School of Business

• Describe the first major federal investigative agencies and their responsibilities.
• Explain the historical evolution of the laws of arrest, search, and seizure.
• Define the role of the investigator and the skills and qualities they must possess.
• Distinguish between class and individual characteristics.
• Differentiate between interviews and interrogation.
• Recognize the different formats for basic incident reports.
• Elaborate on the follow-up investigation process.
• Define and distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
• Assess the investigator's responsibilities when responding to the scene of a suspected homicide or assault.
• Discuss interview procedure and investigative questions for sexual assault cases.
• Describe the role of law enforcement in school crime.
• Identify and explain the elements of a robbery.
• Identify the characteristics of different types of burglaries.
• Distinguish between tangible and intangible property.
• Identify types of motor vehicle theft.
• Explain the types of crime in which the computer is the target.
• Explain the connection between crime in the agricultural environment and cities.
• Define the steps in the preliminary investigation of arson.
• List and Describe synthetic narcotics.
• Identify the different terrorist groups that threaten the United States and its allies.
• Illustrate the steps in the trial process.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Interpret the law and the role is plays in our daily lives.
• Compare the differences in substantive law and procedural law.
• Describe the different types of jurisdiction like subject matter, geographic, and hierarchical.
• Compare the difference between trial and appellate courts.
• Assess the potential for prosecutorial misconduct or discretionary abuse that arises from the extensive powers of prosecutors.
• Examine the legal ethics and responsibilities of defense counsels.
• Assess the circumstances under which defendants may request and receive a jury trial.
• Describe the different judicial selection methods.
• Classify the different kinds of judges and the diversity of their powers.
• Summarize the history of juries including the development of the grand and petit juries.
• Describe the process of jury decision making and voting.
• Describe the arrest and booking process and the initial appearance.
• Examine alternate dispute resolution, including its application, advantages, and disadvantages.
• Demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by plea bargaining and the conditions under which it is applied.
• Discuss the necessity for a speedy trial for a defendant.
• Describe the process of defense presentation of its case and summation.
• Interpret truth-in-sentencing provisions and how they evolved.
• Explain the function and goals of sentencing.
• Describe the basic components of the juvenile justice system.
• Compare several important trends in juvenile justice that have significance for how juveniles are processed.
• Assess the important of media in the shaping of our perception of justice.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Explain the concept of delinquency and status offenders
• Examine the nature and extent of delinquency
• Examine individual views of delinquency, including choice theory, trait theory, biosocial theory and psychological theories of delinquency
• Examine sociological views of delinquency, including social structure theories, social process theories, social reaction theories, and social conflict theories of delinquency
• Be able to explain developmental views of delinquency, including contemporary life course concepts, life course theories, and latent trait theories
• Examine gender and delinquency
• Discuss the family and delinquency: makeup, influence, and abuse
• Examine peers and delinquency: juvenile gangs and groups
• Review the role of schools in delinquency
• Examine drug use and delinquency
• Describe social and developmental perspectives on delinquency prevention
• Discuss the history and development of juvenile justice
• Review police work with juveniles
• Examine juvenile pretrial procedures, trial, and disposition
• Discuss juvenile probation and community treatment
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor
• Integrate course concepts in the form of a final paper
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

• Describe the history of victimology and recent rise of victims’ rights
• Summarize sources of information about crime victims
• Explain risk factors for violent crimes, including murder and robbery
• Summarize victims' contribution to the problem of crime and examine cooperation and conflict with law enforcement
• Explain the relationship between victims and prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and corrections officials
• Examine children as victims
• Examine the incidence of violence perpetrated by lovers and family members as well as rape and other sexual assaults
• Explain special problems faced by victims of violence at school or the work place, stalkers, hate crimes, and terrorism
• Explore various theories and means of obtaining restitution for victims
• Explore alternative directions in victimology, including restorative and retaliatory justice
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

