Quality Matters Certified Courses

ENTP 4000: The Business Plan
This course focuses on all facets of business plan development including assessing the competitive environment, developing venture concepts and growth strategies, creating market approaches, building a cohesive management team, launching operations, and developing financial projections. 

Certified Summer 2019

HSCI 4890 Special Topics: Corporate Wellness
Course provides students with information and resources for planning, implementing, and evaluating worksite health promotion (WHP) programs.

Certified Spring 2019

CHEM 1111 Environmental Science
Introduction to atomic molecular structure and to biological structure and function. Environmental contaminants in air and their reactions, water quality and its analysis, wastewater treatment, the ecology of natural systems and genetic adaptation. The course deals with worldwide environmental issues in a scientific context. 

Certified Spring 2019

PAD 5002 Organizational Management and Behavior
Covers topics such as organization theory and design, managing human capital, group development and performance, inter- and intra-group communication, information management, and ethical decision making. Topics are presented within the framework of how to organize people to enhance the delivery of public services.

Certified Fall 2018

COUN 2500 Introduction to Principles of Addiction Treatment
This course presents models of addiction, defines addiction treatment, presents the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) principles of effective treatment, and outlines various types of addiction treatment and use of evidence-based treatment approaches. It also covers addiction counselor credentialing in Colorado.

Certified Fall 2018

PHIL 3160 Philosophical Issues in Death and Dying
The meaning of death and dying in the history of Western philosophy from antiquity to contemporary Existentialism. Detailed examination of ethical issues raised in the care of the dying. Euthanasia and termination of treatment, care of the seriously ill newborn, etc.

Certified Fall 2018

NURS 6730 Advanced Health Assessment
Explores the foundation and techniques of advanced health assessment across the life span.

Certified Summer 2018

PES 1000: Physics in Everyday Life
A non-mathematical overview of physics and how it affects our everyday life. Topics to be included are balancing and equilibrium, tornadoes, weather patterns, circus balancing acts, air conditioners, musical instruments and other interesting applications of physics. Recommended for students with no science or mathematics background. 

Certified Summer 2018

INTB 6100: Managing in Global Markets
Designed to prepare students to anticipate global forces that impact present management. Examines the economic, the social-cultural, and the political/legal context of global management. Presents various concepts related to the internationalization process of the firm and frameworks related to global strategy.

Certified Summer 2018

ID 1050: Quantitative and Qualitative Reasoning Skills
Designed to bring incoming students up to a minimum competency in quantitative and qualitative skills. It includes such topics as logic, arithmetic, graphing, statistics, problem solving skills, and algebraic skills.

Certified Spring 2018

CURR 5171: K-12 Web-Based Educational Resources
Students will read current literature involving using the Internet in the K-12 curriculum as well as evaluate various web-based educational resources to use in educational settings. Students will design and develop several lessons/units involving web-based resources in this hands-on class.

Certified Spring 2018

PHIL 3130: Biomedical Ethics
Ethical dimensions of the patient-physician relationship and the impact of medical technology. Topics include informed consent and experimentation with human subjects, technological manipulation of birth and death processes, allocation of medical resources, genetic screening in the workplace, and genetic engineering.

Certified Spring 2018

LEAD 5700: Introduction to Research and Statistics
Introduces measures of central tendency, variability, percentiles, standard scores, and correlation. Covers basic concepts in statistical inference, evaluating and using research, design and analysis of educational research, and critical evaluation of published research.

Certified Spring 2018

Eugenia Olesnicky
Killian, PhD
eolesnic@uccs.edu

BIOL 1350: General Biology II Introduction to the Cell
The lecture component of an integrated lecture-laboratory course that introduces concepts of the structure/function relationships among biological molecules, of cellular metabolism, and of genetics and molecular biology. 

Certified Fall 2017

Gary J. Smith, MBA
gsmith4@uccs.edu

MGMT 3300: Introduction to Management and Organization
An introductory study of management fundamentals and organizational behavior. How individuals adapt to organizations; how managers motivate and lead in work situations; how organizations are designed and managed.

Certified Fall 2017

Morgan Shepherd, PhD
mshepher@uccs.edu

INFS 6090: Information Systems
Introductory course. Students will learn what information systems are, how they work, and what purposes they serve, as well as learn about data and information, decision making and the value of information. Includes trends in hardware and software, telecommunications, and databases, integration of information with the organization, and what is required to manage the creation of information systems.

Certified Fall 2017

Nina Ellis Frischmann
cfrischm@uccs.edu

HIST 3710: Good Wives and Nasty Wenches: American Women’s History, 1607-1877
A survey of the history of American women from the Colonial era through the Civil War, concentrating on the nineteenth century. It will introduce students to the changing economic, gender, and familial roles of American women.

