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EDUC 457 - Enhanced Student Teaching, K-12
Credit(s): 10
This course offers a full-time teaching experience in an accredited public school under the direction of a selected cooperating teacher, a Tusculum University Clinical Experience Supervisor and the Director of Field Experience. Candidates are required to observe the same schedule as that prescribed for regular classroom teachers and are expected to participate in the same activities as the cooperating teacher. Each candidate is required to complete a minimum of two placements during the 16 weeks of the full-time student teaching experience.
Prerequisites: Meets Criteria for Student Teaching and passage of Praxis Content Knowledge test.
Corequisites: EDUC 452
Course Level: Undergraduate
Pass/Fail: Course graded as Pass/Fail.
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EDUC 481 - Teacher Education Clinical Experience II
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to facilitate early and ongoing practice opportunities for teacher candidates in a public school setting. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. These developmental opportunities/ experiences will take place primarily in school-based situations, but may be augmented by community-based and virtual situations.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education and successful completion of EDUC 380 .
Course Level: Undergraduate
Hours: 80 clinical hours in a public school are required for this course.
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EDUC 500 - Foundations Of Schooling And Human Development
Credit(s): 3
This graduate course will include presentation of instructional practices and developmentally appropriate teaching strategies for inclusion of students of diverse cultures, abilities and needs. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to plan, implement and assess curriculum that includes varied teaching strategies, current technology, materials and community resources. The planned topics will include the psychological and social development of the student. Candidates will demonstrate ability to plan and teach both skills and content while building a community of engaged learners.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 503 - Designing Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to engage current teachers in a thorough examination of various instructional strategies and to determine which strategies might be most appropriate for a myriad of learning styles and students with diverse educational backgrounds, strengths, weaknesses and disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on examination of current best practice in teaching including such topics as STEM, TEAM, collaboration with colleagues-parents-community, differentiation, learning strategies and integration of instructional topics.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 505 - Planning Instruction For Present And Future
Credit(s): 3
Provides the classroom teacher with an opportunity to design instruction and encourages educators to explore the needs of learners. A single instructional plan for all students is explored as well as instructional plans designed to meet the needs of special students.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 506 - Planning Instruction In Today’s Classroom
Credit(s): 3
This course will include presentation of instructional practices and developmentally appropriate teaching strategies for inclusion of students of diverse cultures, abilities and needs. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to plan, implement and assess curriculum that includes varied teaching strategies, current technology, materials and community resources. The planned topics will include the psychological and social development of the student. Candidates will demonstrate ability to plan and teach both skills and content while building a community of engaged learners.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 512 - Teacher Education Clinical Experience
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to facilitate early and ongoing practice opportunities for teacher candidates in a public school setting. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. These developmental opportunities/experiences will take place primarily in school-based situations, but may be augmented by community-based and virtual situations. Candidates will be engaged in action research throughout this semester-long experience.
Prerequisites: Approved federal background check.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 513 - Strategies For Assessing And Communicating Learning Progress
Credit(s): 3
This course provides detailed information regarding assessment function, construction, and administration. Candidates will learn to interpret assessment results to guide instruction. In addition, this course provides the foundation candidates need to prepare for action and traditional research projects in EDUC 534.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 514 - Assessing Learning Progress
Credit(s): 3
This graduate course is designed to refine the candidates’ skills in assessing the learners’ behaviors and to increase their knowledge of characteristics, uses, advantages and limitations of different types of assessments for evaluating student learning. Strategies for accommodating learning needs and communicating progress to students, parents and colleagues will be explored. Candidates will know, understand and use formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuing intellectual, social and personal development of the learner.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 515 - Innovative Instructional Technology
Credit(s): 3
This course will include an introduction to the applications of technology and pedagogical skills used within the school environment. The primary goal of this course is to provide the candidate with essential skills through the development and use of instructional applications, educational software and computers. The candidate will use technological resources to facilitate developmentally appropriate student learning. Candidates will investigate the use of emerging technology to enhance their professional growth and productivity and promote the equitable, ethical and legal use of technology.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 516 - Integrated Literacy I
Credit(s): 3
This graduate course provides a working knowledge of theories, instructional models and materials for providing reading instruction in grades K-3. Emphasis will be placed on candidates’ understanding of the reading process and reading instruction. An integrated approach to literacy will be presented.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 523 - Leadership Development And Renewal
Credit(s): 3
This course promotes the development of leadership skills for classroom teachers in a changing educational environment. The importance of engaging in community, family and colleague collaboration is analyzed. Various leadership styles are presented and evaluated. Ethics in education are addressed for leadership that influences cultural change.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 525 - Content Methods For Teaching In The Secondary Classroom
