Course Number
Course Name
Credit Hours
Foundation
CD2600
2
Course Description:
This course provides information and resources important for anyone’s career development. It uses guest presenters and mock interviews, in addition to individual consultations, to provide career guidance. The class starts by having the students perform a self-assessment of their interests and values while at the same time, focusing on their professional goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how to create a successful resume no matter where a person is in their career path. In addition, it highlights how to apply a variety of other job search documents and needing to execute follow-up. Instructors illustrate traditional and nontraditional methods of job searching to include some of the latest online resources. A significant element of this course is training students to have great interviewing skills. Additional time is spent researching employers, exploring employment opportunities available in the area, and setting up interviews with prospective employers. Toward the end of this course, students also learn value of teamwork and being successful in their career. By applying these techniques and suggestions in this course, students are able to approach their career exploration and job search with a more confident and winning attitude. This course is scheduled during the final or next to last quarter of the program.
CPU1000
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with an introduction to computers and computer literacy. Students will gain a basic understanding of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications through a hands-on approach.
INF1100
2
Course Description:
This course introduces students to lifelong learning skills necessary to critically assess and use information. The student will learn techniques to effectively locate, evaluate, and select information, to think critically about research strategies, ethical use of resources, and to apply these concepts to research using Learning Resource Center resources.
PSY1050
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to enhance the college learning experience and prepare students for personal and professional success. Concepts presented include managing change, setting and achieving goals, and thinking in ways to create success. This course also incorporates assessments that will increase one’s self-awareness, and improve the student’s interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
General Education Courses
COM1050
4
Course Description:
This course focuses on helping students develop writing, researching, and critical thinking skills through writing paragraphs and essays using different rhetorical styles. Students also gain experience with peer reviewing. Students are required to earn a grade of C or higher to satisfy the requirements of this course.
ECN2000
4
Course Description:
This course is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources among competing interests. Students learn about different economic systems, as well as the production, distribution, and use of material goods and services. This course presents economics as a method of thought and a way of taking hold of a problem, breaking it down, and working systematically through a solution.
ELE2301
4
Course Description:
Please see the Harrison College Course Catalog for a list of courses for this program.
MAT1500
4
Course Description:
This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, the Cartesian coordinate system, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.
PSY2000
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to develop students’ basic skills of logical reasoning relative to problem solving and related argument analysis. Learning to provide evidence and well-reasoned support for asserted solutions and/or positions within frameworks of clarity, depth, precision, relevance, and fairness are central to the course.
SPC1010
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with the basic skills necessary to organize their thoughts and communicate effectively through public speaking. Students learn to research, organize, and properly convey oral messages. Through practical classroom application, students gain sound experience in the art of oral presentation.
Professional
ACC1010
4
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the process used to analyze, record, classify, summarize, and interpret financial information. They are shown how to assemble financial statements following the steps in the accounting cycle. The Combination Journal is used to record transactions of a service business. Students will receive an overview of payroll accounting.
BUS1000
4
Course Description:
This course presents fundamental business concepts and contemporary issues to introduce the student to the purposes and functions of business.
BUS1010
4
Course Description:
This course combines the understanding of legal theory with an acquaintance of the various forms of contracts. Students are taught the essentials of the legal environment of business, tort law, contracts, commercial transactions, government regulations, and property.
INT2990
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with actual on-the-job learning activities to be taken during the last or next to last quarter of instruction.
LOG1010
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide an overview of the fundamental concepts of the movement of goods and services from origin to consumption.
LOG1150
4
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of purchasing, including the purchasing process, purchasing as it relates to supply chain management, processes for evaluating suppliers, and cost analysis.
LOG2100
4
Course Description:
This course introduces students to all aspects of planning and controlling manufacturing, such as managing materials, scheduling, and coordination. Students will also be introduced to current systems used in service and industry to manage all aspects of an organization.
LOG2400
4
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to domestic and international policies and regulations that impact logistical operations. Students will be introduced to export preparation activities and terms of payment for movement of goods. This course also introduces students to central components of safety in the workplace.
LOG2450
4
Course Description:
This course provides a framework and foundation for understanding the role of transportation in logistics. Specifically, students will explore how environmental factors, regulations, cost and pricing, and modes of transportation impact global supply chains.
LOG2500
4
Course Description:
This course provides an overview of total quality management. Students will discover how excellence is designed into an organizational structure and executed to assure excellence in goods and services.
LOG2600
4
Course Description:
This course provides an overview of how goods and services are created and delivered to end users. Specifically, the topics covered relate the roles of people, process, and technology to the basic principles of how these resources work together to assure the timely delivery of goods and services.
LOG2950
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with an understanding and exposure to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and involves students in a logistics project requiring them to apply forecasting and modeling, knowledge performance indicators (KPI), and ERP software information systems.
MGT2000
4
Course Description:
This course provides valuable information for students who will be entering business as employees and who eventually may have the opportunity to manage a business for others. Also, students who may eventually own and operate their own business will benefit greatly from this course. The material is presented to aid students in learning the appropriate terminology used in business and the many activities involved in the successful operation of a business.
MGT3000
4
Course Description:
This course exposes the student to both sides of past and present ethical dilemmas facing the world. Course content includes an overview of individual ethical development, ethical issues in business today, the opportunity and conflict of ethical issues, an ethical decision-making framework, and the development of an effective ethics program in a corporation.
PM1010
4
Course Description:
This course provides an overview and introduction to critical activities associated with managing and leading projects, coupled with an examination of the techniques that project managers use to complete their projects on schedule, within budgeted cost, and according to specified scope. Students learn the framework of project management as it applies to a project’s lifecycle. Learners also build a basic project plan during this course and begin to develop an appreciation of the importance of project leadership skills. This course provides the basis for the more advanced development of project management skills in subsequent project management courses.