Summer 2024

This course prepares the Paramedic student to identify single and multi-lead cardiac rhythms and treat those rhythms considered to be life-threatening with electrical therapy. The skills taught include defibrillation, cardioversion, and cardiac rhythm interpretation. It will also prepare the student to assess, manage and treat various cardiovascular emergencies that includes ventricular fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, pulmonary edema, angina pectoris, congestive heart failure, hypertension, PEA (pulseless electrical activity), and asystole.

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 addresses the principles of Assessment Based Management that will teach the paramedic student how to implement a plan for patients with common complaints. The course will also prepare the Paramedic for the concepts of medical incident command, ambulance and rescue operations, hazardous materials incidents, and crime scene awareness.

Integrates complex knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology into the assessment to develop and implement a treatment plan with the goal of ensuring a patent airway, adequate mechanical ventilation, and respiration for patients of all ages.

This class examines works of art by women artists and representations of women in art and visual culture from antiquity to the present.

A course in the practices and ethics of operating an art gallery.

Intro to literature that explores and considers the ways in which major literary genres (poetry, fiction, drama), themes, and literary movements interact with, reflect, inspire, and inform artworks in different fine arts (painting and sculpture, film, theater, music, and dance).

C# is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language best known for its ability to create single-source solutions capable of running on a variety of devices (via the .NET platform). This course is the first semester of C# programming, and will include exposure to the .NET platform, but the primary emphasis will be on general-purpose object-oriented programming.

Java is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language used in many different ways. This course is on Java, and the primary emphasis will be on general purpose, object-oriented programming. Topics covered include: primitive and reference data types, control structures, methods, arrays, custom classes, and composition.

Analysis of the nature of culture, its universal aspects and range of variations revealed by human history and world ethnography. Satisfies UNR Social Science core curriculum.