Curriculum
CAT 301 - Project Management
This course offers instruction on design, appraisal, planning, and implementation of a project. It provides in-depth discussion and analysis of approaches to managing projects in both the public and private sectors. Credits: 3.00
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CAT 302 - Cust Service Theory & Practice
This course focuses on the theory of customer service and the practices that "best in class" companies apply to differentiate themselves from the competition. The course includes practical information and activities designed to teach students how to respond to customers, resolve problems, and provide quality customer service. Credits: 3.00
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This course introduces the skills that facilitate and enhance client relations management. Topics covered include building a trusting relationship, evaluating and managing expectations and needs, managing conflict, understanding the client's perspective, customer life cycle, consulting, serving public sector versus private sector clients, managing client relations managers, and ethical issues. Credits: 3.00
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CMGT 262 - Building Codes
Familiarizes students with the content of the boca International Building Code (emphasizing the non-structural provisions), the purpose and intent of code requirements, and how to apply the code to structures and occupancies. Examines how the code is used as a tool in design and construction and prepares students for the advent of a single model building code planned for the nation. Credits: 3.00
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CMGT 266 - Building Systems I
This course covers construction management and design concepts relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems and the integration of these systems into the building design and construction process. Credits: 3.00
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CMGT 267 - Building Systems II
Continues CMGT 266. This course covers construction management concepts relating to electrical systems, wiring, lighting, signal and data systems, and transportation systems and the integration of these into the building design and construction process. Credits: 3.00
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CMGT 468 - Real Estate
Overview of the development process including site selection, residential densities, market analysis and cash flow analysis. Credits: 3.00
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CRTV 301 - Foundations in Creativity
This course provides a foundation in creativity including leading creativity theorists and their ideas, and introduction to creativity in many fields. Students will explore basic creative characteristics including originality, fluency, flexibility, elaboration, resistance to premature closure, and tolerance of ambiguity. Sets the foundation for acquiring tools and applying creativity. Credits: 3.00
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DSMR 231 - Intro Retail Management
Examines retail philosophies within a marketing context, including understanding of how consumer behavior, present and future, determines retailers' marketing strategies; knowledge of product mix and product assortment; and understanding of operating retail ventures in the global marketplace. Credits: 3.00
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REAL 330 - Facilities & Property Mngt
This course will explore the role of a property manager in maintaining a real estate asset, earning a return on operations and tenant retention and satisfaction through property management.
Credits: 3.00
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PRST 211 - Computer Applications for Professionals
Through lecture-demonstrations, hands-on labs, independent study assignments, and case study analysis, students are challenged to use critical-thinking, data analysis and problem-solving techniques to develop cost-efficient and effective solutions to realistic professional problems using computer-based business application software. Students should possess a basic level of computer proficiency before taking this course. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 110 - Intro to Property Management
An introduction to the multidisciplinary world of property management. This course provides an overview of facilities, construction, marketing, leadership, human resource management, finance, law, sociology, and how to interact with a variety of key stakeholders, such as property owners, investors, tenants, and the government. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT210 - Rental Prop & Fair Housing Law
Rental Property Law including lease essentials, tenancies, implied warranty of habitability, security deposits, tort liability, leasehold improvements, default, eviction, landlord’s and tenant's rights, duties and remedies. The course covers the basics of Fair Housing law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and anti-discrimination law. Current issues and cases are featured. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 310 - Property Financing & Valuation
This course provides the financial tools to calculate and analyze the cash flows, tax implications and risks of various projects. Decision-making models, lease valuation, and sensitivity analysis are employed in real situations. Alternative financing choices, cost of funds, tax incentive options, capitalization rates, and current market conditions are considered. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 315 - Property Risk Management
This course focuses on strategies managers and owners employ to maximize protection of property and tenants and minimize exposure to liability and costs. The course includes emergency management, security, and insurance protection. Agency duties are explored including fair housing and environmental issues. The essentials of various insurance policies are presented. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 320 - Sustainable Property Mgt
