Spring 2024

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.

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 on-the-job opportunities in a program designed by a company official and a faculty advisor for practical, professional learning experiences.

This course explains how companies strategically navigate the complexity of international trade. The course will examine how to identify potential risks, apply quality control procedures, and prepare documentation accurately. This course will also cover compliance and security regulations including: C-TPAT guidelines, Incoterms, in-house compliance programs, freight cost-reduction methods, TSA regulations, Improved technology options, and current export initiatives.

This course takes an in-depth look at transportation law and regulations. Topics include federal jurisdiction and pre-emption, U.S. and international contract law including the UCC and CISG, insurance, liability, environmental law; as well as specific regulations pertaining to the railroad, motor carrier, ocean, and airline industries.

This course focuses on the science, engineering and ethics of sustainability by examining ecological, social and environmental issues. The course will review the environmental policy issues and the impact human population has on the current environment. Explore new sources of energy, and examine water quality, waste treatment, reclamation, and conservation efforts. The course will demonstrate how managers can collaborate to meet these challenges and determine the financial impact on company by calculating the return on investment.

In this course students will learn to organize, plan, implement, and control project tasks to achieve a logistics organization's schedule, budget, and performance objectives. Students will learn to use and apply tools and concepts such as project charter, scope statement, work breakdown structure, project estimating, and scheduling methodologies.

This course provides an analysis of decision making in the current logistics environment and the quantitative tools and methods needed for finding solutions to problems relating to purchasing, inventory, transportation, and warehouse management.

This course provides an in-depth approach of the methods to organize and operate a warehouse including warehousing principles, site selection, facility design, facility size, JIT (Just in Time), automation, and advanced warehouse technology.