NUR503 Advanced Physical Assessment for Providers
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course provides the background for graduate nursing students to perform advanced health assessment skills utilizing a diagnostic process based on clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom analysis for advanced practice providers. Students will engage in clinical evaluation of common problems presented by case study method.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: Any of: NUR315, NUR325, NUR340
Corequisites: None
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NUR601 Advanced Physical Assessment
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course provides the background for graduate students to perform advanced health assessment skills utilizing a diagnostic process based on clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom analysis for non-nurse practitioners. Students will engage in clinical evaluation of common problems presented by case study method.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: Any of: NUR315, NUR325, NUR340
Corequisites: All of: NUR520
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NUR606 Advanced Pharmacology for Prescribers
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course will focus on advanced concepts of pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacotherapeutics in the direct care role of the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) in prescribing. Students will examine pharmacologic principles across the lifespan and in various clinical practice settings with an emphasis on clinical reasoning, safe practices, and professional collaboration.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: All of: NUR520
Corequisites: None
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NUR602 Advanced Pharmacology
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course will focus on advanced concepts in pharmacology in direct care roles in nursing education. Students will review basic principles of pharmacology with emphasis on safe administration, the major drug classes, patient education, and student/staff education.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: All of: NUR601 OR Academic Advisor's Approval
Corequisites: None
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RAD370 Advanced Patient Assessments
College of Health Science Medical Radiography Department
Course Description: This course provides advanced patient care skills for the experienced radiologic technologist. Students will learn concepts of patient education, assessment, communication, preprocedural and postprocedural care, and proper charting and documentation. Technologists' responsibilities and intervention in cases of critical patient care will also be covered. A unit on pharmacology will focus on drugs and their applications in medical imaging.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: All of: RAD360
Corequisites: None
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EMS207 Advanced Patient Assessment
College of Health Science Emergency Medical Services Department
Course Description: This course presents advanced patient assessment skills for the paramedic, building on the basic foundation from EMT. Topics include Life Span Development, Scene Survey, Comprehensive History and Physical Examination, Basic ECG recognition, cardiac monitoring and introduction to 12 lead ECG.
Credit Hours: 4.00
Prerequisites: All of: EMS205
Corequisites: EMS241
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NUR520 Advanced Pathophysiology
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course provides the background for graduate students to discuss the complex nature of disease and abnormal physiological processes. Students will gain advanced understanding in diseases processes and analyze the underlying cause of various disorders. Topics in this course will include signs and symptomatology, underlying causes, risk factors, progression of disease and approaches to care.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: All of: NUR511
Corequisites: None
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- Nursing (MS) | Concentration in Family Nurse Practitioner
- Nursing (MS) | Concentration in Nursing Education
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BPA235 Advanced Pastry Design
College of Culinary Arts Baking and Pastry Arts Department
Course Description: This advanced course emphasizes the creation of modern cakes and entremets using contemporary pastry techniques. Students will craft multi-format cakes and layered entremets with precision, employing both molded and hand-shaped methods. Key focus areas include structural integrity, uniformity, and refined execution. The course also introduces the principles of ice cream production—covering formulation, flavor balancing, texture refinement, and storage—culminating in applications as both standalone desserts and integrated components of plated entremets. Additional topics include the use of chocolate and sugar garnishes, meringue techniques, and the deliberate use of decorative elements. Students will also explore seasonal flavor development, global ingredient integration, and plating strategies that emphasize composition, contrast, and temperature dynamics.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: All of: BPA120
Corequisites: None
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DMS203 Advanced Obstetric Sonography
College of Health Science Diagnostic Medical Sonography Department
Course Description: This course will teach the sonographic evaluation of the second and third trimester fetus from 14 weeks to term. Maternal and fetal assessment in the abnormal pregnancy including congenital anomalies, intrauterine growth restriction will be discussed. Students will build upon their basic scanning skills with correlated laboratory exercises.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: All of: DMS202
Corequisites: None
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SDC330L Advanced Object-oriented Programming Using Java LAB
College of Technology Software Development and Coding Department
Course Description: This course will provide students with practice in using Advanced Object-Oriented Programming concepts using the Java programming language. Students use advanced object-oriented programming concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, the use of interfaces, abstraction, file access, and database connectivity to produce working application components that will be used as part of a larger application.
Credit Hours: 1.00
Prerequisites: All of: SDC230
Corequisites: SDC330
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