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PY 70900 - Professional Practice: Consultation, Supervision, and Communication
3 This course is designed for students to recognize the role of diverse models of supervision and consultation within counseling psychology. Recognizing the value of consultation within and across disciplines will be emphasized to socialize students as collaborative professionals. Effectiveness in communication within roles as supervisee, supervisor, seeking and providing consultation, and communicating with appropriate parties will be explored. Supervision, consultation, and communication within Alaska’s unique landscape, including indigenous populations and Alaskan communities will be emphasized. Offered Fall.
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AC - Accounting |
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AC 20100 - Financial Accounting I
(3) This course provides the introduction to double entry bookkeeping, and preparation of income statement, balance sheet, and statement of stockholders equity, accrual concepts and methods, accounting for merchandising operations, general ledger and reconciliation of accounts including bank reconciliations, cash, and internal controls. Offered Fall. Professional Competencies: T&P; FI.
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AC 20200 - Financial Accounting II
(3) This course will cover preparation and use of cash flow statements, accounting for asset, liability and equity accounts. Specifically, accounting for receivables, payables, long term debt, stock transactions, dividends and retained earnings, analysis of financial statements using ratios, ethical financial reporting, and introduction to the accounting environment, generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and SOX. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall. Professional Competencies: T&P; FI.
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AC 20300 - Principles of Managerial Accounting
(3) This course will address how data from financial information systems are used to make business decisions. Topics covered include: analysis of cost and profitability, preparation of operating budgets for management and control, efficiency measures, time value of money, discounted cash flow analysis, and capital investment decisions. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: WOC; T&P; FI.
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AC 20400 - Payroll Accounting
(3) Introduction to the use of a computerized accounting system, payroll accounting fundamentals: preparation, reporting, and compliance of payroll and tax regulations. Offered Spring. Professional Competencies: FI; Q.
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AC 36000 - Intermediate Accounting I
(3) The first in a series of 3 courses introduces students to the concepts and practices of accounting and reporting financial transactions for public companies. A study of the history of accounting profession and the accounting standards setting process, in-depth review of the accounting process and complex problem solving, accounting for current assets: cash, receivables, inventory, and financial statement analysis. Offered Fall. Professional Competencies: KA; PEB; WOC.
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AC 36100 - Intermediate Accounting II
(3) This course will continue to build skills and knowledge necessary to understand and apply Financial Accounting Standards in preparing financial statements. Contents include: accounting for payroll, current liabilities, long-term liabilities, and stockholders equity. Emphasis will be placed on reporting issues and concepts. Topics also covered: controversial issues in accounting for complex transactions such as stock options, warrants, earnings per share, and financial statement analysis. Offered Fall. Professional Competencies: KA; PEB; WOC.
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AC 36200 - Intermediate Accounting III
(3) This course will continue to build skills and knowledge necessary to understand and apply Financial Accounting Standards in preparing financial statements. The course will specifically address financial accounting standards related to income and expense recognition, investments, leases, pensions, deferred taxes, full disclosure of significant financial transactions in financial statements, and financial statement analysis. Offered Spring. Professional Competencies: KA; PEB; WOC; CP.
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AC 38000 - Directed Study
(1-4) Develop knowledge and skills in a specific area of Accounting under the guidance of the faculty. This is in addition to the regular AC curriculum.
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AC 39200 - Special Topics
(1-4) Appropriate descriptions published when special topic is offered. Offered as needed.
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AC 46200 - Strategic Cost Analysis
(3) Study of cost concepts and analysis for strategic planning and value chain analysis, profit variance analysis, cost analysis and control, and strategic financial analysis for long-term major investments. Prerequisite: . Offered Spring. Professional Competencies: KA; R&A; CT; WOC; CP.
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AC 46300 - Business Systems Thinking
(3) This course is designed to provide students a solid understanding of systems thinking in organizations. The course will address accounting systems cycles as examples to show and how they interact with the other subsystems and the larger organizational information systems. The course will also address selection and implementation of systems appropriate for a business; designing and implementing business processes, internal controls, and documentation including Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) and assessment of risk. Offered Summer. Professional Competencies: PEB; R&A; CT; CP.
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AC 46500 - Auditing
(3) This course describes the role of the auditor; professional standards and ethics; organization, planning and execution of the audit; audit programs and procedures for specific account balances and general audit procedures; auditor’s report and other attestation and accounting services; and internal, operational, and compliance audit. Offered Summer. Professional Competencies: PEB; CT; WOC; CP.
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AC 47000 - Seminar in Taxation
(3) Seminar in Taxation develops a framework, which provides a method to analyze the effects of tax rules on individual and corporate decision making. The course involves the study of the development of tax laws, their impact on economic policy, and special current topics in taxation. Also, students select topics of interest to research. Offered Fall. Professional Competencies: KA; R&A; WOC; CP.
