Course Descriptions

EET 372 - Advanced Digital Circuits

• Demonstrate an ability to design, construct, and analyze sequential logic circuits.
• Demonstrate an ability to design, analyze, and implement circuits using synchronous state machines.
• Demonstrate an ability to design, analyze, and implement circuits using asynchronous state machines.
• Explain the different types of semiconductor memory commonly used in digital systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to use manufacturer’s data sheets to select appropriate digital logic circuits.
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate assumptions, results, and conclusions about technical information in a coherent and prescribed format.

EET 373 - Introduction to Embedded Programming

• Demonstrate an ability to write a C language computer program to configure and control an embedded microcontroller.
• Demonstrate an ability to design software to solve technical problems.
• Demonstrate an ability to design verification software to verify, test, and debug program and hardware implementations.
• Demonstrate an ability to design and implement algorithms that allow users to communicate with the machine and get meaningful feedback from the machine.
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate assumptions, results, and conclusions about technical information in a coherent and prescribed format.

EET 374 - Microprocessors

• Demonstrate an ability to design input/output systems by configuring, reading from, and writing to parallel ports.
• Demonstrate an ability manipulate data for use by the machine or by a user.
• Demonstrate an ability to design instrumentation/measurement systems using analog-to-digital (A/D) converters.
• Demonstrate an ability to design a serial I/O communication system.
• Demonstrate an ability to design interrupt service routines to respond to user and hardware requirements.

EET 376 - Advanced Microprocessors

• Demonstrate an ability to design and implement a 16-bit microcontroller system by configuring peripheral ports to control analog and digital system operations.
• Demonstrate an ability manipulate data for use by the machine or user and optimize the process in a 16-bit machine.
• Demonstrate an ability to design and implement state machines using 16-bit microcontroller multilevel interrupts and program space visibility (PSV) tables.
• Demonstrate an ability to design appropriate, serial, USB, and/or TCP/IP communication systems for machine and user interface.
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate their development process, hardware and software assumptions and outcomes, and test and verification process.

EET 377 - Advanced Robotics and Automation

• Demonstrate an ability to design, analyze, and implement LabVIEW into automation systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to design, analyze, and program DaNI robots.
• Apply advanced programming techniques to robotics control systems.

EET 396 - Individual Study

EET 397 - Honors

EET 398 - Special Topics

EET 399 - Seminar

EET 426 - Advanced Electrical Network

• Demonstrate an ability to analyze analog circuits using the Laplace transforms given time domain functions crated from given circuits.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze analog circuits using the inverse Laplace transforms given s-domain functions.
• Demonstrate an ability to create time domain analog circuit models then applying Laplace transform methods to analysis of complete analog circuit solutions.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze circuit operations and characteristics using analog circuits transfer functions.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze and optimize analog circuit designs by determining the poles and zeros of the circuits transfer function to evaluate their effect on the systems stability.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop state-variable models to analyze the transient and steady-state behavior of a circuit.

EET 433 - Transmission and Distribution of Electrical Power

• Demonstrate an ability to analyze electrical power transmission systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze electrical power distribution systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze protection techniques for electrical power transmission systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze protection techniques for electrical power distribution systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze the industrial and public safety techniques and equipment used by utilities in transmission and distribution systems.

EET 444 - Supervisory Control Networks

• Understand network configurations and hardware requirements.
• Configure networks and controllers to allow communication through serial and network interfaces.
• Configure and implement SCADA systems.
• Communicate assumptions, results, and conclusions about technical information in a coherent manner.

EET 452 - Computer Networks

• Describe LAN topologies including their operational characteristics.
• Describe each OSI Model Layer
• Describe the purpose and common protocols of the TCP/IP Model Architecture Layers
• Compare the TCP/IP Model Architecture Layers to the OSI Model Layers
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze control characteristics for TCP/IP Model protocols in the Network Interface Layer
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze the operation of TCP/IP Model Data Link Layer protocols
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze the operation of TCP/IP Model Transport Layer protocols and their associated applications
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze the operation of TCP/IP from system boot to data downloads
• Analyze Linux system file structures

EET 455 - Electronic Communications (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Describe common analog communications modulation techniques.
• Describe common digital modulation techniques.
• Explain the operation of mobile telephone systems.

EET 475 - Microcontrollers

• Demonstrate an understanding of basic microcontroller operations.
• Demonstrate an ability to write a basic startup program for a microcontroller given a specific setup.
• Demonstrate an understanding of microcontroller ports.
• Demonstrate an ability to configure a microcontrollers ports for a given set of characteristics.
• Demonstrate an ability to design and build an embedded controller application using a given microcontroller.

EET 477 - Industrial Robotics and Automation

• Examine production line automation.
• Design movements for industrial robot.
• Defend a fully realized automated production line.

EET 487 - Senior Project Management

• Demonstrate an ability to research and analyze technical information to make project management decisions.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop and propose a technical project.
• Demonstrate an ability to create and use a Gantt chart to monitor and manage a technical project.
• Demonstrate an ability to create and monitor a technical project budget.

EET 487LAB - Senior Project Management Laboratory

• Demonstrate an ability to design a technical project.
• Demonstrate an ability to verify design requirements through simulation.
• Demonstrate an ability to create a bill of materials for a technical project.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze and present data for review.