An introduction to the study of sustainable housing where energy issues and environmental resource efficiencies are considered in the planning, development, design, renovation, environmental protection, waste minimization, and overall management of a property. The impact of "Green Property" design on property management especially facility management is featured. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 325 - Human Res Strategies - Prop Mgmt
This course focuses on specialized strategies to successfully manage employees and subcontractors involved in property management companies and projects. A variety of areas are covered: recruiting top talent, retention, diversity policies, employee coaching, negotiations, conflict resolution, training and development, outsourcing, and housing law. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 330 - Property Management Technology
The focus of this course is the role that technology plays in the management and marketing of property. Important issues discussed include the latest software innovations, auto-pay systems, tenant website systems, software integration, communications strategy, security systems, television and data systems, and incorporating technology into a property’s marketing plan. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 491 - Senior Project in Property Mgt
In this capstone course students participate in discussions and conduct research of key issues facing property managers. A major part of the class is a community analysis project using guidelines provided by the National Apartment Association and a professional property manager as a mentor through the process. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 335 - Mktg & Leasing Residential Prop
This course covers the marketing of residential rental properties to acquire new tenants and retain existing ones. Market analysis is used as a foundation to create a marketing plan. Buyer motivation, customer service, and tenant retention strategies are discussed. Students demonstrate successful sales techniques by participating in a sales presentation. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 340 - Managing & Marketing Retail Prop
An introduction to managing and marketing retail property using shopping centers as the basis for discussion. Issues include leasing, tenant mix, tenant relations, advertising, and daily and long-term concerns. Mixed-use developments are featured and students review best practice examples and analyze and visit area shopping centers. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 345 - Managing & Marketing Housing for an Aging Pop
This course covers the management and marketing of housing for later life starting with a market analysis. Students discover challenges to be overcome and opportunities available in this unique segment of the housing market. The course covers successful management and marketing strategies involving active adult communities and senior living facilities. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 350 - Affordable Housing Management
An introduction to the challenges of managing affordable housing. Managing affordable housing requires the interaction of important players: legislators, government policymakers, citizen advocacy groups, and citizens/tenants. This course features presentations from industry leaders, visits to affordable developments, and completion of an analysis paper covering the development, marketing and management process. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 355 - Student Housing Management
This course focuses on the effective management of student housing. Successful student housing managers need to have specialized education in a variety of areas including federal laws, emergency management requirements, security and communications planning, marketing to the student population, town-gown relations, and awareness of current cases and issues. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 356 - Military Housing Management
This course focuses on the effective management of military housing. The successful management of military housing requires specialized study in a variety of areas including federal laws, emergency management requirements, security and communications planning, military regulations, Department of Defense initiatives and regulations, and awareness of current cases and issues. Credits: 3.00
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HSAD 323 - Health Services and the Elderly
This course covers a broad spectrum of health-care issues and concerns facing today's elderly, such as health-care coverage, living arrangements, acute and long-term-illness management, enhanced quality of life issues, and gender-specific health concerns. Credits: 3.00
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NURS 370 - Issues in Aging and Longevity
This course focuses on current issues in promoting longevity with healthy aging. Current biopsychosocial theories on aging are explored. The multidisciplinary needs of older adults, including relationship challenges, are addressed. Credits: 4.00
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SOC 125 - Sociology of the Aging
Introduces the multidisciplinary scientific study of the causes and consequences of aging, its history, methods of research, major theoretical approaches, and empirical findings. Credits: 3.00
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HSAD 323 - Health Services and the Elderly
This course covers a broad spectrum of health-care issues and concerns facing today's elderly, such as health-care coverage, living arrangements, acute and long-term-illness management, enhanced quality of life issues, and gender-specific health concerns. Credits: 3.00
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SOC 210 - Race and Ethnic Relations
Examines practical ongoing or proposed reforms for local, national, and global problems. Assesses realistic techniques for countering prejudice, tension, discrimination, and backlash. Credits: 3.00
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SOC 240 - Urban Sociology
Provides an overview of the contemporary process of urban change and of key problems and policy issues. Concentrates on five concerns: the evolution of urban economics; life and culture in the city today; race, ethnicity, gender, and class of urban populations; urban politics and social forces; and new directions in urban development. Credits: 3.00
