Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved setting within the appropriate area of licensure:
- in a pre-school through 5th grade classroom
- multiage music setting (two different levels, divided among the pre-school, K-6, 7-8, and 9-12 environments)
- adolescent and young adult setting (grades 7-12)
- Profesor: Megan Wereley
- Co-teacher: Sarah Dunlap
This course will introduce students to the multidisciplinary world of entrepreneurship. It will survey and explore the fundamental components of entrepreneurship and its connectedness with a liberal arts education. Emphasis will be placed on how entrepreneurs generate new ideas that are solutions to perceived problems and how they implement those ideas. Students will learn about topics such as the entrepreneurial mindset, design thinking, risk, leadership, decision-making, network building, opportunity identification, and resource acquisition. The entrepreneurial attributes examined in this course have broad value that extend beyond the startup of a business to virtually any job or role a person has in society.
- Profesor: Peter Abramo
This is an experiential learning designated course designed to teach students about general business consulting through a combination of lectures, readings, and work on an actual project for a new or existing business. Using the knowledge gained in this course and building off the knowledge learned in other courses, students will act as consultants for companies by working on projects selected from the Riipen database. Students will interact with business owners, conduct targeted research, perform business analyses, and provide written recommendation reports. [EL]
- Profesor: Peter Abramo
This course will teach students about the role of angel investors in entrepreneurship. Through classroom discussions, readings and direct interaction with a startup company, students will learn about the different aspects of startup funding. Working in collaboration with actual entrepreneurs, students will review a new product, assess the market, evaluate the team, and analyze the financial projections for a startup business. The results of this research will be used in a presentation given to the board of directors for the Northeast Ohio Student Venture Fund who will make an actual investment decision based on the student recommendations. [EL]
- Profesor: Peter Abramo
This course examines the Nazi program of genocide and mass killing in the context of Nazi ideology and in the larger context of modern European history and the evolution of modern antisemitism. It also introduces students to some of the significant historiographical issues in the study of the Holocaust, including questions such as the meaning and significance of the term "Holocaust" and the disturbing phenomenon of Holocaust denial. A section of HIST 201xx is required for majors, but is open to students from all departments and programs. This course does not fulfill the writing intensive requirement.[D, HSS, PPRE]
- Profesor: Peter Pozefsky
Introduction to the history of Europe from 1600 to the present. Central themes include understanding Europe in relation to the rest of the world, colonialism and imperialism, empire, the emergence of capitalism, the rise of the modern state, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialization, anti-colonial movements, anti-capitalist movements, Romanticism, the class system, gender relations, nationalism, and more. [GE, HSS, SJ]
- Profesor: Peter Pozefsky
This course is a survey of various methodologies employed in the study of political science as a foundation for Senior Independent Study. It emphasizes research design, hypothesis construction, data collection, and a variety of forms of empirical political analysis. PSCI 40101 is a prerequisite for enrolling in PSCI 45100. Political science majors normally take PSCI 40101 in their junior year. In the rare case of a student spending their entire junior year off-campus, they must notify the Chair of the Department of Political Science no later than fall semester of their sophomore year so arrangements can be made for the student to take the course in spring semester of their sophomore year. The department recommends that students have at least one introductory course and one 200-level course in their concentration field prior to enrolling in PSCI 40101. Students with a field specialization in Political Theory are exempt from this requirement but are required to take PSCI 40102 instead.
- Profesor: Matt Krain