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed for pre-service secondary education candidates in the MAT program. Candidates will review state and national standards specific to their licensure content area, explore current literature regarding content-specific methods, and learn about and apply cooperative learning structures for both general and content-specific instruction. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to plan, implement, and assess content standards through interactive lessons that address the needs of all learners. This course will be delivered in a hybrid format. Face-to-face meetings will explore general secondary teaching methods. Online content and course assignments will be differentiated for specific content areas.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 532 - Strategies For Special Needs Students
Credit(s): 3
This course offers information on identification, teaching strategies, curriculum modifications and behavior plans for special needs students in the regular classroom. Research and practical application are the foundations for this course.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 533 - Developmental Behavior Analysis For Practicing Educators
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the complexity of classroom and behavior management from a variety of perspectives. Various models of management and intervention will be discussed including such topics as the causes of misbehavior, understanding the behavior in the classroom, measuring and monitoring behavior, using data to make instructional decisions, proactive classroom and behavior management and creating learning environments that predict and produce student success.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 534 - Applied Research For The Classroom Teacher
Credit(s): 3
This course promotes competent design and use of action research by classroom teachers. Candidates will conduct research on a relevant topic of interest to the candidate in the educational field.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 536 - Advanced Language Arts Concepts
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to assist candidates in designing an inclusive reading/English/language arts cross-curricular learning experiences at all levels of instruction. Participants will make critical judgments regarding best practices in reading instruction, Common Core standards in reading and language arts, adolescent and adult literacy, and usefulness with diverse student groups.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 537 - Methods For Teaching Mathematics In The Elementary Classroom
Credit(s): 3
The purpose of this course is to explore current methods and research regarding the teaching of elementary school mathematics with a focus on effective instructional strategies to integrate mathematical content and processes. Candidates will review elementary mathematics content and explore teaching theories that will aid in the development of mathematical literacy in elementary school children.
Prerequisites: College Algebra and EDUC 500 .
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 540 - The Law And Public Education
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide the practicing educator with an overall understanding of the law and how it applies to all aspects of the teaching profession and the administration of public school programs. The student should gain a deeper insight into the field of school law. The course will cover educational governance, students/teachers and the law, as well as educator and school system liability. Case reviews, oral presentations, readings and class discussions will be utilized.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 544 - Content Area Reading K-12
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide the pre-service teacher opportunities to develop a working knowledge of the instructional methods, study strategies, materials, and the evaluation tools for instruction in Content Area Reading in grades K-12.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 545 - Methods For Teaching Science In The Elementary Classroom
Credit(s): 3
This graduate course is designed to examine elements of effective science instruction and will include a review of state and national science standards. Candidates will know, understand and use the central concepts of life, earth/space and physical science.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 546 - International Education Practicum
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide practicum experience in international classrooms. Students will participate in classroom experiences, attend meetings with educational officials and converse with teacher candidates and their professors at universities in nations outside the United States.
Prerequisites: teacher certification (any state) or EDUC 500 . May substitute for one of the following EDUC 505 , EDUC 523 or EDUC 535.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 549 - Differentiating Instruction And Stem For All Students
Credit(s): 3
This course discusses the various researched-based methods of differentiating of instruction and STEM for all learners. Course content will focus on differentiation across grades K-12 in all academic areas including science, technology, engineering and math.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 550 - Teacher Education Clinical Experience I
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to facilitate early and ongoing practice opportunities for teacher candidates in a public school setting. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. These developmental opportunities/experiences will take place primarily in school-based situations, but may be augmented by community-based and virtual situations.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education.
Course Level: Graduate
Hours: 60 clinical hours in a public school are required for this course.
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EDUC 551 - Teacher Education Clinical Experience II
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to facilitate early and ongoing practice opportunities for teacher candidates in a public school setting. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. These developmental opportunities/experiences will take place primarily in school-based situations, but may be augmented by community-based and virtual situations.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education.
Course Level: Graduate
Hours: 60 clinical hours in a public school are required for this course.
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EDUC 552 - Student Teaching Seminar
Credit(s): 2
This course offers a format for candidates to implement, review, and refine teaching strategies that engage learners in critical thinking while addressing differing perspectives. Candidates will analyze teaching practices, the learning environments, and professional skills through formal and structured reflective activities. Candidates will consider how educational theory and current research in education relate to teacher effectiveness.
Prerequisites: Admission to Student Teaching and passage of Praxis Content Knowledge examination.