EET 488 - Senior Project Quality

• Demonstrate an ability to develop quality measures based on specifications.
• Demonstrate an ability use fundamental statistical concepts to construct and analyze control charts
• Demonstrate an ability to solve problems using basic quality improvement techniques.
• Demonstrate an ability to determine and analyze manufacturing process capabilities and implement improvements.

EET 488LAB - Senior Project Quality Laboratory

• Demonstrate an ability to prototype a technical project.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyze and test the project prototype.

EET 489 - Senior Technical Presentations

• Communicate effectively.
• Learn new concepts through independent research and study
• Show how their process meets the basic design specifications of their senior project.
• Meet the basic design components of a project.
• Document how a project time table that includes research, design, test, build, and documentation benchmarks.

EET 496 - Individual Study

EET 497 - Honors

EET 498 - Special Topics

EET 499 - Seminar

ELEF 212 - Introduction to Teaching in Elementary Schools

• Articulate beliefs of the major schools of educational philosophy and psychology.
• Articulate an emerging personal educational ideology including the purpose of schools, role of teachers, diversity of students, dynamics of learning, and what knowledge is worthy of learning.
• Reflect and articulate personal characteristics in terms of effective teachers, analyze teaching/learning scenarios using the language of the profession.
• Analyze and evaluate trends in educational history and their influences on modern educational laws and practices.
• Analyze the structure of public education in WA state, legal basis, and legislative and administrative agencies involved in education.
• Articulate daily expectations and routines of teachers and students through field experience including appropriate written and verbal communication, instructional decisions based on standards, learner needs, and overall management of a classroom.

ELEF 322 - Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Develop a philosophy statement reflecting the need for and practice of culturally responsive teaching. 
• Critically analyze personal attitudes and beliefs to challenge negative assumptions and stereotypes about students. 
• Create a positive learning atmosphere for all students while taking into account their family and community structures.
• Engage students with support for maximum learning and a genuine desire to assure that all students learn.
• Communicate with families in an appropriate and culturally sensitive manner.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
• Describe how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).
• Identify and utilize effective research-driven instructional techniques, strategies, and planning within the context of various racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, gender, and linguistic student populations.

ELEF 324 - Educational Technology for Elementary Classrooms

• Incorporate into instruction current education technology standards to enhance student learning and develop critical thinking skills
• Incorporate into instruction current education technology standards to model and teach digital citizenship.
• Incorporate into instruction current education technology standards to inform instruction and make other educational decisions
• Develop, analyze, and evaluate lessons that create a product using technology to solve problems and collaborate with others.
• Develop, analyze, and evaluate lessons through field experience that demonstrate the safe, legal, and responsible use of technology

ELEF 332 - Instructional Design and Assessment

• Articulate how learning theories, developmental progression, socialized and innate differences impact learning.
• Plan and implement instruction based on WA state and national standards, learner characteristics, and context of school and community.
• Create lesson plans incorporating a broad spectrum of instructional methods differentiating instructional strategies based on learner characteristics through field experience.
• Align instructional methods and assessments with standards.
• Design multiple diagnostic, formative, summative, and self-assessment strategies to assess and evaluate student learning.
• Utilize multiple diagnostic, formative, summative, and self-assessment strategies to assess and evaluate student learning.
• Use assessment results to reflect and evaluate instructional effectiveness and analyze reliability, validity, and bias of assessments.

ELEF 426 - Ethics and Education Law for Elementary Teachers

• Identify ethical and legal issues common to all education systems in the US.
• Apply policies, laws, and court decisions to common situations in the K-12 public educational setting.
• Apply policies regarding students’ and teachers’ rights and responsibilities, teachers’ legal duties and accountability pertaining to equal opportunity for students.
• Apply policies regarding copyright law; due process; educational equity; tort liability; identification and reporting of child abuse; and school funding.

ELEF 472 - Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers

• Formulate a rationale for effective research based classroom management strategies using a specific school context, learner characteristics, content, and grade level.
• Apply effective classroom management strategies that promote student learning, encourage collaboration, cooperation, positive social interactions, conflict management resolution, individual and group motivation, behavior interventions, and individual learner needs.
• Practice, analyze and evaluate classroom management in field experience for effective and ineffective management strategies in practice. 
• Create a personal, detailed action plan of classroom management based on effective, research-based practices. 

ELEF 492 - Practicum I: Instructional Design

 

Credits: (1)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Engage in reading assessment and instruction.
• Engage in writing assessment and instruction.
• Apply educational technology skills to better serve a community/school/classroom.

ELEF 493 - Practicum II: Differentiation

• Identify differentiation practices that address accommodation.
• Identify differentiation practices that address diverse linguistic development.
• Identify differentiation practices that address diverse physical abilities.
• Identify differentiation practices that address specialized health needs or considerations.
• Apply differentiation practices in context.
• Implement classroom management strategies.

ELEF 495 - Practicum IV: Professional Engagement

• Engage in math assessment and inquiry-based instruction.
• Identify elements of an ethical classroom.
• Design and implement a service-oriented content-integrated learning project to benefit the community/school.

ELEM 292 - Lab I: Introduction to the Teaching Profession

• Explain how support functions including but not limited to library, cafeteria, and playground impact academic preparation.
• Investigate support programs including but not limited to physical education, the arts, and therapeutic services.
• Observe interactions (adult-child and child-child) beyond the classroom.
• Investigate, home and community, learning connections and opportunities to school.
• Read aloud to a small group of children.

