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Management/ Management and Supervision
MGT
101
3:3:0
Fundamentals of Supervision
Course examines techniques involved in supervising people and the responsibilities of a supervisor. Content includes analysis of methods to increase employee output and decrease costs; motivation, training, communications, discipline, grievances, safety and employee appraisal.
MGT
105
3:3:0
Understanding and Applying Business Skills
Course provides a basic understanding of business and the skills employers want most regardless of specific academic background. Content includes the basics of personal development planning, supervision and teamwork, quality, bookkeeping, sales and marketing, customer service, and planning and goal-setting. Focus is on developing basic knowledge and skills that would be expected of a new employee.
MGT 106 3:3:0
Time and Stress Management
MGT
117 3:3:0
Human Relations in the Workplace
Course increases awareness of the “people” skills essential for career success. Content includes challenges of diversity in understanding conditions which produce differences; valuing diversity; diversity, discrimination and biases in the workplace; intercultural relations; positive self- and professional image; ethics, human relations skills, personal appearance; and social and business etiquette.
MGT
118
3:3:0
Effective Management Communications
Course integrates concepts and research from several disciplines including business communication and organizational behavior. Content includes examination of methods protocol and appropriateness of various forms of communication for business decision making; strategies and styles of managerial communication; writing for managerial communications; oral presentations; interviewing, group dynamics and meetings; networking, teleconferencing, email, and other methods of modern business communications. Individual and team writing and delivery of oral presentations. Recommended: EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101.
MGT
121
3:3:0
Principles of Management
Course covers scope of management philosophy. Content includes principles of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in modern business.
MGT 126 3:3:0
Introduction to Green Business
Course is an overview of how the green movement is impacting the marketplace and how businesses, nonprofits and government agencies can profitably adapt to the trend. The course will explore the current challenges and opportunities associated with greening existing operations; developing new products and services for the green market; initiating green purchasing; maintenance and building programs; and gaining a competitive advantage by demonstrating social and environmental responsibility.
MGT 127 3:3:0
Green Policy, Law, and Government Regulations
Course presents evolving "green" legal and regulatory issues. Topics include: the role of the law and regulation in "green" industries and the emerging impact on business, the public sector and society. The course will be of interest to anyone involved in business management and marketing, public administration, building design construction and maintenance, education, healthcare, real estate, and many other industries impacted by evolving environmental requirements.
MGT
130
3:3:0
Purchasing Management
Course provides a general background of fundamental purchasing concepts. Content includes specific studies for those in business and industry, who wish to expand their knowledge of purchasing management, such as price cost and value analysis; purchasing research; forward buying; purchasing systems; legal aspects of purchasing; make or buy decisions; and electronic data processing as it relates to the purchasing function.
MGT
140
3:3:0
Supervisory Development
Course builds on the principles of supervision. Content focus is on training and development for current supervisors or those whose intention is to be supervisors. Recommended: MGT 101.
MGT
155
3:3:0
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Course integrates the concepts, principles, problems and practices of operations management and supply chain management. Content includes: supply chain and operations strategies, quality control, process choice and layout, managing capacity, forecasting, source decisions and purchasing, logistics, project management, just in time/lean production, global channel management, and managing inventory throughout the supply chain.
MGT
156
3:3:0
Introduction to Transportation, Warehousing and
Logistics
Course covers business logistics concepts including the management of transportation, inventory, packaging, warehousing, materials handling, order processing, facility location, and customer service.
MGT
160
3:3:0
Small Business Management
Course presents the principles and problems of organizing a small business. Content includes analysis of entrepreneurial qualifications and skills; capital resources and requirements; forms of ownership; and financial analysis and planning. Focus is on tax and legal considerations; staffing and learning to identify profit opportunities using market analysis; bringing products to market through effective advertising, personal selling and distribution methods and practices. Includes franchises, availability of government assistance through the Small Business Administration (SBA), evaluation of an existing business for purchase and special opportunities granted to small businesses in selling to government agencies.
MGT
165
3:3:0
Human Resources Management
Course covers essentials of human resources management principle sand practices in business and industry. Content includes reengineering; employee benefits; pension funds; selection; testing, placement, orientation, employee evaluation; wage determination; counseling, employer relations (morale and motivation), promotion, transfer, training, state and federal legislation (disabled and handicapped, ADA), discrimination, and harassment. Recommended: MGT 121 or employment in the human resources field.
