HCA305 Legal Aspects of Healthcare Administration

College of Health Science Healthcare Administration Department

Course Description: This course is designed to present students with an overview of health law issues, and provides the student with a basic knowledge of health law. Students will learn about government regulation, including but not limited to, legal constraints; liability; negligence; patient rights; confidentiality; and corporate/administrative responsibility. Emphasis is placed on applications of health law to current issues in healthcare administration. This course will assist students in understanding their own legal rights and duties as both healthcare professionals and consumers of healthcare, in recognizing legal issues as they arise. Healthcare System operations and health professionals, the changes in regulations relating to the U.S. Healthcare System, patient’s rights, the elements needed to develop a culture of patient safety, and the scope of corporate and government healthcare administration.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

NUR430 Leading and Managing for Innovation

College of Nursing Nursing Department

Course Description: This course provides contemporary leadership and management skills and theory to RN-BSN students. Students learn how to plan and implement change, manage conflict, use evidence-based decision-making, and maintain patient safety.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: NUR350

Corequisites: None

FSM310 Leadership in Foodservice

College of Culinary Arts Food Service Management Department

Course Description: This course will discuss leadership philosophies, focusing on effective managerial techniques with regard to coaching, training, facilitating and motivating a diverse workforce in various hospitality food service environments. Students will learn effective ways to manage through organizational changes and evaluate internal operational continuous-improvement programs.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

BUS460 Leadership Capstone

College of Business and Criminal Justice Business Department

Course Description: This capstone course allows students to reflect upon and integrate organizational and leadership skills acquired throughout the program. Students will study organizational issues and problems and will offer solutions to these issues and problems through practical application of leadership skills.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

CJ110 Law Enforcement Operations

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course examines one of the three major components of the criminal justice system: the role and responsibilities of police officers. Students will learn the function of police agencies within the United States.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ100

Corequisites: None

CJ361 Law Enforcement Management

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course provides students with an overview of law enforcement management systems. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice behind law enforcement management and the importance of maintaining morale within an agency.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ110

Corequisites: None

CYB460 Kubernetes in Cloud Security with AI

College of Technology Cybersecurity Department

Course Description: This course explores the security of Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments with a focus on container orchestration, pod hardening, role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and ingress/egress controls. Students analyze common vulnerabilities in containerized systems and apply best practices to strengthen cluster defenses. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated into labs and exercises to enhance monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated response. Hands-on labs guide learners through securing Kubernetes deployments, implementing resilience strategies, and meeting compliance requirements in real-world scenarios. By combining technical depth with AI-augmented approaches, students gain practical experience in protecting containerized environments and develop skills highly valued in cloud security operations.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CYB450

Corequisites: None

CAA115 Kitchen Essentials

College of Culinary Arts Culinary Arts Department

Course Description: This course introduces food safety and culinary mathematics as topics vital to learning to operate a safe and economically viable professional kitchen. This course covers sanitation through the identification; control and elimination of food borne illnesses; proper personal hygiene; movement or flow of food; industry standard sanitary facility requirements; pest management systems and food safety regulations. Students also have an opportunity to learn culinary mathematics through weights and measures, unit conversions, weight to volume conversions, yield percent applications, recipe scaling and recipe cost concepts which help prepare students to perform in their chosen careers.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

PTA120 Kinesiology for the Physical Therapist Assistant

College of Health Science Physical Therapist Assistant Department

Course Description: The course focuses on the correlation of the neurological, muscular, and skeletal aspects in human motion. It provides a straightforward perspective of human anatomy and its relation to both functional and dysfunctional movements. This course presents an overview of the value of physical therapy in the rehabilitation process of a person with a neuro-musculoskeletal dysfunction.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: PTA105

Corequisites: None

CJ205 Juvenile Justice

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course examines the juvenile justice system in America. Students will learn about the history of the juvenile court system in America, the differences between juvenile courts and adult courts, legal rights afforded to juveniles, theoretical explanations of juvenile delinquency, risk factors that contribute to delinquency, and preventative factors that reduce juvenile delinquency.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ100

Corequisites: None