NURS 162 Nursing Skills in Chronic Illnesses Lab II (1 credit)

2) Perform foundational nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for adult patients within acceptable nursing standards.

3) Define processes for quality improvement in the patient care setting.

4) Use technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care to include protecting patient health information.

Degree Outcomes
Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making. Core Abilities Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

NURS 163 Nursing Skills in Chron Ill Clinical/Sim II (4 credits)

1. Demonstrate patient-centered care for individuals experiencing chronic illnesses by applying the steps in the nursing process
2. Demonstrate effective communication with the healthcare team to provide quality patient care. 
3. Perform nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Discuss a process that demonstrates improved patient outcomes.
5. Compare effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Utilize technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care including protecting patient health information.

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Ability

• Critical, Creative, Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

NURS 164 Topics in Pediatric Nursing (2 credits)

1. Develop patient-centered goals with pediatric patients and families across the age continuum to prevent illness and improve health.
2. Examine effective evidence -based methods in determining the best clinical practice and pharmacological treatments for pediatric patients
3. Describe the impact of national patient safety resources, initiatives and regulations on positive pediatric patient outcomes.  
4. Identify information and technological skills that are essential for the safe care of the pediatric patient.

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Ability

• Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

NURS 241 Medical/Surgical Nursing - Acute Illnesses I (5 credits)

1. Apply multiple dimensions of patient-centered care for the individuals with acute illnesses across the lifespan including disease pathophysiology and pharmacology.
2. Evaluate the contributions of others on the healthcare team in helping patient/family achieve health goals.
3. Analyze the role of evidence in determining best clinical practice for patients with acute deviations in all body systems.
4. Use data to monitor the quality of patient care processes.  
5. Describe the impact of national patient safety resources, initiatives and regulations on positive patient outcomes.  
6. Utilize information and technological skills that are essential for safe patient care.

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

• Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

NURS 242 Nursing Skills in Acute Illnesses Lab I (1 credit)

NURS 243 Nursing Skills in Acute Illnesses Clinical/Simulation I (5 credits)

NURS 244 Topics in Obstetrical Nursing Care (2 credits)

NURS 251 Medical/Surgical Nursing –Acute Illnesses II (5 credits)

2) Identify the contributions of others on the healthcare team in helping patient/family achieve health goals.

3) Examine the role of evidence in pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments in determining best clinical practice for patients with chronic deviations in all body systems.

4) Summarize data and methods that improve the quality of health care systems. 

5) Describe the impact of national patient safety resources, initiatives and regulations on positive patient outcomes. 

6) Integrate information and technological skills that are essential for safe patient care including dosage calculation and medication conversions.

Degree Outcomes
Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making. Core Abilities Information Competency:  Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

NURS 252 Nursing Skills in Acute Illnesses Lab II (1 credit)

1. Practice the nursing process in the care of patients across the lifespan with a focus on health promotion.
2. Demonstrate foundational nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for adult.
3. Apply effective strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
4. Operate technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care to include protecting patient health information.

Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.

Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

Information Competency:  Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

NURS 253 Nursing skills in Acute Illnesses Clinical/Simulation II (4 credits)

1. Demonstrate patient-centered care for individuals experiencing acute illnesses by applying the nursing process.
2. Demonstrate nursing skills as a provider of care, manager of care, and member of the discipline of nursing, utilizing the nursing process.
3. Perform nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Evaluate a process that demonstrates improved patient outcomes.
5. Apply effective strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Integrate technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care including protecting patient health information.

Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.

Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking:  Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 80
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 80

NURS 254 Transition to Nursing Practice (2 credits)

1. Reflect on the roles and responsibilities of the registered nurse in relation to managing the continuum of care for all patients across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate effective communication skills and conflict management that involves members of a multidisciplinary healthcare team to deliver holistic, competent nursing care.
3. Employ evidence-based practice that incorporates cultural, ethical, legal, and professional nursing values to meet the needs of the patient/family in a variety of settings.
4. Examine the significance of prioritization and delegation in relation to quality management and promoting positive patient outcomes.
5. Analyze individual performance and system effectiveness in minimizing risk to patients and healthcare providers.
6. Explain nursing’s involvement in design, selection, implementation, and evaluation of information technologies to support patient care.

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Ability

• Global Citizenship: 

  Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

NURS 255 Concepts of Ethics and Policy in Healthcare II (2 credits)

2) Differentiate the unique attributes that members bring to a team, including variations in professional orientation and accountability.

3) Analyze the nurse’s rights and responsibilities in the healthcare setting.

4) Summarize ethical decision-making gaps between observed and current evidenced-based practices.

5) Integrate licensure and policies related to nursing scope of practice.

6) Research laws on how information is managed in healthcare settings.

Degree Outcomes
Patient-centered Care Teamwork and Communication Evidence Based Practice Quality Improvement Safety Informatics Core Abilities: Responsibility Effective Communication

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

NURS 256 Psychological Issues in Healthcare (3 credits)

1. Compare and contrast how diverse cultural, ethnic and social backgrounds impact patient, family, and community values regarding psychological disorders.
2. Analyze evidence in determining legislation for patients with psychological disorders.
3. Utilize data and methods that improve the quality of health care systems. 
4. Identify the contributions of others on the healthcare team in helping patient/family achieve psychological health goals.
5. Summarize strategies to promote safety of the patient and healthcare team.
6. Utilize teaching materials, online patient charting, interpreter services and other modalities to ensure holistic patient communication.

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Ability

• Intercultural Engagement: 

  Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

NURS 261 Transition to Nursing Practice (3 credits)

NURS 263 Nursing Practicum (5 credits)

1. Apply multiple dimensions of patient-centered care for individuals with chronic and acute illnesses across the lifespan.
2. Utilize nursing skills as a provider of care, manager of care, and member of the discipline of nursing.
3. Plan nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Model processes for quality improvement and patient outcomes in the care setting.
5. Integrate effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Use information technology to support safe processes of care including protecting patient health information.

Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.

Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

Critical, Creative, Reflective Thinking:  Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 150
Total Contact Hours 150

NURS 264 Nursing Capstone Seminar (2 credits)

1. Identify the patient as the source of control and full partner in the coordination of their care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Demonstrate open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Integrate evidence-based practice to deliver optimal paritent care. 
4. Utilize data to monitor and improve patient care outcomes.
5. Describe methods of risk reduction to patients and providers. 
6. Utilize technology and information managment to support safe patient care. 

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

• Global Citizenship: 

  Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

• Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: 

  Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

NURS 265 Advanced Concepts of Ethics & Policy in Healthcare (2 credits)

1. Discuss policy, law and ethical components that help empower patients and families navigate the health care process.
2. Identify the unique attributes that members bring to a team, including variations in professional orientation and accountability.
3. Analyze the nurse’s rights and responsibilities in the healthcare setting.
4. Compare and contrast ethical decision-making challenges that occur in healthcare.
5. Apply licensure and ethical policies to nursing scope of practice.
6. Describe laws relative to information management in healthcare settings.

Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.

Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

NUTR& 101 Nutrition (5 credits)

2. Identify factors that influence eating habits.

3. Evaluate a food label and identify reliable and unreliable sources of nutritional information.

4. Define and apply the Dietary Reference Intakes and their use for healthy individuals.

5. Identify the essential nutrients, their basic functions in the body and significant sources.

6. Sequence the steps for digestion of food and absorption of nutrients, and identify factors that influence these processes.