• Describe the evolution of community policing
• Explain the basic role of the police, including mission, culture, public image, and discretion
• Describe the role of the community in community policing
• Summarize proactive policing, including use of the SARA model, mediation, and technology
• Explore various means of implementing community policing, including mission statement, needs assessment, strategic planning, hiring and promoting, overcoming resistance, and avoiding pitfalls
• Describe basic interpersonal skills involved in community policing
• Describe the importance of building partnerships to implement community policing, including working with the media
• Discuss the common goal of the police and the media.
• Examine the history and evolution of community policing and describe community policing with respect to crime prevention
• Assess how community policing has addressed citizen fear of crime.
• Explain community policing as applied to the drug problem
• Explain the importance of bringing youth into community policing and explore the challenges posed by gangs
• Measure the effectiveness of the strategies put in place to address gang violence.
• Examine the problems of violence and terrorism and explore research findings and their implications for the future of community policing
• Summarize the concerns related to the war on terrorism.
• Describe the issues raised by experiments in criminal justice.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Explain the relevance of criminal justice research
• Recognize internal and external factors in research design
• Identify the general steps of empirical research
• Understand the need for a code of ethics in research and ways to avoid ethical problems
• Explain alternative data-gathering strategies
• Describe basic sampling methodologies
• Summarize issues involved secondary analysis and official statistics
• Know the characteristics of participant observation as well as unobtrusive methodology
• Explain validity and reliability
• Describe data analysis
• Summarize policy analysis and evaluation research
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Examine crime, criminology, and criminal law and recognize the differences among the various schools of criminological thought
• Recognize the nature and extent of crime, including age, gender, and racial patterns in crime, the association between social class and crime, factors that influence crime rates, and the concept of victimization
• Become familiar with the concept of victimization, including the association between lifestyle and victimization
• Be able to summarize and distinguish between choice, trait, and social structure theories
• Be able to summarize and distinguish between social process, social conflict, and developmental theories
• Be able to summarize and distinguish between violent, property, and enterprise crime
• Define and explain public order crime
• Examine the criminal justice system and the historic and present day roles of law enforcement agencies
• Examine and summarize the judicatory process
• Describe the development of the prison as a means of punishment, the nature of probation and its various services, and different types of correctional facilities and their level of security
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor
• Integrate course concepts in the form of a written term paper

• Compare and contrast different organizational systems used in law enforcement agencies.
• Assess effective management and leadership styles, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each.
• Examine community policing.
• Explore the communication process and explain its importance in effective management.
• Diagram different methods of problem solving and assess the usefulness of each in law enforcement organizations.
• Explain the importance of time and cost management in law enforcement organizations.
• Discuss hiring and training processes and the importance of training.
• Describe methods of promoting growth and development.
• Describe methods of motivation, discipline, conflict management, and for managing complaints, grievances, and other problems in law enforcement organizations.
• Assess the varieties of, effects of, and methods of dealing with job stress in the law enforcement setting.
• Examine deployment of law enforcement resources and management of costs.
• Outline the importance of and methods for developing good working relations with unions .
• Summarize methods of assessment and evaluation of performance in law enforcement.
• Consider current trends in law enforcement management and describe the contribution you can make to strengthen the system.
• Integrate course conepts in the form of a written Term Paper.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Interact with classmates and Faculty Mentor to share ideas and information.

• Examine and Analyze Criminal Justice issues through a research project approved by your Academic Advisor

• Define the basic structure of the Criminal Justice System.
• Differentiate the types of crimes against persons.
• Illustrate how economic, class, and social inequalities can be linked to the causes of crime.
• Explain the rule of law.
• Describe the structure of law enforcement.
• Identify the principal policing roles.
• Identify the limitations on law enforcement activities imposed by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
• Distinguish state, local, and federal courts and their jurisdictions.
• Define the rights afforded to criminal defendants by the Sixth Amendment.
• Describe the constitutional protections that affect sentencing.
• Define and corrections and describe its role in society.
• Distinguish between jails and prisons.
• Contrast intensive and traditional supervision probation.
• Differentiate between the various victims; responses to trauma.
• Explain the nature and extent of identity theft.
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Examine police history and the organization of public and private security in the United States
• Explain outline the organization of a police department
• Outline the process of becoming a police officer
• Summarize the role of police and discover extent of police discretion
• Examine the police culture and personality, including effects of stress and incidence of suicide
• Compare traditional and new approaches to police operations
• Examine the relationship of police to the community and summarize the philosophy of community policing
• Demonstrate an understanding of criminal procedure as applied to police conduct
• Examine police ethics and police deviance, including police corruption, police brutality, and other police misconduct
• Examine issues related to women and minorities in policing including discrimination and the white male backlash
• Identify the uses of computers, technology, and criminalistics in policing
• Examine specific police problems and issues, including the use of deadly force, automobile pursuits, and police civil and criminal liability
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

