ACC 102 - Workplace Accounting

2. Account for payroll, cash and internal control

     a. Demonstrate an understanding of Federal tax laws

     b. Record payroll transactions according to Federal laws.

     c. Calculate employees’ payroll.

     d. Calculate the employer’s payroll tax liabilities.

3. Utilize Accounting Computer Software

     a. Students will demonstrate the ability to prepare and navigate an Excel spreadsheet.

     b. Create a workbook to enter financial data.

4. Differentiate accounting for merchandising from the buyer and seller perspectives

5. Master computer software to successfully pass the Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Certified User exam

6. Record comprehensive payroll transactions for a business including year-end reports

ACC 108 - Payroll Applications

a. List and differentiate between the various laws governing payroll and human resources.

b. Compute wages and salaries including FICA taxes.

c. Calculate federal withholding taxes and federal and state unemployment taxes.

d. Record comprehensive payroll transactions for a business including yearend reports.

ACC 111 - Introduction to Accounting

a. Describe the foundation for accounting for different types of business entities.

b. Apply the financial effects of business transactions

2. Differentiate accounting for merchandising from the buyer and seller perspectives.

a. Account for sales transactions.

b. Account for purchases transactions.

c. Account for inventory using various cost methods.

3. Describe the importance of controlling cash.

a. Recognize effective internal control over cash.

b. Reconcile cash to the bank statement.

4. Account for payroll.

a. Calculate employees’ payroll.

b. Calculate the employer’s payroll tax liabilities.

ACC 142 - Financial Accounting

a. Describe the foundation for accounting for different types of business entities.

b. Apply the financial effects of business transactions

2. Differentiate accounting for merchandising from the buyer and seller perspectives.

a. Account for sales and purchases transactions.

b. Account for inventory using various cost methods.

3. Describe the importance of controlling cash.

a. Recognize effective internal control over cash and reconcile cash to the bank statement.

b. Report for receivables.

4. Account for fixed and intangible long-term assets.

a. Calculate, utilizing the various methods, the decline in utility of longterm assets.

b. Journalize the disposal of fixed assets.

5. Account for current liabilities and payroll.

a. Calculate and record short-term liabilities for both the employee and the employer.

6. Account for partnerships, limited liability companies and corporate entities.

a. Record transactions for partnerships.

b. Record transactions for LLC’s.

c. Record transactions for corporations.

ACC 146 - Managerial Accounting

a. Calculate the cost of production using various costing methods and overhead allocations.

b. Determine desirable production and sales levels to achieve goals.

2. Students will demonstrate ability to make short and long-term financial decisions.

a. Prepare operating and financial budgets.

b. Compare the differences between actual and planned revenue and costs.

3. Students will evaluate company performance and develop strategies for improvement.

a. Implement and analyze management and production systems such as Just-in-Time, responsibility accounting, and Activity-BasedManagement.

ACC 189 - Introduction to Data Analytics for Accounting

1. Students will explain the importance of answering questions using data-driven information.
   1. Utilize Bloom’s Taxonomy when solving basic to advanced accounting problems.
   2. Describe and master the AMPS model.
2. Students will identify specific accounting problems and the relative data required to solve them.
   1. Evaluate accounting information and reports to determine important questions that need addressed.
   2. Address accounting questions by determining the pertinent data needed to explain, solve, and make recommendations.
   3. Use multiple methods and statistical techniques to analyze data to discover patterns, links, and relationships.
3. Students will extract and analyze large quantitative data sets using computer applications.
   1. Utilize Microsoft Excel and Tableau to extract data.
4. Students will summarize data gathered and report findings to assist stakeholders to make sound and timely business decisions.
   1. Explain to management and non-accounting users the process completed, data-based results, and recommendations.

ACC 211 - Intermediate Accounting I

2. Compute and calculate accounting information about economic resources. a. Calculate the time value of money. b. Recognize revenue. c. Account for short-term and long-term operating assets. d. Analyze financing liabilities. e. Account for stockholders’ equity.

ACC 212 - Intermediate Accounting 2

ACC 221 - Cost Accounting

a. Calculate the cost of production using various costing methods and overhead allocations.

b. Determine desirable production and sales levels to achieve goals.

2. Students will demonstrate ability to make short and long-term financial decisions.

a. Prepare operating and financial budgets.

b. Compare the differences between actual and planned revenue and costs.

3. Students will evaluate company performance and develop strategies for improvement.

a. Implement and analyze management and production systems such as Just-in-Time, responsibility accounting, and Activity-Based-Management.

ACC 266 - Tax Accounting

     a. Describe the contents of the individual income tax return (Form 1040).

     b. Calculate gross income.

     c. Analyze business income and expenses.

     d. Identify and calculate itemized deductions.

     e. Describe the tax credits and special taxes.

     f. Recognize the impact of selecting an accounting period and depreciation method.

     g. Compute capital gains and losses.

     h. Evaluate tax law as it relates to litigation.

ACC 311 - Computer Accounting

1. Students will explain and differentiate software programs as accounting information systems.
   1. Explain the role, purpose, and importance of an accounting information system.
   2. Understand and evaluate risks in an organization and apply appropriate internal controls accordingly.
   3. Understand a business’s file in the cloud system, on a hard drive, and in an app on a smart phone
   4. Assist a business in determining the software program best suited for their needs
2. Students will conceptualize accounting as an information cycle in a software program
   1. Enter transactions into an accounting software program starting with operational entries to completing financial statements
   2. Account for payroll, cash and internal control
   3. Analyze job costing from initially creating an estimate to job completion
3. Students will differentiate accounting for merchandising from the buyer and seller perspectives
   1. Maintain inventory records including tracking profit from cost to sales
   2. Manage Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable transactions

ACC 330 - Computer Accounting - Peachtree

ACC 331 - Computer Accounting - Quickbooks

ACC 364 - Excel for Accounting

2. Students will demonstrate the ability to format an Excel workbook. a. Format text and data to organize information. b. Perform calculations with formulas and functions.

3. Students will analyze data to make informed business decisions. a. Utilize creation of tables, charts, advanced functions, and perform what-if analysis.

ACC 501 - Entrepreneurial Accounting

ACC 701 - Certified Bookkeeping Review

2) Mastering Internal Controls and Fraud Prevention a. Describe how to prevent employee theft. b. Identify check, credit card, and debit card fraud. c. Detect vendor scams and bribery. d. Recognize fraud and scam operations.

3) Mastering Inventory a. Account for perpetual and periodic inventory systems. b. Cost inventory using the weighted-average, FIFO, and LIFO methods. c. Cost inventory using the lower of cost or market rule.

4) Mastering Adjusting Entries a. Define and differentiate between accruals, deferrals, and other types of adjustments. b. Record adjusting entries for accrued revenues, accrued expenses, unearned revenue, and prepaid expenses. c. Identify other necessary end-of-period entries. d. Describe the flow of accounting information from the unadjusted trial balance through the financial statements. e. Utilize a worksheet for the end-of-period tasks in the accounting cycle.

5) Mastering Depreciation a. Identify the depreciation methods under GAAP. b. Differentiate between book depreciation and tax depreciation. c. Calculate and account for the following methods of GAAP depreciation: straight-line, units of production, declining balance and sum-of-the-years’- digits. d. Calculate depreciation for federal income tax purposes in general. e. Calculate depreciation for federal income tax purposes on vehicles.

6) Mastering Correction of Accounting Errors a. Identify where errors occur and how they are found. b. Perform a bank reconciliation. c. Find and correct errors utilizing the unadjusted trial balance. d. Account for current period accrual errors. e. Account for current period deferral errors.

7) Mastering Payroll a. Determine the employment classification-employee or nonemployee. b. Apply the Federal and State Wage-Hour law to payroll. c. Determine how to pay employees under federal law. d. Apply the various payroll laws to federal and state withholding allowance certificates. e. List the documentation that employers must obtain from new employees and how long they are to retain these documents. f. Describe the federal withholding process and subsequent depositing of taxes. g. List the necessary federal reporting forms and their due dates. h. Determine when wages become taxable. i. List the necessary state reporting forms and their due dates. j. Journalize payroll entries.

ACC 932 - Internship

a. Obtain on-the-job training in an accounting related-position.

b. Recognize the necessary work habits and skills for successful entry into the accounting field.

c. Emulate successful accounting personnel.

d. Network with accounting professionals for possible future employment.

ADM 105 - Introduction to Keyboarding

ADM 108 - Keyboarding Skill Development

ADM 112 - Keyboarding

ADM 116 - Keyboarding II

ADM 131 - Office Calculators

ADM 142 - Desktop Publishing

ADM 146 - Integrated Applications

ADM 148 - Transcription

ADM 162 - Office Procedures

ADM 180 - Administrative Management

ADM 258 - Professional Development

1. Demonstrate proficiency in conducting a meeting.
2. Complete documents required to the job search process.
3. Complete job seeking interviews.
4. Students will effectively budget time and demonstrate ability to meet deadlines.

Course Objectives:

1. Demonstrate knowledge and proper use of parliamentary procedure.
2. Become knowledgeable and demonstrate the ability to set a meeting agenda.
3. Demonstrate the ability to develop a working resume, successful interviewing skills and an employment portfolio.
4. Properly participate in parliamentary procedure meetings.

ADM 260 - Personal Development

ADM 297 - Certification Preparation

ADM 941 - Practicum

ADN 323 - Nursing Theory III

 

Corequisites: ADN-324 RN Capstone I, ADN-325 Applied Nursing Practice III, SOC-110 Introduction to Sociology, and (if Advanced Standing Student) ADN-326 Advanced Standing Bridge
Prerequisites: Nursing Theory II, PNN-224 PN Capstone, PNN-225 Applied Nursing Practice II, BIO 186- Microbiology, PSY-111 Introduction to Psychology, and ENG-105 Composition I
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face

Course Fees: Testing Fee: $565.00

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes: 

• Explore the role of the registered nurse in caring for patients with predictable disease processes.  (Professionalism, Safe and Effective Care, Communication) 
•  Apply clinical judgment and the nursing process to plan holistic, patient-centered nursing care across the lifespan. (Clinical Judgment, Patient-Centered Care) 
• Expand knowledge of acute and chronic disease processes along the health-illness continuum for patients of various ages.  (Patient-Centered Care, Communication, Safe and Effective Care) 
• Integrate nursing skills to include care of patients and families across the life span. (Communication, Patient-Centered Care, Safe and Effective Care, Clinical Judgment) 

ADN 324 - RN Capstone I

• Examine the leadership skills and management roles of the registered nurse. (Professionalism, Communication, Safe and Effective Care, Clinical Judgment)  
• Demonstrate clinical judgment while applying the nursing process to simulated groups of patients in various healthcare settings. (Clinical Judgment, Patient-Centered Care, Safe and Effective Care) 
• Explore the professional standards of the registered nurse. (Professionalism, Safe and Effective Care, Communication) 

ADN 325 - Applied Nursing Practice III

• Apply professional standards of the registered nurse in a variety of healthcare settings. (Safe and Effective Care, Professionalism, Communication) 
• Demonstrate clinical judgment in applying components of the nursing process with individuals across the lifespan and along the health-illness continuum. (Clinical Judgment, Patient-Centered Care) 
• Contribute to communication with patients across the lifespan and members of the health care team. (Communication, Professionalism, Safe and Effective Care) 
• Implement nursing care across the lifespan and along the health-illness continuum. (Patient-Centered Care, Safe and Effective Care, Clinical Judgment) 

ADN 326 - Advance Standing Bridge

• Utilize clinical judgement while applying the nursing process (Clinical Judgment, Safe and Effective Care, Patient-Centered Care)  
• Implement a plan for success utilizing resources available at Iowa Central Community College. (Professionalism, Communication) 
• Demonstrate competency in practical nursing skills and communication techniques to include patients across the life span. (Safe and Effective Care, Communication) 

ADN 405 - Maternal Child Health Care

1. Utilize critical thinking skills in each phase of the nursing process as applied to mothers and children with more complex conditions on the health-illness continuum.
2. Plan the adaptation of basic nursing skills to the ante-partal, intra-partal and postpartal woman and to children of various ages.
3. Prioritize basic human needs for the ante-partal, intra-partal and post-partal woman and to children of various ages.
4. Determine the values, attributes, behaviors, ethics, and legal obligations appropriate to the maternal-child practice setting
5. Expand the knowledge of nursing skills in planning care for the woman throughout a normal or complicated antepartum, intra-partum, or postpartum process.
6. Expand the knowledge of nursing skills in planning care for the neonate or child with common or more complex health concerns.
7. Expand the theory base of health-illness in planning nursing care of mothers,neonates and children having more complex problems along the health-illness continuum.
8. Expand knowledge of communication to select appropriate responses and teaching strategies in interacting with parents, neonates and children having common and more complex health situations.

Course Objectives:
Obstetrics

1. Apply the nursing process to the mother, child and family unit.
2. Plan discharge teaching for the maternity patient.
3. Demonstrate appropriate scrubbing and hand washing in caring for the newborn.
4. Determine appropriate assessments of the newborn, including physical assessment, gestational age, identification, and chemistix. (General Objective#6)
5. Plan daily nursing care of the newborn. Explain usual medications and tests for the newborn and their significance.
6. Identify abnormal assessments of the newborn which should be reported.
7. Determine appropriate teaching for mothers and family members concerning bathing, stools, voiding, temperature, circumcision care (for male), jaundice, safety, car seat use, and metabolic screening.Evaluate a newborn for approximate gestational age using the Dubowitz Scale.
8. Determine the calorie and fluid requirements of the newborn based on weight.
9. Plan appropriate assessment, interventions, teaching and evaluation in assisting mother and/or father with bottle feeding. Plan appropriate assessment, interventions, teaching and evaluation in assisting mother and/or father with breast eeding. Plan care for the newborn in the isolette, under the warmer, under the Bililite, or using other equipment as available. Determine priorities of care for the preterm, small for gestational age, large for gestation age, infant with a congenital anomaly and other high risk neonates.
10. Suggest possible resources to the family of a neonate with a congenital anomaly and/or compromised family situations. Determine risk factors which may affect the fetus during the antepartum period.
11.Determine appropriate assessments needed for the labor patient, including emotional state, frequency of vitals, timing contractions, assessing GHT’s and identifying labor stage.
12. Identify the role of the nurse in scrubbing for delivery or assisting with the labo rprocess.
13. Discuss reasons for a Cesarean delivery. 
14. Differentiate between the two usual types of Cesarean. Differentiate between the basic components of the FHM strip including rate, accelerations, decelerations,and variability.
15. Plan assessment for the post-partum patient and determine what to report asabnormal. (General Objective #1 & 7) (Graduate Outcome #1 & 3)
16. Establish priorities of care for the post-partum patient.
17. Communicate effectively with all post-partum patient and families, including theadolescent parent, parents of high risk infants, parents of stillbirths, and other high risk groups.
18. Identify effective means of communication that may be used in caring for families of various cultures.
19. Review frequently performed procedures
20. Plan appropriate discharge teaching for both mother and child.
21. Determine what to include in educating patients about self-breast examination.