7. Discuss the concept of energy balance as it relates to exercise, nutrition and weight management.

8. Discuss the principles of fitness and the unique energy and nutrient needs for physical activity and exercise.

9. Discuss food safety and consumer issues.

10. Identify the relationship between nutrition and disease.

11. Identify the changes in nutritional requirements throughout all life stages.

12. Demonstrate proficiency in analysis of a Food Intake Record.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

OSH 100 Intro to Occupational Safety and Health (5 credits)

2. Determine the chain(s) of responsibility and enforcement in the OSH regulatory agencies in the state of Washington. (Add to OSH Resource Book)

3. Identify how the implementation of safety and risk management policies and practices has impacted the number and severity of workers’ compensation claims over time.

4. Recognize and compile resources of key terms and concepts in order to have a useful reference for the work place. (Add to OSH Resource Book)

5. Compare and contrast the costs (financial and human) of different occupational injuries and illnesses in order to identify the impact on the employee(s), the employees’ family and community, and the employer.

6. Locate the most pertinent sources and resources central to the field of occupational health and safety in the state of Washington. (Annotated bibliography; OSH Resource Book)

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Prevent harm to workers, property, the environment, and the general public by identifying hazardous conditions and practices and implementing alternative practices and/or corrective measures. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

OSH 110 Safety Management (5 credits)

2. Collect data about difference workplace safety or health incidents in order to develop a variety of intervention plans. (Research project presentation)

3. Develop appropriate plans that respond to data in order to meet safety and health standards.

4. Develop a personal code of ethics for excellent safety management in order to envision the long-term consequences of one’s decisions and behavior on others. (OSH Resource Book)

5. Articulate the role and impact a given organization’s emergency preparedness plan has on the organization and in its surrounding community. (Group Power Point Presentation)

6. Evaluate reactive versus proactive safety interventions in order to determine impact.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Collect data on work environments for on-going analysis that may predict risks and hazards and identify sources of exposure and/or contamination. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

OSH 140 Regulatory Environment (3 credits)

2. Determine how federal, state and local regulatory agency interface.

3. Assess regulatory inspection processes.

4. Explain how OSHA and WISHA regulations, violations, penalties and fines apply to situations. (Add to OSH Resource Book)

5. Examine how gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnic, class and other cultural groups have played a role in the history and political evolution of OSH regulations.

6. Research a variety of OSH regulatory agencies and the scope of their jurisdictions. Note the points the agencies intersect, points of contention between them, and barriers to servicing claimants. (OSH Resource Book)

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Conduct job site inspections and determine which areas may not be in compliance with State and Federal laws and/or employer policies. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

OSH 150 Workers Comp and Risk Management (3 credits)

2. Evaluate various risk analysis methods in order to determine which method(s) work best in what type(s) of situation(s).

3. Evaluate the steps and tools in the claims process, including business insurance, transfer of risk, assumption of risk, risk assessment, and lines of insurance. (OSH Resource Book)

4. Examine how gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnic, class and other cultural groups have played a role in the history and evolution of workers compensation, ADA, FMLA, and Washington State Disability Act.

5. Identify the pivotal points in the history and evolution of the workers compensation system in order to determine how decisions have impacted human beings, relationships, cultures, natural and fiscal resources.

6. Analyze the role of the risk manager in order to determine how he/she functions as a conscientious member of a risk management system.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Promote occupational health and safety within organizations by communicating to workers and management about risks and hazards and training workers how to prevent risks and hazards and how to protect themselves while performing various job related tasks. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

OSH 155 Special Topics in OSH - I (3 credits)

2. Correctly name & define specialty topic terms and key concepts.

3. Analyze the specialty concepts as applied to real world situations.

4. List and contrast the strengths and limitations of various specialty topic applications and evaluate those applications in relation to occupational safety and health regulations.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

OSH 160 Incident Investigation (3 credits)

2. Identify and report causal factors of an incident and provide recommendations for appropriate action(s).

3. Analyze the immediate supervisor’s role and compare to other roles found in a designated institution.

4. Determine what methods safety committees and management use in what contexts.

5. Analyze incident reports, Logs of Work Related Injuries and Illnesses, and case studies in order to determine the financial and human impact of proper and improper methods, protocols, and documentation for incident investigation.

6. Identify root causes of accidents that need to be eliminated in order to promote a safe, healthy work environment.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Respond to an accident or incident by utilizing emergency response plans, investigating the event, assisting the worker(s) with immediate and long term rehabilitation with a focus on returning to work and by promoting corrective action to prevent a similar incident from happening again. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

OSH 170 Training Techniques (3 credits)

2. Explain how learning styles and effective training methods address the needs of a diverse workforce.

3. Prepare and deliver a training plan that addresses a particular risk management issue in order to assure management and union buy-in. a. Identify needs (e.g. compliance) b. Establish learning outcomes c. Develop education curriculum d. Establish timeline e. Identify educator f. Coordinate education activities g. Evaluate effectiveness of education h. Document educational activities

4. Identify effective refresher training methods.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Promote occupational health and safety within organizations by communicating to workers and management about risks and hazards and training workers how to prevent risks and hazards and how to protect themselves while performing various job related tasks. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

OSH 190 Industrial Security (3 credits)

2. Demonstrate the basics of the All Hazards Approach to Industrial Security, including:

3. Equipment

4. Methods

5. Control of facility entrances (and control of entrants)

6. Internal security threats by disgruntled employees

7. Describe how to conduct site-specific vulnerability assessments

8. Explain the history and evolution of terrorism including specific terrorist threats (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive/energetic (CBRNE).

9. Identify the characteristics and implications of various terrorist threats in order to determine the impact on a given company or organization.

10. Identify how the National Incident Management System (NIMS) enables a Safety and Health Coordinator to fulfill his/her responsibilities.

11. Develop an Emergency Action Plan.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Prevent harm to workers, property, the environment, and the general public by identifying hazardous conditions and practices and implementing alternative practices and/or corrective measures. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

OSH 220 Industrial Hygiene (5 credits)

2. Understand the toxicology of substances in an occupational setting and the occurrence of occupational diseases.

3. Learn methods to identify and evaluate exposure to health hazards, and then determine the appropriate sampling and monitoring techniques.

4. Develop work practices and controls to protect worker’s health.

5. Apply OSHA exposure limits and workplace standards to health hazards.

6. Apply industrial hygiene practices to a specific workplace setting and complete a case study report.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Collect data on work environments for on-going analysis that may predict risks and hazards and identify sources of exposure and/or contamination. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

OSH 230 Ergonomics (3 credits)

2. Design ergonomically safe and functional workspaces in order to address specific employee health issues (to include principles of body mechanics and use of engineering and ergonomic solutions.)

3. Develop strategies to encourage employee and organizational compliance with ergonomic guidelines. (Add to OSH Resource Book)

4. Use ergonomic terminology.

5. Ensure that ergonomic policies, procedures and trainings are inclusive of ADA standards and regulations in order to assure that all employee needs are recognized and addressed.

6. Demonstrate ergonomic National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) guidelines.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Design programs to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, radiological, and biological agents or ergonomic factors as well as prepare an emergency response plan. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

OSH 240 Handling Hazardous Materials (4 credits)

2. Describe how to recognize hazards in order to determine safe work practices.

3. Define the purpose of personal protective equipment and under which circumstances different personal protective equipment is used.

4. Demonstrate a basic understanding of chemical toxicology, and biological and radiological toxicology medical surveillance.

5. Demonstrate sampling and monitoring procedures.

6. Demonstrate decontamination procedures.

7. Explain safe work practices.

8. Implement and explain emergency procedures.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Design programs to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, radiological, and biological agents or ergonomic factors as well as prepare an emergency response plan. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40

OSH 255 Special Topics in OSH II (4 credits)

2. Name & Define Terms and Key Concepts

3. Analyze the Concepts to Identify & Evaluate Real-World Applications

4. Discuss the Strengths & Limitations of Various Applications and the Implications of that on the Regulations Related to the Assigned Topic

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

OSH 291 OSH Internship (3 credits)

2. Set workplace learning objectives, develop a plan for accomplishing these objectives, document the learning process, and assess their success in reaching the objectives.