• Describe how crime is measured in the United States.
• Explain the role of correctional reformers.
• Explain the sentencing options in use today.
• Explain the different ways that probation is administered.
• Define intermediate sanctions and describe their purpose.
• Describe the purposes of jails.
• Illustrate the nine eras of prison development.
• Discuss the history of American parole development.
• Define the staff roles within the organizational hierarchy of correctional institutions.
• Describe state inmate populations.
• Examine the sources of prisoners rights.
• Discuss management needs of special population inmates.
• Identify the methods of controlling prison overcrowding.
• Summarize the history of America's victims' rights movement.
• Discuss the politics influencing capital punishment.
• Summarize the U.S. Supreme Court cases that changed modern-day juvenile course proceedings.
• Summarize the results of the Correctional Education Association's three-state recidivism study of education.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.

• Discuss the nature, purpose and origins of criminal law
• Explain the constitutional limits on criminal law
• Summarize the general principle of criminal action (actus reus)
• Explain mens rea, concurrence, and causation
• Summarize the defenses to criminal liability, includihng justifications and excuses
• Examine the parties to a crime and vicarious liability
• Explain liability for uncompleted crimes such as attempt, conspiracy and solicitation
• Describe crimes against persons, including homicide, criminal sexual conduct, bodily injury, and personal restraint
• Distinguish between the various crimes against property: larceny, robbery, extortion, embezzlement, false pretenses, forgery, arson, burglary, and criminal trespass
• Examine crimes against public order and morals
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor
• Integrate course concepts in the form of a final paper
• Identify crimes against the state

• Explain the right to counsel
• Describe seizures of a person and identification procedures
• Distinguish between legal and illegal searches and seizures of property
• Explain the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule
• Describe the preliminary stages of the prosecution
• Identify the preliminary stages of the prosecution
• Examine pretrial motions
• Describe the trial process
• Examine situations leading to judicial review

• Identify the basic principles of effective writing.
• Summarize the sequence of steps in writing an effective paragraph.
• Illustrate how to write a simple paragraph.
• Define the organization of specific evidence in a paper by using a clear method of organization.
• Plan your sentences to flow smoothly and clearly.
• Evaluate a paragraph for unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills.
• Explain how to develop an exemplification paragraph.
• Illustrate how to write a process paragraph.
• Develop a cause and effect paragraph.
• Illustrate how to write a compare/contrast paragraph.
• Explain how to write a division-classification paragraph.
• Show how to write a description paragraph.
• Develop a narrative paragraph.
• Develop an argument paragraph.
• Compare the differences between a paragraph and an essay.
• Illustrate how to use the Internet to find books on your topic.
• Explain the six steps in writing a research paper.
• Explain the relationship between subject and verb.
• Identify sentence fragements.
• Define fused sentences.
• Identify standard english forms of vebs.
• Show an understanding of subject/verb agreement.
• Identify pronoun types.
• Illustrate the use of adverbs and adjectives.
• Demonstrate proper format in written communication.
• Demonstrate the use of proper punctuation in written communication.
• Demonstrate proper paper formatting.
• Integrate the correct use of capital letters in your written communication.
• Integrate the usage of proper punctuation in you writing.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Good writing
· The writing process
· Audience
· Persona
· The process of revision
· Sentence structure
· Paragraph development
· Abstract/concrete language
· Connotation, metaphor and tone
· Argumentative writing
· Writing mechanics

• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Demonstrate the structure of the traditional essay.
• Define the sequence of steps in writing an effective essay.
• Show how to develop and support a thesis.
• Connect specific evidence in the body paragraphs of an essay .
• Demonstrate revision capabilities so that your sentences flow smoothly and clearly.
• Evaluate an essay for unity, support, and coherence.
• Describe the nine major patterns of essay development.
• Analyze descriptive writing for its strengths and weaknesses.
• Analyze narrative writing for its strengths and weaknesses.
• Write using examples to illustrate a specific point.
• Explain a process — how to do or make something — in writing.
• Illustrate cause and effect - in writing, in order to help a reader understand something.
• Show in writing how two things are similar (comparing) or different (contrasting).
• Illustrate definition writing.
• Explain a subject by dividing it or by categorizing its constituent parts according to a single principle.
• Analyze written arguments for their strengths and weaknesses.
• Summarize 5 important steps in taking essay exams.
• Illustrate the steps necessary in writing summaries.
• Illustrate the steps necessary in writing reports.
• Illustrate the steps necessary in writing a resume.
• Discuss the basic information you need to utilize your college library.
• Identify the six steps to writing a research paper.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Topic ideas.
· Print and electronic research techniques.
· Research strategy.
· Note taking techniques.
· Citation style format.
· Methods of development.
· The finished research paper.

ENG101 English Composition I

• Analyze the significant areas of American society in the literature of Reason and Revolution, 1770 – 1815.
• Discuss literary themes, symbolism and language in the literature of Romanticism.
• Identify the themes of individualism in transcendentalist writers.
• Explain the concept of civil disobedience in the works of Henry David Thoreau.
• Compare the themes, style and language in the works of romantic poets.
• Compare and contrast the realists/regionalists style with that of the romantic writers.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learner will understand major concepts of...

· Symbolism
· Romanticism
· Romance novel
· Gothic literature
· Transcendentalism
· Individualism
· Civil disobedience
· Literary realism

• Choose, define and limit a research topic
• Identify and locate free or fee-based information resources and services available for research.
• Find and use reference materials most commonly used in library research.
• Use the library's electronic resources effectively (mainly the online library catalogs and periodical indexes).
• Use the Internet to access information such as library collections, information services, databases, subject guides and Internet search engines.
• Recognize and utilize people sources including other Learners, Mentors, Discussion Forums and reference librarians.
• Evaluate the information found.
• Explain research techniques and present the results in a scholarly manner.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Scholarly research process
· Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
· Document Delivery
· Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs)
· Types of libraries
· Library reference
· Subject headings
· Classification systems
· Indexes and abstracts
· Bibliographic and full-text databases
· Boolean operators and keyword searching
· Virtual libraries
· Search engines
· WWW, e-mail, FTP and Telnet
· Style manuals

• Summarize basic philosophical problems.
• Explain alternative answers to philosophical problems.
• Describe the art, skill and use of philosophical analysis and synthesis.
• Investigate the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
• Acquire philosophical skills as conceptual clarification and the ability to evaluate and construct sound arguments in order that they might reason more clearly and effectively.
• Participate in the use of philosophical skills for conceptual clarification and the ability to evaluate and construct sound arguments in order that they might reason more clearly and effectively.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Investigate the nature of ethics.
• Describe the natural law ethics.
• Understand Kantian ethics.
• Define utilitarian ethics.
• Explain social contract ethics.
• Apply ethics in practice: contemporary moral issues.
• Apply moral theory: the issue of torture.
• Investigate the ethics of nuclear war.
• Examine the ethics of suicide.
• Compare ethical issues in abortion.
• Understand the ethics of euthanasia.
• Summarize sexual ethics.
• Describe aid for the needy.
• Examine racism and sexism.
• Explain capital punishment.
• Examine ethics and the environment.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

• Develop appreciation for the overall nature, scope, function and purpose of religion.
• Compare the prehistoric and historic roots of the world’s major religions.
• Examine differing beliefs in god and/or gods and goddesses.
• Describe doctrines and values.
• Identify basic world religions’ literature.
• Describe differing world views of major religions.
• Examine key myths and rituals.
• Analyze how beliefs are manifested in daily life.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learners will understand these concepts:

· Sympathetic magic
· Nature of religion in prehistoric and primal cultures
· Ritual and Rites
· Myth
· Initiation
· Animism
· Henotheism
· Polytheism
· Pantheism
· Theism
· Karma
· Reincarnation
· Resurrection
· Salvation
· Nirvana and Satori
· Afterlife
· Illusion
· Ultimate reality
· Source of suffering
· Immortality
· The meaning of life
· Yin and yang
· Spirit visitation and ecstatic experience
· Priesthood and Shamanism

