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Course Learning Objectives
* List the steps in the recruitment and employee selection process; * Identify ways to attract, hire, and retain high-quality employees; * Discuss methods of employee compensation and benefits and their impact on employee motivation; and * Explain the importance of hiring and retaining the right employees.
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* Identify sources of law in the United States; * Describe the function and role of courts in the US legal system; * Differentiate litigation from methods of alternative dispute resolution, and discuss the process of each; * List the elements of the major torts; * List the essential elements of a valid contract; * Describe how a contract can fail; * Summarize the remedies available for breach of contract; * Distinguish between real and personal property; * Identify the various interests in r...
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* Discriminate among the key economic, technological, educational, social, cultural, and religious transformations underpinning the American Renaissance; * Define the transformations in American Protestantism exemplified by the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism; * List the key tenets of Transcendentalism and relate them to Romanticism more broadly and to social and cultural developments in the antebellum United States; * Analyze Emerson's place in defining Transcendentalism and hi...
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* List the factors that motivate people; * Explain the value of empowering employees; and * Analyze methods of recognizing and managing conflict.
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* List the steps in the management decision-making process; and * Apply the concepts of decision-making within a business situation.
Course Introduction
The first step in entrepreneurship is understanding your personality traits and mindset that will help your new business venture succeed. This course will address this first step in your journey by allowing you to better understand the role of entrepreneurship in society and address creativity processes to help you develop your new idea. Many tools can be used to help you develop an idea, such as Timmons' Framework, which we will address in this course. Once you consider the creativity proces...
Course Introduction
How does Bitcoin work? Why is Bitcoin called a "cryptocurrency"? What cryptography does it use? How is security maintained in a system with no central authority? This course will answer these and many more questions. In this course, you will learn the building blocks that make up the open, decentralized system that is Bitcoin. We'll start by diving into the cryptographic algorithms used in Bitcoin, and walk through how these tools are used to keep the system secure and running. This course is...
Course Learning Objectives
* Differentiate between symmetric and asymmetric encryption and between public and private keys; * Convert data between encoding methods used in Bitcoin; * Determine the validity of a Bitcoin transaction by evaluating the transaction data and signature; * Differentiate between encryption algorithms used in Bitcoin and list their contribution to maintaining the system; * Identify components of the Bitcoin system, such as nodes and wallets, and list their functions; and * Summarize how the com...
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* Describe the key concepts environmental ethics is based on; * List the main environmental ethics approaches and viewpoints; * Relate concepts in environmental ethics to various religious teachings and beliefs throughout the world; * Explain how moral attitudes towards the natural world have changed over time; * Identify key events in the history of the environmental ethics movement; * Identify important pioneers in the environmental ethics movement; * Explain why certain social groups are ...
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* Explain the use of HTML5 tags in a document; * Model the structure of an HTML page; * Create a simple webpage using HTML and CSS; * Explain how JavaScript is used to program the behavior of webpages as an interactive tool; * Utilize the tools to write and debug JavaScript programs; * Utilize the steps for writing a JavaScript Program that includes proper values, operators, expressions, and keywords; * List and explain the types of values and variables; * Explain the proper use of internal ...