3. Write a career path plan communicating where they want to be in their careers five years in the future and the steps they will take to make it happen.

4. List typical work procedures and professional standards for the industry of this internship.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Prevent harm to workers, property, the environment, and the general public by identifying hazardous conditions and practices and implementing alternative practices and/or corrective measures. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 90
Total Contact Hours 90

OCEA 170 Marine Biology (5 credits)

2. Apply the scientific method and its usefulness to the study of marine systems.

3. Identify the principles of plate tectonic action.

4. Characterize and categorize chemical and physical characteristics of seawater samples from a variety of environments.

5. Examine, describe and apply chemical principles in order to understand the workings of the cell.

6. Define simple diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion and active transport.

7. Distinguish the differences between marine bacteria, fungi, protists and plants.

8. Classify marine invertebrates at the phylum level using distinguishing characteristics.

9. Compare and contrast cartilaginous and bony fishes

10. Contrast the distinguishing characteristics between the major marine bird groups.

11. Differentiate the biological adaptations of marine reptiles.

12. Differentiate the biological adaptations of marine mammals.

13. Compare and contrast symbiotic relationships in marine environments.

14. Distinguish between the different trophic levels using examples from different marine communities.

15. Describe physiological and anatomical adaptations of marine organisms to the marine environment.

16. Compare the characteristics that equip an organism to inhabit a variety of shore environments (such as rocky shore, mudflat, etc.).

17. Explain the patterns of vertical zonation and competition for space in the marine environment.

18. Define the coral polyp and coral nutrition.

19. Describe the requirements and limitations for coral growth.

20. Name the three types of coral reefs and identify the forces involved in forming them.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

OCEA& 101 Intro to Oceanography (5 credits)

2. Apply marine principles and critical thinking skills to solve marine problems such as sustainable development of resources, marine pollution, and global climate change.

3. Describe and identify physical and chemical seawater properties, and their influence on physical and biological marine processes.

4. Interpret maps and images of physical features of the marine environment.

5. Use appropriate tools and sources in order to access and synthesize marine and environmental information and communicate it effectively.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PHIL 110 Introduction to Bioethics (5 credits)

2. Describe and recognize the distinctions between consequentialist, duty, and virtue ethics. Evaluate and critique these approaches and apply them to bioethical arguments.

3. Identify and explain the important distinction between a human and a person.

4. Examine and critique the arguments concerning the use of animals and humans for medical research.

5. Outline the various issues surrounding “the principle of a respect for autonomy.”

6. Analyze issues of justice surrounding patents on biology, plants, and animals. Examine and critique the justifications for and against such property rights and determine which practice is most just.

7. Understand the stem cell controversy and the various contemporary arguments presented for and against such research. Examine and critique the ethical conclusions drawn from using the principles of beneficence and other philosophical principles.

8. Analyze the arguments surrounding the cloning of animals and humans using the principle of beneficence.

9. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of genetic therapies and modifications and analyze this in ethical terms.

10. Outline the use of biotechnology in relation to food sources. Contrast the various arguments concerning the genetic manipulation of plants and animals using the precautionary principle. Formulate an individual response.

11. Construct an ethical response to individual biotechnology issues. Defend position with moral theories and well-constructed philosophical argument.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL 130 Introduction to Systems Thinking (3 credits)

B. List and understand the benefits of systems thinking.

C. Describe oneself as a component of nested systems.

D. List and explain reasons why systems surprise us.

E. Illustrate and understand system interconnections.

F. Compare and contrast long term and short term thinking.

Degree Outcomes
Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PHIL 131 Integrated Systems Thinking (3 credits)

B. Analyze applied system interconnections.

C. Identify and evaluate consequences of short term and long term thinking.

D. Analyze course theme from arts and humanities paradigm.

E. Analyze course theme from mathematical and scientific paradigm.

F. Analyze course theme from economic, political or social science perspective.

Degree Outcomes
Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in life-long learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

PHIL 150 Introduction to Ethics (5 credits)

2. Identify and compare the positions of absolutism, objectivism, and relativism.

3. Demonstrate comprehension of and apply the consequentialist approach.

4. Demonstrate understanding as to how the categorical imperative instills a sense of duty and responsibility and informs a person towards practices of good will.

5. Demonstrate comprehension of and apply virtue ethics.

6. Analyze the impact of a multi-ethnic or gender-equitable perspective on ethical issues.

7. Analyze classical and post-colonial attitudes toward ethical issues.

8. Apply philosophical analysis and critique to concrete moral problems.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL 160 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (5 credits)

2. Identify and critique different theories of scientific explanation.

3. Demonstrate how confirmation of scientific theories work.

4. Identify and critique various problems related to induction.

5. Explain the differing aims of confirmation and falsification, and demonstrate how these frameworks would be utilized in actual scientific experiments.

6. Identify the differences between Realism and Anti-realism, and construct arguments in favor of each.

7. Demonstrate what “normal science,” scientific revolutions, and paradigm shifts are, and identify their presence throughout the history of science. Examine how scientific theories have changed over time.

8. Identify and critique problems with scientific methodology, including those critiques of science that come from feminist perspectives.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL 210 Philosophy of Western Religion (5 credits)

1. Explain how ethical monotheism provides the framework for inquiry about philosophical questions related to religion

2. Explain the difficulties that arise from ascribing certain attributes to God

3. Analyze and evaluate arguments for and against the existence of God

4. Analyze the problem of evil and evaluate the problem of evil as the basis for disbelief 

5. Analyze and evaluate issues regarding faith and reason, such as the possibility of miracles, questions regarding science and creation, or other issues

6. Analyze and evaluate ethical issues arising from monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam, Christianity),  such as the moral status of hell, the problem of evil, or other issues

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

 

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL 220 Introduction to Eastern Philosophy (5 credits)

2. Identify the problems that exist in distinguishing reality from perceived reality and how these problems are addressed by philosophers.

3. Distinguish between the different ways that Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Hinduism view reality and how they reconcile the ideas of the “One” and the “many.”

4. Describe what constitutes knowledge and compare the different ways knowledge can be obtained.

5. Determine whether or not a distinction between religion and philosophy exists in the eastern philosophical traditions.

6. Examine the four noble truths and the concept of Jen (Ren) in order to evaluate how these concepts influence ethics.

7. Demonstrate understanding of the role that virtue plays in the ethical systems of these philosophies.

8. Compare and contrast the different descriptions of self in Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Hinduism.

9. Define the term “nothingness” and explain its relationship to the self.

10. Evaluate eastern attitudes on death, reincarnation and their view of the afterlife.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL 230 Contemporary Moral Problems (5 credits)

2. Test traditional and contemporary philosophical theories by applying them to the moral issues presented in class.

3. Assess which of these theories are better able to address the various moral issues.

4. Analyze and examine the factual claims that help to define particular moral problems.

5. Criticize and/or support the claims presented on both sides of an issue.

6. Judge the strength/weakness, validity or invalidity of the arguments presented.

7. Create arguments and develop counterarguments for/against the moral issues presented in class.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL 238 Philosophy of Human Rights (5 credits)

2. Compare and contrast a variety of theories of human rights, in order to apply them to contemporary debates.

3. Evaluate and construct arguments for and against the possibility of universal human rights.

4. Evaluate and construct arguments concerning the rights of special groups, for example: women’s rights, indigenous rights, the rights of people with all sexual orientations and gender identities, and others.

5. Explore the connection between universal human rights and global justice, in order to recognize our responsibilities to ourselves and others, either locally or globally.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of human experience. 