• Learn the definitions of argument, premise, and conclusion.
• Differentiate between a value judgment and an issue.
• Identify unstated or implied premises in an argument and identify them.
• Familiarize yourself with the basic principles of organization and focus as they apply to writing argumentative essays.
• Demonstrate how ambiguity can threaten clarity.
• Illustrate the issues of credibility that arise in advertising.
• Define what rhetoric is.
• Understand how psychological fallacies relate to good arguments.
• Identify examples of the
• Assess and use categorical claims with familiarity and comfort.
• Analyze and work with truth-functional arguments.
• Explain what inductive arguments are.
• Describe the purpose of random selection in setting up a generalization.
• Differentiate between an argument and an explanation.
• Explain the special nature of moral reasoning.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

• Demonstrate the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.
• Illustrate the three types of fractions.
• Demonstrate the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions.
• Explain the place value of whole numbers and decimals.
• Demonstrate the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals.
• Demonstrate keeping an accurate checking account balance.
• Interpret personal financial statements.
• Explain the basic procedures used to solve equations for the unknown.
• Compute sales and cash discounts, markup, markdown, and break-even pricing.
• Calculate markups based on cost and selling price.
• Calculate employee gross pay, and employee payroll taxes.
• Analyze simple interest and maturity value for months and years.
• Define the structure of promissory notes and the simple discount note.
• Differentiate between simple and compound interest and compare present value with compound interest.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the applications of percents.

Learners should understand major concepts of…
· Basic arithmetic operations.
· Percents, ratios and proportions.
· Maintaining accurate checking account records.
· Information contained in financial statements.
· Overhead expenses, inventories, and depreciation.
· Payroll and payroll taxes.
· Various business taxes.
· Simple interest.
· Sales pricing.
· International business.
· Statistics in retail and merchandising operations.
· Time value of money.
· Investment evaluation and selection

• Solve for a specified variable in a formula or literal equation.
• Identify and simplify imaginary and complex numbers.
• Express a relation in mapping notation and ordered pair form.
• Graph functions that are piecewise defined functions.
• Use the factor theorem to evaluate polynomials.
• Solve applications involving with oblique or nonlinear asymptotes.
• Find the domain of a logarithmic function.
• Calculate simple interest and compound interest.
• Visualize a solution in three solutions.
• Solve a system of linear inequalities.
• Recognize inconsistent and dependent systems.
• Use determinants to find whether a matrix in invertible.
• Locate points that are an equal distance from a given point and a given line.
• Distinguish between the equations of a circle, ellipse, and hyperbola.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Exponents and Radicals
· Variation
· Polynomials
· Parabolas, Hyperbolas, and Ellipses
· Logarithms
· Linear Programming
· Determinants
· The Binomial Theorem
· Difference Quotient
· Algebraic Expressions
· Quadratic Equations
· Inequalities
· Zeros of Polynomials
· Rational Functions
· Partial Fractions
· Infinite Sequences
· Mutually Exclusive Events
· Laws of Exponents
· Vertices
· Symmetry

• Describe statistics.
• Examine the scales of measurement.
• Interpret frequency of distribution.
• Explain the rules for graphing.
• Compare measures of central tendency.
• Summarize standard deviation and variance.
• Explain the binomial probability distribution.
• Describe the characteristics of the normal curve.
• Demonstrate the step-by-step procedure for null testing.
• Identify the sampling distribution of the differences between sample means.
• Illustrate the visualization of ANOVA concepts.
• Summarize the advantages of the two-factor design.
• Compare correlation and causation.
• Demonstrate the chi square goodness-of-fit test.
• Explain the Mann-Whitney U Test.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learners will understand major concepts of†&

· Central tendency.
· Variability.
· Independence.
· Binomial Distribution.
· Probability.
· Sampling Distribution.
· Inference.
· Hypothesis testing.
· Analysis of variance.
· Confidence level.
· Multivariate design.
· Regression study.

• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Explain the structure and history of the earth and the solar system.
• Distinguish the composition of rocks and minerals
• Identify and energy and mineral resources.
• Describe the theory of plate tectonics.
• Assess the causes of earthquakes.
• Describe the nature of volcanic activity.
• Explain the hydrologic cycle.
• Explain the formation of shorelines.
• Rank the factors that influence slope stability.
• Contrast the various types of erosion.
• Describe the greenhouse effect.
• Explain the significance of ground water.
• Distinguish between soil erosion and soil formation.
• Distinguish between energy and mineral resources.
• Describe the formation of oil and natural gas deposits.
• Explore the various alternative sources of energy.
• Analyze waste disposal strategies.
• Describe the major components of water pollution.
• Identify measures that have been taken to clean up our waterways.
• Describe the major components of air pollution.
• Identify measures that have been taken to clean up our air.

• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of common health terminology.
• Discuss how genetic inheritance plays an important role in a person’s health.
• Describe influences on the development of mental health and mental illness.
• Summarize the strategies to build a spiritual life.
• Explain both the stress response and the relaxation response.
• Assess the physiological origin of sleep and wakefulness.
• Discuss the nutritional guidelines for Americans set forth by the United States.
• Analyze the strategies to incorporate physical activity for life.
• List ways to promote a healthy body image.
• Explain the different approaches to treatment for alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence.
• Illustrate the differences between drug use, misuse, and abuse.
• Examine the patterns of tobacco use in the United States.
• Compare different ways in which people pursue and establish love and intimacy.
• Discuss common varieties of sexual behavior and expressions.
• Describe the various forms of contraception available to men and women in the United States.
• Assess the current level of violence in the United States.
• Explain the major causes of injury and death in the home and work site.
• Compare how overpopulation relates to both energy and natural resources.
• Discuss the biological defenses that the body has to fight infection and disease.
• Describe how the cardiovascular system works.
• Discuss the known risk factors for cancer.
• Classify the basis of traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, and naturopathic medicine.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Psychological wellness.
· Stress management.
· Healthy and unhealthy eating behaviors.
· Physical fitness.
· Relationships and roles.
· Sexual health and reproductive choices.
· Harmful habits and addictions.
· Protecting your health and reducing health risks.
· Death and the process of grieving.

• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Define Environmental Science.
• Demonstrate how critical thinking can help us understand environmental issues.
• Describe environmental systems.
• Examine the interactions among species.
• Analyze the relationship between population growth and the impact it has on the environment.
• Explain the nine major terrestrial biomes.
• Design a plan outlining the steps that can be taken to preserve global forests.
• Explain why soil is a living resource.
• Define environmental health.
• Summarize the relationship between the greenhouse effect and our environment.
• Assess the ways water can be conserved.
• Compare the differences in the continental crust and the oceanic crust.
• Identify where we get most of our energy.
• Describe the major components of the waste stream.
• Explain the relationship between economics and urbanization.
• Discuss how environmental policy is formed.

• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Describe the major subfields of anthropology.
• Illustrate how anthropology is a scientific discipline.
• Classify the evidence for geological evolution.
• Explain how new species evolve from existing ones.
• Define the characteristics of culture.
• Describe the taxonomic system of classifying and naming species.
• Compare the different types of primates and the traits that distinguish them.
• Summarize what you know about the evolution of primates.
• Compare human sexual behavior to that of most mammals.
• Define what scientific evidence refutes the existence of biological human races.
• Measure what we know about the social organization of non human primates.
• Compare the different types of marriages we find in human societies.
• Define the features of the human communication system.
• Compare the variable features of religious systems.
• Describe the processes that bring about change within a cultural system.
• Discuss the ways culture and biology interacts to produce human behavior.
• Explain how anthropological knowledge can be applied to modern concerns.
• Define the status of our species today.

· What is anthropology?
· Genetics and evolution
· Primate evolution: from early primates to hominoids
· The origins of culture and the emergence of homo
· The Upper Paleolithic world
· Origins of food production and settled life
· Origins of cities and states
· Human variation and adaptation
· The concept of culture
· Social stratification and economic systems
· Political life: social order and disorder
· Associations and interest groups
· Psychology and culture
· Applied and practicing anthropology
· Global social problems

