This course engages participants in the career development and life planning process. The course may help students explore and apply to their own life situations knowledge of adult and career development and the skills and methods of career planning. Students may define and articulate the elements important to personal career satisfaction and develop strategies to achieve it. The course may include self- assessments, researching career information, decision-making, goal setting, and job search strategies. NOTE: Students in the A.S. Business and B.S. Business Management programs should take APST 405 and CMPL 402 together.

This course prepares participants to effectively write different types of grant narratives based on organizational need(s). Topics may include the strategic purpose of grants, basic grant elements, effective grant-writing strategies, and grant management and stewardship process and tools.

This course introduces the design elements, principles, and skills needed to succeed in the graphic design industry. Students will have the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of professional layout using Adobe Creative Cloud while demonstrating an understanding of composition, color, typography, vectors, and bitmap creation, along with other essential attributes of graphic design. The design process, design as visual communication, and the designer's role in concept development for media, web, and video will also be emphasized.

This course presents an overview of the homeland security and emergency management field and enables students entering the profession or expanding their roles to function effectively given a broad array of emergency management issues. This course provides students with a broad view of issues that focus on policy considerations and align with the five National Preparedness System mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. Students learn critical concepts such as the Department of Homeland Security all-hazards approach of emergency management, risk prevention, counter-terrorism, and consequence management and mitigation. This course takes a behavioral science risk-based approach, assessing capabilities and identifying gaps within existing emergency management programs. This approach is instrumental to planning future homeland security and emergency management programs, which facilitate our nation's ability to improve emergency management.