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Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. Students should take this course in their first semester.( Pre-requisite: None.) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Marketing Principles 10104110 Explore the marketing environment, consumer behavior, and market segmentation and position strategies. Learn the marketing mix and create product, distribution, pricing, and promotion plans. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Careers in Business 10105100 Course provides an overview of the interconnectedness among careers within Business. Learn how various fields within the broader industry each play an integral role and how a personal brand fits into preparing you for your career choice.( Corequisite: 10-890-101, College 101) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Personal Brand 10104179 Learn how personal branding allows you to differentiate yourself from the competition through appearance, personality, and marketing competency. Develop strategies for building your brand.( Corequisite: 10-890-101, College 101) Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Professional Presentations 10104124 Learn how to create and deliver presentations that engage your audience and meet established objectives. Utilize current technology to enhance communications. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Selling Principles 10104101 Explore selling as a career and the success factors in selling. Learn the consultative selling process including product / industry knowledge, approach techniques, needs assessment, product presentation and demonstration, handling objections, and closing the sale successfully to build a relationship. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
MS Excel Intro 10103131 Creating worksheets; enter data, make modifications, work with formulas and functions, create and enhance charts, manage data, transform data, conditional formatting, importing / exporting data, introduction to PivotTables and PivotCharts. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
English Composition 1 10801136 Learners develop knowledge / skills in planning, organizing, writing, editing. Students will also analyze audience / purpose, use elements of research, format documents using standard guidelines, and develop critical reading skills.( Prerequisite: High school GPA greater / equal to 2.6; OR ACT Reading score greater / equal to 16 AND English greater / equal to 18; OR Next Gen Reading score greater / equal to 250 AND Writing score greater / equal to 260; OR " preparatory course( s)", contact academic advisor at 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Mathematical Reasoning 10804134 All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement.( Prerequisite: Next Gen Arith score greater / equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater / equal to 250; OR ACT Math score greater / equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater / equal to 16; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920- 498-5444). Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Integrated Marketing Comm 10104107 Learn how to create, coordinate, and integrate advertising, public relations and marketing activities for a specific customer or audience. A campaign will be developed and presented. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Consumer Behavior 10104176 Examine consumer motivation and personality, information processing, lifestyles, group influences, purchase and post-purchase behavior in a market-based economy. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Customer Experience 10104191 Examine customer service culture, develop communication and listening skills, explore diversity in the workplace, develop skills for handling challenging customers, and explore the impact of technology on customer service and engagement. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Oral / Interpersonal Comm 10801196 This course focuses on developing effective listening techniques and verbal and nonverbal communication skills through oral presentation, group activity, and other projects. The study of self, conflict, and cultural contexts will be explored, as well as their impact on communication.( Prerequisite: Next Gen Rdg score greater / equal to 250 AND Writing score greater / equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater / equal to 16 AND English score greater / equal to 16; OR preparatory course-contact an academic advisor at 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Intro to Psychology 10809198 This science of psychology course is a survey of multiple aspects of behavior and mental processes. It provides an overview of topics such as research methods, theoretical perspectives, learning, cognition, memory, motivation, emotions, personality, abnormal psychology, physiological factors, social influences, and development..( Prerequisite: Cumulative GPA of 2.6 or greater OR satisfactory reading and writing assessment scores OR 10-831-107, College Reading and Writing 1 with " B " or better OR Corequisite: 10-831-102, English Comp Prep). Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
WordPress Fundamentals 10152157 This course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding to build, execute, analyze and report upon web campaigns within a Content Management System. Explore techniques and tools to monitor campaigns. Execute post-campaign measurements and ROI analysis. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Digital Marketing 10104172 Explore new technologies and trends to effectively navigate a constantly evolving digital landscape. From web design and search engine marketing to online advertising and email marketing, you will learn how to build a strong online presence and drive results for a business. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Career Fundamentals 10105103 Create professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, understand interviewing techniques, participate in a mock interview, evaluate outcomes of interview, and prepare for Career Experience.( Prerequisites: 10-105-100, Careers in Business OR 10-107-117, Careers in IT OR 10-201-100, Careers In Digital Arts) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
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