ELEM 298 - Special Topics

ELEM 299 - Seminar

ELEM 321 - Children’s Literature

• Plan for how reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking are integrated and are developmental processes.
• Examine a wide range of texts (including but not limited to poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, international, global, multicultural, informational, biographical, traditional, fantasy) suitable for children and young adult readers          
• Examine a wide range of texts represented and authored by a range of cultures and ethnicities, and representing both female and male protagonists and authors.   
• Examine the elements of literature within the texts read. 
• Examine the elements of genre that affect the comprehension of text.
• Examine the influence of media on culture, literacy, people’s actions, and communication.
• Implement culturally, relevant, research-based lessons in literacy.
• Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).
• Formulate an understanding of how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.

ELEM 323 - Learners and the Learning Environment

• Apply major concepts, theories, and research related to typical and atypical development of the whole child and young adolescent to include cognitive, social, emotional, linguistic, creative and physical development.
• Identify how home environment and community factors: cultural backgrounds, ethnicity, language development, socioeconomic status (SES), values about education, gender, and disabilities influence the learning of students.
• Identify the needs of high-poverty and at-risk children and adolescents.
• Identify ways to establish rapport with individual students that supports a personalized learning environment through respect and caring.
• Discuss approaches for creating a learning climate that encourages trust and mutual support among students.
• Identify strategies to build student capacity for self-confidence, self-advocacy, self-directed learning and decision-making.
• Plan for instruction that supports full participation and engagement by all learners, including marginalized students.
• Plan classroom norms and expectations that support a safe, positive learning climate for all.
• Manage student behavior fairly and equitably.
• Plan effective and orderly classroom procedures, including use of classroom materials, transitions, and behavioral interventions.
• Discuss ways to involve students’ families in the learning community by establishing effective two-way communication and designing appropriate and culturally responsive learning environments  

ELEM 325 - Integrating the Arts

• Explain how dance, music, theatre, and visual arts shape and reflect culture and history.
• Integrate to the curricula various visual and performing arts across cultures, artists, and time frames.
• Demonstrate the thinking skills used in the creation, communication of, and responding to the visual and performing arts.
• Demonstrate the connections the arts have to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work.
• Demonstrate how to access the support of the visual and performing arts through the school, district, community, and region.
• Formulate an understanding of how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication, academic, social/emotional development.
• Implement culturally, relevant, research-based lessons in the arts.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
• Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).

ELEM 331 - Foundations of Teaching Literacy

• Explain how reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking are integrated and are developmental processes.
• Explain how semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology are integral to literacy processes.
• Summarize the fundamentals of first and second language acquisition and development.
• Examine how the linguistic/rhetorical patterns of other languages and dialects affect the written and oral expression of diverse learners.
• Differentiate literacy practices upon learners’ language background and individual needs.
• Plan instructional progression for emergent/early literacy.
• Articulate the components of phonemic awareness and phonics.
• Implement culturally-relevant, research-based lessons in word study.
• Identify how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.

ELEM 333 - Inclusive Teaching

• Apply knowledge of development and learning to provide meaningful and challenging learning experiences for individuals with exceptionalities.
• Create strategies for safe, inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments so that individuals with exceptionalities become active and effective learners and develop emotional well-being, positive social interactions, and self-determination.
• Access general and specialized curricula to individualize learning for individuals with exceptionalities.
• Utilize multiple methods of assessment and data sources in making educational decisions.
• Select, adapt, and utilize a repertoire of evidence-based instructional strategies to advance learning of individuals with exceptionalities.
• Recognize a classroom community that fosters student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.

ELEM 341 - Reading Assessment and Instruction

 

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking as developmental processes.
• Select and implement a wide range of reading assessment tools.
• Interpret assessment results to make instructional decisions based on assessment data, including those with different developmental, cultural, and linguistic needs.
• Implement research-based lessons in fluency, comprehension, word study, vocabulary.
• Implement research-based literacy strategy lessons using a variety of culturally relevant, print and non-print, literary and expository texts.
• Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).
• Explain the variability of reading levels of students in the same grade and within a student across the essential components of reading.
• Describe how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.

ELEM 342 - Teaching Elementary Science Inquiry

• Apply the developmental and social foundations of learning as they relate to science and engineering practices by developing and teaching elementary level lessons using the learning cycle.
• Engage in instruction that integrates practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas (NGSS).
• Design, implement, and assess age-appropriate lessons aligned to standards.
• Integrate science lessons with other subjects, including literacy, mathematics, and appropriate technology.
• Develop effective questioning skills and discourse moves in order to guide students in hands-on/minds-on exploration of science.
• Apply and communicate safety precautions and procedures relative to science investigations (e.g., student eye protection, safe storage of chemicals, and equipment care and maintenance), as well as demonstrate responsible use and disposal of live organisms according to Washington State law.

ELEM 351 - Writing Assessment and Instruction

• Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking as developmental processes.
• Examine the writing process, its components, the effective traits, and its recursive, interactive, and collaborative nature.
• Appraise how purpose, audience, perspective, and mode shape writing.
• Implement strategies for finding, selecting, refining topics for writing research projects.
• Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).
• Implement culturally, relevant, research-based lessons in English/Language Arts.
• Describe how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.