Corequisites: Student Teaching.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 554 - Enhanced Student Teaching K-5
Credit(s): 8
This course offers a full-time teaching experience in an accredited public school under the direction of a selected cooperating teacher, a Tusculum University Clinical Experience Supervisor and the Director of Field Experience. Candidates are required to observe the same schedule as that prescribed for regular classroom teachers and are expected to participate in the same activities as the cooperating teacher. Each candidate is required to complete a minimum of two placements during the 16 weeks of the full-time student teaching experience.
Prerequisites: Admission to Student Teaching and passage of Praxis Content Knowledge examination.
Corequisites: EDUC 552
Course Level: Graduate
Pass/Fail: Course graded as Pass/Fail.
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EDUC 555 - Enhanced Student Teaching 6-12
Credit(s): 8
This course offers a full-time teaching experience in an accredited public school under the direction of a selected cooperating teacher, a Tusculum University Clinical Experience Supervisor and the Director of Field Experience. Candidates are required to observe the same schedule as that prescribed for regular classroom teachers and are expected to participate in the same activities as the cooperating teacher. Each candidate is required to complete a minimum of two placements during the 16 weeks of the full-time student teaching experience.
Prerequisites: Admission to Student Teaching and passage of Praxis Content Knowledge examination.
Corequisites: EDUC 552
Course Level: Graduate
Pass/Fail: Course graded as Pass/Fail.
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EDUC 557 - Enhanced Student Teaching K-12
Credit(s): 8
This course offers a full-time teaching experience in an accredited public school under the direction of a selected cooperating teacher, a Tusculum University Clinical Experience Supervisor and the Director of Field Experience. Candidates are required to observe the same schedule as that prescribed for regular classroom teachers and are expected to participate in the same activities as the cooperating teacher. Each candidate is required to complete a minimum of two placements during the 16 weeks of the full-time student teaching experience.
Prerequisites: Admission to Student Teaching and passage of Praxis Content Knowledge examination.
Corequisites: EDUC 552
Course Level: Graduate
Pass/Fail: Course graded as Pass/Fail.
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EDUC 560 - Content Mentoring I
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to provide job-embedded candidates with a content mentor who will be a resource throughout their first two semesters of full-time teaching. Throughout the course, candidates will meet with an assigned mentor to discuss how to apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings that progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P1-12 students’ learning and development. Additionally, job-embedded candidates will complete 10 hours of observation in the content mentor’s classroom.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education as a job-embedded candidate.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 561 - Content Mentoring II
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to provide job-embedded candidates with a content mentor who will be a resource throughout their first two semesters of full-time teaching. Throughout the course, candidates will meet with an assigned mentor to discuss how to apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings that progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P1-12 students’ learning and development. Additionally, job-embedded candidates will complete 10 hours of observation in the content mentor’s classroom.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education as a job-embedded candidate.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 570 - Classroom Discipline And Management
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to help candidates thoughtfully examine various approaches to classroom discipline and management and to ensure that the discipline approach is consistent with the overall instructional program. Emphasis is placed on ways to make informal decisions concerning the various approaches to discipline and properly managing various aspects of the classroom, i.e., teacher-student relationships, personal philosophy, the understanding of the assumptions that undergird various discipline approaches, the physical environment, knowledge of theory and practical applications for classroom discipline and management, so that students stay on task and maintain interest in learning.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 571 - Instructional Interventions
Credit(s): 3
This graduate course provides candidates an opportunity to design interdisciplinary learning experiences related to the curricula, standards, goals and objectives. This will allow candidates to incorporate knowledge, skills, and methods of inquiry from several related subject areas and to use a wide variety of resources and methods in planning instruction based on learner needs. Candidates will be presented an overview of multiple teaching and learning strategies that promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving and performance capabilities and that allow intellectually gifted students, students with disabilities, and those with varied cultural, linguistic, socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds to participate. Pre-service teachers will demonstrate the ability to plan and deliver instruction informed by Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2) at the Tier I and Tier II levels.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 572 - Integrated Literacy For Elementary Teaching II
Credit(s): 3
This course is the second of three integrated literacy courses for K-5 licensure candidates. Throughout the course, candidates will examine the research on how children become literate and the practical implications of this research for teachers. Topics include analyzing complex texts and unit design, creating literacy-rich environments, and analyzing culturally appropriate assessments. Candidates in the course will engage in standards-based literacy planning, instruction, and assessment. Over the semester, candidates will design a comprehensive literacy unit plan and create lesson plans that include evidence-based instructional strategies.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 573 - School Physical Education, Health, And Wellness
Credit(s): 2
This course is designed to provide the candidates with knowledge of wellness and basic health practices that support the development of healthy lifestyles. Candidates will examine how to integrate wellness and physical activities with other subject disciplines of the school curriculum.
