ACCT 102-80 Accounting Procedures II
Credits: 3 credits
Prerequisites: ACCT 101, CIT 110, MATH 104
This course is a continuation of Accounting Procedures I. Additional topics covered include notes payable and notes receivable, valuation of receivables and uncollectible accounts, valuation of inventories, plant assets and depreciation, partnership accounting, corporate organization, capital stock, worksheets, taxes, dividends, and corporate bonds, statement of cash flows and comparative financial statements. Emphasis is on manual accounting systems.

AH 108-80 Disease Concepts
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: BIO 107 or BIO 108 or BIO 127
This course is designed to provide students in the Health Sciences field with foundational knowledge of the general mechanisms of disease and the clinical manifestations of disease commonly seen in the health care environment. Disease processes specific to each body system are studied, and treatment interventions and prognosis discussed.

AH 110-80 Exploring Alternative Medicines
Credits: 2
This course examines the vast selection of therapeutic interventions known as alternative or complementary medicines being presented to today’s consumers.

AH 115-80 Healthcare Personnel and Supervision
Credits: 2
Legal requirements, theories, and techniques for supervision at the first- and mid-management level are the topics of this course. Supervision processes, including communicating, organizing, directing, motivating, controlling, and evaluating are assessed for application in healthcare organizations through the use of case studies.

AH 145-80 Introduction to Medical Terminology
Credit: 1
This course promotes knowledge of the elements of medical terminology for professional and personal development. Exercises in each unit will stress definitions, spelling, and pronunciation of medical words. The course is designed to build an understanding of the logical method used to form medical terms, including word analysis and word building.

AH 150-80 Fitness For Life
Credits: 2 credits
This course is designed to educate, support, and motivate individuals toward a life-long commitment to physical fitness including nutrition for health and weight management; establishing physical fitness goals; and planning for physical strength improvement and/or maintenance. Exercise laboratory experience allows students to apply physical fitness principles.

AH 185-80 Basic Medical Terminology
Credits: 3
The goals of this course are to promote a knowledge of the elements of medical terminology for professional and personal development, the ability to spell and pronounce medical terms, an understanding of medical abbreviations, and an appreciation of the logical method found in medical terminology, including word analysis and word building.

AH 194-80 Basic Pharmaceuticals
Credit: 1 credit
This course provides basic knowledge of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals needed to analyze health care information for various allied health support functions. Emphasis is on classification, indications, therapeutic effects, side effects, interactions, and contra-indications of new, current, and newly introduced applications of existing medications.

ART 101-80 Intro to Visual Arts
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Arts
This course will introduce the students to forms of creative expression within visual arts; encouraging the students to more actively explore the art verbally and in written form. Course material will focus on various issues of aesthetic expression rather than the historical development of the arts.

ART 114-80 Art Fundamentals
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Arts
This course is an exploration of visual concepts through studio projects supplmented by lecture, discussion, and writing assignments. Art fundamentals will be investigated through drawing, color theory, and 3-dimensional processes.

BIO 108-80 Human Biology/Non-clinical Majors (This course is not offered at this time).
Credits: 4
Core: Natural Sciences
This one-term course covers the basics of the human anatomy physiology. All body systems will be examined. Fundamental principles of cellular chemistry, metabolism, anatomy and biology will be discussed as they relate to the physiology of the human body. This course is designed for students entering non-clinical health fields and will include virtual lab work.

BIO 127VL-80 Anatomy and Physiology /Non-clinical Majors
Credits: 4
Core: Natural Sciences
This course is the first in an online, two-course sequence for non-clinical health majors which provides a comprehensive study of the anatomy and physiology of the human body. The course will take a systemic approach covering all body systems. Topics will include structure, function and interrelationships of organ systems. The course will provide a foundation for students entering non-clinical health careers.

BIO 128VL-80 Anatomy and Physiology /Non-clinical Majors
Credits: 4
Core: Natural Sciences
Prerequisite: BIO 107 or BIO 127
This course is the second in an online, two-course sequence for non-clinical health majors which provides a comprehensive study of the anatomy and physiology of the human body. The course will build on the topics explored in the first semester. Body systems will be covered in greater depth, and the focus will be on the interrelationships between systems. In addition to structure and function, an emphasis will be placed on the body processes which maintain homeostasis. The course will take a problem based approach allowing students to use critical thinnking skills and apply knowledge from both semesters.

BUS 106-80 Intro to Business
Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of business from a broad perspective. Topics covered include business ownership, free enterprise, management, human resources, marketing, finance, and accounting and data systems.

COMM 130-80M Public Speaking
Credits: 3
Public speaking is a course designed to aid students in overcoming speech anxiety through preparation of speeches in a variety of formats.
Note: This course requires four mandatory Saturday meetings.

