HR professionals need to adapt to changing objectives and market conditions to recruit, select, and retain employees with the necessary skills to further organizational goals all while steering clear of legal and other risks. Attracting and retaining the right talent to the right position from the start is crucial for organizational success.

This course engages students to learn and utilize core coaching concepts and methodologies to increase organizational and individual performance in the professional workplace. Differences between coaching and mentoring, coaching dynamics as a performance management tool, the eight steps to coaching for performance, and an array of coaching methodologies appropriate in diverse scenarios may be explored. Upon completion of this course students are expected to be able to apply coaching methodologies to common workplace scenarios. NOTE: This course is a business coaching course specific to Management and Human Resource Management majors.

This course introduces students to a variety of prominent ethical theories. It examines their complex interrelations, historical development, and relevance to ordinary life. Students are encouraged to engage in the critical analysis and comparison of these theories and to consider how they might explain and evaluate contemporary controversies such as war, environmental protection, euthanasia, and abortion. Relationships between ethics and other areas of philosophical investigation are considered.

College Success Seminar provides the foundation for an informed and meaningful college experience. In the seminar, students discover how their individual capacities position them for the attainment of their goals within the academic community of the college. The course broadens understanding of key concepts common to integrative learning within higher education settings, particularly focusing on the ways multiple academic disciplines can improve success in applied careers. It empowers students to become informed users of information as well as engage in research and planning for subsequent courses. Students in this course will consider the ways various learning opportunities relate to one another and to the individual's personal, academic, and career goals. College Seminar fosters the self-awareness and intellectual perspective that are the hallmarks of well-educated persons and lifelong, engaged learners. For students in the AA General Studies program, this course will also guide students in developing their twenty credit academic concentration within the associate degree.