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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course studies a range of different contemporary American novelists.
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1.00 Credits
This class is a two-week intensive pass/fail workshop for doctoral students in any discipline (the third week will be devoted to optional conferences with the facilitator). Participants will spend the majority of their time writing in a shared space. The group will break periodically for discussions on topics of common interest, such as motivation, goal setting, time management, and successful writing habits and rituals, as well as for brief movement exercises and writing activities drawn from our required text. The workshop will run from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Snacks and beverages will be available to participants throughout the day. Grading will be on a pass/fail basis.
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3.00 Credits
This course is for Masters students in literature or the creative writing tracks who are doing a Masters Thesis. Such students should sign up for this course for the semester when they will be doing the most substantial part of their thesis work.
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3.00 Credits
Formal recogniton of the teaching done by Graduate Teaching Assistants.
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3.00 Credits
Formal recognition of work done by graduate students conducting projects under the terms of graduate Administrative/Research Assistantships.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
The totality of a discipline is virtually infinite, but a curriculum is by necessity very limited. Independent Studies are designed to allow students to explore things outside the current curriculum. Readings and some significant projects will be agreed between student and the supervising faculty. The work may include, but is not necessarily limited to, readings in a period, author, subdiscilpine, issue, or critical problem, or the initial mastery of some skill, form, or technique. There is an expectation that work will be both significant and substantial. Proposals must be approved in advance.
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
Research is truly independent work that students undertake to expand their skill or knowledge base. This course is especially appropriate for students engaged with extended work on such projects as studying for doctoral examinations or working on dissertations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the following topics regarding technology innovation and advancement:Methods to identify opportunity: market pull, technology push, Defining the problem: root cause/root need for an innovative solution, Daily practices in creativity, ideation and innovation: critical steps, tools, and factors leading to successful innovation, Synthesize a new concept or innovation using ideation and innovation framework: Building physical or digital models of concepts to determine feasibility, Communicate the project concept, market opportunity and overall action plan, and Entrepreneurship vs. Intrapreneurship. This is a hands-on course where students will be given a project/problem to demonstrate technology innovation. Case studies and leading industry experts will supplement readings, observations and discovery. At the end of this course it is expected that students will have a new opportunity identified with a basic understanding of current constraints as well as potential solutions. Solution/s will be visually communicated in the form of physical and/or digital models.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares entrepreneurs for the rewards and pitfalls of an entrepreneurial career choice. The content focuses on the essentials of effective management of a start-up company. These topics are also applicable to successfully creating a new product or service within an existing company and as a force for social change. Understanding the positioning of a new company to meet the various marketing, financial, and technological challenges is of central emphasis as well. The course integrates "real-time' decision-making for key management issues as students follow the development of a new venture. Through cases, exercises and discussion students apply course concepts to actual business scenarios in order to practice the broad range of skills required to start and build a company in today's complex world.
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3.00 Credits
The course incorporates lectures and team-based projects in a design-based learning pedagogy to enable students to solve problems requiring applications of technology. Students are taught and expected to use the engineering design process: 1. Identify the need (problem), 2. Research how others have met the need (solved the problem) 3. Define the need with measurable objectives, 4. Brainstorm alternative solutions 5. Select the best solution to meet the objectives 6. Design, fabricate, and assemble prototype. 7. Test the prototype, 8. Compare the results to the objectives. This class will present problems and allow the students to work in groups to define, design, build and test the solutions. Students will learn to weigh alternative options, collect and analyze data, and assess the design using the data and objectives.
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