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I'll ask you the same question: is your opinion based upon your own personal attainment of jhana, or not?for some, a sense of blissful and gladness in the heart that can carry on for weeks. others experience visions during samadhi. different individuals experience different things but the one thing that is common is that their confidence in the dhamma is unshakable.
How do you know that? What is you opinion based upon?
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Accounting & Finance
Accounting II
Provides an understanding of accounting concepts, assumptions, and principles. Progresses to evaluation of accounting data for plant assets, current liabilities, deferrals and accruals, intangibles, payables, and payroll. Introduces accounting for corporations as related to stocks, bonds, and corporate earnings. Introduces partnership accounting and, in addition, introduces the statement of cash flows.
Intermediate Accounting I
This course provides an in-depth study of accounting theory and a review of the accounting cycle. It concentrates on the conceptual framework underlying financial accounting, the preparation of financial statements, the time value of money, and the valuation of cash, temporary investments and receivables. The course refers to pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards (FASB) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Intermediate Accounting II
Topics covered include the accounting for inventories; property, plant, and equipment; intangible assets; current liabilities, non-current liabilities, and contingencies; and stockholders' equity. The material refers to pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Intermediate Accounting III
Topics covered include the accounting for investments, revenue recognition, income taxes, pensions and postretirement benefits, and leases; accounting changes and error analysis; preparation of the statement of cash flows; and full disclosure in financial reporting. The material refers to pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Microcomputer Applications for Accountants
This course covers the use of Peachtree Complete Accounting for Windows, Microsoft Excel, and the interface between the two software packages, as well as the functions and applications available under Peachtree and Excel.
Federal Taxation
Provides a comprehensive study of the types of taxes imposed by federal, state, and local authorities. Concepts covered include income realization, property and depreciation, tax deductions and credits, and rules related to capital gains and losses.
Advanced Federal Taxation
Covers the federal taxation of corporations, partnerships, and S corporations. Examines the administrative power of the IRS and tax concepts related to gifts, trusts, and estates.
Cost Accounting
This course covers accounting procedures relating to the job-costing system, cost-volume-profit analysis, activity-based costing, the master budget, flexible budgets, responsibility accounting, variance analysis, inventory costing, and capacity analysis.
Advanced Accounting
Covers accounting for home office and branches, business combinations, and consolidations. Provides continuation of the preparation for the CPA examination as well as various techniques for solving some of the more complex problems in the business environment.
Covers theory of auditing, including the educational and moral qualifications for auditors, as well as the role of the auditor in the American economy. Emphasizes professional standards, professional ethics, and the legal liability of auditors. Comprehensively covers planning and designing the audit program, gathering and summarizing evidence, and evaluating internal control.
Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting
This course analyzes accounting principles and procedures unique to federal, state, and local governments, and not-for-profit organizations. It illustrates financial statements and reports prepared for each type of entity, fund, and account group. The course explores the role of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in establishing accounting standards and disclosure requirements for governments and not-for-profit organizations.
Financing Entrepreneurships
The course explores the various aspects of financing an entrepreneurial venture. Emphasis will be placed on crafting a business plan, forms of ownership, and exploring funding options.
Covers portfolio management, including the management of investments in stocks, bonds and other financial instruments. Examines individual financial instruments in depth and the investment strategies of shifting the relative amounts held by the investor during changing economic conditions.
Financial Markets and Institutions
Examines the various types of financial markets, financial intermediaries, and the types of transactions supported by each market. Analyzes the sources and uses of funds by commercial banks, management concepts for banks, and how commercial banks are regulated.
Financial Risk Analysis
This course provides sufficient institutional detail of the primary risks faced by the major types of financial firms and the applicability of these risks for the financial manager. Topics covered include asset valuation, the economic role of money markets and how this role relates to security valuation and risk analysis, risk measurement, options pricing, derivative risk management, measuring and comparing risk exposures across financial markets, risks and rewards of international financial markets, and recent developments in the practice of risk management. Cases and industry applications are used.
Advanced Financial Management
This course provides an extensive coverage of corporate finance theory and the applicability of this theory for the financial manager. Topics covered include capital budgeting under uncertainty; the relevance of capital structure decisions on security valuation and risk; mergers and acquisitions; option pricing; real options; measuring and managing a firm's risk exposures; risks and rewards of international financial markets. Cases are used.