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 575 - Reflection On Planning, Teaching, And Assessment
Credit(s): 6
The purpose of this course is to prepare job-embedded candidates for successful completion of the edTPA Assessment required for teacher licensure. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. This course will provide direct support for job-embedded candidates as they prepare the tasks necessary to submit the edTPA.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education as a job-embedded candidate and completion EDUC 560 and EDUC 561 .
Course Level: Graduate
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EDUC 580 - Teacher Education Clinical Experience I
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to facilitate early and ongoing practice opportunities for teacher candidates in a public school setting. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. These developmental opportunities/experiences will take place primarily in school-based situations, but may be augmented by community-based and virtual situations.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education.
Course Level: Graduate
Hours: 60 clinical hours in a public school are required for this course.
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EDUC 581 - Teacher Education Clinical Experience II
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to facilitate early and ongoing practice opportunities for teacher candidates in a public school setting. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. These developmental opportunities/experiences will take place in primarily school-based situations, but may be augmented by community-based and virtual situations.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education.
Course Level: Graduate
Hours: 80 clinical hours in a public school are required for this course.
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EDUC 582 - Content Mentoring I
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to provide job-embedded candidates with a content mentor who will be a resource throughout their first two semesters of full-time teaching. Throughout the course, candidates will meet with an assigned mentor to discuss how to apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings that progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. Additionally, job-embedded candidates will complete 10 hours of observation in the content mentor’s classroom.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education as a job-embedded candidate.
Course Level: Graduate
Pass/Fail: Grading is pass/fail.
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EDUC 583 - Content Mentoring II
Credit(s): 2
The purpose of this course is to provide job-embedded candidates with a content mentor who will be a resource throughout their first two semesters of full-time teaching. Throughout the course, candidates will meet with an assigned mentor to discuss how to apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings that progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. Additionally, job-embedded candidates will complete 10 hours of observation in the content mentor’s classroom.
Prerequisites: EDUC 582 and Admission to Teacher Education as a job-embedded candidate.
Course Level: Graduate
Pass/Fail: Grading is pass/fail.
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EDUC 584 - Reflection On Planning, Teaching, And Assessment
Credit(s): 6
The purpose of this course is to prepare job-embedded candidates for successful completion of the edTPA Assessment required for teacher licensure. Throughout the course, candidates will apply content and pedagogical knowledge in P-12 settings in order to progressively develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to demonstrate positive impact on all P-12 students’ learning and development. This course will provide direct support for job embedded candidates as they prepare the tasks necessary to submit the edTPA.
Prerequisites: EDUC 582 and EDUC 583 and Admission to Teacher Education as a job-embedded candidate.
Course Level: Graduate
Pass/Fail: Grading is pass/fail.
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EDUC 598 - Credit for Prior Learning in Education
Credit(s): Varies upon approval
Course assigned for graduate level credit approved by program based upon prior learning/experience.
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ENGL 100 - English For Developing Writers
Credit(s): 3
This self-directed online course is designed to provide students with basic reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of university-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, sentence and paragraph development, vocabulary building, grammar, punctuation and usage skills. The course offers students valuable preparation and practice for ENGL 110 , Composition and Rhetoric I.
Note(s): Three hours of institutional credit, hours do not apply toward graduation.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 105 - Introduction To Composition
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide students with basic reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of university-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, vocabulary building, idea generating, sentence and paragraph development, organizing principles, and the five-paragraph essay. This course offers students valuable preparation and practice for ENGL 110 .
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 110L - Composition I: Close Reading & Analysis Lab
Credit(s): 1
This course is designed to provide students with extra reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of college-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, sentence and paragraph development, vocabulary building, grammar, punctuation, and usage skills. The course offers students valuable practice to improve skills for ENGL 110 - Composition I: Close Reading And Analysis which they will take simultaneously. This course is offered on a pass/fail basis.
Prerequisites:
- Students who wish to take Accuplacer to determine their English placement may do so; students with no national test scores must take Accuplacer.
- Students who score below a “4” on WritePlacer will be required to take English 110 with a lab component.
