Course Name: ADN 254 D1, D2 - Issues in Professional Nursing Professor: David Becker, dbecker@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5144 Description:This course focuses on concepts and issues pertinent to professional nursing practice. The course is designed to facilitate the transition from student nurse to entry level practitioner. Discussion topics include: manager of care responsibilities, professional attributes, caring behaviors, cultural sensitivity, legal-ethical responsibilities, lifelong learning, and the role of the associate degree nurse within the current health care and nursing profession. A variety of active learning activities promote critical thinking and enhance creative problem-solving. Prerequisites: ADN 252 - Nursing Health / Illness II Course Name: BUS 103 D1 - Income Taxes Professor: Alfonsina Minchella, aminche@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5237 Description: This course introduces students to the basic concepts of federal income taxation for individuals, partnerships, and corporations, with an emphasis on determining taxable income, allowable deductions, gains and losses. Students will practice preparing sample tax returns. Prior knowledge of accounting may be helpful but is not required for this course. Prerequisites: ENG 091 - Developmental Reading & Writing II and MAT 087 - Basic Math with Lab Course Name: BUS 104 D1 - Computerized Accounting Professor: Alfonsina Minchella, aminche@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5237 Description: Students enrolled in this course will learn to use accounting software packages to set up and maintain computerized accounting records. Topics covered will include customer, vendor and employee records, accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, payroll, job costing, and financial statement preparation. Integration of accounting data with word processing and spreadsheet applications will also be introduced. Prerequisites: BUS 101 - Principles of Accounting I Course Name: BUS 110 D1 - Business Communication Professor: Alfonsina Minchella, aminche@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5237 Description: Coming soon! Prerequisites: None Course Name: BUS 230 D1 - Introduction to Business Professor:  Alfonsina Minchella, aminche@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5237 Description: This course introduces students to various business topics, including the global environment of business; management, marketing, and accounting issues; and business organizations. It also explores career opportunities in business. Prerequisites: ENG 091 - Developmental Reading & Writing II Course Name: BUS 231 D1 - Management I Professor: Nasreen Latif, nlatif@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5249 Description: Students enrolled in this course will examine marketing as seen from the perspective of the individual business and the larger society, with an emphasis on the integral relationship between consumer attitudes and marketing activities. Prerequisites: ENG 101 - English Composition I Course Name: BUS 321 D1 - Business Law I Professor: Alfonsina Minchella, aminche@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5237 Description: This course introduces students to the legal environment of business. Topics of discussion include sources of law, the court system, business torts, intellectual property, and cyber law, criminal law, E-commerce and dispute resolution, ethics, contract and product liability law. Prerequisites: ENG 101 -- English Composition I or Concurrent Course Name: BUS 441 D1 - Introduction to Marketing Professor: Nasreen Latif, nlatif@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 427-0060 Ext. 5249 Description: Students enrolled in this course will examine marketing as seen from the perspective of the individual business and the larger society, with an emphasis on the integral relationship between consumer attitudes and marketing activities. Prerequisites: BUS 231 - Management I Course Name: HLT 101 DH - Learning Strategies for Success Professor: Andrea McDonald, amacdonald@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 541-5306 Description: This introductory course will focus on learning strategies that can be utilized throughout any of the health career curricula. This course is specifically designed for those students who have applied, or will apply, to RCC's Nursing and Allied Health programs. Emphasis will be placed on ongoing self-assessment of learning needs and developing the tools necessary for success in a rigorous college health career program. This hybrid course uses some face-to-face learning along with a great deal of distance learning. Although completion of this course does not guarantee admission to health career programs, it is designed to offer study, reading, critical thinking, cultural awareness and test-taking skills necessary for success in the programs. Prerequisites:  ENG 101 -- English Composition I or Concurrent Course Name: PLS 100 DB - Introduction to the Law Professor: TBD Description: This course is designed as an introduction to the American legal system for paralegal students. It provides the foundation for additional study in the law through the introduction to criminal law and such areas of civil law as contracts, torts, administrative law, equity, and remedies, including money damages. Other topics covered are: how both the federal and state legal systems work, due process, the difference between civil and criminal law, limitations on judicial relief, and alternative dispute resolution. Basic skills for paralegal students such as how to read the law with understanding and how to prepare case briefs will also be covered. Prerequisites: None Course Name: SSI 221 D1 - Economics I (Micro)              Professor: Jean-Pierre Mulumba, jmulumba@rcc.mass.edu, (857) 888-6490 Description: This course introduces students to micro-economic theory, with an emphasis on the U.S. economic system. Topics include a comparison of the neoclassical theories of marginal utility and marginal productivity with the Marxist theories of labor value and surplus value. Students will examine the growth of monopolies and government response to monopolies, the distribution of wealth and income, poverty, and the economic origins and implications of racism. This course fulfills the social science requirement. Pre or co-requisite: ENG 101 - English Composition I Course Name: SSI 222 D1 - Economics II (Macro) Professor: Jean-Pierre Mulumba, jmulumba@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 541-5306 Description: This course introduces students to macro-economic theory, with an emphasis on the concepts of unemployment, inflation, and growth in capitalist and non-capitalist economic systems. Students will explore the "boom and bust" cycle from both Keynesian and Marxist points of view, and will briefly examine the issues of underdevelopment and international trade from the neoclassical and Marxist points of view. This course fulfills the social science requirement. Prerequisites: ENG 101 - English Composition I