreting situations: audibility, non-verbal cues, unobtrusiveness, presence/absence of interpreting booth, presence/absence of interpreting equipment.
   2. Demonstrate ability to use proper verbal and non-verbal protocols to control the rate of speech or to request repetitions during healthcare simultaneous interpretation situations.
6. Develop ease in using simultaneous interpreting equipment for healthcare simultaneous interpretation
   1. Identify the advantages of using equipment over the whispering (chuchotage) method
   2. Distinguish among the different types of simultaneous interpreting equipment: wired, FM, infrared
   3. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each type of simultaneous interpreting equipment
   4. Develop skills in using simultaneous interpreting equipment through extensive practice with education interpreting texts
   5. Demonstrate ability to switch to chuchotage when interpreting equipment fails.
   6. Demonstrate ability to use simultaneous interpreting equipment for relay interpreting (A-B-C-B-A).
7. Demonstrate ability to interpret infectious disease prevention/control informational meetings simultaneously
   1. Identify healthcare terminology commonly occurring in infectious disease prevention/control informational meetings.
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for infectious disease prevention/control informational meetings
   4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for infectious disease prevention/control informational meetings
   5. Demonstrate ability to interpret infectious disease prevention/control informational meetings simultaneously
   6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement
8. Demonstrate ability to interpret cardiovascular emergency room interventions simultaneously.
   1. Identify healthcare terminology commonly occurring in cardiovascular emergency room interventions
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for cardiovascular emergency room interventions
   4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for cardiovascular emergency room interventions
   5. Demonstrate ability to interpret cardiovascular emergency room interventions simultaneously
   6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement
9. Demonstrate ability to interpret for labor/childbirth operating room events simultaneously.
   1. Identify education terminology commonly occurring in labor/childbirth operating room events.
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for labor/childbirth operating room events
   4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for labor/childbirth operating room events.
   5. Demonstrate ability to interpret labor/childbirth operating room events simultaneously
   6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement
10. Demonstrate ability to interpret for mental health consultations/interventions simultaneously.
    1. Identify healthcare terminology commonly occurring in mental health consultations/interventions
    2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary
    3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for mental health consultations/interventions
    4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for mental health consultations/interventions
    5. Demonstrate ability to interpret mental health consultations/interventions simultaneously
    6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement

ITR 277 - Healthcare Translation

1. Identify healthcare documents in which translation should be performed; discharge information, degrees and diplomas, living wills and patient educational materials.
2. Review principles of translation as applied to healthcare translation
   1. Explain the levels on which meaning resides.
   2. Explain the freedom of translation continuum
   3. Explain difference between the denotative meaning and the connotative meaning of a text.
   4. Identify false cognates in medical terminology and propose correct translations.
3. Use appropriate resource materials to determine the best translation equivalents of healthcare terminology found in practice healthcare texts.
   1. Determine whether terminology in question is already in student?s personal electronic glossary
   2. Determine additional resources needed to locate correct terminology
4. Explore common translation problems as applied to healthcare texts.
   1. Define and identify transposition
   2. Define and identify expansion
   3. Define and identify modulation
   4. Define and identify nominal and verbal modifiers
   5. Define and identify double conjunctions in English
   6. Identify 1 syntactic difference between English and student?s other language.
   7. Define lexical repetition and give 1 example from English healthcare texts.
5. Demonstrate ability to translate discharge information
   1. Analyze discharge information to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to discharge information in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to discharge information
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Prepare translation of discharge information
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
6. Demonstrate ability to translate degrees and diplomas
   1. Analyze degrees and diplomas to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to degrees and diplomas in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to degrees and diplomas.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Prepare translation of degree or diploma
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
7. Demonstrate ability to translate living wills.
   1. Analyze living wills to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to living wills in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to living wills.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Prepare translation of living wills
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
8. Demonstrate ability to translate patient educational materials.
   1. Analyze patient educational materials to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to patient educational materials in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to patient educational materials.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Prepare translation of living wills.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement

ITR 291 - Judiciary Term & Sight Trans

1. Identify the origins of judicial terminology.
   1. Identify the origins of American judicial terminology
   2. Contrast and compare one major difference between American judicial terminology and education terminology of source countries of clients.
2. Identify the judicial documents that are usually sight translated.
   1. Describe the situation(s) in which each type of document is encountered.
   2. Identify the characteristics (formal vs. informal, English vs. other language, typed vs. handwritten) of each type of document.
3. Identify the specialized resources needed to conduct research in judicial terminology.
   1. Characterize a reliable terminological resource
   2. Identify 2-3 print resources in English
   3. Identify 2-3 electronic resources in English
   4. Identify 2-3 print resources in the other language
   5. Identify 2-3 electronic resources in the other language
4. Develop general sight translation skills.
   1. Develop good command of both languages through sight translation practice and peer/instructor review
   2. Develop good public speaking skills; voice projection, clear enunciation, good posture, and smooth pacing through sight translation practice and peer/instructor review.
   3. Develop mental agility through sight translation practice and peer/instructor review
5. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for trial informations and indictments
   1. Analyze trial informations and indictments to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to trial informations and indictments in personal electronic glossary
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to trial informations and indictments
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Perform sight translation of trial informations and indictments
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
6. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for waivers of detention hearings.
   1. Analyze waivers of detention hearings to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to waivers of detention hearings in personal electronic glossary
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to waivers of detention hearings
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Perform sight translation of waiver of detention hearings.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
7. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for plea agreements
   1. Analyze waivers of plea agreements to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to plea agreements in personal electronic glossary
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to plea agreements
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary
   5. Perform sight translation of plea agreement
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement
8. Develop sight translation and terminological research skills for presentencing reports.
   1. Analyze presentencing reports to extract specialized terms.
   2. Incorporate terms relating to presentencing reports in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to presentencing reports
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Perform sight translation of presentencing reports.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement.

ITR 293 - Judiciary Interpretation I

1. Identify judiciary situations in which consecutive interpreting should be performed.
2. Develop listening/prediction techniques for judiciary consecutive interpretation.
   1. Identify genres of texts/speeches encountered in judiciary contexts: narration of events, arguments for or agains a postion, persuasive texts, and descriptions.
   2. Use listening skills to develop structure maps or conceptual maps of different genres of judiciary discourse.
   3. Use structure maps or conceptual maps to predict the flow of information in new examples of judiciary discourse.
   4. Develop and implement a practice strategy for improving listening/prediction abilities in both languages.
3. Develop analysis techniques for judiciary consecutive interpretation.
   1. Define the major constituents of a sentence or idea (S-V-O).
   2. Identify the major constituents of each sentence or idea in a judiciary text.
   3. Compare and contrast the major constituents in English and the other language/
   4. Develop and implement a practice strategy for improving SVO identification in both languages.
4. Develop note-taking techniques for judiciary consecutive interpretation.
   1. Define the tools and format needed for effective note-taking.
   2. Describe the proper goal of effective note-taking.
   3. Demonstrate ability to accurately note S-V-O units, links, and unpredictable information.
   4. Demonstrate ability to graphically represent the sequence of events; indientation, verticalization, lines.
   5. Demonstrate ability to use standard and personalized symbols in note-taking for consecutive interpretation.
5. Develop recal techniques for judiciary consecutive interpretation.
   1. Identify the issue of memory load according to the efforts model of interpretation.
   2. Describe the difference between short term memory and long term memory.
   3. Identify the strategies for enhancing retention: segmentation (chuncking), semantic retention, use of multiple intelligences for recal development.
   4. Explain the issue of semantic and non-semantic information in human services interpreting.
   5. Demonstrate effective recall skills through extensive healthcare consecutive interpreting practice.
6. Develop skills in positioning and situational control for judiciary consecutive interpretation.
   1. Identify the factors requireing proper positioning of the interpreter in judiciary consecutive interpretation: audibility, non-verbal cues, unobtrusiveness.
   2. Explain the appropriate positioning of the judiciary interpreter in the following situations: attorney-client interviews, proffer interviews, depositions, and witness testimony.
   3. Demonstrate ability to use proper verbal and non-verbal protocols to control the rate of speech or to request repetitions during judiciary interpreting situations.
   4. Explain and justify the need to use the thir person when intervening as the interpreter in judiciary interpreting events.
7. Demonstrate ability to interpret for judiciary situations.
   1. Identify terminology commonly occurring in judiciary situations.
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary.
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for judiciary situations.
   4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for judiciary situations.
   5. Demonstrate ability to interpret for attorney-client intervies, proffer intervies, depositions, and witness testimony.
   6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement.

