Course Descriptions

Meets MnTC Goal Area 6F. This course is designed to improve skills in two areas: 1) to recognize and notate tonal melodies and rhythmic patterns, and 2) to reproduce "at sight" what is notated. Must be taken concurrently with MUSC 2231.

Meets MnTC Goal Area 6F. This course is designed to improve skills in two areas: 1) to recognize and notate tonal melodies and rhythmic patterns, and 2) to reproduce "at sight" what is notated. It must be taken concurrently with MUSC 2232.

Meets MnTC Goal Area 6F. Individual voice lessons of one hour per week are open to advanced students with instructor's consent. The course is required of voice performance or voice pedagogy majors and includes required performances. Students interested in this course should contact the music department so that instruction may be arranged. There is an additional fee, and it may be repeated for credit.

Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2 and 6. Individual woodwind, brass, percussion and guitar lessons of one hour per week are open to advanced students with instructor's consent. Course is required of instrumental performance or education majors and includes required performances. Students should contact the music department to arrange instruction. There is an additional fee. May be repeated for credit.

Meets MnTC Goal 6. Individual advanced music composition and advanced theory discussion and lessons. Subject to instructor availability. Students should contact the music department to arrange instruction. Additional fee. May be repeated for credit.

Meets MnTC Goal Area 6F. Individual piano lessons of one hour per week are open to advanced students with instructor's consent and required of piano performance or piano pedagogy majors. Course includes additional studio classes and required performances at the instructor's discretion. Interested students should contact the music department to arrange instruction. There is an additional fee. May be repeated for credit.

This course introduces students to the concepts of professional nursing. It includes the evolution of nursing practice, the scope of practice for health care teams, creating plans of care that integrate quality and safety for diverse patient populations, professional behavior, therapeutic communication, documentation and medical terminology.

This course prepares students to provide safe, therapeutic nursing care to diverse patient populations across the age span. Content includes asepsis and infection control, holistic assessment, basic pharmacologic principles and concepts, safe medication administration, pain management, complementary/alternative therapies and perioperative nursing care. This course also integrates the content and skills necessary to promote and maintain health and wellness of the neurological, integumentary, sensory and musculoskeletal systems.

This course promotes the application of fundamental skills while providing holistic nursing care to a diverse group of patients. The course incorporates the concepts of quality and safe patient care, professional behavior, therapeutic communication and self-evaluation.

This course prepares students to provide safe, therapeutic nursing care to diverse patient populations across the age span. The course also integrates the content and skills necessary to promote and maintain health and wellness of the gastrointestinal, metabolic, immune, hematologic, cardiovascular, respiratory and urinary systems as well as fluid and electrolyte balance.

This course introduces antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal and neonatal nursing care for the uncomplicated mother and infant. Holistic care and wellness promotion are emphasized, including needs of the family. Nursing care is examined for diverse patients of both genders across the lifespan to maintain and promote reproductive wellness; this includes normal sexuality, management of fertility and reproductive health promotion. Nursing care is examined to maintain and promote wellness for pediatric patients, considering variations based on normal growth and development.

This course prepares the practical nurse to transition into the professional nursing role. Concepts of legal and ethical considerations in practice, holistic assessment, the nursing process and development of individualized plans of care will be explored while integrating informatics, evidence-based practice, patient-centered care, safety and quality improvement.

This course analyzes nursing care of antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal and neonatal conditions for the mother and infant with the focus on complications, illnesses or abnormalities. This course is designed to plan nursing care for patients as they adapt to abnormal reproductive conditions including infectious diseases, infertility, problems with sexual functioning and other dysfunctions of both the male and female reproductive tracts.

This clinical course provides the professional nursing student with opportunities to utilize the nursing process in providing individualized patient-centered care to diverse patient populations. An emphasis on evidence-based nursing care and clinical judgment skills, personal identity and behavior, teamwork and collaboration, holism, patient-centered care, safety and quality improvement will be incorporated.

Restorative Nursing I is designed to prepare students to plan nursing care for diverse patients experiencing disorders of the neurological/sensory, musculoskeletal, endocrine, immunological, hematological and gastrointestinal systems. Emphasis is placed on patient-centered care, nursing judgment/evidence-based care, safety and pharmacology.