Course Descriptions

Students will continue to build on the ultrasound scanning skills learned in ECHO1105 and ECHO1115. Content includes continued skill enhancement of a full adult transthoracic echocardiography scanning protocol. In addition, students will continue to master the content of the required measurements to determine the severity of cardiovascular disease.

This course is the cumulative preparation for the national credentialing board examinations in ultrasound physics and instrumentation. It involves real-world applications of physics, artifact recognition and rectification, and instrumentation of ultrasound equipment. Students will participate in interactive mock examinations in preparation for the credentialing examinations. Activities include a review of complex echocardiography cases that require critical thinking skills.

This course provides a supervised clinical practicum that prepares students to develop cognitive, psychomotor and affective learning domains for adult transthoracic echocardiography. Students demonstrate increasing proficiency in the required echocardiography imaging modalities that will allow them to achieve clinical competency.

Students will review material learned in ECHO1100, ECHO1110 and ECHO2100. This course will cover material to prepare students for the National Registry exam. Students will review cardiac anatomy, physiology, heart and vascular pressures, chamber quantification, system operations, scanning views with associated anatomy, Color/Spectral Doppler and quantification of abnormal findings.

This course provides a continued supervised clinical practicum, increasing proficiency in diagnosing advanced cardiovascular disease. The final goal of this course is to achieve the competency level required to work as an entry-level cardiac sonographer.

Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2 and 5. This course is an introductory study of economics and exposes the student to a variety of economic concepts. In order to enjoy a successful career, people need to understand how economics impacts the environment in which they live and work. This course helps satisfy those needs by exploring the principles of microeconomics, macroeconomics and international economics. At the microeconomic level, students will learn how the choices they make affect particular markets. They will examine resource allocation and pricing structure by analyzing demand and supply applications. Students will survey the competitive environment by exploring the market structures of perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly and oligopoly. At the macroeconomic level, students will learn about the business cycle by analyzing the gross domestic product (GDP), the inflation rate, the unemployment rate, deficit spending, the national debt and other economic indicators. They will also investigate the debate over activism and non-activism in monetary and fiscal policies. Finally, the student will examine international issues including tariffs/quotas, foreign exchange, the concept of comparative advantage and trends in globalization. This course is not intended for business or economics majors.

This course provides the student with a means to study economic principles as they relate to determinants of national income, national income accounting, business cycles, unemployment, inflation and aggregate expenditures. The course also examines macroeconomic policy and provides information to gain further understanding in the areas of fiscal policy, financial markets, money and banking, monetary policy, international policy and the varying viewpoints that have evolved throughout history, including the Keynesian and Monetarist schools of thought.

Microeconomics stresses the concepts of scarcity, production possibilities, supply and demand curves, elastic and inelastic goods and services, competition, monopolies, oligopolies, poverty and income distribution in the United States. In general, microeconomics examines the functioning of individual industries and the behavior of the individual.

This course explores education in America, from early childhood through high school graduation. This course will introduce the historical and philosophical foundations, program types, career opportunities, or developmentally appropriate learning environments, social contexts, curriculum and instruction, standards and assessment, and contemporary issues related to the field. The roles, responsibilities, personal, and ethical characteristics and daily life of teachers, schools and students will be examined. This course includes 32 hours of experience in the field.

This course is an introduction to the career of teaching, along with the development of technology skills. Specific variables related to teaching as a profession are explored including professional roles and responsibilities, students, curriculum and the structure of schools. This course is to be taken concurrently with ED 2206.

This course is an early educational field experience. Students will be placed at a K-12 educational site and be supervised by an experienced instructor. The student's primary role is as an observer of the classroom, but students may be asked to provide assistance in the classroom setting under the instructor's supervision.

This course explores the physical, mental, and social aspects of the use and abuse of drugs. Topics include history of use, classifications of drugs, and the effects of drug use on the family and society. Emphasis is placed on the role drugs have in our society and our responsibility in preventing abuse.

This course is designed to provide students with the skills necessary to support and reinforce the instruction of K-6 students in the area of technology. Students will utilize technology to gather and develop classroom lesson plans. Students will examine assistive/augmentative technology and the technologies required of prospective and practicing teachers. Students will also learn to apply their skills and knowledge when assisting students.

This course will introduce students to evidence-based and research-focused intervention strategies commonly implemented when serving individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Team-based collaborative consultation for individuals diagnosed with ASD is also addressed. Topics include direct instruction, communication skills training, social and emotional skills training and general supportive strategies. This course is cross-listed with PSYC 2233.

This course is intended to provide an overview of the theories and principles from psychology that are applicable to the teaching profession. The course addresses motivation, learning, development, instruction, assessment and classroom management, and it is designed to be a foundation for future methods and issues courses in education.