- Instructor: Azam Bejou

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About WVSU
Founded in 1891, West Virginia State University is a public, land-grant, historically black university, which has evolved into a fully accessible, racially integrated, and multi-generational institution.The University, “a living laboratory of human relations,” is a community of students, staff, and faculty committed to academic growth, service, and preservation of the racial and cultural diversity of the institution.
With the goal of improving the quality of our students’ lives, as well as the quality of life for West Virginia’s citizens, the University forges mutually beneficial relationships with other educational institutions, businesses, cultural organizations, governmental agencies, and agricultural and extension partners.
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Campus Activities
Available courses
This course examines ways to preserve bat populations and habitats in suburban areas
- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
(3 credit hours) An introduction to research methods in educational settings. This course will allow students to determine how data can be used to make instructional decisions at the classroom, building, and district level.
- Instructor: BRENDA WILSON
This course will serve as an exploration of historical and current issues related to educational leadership, with an emphasis on legal and ethical issues including social justice, human rights, fairness, and equity. Students apply principles of leadership, ethics, and critical thinking while examining approaches to conceptualizing, interpreting, and making operational social justice.
- Instructor: Charles Byers
3 Credit Hour Course – This course will provide a detailed look into Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion.
- Instructor: LINDSEY GOOD
(1 Credit Hour) A course designed to prepare adult learners for the transition back into academic study. In addition to strengthening career and life goal development, students will acquire management skills, appreciate support systems, and develop a plan of study. This course addresses specific issues and theories related to adult learners.
- Instructor: MICHAEL HARRIS
Analysis of the environment and the managerial functions of recruiting, employee assessments and development, retention, and employee relations with the enterprise, with emphasis on the relationships among people, on group interactions, on relations, and on relations between employers and employees.
- Instructor: ALAN TILLQUIST
- Facilitator : CHAD LEPORT
An introduction to generally accepted auditing standards as they relate to profitoriented enterprises. Students use a computer practice set to demonstrate the technique of examining
and documenting revenue and acquisition, conversion, investing and financial cycle reviews.
Professional ethics and legal liability are emphasized. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in BA 363
and BA 364 or BA 365.
- Instructor: PROFESSOR MATTHEW CARROLL
This course examines, from a comparative approach, the criminal justice field
and profession as tradition, philosophy, and practice in criminal law, law enforcement, courts,
and corrections, as it exists in a variety of countries and cultures around the world.
- Instructor: William Whyte
This course will serve as an overview of leadership theories and
their application in the interest of school improvement. This is an introductory course in
educational leadership. Focus will be on school and district level leaders and their roles
in the learning process within the greater learning community.
- Instructor: Mickey Blackwell
This course prepares prospective educational leaders to administer various school programs for diverse student populations. Emphasis will be given to basic concepts, issues, regulations, problems and procedures in the management of special and compensatory education. Also included will be state and federal legislation and court decisions pertaining to diverse pupil populations.
- Instructor: KELLI EPLING
(3 Credit Hours) This is a lecture/discussion/creating course that surveys objects of art in the student’s environment and proceeds from the comfortable and familiar to the international. The course uses lecture, discussion, and student participation to introduce the basic concepts of Art and Art History.
- Facilitator : Rose Namay
BA 203. Business Statistics An introduction to various statistical measures, including central tendency, variation and skewness. Emphasis is also placed on concepts and functions of probability theory, such as the use of binomial and normal distributions. Students will use computer applications to demonstrate their understanding of various concepts. Prerequisite(s): MATH 120.
- Facilitator : MICHAEL HUTCHINSON
Prerequisite: Math 120 – College Algebra (Formerly Math 101)
- Facilitator : BENJAMIN ELLIS
(3 Credit Hours) An introduction to the financial accounting cycle from analyzing economic events to financial statement preparation and use. The course also includes a basic study of the accounting for corporate assets, liabilities, and equities, as well as financial statement analyses. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and MATH 118, 118E, or 120.