 

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL& 101 Introduction to Philosophy (5 credits)

2. Identify and apply a variety of epistemological, metaphysical and ethical theory.

3. Evaluate and differentiate between an epistemological, a metaphysical and an ethical question.

4. Understand and apply the criteria of correct philosophical reasoning.

5. Understand the difference between a rhetorically good argument and a rationally good argument.

6. Identify, reconstruct and evaluation arguments posed by philosophers.

7. Present a solution to a philosophical problem.

8. Identify a variety of ancient, modern and/or contemporary philosophers.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL& 115 Critical Thinking (5 credits)

2. Examine and solve problems in a systematic manner.

3. Detect and overcome personal bias and self-interest, gaining an objective viewpoint.

4. Understand how philosophical skepticism can influence thought and judgment.

5. Understand how probability can influence judgment.

6. Practice consistency and fairness in thought processes.

7. Recognize and reconstruct arguments.

8. Separate arguments from non-arguments.

9. Analyze common and traditional fallacies.

10. Separate good arguments from bad arguments.

11. Recognize and explicate ambiguity and vagueness in language.

12. Recognize structure of argument in language.

13. Recognize and supply missing elements in arguments i.e. enthymemes.

14. Explain and rebut fallacies.

15. Distinguish difference between induction and deduction.

16. Distinguish difference between fact and inference.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PHIL& 120 Symbolic Logic (5 credits)

2. Recognize the differences between deductive and inductive arguments

3. Compare valid with invalid arguments, and construct counterexamples to demonstrate invalidity

4. Determine the strength or weakness of arguments

5. Translate English language statements into the symbolic language of logic

6. Construct and analyze truth tables to determine validity, and distinguish between equivalent, contradictory, and tautologous statements and arguments

7. Solve logic proofs using both the rules of natural deduction and the rules of predicate logic

8. Identify the characteristics of necessary and sufficient conditions

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning: Graduates utilize mathematical, symbolic, logical, graphical, geometric or statistical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world and human society.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PE 096 Fitness and Wellness for PCAD (5 credits)

2. Identify and define the elements that comprise the Wellness paradigm and synthesize these multiple lifestyle factors into a broader concept for oneself.

3. Describe the concept of one’s own wellness in contrast to the simple absence of disease.

4. Discuss how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts one’s health.

5. Describe how to safely monitor exercise intensity.

6. Design and implement a personal fitness program that addresses all five components of fitness in terms of intensity, duration and frequency.

7. Evaluate personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon aerobic capacity assessment.

8. Obtain the appropriate management strategies needed to handle stress.

9. Describe the known causes of disease and manageable prevention strategies.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PE 097 Advanced Fitness and Wellness for PCAD (5 credits)

2. Identify and define the elements that comprise the Wellness paradigm and synthesize these multiple lifestyle factors into a broader concept for oneself.

3. Describe the concept of one’s own wellness in contrast to the simple absence of disease.

4. Discuss how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts one’s health.

5. Describe how to safely monitor exercise intensity.

6. Design and implement a personal fitness program that addresses all five components of fitness in terms of intensity, duration and frequency.

7. Evaluate personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon aerobic capacity assessment.

8. Obtain the appropriate management strategies needed to handle stress.

9. Describe the known causes of disease and manageable prevention strategies.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PE 121 Spin (1 credit)

2. Explain the benefits of a how a regular spin program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

3. Interpret the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Design of individualized spin program based upon beginning fitness levels and the five components of fitness.

5. Demonstrate proper set-up and safe use of spin bike.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 125 Lifestyle Fitness (1 credit)

2. Articulate the benefits of a regular fitness program.

3. Discuss how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

4. Describe how to safely monitor exercise intensity.

5. Design and implement a personal fitness program that addresses all five components of fitness in terms of intensity, duration and frequency.

6. Evaluate personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon aerobic capacity assessment.

Degree Outcomes
Program outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 126 Core Training (1 credit)

2. Demonstrate static and dynamic techniques with and without exercise equipment to improve postural distortions and slow the rate of reduced proprioception, balance, and stability that occur with normal aging overall balance. 

3. Demonstrate an appropriate, safe warm up and cool down.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 131 Personalized Fitness Program (2 credits)

2. Assess the health-related components of fitness to develop an exercise prescription for oneself.

3. Develop SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound) goals for personal fitness and wellness and an assessment plan.

4. Apply motivational techniques to enhance compliance to  a healthy lifestyle and adherence to a comprehensive fitness program.

Degree Outcomes
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40

PE 132 Jogging-Walking (1 credit)

2. Articulate the benefits of jogging/walking .

3. Demonstrate appropriate warm up and techniques to minimize the risk of injury.

4. Interpret the science of proper shoe selection.

5. Discuss the nutritional needs for exercise and energy balance.

6. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels.

7. Evaluate the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 139 Yoga - Special Topics (1 credit)

2. Compare and contrast the different yoga activities to improve muscular strength, toning and flexibility, tailoring the practice to an individual’s specific abilities and limitations.

3. Perform at the appropriate exercise intensity for oneself based on the principles of exercise prescription.

4. Describe how a regular fitness program provides benefits to self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

5. Explain how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

6. Detail the benefits of yoga as a low to moderate intensity physical activity supporting stress reduction, improved flexibility and improved strength.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 140 Total Fitness (2 credits)

2. Assess and monitor one’s fitness variables to develop a safe and effective program.  

3. Demonstrate physical activity or exercise using safe and effective techniques to enhance all components of fitness.

4. Apply motivational techniques to enhance a healthy lifestyle and adherence to a comprehensive fitness program.

Degree Outcomes
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness. 

Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

PE 153 Beginning Salsa (1 credit)

2. Articulate the concepts of lead, follow and frame as a method of communication in Latin dance

3. Distinguish the different roles in partner dance

4. Distinguish and demonstrate a slotted basic, open and closed dance positions and the transitions between each

5. Distinguish and demonstrate inside turns, outside turns and the cross-body lead.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of dance as a low to moderate intensity physical activity

7. Evaluate the benefits of dance in terms of self esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 158 Zumba Group Exercise (1 credit)

2. Distinguish between solo and group movement.

3. Articulate variations in musicality.

4. Identify and articulate isolations, turns and kicks.

5. Discuss and distinguish varied activities needed to improve the components of fitness.

6. Articulate appropriate exercise intensity.

7. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

8. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

9. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon MaxVO2 assessment.

10. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of dance as a low to moderate intensity physical activity.

11. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 159 Beginning Yoga (1 credit)

2. Demonstrate facilitation of friendliness, compassion and greater self-control, while cultivating a sense of calmness and well-being.

3. Articulate personal life perspective and self-awareness to promote improved sense of energy and genuine enjoyment of life.

4. Demonstrate the practice of writing down your thoughts and feelings for the purposes of self-analysis, self-discovery, and self-reflection.

5. Demonstrate and perform breathing techniques, meditation practices and physical postures to experience the therapeutic effects of yoga.

6. Articulate the enhanced physical outcomes of yoga such as lowered heart rate, lowered blood pressure, improved flexibility and enhanced immunity.