ITR 294 - Judiciary Interpretation II

1. Identify judiciary situations in which simultaneous intrepretation should be performed.
2. Develop listening/prediction techniques for judiciary simultaneous intrepretation.
   1. Identify genres of texts/speeches encountered in judiciary hearns: initial appearances, bail/detention hearings, change of pleas hearings, sentencing hearings.
   2. Use listening skills to develop structure maps or conceptual maps of different types of hearings; initial appearances, bail/detention hearings, change of plea hearings, sentencing hearings.
   3. Use structure maps or conceptual maps to predict the flow of information in examples of judiciary discourse.
   4. Develop and implement a practice strategy for improving listening/prediciton abilities in both languages.
3. Develop shadowing and decalage techniques for judiciary simultaneous interpretation.
   1. Identify the issue of multi-tasking according to the efforts model of interpretation.
   2. Define shadowing.
   3. Define decalage.
   4. Develop shadowing ability and decalage technique through practice judiciary texts in both languages.
   5. Develop and implement a strategy for improving decalage technique in both languages.
4. Develop note-taking techniques for judiciary simultaneous interpretation.
   1. Distinguish note-taking for simultaneous interpretati8on from note-taking for consecutive interpretation.
   2. Demonstrate ability to accurately note unpredictable information.
   3. Demonstrate ability to graphically represent the sequence of events: indentation, verticalization, lines.
   4. Demonstrate ability to use standard and personalized symbols in note-taking for simultaneous interpretation.
5. Develop skills in positioning and situational control.
   1. Identify the factors requiring proper positioning of the interpreter in judiciary simultaneous interpreting situations: audibility, non-verbal cues, unobtrusiveness, presence/absence of interpreting booth, presence/absence of interpreting equipment.
   2. Demonstrate ability to use proper verbal and non-verbal protocols to control the rate of speech or to request repetitions during judiciary simultaneous interpretation situations.
6. Develop ease in using simultaneous interpreting equipment for judiciary simultaneous interpretation.
   1. Identify the advantages of using equipment over the whispering (chuchatage) method.
   2. Distinguish among the different types of simultaneous interpreting equipment: wired, FM, infrared.
   3. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each type of simultaneous interpreting equipment.
   4. Develop skills in using simultaneous interpreting equipment through extensive practice with education interpreting texts.
   5. Demonstrate ability to switch to chuchotage when interpreting equipment fails.
   6. Demonstrate ability to use simultaneous interpreting equipment for relay interpreting (A-B-C-B-A).
7. Demonstrate ability to interpret initial apprearance hearings simultaneously.
   1. Identify judiciary terminology commonly occurring in initial appearance hearings.
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary.
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for initial appearance hearings.
   4. Demonstrate ability to interpret initial appearance hearings simultaneously.
   5. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement.
8. Demonstrate ability to interpert bail/detention hearings simultaneously.
   1. Identify judiciary terminology commonly occurring in bail/detention hearings.
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary.
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for bail/detention hearings.
   4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for bail/detention hearings.
   5. Demonstrate ability to interpret bail/detention hearings simultaneously.
   6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement.
9. Demonstrate ability to interpret change of pleas hearings simultaneously.
   1. Identify education terminology commonly occurring in change of plea hearings.
   2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary.
   3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for change of plea hearings.
   4. Demonstrate ability to interpret change of plea hearings simultaneously.
   5. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement.
10. Demonstrate ability to interpret sentencing hearings simultaneously.
    1. Identify judiciary teminology commonly occurring in sentencing hearings.
    2. Incorporate new terminology into personal electronic glossary.
    3. Incorporate new symbols needed for note-taking while interpreting for sentencing hearings.
    4. Identify potential interpreting and ethical pitfalls when interpreting for sentencing hearings.
    5. Demonstrate ability to interpret sentencing hearings simultaneously.
    6. Identify areas of improvement and plans for improvement.

