Exemplary Courses

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COOL Exemplary Course Designations

Courses designated as exemplary exceed standards set forth by the CCU Quality Assurance Inventory (QAI) tool used by the COOL unit for course evaluations. Courses receiving an EC (Exemplary Course) designation (a) have been reviewed and improved during a COOL Course Development Grant process, and (b) demonstrate three or more characteristics that place their course above minimum online course expectations. Contact Sherri Restauri (srestauri@coastal.edu) for questions regarding the CD and/or QAI programs.

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Exemplary courses designed during 2015-2020 academic years include:

COOL Exemplary Courses

Course Title	Course Description	Instructor	Department	Grant Type	Term
CHEM 104 Kitchen Chemistry	This course is designed to integrate chemistry and cooking. A description of the chemical and physical properties of foods and how the processes used when handling, preparing, and storing foods affect these properties.	Drew Budner	Chemistry	Course Development	2015-2016
NURS 305L Health Assessment Laboratory	Provides the student with the opportunity to practice the concepts and skills used when conducting a comprehensive health assessment including a health history, systems review and a complete physical exam.	Scott Saccomano	Nursing	Course Development	2015-2016
ANTH 102 Understanding Other Cultures	This course is an exploration and comparison of selected contemporary cultures, including their languages. An introduction to the concepts, methods, and data of sociocultural anthropology and anthropological linguistics.	Gillian Richards-Greaves	Anthropology	Course Development	2015-2016
MBA 631 Marketing Strategy	This course emphasizes analytical decision making within the functional areas of marketing giving the student an integrated view of marketing's role in an organization.	Monica Fine	Marketing, Hospitality and Resort Tourism	Course Development	2017
JOUR 201 Foundations of Journalism	This course surveys the history and principles of American journalism, including its development, philosophical foundations, products, functions, social influences, current challenges and directions for the future.	Wendy Weinhold	Communication, Media and Culture	Independent Review	2017
PUBH 121 Personal and Community Health	This course investigates issues related to improving personal and community health with an emphasis of physical fitness, mental health, nutrition, stress management, sexuality, relationships, diseases, and complementary medicine for health-care.	Jessica Lowery	Health Sciences	Course Enhancement	2017
COMM 276 Communication Research	This course prepares students early for research; how to isolate problem statement, distinguish independent and dependent variables, criticize and evaluate definitions, define theories, understand how to apply methods of sound research (qualitative and quantitative), collect data and analyze scholarly articles.	Corinne Dalelio	Communication, Media and Culture	Course Enhancement	2017
EDSC 510 Secondary Adolescent Development and Management	This course includes the management of the classroom environment and learning processes as applied to seondary adolescent development. Attention is give to theories and best practices and includes a clinical experience.	Suzanne Horn	Education	Course Development	2017
SOC 350 Juvenile Delinquency	This course looks at the causes and consequences of juvenile delinquency and the study of the juvenile justice system.	Matthew Wilkinson	Sociology	Course Development	2017
SCIE 101L Introduction to Science Lab	This Lab course includes experiements, exercises, demonstrations and field experiences emphasizing the topics presented in SCIE 101.	Jennifer Jackson-Baro	Science	Course Development	2017
MATH 131 Trigonometry	Right triangle and circular trigonometry. graphs of trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, trigonometric idenitities, solving trigonometric equations, vectors, complex number, and their applications are covered in this course.	Rajendra Dahal	Math	Course Development	2017
SOC 331/331L Methods in the Social Sciences and Lab	Introduction to the methods and problems involved in designing and conducting research in sociology and related fields.	Sara Brallier	Sociology	Course Development	2018
EDSC 679 Multicultural Issues in Education	Effects of cultural diversity in instruction with emphasis on teaching strategies and programs for multicultural student populations.	Kristal Curry	Education	Course Development	2018
VPA 103 Inquring Minds: Topics, Ideas, and Expression in the Fine Arts	This course is designed to provide the student with the basic understanding of how the arts critically influence and culturally enhance our everyday experience.	Alexandra Knox	Visual Arts	Course Development	2018
SOC 465 Sociology of AIDS	This course involves student research on HIV/AIDS transmission, incidence, prevalence, and prevention worldwide and analyzes HIV/AIDS within the framework and social stratisfication, social movements, social deviance, social control, and international development.	Jaime McCauley	Sociology	Course Development	2018
POLI 307 Scope of American Politics	An in-depth exploration of the two major fields of study in American politics: political institutions and political behavior. Topics include the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government in addition to political parties, voting behavior, public opinion, and interest groups.	Mikel Norris	Politics	Course Development	2018
COMM 304 Gender Communication	Gender Communication inquires into the connections among four areas of study: gender, identity, culture and communications. Students explore the multiple ways that gender roles are created and sustained through communication in such contexts as families, schools, the workplace, and the media.	Wendy Weinhold	Communication, Media, and Culture	Course Development	2018
CSCI 101 Intro to the Internet & World Wide Web	This course incorporates critical thinking as students learn about the internet and the World Wide Web. Topics include introductory computing concepts, networking basics, the internet, utilizing web technologies responsibly, social networking, privacy, and digital security.	Ross Foultz	Computing Sciences	Course Enhancement	2019
ARTH 107 World Art	A survey of Non-Western art from prehistory to the present, including but not limited to African, Asian, Islamic, and Oceanic art as well as art of the Americas, exploring diverse cultural experiences from a visual perspective.	Leslie Wallace	Art History	Course Enhancement	2019
CSCI 145 Intermediate Programming	This course continues the study of programming in a dynamically typed language. Topics include object-oriented development, user-defined data types, debugging, testing, and elementary distributed computing.	Ian Hewitt	Computing Sciences	Course Enhancement	2019
JOUR 310 Writing for Broadcast	An introduction to broadcast media as well as reporting. Students learn components of script writing, videotape editing and the impact of broadcast.	Sharon Tutrone	Communication, Media, & Culture	Course Development	2020
MATH 202 Math for Elem & Early Childhood Majors	Informal geometry and basic concepts of algebra. Open only to students in early childhood and elementary education	Jamie Hedges	Mathematics & Statistics	Course Development	2020
EDUC 785 Critical Studies in Diversity Education	This course focuses on the examination of the student diversities found in classrooms and the impact of diverse learners on curricular and instructional practices. Teachers will study ways of making classrooms, curricula, and instructional strategies diversified, developmentally appropriate and equitable to meet the needs of all student populations. Analysis and interpretation of critical theories, research, and approaches to understanding issues of student and community diversity affecting schools.	Kristal Curry	Social Studies Education	Course Development	2020
HIST 105 PreModern World: Public History	This course explores historical interpretations of pre-modern human experiences. Topics will be chosen by the instructor and may be repeated for up to six credit hours under different topics.	Mary Kate Clary	History	Course Development	2020
COMM 412 Interpersonal Health Communication	This course explores the interpersonal contexts of health communication, including patient provider communication, social support, communication in illness, family communication about health, interpersonal communication and technology, and everyday talk about health. It is appropriate for the future care professional, health communication student, or health care consumer.	Christina Selby	Communication, Media and Culture	Course Development	2020