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Contents:
- Early registration underway for summer and fall sessions
- Evening program students eligible to take Mizzou@Home summer online courses
- Don't forget: Second 8-week session begins March 17
- One-hour "Maymester" courses available on campus
- Scholarships available for nontraditional students
- New Human Resources Component Available
- News tidbits
MU In The Evening Registration Underway for Summer and Fall Sessions
Popular instructors, intriguing courses and topics central to human interest are waiting for you this summer and fall! The summer session offers two on-campus courses and a host of new online courses that you can enjoy from the comfort of home (or your summer destination)! See more information below on the NEW online summer courses.
This fall, MU In The Evening brings you an interesting array of topics like: Psychology of Personality, Darwinism, Human Resource Management, Criminology, Paganism and Christianity, Meteorology and more! See the chart below for a list of the fall courses and how you can use them in your graduation plan.
As always, your adviser, Chris Marshall (marshallce@missouri.edu) will help you determine which courses work best for you.
How the upcoming courses can fit into your graduation plan:
(Note: Courses can often be used to fulfill requirements other the ones listed here. Chris Marshall will help you determine how the courses will best benefit your educational plans.)
| Course: | Counts as: |
|---|---|
Summer 2008 |
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| SOC 2310: Culture in Mass Media | Behavioral Science general education requirement (Gen. Ed.) OR Social Science component course OR Communication component course |
| “Mizzou @ Home” online courses | 27 different online courses are available for you to choose from this summer. (See below for more details.) |
Fall 2008 |
|
| ATM SC 1050: Introductory Meteorology | Physical Science Gen. Ed. |
| COMM 3636: Contemporary Issues in Mass Communication | Communication component course OR Humanities Gen. Ed. course |
| CL HUM 3650: Paganism and Christianity | Humanities Gen. Ed. OR component course |
| ENG 1000: Exposition and Argumentation | Course (or its equivalent) required for graduation for all students |
| ESC PS 4115: Human Learning | Health component course |
| GEOG 4550: Themes in Cultural Geography: White Nationalism on the American Landscape | Social Science Gen. Ed. OR component course |
| G STDY 4960: General Studies Special Readings | Can be used as the General Studies capstone course, which is required for every BGS degree-seeking student in their senior year. Can be taken as writing-intensive or non-writing-intensive. If not used as a capstone course, can be used for other individual study purposes. |
| HIST 2004: Topics: Darwin, Darwinism and Modern History | Social Science Gen. Ed. OR component course |
| HTH PR 2190: Medical Terminology | Health component course |
| (LTC) C&IV 4387: Seminar: Information Management in the Workplace | Information Technology component course OR Business component course |
| MANGMT 4020: Human Resources Management | Business OR Human Resources component course |
| PHIL 2430: Contemporary Moral Issues | Humanities Gen. Ed. OR component course |
| PSYCH 3850: Psychology of Personality | Behavioral Science Gen. Ed. OR Health component course OR Human Resources component course |
| SISLT 4360: Introduction to Web Development | Information Technology and Design component course |
| SISLT 4361: Introduction to Digital Media | Information Technology and Design component course |
| SISLT 4364: Macromedia Flash Authoring Systems | Information Technology and Design component course |
| SISLT 4370: Intermediate Web Development | Information Technology and Design component course |
| SOC 3600: Criminology | Behavioral Science Gen. Ed. OR Sociology component course |
Evening Program Students Eligible to Take MIzzou@Home Courses
In an effort to provide more options for day campus students to take Mizzou courses wherever they travel over the summer, MU Direct: Continuing & Distance Education began offering “Mizzou@Home” online courses in 2007. This year there are 27 online courses to choose from. As an evening student, you are eligible to take these courses if wish. (Make sure to check with Chris Marshall to confirm your course choices fit into your graduation plan.)
To learn more about these online summer courses and to see a complete list of options, visit the Mizzou@Home mini-site. Note that there are several offerings that will fulfill various graduation requirements for you. One of the courses, Business Communication, will count as a writing-intensive (WI) course. There is a financial planning course that satisfies the math reasoning proficiency requirement and another course that meets the state law requirement for a government course. Don't miss your chance to take an online course this summer!
Some of the 2008 Mizzou@Home online courses are:
- International Agribusiness
- Health Communication
- Personal and Family Finance
- Terrorism and Counter Terrorism
- Mind, Brain and Behavior
- Major World Religions
- Social Psychology
- and more ...
If you are a degree-seeking student, you’ll register for any Mizzou@Home course through MyZou. There also is an online enrollment form at the MU Direct site you can use if you wish. But, you will need to use MyZou to finish your enrollment for the rest of your summer or fall courses.
