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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with advanced clinical skills and in-depth understanding of a variety of emergency procedures. Reading assignments, classroom work, anatomy lab sessions and clinical experience will focus on airway management, patient monitors, non-volatile anesthetic agents, muscle relaxants, local anesthetics and pain management. The anatomy lab experience, reading assignments and clinical experience will focus on emergency and diagnostic procedures such as cricothyrotomy, pericardiocentesis, percutaneous access, venous cutdown, thoracostomy and other appropriate procedures. Conscious sedation, endoscopy, anoscopy and rigid/flexible sigmoidoscopy will also be covered. Students will have instructional responsibilities during the course. Each student will be responsible for ensuring each of their classmates is properly instructed in the anatomy procedures and complications of their assigned instructional topic. Topics typically presented are airway, vascular, cardiac, abdominal, and genitourinary. Additional topics may be presented at the discretion of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide advanced instruction for the surgical specialties that typically employ physician assistants as well as areas of study encountered in specialty practices and common to the surgical component. Areas for study include: oral surgery, orthopaedics, plastics, radiology, respiratory therapy, thoracic, genitourinary surgery, gynecologic surgery, neurosurgery and ophthalmology. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An advanced survey of adult physiology and the effects of disease that alter normal physiology. The course will cover the study of biological and physical manifestations of disease as they correlate with the underlying abnormalities and physiologic disturbances. The course will not deal directly with the treatment of disease; rather it will explain the processes within the body, which result in the signs and symptoms of disease. The study and knowledge of pathophysiology is essential to understanding the rationale and basis for medical and surgical therapies. The following sub-topics of pathophysiology will be studied: cell physiology; nerve and muscles; cardiovascular; renal; pulmonary; gastrointestinal; endocrinology; and, neurophysiology. 3 semester hours
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0.00 Credits
For music majors ONLY, this course provides a structure by which music students' observation of and participation in various aspects of musical performance and related activities may be monitored. Students meet the requirements of this course by attending or participating in specified workshops, recitals, concerts and other musical performances. The particular requirements for any given semester are determined by the music faculty. Grading is Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. 0 semester hours
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to singing, this course emphasizes the fundamentals of posture, breath control, tone production, resonance, articulation and other concepts and skills critical to the development of vocal technique. (Applied music majors, musical arts majors and non-music majors enroll for this course, using the MUAP prefix.) 1 semester hour
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1.00 Credits
A course designed for college voice majors to learn the rules of correct pronunciation for English, Italian, German, Latin, and French. The course includes the study of the International Phonetic Alphabet as the pronunciation standard to be used in each language. Open only to Vocal Music Majors or others with instructor permission. 1 semester hour The following sequence of courses provides class instruction in piano. These courses focus upon the fundamentals of piano technique, including hand position, finger independence, and correct movement of wrist and arm, approached through appropriate literature and technical exercises. Skills developed are those appropriate to using the piano as a practical tool for music-making in public school or similar settings (e.g., providing a harmonization for a melody in an elementary music book). Advanced students may bypass some courses within the sequence or may bypass the entire sequence by taking the Piano Proficiency Test (contact Music Department for more information). Prerequisite for all courses is WPI.
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour The following courses provide studio instruction (private lessons) on the instruments listed below. Lessons are available for 1 semester hour (25-minute lesson/week), 2 semester hours (50-minute lesson/week), or (in special circumstances) 3 semester hours (75-minute lesson/week). At the option of the instructor, equivalent amounts of time and personal attention may be given via studio class or similar instruction. Instruction is offered in keeping with the needs, ability, and achievement of the student. Non-music majors should ordinarily expect to register for 1-semester hour lessons; music majors should ordinarily expect to register for 2-semester hour lessons. Students are notified about the specifics of their lessons (teacher, lesson time/day, materials needed, etc.) at the beginning of the semester. Private lessons may be repeated for credit. Private lessons ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR AUDIT. Prerequisite: WPI.
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