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3.00 Credits
Student will explore the holistic environment in which the Petroleum and Natural Gas industry operates, including the effect of corporate leadership on the companys credibility and reputation; real world ethical issues facing the petroleum and natural gas industry; and the relationship of the industry to federal, state, and local governments, including regulatory agencies. (3 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course, although primarily addressing the issues of business ethics, also deals with and fulfills the requirements of diversity awareness and service learning. It examines the theoretical and practical application of philosophical and management theories and research of the study of ethics, primarily in business organizations. It also examines the theories and concepts of ethics and applies these to the ethical problems and issues confronting business organizations. Case studies are used to provide the opportunity to identify, analyze, evaluate, and resolve a broad range of ethical issues. In addition, this course will examine multiple cultural perspectives that are essential to the development of a general recognition, understanding, and appreciation of the global society and of the individuals comprising that cultural society, particularly as they pertain to business. (3 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Ethics for Sport Management Professionals provides learners with the opportunity to explore and analyze ethical concerns facing sport management professionals. This course will provide students with the tools necessary to tackle ethical situations significant within sports ethics including race and discrimination, gender equity, privacy, violence, and drug use and drug testing. Ethics for Sport Management Professionals will offer hands-on case study projects that allow students to apply the ethical decision-making process to sports-related ethical disputes, as well as cases showing how ethical situations are addressed by the legal system in the United States. (3 credits)
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3.00 Credits
A rigorous and systematic inquiry into man's moral behavior discovering rules that ought to govern human action and goals worth seeking in human life using ethics as a science of conduct. (3 credits) Prerequisite: PHL105 OR PHL115 OR PHL125 OR PHL135 OR PHL140 OR PHL145 OR PHL150 OR PHL205
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3.00 Credits
Study of the decision making process in criminal justice as it relates to discretion, due process, truthfulness, corruption and discrimination. (3 Credits) Prerequisite: PHL105 OR PHL125 OR PHL115 OR PHL145 OR PHL135 OR PHL140 OR PHL150 OR PHL205
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3.00 Credits
This course will evaluate, from a philosophical perspective, the existence of God, fate vs. free will, creation, and the problem of evil. Writings of CS Lewis, Thomas Aquinas, John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), and others will supplement the texts. Students will gain a greater understanding of the logic and reason of faith and religious belief through readings, analyses, lecture, and dialogues. Prerequisite: PHL105
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3.00 Credits
This course includes both chemistry and physics relating to petroleum and natural gas technology sector sciences, including gas properties, Boyles Equation, Charles Equation, Avogadros Law; Daltons Law of Partial Pressures, Stokes law and Amagats Laws. Students will study the behavior of gases using the Ideal and Real Laws, compositions of natural gas, pressure concepts such as Gauge Pressure vs. Absolute Pressure, Vapor pressures, and partial pressures. Concepts such as STD conditions, Density, Gravity; Temperature types and Mass vs. Weight will be related to PNG chemistry. Additional chemistry concepts such as Molecular weight, Moles (pound mole and gram mole), Mole fraction and Energy, the properties of naturally occurring hydrocarbons; Phases of Gas-Liquid- Solid from PVT diagrams, and quantifying phase behavior will be studied. Physics topics will include measurement, motion, kinetic energy and work, potential energy and conservation of energy, momentum, torque, fluids, waves and heat and refrigeration. (3credits).
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to various aspects of the oil and gas industry technology, including development, economics, equipment, systems, instrumentation, operations, and the various associated scientific principles and processes. The course prepares students for upcoming curriculum in Petroleum and Natural Gas Technology program. The course addresses a variety of topics with emphasis on pre-drilling and drilling including: pre-drilling planning, drilling, circulation systems, construction basics, simple completions, overview of production processes and equipment. Also covered are downstream delivery, refining, transportation, marketing, and chemical processing industries. (3 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with the knowledge, skills, and resources to be able to work safely in the oil and natural gas industry while having an understanding of the overall aspects of safety, health, and environment. Section 1 prepares the student for work on site preparation, drilling, and production and includes OSHA law, workers rights, recordkeeping, inspections, and industry injury, Illness and fatality, data; the OSHA Focus Four Hazards; personal protective equipment, health and environmental controls with an emphasis on hazard communication; emergencies and fire protection (including pressure release); materials handling; heavy equipment and motor vehicles, cranes, confined spaces, evacuation and welding. Section 2 gives the student an overall awareness of health, safety, and environment, including types of hazards and their effects, fire and explosion hazards, hazardous atmospheres and respiration hazards, working area and height hazards, hazard controls including engineering controls, administrative controls, permitting systems, personal protective equipment, and monitoring equipment. (3 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This technology course provides knowledge of the petroleum and natural gas reservoir, inflow performance, well loading and well production systems. Students will learn the function, purpose, operation and basic design of well deliquification/artificial lift systems needed to produce oil, formation water and natural gas to the surface. The course will cover the basic production phases from a simple reservoir perspective from reservoir inflow and through the well bore to the surface (or the subsurface) choke point and introduce Darcys Equation related to oil and gas well inflow performance, permeability and simple systems nodal analysis. Additional topics include critical velocity, liquid loading, detection and symptoms, sizing tubulars, basic compression as lift support, the use of foam, soap and surfactants in gas wells, beam pump systems, plunger lift, hydraulic jet and plunger pumping, gas lift, electric submersible pumps, progressing cavity pumps and a basic overview of production automation components and systems. Knowledge of MS Excel required. (3 credits) Prerequisites: PNG 105, PHY 150, MAT 150.
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