Credit Distribution
I. General Education Featured Courses (45 Credits)
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TESU Featured Courses are listed as a guide. Other courses may satisfy the areas and can be viewed on our website under General Education Courses. To plan your program please contact an academic advisor. |
A. Intellectual and Practical Skills (15 Credits)
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ENC-1010
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ENC-1010 Writing for Success | Writing for Success | 3 |
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ENC-1020
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ENC-1020 Writing for Success II | Writing for Success II | 3 |
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COM-2090
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COM-2090 Public Speaking | Public Speaking | 3 |
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MAT-1210
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MAT-1210 College Algebra | College Algebra | 3 |
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SOS-1100
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SOS-1100 Fact, Fiction, or Fake? Information Literacy Today | Fact, Fiction, or Fake? Information Literacy Today | 3 |
B. Civic and Global Leadership (9 Credits)
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SOC-1010
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SOC-1010 Our Changing World: An Introduction to Sociology | Our Changing World: An Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
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ETH-2200
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ETH-2200 Leading the Way: A Path Towards Ethical Leadership | Leading the Way: A Path Towards Ethical Leadership | 3 |
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POS-1100
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POS-1100 American GovernmentThis course offers a thought-provoking survey of what the American government does and why it matters. Students will engage in a multimedia exploration of the essential characteristics of the American political system, including the roles and responsibilities of political institutions, the effects of the media and interest groups on political outcomes, and the debates that are intrinsic to American politics. This course will help students develop the critical-thinking skills needed to navigate the American political landscape and recognize that political knowledge promotes democratic values and strengthens the political process. BSN students: This course is offered 3 times per year during Session 2 of each 16 week Nursing Undergraduate term. Please check the 16 Week School of Nursing Undergraduate Academic Calendar for dates and registration information. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | American Government | 3 |
C. Knowledge of Human Cultures (15 Credits)
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SOC-2100
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SOC-2100 Marriage and the FamilyThis is an introductory course in the sociology of marriage and the family. It explores the various sociological approaches to studying the family, the varieties of family forms, and the problems facing American families. The course begins by defining marriage and family and recognizing the commonality and diversity of experiences among families. Students examine the ways in which families vary by social class, race, gender, and sexuality, and how the material conditions of people's lives shape their attitudes and behaviors. This course explores the complexities of marriage and family, helping students to develop an appreciation for the changes that have shaped families today. NOTE: For SOC-2100, please remove the offering dates for Guided Study. We may be canceling GS permanently. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Marriage and the Family | 3 |
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HIS-1130
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HIS-1130 American History I | American History I | 3 |
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FIL-1100
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FIL-1100 Exploring American Cinema | Exploring American Cinema | 3 |
Select two featured courses from the list below:
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SOC-2910
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SOC-2910 Criminology | Criminology | 3 |
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HIS-1140
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HIS-1140 American History II | American History II | 3 |
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HIS-1210
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HIS-1210 Introduction to World History IIn Introduction to World History I, students will explore the global structures and transnational forces that have shaped history, from prehistory, through the emergence of agriculture and urban centers, to 1492. Students in this course will examine both the distinctive characteristics of individual societies and the connections that have linked the fortunes of different societies as well as comparisons of major societies. The course will chronologically highlight the traditions of global regions and their encounters with one another, including the Middle East, Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and the Americas. The historical material will enable students to recognize the twin themes of tradition and encounters. Students will engage in comparative analysis of different societies, and their religious and cultural differences, as well as the expanding global trade and technology networks. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Introduction to World History I | 3 |
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HUM-1030
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HUM-1030 Introduction to the Humanities III: Music | Introduction to the Humanities III: Music | 3 |
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PHI-1300
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PHI-1300 Introduction to Critical Reasoning | Introduction to Critical Reasoning | 3 |
D. Scientific Knowledge (6 Credits)
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EAS-1010
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EAS-1010 General Earth Science | General Earth Science | 3 |
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BIO-2080
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BIO-2080 The Science of Nutrition | The Science of Nutrition | 3 |
II. Professional Business Requirements (42 Credits)
| ACC-1010
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ACC-1010 Principles of Financial AccountingThis course introduces students to key accounting principles used to record real-world business transactions, prepare financial statements, and interpret a company's financial performance. Accounting is often called "the language of business" because it provides external stakeholders such as investors and creditors as well as internal stakeholders such as management with the financial information necessary to make well-informed business decisions. In this course, students learn how to prepare the financial reports that are used by external parties in real-world situations. Key points of study include the accounting cycle, merchandising operations, cash and other financial assets, long-term assets including property and intangibles, current and long-term liabilities, components of stockholders' equity, and the statement of cash flows. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Principles of Financial Accounting | 3 |
