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Prerequisite: PSYC 201. Students will explore current research and psychological and sociological theories regarding the effects of specific mental disorders, personality, biological influences, developmental issues, and social/environmental contributors to both general criminal behaviors, as well as specific crimes and criminal conduct. Also discussed/explored will be the psychological effects of crime on the victim and society at large, as well as introduction to the profiling and prediction of criminal and violent behaviors.
PSYC 280 Special Topics in Psychology 3 CR
Prerequisite: PSYC 201. This course is the study of content areas in psychology which have a research or theoretical base, but are not offered as part of the regular curriculum. Topics may include conflict/aggression, creativity, self-management, and rehabilitation. Although topics vary, students may only take the course once.
PSYC 290 Social Psychology 3 CR
Prerequisites: PSYC 201 and SOCI 201. An empirical approach to understanding individual social behavior. Provides an understanding of how behavior, feelings, and thoughts of individuals are influenced and determined by characteristics of the situation. Topics include attitude formation, attraction, prejudice, social roles, aggression, person perception, and self-concept.
RADIOGRAPHY (RADI)
RADI 110 Fundamentals of Radiography 5 CRPrerequisite: admission to the Radiography Program. Corequisite: EMT 110 or departmental approval. This course includes orientation to the Radiography Program, as well as to the student’s assigned clinical site. Focus will be placed on the following: a brief history of health care and the field of radiography, the development of radiography as a profession, medical terminology, medical law and ethics, basic medical techniques, and patient care, including an introduction to pharmacology and drug administration. Radiographic imaging equipment will be addressed, as will computers utilized in the modern diagnostic imaging department, specifically PACs. Basic imaging principles, radiation protection practices, and fundamental positioning principles will also be discussed. [60-36-96] Lab Fee
RADI 118 Intermediate Radiography 7 CR
Prerequisites: EMT 110 and RADI 110. This course includes the study of radiographic procedures with related anatomical positioning, radiation protection practices, evaluation of images, and radiographic pathology. Imaging principles to include exposure factors and image-quality factors, along with film/screen processing principles. A study of imaging equipment and radiation physics are also covered. Additionally, this course provides correlated, supervised clinical education in the diagnostic imaging department in one of our affiliated hospitals. [48-256-304] Lab Fee
RADI 119 Advanced Radiography 7 CR
Prerequisites: RADI 118. This course allows students to advance their study of the following: medical terminology, radiographic procedures to include contrast enhanced examinations and related pharmacology, anatomical positioning, evaluation of radiographic images, radiographic pathology, and radiation protection practices. Advanced imaging principles to include exposure factors and quality factors, as well as a study of fluoroscopy, tomography, and mobile imaging equipment. This course also provides the student with an introduction to quality improvement/management within the diagnostic imaging department. Included in this course is correlated, supervised clinical education in the diagnostic imaging department in one of our affiliated hospitals. [48-256-304] Lab Fee
RADI 227 Radiography Practicum 5 CR
Prerequisite: RADI 119. This course includes eight weeks of supervised clinical education in the diagnostic imaging department in one of our affiliated hospitals. Emphasis is on securing confidence and proficiency of routine radiographic examinations/procedures and beginning to practice and master some of the more advanced examinations and procedures. Regular conferences/classes with clinical instructors are included. [10-310-320] Lab Fee
RADI 228 Advanced Radiology II 10 CR
Prerequisite: RADI 227. This course encourages students to utilize their critical thinking skills as they work through developing an understanding for how patient, technical, processing, and quality factors relate and how a change in one factor affects others in the imaging chain. Included in this course is correlated, supervised clinical education in the diagnostic imaging department in one of our affiliated hospitals. [64-384-448] Lab Fee
RADI 229 Specialized Radiography 10 CR
Prerequisite: RADI 228. This course allows the student the opportunity to explore advanced modalities within the clinical setting. Continued clinical education, as well as classroom review will provide the student with the study of advanced radiographic procedures, related pathology, and evaluation of images. Additionally, students will be provided the opportunity to complete their venopuncture competency. Also included is a comprehensive study of radiobiology with radiation protection and dose reduction techniques reviewed. Radiation physics (including equipment circuitry) is addressed, as well as such topics as digital/computerized medical imaging principles and equipment. Emphasis is placed on ARRT examination preparation with review and several mock registry exams. Includes correlated, supervised clinical education in the diagnostic imaging department in one of our affiliated hospitals. [64-384-448] Lab Fee
SCIENCE (SCIE)
SCIE 100 Environmental Science 4 CRAn interdisciplinary approach analyzing man’s environment on earth from the vantage point of the biological and physical sciences. The course will focus upon such topics as life cycles, energy, pollution, population, and resource deterioration and depletion. Additionally, philosophical and ethical attitudes of man’s relationship to his cultural and natural environment will be examined. Within this framework man will be studied as a “Citizen of Earth.”
SCIE 102 Physical Science 4 CR
A lecture and laboratory course that integrates the sciences of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and modern contemporary science. Emphasis is placed on applications and principles contributed by all the physical sciences. [48-32-80]
SCIE 103 Field Investigation in Environmental Studies 4 CR
This course will provide the student with a multi-integrated education in environmental studies. The students will be investigating life systems in the environment, testing the life support systems, and analyzing the environment to see what impact man’s progress has had and will have on it. [16-48-64] Lab Fee
SOCIAL SCIENCE (SOSC)
SOSC 101 Individual and Society 3 CR An introduction to the choices and decisions that have shaped modern men and women and the reasons why societies have these particular structures and policies. Emphasis on ideas and theories which relate to human nature.
SOSC 102 Ideas Influencing Contemporary Society 3 CR
Emphasis on those economic and political ideas that have most influenced the nature of modern society and on the problems which beset the modern world.