• Learn about the European discovery of America.
• Become familiar with social and political reform as a result of the American Revolution.
• Acquire knowledge about the Monroe Doctrine.
• Gain information about American intellectual culture.
• Develop an understanding of slavery.
• Be familiar with the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Understand reconstruction and the Reconstruction Acts.
• Acquire knowledge about the industrial and technological revolutions.
• Learn about the political reforms of the Progressive Era.
• Gain knowledge about the reasons for and results of American participation in World War I, World War II and Vietnam
• Acquire knowledge about the causes and results of Watergate.
• Apply historical concepts to our times.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information effieiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Middle Class America
· Expansion and Slavery
· Civil War
· Reconstruction
· Industrialism
· The Great Depression
· World Wars I and II
· The New Era
· The New Deal
· Postwar Economy and Society
· Vietnam and Watergate
· Social and Economic Trends of the 1980s

• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Describe the roots of the American democratic system.
• Differentiate between direct and indirect or representative democracy.
• Summarize the basic ideas upon which the early American colonies were based.
• Define and understand the meaning of Federalism.
• Explain the differences that exist between the House and the Senate with regard to how a bill becomes law.
• Identify the differences between presidential powers in domestic and foreign affairs.
• Identify the factors that work to enhance and impede the independence of the judicial branch of government.
• Outline the modern organization of the executive branch of the federal government.
• Describe the evolution of sophisticated polling techniques during the 20th century and their impact on elections.
• Summarize the functions of American political parties.
• Assess the four key influences on voter choice and be able to explain why these are primary influences.
• Know the importance of the First Amendment protections enjoyed by interest groups.
• Demonstrate the importance of access to free, unbiased information in a democracy.
• Evaluate ideological bias in the media via journalists, editors, and ownership.
• Examine the challenges to freedom of the press in the twentieth century.
• Trace the important legislative steps taken to achieve African American equality.
• Differentiate between equality of opportunity and equality of result
• Analyze the policy-making process as a political process.
• Examine the sources of government revenue.
• Summarize the goals of American foreign relations.
• Identify constraints upon the powers of both the president and Congress in foreign policy

Participants will understand major concepts of…

· Democracy.
· American political culture.
· Liberalism.
· Conservatism.
· Rights and liberty.
· Capitalism.
· Public opinion.
· Proportional representation.
· Interest groups.

• Define sociology as a social science.
• Discuss the ethics of social research.
• Discuss the various elements of culture.
• Discuss the role of socialization.
• Explain the various elements of social structure.
• Describe the various types of groups.
• Discuss the various roles of media from the functionalist perspective.
• Define and discuss the elements of social control.
• Discuss the various sociological perspectives on stratification.
• Discuss social policy on universal human rights.
• Define racial, ethnic, and minority groups.
• Explain the social construction of gender roles.
• Define the conflict approach to age stratification.
• Describe the various compositions of family.
• Explain the sociological approach to religion.
• Describe the nature of schools as formal organizations.
• Identify the various types of authority.
• Summarize the elements of socialism and capitalism as economic systems.
• Describe the health care system in the United States.
• Distinguish between the nature of central cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
• Illustrate the issues surrounding world population policy.
• Classify the various theories of collective behavior.
• Examine the influence of economic and cultural factors on resisting social change.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learner will understand major concepts of...

· Sociological approach
· Culture and socialization
· Deviance
· Social stratification
· Class
· Racial and gender inequality
· Families Education
· Religion
· Power and politics

• Explain the importance of psychology.
• Summarize the basics of the functions of the brain and neuron.
• Discuss the major forms of Gestalt perception theory.
• Explain how learning works through classical and operant conditioning.
• Discuss the major types of memory.
• Summarize the major developmental theories of psychology.
• Summarize the major components of Piaget’s theories of cognitive development.
• Explain Erikson’s stage theory of development.
• Summarize the basics of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
• Explain various types of psychological tests.
• Explore intelligence testing.
• Explain the fundamentals of abnormal psychology.
• Explain the basic premise of behavior therapy.
• Explain the social psychology of our conception of ourselves and others.
• Summarize social behavior.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learners will understand major concepts of:

· Biological foundations of Psychology: The Brain & The Neuron
· Sensation and Perception
· Learning: Classical & Operant Conditioning
· Memory & Forgetting
· Cognitive Development & Lifespan Development
· Social and Personality: The Development of Sex Roles
· Personality Theories
· Psychological Assessment: Psychometrics
· Psychological Disorders: Psychoanalytic Theory & Psychopathology
· Treatment: Theories of Psychotherapy
· Attitudes and Social Perception
· Social Influence and Human Behavior