DEN220 Dental Practice Management
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course introduces the student to administrative procedures for a dental office. Students will learn to develop skills in communications and interpersonal relations, appointment scheduling and recall systems, supply and inventory control, account payables and account receivables (collections) as well as other business procedures. Included also, the importance of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in dentistry and its implications for record-keeping. Students will learn to pronounce, define, and spell key terms.
Credit Hours: 1.00
Corequisites: None
DEN206L Dental Materials Lab
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course will challenge the student to link theory with clinical practice. Through laboratory practice, the dental assisting student will perfect skills necessary to assume their professional role. Students will learn hands on practical experience which will aid the students to become competent in laboratory skills to include; mixing alginate impression material, taking a preliminary impression, using alginate, pouring dental models, using the inverted-pour method, obtain the bite registration, trimming diagnostic casts/study models, constructing a light-cured custom tray, constructing a vacuum formed bleaching tray, fabricating a temporary crown. Students will learn to pronounce, define, and spell key terms.
Credit Hours: 1.00
Prerequisites: DEN100, DEN110, DEN200, DEN200L
Corequisites: DEN206
DEN206 Dental Materials
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: The course introduces types and properties of dental laboratory materials. A variety of dental cements and bonding agents are selected to highlight the role in preparing, mixing and delivering. Emphasis is placed on dental alginate impressions and wax bites, preparation of elastomeric impression materials, dental gypsum products such as model plaster and laboratory stone, study model. Advanced chairside functions include fabrication of provisional crowns/bridges. Students will be able to pronounce, define, and spell key terms.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: DEN100, DEN110, DEN200, DEN200L
Corequisites: DEN206L
DEN110 Dental Fundamentals
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course will focus on oral microbiology, plaque formation, plaque-related diseases, sterilization and disinfection principles. Students will learn to pronounce, define, and spell key terms.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: DEN105
DEN200L Dental Chairside Assisting Lab
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course will challenge the student to link theory with clinical practice. Students will learn how to practice and demonstrate dental assisting skills taught in Dental Chairside Assisting with evaluation by a dental assisting faculty.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Corequisites: DEN200
DEN200 Dental Chairside Assisting
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course provides instruction in the principles of clinical chairside dental assisting; dental equipment use and maintenance; safety and instrument identification. Students will learn the many varied dental office designs. Students will also learn chairside operatory procedures, infection control practices, provider and ergonomic assistant positioning. Various dental hand pieces and their attachments, dental operative hand instruments and their tray set-ups are included. Anesthesia and pain control will be discussed. Chairside assisting procedures including dental amalgam and composite restorative materials are taught to a competent level. Additional chairside assisting functions include oral illumination, tissue retraction, evacuation, and dental dam, and the tofflemire matrix band. Advanced chairside functions include placing liners, bases, and varnishes for restorative procedures. Students will be able to pronounce, define, and spell key terms.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Corequisites: DEN200L
DEN100 Dental Anatomy
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course will introduce the student to dental head and neck anatomy and physiology. The focus of this course will include dental terminology related to oral anatomy. Tooth morphology and overview of the dentition is taught at the in-depth level. Students will learn the human skull, including landmarks of the skull, face and oral cavity, bones of the head, and the temporomandibular joint. The musculature, nerves and vascular circulation of the head and neck will be studied. The students will study tooth embryology, histology, structure, components of the periodontium, and systems of tooth identification.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
EET113 DC and AC Circuits
College of Technology Engineering Technology Department
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to AC and DC circuits through simple series and series-parallel circuits used to illustrate applications of Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Laws. Students will learn about power in DC resistive circuits and sine waves, complex numbers, and phasors applications in the analysis of AC circuits.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: MTH200
Corequisites: None
BAN327 Data Visualization and BI Tools with Applied AI
College of Business and Criminal Justice Business Department
Course Description: This course builds practical skill with business analytics tools and introduces responsible AI assistance. Students design surveys, manage datasets, and build visualizations and dashboards for decision support. Topics include BI concepts, data collection methods, data quality and governance, visualization best practices, and action-plan development. Students also learn when and how to use AI assistants to draft survey items, document methods, suggest formulas or DAX, explain charts, and generate first-pass narratives. Emphasis is on verification, reproducible workflows, and human-in-the-loop review.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: BAN325
Corequisites: None
BAN485 Data Mining II: R, Python, and Applied AI
College of Business and Criminal Justice Business Department
Course Description: This course extends data mining with hands-on work in R and Python and selective use of AI. Students prepare and visualize data, build and compare models, and communicate results for business decisions. Topics include linear and nonlinear regression, logistic regression, association-rule mining (market basket analysis), and k-means clustering. Projects include analyzing social-media and survey datasets with Python and AI to extract signals, generate first-pass summaries, and validate findings. Emphasis is on feature engineering, evaluation and validation, interpretability, and clear recommendations.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: BAN385
Corequisites: None