- Facilitator : MAVERY DAVIS
To introduce students to the basic concepts in the organization and management of institutions. Emphasis is placed on managing in a contemporary context including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling while adjusting to change and maintaining effective performance.
- Instructor: ALAN TILLQUIST
(3 credit hours) Study of the tasks involved in the marketing of goods and services for both for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. Provides an overview of marketing mix decision requirements within a framework of contemporary economic, social, technological, competitive and regulatory influences.
Course Prerequisites: ECON 201 and 202
- Instructor: HYUNSANG SON
3 Credit Hours)The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the behavior of employees at the individual, group and organizational levels. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of application and theory. Topics to be covered include: motivation, teambuilding, perception, attitudes, communication, conflict, stress and leadership. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102; Grade of C or better in BA 301.
- Facilitator : SHELLY CARROLL
An introduction to the federal taxation of individuals. This course is designed to introduce students to personal income tax procedures. A conceptual approach is emphasized. Specific topics will include but are not limited to: basic tax models, tax laws, tax computation, gross income, deductions, depreciation and ethics
- Facilitator : GREGORY ELAM
The course introduces concepts related to the development and delivery of the e-commerce component of a business enterprise. Many of the topics discussed will involve computer applications and practical examples. Prerequisites: BA 216, BA 301, BA 305, C S 106 or permission.
- Instructor: MICHAEL LEWIS
(3 credit hours) The first in a three-course sequence providing students with a foundation in theory and a review of the accounting cycle, including preparing time-value money calculations and financial statements. The course includes an in-depth study of generally accepted accounting principles as they apply to cash, receivables and inventories. Comparisons with International Financial Reporting Standards will be introduced as appropriate.
Prerequisite: BA 216 with a grade of C or better.
- Instructor: WILLIAM JESSIE
Environmental chemistry is the study and appreciation of the phenomena in the environment. In this course we look at
- Instructor: Thomas Guetzloff
This course is a survey of the history, organization, and function of the various components of the criminal justice system, which includes law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course includes an analysis of the decisions made in the justice process whereby citizens become suspects, suspects become defendants, and some defendants are convicted in turn becoming probationers, inmates, and parolees.
- Instructor: Mark Addesa
This course is designed to provide the instruction in the study of crimes, including major crimes, crimes against person, crimes against property, conspiracy, elements of proof, and the processes and procedures involved.
- Facilitator : WILLIAM STATON
3 Credit Hours The study of the dynamics of racial prejudice in the United States and how it affects the criminal justice system. The relationship between minority status and criminality and the interaction of minorities with criminal justice organizations will be analyzed. Characteristics of female offenders are surveyed and offender classification systems are reviewed for their relevance to understanding motivational and behavioral patterns of female offenders. This course will explore the response of police and court officials to women as victims of crimes and will examine employment opportunities for women and minorities in the criminal justice system. Prerequisite: CJ 101
- Instructor: CASSANDRA WHYTE
3 Credit Hours - This course is a continuation of CJ 320 and is designed to cover the issues related to the creation of written documentation in the three major components of the criminal justice system: law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Students will be introduced to the various formats, styles, and organizational patterns commonly utilized in criminal justice reports and research. Students will become aware of the writing recommendations, guidelines, and accrediting requirements of criminal justice organizations. Emphasis is also placed upon professional writing skills; including report structure and construction, mechanics, grammar, and specific criminal justice vocabulary and usage.
- Instructor: William Whyte
(3 Credit Hours) This course examines the nongovernmental, private-sector practice of
protecting people, property, and information, conducting investigations, and otherwise
safeguarding an organization’s assets, which may be performed for an organization by an
internal department (proprietary security) or by an external, hired firm or individual (contract
security). Prerequisites: C J 101, 223, 224, 225, 226, 307, and 308
- Instructor: William Whyte
(Three Credit Hours) This course is designed to provide the instruction in the study of crimes, including major crimes, crimes against person, crimes against property, conspiracy, elements of proof, and the processes and procedures involved.
