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- Description:
- This is an introductory course that gives students an overview of the major social media sites and provides examples as to how individuals are using social media. Social media (Twitter, Facebook, blogging, podcasting, etc.) are relatively accessible technologies that enable individuals, almost instantaneously, to create, publish, edit, and/or access messages intended for audiences; students will learn how to explore the possibilities and limitations of various social media. Social media has profoundly impacted the world of communications both among consumers as well as with businesses. Despite the rapid shift in marketing and communications, many organizations are still learning to adjust to this new paradigm. The purpose of this course is to provide the practical knowledge and insights required to establish objectives and strategies, properly select the social media platforms to engage consumers, and measure these results in a manner that is meaningful for businesses. The class will break down broad concepts about social media into meaningful segments that could be applied to serve strategic priorities for businesses. This includes an overview of the necessary tools, the impact on traditional marketing, quantifying success, and reputation management. These concepts will help provide important insights into sales and marketing, public relations, customer service, and other areas of the organization. Course Outcomes: 1. Build a Professional or Personal Brand and Voice. 2. Define Social Media Communities. 3. Create and manage Social Media accounts and tools. 4. Create Social Media Metric strategies.
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This Medical Office Communications course is designed to help prepare you to use effective communication in the medical setting. You will learn a variety of communication methods specific to the medical office. This course is designed to assist you in discovering applications of good communication skills, as well as provide elements of critical thinking. This course has 3 Credit Units that emphasize a variety of communication competencies. NOTE: This is a Communication class which inherently requires meaningful interaction with other people. As a student in this class, you will be required to regularly have other individuals assist you with assignments. Use the Credit Unit Syllabi found below to help you plan ahead so that as you prepare to take this course you have a pool of individuals available who are willing to help you complete Module assessments. Furthermore, although this is NOT a writing course, it is expected that you will write in a professional manner similar to the expectations when you are employed. This course requires APA style writing. For more information on this type of writing, the Purdue Online Writing Lab provides an excellent resource and can be found at the following link: OWL (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Web page) Write in complete sentences. Do not use abbreviations. (Example: Do not instead of don't) Use 12 point font - preferably New Times Roman or Arial Use a program and check your spelling and grammar before submission EVERY time. Course Outcomes: 1. Use language/verbal skills that enable patients' understanding. 2. Recognize communication barriers. 3. Advocate on behalf of patients. 4. Respond to nonverbal communication. 5. Apply active listening skills. 6. Use appropriate body language and other nonverbal skills in communicating with patient, family and staff. 7. Demonstrate awareness of the territorial boundaries of the person when communicating.
- Subject:
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course prepares students to understand the evolution and function of health insurance, to include Medicare, Medicaid, commercial and managed care. The students will learn to understand, prepare and process claims. Course Outcomes: 1. Identify types of insurance plans and models of managed care currently deployed in the health related insurance field. 2. Apply third-party insurance guidelines to complete and process insurance claim forms after performing basic mathematical calculations, obtaining exact answers to claims processing functions, and determining whether those answers are reasonable. 3. Communicate results of claims processing using mathematical processes and concepts that demonstrate the following: copay, coinsurance, write-off/discount, primary insurance payment, secondary insurance payment, patient responsibility. 4. Demonstrate competency in applying and utilizing RVU's (relative value units), RBRVS (resource based relative value system) and DRG's (Diagnostic Related Groups).
- Subject:
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- In this course students will develop oral and written communication skills that will allow a business professional to communicate effectively with customers, clients, and employees. Students will develop and deliver effective presentations using presentation software, learn negotiating skills, and practice extemporaneous speaking. Students will craft effective emails, product descriptions, resumes, and other business-related writing and oral communication skills. Students will practice skills needed to effectively apply and interview for jobs. Course Outcomes: 1. Communicate effectively in customer service situations and with vendors. 2. Concisely and professionally document agreements. 3. Deliver effective presentations that utilize charts or visual aids in presentation software. 4. Write effective text aimed at customers using a variety of formats (e.g. emails, blog posts, social media, and printed promotional material). 5. Write effective job application materials and employ effective oral communication in an interview.
