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3.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to review and to enhance the content learned at the basic level. Through reading (we read three short contemporary Brazilian novels) and related conversational activities, students are expected to enrich their vocabulary, gain fluency, and improve reading comprehension ability. Prerequisites: two college semesters of Portuguese or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Portug 215, therefore an intermediate level in the Portuguese section. Its main goal is to improve students' reading proficiency, as well as to provide a class environment in which conversational skills can be practiced and made into a solid foundation. In addition, the class provides tools to expand vocabulary and promote a cultural understanding of Brazil. Prerequisite: Portug 215 or permission of instructor
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the theory and practice of leadership from a neglected side-the bad side. The course offers an interdisciplinary approach. Anthropological methods are used in order to understand the typologies, social behaviors, and practices associated with bad leadership. Key topics include an exploration of the definition of bad leadership, circumstances in which it appears, and its implications for leadership. The course also explores the psychology of bad followership and the role of followers in the acceptance and persistence of bad leaders in a variety of social and organizational contexts.
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1.00 Credits
Same as Psych 105
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3.00 Credits
In this course we explore leadership both theoretically and practically. Focus is on understanding the concept of culture and how the cultural context informs a leader's style and effectiveness. This course also is designed to help students develop insights about leadership practice through readings, discussions, conversations with leaders, and group projects based on fieldwork. Students examine a wide variety of leaders and leadership styles in order to better understand how leaders mobilize followers within the constraints of their particular settings. Students also analyze the creation of institutional identity within organizations and corporate culture and explore effective leadership practices within these settings, as well as analyzing some cross-cultural examples of leadership.
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2.00 Credits
This course studies the fundamentals of technology and how that technology is effectively implemented in organizations and affects human interactions and processes. We consider much of Microsoft Office: Excel, Access, and PowerPoint and how the presentation of data in these forms affects our decision-making processes and how humans interact using these technologies. We also develop web skills with a close look at how presentation of information and data in general functions or does not function based simply on how it is presented.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to add in-depth sophistication to the functional skills acquired in one of the Praxis core courses, Fluency in Sociotechnology. Through interdisciplinary reading and exercises, the course illustrates to students that not all visual messages are created equal even when they contain the same information. For example, the most commonly used presentation tool, Microsoft PowerPoint, is routinely used in ways that misrepresents the data it is meant to explain. Organizations often create confusing and complicated spreadsheets that produce numerous and costly errors, the very thing the software is meant to eliminate. Furthermore, web sites are regularly so difficult to navigate and use they unknowingly hemorrhage profits and customers, the two things the technology is designed to attract. In this course, students learn the social, psychological, and organizational implications of using these technologies so they may become more skillful and effective practitioners.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the communication forms and skills essential to contemporary living and working. Various forms of writing for different audiences and purposes: business letters, memorandums, proposals, reports, press releases, speeches as well as public speaking are practiced and critiqued. The use of technology common in public speaking is practiced and critiqued. The use of technology common in public presentations is expected. Course reading is supplemented with viewing and listening. Final grade is based on combination of quizzes, writing assignments, and demonstration of speaking skills. This course is limited only to students in the Praxis Program.
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3.00 Credits
It is a little-known truth that more entrepreneurs come out of Arts & Sciences than any other college. This course begins by exploring why this is so, examining in particular the creative and innovative qualities developed in liberal arts that are crucial to the success of the entrepreneur. We then move on to examine entrepreneurs in action, hearing from those in the field and reading of others, learning how the liberal arts proved instrumental in various ways to their development and ultimate success as entrepreneurs.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Psych 367
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