Fall Course Descriptions

BUSN 3010 advanced, liberal
Instructor: Nicholas Boccolucci, Ph.D.

This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of philosophy of ethics and ethical decision-making process. The course emphasizes the overall philosophies, theories, and concepts of moral reasoning in making informed ethical decisions in various areas of business and business management.

Prerequisites: Principles of Management or equivalent management knowledge.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
yes, humanities

HUSV 2020, introductory, liberal 
Instructor: Sara Stockton

This course surveys the major theories, evidence based practices, concepts of crisis intervention assessment and intervention. Students will demonstrate crisis intervention skills and illustrate ethical, legal, and cultural considerations. This course is aligned with the Community and Human Services Area of Study guidelines for Skills & Application. This course is aligned with the BS in Addiction Studies program guidelines for Skills, Assessment & Education, Ethics, and Application & Integration

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
no

ECON 2005 introductory, liberal (4cr.)
Instructor: Duncan RyanMann, Ph.D.

This course provides an overview of micro and macro economic issues. In microeconomics students examine individual decision-making in firms and households and the way they interact in markets. In the macroeconomic portion of the course students learn about the aggregate economy including GDP, inflation, growth, unemployment and interest rates. Major macroeconomic policies and policy issues are considered.

This 4-credit micro and macro economics course covers a more limited range of topics than are included in either the 6-credit version of this course or the 4-credit courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Prerequisites: An understanding of graphs and basic mathematical concepts.

Students should not take this course if they already have taken either microeconomics or macroeconomics. If students need a full course in microeconomics and macroeconomics they should either take the 6-credit version of this course or take both microeconomics (4-credits) and macroeconomics (4-credits). This 4-credit micro and macro economics course covers a more limited range of topics than are included in either the 6-credit version of this course or the 4-credit courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
yes, social sciences

ECON 2010 introductory, liberal (6cr.)
Instructor: Duncan RyanMann

This course provides an overview of micro and macro economic issues. In microeconomics students examine individual decision-making in firms and households and the way they interact in markets. In the macroeconomics portion of the course students learn about the aggregate economy including GDP, inflation, growth, unemployment and interest rates. Major macroeconomic policies and policy issues are considered.

Prerequisites: An understanding of graphs and basic mathematical concepts.

Students should not take this course if they already have taken either microeconomics or macroeconomics. This course is appropriate for students who need at least three credits of microeconomics and three credits of macroeconomics in their degrees. This course covers all of the material in the four credit version of micro and macro economics plus additional topics and issues in both microeconomics and macroeconomics that are not covered in the four credit version of the course. This course provides less comprehensive coverage of microeconomics or macroeconomics than the separate 4-credit courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
yes, social sciences

COMW 2010 introductory, liberal
Instructor: Peggy Lynn

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the techniques and procedures of researching funding opportunities and writing grant applications. Students will have the opportunity to practice writing grant applications under the supervision of the mentor.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
yes, basic communication

FILM 1010 introductory, liberal
FILM 3030 advanced, liberal
Instructor: https: Cynthia (Cindy) Bates, D.F.A.

In this course, students will consider some of the Harry Potter books as literature. They will then consider how these specific books were adapted into films for international audiences. Students will also look at how Harry Potter has become a marketing sensation by investigating how Harry Potter souvenirs, parties, costumes and more have become common household items for so many people. Lastly, students will study the Harry Potter Theme Parks in Orlando and London. Throughout the term, students will consider the impact of Harry Potter on the literary and entertainment industries and on US culture as a whole.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
yes, arts or humanities

HIST 3152, advanced, liberal
Instructor: Karen Garner, Ph.D.

