Semester 2
Computer Applications (3 credits)
Microsoft® Office allows people to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases. This course will teach you how to use three popular tools from the Microsoft® Office Suite — Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®. In this course, you'll learn how to use Word™ to create and edit text documents, insert figures and tables, and format pages for a variety of uses. You'll then learn how to use Excel® to organize and format data, including charts, formulas, and more complex tables. Next, you'll learn how to use PowerPoint® to create and deliver slide shows. Finally, you'll complete a graded project, which will test the skills acquired in Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
Objectives:
- Create various Microsoft® Word™ documents.
- Produce a thorough Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet.
- Identify the basic skills needed to use Microsoft® PowerPoint®.
- Synthesize what you’ve learned by integrating Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
English Composition (3 credits)
This course teaches the skills and techniques of effectively developing, drafting, and revising college-level essays toward a specific purpose and audience: active reading, prewriting strategies, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis statements, varied patterns of development (e.g., illustration, comparison and contrast, classification), critical reading toward revision of structure and organization, editing for standard written conventions, use and documentation of outside sources. Students submit two prewriting assignments, and three essays (process analysis, classification and division, argumentation).
Objectives:
- Use writing skills to construct well-written sentences and active reading skills to understand and analyze text
- Develop paragraphs using topic sentences, adequate detail, supporting evidence, and transitions
- Describe the revision, editing, and proofreading steps of the writing process
- Distinguish between different patterns of development
- Use prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to write a formal, college-level essay
- Recognize how to determine the reliability of secondary sources and to give proper credit to sources referenced in an essay
- Use prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to write a formal, college-level essay
- Use techniques of drafting, evaluating, and creating a sound written argument
Financial Accounting (3 credits)
This course provides a basic introduction to the study of finance, including financial institutions, investments, and corporate finance.
Objectives:
- Solve problems that involve the time value of money.
- Perform a basic analysis of financial statements.
- Describe the components of financial assets.
- Explain the role of a financial intermediary.
- Describe the role of security markets.
- List the components of financial decision making.
Marketing (3 credits)
This course covers the principles of marketing. Topics covered include assessing, analyzing, understanding, and targeting the marketplace, as well as the creation, capture, delivery, and communication of value. Students will learn how to develop a marketing plan, use social and mobile marketing effectively, integrate ethics into marketing strategies, influence the consumer decision process, perform market research, perform SWOT and STP analyses, make decisions concerning branding, packaging, and developing new products, price products and services fairly, set advertising objectives, and more.
Objectives:
- Analyze marketing plans, strategies and the aids needed to catalyze it
- Analyze the foundation of the marketing model and its emergence
- Point out the targeted strategies and plans in marketing and globalization
- Formulate a plan of valuing production, innovation, and product marketing
- Develop the valuing strategies for products and services in marketing
- Categorize the strategies for supply chain management and retailing
- Distinguish between the various domains under IMC strategies
- Design a marketing plan for an existing business
Textbook: M: Marketing 7th edition
Social Science Elective (3 credits)
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SSC105 - World Civilizations
This course serves as an introduction to many of the major events of the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. It also examines the causal relationships between events and trends all across the globe.
Objectives:
- Identify the causes and consequences of global trade and its conflicting worldwide impact
- Describe the impact of social and industrial revolutions, fifteenth century onward, on various nations
- Recognize the conditions that led to the World Wars, decolonization, and the Cold War
- Summarize post–World War II effects on the economic and political structures around the world
- Discuss an event that occurred after the fifteenth century and had an impact on a world civilization
- Explain the effects of World War II on the world population
Textbook: A History of World Societies, Volume 2
SSC125 - Introduction to Sociology
This course is designed to introduce you to social structure and social interaction through groups, networks, and organizations. Study politics, the economy, population, social movements, technology, and social change.
Objectives:
- Describe deviance, crime, and social control.
- Discuss the effects of stratification, racial and ethnic inequality, sex, gender, and sexuality.
- Examine the role of health, family, education, and religion in human behavior.
SSC130 - Essentials of Psychology
This course will introduce you to the relationship between biology and behavior. You will learn about human development throughout the life span.
Objectives:
- Identify major psychological theories.
- Discuss consciousness, memory, thought, and language.
- Define intelligence, personality, and stress.
- Analyze the role of gender in psychology.
- Explain how community influences behavior.
Arts and Humanities Elective (3 credits)
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HUM104 - Music Appreciation
In this course, you'll practice the skill of active listening. Learning to listen differently will allow you to experience all kinds of music in a new way. Most listeners are familiar with how music makes them feel, and we often say we like a particular piece of music because it has a "good beat" or a beautiful melody. This course will allow you to go deeper. You'll identify what the composer might have been trying to convey and listen for the way elements of musical composition and performance make each piece unique.
Objectives:
- Identify the building blocks of music a composer can use to create a piece, such as rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, form, and timbre
- Differentiate between the music of the baroque era and the musical styles of previous time periods
- List the major characteristics of classical music, including form, melody, and instrumentation
- Describe the musical trends and innovations that occurred during the romantic era
- Relate musical styles of the early twentieth century to comparable movements in art and literature
- Explain the evolution of American popular music in the twentieth century
- Describe the influence of world music on modern western composition
- Synthesize research comparing composers' influence in their respective genres
Textbook: Experience Music
ENG115 - Introduction to Literature
This course will allow you to develop your critical thinking skills and broaden your knowledge of the main genres of literature — fiction, poetry, and drama.
Objectives:
- Explain how to effectively read fiction for both knowledge and enjoyment
- Identify different styles and forms of poetry
- Use what you've learned in this course to discuss, write about, and understand literature
- Prepare a critical interpretation of fiction or poetry based on what you've learned in this course
- Discuss how literary dramas differ from fiction and poetry
- Identify different strategies of critical literary analysis
Proctored Exam
You will be required to complete a proctored exam on selected courses each semester. These assessments will evaluate the knowledge and skills that you learned during the semester. You choose the time, the location, and the qualified exam supervisor.
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