MGT
170
3:3:0
Training and Development
Course introduces the field of training and development. Content includes identification of skills necessary to design and implement a training program; roles and responsibilities of trainers, and unique characteristics of adult learners. Current trends and career opportunities addressed. Intended for those who have responsibility for training or human resources development within their organization, or for those exploring training as a career. Recommended: MGT 165.
MGT
205
3:3:0
Organizational Behavior
Course develops skills and competencies needed by managers and professionals to effectively contribute to an organization. Content focus is on individual behavior in an organization; impact of work teams within an organization; and organizational systems. Recommended: MGT 117.
MGT
210
3:3:0
Business Etiquette
Course
presents the fundamentals of business etiquette as they are applied
to the modern multicultural and global business environments.
Content includes the importance of the first impression, polite
conversation, personal appearance, office politics, diplomacy,
telephone and cell phone etiquette, proper oral and written
communication, and the protocol of meetings both in the United
States and abroad. Students will participate in an off-campus
formal dining experience.
Fee $99
MGT 220 3:3:0
Managing Effective Teams
Couse presents theory and practical tools to become a more productive team member and leader; topics include characteristics of high performing teams, leadership strategies, avoiding dysfunctional team dynamics, and managing diverse and virtual teams. Recommended: MGT 205.
MGT
222
3:3:0
Conflict Management
Course introduces a range of potential positive conflict management processes. Content includes active listening and communication skills; principle negotiation; various forms of mediation, arbitration and nonviolent action. Recommended: MGT 117.
MGT
223
3:3:0
Quality Systems Leadership
Course provides knowledge and skills to successfully implement quality management systems within an organization. Content includes development of the quality revolution; various quality program implementation strategies; current quality systems such as the Baldridge Criteria and ISO system. Focus is on understanding both human and analytical aspects of quality.
MGT
225
3:3:0
Effective Organizational Leadership
Course explores how effective leadership skills contribute to organizational effectiveness, employee motivation and success, and personal growth and development. Content includes current leadership models, with focus on identifying and developing workplace leadership skills; development of action plan to illustrate and improve leadership skills.
MGT
228
3:3:0
Organizational Change Leadership
Course examines technical and behavioral aspects of change processes within an organization so that change strategies can be planned, implemented and evaluated. Content includes the relationship between strategy and organizational structure; organizational restructuring and its outcomes; leadership skills and behaviors associated with successful change; creating a transition environment; developing measures for evaluating the success of change effort; dealing with resistance to change, and institutionalizing change.
MGT
231
3:3:0
Safety and Risk Management
Course examines concepts of safety management. Content includes strategies to create and perpetuate safe and productive environments for all stakeholders; effects of sound decision making to diminish and control corporate and individual liability.
MGT
232
3:3:0
Managing Diversity in the Workplace
Course examines issues related to managing and being a member of a diverse workforce. Content includes diversity-related issues with management implications, such as social identity; recruitment and selection; work groups and team interaction; sexual harassment; workplace romance; leadership, work and family; accommodation of people with disabilities; and organizational strategies for promoting multicultural equal opportunity.
MGT 236
(formerly MGT
226)
3:3:1
Project Management
Course introduces principles of Project Management as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Content includes experiential exercises and team participation to gain experience with computer-based project management procedures, and to increase basic familiarity with state-of-the-art project management software. Credit cannot be received in both MGT 236 and CIS 236. Fee $10
MGT
251
3:1:15
Practicum
Course offers opportunity to earn credits in a directed work experience. Content includes required attendance at Management Seminars with other management interns to discuss and share on-the-job learning experiences, such as job problems and management case problems; seminars involve guest lecturers speaking on topics of special interest to management personnel. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of 12 hours of MGT courses.
MGT
266
3:3:0
Employee Selection and Staffing
Course covers fundamental principles and practices of staffing. Content focus is on interdependence of effective organizational performance with proper hiring and assessment of personnel; personnel staffing; recruiting, and selection function involved in human resource management. Recommended: MGT 165.
