School of Business

• Define and explain business and its basic terms.
• Summarize the basics of economics, including supply and demand.
• Describe the traits of a successful entrepreneur.
• Define marketing and name the types of market segmentations.
• Describe the Human Resource Management process.
• Identify and describe techniques that improve productivity.
• Explain information technology's role in business.
• Describe the steps in the accounting cycle and explain different areas of accounting.
• Demonstrate the four functions of management.
• Illustrate the difference between management and leadership.
• Compare the different strategies for reaching global markets.
• Define ethics and understand the approaches to making ethical decisions.
• Explain the strategies of building a financial base.
• 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 history of Business Law.
• Describe the legal system in the United States.
• Recognize and understand the courts and their functions.
• Describe how the courts handle lawsuits.
• Describe the types of contracts and how they differ from agreements.
• Discuss the requirements for a valid contract.
• Identify classifications of individuals who may not have the capacity to contract.
• define consideration.
• Describe the mistakes that invalidate a contract.
• Explain what types of contracts are void for illegality.
• Distinguish adequate from inadequate writings when a written contract is required.
• Describe the different types of contracts involving more than two people.
• Differentiate between bearer paper and order paper.
• List seven requirements of negotiability.
• Identify two different kinds of drafts.
• Discuss how an agency is usually created.
• Specify the duties an agent owes the principal and the principal owes the agent.
• Name the duties an employee owes the employer
• Explain the restriction on employers in requiring invasive or offensive testing of employees and job applicants.
• Identify important terms used in insurance.
• Define property insurance.
• Identify the purposes for bankruptcy and who may file for it.
• Define real property.
• Describe the means by which title to real estate is transferred.
• List the duties and rights of a mortgagor.
• 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...

· Torts
· Contracts
· Agency
· Personal Property
· Real Property
· Sales Warranties
· Liens and Mortgages
· Commercial Paper
· Corporations
· Insurance
· Employment Law

• 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 pluralism and identify its attributes, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Explain how corporate citizenship develops in stages in companies
• Define stake and stakeholder and describe the origins of these concepts
• Identify the issues of legitimacy to corporate governance
• Describe the concept of corporate public policy and relate it to strategic management
• List and discuss the major stages or steps involved in managing business crises
• Explain the conventional approach to business ethics
• Understand the different levels at which business ethics may be addressed
• Identify the role that technology plays in our business lives
• Enumerate international rights and moral guidelines for improving business operations in the global sphere
• Articulate a brief history of government's role in its relationship with business
• Describe the evolution of corporate political participation
• Recite the consumer's Magna Carta and explain its meaning
• Explain the role and functions of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration
• Discuss the concept of sustainability
• Differentiate between strategic philanthropy, cause-related marketing, and cause branding
• Identify the major changes that are occurring in the workforce today
• Articulate the concerns surrounding the employee's right to privacy in the workplace
• Chronicle the U.S. civil rights movement and minority progress for the past 50 years

• Demonstrate an effective writing strategy.
• Apply the first steps of composing: prewriting and planning.
• Manage aspects of style that lead to simple, clear, and concise writing.
• Develop an editing strategy.
• Compose, edit, and revise paragraphs.
• Identify transitional elements and apply them to paragraphing decisions.
• Plan effective voice mail messages.
• Format and use e-mail, letters, memos, and faxes effectively.
• Identify and use the elements of persuasive writing.
• Compose sales and marketing letters.
• Examine the qualities of informal communication, such as tone and body language.
• Develop and organize informational presentations.
• Associate outward business behaviors with culturally held values, assumptions, life experiences, and concepts of self-awareness.
• Recognize and critique global communication styles.
• Identify the characteristics and mechanics of successful teams.
• Analyze team dynamics and make recommendations for effectiveness.
• Identify your transferable skills.
• Design your resume and cover letter.
• Prepare for a job interview.
• Identify your leadership experiences, qualities, and values.
• Identify proper punctuation, usage, and formatting.
• 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.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations .

• Acquire an understanding of basic accounting concepts and practices.
• Explain the meaning of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Identify business transactions using the accounting equation.
• Describe the basic accounting functions.
• Explain the steps in processing transactions.
• Analyze the impact of transactions on accounts and financial statements.
• Identify the goals of the adjusting and closing processes.
• Compute profit margin and describe its used in analyzing company performance.
• Prepare journal entries.
• Post to general and subsidiary ledgers.
• Process notes receivable and note payable.
• Prepare financial statements.
• Describe both perpetual and periodic inventory systems.
• Identify the costs and effects of inventory.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Define internal control.
• Apply the direct write-off and allowance methods to account for accounts receivable.
• Compare and analyze alternative depreciation methods.
• Identify and describe the details of payroll reports, records, and procedures.
• Identify the characteristics of partnerships.
• 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.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

• Summarize the U.S. twentieth centruy business cycle.
• Identify types of economic resources.
• Define and graph the supply and demand curve.
• Distinguish between equity and efficiency.
• Explain the effect of each determinant of consumption
• Describe how businesses obtain capital
• Identify the major revenue sources and expenditures
• Compare US exports, imports and trade deficit with other countries
• Demonstrate the use of GNP, GDP and NNP.
• Assess problems in the current measures of unemployment and inflation.
• Differentiate the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves.
• Calculate the change in spending needed achieve a desired level of GDP.
• Define the US money supply in terms of M1, M2, and M3
• Describe the history, structure, and functions of the US Federal Reserve system.
• Summarize the propositions of Keynesian and monetarist theory.
• Identify key trends in the size and quality of the US labor force.
• 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
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Identify reasons for changes in demand and supply.
• Calculate the price elasticity of demand and interpret its meaning.
• Explain the concept of diminishing marginal utility and apply it to human behavior.
• Apply the law of diminishing returns to economic situations.
• Identify marginal revenue, total revenue and show the profit maximizing level of output.
• Define natural monopoly and identify public policies to deal with it
• Diagram monopolistically competitive profit-maximization in the short run and in the long run.
• Define and give examples of oligopoly market structures.
• Identify the primary laws in US antitrust regulation.
• Calculate the marginal revenue product schedule for a firm.
• Identify and explain the importance of US labor legislation.
• Draw and explain a supply and demand curve determination of wage rates.
• Define economic rent and summarize arguments for and against its social usefulness
• Describe the factors that explain the distribution of income in the US.
• Distinguish the balance of trade in goods from the balance of trade in services.
• Show the foreign exchange market in a supply/demand diagram.
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor
• Introduce self and explain course expectations

• Define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing process.
• Explain company wide strategic planning and its four steps.
• Describe the environmental forces that affect the company's ability to serve its customers.
• Explain the importance of information to the company and its understanding of the market place.
• Identify and discuss the stages in the buyer decision process.
• Identify and define the three steps of target marketing.
• Discuss branding strategy.
• List and define the steps in the new-product development process.
• Discuss the importance of understanding customer value perceptions and company costs when setting prices.
• Discuss how channel members interact and how they organize to perform the work of the channel.
• Describe the major types of retailers.
• Define the five promotion tools.
• Identify and explain the six major sales force management steps.
• Summarize the promise and challenges that e-commerce presents for the future.
• Describe three key approaches to entering international markets.
• Explain the role of ethics in marketing.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

