The Evening schedule also includes courses offered in conjunction with academic departments.
Courses with the SCED designation are offered with the approval of the Wittenberg faculty through SCE. They appear in the Evening and Weekend schedule exclusively. Although designed primarily for adult students in the Organizational Leadership and Certificate programs, most of them are also open to other adult and traditional students who meet stated prerequisites. Where appropriate, the Dean of SCE allocates a fixed number of places for traditional students in these and other SCE-sponsored courses, and enrollment in these places is through the regular registration procedure. In cases where the allocation has been filled, traditional students need the Dean’s signature on a Course Change (ADD) form in order to register. Adult students enroll through the regular SCE procedure.
BIOL 233 Ornithology
5 credits
Ritzenthaler, John
Prerequisite: 170B and 180B
Survey of taxonomy, morphology and ecology of avian orders. Emphasis placed on Midwest examples, includes observation trips.
BUSN 360S Human Resource Management
4 credits
Balas, Cathy
Prerequisite: one S-course
Introduction to the fundamentals of the field, including HR philosophies and assumptions; legal concerns (EEO, OSHA, ADA, etc.); job analysis; personnel planning and recruitment; employee selection, testing, training and development; and compensation systems. “Personnel work” has evolved from primarily administrative functions such as hiring and payroll to a view of “human resources” as a critical partner in business strategy. We will explore this evolution and address issues that face businesses, HR professionals and other managers, and employees. HR issues are current events, so that this will be a dynamic course, using case studies, Web sites, on-line work, newspapers, and magazine articles to supplement the text. Mrs. Balas is Director of Education for AVEteC, a firm specializing in computer simulations of advanced engine processes.
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CHEM 100N Chemistry & Society
4 credits
Hanson, Pete
Prerequisite: Math Placement Level 22
Wittenberg's non-laboratory course for non-majors, CHEM 100N provides the basis for understanding, discussion and debate of contemporary issues from the perspectives of the inhabitants of industrial and developing nations as well as varying perspectives within US culture. The treatment includes an introduction to the science of chemistry and a series of topics showing how chemical processes affect issues of contemporary concern. These issues may include: global warming, use of natural resources, energy use and production, drug development and action, and genetic engineering. Although not carrying a lab designation, the course includes numerous demonstrations and student participation in them.
ENGL 180A Themes in Children’s Literature
4 credits
Ravenwood, Emily
Prerequisite: ENGL 101E
The stories we tell our children display many of our beliefs about how the world is and how it should be. This class will read a wide variety of children’s and young adult books from the past century, and analyze the themes we find in them. We will look for patterns that repeat over time, and examine what elements change or remain the same. We will read closely to discover what actions, thoughts, and ways of relating are supported or denigrated by these stories.
GEOG 250C Globalization
4 credits
Medvedkov, Olga
Prerequisite: None
The world is undergoing a historic transformation, one of those political, economic and social cornerstone changes about which we usually read in history books. It is happening today, in front of our eyes: new alliances are forming, old empires are disappearing, new ideas are traveling with a speed of the Internet, and old traditions feel vulnerable. We live in the age of Globalization. The future world order is indeed in the making: the new world map will look quite different from the old. Our task is to understand the ongoing processes, to make sense of the new directions our world is taking. Geography is the most powerful ally in this mission. In this course we will examine and discuss the pros and cons of globalization and its consequences for different world regions. This course is partially Web-based: time between class instructions/discussions and web-based discussions and assignments will be split approximately 50/50
GEOL 110B Introduction to Geology
4 credits
Miller, David
Prerequisite: Level 22 math placement recommended
Intended for the non-science student. Emphasis on concepts and methodology of the science of geology and its application to problems of human concern about the earth. Note the required Saturday field trip. Dr. David Miller is on the faculty at Clark State Community College and has taught at Wittenberg for the last five years.