- Any student who does not take Accuplacer (except for those bringing in high standardized test scores) will automatically be placed into English 110 with a lab.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 111 - Composition II: Research And Rhetoric
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to university-level research and argumentation. Students learn source analysis, argumentation strategies, research techniques, and documentation. This is a theme-based course, and students will research current topics of interest with an emphasis on community, society, and citizenship.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110 or:
- Students with an ACT English sub-score of 26* or higher or an SAT Verbal sub-score of 600+ will be placed in English 111 and will not need to take English 110.
- Students who wish to take Accuplacer to determine their English placement may do so; students with no national test scores must take Accuplacer.
- Students who score a “6” on WritePlacer will take English 111.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 114 - Journal Production
Credit(s): 1
An activity course offering a practicum in literary journals publication (The Tusculum Review). Students enrolled evaluate submitted manuscripts; participate in bimonthly staff meetings; learn marketing, author correspondence, layout, editing, book criticism, and publication skills; are promoted to staff positions of increased responsibility; and determine the shape and content of an international literary journal. Students receive a letter grade according to their completion of work as contracted with the journal editor. May be taken for up to 8 credits.
Repeatability: May be taken for up to 8.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 118 - Introduction To Public Relations
Credit(s): 3
Introduction to Public Relations is based upon identifying, defining, assessing and creating effective communication strategies accompanied by proper execution and distribution methods. The course will focus on evaluation methods, responsiveness, timeliness, interpretation, planning, content creation, control factors and distribution methods.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Crosslistings: COMM 118
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ENGL 120 - Introduction To Creative Writing
Credit(s): 3
This workshop-based course is designed for students with an interest in creative writing and completes an early requirement for those pursuing an English major. Students participate in a hands-on introduction to the craft of writing poetry and fiction, and they gain experience in close analytical reading of both genres. Other genres, such as creative nonfiction and drama, may be explored.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 137 - Travel Abroad
Credit(s): 1
This is an immersive lab course to accompany ENGL 337 , where students read literary texts with respect to landscape, culture, and history. Students taking this course may travel abroad with or without ENGL 337 for one credit with permission of the instructor. This course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits and is offered on a pass/fail basis.
Repeatability: Up to 4 credits
Course Level: Undergraduate
Pass/Fail: Yes
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ENGL 201 - Literature Of Sexuality
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the connections between gender, sexuality and literature. Through a study of literature by women, gay men, lesbians and other writers for whom sexuality and sexual identity has been a source of interrogation, students will explore the idea that gender is culturally constructed and investigate the way that our definitions of gender and sexual identity interact with other social constructs of the self. They will also interrogate the way that the body has become a site for the exertion of power, both social and political.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 204 - Introduction To Poetry
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to the reading of poetry, this course concentrates on the analysis and study of poetry and its forms. Significant poets and poetic movements will be explored.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 205 - Introduction To Short Fiction
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the elements of short fiction and to the history of short stories as a discrete literary genre. Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of technique and style in stories of various genres, time periods and cultures.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 206 - Folklore And The Fairytale
Credit(s): 3
Students will consider the political, historical and social concerns that lie beneath the surface of often-familiar narratives through an investigation of a variety of cultural tales, including German, British, and non-Western. Students will have the opportunity to study the interconnections between literature, fairytale, and folklore, and how they influence each other in various ways and have been readapted in modern texts.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 207 - Myth And Making
Credit(s): 3
Study of myths from different cultural traditions with attention to their social, religious, and artistic contexts, along with illustration of their evocative power and continued rebirth in literature and the arts. We also examine current theories of mythological structure and meaning, as well as modern myth-making in literature and film.