Commercial Bank Management
This course covers the theory and practice of commercial banking from a financial-management perspective. It focuses on the dynamic and rapidly changing financial-services industry. It explores modern financial management decision-making and highlights the importance of adapting to change and creating value as the way for firms to succeed. Students will acquire skills in technology banking (e-Money, e-Banking and e-Commerce) and risks and valuation, loans, management of liquidity reserves, investment portfolio, and sources of funds. Students develop skills in managing commercial banks through an understanding of bank objectives, functions, policies, organization and structure, and by evaluating different types of services and bank regulations.
Fundamentals of E-Business
Examines the development of electronic commerce, the basic technologies used to conduct e-business, and the various forms of electronic business. Presents marketing models used in e-business strategy. Examines the processes for business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions. Reviews the electronic commerce infrastructure, designing and managing online storefronts, payment options, security, privacy, and the legal and ethical challenges of electronic business.Course Guide
Purchasing and Materials Management
Examines integral aspects of purchasing and materials management including function, organization, quality and quantity considerations, pricing policies, supplier selection, and ethical and legal implications. Reviews purchasing procedures, value analysis, inventory control, warehousing and traffic, capital equipment, make-or-buy decision-making, automation, budgets, and institutional and governmental purchasing practices.
Public Relations
Surveys the practice of public relations in business, nonprofit organizations, and governmental institutions. Examines the major forms of media used in public relations: news releases, broadcast publicity, public service announcements, and institutional advertising.
Business Ethics
Examines the applications of ethical principles through consideration of typical problem areas encountered in organizations. The course focuses on the ethical perspectives of business decision-making and policy development in a variety of key areas including individual behavior, human resource management, work environments, marketing, property rights, and international business. The analysis of case situations will illustrate the application of various ethical approaches (utility, individual rights, and justice) in managing organizations.
Global Human Resource Management
Examines the considerations for human resource management in support of global business operations. Analyzes the sources of labor, business strategy, corporate culture, and cultural differences as elements of global human resource planning. Reviews fundamental human resource issues such as compensation, productivity, and training.
Staffing Organizations
Examines the role of staffing to support an organization's strategy and improve productivity. Reviews the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing organizations. Emphasis is placed on HRM planning, job analysis, effective recruitment strategies, developing selection processes, and formulation of staffing plans. Provides considerations for employee retention.
E-Business Security and Controls
Provides a framework for analyzing and formulating electronic commerce strategy and business solutions. Examines the application of information technology in improving strategic management, facilitating the operations of a firm's supply chain, and supporting the execution of enterprise systems within an organization. Surveys critical security issues of Web-based operations and e-commerce, and considerations to manage these risks. Appropriate cases are used to illustrate concepts of conducting business on the Internet and applying electronic commerce mechanisms.
Project Management
Presents the fundamentals of the project management process and examines application of the process. Reviews the stages and activities in the project life cycle, the organization for project management, and various project control and evaluation processes. Introduces considerations for negotiation and human resource management concerns in project management.
Small Business Management
Provides the basic principles of operating and managing a small business. Topics include buying, merchandising, pricing, promotions, inventory management, customer service, location decisions, and planning. Reviews strategic planning considerations relative to operating a small business.
Labor Relations
Presents the principles of labor-management relations and basic requirements of federal labor laws. Examines the role of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and other third parties. Includes the topics of union representation rights and obligations, employee rights, organizing, election procedures, unfair labor practices, collective bargaining negotiations, mediation impasses, grievances, and arbitrations.
Training and Development
Presents the concepts of learning (cognitive and behaviorist), principles of instructional design, and the relationship of motivation and learning. Analyzes the phases of the training process model and the activities associated with each phase. Reviews how to develop viable training programs to fit a variety of organizational requirements for both employee and management training and development.
Compensation Management
Introduces and analyzes the basic concepts of compensation administration in organizations. Provides an intensive study of the wage system, methods of job evaluation, wage and salary structures, and the legal constraints on compensation programs.
Operations Management
This course covers the key concepts related to operations management within an organization. Topics include strategic issues related to designing products and delivery services, making capacity and location decisions, and operating processes and control systems.
Entrepreneurship Feasibility and Analysis
This course provides students opportunities for analysis, synthesis, prescription, and application of entrepreneurship concepts. Students will use real-work entrepreneurship cases and apply critical thinking and decision-making skills involving complex entrepreneurship decisions.
Business Policy
Provides an opportunity for students to integrate management principles, techniques, and theories by applying previously acquired knowledge of all business functional areas to analyze, develop, and implement business strategy. Utilizes cases from a variety of organizations, with emphasis on problem identification, analysis, and decision-making on strategic issues.
