FSM452 Developing Your Career in Hospitality Leadership
Food Service Management Department
Course Description: This course introduces students to industry leaders from major hospitality corporations, faculty, young emerging leaders and innovators, and successful student alumni, speaking in a manner that will contribute to the ultimate career success of the student in foodservice management. Students will learn the social, economic, family, and organizational changes that influence career choices.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
DEN211L Dental Radiology Lab
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course will challenge the student to link theory with clinical practice. The focus of this course is through laboratory practice, the dental assisting student will perfect the skills necessary to assume their professional role. The Dental Radiography Lab course prepares dental assisting students to operate x-ray units and expose bitewing, periapical, extra oral, and occlusal radiographs. Emphasis is placed on protection against x-ray hazards. Students also process, mount, and evaluate radiographs for diagnostic value. In this course students will first demonstrate competency on a manikin. Students will learn the principles and skills advance, the dental assisting students must demonstrate competence in exposing diagnostically acceptable full-mouth dental image surveys on a minimum of two patients. In addition, they will use radiographs to educate the patients.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: DEN100, DEN110, DEN200, DEN200L
Corequisites: DEN211
DEN211 Dental Radiology
College of Health Science Dental Assisting Department
Course Description: This course introduces a broad history of radiography combined with the specific physics of dental radiography in conjunction with the function of the dental x-ray unit. Emphasizes is placed on providing the students the knowledge to understand concepts related to dental radiation, health and safety. Students will gain knowledge and fundamentals to expose and evaluate, process both traditional and digital, as well as mount and label dental radiographs according to anatomical landmarks. Students build on principles and skills in infection control. Students will learn hazards of radiation exposure as well as identification and correction of radiographic pitfalls are emphasized. Students will learn to pronounce, define, and spell key terms.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: DEN100, DEN110, DEN200, DEN200L
Corequisites: DEN211L
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