Prerequisites: ENGL 111
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 213 - British Literature I
Credit(s): 3
Surveys selected works by writers from the British Isles from the Medieval period through the Restoration/18th century. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 214 - American Literature I
Credit(s): 3
Surveys major works in American literature from pre-European colonization through the Civil War. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 215 - World Literature I
Credit(s): 3
Introduces students to texts and authors from around the world that made a lasting contribution to human culture and civilization. While the emphasis is on Western literatures, non-Western cultures are also represented. This course includes ancient literature through the seventeenth century.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 217 - Science Fiction
Credit(s): 3
This course requires students to reach beyond stereotypes associated with the science fiction genre in order to examine novels, stories, comics, and films that interrogate the global commodification of culture, the fetishization of technology, and the prevailing ideologies that structure race, gender, and class relations. Drawing upon works from North America, Europe, and Asia, this course will ultimately challenge what counts as “human” in our increasingly inhuman world.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 218 - Media Writing
Credit(s): 3
An introductory course examining how writing styles and techniques must change when producing text to be delivered via different media outlets, such as newspaper, magazines, radio, social media, websites, and television.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
Crosslistings: COMM 218
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ENGL 219 - Theatre Of The World
Credit(s): 3
From tragedy to absurdity, this course focuses on dramas written across the world. Students will examine how dramatists of different countries and time periods have approached gender, culture, form and function. Through a global perspective, students will consider the differences between drama on the page and on the stage, and will work to appreciate theater comparatively as well as historically.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 223 - British Literature II
Credit(s): 3
Surveys selected works from the British Isles tradition. Covers Romanticism to the present. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 224 - American Literature II
Credit(s): 3
Surveys major works in American literature from the end of the Civil War (1865) to the present. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 225 - World Literature II
Credit(s): 3
Explores literature from diverse cultures from the eighteenth century to the present. The course emphasizes the relationship between literary texts and the cultures that produced them.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 227 - Appalachian Literature
Credit(s): 3
Examines works produced in the Appalachian region. The class considers how social, historical, economic and aesthetic concerns have combined to create a distinctive literature. The course may require some fieldwork.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 228 - Minority Voices In American Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on American minority literature. Students will read a variety of genres by authors of African-American, Asian-American, Jewish-American, Native-American, and Latina/Latino backgrounds, working to analyze how these authors approach cultural identity and ethnicity. Students will also examine how these authors have influenced and been influenced by American culture, history and literary traditions.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 230 - Scriptwriting
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to and workshop in writing for stage and/or screen. Students will learn about elements of dramatic writing, including structure, plot, characters, dialogue, scenes and sequences. Focusing on studies in the craft of scriptwriting, this course requires intensive reading, writing and revision.
Prerequisites: ENGL 111
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 231 - Introduction To Film
Credit(s): 3
Students will be introduced to the techniques and aesthetics of film and an overview of film history. The course covers genre issues; compares studio, foreign and independent films; looks at aspects of film composition, and examines significant works by authors such as Alfred Hitchcock.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 233 - Writing For Organizations
Credit(s): 3
Students will learn how to write effectively and quickly in a business context, exploring the proper form and content of memos, reports, business letters, executive summaries and other business documents. Students will also learn how to write and design their own personal resumes and will produce a finished resume and a cover letter. Additionally, students will learn how to deliver oral presentations appropriate to different audiences and forums.
Prerequisites: ENGL 111
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 240 - Intermediate Creative Writing
Credit(s): 3
This course offers a more nuanced study of the craft of imaginative writing. Students will examine principles and practices of both poetry and prose in order to gain a broader and deeper understanding of their work and of creative writing in general. Through exposure to and analysis of the work of esteemed writers, students will acquire literary models, strengthen their editing and revision skills, and improve their critical vocabulary.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 245 - Nature Writing And Environmental Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course will explore various roles that narrative literature plays in mediating human interactions with nature, natural resources, the Anthropocene, and environment.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 250 - Special Topics In Literature
Credit(s): 3
A flexible course designed to broaden students’ knowledge and appreciation of the arts by examining special topics in literature of particular interest to students and faculty. Emphasis is on readings organized around a thematic approach or concept.
Prerequisites: ENGL 110
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit provided course topic is different.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 302 - Great Works You Should Have Read By Now
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on long-form literature (including novels, plays, long poems, and book-length nonfiction) that have collectively become “must reads.” Students will examine what makes these works “great” – stylistically, aesthetically, historically, culturally – in an effort to question the role and creation of a canon while also appreciating the fact that some literature does, for one reason or another, rise to the top.
Prerequisites: one 200-level literature course.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 305 - The Life And Works Of…
Credit(s): 3
This course looks at the life and works of an author who has contributed a significant legacy to the world of letters. The course interrogates one author’s life, along with the author’s plays, poetry, and/or prose and examines the literary devices employed in the body of work being considered. This course promotes an improved understanding of a significant literary figure and a deeper enjoyment of an important writer’s timeless work.
Prerequisites: HUMA 199 or a 200-level literature course.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 309 - The Fantastic And The Uncanny In Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on representations of the fantastic and uncanny in the literary tradition, from ghosts prowling Gothic castles to psychological preoccupations. Students will delve into literature that presents the fantastic and/or uncanny, and work to unpack how those fantastical elements function in a text (psychologically, historically, structurally and culturally). By analyzing the uncanny in it all its complexity – as both a spiritual and psychological phenomenon – students will grapple with the fantastic, bizarre and strange in literature.
