Course Descriptions

This First Year Experience course explores the variety of careers available in the health care industry. It will provide the student with information to evaluate career choices that will best suit their needs and interests. Areas covered will also include a cultural competency, resources to aid the development of independent learning skills necessary for success in the health care field, self-care for successful students, and understanding the foundations for the pathway to their chosen career. This course is open to anyone interested in exploring health care careers. The format of this course includes lecture, class discussions, and student presentations.

• Health Care Studies
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This is an introductory course into the principles of medical terminology. Medical terminology is the framework for developing a robust medical vocabulary essential to every health care professional. The content includes analyzing individual word parts, body systems, basic medical language, body orientation, health, wellness and disease terms.

• Health Care Studies
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

The purpose of this course is to involve the student in reading and discussing medical issues from an ethical perspective to create depth in our awareness of the moral problems that cannot be ignored and more often than not, cannot necessarily be solved. The scope of this course will entail examination of different ethical approaches to moral problems in medicine and their success or failure in a broad range of medical issues, including but not limited to: the physician-patient relationship, the role of the healthcare provider, euthanasia and death with dignity, rights to health care/costs of health care and an examination for important concepts such as autonomy, paternalism, rights, consent, and confidentiality. This course carries SUNY General Education Humanities credit. Corequisite: ENG-103.

• Health Care Studies
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)