Pediatrics

1. Evaluate weights and heights on growth charts. Determine nursing interventions which reduce stress in the hospitalized child based on the child’s developmental stage.
2. Choose the correct equipment and sequence in order to take accurate vitals on various aged children.
3. Recognize abnormal vital signs.
4. Select appropriate safety measures for hospitalized children.
5. Identify means of support for the child during treatments.
6. Plan pre-op teaching for a child having surgery. Select appropriate play materials in caring for various aged children.
7. Assess fluid and electrolyte balance in the pediatric patient.
8. Calculate fluid needs for 24 hours for a hospitalized child.
9. Calculate correct medication dosages and determine injection sites, needle gauge and length for various aged children. Determine safe parameters in administering IV fluids and medications to the child including saline loc, central lines, IV pumps, and TPN.
10. Plan care for children of various ages including infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age children and adolescent. Provide anticipatory guidance to parents about common concerns related to the age of their children.
11. Determine appropriate assessments and recognize abnormalities and changes in condition which need to be reported. Select therapeutic responses in communicating with children and family members.
12. Identify adaptations of procedures for the pediatric patient.
13. Identify components of a nursing history. Integrate collected data with knowledge etiology, development, and prognosis for common and more complex health problems in caring for children of various ages.
14. Determine nursing diagnoses, formulate appropriate goals, and establish priorities of care for a child with more complex health problems.
15. Plan individualized care for children of various ages.
16. Analyze strengths and limitations of families in planning care of a child while hospitalized and in planning for discharge. 
17. Evaluate effectiveness of care given to the child. Analyze learning needs and plan discharge teaching for the family of the child who is going home.
18. Identify appropriate resources to meet learning needs and post hospital care.
19. Determine legal and ethical parameters pertinent to care of the child. 

ADN 407 - Clinical Practicum 3

Course Objectives
Obstetrics
1. Demonstrate the application of the nursing process as it relates to the maternity setting.
2. Complete discharge teaching for each patient.
3. Demonstrate appropriate scrubbing and hand washing in caring for the newborn.
4. Admit the newborn to the nursery, including physical assessment, medication, identification, and chemistix.
5. Provide daily nursing care of the newborn, including physical assessments of the newborn and appropriate charting of each assessment, and an explanation of usual medications and tests for the newborn and their significance.
6. Identify normal and abnormal assessments of the newborn and report to the instructor or appropriate person immediately.
7. Demonstrate bath/newborn care and/or evaluate a return bath/care demonstration including stools, voiding, temperature, circumcision care, jaundice, safety, car seat use, and metabolic screening for each mother and/or father.
8. Perform an evaluation of one newborn for approximate gestational age using the Dubowitz Scale.
9. Determine the calorie and fluid requirements of the newborn based on weight and compare to the actual calorie and fluid intake of that newborn. Demonstrate appropriate assessment, interventions, teaching and evaluation in assistingmother and/or father with bottle feeding.
10.Demonstrate appropriate assessment, interventions, teaching and evaluation in assisting mother and/or father with breast feeding.
11.Care for the newborn in the isolette, under the warmer, under the Bililite, or using other equipment as available.
12.Provide appropriate care for the preterm, small for gestational age, large for gestational age, congenital anomaly or other high risk neonates as available.
13.Suggest possible resources to the family of a neonate with a congenital anomaly and/or compromised family situations.
14.Assess the antepartal patient appropriately, including the necessary assessments for the risk factor or factors involved during hospitalization as available. Admit the labor patient, including the necessary assessments of emotional state, vitals, timing contractions, FHT’s performing Leopold’s maneuver and performing the perineal prep and enema if required, and identifying changes in the labor patient’s condition as they relate to the stages of labor.
15.Demonstrate an understanding of sterile techniques as he/she sets up the  delivery room/LDRP (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum).
16.Demonstrate appropriate techniques in scrubbing for a delivery and assisting the physician under the direct guidance of an instructor.
17.Follows directions and relates appropriately in circulating for a delivery under direct guidance of the instructor or hospital staff, including the identification and initial care of the neonate.
18.Observe a Cesarean delivery as available, and discuss the reasons for the Cesarean delivery and the two usual types of Cesarean.
19.Identify the basic components of the FHM strip including rate, accelerations, decelerations, variability by noting the different patterns with the assistance of RN or instructor.
20.Admit the postpartum patient to the postpartum unit, including the appropriate assessment and reporting while providing in depth care.
21.Demonstrate in depth planning of daily assessment and care for the postpartum patient, by appropriate charting and reporting of normal and abnormal findings.
22.Communicate effectively with all post-partum patients and families, including the adolescent parent, parents of high risk infants, parents of stillbirths, and other high risk groups.
23.Identify effective means of communication that may be used in caring for families of various cultures.
24.Demonstrate the five rights in giving medications and relate in-depth information about medications, IV fluids and IV medications by demonstrating appropriate techniques in their administration.
25.Demonstrate competency in performing procedures as available, such as
catheterization, enema, Harris flush, dressing change, pre-op teaching, post-op teaching, surgical prep, etc.
26.Keep abreast of all new physician’s orders, lab values, information on Kardex, and make additions to the Kardex.
27.Discharge the patient and newborn demonstrating safety, and completing
charting.
28.Perform and educate patients about self-breast examinations.

Pediatrics
1. Plot weights and heights on growth charts.
2. Utilize nursing interventions to reduce stress in the hospitalized child based on the child’s developmental stage.
3. Take accurate vitals on various aged children. Report abnormal vital signs
promptly.
4. Use appropriate safety measures for hospitalized children.Support for the child during treatments.
5. Complete the pre-op teaching and post-op for a child having surgery.
6. Use appropriate play materials in caring for various aged children.
7. Assess fluid and electrolyte balance in the pediatric patient.
8. Calculate fluid needs for 24 hours for a hospitalized child.
9. Calculate correct dosages and give injections to children with the correct needle and in the correct sites.
10.Calculate correct dosages and give oral medications to the pediatric patient.
11.Administer IV fluids and medications to the child including saline loc, central lines, IV pumps
12.Care for children of various ages including infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age children and adolescents.
13.Provide anticipatory guidance to parents about common concerns related to the age of their children.
14.Assess children appropriately and report abnormalities and changes in condition promptly.
15.Interact therapeutically with children and family members.
16.Adapt procedures to the pediatric patient.
17.Record a nursing history accurately and promptly.
18.Integrate collected data with knowledge of etiology, development, and prognosis of common and more complex health problems in caring for children or various ages.
19.Determine nursing diagnoses, formulate appropriate goals and establish priorities of care for a child with more complex health problems.
20.Provide individualized care for children of various ages.
21.Analyze strengths and limitations of families while completing care of a child and in planning for discharge.
22.Evaluate effectiveness of care given to the child.
23.Assist with diagnostic procedures and treatments.
24. Analyze learning needs and complete discharge teaching for the family of the child who is going home.
25.Identifies appropriate resources to meet learning needs and post hospital care.
26.Provides ongoing teaching and records family learning.
27.Work with the care manager or other health care providers or agencies in meeting family needs. 

ADN 423 - Nursing Theory IV

• Apply the role of the registered nurse in caring for patients with complex disease processes.  (Professionalism, Safe and Effective Care, Communication)    
• Explore advanced nursing skills to include care of complex patients across the life span. (Communication, Patient-Centered Care, Safe and Effective Care, Clinical Judgment) 
• Expand knowledge of complex disease processes along the health-illness continuum for patients of various ages.  (Patient-Centered Care, Communication, Safe and Effective Care) 
• Utilize clinical judgment and the nursing process to create holistic, patient-centered plans of care across the lifespan and health continuum. (Clinical Judgment, Patient-Centered Care) 

ADN 424 - RN Capstone II

 

Corequisites: ADN-423 Nursing Theory IV, and ADN-425 Applied Nursing Practice IV
Prerequisites: Nursing Theory III, ADN-324 RN Capstone I, ADN-325 Applied Nursing Practice III, SOC-110 Introduction to Sociology, and (if Advanced Standing Student) ADN-326 Advanced Standing Bridge
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face

Course Fees: None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes: 

• Interpret the NCLEX-RN licensure examination test plan.   
• Develop an individualized plan of study to prepare for the registered nurse national licensure exam.    
• Employ clinical judgment while applying the nursing process to simulated groups of patients in various healthcare settings. (Clinical Judgment, Patient-Centered Care, Safe and Effective Care) 
   

ADN 425 - Applied Nursing Practice IV

 

Corequisites: ADN-423 Nursing Theory IV, and ADN-424 RN Capstone II
Prerequisites: Nursing Theory III, ADN-324 RN Capstone I, ADN-325 Applied Nursing Practice III, SOC-110 Introduction to Sociology, and (if Advanced Standing Student) ADN-326 Advanced Standing Bridge
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face

Course Fees: Simulation Fee: $50.00

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes: 

• Implement comprehensive care utilizing clinical judgment as applied across the lifespan and along the health illness continuum. (Clinical Judgment, Patient-Centered Care, Safe and Effective Care) 
• Provide entry level nursing care for a multiple patient assignment. (Clinical Judgment, Safe and Effective Care, Communication, Professionalism, Patient-Centered Care) 
• Execute effective communication with clients across the lifespan and members of the health care team. (Communication, Professionalism, Safe and Effective Care) 
• Enact professional standards of the registered nurse in a variety of healthcare settings. (Safe and Effective Care, Professionalism, Communication) 
   

ADN 465 - Psychiatric Mental Health Care

1. Create a comprehensive health status assessment based on the needs of the client with mental health and substance abuse issues.
2. Apply principles of ethics, client safety, health promotion and the nursing process to nursing care of the client with mental health and substance abuse issues.
3. Create and implement an individual plan of care considering unique cultural and spiritual preferences, applicable standards of nursing care, and legal and ethical implications.
4. Assist clients with mental health and substance abuse issues to promote healthy behaviors, cope with health problems, and adapt and/or recover from the effects of disease or injury.
5. Understand individual and team accountability for abiding by all applicable jurisdiction statutes related to psychiatric nursing practice.

Course Objectives:
Unit 1:

• Define mental health and mental illness; describe the continuum between mental health and mental illness.
• Discuss cultural elements that influence attitudes toward mental health and mental illness.
• Cite misconceptions and myths about mental illness.
• Psychophysiological responses to grief and anxiety.
• Relate the purpose of defense mechanisms.
• Define and cite examples of defense mechanisms.
• Discuss legal and ethical issues relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing.
• Compare and contrast voluntary admission and involuntary commitment.
• Explain the nursing care of patients in seclusion and restraints.
• Compare and contrast the purpose, focus, and goals for a social relationship, intimate relationship, and a therapeutic relationship.
• Define self-awareness and discuss its importance in the nurse-client relationship.
• Define and discuss the role of empathy, genuineness and positive regard on the part of the nurse in the nurse-client relationship.
• Identify behaviors in the nurse that reflect positive regard.
• Describe the four phases of therapeutic relationship development and the goals and tasks associated with each phase.
• Define transference and counter-transference and the influence they may have on the therapeutic relationship.
• Explain the effect/use of self-disclosure in the nurse-client relationship and maintaining professional boundaries.
• Discuss the impact of pre-existing factors on communication.
• Identify your most important values using values clarification.
• Identify how culture influences communication.
• Discuss differences between verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Distinguish between thoughts and feelings and explore their impact on communication and behavior.
• Identify techniques that enhance communication (therapeutic).
• Identify techniques that hinder communication (non-therapeutic).
• Describe active listening.
• Identify, write and critique therapeutic responses through utilization of process recordings (IPR).

Unit 2:

• Identify the role of neurotransmitters in human behavior.
• Discuss the association of endocrine function to the development of psychiatric disorders.
• Explain the relationship between neurotransmitters, psychotropic drugs, and mental illness.
• Identify major classes/sub classes of psychotropic drugs.
• State common side effects of psychotropic drugs.
• Identify various diagnostic procedures used to detect alteration in biological functioning that may contribute to psychiatric disorders.
• Discuss historical perspectives related to psychopharmacology.
• Describe indications, action, contraindications, precautions, side effects and nursing implications for the following drug classifications: antianxiety agents, antidepressants, mood-stabilizing agents, antipsychotics.
• Apply the steps of the nursing process to the administration of psychotropic
• medications.
• Relate the nursing process to psychiatric nursing practice.
• List components of the Mental Status Exam and other psychosocial assessments.
• Define the term therapeutic milieu and describe the role of the nurse in creating a therapeutic milieu.
• Relate the basic assumptions and conditions of a therapeutic milieu.
• Identify the roles of the interdisciplinary team in psychiatry.
• Discuss the functions of different types of groups.
• Describe physical conditions that influence groups.
• Explain curative factors that occur in groups.
• Describe the phases of group development.
• Differentiate between group therapy and therapeutic group work.
• Describe the role of the nurse in group therapy.
• Compare and contrast functional and dysfunctional family behavior.
• Describe the effects of mental illness on families.

Unit 3:

• Explain Seyle’s theory of stress and explain the relationship between anxiety and neurochemical and physiological response to anxiety.
• Identify physiological and psychological responses to stress, anxiety and grief.
• Identify common stressors.
• Distinguish symptoms reflective of each of the four levels of anxiety.
• Match appropriate nursing interventions to each level of anxiety.
• List adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies.
• Recognize and differentiate primary gain, secondary gain, and tertiary gain
• Define crisis.
• Identify the stages of a crisis.
• Identify types of crisis that occur in people’s lives.
• Discuss the goal of crisis intervention.
• Identify the role of the nurse in crisis intervention.
• Apply the nursing process to client’s expressing anger or aggression.
• List medications used in the management of aggressive patients.
• Differentiate the terms stress, anxiety, and fear.
• Differentiate between normal anxiety and compare to pathological anxiety.
• Identify predisposing factors in the development of anxiety disorders.
• Distinguish between the different anxiety disorders.
• Apply the nursing process to the client with an anxiety disorder.
• Discuss various treatment modalities relevant to anxiety disorders.
• Identify the defense mechanisms used in anxiety disorders.
• State the actions, side effects, and nursing implications for anti-anxiety medications.
• Describe various types of trauma - and stressor - related disorders and identify
• symptomatology associated with each.
• Identify predisposing factors in the development of trauma - and stressor - related disorders.
• Apply the nursing process to the care of client’s with trauma - and stressor - related disorders.
• Discuss various modalities relevant to treatment of trauma - and stressor - related disorders.
• Discuss various types of somatic symptom and dissociative disorders and identify symptoms associated with each.
• Identify predisposing factors in the development of somatic symptom and dissociative disorders.
• Apply the nursing process in the care of client’s with somatic symptom and dissociative disorders.
• Discuss various modalities relevant to the treatment of somatic symptoms and dissociative disorders.

Unit 4:

• Discuss the concepts of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
• Identify predisposing factors in the development of these disorders.
• Recognize signs and symptoms for schizophrenia.
• Describe various types of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
• Identify symptomatology associated with these disorders and use this information in client assessment.
• Define and differentiate between hallucinations, illusions, and delusions.
• Describe appropriate nursing interventions for behaviors associated with these disorders.
• Identify communication techniques/approaches to use when caring for delusional or hallucinating patient.
• Describe relevant criteria for evaluating nursing care of clients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
• Identify topics for client and family teaching relevant to schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
• Explain the schizophrenic client’s vulnerability to abusing substances and strategies to prevent relapse.
• Discuss various treatment modalities relevant to the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
• State the mechanism of action, side effects, and nursing implications for clients on antipsychotics.
• Explain drug therapy (antiparkinsonian drugs and antihistamines) used to
• prevent/minimize side effects of antipsychotics and list possible medications used.

