2024-2025 Catalog

 

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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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