Because of our dedication to providing our students with a high quality, high-caliber education, Columbia Southern University continues to implement Quality Matters (QM) standards into our online courses.

Quality Matters is a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer-review process that certifies the quality of online courses. Quality Matters has developed a widely respected set of Standards for the design of effective online courses and a rigorous, faculty peer review process for applying these Standards to existing courses. Through this process, reviewers provide instructors and instructional design teams with insights and recommendations that increase learner engagement, retention and satisfaction, and, ultimately, learner achievement.

CSU is committed to implement the QM standards for the design of online courses, and we are systematically building and evaluating our courses based on these rigorous, research-supported standards. The QM standards assure that the online components of these courses promote learner engagement and provide students with all the tools and information they need to be successful learners. For more information about the Quality Matters Program, visit www.qualitymatters.org.

The following courses have been reviewed and meet Quality Matters course design standards:

• ART 1301 – Art Appreciation I
• BUS 3302 – Sales Management
• LDR 3301 – Leadership
• MGT 4303 – Production Management
• ENV 4302 – Environmental Strategies
• HCA 3301 – Health Care Management
• BIO 1303 – General Biology I
• BIO 1302 – Ecology and the Environment
• ENV 3307 – Environmental Issues
• OSH 3310 – Total Environmental Health and Safety Management
• LDR 4301 – Managing Diversity in Organizations
• LDR 4304 – Negotiation/Conflict Resolution
• BUS 6320 – Global Strategic Management
• CHE 6304 – Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Assessment
• ENG 1302 – English Composition II
• EMS 4301 – Finance of EMS Systems
• EMS 4302 – Leadership in EMS Systems
• EMS 4305 – EMS Public Information and Community Relations
• EMS 4320 – EMS System Design
• FIN 3301 – Financial Management
• FIR 3306 – Fire Prevention Organization and Management
• FIR 3307 – Community Risk Reduction for the Fire and Emergency Services
• FIR 3312 – Fire Ground Tactics I
• FIR 4302 – Fire Service Personnel Management
• FIR 4304 – Fire Dynamics
• FIR 4308 – Applications in Fire Research
• FRN 4303 – Pathology of Death
• HIS 1301 – American History I
• HIS 1303 – United States Military History I
• ITC 3306 – Operating Systems
• LSS 1301 – Learning Strategies for Success
• MKT 3304 – Marketing Research
• MAT 2301 – Elementary Statistics
• MKT 5301 – Advanced Marketing
• RCH 5301 – Research Methods
• ECO 6301 – Economics for Managers
• ENV 5301 – Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management
• HRM 6301 – Human Resource Management Methods
• MKT 5306 – Entrepreneurial Marketing
• OSH 6302 – Advanced Industrial Hygiene
• LDR 6301 – Psychological Foundations of Leadership
• OSH 2301 – Introduction to Workplace Safety
• OSH 3304 – Construction Safety
• PHI 1301 – Critical Thinking
• PHY 1302 – Physics II
• POL 1301 – Introduction to Political Science
• POL 2301 – United States Government
• PSY 1301 – General Psychology
• PSY 2301 – Abnormal Psychology
• PSY 3302 – Social Psychology
• PSY 3301 – History and Systems of Psychology
• SEC 3302 – Advanced IS Security
• SEC 4302 – Planning and Audits
• SOC 2302 – Cultural Geography