Unit 5:

• Discuss the theory of grief as proposed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
• Explain anticipatory grieving.
• Differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive responses to loss and identify when the work of mourning has been successful.
• Describe grieving behaviors common to individuals across the life span.
• Explain the relationship between grief and the development of depression.
• List nursing interventions nurses can implement when working with a grieving patient.
• Recognize the importance of cultural and developmental considerations in the bereavement process.
• Discuss epidemiological statistics related to depression.
• Compare and contrast major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder.
• Differentiate depressive and bipolar disorder.
• Compare and contrast the etiological theories and predisposing factors for the development of depression.
• Discuss implications of depression related to developmental stage.
• Utilize the nursing process in providing care for the client with depression.
• Identify symptoms associated with depression and use this information in client assessment including the following areas: affect, thought processes, feelings, physical behavior, and communication.
• Utilize therapeutic communication appropriate to the client with a depression.
• Describe the use of cognitive therapy in the treatment of the client with depression.
• State the mechanisms of action, major side effects, and nursing implications for the client on drug therapy for depression.
• Discuss mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, and complications of ECT.
• Describe the role of nurse in the administration of ECT.
• Identify education topics for the client with a depressive and their family.
• Discuss epidemiology, etiology, and risk factors related to suicide; including those specific to the adolescent.
• Identify persons at risk for suicide.
• Apply the nursing process in care of suicidal clients and their significant others.
• Describe various types of bipolar disorders.
• Identify predisposing factors in the development of bipolar disorder.
• Identify symptoms of bipolar disorder and use this information in client assessment.
• Apply the nursing process in caring for a client with bipolar disorder.
• Discuss various modalities used in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
• State the mechanism of action, major side effects, and nursing implications for the client on a mood stabilizer.
• Distinguish between signs of early and severe lithium toxicity.

Unit 6:

• Define the term personality.
• Review various theorists and theories of personality development.
• Distinguish among the three clusters of personality disorders.
• Describe symptomatology associated with a specific cluster of personality disorder.
• Identify predisposing factors related to borderline personality disorder, and use this in assessment.
• Apply the nursing process to the client with borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
• Discuss various treatment modalities for the treatment of various personality disorders.
• Identify and differentiate between various eating disorders.
• Identify etiological implications and predisposing factors in the development of eating disorders.
• Identify nursing interventions for a client with an eating disorder.
• Discuss various treatment modalities relevant to the treatment of eating disorders.
• Describe epidemiological statistics associated with victims of violent behavior.
• Identify characteristics of victims and victimizers.
• Identify predisposing factors of abusive behavior.
• Identify nursing interventions for the victim of abuse.
• Explain how all clients can be assessed for evidence of domestic violence.
• Define sexual assault and rape.
• Describe the profile of the victim and the perpetrator of sexual assault.
• Distinguish between the acute and long-term phases of the rape-trauma syndrome and identify some common reactions during each phase.
• Identify areas to assess and interventions to implement when working with sexual assault victims.
• Identify the role of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) nurse in the emergency setting.
• Analyze your thoughts and feelings in regards to working with perpetrators and victims of violence.

Unit 7:

• Define addiction, intoxication, tolerance, and withdrawal.
• Discuss predisposing factors implicated in the etiology of substance-related and addictive disorders.
• Explain the use of defense mechanisms in clients with substance-related and addictive disorders.
• Identify symptomatology and use the information in assessment of clients with various substance-related and addictive disorders.
• Distinguish between the symptoms of opioid intoxication, overdose, and withdrawal.
• Compare and contrast the signs and symptoms of intoxication, overdose, and withdrawal for cocaine and amphetamines.
• Distinguish between the symptoms seen in alcohol withdrawal and those of alcohol delirium and discuss recommended treatment for each.
• Describe the signs of alcohol poisoning and the appropriate treatment.
• Outline nursing care for the client who is intoxicated, overdosed, or withdrawing from a substance.
• Develop self-awareness relative to substance abuse.
• Discuss characteristics of the impaired nurse and list appropriate steps to take if one observes an impaired nurse.
• Discuss the issue of substance-use and addictive disorders within the profession of nursing.
• Discuss the effects of chronic alcohol abuse on various body systems.
• Define codependency and identify behavioral characteristics associated with the disorder.
• Describe aspects of enabling behaviors and give examples.
• Describe various treatment modalities relevant to treatment of individuals with substance-related and addictive disorders.
• Define and differentiate among delirium and various neurocognitive disorders.
• Discuss predisposing factors implicated in the etiology of delirium and neurocognitive disorders.
• Describe clinical symptoms and use the information to assess clients with delirium or a neurocognitive disorder.
• Apply the nursing process in the care of a client with delirium or neurocognitive disorder.
• Summarize the essential nursing interventions for a patient with delirium.
• Define and give an example of the following symptoms assessed during the progression of Alzheimer’s disease: (a) amnesia (b) apraxia (c) agnosia and (d) aphasia.
• Review management of catastrophic reaction in the patient with Alzheimer’s.
• Describe various treatment modalities relevant to care of clients with delirium or a neurocognitive disorder.
• Discuss drug therapy for patients with a neurocognitive disorder.
• Formulate a teaching plan for a caregiver of a patient with Alzheimer’s disease including communication, safety and health maintenance.
• Discuss resources/supports for caregivers of a patient with Alzheimer’s.

Unit 8:

• Explore genetic and environmental factors that contribute to infant, child, and
• adolescent psychiatric disorders.
• Identify predisposing factors of mental health and positive development in children and adolescents.
• Discuss interventions to prevent psychiatric disorders in children.
• Define the term resilience and explain how resiliency can mitigate risk factors for mental illness.
• Describe symptoms of the common childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders.
• Plan nursing care for the child or adolescent with a mental illness.
• Discuss treatment modalities for the child or adolescent with a psychiatric disorder.

ADN 466 - Clinical Practicum 4

Course Objectives:
1. Understand safe and effective nursing skills and evaluate priority
needs as they affect the individual with a mental health or substance
abuse disorders.
2. Apply critical thinking skills using the nursing process a framework for
the development of a plan of care for the patient with mental illness
and substance abuse disorders.
3. Evaluate the client with a mental illness or substance abuse disorders
and their family’s well-being with attention to educational needs, safety,
ethical, legal, and organizational standards of care.
4. Apply nursing skills and theories in planning and implementing care for
the client with common or complex mental health or substance abuse
needs.
5. Apply effective written, verbal, and nonverbal communications skills
when caring for a client with a mental illness or substance abuse
disorder.
6. Actively participate in recreational therapy, various groups, team
meetings, occupational therapy or other therapies as assigned.
7. Recognize the importance of confidentiality and apply it to all areas of
nursing.
8. Expand self-awareness through written introspection. 

ADN 511 - Adult Health Care

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of Adult Health Care, the nursing student shall demonstrate the following competencies, in addition to the competencies in Fundamentals of Nursing and Lifespan Health Care:
UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTON
A. 1. Discuss the incorporation of evidence-based practices into medical surgical nursing.
 2. Describe the role of interprofessional collaboration and teamwork in the provision of safe, quality patient care.
B. 1. Review basic concepts related to fluid and electrolyte balance.
 2. Describe the role of endocrine, renal, and respiratory systems in the regulation of fluid and electrolyte balance.
 3. Explain the significance of osmolality, osmolarity, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, and urine specific gravity related to fluid and electrolyte balance.
4. Discuss changes in fluid and electrolyte balance with aging.
5. Describe the pathophysiology, clinical presentations, and management of
dehydration, hypovolemia, and hypervolemia.
 6. Identify laboratory data and clinical manifestations related to disorders in sodium balance, chloride balance, potassium balance, and calcium balance.
C. 1. Describe the significance of acid-base balance for normal function.
 2. State the steps for arterial blood gas interpretation.
 3. Explain the meaning of compensation.
 4. Compare and contrast major acid-base disorders.
 5. Describe the role of the respiratory and renal systems in acid-base balance.
 6. Explain nursing considerations related to patients with acid-base disorders.
D. 1. Discuss reasons patients require infusion therapy.
 2. Describe the characteristics of common IV solutions.
 3. Compare peripheral and central venous access including indications, access devices, and potential complications.
 4. Describe the equipment used to provide infusion therapy.
 5. Calculate rates of IV infusions accurately.
 6. Discuss the initiation and discontinuance of IV therapy.
UNIT II: IMMUNE
A. 1. Discuss the function of the immune system.
 2. Assess client immune function.
3. Identify relevant diagnostic examinations related to the assessment of immune function.
4. Discuss changes in immune function associated with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of lupus erythematosus.
 2. Describe diagnostic results used to confirm the diagnosis of lupus erythematosus.
 3. Discuss medical management and nursing interventions of lupus erythematosus.
C. 1. Identify the client at risk for multidrug-resistant organisms.
 2. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of: methicillinresistant staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and clostridium difficile.
 3. Describe diagnostic test results used to confirm the diagnosis of infectious
disorders.
 4. Discuss medical management and nursing interventions of infectious disorders. 
D. 1. Review the etiology and pathophysiology of human immunodeficiency virus infection and AIDS.
 2. Determine populations at risk for HIV.
 3. Predict the clinical course of an HIV infection.
 4. Identify specific criteria for clients with AIDS.
 5. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care including pharmacological, dietary, and lifestyle considerations for clients with HIV disease.
UNIT III: CANCER
A. 1. Explain the pathophysiology of cancer cells.
 2. Compare and contrast benign vs. malignant tumors.
 3. Describe vital diagnostic and preventive measures for the oncology client.
 4. Identify treatment options for oncology patients.
 5. Analyze nursing care for the oncology patient.
6. Developing teaching and support strategies for the oncology client and family.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of hematological disorders.
 2. Describe the diagnostics results used to confirm disorders of the hematological system.
 3. Discuss medical management of hematological disorders.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with hematological disorders.
UNIT IV: CARDIAC 1
A. 1. Review anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system.
 2. Assess the client with a cardiovascular dysfunction.
 3. Discuss changes in cardiovascular function related to aging.
4. Describe reasons and nursing implications of diagnostic studies for the cardiac system.
5. Identify the waveform of a normal sinus rhythm.
6. Recognize common dysrhythmia waveforms.
7. Analyze the appropriate intervention for each dysrhythmia.
8. Differentiate the use of cardioversion from defibrillation.
9. Design an effective patient teaching plan for a client experiencing atrial
fibrillation.
B. 1. Review the mechanisms involved in the regulation of blood pressure.
 2. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of hypertension.
 3. Discuss medical management of hypertension.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with vascular disorders.
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of vascular disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of vascular disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with vascular disorders.
UNIT V: CARDIAC II
A. 1. Describe the epidemiology of cardiac disorders.
 2. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of cardiac disorders.
 3. Discuss medical management of cardiac disorders.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with cardiac disorders.
B. 1. Describe the indications and nursing implications for hemodynamic monitoring.
 2. Define preload, afterload, and contractility.
 3. Correlate clinical manifestations to the underlying pathophysiology of myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, and cardiogenic shock.

 4. Explain rationales for medical interventions in the treatment of critically ill clients with cardiovascular dysfunction.
 5. Analyze nursing management of patients who are critically ill with cardiovascular dysfunction.
 6. Develop a teaching plan for critically ill clients who have had a myocardial
infarction, cardiogenic shock, or who have cardiomyopathy.
C. 1. Discuss the pathophysiology of shock.
 2. Identify hypovolemic, cardiogenic, obstructive, and distributive shock.
 3. Describe the stages of shock.
 4. Describe assessment and monitoring techniques for shock.
 5. Compare and contrast clinical manifestations of the different types of shock.
 6. Describe medical management of selected shock stages.
7. Analyze nursing management of selected shock stages.
8. Discuss the complications associated with shock including disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
UNIT VI: ENDOCRINE
A. 1. Discuss the actions of hormones excreted by endocrine glands.
 2. Assess the adult client for endocrine problems.
 3. Correlate diagnostic examinations to endocrine function and explain nursing considerations for each.
 4. Discuss changes in endocrine function associated with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of pituitary disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of pituitary disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of care for clients with pituitary disorders.
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of adrenal disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of adrenal disorders.
 3. Explain the presentation and management of adrenal crisis.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of care for clients with adrenal disorders.
D. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of thyroid and parathyroid disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of thyroid and parathyroid disorders
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of care for clients with thyroid and parathyroid disorders.
E. 1. Discuss the epidemiology of diabetes mellitus.
 2. Describe the pathophysiology of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
 3. Correlate clinical manifestations of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus to the pathophysiology of each disorder
 4. Describe the diagnostic studies used to diagnose and monitor diabetes mellitus.
 5. Compare indications, administration, actions, and nursing considerations for insulin and oral hypoglycemia agents.
 6. Explain complications associated with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
 7. Design a comprehensive plan of care for clients with diabetes mellitus.
UNIT VII: RESPIRATORY
A. 1. Review the function of the respiratory tract.
 2. Assess the adult client for respiratory problems.
3. Identify relevant diagnostic examinations for respiratory function and explain nursing considerations for each.
4. Determine blood gas parameters affected by
 changes in the respiratory system.
5. Discuss changes in respiratory function associated with aging.
B. 1. Review concepts of oxygenation.
 2. Discuss indications for oxygen therapy.
 3. Select appropriate methods of oxygen delivery.
 4. Identify complications of oxygen administration.
 5. Plan teaching for the patient on oxygen therapy.
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of infectious respiratory disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of infectious respiratory disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with infectious
respiratory disorders.
D. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of upper airway disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of upper airway disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with upper airway disorders.
E. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of lower airway disorders.
2. Discuss medical management of lower airway disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with lower airway disorders.
F. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to
 pathophysiological processes of critically ill clients with respiratory dysfunction.
2. Discuss medical management of critically ill clients with respiratory dysfunction.
3. Describe indications, management, and complications associated with mechanical ventilation of critically ill clients. 
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for critically ill clients with
respiratory dysfunction.
UNIT VIII: NEUROLOGICAL
A. 1. Assess the adult client for neurologic problems.
 2. Correlate relevant diagnostic examinations to neurological function and explain nursing considerations for each diagnostic examination.
 3. Predict the diagnostic tests used to assess a specific
 neurologic disorder.
 4. Discuss changes in neurological function associated with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of brain disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of brain disorders.
 3. Compare and contrast meningitis and encephalitis
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with brain disorders.
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of spinal cord disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of spinal cord disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with spinal cord disorders.
D. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological process of peripheral
nervous system disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of selected disorders of the peripheral nervous system.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with peripheral nervous system.
E. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathological processes of neurologic dysfunction in critically ill clients.
 2. Describe indications and nursing implications for ICP monitoring in the critically ill client.
 3. Discuss the nursing management of clients with increased ICP, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neurogenic shock.
 4. Develop a comprehensive nursing plan of care for critically ill clients with
neurological dysfunction.
UNIT IX: URINARY
A. 1. Discuss the function of the renal and urinary systems.
 2. Assess the adult client with renal or urinary problems.
 3. Correlate relevant diagnostic examinations to renal and urinary system function and explain nursing considerations for each.
 4. Discuss changes in renal and urinary system function associated with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiologic processes of urinary tract infections, urolithiasis, incontinence, and prostate enlargement.
 2. Discuss medical management of urinary disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with urinary disorders. 
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of renal disorders.
 2. Discuss the medical management of renal disorders.
 3. Compare and contrast acute and chronic renal failure.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with renal disorders.
 5. Describe indications, management, and complications associated with renal replacement therapies.
 6. Describe the indications, management, and complications associated with renal transplantation.
UNIT X: SENSORY
A. 1. Explain the pathophysiological processes of visual disorders.
 2. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of visual
disorders.
 3. Discuss medical management of selected eye disorders.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with eye disorders.
B. 1. Identify ototoxic medications.
 2. Discuss changes in hearing associated with aging.
 3. Describe methods to prevent ear trauma.
C. 1. Explain the pathophysiological process of hearing disorders.
 2. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of hearing disorders.
 3. Discuss medical management of selected disorders of the ear.
 4. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with ear disorders.
UNIT XI: MUSCULOSKELETAL
A. 1. Review function of the musculoskeletal system.
 2. Assess the adult client with musculoskeletal problems.
 3. Correlate relevant diagnostic examinations to musculoskeletal function and explain nursing considerations for each.
 4. Identify changes in musculoskeletal function associated with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of
musculoskeletal disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of musculoskeletal disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with musculoskeletal disorders.
C. 1. Identify clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of musculoskeletal trauma.
 2. Explain the effective medical management of musculoskeletal trauma.
1. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with musculoskeletal trauma.
D. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of connective tissue disorders.
 2. Describe diagnostic results used to confirm the diagnosis of connective tissue disorders. 
 3. Discuss the medical management of connective tissue disorders.
1. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with connective tissue disorders.
UNIT XII: GASTROINTESTINAL 1
A. 1. Assess the adult client with gastrointestinal problems.
 2. Correlate relevant diagnostic examinations to gastrointestinal function and explain nursing considerations for each.
 3. Discuss changes in gastrointestinal function associated with aging.
B. 1. Differentiate between enteral and peripheral total parenteral nutrition
administration including the indications for use and complications.
 2. Compare the nursing management between enteral and peripheral total parenteral nutrition.
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of oral and esophageal disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of oral and esophageal disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with oral and esophageal disorders.
D. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of peptic ulcer disease.
 2. Discuss medical management of peptic ulcer disease.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with peptic ulcer
disease.
E. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of intestinal disorders.
 2. Differentiate between the various mechanisms involved with intestinal obstruction.
 3. Design care for the patient with intestinal obstruction.
 4. Compare and contrast decompression tubes.
 5. Discuss medical management of intestinal disorders.
 6. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with intestinal disorders.
UNIT XIII: GASTROINTESTINAL II
A. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of hepatic disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of hepatic disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with hepatic disorders.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of biliary and pancreatic disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of biliary and pancreatic disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with biliary and
pancreatic disorders. 
UNIT XIV: INTEGUMENTARY
A. 1. Assess the adult client with integumentary problems.
 2. Correlate relevant diagnostic examinations to integumentary function and explain nursing considerations for each.
 3. Discuss changes in integumentary appearance and function with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of skin disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of skin disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with skin disorders.
C. 1. Explain the pathophysiological processes associated with burn injuries.
 2. Describe classifications of burn injuries.
 3. Correlate the pathophysiological changes to clinical manifestations seen in clients with burns.
 4. Explain the medical and surgical management of clients with burn injuries.
 5. Develop a comprehensive plan of care for clients with burn injuries.
UNIT XV: REPRODUCTIVE
A. 1. Correlate relevant diagnostic examinations to reproductive function
 2. Discuss changes in reproductive function associated with aging.
B. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of female reproductive disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of female reproductive disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with reproductive disorders.
C. 1. Correlate clinical manifestations to pathophysiological processes of male reproductive disorders.
 2. Discuss medical management of male reproductive disorders.
 3. Develop a comprehensive plan of nursing care for clients with reproductive disorders. 