MGT
267
3:3:0
Compensation and Benefits Administration
Course examines scope of benefits administration. Content includes advanced theories, concepts, issues, techniques; procedures and processes in the management of organizational compensation and benefit system; knowledge of practices and functions of a compensation and benefits coordinator. Recommended: MGT 165.
MGT
268
3:3:0
Human Resource Management Law
Course investigates federal and state legislative, judicial and administrative regulations of the employer/employee relationship in the private sector. Content includes equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, wage-hour law, labor law, employee pension benefits, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation Recommended: MGT 165.
MGT
271
3:3:0
Cases in Human Resource Management
Course involves real-life human resource management situations. Content developed through case study approach, examining how a variety of companies have dealt with various human resource issues. Recommended: MGT 165.
MGT
280
3:3:0
Human Resources Certification Exam Preparation
Course deals with the theories and concepts necessary to be successful on the PHR and SPHR exam. Content covers industry theory, practical application and test taking experiences. Recommended: Two years of human resources experience.
MGT
285
3:3:0
Negotiations
Course involves real-life management and personal negotiation situations. Content includes the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings including preparing, measuring, conducting and debriefing individual and group negotiations. Recommended: MGT 117.
MGT
288
3:3:0
Strategic Management
Course is an integrative learning experience in strategic management focusing on concepts and their application to a variety of business functions. Content covers identifying problems, analyzing solutions, decision-making, and formulating a workable plan. Course is designed as a capstone for the management curriculum. Prerequisite: Twelve hours of MGT courses or consent of instructor.
MGT
290
1-4:0-4:0-4
Topics in Management
Course meets special interest needs of Management students and local business organizations. Special topics will be offered for variable credit from one to four semester credit hours. Students may repeat MGT 290 up to three times on different topics for a maximum of nine semester credit hours. Prerequisite may vary by topic. Fee varies
(Also see Applied Business)
MKT 115 3:3:0
Creativity in Business
Course explores the nature and role of creativity in organizations using theories and methods of creaive thinking linking creativity and innovation. Topics include techniques, simulations, and case studies to develop the creative process. Students will design a "tool box" with which creativity can be managed to promote innovation and enhance organizational effectiveness, along with individual creativity.
MKT
131 3:3:0
Principles of Marketing
Course studies full meaning of the marketing concept. Content includes discovering consumer needs and wants; translating needs and wants into products and services; creating demand for these products and services and then expanding this demand; developing and analyzing marketing plans.
MKT
132
3:3:0
Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
Course concentrates on practical knowledge to assist in development of strategic planning. Content includes fund raising, finding suitable donors, attracting volunteers; developing a market and promotional plan. Content includes mini workshops to improve public relations skills; direct marketing, advertising, evaluating fund raising opportunities and grant writing. Intended for volunteers and executives involved in a nonprofit organization.
MKT
134
3:3:0
Fundraising and Grant Writing
Course offers in-depth exposure to the funding skills for the nonprofit organization. Content includes how nonprofits secure financial resources to further their missions from individuals, foundations and government sources; how managers and development professionals of nonprofits generate funding through grant writing, annual giving programs, major gift cultivation, planned giving programs, and special events and benefits. Recommended: MKT 132 and either EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101, or consent of instructor.
MKT
150
3:3:0
Sports Marketing
Course examines successful business tie-in with a sports event. Content includes the requisite planning, implementing and managing skills. Student development of a strategic marketing plan for a sports event or introduction of some other sports-related product to the marketplace. Recommended: MKT 131.
MKT
151
3:3:0
Customer Service and Satisfaction
Course focuses on the skills and strategies that lead to successful implementation of customer service. Content includes student designed comprehensive customer service program; applying customer satisfaction research to measure program’s effectiveness.
MKT
161
3:3:0
Principles of Professional Selling
Course deals with the actual process of selling a product. Content includes principles and techniques used in prospecting, approaching, demonstrating, meeting objection and closing a sale; attitudes and attributes which successful sales personnel develop. Sales presentations given by students.
MKT
165
3:3:0
e-Business
Course studies various aspects of e-Business. Content includes decisions such as product selection, distribution, pricing, shipping, warranty, insurance, legal issues, privacy and infrastructure of doing business on line. Students develop business plan for e-Commerce operation.