7. Demonstrate the practice of physical poses, meditation, breathing, and attentiveness to one’s sense of well-being by journaling.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 160 Yin Yoga (1 credit)

2. Articulate personal life perspective and self-awareness to promote improved sense of energy and genuine enjoyment of life—to include facilitation of friendliness, compassion, and greater self-control.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 167 Court Sports (1 credit)

2. Assess appropriate exercise intensity.

3. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

5. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon MaxVO2 assessment.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

7. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

8. Discuss and distinguish between forehand, backhand, volley and serve with a racquet.

9. Discuss and distinguish between setting, bumping, passing and serving in volleyball.

10.Articulate various court sport rules of play.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 168 Indoor Soccer (1 credit)

2. Articulate appropriate exercise intensity.

3. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

5. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon MaxVO2 assessment.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

7. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

8. Discuss and distinguish between dribbling, passing, heading, and kicking in soccer.

9. Articulate various soccer rules of play.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 169 Volleyball (1 credit)

2. Assess appropriate exercise intensity.

3. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

5. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon assessment of anaerobic/aerobic capacity.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

7. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

8. Discuss and distinguish between setting, bumping, passing and serving in volleyball.

9. Articulate various volleyball rules of play.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 170 Introduction to Weight Training (1 credit)

2. Demonstrate safe and effective techniques using multiple modalities to improve muscular strength and endurance using both common and uncommon equipment.

3. Discuss all aspects of exercise safety, to include effective warm up and cool down, safe spotting techniques, and recognition of signs and symptoms of overtraining.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 190 Independent Fitness Activities (1 credit)

2. Assess the health related components of fitness.

3. Assess the skill related components of fitness.

4. Understand the process of developing goals.

5. Demonstrate competency to plan, implement, self-assess, and modify a personal exercise prescription based on the Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type, Volume and Progression (FITT-VP) principles of exercise prescription.

6. Demonstrate responsibility by engaging in physical fitness related activities safely and independently.

7. Demonstrate practice of health-enhancing behaviors that promote wellness throughout a lifetime by adhering to an exercise program.

8. Evaluate progress by self-monitoring the health related and skill related components of fitness.

9. Demonstrate self-adherence to an independent exercise program.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 191 Independent Fitness Activities (1 credit)

2. Assess the health related components of fitness.

3. Assess the skill related components of fitness.

4. Understand the process of developing goals.

5. Demonstrate competency to plan, implement, self-assess, and modify a personal exercise prescription based on the Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type, Volume, and Progression (FITT-VP) principles of exercise prescription.

6. Demonstrate responsibility by engaging in physical fitness related activities safely and independently.

7. Evaluate progress by self-monitoring the health related and skill related components of fitness.

8. Demonstrate further self-adherence to an independent exercise program.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 192 Independent Fitness Activities (1 credit)

2. Assess and evaluate progress in the components of fitness.

3. Adherence to a self-paced independent exercise program.

4. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

5. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance.

6. Articulate appropriate exercise intensity.

7. Summarize the strategies utilized to enhance adherence to a self-paced independent exercise program.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 225 Intermediate Lifestyle Fitness (1 credit)

2. Articulate the benefits of a regular fitness program.

3. Discuss how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

4. Describe how to safely monitor exercise intensity.

5. Design and implement a personal fitness program that addresses all five components of fitness in terms of intensity, duration and frequency.

6. Evaluate personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon aerobic capacity assessment.

7. Adherence to a self-paced independent exercise program.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 231 Intermediate Body Conditioning (1 credit)

PE 232 Intermediate Jogging-Walking (1 credit)

2. Articulate the benefits of jogging/walking

3. Demonstrate appropriate warm up and techniques to minimize the risk of injury.

4. Interpret the science of proper shoe selection.

5. Discuss the nutritional needs for exercise and energy balance.

6. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels or previous coursework.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 253 Advanced Salsa (1 credit)

2. Compare and contrast the different roles in partner dance.

3. Demonstrate and perform advanced combinations and advanced level steps in salsa.

4. Distinguish between and demonstrate outside turns and the cross-body lead.

5. Articulate the cardiovascular benefits of dance as a low to moderate form of physical activity.

6. Articulate the benefits of advanced salsa for self esteem, social confidence and improved motor skill.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 10
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10

PE 259 Intermediate Yoga (1 credit)

2. Demonstrate facilitation of friendliness, compassion and greater self-control, while cultivating a sense of calmness and well-being.

3. Articulate personal life perspective, and self-awareness to promote improved sense of energy and genuine enjoyment of life.

4. Demonstrate the practice of writing down your thoughts and feelings for the purposes of self-analysis, self-discovery, and self-reflection.

5. Demonstrate and perform breathing techniques, meditation practices and physical postures to experience the therapeutic effects of yoga.

6. Articulate the enhanced physical outcomes of yoga such as lowered heart rate, lowered blood pressure, improved flexibility and enhanced immunity.

7. Acknowledgment of individuality demonstrated by practice of physical poses, meditation, breathing, attentiveness to one’s sense of well-being by journaling.

8. Articulate the discipline and practice of yoga as a holistic model of health and healing by incorporating it in to a long term wellness plan.

9. Articulate the discipline and practice of yoga as a widespread therapy to help alleviate a range of health problems and ailments.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 268 Intermediate Indoor Soccer (1 credit)

2. Articulate appropriate exercise intensity.

3. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

5. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon MaxVO2 assessment.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

7. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

8. Discuss and distinguish between dribbling, passing, heading, and kicking in soccer.

9. Articulate various soccer rules of play.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 269 Intermediate Volleyball (1 credit)

2. Assess appropriate exercise intensity.

3. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

5. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon assessment of anaerobic/aerobic capacity.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

7. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

8. Discuss and distinguish between setting, bumping, passing and serving in volleyball.

9. Articulate various volleyball rules of play.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 270 Intermediate Weight Training (1 credit)

2. Demonstrate advanced weight-lifting techniques to improve muscular strength and endurance using both common and uncommon equipment when appropriate for skill level and safety.

3. Design a progressive resistance training program to adapt to the dose-response relationship of training, with attention to safety.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PE 271 Intermediate Soccer (1 credit)

2. Articulate appropriate exercise intensity.

3. Examine the benefits of a regular fitness program.

4. Analyze how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts energy balance and weight control.

5. Describe and diagram personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon MaxVO2 assessment.

6. Assess the cardiovascular benefits of physical activity specific to this course.

7. Evaluate the benefits of exercise in terms of self-esteem, social confidence and improved motor skills.

8. Discuss and distinguish between dribbling, passing, heading, and kicking in soccer.

9. Articulate various soccer rules of play.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will increase their awareness, knowledge and behavioral skills regarding the role of physical activity and exercise as a foundation for life-long health and wellness.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

PS 101 Introduction to Physical Science (5 credits)

2. Describe observable phenomena connected with temperature and heat, and explain how these observations are related to temperature and the laws of thermodynamics.

3. Explain the causes, limitations, and effects of light waves and sound waves in the environment, and relate the properties of these to the perception of sounds and light in the environment.

4. Analyze the properties of electricity and magnetism, and explain how these properties are connected to the theories and laws that describe them.

5. Describe and explain the current theories and implications of the topics in modern physics, such as atomic physics, quantum physics, nuclear physics, and relativity.

6. Describe the nature of the chemical bond and how this is reflected in the properties of elements and molecules.

7. Analyze and explain the structure of the periodic table and how this can be used to predict the properties of various groupings of elements, as well as chemical reactions between them.

8. Explain the processes that shaped our Earth. Describe the interactions of the water, land, and air environments on the Earth and how they affect life on our planet.

9. Describe the makeup of our solar system. Explain how physical laws determine this makeup, and demonstrate an understanding of the similarities and differences between orbiting bodies in our solar system.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PHYS& 110 Physics for Non-Science Majors (5 credits)

2. Identify and explain the properties of solids, liquids, and gasses.

3. Describe observable phenomena connected with temperature and heat, and explain how these observations are related to temperature and the laws of thermodynamics.

4. Explain the causes, limitations, and effects of vibrations and waves in the environment, and relate the properties of sound to the perception of sounds.

5. Analyze the properties of electricity and magnetism, and explain how these properties are connected to the theories and laws that describe them.

