Category "General Education"

  • Principles of Microeconomics

    This course introduces students to the study of Microeconomics by focusing on how we make choices in a world of scarce resources.  We start by learning about the first analytical model in economics: supply, demand, and equilibrium.  Next, we move on to discuss elasticity, choice, and competition, three key concepts in economics.
  • Music Appreciation

    What does music mean to you? Do you find yourself lost in your favorite song or style of music? We all listen to music for different reasons. It may be to help motivate us during exercise, to relax, or just to pass the time. Whatever the reason for listening, music impacts almost everyone in some way. Technology has made music accessible in new and exciting ways.  So, why is music so appealing? Research supports the healing power of music that is both pleasurable and therapeutic.
  • Managerial Accounting

    Are you interested in identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information for the pursuit of an organization’s goals?  Our Managerial Accounting course provides managers the tools needed to make the best decisions to achieve the goals of their organizations. Students will explore the building blocks of managerial accounting, standard costs and variances, budgeting, and performance measures. Our curriculum will encourage managers to not only use all quantitative tools and techniques available to them, but also logic, insight, judgment, and common sense.
  • Principles of Marketing

    As consumers, we each experience what could be marketing case studies every day. We are exposed to thousands of advertising messages. We develop needs, research solutions, evaluate options, make purchases, and experience satisfaction or disappointment. This makes marketing a particularly stimulating subject for teachers and learners since its practical application is visible every day. Old rules of marketing are no longer useful to those who want to influence these new consumer’s choices.
  • Early Childhood Development

    Early education classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse and caregivers must be prepared to meet the unique needs of all children in their care. Our Early Childhood Development course provides a broad overview of development in children across the world. We identify elements of typical and atypical development, as well as physical, social, emotional, linguistic, and intellectual characteristics in children from diverse backgrounds.
  • Human Resource Management

    Human Resource Management activities exist throughout any organization, regardless of size or business frameworks. Our Human Resource Management course weaves together solid human resource principles, timely research, and recent changes, such as the expanded use of technology in recruiting processes and talent acquisition. This course examines important challenges facing managers and employees in today's business climate. Interesting case studies explore real companies and organizations in-depth and delve into some of today's most effective, unique approaches in dealing with HR issues.
  • Business Management

    Management issues are fundamental to any organization: How do we plan to get things done, organize the company to be efficient and effective, lead and motivate employees, and put controls in place to make sure our plans are followed and our goals are met? Good management is essential to starting a business, growing a business, and maintaining a business once it has achieved some measure of success. This Business Management course will help you understand how to be a better manager through planning, decision making, motivating, leading, and communicating more effectively.
  • Abnormal Psychology

    In the same way that psychology offers important insights in terms of human behavior and experience, so does the sub-field known as abnormal psychology. Our Abnormal Psychology course will introduce psychopathology and changing views of mental illness. We examine impairments in brain functions and social processes and how this affects everyday life. Our course explores disorders of childhood, mood disorders, psychoses, schizophrenia, sexuality, eating, and anxiety disorders.