Information Systems & Technology
Introduction to Information Systems
This course introduces students to the general purpose of information systems in organizations and their use of personal productivity software. Students will demonstrate tasks in common application software to include word processing, web browsing, spreadsheet modeling, database management, and presentation graphics.
Introduction to Information Technology
This course provides a foundational overview to the discipline of information technology that illuminates key computing concepts and describes how those concepts relate to other computing disciplines. Students are presented the diverse context in which information technology is used and the challenges inherent in the diffusion of innovative technologies.
Microcomputer Applications
This course introduces students to personal productivity software for use in organizations. Students will be presented with software and materials to develop competencies and documents in word processing, web browsing, spreadsheet modeling, database management, and presentation graphic applications. Topics include the creation and modeling of persuasive organizational documents, reports, and presentations.
Introduction to Management Information Systems
This course covers structures and concepts of management information systems. It emphasizes the importance of integrated information as used in the decision process and the information flows associated with each decision point in a business structure. It enables the development of a philosophy of information systems administration.
Computer Programming Design
This course involves extensive work in the development of the logic required in the development of application programs. The course applies the methods of program design and development, using a structured approach. Included in the course will be the learning of the following concepts: proper documentation techniques, sequence, selection, iteration, modules, and arrays. The student will demonstrate a fundamental understanding of these concepts by writing pseudocode and drawing flowcharts as a precursor to the writing of the programs. The demonstration will be made in examinations and in laboratory work.
Introduction to Relational Database ManagementSystems
This course provides fundamental database concepts to develop students' knowledge of database management. It also addresses the most current database issues such as database design, data integrity, concurrent updates, and data security. Special features include detailed coverage of the relational model, Structured Query Language (SQL), and views, database design, database administration and management. Finally, the course introduces advanced topics including distributed databases, data warehouses, stored procedures, and triggers fostering an introductory understanding of database management.
Operating Systems
Covers the development and execution of structured shell programs including scripts, menus, I/O redirection, pipes, variables, and other UNIX and Windows commands. Operating systems administration techniques also are covered including electronic mail, editors, online help, and file and directory techniques.
Information Technology in Criminal Justice
This course examines how information technology is used within the criminal justice system, Homeland Security, and private security. Topics covered include information systems and communication technologies used to prevent and investigate crime and manage security. Students will develop fundamental technical and research skills applicable to criminal justice.
Introduction to Networking
This course introduces students to the basic concepts networks. It covers basic topologies, protocols, performance issues, and software for LANS/WANS. The course assumes student has basic computer knowledge.
Systems Analysis and Development
This course provides an understanding of the methodology and scope of business information systems analysis and design, and their relationship to the management process. The systems approach and its techniques of problem-solving are emphasized.
C++ Programming I
This course introduces students to the fundamental constructs of the C++ object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document and design business-oriented programs. Topics include data types and objects, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance.
Visual Basic Programming
This course provides students with the knowledge and techniques needed to design and build distributed applications using the Visual Basic programming language. Students will use disciplined coding style, including documentation and coding style to write well-designed programs that solve business problems.
Web Design and Development
This course presents students the design, implementation, and testing of Web-based applications including related software, databases, scripting techniques, interfaces and digital media. It also covers social, ethical, and security issues arising from the Web, e-Commerce and social networking software applications.
SQL Programming
This course covers the concept, design and components of querying databases using the Structured Query Language ( SQL ). Involves the creation of tables, constraints, use of DML, use of DDL, and defining transactions.
Web Page Development II
This course provides advanced techniques to design, develop, and test web-based applications. Topics include using static and dynamic scripting languages to create interactive web sites, manipulating strings, objects and data in arrays, and working with client/server databases. Students will use object-oriented programming techniques as well as using authentication and security in creating the Web sites.Course Guide
Computer Ethics
This course provides critical ethical and legal information that computer security professionals must take into account when developing security policies, plans, and procedures. This course focuses on ethical and legal issues and privacy considerations that organizations must take into account. Topics also include issues related to risk mitigation and analysis, incident response and contingency planning.Course Guide
C++ Programming II
This course covers advanced topics in the C++ object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document and design business-oriented programs and solve advanced programming problems. Topics include data structures, recursion, design patterns, memory management and exception handling.
Administering Desktop Clients
Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform administration tasks in a peer to peer network or server centric network. Administration topics include installation, configuration, user management, resource management, and security.
