An exploration of computer science for first-year CICS students, focusing on a single topic.

An exploration of computer science for first-year CICS students, focusing on a single topic.

An exploration of computer science for first-year CICS students, focusing on a single topic.

Through skill development and contact with professionals, this course prepares students for successful careers in public policy and administration. Students gain an understanding of their strengths and develop career goals.

The purpose of this course is to provide professionals in higher education with a foundational understanding of helping skills. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate basic helping skills; including active listening skills, nonverbal and verbal responses, dynamic empathetic and compassionate interactions. The focus of this course will also translate learned helping skills into the development of helping strategies and interventions to fit a variety of settings within higher education.

This course covers the basic principles of pharmacology, including general drug types, dosage forms, drug administration, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. Drug packaging, labeling, and dispensing are covered, as are record keeping for pharmacologic agents. The legal and ethical factors involved in handling pharmaceuticals are considered. Prescription notation and review of drug calculations are also included.

This course surveys the common disease conditions of the major body systems in the canine and feline patient. The technician?s role in diagnostic procedures, treatments, emergency and critical care, preventative medicine, and client education relative to these disease conditions is emphasized.

Fundamentals of quantum information systems, including quantum computation and quantum cryptography. Topics include: quantum circuit model, qubits, unitary operators, measurement, entanglement, quantum algorithms for factoring and search, quantum key distribution, error-correction and fault-tolerance, complexity of quantum computation. This course counts as a CS Elective for the CS Major (BA or BS).