- Instructor: CASSANDRA WHYTE
Principles of macroeconomics is a course designed to introduce students to basic principles of economic theory and policy. It presents economics as a systematic discipline that deals with the production and distribution of goods and services in a world with unlimited human aspirations but finite productive resources. The basic methods of thoughts and tools of analysis used by economists will be discussed. The student will be introduced to the important policy issues that make economics a lively and controversial field. This course has no prerequisites.
- Instructor: FREHOT HAILOU
This course serves as an introduction to state and federal law and policy governing education
systems. The course will explore historical and contemporary legal issues and their impact on
student achievement and development of effective school practices, with focus on the role of
the school principal, curriculum specialist, and district-level administrators.
- Facilitator : Dr. Emily Waugh
An exploration of historical and current issues related to educational leadership, with an emphasis on legal and ethical issues including social justice, human rights, fairness and equity. This course is designed to provide advanced exposure to current research and practice in leading
- Instructor: Charles Byers
(3 credit hours) This course primarily focuses on the research writing process for a broad academic community. It covers basic research inquiry, use of the library with electronic and nonelectronic sources and techniques of formal writing. Attention is given to argumentation and critical thinking skills.
- Instructor: CAROL TAYLOR JOHNSON
A study of poetry, fiction and drama. The course stresses basic themes and formal elements found in literature. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 placement.
- Facilitator : AARON MORRIS
(3 Credit Hours) This course helps students improve their writing by reviewing the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics. Systematic attention is given to sentence construction, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary development, and self-help through effective use of the dictionary. Emphasis will be placed on the use of such skills in practical, everyday communication.
- Instructor: JEFFREY PIETRUSZYNSKI
First Year Experience is designed to help students develop the skills needed to be successful at WVSU and beyond. Course content includes developing college-level reading and study skills, career and major exploration, managing time and money wisely, building connections with faculty and students, awareness of campus and community resources, and increasing sensitivity to other cultures so students can effectively interact in an increasingly diverse and global community.
- Instructor: DAVE BROCK
(3 Credit Hours) An introductory study of the discipline of health sciences, sports studies, health and physical education and the many factors that influence our health such as heredity, environment, health care services, and our own behavior. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of health education and health promotion to other disciplines, concepts of learning and behavior change, comprehensive school health programs, models and theories of human development and behavior with application to health education, competencies and skills of health educators, ethics, and current and future issues in health education. Students will also use the Internet to explore the various resources available to
- Instructor: DEBRA ANDERSON-CONLIFFE
Designed to inform, interest and motivate students toward good health as it relates to effective, productive and satisfying living. We will look at health as a dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual and environmental dimensions. 2 Credit Hours
- Instructor: Jay Canterbury
(3 credit hours) Designed to acquaint the prospective teacher with the curriculum, process of concepts, goals, objectives, content, methodology, and evaluation development necessary to achieve desired health knowledge, attitudes, and practices in students.
This course is a study of the practical methods and strategies used when implementing health education and health promotion programs.
- Instructor: LINDSEY GOOD
3 Credit Hour Course – This course will provide a detailed look into Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion.
- Instructor: LINDSEY GOOD
This course is a survey of the history, organization, and function of the various components of the criminal justice system, which includes law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course includes an analysis of the decisions made in the justice process whereby citizens become suspects, suspects become defendants, and some defendants are convicted in turn becoming probationers, inmates, and parolees.
- Facilitator : Mark Addesa
Environmental chemistry is the study and appreciation of the phenomena in the environment. In this course we look at
- Facilitator : Thomas Guetzloff
This course examines ways to preserve bat populations and habitats in suburban areas
(3 credit hours) A course designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of how a free-market economy works as individuals make microeconomic decisions of their own based on cost-benefit principle. Discussions of the cyclical nature of GDP production, joblessness, cost of living, interest rates, public debt and deficits will be included.