Network Server Administration I
Provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to perform central administration tasks on the server(s) in a server-centric network. Topics covered by this course include installing / configuring servers, network protocols, resource and user management, security, Active Directory, and the variety of possible server roles to be implemented.
Networking Security Fundamentals
This course provides an overview of information technology security principles, challenges, vulnerabilities and countermeasure strategies. Topics include definition of security terms, concepts, elements, and goals. Students will explore industry standards and practices that focus on the availability, integrity and confidentiality aspects of information systems security.
Internetworking Basics
This course introduces students to the OSI model and LAN concepts. Topics include networking devices that operate at Physical, Data Link, and the Network layers of the OSI model, LAN and internetworking cabling requirements, IP addressing and subnetting, collision and broadcast domains, LANs, WANs, and TCP / IP. Also included are labs to demonstrate router startup, router setup, configuring router interfaces, and the basics of network management.
Information Technology Project Management
This course examines the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to manage their information technology projects in accordance with the Project Management Institutes Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®). Emphasis is placed on the methodology and project management software for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing technology projects. Topics include various types of technologies to support group collaboration and the use of resources from within the firm as well as contracted from outside the organization.Course Guide
Decision Support and Business Intelligence
This course covers the techniques, frameworks, and application of computerized decision support systems that support managerial decision making. Topics include the characteristics, structure, uses, and types of decision support systems.
Human Computer Interaction
This course presents students with user-centered methodologies in the development, evaluation, and deployment of information technology applications and systems. Students are exposed to evolving technologies and devices, and how to design interactive products that enhance the way people communicate, interact, and work with computers. Topics include human-computer interaction, user and task analysis, human factors, ergonomics, accessibility standards, and cognitive psychology.
Network Server Administration II
This is a lab-based course that prepares students with advanced server administration concepts to plan, deploy, secure, monitor, backup, and manage enterprise network server environments. Topics also include storage solutions, high availability, file and printer services, and security.
JAVA Programming I
This course introduces students to the fundamental constructs of the Java object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document, and design business-oriented programs. Topics include objects, classes, iteration, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance.
JAVA Programming II
This course covers advanced topics in the Java object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document, and design business-oriented programs and solve advanced programming problems. Topics include advanced data structures, recursion, multithreading, and the application of Java constructs to the Internet and database development.
Directory Services Infrastructure
This is a lab-based course that prepares students to install, configure, secure and maintain services in the Windows Active Directory environment. Topics include group policies, directory configuration, security strategies, and certificate services.
Advanced Routing
This course provides the student with the knowledge necessary to implement, monitor, and maintain advanced network routing services. This includes the capability to plan, configure, and verify the performance and implementation of LAN and WAN routing solutions.
Internetworking Switching
This course provides the student with the essential information to implement, monitor, and maintain switching in converged enterprise campus networks. The course includes the secure integration of VLANs, WLANs, and voice and video solutions onto campus networks.
Computer Forensics
This course offers an introduction to system forensics investigation and response. Topics include procedures for investigating computer and cybercrime, tools, techniques, and methods used to perform forensic investigations and concepts for collecting, analyzing, recovering, and preserving forensic evidence.
Data Warehouse Planning
This course covers the principles, approaches, and critical issues in planning, designing, and deploying data warehouses. Topics include data extraction, data cleansing, data transformation, architecture, and infrastructure. Students will examine recent trends in data warehousing, metadata, and architectural components.
Security Strategy and Policy
The course presents a discussion on security policies created to protect and maintain a computing network, such as password policy, e-mail policy and Internet policy. Students are presented with a comprehensive view of information security policies, frameworks and issues related to organizational behavior and crisis management. Topics also include governance, regulation, mandates, business drivers and legal considerations when implementing security policies and frameworks.
Criminal Justice
Crime and Criminal Behavior
This course covers the historical development of social and behavior explanations of adult crime, as well as juvenile crime and new evolutions in crime, including cyber crimes. Crime causation theories are explained in relation to policies developed from these theories, and the real and intended impact of these policies are discussed to demonstrate their impact on society concerning crime prevention and criminal rehabilitation.
Juvenile Delinquency and Justice
This course examines the criminal activity of juveniles and includes the study of gangs, status offenses, and the problems facing juveniles today. An overview of American juvenile justice is also provided, in terms of both system and practice. The causes of juvenile crime, the juvenile court system, and the institutionalization, rehabilitation, and treatment of juveniles are explored.