COMM 135-80M Interpersonal Communications
Credits: 3
This course is designed to show some of the difficulties that language and understanding present us. It is concerned with better understanding of ourselves and our semantic and interpersonal environments. It attempts to develop meaningful, effective, and sensitive means of relating to others. Varied group experiences and oral presentations provide students the opportunities to explore current topics.
Note: This course requires one mandatory on-campus meeting.

CIT 110-80 Intro to Computers
Credits: 3
Required: MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, Access)
Using both lecture and lab experience, this course introduces the technology and terminology of computer systems and demonstrates how computers have impacted individuals and society. The course also provides instruction in the basics of operating systems and word processing, spreadsheet, and database software.

CIT 111-80 Intro to Computers/Tech Majors
Credits: 3
Required: MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, Access)
This course prepares technology students for computer concepts and applications coverage required in their program. Hardware and software concepts, file management techniques, and basic operating systems skills will be covered beyond the end-user level from an information technology support perspective. A hands-on overview using popular microcomputer software provides experience with word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

CIT 120-80 Internet Essentials (5-week session)
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: CIT 110 or instructor approval
This course will teach skills in using the Internet as an information and educational resource as well as its impact on global society. Internet components explored will include the World Wide Web, FTP, Email, and basics of creating a web page. Social implications of the Internet and its impact on society such as copyright and fair use will be explored. Thoughtful examination and research on the future of the Internet will conclude the class.

CIT 160-80M Introduction Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: CIT 110, CIT 166 or instructor approval
This course is an introduction to programming logic and computer problem-solving using programming language. Students learn the fundamentals of structured program design. Hands-on emphasis is provided in programming including decision structures, looping structures, and text files. Course work stresses practical application of programing.
Note: This course is offered in a mixed-mode format.

CIT 205-80 Database Management (Access)
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: CIT 110
Required: Microsoft Access 2003 software
This course covers expert level skills for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in Microsoft Access. Use of applications software focuses on data queries, (both Query-By-Example and Structured Query Language) report and form generation, multiple file relationships, and interface techniques. Database administration and customization techniques will also be covered.

CIT 220-80 Electronic Spreadsheets (Excel)
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: CIT 110
Required: Microsoft Excel 2003 software
This course will introduce students to business applications using spreadsheets. Emphasis will be placed on the essential functions of spreadsheet operation, as well as an introduction to some advanced spreadsheet features such as lookup functions and database management. The course content will emphasize mastery of spreadsheet concepts and applications and development of analytical thinking skills.

DE 161-80 Introduction to Design
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Arts
This course introduces design as it relates to interior design, architecture and related professions, through the study of the elements and principles of design and the ways in which humans interact with designed environments and elements.

DE 165-80 Contemporary Interiors
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: DE 164
This course is a continuation of the study of the development of the interior environment from the 19th century to the present. Difference in the basic philosophy between 19th and 20th century design is emphasized.

EDUC 215-80M Intro to Education (Mixed Mode)
Credits: 3
American education is explored with an emphasis on the teacher's role inside and outside the school's role in the community. Various educational issues will be examined, including the purposes of public education in America; the interplay between the public and its schools; and the interrelationship of curriculum, instruction, classroom managment, and school culture; and the challenges of responding effectively to diversity in the school setting and the community. Field experience in the school setting observing and assisting a classroom teacher is included in this course.
Note: This course is offered in a mixed-mode format requiring both online and classroom instruction. Times on campus TBA.

ENGL 120-80 Introduction to Composition
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Qualifying admission assessment score
Introduction to Composition offers experience with sentence construction and paragraph development and provides a review and reinforcement of principles of English grammar and punctuation. Its goal is to develop confidence in the ability to write clear and effective sentences and paragraphs.

ENGL 121-80 Composition I
Credits: 3
Core: Writing
Required: ENGL 120 with a grade of "C" or higher or qualifying assessment score
This course offers a clearly defined sequential approach to writing the short essay and the research paper. Emphasis is placed on pre-writing skills, organizational techniques, development of ideas, word choice, sentence structure, referential skills, and patterns of writing-exposition, narration, description, and argumentation. Competence in basic sentence structure and writing skills at the paragraph level is assumed.

ENGL 122-80 Composition II - (This course will not be taught online during Spring 2007)
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121
Core: Writing
A continuation of the study of the modes of composition introduced in Composition I (ENGL 121), this course emphasizes argumentation and research writing. Students will complete a variety of major essays focusing on persuasive/analysis topics including a significant research paper, accompanied by a thorough reference page. Students will be introduced to library research methods, the avoidance of plagiarism and persuasive pitfalls, and formal documentation style.

ENGL 124-80 Business & Prof. Communications
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENGL 120 or ENGL 121 or instructor approval
Students of this course develop the skills to generate clear, concise documents for the world of work. Emphasis is placed on format, tone, style, and organization of business letters, memos, and reports. Appropriate conventions for business style, punctuation, and handling of electronic communications are included.