MKT
211
3:3:0
Management of the Sales Force
This course presents contemporary methods of recruiting, selecting and training a sales force; establishment of sales quotas and sales territories; development and implementation of sales programs; management and supervision of the sales force; and the role of the sales force as an effective marketing tool. Recommended: MKT 131 and MKT 161 or appropriate sales experience or consent of instructor.
MKT
213
3:3:0
Retailing
Course provides overview of supporting elements of successful of a retail business. Content includes the five components of merchandising: planning, product, placement, price and promotion; as well as examination of existing retail institutions to understand the concepts behind effective strategic retail planning, location analysis, product selection and presentation; and customer communication techniques (selling, display, advertising, and promotion).
MKT
215
3:3:0
Introduction to Advertising
Course introduces the role of advertising. Content includes integrated marketing communications, consumer behavior, creative strategies, and types of media. Practical applications integrated into course. Recommended: MKT 131.
MKT
225
3:3:0
Business Marketing
Course studies distinctive characteristics, policies and problems of marketing business-to-business environment. Content includes buying behavior; the promotion and selling of an industrial product; managing new and existing product line; ethics; and the impact of new technology such as e-commerce. Students required to develop a marketing plan for a business to business product. Recommended: MKT 131.
MKT
230
3:3:0
Consumer Behavior
Course reviews and analyzes areas of consumer and organizational buying behavior that guide marketing management decisions. Content focus is on recognizing and applying consumer behavior theories to marketing strategies in a diverse marketplace.
MKT
236
3:3:0
Marketing Research
Course examines theory and skills necessary to design and analyze a market research project. Content focus is on practical uses of marketing research rather than heavy statistical analysis; interviewing and questionnaire design; data analysis; product and concept testing; protesting and tracking advertising. Students involved in actual marketing research project.
MKT
239
3:3:0
Direct Response Marketing
Course focuses on the overall strategic development. Content includes determining communication channels; message formation and production in direct response marketing; creating direct response marketing packages, formats, copy strategies and layout. Students required to plan and create a direct response marketing campaign. Recommended: MKT 131.
MKT
240
3:3:0
Introduction to Public Relations
Course introduces principles of public relations. Content includes practices, theories, ethics, issues, and problems, as well as integration of practical applications.
MKT
243
3:3:0
Managing Publications
Course provides opportunity to apply PR and marketing principals to a hands-on experience producing an entertaining and informative public relations publication. Content includes managing basic concepts related to layout, graphics, photography, production, printing and distribution of publications. Recommended: MKT 240 or knowledge of publications software or consent of instructor.
MKT
244
3:3:0
Advanced Public Relations and Special Events
Course presents advanced perspectives of Public Relations. Content includes applying techniques learned in Public Relations I; combining marketing fundamentals with PR principles to acquire sponsorship, organize and promote a special event, use the Internet, and handle crisis communication. Focus is on the expanded role of today’s PR professional, including various components of integrated marketing. Recommended: MKT 240.
MKT
247
3:3:0
Cases in Public Relations Management
Course involves case study approach to understanding public relations management. Content includes examining how a variety of companies have dealt with public relations issues. Recommended: MKT 240 and MKT 244.
MKT
248
3:3:0
Marketing Management
Course involves case study and problem solving approach to making marketing decisions. Content focuses on all elements in the development of marketing strategy: marketing development; product planning; marketing channels; pricing, advertising, and promotion. Recommended: MKT 131 or consent of instructor.
MKT
249
3:3:0
Customer Relationship Management
Course examines customer relationship management (CRM) Content includes the customer driven, market-based practices that enable a business to attract, satisfy and retain customers profitably. Focus is on developing programs that cultivate customer relationships, and brand and product loyalty. Recommended: MKT 131.
MKT
251
3:1:15
Marketing Practicum
(offered spring semester only)
Course offers opportunity to earn credit in directed work experience within an approved business or industrial firm. Arrangements and credit given worked out in conjunction with the Marketing Management Coordinator. Prerequisite: Completion of 12 hours of MKT courses with minimum grade of C in all MKT courses and consent of department chair.
MKT
253
3:3:0
Crisis and Issue Management
Course introduces crisis management from a public relations perspective. Content includes examination of the types of crises encountered; potential impact on the organization and its stakeholders; and strategies for prevention, management and recovery. Recommended: MKT 240.
