Fall 2024

Hot stone massage is a restorative stone thermotherapy and an adjunctive therapy which can be used with all styles of massage therapy. This course will explore types of stones, their optional uses and placement, proper sanitation, and how to incorporate hot stones into multiple massage modalities.

Students will learn the various strokes and techniques used in sports and athletic massage, what effect each has on the tissue, and when to use them. Additionally, the course will cover sports-specific routines, sports injury prevention and treatment, nutrition conducive to athletes, as well as psychology of the athlete as it pertains to interaction with the massage therapist.

This course is designed to enhance students' skills and understanding of the concepts of deep tissue and neuromuscular therapy. Students will learn how to safely integrate deep tissue and neuromuscular techniques into their massage routine in prone, supine, seated and side-lying positions. Students will be shown proper body mechanics for administering these techniques and will practice what they learn in class on one another.

Learn facilitated stretching techniques and muscle energy techniques (MET), including Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF), which is used for the rehabilitation of neurologic and soft tissue disorders. Explore ways to incorporate these techniques into massage to help counteract muscle hypertonicity and spasms, improve flexibility and range of motion, and restore muscle strength.

Aromatherapy uses essential oils as an adjunct therapy in combination with multiple styles of massage therapy. Identifying the need and purpose of the modality is addressed as well as when to practice the technique based on indications and contraindications from the client's health history. Aromatherapy is practiced to enhance the therapeutic and relaxation properties of massage therapy. The therapeutic uses of 18 essential oils are explored and the students are provided the opportunity to practice blending the oils to enhance therapeutic benefits and induce a deeper relaxation response for the client.

Learn proper body mechanics and feel while using forearms, loose fists, elbows, knuckles, and hands. Discover the keys to career longevity and excellent touch. Work on creative client positioning with variations on side-lying and supine as well as seated positions.

This capstone course provides an opportunity for students to work on logistics operations management practice projects that are of particular interest to them. Projects will consist of a logistics operations problem that approximates a professional practice experience.

This course will illustrate facts about environmental risk as perceived from individual and societal perspectives. Students will learn the principles of risk assessment and modeling and how safety management works in practice. The course will examine approaches to solving environmental risk problems as well as review the appropriate role of these methods in effective public and private decision making.

This rigorous introductory course provides an overview of finance and budgeting issues as they apply to non-accounting majors. It aims to demystify financial statements, cost analysis, budgeting, performance evaluation, and the use of financial data in the business decision-making process. This course will use case discussions, problem sets, online tutorials, and individual and group exercises.

This course is a study of information systems and information management in business environments. It provides fundamental concepts of the needs of management, the use of information technology in various business subsystems including logistics, the use of information systems to gain a competitive advantage, and managing information as an organizational resource.