Credit awarded for Loras Course: ACC 228 Financial Accounting

This course offers an introduction and development of the overall accounting function from analysis of business transactions and their systematic recording to the interpretation of the resulting financial statements. Students also develop decision-making skills based on a set of ethical accounting principles.

Credit awarded for Loras General Education: EC requirement

This survey course explores visual art forms and their cultural relationships across history. With an emphasis on the foundations of visual art, students develop an awareness and appreciation for the history, function, techniques, and purposes surrounding visual art. Students will gain an understanding of visual vocabulary in effort to describe, analyze, and interpret art against its political, social and cultural backdrops.

Credit awarded for Loras General Education: ES requirement

An inquiry-based study of humans’ relationship with the natural environment using literature review, case studies, and evidence-based decision making. Topics include principles of ecology, resource use, waste management, environmental problems, alternative energy sources, and stewardship. Laboratory included.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: BUS 317-Business Law I

An introduction to law including: its foundations, torts, and topics relevant to business. Most of the course is spent studying modern contract law and its effect on business practice.

Credit awarded for Loras course: COM 110 Oral Communication as Critical Inquiry

A study in the preparation and delivery of informational and persuasive speeches.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: BUS 350-Managerial Finance

This course provides an overview of a firm’s investment and financing decisions from the perspective of the corporate manager – the time-value of money, sources and costs of short-term and long-term financing, financial analysis and interpretation, capital budgeting, and cost of capital determination are studied.

Credit awarded for Loras General Education: QR requirement

This course presents contemporary and historical topics in mathematics from problem solving, humanities, and business. Students will explore mathematical concepts by applying quantitative problem-solving methods to sets, cryptanalysis, number systems, geometry, art, probability, statistics, voting methods, fair division, economics, and finance topics in a real-world context.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: MAT 115-Statistics (QR)

This course presents contemporary and historical topics in mathematics from problem solving, humanities, and business. Students will explore mathematical concepts by applying quantitative problem-solving methods to sets, cryptanalysis, number systems, geometry, art, probability, statistics, voting methods, fair division, economics, and finance topics in a real-world context.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: MAT 115-Statistics (QR)

This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics, approached through intuition, algebra, and problem solving. Understanding of central concepts and methods is stressed. Practical applications in the fields of social and physical sciences are studied. Real-world problems are solved through use of statistical computer packages such as SPSS, SAS, or MINITAB.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: MAT 150-Calculus of One Variable I

A first course in the calculus sequence. Topics include limits, continuity, differentiation, application of the derivative, the Intermediate Value Theorem, definite integrals and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, with transcendental functions throughout.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: MAT 160-Calculus of One Variable II

Topics include techniques of integration, applications of the definite integral, improper integrals, an introduction to differential equations, convergence of sequences and series, Taylor series, parametric equations, and polar coordinates.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: MAT 260-Analytic Geometry & Calculus III

Topics include conic sections, vector algebra, space curves, calculus of functions of several variables, multiple integration, calculus of vector fields.

Credit awarded for Loras General Education: VX requirement

The purpose of this course is to draw on a rich set of proposals concerning right action and good character that have been developed over two millennia and across various cultures in order to stimulate deliberation and mindful action. The course will emphasize comprehension of the right and the good through active deliberation about cases. It will also provide participants with the option to reflect on the right and the good in their personal experience with past or concurrent service or service learning activities.

Credit awarded for Loras course: PSY 101-Introductory Psychology

Introduction to the processes, principles, and problems and applications of psychology. Topics include the brain and nervous system, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, personality, social psychology and psychopathology. 3 credits.

Credit awarded for Loras course: PSY 121-Lifespan Development

This course will look at the major theoretical perspectives on lifespan development as well as cultural differences of expectations during specific stages of development. The focus will include physical, social, psychological, cognitive and spiritual aspects from conception throughout the entire lifespan, concluding with issues surrounding death and dying. This course will also address how various stages of development affect relationships, the importance of understanding change and application of this new understanding into our lives.

Credit awarded for Loras course: PSY 231-Abnormal Psychology

A study of the development and characteristics of mental disorders such as anxiety disorders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders, somatoform disorders, and mood disorders will be examined. Various treatment modalities will also be considered.

Credit awarded for Loras Course: SOC 115-Introduction to Sociology (EI)

Principles of Sociology, studies the nature of social phenomena, fields, and methods of sociology and the social processes involved in the development of human society.