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ACC-1020 Principles of Managerial AccountingThis course focuses on the internal use of financial information and reports to inform and support business decisions. Instead of providing data about the company to outsiders, managerial accounting focuses on giving insiders the information that will help them run the firm successfully. In this course, students learn to identify global influences on business, classify operational costs, assign costs to products, prepare budgets, analyze variances, and evaluate performance using a variety of metrics. Advisory: It is advisable to have knowledge in a course equivalent to ACC-1010: Principles of Financial Accounting, with a grade of C or better, to succeed in this course. Students are responsible for making sure that they have the necessary knowledge. Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Principles of Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| CIS-1070
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CIS-1070 Computer Concepts and Applications | Computer Concepts and Applications | 3 |
| LAW-2010
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LAW-2010 Business LawBusiness Law introduces the concepts and applications of laws that affect the business enterprise. Identification of the sources of law, including the courts, administrative agency rules and regulations, executive orders, and judicial decisions will be addressed. The law of contract, sales, and agency will be covered in detail while a distinction is drawn between traditional and online versions of each. Additionally, remedies for breach of these agreements will be covered. Business crimes will also be discussed, in addition to potential tort liability arising from criminal acts. Strict liability and product liability will be explored. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Business Law | 3 |
| MAN-2100
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MAN-2100 Principles of Management | Principles of Management | 3 |
| MKT-2010
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MKT-2010 Introduction to MarketingIntroduction to Marketing explores key marketing concepts and shows you how they apply to today's business practices. The course covers the essential knowledge and techniques managers need to compete successfully, whether in large companies or small businesses, profit-oriented firms or not-for-profit organizations. Topics include customer-oriented marketing strategies, buyers and markets, target market selection, and the marketing variables of products (and services), price, promotion, and distribution. Advisory: Advisory: Students who completed MKT-3010: Introduction to Marketing at Thomas Edison State University before August of 2018 should not take this course, as credit will not be awarded for both courses. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Introduction to Marketing | 3 |
| FIN-3010
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FIN-3010 Principles of FinancePrinciples of Finance serves as an introduction to financial management. Financial management is concerned with value and, when applied to firms, studies financial decision making and its impact on the value of the firm. Virtually all management decisions have financial implications, and the impact of these decisions on the value of the firm is the basis by which management is judged. Superior management produces superior financial decisions that lead to growth and increased valuation of the firm. This course considers specific financial decisions such as selecting among alternative investments (i.e., capital budgeting), the sources of the firm's finances (i.e., the optimal capital structure), the management of current assets and liabilities (i.e., working capital), and the tools of financial analysis. The course emphasizes analytical tools and their use in solving financial problems. Advisory: It is advisable to have knowledge in a course equivalent to ACC-1010: Principles of Financial Accounting with a grade of C or better to succeed in this course. Students are responsible for making sure that they have the necessary knowledge. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Principles of Finance | 3 |
| ECO-1110
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ECO-1110 Macroeconomics | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECO-1120
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ECO-1120 Microeconomics | Microeconomics | 3 |
| BUS-2100
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BUS-2100 Quantitative Skills for BusinessQuantitative Skills for Business applies a reasoning and analytic approach to the theories, tools, and models associated with numerical decision making. Applying an application-driven modality for learning, the course presents empirically-oriented, data-driven scenarios. Scrutinizing these cases assists students in honing both their professional and consumer decision-making skill sets. Topics include formulating and presenting management information, statistical analysis, quality control and quality management, decision making under uncertainty, project management, and financial decision making. This course is also designed to measure a student's competency in quantitative reasoning/literacy, one of the institutional learning outcomes. Advisory: Before enrolling in Quantitative Skills for Business, students should have successfully completed at least one college-level mathematics course such as MAT-1050: Applied Liberal Arts Mathematics or MAT-1210: College Algebra, or their equivalents. Study Methods:Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Quantitative Skills for Business | 3 |
| STA-2010
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STA-2010 Principles of Statistics | Principles of Statistics | 3 |
| MAN-3730
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MAN-3730 Managerial CommunicationsManagerial Communications is an upper-level undergraduate course that explores key theories and strategies of contemporary organizational communications. It recognizes that challenges exist for creating and implementing effective communication both inside organizations – between individuals and groups, and outside organizations – with markets, partners, and influential third parties. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Managerial Communications | 3 |
| MAN-3720
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MAN-3720 International Management | International Management | 3 |
| BUS-4210