- Subject:
- Public Relations
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This is a Canvas Course that provides lectures, assignments, and other resources built around the OER textbook, Moving Pictures ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/804). People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Disagreements, however, can reveal a great deal about the assumptions underlying these various responses. In this course we will see that there are many ways of thinking about movies and approaches that we can use to analyze them. We will cover key aspects of film criticism, theory, and history in the spirit of intellectual investigation of visual culture. Overall, the goal of this course is to introduce you to the basic skills necessary for a critical knowledge of the movies as art, culture, and industry.
- Subject:
- Literature and Composition and Rhetoric
- Creator:
- Stephen Rust
- Publisher:
- Linn-Benton Community College
- Language:
- English
- Year course taught:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course covers the fundamental principles of double-entry accounting, use of the general journal and general ledger, simple financial statements, the accounting cycle, control of cash, and an introduction to payroll accounting, purchases and sales. Course Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the double-entry accounting system. 2. Manually complete the entire accounting cycle for a service- based sole proprietorship on the accrual basis. 3. Prepare basic financial statements for a service-based sole proprietorship. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of control of cash processes and bank reconciliations. 5. Calculate basic payroll and payroll tax activity. 6. Prepare simple federal quarterly and annual payroll tax forms.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course exposes students to theory and practice in the creation, adaptation and delivery of original speeches before an audience. It also provides the opportunity to understand the nature of public speaking and discourse in both ancient and modern society. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Synthesize, organize information for varied audiences. Interact with confidence while adapting messages to audience needs. Listen critically.
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- John Drischell
- CRN:
- 20514 and 20515
- Year course taught:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Syllabus
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- Description:
- This course prepares the student to properly document and organize information for the medical record. This class prepares the student to initially screen patient calls for emergency and other medical intervention. NOTE: This is a class that will require you to submit roleplay videos. Plan ahead as you prepare to take this course, and have a pool of individuals available who are willing to be videotaped for these short roleplay assessments. Course Outcomes: 1. Create a list of current community resources for patient needs. 2. Perform patient screening using established protocols. 3. Organize technical information and summaries. 4. Use medical terminology correctly to document patient encounters. 5. Document in appropriate formats in Electronic Medical Record. 6. Demonstrate professional telephone techniques.
- Subject:
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- Math 111 explores relations and linear, quadratic, exponential, polynomial, rational, and logarithmic functions. It includes the theory of equations, matrices, and determinants. Course Outcomes: 1. Interpret graphical information, such as identifying types of functions, translations, inverses, intercepts, and asymptotes. 2. Solve a variety of symbolic equations and inequalities, such as rational, absolute value, exponential, radical, logarithmic, and linear systems. 3. Construct appropriate models for real world problems, such as fitting an algebraic function model to a set of data, and system of linear equations.
- Subject:
- Algebra
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course will assist students in developing effective and successful social media marketing campaigns. Students will examine how the choice of social network and social media tools affects the distribution of the message and the audience that is reached. Students will have the opportunity to formulate a social media marketing plan with an appropriate target market using relevant social media channels. Course Outcomes: 1. Recognize social networks and their properties. 2. Explain why people participate in different types of social networks or social media. 3. Describe the history and development of various social networks. 4. Understand how personal account setting anonymous accounts, false identities, and multiple identities affect the community formation.