MKT 260 3:3:0
Advanced Events Planning
Course focuses on the skills necessary to design, implement, and manage spectacular special events, either as stand-alone or within the context of other meetings. Topics include the planning and marketing of special events from concept to conclusion, including catering and menu design, selecting distinctive venues and entertainment (e.g., celebrities and nationally recognized speakers such as former political leaders), and working with outside vendors to incorporate sound and special effects (lasers, pyrotechnics, etc.). Recommended: MKT 244.
MKT
261
3:3:0
Advanced Professional Selling
Course concentrates on fine tuning existing selling skills. Content includes current selling strategies developed by today’s top sales trainers such as Zig Zigler and Tom Hopkins and others; extensive use of videotaping. Recommended: MKT 161 or equivalent experience in selling or consent of instructor.
MKT 262 3:3:0
Meeting and Convention Planning
Course provides the basic tools to successfully plan and manage local, national, and international meetings and conferences. Course information assists the student in understanding the basic competencies tested in the ISES Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP) and Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) examinations.
MKT
265
3:3:0
Internet Marketing
Course focuses on necessary Internet marketing strategies. Content includes understanding how media requires different types of strategies to reach and communicate with its customers; examining successful web sites to find out what works; maintaining and keeping web site interesting while accomplish marketing objectives. Recommended: MKT 131 or MKT 165 or WWW 131.
MKT
266
3:3:0
New Media and Technology in Marketing
Course
examines progress, potential and impact of the Internet, World Wide
Web, and other forms of computing and telecommunications technology
for online marketing of goods and service across a wide range of
product categories. Content includes investigation of the Internet
as a business tool to increase effectiveness, efficiency,
competitiveness, and to create new business models. Students
research current methods of online marketing, and then develop a
site with marketing and maintenance plan for further development of
business models and segments. Recommended: MKT 265 or
consent of instructor.
Fee $15
MKT
270
3:3:0
Integrated Marketing Communications
Course studies effects of advertising on the consumer. Content includes advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing and public relations. Students use flow of communication to develop an integrated marketing program. Recommended: MKT 131 and MKT 215.
MKT
271
3:3:0
Brand Marketing
Course emphasizes importance of brand identity in the integrated marketing communications strategy. Content includes how to build a “value-added” brand in today’s competitive market place; use of name, logo and corporate identity to create and market brand equity for a company. Students develop a brand building advertising plan incorporating traditional and new digital technologies. Recommended: MKT 131.
MKT
290
1-4:0-4:0-4
Special Topics in Marketing
Course meets special interest needs of marketing student sand local business organizations. Special topics will be offered for variable credit from one to three semester credit hours. Students may repeat MKT 290 up to three times on different topics for a maximum of nine semester credit hours. Prerequisite may vary by topic. Fee varies
(Also see Phlebotomy)
MLT
105
1:1:0
Introduction to Health Care Issues
Course introduces field of health care, with focus on hospital and laboratory organization. Content includes professional ethics, legal and regulatory issues, communication skills and OSHA requirements. Prerequisite: Admission to Phlebotomy Certificate program or MLT program.
