Bridge Course Offerings
CPSC 1050 Computer Applications This course is designed to provide students with fundamental computer skills needed to be successful in today's workplace. Students of CPSC 1050 will become familiar with using word processing, spreadsheet and presentation graphic software.
HIST 2050 The West and the Modern World* The focus of this course will assist students in acquiring an awareness of the temporal relationships between major political, social and cultural trends of the past five centuries. In addition, students will gain a broader understanding of the ways in which the West has both shaped outside culture and been, in its turn, transformed by contact with extra-European peoples.
NURS 1210 Nutrition for Healthy Living* Explores principles of nutrition as they relate to physical fitness. Content includes important nutritional elements and their relationship to maintaining health. Required activities include: personal health assessment skills, nutritional assessment, and aerobic activities.
ORGL 1200 Management Foundations This module is a study of management as it pertains to the dynamics of leadership, strategic planning, and the controlling of resources.
ORGL 1300 Management Strategies The major theme of this module is a comprehensive overview of two of the core functions of management, planning and organizing, and the skills to carry them out.
ORGL 1400 Management Skills This module is a comprehensive overview of the core functions of management, leading, and controlling.
ORGL 2200 Issues in Human Resource Management Course work in this module concentrates on the function of human resource management and analyzes the various ways it can impact the workforce.
ORGL 2300 Social Problems and Their Impact on the Workplace* This module takes the point of view that major contemporary American social problems, such as poverty, racism, sexism, drug and alcohol abuse, and illiteracy, impact the workplace and individual workers directly and indirectly.
ORGL 2400 Organizational Ethics This study in business ethics will provide instruction in systematically applying standard moral and ethical approaches in analyzing issues, problems, and cases.
BIOL 2140 Nutrition in Health and Disease* (online) The subject of human nutrition is used as a model to introduce liberal arts students to the philosophy and process of science. As the various areas of the topic are studied (including nutritional requirements, eating behaviors, assessment techniques, and diet management for optimal performance) emphasis is placed on the scientific processes that allow these facts to be known.
RLGN 2210 Faith and Human Development* (online) Study of factors affecting faith development and related concepts, attitudes and behaviors in areas of morality, values and theological understandings. Nature and development of personality, birth through adulthood. Focus on individuals and their relationships in church, community and wider society.
MUSC 2220 Music in Society* (online) Studies in music to provide basis for understanding and appreciating artistic musical expression.
PEHS 1000 Fitness/Leisure for Life* (online) Provides a base upon which students may build healthy bodies through understanding of and participating in fitness/leisure activities. Surveys key fitness/wellness concepts in lecture portion of class.
PSYC 2000 Psychology* (online) Approaches to the study of individuals and their behavior including history, biological basis of behavior, sensation, perception, development, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, social, abnormal statistics, moral reasoning, linguistic patterns in different cultures, and therapy.
HIST 2110 American Civilization I* (Summer reading class) American Civilization from first English settlements through Civil War: artistic, intellectual, literary, social, economic, political, and religious currents in American life.
HIST 2120 American Civilization II* (Summer reading course) American Civilization from Reconstruction to present: artistic, literary, intellectual, social, economic, political and religious currents in American life.
BIBL 2000 Introduction to the Bible* (Summer reading course) Historical and literary study of Old and New Testaments as Scripture. Introductory course surveying historical contexts, varieties of literature, and development and expression of theology of these writings.
