This course is an overview of DNA-based Forensics, including its interpretation, Statistical analyses, regulations, laboratory environments. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the introductory knowledge of forensic biology, including areas of collection and packaging of biological samples, blood and semen identification, DNA extraction, DNA quantitation, PCR amplification, STR analysis, and mtDNA sequencing. The lectures will also deal with the comprehensive review of biological principles, applied DNA-based Forensics, including sample recovery and handling, analytical techniques, profile matching, exclusion and reporting.

Introduction to Cancer Biology covers current concepts and knowledge of cancer, including cancer research and cancer treatment; it will educate students on various genetic and molecular changes normal cells undergo during transformation into malignant cancer cells. This course will explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cancer development with the aim of understanding how changes in the normal growth and division processes lead to the formation of tumors. Topics include the natural history of cancer, oncogenes, tumor suppressors, cancer-causing viruses, and current therapeutic approaches to cancer treatment. This course is designed to increase your knowledge of the molecular basis of cancer and how it applies to basic research.  You will learn how different experimental approaches can be used to solve problems related to cancer and to develop therapeutic treatment of this disease.  The goal is to teach you to think in a critical manner about experimental design, data, and approaches to cancer biology.

Earth Science

A comparative study of life processes at the cellular, organism, and ecosystem level. Hands on experience with the scientific method. This course is intended to provide science majors with a better understanding of life processes that are a part of living organisms, to provide insight into the unity and diversity that exists within the spectrum of life, and to offer an understanding of the human genome and how it helps to health science.

This course focuses on understanding and writing about texts.  The student will develop proficiency in evaluating written, visual, and filmic texts and in writing analytically about these texts.  The course provides a solid introduction to research writing as well as college-level writing skills.  This course includes reading and writing competencies.

This is an independent study

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This course will assist students to learn to make strong business decisions with a better understanding of business ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder management from a strong managerial perspective. The course will demonstrates how the most successful business decision makers balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors, employees, the community, and the environment--particularly as business recovers from a perilous financial period. Facilitation of the course will highlight the connection between business and the natural, social, and financial environments, illustrating how all three must be maintained in balance to sustain current and future generations. New actual business cases, real applications, and today' specific business challenges.

This course is an introduction to American Government, providing knowledge of the ideas and institutions that shape politics in the United States. This course will focus on the procedures and intermingling of the three branches of the U.S. Government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. There will be a review of the strategies, roles, and limitations of governmental leaders and citizens, with specific focus on communication channels and interaction within constitutional parameters. This course will reinforce opportunities for debates on specific course content and general class discussion.