Prerequisites: one 200-level literature course.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 312 - Editing For Publication
Credit(s): 3
The course will cover advanced editing for print publications. It will train students to edit copy for accuracy, clarity, conciseness and flair. Students will examine the different needs for various media genres and outlets, and they will learn to identify possible libel and ethical dilemmas faced by editors.
Prerequisites: two 200-level English courses.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 320 - Poetry Workshop
Credit(s): 3
A close study of the art and craft of poetry, this course demands intensive reading and writing experiments, and requires the practice of thoughtful revision strategies. Through formal analysis of peer work and established models, students will increase their ability to effectively review their own and others’ writing. Students will learn conventions for submitting manuscripts for publication.
Prerequisites and Co-requisites: ENGL 240
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 321 - Fiction Workshop
Credit(s): 3
A close study of the craft of fiction, with an emphasis on the art of the literary short story, this course demands intensive reading and writing experiments, and requires the practice of thoughtful revision strategies. Through formal analysis of peer work and established models, students will increase their ability to effectively review their own and others’ writing. Students will learn conventions for submitting manuscripts for publication.
Prerequisites and Co-requisites: ENGL 240
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 326 - Literary Theory and Genre
Credit(s): 3
This foundational course serves as an introduction to major theorists and schools of literary theory as well as an exploration of the ways that genre informs the reading and reception of literary texts. The course will provide a historical context for the development of different theoretical viewpoints and explore literary texts through various theoretical lenses.
Prerequisites: One-200 level literature course.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 328 - Concepts Of Language
Credit(s): 3
Examines aspects of language including its origin as a symbolic activity and the development of English from Anglo-Saxon, to Middle, and then Modern English. Linguistics will be explored as the sound systems, forms, structures, and lexicon that serves as a basis of the study of language as a symbolic and social practice.
Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and on-200-level literature or humanities class.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 332 - Genres In Shakespeare
Credit(s): 3
Examines representative works from Shakespeare’s dramatic genres (histories, romances, comedies, tragedies) and poetry.
Prerequisites: one 200-level literature course.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 337 - Literature of Place
Credit(s): 3
By relating important literary texts to the landscapes that inspired their writing, students will learn to better contextualize literature in its historical situation and place, as well as more effectively understand literature’s continuing importance in our modern world. This course may be taken without travelling abroad. This course may be combined with ENGL 137 - Travel Abroad that affords students the opportunity to study literature in the place and culture in which it was written. May be repeated once for credit provided the destinations are different.
Prerequisites: HUMA 199 and one 200-level literature course.
Repeatability: May be repeated once for credit.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 338 - Literary Nonfiction Workshop
Credit(s): 3
A close study of the craft of nonfiction, with an emphasis on the art of the essay, this course demands intensive reading and writing experiments, and requires the practice of thoughtful revision strategies. Through formal analysis of peer work and established models, students will increase their ability to effectively review their own and others’ writing. Students will learn conventions for submitting manuscripts for publication.
Prerequisites and Co-requisites: ENGL 240
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 340 - Grant Writing
Credit(s): 3
In this advanced writing course, students will learn to locate grant opportunities and write grant proposals. Students will work closely with one or more local non-profit organizations, Tusculum University, or a charitable group of their choosing to produce a grant proposal suitable for submission. The focus of this course is to promote the “civic” aspect of Tusculum University’s commitment to the Civic Arts.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 345 - African American Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course surveys African American literature and literary traditions from the 1700s to the present, exploring themes of representation, power, enfranchisement, and freedom in historical and cultural contexts.
Prerequisites: HUMA 199 or ENGL 228
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 353 - Seminar in British Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course examines a specific period, theme, or genre within British Literature, such as Medieval Literature, Victorian Literature, English Drama, the British Novel, or Heretics and Nonconformists. Topics are changed with each offering, and the course may be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.
Prerequisites: HUMA 199
Repeatability: Up to 4 credits
Course Level: Undergraduate
Pass/Fail: Yes
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ENGL 354 - Seminar in American Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course examines a specialized theme, topic, or era within American literature in depth and may be repeated for credit with distinct emphases. Potential focuses may include Colonial America; The Reform Novel; Transcendentalism; Regionalism, Naturalism, and Local Color; Modern Poetry; Women’s Work; Possession and Dispossession; Literature of the South. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits provided the topic is different.
Prerequisites: HUMA 199
Repeatability: Up to 6 credits
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 355 - Seminar in World Literature
Credit(s): 3
Examines broad cultural traditions from around the world, such as Caribbean Literature, Literature of Continental Europe, African Literature, or Literature of the Silk Road. Emphasis is on a shared cultural experience and cultural exchange in one region of the world. The optic changes with each offering, and the course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit provided the topic is different.
