8 Week Courses. The benefits and more

Are you someone who realized to change your major after starting classes? Did you drop a class but wanted to stay full-time? Do you think you can handle another class?

If you answered yes to any of these questions I have some good news for you. 8-week fast track courses are on E-services for students. Below we have listed each online class, the credits, course description, goal area met, and if it is in-person, hybrid, online with zoom, or fully online.

This list could change.


Intro to Applied Leadership AOS 301-02 3 Credits Online

  • Topics include world economics and their implications for the labor force, critical and creative thinking, leadership, and portfolio assessment. Required for admission to the Applied Organizational Studies program
  • Course will be taught online.

Applied Leadership Communication Workshop AOS 320-02 3 Credits Online

  • The focus in this course is on communication within organizations (including virtual environments), workplace engagement in virtual teamwork and the application of critical and creative thinking resulting in organizational innovation. The course also engages students in an exploration of the role of social organizing and the impact of networking on organizational growth and sustainability.
  • Restricted to program(s): Upper Division Permission

Leadership Workshop 2 AOS 380-01 3 Credits Online

  • The focus in this course is on critical thinking, decision-making, and leadership in contemporary organizational environments. The course also explores the concept of followership and power distribution, and organizational adaptation due to technological and global economic change. Students will also participate in an applied quantitative research project in an approved organization of choice.
  • Restricted to program(s): Upper Division Permission

Chem Life Proc (Part 1) CHEM 106-01 3 Credits Online

  • This course covers fundamental concepts required to understand the general chemistry in living organisms. This is a non-laboratory class. This chemistry course will not prepare students for any Chemistry course at or above the 200 level.
  • Goal Area Met: 3

Public Speaking CMST 102-30 3 Credits In-Person

  • A course in communication principles to develop skills in the analysis and presentation of speeches.
  • This class is listed as full but I would check back often to see if students have dropped the course
  • Goal Area Met: 1B

Decision Making for Career & Life CSP 110-06 & 08 3 Credits Blended/Hybrid

  • The purpose of this course is to help students develop critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills necessary to manage the challenges they face now (choice of major) and in the future (career choice and balancing work and life roles). Meets General Education requirements for critical thinking.
  • Goal Area Met: 2

Elements of Geography GEOG 100-03 3 Credits Online

  • An introduction to Geography and its themes of study. The course will familiarize students with where places are located in the world together with their cultural and physical features. Students will be tasked to think critically and diversely about various cultures and features of the modern world.
  • This class is listed as full but I would check back often to see if there is a open spot.
  • Goal Area Met: 8 & 10

Pan African Conference HIST 490-01 2 Credits Asynchronous Online

  • Specific titles to be announced in departmental course descriptions. P/N only.
  • Permission Required to take this course

Visual Mass Communication MASS 260-02 4 Credits Asynchronous Online

  • Exploration of the basic principles of visual media design, stressing the significance of images in a mass media society. Special focus on contextualizing historial and technological changes affecting image production for mass media.
  • Goal Area Met: 5 & 7

Intro to Museum Studies MUSE 200W-01 3 Credits Online

  • Introduces history of museums and philosophical nature of museums, covering types and definitions of museums, discusses contemporary practice in museums, and examines current issues in the profession as we face the future of museums in the twenty-first century.
  • This class is listed as full but I would check back often to see if there is a open spot.
  • Goal Area Met: 5 & 8

Introduction to Ethics PHIL 120W-01 3 Credits Asynchronous Online

  • Discussion of theories of value and obligation
  • Goal Areas Met: 6 & 9

United States Government POL 111-04 4 Credits In-Person

  • Become informed enough to play your part in governing the United States. Start by learning about the Constitution, our rights and freedoms, how the national government works and the opportunities and challenges of citizen influence. Political Science methods, and the challenges of citizenship are emphasized.
  • Goal Area Met: 5 & 9

Workshop PSYC – 490-01 1 Credit In-Person

  • Topics to be announced. May be retaken for credit.
  • Permission is required
  • Restricted to program(s): Upper Division Permission

Academic & Wellness Skills WELL 100-02 1 Credit Flex Synchronous

  • This course builds wellness, resilience, and academic skills designed to support your health and your life as a student through practicing skills and strategies for stress hardiness and academic success. Throughout the semester, students will identify their personal strengths, values, and interests, practice skills for healthy interpersonal relationships, and explore various domains of wellness and strategies for self-care and self-determination, in a structured and supportive environment. Students will also investigate learning styles, study and test-taking strategies, and practice various approaches to self-advocacy, planning, and SMART goal setting.

Many of these classes can help students stay on track or get back on track. If you aren’t sure what the best options are for you reach out to your advisor.

If you need help adding or dropping a course use this link to learn how.

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If you want to look on e-services you can type 3/1/2022 in the begins after date. This will show you all 8-week courses

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