HFS 245H History of Women in Sports
4 credits
Arena, Linda
Prerequisite: None
Historical Perspectives of Women in Sport studies the development of sport from early religious ritual to a modern corporate model in western society. The genesis and development of recreation, sport, and exercise for women has been influenced by religion, medicine, economics, politics, and ideology. The intersection of gender, race, and socioeconomic class for women of color is examined, as is the struggle by women for admission in the Olympics. Sport has served as a historical site for feminist transformation and the development of alternative western sport forms. Women have “dared to compete”. The struggle of women to gain entry into sport is both sad and inspirational. Class structure includes short lectures, videos, small group discussion, and analytical minute papers. Students write a sport autobiography, conduct a short cross generation sport interview, and study a related topic of interest in depth.
HIST 101C Modern Japan
4 credits
Maus, Tanya
Prerequisite: None
We often think of modern Japanese history as the history of an exotic culture filled with samurai and geisha. However, who are the individuals that have formed these groups and what do they mean to Japan’s modern history? What other kinds of people have lived in Japan and shaped the evolution of their nation’s modern life? In this course, through historical essays, literature, and images, we will look at modern Japan as a complex and diverse society filled with individuals who have fought for women’s rights, for environmental reform, and who have resisted the attempts of their government to define their identity as Japanese. Students’ work will be evaluated through in-class participation, in-class quizzes, presentations and a variety of written assignments. Writing intensive.
HIST 201H Topic: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture
4 credits
Taylor, Tom
Prerequisite: None
This course surveys the life and work of “America’s greatest architect” from his boyhood in Wisconsin to his death at Taliesin West in 1959. Wright designed some of America’s most famous homes – The Dana Thomas House, The Darwin Martin House, Fallingwater -- and buildings –The Johnson Wax Building, the Larking Building, the Guggenheim Museum. Gifted and supremely self-confident, Wright invented and reinvented himself and his career multiple times, while developing a coherent philosophy of architecture that continues to influence design in our century. Books include 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture, Letters to Architects: Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Lloyd Wright by Neil Levine. Tests, quizzes, projects.
MATH 112Q The Language of Mathematics
4 credits
Barhorst, Garry
Prerequisite: Math Placement Level 22 or higher
College-level experience with the logic, language and methods of mathematics through the study of topics from a variety of areas of mathematics. Not intended as or suitable for preparation for other mathematics courses.
PHIL 200R Applied Ethics
4 credits
Schossberger, Cynthia
Prerequisite: None
This course is a study of one or more areas of practical ethics, e.g., in medicine/health care, business, engineering, law, or the environment. This course does not presuppose earlier course work in ethics. Students will be introduced to ethical reasoning and decision-making in one or more professional and practical domains
RELI 134C/R Chinese & Japanese Religious Traditions
4 credits
Oldstone-Moore, Jennifer
Prerequisite: None
This course examines several religious traditions that have shaped East Asian civilizations. We will study the formal traditions of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Shinto, and the New Religions; we will also consider the popular religious traditions of China and Japan. Classes include both lecture and discussion; students will be evaluated through essay exams, short papers, and analysis of scripture and other texts.
RELI 200R Topic: Luther and Lutheranism in Context
4 credits
Tune, Anders
Prerequisite: None
Martin Luther is one of the most important figures in Christian history in the last 500 years. His life and thought, and their legacies, have profoundly influenced not only the Lutheran tradition but other Christian traditions as well. In the first half of the course we will examine Luther's views, and how Lutheran distinctives were formed by the end of the 16th century. The second half will consider challenges to Lutheranism and other Christian traditions, challenges that developed from the 17th century to today, and how they have been addressed by recent theologians.
RUSS 106F Russian for Professionals II
4 credits
Zaharkov, Lila
Prerequisite: 105 or placement
Second course of a two-course sequence (with RUSS 105) enabling adults to achieve language competency goals within the context of their professional and personal interests. This sequence introduces Russia’s language and culture. The course meets once a week, using the most up-to-date methodology, including video, multimedia language lab, and web-accessed exercises that allow students to work at their own pace. The textbook is accompanied by an instructor-developed manual that enables students to work on assignments between class meetings. Limited to adult/nontraditional students.