Criminal Investigation
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of criminal investigation by examining processes involved in identifying and arresting criminal suspects, identifying types of crimes and offenses, and in preparing for the in-court presentation of evidence through testimony. Techniques and procedures for evidence collection, preservation, and examination are discussed, and developing "high technologies" useful to the criminal investigator are explored.
Comparative Criminal Justice
This course offers a comparative perspective on crime and on the practice of criminal justice. The role of increased globalization in transnational crime and justice are explored, to include: trafficking in persons, transnational crime, narcoterrorism, international cybercrime and cyberscams, the relationships between international terrorist organizations, and the functioning and organization of international crime fighting agencies.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the field of corrections. It explores agencies, practices, and polices relevant to prisons, jails, and probation and parole. Students examine both historic and contemporary punishment policies in the United States, sentencing structures; socio-political economic conditions that influence disparate sentencing and confinement; facility designs and how they correlate with inmate management philosophies; the legal aspects of the care, custody and control of inmates; the constitutional rights and civil liberties of inmates; security operations, and inmate treatment services.
Emergency Management Procedures
This course provides an in-depth review of the concepts of emergency management work. The operational aspects are discussed in relation to the skills needed to do emergency management work, as well as the analytical and critical thinking skills needed for incident command work. Emphasis is placed on the use of technologies, enhanced leadership skills, and the challenges of communications in disaster work.
Social Psychology
Focuses on major theories in social psychology and the most recent research in the field. Topics include gender, interpersonal attraction, aggression, and prosocial behavior.
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Covers systematic study of the theory of aggregate economics including the level and growth of national income and employment, the degree of utilization of productive capacity, and the general level of prices.
International Economics
Provides a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of international trade and international monetary relations. Emphasizes modern trade theory and applications, trade policies and arrangements, and international factor movements. Covers topics in international financial relations, including the balance of payments, exchange rate determination and regimes, international economic policy, and international banking.
Economic Problems and Issues
Applies conventional economic theory to national and international economic issues and events. Utilizes the policy ideas and stances of contemporary economists to provoke discussion of prevailing economic issues. Applies economic tools to the business decision-making process.
International Environment of Financial Management
Analyzes the world's financial markets and institutions and the international monetary system. Examines the considerations for financial global operations including sources of capital, interest rate analysis, tax considerations, trade finance, and working capital. Evaluates the financial risks associated with transaction, operating, and translation exposure in global markets. Reviews exchange rate determination, inflation, and interest rate changes.
Public Finance
This course covers economics of the public sector and analytical framework for government involvement, official budgeting process, cost-benefit analysis, taxes and their economic impact, national debt, fiscal policy, negative income tax, and other current topics.
Health Services Administration
Health Services Organization Management
This course provides an overview of the various aspects of health care organizations. Specific areas covered include the transition and development of the industry, organizational design, oversight and management roles and responsibilities of various types of health care institutions and professionals, evaluating the purpose and clinical performance of physicians, nurses, clinical support and community health services, and the organization's functions of financial and human resource management, information services, customer services, and marketing and strategy.
Health Services Marketing
This course provides an overview of marketing in health care organizations. Specific areas covered include the role of marketing in health care organizations, the marketing environment in the health care industry, strategy and market planning, the use of market information systems and market research, market segmentation, shaping product and service offerings, pricing strategies and decisions, designing and managing marketing channels, designing and managing marketing communications, and implementing marketing.
Health Information Systems
This course provides an overview of current information systems including topics such as locating, collecting, analyzing, utilizing and reporting of health statistics to solve common workplace issues. Students will learn basic concepts of data quality and methods of presentation. Data systems issues as well as health indicators, metrics and measurements are covered to support informed decision making in a healthcare organization.Course Guide
Healthcare Human Resource Management
This course introduces contemporary healthcare human resource management issues within the U.S. healthcare system. Contrasts the differences between personnel administration and elements of strategic human resource management. Students learn key concepts such as; line vs. staff relationships, the manager/employee relationship, job design, job analysis, position descriptions, recruitment, retention, promotion, succession planning, legal issues, safety issues, labor relations, training, compensation, benefits, and performance appraisals. Current trends in healthcare human resource management are covered.
Hospitality & Tourism Management
Principles of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Provides an overview of the hospitality industry, career opportunities, international perspective on the travel and tourism industry, and a comprehensive look at each department in the food service, lodging, and travel industries. Basic management theories will also be explored within the context of the industry.