ELEM 353 - Teaching Elementary Social Studies

• Analyze social studies standards for the developmental level of elementary students.
• Facilitate a variety of classroom discussion formats.
• Create learning environments where students practice skills of social studies inquiry.
• Create learning environments which involve students in civic engagement and decision making.
• Identify and use effective formative assessment methodologies across the disciplines of the social studies.
• Access and develop classroom-based assessments to assess social studies content knowledge and civic behaviors.
• Create learning environments which engage students with global issues (e.g. sustainability, climate, conflict, economic patterns, global health, cause and effect, etc.).
• Utilize Washington State required tribal sovereignty curriculum.

ELEM 392 - Lab II: Culture and Society

• Identify personal values and the values of individual families.
• Engage in community-based learning opportunities.
• Differentiate between child/family-centered and school-centered approaches to learning collaboration.
• Evaluate observed family-focused activities (conferences, open house, special activities, child performances).
• Explore social service agencies that serve families.
• Identify strengths-based approaches to working with children and their families.

ELEM 396 - Individual Study

ELEM 397 - Honors

ELEM 398 - Special Topics

ELEM 399 - Seminar

ELEM 443 - Teaching in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

• Identify second language acquisition theories and principles to inform instructional decisions.
• Use sheltered instruction methodology to equalize access to grade-level academic content experiences of linguistically diverse students.
• Utilize language acquisition guidelines to assist in making appropriate modifications to learning activities.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
• Describe how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).

ELEM 451 - Teaching Elementary Mathematics Early Grades

• Explain how mathematical learning occurs in developmentally predictable progressions across all math content domains.
• Identify key milestones in the developmental progression of each of the math content domains of mathematical learning in the early elementary grades. 
• Align instruction with state/national content and mathematical practice standards. 
• Select, design, and enhance curriculum materials/learning tasks that support the developmental progression of mathematical learning, across all domains, at the early elementary grades. 
• Adapt, enhance, and implement learning tasks for the early elementary grades that embed mathematical practices in the instructional process and deepen conceptual understanding. 
• Use a variety of mathematical models and instructional strategies (technology and manipulatives) in order to connect mathematical concepts to real problems and experiences of the early grade elementary learners.
• Present early grade mathematical concepts using multiple representations (e.g., numerical, graphical, analytical, and contextual). 
• Evaluate mathematics curricular materials and resources for the early elementary grades, based upon research based best practices, developmental appropriateness, and appropriateness for learner population. 
• Design and implement learning tasks that emphasize mathematical discourse as a significant support to and function of conceptual understanding.
• Utilize different methods of counting to teach a conceptual understanding of cardinality.

ELEM 452 - Teaching Elementary Mathematics Upper Grades

• Design and adapt developmental learning progressions, including conceptual and procedural milestones and common misconceptions, based on state/national standards within each upper elementary content domain.
• Adapt and enhance learning tasks for upper elementary grades by embedding mathematical practices to deepen students understanding of connections between procedures and conceptual understanding.
• Use a variety of mathematical models and instructional strategies (technology & manipulatives) to design and enhance lessons that deepen student conceptual understanding using problem solving.
• Evaluate mathematics curricular materials and resources for the upper elementary grades, based upon research based best practices, developmental appropriateness, and appropriateness for differentiated learner population.
• Integrate discourse into learning activities and explain how language will be used to guide students in mathematical problems solving, argumentation, literacy, and deep conceptual understanding.
• Represent proportional relationships using tables, graphs, equations, diagrams, mathematical models, and verbal descriptions.
• Apply conceptual understanding in analyzing and solving real world problems that require the use of ratios, rates, proportions, and scaling and explain connection to proportional relationships in geometry, measurement, statistics, probability and function.
• Utilize and explain arithmetic operations and their properties of integers, rational, real numbers, and complex numbers using standard and alternative algorithms.
• Analyze, extend and generalize patterns both geometrically and algebraically.  They will write both explicit and recursive definitions for generating a sequence.

ELEM 471 - Elementary Education Capstone

• Create learning segments that support diverse student learning within and across content areas.
• Create learning activities that utilize research-based practice and on-going reflection on instruction.
• Design learning targets that align with state standards in order to foster critical thinking.
• Utilize technology effectively to build a deeper understanding of learning theories and best practices.
• Design and implement a wide range of assessment strategies to inform instruction and support student learning within and across academic content areas.
• Modify assessment tools to accommodate students with exceptional needs.
• Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
• Describe how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).

ELEM 494 - Practicum III: Inquiry-Based Learning

• Engage in math assessment and inquiry-based instruction.
• Engage in science assessment and inquiry-based instruction.

ELEM 496 - Individual Study

ELEM 497 - Honors

ELEM 498 - Special Topics

ELEM 499 - Seminar

ETSC 497 - Honors

EMS 245 - Advanced First Aid and Emergency Response

• Identify hazardous emergency situations and establish security.
• Provide and prioritize care for traumatic injuries and illnesses among patients of multiple age groups.
• Apply principles of EMS in special conditions such as extrication, hazardous exposure, and weapons of mass destruction.
• Apply principles of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, kinematics, life-span development, and therapeutic communication techniques in the assessment and management of emergency patients.
• Perform immediate life-saving interventions to management patients with compromise of the airway, breathing, and/or circulation.
• Demonstrate the skills necessary to sustain a patient’s life using limited resources.