6. Observe and identify reflection, refraction, interference, and other properties of light.

7. Describe and explain various theories in modern physics.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PHYS& 114 General Physics I (5 credits)

2. Correctly relate each physical quantity of the symbol that represents it and the unit specific to the quantity, in order to effectively communicate.

3. Demonstrate appropriate skills/strategies to solve physical problems.

4. Interpret experiments using measurement tools and data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions about physical systems.

5. Demonstrate effectively working with peers in a collaborative setting to solve problems, conduct laboratory experiments, and/or produce reports.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PHYS& 115 General Physics II (5 credits)

2. Correctly relate each physical quantity of the symbol that represents it and the unit specific to the quantity, in order to effectively communicate.

3. Demonstrate appropriate skills/strategies to solve physical problems.

4. Interpret experiments using measurement tools and data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions about physical systems.

5. Demonstrate effectively working with peers in a collaborative setting to solve problems, conduct laboratory experiments, and/or produce reports.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PHYS& 116 General Physics III (5 credits)

2. Correctly relate each physical quantity of the symbol that represents it and the unit specific to the quantity, in order to effectively communicate.

3. Demonstrate appropriate skills/strategies to solve physical problems.

4. Interpret experiments using measurement tools and data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions about physical systems.

5. Demonstrate effectively working with peers in a collaborative setting to solve problems, conduct laboratory experiments, and/or produce reports.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

PHYS& 221 Engineering Physics I (6 credits)

2. Effectively communicate symbolic relationships by correctly relating each physical quantity of mechanics to the symbol that represents it and the unit specific to the quantity.

3. Demonstrate appropriate skills/strategies to solve physical problems related to mechanics.

4. Interpret experiments using measurement tools and data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions about physical systems.

5. Demonstrate effective collaboration skills to solve problems, conduct laboratory experiments, and produce reports.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 80

PHYS& 222 Engineering Physics II (6 credits)

2. Effectively communicate symbolic relationships by correctly relating each physical quantity of waves, physics of matter, thermodynamics, and modern physics to the symbol that represents it and the unit specific to the quantity.

3. Demonstrate appropriate skills/strategies to solve physical problems related to waves, physics of matter, thermodynamics, and modern physics.

4. Interpret experiments using measurement tools and data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions about physical systems.

5. Demonstrate effective collaboration skills to solve problems, conduct laboratory experiments, and produce reports.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 80

PHYS& 223 Engineering Physics III (6 credits)

2. Effectively communicate symbolic relationships by correctly relating each physical quantity of electricity and magnetism to the symbol that represents it and the unit specific to the quantity.

3. Demonstrate appropriate skills/strategies to solve physical problems related to electricity and magnetism.

4. Interpret experiments using measurement tools and data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions about physical systems.

5. Demonstrate effective collaboration skills to solve problems, conduct laboratory experiments, and produce reports.

Degree Outcomes
Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 80

PCADA 050 Washington State History and Government (ABE) (5 credits)

Minimum CASAS score of 221 Reading for ABE students

Course Description
This course meets Washington State’s requirement for Washington State History. This course is designed to develop your awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the history of the regions and development of the Pacific Northwest.

Course Content
A. History of the land, importance of location, climate, and natural regions
B. Origins and names, coastal and plateau Native cultures
C. Exploration by sea and land; international agreements
D. Traders and missionaries
E. Territorial disputes 
F. Displacement of Native nations and treaties
G. Boundaries, technological innovation, and growth
H. Immigration and exclusion
I. Statehood
J. Progressive Era
K. WWI and its effects on business and labor
L. 1920s, Depression, and WWII
M. Labor, the economy, and civil/human rights

Student Outcomes
1. Compare how the history of regional environment shapes how economies develop, people live, and culture develops in order to understand historical context.

2. Identify key ideals set forth in fundamental documents, including the Washington State Constitution and tribal treaties, and compare/contrast with historical actions taken in order to understand present cultural context.

3. Summarize the role and struggle of immigration in shaping communities in the past and present in order to develop empathy for marginalized populations.

4. Reflect on diverse viewpoints on public issues and the effects on communities in order to develop empathy for diverse communities.

5. Analyze how local issues affect national and global history in order to develop an understanding of political context.

6. Analyze how cultural and historical events are remembered and/or revised by diverse communities in order to develop a critical view of history.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 051 US History and Government (ABE) (5 credits)

Minimum CASAS Reading score of 221 for ABE students

Course Description
The course will provide students with a broad view of America’s history.

Course Content
A. Sub-periods in the history of the US including Industrialization, Progressivism, Great Depression & The New Deal, World War II & Japanese Internment, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War
B. Significant 20th Century economic, cultural, scientific, diplomatic, and technological developments

Student Outcomes
Synthesize historical information and significance from knowledge about everyday life, personal experiences/interest, cultural frameworks, and fundamental documents in order to understand how to generate understanding from multiple data points. Identify significant historical events, their chronology, and their impact on society, past and present in order to gain an understanding of the current political context.  Demonstrate how changes in foreign policy, military affairs, economic policy, and the actions of local communities leads to change in legislation and impacts on national and local communities in order to understand the relationship between different levels of government and communities. Analyze how diverse groups of people in the US in global context have historically lived, acted, and thought in order to develop empathy for historical people and situations. Reflect on understanding of historical context in order to develop empathy for the contemporary world and the diverse people who live in that world.  Evaluate both primary and secondary sources in order to critically understand points of view.

Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities: Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 053 Modern World History (ABE) (5 credits)

Unit Outline 2: Age of Revolutions (1750-1914) • Understands how themes and their developments help to define eras in world history • Analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped world history • Analyzes how cultures and cultural groups have shaped world history • Analyzes how the costs and benefits of economic choices have shaped events in the world in the past or present • Analyzes and evaluates how technology and ideas have shaped world history • Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation • Creates strategies to avoid plagiarism and respects intellectual property when developing a paper or presentation

Unit Outline 3: International Conflicts (1870-Present) • Understands how themes and their developments help to define eras in world history • Analyzes the multiple causal factors of conflicts in world history • Analyzes and interprets historical materials from a variety of perspectives in world history • Analyzes consequences of positions on an issue or event • Evaluates the precision of a position on an issue or event • Evaluates the impact of various forms of government on people in the past or present • Creates strategies to avoid plagiarism and respects intellectual property when developing a paper or presentation

Unit Outline 4: Emergence and Development of New Nations (1900-Present) • Understands how themes and their developments help to define eras in world history • Understands and analyzes how planned and market economies have shaped the production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources around the world in the past or present • Analyzes how and why countries have specialized in the production of particular goods and services in the past or present • Analyzes the costs and benefits of government trade policies from around the world in the past or present • Analyzes and evaluates how people across the world have addressed issues involved with the distribution of resources and sustainability in the past or present • Creates and uses research questions that are tied to an essential question to focus inquiry on an idea, issue, or event • Evaluates the validity, reliability, and credibility of sources when researching an issue or event • Evaluates one’s own viewpoint and the viewpoints of others in the context of a discussion Unit Outline 5: • Understands how themes and their developments help to define eras in world history • Analyzes and evaluates human interaction with the environment across the world in the past or present • Understands and analyzes examples of ethnocentrism • Analyzes how an understanding of world history can help us prevent problems today READING STRAND of College and Career Readiness Standards • Application: cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. • Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them. • Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts. • Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text. • Application: compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources. WRITING STRAND of College and Career Readiness Standards • Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. • Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. • Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences. • Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. • Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. • Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. • Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. • Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. • Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will be able to question, search for answers and meaning, and develop ideas that lead to action. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 054 Contemporary World Issues (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Analyze how the lack or removal of human rights in the past has led to oppression and/or suffering in order to develop empathy and global citizenship.