ADN 512 - Clinical Practicum 5

1. Utilize critical thinking skills in applying the nursing process to the adult
patient with more complex health-illness concerns.
2. Plan the adaption of basic nursing skills to the adult patient with more
complex health-illness concerns.
3. Prioritize basic human needs for the adult patient with more complex
health-illness concerns.
4. Determine the values, attributes, behaviors, ethics, and legal obligations
appropriate to the practice of nursing in the complex adult health setting.
5. Expand the knowledge of nursing skills in planning care for the adult with
common or more complex health concerns.
6. Expand the theory base of health-illness in planning nursing care for
adults with more complex problems along the health-illness continuum.
7. Expand knowledge of communication to select appropriate responses and
teaching strategies in interacting with adults having common or complex
health situations. 

ADN 805 - Management in Health Care

Course Objectives:
UNIT I - MANAGEMENT OF ONESELF AS A PROFESSIONAL NURSE IN TODAY’S SOCIETY.
A. 1. Differentiate between the criteria for a profession and professionalism.
2. Discuss critically the image of nursing portrayed in the media and in the work environment.
3. Compare and contrast the purpose of various professional organizations.
B. 1. Explain the process for licensure by examination, renewal of licensure, and licensure by endorsement.
2. Explain the process for obtaining continuing education credits.
3. Propose means of continued self-improvement through formal education.
4. Analyze behaviors and skills relevant to various employment settings.
5. Create a plan for dealing with the transition from student role to professional.
6. Prepare information to be incorporated in a letter of application for a job and recommend appropriate behavior during a job interview.
7. Appraise societal & educational factors that have caused changes in the
expectations of the new graduate.
8. Weigh criteria for selection of continuing education programs.
9. Determine the appropriate steps to take when resigning from a job.
UNIT II - MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT CARE
A. 1. Define Management.
2. Apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the work environment.
3. Differentiate between the various leadership styles.
4. Describe characteristics of effective leadership.
B. 1. Delegate responsibilities to appropriate health care team members.
2. Select responsibilities appropriate to the RN, L PN and the unlicensed assistive person.
3. Define competencies, limitations and responsibilities of the nurse manager, LPN and UAP in relation to the staff RN.
C. 1. Identify significant data which needs to be reported to co-workers and to the next shift.
2. Determine situations which need to be communicated to your supervisor.
3. Select appropriate feedback to co-workers which improves team-building.
4. Determine nursing responsibilities in taking and transcribing written, oral and phone orders.
5. Determine when to notify the physician and appropriate data which needs to be gathered prior to contacting them.
6. Communicate in an assertive manner with the physician
7. Use appropriate lines of authority and communication within the practice
setting.
8. Consult with a resource person when the patient’s problems are not within the scope of practice.
9. Collaborate with other health care providers to meet patient and family needs.
10.Assess communication barriers in working with people and propose ways of overcoming these barriers.
11.Evaluate unsafe nursing practice and take appropriate action.
12.Evaluate areas of needed change in a nursing situation and propose methods of implementing change with least resistance.
13.Suggest an appropriate method for resolving conflict.
D. 1. Plan patient care for a group of patients in an efficient and orderly fashion.
2. Determine pertinent assessments for a group of patients.
3. Establish priorities of care in specific patient situations.
4. Decide appropriate interventions in specific nursing situations.
5. Identify time wasters.
E. 1. Identify factors involved in the skill mix for staffing.
2. Compare and contrast scheduling patterns.
3. Compare and contrast the basic approaches to organizational assignment of patient care.
4. Analyze advantages and disadvantages of each approach to patient care.
5. Supervise and evaluate health team member’s activities.
UNIT III - MANAGING RESOURCES IN THE COMMUNITY
A. 1. Define community health
2. Define the role of nursing in community health.
3. Apply the nursing process to a population group in the community setting.
4. Identify community resources which can be utilized by patients and/or
families.
5. Differentiate between community health needs and individual needs provided for in a community setting.
6. Discuss the role of the Public Health Department in managing the health
needs of the community.
7. Recognize the impact of the goals of Healthy People 2020.
8. Recognize the impact of alternative and complimentary therapies on patient care.
B. 1. Define disaster.
2. Recall the interventions of the ABC assessment.
3. Differentiate between the classifications used in triage.
4. Identify symbols or abbreviations used on ID tags in triage.
5. Specify areas that are considered safe in a hospital or nursing home during a tornado.
6. List medical treatment needed by all victims and emergency personnel
involved in a disaster.
7. Triage patients in a multiple trauma incident.
8. Determine at least three agencies that might be utilized in a disaster.
9. Identify agents which may be used for bioterrorism.
10.Assess patients with a biohazard exposure.
UNIT IV - MANAGEMENT OF LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN HEALTH CARE
A. 1. Differentiate between diploma, certification & licensure as credentials.
2. Recognize the role of the state board of nursing in nursing practice.
3. Discuss critically the major provisions of the Nurse Practice Act in the State of Iowa and its effect on nursing practice.
4. Predict situations which may result in disciplinary action by the board of
nursing
5. Assess situations which may result in revocation of a license and determine recourse for the nurse.
6. Discuss the process of revocation of a nursing licensure.
7. Consider concerns related to the future direction of nursing including one’s
own role in this process.
B. 1. Appraise the role of institutional policies on legal decision making and the effect on nursing practice.
2. Analyze nursing situations which may result in criminal prosecution.
3. Compare and contrast negligence and malpractice.
4. Determine nursing situations which would be classified as intentional torts.
5. Assess situations which would be classified as unintentional torts.
6. Analyze the standard of the reasonably prudent nurse.
7. Determine the factors necessary to prove liability.
8. Differentiate between personal and employer liability.
9. Evaluate the need for liability insurance.
10.Analyze various nursing care situations identifying the principles of
malpractice which apply and predict potential legal consequence.
11.Assess the purpose of incident reports.
12.Determine the nurse’s responsibility in meeting the patient’s right to informed consent and refusal of treatment.
13.Compare and contrast the options for patients concerning advanced
directives and organ donation.
14.Appraise factors that contribute to a suit being institute against a health care institution.
15.Propose actions the nurse may take to prevent initiation of a suit.
16.Prepare to testify for a legal proceeding.
17.Differentiate between an expert witness and a witness to the facts.
C. 1. Appraise the various factors used as a basis for ethical decision making:
Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, Autonomy, Justice, Fidelity, and Veracity.

ADN 806 - Clinical Practicum 6

Student Objectives:
1. Utilize critical thinking to assess and set nursing priorities for a small group
of patients.
• Lead or participate in a patient care conference.
• Formulate health care outcomes with the patient, family and health care team.
• Participate in a multidisciplinary conference.
• Intervene as a patient advocate.
• Collaborate with the patient, family and health care team in evaluating the individual’s response to care.
• Assess nursing priorities for a small group of patients.
• Evaluate effectiveness of multidisciplinary conferences.
• Evaluate the care given to a small group of patients.
2. Collaborate with other health team members within the health care setting
to meet individual needs along the health-illness continuum.
• Plan and implement nursing care for a small group of patients.
• Work within the available human, material, and monetary resources to meet patients’ needs.
• Follow agency policies & procedures in providing care.
• Assist with health promotion.
• Delegate responsibilities to appropriate health care team members.
• Lead or participate in a patient care conference.
• Evaluate performance of other health care team members as related to delegated actions.
• Collaborate with other health care providers and with community agencies to meet patient and related family needs.
• Evaluate appropriateness of team member assignments.
• Assess agency policies and procedures as they affect oneself, members of the health care team, and the consumer.
• Participate in quality improvement and other evaluative activities.
• Work within the availability of human, material and monitory resources to meet patients’ needs.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of patient and/or multidisciplinary conferences.
3. Utilize communication skills to maintain effect and/or therapeutic
relationships with individuals, families and members of the health team.
• Assess the effect of communication on the interpersonal process.
• Respond to situational cues using therapeutic techniques.
• Use nursing procedures as opportunities for interaction with patients and families. 
• Evaluate effectiveness of own communication with patients and families.
• Collaborate with other health care providers.
• Clarify interactions with patients and colleagues.
• Assist in transcribing physician orders.
4. Practice within the profession’s ethical and legal framework pertinent to
the role of the nurse.
• Follow agency policies and procedures in providing care.
• Assist in transcribing physician orders.
• Practice within the ethical and legal framework of nursing.
• Provide care that is consistent with the laws governing the practice
of nursing and societal standards.
• Serve as a patient advocate.
• Consult with more experienced nurses or other appropriate health care professionals when patients’ problems are not within the scope of practice.
• Respect individual worth, uniqueness, and differences in values.
• Value cultural identity of self and others.
5. Utilize computers and other technical equipment for both personal and
nursing/professional activities.
• Participate in computer data entry/retrieval activities.
• Utilize technical skills as described in Clinical Practicum 5.
6. Demonstrate personal responsibility and accountability in the practice of
nursing.
• Assess own role as a member of the profession of nursing
according to state Nurse Practice Act, including legal and ethical
scope of practice.
• Assess own need for ongoing professional development.
• Assess own role in determining the scope, direction, and future of
professional nursing practice.
• Evaluate own progress toward professional development.
• Assume responsibility for self-development.
• Develop plan for ongoing professional development.
• Accept own potential and limitations.
• Demonstrate commitment to quality in own nursing practice.
• Accept responsibility for own actions.
• Evaluate own performance.
• Establish mutual expectations with patients and staff and fulfil lcommitments.
• Assume responsibility for self-development. 

AGA 154 - Fundamentals of Soil Science

• Student Learning Outcomes:
  • Describe the physical, chemical and biological processes and properties occurring in the soil.
  • Explain soil formation and classification systems.
  • Analyze soil fertility and management practices.
  • Examine environmental issues and challenges as they relate to soil and human health.
  • Relate soil water properties and their relationships.
  • Summarize the ecological

• Fundamentals of Soil Science Objectives:
  • Summarize the ecological functions of soil and its role in recycling resources needed for plant growth.
  • Define a soil body, describe how soils develop, and understand the horizons of the soil profile.
  • Explain how soil surveys are prepared and used.
  • Describe soil texture, permeability, structure, and the effects of compaction and tilth.
  • Define the carbon cycle and describe how to promote populations of beneficial soil organisms.
  • Explain what organic matter is, how it forms, and what it does in the soil.
  • Identify the role of water in plant growth.
  • Discuss water quality and explain the need for water conservation. I. Identify the methods of artificial drainage and irrigation.
  • Name and classify the essential elements and explain how they are absorbed by the plants.
  • Describe soil pH, how it develops, and its effects on plant growth.
  • Intial InpDiscuss nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium nutrition.

AGA 155 - Fundamentals of Soil Science Lab

2. The student will be familiar with the soil science theory tied to the practice of those who use the soil.

3. The student will understand the sustainable use of soil and water resources by devoting some detail to subjects such as soil and water conservation, conservation tillage, nutrient management.

AGA 271 - Advanced Corn & Soybean Production

1. Describe the growth and development of corn, soybean, small grains, and forages and recognize how stage of growth influences management decisions.

2. Create crop management strategies to real-world production situations and the impact management decisions have on growth, and yield, of a crop.

3. Develop strategies that optimize inputs and conserve the natural resources needed to produce quality, high-yielding crops.

