2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

130 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
work experiences/employer evaluations. Thus, a student's
digital portfolio provides the ability to show work on demand
and evidence of their preparation for a multimedia and
Web development career.
The objective of this course is for students to demonstrate
the theoretical as well as the technical skills they have
acquired throughout the program. Students will assess
personal strengths to establish a career goal and decide
how to organize their media design and production work
in a graduation portfolio.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify the need for a digital portfolio.
• Identify the target audience of a digital portfolio.
• Demonstrate the ability to organize, collect and prepare
material for a digital portfolio.
• Define copyright laws for multimedia and Web
development.
• Demonstrate the ability to design a user interface for a
digital portfolio.
• Demonstrate the use of multimedia and Web software
tools to develop a digital portfolio.
Prereq. IMM 100 or IMM 205 and IMM 120
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 100
(INS) Insurance
Introduction To Insurance
This course introduces students to fundamentals of
insurance with emphasis on claim functions as part of
the industry structure.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Characterize fundamental insurance concepts of
reinsurance, underwriting and claims
• Analyze the structure of the insurance industry and the
role of government insurance
• Articulate the role of insurance in our society, including
the ethical guidelines for adjusters
• Identify the principles of risk management
• Describe the functions of the claims adjuster and of
claim adjusting.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 210
Evidence and Investigative
Principles
A study in the conduct, principles and procedures relative
to investigation.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify evidence as used in the conduct of
civil investigation
• Provide an overview of the rules and principles of evidence
• Identify and explain hearsay evidence and contrast the
traditional common law exceptions to the hearsay rule
• Research and develop a technique based on a scientific
method whereby a structured inquiry may be conducted
• Develop an investigative narrative report for the following
types of insurance claims: vehicular traffic accident,
arson, commercial and personal property, malpractice,
product liability, workers compensation
and marine
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 211
File Management and
Negotations
An application course in file management and control
with emphasis on psychological principles of human
behavior, motivation, verbal/non-verbal communication
and other general barriers to successful negotiations.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Develop the process and procedures to be followed from
the inception of the claim through the investigation,
evaluation, negotiation and settlement phase
• Explain how a knowledge of the concepts of psychology
aid in preparing for negotiation as it requires an
understanding of human behavior
• Identify and explain the various strategies employed
in negotiations
• Discuss the tactic of persuasion and other tactics
employed in dealing with resistance during the course
of negotiations
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 221
Investigation of Death and
Injury
A course directed to medicolegal investigation of death
under a variety of circumstances and applicable tort action.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Provide a forensic definition of death
• Differentiate among cause, manner and mechanism of death
• Discuss the law generally with respect to trauma and
disease in civil, tort and worker’s compensation cases
• List the four major categories of death due to asphyxia
• Describe the differences and similarities in the investigation
of death by asphyxia and death by drowning
• Provide a correlation of postmortem finds with roadside
accidents in explaining causes of death and/or the accident
• Explain why it is necessary to identify and separate
various types of lesions
• List and explain some general procedures to be followed
during an autopsy
• Identify the various aspects and reasoning of the
mediocolegal autopsy report
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 222
Arson Investigation
This course enables students to become familiar with the
problem inherent in determining the causes of fires, recognition
of arson, preservation of evidence and successful
prosecution of those responsible.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Cite the organization established to investigate causes
and types of arson
• Depict the role of fire personnel in arson suppression
• Detail the significant scientific aids available to the
fire investigator
• Outline the urban and suburban incendiary fire patterns
that have increased in the last decade
• Conduct interviews to establish fire causes
• Write a comprehensive permanent record of a case
and provide guidance in the preparation and conduct
of litigation
• Develop skills essential to offering expert testimony in
civil and criminal arson cases
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 223
Fraud Investigation
This forensic science course applicable to investigation
and case preparation of losses due to crimes of theft
generally. Topics include: home and commercial burglaries,
employee theft, retail theft, cargo and computer theft,
embezzlement-deceptive business practices, fraud, whitecollar
and systematic criminality.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Define the legal term of burglary
• Identify the burglar and his skills, and differentiate
between residential and commercial burglaries as they
apply to the burglars’ target selection, equipment,
methods of entry, selection of items and disposal of
goods stolen
• Define the term ‘theft’ and explain completely modus
operandi as it relates to auto theft, theft from building,
employee theft, shoplifting and cargo theft
• Provide an investigative format for the casualty claims
adjuster in handling losses due to burglary and theft
• Identify the governmental,, non-governmental, private
and public sources of information when preparing a
personal background investigation
• Discuss victim-offender relationships, vulnerable victims,
reactions to burglary and theft, resistance, reporting of
burglary and theft, and victims in relation to police officers
as it is relevant to the claims adjuster’s investigation
• Explain how and why the professional claims investigator
of burglary-theft claims should work closely with the
underwriting department of an insurance company
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 230 Liabiality Insurance and
Claims Adjusting
This course addresses the fundamental principles of tort
law application. Evaluation of each type of claim in light of
statute law and defenses to liability area are also addressed.
Topics include: agency bailments innkeepers and carriers,
products, automobiles, professional liability, employer's
liability and worker's compensation.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Read, interpret and explain the liability sections from
some typical liability contracts.
• Explain the common-law articulation of rights, duties and
remedies with respect to owners of property.
• List the three major classifications of torts--differentiate as
to the duties, rights and remedies within each classification.
• Explain the following judicial modifications to the law of
torts: fright without impact, mental anguish, consortium
and the center-of-gravity rule.
• Explain the elements of a contract.
• Explain the fundamental principle of the law of agency.
• Discuss the evolution of workmen's compensation to its
present state with regard to rights, benefits and
administration.
• Trace the evolution of products liability law from the
common-law holding of caveat emptor through
application of the law of torts to present statutory
modifications of the contract of sale.
• Explain the standards to which a professional is held for
services rendered.
• Explain the law in terms of rights, duties, responsibilities,
remedies and defenses for professional practitioners.
• Explain the law in terms of rights, duties, responsibilities,
remedies and defenses to liability applicable to
automobile operators, passengers and pedestrians.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
INS 231
Seminar in Insurance Problems
This course is topical in nature and relevant to particular
contemporary problems in producing insurance or adjusting
claims. The primary purpose of studying problems,
limitations or challenges is to learn how to overcome such
issues as a practical matter. This course will provide an
overview of the insurance marketplace. It is intended to
help you prepare to take the Producer licensing exam or
help you become familiar with Claims adjusting.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify and explain the need for personal lines
of Insurance
• Know the ethical considerations in producing personal
lines Insurance
• Delineate teh differences in various lines of Accident, Life
and Health Insurance
• Prepare to take the Insurance Producer Exam
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
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