- Instructor: MARK WILSON
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- Instructor: Mark Addesa
- Instructor: Kristina Deonaldo
- Instructor: James Rieber
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- Instructor: Sarah Howard
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This course is an introduction to the development of an appreciation of art. Special emphasis is placed on methods, techniques, and terminology that relate to art as well as artists, cultures, and art movements throughout history.
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- Instructor: Brett Maxwell
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- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
- Instructor: Justin Cherry
- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
- Instructor: TORRI HALSTEAD
- Instructor: AMANDA MYERS
- Instructor: DANFORD SMITH
- Instructor: ARMENTA WILLIAMS
- Instructor: Paige Carney
This course focuses on using National, State, District and School data to improve teaching and learning, including improving the achievement of identified low-achieving groups.
Pre-requisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Dr. Emily Waugh
(3 credit hours) This course explores change theory and its application to the school setting. Candidates will identify and explore emerging trends and issues in the change process with emphasis on sustaining innovation through reculturing and ongoing professional learning and development.
Prerequisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Paige Carney
(3 credit hours) This course explores change theory and its application to the school setting. Candidates will identify and explore emerging trends and issues in the change process with emphasis on sustaining innovation through reculturing and ongoing professional learning and development.
Prerequisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Paige Carney
This course focuses on applying information on school needs as well as knowledge of local, state, and national policy to effective management practices. Students will learn how to legally and effectively manage school operations, including management of financial and human resources and how to schedule for the effective use of time and physical resources. This is an intense eight-week program that will allow you to learn what policies, procedures and technologies are in place for you to develop the proper allocation of resources.
- Instructor: Mickey Blackwell
- Facilitator : Rose Namay
(3 Credit Hours) An overview of personal and family financial planning with an emphasis on financial record-keeping, planning your spending, tax planning, consumer credit, making buying decisions, purchasing insurance, selecting investments, and retirement and estate planning.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and eligibility for MATH 111.
- Instructor: MICHAEL LEWIS
(1 - 6 Credit Hours) Placement of business students in various businesses and industries in the community for the purpose of gaining onthe-job training and experience. (Graded on Pass-Fail basis except in teacher education. This course fulfills the academic capstone requirement for Business Education majors.)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of minimum of 90 semester hours and the approval of the supervising instructor and department chair.
- Instructor: Azam Bejou
(1 - 6 Credit Hours) Placement of business students in various businesses and industries in the community for the purpose of gaining onthe-job training and experience. (Graded on Pass-Fail basis except in teacher education. This course fulfills the academic capstone requirement for Business Education majors.)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of minimum of 90 semester hours and the approval of the supervising instructor and department chair.
- Instructor: Azam Bejou
(3 credit hours) This course will introduce the student to the study of serial killers including the history and types of serial killers. The methodology of the investigative process involving profiling of serial killers as well as the many aspects of these types of homicide/murder investigations will be covered. To further enhance the student’s understanding of homicide/murder, this course will incorporate interdisciplinary knowledge from the fields of criminology, sociology, history, psychology and political science. (No prerequisites)
- Instructor: WALTER STROUPE
(3 Credit Hours) An introduction to the basic technical and aesthetic elements of the art of film. The class will examine the nature of cinema and its relation to our culture and our lives through analysis of its many components.
- Instructor: DAVE BROCK
- Facilitator : Marc Porter
(3 Credit Hours) A junior-level course designed for a topic of special current interest, including televised courses.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 101, 170, 241 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.
- Instructor: ALI ZIYATI
This course focuses on using National, State, District and School data to improve teaching and learning, including improving the achievement of identified low-achieving groups.
Pre-requisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Dr. Emily Waugh
This course focuses on using National, State, District and School data to improve teaching and learning, including improving the achievement of identified low-achieving groups.