Course Objectives

1- Corn as a Crop - Origin of Corn - How the Corn Plant Grows - How the Plant Works - Climate and Corn - Corn Breeding - Seed Production - Types of Corn - Corn in the Future

2 - Soybean as a Crop - How the Soybean Plant Grows - Climate and Soybean - Soybean Breeding

3 - Cropping Decisions - Cropping Systems - Corn in the Cropping System - Soybean in the Cropping System - The Corn-Soybean Cropping Sequence - Production Decisions

4 - Tillage and Soil Management - Tillage Terms - Tillage Considerations - Tillage Tools and Operations - Minimizing Soil Compaction From Vehicles

5 - Planting Decisions and Operations - Goals of Planting - Planting Date - Planting Depth - Seed Treatments - Soybean Seed Inoculation - Planting Rates - Row Width - Replanting Decisions - Plant Stand Uniformity - Planting Equipment

6 - Nutrient Management for Top Profit - Knowing Soils and How to Use Them - Estimating the Nutrients Your Soil Can Supply - The Elements Essential for Plant Growth - Liming Acid Soils - Nitrogen - Phosphorus - Potassium (K) - Secondary and Micronutrients - Method of Fertilizer Placement - Effect of Changing Tillage Practices on Fertility Practices - Alternative Sources of Nutrients - Kinds of Fertilizer Materials - “Natural” Fertilizers in Contrast to “Chemical” Fertilizers - Use Caution in Trying Unproven Materials - Economics of Nutrient Use

7 - Weed Management - Weed Biology - Weed Management Strategies - Methods of Weed Control - Herbicide Application Methods - How Herbicides Work - Keys to Successful Weed Management with Herbicides

8 - Insects and Their Management - Principles of Insect Management - Insect Pests of Corn - Insect Pests of Soybeans

9 - Disease Management - Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - Hybrid or Variety Selection - Crop Rotation - Tillage and Crop Residue Management - Integrated Crop Management - Seed Protection

10 - Water Management - Corn and Soybean Water Use - The Soil as a Water Reservoir - Water Movement in Soils - Root Growth and Soil Water - Drainage - Irrigation

11 - Precision Farming - Precision Farming Defined - Important Tools - Integrating Precision Farming - Yield Variation - Capturing Useful Information - Using Information - Develop Realistic Expectations

12 - Protecting the Environment and Using Energy Efficiently - Agricultural Practices That Affect the Environment - The Nature of Pollution from Agriculture - Impact of Agricultural Technology on Balance

13 - Diagnosing Corn and Soybean Problems - Diagnostic Techniques - Corn Growth Problems - Soybean Growth Problems

14 - Corn Silage Production - Corn Types - Planting Guidelines for Corn Silage - Silage Quality - When to Harvest - Harvesting Stressed Corn - Harvesting - Fermentation Process - Silage Additives - Silo Gases - Selecting a Storage Structure - Silo Capacity Needed

15 - Harvesting, Drying, Storing, and Marketing - When to Harvest - Harvesting Systems - Market Moisture - High Moisture Discounts: Why and How Much? - Drying Systems - Storage Conditions for Corn and Soybeans - U.S. Standards for Grain - Marketing

AGA 380 - Integrated Pest Management

AGA 381 - Crop Scouting

Course Objectives:
1. Define Integrated Pest Management
2. Design a pest scouting plan and pest management calendar
3. Explain the difference between Economic Threshold, Economic Injury Level, and give an example of each
4. List the factors to consider when determining the severity of a weed infestation
5. List the four disease interacting conditions and how they can be managed
6. List the basic principles of crop monitoring, collect and submit plant, pest, and soil samples for diagnosis
7. List and describe the growth stages and plant populations of corn and soybeans
8. Identify planting problems Identify nutrient deficiencies and fertilizer injury
9. Use a crop diagnostic guide List and explain the areas to look for insect  damage
10. Use a sweep net Identify the common crop insect pests and their life cycles
11. Explain scouting procedures for the major crop diseases
12. Describe the pathogen and symptoms of the major crop diseases
13. Identify general plant injury symptoms caused by the main herbicide classes
14. Define the term Weed List and describe the basic weed scouting procedures
15. Identify the vegetative parts of grass and broadleaf weeds
16. Use a weed key Identify the common crop and weed plants List the names of the primary and secondary noxious weeds of Iowa
17. List and describe the major modes of action
18. Evaluate herbicide injury List the genetic crop traits that can be used in management of insects
19. List the genetic crop traits that can be used in management of diseases and weeds
20. Design a pest management program that uses genetic crop traits
21. Outline an organic pest management strategy Compare and contrast organic and conventional pest management

AGA 390 - Introduction to Renewable Resources

• Debate the crisis situation our natural ecosystem is facing and the forces behind the crisis.
• Compare the different ecological systems within our natural habitat.
• Examine the population challenge and world hunger.
• Distinguish between the different types of soils and methods of soil conservation.
• Discuss the conservation aspect of pests and pesticides, aquatic environments, water pollution, range management, wildlife management procedures and their importanc.
• Describe the air pollution problem and understand its impact on our world.
• Differentiate between non-renewable and renewable resources and evaluate options with each.

Course Objectives

• learn about three major factors behind the global environmental crisis
  • learn about four major waves and a few key figures in the US conservation history from the 19th to the 21st century
  • learn how natural resources can be classified
  • survey and differentiate among four different approaches to natural resource use: exploitation, preservation, utilitarian, and sustainable
  • understand difference between traditional economics and sustainable economics
  • find out about alternative economic strategies - appreciate what environmental ethics is
• think about interconnectedness of everything in nature
  • review important basic concepts of an ecology course, e.g., levels of organismal diversity, law of matter and energy conservation, food webs, succession, etc.
  • learn about major ecosystem processes
  • review Earth’s biggest ecosystems: biomes
• understand reasons behind explosive population growth in the 20th century
  • learn to calculate rate of natural increase and doubling time
  • appreciate role of changing economics, family planning, and education efforts in slowing down population growth
  • understand difference between malnutrition, under nutrition, and over nutrition
  • which factors decrease and increase availability of farmland worldwide
  • ethical dilemma of hunger: feeding people or controlling population growth
• learn basic characteristics of soil: texture, structure, organic contents, etc.
  • understand soil horizons – what they are, how they are produced and how they can be used to diagnose soil properties
  • explore major soil orders of the United States and the world
  • understand dangers and causes of soil erosion
  • learn about methods of erosion control
  • learn about alternative agriculture 
• find out who the pests are and why we have them around
  • appreciate the complexity of pesticide application
  • learn about harmful consequences of using pesticides
  • practice alternative ways of controlling pests
• learn to identify different types of wetlands
  • importance of wetlands in maintaining ecological balance on the planet
  • learn about current issues in sustainable wetlands’ management
  • learn how water impacts humans (floods, droughts)
  • understand how humans modify water resources (dams, irrigation, drainage, etc.)
• learn about main types of water pollutants
  • understand difference between point and non-point pollution
  • find out how water can be treated
  • learn about natural and human
  • induced limitations on fish populations - learn about main methods of catching fish
  • understand concept of sustainable fish harvest and main methods leading to sustainability of fish harvest 
• understand main features of rangelands’ ecology: how they differ from forests or croplands
  • remember a few key events in the history of range conservation in the US
  • name important rangelands’ management tools 
• understand different kinds of forest management techniques
  • learn why clear cutting is harmful
  • learn about National Park, National Forest, and Wilderness designations
  • understand international issues in forest management - understand why it is important to protect biodiversity
  • learn the main methods of biodiversity conservation
  • practice sustainable principles of biodiversity use in your personal life Objectives 10
  • know examples of successful and unsuccessful wildlife regulations
  • understand difference between consumptive and non-consumptive uses of wildlife
  • practice sustainable wildlife conservation as a member of a national wildlife society or your local community 
• understand that all human activities generate some waste
  • distinguish hazardous and non-hazardous waste, biodegradable and non-biodegradable
  • practice waste reduction, reuse and recycling, and responsible waste disposal in your life and community 
• understand what makes up air and know common air pollutants know the difference between natural and artificial air pollution
  • learn about main methods of air pollution control, both indoor and outdoor
  • understand what causes global change in temperature, how greenhouse effect works
  • understand what causes destruction of ozone, how it can be mitigated
  • earn about causes of acid rain and what can be done to avoid it 
• understand how we can reduce our dependence on minerals
  • understand the need for raw mineral materials, how ore is produced and why it cannot be recycled or replaced
  • find out what you personally can do to reduce the negative impact on mining 
• understand essential differences between coal, oil, and natural gas: where they are found, how they are produced and used, and what impact they have on the environment
  • understand why they are truly non-renewable and how we can make them last longer
  • learn about alternative non-renewable sources of power, especially nuclear power, its benefits and drawbacks - conceptualize a sustainable framework that would allow the world to transition away from fossil fuels towards renewable sources of energy
  • understand the need for alternative energy sources
  • discover how different sources work, challenges and solutions
  • practice conservation of energy and use alternative sources in your personal life procedures.

AGA 852 - Principles of Crop Production

• Identify anatomy and physiology at various stages of plant development.

• Explain crop improvement strategies.

• Summarize the impact of cropping systems on inputs and outputs.

• Describe common crop production issues.

Principles of Crop Production Objectives:

Outcome 1- Plant Anatomy

Outcome 2-Plant Classification and Identification

Outcome 3-Crop Physiology

Outcome 4-Climate

Outcome 5-Soils

Outcome 6-Soil Water

Outcome 7-Tillage and Seeding

Outcome 8-Plant Breeding

Outcome 9-Seed and Grain Quality

Outcome 10-Weed Management

Outcome 11-Insect Management

Outcome 12-Crop Disease Management

Outcome 13-Crop Harvesting and Storage

AGA 880 - Forage Crop Management

• Students will be able to determine proper management of forage crops; concepts applied to yield, quality, and stand persistence.
• Students will be able to design grazing systems
• Students will be able to identify types of forage.

Course Objectives

• Forage ID
• Forage Seedbed Preparation
• Planting Forages d. Weed/Pest/Disease Management
• Harvesting Forages f. Storing Forages
• Grazing Forages/Rotational Grazing/Pasture Setup

AGB 133 - Intro to Agricultural Business

1. Demonstrate the principles of agribusiness management through classroom management activities.

2. Explain the four functions of management in agribusiness and how they may integrated into a business model.

3. Examine how to be an effective agribusiness manager while operating a a student-run class business.

Introduction to Agriculture Business Objectives:

1. Describe how agribusiness firms operate in a global food system. Explain why agribusiness managers must integrate rapidly changing technology with management skills

2. Explain how firms earn their right to make a profit when they give customers value. Explain why a firm’s success requires they be the first choice of customers, employees and investors. Identify management and leadership skills necessary for success. Identify the Four Functions of Management. Summarize the six step process used in business decision making.

3. Explain the Mission of Marketing. Summarize the Nine Marketing Functions and consumer satisfaction.

4. Summarize the changing role of marketing. Explain the relationship between marketing and the Four Functions of Management. Summarize the Four P’s of marketing. Explain the role of a business plan in the success of an agribusiness.

5. Explain the value of economics in explaining how customers make decisions.

6. Explain the factors that influence consumer demand and the factors that shift consumer demand.

7. Explain Strategic Management and why it is important to long run success of the business. Identify elements in a firm’s competitive advantage.

8. Explain the value of forecasting. Demonstrate the following forecasting procedures: extrapolation, graphical analysis, adjustment for inflation and population, and seasonal pricing. Describe how to successfully use forecasts in business planning.

9. Recognize the role of budgets in a successful agribusiness. Identify three types of budgets - benefits and limitations. Describe the relationship between operating, cash flow, and capital expenditure budgets.

10. Explain the role that an effective and efficient organizational structure plays in the success of an agribusiness. Discuss major ways to organize a business. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus centralized Decision-making.

11. Explain the three primary types of legal structure - advantages and disadvantages. Recognize the legal, income and tax implications of selecting legal structure.

12. Explain the role that production management plays in profitability of a successful agribusiness.

13. Explain the importance of Production and Inventory Management to a successful agribusiness.

14. Identify basic accounting documents and evaluation of the financial performance of an agribusiness.

AGB 206 - Farms Operations & Management I

1. Students will manage in the management and operation of a typical Iowa farm. Students will have knowledge of the farm’s resources including the sustainability of those resources and environmental and governmental regulations that affect those resources.

2. Students will have personally experienced the challenges and satisfaction of an actual farm operation.

3. Students will participate in an effective committee structure and the decision- making process for the management and operation of the farm.

4. Students will gain experience in group communication and working relationships.

5. Students will be able to make decisions related to buying seed, planting, rotating seed populations, and spring tillage and weed control. Students will be able to make decisions related to harvesting of crops, fall tillage, grain marketing, and fall nitrogen application.

Course Objectives

1. Farm Layout - Crops grown - Types of tillage used - Partners - Where farms are located - What prep work has been done.

2. Market college grain. - Elevator Location - Types of grain contracts

3. Marketing plans for the farm. -Types of marketing plans - Pros and Cons of marketing plans - Reporting Markets

4. Grain checks and contracts. - Reading and understanding grain checks - Reading and understanding contracts

5. Seed selections for corn and beans. - Seed dealers - Treatment options - GDD - Variety’s

6. Farm record book. - Income - Expenses - Crop year - Fiscal year

7. Crop Ins. - Types - Adj. Yield - Cost

8. Spraying packages for corn and beans - Mode of action - Pre vs. Post - Costs

9. Spring field work - Tillage - Fertilizer - Planting - Pre spraying

AGB 207 - Farm Operations & Management II

Students will participate in the actual management and operation of a typical Iowa farm. Students will have knowledge of the farm’s resources including the sustainability of those resources and environmental and governmental regulations that affect those resources. Students will have personally experienced the challenges and satisfaction of an actual farm operation. Students will participate in an effective committee structure and the decision-making process for the management and operation of the farm. Students will gain experience in group communication and working relationships. Students will be able to make decisions related to harvesting of crops, fall tillage, grain marketing, and fall nitrogen application.

Course Objectives

Outcome - Book Keeping/Accounting

• Use Account methods
• Reading and paying bills
• Recording income
• Rent proposal for the next year

Outcome - Crop Evaluation

• Estimate Yields
• Identify when crop is ready to harvest

Outcome - Marketing

• Recording grain harvested
• Deciding type of storage used
• Figuring storage costs
• The procedure of selling grain

Outcome - Harvest

• Recording actual yields
• Yield comparisons
• Crop evaluation
• Storage and Grain Safety

Outcome-Fertilization

• Dry fertilizer
• NH3
• Liquid
• Spring vs. Fall
• Pricing

AGB 235 - Introduction to Agriculture Markets

1. Understand the functions performed by the agricultural and food marketing system.

2. Interpret market behavior of producers, agribusiness, and marketing and predict the likely effect of various marketing system changes.

3. Examine the basic workings of futures and options markets and their role in risk management and in speculation.

Course Objectives:

1. Agricultural Marketing System Introduction

2. Market Structure and Competition

3. Structure of Agribusiness Markets

4. Price Determination - Agricultural Supply

5. Marketing Margins - Farm to Retail

6. Distinguishing Supply & Demand Shifters

7. Elasticity, Flexibility

8. The International Market

9. Pricing & Exchange Systems

10. Qualities, Grades, & Branding

11. Ag Marketing & Procurement Channels

12. Processor, wholesale, retail and food

13. Futures introduction & basics

14. Futures and cash market

15. Using futures for hedging and speculation

16. Futures and risk management

17. Options Introduction

AGB 330 - Farm Business Management

1: Measure management performance based on management decisions.

