{"id":9190,"date":"2013-07-03T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2013-07-03T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:15:49","slug":"getting-ready-for-fall-semester-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/getting-ready-for-fall-semester-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for fall semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, the leaves will begin turning and campus will be abuzz with new activity. Fall semester classes begin Monday, August 19.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Freshmen will be allowed to move into residence halls on Thursday, August 15. Upperclassmen can move in beginning on Saturday, August 17.<\/p>\n<p><b>Important deadlines<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, August 8 is the deadline to pay Fall 2013 fees before cancellation.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, August 25 is the last day to register in day or evening classes.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, September 1 is the last day to drop a class before a W (withdrawal) is recorded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>New fall courses<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in learning about Victorian ghost stories? What about find data solutions in computer science? Several new unique classes are being offered this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Students will be tracing the development of the English ghost story from its origins in folk-ballads to its high-water moment at the close of the nineteenth century in the English class, \u201cHaunted Victorians: Nineteenth-Century Ghost Stories.\u201d Taught by Dr. Charles L. Sligh, Assistant Professor of English, students will<b> <\/b>explore the necessary ingredients for telling a truly frightening ghost story, the ghost story as the quintessential form of Victorian short fiction, and Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, and M.R. James whose ghost stories are associated with the holiday season. The class meets on Tuesday and Thursdays from 12:15 \u2013 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLean Construction\u201d will be offered by Jan Evans, Lecturer and Director of the Cranston Pearce Center for Applied Engineering and Technology, as a traditional and online class on Tuesday nights this fall from 5:30 \u2013 8 p.m.\u00a0 The classes discussed productivity improvement techniques proven in manufacturing and the construction industry including emerging interest in \u201cgreen construction\u201d and the use of information technology. The course many be registered as ENCM 5650 for graduate students and as ETCM 4999 for undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jonathon Yeager, Maclellan Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, will teach &#8220;Jonathan Edwards&#8217;s Life, Thought, and Legacy in American Religious Culture&#8221; on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10:50 &#8212; 2:05 p.m. Noted for participating as a leader in the so-called Great Awakening that swept the colonies in the early 1740s, Edwards also penned some of the most influential and ingenious works of philosophical theology in the modern world, including his 1754 Freedom of the Will and his posthumous Nature of True Nature (1765). In this course, students will study Jonathan Edwards&#8217;s life, theology, and legacy as it pertains to American religious culture.<\/p>\n<p>The UTC Department of Computer Science and Engineering will offer the course, \u201cBig Data Analytics,\u201d for the first time this fall. With the advent of \u201cBig Data,\u201d businesses and organizations have to turn to new technologies to manage and gain insights from the vast amounts of data. While storage costs are becoming more affordable due to cloud technology, the bigger challenge has been finding an appropriate technology and mechanism to manage the data. Dr. Joseph Kizza, Professor and Department Head, is teaching the class on Tuesday and Thursday from 3 \u2013 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the UTC Department of Health and Human Performance is offering a class in public health for students pursuing a master\u2019s of science in physical activity and health. Students in \u201cFundamentals of Program Evaluation\u201d will learn about the major concepts in program evaluation, including the types of evaluation and their purpose, indicators, logic models, sources of data, study designs, including randomized control trials, and threats to validity. Students will also learn how to conduct a program evaluation by designing a logic model, developing objectives and indicators, writing an evaluation plan, conducting interviews, and writing up evaluation results for stakeholders. This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:40 \u2013 10:55 a.m. and is taught by Dr. Clea McNeely, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about how to register for these classes, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/Administration\/Records\/prereg.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, the leaves will begin turning and campus will be abuzz with new activity. 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