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- Reading list for BI 112 with links to OpenStax Human Biology by Willy Cushwa, OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology,OpenStax Biology 2e, and OpenStax Chemistry: Atoms First.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Rachel Jacobs
- Publisher:
- Linn-Benton Community College
- Language:
- English
- Year Created:
- 3/27/2019
- Resource Type:
- Syllabus, Textbook, and Unit of Study
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- Description:
- This course continues Practical Accounting I with more detailed explanations of the accounting cycle. Covers special journals, ledgers, business forms, including vouchers. Emphasizes accounting for partnerships. Course Outcomes: 1. Complete the entire accounting cycle for a merchandising company. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of accounting for bad debts. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of accounting for notes receivable and notes payable. 4. Compute the cost of fixed and intangible assets and natural resources. 5. Prepare basic depreciation, depletion and amortization calculations. 6. Describe the characteristics of partnerships and basic partnership accounting.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course is designed to prepare you to comprehend, interpret, and respond to legal and ethical situations in the healthcare setting with diverse populations in a culturally competent way. NOTE: This is an ethics class, which inherently requires meaningful conversations with other people. As a student in this class, you will be required to regularly meet with other individuals to discuss ethical questions that occur in healthcare. Be aware that you will be required to facilitate a group discussion for most Modules. Plan ahead as you prepare to take this course, and have a pool of individuals available who are willing to have ethical discussions with you. Couse Outcomes 1. Demonstrate respect for diversity in approaching patients and families. 2. Identify the role of self-boundaries in the healthcare environment. 3. Recognize the role of patient advocacy in the your professional practice. 4. Discuss legal scope of practice for medical assistance and coders. 5. Explore issue of confidentiality as it applies to the medical assistant and to coders. 6. Describe the implications of HIPAA for the medical assistant and the coder in various medical settings. 7. Discuss licensure and certification as it applies to healthcare providers. 8. Describe liability, professional, personal injury, and third party insurance. 9. Compare and contrast physician, medical assistant, and coder roles in terms of standard of care. 10. Compare criminal and civil law as it applies to practicing medical assistant and coders. 11. Provide an example of tort law as it would apply to a medical assistant and coders. 12. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Negligence. 13. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Malpractice. 14. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Statute of Limitations. 15. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Good Samaritan Act(s). 16. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. 17. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Living Will/Advanced directives. 18. Explain how the following impact the healthcare practice and give examples: Medical durable power of attorney. 19. Identify how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to the medical assisting and coding profession. 20. List and discuss legal and illegal interview questions. 21. Discuss all levels of governmental legislation and regulation as they apply to medical assisting practice, including FDA and DEA regulations. 22. Describe the process to follow if an error is made in patient care Respond to issues of confidentiality. 23. Perform within scope of practice. Apply HIPAA rules in regard to privacy/release of information. 24. Practice within the standard of care for a medical assistant and/or coder. 25. Incorporate the Patient's Bill of Right's into personal practice. and medical office policies and procedures. 26. Complete an incident report. 27. Document accurately in the patient record. 28. Apply local, state and federal healthcare legislation appropriate to the medical assisting and coding practice setting. 29. Demonstrate sensitivity to patient rights. 30. Demonstrate awareness of the consequences of not working within the legal scope of practice. 31. Recognize the importance of local, state and federal legislation and regulations in the practice setting. 32. Differentiate between legal, ethical, and moral issues affecting healthcare. 33. Compare personal, professional and organizational ethics. 34. Discuss the role of cultural, social and ethnic diversity in ethical performance in the healthcare practice. 35. Identify where to report illegal and/or unsafe activities and behaviors that affect health, safety and welfare of others. 36. Identify the effect personal ethics may have on professional performance. 37. Report illegal and/or unsafe activities and behaviors that affect health, safety and welfare of others to proper authorities. 38. Develop a plan for separation of personal and professional ethics. 39. Apply ethical behaviors, including honesty, integrity in the performance of medical assisting and coding practice. 40. Examine the impact personal ethics and morals may have on the individual's practice. 41. Demonstrate awareness of diversity in providing patient care.
- Subject:
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course provides students with a foundation that enables them to identify and analyze ethical issues in relation to social media. Students will explore the legal responsibilities associated with social media. Course Outcomes: 1. Define Intellectual Property. 2. Discuss the liability issues associated with privacy and social media boundaries. 3. Define Social Media professional networking.
