This course provides for the acquisition of knowledge and skills for students to utilize adventure education methods and philosophies when teaching physical education through an experiential pedagogy. Students will be exposed to adventure methodologies: climbing, orienteering, initiatives, low ropes course and high ropes course. Students will realize facilitation and teaching strategies through peer and practice teaching with local students from Oyster River Middle School in Durham.

An advanced, individual scholarly project under the direct supervision of a faculty member.

This course focuses on how human resource managers build effective networks and coalitions with others to accomplish tasks and stimulate motivation, cooperation, and satisfaction among work groups. It develops an understanding of the role and functions of human resource practitioners in a variety of organizational settings. Students build a knowledge base and identify the skills needed in the primary areas of human resources administration, which may include areas such as interviewing and selection, employee benefits and total compensation, performance assessment, professional development, workplace safety and wellness, employee relations, collective bargaining, workplace diversity, human resource information systems, rewards and recognition, performance coaching and corrective action, compliance and employment law, and organizational development.

This course explores the change process in organizations. The organizational structure is viewed as the context in which individual, interpersonal, group, organizational, and systemic change is examined. Characteristics of functional and dysfunctional systems are defined, and the change process is delineated. Models, skills, techniques, and strategies for positive change are examined.