Pre-requisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Dr. Emily Waugh
(3 credit hours) An introduction to research methods in educational settings. This course will allow students to determine how data can be used to make instructional decisions at the classroom, building, and district level.
- Facilitator : BRENDA WILSON
This field-based practicum will allow candidates to apply knowledge of educational leadership, educational law and policy, change, innovation, professional development, financial and human resource management, and data-based decision making for school and district improvement.
- Instructor: Paige Carney
This field-based practicum will allow candidates to apply knowledge of educational leadership, educational law and policy, change, innovation, professional development, financial and human resource management, and data-based decision making for school and district improvement.
- Facilitator : STEPHANIE BURDETTE
(3 credit hours) This is a practical course in action research. Students will conduct an action research project based on an identified need in a public school setting and present it to their peers.
- Facilitator : BRENDA WILSON
(3 Credit Hours) This course primarily focuses on the research writing process for a broad academic community. It covers basic research inquiry, use of the library with electronic and nonelectronic sources and techniques of formal writing. Attention is given to argumentation and critical thinking skills. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.
- Instructor: JEFFREY PIETRUSZYNSKI
(3 Cedit Hours) This course primarily focuses on the research writing process for a broad academic community. It covers basic research inquiry, use of the library with electronic and nonelectronic sources and techniques of formal writing. Attention is given to argumentation and critical thinking skills.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL101. Must be completed within the first 60 hours of college credit.
- Instructor: ANNE MCCONNELL
(3 Credit Hours) A study of poetry, fiction and drama. The course stresses basic themes and formal elements found in literature. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 placement.
- Instructor: ANNE MCCONNELL
([2 Credit Hours]) This course will examine the development of competition in the human condition from its inception, into organized forms of sport, to the highly developed enterprise that has emerged in contemporary times. Observations of the influence of culture and history on this development are central to the presentation and content of this course.
- Instructor: AARON SETTLE
(2 credit hours) This course provides an introductory examination. Learning and practice of the coaching profession including philosophy development, practice planning, communication and safety concerns. This course serves as an entry level coaching course and is an additional required course in several states for individuals to coach at the high school level. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be certified by the NFHS. This course is not sufficient alone to coach sports at the middle school or high school level in the state of West Virginia. Prerequisite(s): HHP 140 and PSYC 151, or SOC 101 with a C or better in each course.
- Instructor: AARON SETTLE
(3 Hours) This course is designed to prepare the student with the personal training knowledge, skills, and abilities set forth by the NSCA. Emphasis on course content will be in nutrition and the role of personal trainer, latest guidelines for client assessment, flexibility training, cardiovascular exercise prescription, stability ball training, and periodization training. The course will also address exercise prescription with special populations, aerobic and anaerobic exercise techniques, and resistance training load. The course will also familiarize and enable the student to be able to instructor in the NSCA standards of exercise and fitness protocols standards and protocols set forth by the department of education in its physical fitness component.
- Instructor: AARON SETTLE
(3 Hours) This course is designed to prepare the student with the strength and conditioning knowledge, skills, and abilities set forth by the NSCA. Emphasis on course content will be in nutrition and the role of the strength specialist, latest guidelines for fitness assessment, flexibility training, cardiovascular exercise prescription, Olympic weightlifting, and periodization training. The course will also address exercise prescription with specific athletic populations. The course will also familiarize and enable the student to be able to instruct in the NSCA standards of exercise and fitness protocols set forth by the department of education in its physical fitness component.
- Instructor: AARON SETTLE
- Instructor: LEIGHANN DAVIDSON
(3 Credit Hours) This course includes an intensive study of the use of research methods in psychology. Additional topics include ethics, effective library utilization, professional writing and oral presentations. Students devise individual research projects to develop necessary skills in these areas. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 151, 175, 200 or permission of instructor.
- Instructor: REBECCA FRANCIS
- Facilitator : WALTER STROUPE
- Instructor: Deborah Williams
- Instructor: Caitlin Teetor
- Facilitator : WALTER STROUPE