• Describe what management is, why management is important, and what managers do.
• Identify the principles of administration and organization.
• Demonstrate how moods and emotions influence all members of an organization.
• Understand the relationship between ethics and the law.
• Classify the steps managers can take to effectively manage diversity.
• Explain why the ability to respond appropriately to the organizational environment is crucial for managerial success.
• Describe the six steps that managers should take to make the best decisions.
• Differentiate between the main types of corporate-level strategies.
• Explain why achieving superior efficiency is so important.
• Illustrate the factors that influence managers' choice of an organizational structure.
• Identify the main output controls, and discuss their advantages and disadvantages.
• Explain why strategic human resource management can help an organization gain a competitive advantage.
• Explain what motivation is and why managers need to be concerned about it.
• Characterize the relationship between gender and leadership.
• Explain why groups and teams are key contributors to organizational effectiveness.
• Explain why effective communication helps an organization gain a competitive advantage.
• Describe conflict management strategies that managers can use to resolve conflict effectively.
• Differentiate between data and information.
• 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 how to organize quantitative data into a frequency distribution.
• Compute range, mean, deviation, variance and standard deviation.
• Prepare and interpret a contingency table.
• Define probability.
• Formulate the mean, variance, and standard deviation of a discrete probability distribution.
• Summarize the characteristics of the normal probability distribution.
• Construct a sampling distribution of the sample mean.
• Define level of confidence.
• Differentiate between a one-tailed and a two-tailed test of hypothesis.
• Understand the difference between dependent and independent samples.
• Integrate data into a one-way ANOVA table.
• Explain how to calculate the least squares regression line.
• Describe the relationship between several independent variables and a dependent variable using multiple regression analysis.
• Classify the characteristics of the chi-square distribution.
• 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.

• Discuss the impact of Information Systems in business.
• Explain why competitive advantages are typically temporary.
• Identify the four types of artificial intelligence systems.
• Compare disruptive and sustaining technologies.
• Explain the ethical issues surrounding information.
• Identify two policies an organization can implement to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley.
• List the common input, output, storage, and communication devices.
• Describe the two primary methods for integrating information across multiple databases.
• Explain topology and the different types found in networks.
• Define the relationship between information technology and the supply chain.
• Differentiate the CRM technologies used by sales departments and customer service departments.
• Compare operational and analytical customer relationship management.
• Describe the four primary components found in core enterprise resource planning systems.
• Summarize the different software development methodologies.
• Compare the waterfall methodology and the agile methodology.
• Explain risk management and how an organization can mitigate risk
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

• Explain how the field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas.
• Analyze the income statement and the measurement of profitability.
• Explain how ratio and trend analysis shows company performance over time.
• Describe the percent of sales method used for financial forecasting
• Compare and contrast operating and financial leverage.
• Distinguish between assets that are easily converted to cash and those that are more permanent.
• Current asset management involves management of cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventory; Explain.
• Describe the most available form(s) of short-term financing.
• Illustrate the Time Value of Money.
• Distinguish between bond valuation and stock valuation.
• The cost of capital represents the overall cost of financing to the firm; Explain.
• Describe the three methods of ranking investments.
• Simulate models and decision trees that can be used to assess the risk of an investment.
• Discuss capital markets and the relationship to the Securities Market
• Examine the role of Investment Bankers as intermediaries between corporations and the investing public.
• Analyze long-term debt in relationship to the collateral pledged.
• Differentiate between Common Stock and Preferred Stock.
• Summarize factors that influence dividend policy.
• Describe the differences in types of securities.
• 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.

• Identify characteristics of corporations and their organization.
• Explain characteristics of common and preferred stock.
• Compute price-earnings ratio and describe its use in analysis.
• Assess debt features and their implications.
• Prepare entries to account for notes.
• Identify and describe the different classes of investments in securities.
• Describe the format of the statement of cash flows.
• Analyze the statement of cash flows.
• Describe standards for comparisons in analysis.
• Explain the purpose and nature of managerial accounting.
• Describe accounting concepts useful in classifying.
• Compute cost of goods sold for a manufacturer.
• Prepare job cost sheets.
• Apply job order costing in pricing services.
• Explain process operations.
• Compare process cost accounting and job order cost accounting.
• Identify bases for allocating indirect expenses to departments.
• Assign overhead costs using two-stage cost.
• Describe different types of cost behavior.
• Describe the importance and benefits of budgeting.
• Prepare each component of a master budget.
• Prepare and interpret a flexible budget.
• Explain the importance of capital budgeting.
• 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.

• Illustrate the Statement of cost of goods manufactured, income statement, and balance sheet for a manufacturing business.
• Diagram the flow of costs for a service business that used a job order cost accounting system.
• Prepare journal entries for transactions of a process manufacturer.
• Classify costs by their behavior as variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs.
• Describe the use of variable costing for service firms.
• Prepare balance sheet and income statement budgets for a manufacturing business.
• Illustrate how standards are used in budgeting.
• Compare the advantages and disadvantages of decentralized operations.
• Compute the relative profitability of products in bottleneck production environments.
• Explain the nature and importance of capital investment analysis.
• Identify three methods used for allocating factory overhead costs to products.
• Apply just-in-time manufacturing practices to a traditional manufacturing setting.
• Summarize the types of cash flow activities reported in the statement of cash flows.
• Apply financial statement analysis to assess the profitability of a business.
• 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...

· Managerial Concepts and Accounting Principles
· Job Order Cost Systems.
· Process Cost Systems.
· Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume–Profit Analysis
· Profit Reporting for Management Analysis
· Performance Evaluation Using Variances.
· Performance Evaluation for Decentralized Operations.
· Differential Analysis and Product Pricing.
· Capital Investment Analysis.
· Cost Allocation and Activity Based Costing.
· Cost Management for Just-In-Time Manufacturers.
· Statement of Cash Flows.
· Annual Reports and Financial Statement Analysis.