HDHL 106-80 Drug & Health Issues/Educators
Credits: 3
This course is a survey of drug education and health concerns for educators of school-aged children, including topics required by Montana’s Board of Public Education for health-related teacher education.

HI 156-80 Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Healthcare
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: AH 185, BIO 108
This course covers basic knowledge of the legal, regulatory, and ethical aspects of healthcare including: doctrines, principles, and processes of civil law; state licensure and national accreditation standards; and professional requirements for personal liablity, confidentiality, and documentation of the health record. Application will be achieved using real health records, case studies, and scenarios.

HI 210-80 Statistical Health Informatics
Credits: 4
Prerequisites or co-requisites: AH 185, AH 194, AH 201, HI 132, HI 156, OO 111, CIT 205
This course will include gathering, compilation, and computing of healthcare-related statistics, use of research, surveys, and statistical methods for developing healthcare data into information for various requesters, along with database analysis, case-mix systems, software, systems analysis, networks, and imaging will also be covered. Application will include health record management software.

HI 225-80 Health Information Management
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: AH 101, AH 194, AH 201, HI 132, OO 111, CIT 205
General and financial management topics are studied in this course. The management functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling are related to the healthcare environment. Specific healthcare examples of budgeting, managerial accounting and selection, procurement, and maintenance of equipment and supplies are provided through extensive application of healthcare-related case studies and student projects.

HI 236-80 ICD Coding
Credits: 3
Prerequisites or co-requisites: AH 101, AH 194, AH 201, HI 132, HI 245 (HIT degree only), CIT 110 or CIT 205 or approval of program director and instructor
This course covers basic and intermediate levels of theory and application of ICD-CM principles and guidelines for coding and sequencing diagnoses and procedures. Students perform basic and intermediate coding using real health records, case studies, and scenarios. Application will focus on book coding with a brief overview of encoder software. This coding class requires hands-on coding skills, and knowledge of basic use of applicable coding books are an expectation.

HI 240-80 Clinical Quality Assessment
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: AH 101, AH 194, AH 201, HI 132, OO 111, CS 205
The principles and procedures of quality, utilization, risk, and compliance processes used to improve the quality of patient health care are taught in this course. Quality assessment and improvement standards and requirements of licensing, accrediting, fiscal and other regulatory agencies are presented. Methods for identifying variations and deficiences for follow-up action will be achieved through the application of multiple display (graphing) techniques and through health record management software.

HI 245 Professional Practice Experience I
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: Completion or concurrent enrollment of all courses in first 4 semesters of the HIT program and approval by the program director.
Students in this course gain professional practice experience in healthcare facility health information department including practice of skills in record assemble, analysis, abstraction, confidentiality, retention, and retrieval. Students create written records of their experiences and complete all projects in the Professional Practice Experience I Manual. This course is scheduled for 80 hours off of campus. (Each student will be responsible for his/her own transportation to and from the healthcare facility and any necessary living expenses.)


HI 295-80 Overview of Health Informatics Systems
Credits: 4
Suggested Prerequisite: CIT 110, HI 210, or completion of all courses in the first 5 semesters of the HIT program and/or permission from the instructor and program director.
This course will cover the principles of analysis, design, evaluation, selection, acquisition, and utilization of information systems in healthcare. Also included in this course are the technical specifications of computer hardware, software, networks, and telecommunications. Furthermore, this course will provide an understanding of technology's role in healthcare. The course will emphasize the intellectual use of information strategic planning, decision support, program management, high quality patient care, and continuous quality improvement. Application will be done through the use of health record management software and word processing application programs.

HIST 210-80 Montana History
Credits: 3
Core: History
This course is a study of the major political, social, cultural and economic developments that have contributed to the formation of Montana and to Montana's place within the region, the nation, and the world, from prehistoric times to the present.

MATH 085-80 Pre-Algebra
Credits: 4
Note: Assessment score required; Pass/Fail Basis
Basic concepts relating to fractions, decimals, ratios, proportions, percent, simple equations, topics of signed numbers, and 1-variable linear equations are offered as a review and/or preparation for further studies in mathematics.
Note: This course is offered online with proctored tests or in mixed-mode format with one campus meeting per week, either Saturday morning or Tuesday evening.

MATH 104-80 Business Mathematics
Credits: 4
Note: Qualifying admission assessment score within the past 3 years or consent of faculty, MATH 085
Students will examine mathematics of business ownership and demonstrate an understanding of business decisions. Concepts include marketing, payroll, cash flow, simple and compound interest, credit, promissory notes, insurance, financial statements, ratio analysis, depreciation, annuities, and inventory valuation.