EMS 247 - Wilderness Emergency Care

• Define the goals, applicability, and limitations to wilderness emergency care.
• Demonstrate the proper wilderness emergency care patient assessment, including the head-to-toe examination.
• Perform the complete SAMPLE history-taking process for patients in the wilderness setting in conjunction with the physical examination.
• Translate the subjective findings from the history-taking process and the objective findings from the patient assessment into appropriate SOAP notes.
• Explain the essential aspects of each of the commonly encountered wilderness medical and trauma emergencies.
• List the criteria inherent to the evacuation of a patient from a wilderness environment.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat, package, and evacuate a patient from the remote wilderness environment.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from heat, cold, closed blunt force trauma, drowning, envenomation, fracture, laceration, and puncture injuries as well as other, related environmental emergencies.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from a variety of medical emergencies in the wilderness environment.

EMS 247LAB - Wilderness Emergency Care Laboratory

• Define the goals, applicability, and limitations to wilderness emergency care.
• Demonstrate the proper wilderness emergency care patient assessment, including the head-to-toe examination.
• Perform the complete SAMPLE history-taking process for patients in the wilderness setting in conjunction with the physical examination.
• Translate the subjective findings from the history-taking process and the objective findings from the patient assessment into appropriate SOAP notes.
• Explain the essential aspects of each of the commonly encountered wilderness medical and trauma emergencies.
• Explain how to prevent common wilderness emergencies and safety risks.
• List the criteria inherent to the evacuation of a patient from a wilderness environment.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat, package, and evacuate a patient from the remote wilderness environment.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from central nervous system, spinal column, extremity, musculoskeletal, and soft tissue injuries.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from heat, cold, closed blunt force trauma, drowning, envenomation, fracture, laceration, and puncture injuries as well as other, related environmental emergencies.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from a variety of medical emergencies in the wilderness environment.

EMS 250 - Emergency Medical Technician Lecture

EMS 250LAB - Emergency Medical Technician Lab

• Demonstrate proficiency in conducting a patient interview, obtaining vital signs, and lifting and moving patients correctly.
• Demonstrates proficiency in assessing adequacy of airway and breathing, employing basic lite support airway adjunct devices, performing oral and oropharyngeal suctioning, and effective delivery of oxygen with various delivery devices.
• Demonstrates proficiency in conducting a scene survey, a thorough patient assessment, including physical examination of body systems, and the integration and documentation of information
• Demonstrates proficiency in performing assessments and therapeutic interventions of respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, allergic, poisoning, environmental, behavioral, and obstetrical emergencies.
• Demonstrates proficiency in emergency childbirth, neonatal resuscitation, and the assessment and management of pediatric emergencies
• Demonstrates proficiency in the assessment and management of soft tissue injuries, bleeding and shock, musculoskeletal injuries, immobilization of the spinal column, and wound management
• Demonstrate proficiency in the assessment and management of infants and children, with emphasis on resuscitation and emergency interventions.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the rescue procedures and management of special situations, including gaining access and extrication of patients.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the application of advanced airway management techniques and equipment as well as assisting with intravenous therapy equipment.

EMS 298 - Special Topics

EMS 299 - Seminar

EMS 335 - Paramedicine I

• Demonstrate an understanding of the foundational concepts and principles related to prehospital emergency medical care of the sick and injured person.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the prepatory elements critical to EMS educational development and the foundation to EMS practice.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in basic and advanced patient assessment principles as well as comprehensive techniques in patient history-taking, interviewing practices, and definitive physical examination techniques.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in basic and advanced principles of airway management and ventilatory support.
• Demonstrate competence in principles of medication administration, clinical decision-making, roles and responsibilities of paramedical providers, effective communication techniques, and proper practices of documentation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the essential principles of prehospital paramedical and general healthcare ethics, medical-legal perspectives, and elements unique to life- span development.

EMS 335LAB - Advanced Clinical Practice I

• Demonstrate the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing parenteral medication administration (including intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous, endotracheal, transcutaneous, and other similar routes).
• Demonstrate the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing intravenous cannulation in a peripheral vein for purposes of phlebotomy, fluid administration, and medication administration.
• Demonstrate the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing preparation of medication administration, utilization of associated equipment, alternative parenteral and enteral medication administration, and other, associated requisite skills.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in performing the necessary steps, techniques and procedures in the execution of basic and advanced principles of airway management and ventilatory support.
• Demonstrate competence in the principles of performing an effective and appropriate patient interview for history- taking and data collection of patients, including therapeutic communication and proper documentation.
• Demonstrate competence in the principles and procedures related to physical exam practices in general and specific to pulmonary, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, integumentary, musculoskeletal, and other body systems review.

EMS 336 - Paramedicine II

• Demonstrate an understanding of the progressively comprehensive concepts and principles related to prehospital emergency medical care of the sick and injured person.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and concepts related to obstetrics and gynecological emergencies.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in the concepts and practices of pulmonary and neurological emergencies, as well as endocrine emergencies, allergies and anaphylaxis, gastroenterology, and hematological emergencies.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in the concepts and practices of environmental and toxicological emergencies, as well as urological emergencies, infectious diseases and psychiatric and behavioral emergencies.
• Demonstrate competence in researching clinical concepts and diseases by conducting literature searches and summarizing the findings to deliver oral and written presentations.

EMS 336LAB - Advanced Clinical Practice II

• Demonstrate the rationale to employ the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing emergency obstetrical interventions, including normal and difficult deliveries (Leopold’s, McRobert’s, Wood’s Maneuvers, and more).
• Demonstrate the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing emergency gynecological interventions, toxicological interventions, environmental interventions, management of severe allergies & anaphylaxis, and cases of infectious disease.
• Demonstrate the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing assessment and management of patients experiencing acute and/or severe episodes of illness or trauma to the pulmonary and/or the cardiovascular system.
• Demonstrate the proper steps, technique, and procedure for performing assessment & management of patients with acute and/or severe episodes of illness or trauma to the gastrointestinal, hematologic, neurologic, and the behavioral/psychiatric systems.

