LAP-5000 Liberal Arts and Professional Life

This course seeks to define the liberal arts and explore their relevance in today's world. Proceeding from the past to modern times, the course provides a broad overview of the liberal arts throughout the world, including history, the arts and sciences, literature, the social sciences, and philosophy/religion. With graduate mentor guidance, students will conduct independent research and will relate their findings to workplace or community experiences. As its major objective, this course examines the content, meaning, and interrelationship of the liberal arts and their direct relevance to the intellectual and moral formation of the working professional. Students will explore a selection of texts that illuminate fundamental issues outside of the workplace, in which professionals exercise their responsibilities. As part of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) curriculum, this course provides a basis for subsequent courses by encouraging an appreciation of the liberal arts as a formative influence in Western history and culture and establishing a common understanding of the implications of the professions and professionalism.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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SAM-5010 Sense of Community I: Art and Morality

This course examines art and morality through the unique perspective that "reading" artifacts can give to a true understanding of the development of communities in time. The course explores how art gives us access to commune with those here before us as well as those who exist with us, thus enhancing our senses of community and communications. Through this phenomenological approach, the course raises questions about the nature of what we create as both an expression of who we are and an influence that transforms us as new values (including morals and ethics) and realms of experience are created. The course defines "culture" as the interactive growth that brings out and develops uniquely human possibilities and develops sensitivity to the development of ideas and institutions as creative projects. Students will explore selected cultures that coexist with us in time as well as those that may have existed before us and are no more. The course emphasizes how this approach allows us to nurture our own possibilities out of the limitless depths of imagination and expressions as well as the magic power of art to produce understanding. Students will be prepared to incorporate their own imaginative abilities in the creation of individualized projects.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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SAM-5020 Sense of Community II: Faith and Reason

This course explores the character and quality of human discourse as it tries to describe what it means to be human in the great dialogues between faith and reason. This course is designed to help overcome perceptual obstacles to cross-cultural understanding through comparing and contrasting philosophical, scientific, and religious texts of Eastern, Western, and Native American cultures. Thus, students will gain a greater sense of being part of a larger global community while attaining a better understanding of their own cultural influences. Students will identify examples and case studies in their professional lives that relate to issues arising from the discussions of the texts and will use the lessons of human discourse as a platform to broaden their vision and create practical applications in the workplace and community. During this process of exploration, students will be expected to articulate their own values and beliefs with an understanding of how these may be influenced by their own cultural biases and perceptions.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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CCR-6100 Change, Conflict, and Resolution

This graduate-level course examines change, conflict, and resolution in both historic and contemporary contexts and invites students to apply these concepts to personal and professional lives while reflecting on their local, national, and global significance. Through assigned texts and readings, class discussions, and independent research in interdisciplinary subject areas, students will develop an understanding of change, conflict, and resolution as they relate to diverse cultures and eras, including the civil rights movement, women's rights, civil disobedience, working within the system, and revolution. The course will provide students with practical insights culled from a deep understanding of global change and will empower them with tools to steer and manage change in their lives and communities.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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SIC-5200 The Species, the Individual, and Community

In this interdisciplinary course, students explore "human nature" using theories and tools from biology and from many of the social sciences, including archeology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Students will learn the theories by reading both classic texts and recent scholarly works, including a novel about human evolution set in the Ice Age, and by watching videos, visiting websites, and writing several short papers. Ultimately, students will be asked to formulate their own understanding of "human nature" and to apply their insights to social situations at home, school, work, or the wider community.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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THC-6250 Technology and the Human Community: Challenges and Responses

Technology and the Human Community: Challenges and Responses looks at technology historically and philosophically. The course focuses on technological issues affecting contemporary and emerging professional, public, and private structures. A central issue is the role of the citizen in dealing with political, economic, and social pressures related to technology. A key purpose of this course is for students to exchange views by engaging in and discussing serious social and technological issues with a view toward their resolution.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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OLT-5100 Theory and Culture of Online Learning

This course is designed to give adult educators a theoretical base and practical orientation to the culture of online learning as well as tools and concepts to use in creating and teaching online courses. The course emphasizes a variety of readings, individual student work, and a class discussion of online learning accompanied by practical experience in designing an online course. Because of the theory-base and instructional approach used in this course, participation by every student is crucial so that students can both learn and support each other in their learning process.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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OLT-5200 Learning Technology as an Issue in Online Learning

One of the few things that almost all agree on is that technology is changing rapidly. How can teachers and learners keep up? This course takes the prudent track of discussing technology in the broader context of how to make decisions, solve problems, and learn/teach technological skills.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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OLT-6300 Issues in Instructional Design in Online Learning

How is instructional design for online learning different from instructional design for other modes of delivering instruction? This course provides critical discussion of and practice in the ideas and practices that enhance quality in online learning and is designed for teachers who wish to develop effective online courses. Through readings and course discussions, students will gather and evaluate instructional material appropriate for online teaching and apply good instructional design principles to online teaching situations. Students will explore specific issues related to online courses and will plan, implement, and evaluate strategies that present the material to promote student learning in the courses.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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OLT-6400 Communication and Interactivity in Online Learning

The technology enabling online learning allows communication and interaction between student and texts, student and teacher, and student and other students. This course considers the theoretical aspects of communication and interactivity and the practical skills of facilitating online discussions and online interactions. With the advent of web 2.0, the interactive web, there are new ways of communicating with students. Some are appropriate for an online class, some are not. This course will examine communication in light of new developments, keeping in mind that all courses must conform to solid pedagogical principles. Students will also be working to develop a "philosophy of online teaching" statement that is often required when applying for an online teaching position.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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MLS-7000 Capstone I

This is the first of two courses needed to complete the Capstone Project for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program. The proposal is not the project itself but the foundation on which the student will create the project. The Capstone project represents new work and ideas. Although the idea may come from an issue or report previously undertaken, the project gives the student the opportunity to apply and interpret the ideas, practices, and/or skills learned during the MALS program.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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MLS-7100 Capstone II

This is the second of two courses needed to complete the Capstone project for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program. The Capstone project represents new work and ideas. Although the idea may come from an issue or report previously undertaken, the project gives the student the opportunity to apply and interpret the ideas, practices, and/or skills learned during the MALS program.

Note: Students must successfully complete the requirements of MLS-7000: Capstone I before enrolling in MLS-7100: Capstone II.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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