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AC 48000 - Directed Study
(1-4) Develop knowledge and skills in a specific area of Accounting under the guidance of the faculty. This is in addition to the regular AC curriculum.
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ANS - Alaska Native Studies |
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ANS 20100 - Alaska Native Governance Systems
(4) This course provides an introduction to political science and governance studies through a survey of the overlapping governance systems that shape Alaska Native experience in the contemporary world. Students look back to various traditional governing systems to understand how Native peoples in Alaska governed themselves prior to Western contact, and how those governing systems are realized today. Introductory attention is given to the Indian Reorganization Act and major developments of present-day tribal governance. The course also includes an overview of village and regional corporate governance specific to Alaska Natives and emanating from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Satisfies SI Social and Behavioral Scientific Inquiry. Offered: Fall
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ANS 30100 - Alaska Native Rights & the Law
(4) This course examines the legal history related to land and resources traditionally held by Alaska Native Peoples. Particular attention is paid to subsistence rights, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Beyond basic examination of natural resource law specific to Alaska, students consider and generate understandings of co-management agreements that honor traditional, tribal, and regional claims. Prerequisite: ANS 20100 Alaska Native Governance Systems, WRIT 20100 and CRIT 13300 or CRIT 23300 Offered: Fall every other year.
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ANS 30200 - Tribal Governance
(4) This course examines Tribal governance throughout the U.S. Analyzing the history of Federal indian Law, students consider how modern Tribal governments and politics have evolved. The course focuses on mechanisms used by Tribes to promote the social, economic, and political welfare of Tribal members, and examines political aspects of Tribal sovereignty, Tribal community development, and pan-indigenous movements (International Polar Bear Agreements, and other developments as they occur). Particular attention is given to the Tribal justice systems in Alaska. Prerequisite: ANS 20100 Alaska Native Governance Systems, WRIT 20100 and CRIT 13300 or CRIT 23300 . Offered: spring every other year.
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ANS 30500 - Indigenous Knowledges and the Sciences
(4) This course provides students with a critical framework for examining Science (as a Western or Indigenous construct) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems paradigms Students will explore the ideologies underlying Science and Indigenous Knowledge[s] including how aspects of each paradigm converge, diverge, or negotiate parallel paths. Students will survey Indigenous and Western methodologies, including how paradigms are constructed and reconstructed through the influence and engagement of Indigenous peoples. Offered Spring.
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ANS 31000 - Indigenous Well-Being and Education
(3) Through course activities, students examine cultural perspectives of human development and well-being of Indigenous peoples, with a specific focus on Indigenous languages and culture-based education. Promotes cultural understandings and change in historical and contemporary contexts, and explores applied models for educators in schools serving Indigenous students, and individuals working with Indigenous communities. Offered Fall.
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ANS 40000 - Indigenous Research Methods
(4) Students explore research methods that incorporate understandings of social justice, colonization, and local knowledge as they relate to indigenous peoples. Utilizing case studies from around the world, the course focuses on how approaches to research can value and recover indigenous ways of knowing. Offered as needed.
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ANS 45000 - ANGov Leadership Symposium
(2) Special topics focused on Alaska Native leadership practices and corporate governance. Symposium topics bring attention to current issues impacting Alaska Natives in their communities and regions, the state of Alaska, the nation, and the Arctic. Repeatable with different topics. Offered: fall and spring.
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BA - Business Administration |
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BA 10300 - Foundations of Business
(3) This course will introduce students to the functional areas of business including forms of ownership, management, marketing, accounting, finance, and technology. This course provides the foundation for the study of Business Administration (BA). Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 10500 - Business Math
(3) This course provides students with basic algebra and mathematics skills to solve business problems and also lay a foundation for the advanced mathematical requirements found in college-level quantitative business courses. Students will be exposed to the arithmetic and algebraic principles underlying pricing, depreciation, investments and insurance problems as relevant business topics utilizing such tools. Word problems will be included in each of these topics so that students can experientially relate to their real-world applications. Satisfies CT Computation for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 19200 - Special Topics
(1-4) Appropriate descriptions published when special topic is offered. Offered as needed.
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BA 20400 - Financial Accounting
(3) This course introduces students to financial accounting concepts and how financial information is communicated to external users: shareholders, creditors, and potential investors. It examines the accounting process, transaction analysis, asset and equity accounting, and financial statement preparation using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The course emphasizes the construction of the key financial statements: Income statement, Balance sheet, Statement of Shareholders Equity, and Cash Flow statement. Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 20500 - Leadership
(4) An experiential course applying leadership and group development theory to personal and group awareness. Students will have the opportunity to examine and explore their own leadership styles, traits, and behaviors. Students will work in groups in an experiential learning laboratory format. Offered Block.