• Define generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Record transactions using the general journal format.
• Identify and describe the different types of adjusting journal entries.
• Describe the four basic financial statements.
• Describe the purpose of the balance sheet and understand its usefulness and limitations.
• Explain the purpose of financial statement disclosures.
• Explain the difference between net income and comprehensive income.
• Describe the purpose of the statement of cash flows.
• Discuss the general objective of the timing of revenue recognition,
• Identify and calculate the common ratios used to assess profitability.
• Compute the present and future value of a single amount.
• Explain the difference between simple and compound interest.
• Define what is meant by internal control
• Explain the possible restrictions on cash and their implications for classification on the balance sheet.
• Explain the difference between a perpetual inventory system and a periodic inventory system.
• Discuss the factors affecting a company’s choice of inventory method.
• Understand and apply the concept of cost allocation as it pertains to operational assets the lower-of-cost-or-market rule.
• Explain the appropriate accounting treatment required when a change in inventory method is made.
• Determine the initial cost of operational assets.
• Explain how to account for dispositions and exchanges.
• Explain the concept of cost allocation as it pertains to operational assets.
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Determine periodic depreciation using both time-based and activity-based methods.
• Identify and account for investments for reporting purposes.
• Classify the way investments are recorded and reported by the equity method.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Financial reporting
· Income Statement
· Balance Sheet
· Statement of Cash Flows
· Receivables
· Time Value of Money

• Distinguish between current and long-term liabilities.
• Demonstrate the appropriate accounting treatment for contingencies, including unasserted claims and assessments.
• Summarize the accounting treatment of notes, including installment notes, issued for cash or for noncash consideration.
• Describe the disclosures appropriate to long-term debt in its various forms.
• Identify and describe the operational, financial, and tax objectives that motivate leasing.
• Record all transactions associated with operating leases by both the lessor and lessee
• Explain how a change in tax rates affects the measurement of deferred tax amounts.
• Measure income tax amounts when multiple temporary differences exist.
• Distinguish among the accumulated benefit obligation, the vested benefit obligation, and the projected benefit obligation.
• Explain how the obligation for postretirement benefits is measured and how the obligation changes.
• Describe the components of shareholders’ equity and explain how they are reported in a statement of shareholders' equity.
• Record the issuance of shares when sold for cash, noncash consideration, and by share purchase contract.
• Explain and implement the accounting for stock award plans, stock options, stock appreciation rights, and employee share purchase plans.
• Describe how options, rights, and warrants are incorporated in the calculation of EPS.
• Differentiate among the three types of accounting changes.
• Formulate and apply the four-step process of correcting and reporting errors, regardless of the type of error or the timing of its discovery.
• Explain the usefulness of the statement of cash flows.
• Identify transactions that are classified as investing activities or financing activities.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learners will understand major concepts of . . .

· Non-current Operating assets.
· Long-term Investments.
· Current and Contingent Liabilities.
· Long-Term Debt Securities.
· Inventory analysis

ACT451 - Intermediate Accounting I

• Classify manufacturing costs as being direct materials, direct labor, or manufacturing overhead.
• Explain the principles of internal control that should be present in materials purchasing procedures.
• Analyze and record transactions involving the receiving, storing, and issuing of materials.
• Maintain a materials ledger using the FIFO or LIFO costing method.
• Explain and demonstrate how to keep records of time worked by employees.
• Post direct labor costs from the analysis of time tickets to job cost sheets.
• Prepare a worksheet to prorate service department costs to other service departments and to the production departments.
• Explain the purpose and theory of overhead application rates.
• Analyze over applied and under applied overhead and determine volume and spending variances.
• Illustrate the roles and relationships of the three typical inventory accounts and their subsidiary records.
• Describe a process cost accounting system and conditions that make its use appropriate.
• Compute costs per equivalent unit for each cost category.
• Prepare cost of production reports when spoilage of products or normal losses have occurred.
• Illustrate the FIFO method of accounting for costs of work in process inventories.
• Account for the removal and sale of by-products that don't require further processing.
• Classify costs as variable, fixed, or semi variable.
• Develop a sales budget.
• Explain the use of a standard manufacturing cost system for planning and control purposes.
• Apply manufacturing overhead to Work in Process and record overhead variances.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Cost accounting.
· Accounting for materials.
· Accounting for labor.
· Accounting for factory overhead.
· Job order cost accounting.
· Process cost accounting.
· Standard cost accounting.
· Cost analysis.

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• Contrast the various types of Audits and types of auditors.
• Discuss the auditor’s responsibility for detecting errors, fraud, and illegal acts.
• Describe the nature of ethics and ethical dilemmas.
• Distinguish between CPA's liability under common law and under statutory law.
• List and describe types of audit evidence.
• Identify the factors that auditors consider in accepting new clients.
• Define what is meant by internal control.
• Contrast the characteristics of an information technology-based system with those of a less sophisticated system.
• Explain the effects of changes in various population characteristics and changes in sampling risk on required sample size.
• Identify the auditors' objectives in the audit of financial investments.
• Describe the nature of receivables.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control over inventories and cost of goods sold.
• Asses the risks of material misstatement of property, plant, and equipment.
• Describe the nature of accounts payable and other liabilities.
• Describe the nature of debt.
• Complete an audit program for payroll.
• Describe the standard audit report for nonpublic entity and for public company audits.
• Present the auditors' approach to analyzing internal control when performing an integrated audit.
• Discuss the issuance of letters for underwriters and condensed financial statements.
• Describe the differences among assurance services, attestation services, and audits.
• Identify the standards for the professional practice of internal auditing
• 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.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Audit technology.
· Audit risk.
· Professional conduct.
· Auditor responsibilities.
· Audit completion.
· Audit sampling.
· Audit tests.
· Audit reports for financial statements.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Describe Human Resources (HR) changing role as a strategic partner in the business community.
• Investigate the social responsibility as related to the field of human resource management.
• Acquire information governing diversity and diversity management.
• Understand the concept of the Human Resource planning process.
• Develop skills regarding Internet recruiting, outsourcing and application tracking systems.
• Comprehend the significance of employee selection and hiring practices.
• Explain mentoring and coaching as well as managerial development.
• Review the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
• Discuss the subject of health care, defined benefit and contribution plans, flextime, and telecommunicating.
• Acquire an appreciation for the Occupational Health and Safety Act,
• Investigate breakdowns in negotiations and collective bargaining in the public sector.
• Describe approaches to disciplinary action, alternative dispute resolution, and employment at will.
• Summarize the premise behind global human resource management.
• 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.

• Identify the basic picture of a staffing model.
• Understand the significance of legal compliance and regulations.
• Differentiate between various methods of planning.
• Discuss the process of job analysis and types of job rewards.
• Classify recruitment into two types: External and Internal.
• Examine the process of externally and internally selecting a job applicant.
• Describe the decision-making process for selecting a job applicant.
• Demonstrate how a final match is made between an employer and job applicant.
• Outline the concept of staffing system and retention management.
• Summarize the use of measurement in staffing.
• 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.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Describe the roots of the American Labor Movement.
• Illustrate the advantages of unionization.
• Assess the effectiveness of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in establishing a bargaining unit.
• Discuss how the NLRB has developed a national policy to encourage collective bargaining.
• Prepare an outline of the steps involved in negotiating an agreement.
• Compare and contrast union wage and management wage concerns.
• Define concession bargaining.
• Seniority is often involved in promotion considerations, interpret the calculation of seniority.
• Summarize how to implement a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
• Describe the steps in a grievance procedure.
• Explain the different types of arbitration.
• Discuss the involvement of National Labor Unions in Global Industrial Relations.
• 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.

