CMST 132: Small Group Communication • Fall & Spring
Course Description: This course examines communication in small group processes such as group development, group climate, leadership and roles, problem solving, and conflict. Student participate in a small group and practice gathering, organizing, and presenting research-based group speeches.
Required Attendance: Sense of Place, December 4, 2025
Instructor: TBA
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NEW! GEOG 139: Visualizing Local Landscapes • Fall & Spring
Course Description: Survey of human populations and activities, with an emphasis upon how social, economic, political, and religious institutions influence interrelationships with the physical environment.
Required Attendance: Sense of Place, December 4, 2025
Instructor: TBA
UNIV 120: Transitions and Transformation: Academic Identity and Success • Fall only
Course Description: This course explores the modern university system and its support for and barriers to student success. Topics include emerging adulthood, liminality, sense of belonging, hidden curriculum, student support programs, and academic identity. Students serve as researchers, using self-reflection, interviews, and library research to produce preliminary findings and suggest pathways to increased belonging and student success.
Required Attendance: Sense of Place, December 4, 2025
Instructors: TBA