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BA 20600 - Entrepreneurship
(3) This course will provide an overview of the basic concepts of entrepreneurship focusing on the nature, environment, and risks of new venture formation. Topics include: the entrepreneurial mindset, opportunity recognition, market assessment, feasibility plan, how to structure a new venture, pricing strategies, financing the product or service idea, legal structures, and harvesting of the new venture. Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 20700 - Marketing
(3) This course covers consumer behavior, market research, strategy, distribution, promotion, planning, pricing, and support. Students will learn how to develop and evaluate market plans and assess interventions aimed at managing customer value. Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: MOC; PS; WOC.
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BA 20900 - Personal Finance
(2) This course will provide an overview of basic personal financial planning including budgeting, managing credit, savings and investment, insurance, and retirement planning. Students will develop a personal finanacial plan with short- and long-term goals. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies.
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BA 21000 - Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations
(3) This course provides an overview of the not-for-profit sector. Topics include: origins, legal foundations, tax treatment, and ethical standards of nonprofit organizations; the use of donated and other revenue sources; the use of volunteers in both board and staff roles; the role of nonprofits in society; and key trends affecting Alaska nonprofits within a national context. Offered Fall.
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BA 21500 - Statistical Data Analysis
(4) An introduction to the theory and practice of Statistics with an emphasis on data mining and analysis. Topics will include a discussion of descriptive statistics, the major discrete and continuous distributions as they relate to business and financial data sets, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, and basic forecasting methods. Prerequisite: MT 10100 - Intermediate Algebra or equivalent.
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BA 21600 - Survey of Economics
(4) The study of individual decision making (households, firms, and other organizations) and how markets mediate and aggregate such decisions. Issues addressed will include the determination of prices, incomes, and methods of production. Particular attention will be focused on “market failures” where individual self-interested decisions can lead to perverse results (e.g., pollution, congestion, under-provision of socially desirable goods). The consequences of government policies will be explored. Satisfies the Social/Behavioral Science GUR. Prerequisite: BA 10500 Business Math or MT 10100 Intermediate Algebra . Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: MOC; PS.
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BA 22000 - Hotel & Lodge Management & Operations
(2) This course is an introduction to the key principles of hotel management. Students will learn the fundamentals of managing a multi departmental facility. There will be an overview of the industry, strategic planning, understanding key financial indicators, understanding hotel structure and staff and learning the day-to-day activities of a hotel manager. Offered Fall.
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BA 22100 - Hotel & Lodge Human Resource Management
(2) This course is an introduction to human resource management in the hospitality industry. Subjects covered will be: staffing for a hotel, the challenges of turnover, current issues in hospitality law, the importance of customer service and safety and security issues. Offered Spring.
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BA 22200 - Hotel & Lodge Marketing
(2) This course is an introduction to the hospitality marketing. Subjects covered will be: marketing in the internet age, revenue management techniques and programs, customer relations management software and public relations and publicity issues. Offered Fall.
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BA 22300 - Food & Beverage Outlet Management
(2) This course is an introduction to the key principles of food and beverage operations. Students will learn the fundamentals of managing a food and beverage operation. There will be an overview of the industry, menu engineering and planning, understanding key financial indicators, and learning what contributes to a successful food and beverage outlet. Offered Spring.
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BA 26000 - Macroeconomics
(3) Introduction to the study of the national and global economy. Topics include: measuring and tracking the economy, unemployment and inflation, recessions and depressions, international trade, and the role of government in stabilizing economic activity and promoting long-run growth. Satisfies SI Social/Behavioral Scientific Inquiry for Foundational Studies. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 26500 - Microeconomics
(3) Introduction to the study of the economic behavior of individuals, households, and firms and the resulting effects on prices and market outcomes. Topics include: supply and demand, production and cost, market outcomes and market failure, inequality and economic justice, and the role of government in the economy. Satisfies SI Social/Behavioral Scientific Inquiry for Foundational Studies. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 27000 - Organizational Behavior
(3) This course focuses and helps students gain insights and knowledge on the behavior of individuals and groups within diverse organizations and on organizational structure and processes. Topics include motivation, group development and dynamics, teamwork, communication, organizational structure, job design, stress, power, politics, conflict, and organizational culture. Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 28500 - Practicum
(1-4) Practical work experience or other experiential opportunity to apply learning in real world activity or work place. Guidance is provided by the collaborative efforts of the student, faculty, and on site supervisor.
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BA 29200 - Special Topics
(1-4) Appropriate descriptions published when special topic is offered. Offered as needed.
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BA 31000 - Venture Management
(3) This course immerses the student in the practical matters of venture management. Students study the various stages of venture growth, from the idea stage, to the problematic start-up phase, through the crises stage of fast growth to maturity. Students study the impact of ebusiness on venture management and explore the full range of debt and equity funding options available to the businessperson.
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BA 32000 - Fundamentals of Telecommunications
(3) This course provides an overview of the basic technology of telecommunications.