• Differentiate between strategic and tactical compensation.
• Analyze the external market aspects of strategic analysis.
• Examine the various laws that influence private sector companies' and labor unions' compensation practices.
• Assess the role of performance appraisal in the merit pay process.
• Compare how incentive pay and traditional pay systems differ.
• Identify reasons that companies adopt pay-for-knowledge and skill-based pay programs.
• Demonstrate the importance of building internally consistent compensation systems.
• Design the statistical analysis of compensation surveys.
• Discuss the fundamental principles of pay structure design.
• Explain the role of discretionary benefits in strategic compensation.
• Illustrate the features of defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans.
• Describe the Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993.
• Summarize the components of executive employee benefits.
• Analyze the strategic issues and choices in using contingent workers.
• Describe competitive strategies and how international activities fit in.
• Compare differences between pay and benefits in the United States and around the world.
• 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.

• Discuss key roles for training professionals.
• Identify appropriate resources for learning about training research and practice.
• Explain how the role of training is changing.
• Analyze task analysis data to determine the tasks in which people need to be trained.
• Discuss five types of learner outcomes.
• Create a work environment that will facilitate transfer of training.
• Develop a self-management module of a training program.
• Identify and choose outcomes to evaluate a training program.
• Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of presentational hands-on and group building training methods.
• Evaluate a web-based training site.
• Identify and explain the benefits of learning management systems.
• Explain the characteristics of successful mentoring programs.
• Formulate a program for preparing employees for cross-cultural assignments.
• Identify the reasons why companies should help employees manage their careers.
• Discuss the protean career and how it differs from the traditional career.
• Design an effective socialization program for employees.
• Identify future trends that are likely to influence training departments and trainers.
• Apply current training practices.
• 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 competencies that supervisors are expected to bring to their work.
• List a number of ways by which supervisors can improve the quality of work life for their employees and allow them to have fun at work.
• Identify and evaluate the principal sources of cost improvement ideas, list some positive approaches, and explain why some cost improvement suggestions might be rejected.
• List the nine steps in problem solving and decision making that lead to the removal of a problem’s cause.
• Define authority, responsibility, and accountability and explain their relationships.
• Identify the steps of the staffing process and explain the extent of a supervisor’s participation in each.
• Identify major ethical issues in training.
• Differentiate between the assumptions of Theory X and Theory Y, and explain the importance of trust.
• Describe the major needs that employees typically have, and explain how they influence motivation and behavior.
• Assess the quality of their nonverbal communication skills and identify needed changes.
• Explain the main purposes and benefits of an employee performance appraisal.
• Identify the various kinds of absenteeism and know the recommended remedial approaches for each.
• Explain the formation, roles, and influence of informal groups in an organization.
• Identify the seven major areas of organizational control that guide supervisory actions and explain the technique of management by exception.
• Calculate productivity ratios and percentages, and know what factors contribute to rising or falling productivity rates.
• Discuss the nature and workplace implications of a culturally diverse society.
• Discuss a supervisor’s responsibilities in labor-management relations, as affected by significant provisions of the main labor-management relations laws.
• Identify a set of supervisory time wasters and tactics for better time management.
• 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.

• Assess the implications of globalization.
• Analyze the major economic systems.
• Present an overview of the legal environment in which MNCs operate worldwide.
• Describe some of the initiatives to bring greater accountability to corporate conduct.
• Define the term culture.
• Identify the major dimensions of culture relevant to work settings.
• Discuss cross-cultural differences and similarities.
• Define exactly what is meant by organizational culture.
• Analyze the common downward and upward communication flows used in international communications.
• Review different negotiating behaviors that may improve negotiations and outcomes.
• Discuss the meaning, needs, benefits, and approaches of the strategic planning process for today's MNCs.
• Explain how organizational characteristics influence how the organization is structured.
• Present some common methods used for managing and reducing political risk.
• Differentiate between direct controls and indirect controls.
• Explain motivation as a psychological process.
• Describe the basic philosophic foundation and styles of managerial leadership.
• Identify three basic sources of subcontracting and outsourcing.
• Illustrate how cultural assimilators work and why they are so highly regarded.
• 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 connection between international business law and the creation of the international business strategy.
• Discuss the role of governmental power and a government's will to use it.
• Identify the principal elements of private international law.
• Analyze the nature and effect of corporate dumping and government subsidies.
• Identify the strategic challenges and options these create for international business.
• Describe the entry clearance process and documentary requirements.
• Describe what business must do to respond to law modifications.
• Discover legal and business issues related to the international carriage of goods by sea, air and land.
• Analyze the impact of international law and practice on payment and finance.
• Define International Distribution.
• Describe the nature of intellectual property and applicable national and international law.
• Identify the private law tactics used in creating and maintaining foreign investments.
• Analyze the business reasons and methods available for alternative disputes settlement.
• Describe the process of tax planning.
• 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.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Define the basic concepts and policies associated with Mercantilism.
• Differentiate between comparative advantage and absolute advantage.
• Explain the implications of extending the basic model of comparative advantage to more than two countries.
• Demonstrate the concept and limitations of a community of indifference curve.
• Describe economic equilibrium in a country that has no trade.
• Understand how relative factor endowments affect relative factor prices.
• Discuss possible explanations for the U.S. trade paradox.
• Summarize how the presence of imperfect competition can affect trade.
• Assess how growth and trade affect welfare in a small country.
• Explain the different tax instruments employed to influence imports.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of trade policy in the presence of market imperfections.
• Interpret the basic concepts of the political economy of economic policy.
• Demonstrate how greater openness to trade can potentially contribute to more rapid economic growth.
• Discuss the difference between alternative accounting balances within the balance of payments.
• Understand how global money markets, interest rates, and foreign exchange markets are interdependent.
• Explain how price elasticity of demand relates to the stability of foreign exchange markets.
• Show why income levels across countries are interdependent.
• Describe the general equilibrium in the macro-economy using the IS/LM/BP model.
• Explain the fundamental links between international transactions and aggregate demand and aggregate supply.
• Describe the differing impacts of fixed and flexible exchange rates on international trade, international investment, and resource allocation.
• Summarize the historical evolution of the international monetary system from Bretton Woods to the present time.
• 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 development of global marketing.
• Discuss the pros and cons of global outsourcing.
• Explain how different world religions affect marketing.
• Identify pressure groups that affect international marketing.
• Classify the special qualities of national and multinational global buyers.
• Describe ways in which one global competitor can address another.
• Illustrate the four steps involved in the research process.
• Explain the pros and cons of choosing markets on the basis of marketing similarity.
• Assess the ways in which the Internet has affected the international entry strategies employed by firms.
• Show the advantages of product standardization and product adaptation.
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of global brands versus local brands.
• Define dumping and describe how it can constrain pricing strategies.
• Explain the five key areas of global logistics management.
• Explain the importance of global account management.
• Give examples of how technology can be utilized to support international global communications.
• 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 the global financial environments: markets, institutions interest rates and exchange rates.
• Analyze exchange rates.
• Summarize how risk and return are important in international finance.
• Analyze stocks and stock markets and their relevance with today's business success
• Define the cost of capital.
• Define capital structure and distribution policy and its relevance to today's market .
• Explain the derivatives and risk management.
• 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 seven personal qualities for success
• Illustrate the need to work well with people from diverse cultures, ages and abilities.
• Integrate goal setting into your essential job skills.
• Identity the need for budgeting and maximizing money through spending and saving wisely.
• Demonstrate specific reasons why effective note taking, reading and writing are necessary for all careers.
• Rank effective communication as the cornerstone of successful work relationships.
• Identify requirements and choices for a career position.
• Prepare a cover letter.
• Design an effective Resume.
• Compose a Thank You Letter.
• 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...

