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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Programs

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Student Success Program

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Courses

University Experience

  • UE 0100 - The University Experience

    Fall, Spring & Summer 1 Credit Hour
    UE 100 is required for all degree-seeking students having completed fewer than 30 credit hours. UE 100 is a fundamentals course designed to assist first-year students in successfully defining themselves both as active participants in the MSSU community and as citizens of a twenty-first century global community. The course offers information on university personnel, services, facilities, policies, study skills, and MSSU’s international programs and international study opportunities. Student participation in co-curricular activities is required. Course Charge: $50.00 FYE University Experience Chg

  • UE 0105 - Career Exploration & Planning

    Fall, Spring & Summer 2 Credit Hours
    Designed to assist students in the career planning process. The primary objective of this course is for students to learn and practice systematic approaches to career planning and professional job search documentation and preparation. Students will go on a personal career exploratory journey, completing multiple career related assessments to identify their personality, interests, values, work skills, and decision-making skills, and how determine how these align with a chosen major or career. Students will explore multiple majors and career paths. The course is recommended for all undecided majors and open to any student.

  • UE 0150 - College Academic Skills

    Fall, Spring & Demand 2 Credit Hours
    Designed to develop and strengthen an understanding of student responsibility, goals and attitudes necessary for the successful transition from secondary school to college. Active learning through critical thinking, reading and writing to support academic success at the University level will be practiced. Students will identify learning styles and strengths and weaknesses associated with their learning processes. This class is designed for students who have an ACT composite score of 17 or below or no ACT score.

  • UE 0200 - Leadership and Professional Development

    Spring 2 Credit Hours
    This course is organized into two segments: leadership development and professional development. The leadership development segment of this course focuses on identification of various types of leadership skills and the role of leaders in the workplace. The professional development segment of this course focuses on determining short and long-standing career goals, the basics of the job search, and improving on-the-job communication skills (verbal and non-verbal). Prerequisite: Sophomore standing with a declared major and an active Project Stay participant.

  • UE 0205 - Tutor Training

    Fall & Spring 1 Credit Hour
    A course designed to provide students hired as tutors with an educational foundation of the methods and techniques needed to tutor students in a higher education setting.

  • UE 0400 - Leadership Training I

    Spring 1 Credit Hour
    Leadership Training I is a semester-long, one-credit hour course designed to prepare students to serve as course assistants for the UE 0100   course. In Leadership Training I, students develop familiarity with issues, materials, resources, and methods relevant to assist them in mentoring first-year students enrolled in UE 100. UE 400 may be repeated for credit. UE 400 may be repeated for credit.

  • UE 0401 - Leadership Training II

    Fall, Spring & Summer 2 Credit Hours
    Leadership Training II is a semester-long, two-credit hour course for students who serve as course assistants for the UE 0100  course. Students will receive credit for Leadership Training II for successfully assisting an instructor in teaching a UE 0100  class. UE 401 may be repeated for credit. Successful completion of the course entitles a course assistant to a cash stipend. Prerequisite: UE 0400 . UE 401 may be repeated for credit.

  • UE 0491 - Internship

    3-9 Credit Hours
    Students will serve in an internship capacity at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  Students will live in Disney housing and participate in a full-time work experience in various roles identified by Walt Disney World.  Prerequisites:  Junior standing at time of internship participation, a 2.5 cumulative GPA, have unrestricted work authorization in the United States, be at least 18 years of age, and approval of Disney Internship Director.

  • UE 0493 - Legislative Internship

    Demand 8 Credit Hours
    Students will be assigned to a legislator or other qualified person involved in the Missouri Legislative Process to observe and participate in a legislative session. The students will be required to live and work in the capital from the beginning of the session until its conclusion and comply with the MSSU Legislative Intern Handbook. Prerequisites: PSC 0120 , 30 hours of credit, 2.5 GPA. Cross listed as PSC 0493 .

Honors

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Programs

Certificate

Courses

Honors Program

  • HNRS 0101 - Honors Forum

    Fall & Spring 2 Credit Hours
    An open and interdisciplinary forum to introduce first-year Honors students to the principles and practices of scholarly inquiry and active learning. Students will read a variety of texts concerning personal and academic challenges inherent in a college environment. In doing so, they will define themselves both as students and as individuals while becoming active participants in the MSSU community and as citizens of a twenty-first century global community. Course Charge: $50.00 FYE University Experience Chg, $100.00 Honors Special Course Chg

  • HNRS 0201 - Service Learning

    Fall & Spring 1-4 Credit Hours
    By engaging the Honors Scholar as a volunteer in an unfamiliar, public service-oriented institution, this course experience is designed to expose the student to the concepts of self and cognitive awareness and to lead the student through a critical analysis of the dominant paradigms of thought encountered during the service. Course Charge: $100.00 Honors Special Course Chg

  • HNRS 0298 - Special Topics

    Demand 1-3 Credit Hours
    An interdisciplinary Honors course. Topics to be announced each time the course is offered and approved by the Honors Director. Emphasis on discussion, group activities and projects. Prerequisite: HNRS 0101 .

  • HNRS 0390 - Honors International Study

    3 Credit Hours

  • HNRS 0400 - Research Seminar

    Fall & Spring 3 Credit Hours
    Introduces Honors students to a wide range of research practices and methodologies in order to prepare them for their senior thesis projects. Students will be exposed to the language of research; ethical principles and challenges; the elements of the research process; research design; and a combination of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Course Charge: $100.00 Honors Special Course Chg Prerequisites: sophomore standing, good standing in the MSSU Honors Program.

  • HNRS 0490 - Senior Portfolio

    Fall & Spring 1 Credit Hour
    Students will meet regularly with Honor Program faculty to assess their progress toward completing their Honors thesis projects and meeting the terms of the Honors contract they signed with their faculty mentor. Course Charge: $100.00 Honors Special Course Chg Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, good standing in the MSSU Honors Program.

  • HNRS 0495 - Honors Seminar

    Demand 3 Credit Hours
    Intensive seminar course for upper-division Honors students, culminating in a substantial research paper. Topics to be announced each time the course is offered and approved by Honors Director. Prerequisite: HNRS 0101  and HNRS 0201 . Honors 495 may be repeated once for credit when topic varies.

  • HNRS 0498 - Advanced Special Topics

    Demand 1-3 Credit Hours
    An Honors course for upper-division Honors students. Topics to be announced each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: HNRS 0101  and HNRS 0201  .

  • HNRS 0499 - Independent Study

    Fall, Spring & Summer 1-3 Credit Hours
    Course structured by the instructor with approval of the Director of the Honors Program. Prerequisite: member in good standing of the Honors Program. Registration must be approved by the student’s advisor, department head and school dean.