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BA 32100 - Telecommunications Policy and Regulation
(3) This course provides an overview of federal and state regulatory policy and practice, with emphasis on the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the resulting migration from regulated to emerging competitive markets. Appropriate regulatory strategies will be introduced and analyzed.
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BA 33000 - Labor and Employee Relations
(3) An examination of employee relations within organizations concentrating on labor-management relations in a union environment. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will be examined.
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BA 33100 - Compensation and Benefits in the Workplace
(3) The materials contained in the course examine strategic choices in managing compensations and benefits. Compensation theories and models are discussed in relationship to current organizational realities and practices.
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BA 33500 - Southcentral Foundation Quality Management
(3) Southcentral Foundation (SCF) on its continuous journey of improving health care for its customer-owners created a group of quality improvement curricula geared toward addressing the approach, deployment, learning and integration of quality/process improvement in helping achieve strategic objectives.
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BA 35600 - Strategic Human Resource Management
(3) Management role in strategic planning, development, and implementation of human resource capital and investment. Strategic HR policies and issues are examined. Labor relations, Federal and State interventions are examined. Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: HR; MOC; LE.
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BA 35900 - Managerial Accounting
(3) This course is designed to teach students how to use accounting information for decision making and how accounting information is curated and communicated for use by the decision makers within the organization. Topics covered include budgeting for planning and cost control, cost determination, break-even analysis, and relevant cost decision analysis. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: MOC; FM; PS; WOC.
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BA 36100 - Business Law
(3) Introduction to business law. Topics include: legal principles and substantive rules governing business operations, transactions, and commercial disputes; judicial institutions and procedures; international law; and legal research techniques. Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: LE; PS.
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BA 36300 - Business Systems Thinking
(3) This course is designed to provide students a solid understanding of systems thinking in organizations. Students will learn to see business organizations in terms of its interconnected human, technical, and environmental parts. The course introduces students to how a technology-focused organization creates systems with interconnected structures, processes and people. Students will learn to create and use data and process floor chart tools to document, understand, and improve organizational functions. Students will learn how to select and implement systems appropriate for a business; design and-implement business processes; and develop and use internal controls. Introduction to Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) and assessment of risk. Prerequisite: , or , or . Professional Competencies: PEB; R&A; CT; CP.
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BA 38000 - Directed Study
(1-3) Develop knowledge and skills in a specific area of interest under the guidance of the faculty. This is in addition to the regular BA curriculum.
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BA 39200 - Special Topics
(1-4) Appropriate descriptions published when special topic is offered. Offered as needed.
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BA 40200 - Business Finance
(3) An introduction to corporate finance including: discussion of the commonly accepted tools used in financial planning and analysis, the time value of money, discounted cash flow analysis, and capital budgeting before and after taxes will be considered, as well as proper financial decision making under risk and uncertainty. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: FM; LE; PS.
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BA 42000 - Board and Volunteer Management
(3) This course will address key issues in recruiting, selecting and managing volunteer human resources in nonprofit organizations. Prerequisite: BA 21000 Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations . Offered Fall (odd years).
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BA 42200 - Fundraising for Nonprofits
(3) A comprehensive fundraising course designed to provide a basic foundation of fundraising knowledge and skills. This course covers all the components of a successful fundraising program for non-profits and addresses specific fund development issues in Alaska. Prerequisite: BA 21000 Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations . Offered Fall (even years).
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BA 43200 - The Business of Entertainment
(3) This course would examine the business economics, financing, production, and marketing of entertainment in the United States and overseas including: movies, music, television programming, broadcasting, cable, casino gambling and wagering, publishing, performing arts, sports, theme parks, and toys and games. This course would also explore the economics of networks and advertising including policy implications and box-office behavior. Offered Fall.
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BA 43500 - Introduction to Telecommunications
(3) Basic technology of telecommunications and how the twin forces of technology and competition are correlated. (An elective BA course for those students interested in telecommunications management.)
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BA 44000 - Alaska Native Corporation Business Management
(3) Covers the history, development, and management of the Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) and the economic and social impact of these companies. Compares the unique qualities of the ANC to non-Native corporate and governance structures, strategies, goals, core competencies, management practices and performance along with issues unique solely to ANCs: open enrollment, 7(i) sharing, and ANCSA land; in addition to some of the future challenges of the ANC. Offered Spring.
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BA 45200 - Operations and Quality Management
(3) This course explores the major concepts and techniques used to manage the operations function. The course considers both managerial and analytical issued, since and effective manager must be equally at ease in both areas. Topics include production planning, total quality management, the management of materials, and project scheduling. Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: MOC; WOC.
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BA 45400 - Organizational Development
(3) This course introduces students to behavioral science theories and how they are used to develop strategies for planned change in organizations. Students will learn to use tools of intervention to prepare self and others and to develop high performing work teams for innovation and growth. Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: MOC; LE; PS; WOC.