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CMGT 263 - Understanding Construction Drawings
This course examines a variety of construction documents, including drawings, details, graphic standards, sections, and quantities for competitive bidding and execution of projects. Both residential and commercial construction documents will be examined. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 360 - Managing & Mkt Commercial Pro
An introduction to managing and marketing commercial property using office buildings, warehouses, medical buildings, factories and industrial properties as the analysis, lease provisions, risk management, leasehold improvements, and government and tax incentive programs. Students discuss best practice examples and analyze and visit properties to meet industry leaders. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 365 - Commercial Property Appraisal
This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of real estate appraisal with an emphasis on the process of valuing commercial property. The course covers the foundations of property valuation, data collection and analysis, and alternative approaches to estimating the value of commercial properties. Credits: 3.00
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BACS 200 - Foundation of Behavioral Health Care
This course introduces the students to the historical and current contexts of program components that comprise community-based behavioral health systems. Topics include: work-force roles; regulatory policies and program practices; federal, state, and county program organizations; advocacy issues; and managed care systems issues. Credits: 3.00
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CAT 360 - Appl Organizational Research
Applied Organizational Research. This course presents a systematic approach to managerial methods of conducting organizational research and analysis. Students will undergo the managerial research process of specifying the problem; translating the problem into specific research questions; designing the data collection and methodology; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data; and reporting research results and recommendations. Credits: 3.00
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CRTV 302 - Tools & Techniques in Creativity
This hands-on course provides tools for enhancing creative strengths including role-play, simulation, brainstorming together with synectics, and creative problem solving. A second focus is the role of inspiration in how creativity, personal maturity, and spirituality inter-relate and how this interaction expands our repertoire of tools and techniques in creativity. Credits: 3.00
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CRTV 303 - Creativity in the Workplace
This course focuses on how creative ideas happen and how they become innovations to reveal a set of principles for infusing creativity into every aspect of an organization. Examples from a wide range of settings demonstrate how to build systemic creativity at the individual, team, and leadership levels. Credits: 3.00
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HSAD 316 - Health Care across Cultures
Living in a pluralistic society poses many challenges and opportunities. This course examines the impact of cultural upon health-care decision. Concepts such as "health," "illness," "culture," "ethnicity," will be analyzed. Traditional and alternative approaches to the delivery of health care will be addressed. Credits: 3.00
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HSAD 323 - Health Services and the Elderly
This course covers a broad spectrum of health-care issues and concerns facing today's elderly, such as health-care coverage, living arrangements, acute and long-term-illness management, enhanced quality of life issues, and gender-specific health concerns. Credits: 3.00
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INTR 200 - History of Modern Architecture
Covers development of modern architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Develops a vocabulary for discussing architecture; an understanding of how various factors affect design; and a familiarity with names, movements, and buildings that are part of historical development. Credits: 3.00
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PHIL 323 - Organizational Ethics
This course focuses on the application of ethical theories and principles to organizational systems and decision-making. Emphasis will be placed on how ethical principles affect and are applied to organizational policy-making, leadership behavior, systems of communication, technology use, and other systems of organization. Credits: 3.00
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PRMT 399 - Independent Study in Property Mgt
Provides individual study or research in Property Management under faculty supervision. Credits: 3.00
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PRST 450 - Creative Leadership for Professionals
The professional portfolio is a two-course capstone project that provides Professional Studies majors with an opportunity to demonstrate achievement in their major and to engage in self-reflection. Components include reflective essays and carefully chosen samples of academic and relevant professional work completed during the college experience. This is a writing intensive course. Credits: 3.00
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SOC 120 - Sociology of the Family
Examines structure and functions of the family and the roles, relationships, problems, and opportunities of family living from a variety of perspectives. Uses lectures, field experiences, and discussion. Credits: 3.00
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ENGL 101 - Expository Writing and Reading
Develops students' abilities to read and write expository academic discourse. Teaches students how to read with understanding; how to access print and technological sources; how to research, plan, draft, revise, and edit academic essays and reports. Requires students to write expository essay and to keep a journal to express their responses to material read and study in the course.