3. Analyze major patterns in human expression, subsistence, social organization, and belief systems in order to develop empathy for diverse communities and engage with them socially.

4. Apply the understanding of how geographic context shapes global issues in order to develop the ability to make informed decisions about global events.

5. Analyze global events using charts, graphs, maps, political cartoons, and primary and secondary sources in order to put contemporary world issues into context.

6. Analyze how traditional media and emergent media/technology (social media, twitter bots, etc) influence beliefs and frame global events in order to engage in global citizenship.

Degree Outcomes
Intercultural Engagement Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions. Global Citizenship Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 057 United States Civics (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Describe how the government established by the United States Constitution embodies the purposes, values, and principles of American democracy.

3. Explain how state and local government is established by the Washington State Constitution.

4. Summarize active roles as a citizen at the local, state, and national levels of government.

5. Explain how the political and legal systems provide a means to balance competing interests and resolve conflicts.

6. Explain why laws are needed and how they are enacted, implemented, and enforced at the national, state, and local levels.

7. Identify how and why individuals and groups make economic, political, and social choices.

8. Analyze features of the economic, political, and social system of the United States in order to recognize patterns between and among the three systems.

9. Analyze factors influencing the United States economy, policy, and social structures in order to interpret current events between and among the three systems.

10. Debate issues regarding the personal responsibilities of citizens in the American constitutional democracy.

Degree Outcomes
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. INFORMATION COMPETENCY Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate, and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. MULTICULTURALISM Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 061 Biology with Lab (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Identify the characteristics of life in different organisms and situations.

3. Explore how structure/function relationships determine the hierarchical organization of different interacting systems.

4. Describe the structure and function of atoms, isotopes, ions and molecules; define the monomer and arrangements into polymers of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, ATP, and describe their roles in biological chemistry.

5. Identify cell organelles and describe their functions.

6. Examine the role of the plasma membrane in facilitating movement of materials into and out of the cell through different modes of transport.

7. Predict particle movement under different environmental circumstances and plan an investigation to test these hypotheses.

8. Define energy and discuss the importance of ATP as a driver of all cellular processes.

9. Construct a model that explains how the molecular processes of cellular respiration fuel life through the generation and recycling of energy and biomolecules. a. HS-LS1-7. Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy. b. HS-LS2-3. Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for the cycling of matter and flow of energy in aerobic and anaerobic conditions. c. HS-LS1-6. Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.

10. Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy. (HS-LS1-5) a. HS-LS2-5. Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. b. HS-LS2-4. Use mathematical representations to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem.

11. Utilize appropriate terminology to compare and contrast the processes of somatic and germ cell division and evaluate their respective roles in the life of an organism. a. HS-LS1-4. Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms.

12. Apply concepts and evidence of Mendelian genetics within the context of meiotic cell division to explain the development of genetic variations. a. HS-LS3-2. Make and defend a claim based on evidence that inheritable genetic variations may result from: (1) new genetic combinations through meiosis, (2) viable errors occurring during replication, and/or (3) mutations caused by environmental factors. Emphasis is on using data to support arguments for the way variation occurs. b. HS-LS3-3. Apply concepts of statistics and probability to explain the variation and distribution of expressed traits in a population.

13. Give an overview of the process and outcomes of DNA replication, transcription and translation. a. HS-LS1-1. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins which carry out the essential functions of life through systems of specialized cells. b. HS-LS3-1. Ask questions to clarify relationships about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring.

14. Evaluate scientific evidence indicative of natural selection, adaptation, micro- and macro-evolution. a. HS-LS4-5. Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in: (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species. b. HS-LS4-1. Communicate scientific information that common ancestry and biological evolution are supported by multiple lines of empirical evidence. c. HS-LS4-3. Apply concepts of statistics and probability to support explanations that organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to increase in proportion to organisms lacking this trait. d. HS-LS3-3. Apply concepts of statistics and probability to explain the variation and distribution of expressed traits in a population.

15. Propose and support explanations for species divergence and population evolution using specific case study examples. a. HS-LS4-4. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations. b. HS-LS4-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence that the process of evolution primarily results from four factors: (1) the potential for a species to increase in number, (2) the heritable genetic variation of individuals in a species due to mutation and sexual reproduction, (3) competition for limited resources, and (4) the proliferation of those organisms that are better able to survive and reproduce in the environment.

16. Evaluate the applications and bioethical concerns of biotechnology.

17. Navigate published data to interpret evidence that supports a particular conclusion.

18. Plan an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate, and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world. Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning: Graduates utilize logical and graphical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 062 Environmental Science (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Discuss the impact that philosophy, religion, art, media, tradition, and popular culture have had on people’s thinking about the environment.

3. Summarize the roles of the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere within the environment and relate each to the biosphere. a. HS-ESS2-6. Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. b. HS-ESS3-6. Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity. c. HS-ESS2-7. Construct an argument based on evidence about the simultaneous coevolution of Earth’s systems and life on Earth.

4. Investigate inter- and intra-species relationships through data analysis, categorization of trophic levels, and construction of food webs. Relate these behaviors to species survival and ecosystem maintenance. a. HS-LS2-1. Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales. b. HS-LS2-6. Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem. c. HS-LS2-8. Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.

5. Discuss the value of wilderness and biodiversity and threats to these systems, including pollution, invasive species, and human encroachment. a. HS-LS4-5: Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in: (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species. b. HS-LS2-2. Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales. c. HS-ESS3-3. Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among the management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.

6. Diagram the hydrological cycle and the movement of water and energy within it.

7. Evaluate how changes in the hydrological cycle affects other surface processes. a. HS-ESS2-5. Plan and conduct an investigation of the properties of water and its effects on Earth materials and surface processes. b. HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.

8. Examine local water quality through citizen-science and service-learning projects. a. Students will articulate ways in which individual and community action can play a role in creating sustainable systems.

9. Explain the bio-geo-chemical cycles and summarize the flow of energy in an ecosystem as it relates to carbon and air quality. a. HS-ESS2-6. Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. b. HS-ESS2-4. Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate. c. HS-LS2-4. Use mathematical representations to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem. d. HS-LS2-5. Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.

10. Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth’s systems (HS-ESS3-5) a. HS-ESS3-1. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.

11. Explain the forces that shape local land use and the role human practices, such as agricultural methods and soil management, play in the global environment.

12. Compare and contrast the differences between renewable and non-renewable energy sources and evaluate their relative contributions to climate change. a. HS-ESS3-2. Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.

13. Relate environmental, social, political, and economic factors to the concept of sustainability. a. HS-ESS3-3. Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among the management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.

14. Evaluate the political processes required to attempt the solution of environmental degradation issues at the local, national, and international level.

15. Assess the use of multidisciplinary solutions to alleviate or modify human impacts on the environment. a. HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity. b. HS-LS4-6. Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity. c. HS-ESS3-4. Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems

16. Debate a variety of environmental issues from both “pro” and “con” viewpoints.

17. Describe the distribution, growth, and dynamics of the world human population and analyze the impact of the human population on the environment. a. HS-ESS3-3. Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among the management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.

18. Analyze the major contemporary environmental issues in the Western U.S. (local water issues, land use concerns, and conservation concerns)

19. Communicate environmental data to an audience through reports or presentations.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems. Natural Science: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world. Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning: Graduates utilize logical and graphical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world and human society.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 066 Introductory Physics with Lab (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Utilize deductive reasoning skills/strategies to work through word problems to identify a solution.

3. Associate specific units with their related physical quantity.

4. Use appropriate units when answering application problems.

5. Determine the displacement, velocity, time, and acceleration of an object with constant and varying acceleration in one-dimensional motion.

6. Investigate motion in terms of the forces that cause through experimentation and by applying Newton’s Laws of Motion. a. HS-PS2-1. Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.