MLT
106
2:1.5:1.5
Basic Skills in Medical Laboratory Technology
Course introduces basic medical laboratory. Content includes units on laboratory equipment, computers, laboratory safety, metric system, blood collection requirements for laboratory testing and phlebotomy. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the MLT program. Fee $40
MLT
107
4:3:3
Phlebotomy
Course provides in-depth study of current phlebotomy techniques. Focus is on skills necessary to properly obtain blood specimens for laboratory testing. Content includes safety precautions, collection equipment, venipuncture and skin puncture techniques, and special collection procedures. Prerequisite: Admission to Phlebotomy Certificate program or MLT program. Fee $50
MLT
111
4:3:3
Hematology
Course stresses development of basic techniques and understanding of principles, procedures, and sources of error in hematology lab work. Combined lectures and laboratory sessions to teach basic techniques and to develop skills needed to work in hematology. Content includes the formed elements of blood, including erythrocyte, leukocyte and thrombocyte cell maturation; normal cell function, and basic concepts of methods used to detect normal and diseased blood states. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the MLT program. Fee $50
MLT
112
2:1.5:1.5
Urinalysis and Body Fluids
Course studies urine formation including function and diseases of the kidney. Lectures and laboratory sessions focus on detection of physical, chemical and microscopic properties of urine in normal and abnormal states. Content also includes discussion of miscellaneous fluid analysis, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, gastric analysis and fecal analysis. Prerequisite: Admission to the MLT program. Fee $40
MLT
113
4:3:3
Immunohematology-Blood Bank
Course introduces basic concepts in immunology and blood banking. Lectures and laboratory sessions focus on performing all routine and some special procedures currently practiced in blood bank departments. Prerequisites: MLT 105, MLT 106, MLT 111, and MLT 112 with a minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $60
MLT
115
1:.5:1
Coagulation
Course includes classroom lecture and laboratory course in coagulation. Content includes pathways and mechanisms which make it possible for blood to clot or remain fluid. Prerequisites: MLT 105, MLT106, MLT111, and MLT112, with minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $25
MLT
117
1:.5:1
Immunology and Serology
Course includes classroom lecture and laboratory course in immunology and serology. Content includes factors involved in host response to a specific challenge with a foreign antigen; focus of serology portion of course is on detection of disease and pregnancy based on antigen-antibody reactions, using a variety of immunologic methods. Prerequisites: MLT105, MLT106, MLT111, and MLT112, with minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $25
MLT
125
5:5:0
Pharmacy Technician
Course provides knowledge and skills needed to become a pharmacy technician. Content includes introduction to various pharmacy practice settings; focus is on drug classes, basic physiology, drug interactions, and daily pharmacy operation. Course geared towards range of students, from those having no prior pharmacy experience to healthcare professionals interested in strengthening current skills. Prerequisite: High school diploma or GED. Fee $645
MLT 130
5:5:0
Aseptic Pharmaceutical Preparations
Course is a comprehensive 75-hour one-semester course designed for
pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, and quality assurance personnel.
The focus is on development of core competencies necessary to
safely prepare and deliver sterile commercial and compounded
pharmaceuticals. Content meets or exceeds guidelines and standards
required by the United States’ Pharmacopoeia Forum General
Chapter <797> (Pharmaceutical Compounding—Sterile
Preparations). Recommended: Completion of a
pharmacy technician program; or employment as a pharmacy
technician, pharmacist or quality assurance specialist; or
completion of – or concurrent enrollment in – MLT
125.
Fee $1340
MLT
204
2:0:8
Phlebotomy Practicum
Course consists of 120 contact hours (15 eight-hour days) of supervised practice in phlebotomy at assigned clinical affiliation site. Practicum provides opportunity to observe and gain proficiency in skin punctures, venipuncture and special collection techniques. Prerequisite: Completion of MLT 105 and 107 with a minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $50
MLT
210
2:0:12
Clinical Practicum I (offered
summer session only)
Course includes five twenty-four hours-per-week practicum sessions to perform technical procedures at assigned clinical affiliation sites, in five major laboratory areas: Blood Bank, Clinical Chemistry, Hematology, Medical Microbiology and Serology - Coagulation- Urinalysis. Each area is self-contained module. Clinical affiliate determines sequence of modules on rotational schedule. All five modules must be completed, each separately graded. Prerequisites: MLT 105, MLT106, MLT 111, MLT 112, MLT 113, MLT 115, MLT 117, BIO 151, CHM 122, with a minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $70
MLT
215
4:3:3
Clinical Chemistry
Course combines classroom lecture and laboratory course. Content includes basic theories, techniques and sources of error in routine clinical chemistry procedures. Focus is on correlations between clinical picture and laboratory results. Prerequisites: MLT 113, MLT 115, MLT 117, CHM 121, CHM 122, with minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $50
MLT 220, 221,
230,
231
2:0:12 each
Clinical Practicum II, III, IV, V
Course includes five twenty-four hours-per-week practicum sessions to perform technical procedures at assigned clinical affiliation sites, in five major laboratory areas: Blood Bank, Clinical Chemistry, Hematology, Medical Microbiology and Serology - Coagulation- Urinalysis. Each area is self-contained module. Clinical affiliate determines sequence of modules on rotational schedule. All five modules must be completed, each separately graded. Prerequisite for MLT 220 and MLT 221: MLT 215 with minimum grade of C. Prerequisites for MLT 230 and MLT 231: MLT 220, MLT 225 with minimum grade of C in each course. Fee $70/course
MLT
225
4:3:3
Medical Microbiology
Course provides in-depth study of medical microbiology. Content includes mycology and parasitology, terminology and methods used to isolate and identify pathogens. Prerequisites: MLT 215, BIO 151, with a minimum of grade of C in each course. Fee $50
MLT
235
3:3:0
Applications in Laboratory Practice
Course deals with presentation and utilization of basic mathematics concepts as applied in the medical laboratory. Focus is on laboratory quality control and governmental regulations. Review of all major areas also included. Prerequisites: MLT 210 and MLT 225, with minimum grade of C in each course.