2: Develop planning tools to improve decision making and information management.

3: Examine information and prepare necessary documents in order to improve management efficiencies

Course Objectives:

1- Management: - Learn about farm management in the 21st Century - Learn to acquire and organize management information - Be able to define depreciation - Learn the differences used to value farm and ranch assets - Learn about balance sheets and owner equity - Discuss the purpose and use of an income statement

2 - Basic Management Skills - Explain concept of marginalism - Illustrate the law of diminishing returns - Demonstrate how to compute a substitution ratio - Explain managerial decision making - Compute the different average costs - Learn about enterprise budgets - Learn about partial budgets - Demonstrate whole-farm planning - Understand the structure and components for a cash flow budget

3 - Improving Management Skills: - Explain the organization and characteristics of each form of business organization - Identify sources of risk and how they affect farmers and ranchers - Learn how to manage income taxes - Learn how to analyze investments - Demonstrate how to analyze farm business

4 - Resources for Management - Illustrate and Describe the importance of capital and the use of credit - Compare and Contrast the advantages and disadvantage of land control - Suggest ways to improve human resource management - Illustrate the importance of managing machinery

The student will demonstrate skills and abilities to accomplish farm operations tasks by:

1. Working in a cooperative environment to accomplish daily farming activities.

2. Surveying equipment needs to accomplish farming operations and negotiating with local implement dealers for lend/lease agreements.

3. Contacting seed suppliers and insuring timely delivery of seed.

4. Researching proper pesticide usage requirements and coordinating their application.

5. Setting up and properly maintaining equipment necessary to till, plant, and spray crops grown on the college farm.

6. Scouting crops for pests and weather-related disasters.

7. Communicating and cooperating with landlords and farm neighbors.

8. Learning proper clean-out procedures for fulfilling Value Enhanced Contracts.

9. Keeping Operational records of tasks completed on a variety of different crops.

10. Charting daily markets and reporting on marketing opportunities

AGB 336 - Agricultural Selling

B. Demonstrate the sales process.

C. Model appropriate sales professionalism and ethics.

Ag Sales Objectives:

A. Personal Selling and the Marketing Concept

B. Personal Selling Opportunities in the Age of Information

C. Creating Value with a Relationship Strategy

D. Ethics: the Foundation for Relationships in Selling

E. Creating Product Solutions

F. Product-Selling Strategies That Add Value

G. Understanding Buyer Behavior

H. Developing and Qualifying a Prospect Base

I. Approaching the Customer

J. Creating the Consultative Sales Presentation

K. Creating Value with the Sales Demonstration

L. Negotiating Buyer Concerns

M. Closing the Sale and Confirming the Partnership

N. Servicing the Sale and Building the Partnership

O. Management of Self: the Key to Greater Sales Productivity

P. Communication Styles: Managing the Relationship Process

Q. Management of the Sales Force

AGB 927 - Honors Study

2. Exhibit effective oral communication skills.

3. Analyze and synthesize a broad range of material.

4. Formulate hypotheses, research those problems, and draw conclusions about them while simultaneously reflecting on how scholars think about problems.

5. Illustrate the ability to use knowledge and logic when discussing an issue or an idea, while considering the consequences of their ideas, for themselves, for others, and for society, showing that they are independent and critical thinkers.

AGB 934 - Practicum

• To obtain on-the-job technical training in an agricultural business setting.
• To demonstrate the necessary work habits and skills for successful entry into the agribusiness field 
• To network with agribusiness leaders to secure future employment.
• Students will be exposed to spring or fall agricultural activities in which they were not exposed to while doing a summer practicum.

Course Objectives

• Acceptance of Criticism or Suggestions
• Dependability
• Punctuality
• Initiative Judgment, Common sense, Decision Making
• Human Relations
• Personal Work Appearance
• Quality of Work
• Communication Skills
• Ability to Work Under Pressure
• Confidentiality in the work place
• Time Management.

AGC 129 - Sustainable Agriculture

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the global sources of agricultural information such as production, yield and trade and how sustainability performance influences financial and economic performance.
• Examine how the global agriculture industry poses a great risk to sustainability but also a great opportunity for potential economic and environmental growth.
• Demonstrate an ability to evaluate, quantify and assess the sustainability of agribusinesses and describe how sustainability issues affect the various sectors of agribusiness

Course Objectives

• Introduce Sustainable and Value-Added Agriculture: Introducing the Course Concepts, Definition, and Philosophy of Adding Value, Agricultural Sustainability, Describing Common Economic Principles, and Marketing as a Value-Adding Activity.
• Building a sustainable business: Identify Values
• Building a sustainable business: Farm History and Current Situation
• Building a sustainable business: Vision, Mission and Goals
• Building a sustainable business: Strategic Planning and Evaluation
• Building a sustainable business: Present, Implement and Monitor Your Business Plan.

AGC 201 - American Agricultural History

• Students will compare crops and agronomy methods, livestock and animal science methods, and marketing from 1850’s -1990’s. 
• Students will explain how and why the Extension service was formed.
• Students will explain how and why COOPS were formed.
• Students will contrast and examine farm crises of the 1980’s
• Students will compare and contrast the great depression and how it affected agriculture.

Course Objectives

• American Agriculture Economic Cycles -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Farm Economy -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Farmers and the Land -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Farm Machinery & Technology -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH
• American Agriculture Crops and Livestock -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Transportation -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Trade and Development -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Life on the Farm -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Organizations and Movements -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
• American Agriculture Education & Extension -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century
•  American Agriculture Government Programs and Polices -17th, 18th, 19th 20TH Century

AGC 318 - Field Studies/Career Opportunities

• Students will compare what services are provided by various businesses in the agricultural field and the current research being conducted. Field trips will allow students to see first-hand the operations of the facilities, i.e. research facilities, livestock facilities, cooperatives, college Ag facilities, and many other agricultural related businesses.
• Students will assess the variety of careers open to them upon completion of their degree.
• Students will create a cover letter, resume, and perform an interview.

Course Objectives

• Self Assessment
  • Personality Attitudes
  • Skills & achievements
  • Knowledge & learning Styles
  • Values v. Interests
  • Entrepreneurism
• Occupational Research
  • Information Search
  • Information Interviews
  • Hands on experience iv. Trends
• Decision Making
  • Career Objectives
  • Personal Objectives
  • Community Service
  • Lifelong Learning
• Employment Contacts
  • Job/work search
  • Resumes & Letters
  • Job/Work Interviews
• Work
  • Work offers & Acceptance
  • Success at Work
• Career/Life Planning
  • Re-Evaluation

AGC 940 - On-The-Job Training

• To obtain on-the-job technical training in an agricultural business setting.
• To demonstrate the necessary work habits and skills for successful entry into the agribusiness field
• To network with agribusiness leaders to secure future employment.
• Students will be exposed to spring or fall agricultural activities in which they were not exposed to while doing a summer practicum.

Course Objectives

• Acceptance of Criticism or Suggestions
• Dependability Punctuality
• Initiative Judgment, Common sense, Decision Making
• Human Relations
• Personal Work Appearance
• Quality of Work
• Communication Skills
• Ability to Work Under Pressure
• Confidentiality in the work place
• Time Management.

AGE 219 - Equine Science

• Use in context terminology employed by those at the management level in the equine industry.
• Describe the nutritional needs and feeding practices of horses throughout their life cycle.
• Explain the reproductive cycles of horses.
• Recognize common diseases in horses and recommend common paths of treatment and prevention.
• Outline the basic decisions facing owners/managers of horses in the context of the life cycle of the horse.
• Explain how to turn handle a horse safely.
• Identify the parts of the horse, colors and markings.
• Demonstrate and explain first aid for horses.
• Tell the age of a horse by its teeth.
• Discuss imprint training in the foal.

Course Objectives

• History and development of the horse.
  • Name the major evolutionary horse-like animal
  • Identify the position of the horse in the zoological scheme - List the four evolutionary trends exhibited by horse fossils
  • Identify the Romans’ influences on the use of the horse.
• Status and future of the horse industry.
  • Describe the rise and fall of the horse population in the United States.
  • Compare the total worldwide distribution of horses, donkeys and mules.
  • Project changes in the horse population in the United States.
  • Name the four general areas of equine research.
• Breeds, types and classes of horses.
  • Describe the use of foundation animals.
  • Understand the concept of breed, types and classifications.
  • List the five color breeds of horses.
  • Name five common breeds of horses in each class.
• Functional anatomy of equine.
  • Explain the functions and identify the components of the skeletal, muscular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, reproductive, and endocrine systems.
  • Name the bones in the foreleg and hind leg.
  • Describe three types of joints.
• The biomechanics of movement.
  • Name the three extensor and three flexor muscles on the hind and front leg.
  • Describe two phases of the stride.
  • Describe the walk, trot, gallop, rack and canter.
  • Distinguish between a blemish and unsoundness.
  • Describe unsoundness and common prevention and treatment.
• Selecting and judging horses.
  • Describe 10 factors to consider when selecting a horse to purchase.
  • Describe costs associated with owning a horse after the initial purchase.
  • List five steps in judging a horse.
  • Understand how changes in teeth show aging signs.
  • Calculate height and weight of a horse.
• Reproduction and breeding.
  • Discuss breeding periods.
  • List the major parts of the male and female reproductive tract.
  • Explain gestation and parturition in horses.
• Digestion and nutrition in horses.
  • Describe the functions of the energy nutrients.
  • Describe the symptoms of energy nutrient deficiencies.
  • Describe the energy needs of horses for all stages of life and work.
  • Describe the functions of essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals and amino acids in horses.
  • Describe how to feed roughages and concentrates.
  • Make feeding recommendations or management suggestions. Calculate the nutrient level of a mixed feed using a feed composition table.
• Health management and parasite control.
  • Discuss different diseases and methods for control.
  • Explain vaccination programs.
  • Describe the life-cycle of a typical parasite.
  • Describe the symptoms of several common diseases and parasites.
• Common management practices.
  • Recognize stress in horses.
  • List methods of pest control.
  • Describe wound types and their proper management.
• Shoeing and hoof care.
  • Describe the internal and external parts of the hoof.
  • Discuss the benefits and drawbacks to corrective shoeing.
  • Explain the importance of inspecting feet daily.
  • Describe the trimming and shoeing process.
• Horse behavior and training.
  • Discuss the role of reinforcement in training.
  • Describe the horse’s senses of vision, touch, smell, and hearing.
  • Discuss how the gregarious nature of horses can influence their training.
  • Analyze the importance of pressure and release training methods.
• Equitation.
  • Name three styles of saddles and describe their uses.
  • Discuss the results of a poorly fitted saddle.
  • Describe the process of saddling and bridling a horse.
  • List the steps for proper mounting of a horse.
  • Describe how to load and haul a horse.
  • Indicate the different safe ways of tying a horse.
• Business aspects and the equine industry.
  • List reasons for keeping records.
  • Distinguish between basic kinds of records.
  • List factors that a lender looks for in a borrower.
  • Describe the importance of sound management practices.

AGH 112 - Introduction to Turfgrass Management

• Classify different warm and cool season turfgrasses.
• Compare different plant characteristics.
• Evaluate and test the condition of the soil.
• Determine the best turfgrass for a specific site.
• The history and importance of the turfgrass industry.
• The skills needed and career opportunities in the turfgrass industry.
• How plants grow and spread
• How is turf quality measured
• The different levels of maintenance needed for different turfgrasses.
• The different characteristics of warm and cool season grasses.
• How the turf manager selects the best species and varieties
• The different components of soil.
• Important soil characteristics like texture and structure and their effects on plant growth.
• The most effective methods of soil modification.
• The different drainage systems used to remove excess water from soil.
• The principles of soil fertility.
• Effects of soil pH on plant growth and the materials used to raise or lower the soil pH.
• Why soil testing is important.
• How to collect a soil sample and how often soil tests should be done.
• What is tissue testing.
• How the turf manager decides what species should be planted on a site.
• The information found on a seed label.
• What are the four methods of turfgrass establishment and how should the new planting be cared for until the turf is well established.
• What nutrients are required by turfgrass plants.
• Different types of fertilizers and fertilizer programs. 

AGH 120 - Herbaceous Plant Materials

• The student will identify a variety of herbaceous ornamental plants.
• The student will compare common maintenance techniques used on herbaceous plants.
• The student will differentiate the characteristics of each plant, such as light, amount of water needed, fertilizer, flowering period, and pruning.

 Course Objectives:

• The scientific name for the ornamentals. 
• The common name for the plant.
• How much light the plant requires.
• Which zones are best suited for the plant to thrive in.
• How much water does the plant need.
• The pruning required for each particular plant.
• When and if fertilizer should be used.
• The best area for planting.
• How to put similar plants together.
• The correct spacing for the plants.
• Where the taller growing plants should be located in a planting.
• What maintenance will be required on a planting site.
• What are the advantages of planting annuals in your landscape.

AGH 124 - Woody Plants/Trees

• The student will identify numerous taxa of woody plants important in the Upper Midwest.
• The student will determine whether a particular plant is suitable for the area it is to be planted in.
• The student will differentiate characteristics of each plant presented during the course.

Course Objectives:

• Identify plants by photographs or sight.
• Pronounce and write correctly scientific and common names of woody plants. 
• Identify which climate zones are best for a specific plant.
• Know soil conditions each the plant grow in.
• Know how much water the plant needs to survive.
• Identify proper spacing needed for the plants to grow successfully.
• Recognize the fertilization requirements of each plant.
• Know how much mulch needs to be used around the plants.

AGH 141 - Equipment Operations

•  The student will identify good maintenance practices used on turf equipment.
•  The student will identify tools required for turf maintenance facilities.
•  The student will identify turfgrass facility equipment safety regulations requirements.

Course Objectives:.

•  How to set up a good preventative maintenance program.
•  What happens if there is no preventative maintenance program.
•  The differences between reel and rotary mowers.
•  The different methods used for grinding reels.
•  Different types of grinding equipment.
•  How to adjust the height of cut.
•  How to sharpen rotary blades.
•  What equipment is necessary to operate a turf maintenance facility.
•  What is the must-have vs. the specials tools needed for the maintenance facility.
•  How to request money for equipment.
•  How to train equipment operators.
•  How to maintain a clean and organized shop.
•  How to handle fuels and oils.
•  How to handle chemicals.
•  How to prevent accidents in the turfgrass facility. . How to report accidents.
•  How to get help from regulatory agencies.

AGH 148 - Home Landscaping

AGH 152 - Landscape Design Technology

• The student will point out the most common tools used by the landscape designer.
• The student will explain why graphics are so important to landscape design. 
• The student will identify the different steps in the landscape design process. 
• The student will distinguish the plants and hardscapes best suited for landscaped areas.

Course Objectives:

• What tools are used by the designer?
• What are the uses for the tools? 
• How tools are combined to achieve a desired effect? 
• How to read an architect’s and engineer’s scale? 
• What are the advantages and limitations of CAD? 
• Why are quality graphics so important in landscape design? 
• Describe quality black-and-white and color graphics 
• What are the basic symbols used in landscape design? 
• What is the proper layout and scaling for drawings? 
• What is landscape design and what are some misconceptions about it? -
• What is the universal design process? 
• How does the landscape design process support quality design? 
• Describe important environmental, aesthetic and functional considerations in plant selection. 
• What impact on plant growth and development does an urban environment have? 
• What is the difference between native and exotic ornamental plants and what are their design benefits and limitations? 
• What are hardscapes and how are they used in ground, vertical and overhead planes? 
• What types of material choices for hardscapes are there?