7. Analyze conservative and non-conservative forces using theories of work, mechanical energy, and the energy conservation principle, analyze conservative and non-conservative forces. a. HS-PS3-1. Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known. b. HS-PS3-2. Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative position of particles (objects). c. HS-PS3-3. Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.

8. Investigate the relationship between momentum and impulse, and use the principle of conservation of linear momentum to analyze elastic and inelastic collisions. a. HS-PS2-2. Use mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system. b. HS-PS2-3. Apply scientific and engineering ideas to design, evaluate, and refine a device that minimizes the force on a macroscopic object during a collision. c. HS-PS2-4. Use mathematical representations of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Coulomb’s Law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.

9. Apply various modern and cultural concepts of mechanics to the motion of celestial objects: and to the motion of objects on Earth. a. HS-ESS1-4. Use mathematical or computational representations to predict the motion of orbiting objects in the solar system.

10. Analyze the properties of electricity and magnetism and explain how these properties are connected to the theories and laws that describe them. a. HS-PS2-5. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that an electric current can produce a magnetic field and that a changing magnetic field can produce an electric current. b. HS-PS3-5. Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction. c. HS-PS4-3. Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea that electromagnetic radiation can be described either by a wave model or a particle model, and that for some situations one model is more useful than the other.

11. Explain the difference between temperature, heat, and internal energy and apply the principles to observable phenomena.

12. Apply the laws of thermodynamics to demonstrate transfer of thermal energy within a closed system. a. HS-PS3-4. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics).

13. Describe the characteristics of waves and explain how they can be applied to the properties and behaviors associated with light and sound. a. HS-PS4-1. Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.

14. Apply concepts of vibrations and waves to technological innovations. a. HS-PS4-5. Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.* b. HS-PS4-2. Evaluate questions about the advantages of using a digital transmission and storage of information.

15. Evaluate published data to investigate claims related to energy absorption by matter. a. HS-PS4-4. Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world. Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning: Graduates utilize logical and graphical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 068 Earth Chemistry with Lab (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Utilize appropriate units when making measurements.

3. Understand the components of the scientific method.

4. Recognize and use chemical symbols for elements and compounds.

5. Describe the basic structure of atoms and ions and relate them to their location on the Periodic Table, their charge, and the number of fundamental particles.

6. Relate physical and chemical properties of matter to the Periodic Table, including metals, non-metals, metalloids, group names, ionic charge, and valence electrons. a. HS-PS1-1. Use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms.

7. Demonstrate an understanding of the basics of chemical bonding, describing how and why atoms come together to make molecules. a. HS-PS1-2. Construct and revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, trends in the periodic table, and knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties.

8. Relate energy changes to changes on a molecular level that affect reaction rates and chemical equilibrium. a. HS-PS1-4. Develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy. b. HS-PS1-5. Apply scientific principles and evidence to provide an explanation about the effects of changing the temperature or concentration of the reacting particles on the rate at which a reaction occurs. c. HS-PS1-6. Refine the design of a chemical system by specifying a change in conditions that would produce increased amounts of products at equilibrium.

9. Describe physical phenomena on a molecular level. a. HS-PS1-3. Plan and conduct an investigation to gather evidence to compare the structure of substances at the bulk scale to infer the strength of electrical forces between particles.
10. Balance simple chemical equations to demonstrate the law of conservation of matter. a. HS-PS1-7. Use mathematical representations to support the claim that atoms, and therefore mass, are conserved during a chemical reaction.

11. Apply chemical knowledge to explain the formation of the universe, solar system, planets, moons, asteroids, and comets and justify using supporting evidence. a. HS-PS1-8. Develop models to illustrate the changes in the composition of the nucleus of the atom and the energy released during the processes of fission, fusion, and radioactive decay. b. HS-ESS1-2. Construct an explanation of the Big Bang theory based on astronomical evidence of light spectra, motion of distant galaxies, and composition of matter in the universe. c. HS-ESS1-1. Develop a model based on evidence to illustrate the life span of the sun and the role of nuclear fusion in the sun’s core to release energy that eventually reaches Earth in the form of radiation. d. HS-ESS1-3. Communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.

12. Explain how the earth has changed through geologic history and the chemical evidence that supports these changes. a. HS-ESS1-6. Apply scientific reasoning and evidence from ancient Earth materials, meteorites, and other planetary surfaces to construct an account of Earth’s formation and early history. b. HS-ESS2-3. Develop a model based on evidence of Earth’s interior to describe the cycling of matter by thermal convection.

13. Evaluate evidence to explain the ages of crustal rocks (HS-ESS1-5). a. Radioactive d

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of contributions to Earth’s chemistry. Natural Sciences: Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world. Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning: Graduates utilize logical and graphical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 071 Basic Mathematics (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Use mathematical equivalences across different types of numerical expression (fractions, decimals, etc) to solve problems.  

3. Demonstrate basic math fact fluency in order to develop the ability to put math problems and solutions into context.  

4. Apply the concept of mathematical units in support of solving problems and communicating solutions in order to develop problem-solving capabilities.  

5. Estimate the solution to problems in order to provide redundant systems of calculation and error detection.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 072 Beginning Algebra (ABE) (5 credits)

2. Interpret the meaning of mathematical expressions and solutions in order to develop problem-solving capability.

3. Simplify, evaluate, and transform basic algebraic expressions and equations in order to develop problem-solving capability.

4. Estimate and solve a variety of arithmetic and geometric application problems and one-variable linear equations in order to apply mathematical solutions to problems. 

5. Analyze word expressions and translate them into algebraic expressions in order to develop the ability to translate real-world problems into mathematically solvable form. 

6. Interpret and present data through a variety of means (e.g. creating graphs, visualizations, tables), in order to develop the ability to analyze data.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 080 English for Washington State History (5 credits)

PCADA 081 Reading/Writing/Communication for Biology (ABE) (5 credits)

PCADA 082 Reading/Writing/Communication for Environmental Science (ABE) (5 credits)

PCADA 083 Reading/Writing/Communication for Modern World History (ABE) (5 credits)

PCADA 084 English for US History and Government (5 credits)

CASAS minimum score for Reading of 221 for ABE

 

Course Description
This course will help you develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills at the high school level. You will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills through reflective essays.

Course Content
Historical readings/materials
Opposing opinion resources
Essays and short stories
Reading strategies and routines
Proper citation style and format; differentiating between paraphrasing, citing and plagiarism
Writing Standards regarding word choice, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and organization

Student Outcomes
Apply critical thinking skills, support analysis, and reflect upon events by developing arguments and ideas through writing. Cite evidence using disciplinary standards to represent different points of view and support claims. Integrate primary and secondary sources to support claims and conclusions. Apply the writing process by producing effective and rhetorically appropriate documents in order to meet communicative goals and situational context (formality, subject position, etc.). Use computer software for academic purposes in order to compose and communicate effectively. Evaluate the credibility of materials in order to develop information competency. Determine the meaning and impact of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative and connotative meanings.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Students will use scientific methods to explore the natural world.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 085 English for Current World Issues (5 credits)

2. Cite evidence using disciplinary standards to represent different points of view and support claims.

3. Integrate primary and secondary sources to support claims and conclusions.

4. Apply the writing process by producing effective and rhetorically appropriate documents in order to meet communicative goals and situational context (formality, subject position, etc.).

5. Use computer software for academic purposes in order to compose and communicate effectively.

6. Evaluate the credibility of materials in order to develop information competency.

7. Determine the meaning and impact of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative and connotative meanings.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Students will use scientific methods to explore the natural world.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

PCADA 086 Reading/Writing/Communication for Intro to Physics with Lab (ABE) (5 credits)