· Job market.
· Career appraisal and goal setting
· Packaging skills and abilities
· Resume and presentation materials.
· Types of interviews.
· Direct contact and networking.
· Business letters.
· Ads and agencies.
· References.
· Salary negotiations.

• Define the basic role of negotiation and its fundamentals.
• Formulate strategies and tactics of distributive bargaining.
• Formulate strategies and tactics of integrative negotiation.
• Implement the negotiation strategy to achieve one's goals.
• Interpret the roles of perception, cognition, and emotion in the negotiation process.
• Analyze the importance of communication in the success of negotiation.
• Examine the sources of power and the people who possess this power.
• Evaluate the routes to influence and the role of receivers (targets of influence).
• Appraise the importance of ethics in negotiation and approaches to ethical reasoning.
• Assess key elements of relationships and the various forms they take.
• Hypothesize how agents, constituencies, and audiences change negotiations.
• Summarize the process of how coalitions, multiple parties, and teams develop and why they exist.
• Investigate individual differences with regards to gender and negotiation.
• Differentiate international and cross-cultural negotiation and its characteristics.
• Evaluate negotiations that are difficult to resolve and examine why they occur.
• Categorize negotiation mismatches and third-party approaches.
• Determine the fundamental structure of the negotiation.
• 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 nature and role of finance in our economy.
• Describe the functions of money.
• Identify the functions of banks and of the banking system.
• Discuss how the Fed uses reserve requirements to carry out monetary policy.
• Summarize the factors that affect bank reserves.
• Describe how currency or foreign exchange markets are organized and operate.
• Explain how funds flow from savings into investments.
• Describe how interest rates change in response to shifts in the supply and demand for lendable funds.
• Explain what is meant by the time value of money.
• Describe the characteristics of corporate bonds, preferred stock and common stock.
• Outline the recent difficulties and changes in structure of the investment banking industry.
• Compute arithmetic averages, variances, and standard deviations using return data for a single financial asset.
• Demonstrate the use of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows.
• Describe what is meant by financial statement analysis.
• Explain what is meant by a firm's operating cycle and its cash conversion cycle.
• Explain the factors that affect short-term financing requirements.
• Identify the fives steps in the capital budgeting process.
• Describe the factors that affect a firm's capital structure.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Identify the four principles of total quality management.
• Specify the five key dimensions of Luthan's CHOSE model of positive organizational behavior (POB).
• Explain the difference between affirmative action and managing diversity.
• Evaluate the barriers and challenges to managing diversity.
• Discuss the process of developing an adaptive culture.
• Describe the three phases in Feldman's model of organizational socialization.
• Define the term culture.
• Identify four stages of the foreign assignment cycle.
• Identify five of Gardner's eight multiple intelligences
• Associate the work attitudes of job involvement and job satisfaction.
• Summarize the managerial challenges and recommendations of sex-role age, racial and ethnic and disability stereotypes.
• Explain Kelly's model on how external and internal causal attributions are formulated.
• Demonstrate how goal setting motivates an individual.
• Identify two basic functions of feedback
• Describe the five stages in Tuckman's theory of group development.
• Define Quality circles, virtual teams, and self-managed teams.
• List the six antecedents of conflict and identify the desired outcomes
• Discuss the primary sources of nonverbal communication.
• Explain Cialdini's six principles of influence and persuasion.
• Describe the difference between laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational leadership.
• Define and explain the effective management of organizational size.
• 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
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

• Describe a brief history of operations management.
• Identify ten decisions of operations management.
• Describe the role of the project manager.
• Explain the regression and correlation analysis.
• Define manufacturability and value engineering.
• Describe why quality is important.
• Explain ethics and environmentally friendly process.
• Explain three methods of solving the location problem.
• Describe how to achieve a good layout for the process facility.
• Describe ethical issues in human resources.
• Explain approaches to negotiations.
• Define ABC analysis.
• Define tactical scheduling.
• Explain enterprise resource planning.
• Identify Johnson's Rule and bottlenecks.
• Explain principles of Toyota productions systems.
• Identify how to measure system reliability.
• 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.
• Practice ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Understand the concept of entrepreneurship and small business management.
• Understand how small businesses are managed, what legal ownership structures the business can be created within and how family management is often a factor in small business management.
• Discuss how to establish codes of ethics for your business.
• Describe each step in the strategic planning process, and explain the importance of competitive advantage.
• Explain the purpose and importance of the business plan.
• Describe the components of a business plan.
• Establish what a franchise is and how it operates.
• Compare the advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business.
• Describe what makes a family business different from other types of business.
• Explain the most important points to consider when starting a new business.
• Discuss the importance and uses of financial records to a small business.
• Determine the financing needs of your business and where to look for sources of funding.
• Discuss the laws and regulations that affect small business.
• Understand the purpose of the marketing research process and the steps involved in putting it into practice.
• Discuss the different forms a product can take, and identify the five levels of product satisfaction.
• Explain how the location of your business can provide a competitive advantage.
• Present the circumstances under which leasing, buying, or building is an appropriate choice.
• Establish the three main considerations in setting a price for a product.
• Enumerate the five ways for small businesses to conduct international trade.
• Explain the stages of small business growth and their consequences for managing your business.
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the six sources of employee recruitment.
• Explain how manufacturers and service providers use operations management.
• 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
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