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BA 45800 - Strategic Leadership
(3) This course examines leadership theories and practices as related to effective management in diverse organizations and cultures. This is an experiential course that enables the student to examine several leadership styles, traits and behaviors. Topics include self-awareness, managing stress, building relationships, gaining power and influence, and motivating others. Strategic intelligence will be presented, and students will have the opportunity to use this skill in problem solving. Students will learn the importance of effective execution of an organization’s strategy. Offered Fall/Spring. Professional Competencies: L; HR; MOC; LE; WOC.
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BA 46000 - Tax Planning
(3) The course will explore tax planning techniques to reduce income, increase tax deductions and maximize tax credits. Additionally, students will consider the advantages and disadvantages of using LLCs, partnerships, S Corporations, C Corporations, Trusts and Not-For-Profit entities to defer, shift or manage the timing of income as an integral part of tax planning strategies. Students use various scenarios to determine taxable income and consider above-and below-the-line tax deductions or exclusions. Scenarios will include operations, real estate, gains and losses from the sale of assets, depreciation recapture, depreciation and amortization, income and alternative minimum taxes. Offered annually.
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BA 46200 - Global Marketing
(3) This is an intensive course exploring the challenge of effectively entering and operating a business in foreign markets. Students study how international marketing programs are developed, as well as the various factors that affect decision-making in an international setting along with international marketing objectives, strategies and policies, foreign market selection, adaptation of products, distribution channels of communications to fit each foreign market, systems of international marketing organization, information gathering, and planning and control. Case studies, marketing journals articles, and related support materials will supplement the text material creating an expanded exposure for the student to alternative points of views and opinions about international marketing management and strategies. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 46500 - Investments
(3) This course teaches how to make sound investment decisions through in-depth knowledge of the financial markets, financial instruments and rigorous analytical tools. The course will consider the principles of security valuation, portfolio selection and management, and risk control. Topics covered include arbitrage, market efficiency, asset pricing models, portfolio theory, performance evaluation, and behavioral finance. Prerequisite: . Offered annually.
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BA 48000 - Directed Study
(1-3) Develop knowledge and skills in a specific area of interest under the guidance of the faculty. This is in addition to the regular BA curriculum.
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BA 49500 - Capstone
(3) The purpose of this course is for students to synthesize, integrate, and apply business skills and practices learned throughout the curriculum by running a business in an electronic simulation. The course serves as a culmination of degree requirement coursework. Students will participate as teams to mimic choices in product research and development, marketing, production, and finance. Prerequisites: Completion of all BA major requirements (except BA 49800 and BA 49900) or instructor permission. Offered Fall/Spring.
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BA 49800 - Senior Project I
(4) Students develop a plan of action with time line for completing senior project, select a topic, and defend it. Extensive reading on the topic is required in this course. The Senior Project I paper must include a description of the senior project, scope, purpose, review of the literature, and research plan. Get the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for research if using primary data collection method. Prerequisites: WRIT 20100 Writing & Research II: Inquiry and IS 36000 Statistical II . Offered Fall/Spring/Summer. Professional Competencies: LE; PS; WOC.
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CH - Community Health |
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CH 10100 - Community Health Aide I
(8) Session I prepares students to function with a beginning body of knowledge and skills in the village clinic under the remote medical supervision of a physician. Topics covered include current guidelines and use of the Community Health Aide Manual, history-taking and physical exam, lab tests, reporting to the physician, medical charting and medication administration. Human anatomy and function, wellness and disease concepts, crisis intervention and emergency care are introduced. Students learn to perform the essentials of a problem-oriented patient encounter for an adult and a child. The primary emphasis is on measurement of vital signs, taking a history, performing physical exams, basic lab skills and medicine skills, and recording and reporting findings to the referral doctor. Basic emergency care in the village setting is reinforced. The following body systems are presented: eye, ear, respiratory, digestive and skin. Mental health emergencies, suicide prevention and mental health promotion for the CHA are also discussed. Required clinical work and specified patient encounters. Prerequisites: Employed as community health aide by a Tribal Health Organization. Offered as needed.
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CH 10200 - Community Health Aide II
(8) Session II prepares students to use the Community Health Aide Manual to conduct an accurate history, exam, assessment and plan for problem-oriented patient visits for adults and children. Students learn to perform all parts of a problem-oriented patient encounter for an adult and a child. Emphasis is on refining physical exam skills, distinguishing between normal/abnormal findings, making specific assessments, performing additional lab and medicine skills, and recording findings. Emergency care skills are reviewed and reinforced. Human anatomy and functions are further explored. The remaining body systems are presented: circulatory, urinary, male and female reproductive, breast, musculoskeletal, nervous, and endocrine. Dental skills are introduced and practiced. Mental health problems and management are covered in some detail. Grief and loss concepts are presented and discussed. Mental health promotion for the CHA is presented again and discussed in detail. Includes 200-hour clinical field component. Prerequisite:CH 10100 Community Health Aide I .