Certified Spring 2017

Sylvia Mendez, PhD
smendez@uccs.edu

LEAD 5610: Social and Cultural Foundations of Higher Education
Addresses the historical, social, and cultural development of American higher education. Examines the role of local, state, and federal governments and the influence of private foundations. Includes colonial origins of private institutions and changing demographics on campuses.

Certified Fall 2016

Tracy Parks, PhD
tparks@uccs.edu

QUAN 2010: Business Statistics
Statistical applications in business. Includes descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling theory, estimation, hypothesis testing, and simple and multiple regression. ns, sampling theory, estimation, hypothesis testing, and simple and multiple regression.

Certified Fall 2016

Janice Thorpe
jthorpe@uccs.edu

COMM 3240: Business and Professional Communication
Theory and practice in oral and written communication competency for business and the professions. Topics include presentational speaking, business and proposal writing, interpersonal communication in organizations, and communication trends in business organizations of the future. 

Certified Summer 2016

Patricia Witkowsky, PhD
pwitkows@uccs.edu

LEAD 5260: College Student Development Theories
Examines various theories of college student development, will include: racial, sexuality, intellectual, moral, ethical, personality, psychosocial, career development, and more. Students will also explore contemporary issues and trends related to providing services to various types of students.   

Certified Summer 2016

 

Deb Pollard, PhD, RNC-OB, CNE, IBCLC
dpollard@uccs.edu

NURS 6120: Research & Knowledge Translation in Nursing
Explores the basis for research in advanced practice nursing. Emphasis is placed on the research process and critiquing published research.

Certified Spring 2016

 

Barbara Prinari, PhD
bprinari@uccs.edu

MATH 3400: Introduction to Differential Equations
First order differential equations, linear differential equations. Additional methods selected from the Laplace transform method, power series solutions, numerical solutions, linear systems.

Certified Spring 2016

Deb Tuffield, MSN, RN
dtuffiel@uccs.edu

NURS 4290: Advanced Nursing
Synthesizes nursing content necessary for therapeutic interventions for the care of complex adult patients in the acute and critical care settings. Emphasis on prioritization of care and management of groups of complex patients.

Certified Fall 2015

Scott Kupferman, Ph.D.
skupferm@uccs.edu

CURR 5170: Introduction to Technology in Education
This course explores the foundations, strategies, and tools for using technology as a means of engaging all students within inclusive educational settings. A focus is placed on universal design for learning (UDL) as a framework for selecting, evaluating, and implementing educational technology hardware and software.

Certified Fall 2015

Irina Kopteva, Ph.D.
ikopteva@uccs.edu

GES 1990: Introduction to Human Geography
A systematic introduction to the broad field of human-land interactions and spatial order. Emphasis is placed on the major themes of geographic inquiry including use of thematic maps, population numbers and distribution, development, changing resource and land use, culture regions, location decisions, settlements and cities, transportation, political units, and human-environment interactions.

Certified Fall 2015

 

Gordon Stringer, MBA
gstringe@uccs.edu

FNCE 3050: Fundamentals of Finance
Provides the student with the conceptual framework necessary to appreciate and understand the problems facing the financial manager in the world today.  Considerable time will be spent on financial management methods that provide the basis for making sound financial decisions.

Certified Spring 2015

 

Sue Davis, MSN, RN
sdavis4@uccs.edu

NURS 4350: Nursing Management
Develops management theories and professional issues and trends. Emphasizes organizational and financial principles. Clinical preceptors provide the student with opportunities to explore application of management skills.

Certified Fall 2015

Katie Cathcart, MCJA
kcathcar@uccs.edu

CJ 3220: Community Based Corrections
Focuses on innovative community-based strategies for dealing with criminal offenders. Correctional alternatives to imprisonment discussed in this course include probation and parole and various community programs such as day reporting centers, electronic monitoring, half-way houses, and boot camp programs.

Certified Summer 2014

 

Carmen Stavrositu, PhD
cstavros@uccs.edu

COMM 4140: Media Effects
This course is an overview of a broad range of media theories that have examined media as a social force, that have explored factors affecting individuals' selection and perceptions of media messages, and that have studied how media affect viewers' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Certified Summer 2014

 

Baye Herald, MA
cherald@uccs.edu

ENGL 3080: Advanced Business and Technical Writing
Writing workshop where students work on advanced business and administrative writing projects. Focus is on rhetorical strategies, document design principles, developing an understanding of ethics,and evaluating and synthesizing a variety of texts into students' own research and writing.

Certified Summer 2014