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BUS-4210 Business Administration CapstoneBusiness Administration Capstone is a senior-level Capstone course that focuses on the development and implementation of strategy as a means to success in business. This course integrates concepts and applications from various functional areas of business. Relying heavily on case studies, the focus is on how managers engage in strategic thinking, planning, analysis, and execution to gain a sustained competitive advantage in the marketplace. Advisory: Being the capstone course in the undergraduate business program, this course requires knowledge of accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and management. Thus, the following courses or their equivalents should be successfully completed before this course is taken: FIN-3010: Principles of Finance, MAN-2100: Principles of Management, MAR-2010: Principles of Marketing, ACC-1010: Principles of Financial Accounting, ACC-1020: Principles of Managerial Accounting, ECO-1110: Microeconomics, and ECO-1120: Macroeconomics with a grade of C or better to succeed in this course. Students are responsible for making sure that they have the necessary knowledge. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Business Administration Capstone | 3 |
III. Area of Study (18 Credits)
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HCM-3070 Principles of Healthcare ManagementPrinciples of Healthcare Management presents the foundation principles and dynamics of healthcare management, the healthcare system, and basic concepts and skills in administration. Students will analyze the institutional, social, and political forces in the field of healthcare, and topics include fundamentals of management in modern healthcare. This course is an introduction for students to the healthcare stakeholders in a variety of settings as well as key health and medical terms. Students will examine professional behaviors, such as setting goals and managing time, as well as the attitudes and motivation required for success as a healthcare manager. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Principles of Healthcare Management | 3 |
| HCM-3080
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HCM-3080 Healthcare Legal and Ethical ConsiderationsThe rapidly evolving healthcare system presents the healthcare administrator with complex challenges and risks. Healthcare administrators must be able to assess external and internal healthcare policies in order to improve organizational design and delivery of healthcare services. Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations focuses on the laws and regulations developed by policymakers that impact the healthcare organizations. Students review key laws that govern patient care delivery, employee relations, contracts, and fraud. Also examined are the ethical underpinnings and principles that healthcare organizations and administrators follow in the delivery of services to patients. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations | 3 |
| HCM-3530
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HCM-3530 Comparative Healthcare SystemsComparative Healthcare Systems examines the structure of healthcare systems in different countries. Students will compare the global health policy, administration, and practices of different countries, including how they use these concepts to balance their economic and health goals through health system reform, improvement, and modification. The course will include an exploration of emerging events, advances, reforms, and challenges in the delivery of healthcare around the world. For 21 countries, students will explore their geography and culture, examine the history of their health systems, and evaluate their cost, quality, access, and innovation. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Comparative Healthcare Systems | 3 |
| HCM-4040
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HCM-4040 Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and ManagementHealthcare Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and Management will focus on the evolving technologies and approaches used by healthcare providers to evaluate their performance and communicate their organizations' clinical, safety, and patient satisfaction outcomes to their stakeholders. The course will explore the key principles of quality management (measurement, assessment, and improvement) and will examine the evolution of quality management and the different ways that this process has evolved over recent decades. Topics will include new quality management regulations and standards, healthcare application of improvement models adopted from other industries, and different ways to manage the quality of population health improvement initiatives. By the end of the course, students will have developed a thorough appreciation of the current methods used by policymakers, researchers, payers, and healthcare providers to evaluate outcomes as well as those used by consumers to choose who and where they get medical care. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and Management | 3 |
| HCM-4050
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HCM-4050 The Financing and Economics of Healthcare DeliveryIn this course, students gain knowledge of economics principles such as cost, quality, and access as it relates to the healthcare environment. The principles of healthcare financial management, including accounting and finance, are vitally important to the viability and ongoing operations of all healthcare businesses and organizations. This course will explore the impact of healthcare policy on the costs and consequences of healthcare delivery and finance, so that students can better understand the impact of these proposed changes within healthcare policy. Topics include the relevance of economics in health and medical care, demand-side considerations, supply-side considerations, and public policy in medical care delivery. By the end of the course, students will have developed a thorough appreciation of the impact of healthcare policy on the costs and consequences of healthcare delivery and finance and its impact on the proposed changes in healthcare policy. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | The Financing and Economics of Healthcare Delivery | 3 |
| HCM-4060
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HCM-4060 Human Resources Management for Healthcare OrganizationsThis course provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the current issues in human resources (HR) management as it relates to healthcare. Students will be exposed to key concepts, laws, and issues relating to HR management. Healthcare organizations constantly need to improve the quality of operations, streamline clinical delivery and support systems, and transform their HR management to achieve these ends. This course serves as a foundation for all aspects of HR planning and development in hospitals, long-term care centers, and outpatient settings. Students will explore the basic functions of HR; the cost of hiring, training, turnover, and credentialing; cultural competence and diversity; as well as the role of outside factors, such as state regulatory bodies, unions, and other stakeholders. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Human Resources Management for Healthcare Organizations | 3 |
IV. Electives (15 Credits)
For TESU course options, go to Elective Courses.
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Total Credit Hours: 120