May 25, 2026  
2025 - 2026 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIT 170 - Principles of Human Disease


Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course will introduce Cancer Information Management (CIM) and Health Information Management (HIM) students to the principles of human disease. This course will also introduce students to therapies for management of pain, diagnostic methods, testing, and procedures.

Corequisite(s): HSC 113  and BIO 163  or BIO 168  
SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Define common disease terms.

  • Describe the major categories of human disease.

  • Describe the most common diagnostic methods, testing, and procedures for disease processes.



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