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CH 10300 - Community Health Aide III
(8) Session III prepares student to use the Community Health Aide Manual to conduct basic patient encounters for prenatal visits, women’s health and well child care with immunizations. Student learn to perform prenatal and well child care encounters. Emphasis is on maternal-child health, family issues, nutrition and reproductive health. Substance abuse issues are discussed. Emergency care skills are reviewed and reinforced. Includes 200-hour field component at the students’ village clinic. With development of communication skills and knowledge from prior Sessions, Session III satisfies EC Media Literacy & Presentation for the Foundational Studies. Prerequisites: CH 10200 Community Health Aide II .
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CH 10400 - Community Health Aide IV
(8) Session IV prepares students, with use of the Community Health Aide Manual, to conduct a patient evaluation of problems in all body systems and perform prenatal, well child and chronic care encounters. Student learn to perform chronic care encounters with emphasis on health care for the older adult. Body systems are reviewed with more in-depth discussion of clinical problems. Health surveillance and wellness; environmental health; tobacco cessation; and substance abuse are discussed. Mental health promotion for the CHA is reinforced. Emergency care skills are reviewed and reinforced. Includes 200-hour clinical field component. With anatomy and physiology knowledge and laboratory learning developed across Sessions I, II, and III, Session IV satisfies SC Biological/Physical Scientific Inquiry for the Foundational Studies. Prerequisites: CH 10300 Community Health Aide III .
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CH 28500 - Community Health Aide Preceptorship
(2) Supervised primary care clinical experience. Minimum of 30 practicum hours of direct patient care required. Students provide patient care in a variety of clinical settings including outpatient (acute and emergency care), prenatal, well child and chronic care clinics. Additional experiences may be scheduled with the referral center (hospital) departments. Prerequisites:CH 10400 Community Health Aide IV .
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COMM - Communication |
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COMM 10002 - Interpersonal Communication
(4) This course examines communication theories with the purpose of developing foundational skills that will improve interpersonal communication competence. Students focus on concepts, theory, and research findings regarding human communication processes. The course emphasizes practice and improvement of presentational and interpersonal skills for effective communication within various contexts. Satisfies EC Presentation & Media Literacy for Foundational Studies. Offered as needed.
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COMM 10004 - Public Speaking
(4) The course emphasizes practice and improvement of communications skills for public presentation purposes, as well as historical and current considerations regarding public address. Students develop foundational understandings of communication theory, rhetorical studies, and attributes of historically significant speeches. Students development presentations for a range of purposes and audiences, from topic choice to delivery, with attention to the ethics of public address, information literacy, and use of current technologies and media. Satisfies EC Presentation & Media Literacy for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall/Spring.
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COMM 20400 - Writing in the Digital Age
(4) Suited to students in areas where ethical information gathering and logical writing are foundational skills, This course introduces professional communications for audiences in the digital age. It offers regular practice in assignments covering the sciences, health, humanities, and the environment for skills that transfer to writing in academic programs and everyday contexts. This course fosters civil discourse by developing ability in gathering information ethically; expressing thoughts on issues of the day accurately and logically; and presenting messages clearly and concisely for diverse audiences. Students gain foundational understanding of historically significant examples of media writing. Students develop writing for a range of outlets, including social media. Satisfies EC Effective Communication in the Foundational Studies. Offered fall session.
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COMM 20600 - Organizational Communication
(3) Principles of oral communication within the business environment paying particular attention to work group and multicultural communication in the diverse work place. Satisfies EC Presentation & Media Literacy for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall/Spring.
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COMM 20900 - Mass Communication in the Age of Social Media
(4) This introductory-level course examines the development of mass and social media from the 20th into the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on understanding how media influences individuals and communities as well as how mass communication is being shaped by content creation and information distribution through social media. Students develop presentations about (and in some cases, by means of) diverse media, including print, film, radio, TV, as well as web-served functions such as blogging, micro-blogging, and social networking. Satisfies EC Presentation & Media Literacy for Foundational Studies. Offered Spring.
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CRIT - Critical Thinking |
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CRIT 13300 - Critical Thinking
(3-4) Develops and sharpens the specific analytical thought tools that are used in all academic disciplines, beginning with reading skills. Recognition of argument forms and reasoning methods, and the ability to use these constructively, will be practiced in written and verbal dialogue. Satisfies CT Critical Thinking for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CRIT 23300 - Critical Thinking for Management
(3) Interdisciplinary and intercultural inquiry into the issues of human consciousness and experience focusing on the integration of the issues into a holistic view of the world. Ways to bring knowledge to bear on critically analyzing social, economic, and business problems and issues. Satisfies CT Critical Thinking for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CRWR - Creative & Professional Writing |
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CRWR 20200 - Introduction to Creative Writing
(4) Investigation and practice of the genres, forms and techniques of imaginative writing. Examination of important work by writers practicing in the major genres. Relationship between writing and publishing. Offered Fall/Spring.