Credits: 3.00
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ENGL 102 - Persuasive Writing and Reading
Develops students' abilities to read and write persuasive academic discourse. Teaches students to think and read critically, to evaluate and use print and technological sources effectively, and to present a written argument effectively. Requires students to write persuasive essays and research papers and to keep a journal to express their responses to material read and studied in the course. Credits: 3.00
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ENGL 103 - Analytical Writing and Reading
Develops students' skills in critical and analytical reading and writing through a study of literature. Teaches students techniques to help them understand and appreciate literature. Requires students to read, analyze, and write essays and research papers about selected works of poetry, drama, and fiction and to keep a journal to express their responses to the literature studied. Credits: 3.00
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MATH 181 - Mathematical Analysis I
Covers set theory, coordinate systems and graphs, functions, linear programming (geometric approach), matrices and linear systems, and linear programming (algebraic approach). Required for architecture, business administration, and construction management students. Non-credit for engineering and science students. Fall, Winter. Credits: 3.00
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MATH 182 - Mathematical Analysis II
Covers counting techniques, probability, statistics, and probability applications. Non-credit for engineering and science students. All terms. Credits: 3.00
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MATH 183 - Mathematical Analysis III
Covers limits, rates of change, derivatives, applications of differentiation, exponential and logarithmic functions, integrals, techniques of integration, applications of integration. Non-credit for engineering and science students. All terms. Credits: 3.00
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BIO 161 - General Biology I
Covers structure and function of the cell and the organ-system plan of organization of the human body. Fall. Credits: 3.00
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BIO 162 - General Biology II
Continues BIO 161. Covers the mechanics of heredity, including growth, differentiation, and development. Winter. Credits: 3.00
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CHEM 161 - General Chemistry I
Covers atomic structure, stoichiometry, gases, valence theory, and thermochemistry.
Credits: 3.00
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CHEM 162 - General Chemistry II
Covers solutions, colligative properties, chemical equilibrium, and electrochemistry. Introduces organic chemistry.
Credits: 3.00
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PHYS 182 - Applied Physics I
Covers vectors; statics, kinematics, and classical dynamics, including Newton's laws, torque, projectile motion, and circular motion; work; power and energy; impulse and momentum; and rotation, in a non-calculus-based course. Fall.
Credits: 3.00
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PHYS 183 - Applied Physics II
Covers fluids; elasticity; vibration, including simple harmonic motion; sound waves and acoustics; thermodynamics of temperature; heat; thermal-expansion; phase change; and heat transfer, in a non-calculus-based course. Winter.
Credits: 3.00
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COM 111 - Principles of Communication
Explores the importance of communication in organizational settings. Includes assessment of appropriate modes of communication, including written, spoken, and electronic.
Credits: 3.00
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COM 230 - Techniques of Speaking
A workshop course in improving public speaking skills. Provides experience in speeches of explanation, persuasion, and argument.
Credits: 3.00
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COM 280 - Public Relations
The course focuses on the principles of public relations. It introduces students to theory and practice of PR taught in the context of real life material and situations. The course also covers main public relations techniques, tools, and types of publics. Credits: 3.00
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COM 345 - Intercultural Communication
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of intercultural communication. Drawing from traditions in anthropology and communication, intercultural communication is the study of the effect of differing cultural norms and beliefs upon communication between speakers. Through a wide range of readings, journal writing assignments, and participative and experiential activities, students will develop both their understanding of and skills in inter-cultural communication. A final project and presentation draws together participative experiences and the readings and class discussions. Credits: 3.00
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ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Diversity
Examines the diversity that exists in human culture. Uses lectures, films, and discussions to examine and illustrate the relationship between humans and their social/cultural systems. Credits: 3.00
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PSY 101 - General Psychology I
Reviews the fundamental principles, concepts, and methods of psychology, with emphasis on the concepts of motivation, learning, and perception, and their psychological foundations. Credits: 3.00
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SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Examines principles underlying human interaction in simple technological societies, including learning and development of social roles; development and meaning of culture and social organizations; and special institutions in the society, such as the family, class structure, and power structure. Credits: 3.00
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ACCT 115 - Financial Accounting Foundations
Introduces preparation of the income statement and the balance sheet. Covers analysis and recording of business transactions and a detailed study of accounting for assets, liabilities, and equity. Credits: 4.00
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FIN 301 - Introduction to Finance
Covers financial structure of a corporation, short-and long-term financial policies, sources and uses of capital funds, asset valuation, capital budgeting, and corporate growth. Credits: 4.00
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MKTG 301 - Introduction to Marketing Management
Provides a conceptual and applications-oriented framework for marketing decision-making in a dynamic environment. Emphasizes satisfying target customers and achieving organizational objectives through skillful blending of strategies in product development, pricing, promotion, and distribution. This is a writing intensive course. Credits: 4.00
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ORGB 300 - Organizational Behavior
Provides conceptual understanding of various principles of management and organizational processes and the opportunity for skill-building in the areas of individual, interpersonal, and intergroup organizational behaviors. This is a writing intensive course. Credits: 4.00
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