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This course is meant to provide a professional experience for students in the Recreation & Tourism Management (RTM) program. These work-based learning experiences promote the application of theoretical knowledge and research skills acquired in the classroom to a productive and supervised experiential work site outside the formal classroom environment. This may be a volunteer or paid position, but must entail a minimum of 10 weeks and 400 hours. Students must meet with their faculty advisor and/or the Cooperative Education (Co-op) Coordinator to develop specific learning objectives and identify management and leadership opportunities and/or special projects to be completed. These objectives must be approved by both the Co-op Coordinator and the student's employer/supervisor prior to registration. Upon completion of the field experience, students will submit a portfolio, including a final paper, and do a formal presentation about their learning experience. Prerequisite: Students should have completed two non-credit 50+ hour practicum experiences and a minimum of 48 credits.

This course introduces students to the techniques and aesthetics of literary creative writing. Genres covered include poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Students read, discuss and analyze professional work from the traditional to the experimental from authors with a variety of cultural backgrounds. Students learn about the elements of craft that create artistic effects in each genre -- elements such as imagery, metaphor, sound, line breaks, characterization, perspective, setting, structure, sense and plot. Students write, workshop and revise their own creative work in each of the three genres. Offered pass/fail by request and at the discretion of the instructor.

The goal of this course is to provide students interested in teaching middle- or high-school level mathematics, or others simply interested in the topic, the necessary understanding of the historical foundation of mathematics. The course will explore the origins of mathematics from anthropological and sociological viewpoints. It will then use this as a base for exploring the cultural development of basic numbering, arithmetic, basic statistics (mean, median, mode, etc.), simple probability, basic geometry, measurement (area, volume, etc.), patterns, including symmetry and basic networks, mathematical reasoning, and using mathematics to communicate. The development of these areas, all of which are contained in the Maine State Learning Results for middle and secondary grades, will be explored from various cultural perspectives including a selection from prehistoric, Native American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Ancient Greek, Roman, Hindu, Islamic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and European cultures. The course is designed to be a survey course that will allow for such a broad view of the development of mathematics. Prerequisite: MAT 111M or permission of instructor.

This course will review systems of care provided by the state, as well as those provided by for-profit and not-for-profit entities, to serve the needs of behavioral health consumers. Essential components of this course include addressing contemporary public and social policy -- and social services provision within those policies -- including fundamentals of behavioral health care, child protection, and welfare systems. In addition, the course examines the history and impact of laws and regulatory standards that dictate these policies -- and ultimately service provision in behavioral care for children, adults and the elderly. Both current practices and historical precedent are woven into a model represented in both its completeness and contradictions. Required for Provisional & Full MHRT Certification. This course includes a Service-Learning and Community Engaged (SL/CE) component.

This introductory calculus-based physics course is a continuation of PHY 121, primarily serving students majoring in the sciences or engineering. Student will learn content and applications of electricity, magnetism and optics. Additional topics may include relativity and/or quantum physics. Note: Due to overlapping subject matter, students may not earn degree credit for both PHY 112 and PHY 122. Prerequisite: MAT 126 as prerequisite or co-requisite.

Students in this course will gain knowledge of the IDEA and DSM-V definitions of Autism Spectrum Disorders, prevalence and possible causes. Characteristics, teaching strategies, adaptations, and related disorders secondary to Autism Spectrum Disorders will be explored.