2024-2025 Course List

Examines educational methods needed for effective dental hygiene instruction. Topics addressed within this course will include learner and context analysis, performance objectives, assessment instruments, instructional strategies, formative and summative evaluations. Emphasis will be placed on competency based instruction.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to first hand experience in providing dental hygiene services through a study abroad opportunity. This course centers on an international week long service learning project in a foreign country. Most of our time and effort will be spent providing dental hygiene treatment. This course will also address ethics, cultural issues, standard of care issues, as well as challenges in providing dental hygiene care in a foreign country.

Diverse Cultures:

Gold

This course provides a framework for comprehensive patient-centered care using the Human Needs Conceptual Model to prevent oral disease and to promote health and wellness.

Combines the sciences and knowledge in the discipline of dental hygiene that permits systhesis and application of periodontal treatment techniques. Surgical and aggressive management of medically compromised periodontal patients will be addressed in this course.

Students will discover research and writing careers for dental hygienists. Course will provide awareness of the American Dental Hygienists' Association research agenda. Various research methods will be explored and students will develop skills related to locating and evaluating scientific literature to make evidence-based decisions. Professional writing skills will be developed throughout the course.

Demonstration of oral health delivery in community based clinics embracing oral health promotion efforts as a methodology. Increasing demand for care, dental services and prevention resulting in reduction of oral diseases and improved community oral health.

Prerequisites:

DHYG 444

Applies content from Principles of Educational Methods to support the role of dental hygiene educator in didactic and clinical instruction. Active participation in course design, delivery and evaluation in classroom, on-line or clinical format with emphasis on competency based instruction.

Prerequisites:

DHYG 445

This course is designed to facilitate critical thinking skills related to drugs used in dentistry and medicine with emphasis placed on the impact of the dental hygiene diagnosis.

Students will learn the characteristics of direct restorative materials. In a laboratory settings on typodont, students will place, contour, and adjust direct restorative materials. This is the first course in a series.

Prerequisites:

DHYG 322, DHYG 326

Students work on patients in a clinical setting to place, contour, and adjust direct restorative materials in accordance with MN Statute. This is the second course in a series.

Prerequisites:

DHYG 322, DHYG 326, DHYG 460

This course is the final clinical course in a series of courses in which students gain clinical proficiency by completing required patient experiences and final clinical test to fulfill State of Minnesota requirements to earn a certificate in restorative functions.

Prerequisites:

DHYG 322, DHYG 326, DHYG 460, DHYG 461

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Brief description of the operation of the US economic system illustrated by a discussion of current economic policies, issues, and problems. No credit toward a major, minor, or area with economics as a core, or if credit has been earned in ECON 201 and/or ECON 202, or equivalent.

Goal Areas:

GE-05

This course will examine the gendered nature of public policy using standard microeconomic tools. It examines the impact of public policy on employment discrimination, reproductive rights, and sexual orientation.

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-05

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Emphasis on forces influencing employment and inflation. Current problems of the economy are stressed along with tools government has to cope with them.

Goal Areas:

GE-05

Examines decision making by the individual firm, the determination of prices and wages, and current problems facing business firms.

Goal Areas:

GE-05

Basic statistical methods including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, sampling, problems of estimation and hypothesis testing in the case of one and two sample meaans and proportions. Chi-Square, one-way analysis of variance, simple regression and correlation analysis, and brief introduction to multiple regression analysis. Use of computer statistical packages required.

Prerequisites:

MATH 112 or equivalent

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-04

This course will introduce the student to the use of mathematics in economic analysis. Topics include optimization methods, comparative statics, and linear algebra.

Prerequisites:

ECON 201, ECON 202, ECON 207, MATH 112 or equivalent

A descriptive and analytical study of the basic principles of money, banking, and finance as they are related to business and public policy.

Prerequisites:

ECON 201 and ECON 202

Elementary economic background and analysis of housing, medical care, inflation, unemployment dilemma, pollution, poverty and affluence, balance between public and private sectors, transportation, urban problems, and other issues will be covered in this course.

This course will provide tools for analyzing the effects of economic globalization on employment, distribution of income, economic development and socio-economic issues from a gender perspective.

Prerequisites:

ECON 201 or ECON 202

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

A survey of imperfect competition, multiple-product firms, multiple-plant firms, and interest theory, designed to develop a system of economic thought.

Prerequisites:

ECON 201, ECON 202 and ECON 301

Study of factors determining aggregate level of production, employment, inflation, and implications of monetary and fiscal policies.

Prerequisites:

ECON 201, ECON 202 and ECON 301

Employment, wages, and economic security. The structure and impact of labor organizations and labor legislation.

Prerequisites:

ECON 201 and ECON 202

A detailed examination of the Federal Reserve System and monetary policy. The topics will include a history of the Federal Reserve and its monetary tools and strategies: Monetarism, the demand for money, the money supply process, and the impact of financial deregulation on federal policy.

Prerequisites:

ECON 305