Medical Record Technology
(See Health Information Technology)
Machine Technology
(Apprenticeship)
MTA
102
4:4:0
Basic Print Reading and Shop Theory
Course provides pre-apprenticeship training. Content includes study of machine shop theory with focus on reading machine prints. Course meets requirements of classroom related theory for the apprentice machinist, mold maker, tool and die maker, model maker, and inspector. Completion of course with minimum grade of C should enable student to interpret prints used in industry. Credit cannot be received in both MTA 102 and MTA 110.
MTA
105
4:4:0
Jig and Fixture Design and Theory
Course explores how to plan and determine the length of time and basic cost of various machining operations. Content focus is on jig and fixture design and theory, and the use of this theory in computer numerical control (CNC) and robotic work; review and discussion of. Proper CNC setup procedures such as location, supporting, and clamping of parts. Completion of course with minimum grade of C will provide basic understanding of how piece parts are machined in industry.
MTA
110
3:3:0
Basic Machine Technology
Course provides pre-apprenticeship training. Content includes study of machine shop theory with focus on reading machine prints. Course meets requirements of classroom-related theory for the apprentice machinist, mold maker, tool and die maker, model maker and inspector. Completion of course with minimum grade of C should enable student to interpret prints used in industry. Intended for students in a company-sponsored program. Credit cannot be received in both MTA 102 and MTA 110.
MTA
111
3:3:0
Advanced Machine Technology
Course introduces traditional and non-traditional machining. Content combines theory and practical (hands-on) applications of set-up and operation of state-of-the-art computer numerical control machines. Intended for students in a company-sponsored program. Credit cannot be received in both MTA 103 and MTA 111.
MTA
120
3:3:0
Basic Shop Mathematics
Course reviews the basics of mathematics. Upon completion of the course the student should have the background necessary to solve math problems associated with simple piece part prints. Intended for students in a company-sponsored program. Credit cannot be received in both MTA 120 and MTA 121.
MTA
121
4:4:0
Shop Mathematics Applications
Course reviews the basics of mathematics. Upon completion of the course the student should have the background necessary to solve the math problems associated with simple piece part prints. Credit cannot be received in both MTA120 and MTA 121.
MTA
122
3:3:0
Advanced Shop Mathematics
Course presents advanced mathematics. Content includes trade-related problems including concepts of numbers, shop algebra and shop trigonometry. Intended for the student interested in the metal trades. Prerequisite: MTA 121 or consent of instructor.
MTA
205
4:4:0
Basic Tool and Die Construction I
Course introduces die working of sheet metal and the injection molding of plastic parts Content highlights fundamental theory and study of tool and die making with focus on the design considerations of blanking, piercing and forming dies.
MTA
206
4:4:0
Basic Tool and Die Construction II
Course presents fundamental design and construction. Content includes components of blanking, piercing and form dies; simple die layouts, punch and die clearance, blanking and stripping pressure, and develop length. Recommended: MTA 205.
MTA
207
4:4:0
Basic Die Design and Engineering
Course provides a working understanding of punch press to die relationships. Content includes design and construction of basic and advanced progressive, inverted, compound, combination, shaving, and coining dies.
MTA
208
4:4:0
Advanced Die Design and Engineering
Course provides opportunity to choose a major project to design either a three-to-five station progressive die or a multi-cavity or family mold. Content development of project will include analyzing the piece part drawing; developing a production plan; calculating develop length or part shrinkage; selecting the proper press, die set or mold base; and designing the complete tool. Recommended: MTA 207.
MTA 210