Course Description: Mental abnormalities and minor maladjustments, their causes and methods of treatment; an approach to understanding one's self.
Course Notes: PS100 General Psychology.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Physical therapy for orthopedic diseases and disorders. Anatomy and physiology of exercise and its principles and application to common orthopedic conditions. The study and application of manual testing, progressive resistive exercise, stretching, and functional activities.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Physiology of nervous system including pathological conditions; assessment and intervention with cerebrovascular accident (CVA), spinal cord injury (SCI), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other neurological disorders; patient interactions, interpersonal communication, professionalism, documentation and time management.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Study of specialty areas including amputation, prosthetics, diabetes, wound management and burn management; special treatment related to the cardiovascular and respiratory system as well as consideration for the pediatric and geriatric patient; application of principles and techniques in the classroom and laboratory of each specialty area.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Opportunities to practice physical therapist assisting skills. Assignments on the basis of demonstrated need for additional knowledge and/or skill in a given are to hospitals, nursing homes, sub-acute hospitals, pediatric facilities. Opportunities to advance skills to an independent level. (Full-time for 5 and 6 weeks).
Course Notes: PT217 Clinical Practice I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Full-time for 5 and 6 weeks.
Course Description: A continuation of Professional Issues I, developing research skills, documentation skills, community awareness and career planning.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Principles of weather, stressing the structure and composition of the atmosphere, the methods of perception and analysis of severe weather, as well as the use and understanding of meteorological instruments.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The earth's structural and dynamic features, materials of the earth, processes and a brief history of the earth.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course requires proctored exams.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course requires proctored exams.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course requires proctored exams.
Course Description: Study of minerals, rocks, topographic and geologic maps.
Spring
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY103 if student does not have as a prerequisite.Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY103 if student does not have as a prerequisite.Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY103 if student does not have as a prerequisite.
Course Description: An introductory course in physics and chemistry, with applications to geology, climatology, oceanography, and astronomy. Lecture and lab.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Student must also enroll in PY110L Lab.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Student must also enroll in PY110L Lab.
Course Description: Laboratory portion of PY110 Physical Science.
Spring
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY110 LectureSection Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY110 Lecture
Course Description: An algebra-based general physics course. Principles of motion, mechanics, and heat. Not appropriate for physics or engineering majors. Lecture and lab.
Course Notes: MA106 College Algebra or higher math.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: MA107 Plane Trigonometry recommended. Student must also enroll in PY112L Lab.
Course Description: Laboratory portion of PY112 General Physics I.
Course Notes: MA106 College Algebra or higher math.
Spring
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY112 Lecture
Course Description: Continuation of PY112 General Physics I including electricity, magnetism, wave motion, light and modern physics. Lecture and lab.
Course Notes: PY112 Gen Physics I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Students must also enroll in PY113L Lab
Course Description: Laboratory portion of PY113 General Physics II.
Course Notes: PY112 Gen Physics I.
Spring
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY113 LectureSection Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY113 Lecture
Course Description: Continuation of PY201 Engineering Physics I, providing a calculus-based introductory physics course sequence. Covers electromagnetic theory, DC and AC electricity, mechanical waves, geometric and wave optics, and special relativity. Lecture and lab.
Course Notes: PY201 Eng Phys I with grade of C or better.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Students must also enroll in PY202L Lab.
Course Description: Laboratory portion of PY202 Engineering Physics II.
Course Notes: PY201 Eng Phys I with grade of C or better.
Spring
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY202 LectureSection Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Notes: Must also enroll in PY202 Lecture
Course Description: Analysis of stress equilibrium of structures and mechanisms which are rigid bodies using vector algebra.
Course Notes: PY201 Engineering Physics I, and MA111 Analytical Geometry & Calculus I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Fundamentals of radiographic pathology including the definition and description of diseases and conditions, radiographic appearance of pathologies, and the diagnostic tests used in identification of diseases.
Course Notes: Radiology Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HR105 Medical Terminology should be taken as a corequisite with this course.
Course Description: Radiographic and digital imaging quality and factors that affect them. Laboratory exercises using radiographic exposure, routine radiographic positioning and image critiques. Students required to be at an affiliate clinical site a total of 36 hours.
Course Notes: Radiology Acceptance, and RA105 Radiographic Exposures I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00