SCED 200L Liberal Studies Colloquium: American Democracy—Problems and Prospects
4 credits
Baker, Rob
Prerequisite: ENGL 101E
The foundation of the adult degree program and an intellectual orientation to Wittenberg for adults—but also open to traditional students, particularly transfers seeking to meet the Integrated Learning (L-course) requirement. The Colloquium—Latin for “speaking together”—introduces students to a mature level of critical thinking, research processes, and both written and oral expression. In this semester’s version, we’ll pursue this development through the study of the topic American Democracy: Problems and Prospects.
While the rest of the world looks to America as a model of democracy, we ourselves experience a growing sense of unease about our system and disconnection from its founding ideas and aspirations. Some thinkers even conclude that the pressures and challenges confronting us in recent times threaten the vitality or even the continuation of the system. To gain a clearer understanding of this situation, we will study some essentials of democratic theory. We will use this base to examine key challenges that have presented themselves in our time—shifts in the separation of powers, radical individualism, decreasing citizen participation, and trivialized election campaigns. We will use the criteria of democratic theory to assess these challenges, with the goal of arriving at an intelligent understanding of our evolving system and perhaps some ideas for improving it. The course uses the @witt@home format, combining limited classroom meetings and web-supported interactive work.
SCED 290 Topics: Understanding Financial Statements and Budgeting
4 credits
Egloff, Mark
Prerequisite: None
An introduction to the primary information needed for understanding the business environment and the important role of financial statements and budgeting in that environment. The course will focus on what decision makers want to know about accounting information, rather than how the information is prepared. The emphasis will be on how to read and analyze financial information and make decisions based on that information in order to provide effective leadership for the organization. To gain a better understanding of how different companies, sometimes in the same industry, communicate their financial information in different ways and how analysis can assist in decision making, we will study the reports of selected companies. In addition, the budgeting process will focus on planning, control, and forecasting, using cost accounting elements. The course uses the @witt@home format, combining limited classroom meetings and interactive web-supported instruction. This course does not substitute for MGT 225—Financial Accounting for those students seeking to continue into MGT 226, nor can it be taken for credit by students with credit for MGT 225.
SCED 300-01 Issues: Pre-MBA Finance I
2 credits
Egloff, Mark
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
The introductory Financial Management survey course will explore the basic concepts underlying all financial management activities used by companies. It will review Financial Statements and their analysis; determining and controlling Cash Flow; the impact that time has on the use and cost of money; interest rates; Stock and Bond Valuation and the beginnings of Risk Analysis. During the class, learners will become familiar with and begin to apply the analysis and decision making factors corporate decision makers, at any size or level use in making business decisions. The emphasis of the course will be on understanding the core concepts of Financial Management and how financial decisions are made.
SCED 300-02 Issues: Pre-MBA Finance II
2 credits
Egloff, Mark
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
This follow up to SCED 300-01 begins to take the introductory concepts learned and begins to learn how to apply those concepts to different types of corporate decision making. It will explore how the cost and structure of corporate capital is determined and then with that knowledge begin to explore Capital Budgeting decision making, Cash flow Estimation, Financial Planning and Forecasting, and management of Working Capital and dividend / shareholder distribution management. During the class, learners will become familiar with and begin to apply the financial management concepts learned to sectors of corporate financial management decision making. The emphasis of this survey course is to learn to apply the concepts to common areas where financial decision makers are responsible for choosing the optimal course of action for a company.
SCED 300-03 Issues: Training and Development
2 credits
Bodenmiller, James
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
We will strive for an understanding of the training and development function within an organization context—i.e., what T and D consists of and its strategic relationship to other functions and to the organization as a whole. Within a consideration of various methodologies and learning theories, we will examine the ways in which individuals systematically acquire the skills, concepts, and attitudes that result in improved performance. The course will also present the ways in which training systems are developed, evaluated, and modified and the personal and organizational development issues that professionals must consider in this process. The course uses the @witt@home format, combining limited classroom meetings and web-supported interactive learning. Mr. Bodenmiller is City Manager for the City of Springfield.
