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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an overview of occupational health hazards with a discussion focused on the effects of exposure to hazardous chemicals and biological agents. Radiation concerns along with commonly found workplace hazardous materials exposures are also discussed. Preventive measures are explored including medical surveillance programs and the implementation of effective interventions. Toxicity concerns related to workplace hazardous conditions discuss the routes of entry into the human body. Definitions and terms of awareness complete the overview of occupational health hazards.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will provide information and awareness related to workplace ergonomic principles and best practices. The intention is to provide workers and employers with an ergonomically safe workplace that has evaluated and controlled conditions that cause or contribute to musculoskeletal and nerve disorders.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will provide basic skills, knowledge, and techniques to effectively communicate safety, health, and environmental issues to various workplace stakeholders. It will discuss the diversity of communication challenges within a multicultural workplace while offering options to meet the need for adequate communication. Verbal, media, and non-verbal communication modalities will be explored and evaluated to complete the awareness of workplace safety, health, and environmental communications modalities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Occupational risk management and control includes a current risk analysis of any given workplace. This course will provide information to conduct a risk analysis while offering options to reduce safety risks and exposures. It will also provide introductory information related to the history and origins of the worker's compensation system. Risk assignment and assessment will be included to complete the introductory information associated with occupational risk management and control.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will provide the information needed to influence safe behaviors and desired behavioral outcomes for the workplace. Through an introduction to behavior-based safety concepts, there will be an awareness of the influences related to workers displaying and participating in unsafe behaviors. The intention is to provide interventions before accidents or injuries occur. Discussion includes the associated costs to both humans and businesses when unsafe acts and behaviors result in injury or fatality.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces the American legal system and the variety of work done in the public and private practice of law by attorneys and paralegals working under the supervision of attorneys; emphasis on substantive and procedural aspects of law and the role of paralegals in accomplishing varied tasks within the legal system; examination of the structure and operation of the federal and state court systems; discussion of the ethical considerations inherent in the performance of various functions by paralegals. Formerly PARL 180.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This online course prepares students for working in the legal field, specifically in law offices. Students will demonstrate competent knowledge of legal technology software programs typically utilized in a law office for data management and processing, case and trial management, billing, calendaring and electronic communication through interactive software simulation and hands-on experience. Introduction and development of correct keyboard touch-typing finger placement to improve keyboarding accuracy and speed will be interwoven throughout the course to achieve a minimum of 30 WPM. Students will be encouraged to use learned keyboarding techniques to improve speed and accuracy to achieve industry benchmarks. Upon the successful completion of 12 legal technology software modules and course, a digital badge will be provided from the National Society for Legal Technology
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces the student to a typical legal office setting and the duties that may be required of a paralegal, emphasis on various file management and docket systems, billing and account management, client and colleague interaction, current office technology and ethical behavior. Formerly OFAD163
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces basic common law and statutory concepts of family law and domestic relations. Topics include, among others, marriages, separation, divorce, annulment, martial property, the parent-child relationship, child custody and supports, adoptions, guardianship, domestic relations court procedures, and the paralegal's role in the delivery of family law legal services. Ethical obligations, family law terminology and relevant technology in domestic relations practice are also presented. Prereq.- PARL 101. Offered fall semester only.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to prepare the student to become a legal office administrative support person who is either a paralegal or legal office administrator; basic concepts of the law of real property and rules affecting ownership, and transfer of ownership of real property; preparation of deeds, mortgages, title search and leases, including accumulating data and information needed to complete the above forms. Pre- or coreq. - PARL 101; Prereq. - word processing skill using Microsoft Word. Offered fall semester only.
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