AGH 156 - Landscape Design II

•  Identify the steps in the landscape construction process. 
•  Express what is involved in each individual step of this process 
•  Identify the visual elements of a landscaped area. 
•  Construct visual elements of the landscaped area

Course Objectives:

• The major steps in the landscape construction process. 
• The basic construction activities that occur during the landscape construction process. 
• The typical rules, contracts, standards and entities that govern landscape contracting around the nation?
• What local ordinances and building departments provide requirements for the location, construction, and style of landscape areas. 
• The basic legal requirements that must be met before the construction can begin. 
• What types of construction documents may be encountered on a project. 
• What math operations must be performed to order materials, establish grades, or laying out a walkway. 
• How to calculate perimeter, area, volume and weight conversions. 
• How to perform basic landscape construction math calculations. 
• How to calculate a bid or estimate for a landscape project. 
• Materials and installation techniques for retaining walls. 
• Materials and installation techniques for landscape paving.

AGH 161 - Irrigation Systems

• The student will recognize the importance of a golf course irrigation system.
• The student will identify the different irrigation systems. 
• The student demonstrate how to operate and maintain an irrigation system.

Course Objectives:

• Plant irrigation requirements 
• Soil-water-plant relationships 
• Turf types 
• The different sources of water supply 
• Water withdrawal permits 
• The different pump types 
• Pump sizing 
• Pump systems 
• The different types of pipe 
• The different types of valves 
• What is a swing joint? 
• Materials used in an irrigation system 
• What goes into the design of an irrigation system? 
• How to estimate the cost of an irrigation project 
• How to install an irrigation system 
• The different types of equipment used in the installation process 
• The basics of electricity 
• How to install the individual sprinkler heads 
• What is a field controller? 
• What is a decoder system?

AGH 172 - Landscape Maintenance

•  The student will know how to select the different plants and features that go into a landscaped area. 
• Once all of the plants and features are selected for the landscaped area, the student will be able to perform the proper installation methods. 
• The student will identify the different techniques used for maintaining a landscaped area.

Course Objectives:

• The origins of landscape plants 
• What plant forms are available for landscaping? 
• Plant nomenclature. 
• How to select the proper plant for the landscaped area. 
• What are the uses and limitations of flowers in the landscape?
• What are the different life spans of flowers? 
• What flowers go into beds vs. flowers used for borders? 
• How to design a flower planting. 
• What is Xeriscaping? 
• What are the benefits of xeriscaping? 
• Name the seven principles of xeriscaping? 
• What is a hardscape? 
• How to select the right hardscape. 
• The different types of water features. 
• What are the different types of outdoor lighting? 
• How to properly install landscape plants. 
• What are the tools needed for installation of plants? 
• How to select the proper grass for the area landscaped? 
• The differences in turfgrasses.
•  Proper lawn installation.
• Types of landscape irrigation systems. 
• How to take care of plantings. 
• How to prune trees and shrub.

AGH 180 - Turf Grass Facilities Mgt

• The student will differentiate between successful and unsuccessful turfgrass management styles. 
• The student will recognize factors that the turf manager takes into consideration when selecting a qualified staff. 
• The student will analyze different management styles and how they contribute to the employee’s productivity.

Course Objectives:

• What are the functions of a manager? 
• Does the turfgrass manager, especially in small organizations, participate in each of these functions? 
• How does the superintendent effectively manage employees to perform their jobs efficiently and enthusiastically? 
• What is a mission statement? 
• What is goal setting and tactical planning? 
• In smaller organizations, why is employee recruitment so important? 
• How to attract qualified applicants to turfgrass positions 
• What are different recruitment methods used to attract applicants? 
• What is involved in the selection process of employees? 
• What are the common biases that a manager should be aware of and avoid being influenced by them? 
• What are the different types of discrimination? 
• Why is it so important to train your employees? 
• What types of training are available to employees? 
• When is a good time to conduct employee training? 
• What is performance management? 
• What is a job performance guide? 
• How to conduct a performance appraisal 
• What does it take for a manager of turfgrass to be a good leader? 
• What are the tools to increase leadership ability? 
• What are the different styles of leadership?
• What is motivation and where does it come from?

AGH 211 - Advanced Turf Grass Management

AGH 221 - Principles of Horticulture

AGH 255 - Applicator License Prep

• The student will identify different plant development stages. 
• The student will distinguish plant diseases and insect damage on turf. 
• The student will determine weed problems on turf areas. 
• The student will apply integrated pest management tools. 
• The student will prepare for the Core Manual and Category 3 exams.

Course Objectives:

• Different turf diseases 
• Insect Management 
• Weed Management
• Federal and state laws and regulations 
• The different pesticides used on turf 
• Personal protective equipment & clothing used when using pesticides 
• Different types of application equipment 
• How to calibrate application equipment 
• How to read a pesticide label 
• What the signal words mean on a label 
• What to do if there is a chemical spill

AGH 340 - Turfgrass Professionalism

• The student will identify the proper work qualities needed for a turfgrass facility. 
• The student will administer what they have learned in the classroom as members of the grounds crew on the golf course. 
• The student will gain valuable experience working on equipment and general maintenance on the golf course.

Course Objectives:

• The day to day operations of a turfgrass facility. 
• The skills and work habits needed to be successful in the turfgrass industry. 
• Maintenance practices used on a turfgrass facility.
• Maintenance practices used on the turf equipment.

AGH 350 - Turfgrass Professionalism II

• The student will identify the proper work qualities needed for a turfgrass facility. 
• The student will administer what they have learned in the classroom as members of the grounds crew on the golf course. 
• The student will gain valuable experience working on equipment and general maintenance on the golf course.

Course Objectives: When this course is completed the student will know:

• The day to day operations of a turfgrass facility. 
• The skills and work habits needed to be successful in the turfgrass industry. 
• Maintenance practices used on a turfgrass facility. 
• Maintenance practices used on the turf equipment.

AGH 805 - Horticulture Internship 1

• The student will identify the proper work qualities needed for a turfgrass facility. 
• The student will recognize the proper work qualities needed for a Turfgrass Management position.

Course Objectives:

• The day to day operations of a turfgrass facility. 
• The skills and work habits needed to be successful in the turfgrass industry. 
• Maintenance practices used on a turfgrass facility. 
• Maintenance practices used on the turf equipment.

AGM 101 - Ag Diesel Tractor Equipment Maintenance

AGP 330 - Advanced GPS

1. Acquire and use documentation on each of the hardware systems to be used in class (field documentation, guidance, variable rate, yield monitoring, precision planting)

2. Setup, diagnose, and explain the accuracy of various precision systems. Evaluate and diagnose basic electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems

3. Install and demonstrate use of hardware systems on appropriate implements.

4. Set up, calibrate, and demonstrate the use of UAV’s in agriculture.

Course Objectives:

1. Become familiar with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software and be able to utilize it.

2. Critically evaluate GPS and DGPS systems for site specific, sustainable management systems.

3. Develop an understanding of the concept of site specific management.

4. Critically evaluate the technology used in site-specific management.

5. Evaluate the operating principles of GPS, yield monitors, variable rate control systems, and field computers.

6. Explore principles and applications of variable rate technologies, be able to identify sensing technology for precision agriculture, and apply precision agriculture to a real situation.

7. Recognize types and sources of data and information necessary for a comprehensive precision agriculture program.

8. Understand basic scientific principles of remote sensing used in precision site specific systems. 

AGP 336 - Precision Agriculture

• Demonstrate proper usage of various precision agriculture hardware technologies.

• Analyze data utilizing various precision agriculture software technologies.

• Make use of precision agriculture processes for decision making.

• Justify the implementation of future precision agriculture technologies.

Precision Agriculture Objectives:

1. Global Positioning System (GPS)

     a. GPS systems available for use in agriculture.

     b. How GPS locates positions.

     c. Factors that affect GPS accuracy and techniques to improve accuracy.

     d. Agricultural GPS applications: vehicle guidance and auto-steering, variable rate technology, remote sensing, yield monitoring, and analyzing soil properties.

2. Geographic Information System (GIS)

     a. GIS data and data sources.

     b. GIS applications in Production agriculture

     c. Agricultural GIS software programs.

     d. Mobile GIS/GPS software programs

3. Remote Sensing

     a. Applications in agriculture.

     b. Remote sensing basics.

     c. Correlating imagery to other crop production data.

     d. Remote sensing data sources.

4. Soil Variability and Soil Mapping

     a. Factors affecting soil variability.

     b. Digital soil data and sources.

     c. Correlating soil data to other crop production data.

5. Sensors for Gathering Information

     a. Types of soil and crop sensors and operating procedures.

     b. Interpreting sensed data.

     c. Correlating data to other crop production data.

6. Yield Monitoring Systems

     a. Components, operation, calibration and common malfunctions.

     b. Interpreting yield data.

     c. Correlating yield data with other data.

7. Variable Rate Technology (VRT)

     a. Field zones and prescription maps.

     b. Components and technology of variable rate equipment.

     c. Issues associated with variable rate technology.

8. Auto-guidance Systems

     a. Components and technology of auto-guidance systems

     b. Comparison of commercial systems.

9. Economics of Precision Agriculture

     a. Equipment and technology costs.

     b. Comparing profitability with constant rate management.

10. Trends in Precision Agriculture and Future Technology

AGS 113 - Survey of the Animal Industry

• Explain domestication and the importance of animal agriculture to the economy and society.

• Describe the basic structures of the industry surrounding the production, care and marketing of domestic animals.

• Outline current issues of society that are affecting the animal industry.

• Outcome 1- Animal Contributions to Human Needs
  • Contributions to food needs
  • Contributions to clothing and nonfood products
  • Recreation
• Outcome 2 - An Overview of the Livestock and Poultry Industries.
  • Beef Industry - Dairy Industry
  • Horse Industry - Poultry Industry
  • Sheep Industry
  • Swine Industry
• Outcome 3 - Genetics
  • Genetic Improvements
  • Selection Methods
  • Gene Interactions
• Outcome 4
  • Mating Systems
  • Inbreeding
  • Out breeding
  • New Lines or Breeds
• Outcome 5 - Reproduction
  • Female organs
  • Male organs
  • Pregnancy - Parturition
• Outcome 6- AI
  • Semen collection
  • Insemination of the female
  • Extent of AI
• Outcome 7 - Nutrients
  • Nutrients
  • Evaluation of Feeds
• Outcome 8 - Digestion
  • Ruminant Stomach
  • Monogastric stomach
  • Digestion
• Outcome 9 - Lactation
  • Mammary Glands
  • Factors Affecting Milk Production
  • Colostrum
• Outcome 10 - Animal Behavior
  • Systems of Animal Behavior
• Outcome 11 - Companion Animals
  • Companion animal needs
• Outcome 12 - Beef Production
  • Cattle breeds
  • Cattle Breeding
  • Cattle Feeding
  • Cattle Management
• Outcome 13 - Dairy Production
  • Cattle breeds
  • Cattle breeding
  • Cattle feeding
  • Cattle management
• Outcome 14 - Sheep Production
  • Sheep breeds
  • Sheep breeding
  • Sheep feeding
  • Sheep management
• Outcome 15 - Swine Production
  • Swine breeds
  • Swine breeding
  • Swine feeding
  • Swine management
• Outcome 16 - Horse Production
  • Horse breeds
  • Horse breeding
  • Horse feeding
  • Horse management
• Outcome 17 - Poultry Production
  • Poultry breeds
  • Poultry breeding
  • Poultry feeding
  • Poultry management
• Outcome 18 - Animal Products
  • Wool
  • Meat grading
  • Meat cuts
  • Milk & egg grading
• Outcome 19 - Issues in Animal Agriculture
  • Consumer issues
  • Animal welfare
  • Environmental issues

AGS 242 - Animal Health

• Students will be able to determine proper biosecurity protocol
• Students will be able identify behavior and clinical signs of illness in livestock.
• Student will be able to demonstrate treatment administration.
• Student will be able to explain livestock health prevention methods.

Course Objectives

• Biosecurity protocol
• Normal vs. Abnormal livestock behavior
• Facilities, Herd husbandry and medical/vaccine prevention methods.
• Clinical signs of Illness in livestock
• Proper Treatment of Livestock
• Proper handling of Livestock

AGS 308 - Livestock Management

• Explain proper handling and procedures for Beef Cattle
• Explain proper handling and procedures for Swine
• Explain proper handling and procedures for Poultry
• Evaluate general animal heath procedures

Course Objectives

• Beef Cattle Management
  • Implanting
  • Pasture Breeding
  • Sorting
  • Castration
  • Weaning 
• Cattle Management
  • Moving Cattle
  • Heat Detection
  • Pregnancy Examination
  • Calving
  • Dehorning
  • Control of Parasites 
•  Swine Management
  • Farrowing
  • Working new born pigs
  • Weaning
  • Parasite control 
• Poultry Management
  • Handling Poultry
  • Brooding chicks
  • Working Poultry
  • Processing Eggs and Meat

AGS 319 - Animal Nutrition

• Students will be able to determine nutrients of feed inputs
• Students will be able to formulate livestock diets
• Students will be able to identify feed stuffs.
• Students will evaluate ways to distribute feed to livestock.

Course Objectives

• Feed ID
• Six Key Nutrients for Livestock
• Makeup of Nutrients in Different Feed stuff.
• Formulate Livestock Diets
• Equipment used to distribute feed to livestock

AGS 401 - Swine Production

• Identify the different stages of a swine production system.

• Develop management skills crucial to a modern swine operation.

• Identify consumer impacts on the swine industry.

Course Objectives

• Outcome 1-Origins of the Modern Pig and Evolution of Modern Production Systems.
  • Domestication and Early History
  • Pig Production and Marketing in the US
  • Societal Issues for Pork Production Outcome
• 2- Biology of the Pig - Swine Anatomy and Physiology.
  • Reproductive biology
  • Pig Genetics -Modern Breeds of Pigs
  • Growth, Development and Survival
  • Pork Composition and Quality Outcome
• 3-Nutrition and Feeding
  • Nutrients, Nutrition, and Life-Cycle Feeding
  • Feed Resources
  • Formulating Diets for Pigs Outcome
• 4- Housing, Environment, and Nutrient Management
  • Creating a Comfortable Microenvironment for Pigs
  • Production Systems for Adult Pigs
  • Production System for Growing Pigs
  • Waste and Nutrient ManagementOutcome
• 5-Pig Production Applications That Make Business Sense
  • Management of the Breeding Herd
  • Management of Sows and Piglet: Before, During, and After Farrowing
  • Management of Growing Pigs
  • Management of Pig Health

AGS 553 - Beef Production

• Students will compare the U.S. and Global beef industry.
• Students will determine how to manage a cow calf, yearling, and feed lot operation.
• Students will learn to formulate beef nutrition.
• Students will be exposed to modern day beef management practices.