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This is the third course in the Practical Accounting series. This course covers entries requiring analysis and interpretation, unearned and accrued items, depreciation of assets, manufacturing accounting and other managerial accounting procedures. Course Outcomes: 1. Describe the characteristics of a corporation. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the accounting processes specific to stock, dividends, treasury stock and retained earnings. 3. Prepare the accounting for basic bond transactions. 4. Demonstrate an understanding the cash flows statement preparation process for both the indirect and the direct method. 5. Interpret and analyze financial statements. 6. Explain how to handle transactions in a voucher system.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course will assist students in developing effective and successful social media marketing campaigns. Students will have the opportunity to formulate a social media marketing plan with an appropriate target market using relevant social media channels and metric analysis and maintenance. Course Outcomes: 1. Describe video utilization in Social Media. 2. List methods for search engine optimization. 3. Discuss emerging Social Media technologies.
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course introduces terminology and gives an overview of the computer and information science. It focuses on the basic concepts of computer hardware and software systems, software applications, online inquiry, and evaluation of materials including ethical decisions. It also includes concepts reinforced in a laboratory environment. Through specific hands-on experience you will gather, evaluate, and solve real-world problems and form decisions based upon critical examination of today's technology. This class is designed to teach you how to use a computer running a Windows Operating System. If you do not have access to a Windows computer or have problems doing assessments, please contact your Navigator to discuss your options. Course Outcomes: 1. Identify current and future trends in computing and recognize various computing devices and their uses. 2. Identify the parts of a computer and their features and functions and recognize the advantages and limitations of important peripheral devices. 3. Identify and describe the features of desktop and specialized computer operating systems and understand the importance of system utilities, backups, and file management. 4. Explain why the web is important in today's society and why fluency in the tools and language of the Internet is necessary to be an educated consumer, a better student, an informed citizen, and a valuable employee. 5. Understand what a computer network is, identify different types of networks, and recognize threats to security and privacy. 6. Demonstrate the proper use of basic word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software features.
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, and mechanics required for college-level writing. Course Outcomes: 1. Analyze the rhetorical needs (the needs of their audience in relationship to the assignment) for academically-oriented writing assignments requiring them to use a broad range of critical thinking strategies, particularly analysis and evaluation. 2. Apply appropriate levels of critical thinking strategies (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation) in their written assignments. 3. Implement appropriate rhetorical elements and organization (introduction, thesis, development and support, definition, narration, comparison, conclusion, etc.) in their written assignments. 4. Locate, evaluate, and integrate high-quality information and opinion appropriate for college-level analytical and evaluation assignments. 5. Craft sentences and paragraphs that communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using words, sentence patterns, and writing conventions at a college level to make their writing clear, credible and persuasive.
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- Students will be able to foster an appreciation of literature and develop creative skills in public speaking and performance. Students will analyze various literary forms (poetry, novels, plays, letters, diaries, etc.) as texts for oral presentation. Students will explore oral traditions and other nonliterary sources and events as oral presentation material. Class exercises introduce vocal, physical and other speaking techniques to effectively communicate a point of view. Recommended: College-level reading and writing skills are highly recommended for success in this course.
- Subject:
- Performing Arts
- Creator:
- Tinamarie Ivey
- Publisher:
- Linn-Benton Community College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, and mechanics required for college-level writing. Course Outcomes: Analyze the rhetorical needs (the needs of their audience in relationship to the assignment) for academically-oriented writing assignments requiring them to use a broad range of critical thinking strategies, particularly analysis and evaluation. Apply appropriate levels of critical thinking strategies (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation) in their written assignments. Implement appropriate rhetorical elements and organization (introduction, thesis, development and support, definition, narration, comparison, conclusion, etc.) in their written assignments. Locate, evaluate, and integrate high-quality information and opinion appropriate for college-level analytical and evaluation assignments. Craft sentences and paragraphs that communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using words, sentence patterns, and writing conventions at a college level to make their writing clear, credible and persuasive.
- Subject:
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Creator:
- Linn-Benton Virtual College and Chris Riseley
- Language:
- English
- Year Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Full Course