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As the spring semester approaches, Wright State University (WSU) students in graduate programs should be aware that Wings Express may not accurately reflect the teaching format of the courses offered.
In-person undergraduate
The spring semester is set to begin Jan. 11 with 35% of courses being offered fully or partially in person.
“I’m excited to have that experience with a teacher that is in person,” said freshman motion pictures student Trevor Seech-Hrvatin. “It’ll be a lot more motivating than a WebEx call.”
Other undergraduate programs offering face-to-face instruction during the spring semester on WSU’s Dayton campus include music, Greek, military science, physics and various other programs.
WSU’s Lake Campus is offering in person courses for various sciences, law enforcement, nursing and others.
Graduate program offerings
Students in graduate programs at WSU should refer to how their professors say courses will be offered next semester in situations where Wings Express tells otherwise.
“What you saw on there [Wings Express] were a bunch of classes that were either set in person or had no designation and that was because I didn’t bother to change them because no one was taking those classes in the spring,” said Associate Dean of the School of Professional Psychology Michelle Schutlz. “We’re a cohort based doctoral program, so some of our classes the students have to have pre-approval to take. And no one is taking those sections [listed as face-to-face] even though they’re listed in our course offerings. We assigned students to sections, and no one was assigned to those particular sections.”
The Professional School of Psychology is not the only school at WSU where courses are being listed on Wings Express as face-to-face that will not be taught as such.
The master’s program for accounting offers students the ability to sign up for a course dubbed special topics, in which students who are interested in a topic from upper-level undergraduate accounting, but could not fit the course into their schedule before entering graduate school, can take the course for graduate credit by completing additional assignments. All courses that can be applied to this course are online.
“It’s similar to something like a cross list of a class, where there’s a number at the undergraduate level and the number of the graduate level, and it covers the same class,” said Professor and Chair of Accountancy James Greenspan. “We use a generic number instead to cover any undergraduate accounting class that a student might cross list. So, they’re taking and attending the undergraduate class equivalent for graduate credit.”
Graduate students should speak with their professors if uncertain about the format of a course offered next semester.