Quality Service Assurance
This course focuses on the management of service quality and improvement within all operational segments of the hospitality and tourism industry. Topics contained in the course include introduction to quality management systems, managing teams, assessing an organization's service strengths and weaknesses, servicing the customer, developing and implementing quality service, and management leadership. The course will prepare students to understand the importance of service quality and how to implement service quality plans within an organization.
Purchasing and Cost Control
Introduces the student to the study of product selection, purchase, and storage of hospitality supplies. Students will learn to survey purveyors, write specifications, place orders, evaluate quality vs. cost, and keep purchasing financial records. This course also provides the student with a wide range of knowledge and specific solutions needed to keep costs low and margins high. Students will be able to apply technology to cost control and employ manager-developed Excel spreadsheets and Internet access. Content will examine uniform systems of accounts for restaurants, menu analysis, and cost / volume / profit analysis menu pricing and strategy.
Lodging Operations Management
Presents a detailed study of lodging management and front-office management systems by detailing the flow of operational procedures for the total hotel organization. The student will examine the various elements of effective front-office management, paying particular attention to the planning and evaluation of front-office operations, human resources management, and guest services. Course content will include interdepartmental communications, computer applications, managerial reporting, and a review of the current and future trends in technology. The student will be able to interpret statistical analyses in areas of price structure, occupancy patterns, and income. These analyses will serve as the bases for improving decision making, and for policy and procedure implementation.
International Business
Fundamentals of Global Management
Examines major theories of management and their implications for multinational and/or trans-national corporations. Provides an insight into the nature and scope of international management. Focuses on strategic planning, negotiations, managerial styles, and human resources in international organizations in the context of globalization.
International Business Environment
Introduces the student to the international business environment. Examines strategic planning, multinational corporations, and management considerations for international business operations. Analyzes the major environmental factors affecting international transactions (political, economic, technical, and cultural factors). Reviews international trade theory, government influence on world trade patterns, and the international monetary system. Examines the range of market entry strategies and discusses payment methods and financing considerations.
International Banking and Finance
Introduces students to international banking, functions and responsibilities of the international loan officer, and the role that commercial and government financial institutions play in facilitating world trade. Subjects include balance of payments and country risk assessment, letters of credit, principles of foreign exchange, principles of international lending, national and international trade financing, the Eurodollar market, and national and international lending agencies.
Legal Studies
Business Law I
Examines the legal environment of business, the sources of American law, and the basis of authority for government to regulate business. Provides a survey of tort law, contracts and the UCC, and the federal and state courts.
Introduction to Paralegal Studies
This course introduces the student to the evolving role of the paralegal or legal assistant in the public and private sectors. Topics of study include paralegal employment opportunities, regulation, and ethics. The course also introduces students to the steps and tasks involved in civil litigation. Students will practice the role of the litigation paralegal using a hypothetical case. This includes investigation and gathering facts, discovery, trial support, and judgment enforcement. Procedures and rules that facilitate the fair resolution of conflicts and the substantive law that forms the basis of the rights and remedies protected by the civil litigation system will be studied.
Civil and Criminal Procedures
Analyzes the process by which substantive rights and duties are enforced, including legal pleadings, discovery procedures, pre- and post-trial motions, jurisdiction, venue, trial by jury, equity, and previous adjudication problems.
White Collar Crime in Government, Business, and Labor
Examines criminal fraud, deceit, and misconduct by individuals, government, and business organizations. Reviews the various categories of white-collar crime including the general nature of the crimes, typical participants, application of technology in crimes, and factors contributing to the crimes. Discusses corporate and the legal system's effectiveness in combating these problems.
Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues in E-Commerce
Examines a variety of issues associated with conducting electronic commerce. Reviews the legal environment of business and the basis for business ethics. Examines key provisions of law relative to the protection of intellectual property, Web-based commercial activity, e-Contracts, and consumer protection. Discusses the nature of a variety of cybercrimes.
Criminal Law
This course familiarizes the student with the origins of criminal law and explores its historical development into modern American crimes codes. Each lesson introduces the student to substantive criminal law and associated legal principles and terminology. This course contrasts elements of crimes against persons, crimes against property, cyber-crime, white collar crime, and other types of crime. Early and modern approaches to identifying, deterring, preventing, detecting, prosecuting, and punishing criminal behavior are also examined.
Family Law
This course reviews substantive and procedural law relative to divorce, adoption, guardianship, custody, and other family law matters within the jurisdiction of the Probate Court. It covers the legal status of children, legal rights of women, illegitimacy and paternity proceedings, as well as divorce procedures and child custody and support issues. The course will simulate factual situations using legal concepts to enhance analytic skills.