EMS 337 - Paramedicine III

• Demonstrate an understanding of the progressively comprehensive concepts and principles related to prehospital emergency medical care of the sick and injured person.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and concepts related to pediatric and geriatric emergencies.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in the concepts and practices of neonatology, abuse and assault, rural EMS, and special population emergencies.
• Demonstrate competence and proficiency in the concepts and practices of emergency care of chronically ill patients, response to terrorism, crime scene awareness and preservation, and hazardous materials situations.
• Demonstrate competence in researching clinical concepts and diseases by designing EMS-appropriate research and by conducting literature searches and summarizing the findings to deliver oral and written presentations.

EMS 337LAB - Advanced Clinical Practice III

• Identify anatomical and physiological differences among pediatric and geriatric populations; along with the common pathophysiological phenomena associated with the extreme age groups.
• Conduct a systematic patient assessment tailored to the differences among pediatric and geriatric age groups and demonstrate management and leadership skills under these circumstances.
• Perform a neonatal assessment with an emphasis on clinical occurrences common among that age group as well as typical interventional therapeutics.
• Identify common pathologies among the geriatric age group and the corrective therapeutic interventions that are necessary for each.
• Perform advanced airway management procedures (Including endotracheal intubation) on pediatric patients and all of the associated monitoring, maintenance, and corrective measures necessary.
• Understand the social and therapeutic communication differences among extreme age groups in emergency medical management and demonstrate those techniques during an interview process.
• Demonstrate all of the essential assessment and therapeutic interventions necessary in the provision of emergency prehospital care in patients with unusual or extraordinary circumstances, characteristics, or subgroups of patient populations.

EMS 350 - Paramedicine Instructional Methodologies

• Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles of educational methodologies as they relate to emergency medical services.
• Demonstrate competence and high-level of proficiencies in the basic life support skills associated with EMT education and performance.
• Demonstrate the proper steps, techniques, and procedures for providing initial instruction and remediation in the cognitive and psychomotor objectives of EMS 319 as an instructional adjunct to the course.
• Demonstrate the proper steps, techniques, and procedures for providing effective and fair performance evaluation of student performance of the psychomotor objectives of EMS 319 as an instructional adjunct to the course.

EMS 396 - Individual Study

EMS 397 - Honors

EMS 398 - Special Topics

EMS 399 - Seminar

EMS 430 - Problem-Based Learning I

• Identify the principles and processes associated with problem-based learning and demonstrate cooperative and participatory contributions toward the process
• Participate fully in the investigation of medical symptom complexes, syndromes, pathologies, medical phenomenon, and the collaboration with fellow students in the progressive and integrative consensus of differential diagnoses
• Demonstrate understanding of case development and disease progression in simulated cases and correlate previous knowledge with newly gained information from case-specific research
• Demonstrate understanding of the critical elements of a full patient profile as a standard of patient assessment, including history and physical examination details, differential diagnoses, presumptive diagnosis, and therapeutic options
• Demonstrate ability to utilize resources and referential information in the investigation of medical entities, pathologies, symptom complexes, and disease presentations and integrate that information into a patient profile
• Demonstrate ability and willingness to cooperate, participate, collaborate, and lead group discussions, to facilitate collective decisions, and arrive at a presumptive diagnosis consensus

EMS 431 - Problem-based Learning II

• Identify the principles and processes associated with problem-based learning and demonstrate cooperative and participatory contributions toward the process.
• Participate fully in the investigation of medical symptom complexes, syndromes, pathologies, medical phenomenon, and the collaboration with fellow students in the progressive and integrative consensus of differential diagnoses.
• Demonstrate understanding of case development and disease progression in simulated cases and correlate previous knowledge with newly gained information from case-specific research.
• Demonstrate understanding of the critical elements of a full patient profile as a standard of patient assessment, including history and physical examination details, differential diagnoses, presumptive diagnosis, and therapeutic options.
• Demonstrate ability to utilize resources and referential information in the investigation of medical entities, pathologies, symptom complexes, and disease presentations and integrate that information into a patient profile.
• Demonstrate ability and willingness to cooperate, participate, collaborate, and lead group discussions, to facilitate collective decisions, and arrive at a presumptive diagnosis consensus.
• Demonstrate ability to organize, investigate, manage, and segregate several complex problem-based cases simultaneously to an effective outcome.

EMS 440 - Medical Mathematics and Terminology

• Demonstrate an understanding of medical etymologies, root words, prefixes, suffixes, and combined terms as they relate to emergency medical services.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic medical vocabulary and the application of medical terms as they relate to emergency medical services.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic mathematics, including fractional and decimal operations, fractional/decimal conversions, percentages, ratios, proportions, simple algebraic functions, as well as the metric and apothecary systems.
• Demonstrate an understanding of various methods of drug dosage calculation, including ratios & proportions, forumla method, and dimensional analysis (among others).
• Employ various drug calculation methods in solving real-life drug dosing scenarios as they relate to emergency medical services.