• Define advertising and differentiate it from other forms of marketing communications.
• Discuss the impact of advertising on the economy.
• Describe the various groups in the advertising business and explain their relationship to one another.
• Identify the various methods advertisers use to segment and aggregate consumer and business markets
• Outline the consumer perception process.
• Explain the basic steps in the research process.
• Explain the difference between objectives, strategies, and tactics in marketing and advertising plans.
• Explain the role of the creative strategy and its principal elements.
• Describe the roles of the various types of artists in the advertising business.
• Explain the major types of digital media and their evolving role in advertising.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of magazine advertising.
• Evaluate the different types of television advertising available.
• Discuss the various opportunities and challenges presented by digital interactive media.
• Describe the types of standard outdoor advertising structures
• Describe how a media plan helps accomplish a company’s marketing objectives.
• Define direct marketing and discuss its role in IMC
• 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.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Describe the functions retailers perform and the clarity of decisions they make to satisfy customer needs in rapidly changing retail environment.
• Describe the different types of retailers.
• Examine how retailers are using multiple selling channels.
• Discuss factors consumers consider when choosing stores and buying merchandise.
• Describes the development of a retail market strategy.
• Examine the financial strategy associated with the market strategy.
• Discuss the location strategy for the retail outlets.
• Examines systems used to control the flow of information and merchandise.
• Provide an overview of how retailers manage their merchandise inventory.
• Explores how retailers buy merchandise from vendors.
• Addresses the question of how retailers set and adjust prices.
• Examine at the approaches that retailers take to build their brand image and communicate with their customers.
• Summarize how to manage a store.
• Describe the layout of a store design and the enhancements of visual merchandise.
• Describe the type of customer service that is needed in retail management.
• 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.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Examines the 10-step selling process.
• Explains how personal selling fits into a firms marketing program.
• Illustrates the impact of social, ethical, and legal issues on a firm's operations.
• Discusses buyer behavior.
• Introduces basic verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Demonstrates an overview of sales knowledge.
• Defines the sales process.
• Explains the importance of sales call planning.
• Describes the different sales presentation methods.
• Presents four types of questioning techniques for use within a presentation.
• Discuss the purpose and essential steps of sales presentation.
• Describe what to do when objections arise.
• Discuss the 12 ways to a successful close.
• Integrate the 8 steps involved in increasing sales.
• Calculate a salesperson's break-even point.
• Explain the two major elements involved in staffing.
• Review three approaches to leadership in sales.
• 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.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Define the consumer's basic role in the marketplace.
• Examine perception, memory, and motivation as part of the buying process.
• Demonstrate the importance for marketers to understand how consumers learn.
• Integrate the impact consumer's motivation and values have on their decision making.
• Identify how cultural values dictate the types of products consumers use or avoid.
• Explain how self-concept is related to consumer behavior.
• Explain and demonstrate how a consumer's personality influences the way he/she responds to marketing stimuli.
• Consumer researchers must analyze attitudes to understand the nature and power of attitudes.
• Identify how the consumer’s models recognize the important components needed to attempt to change a consumers' attitude towards products and services.
• Explain how decision making is not always rational.
• Describe how a salesperson can be the crucial link between interest and purchase.
• Illustrate the way in which group influence and opinion affects motivation to buy.
• Identify how the important demographic dimensions of a population relate to family and household structure.
• Summarize how the traditional notions about family are often outdated.
• Describe the way our decisions to spend our money are influenced by personal and social conditions.
• Compare and contrast Ethnic, Racial and Religious Subcultures and their influence on buying behavior.
• Examine the influence age has in the decision making process and it pertains to consumer behavior.
• Culture is a society's personality - explain this statement in relationship to consumer behavior.
• Examine the effect style has on underlying cultural conditions.
• 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
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

• Define the concept of branding and its role in today's marketing world.
• Summarize the four-step process of brand building.
• Describe the guidelines for brand positioning and internal branding.
• Apply criteria, options, and tactics for brand elements.
• Outline product and pricing strategies as they relate to new perspectives on marketing.
• Examine the process of integrated marketing communication programs.
• Discuss channels of distribution such as licensing, celebrity endorsement, and third-party sources.
• Understand how to establish a brand equity management system.
• Identify qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
• Outline comparative and holistic methods for measuring outcomes of brand equity.
• Define the brand-product matrix and the brand hierarchy.
• Evaluate the potential and limitations of brand extensions.
• Describe how to reinforce and revitalize brands over time.
• Compare the advantages and disadvantages of global marketing programs.
• Predict future trends and discuss special applications for branding.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively

• Define the scope of Internet marketing
• Discuss the relationship stages and the Marketspace Matrix
• Examine the role of resources in evaluating market opportunities
• Define the concept of marketing strategy
• Discuss six broad goals in creating desirable customer experience
• Understand the seven elements of customer interface ¡X the ¡§7Cs¡¨
• Explain the Relationship Stages and Interaction Intensity
• Demonstrate how Products Enable Customer Relationships
• Summarize the Implementation of Pricing Levers Across the Four Relationship Stages
• Discuss the six steps of the communication process
• Analyze the Value and Benefits Created by Online Communities
• Define how the Internet and the 2Is Affect Distribution
• Understand what a brand is and how the 2Is affect branding
• Discuss the effects of brand on the four customer relationship stages
• Describe how the marketing levers are used to establish and maintain customer relationships
• Illustrate the Role of LOTR Partnerships
• Discuss what research is best suited by the Internet
• Discuss the need for an integrated set of metrics
• 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
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

• Outline the basic marketing philosophies and job of the marketing manager.
• Define a framework for a complete marketing strategy.
• Discuss the marketing research process regarding primary and secondary data sources.
• Examine the reasons behind consumer purchase decisions.
• Differentiate between industrial vs. consumer marketing.
• Constructing a thorough competitor analysis.
• Describe the process of branding and product positioning.
• Discuss the factors that affect new product success or failure.
• Examine how pricing is done and the role of costs in marketing.
• Interpret the relationship between communications and advertising strategy.
• Define the different types of sales promotion and strategies.
• Discuss the importance of channels of distribution.
• Summarize the techniques of setting sales quotas and compensation amounts.
• Illustrate the importance and method of preserving good customer relationships.
• Explain Channels of Distribution in relation to the marketing mix.
• 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.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• 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

• Outline general strategies and legal considerations in writing.
• Discuss the fundamentals of the basic communication process.
• Apply graphics and visuals to make writing more aesthetically appealing.
• Explore document design options and presentation features.
• Review methods of computer research and citation formats.
• Identify errors in writing such as definition fallacies.
• Summarize considerations regarding the law and the writer's audience.
• Prepare a manual, as well as other product-support items.
• Practice various methods of written correspondence.
• Compose a resume and cover letter in order to prepare for a job interview.
• Write a brief report using the guidelines in the text.
• Compose proposals and longer reports.
• Produce fliers, brochures, and newsletters.
• Write professional papers, such as the technical scientific paper, as well as academic papers.
• Discuss how to engage in verbal communication, such as telephone conversations and group discussions.
• Discuss various types of visuals and how to manage them.
• Design and manage a website.
• 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:

· Using grammar repair
· Using the word processing tool
· Preparing manuals
· Deriving the sources of a definition
· Applying legal considerations
· Writing letters and electronic correspondence
· Analyzing reports
· Writing abstracts and summaries
· Using and writing a scientific or technical research report
· Researching material

• 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.