U.S. Courts
This course examines the American judicial system to include federal, state, and local courts. The professional courtroom work group, non-professional courtroom participants, the trial process, and challenges to the trial process are described. The activities of lawyers, judges, and related occupations and professions are reviewed. An overview of the juvenile court system is included.
Discrete Math
This course provides an introduction to discrete mathematics. The course introduces formal logic and its applications. It also develops relational thinking through the study of sets, relations, functions, and graphs. The concept of recursion and its applications is also covered. It also develops quantitative thinking through the study of permutations, combinations, and counting operations in algorithms. Finally, this course shows how these concepts can be applied towards analyzing the accuracy and efficiency of algorithms.Course Guide
Principles of Marketing
Introduces basic marketing principles and concepts. Emphasis is placed on the development of marketing strategy and the major components of the marketing mix, (product, price, promotion, and distribution). Reviews the critical environmental factors of markets, domestic and international, and customer behavior characteristics that affect marketing operations. Highlights the integration of marketing with other functions in a business organization.
Consumer Behavior
Presents the process for performing consumer analyses to develop effective marketing strategy. Examines the principles of individual, group, and social dynamics influencing consumer behavior. Reviews the consumer decision-making process and marketing approaches that can be used to improve consumer sales performance and customer satisfaction.
Retail Management
Examines the strategic management of retail operations using various forms of store-based, online, and nonstore-based retailing. Reviews critical principles such as strategic planning considerations, the structure of retail firms, consumer behavior, market research, and location considerations. Examines the key functional areas of managing retail operations including merchandising, finance, human resource management, operations management, logistics, retail image and atmosphere, and the marketing functions of pricing and promotion.
Marketing Communications
This course explores the essential elements of marketing communication. Topics covered include media and messages, word-of-mouth, internet marketing and the ever-changing communication market. Selecting appropriate communication channels to highlight products, brands, and services to sustain a competitive advantage will be highlighted.
Business Logistics Management
Examines the components and configuration of supply chains in support of marketing and retailing operations. Reviews the considerations for aligning the supply chain configuration to the overall marketing strategy. Analyzes considerations for material sourcing, inventory management, distribution channel configuration, forecasting and supply network coordination, channel performance monitoring, technology applications, and supply chain design options.
International Marketing
Provides an overview of the concepts and practices of marketing worldwide and the modifications and adaptations required to meet the different problems and challenges involved.
Strategic Market Pricing
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Locavore Lit Fest
The second annual Locavore Lit Fest brought national and regional writers to Chestertown from March 30 through April 1 for a series of talks about seafood, foraging, fermentation and the wonders of "wild" foods. The Center for Environment & Society at Washington College sponsors the Locavore Lit Fest and supports the free exchange of ideas. Other community sponsors include Chestertown Natural Foods, the Rose O'Neill Literary House, Colchester Farm CSA, the Chestertown Spy, and the Kent County Arts Council.


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Transfer Case Drop Kits drop your transfer case to help alleviate excessive drive line angles resulting from suspension lifts. When you lift your truck there are several things that must be considered. One of the main areas affected by a lift is the angle of your drive line. That angle at which the drive line goes into the T-case must be correct or you can get a ''growl'' or drive line vibration. These transfer case drop kits are designed to lower the transfer case to correct the drive line angle of a lifted truck. If you purchased your suspension package through Jack-it and a transfer case drop is necessary, it will be included (except the Jeep XJ kits).
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ONTARIO – L.A./Ontario International Airport will continue to see a decline in passenger traffic for the first half of this year, according to projections from airlines.
The pessimistic forecast is based on thescheduled seats at ONT through July, consultant Nick Johnson said.
Johnson said the projections will be the harbinger of decline at ONT in 2013.
"When we see declining seats and declining flights, we know that it is highly likely there will be fewer passengers to go into the seats and fewer total passengers into the airport," Johnson said.
Johnson gave Ontario International Airport Authority commissioners an update this week on the airport's performance. The authority is made up of local officials who are working to facilitate the transfer of the airport's ownership to local control.
The report painted a picture of how ONT has suffered at the hands of Los Angeles World Airports, which operates and manages the Ontario, Los Angeles and Van Nuys airports. From a passenger standpoint, Johnson said the most troubling data to watch is what is happening between ONT and LAX.
"The airlines right now don't appear to be motivated in a different direction," Johnson said. "What we see right now is that decline continuing."
