2024-2025 Catalog

 

UNV - University Studies

UNV-104 Introduction to Integrative Learning

This course provides students with an introduction to integrative learning and liberal arts skills. In this course, students will develop a plan of study and explore connections between life experiences and academic concepts as they examine personal career goals, passion, purpose, and life calling. This course is not available as an elective.

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UNV-111 Philosophy and Practice of Lifelong Learning I

This course focuses on understanding and managing the transitions encountered upon entering formal higher education. Emphasis will be placed on developing the skills related to personal effectiveness and lifelong learning.

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UNV-116 Internet Tools

This course will introduce students to additional basic tools (applications) which they can use on the Internet for a variety of functions such as communication, file transfers, and research. (Windows 95 and 100 mg free on hard drive are required since many software packages are downloaded.)

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UNV-117 Bldg YOUR Www.home.page

This course will prepare students to create a presence and provide information on the World Wide Web. It will explore the tools and procedures required to design, build, and implement a Web site. This course will give students the ability to move beyond the limitations of prepackaged page development software. Students will learn how to write basic HTML code to create pages containing images and links to other sites. By the conclusion of the course the student will have created a five-page site on the World Wide Web.

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UNV-120 Career Development

A course focusing on development of interests, skills, and preparation in relation to managing personal career growth. Resume and cover letter writing, job search, effective interviewing, and the creation of a professional development plan are included.

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UNV-150 Relationships: Bldg & Maintaining Healthy Relationships At Home & Work

Because people long for relational connection, this course explores how to forge strong rewarding relationships with friends, with the opposite sex, with family, and with God. It is designed to help you make bad relationships better and good ones great. This course does NOT substitute for PSY-150.

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UNV-170 Intro to Library Research

This course will present basic library research techniques designed to promote critical thinking; to improve the ability to determine information needs; to find, synthesize, evaluate, and utilize information from print, electronic, and Internet resources; and to equip one to be a lifelong learner. Not open to students with credit in UNV-114.

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UNV-180 Becoming World Changers: Christian Faith and Contemporary Issues

This introductory course for all first year students outlines the fundamental components of the Christian faith from an evangelical perspective. Students are challenged to develop a Christian worldview through their entire undergraduate experience by examining how Christian ideas both challenge and enrich the prevailing thought patterns of contemporary society. Readings and weekly discussion groups enable students to begin integrating faith, learning, and living as a foundation for their university experience. Co-Requisite: UNV-180G may be required from some sections.

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UNV-180G Becoming World Changers (group)

Graded on a CR/NC basis.

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UNV-181 Leading Change in the World

This course is designed to assist students with the development of a basic plan to change their world. Students will be briefly introduced to key elements of select leadership models, change theory, and strategic planning, and will use this theory to build a model to become change agents. Students will be introduced to a Christian worldview of change by experiencing select readings of prominent change agents in Biblical history.

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UNV-201 Integrative Learning Capstone

A capstone experience in which students reflect upon and communicate integrative learning in relation to a Christian worldview. This course is not available as an elective. Prerequisite: UNV-104

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UNV-210 Beginning Grant Writing and Management

Businesses, non-profits, research organizations, and community members often need to identify and procure grant funding to sustain, maintain, or grow their organization. This course will equip students with the tools to find, write, and manage external funding opportunities. Students will work through the entire life-cycle of the grant process from research development, prospecting, proposal development, award set-up, financial and compliance management, and reporting.

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UNV-300 Health and Well-Being for the Transitioning Veteran

This course equips students, who are transitioning veterans, with the information and resources necessary to move beyond the stresses of deployment and reintegration and embrace the opportunities available both in the community and through earned benefits for veterans.

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UNV-318 Beyond Suffering

This course will examine ways in which Scripture addresses disability and suffering, thus providing a dynamic model of spiritual transformation. Students will learn to embrace brokenness. This course is relevant to all disciplines.

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UNV-360 Enterprise Community Internship

This course is focused on facilitating and supporting for-credit internship opportunities within the state of Indiana for students seeking to apply in-class learning to an out-of-class applied learning community. Students will participate in an internship experience and the course concurrently, which facilitates community connections and involvement. Students from various academic disciplines will be brought together to process and reflect upon the Enterprise Community experience and the impact this experience has on the overall understanding of self-directed learning, self-assessment, career exploration, faith integration, and professional development. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or departmental approval and declared major.

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UNV-401 Integrative Learning Advanced Capstone

A capstone experience in which students analyze and interpret their integrative learning in relation to a Christian worldview to explain issues and solve problems. Prerequisite: UNV-104

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UNV-488 Special Topics in Life Calling

Transfer students will explore Life Calling and Liberal Arts in a supportive course designed to ease their transition to the IWU academic community.

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UNV-500 Health and Well-Being for the Transitioning Veteran

This course equips students, who are transitioning veterans, with the information and resources necessary to move beyond the stresses of deployment and reintegration and embrace the opportunities available both in the community and through earned benefits for veterans.

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UNV-501 Graduate Practical Training Seminar/Externship I

The Graduate Practical Training (PT) Seminar/Externship I course introduces students to opportunities for gaining practical work experience while linking those experiences to graduate level course outcomes. Students will describe a process change, procedural innovation, or another enhancement proposed to their employer based on learning in the course curriculum. Students will engage in practical training during the program through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Post Completion Occupational Practical Training (OPT).

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UNV-502 Graduate Practical Training Seminar/ Externship II

The Graduate Practical Training (PT) Seminar/Externship II course provides students with an opportunity to gain practical work experience while linking those experiences to graduate level course outcomes. Students will describe a process change, procedural innovation, or another enhancement proposed to their employer based on learning in the course curriculum. Students will engage in practical training during the program through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Post Completion Occupational Practical Training (OPT). UNV-502 is taken after the completion of the first term.

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UNV-503 Graduate Practical Training Seminar/ Externship III

The Graduate Practical Training (PT) Seminar/Externship III capstone course provides students with an opportunity to gain practical work experience while linking those experiences to graduate level course outcomes and their future career. Students will describe a process change, procedural innovation, or another enhancement proposed to their employer based on learning in the course curriculum. Students will engage in practical training during the program through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Post Completion Occupational Practical Training (OPT). UNV-503 is taken in the last term.

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UNV-701 Doctoral Practice Training Seminar/Externship

The Doctoral Practical Training (PT) Seminar/Externship course provides students with an opportunity to gain practical work experience while linking those experiences to doctoral level course outcomes. Students will describe a process change, procedural innovation, or another enhancement proposed to their employer based on learning in the course curriculum. Students will engage in practical training during the program through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Post Completion Occupational Practical Training (OPT).

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