Tuesdays & Fridays, 6:05 – 7:45 p.m.

CRN 40427

Lisa Ambrose
Adjunct Faculty

This course is designed to introduce students to leadership theory and explore the evolution of leadership models. Through the integration of theory and practice, students will take an experiential and reflective approach to develop their own leadership skills while identifying and analyzing leadership behavior in real-world and fictional characters.

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Mondays & Thursdays, 6:05 – 7:45 p.m.

CRN 40777

Peter Ross
Adjunct Faculty

This course is designed to introduce students to the college experience, and more specifically to Ramapo College life. It will follow two paths. The first track will expose students to values and goals, the resources and demands of a college education, and provide them with a variety of tools to help them make the most of their college experience here at Ramapo.

The second component of the course will help to introduce students to various elements of business. Some of the areas of business that we will learn about will include: Business Trends, Business Ownership, Marketing, Managing Financial Resources. Much of the course will be from material presented in the textbook, “Understanding Business”, twelfth edition, Nickles, McHugh, McHugh. We will illustrate how these topics affect each of us, and how we can benefit from understanding and applying much of what we learn in our daily lives.

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Tuesdays & Fridays, 9:55 – 11:35 a.m.

CRN 40505

Brian Goldberg
Adjunct Faculty

This section of FYS will teach students about the different investment choices available, how the stock market works, how to evaluate stocks, and how to build and manage a well-balanced portfolio.

Through readings, extensive class discussion, guest lecturers, participation in a class portfolio competition where students create and manage a simulated investment portfolio, and an investment recommendation project, the proposed course will introduce students to investing and trading using both fundamental and technical analysis.

Students often are not aware, but they are better equipped than many investment professionals to pick stocks.  Teenagers will spot trends before adults and if taught to open their eyes and ears, a trip to the mall can lead to excellent investment ideas.  Throughout the semester, students will manage a $100,000 portfolio and be encouraged to “buy what you know”.  Students will make weekly journal entries summarizing their stock picks and rationale for each investment.   Students will each pick a stock to write an investment recommendation on and give a stock pitch presentation to the class at the end of the semester.

The goal of this course is to give students, no matter what major or career aspirations they have to leave with an understanding of how the stock market works, how to manage their own money and giving them an opportunity to empower themselves to be better equipped to take charge of their financial future.

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Tuesdays & Fridays, 11:50 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

CRN 40381

Yvette Kisor
Professor of Literature

This course considers fairy tales from two perspectives: traditional and modern. We will look at traditional fairy tales from practitioners like Perrault and the Grimms as well as versions from around the world. However, we will also consider how modern practitioners of the fairy tale reinvent the genre. The course will culminate in a final project in which students will write their own modern version of a fairy tale.

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Mondays & Thursdays, 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.

CRN 40760

Stefan Becker
Professor of Environmental Science

In this course you will learn about the science background and the impacts of severe weather events such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Through presentations, discussions, and group work you will learn to understand and critically evaluate relevant concepts, processes, and events. In addition, you will learn basic ideas how to design and conduct a research project in science and use basic methods of data evaluation.

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Tuesdays & Fridays, 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.

CRN 40507

Peter D. Heinze
Professor of Clinical Psychology

Archetypes are recurrent symbols that we see expressed in literature, art and mythology. They represent unconscious material that humans have inherited since the dawn of civilization. Archetypes occupy what Carl Jung describes as the collective unconscious so, by definition, we are unaware of the role they play in our lives. This course will explore the presence of archetypes and other unconscious material and the way in which these influence us on both a personal and cultural level.

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