Prerequisites: HUMA 199
Repeatability: Up to 6 credits
Course Level: Undergraduate
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ENGL 420 - Senior Seminar
Credit(s): 3
The culminating course for those English majors, this seminar offers students a transition to post-undergraduate career and/or graduate-level academic pursuits. Working with the course facilitator and a second reader/advisor, students will complete a final portfolio that includes a résumé or curriculum vitae, a project that serves as a sample of their best work in their area of study, and a personal statement about (or critical introduction to) their capstone project. Students will fulfill their public speaking requirement in this course by presenting their capstone work in a public forum.
Prerequisites: senior standing.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Crosslistings: COMM 420
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ENGL 450 - Independent Study
Credit(s): 1-6
This course is designed to permit students to explore material not normally offered in the existing curriculum, to delve significantly deeper in material that is offered, or to undertake a project not otherwise provided. Students considering enrolling in the course should have a specific topic or purpose firmly in mind.
Prerequisites: Faculty Advisor and Department Chair approval.
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ENGL 452 - Specialized Internship
Credit(s): 1-3
The internship experience provides advanced students on-the-job experience in their area of study and in a variety of settings. Students may elect to work on or off campus in areas such as editing, writing, public relations, publications management, or communication. The number of credit hours will vary based on the hours worked in the internship.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of the instructor.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Crosslistings: COMM 452
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ENGL 453 - Extended Specialized Internship
Credit(s): 1-6
The internship experience provides advanced students on-the-job experience in their area of study and in a variety of settings. Students may elect to work on or off campus in areas such as editing, writing, public relations, publications management, or communication. The number of credit hours will vary based on the hours worked in the internship.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of the instructor.
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MSEL 601 - Leading Negotiations: Domestic & Cross-Cultural
Credit(s): 3
This skills-based course explores the fundamentals and application of negotiation strategy. Students will be offered an experiential introduction to the concepts, instruments, functions, and theories of negotiation with a focus on managing the integrative and distractive aspects of the negotiation process. Simulated negotiations will occur in a variety of contexts with an emphasis on the challenges to leadership and negotiation when working virtually and in an increasingly interconnected, multicultural world.
Course Level: Graduate
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MSEL 602 - Leading in Virtual Environments
Credit(s): 3
This course will apply leadership theory as well as specific skills and techniques for effectively leading organizations and teams in a virtual environment. Mitigating virtual challenges such as: 24/7 access, trust, accountability, and working across cultures & time zones will be addressed. Enhancing remote work benefits such as: productivity, work-life balance, employee motivation, reducing overhead, and recruiting a superior workforce will be explored.
Course Level: Graduate
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MSEL 603 - New Venture Creation
Credit(s): 3
This course will introduce students to elements of entrepreneurship and new venture creation including
but not limited to: (1) Generating tangible ideas; (2) Founder and New Venture Team Characteristics; (3)
Strategic analysis and positioning; and (4) Business Planning. Students will explore current best practices
for developing new ideas and products, assembling resources to go to market, positioning their business
in the market and/or creating new market space, and planning and presenting new venture concepts to
internal and external stakeholders. The course will use strategic management as the basis for exploring
and integrating a comprehensive set of business functions.
Course Level: Graduate
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MSEL 604 - Creativity & Innovation in a Dynamic Environment
Credit(s): 3
This case course introduces students to the disciplined approach of creativity and innovation and explores the interplay between creativity, organizational processes/systems and successful innovation. The approach provides students with tools, techniques, strategies and practices to foster individual, group and organizational creativity and innovation while embracing ambiguity and risk-taking.
Course Level: Graduate
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MSEL 605 - Funding, Valuation, & Exit Strategy Selection
Credit(s): 3
This course will introduce students to financial decision making for new ventures. It provides the fundamentals for thinking analytically about whether a new venture opportunity is worth pursuing and about how to apply the tools of financial economic theory to enhance the expected value of the undertaking. Key topics include funding sources, venture valuation, financial forecasting and planning, and exit alternatives.
Course Level: Graduate
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EVSC 111 - Environmental Science
Credit(s): 3
Environmental Science is intended as a basic survey course designed to provide the student with an understanding of ecological principles and processes. Students will develop their skills at scientific inquiry. Considerations of interactions of social, political, economic and scientific issues will be related to developing the skills necessary for survival in society and the biosphere.
Course Level: Undergraduate
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EVSC 111L - Environmental Science Lab
Credit(s): 1
This course is the laboratory component of EVSC 111 .
Course Level: Undergraduate
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