Course Objectives

• An Overview of the U.S. Beef Industry
  • General Overview
  • Beef Industry Issues
• Retail Beef Products and Consumers
  • Six primary beef consumer preferences
  • Retail beef products
• Management Systems
  • Human resources
  • Financial resources
  • Land and feed resources
  • Equipment resources
• Management Decisions for Seedstock
  • Breeding Program Goals and Objectives
  • Production Records
  • Bull, Cow, and Heifer selection
• Commercial Cow-Calf Management Decisions
  • Managing percent calf crop
  • Managing weaning weights
  • Managing annual cow casts and returns
• Yearling-Stocker Management Decisions
  • Computing breakeven prices
  • Management considerations
• Feedlot Management Decisions
  • Managing a feedlot operation
  • Management priorities
• Concentration, Integration, and Alliances in the Beef Industry
  • Forces Driving Structural Change
  • Source Verification, Trace back, and Identification Systems
• The Marketing System
  • Market Classes and Grades
  • Market Channels
  • Grid Pricing
  • Value-Based Marketing
  • Marketing Issues
• The Global Beef Industry
  • International Trade
  • Beef Suppliers
  • Buyers
  • NAFTA
• Reproduction
  • Reproductive Organs
  • Breeding
  • AI
  • Pregnancy
  • Calving
  • Rebreeding
• Genetics and Breeding
  • Genetic Principles
  • Improving Beef Cattle Through Breeding Methods
  • Selection Programs
• Cattle Breeds
  • Breed evaluation for commercial producers
  • Breed evaluation for low cost production
• Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • Analysis of Feeds
  • The ruminant digestive system
• Managing Forage Resources
  • Plant Types
  • Grazing Management
  • Hays - Crop Residues
  • Drought Management
• Herd Health
  • Establishing a heard health program
  • Diseases and health problems
  • Parasites
• Growth, Development, and Beef Cattle Type
  • Growth and Development
  • Parts of the beef animal
  • Carcass conformation
• Cattle Behavior, Facilities, and Equipment
  • Behavior
  • Gathering cattle on pasture and training cattle
  • Cattle transport Facilities and equipment

ANT 105 - Cultural Anthropology

1. Recognize and comprehend the principal objectives and methods of socio-cultural anthropology.
2. Analyze the ways that social, political, and economic issues intersect from a cultural perspective.
3. Critically evaluate the ways your own ideas about gender, sexuality, race, and relatedness are socially constructed and culturally inflected.
4. Synthesize the bases and development of human and societal endeavors across time and place.

Course Objectives:

Chapter 1:

1. Describe the goals of anthropology.
2. Discuss the scope and subfields of anthropology.
3. Delineate how anthropology is unique.
4. Explain anthropology as a scientific field.

Chapter 2:

1. Explain how anthropologists define culture.
2. Delineate important aspects of culture.
3. Discuss subcultures, ethnic groups, and race.
4. Describe culture in the subfields of anthropology.
5. Critique the concept of culture.

Chapter 3:

1. Explain the background preparations for doing ethnographic fieldwork.
2. Describe the ethical standards that govern the field worker.
3. Explore the methods employed by fieldworkers and the problems associated with each method.
4. Assess some of the challenges associated with fieldwork.

Chapter 4:

1. Describe how anthropologists study language.
2. Discuss the relationship between language and culture.
3. Distinguish between human and nonhuman systems of communication.
4. Evaluate how nonverbal communication supplements verbal communication.

Chapter 5:

1. Describe models of cultural evolution and cultural ecology.
2. Identify subsistence strategies within the framework of the evolutionary-ecological model.
3. Examine economic systems within the evolutionary-ecological model.
4. Evaluate the adaptive strategy technology.
5. Discuss the strategies common to foraging.

Chapter 6:

1. Describe subsistence strategies and economics within an evolutionary-ecological model.
2. Examine sociocultural changes brought by food-producing subsistence strategies.
3. Identify strategies common to horticultural and pastoralism.
4. Assess the strategies common to agriculture and industrialism.
5. Evaluate issues associated with the globalization of agriculture.

Chapter 7:

1. Describe marriage rules found across cultures.
2. Evaluate marriage forms and their functions.
3. Examine mate choice and marriage finance.
4. Discuss types of families and their functions.
5. Identify residence patterns and their functions.

Chapter 8:

1. Assess the functions of kinship systems.
2. Describe and discuss the types of descent systems found around the world.
3. Explain the functions of associations based on descent.
4. Evaluate the cross-cultural patterns of kinship terminology.

Chapter 9:

1. Distinguish between sex and gender cross-culturally.
2. Delineate factors affecting gender roles cross-culturally.
3. Summarize the variations of gender roles.
4. Explore human sexual behavior from a comparative perspective.

Chapter 10:

1. Discuss concepts used in the cross-cultural study of political systems.
2. Describe the cross-cultural forms of political organization.
3. Assess social stratification in societies.
4. Examine societal approaches to social control.

Chapter 11:

1. Define the supernatural world as it is viewed cross-culturally.
2. Discuss why people develop belief systems.
3. Describe the functions of supernatural belief systems and practices.
4. Explore the common types of beliefs found in cultures, including supernatural beings and forces.         
5. Evaluate supernatural practices and types of practitioners.

Chapter 12:

1. Delineate the parameters of human expression.
2. Describe the earliest known human expressive images.
3. Compare a sample of aboriginal and contemporary expressive forms.
4. Explore the functions of human expressions.

Chapter 13:

1. Describe how culture changes and methods for studying change.
2. Assess lessons learned from directed-change programs.
3. Discuss issues of globalization.
4. Examine issues of culture change in urban settings.

Chapter 14:

1. Describe the field of applied anthropology and methods.
2. Evaluate how the anthropological approach is used in business and in medicine.
3. Explain how anthropological knowledge is used in agriculture and in development programs.

ART 101 - Art Appreciation

• Evaluate and critique works using the elements and principles of design by employing a vocabulary specific to the visual arts.
• Distinguish similarities and differences between diverse cultures by evaluating the physical, cultural, and psychological conditions in which it was created.
• Identify visual arts by media and technique.

Course Objectives

• Intro: Become familiar with the concepts of what art is and who makes it. Gain awareness of how value is placed upon art, and distinguish between the different types of value assigned to art. Identify censorship’s relationship with art. Understand why art is studied.
• Unit 1: Learn the elements and principles of art, which will become students’ visual vocabulary. Learn how to use this vocabulary and apply knowledge of the elements and principles in a visual analysis. Learn how to utilize the concepts of style and content when analyzing a work of art.
• Unit 2: Become familiar with the media and processes artists use to communicate ideas. Comprehend how most art we encounter has been made, and be able to analyze the reasons artists choose to work with the materials and methods that they do. Understand the history and practical properties of artistic media and processes.
• Unit 3: Understand how art is influenced by the time and place in which it was created. Learn how knowledge of the context of an artwork can inform understanding of the work itself. Through a chronological exploration of art, from prehistory to the twenty-first century, discover how history has influenced art, and how art reflects history.
• Unit 4: Identify issues and themes that can be seen in artworks from around the world and throughout time. Understand how art deals with belief systems, survival, the natural world, and technology; and with issues related to status, power, identity, and creative expression. By comparing and contrasting these works, gain an understanding of shared concerns, and also of the uniqueness of different cultures and artists.

ART 115 - Graphic Design

• Examine the formal elements of graphic design and principles of design.
• Explore the design process: orientation, analysis, conception, generation, and implementation.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of the cultural, social, political, environmental, and historical aspects of design.
• Identify terminology and software used in the graphic design industry.
• Demonstrate proficiency in a range of computer graphics technology.

Course Objectives

Graphic Design History

• An introduction to pivotal historic and contemporary designers.
• An introduction to the various specialities included in the graphic design profession.

Elements of Art & Principles of Design

• Demonstrate working knowledge of art and design elements and how to use them.
• An introduction to design vocabulary needed to evaluate solutions and communicate as a designer.

Gestalt Principles of Design

• Become familiar with the major graphic design disciplines.
• Examine the formal elements of graphic design and principles of design.
• Create a composition applying the Gestalt principles of design.

Color Theory

• Examine of different types of color perception and color theory.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the color vocabulary needed to communicate as a designer.

Composition

• Create work which demonstrates the ability to evaluate design decisions to enhance communication and simplify graphic systems.
• Explore the fundamentals of composition.

Typography & Layout Design

• An introduction to the elements, principles and theories of design as they apply to typography.
• Explore the basic principles of designing with type.
• Manipulate typographic tools to create dynamic layout.

Icon & Logo Design

• Demonstrate the ability to generate, edit and refine concepts.
• Create a unified series of icons and logo designs.

Final Portfolio & Interaction with the Arts

• Create a design system and impactful portfolio.
• Produce a portfolio of work that meets employer and marketplace expectations.

ART 116 - Graphic Design II

• Examine the formal elements of graphic design and principles of design.
• Explore the design process: orientation, analysis, conception, generation, and implementation.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of the cultural, social, political, environmental, and historical aspects of design.
• Identify terminology and software used in the graphic design industry.
• Demonstrate proficiency in a range of computer graphics technology.

Course Objectives: 

• Build upon the concepts introduced in Graphic Design I and prepare the student to successfully meet the challenges of Graphic Design II.
• Complete exploratory projects in design theory and practice, which may be used to develop a presentation portfolio of personal work.
• Develop an understanding of the language of design, which includes critical theory, critique, history, technology, and craftsmanship.
• Explore specifically the concept of Visual Perception as applied to visual communication.
• Explore specifically the concepts of grouping and hierarchy as applied to visual communication.
• Explore specifically the concept of Gestalt Theory as applied to visual communication.
• Demonstrate designing page layouts using grid visual organization.

ART 120 - 2-D Design

• Employ use of the elements and principles of design to create solutions that demonstrate an understanding of fundamental visual organization.
• Apply knowledge of both formal color theory and the expressive. characteristics of color in order to strengthen visual communication.
• Analyze images to determine how specific elements and principles of design are employed to convey specific messages.
• Examine the impact of art and design on cultural trends and our daily lives.

Course Objectives

• Introduction to design: Understand how design affects nearly every aspect of our daily lives, explore the human urge to shape the design of our environment, examine how design evolves and is recycled.
• Unity and Variety: Examination of types of visual unity.
• Balance and Visual Tension: Organizing compositions through types of balance; effective use of tension.
• Value and Contrast: Lightness and darkness; creating visual emphasis with value and contrast.
• Line and Shape: Introduction to line and shape types.
• Abstraction: Communicating abstract concepts and messages with universal design principles.
• Movement and Rhythm: Creating energy and cohesion with visual directional forces.
• Color and Color Psychology: Application of color theory; introduction to basic human responses to color and color relationships.
• Space and Depth: Relaying the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface
• Pattern: Composing visual information with a variety of organizational systems; identifying overarching organizational methods and patterns.
• Typography: Introduction to what makes a typeface clear; understanding the relationship between mood, message, typeface selections.
• Participation in college art show or equivalent is required.

ART 123 - 3-D Design

• Employ use of the elements and principles of design to create solutions that demonstrate an understanding of fundamental visual organization.
• Apply knowledge of both formal color theory and the expressive characteristics of color in order to strengthen visual communication.
• Analyze images to determine how specific elements and principles of design are employed to convey specific messages.
• Examine the impact of art and design on cultural trends and our daily lives.

Course Objectives:

UNIT 1: Between 2-D and 3-D 

• Demonstrate an understanding of  the differences between the two-dimensional picture plane and three-dimensional volume, space, and structure.
• To introduce relief sculpture and to continue discussion on the differences between 2D and 3D space.

UNIT 2: Points, Lines, Planes, Volumes 

• Introduction of three-dimensional space conceived as a vocabulary of points, lines, and planes defining actual and implied elements.

UNIT 3: Mass and Form

• Produce both traditional and non-traditional approaches to the concept of mass as applied to three-dimensional form.

UNIT 4: Scale and Context

• To introduce the concepts of scale and proportion as applied to three-dimensional form.
• Explore methods of abstraction as related to scale and context.

UNIT 5: Modular Units and Repetition

• Introduction of the concepts of “repetition,” “modularity,” and “part to whole” relationships. 
• Application of modular principles to the construction of three-dimensional form.

UNIT 6: Structures 

• To introduce structural design principles as applied to three-dimensional problem solving.
• Present the possibilities inherent in working within strict material and process limitation.
• To draw connections between design professions such as architectural engineering and industrial design.

UNIT 7: Portfolio

• Students will explore methods involved in documenting their work, assembling into a final portfolio.
• Participation in college art show or equivalent is required.

ART 133 - Drawing

2. Distinguish between and gain proficiency in a variety of drawing media (charcoal, ink, graphite) and drawing methods (contour, gesture).

3. Correctly apply atmospheric perspective, the mathematical concept of linear perspective, and chiaroscuro to produce the illusion of depth on a twodimensional surface.

4. Use visual observation techniques to assess and critique drawings.

5. Practice visual observation and drawing techniques via sketchbook assignments.

Unit Objectives

1. Distinguish between and apply different types of lines to drawings (contour, cross-contour, weighted).
2. Use the technique of sighting to determine spatial relationships and render them accurately in a drawing.
3. Plan drawing compositions with the use of gesture and thumbnail sketching.
4. Create drawings from life (not from photographs) to strengthen visual observation skills.
5. Employ the concept of chiaroscuro to create an illusion of depth with light and dark values.
6. Correctly utilize atmospheric, linear, and ellipse perspective in drawings to develop convincing forms and spaces.
7. Apply the use of foreshortening to drawings to depict extreme angles.
8. Use a variety of line weights to enhance the sense of depth within the drawing.
9. Organize drawing compositions to accurately show depth with foreground, middle-ground, and background.
10. Illustrate an understanding of correct human proportions via drawings and sketches.
11. Locate key landmarks of the human form in order to correctly depict poses and proportions.
12. Use gesture drawing to quickly capture the essence of a pose or subject.
13. Distinguish between different hardness levels of graphite.

ART 134 - Drawing II

2. Increase proficiency with traditional dry media while developing the ability to incorporate wet and color media into drawings.

3. Apply an increased knowledge of human anatomical proportions to figure drawings and integrate the human figure into the compositional relationship.

4. Analyze the techniques and influences of both historical and contemporary artists on drawing today.

5. Experiment with techniques, levels of representation, and personal style through the use of sketchbook assignments.

Course Objectives

1. Demonstrate the ability to visually assess and record a scene quickly with gesture drawing.

2. Apply knowledge of basic structural (skeletal) anatomy to drawings of figures.

3. Evaluate the visual accuracy of other drawings and identify solutions for improving accuracy.

4. Employ line, value, perspective, and composition to create drawings with depth.

5. Successfully incorporate the human figure into drawing compositions.

6. Utilize perspective techniques correctly in all drawings (atmospheric and linear perspective, foreshortening, etc.).

7. Increase proficiency with graphite and charcoal.

8. Utilize the expressive nature of color drawing media, including pastel and color pencil.

9. Create visually accurate drawings with ink wash.

10. Accurately create representational drawings from life.

11. Experiment with the expressive effects of varying levels of abstraction.

12. Create non-objective drawings that express specific ideas, messages, or concepts.

13. Analyze the influence of historical and contemporary artists on the art form of drawing.

14. Compare the effects stylistic choices can have on a composition.

15. Use self-portraiture and abstraction techniques to begin developing a personal artistic style.