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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
As a connection between theory and practice, students will work with faculty in hands-on, service-learning activities related to ecological restoration and sustainable development. Projects will be coordinated through the Center for Social Justice's environmental programs (e.g., composting initiative, community gardens, Brown's Creek reclamation). Classroom readings and discussions will complement the extensive field experience.
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3.00 Credits
Students will engage in community-based research, directed research projects, and/or service learning projects that relate to issues of creation care and environmental protection, sustainability, and reclamation.
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6.00 Credits
Field placement in an internship in the US or abroad. To enhance the internship experience, students will be required to complete key readings related to their proposed field placement, to keep a log of their activities, and to participate in directed debriefing sessions.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to the field of the integration of nonprofit and for-profit worlds. Utilizing case studies, key readings, and primary information sources, students will examine critical issues including sustainability, impact and performance, measuring social return, and leadership qualities demanded by the field. Each student will develop a business plan for a social enterprise.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with the primary components of nonprofit management. Students will learn the process for starting a new nonprofit organization, including legal steps for pursuing tax-exempt status. Students will also be introduced to key areas of nonprofit leadership, strategic planning, board development and evaluation, grant writing, volunteer management and establishment of partnerships and alliences.
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3.00 Credits
A capstone course for all majors. Through readings, class presentations, and an applied research project, students will begin to integrate the classes from the various disciplines in which they have studied.
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3.00 Credits
As a capstone course for all majors, this class will focus upon integrating the learning experience of the interdisciplinary Social Justice curriculum through readings, class presentations, and the student's completion of a Senior Thesis on a self-selected topic related to the student's concentration.
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3.00 Credits
Faculty directed oversight of classic and/or contemporary readings in specific areas of environmental justice.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes strategies to assist students in both writing and reading skills. It gives practice in the writing of paragraphs and focuses on an intensive review of grammar and punctuation. The course also analyzes the paragraph and other reading selections from the reader's perspective in order to increase students' reading skills. It is required of students with an English ACT score of 17 and below and/or reading ACT score of 15 and below. The course gives institutional credit but no credit toward graduation. Graded S, IP, U, F.
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3.00 Credits
Designed for married students only, this course assists couples in evaluating and enriching their relationship. Interactive and practical, focus is on identifying both the interferences to and characteristics of a healthy marriage.
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