ITR 297 - Judiciary Translation

1. Identify judiciary documents in which translations should be performed: birth certificates, degrees and diplomas, plea agreements, contracts.
2. Review principles of translation as applied to judiciary translation.
   1. Explain the levels on which meaning resides.
   2. Explain the freedom of translation continuum.
   3. Explain difference between the denotative meaning and the connotative meaning of a text.
   4. Identify false cognates in judiciary terminology and propose correct translations.           
3. Use appropriate resource materials to determine the best translation equivalents of judiciary terminology found in practice judiciary texts
   1. Determine whether terminology in question is already in student’s personal electronic glossary.
   2. Determine additional resources needed to locate correct terminology.
4. Explore common translation problems as applied to judiciary texts.
   1. Define and identify transposition.
   2. Define and identify expansion.
   3. Define and identify modulation.
   4. Define and identify nominal and verbal modifiers.
   5. Define and identify double conjunctions in English.
   6. Identify 1 syntactic difference between English and student’s other language.
   7. Define lexical repetition and give 1 example from English judiciary texts.       
5. Demonstrate ability to translate birth certificates.
   1. Analyze birth certificates to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to birth certificates in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to birth certificates
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Prepare translation of birth certificates.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement.
6. Demonstrate ability to translate degrees and diplomas.
   1. Analyze degrees and diplomas to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to degrees and diplomas in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to degrees and diplomas.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Prepare translation of degrees and diplomas.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement.
7. Demonstrate ability to translate plea agreements.
   1. Analyze plea agreements to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to plea agreements in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to plea agreements.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Prepare translation of plea agreements.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement.
8. Demonstrate ability to translate contracts.
   1. Analyze contracts to extract specialized terms
   2. Incorporate terms relating to contracts in personal electronic glossary.
   3. Research terminological resources to find appropriate translations of terms relating to contracts.
   4. Incorporate translations in personal electronic glossary.
   5. Prepare translation of contracts.
   6. Incorporate peer/instructor review into plan for improvement.

ITR 871 - Healthcare I/T Internship

1. Develop a professional résumé.
   1. Synthesize and incorporate relevant prior work experience.
   2. Synthesize and incorporate relevant prior studies.
   3. Prepare résumé according to format and editing guidelines.
   4. Print résumé using appropriate print/paper quality.
2. Secure an internship position in an appropriate business situation, or a mentorship under a qualified business interpreter/translator.
   1. Use prior networking or active contact research to prepare list of potential positions.
   2. Use appropriate means (telephone, mail, visits) to make initial contacts with potential positions.
   3. Observe professional conduct in phone and in-person interviews.
   4. Notify instructor of internship position secured.
3. Perform 60 hours of supervised translation or translation work during the term.
   1. Develop, in consultation with mentor and instructor, a plan of action for internship.
   2. Demonstrate professionalism (promptness, appropriate attire, appropriate behavior).
   3. Document translation and translation work performed during internship through weekly progress reports.
4. Debrief experiences with instructor and other interns during weekly class sessions.
   1. Attend all class sessions.
   2. Hand in all required reports.
   3. Discuss potential technical and ethical issues that arise during internship.
   4. Apply principles discussed in class to internship activities.
5. Develop a professional portfolio.
   1. Choose appropriate presentation style and format.
   2. Determine appropriate sections for portfolio.
   3. Gather relevant artifacts and reflections from prior studies/work.
   4. Incorporate updated résumé into portfolio.
   5. Obtain comments/critique on portfolio from internship mentor.

ITR 891 - Judiciary I/T Internship

1. Develop a professional résumé.
   1. Synthesize and incorporate relevant prior work experience.
   2. Synthesize and incorporate relevant prior studies.
   3. Prepare résumé according to format and editing guidelines.
   4. Print résumé using appropriate print/paper quality.
2. Secure an internship position in an appropriate business situation, or a mentorship under a qualified business interpreter/translator.
   1. Use prior networking or active contact research to prepare list of potential positions.
   2. Use appropriate means (telephone, mail, visits) to make initial contacts with potential positions.
   3. Observe professional conduct in phone and in-person interviews.
   4. Notify instructor of internship position secured.
3. Perform 60 hours of supervised translation or translation work during the term.
   1. Develop, in consultation with mentor and instructor, a plan of action for internship.
   2. Demonstrate professionalism (promptness, appropriate attire, appropriate behavior).
   3. Document translation and translation work performed during internship through weekly progress reports.
4. Debrief experiences with instructor and other interns during weekly class sessions.
   1. Attend all class sessions.
   2. Hand in all required reports.
   3. Discuss potential technical and ethical issues that arise during internship.
   4. Apply principles discussed in class to internship activities.
5. Develop a professional portfolio.
   1. Choose appropriate presentation style and format.
   2. Determine appropriate sections for portfolio.
   3. Gather relevant artifacts and reflections from prior studies/work.
   4. Incorporate updated résumé into portfolio.
   5. Obtain comments/critique on portfolio from internship mentor.

