MATC 2025-26 Catalog

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

will include lifecycle nutrition and how diet affects the physiology of the body, metabolism, weight management, and food choices and the development of chronic diseases (diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc.).Prerequisite(s): Complete BIOSCI-201 or CHEM-207. BNLST-Business Analyst (Department 102) BNLST-121 Credits: 3 Business Analyst Planning and Monitoring Instruction in the multiple approaches used for performing business analysis, planning activities and ongoing communication, defining scopes, process improvements, assumptions, constraints, dependencies and the management process. BNLST-122 Credits: 3 Business Analyst Essentials Provides insight into the business analyst role and profession. Examines career pathways, key concepts, and the underlying competencies describing the behaviors, characteristics, knowledge, and personal qualities that support the practice of business analysis. Students will also be introduced to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) guide. BNLST-123 Credits: 3 Requirements Life Cycle Management Prioritize and trace requirements; organize large amounts of data; understand and model requirements using various analysis techniques; and verify, validate and communicate the requirements. BNLST-124 Credits: 3 Elicitation Techniques Examines one of the five Business Analysis Perspectives (Business Intelligence) and the tasks associated with obtaining information from stakeholders (elicitation), confirming the results, and communicating business analysis information with stakeholders. Introduces the business analysis elicitation techniques of surveys, interviews, observation, workshops, benchmarking, and market analysis. BNLST-127 Credits: 3 Requirements Analysis and Design Explores the key tasks of Requirements Analysis and Design that business analysts perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during the elicitation activity. Tasks include specifying and modeling requirements/designs, verifying and validating information, defining requirements architecture, defining solution options that meet business needs, and estimating potential value for those solution options. Introduces techniques of use-cases, prototyping, non functional requirements analysis and acceptance and evaluation criteria. Students will also explore the final perspective of business architecture. BNLST-135 Credits: 3 Business Analyst Strategy Analyst Identify and define business needs; understand business structure, strategy, and impact of work

efforts; define the importance of vision, strategy, goals, and objectives; and define solution scope. Effectively facilitate change management. BNLST-136 Credits: 3 Business Analyst Solution Evaluation Students assess organizational readiness by facilitating testing and training of the solution. Emphasizes test plan creation, execution, and facilitation as well as the development of training plans. Prerequisite(s): Complete BNLST-127. BNLST-137 Credits: 1 Business Analyst Internship A cooperative training program involving actual work experience. Students obtain a position at an approved work station and work under the supervision of a teacher/coordinator. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTRN-796. BNLST-138 Credits: 3 Business Analyst Capstone This course provides Business Analyst students the opportunity to integrate the knowledge they have obtained throughout their curriculum by demonstrating their proficiency during the entire life cycle of a project. Prerequisite(s): Complete BNLST-135. BRHLTH – Business Related Health (Department 160) BRHLTH-112 Credits: 3 Computerized Medical Billing This course introduces students to principles of computerized medical billing using medical office software. Students must possess medical terminology and accounting competencies. Prerequisite(s): Complete OFTECH-104. Completion of or currently enrolled in BRHLTH-125 and BRHLTH-170. BRHLTH-124 Credits: 3 Medical Office Terminology 1 This course presents the principles of medical word construction; emphasizes correct medical word spelling, pronunciation and definition; and introduces terminology specific to various body systems. BRHLTH-125 Credits: 3 Medical Office Terminology 2 This course reinforces correct medical word spelling, pronunciation and definition as studied in BRHLTH-124. Additional terminology specific to various body systems is introduced. Prerequisite(s): Complete BRHLTH-124 with a grade of C or higher. BRHLTH-135 Credits: 3 Medical Document Production This course is designed to expand the student’s medical vocabulary and further develop their skills in keyboarding, transcribing, formatting and editing of researched, dictated and handwritten medical documents. Emphasis is placed on term building and medical accuracy. Prerequisite(s): Complete OFTECH-122 and BRHLTH-125.

BRHLTH-135

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Medical Document Production This course is designed to expand the student’s medical vocabulary and further develop their skills in keyboarding, transcribing, formatting, and editing of researched, dictated and handwritten medical documents. Emphasis is placed on term building and medical accuracy. Prerequisite(s): Completion of or currently enrolled in OFTECH-133. BRHLTH-140 Credits: 3 Electronic Health Records: Administrative Application Students explore the content of the electronic health record through a variety of administrative applications including those related to collection of patient data, documentation, scheduling, coding, insurance claim creation and billing. Medico legal, ethical, and professional use of the protected health information in the electronic health record is addressed. Prerequisite(s): Complete BRHLTH-135. Completion of or currently enrolled in BRHLTH-170. BRHLTH-142 Credits: 3 Administrative Procedures for the Medical Office Students apply previously learned skills to complete simulated medical office activities (with a medical focus) in a timely, accurate manner. Developing desirable human relations and decision-making skills is emphasized. Microcomputers are used. Prerequisite(s): Complete BRHLTH-125. Completion of or currently enrolled in BRHLTH-135 and BRHLTH-170. BRHLTH-170 Credits: 3 Medical Insurance Principles and Coding This course presents common health insurance terminology and familiarizes students with basic principles of disease coding and procedural coding from the physician/provider perspective. This is not for experienced coders. Prerequisite(s): Complete BRHLTH-125. Medical Claims Reimbursement The course focuses on achieving maximizing reimbursement for the medical office through the evaluation and design of patient financial forms, the maintenance of insurance carrier documentation, and the comparison of manual and electronic billing/claims filing systems. Prerequisite(s): currently enrolled BRHLTH-170. BRHLTH-197 Credits: 3 Medical Office Career Investigation This course provides students with in-depth exposure to employment in the healthcare office setting. Student will conduct interviews, research into specific medical office careers, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, participate in group and individual work scenario case problems, and prepare an extensive portfolio. BRHLTH-174 Credits: 2

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