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 133B Intro to Ornithology
5 credits
Ritzenthaler, John
Prerequisite: for non-majors
Survey of taxonomy, morphology and ecology of avian orders. Emphasis placed on Midwest examples, includes Saturday/Sunday observation trips.
BIOL 233 Ornithology
5 credits
Ritzenthaler, John
Prerequisite: for majors; 170B and 180B
Survey of taxonomy, morphology and ecology of avian orders. Emphasis placed on Midwest examples, includes Saturday/Sunday 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
Dudek, Raymond
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.
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 eight years.
HIST 229A American Film
4 credits
Taylor, Tom
Prerequisite: None
An introduction to and overview of film in America since the 1890s, the course includes the origins of the film industry and aesthetics of silent film; the rise of the studio system and sound film; the studio era and the "golden age" of Hollywood; the breakdown of the studio system in the 1960s and the rise of the independents; and the globalization of film in the contemporary era. In each era we consider the intersection of art, craft, technology and business, as well as the major directors, stars and writers. Quizzes and tests. Books include Flashback the The Making of Citizen Kane.
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.
MUSI 110A Understanding Music
4 credits
Phillips, Edward
Prerequisite: None
Understanding Music is an introduction to music history and literature. This course is intended for non-music majors. Understanding Music covers topics related to music notation and the six eras of music history. As part of this course, students will attend three professional or Department of Music concerts throughout the semester.
PHIL 102R Introduction to Philosophy
4 credits
Schossberger, Cynthia
Prerequisite: None
This course is an introductory examination of the basic areas of philosophy, addressing questions like the following: What is Justice, and what is it to be just? What sorts of things exist, and how can we distinguish reality from mere appearance? How does the mind work, and is it a physical part of our being, or is it something extra-physical, like the soul? Can the soul "control" the body? Can we understand creatures with minds different from our own? Do any non-physical things even exist, for instance, minds, souls, or spirits? What does it mean to reason, and to reason well?Do we have free will, or are our behaviors and thoughts determined by chemical and physical events in our brains? Is knowledge possible, and how do we know what we know?
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: What is Friendship?
4 credits
Doubt, Keith
Prerequisite: ENGL 101E
In this Liberal Studies Colloquium, we examine the subject of friendship from the viewpoint of several disciplines: psychology, sociology, philosophy, and literature. We focus on examples of friendship from popular culture as well as classical literature. Modern television and foreign films also provide materials for the study of what friendship is. There are manifest and latent benefits here. Although you have formed friendships throughout your life, you will be starting to form new friendships in college. The subject is timely for you. You, moreover, have strong ideas about friendship and thus bring something important and powerful to the course. The course is a chance to measure your ideas against such great thinkers like Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Kant, Kierkegaard, and others.
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: Entrepreneurial Leadership I
2 credits
Kaplan, Thomas
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
In this course, students will learn about how to engage in the entrepreneurial process in any setting using design thinking. Upon completion of the course, students will be prepared to evaluate the feasibility of a potential product, service or venture and the planning required to effectively launching a new venture. @witt@home
SCED 300-02 Issues: Entrepreneurial II
2 credits
Kaplan, Thomas
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
This course is designed to move students from the understanding phase of entrepreneurship to the application phase. A major element of this course will involve students, either individually or in teams, developing an executable plan for a new venture. @witt@home
SCED 300-03 Issues: Administering Employee Benefits
2 credits
Bodenmiller, Jim
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
The goal is to develop a clear awareness of this responsibility in both profit and not-for-profit organizations and to provide techniques for effective, legally compliant, equitable, and ethical administration of programs. We will examine such areas as insurance, pension, and retirement plans; policies for vacation and personal leave; and flexible spending accounts, using these practical areas as a basis for analyzing benefit theory and practice and the ethical and legal concerns attaching to them. Associated concerns for the practicing professional include challenges in administration, access, affordability and cost control, communicating with employees, attraction and retention effects, and wider societal questions inherent in various benefits. 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 300-04 Issues: Pre-MBA Managerial Accounting
2 credits
Egloff, Mark
Prerequisite: Soph. standing or permission
An introduction to the concepts underlying the preparation and use of accounting data by managers as they plan, control, and make decisions within an organization. This course uses the @witt/@home format, combining limited classroom meetings and web-supported interactive activities.
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 110C/S Cultural Anthropology
4 credits
Rowell, Katherine
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 245C/S Gender and Society
4 credits
Moskowitz, Nona
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the student to the construction of gender categories, roles, and inequalities across cultures. Men and women are biological organisms embedded in complex cultural and personal histories that vary from society to society. We will begin with a discussion of whether or not gender is biologically or culturally constructed. We will then consider the ways in which sexuality (homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality) is culturally and/or biologically constructed. We will look at the way that gender is constructed in societies which are egalitarian, move on to more complex hierarchical societies and end with a discussion of how gender is constructed in societies such as our own. We will utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, biographic, and biological data to explain the different worlds in which men and women must learn culturally specific gender behavior. One of the aims of the course will be to dissolve some of the stereotypes about other cultures' constructions of gender and sexuality and develop a more rich and sophisticated understanding of them and ourselves. Some of the topics of the course will include definitions of femininity and masculinity, marriage, kinship systems and how these shape men's and women's roles and relationships. Comparative cross-cultural methodologies will be employed to examine particular human traits across diverse societies in the world today and in the recent past.
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.