EMS 441 - General Pharmacology for Paramedics

EMS 443 - Myocardial Disease and Basic Electrocardiography

• Demonstrate an understanding of common diseases and pathologies of the cardiovascular system, including the clinical presentation and the electrocardiographic and hemodynamic consequences of each.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the anatomical structures and physiology of the heart, with emphasis on the electrical conduction system, and the common dysfunctions that present electrocardiographically.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic features of electrocardiographic analysis, a systematic approach to EKG analysis, as well as features and criteria of single, bipolar limb lead dysrhythmias.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the identification criteria of each of the major cardiac dysrhythmias that provide fatal or potentially fatal outcomes, as well as more benign dysrhythmias.
• Demonstrate an understanding of various methods and alternatives of therapeutic interventions related to fatal or potentially fatal dysrhythmias.

EMS 444 - Twelve-lead Electrocardiography

• Demonstrate an understanding of the anatomical features and physiological aspects of the cardiovascular system, with emphasis on the electrical conduction system and mechanical cardiac output.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the electrocardiographic analysis of the heart with a 3 dimensional perspective in 12-lead EKGs, as well as fundamentals of 12-lead analytical principles.
• Demonstrate an understanding of 12-lead EKG analysis of P waves, QRS complexes, S-T segments, T waves, electrical axis, chamber enlargement and hypertrophy, and EKG evidence of myocardial disease including ischemia and infarction.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the advanced management of acute coronary syndromes, and the various ACLS cardiac algorithms for bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmia’s, blocks, and cardiac arrest/shock scenarios.
• Demonstrate an ability to integrate knowledge of EKG analysis, with clinical presentation, with understanding of pathophysiology’s to properly employ therapeutic interventions in all scenarios.

EMS 450 - Human Anatomy-cadaver Lab (Put on reserve 9/16/16.)

• Demonstrate an understanding of the essential structures of human anatomy encompassing all body systems.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic medical physiology of human systems as well as an integration of medical physiology with human anatomy.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic medical terminology as it relates to human anatomy and physiology.

EMS 451 - Advanced Trauma Care

• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of trauma care, trauma systems, and the role of EMS in trauma care.
• Demonstrate an understanding of kinematics of trauma, blunt force trauma, penetrating trauma, epidemiology of trauma, the physiological consequences and treatment of hemorrhage and shock in trauma patients, and shock trauma resuscitation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the pathophysiology’s, symptomatologies, and treatment modalities soft-tissue trauma, bums, musculoskeletal trauma, and trauma to the head, face, neck, spinal cord, thorax, and abdomen.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the advanced, contemporary concepts related to trauma care in both in-hospital and prehospital settings, as well as innovative aspects of trauma care awaiting approval.

EMS 455 - Introduction to Pathophysiology

• Recall knowledge, application and synthesis information related to cellular anatomy and function, genetics, immunology, and abnormal cellular proliferation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the anatomical, physiological and pathopysiological aspects of the neurologic, endocrine, reproductive, hematologic, renal and urologic systems, as well as the digestive, integumentary, and the musculoskeletal systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the anatomical, physiological and pathopysiological aspects of the cardiovascular, lymphatic, and pulmonary systems.
• Identify the fundamental anatomical, physiological and pathophysiological differences between pediatric, adult, and geriatric populations, as well as select gender and racial differences.
• Demonstrate the ability to correlate the cognitive objectives of EMS 450 with other related EMS courses in the Major.

EMS 459 - Emergencies in Pediatric/Geriatric Care

• Tailor basic principles of assessment, treatment, and transport to the unique needs of the pediatric patient.
• Know airway managements and respiratory distress of the pediatric patient.
• Know how to recognize and handle common pediatric medical emergencies.
• Recognize and handle the pediatric trauma patient and know the critical differences between pediatric trauma and adult trauma.
• Recognize sudden infant death syndrome, child abuse and critical incident stress, understanding reporting and dealing with such incidents.
• Become aware of the physiologic, social and psychological considerations while caring for the elderly patients: treating elderly with respect and genuine concern, correctly take patient history from the elderly, general considerations to conducting physical examinations on the geriatric population.
• Learn to assess and handle the following medical emergencies in the geriatric population: respiratory emergencies - respiratory disease in the elderly (acute pulmonary edema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia and pulmonary embolism), cardiovascular emergencies -acute changes in the cardiovascular stability due to age of patient, neurologic emergencies - changes in the brain due to loss of brain cells, atherosclerosis.

EMS 460 - Research in EMS I

• Demonstrate understanding of the relevance of research in EMS and its impact on future development.
• Demonstrate cognitive attainment of the general principles of research, its purpose, its benefits, its limitations, and how it relates to the EMS Agenda for the Future.
• Demonstrate understanding of the various research designs, their benefits and limitations, and to apply those concepts to practical, original research.
• Discuss and delineate the differences and respective advantages between quantitative and qualitative research, as well as the benefits of blended research (hybrid).
• Demonstrate understanding of preparatory phases of research, including, but not limited to, literature searches, development of research questions; meta-analysis, and scope assessment of proposed research.
• Demonstrate an understanding of data collection principles, including data collection instruments, compilation of data, content analysis, unit analysis, variable identification, and other related aspects; as well as basic statistical analysis of data.
• Identify a relevant, meaningful, and feasible research topic ( question) for EMS to begin conducting original research.
• Develop a full research design for a particular EMS topic with all of its associated elements and parameters.

 Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/28/2010

EMS 461 - Research in EMS II

• Continue to develop a full research design for a particular EMS topic with all of its associated elements and parameters.
• Demonstrate understanding of research design principles of data collection.
• Demonstrate understanding of research design principles of data compilation and analysis.
• Demonstrate understanding of research design principles of outcomes reporting and research conclusions.
• Demonstrate ability to relate original research findings to selected audience through journal article submission.

EMS 465 - Educational Methodologies in EMS

• Demonstrate the relevance, benefits, and limitations in the educational process for EMS providers.
• Demonstrate an understanding of traditional educational methodologies and practices common with EMS training.
• Demonstrate an understanding of non-traditional and innovative educational methodologies and practices that have utility in EMS education.
• Incorporate specific, well-developed educational methods into a classroom or practical skills lab environment and measure learning outcomes to validate the process change.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the assessment methods, instruments, and outcome values as they pertain to EMS education.

EMS 470 - Current Topics in Emergency Medicine

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively and efficiently conduct a survey of contemporary subject matter in EMS professional, peer-reviewed journals and publications.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively identify a relevant topic that pertains to and impacts EMS; to conduct a literature review of that topic, and to summarize the findings.
• Demonstrate the ability to select a single, contemporary article on a subject matter closely related to EMS and to summary that article in both written and verbal formats for audience dissemination.
• Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate all of the essential elements of a professional, peer-reviewed journal article, including purpose, design, methods, discussion, conclusions, and internal/external validity.
• Demonstrate the ability to critically assess the effectiveness of colleague’s reviews of journal articles, article reviews, and textbooks.

EMS 475 - EMS Response to Terrorism

• Identify the basic elements of terrorism, its components, the varying taxonomies, the different philosophies and ideologies, and the current military and emergency response perspectives of terrorism.
• Demonstrate an understanding of effective strategies to prevent homeland terrorism and to mitigate terrorist attacks.
• Demonstrate knowledge in principles of planning for disasters; ICS; intial triage, diagnosis & treatment of patients in major disasters (CBRNE); and assimilation of after-action reports.
• Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary aspects of an EMS response to terrorism and the integration of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Framework (NRF).

EMS 480 - Financial Analysis of EMS Systems

• Demonstrate ability to initiate and manage effectively accounting ledger entries for traditional revenue- expenditure accounting.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of a balance sheet and an income statement, the importance of each respective element, and their relationship to each other in traditional EMS financial management.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct effective and meaningful financial analysis of an organization’s budget and revenue versus expenditures utilizing traditional and fundamental formulae and methods.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct effective and meaningful financial analysis of an organization’s budget and revenue versus expenditures utilizing financial ratios and projection of fiscal trends and performances.

EMS 481 - Quality Improvement and Administration of EMS

• Demonstrate an understanding of basic managerial practices in private and public sector EMS organizations, including management philosophies, structures, ethics, planning, controlling and execution.
• Demonstrate an understanding of personnel and time management concepts, including fundamentals of human resources, record-keeping, disciplinary actions, meeting management, and performance appraisal.
• Demonstrate an understanding of continuous quality improvement principles and concepts related to quality assessment, benchmarking, trending, continuous feedback, participatory management practices, and goal- setting.
• Correlate objectives in EMS 480 to the principles of EMS management and administration.

EMS 482 - Systems Analysis of EMS

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of organizational and system analysis in EMS and the impact analysis has on administration, strategic planning, and problem mitigation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the various forms of organizational and system analysis and to effectively employ one method of analysis to identify and propose solutions to an organizational problem.
• Demonstrate an ability to employ research principles and techniques to system/organizational analysis to discern problems and predict outcomes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of fundamentals of microeconomics as it applies to EMS, the impact CQI has on analysis of systems, principles of cost-benefit analysis, and the essentials of policy analysis for EMS.
• Correlate objectives in EMS 480 and EMS 481 to the principles of System Analysis of EMS.

EMS 485 - Strategic Planning for EMS

• Demonstrate an understanding of the various organizational structures common to EMS agencies, their attributes, advantages, and limitations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the differences among private sector, public sector, for-profit, not-for-profit, municipal authority model, tiered model EMS, fire-based EMS, independent EMS, government EMS, hospital-based EMS, and military EMS models.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the general forms of strategic planning and develop proficiency in the major form and ·applying those concepts to EMS organizational development.
• Demonstrate an ability to identify organizational problems and growth stagnation and to apply analytical principles to discern effective solutions and strategic plans for future growth and development.

EMS 488 - Health Policy in EMS

• Demonstrate an understanding of the relevance and impact of health policy and EMS health policy has on current and future development of EMS in the nation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic forms of healthcare delivery models, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and how they impact the delivery of EMS in national and global perspectives.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how EMS can positively impact general healthcare policy and reduce national healthcare expenditure and the size of the uninsured populations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the intricate relationship that EMS has with other realms of healthcare, with public health and with public safety.
• Demonstrate an understanding of effective policy analysis as it pertains to EMS in the general healthcare market and economy.

EMS 489 - Leadership in EMS

• Demonstrate an understanding of the general philosophies and principles of leadership with emphasis on leadership in EMS.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the various taxonomies of leadership, their attributes, advantages, and limitations with emphasis on their impact to EMS.
• Identify common challenges and dilemmas that face EMS leaders today and develop an effective approach to lead through a crisis in EMS.
• Identify each student’s own leadership style and develop it and supplement it with alternative leadership styles for a more comprehensive approach.
• Demonstrate ability to develop a leadership approach is a specific EMS crisis situation.