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| (Topic course numbers range from CRWR 20201 to CRWR 20210 in schedule) |
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| CRWR 20201 Creative Writing: Drama |
| CRWR 20202 Creative Writing: Fiction |
| CRWR 20205 Creative Writing: Nonfiction |
| CRWR 20206 Creative Writing: Poetry |
| CRWR 20207 Creative Writing: Screenwriting |
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CRWR 20400 - Creative Writing Workshop
(4) An investigation of the creative writing process and its products, with emphasis on the individual student’s development as a writer. Offered as needed.
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CRWR 20600 - Media Writing
(4) This course grows students’ writing ability by introducing them to the skills used by professional writers within the media and communications industries. Media writing offers regular practice in ethically gathering information, presenting ideas accurately, and developing messages clearly and concisely for a general audience. Practice is offered in writing aimed at informing as well as entertaining a reader. Interviewing people to gather information is part of this class. Outlets for writing in this course include blogging and social media; general interest and literary magazines; weekly and daily newspapers, including editorials and opinion columns; broadcast outlets, including TV and radio; news releases and public service announcements. Offered Fall
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CRWR 30200 - Advanced Creative Writing
(4) Investigation and practice at an advanced level of the genres, forms, and techniques of imaginative writing. Works by established or experimental writers in the genres will be examined, including their writings about the creative process itself. A major project such as a chapbook of poems, section of a novel, one-act play, etc., is required. Junior status required. Offered Fall/Spring.
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| (Topic course numbers range from CRWR 30201 to CRWR 30210 in schedule) |
| Selected Topics: |
| CRWR 30201 Advanced Creative Writing: Drama |
| CRWR 30202 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction |
| CRWR 30205 Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction |
| CRWR 30206 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry |
| CRWR 30207 Advanced Creative Writing: Screenwriting |
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CRWR 40400 - Creative Writing Workshop
(4) An investigation of the creative writing process and its products, with emphasis on the individual student’s development as a writer. Junior status required.
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CRWR 40500 - Publication Workshop
(3) This seminar provides the student with know-how, guidance, confidence, and camaraderie to navigate the publication process. Looking at the rapidly changing publication and distribution systems of the 21st century, students conduct their own online research, present their findings to their peers, and reveal publication and placement options. They workshop query letters and analyze the first pages they each plan to send to interested agents. They discuss the advice of talented successful authors and analyze the journeys of the yet-to-be published. Students complete the course with a greater understanding of self-promotion, writing for specific audiences in high stakes scenarios, and using rejection for self-improvement—all of which are crucial to becoming a published author. Offered every other year in Fall. Prerequisite: Junior status required.
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CRWR 60100 - Graduate Writer’s Workshop - Fiction
(5) As a hybrid course for MFA students with a focus on Fiction, the Graduate Writer’s Workshop will begin with weekly online meetings at the start of the summer session and culminate in a 12-day Summer Residency on campus. Online, students will gather with their Fiction peers and submit short creative works in response to writing prompts, and analyze the assigned readings in group discussions. At the residency, students will attend daily workshops in their genre, as well as lectures, seminars, and panels given by faculty mentors across genres. A typical day of instruction ends with a reading given by the faculty, open to the community. Over the course of this residency period, students are required to attend all sessions. In-person participation at the residency is mandatory; students cannot complete this requirement online or by independent study. Prerequisite: Admission into the MFA Program. Offered: Annually
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CRWR 60200 - Graduate Writer’s Workshop - Literary Nonfiction
(5) As a hybrid course for MFA students with a focus on Nonfiction, the Graduate Writer’s Workshop will begin with weekly online meetings at the start of the summer session and culminate in a 12-day Summer Residency on campus. Online, students will gather with their Nonfiction peers and submit short creative works in response to writing prompts, and analyze the assigned readings in group discussions. At the residency, students will attend daily workshops in their genre, as well as lectures, seminars, and panels given by faculty mentors across genres. A typical day of instruction ends with a reading given by the faculty, open to the community. Over the course of this residency period, students are required to attend all sessions. In-person participation at the residency is mandatory; students cannot complete this requirement online or by independent study. Prerequisite: Admission into the MFA Program. Offered: Annually
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CRWR 60300 - Graduate Writer’s Workshop - Poetry
(5) As a hybrid course for MFA students with a focus on Poetry, the Graduate Writer’s Workshop will begin with weekly online meetings at the start of the summer session and culminate in a 12-day Summer Residency on campus. Online, students will gather with their Poetry peers and submit short creative works in response to writing prompts, and analyze the assigned readings in group discussions. At the residency, students will attend daily workshops in their genre, as well as lectures, seminars, and panels given by faculty mentors across genres. A typical day of instruction ends with a reading given by the faculty, open to the community. Over the course of this residency period, students are required to attend all sessions. In-person participation at the residency is mandatory; students cannot complete this requirement online or by independent study. Prerequisite: Admission into the MFA Program. Offered: Annually
