Timeroom: Spring 2025

CPS Online Coll of Professional Studies :: Applied Studies

APST 405 (02) - Career Development and Planning

Career Development & Planning

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 53862

This course engages participants in the career development and life planning process. The course may help students explore and apply to their own life situations knowledge of adult and career development and the skills and methods of career planning. Students may define and articulate the elements important to personal career satisfaction and develop strategies to achieve it. The course may include self- assessments, researching career information, decision-making, goal setting, and job search strategies. NOTE: Students in the A.S. Business and B.S. Business Management programs should take APST 405 and CMPL 402 together.

Equivalent(s): APST 505G

Campuses not allowed in section: Durham

Instructors: Melissa Oliveira Denis

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
3/24/2025	5/16/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

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CPS Online Coll of Professional Studies :: Applied Studies

APST 705 (01) - Grant Writing

Grant Writing

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 53864

This course prepares participants to effectively write different types of grant narratives based on organizational need(s). Topics include the strategic purpose of grants, basic grant elements, effective grant-writing strategies, and grant management and stewardship. Projects may include a completed grant proposal, creation of grant management, and stewardship processes and tools.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G

Equivalent(s): APST 515G, APST 615G

Campuses not allowed in section: Durham

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Robert Levey

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
3/24/2025	5/16/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

CPS Online Coll of Professional Studies :: Applied Studies

APST 805 (01) - Grant Writing

Grant Writing

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 53863

This course prepares participants to effectively write different types of grant narratives based on organizational need(s). Topics may include the strategic purpose of grants, basic grant elements, effective grant-writing strategies, and grant management and stewardship process and tools.

Equivalent(s): APST 805G

Instructors: Robert Levey

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
3/24/2025	5/16/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Arabic

ARBC 402 (01) - Elementary Arabic II

Elementary Arabic II

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Synchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 51203

This course builds on skills of learning Arabic acquired in ARBC 401. It continues with the teaching of these skills, which are listening, reading, writing, and speaking. It expands the students' acquisition of grammar, and widens their familiarity with the Middle East culture. It teaches both modern Standard Arabic and colloquial Egyptian.

Prerequisite(s): ARBC 401

Instructors: Dr. Abdullah Ayyash

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	11:10am - 12:00pm	ONLINE

Durham Liberal Arts :: Arabic

ARBC 425 (01) - Introduction to Arabic Culture

Intro to Arabic Culture

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 52984

Conducted in English. This course offers an introduction to Arabic culture and explores its historical, linguistic, social, religious, cultural, and artistic foundations. Students can expect to develop cultural awareness and communicative skills useful when interacting with people from the Arab world, in addition to critical analytical thinking skills through discussion of various Arabic cultural topics.

Attributes: World Cultures(Discovery)

Instructors: STAFF

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MW	2:10pm - 3:30pm	MURK 202

Durham Liberal Arts :: Arabic

ARBC 504 (01) - Intermediate Arabic

Intermediate Arabic

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Synchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 51197

This intermediate level course builds on the skills of reading and reading comprehension and the writing and speaking of Modern Standard Arabic that were acquired in Arabic 503. Students begin to read Arabic newspapers, websites, and other simple reading materials. An emphasis on using the Egyptian dialect of Arabic in conversation continues.

Prerequisite(s): ARBC 503

Attributes: World Cultures(Discovery)

Instructors: Dr. Abdullah Ayyash

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	10:10am - 11:00am	ONLINE

Durham Liberal Arts :: Arabic

ARBC 632 (01) - Advanced Arabic II

Advanced Arabic II

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 52690

This advanced intermediate level course builds on the skills of reading and reading comprehension, and the writing and speaking, of Modern Standard Arabic. Students continue to read Arabic newspapers, websites and other materials, and bring their findings to share in class discussions. An even greater emphasis than in lower levels of Arabic, are placed on acquiring and practicing the Egyptian dialect of Arabic in class conversations.

Prerequisite(s): ARBC 631

Instructors: ahmad Asaly

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	12:10pm - 1:00pm	MURK 102

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CPS Online Coll of Professional Studies :: Arts & Culture

ART 401 (01) - Introduction to Drawing

Introduction to Drawing

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 56741

This studio art course fosters a hands-on approach to basic drawing and composition. Students explore, comprehend, and employ the basic elements and principles of art, use various graphic media, and become familiar with the vocabulary, concepts, and techniques of drawing. Projects emphasize composition and guide students toward mastering the skills needed to produce an effective and expressive drawing.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 501G

Campuses not allowed in section: Durham

Attributes: Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed), Fine&PerformingArts(Discovery)

Instructors: Sandra Hall

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
3/24/2025	5/16/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

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CPS Online Coll of Professional Studies :: Arts & Culture

ART 403 (01) - Introduction to Watercolor

Introduction to Watercolor

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 54270

This is a course for all levels of students, including students with no previous studio art experience. The course introduces students to a variety of approaches to the watercolor medium through the use of hands-on experience, demonstrations, instructor and peer feedback, and discussions. Students will develop watercolor painting skills and visual literacy through recognizing and practicing common watercolor techniques leading to a portfolio of work by the end of the term.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 503G

Campuses not allowed in section: Durham

Attributes: Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed), Fine&PerformingArts(Discovery)

Instructors: Sandra Hall

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	3/14/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

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CPS Online Coll of Professional Studies :: Arts & Culture

ART 512 (01) - Fundamentals of Design

Fundamentals of Design

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 54271

This course introduces the design elements, principles, and skills needed to succeed in the graphic design industry. Students will have the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of professional layout using Adobe Creative Cloud while demonstrating an understanding of composition, color, typography, vectors, and bitmap creation, along with other essential attributes of graphic design. The design process, design as visual communication, and the designer's role in concept development for media, web, and video will also be emphasized.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 504G, ARTS 512G

Campuses not allowed in section: Durham

Attributes: Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed), Fine&PerformingArts(Discovery)

Instructors: Tom Mungovan

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
3/24/2025	5/16/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

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