MATH 108-80 Algebra for College Students
Credits: 4
Note: MATH 103 or qualifying assessment score within the past 3 years
This course offers a review of elementary algebra with further emphasis on systems of equations, determinants, systems of inequalities, rational expressions, radical expressions, complex numbers, quadratic equations, and exponential and logarithmic functions.

MATH 150-80 Math for Liberal Arts
Credits: 3
Core: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisite: MATH 103 with a grade of "B" or better or qualifying assessment score within the past 3 years
This course exposes students to topics in applied and pure mathematics directly connected to modern society. Topics include: Polya's techniques for problem solving, number theory, logic, algebraic models, optimization, linear programming, set theory, probability and statistics.

MATH 216-80 Basic Statistics
Credits: 3
Core: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisite: MATH 103 with a grade of "B" or better or qualifying assessment score within the past 3 years
This course presents concepts, principles, and methods of statistics from two perspectives: descriptive and inferential. Statistical topics include organizing data, sampling, and measures of central tendency, probability, correlation, random variables, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and inference.

MUS 212-80 American Music
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Arts
This course will survey musical idioms, styles and trends developed in the United States from 1492 to the present. Included are folk, sacred, country and western, blues, pop, rock and roll, jazz, and fine art music.

MUS 214-80 World Music
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Arts
World Music introduces the music of varied cultures of the world by presenting the music within its historical and societal contexts. The course includes topics and musical surveys from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.

OO 107-80 Keyboarding I
Credits: 3
Required: Microsoft Word Software
Note: Microsoft Works will not work.
This course is an introduction of microcomputer keyboarding techniques using the touch system. Lessons cover the keyboard, basic skills, and an introduction to common business formats.

OO 112-80 Advanced Health Insurance Techniques
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: OO 111
This course will build on topics covered in OO 111. Students will study characteristics and requirements of each type of insurance including: indemnity plans, HMOs, PPOs, Worker's Compensation (state by state variances). Students will also discuss the adjudication process, resolve reimbursement problems and respond to claims reviews and appeals.

OO 255-80 Medical Transcription I
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: AH 185, CS 110, OO 107 or OO 108
Students are introduced to ethical considerations, rules, regulations, forms, and techniques in recording medical documents. Transcription of various medical reports is required with emphasis on competency in medical vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, and extensive usage of medical reference materials.

OO 256-80 Medical Transcription II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: OO 255
This course is designed to increase speed and accuracy in transcribing medical data with exposure to advanced technical language in a variety of specialties. Special attention is on speed, accuracy, production, style, and forms in medical use.

PHYS 110-80 Survey of Natural Sciences
Credits: 4
Core: Natural Sciences
A course designed to introduce some of the basic aspects of the Biological, Physical, and Earth Sciences. The biology component will emphasize the structural and functional features of organisms, their classification, and their importance in the environment. The physical science component will present a non-mathematical approach to understanding some of the basic concepts in chemistry and physics. The earth science studies will focus upon the interrelationships between geology, paleontology, astronomy, meteorology and oceanography. This course is required by elementary education majors.

PHYS 130-80 Fund. of Physical Science w/Lab
Credits: 4
Core: Natural Sciences
This course is an introduction to the fundamental behavior of matter and energy. It is divided into two sections: physics and chemistry. Physics topics include: motion and patterns of motion; energy, heat and temperature; wave motions and sound; electricity and light. Chemistry topics include atomic structure; elements and the Periodic Table; compounds and chemical change, chemical formulas and equations; water and solutions; and some organic and nuclear chemistry. No prior work in physics or chemistry is assumed for this course; however, skills in basic algebra are strongly recommended.

PSY 101-80 General Psychology
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Social Sciences
This is an introduction to the nature and scope of the field of psychology as a scientific and human endeavor. Major topics include: historic development of the field; biological and developmental processes; consciousness and perceptions; learning, remembering, and thinking; motivation and emotion; personality and individuality; social behavior; normal stress and coping; and abnormal psychology and treatment methods.

PSY 109-80 Lifespan Development
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Social Sciences
This course presents the study of human development throughout the lifespan. Study includes the three domains of development: (physical, cognitive and psychosocial); major theories; the influence of genetics; and prenatal development. The overall framework of the course is chronological dividing the lifespan into seven parts: infancy; early childhood; middle childhood; adolescence; early adulthood; middle adulthood; and late adulthood. This organization emphasizes the whole person and assists students to appreciate the ways in which the three domains of development continuously interact.

SOC 111-80 Intro to Sociology
Credits: 3
Core: Inquiry - Social Sciences
This course offers exposure to fundamentals, perspectives, and terminology of sociology. It includes the study of society and human interaction as it is shaped by social structure and culture. Students also survey the interdependence of social institutions including family, religions, economics, politics, education and occupation, as well as population changes, social differentiation, inequality, deviance, conformity, modernization, social order, and social changes.