The University of Nebraska-Lincoln continues its response to the coronavirus pandemic with an optional Spring Three-Week Session with many courses that will fulfill degree requirements. Graduate students can review graduate course offerings throughout the webpage linked in the previous sentence. Courses also include many newly created special topics courses, experiential learning and career readiness courses. The session runs January 4 to 22, before the beginning of the regular spring semester.
"We have had a great response to the innovative special-topic courses created for the summer and fall three-week sessions and want to expand access to a broader set of general education and degree-related courses for students this spring," said Executive Vice Chancellor Elizabeth Spiller.
Spring three-week and regular semester classes will be available for viewing in MyRED beginning Oct. 12 and for adding to shopping carts on Oct. 19. Priority registration begins Oct. 26.
Students are encouraged to register early for the Spring Three-Week Session as classes are expected to fill quickly. Scholarship and financial aid options are available to qualifying students.
Graduate-level courses offered in this session include but are not limited to:
Introduction to Customer Discovery for Agricultural Technology – AECN 396/896: How do agricultural innovations move from research to the real world? Get hands-on learning with the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute and NUtech Ventures, testing technologies, and business ideas while learning from professionals like startup founders, investors, farmers, and others.
Active and Healthy Community – CRPL 467/867: Gain experiential learning on a current pressing issue: healthy communities. Dig into how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on our health, safety and active living and how to improve these outcomes.
Bias in Media – JOMC 491/891: Learn how to identify the bias present in the media beyond conservative or liberal. Explore the concept of unconscious bias, how it manifests in our decision making when creating content, and steps to take to reduce bias in content creation.
2020-2021: The Surprise Challenges in Occupational Safety and Health for Construction Engineering and Management – CNST 498/898: Tackle very serious problems in the construction industry in unconventional ways by bringing engineering and public health together to identify contingencies and plan for response to unexpected threats during the next 25 years.
Insects in Popular Culture – ENTO 896: Enjoy a wide variety of books, movies, video games, and other media that feature entomologists or insects as major characters or themes and explore how entomology is represented (or misrepresented) in popular culture. Learn how such resources can be used to introduce entomological topics into educational programs that reduce fear, convey accurate information about biology and behavior, and increase appreciation of insects.
Leadership Role Development in P-20 and Intercollegiate Athletics – EDAD 991: In this course, students will examine the lives and experiences of higher education leaders including those in collegiate athletics.
Planning and Resiliency in the Face of a Pandemic – CRPL 495/894: This multi-disciplinary course will look at current events such as the coronavirus pandemic and how they affect society and a variety of disciplines. It will engage students with a desire to learn about public health, policies, and planning principles to see how COVID-19 can be an opportunity for planning transformation.
See more graduate-level courses at: http://go.unl.edu/springthreeweek