• Describe the difference between culture and civilization.
• Summarize the significance of the Dark Ages
• Analyze how religion helped to shape Green culture.
• Discuss the rise of Hellenism.
• Recognize classical style in Greek visual arts.
• Discuss the milestones of Hebrew histore from 2000BCE to 70CE.
• Examine Rome's Major Literary Eras.
• Recount the culture of Rome.
• Identify the Judeo-Christian cultural root.
• Analyze the rise of the middle ages.
• Illustrate the leading features of the Islamic religion and the role that it plays in islamic culture.
• Discuss the historic firsts achieved in the High Middle Ages.
• Examine the thrological struggle going on at this time.
• Recognize the characteristics of early Renaissance painting and its impact on later styles.
• Assess what is meant by the term Early Mannerism.
• Discuss the commercial revolution and the shift in economic power from the Mediterrain to the North Atlantic.
• 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 interdisciplinary humanities.
• Discuss humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance.
• Identify art, architecture and music in Florence.
• Describe the Northern Renaissance and Protestant Reformation.
• Explain the consolidation of modernity in the seventeenth century.
• Recognize Baroque style in art and literature in the seventeenth century.
• Identify masters of Baroque music.
• Recognize arts at the court of Louis XIV.
• Describe the European Enlightenment.
• Describe the Enlightenment in the United States.
• Recognize classical style in music.
• Identify romanticism in art, literature, and music.
• Discuss industrialism and the humanities.
• Identify Modernism in the visual arts and literature.
• Discuss new Americans on the world cultural scene.
• Recognize Postmodernism in art and literature.
• 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.

• 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.

• Interpret the idea of performance.
• Differentiate between theatre and religious festivals.
• Explain the importance of the historical and cultural context of a play.
• Define the internal and external approach to acting.
• Analyze the director's deciding factors in choosing a play.
• Illustrate the interaction between designers in staging a play.
• Compare musical theatre production to nonmusical (drama) theatre production.
• Differentiate between European realism and American realism.
• Analyze the statement
• Describe what is meant by
• Assess the shifts back and forth between two pairs of characters in a scene.
• Examine the fundamental elements of structure: character, plot, language, music, and spectacle.
• Explain tragicomedy.
• Demonstrate forced perspective.
• 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.

• 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.

• Explain the impact of the development of agriculture on Native American society.
• List the factors contributing to the development of western European interest in exploration and discovery.
• Point out the factors that accounted for the French reluctance to immigrate to the New World.
• Discuss the issue of dissent in Puritan society.
• Describe the conditions of the Middle Passage.
• Discuss the characteristics of eighteenth-century colonial urban centers.
• Define the Albany Congress and the reasons for its successes and failures.
• Discuss the First Continental Congress and list its major accomplishments.
• List the major accomplishments of the Second Continental Congress.
• Explain the challenges faced by George Washington in transforming the Continental Army into professional military troops.
• Compare and contrast the fundamental provisions of the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
• Explain the impact of the Revolution on Native Americans.
• Outline the provisions of the Bill of Rights.
• Identify and explain the historical significance of the Monroe Doctrine.
• Explain the reasons for the Burr conspiracy and comment on its outcome.
• Explain the importance of the Texas issue in the 1844 presidential election.
• Outline the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
• Explain the meaning of the term Underground Railroad.
• Distinguish geographically, economically, and demographically among the Upper South, the Lower South, and the Border South.
• Identify two Supreme Court decisions that offered protection and support for railroads.
• Outline the path of the Oregon Trail and describe the overlanders who used the trail to migrate west.
• Explain the philosophy of Manifest Destiny.
• Outline the four proposals that shaped the national debate on slavery by 1846.
• Discuss the essential differences that divided the North and South by 1860.
• Describe the initial responses in the North and South to the outbreak of Civil War.
• Point out the reasons the Battle of Antietam is considered a turning point in the Civil War.
• Explain the Reconstruction policy of the radical Republicans and identify their leaders.
• Explain the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment and its impact on the women’s suffrage movement.
• 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 South’s response to defeat in 1865.
• Explain the long-term impact of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
• Asses the impact of southern urban growth on late nineteenth-century southern culture.
• Identify Thomas A. Edison and describe his contribution to nineteenth-century technology.
• Distinguish between and define vertical integration and horizontal integration.
• Comment on the involvement of Christian denominations in the effort to “Americanize” Native Americans.
• Explain the role of the railroad in promoting the migration of western settlers.
• Compare and contrast the characteristics of supporters of the Democratic and Republican parties at the turn of the century.
• List the economic issues that sparked a crisis among farmers in the late nineteenth century.
• Discuss Roosevelt’s program for conservation of natural resources.
• Outline the justifications that Americans used for their late nineteenth-century imperialism.
• Identify Secretary of State John Hay and outline the principles of his Open Door policy.
• Explain the European political events that led to World War I.
• Identify the issues and events occurring in fall 1916 and spring 1917 that finally culminated in the American entry into World War I
• Identify the candidates and indicate the outcome of the presidential election of 1924.
• Define the terms open shop, yellow dog contract, and welfare capitalism and explain their relevance to corporate treatment of labor during the 1920s.
• Outline the causes of the Great Depression.
• List the positive and negative outcomes of the New Deal in terms of its impact on American politics.
• Explain Adolf Hitler’s agenda on the European continent.
• Identify the new opportunities created for women by the wartime economy.
• Identify the provisions of the GI Bill of Rights.
• Identify four factors that explain American fear of subversion during the 1950s.
• Discuss the growth of the American economy during the 1950s.
• Explain the realist position regarding the American role in Vietnam.
• Explain the significance of the Camp David Agreement.
• Identify and explain the major components of the Reagan economic agenda.
• Identify HIV/AIDS and discuss its role in American political culture.
• Describe the characteristics of the new economy that emerged in the United States during the 1990s.
• Explain the rationale for, and results of, U.S. military actions in Iraq.
• 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 various social science disciplines that help reconstruct the past for a people with an oral tradition.
• Summarize the early achievements of the West African Kingdoms.
• Explain the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Europe, Africa, and the Americans.
• Assess what the Africans brought to the American experience.
• Illustrate the important role that Africans played in Colonial American.
• Interpret how white settlers justified slavery.
• Describe how the American Revolution let to the emancipation of slaves in the North.
• Examine the lifestyle of free blacks in contras tot that of slaves.
• Interpret how the Missouri Compromise was a political compromise between slave and free interests.
• Examine the political and government institutions that led up to the Civil War.
• Outline the causes of the Civil War.
• Identify the key events and impact of the Reconstruction era in terms of its impact on African Americans.
• 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 why the reconstruction era was referred to as the Gilded Age.
• Describe conditions that signaled the end of the reconstruction era.
• Analyze the reasons for the formation of the NAACP,
• Define the role of African American in the American labor movement.
• Demonstrate the influence the Great Migration and the war years had on African American acceptance into society.
• Summarize the influence that the Great Depression had on America's black population.
• Apply the four freedoms to African Americans at this time.
• Discuss the influence of unions on improving the plight of African American workers.
• Explain Brown v. Board of Education.
• Describe the move towards greater radicalism in the civil rights movement.
• Evaluate the relationship between radicalism and institutional change.
• Discuss the policies of the Bush administration and their affect on America's African American population.
• Examine ways in which race continues to influence African American potential.
• 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 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

• Explore the meaning of women's status across cultures and historical periods.
• Explain how women have attempted to define, maintain, or gain power in changing historical circumstances.
• Identify common dilemmas/struggles faced by women.
• Inquire into women's differences based on race, class, and other factors.
• Study gender as a system of power relations that manifests its self in many realms of American history.
• Explain the effects of sexual division of labor.
• Illustrate the changing roles of women in wartime.
• Describe the struggle to achieve the suffrage for American Women.
• Examine significant constitutional issues and Supreme Court cases since 1877.
• 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 what it means that anthropology is the holistic and comparative study of humanity.
• Identify and distinguish between the four subfields of anthropology.
• Distinguish between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism and how both relate to human rights.
• Identify the major ethnographic techniques and what kinds of information they collect.
• Explain what medical anthropology is.
• Differentiate between an illness and a disease.
• Describe Focal vocabularies and explain why they exist.
• Distinguish between ethnicity and race.
• Demonstrate what adaptive strategy is and how Cohen used it to classify different societies.
• Define the four basic types of politic systems.
• Differentiate between sex and gender and between gender roles and stereotypes
• Assess how sexualities and gender vary across cultures.
• Illustrate how industrialism has affected family organization.
• Identify and distinguish between incest, exogamy, and endogamy.
• Summarize how religion can be factor of change.
• Discuss the dynamic nature of artistic expression and the factors that influence changing perceptions of the arts.
• 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.

• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other Learners
• Identify the basic functions of the brain and neurons
• Analyze empirical evidence
• Distinguish between the major types of memory
• Identify the major developmental theories of psychology
• Interpret cognitive dissonance
• Analyze Erikson's stage theory of development
• Summarize the basic concepts of Freudian psychoanalytic theory
• Examine intelligence testing
• Describe the fundamentals of abnormal/clinical psychology
• Integrate behavior therapy, cognitive theory and motivational research
• Identify the concepts of social psychology as applied to self and others
• Analyze sleep disturbances of dreaming
• Examine the association between sensation and perception
• Illustrate principles of learning and classical conditioning
• Analyze anxiety disorders
• Integrate concepts of behavior therapy
• Distinguish differences in gender roles
• Integrate course concepts through the use of internet resources
• Demonstrate knowledge of the major approaches to therapy
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and incorporate emerging relevant technologies applicable to the field of psychology
• Analyze and evaluate information critically and effectively
• Demonstrate ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Biological foundations of psychology: the brain and the neuron.
· Sensation and perception.
· Learning: classical and operant conditioning.
· Memory and forgetting.
· Cognitive development and lifespan development.
· Sex roles.
· Personality theories.
· Psychometrics.
· Psychoanalytic theory and psychopathology.
· Social influence and human 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.
• 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.
• Explain how biology as the study of life encompasses biologically important molecules, cells and organisms.
• Identify the influencing interactions with and between atoms.
• Classify the four major categories of biological molecules.
• Interpret the units used in measuring cells and sub-cellular structures.
• Describe the types of energy that can be found within living systems.
• Explain what effects metabolic pathways have on living processes on Earth.
• Examine the structure of DNA.
• Summarize the five staged of cell cycle in which normal function occurs.
• Following DNA structure and the cell cycle explain how genes are put into action.
• Discuss how genes controlling certain traits are passed from generation to generation.
• Assess the current state of knowledge about biotechnology.
• Explain the relationship of cellular mechanisms to cancer.
• Summarize Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
• Assess the effect of oxygen in the atmosphere had on the evolution of metabolic processes.
• Explain how fungi obtain nutrients and reproduce.
• Explain the statement
• Compare the diversities seed plants have in order to accomplish sexual reproduction.
• Describe the interactions between the nervous system and senses; and moving bones and muscles.
• Discuss the relationship between the digestive process and human nutritional needs.
• Identify how circulator, respiratory and excretory systems work together.
• Examine the critical role the endocrine system plays in the maintenance of the human body.
• Demonstrate the techniques available in reproductive technologies.
• Describe the complexities of the immune system using HIV and AIDS to elucidate viral action.

Learners will understand major concepts of...

· Cell structure and function.
· Mitosis and meiosis.
· DNA structure and function.
· Human evolution.
· Plant tissues, nutrition, and development.
· Animal tissues and the functions of all major systems.
· Ecosystems and the biosphere.

• 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.

• Describe how various landscapes are formed.
• Identify the elements of weather and climate.
• Summarize the impact of temperature on the landscape.
• Explain the general circulation of the atmosphere.
• Differentiate between the phase changes of water.
• Analyze the effects of transient atmospheric flows and disturbances.
• Illustrate the world distribution of major climate types.
• Assess the cycles and patterns in the biosphere.
• Distinguish between the different zoogeographic regions
• Describe the structure and composition of earth.
• Evaluate the effects of internal processes on the landscape.
• Recognize the preliminaries to erosion.
• Discuss the impact of fluvial processes on streams and stream systems.
• Explain the characteristics of desert surfaces.
• Examine the impact of waves and currents on the landscape.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practice ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

• Differentiate between a scientific hypothesis and a theory.
• Illustrate the major seafaring routes of the great voyages of discovery.
• Calculate the mean depth of the oceans.
• Differentiate between the lithosphere, asthenosphere, and mesosphere.
• Explain three different ways to classify sediments.
• Classify the physical properties of water.
• Illustrate the attenuation of light in open ocean water and costal water.
• Describe how sea surface salinity is modified by evaporation, precipitation, and runoff from the continents.
• Outline the Earth's heat budget.
• Explain the properties of water masses in each ocean basin.
• Diagram the formation of surface current gyres.
• Locate the major surface currents on a map of the oceans.
• Describe the process of wave formation, wave generating and restoring forces.
• Illustrate the motion of the ocean surface in a rotary standing tide.
• Diagram and explain the movement of sand in a coastal circulation cell.
• Explain the importance of marine wetlands.
• Differentiate between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.
• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Increase/improve students' quantitative literacy.
• Illustrate proficiency solving quantitative problems they will experience in their lives.
• Recognize mathematics as an intellectual exercise and a way of thinking.
• Learn to appreciate the visual and intellectual beauty of mathematics.
• 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.

• Illustrate linear inequalities in oNe variable.
• Solve quadratic equations.
• Identify functions, function notations, and graphs of a function.
• Analyze the graph of a function.
• Graph polynomial functions.
• Define the intermediate value theorem.
• Calculate exponential equations graphically.
• Distinguish the properties of logarithms.
• Interpret the trigonometry of real numbers.
• Explain the transformations and applications of trigonometric graphs.
• Describe the inverse trig functions and their applications
• Summarize the law of cosines.
• Calculate linear systems using matrix equations.
• Classify linear systems in two and three variables.
• Interpret nonlinear systems of equations and inequalities.
• Simplify computations for the rotation of axes.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

• Illustrate the graph of a function.
• Solve linear functions
• Analyze the techniques of differentiation.
• Distinguish between product and quotient rules.
• Summarize the elasticity of demand.
• Classify exponential functions.
• Evaluate the differentiation of logarithmic functions.
• Illustrate the area between curves and average value.
• Distinguish between the definite integral and the fundamental theorem of calculus.
• Simplify integration by parts using integral tables.
• Describe improper integrals and the relationship to continuous probability.
• Explain the method of least-squares.
• Define constrained optimization.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Perform algebraic functions.

• 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.