News of the projected downward trend falls in line with what ONT experienced in 2012. ONT passenger traffic dropped by 5.4 percent from 2011. This is in contrast to most other airports in the region, which saw some signs of recovery.
ONT hit its high-water mark for passenger traffic in 2007, when 7.2 million people passed through. That year set records for passenger traffic at all the regional airports in Southern California, Johnson said.
In 2007, LAX's 69 percent market share was at its lowest while ONT had one of its highest – capturing 8 percent of the regional market.
But the recession forced a change in the way airlines did business, which involved retreating from medium-hub airports.
Despite that, Johnson said, LAX's market share has steadily increased. LAX's market share today is almost at 75 percent, and ONT's has shrunk to 5 percent.
In addition, ONT has seen a 40 percent decline in its passenger traffic since 2008.
LAX's increase goes against the terms of a 2006 settlement of a lawsuit over expansion plans at the airport. The settlement required the redistribution of air traffic throughout the region.
LAWA officials have steadfastly maintained the agency has done all it can to promote the use of the region's smaller airports but it cannot force airlines to fly out of Ontario. The officials said the slumping economy is the major reason for the loss of passengers at ONT.
There is some good news for ONT: The load factor, or the number of passengers per flight, has come up a bit. It is now at 75 percent, which helps stem some of the passenger loss. In 2007, that figure was 72 percent.
But Ontario Councilman Jim Bowman, a member of the 's board, questioned the reason for the increase.
"It would seem reasonable that those loads have come up because they reduced flights," Bowman said.
Air cargo also remains one of the bright spots at ONT, but the only way the service can grow is by expanding its cargo facilities.
ONT and LAX are the only airports in the region to be able to provide air-cargo services.
The other airports are constrained by space and the quality of their runways, Johnson said.
When the recession hit, air cargo suffered throughout the United States. The decline caused realignment in the nation's cargo market, Johnson said.
"We started to see it turn a little bit in 2009, and started to see some recovery in the air-cargo market," he said.
In 2012, ONT's air-cargo business increased by nearly 9 percent over 2011.
"Ontario is still coming back, but more needs to be done. One of those keys is the additional facilities and capabilities here," Johnson said.
The Ontario International Airport Authority board meets again March 4. Ontario International Airport Authority
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Modern kitchen design ideas can help you reinvent your kitchen in a new way. It can transform your old kitchen in to a brand new entity.
Modern Kitchen Design Ideas
There are a lot of modern kitchen design ideas that you can employ at your home. They are easy, convenient and easy to employ. What's more, you don't need to arrange any interior designer for this.
You can easily follow some regular tips and advice and use them according to your needs and demands to change your kitchen from the old to the brand new. Here are a few economic modern kitchen design ideas.
Use a light color to refurbish your cabinets so that they mingle with the surroundings. Vinyl flooring and laminate countertops work the best for modern kitchens. No matter what theme you choose for your kitchen, they work the best for all. Do not granite, tiles or synthetic materials as your modern kitchen design ideas because they are very expensive.
So one way to avoid an expensive budget for the kitchen is to be innovative and also use materials that are easily available and cheap. Vinyl flooring and laminate countertops go well with modern kitchen design ideas because they shine up the entire kitchen. The kitchen looks new and acquires a modern feel to it.
Another tip by which you can save a lot of money is by not buying new items just to give your kitchen a new look. It is very important that you consider reusing the items that are already available in your kitchen so that they do not go to waste. If you think they do not fit in with the theme of your kitchen then refurbish or paint them.
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About this itemA classic coffee made from the world's richest, most aromatic, mountain grown coffee beans.
Folgers coffee makes gourmet-inspired coffee blends for everyday enjoyment. Just use a coffee grinder to enjoy fresh, smooth coffee every morning the way it was meant to taste. A classic coffee made from the world's richest, most aromatic, mountain grown coffee beans. It's called "the best part of wakin' up" for a reason. Freshly ground coffee beans are enough to get any coffee lover perked up in the morning, so we offer whole coffee beans with gourmet flair. Perfect for the home, office, or even restaurants, each bag contains 44 oz. of whole coffee beans with medium body and mild flavor. Nothing beats the taste of freshly ground coffee.
- 44 oz. of whole coffee beans per bag
- A classic coffee made from the most aromatic mountain grown beans
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- Each bag contains 44 oz. of whole bean coffee
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- For great coffee, use 1 - 2 tablespoons of grounds per every 6 oz. of water
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