Spring 2024

The study of ethics, jurisprudence, business practices, finance, management, and policy creation for oral health care professionals, programs and businesses. This course examines current societal and professional issues and their impact on dental hygiene practices and management. This course will cover the following areas: planning, strategy and leadership, legal and ethical issues affecting businesses in the oral health care sector, financial statements, and professional considerations. The course will prepare students to take the Nevada Dental Hygiene Law and Ethics exam required for licensing as a Registered Dental Hygienist.

A first course in research methods for students pursuing data science. The emphasis of this course is on developing the habits of sound critical thinking, especially with regards to larger data sets. The entire research process will be examined, including the formation of a research question, the means of data collection, and the resulting conclusions that can be drawn from the data.

This class is targeted for people with little or no SQL knowledge. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the database concepts that they will need to be effective programmers. Although this course utilizes MySQL because of its open source nature, the topics presented in this course are fundamental and should apply to all relational databases. Course accents hands-on learning in a Structured Query Language (SQL) and SQL procedures.

This course concentrates on client-side scripting. Client-side technologies are used to validate form data, as well as to provide ways of interacting with visitors. This class builds upon the information presented in CIT 151- Beginning Web Development (HTML5, XHTML and JavaScript), and will also provide an introduction to server-side scripting.

Descriptive statistics, probability models, statistical estimation and hypothesis testing, linear regression analysis, and special topics.

The focus of this course is a continuation of the nursing care and management of patients/clients with an altered health status that affects both individuals and families across the lifespan. The child-bearing and child rearing family are also included as a population. The course applies the concepts of clinical pharmacology, psychopathology, pathophysiology, health maintenance, promotion and restoration to the care of patients/clients. The lab/clinical portion of this course include selected observation, clinical assignments and the use of computer simulation and skills laboratory.

This introductory course provides the students with the foundations of the arts and science of nursing. Students are exposed to the core competencies that define the roles and responsibilities of an associate degree nurse. Focus is placed on acquiring proficiency to carry out basic independent and interdependent nursing actions that assist clients across the lifespan in meeting their health-care needs. Each student identifies care planning activities and develops an individualized care plan and assessment focusing on unique client/patient needs. Emphasis is on assessment, teaching and learning, and communication in health and wellness.

This course covers the mathematical concepts particularly relevant to non-science majors. Topics covered include problem-solving, topics in finance, probability, statistics, and additional real-world applications. Note: Computer use and graphing calculator may be required (TI-83/84 recommended).

Provides a review of algebra, corequisite mathematical support, and just in time material for MATH 120, Fundamentals of College Mathematics

Intermediate course that will build upon skills and processes learned in GRC 116. Students will broaden their techniques for ideation and effective design thinking and analysis. Students will produce studio design exercises and projects that will increase technical fluency in industry-standard software applications. This class will prepare students for lower and upper division GAMT courses, and will increase conceptual thinking and improve their technical skillsets.