This course examines the development of, and debates about, U.S. social welfare institutions and policies. In particular, this course examines how social welfare philosophy, mission, and practice evolved from its original altruistic and voluntary roots to become professionalized and identified with casework rather than social reform. Topics of this course include: the origins and inspirations of social welfare programs and philosophy in the United States; the impact of the Civil War; the “Scientific Charity” Movement; the history and evolution of Child Welfare policy; the Settlement House Movement; the Great Depression and the origins and evolution of Social Security Policy; the Johnson Administration’s Great Society programs and War on Poverty; Welfare to Workfare in the 1970s; the state of social welfare in the USA today. This course combines critical reading, writing, and discussion to illuminate the elements of evidence, values, and interpretation in the study of social welfare history and to fulfill guidelines for the Historical Studies Area of Study. This course can provide Historical Perspectives for Community and Human Services degrees and Historical and Comparative Perspectives for Public Affairs degrees. It also includes coverage of the basic narrative of American history from the 1800s to the present, knowledge of U.S. government and private philanthropies and how their policies and practices have impacted the quality of life for diverse population groups, and how the U.S. social welfare practices compared and contrasted to Western European welfare practices.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements? 
yes, American history

HUSV 4030, advanced, liberal
Instructor: Heidi Nightengale

The purpose of this course is to survey codified professional, legal, and ethical issues in community and human services. This course is aligned with the Community and Human Services Area of Study guidelines for Ethics and Application and Integration. This course is aligned with the B.S. in Addiction Studies program guidelines for Ethics. 

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
no

ACCT 2005 introductory, non liberal
Instructor: Valerie Goodwin

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting systems and principles, including financial statements preparation, interpretation and communication to external parties and managers. Among topics covered are: the accounting cycle for gathering, recording, summarizing, reporting and analyzing of accounting data. The course includes an overview of accounting for assets, liabilities, stockholders' equity, revenues and expenses including cash, investments, accounts receivable, inventories, plant assets and equipment, intangible assets and natural resources, short and long term liabilities, in addition to basic principles of internal control and the role of ethics in accounting profession. This course covers professional ethics and social responsibility in business. Students cannot count the credit for Accounting for Decision Makers in their degree plan if they also take Introductory Accounting I 'Financial' and/or Introductory Accounting II 'Managerial', since the course contents are similar. The course satisfies quantitative aspects of business.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements? 
no

ACCT 2010 introductory, non-liberal
Instructor: Valerie Goodwin

The course is designed to expand on the knowledge gained of financial accounting theory, accounting information systems cycles and concepts by focusing more in depth on the manufacturing environment and the use of accounting information for planning, controlling, and decision-making internally by the management and externally by other interested parties. It covers specialized financial reporting issues such as preparing, interpreting and using the statement of cash flows, financial statements analysis and budgeting, long and short-term financial investment and production decisions and other cost analysis concepts including incremental cost analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis techniques and incorporating the time value impact on financial and managerial decisions. This course covers professional ethics and social responsibility in business.

Prerequisites: Introductory Accounting I or equivalent. The course content is similar to, and more comprehensive than, Accounting for Decision Makers. Therefore, students cannot count the credit for both of these courses in their degree plan. The course satisfies quantitative aspects of business.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
no

MGMT 1005 introductory, non-liberal
Instructor: Nicholas Boccolucci, Ph.D.

This study is designed to introduce students to basic principles and functions of Management in an organizational setting including decision-making, planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. The roles and functions of managers are examined within the context of organizational structure, cultural diversity, teamwork, ethics and global challenges.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
no

HUSV 3132 advanced, liberal 
Instructor: Heidi Nightengale

The course will examine the complexities of poverty in America and how it may impact power, privilege, and oppression in human service institutions. The "framework" of poverty and how it impacts home, school, community and work will be examined. Finally, the course will examine how poverty effects human service interventions for individuals, families, professionals, and communities. This course aligns with the Community and Human Services area of study guidelines for Knowledge of Service Delivery and Diversity.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
no

MUSC 3040 advanced, liberal
Instructor: Peggy Lynn

The purpose of this course is to examine women’s songs, their messages, their genres, and the women who wrote, sang, and recorded them. The goal is for students to use critical thinking to evaluate women’s songs and their lyrics and relate them to American history. They will examine the way different chord structures, rhythms, melodies, instrumentation, and arrangement affect the mood set by a song. This course will encompass concepts of music history, women in American history, and feminist theory.

Meets SUNY General Education requirements?
yes, arts and American history