ITR 910 - Emphasis Seminar

1. Distinguish among the different areas of specialization in interpreting/translation; judiciary, health care, human services, education and business
   1. Describe the contexts in which interpreting and translation are performed in each of the specialty areas
   2. List the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for interpreters and translators in each of the specialty areas
2. Explore professional resources available for judiciary interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 professional association for judiciary interpreters/translators
   2. Identify the code of ethics for judiciary interpretation/translation
   3. Prepare and ask questions for judiciary interpreter/translator (guest speaker).
3. Explore print and electronic resources available in judiciary interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 bilingual dictionary (print) in language combination for judiciary interpretation/translation
   2. Identify at least 1 bilingual glossary (electronic) in language combination for judiciary interpretation/translation
   3. Evaluate each resource identified, and report findings in a half-page review for each resources
   4. Perform a translation of a simple judiciary text, and peer edit the translation
   5. Perform an interpretation of a simple judiciary oral text, and peer edit the recording
4. Explore professional resources available for health care interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 professional association for health care interpreters/translators
   2. Identify the code of ethics for healthcare interpreters/translators
   3. Prepare and ask questions for health care interpreter/translator (guest speaker).
5. Explore print and electronic resources available in healthcare interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 bilingual dictionary (print) in language combination for health care interpretation/translation
   2. Identify at least 1 bilingual glossary (electronic) in language combination for healthcare interpretation/translation
   3. Evaluate each resource identified, and report findings in a half-page review for each resource
   4. Perform a translation of a simple healthcare text and peer edit the translation
   5. Perform an interpretation of a simple healthcare oral text, and peer edit the recording
6. Explore professional resources available for human services interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 professional association for human services interpreters/translators
   2. Identify the code of ethics for human services interpreters/translators
   3. Prepare and ask questions for human services interpreter/translator (guest speaker)
7. Explore print and electronic resources available in human services interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 bilingual dictionary (print) in language combination for human services interpretation/translation
   2. Identify at least 1 bilingual glossary (electronic) in language combination for human services interpretation/translation
   3. Evaluate each resource identified, and report finding in a half-page review for each resource
   4. Perform a translation of a simple human services text, and peer edit the translation
   5. Perform an interpretation of a simple human services oral text, and peer edit the recording
8. Explore professional resources available for educational interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 professional association for educational interpreters/translators
   2. Identify the code of ethics for educational interpreters/translators
   3. Prepare and ask questions for educational interpreters/translator (guest speaker)
9. Explore print and electronic resources available in educational interpretation/translation
   1. Identify at least 1 bilingual dictionary (print) in language combination for educational interpretation/translation
   2. Identify at least 1 bilingual glossary (electronic) in language combination for educational interpretation/translation
   3. Evaluate each resource identified, and report findings in a half-page review for each resource
   4. Perform a translation of a simple human services text, and peer edit the translation
   5. Perform an interpretation of a simple human services oral text, and peer edit the recording
10. Explore professional resources available for business interpretation/translation
    1. Identify at least 1 professional association for business interpreters/translators
    2. Identify the code of ethics for business interpreters/translators
    3. Prepare and ask questions for business interpreter/translator (guest speaker).
11. Explore print and electronic resources available in business interpretation/translation
    1. Identify at least 1 bilingual dictionary (print) in language combination for business interpretation/translation
    2. Identify at least 1 bilingual glossary (electronic) in language combination for business interpretation/translation
    3. Evaluate each resource identified and report findings in a half-page review for each resource
    4. Perform a translation of a simple business text, and peer edit the translation
    5. Perform an interpretation of a simple business oral text, and peer edit the recording
12. Use a learning portfolio to present findings and to explore student?s preferred area of specialization
    1. Create an appropriate format for the portfolio
    2. Make sections for each of the areas of specialization
    3. Incorporate artifacts found through class work and individual research
    4. Write one-page reflections for each section of the portfolio.
    5. Write a three-page reflection indicating which area of specialization the student wishes to pursue, with reasons and goals.

JOU 110 - Intro to Mass Media

1. Survey the history of the mass media–books, newspapers, magazines, film, popular music (recording), radio, television, and the Web
2. Analyze the contemporary status of the mass media– books, newspapers, magazines, film, popular music (recording), radio, television, the Web and new communication technologies
   1. Examine the role of each medium in contemporary society
   2. Investigate the fundamental processes of gathering information for and disseminating information through each medium
3. Appraise the various contemporary and enduring issues that evolve out of the interactions of individuals and the mass media
   1. Survey the ethics of mass communication
   2. Evaluate the impact of international communication
   3. Explain the effect of mass communication on modern culture
   4. Assess the role of mass communication in the functioning of democratic institutions
4. Discuss factors influencing accuracy
5. Analyze resources and methods needed to critically evaluate the mass media
   1. Examine mass communication research
   2. Investigate mass communication theory
6. Demonstrate mass communication research
7. Explain how markets and the media interact to determine media content
8. Examine the tremendous and largely unrecognized role that mediated communication plays in constructing social reality
   1. Investigate how media personnel influence media content
   2. Scrutinize consumer concerns about media content and quality
   3. Survey how markets and media interact to determine media content
9. List ways consumers can take a role in influencing the content and methods of mass communication
10. Discover a sense of responsibility as a citizen of our popular culture
11. Explore possible mass communication alternatives and futures

