Arts, Letters, and Enterprise (Certification)

Overview
Requirements

The Arts, Letters, and Enterprise Certification gives students an opportunity to build knowledge while also gaining practical experience in an internship off campus. This path requires fewer hours than the Minor. ALE Certification is especially suited for students pursuing a degree in clinical sciences, engineering sciences, social sciences, or those interested in non-profit management. It requires completion of at least 12 credit hours, as listed below, plus a supervised internship of one-semester duration or the equivalent.

Students may not receive both an ALE minor and certification.

The program offers a certification as a supplement to traditional majors and minors.

Requirements for the certification

I. Successfully completing a minimum of four of the “Arts, Letters, and Enterprise” courses as detailed below:

A. Required courses (must complete three of the four listed courses):

Course ID	Course Title
GNED-2340	Creative Thinking and the Artistic Process
ACCT-1300	Understanding the Language of Business
ALE-3301	Grant Writing and Fundraising
MGMT-2301	Management of Organizations

One of the following courses:

Course ID	Course Title
ANTH-3368	Anthropological Ethics
COMM-3364	Ethics and the Mass Media
NEUR-3310	Neuroethics
PHIL-1350	Environmental Ethics
PHIL-1354	Ethics
PHIL-1359/BUSN-1359	Professional Ethics
PHIL-2456	Applied Ethics

B. Elective courses (At least three credit hours; one course from the following list):

Writing and Analysis in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Courses in the Writing and Analysis section must have a substantial writing component and analytical component. Typically, courses will include a minimum of 15-20 pages of written work. Depending on the faculty member’s preference, this total may include multiple shorter papers, one longer paper, or work involving revision in response to faculty or peer critique.

Course ID	Course Title
ANTH-3464	Morality and the Marketplace
ART-3314	Issues in Contemporary Art*
ENGL-3414	Advanced Exposition and Argument*
ENGL-3335	Rhetorical Analysis*
FREN-3305	Introduction to French Literature I*
FREN-3306	Introduction to French Literature II*
FREN-4304	Topics in French Literature of the Eighteenth Century*
FREN-4305	Topics in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century*
MUSC-3341	Music History 1: Ancient Greece to Mozart*
MUSC-3342	Music History 2: Classical Era to the Present*
PHIL	All courses at the 3000 or 4000 level.**
PLSI-3352	Civil Rights and Liberties
PLSI-3361	Classical Political Thought
PSYC-2401	Statistics and Research Methods
PSYC-3451	Clinical Psychology*
RELI-1320	Ethical Issues in Religious Perspective
RELI	All courses at the 3000 or 4000 level.
SPAN-3321	Spanish Cinema*

*This course has at least one prerequisite.
**Excluding PHIL-3190, PHIL-3290, PHIL-3390, PHIL-3490, PHIL-3191, PHIL-3291, PHIL-3391, PHIL-4190, PHIL-4290, PHIL-4390, and PHIL-4490.

II. Completion of ALE 4-90 or another preapproved internship experience

Completion consolidates and integrates the learning from ALE with coursework from the student’s primary academic discipline. Students taking this class will work for various scientific, governmental, social agency, arts, or non-profit offices as interns. Their responsibilities will be determined by those offices and by supervising faculty. They will then complete a writing assignment in which they relate their experiences in the internship to the goals of the ALE Certificate program.