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CRWR 60400 - Thesis Writer’s Workshop
(3) During the final summer term, thesis students are required to take Thesis Writer’s Workshop inclusive of the residency requirement. In this course, thesis students participate only in the residency (not the online sessions included for other Writer’s Workshops). At the residency, thesis students do not participate in the daily morning workshop sessions, but do participate in other residency activities. A requirement of the thesis residency is a culminating colloquium presentation scheduled during the residency. In the colloquium, which takes the place of a thesis defense, thesis students are required to present the main attributes of their creative work as well as the research that comprises the craft essay. Prerequisite: 10 credits of Writer’s Workshop in the student’s chosen genre (2 summer residencies). Offered: Annually
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CRWR 60500 - Form and Theory
(5) In contact with their faculty mentor throughout the semester, students will submit new creative work and revise previously submitted work in consideration of faculty feedback. The form of this creative work should be directed by observations of the theory informing the elements of craft in published works of interest. With this in mind, students will conduct a critical analysis of each of the full-length works on their reading list, decided upon in discussion with their mentor prior to the start of the semester. Students will complete an annotation for each of these works, to be compiled later in the annotated bibliography segment of the thesis. Prerequisite: CRWR 60100-60300, Graduate Writer’s Workshop.
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CRWR 69900 - Thesis
(3-5) Students will work one-on-one with their mentors near the end of their studies in the program for the express purpose of completing their thesis. A completed thesis is composed of three parts: creative work (100 to 200 pages for fiction or literary nonfiction, and 48 to 64 pages of poetry); a research-focused craft essay (20-40 pages); annotated bibliography (between 40 and 70 books). Students will enroll in thesis credits for the spring semester prior to their third and final summer residency. In the summer session of this final residency, students will not join their peers for the online instruction period beforehand; instead, they will enroll in 3 more thesis credits and remain focused on completing their thesis under the guidance of their mentors. During this final residency, students will not participate in the daily morning workshop sessions and may use this time to prepare an overview of their work and research in completing the thesis, culminating in a colloquium presentation at the end of the residency, which will take the place of a thesis defense. Prerequisite: CRWR 60500 - Form and Theory Offered: Spring, Annually
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CS - Cultural Studies |
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CS 20100 - Introduction to Cultural Studies
(4) Examination of culture as a field of mediation between people’s everyday lives and the broad structures of the whole society, drawing from the disciplines of communication studies, literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, cultural history, women’s studies, political economy, and others. Satisfies CH Intercultural & Spiritual Understandings for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall/Spring.
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| (Topic course numbers range from CS 20101 to CS 20130 in schedule) |
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| CS 20103 Women’s Studies |
| CS 20105 America’s Native Heritage |
| CS 20118 Shamanism |
| CS 20126 Globalization and Its Discontents |
| CS 20129 Queer Realities |
| CS 20131 Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality |
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CS 20500 - Culturally Safe Healthcare: Inquiry & Practice
(4) This course on cultural safety in healthcare focuses on building self-awareness through examining personal cultural identities, beliefs, receptiveness, and flexibility in attitudes towards individuals from cultures different than one’s own. Understanding culture requires an examination of the multiple layers of cultures where individuals live their lives. It begins with developing a personal awareness of how multiple cultures influence thoughts, emotions and behaviors. In modern healthcare environments, developing this awareness is a key component in establishing a culturally safe practice and it is essential in delivery of individualized interventions that support optimal health outcomes. The history and cultures of Alaska Native People will provide the context for learning in this course.
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CS 21000 - Culture and the Environment
(4) In this course, we will consider the conceptual underpinnings of cross-cultural notions involving ecology, environment, culture, and balance, and also examine several specific historical trajectories of anthropogenic environmental change. We approach these issues from the vantage of ecological anthropology and several Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Systems. Importance will be given to exploring the colonial processes, and Western concepts of ecology which led to current environmental health, ownership, and management.Case studies in environmental change, environmental stewardship, as well as cooperative resource management will be examined through a critical lens to assess how cultures interact with environments across time and space. Special attention will be given to current issues of resource extraction and resource management faced by Alaska Native Communities. Satisfies CH Intercultural and Spiritual Understandings Offered Spring.
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CS 22700 - History and Culture of Alaska Natives
(4) A survey of Aleut, Yup’ik and Inupiat Eskimo, Athabascan, and southeastern peoples and cultures. Entrance into Alaska, prehistory, and traditional adaptations including economic, social, and ideological components. Historic contact, culture change, contemporary position, and ongoing concerns are also examined. Satisfies CH Intercultural & Spiritual Understandings for Foundational Studies. Offered Spring.
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