Academics

This course is designed for graduate students who teach or intend to teach. Topics include developing a teaching philosophy, constructing a syllabus, using student demographics and learning styles in course design, managing controversial topics, incorporating active learning and critical thinking, constructing rubrics for use in testing and grading, and applying theories of learning and motivation to the classroom. From this foundation, students will teach during class meetings to gain experience and benefit from peer review.

Students will learn how to identify meaningful career paths, manage their preparation for various careers, and understand how to best promote themselves to future employers. Students will also gain practice and knowledge around their strengths, values, personality, effective communication, and organizational evaluation as it relates to their professional career journey. Developing and practicing core career competencies will contribute to students’ overall career brand, confidence level around their career path, and their connection to targeted industries of choice.

Learn the strong leadership skills you will need to successfully recruit for and land professional career roles. Leadership Essentials will help you assess your leadership strengths and weaknesses and develop a personal leadership plan. The course will help students improve all aspects of their communication and learn how to cultivate collaborative relationships that foster trust, commitment, and coordination. The course will also cover how to recognize various styles of thinking and emotional behavior.

This 2-credit elective course is particularly relevant for first-generation and underrepresented graduate students. It will help graduate students identify and define how their individual identities, experiences, and skills can be leveraged to progress through the potentially challenging and isolating environment of graduate life.

This course offers students who teach, either alone or as TAs, an opportunity to explore the creation of effective classroom practices. Whether designing a course, planning a syllabus, or creating materials for class, teachers want to use evidence-based best practices to maximize the effectiveness of their teaching and the student’s learning. This course covers established psychological theories in the areas of learning, memory, and motivation to assist teachers in finding the best practices for their classrooms. Theorists include but are not limited to, Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, Skinner, and Piaget, as well as contemporary contributors to the fields.

In this 2-credit, online course, you’ll learn the strong leadership and communication skills you’ll need to acquire and succeed in your next professional role. Learn more about what makes workplace communication so important and how you can quickly improve your communication skills. This course will also emphasize leading and communicating in an increasingly diverse world.

Master one of the most important skills in the workplace – oral communication. In this advanced oral presentation skills class, graduate students will use a step-by-step approach to improve their presentation skills in order to be more effective and confident in spoken interactions in personal, academic, and professional situations such as interviews, meetings, and presentations. Your presentations are recorded for playback and your instructor provides helpful coaching and tips.

Note: Students must be enrolled in a graduate program terminating in a Master’s degree or a doctoral degree.

This course refines academic writing skills, especially those related to writing about empirical research. The course focuses equally on product and process. You will gain skills to help you effectively produce key parts of an empirical paper and you will explore different academic genres relevant to your discipline; then produce a relevant academic genre of your choice. You will also learn strategies for planning a large writing project, developing a regular writing schedule, managing procrastination and perfectionism and responding to critical feedback.

Note: Students must be enrolled in a graduate program terminating in a Master’s degree or a doctoral degree. Students who do not speak English as a first language must have already taken GRAD 6210/8210 or gained prior approval from the instructor to enroll in GRAD Special Topics Course.

Designed to benefit English as a Second Language (ESL) graduate students and serves as an introduction to concepts central to graduate-level writing in the United States, such as academic integrity, audience awareness, and discipline-specific variation.

This course will help you manage your dissertation work through such topics as prioritizing your dissertation, writing more effectively and efficiently, improving your productivity, strengthening your relationship with your dissertation advisor and handling stress in healthier ways. Join a supportive community of dissertation writers and learn to create more balance in your life.

Be more effective in the workplace… speak and write what you know! The ability to exchange information and ideas at work is an essential skill in many roles. Learn more about what makes workplace communication so important and how to improve your communication skills.

• 97% of workers believe that communication impacts tasks every day.
• 86% of corporate executives, educators, and employees cite ineffective communication and poor collaboration as reasons for failures in the workplace.
• A recent survey of 400 companies conducted by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) revealed that, on average, each company lost $62.4 million per year due to inadequate communication.

In this class you’ll learn the principles of good communication in the workplace, with a focus on the special needs of writing in technical fields such as health, the sciences, and business. Emphasis is placed on communicating effectively in an increasingly diverse world.

REQUIRED FOR ALL DOCTORAL STUDENTS. Here at Charlotte we value sound and ethical conduct in all educational and professional pursuits. This online training addresses issues of academic integrity and the University’s policies and procedures related to violations of the Code of Student Academic Integrity. This course must be completed at the beginning of students’ first semester. Once completed, a grad of “N” (for “non-graded”) will appear in DegreeWorks.

This course focuses on practical skills and critical thinking about the responsible conduct of research, highlighting the nine areas of instruction required by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). This course features speakers with expertise in various areas of professionalism and research ethics. This course is required for all doctoral students. Graded on a Pass/Unsatisfactory basis.

Designed to identify the fundamental elements that characterize not only methodologically grounded but also morally appropriate scientific research. Class discussion and readings focus on key issues in biological and behavioral research including informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, risk-benefits assessments, mechanisms for protecting animal and human research subjects, international research, vulnerable populations, conflicts of interest and data management, publication ethics, intellectual property issues and the politics of research.

Learn to use Excel and Tableau to gather, organize and present data for understanding and impact in a professional setting. This course helps develop decision-making and predictive modeling.