If you are a Direct Access student, you will enroll for your course using the online enrollment form at the Mizzou@Home mini-site. Directions: View the course details for the course you’re interested in. At the bottom of the details screen is a button called “Add this course.” After you click on that button, you’ll be taken to a screen where you can enter your information and submit the form online.
Reminder: Second Eight-Week Spring 2008 Session Begins March 17
There’s still time to register for a 2nd eight-week spring course! Using MyZou, you can register for a second eight-week session anytime up to the beginning of class on March 17.
All of the second session courses are being taught by returning, popular evening instructors. There are several interesting and important classes being offered. For instance, Fundamentals of Management (MANGMT 3000) is a valuable building block course for anyone with a business or management component or an interest in corporate communication.
Other 2nd session eight-week courses are:
- HIST 2004: Religion and Politics in 20th Century America. This course can be used to meet the social science general education requirement or as a social science component course.
- PSYCH 3150: Human Memory. This course works as a behavioral science general education requirement or as a Health component course.
- CL HUM 3005: The Ancient World in Cinema. Use this course as a humanities general education requirement or as a humanities component course.
If you are a Direct Access student, also send your enrollment form in. Your registration will be completed the week before the second session begins.
One-Hour "Maymester" Courses Available on Campus
The College of Arts & Science is offering one-hour courses over the break between spring semester and the summer session. Called “Maymester,” these courses are offered during the day, on the MU campus. You will register for these one-hour courses using MyZou. NOTE: to find the courses in the MyZou system, do an advanced search and select “intersession” to see the offerings.
Some of the one-hour intersession classes include:
- Beginning Photography
- Stem Cell Biology, Human Cloning and Ethics
- Introductory Statistical Methods
- The Immune System and Disease
- Ancient Greek World
- and more…
Scholarship Available for Nontraditional Students
Applications are due May 1 for the 2008 Osher Re-Entry Scholarship. A maximum of $2,000 is awarded per student for educational fees.
Eligibility requirements:
- Be an MU student admitted to your first baccalaureate degree. (The scholarship is not available to those seeking a second bachelor's or graduate degree.)
- Be a U.S. citizen between the ages of 23 and 50.
- Have had your previous studies interrupted for a period of at least five years.
- Plan to participate in the workforce after graduation.
- Have financial need.
For more details and to download the application form, go to http://extension.missouri.edu/education/scholarships/osher.htm.
Note: If you continue your studies at MU after completing your bachelor’s degree, there is another scholarship available for nontraditional students who are seeking graduate degrees. The scholarship is available to graduate students who are pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree offered through MU Direct: Continuing and Distance Education. For details about this scholarship, visit http://extension.missouri.edu/education/scholarships/littrell.htm
New Human Resources Component Available
ApAs an evening student, you have incredible freedom to customize your degree. With Chris Marshall’s help, you can combine past course work and new classes that interest you into a series of ‘components’ that make up your plan of study. We are happy to announce that we have a new component available now: Human Resources! Using courses from several disciplines, such as Curriculum and Instruction, Communication, Management, Sociology and Psychology, the Human Resources component will have students studying the intricacies of human interaction in organizations.
The component kicks off this fall with MANGMT 4020: Human Resource Management in the second eight-week session. Many of the courses that make up this component can be used in other components as well (i.e. business or communication). If you’re interested in having human resources listed as one of your focus areas, contact Chris Marshall.
Other courses that could count in the human resources component include:
- C&IV 3510: Human Relations in Organizations
- MANGMT 3000: Fundamentals of Management
- MANGMT 4030: Organizational Behavior
- COMMUN 4476: Organizational Communication
- COMMUN 3470: Culture and Communication
- COMMUN 3441: Nonverbal Communication
- SOCIOL 3310: Social Psychology
- SOCIOL 3710: Sociology of Work
- PSYCH 3850: Psychology of Personality
- If you haven’t used the new MyZou system to register yourself for classes, you will find helpful tips at http://evening.missouri.edu/myzou.html.
- Mark your calendars for the end-of-the-year celebration for MU In The Evening. On Friday, May 16, join your fellow students who are graduating in May, August or December 2008. The reception will begin at 5:00 p.m. and the program will start at 5:30 in N208 Memorial Union (Walt Disney Room). Everyone is invited to attend, even if you’re not graduating! Watch your e-mail for more details about this year’s MU In The Evening Graduation Party!
- We’d still like to know what you think of the new look for the MU In The Evening web site. Let us know if you have any suggestions for the site.