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 explores strategies to develop meaningful and well-organized conferences, meetings, and special events. The course addresses but is not limited to event logistics such as: client management, facilities management, compliance with ADA and other laws and regulations, contract negotiation, labor planning, standards for food and beverage management, meeting/organization agendas, transportation, schedule of events, break-out sessions, leisure activities, finances, and evaluations. Students may develop case studies that apply best practices in event management.

This writing and reading intensive course is a general introduction to the critical perspectives and theories that enliven contemporary cultural studies with attention to various schools of 20th and 21st-century criticism, critical applications, and critical terminology. Theories covered include: Marxism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Feminist literary studies, Gender studies, Queer studies, Critical Race studies, Post-colonialism, New Historicism, Cultural studies, and Postmodernism. More broadly, this course explores current studies of literature and culture, examining the practices and values of literary and cultural scholars, students, and teachers in order to gain an understanding of the tradition and norms that have emerged from those practices and values, and finally, to consider which of those trends are most valuable for future critical endeavors in the field of cultural studies.

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.