JOU 113 - Gender, Sexuality and Media

1. Analyze resources and methods needed to critically evaluate the mass media.
   1. Outline mass communication research
   2. Summarize mass communication theory
2. Examine theories of social constructions of gender
   1. Identify components of the constructions of both masculinity and femininity
   2. Assess common assumptions of gender as a marker of identity.
   3. Analyze media portrayals and reinforcements of stereotypical representations of gender roles.
3. Compare theories of the social construction of sexualities
   1. Analyze media portrayals and reinforcements of stereotypical representations of sexualities
   2. Assess common assumptions of sexuality as a marker of identity.
   3. Identify basic differences between heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality and other categorizations
4. Analyze the relationships between gender, sexuality, and other categories of social difference in media representations.
5. Evaluate various media formats targeted to specific genders and/or sexuality groups.
   1. Identify specific types of media forms or genres that are targeted to a specific gender/sexuality category
   2. Characterize ways in which targeted media reinforce or challenge stereotypes to their presumed audiences
6. Predict alternatives and futures of representations of gender and sexuality in media.
   1. Identify alternative media voices and creators that challenge common portrayals and constructions of gender and sexuality
   2. Assess active campaigns against the perpetuation of media stereotypes
7. Evaluate the impact and effects of mass communication on audiences and on modern society.
   1. Conduct an evaluation of a representation of gender and sexuality in contemporary U.S. media
   2. Question ethical obligations and responsibilities of media to diversify its images, particularly in areas of gender and sexuality
   3. Examine the role of media industry and markets in shaping constructions of gender and sexuality in contemporary media.
   4. Discover a sense of social responsibility as a media consumer

JOU 114 - Diversity and the Media

1. Research current media effects on the consequences of stereotypical media portrayals and under-representation of alternative images
   1. Give examples of negative media portrayals of various minority groups.
   2. Discuss basic facts and concepts of the U.S. as a diverse country
   3. Evaluate the social and psychological effects of the portrayals of underrepresented groups in the media
   4. Identify and challenge portrayals, especially stereotypical representation, of underrepresented groups in the media.
2. Examine theories of social construction of race, disability and age
   1. Assess common assumptions of diversity
   2. Compare and contrast theories of stereotypical representation of underrepresented groups in the media
3. Evaluate the function and effects of the mass media on today?s society
   1. Discuss current mainstream media and its target audiences
   2. Analyze the print and electronic media as they relate to gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, mental or physical disability, and age issues.
4. Distinguish alternative media voices and creators, multicultural contributions to media, the image rebuilding process, and corrective stereotypes.
   1. Analyze the needs and interests of diverse communities, and how they are being met by the mainstream media
   2. Investigate the role of nonmainstream media’s sources and outlets
5. Evaluate various minority groups? representations in the media.
   1. Analyze popular media products
   2. Infer the media’s cultural influence and become a more informed consumer and enlightened participant in our media/consumer culture
6. Communicate clearly and concisely in professional contexts involving mediated communication in regards to diverse social groups
   1. Conduct a research project on the representation of an identified group
   2. Present results of a research project in both oral and written forms
7. Integrate a variety of materials to critically address issues about media, race, religion, disability, sexuality and gender
   1. Analyze how images of diverse groups have changed over time and why
   2. Reframe a sense of responsibility as a media consumer and citizen
8. Predict changes in the diversity of media images
   1. Examine active campaigns against the perpetuation of media stereotypes.
   2. Develop a course of action of what can be done to promote positive change of diverse groups
   3. Brainstorm what can be done to promote change.
9. Critique ethical obligations and responsibilities of media.
   1. Analyze the role of ethics of media to diversify its images of race, religion, disability, sexuality and gender
   2. Compare and contrast popular media’s success at representing minority groups

JOU 121 - Newswriting and Reporting