SCED 400 Senior Leadership Seminar
4 credits
Ghavami, Fetneh
Prerequisite: None
Adult students synthesize their learning from previous study and experience and develop it into a major report. In this report, students typically identify a problem or process in an organizational setting, provide analysis, present options, and propose appropriate action. The inquiry process, developed in conjunction with the instructor and through activities with the group, addresses the dimensions of both management and leadership. Students present their report in writing to the instructor and orally to the seminar group. The report also serves as the basis for the oral senior assessment presentation for the Liberal Studies major—taking the form of an executive briefing before an invited audience. @witt@home
SOCI 101S Introduction to Sociology
4 credits
Rowell, Katherine
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the cultural and structural patterns of human behavior. The content of this course focuses upon norms, social interaction, social organization, and social change. This course pays special attention to the characteristics of social institutions and how they shape human conduct.
SOCI 110C/S Cultural Anthropology
4 credits
Hammar, Lawrence
Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to the perspective of cultural anthropology. The course pays particular attention to the concept of culture and to the tremendous diversity of cultural patterns around the world. Topics include fieldwork as method and experience, institutions of society, and symbol and meaning. Students will read description of societies from several different ethnographic areas, including the United States. We will end the term with a consideration of the role of anthropology and anthropologists in the world today.
SOCI 201 Topic: War, Identity & Justice
4 credits
Doubt, Keith
Prerequisite: None
What is the contemporary character of war and its destructive impact on societies? How does social violence confront and ultimately transform social identities at the individual and collective level? What is justice and its necessity to social order? Drawing upon sociology, anthropology, literature, and philosophy, we will study the crimes against humanity and war crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992-95, the social construction of identity in multi-ethnic societies, the political character of nationalism, and the concept of justice in the modern era. From the study of Bosnia, we will develop a sociology of war, an anthropology of identity, and philosophy of justice. We, then, will apply this knowledge to the war in Iraq. The goal will be to develop a perspective that is comparative, critical, and historical, one that is objective as well as moral, humanistic, as well as empirical. Well known theories like Samuel Huntington’s theory of the clash of civilizations and Edward Said’s critique of orientalism will be revisited and studied in this context.
SOCI 277C/R Islam and Islamic Societies
4 credits
Pankhurst, Jerry
Prerequisite: None
This course will provide a broad introduction to the religion of Islam, accompanied by an examination of the connections between Islam and the varied life of Muslim societies and of Muslim minority communities in non-Muslim societies. Given the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001, the West’s military reprisals and subsequent reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the ongoing struggle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the devastation of the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean basin, and other problem situations, knowledge of these issues has become of highest priority. We will seek to understand the complex sources of conflict in areas in which Islam is implicated in some way; we will also try to become acquainted with the rich cultural life of Muslims. We will consider Muslim societies all over the world, but, in support of the minor in Africana Studies, we will give a special emphasis to Islam in Africa and to African American Islam. Course format: lecture/seminar, with much group discussion. Graded Requirements: A variety of writing exercises throughout the term, oral presentations, examinations and a term project. This course is Writing Intensive (W) and can be taken for either “C” or “R” credit in General Education.
SPAN 105 Spanish for Professionals I
4 credits
Cantrell, John
Prerequisite: None
First course of a two-course sequence (with SPAN 106F) that follows a modified individualized instruction format, with students meeting to review grammar, to discuss, and to present assignments and projects. Assignments are keyed to students’ professional and/or personal interests, including such areas as business, health care, and law enforcement. Limited to adult/nontraditional students.
THDN 120A Art of the Theatre
4 credits
Humphries, Jimmy
Prerequisite: None
An overview of the development of the Theatre, this course is designed to introduce students to dramatic literature and Theatre practice. This survey will explore the role of Theatre in Western culture within a historical context. The lecture/discussion format is designed to provide insights needed to understand and value Theatre as a part of culture. During the term, students will read four plays and attend one production. Four projects, four tests, one critical essay, and one final exam will be required.
