Area of Study: Education

GPA: 3.900
Course
Prefix

Course Title

Semester/
Mode

EDF 2005

Introduction to the
Teaching Profession

Spring 2013 Common practices of educators of all levels,

F2F
basic philosophies and problems faced by
educators today.

EDF 2085

Introduction to Diversity
for Educators

Fall 2013
F2F

How to teach in a diverse world with diverse

cultures. How to integrate multiple cultures and
make sure I do not step on anyone's toes
because of a cultural or religious difference

EDF 2130

Child and Adolescent

Development for
Educators

Fall 2013
F2F

How to differentiate children and adolescents in

different stages of physical and cognitive
development and how the problems and issues
we all face in those stages and the way we
approach them.

PET 3005

Introduction to Sport
and Exercise Science

Spring 2014 A combination of anatomy and safe exercise

F2F
practices. Sports/competitive psychology and how
to coach upper level athletes.

PEO 3324 Coaching Volleyball

What I learned

Spring 2015 The fundamentals of coaching volleyball

F2F
(beginners to advanced players). I also learned
safe and smart coaching practices relating to
communicating with parents and protecting
oneself and the students.

Area of Study: Communications

GPA - 3.000
ADV 3008 Principles of Advertising

Fall 2013
F2F

Literally the course title says it all. I learned what

makes effective advertising and currently I have
been applying those concepts in some
announcements I've had to make for work and the
college ministry I am involved with

COM
3003

Exploring Human
Communication

Fall 2013
Looking at different situations and modes of
Mixed Mode communication. I definitely learned how people of
different cultures may communicate in a less
direct manner and perceive direct communication
as rude and brash. I also truly learned that to be
an effective leader, effective communication is
key and I learned how to communicate and
encourage a team to increase or maintain
performance

COM
3311

Communication
Research Methods

Fall 2014
F2F

This taught research methods, techniques and

concepts important to communications research.
This class culminated in one final research
proposal at the end of the semester

PUR 4000 Public Relations

Spring 2014 This class taught me the importance of sound PR

F2F
practices from an organizational standpoint.
Organizations, much like people, rely on their
reputation and PR makes sure that their public
standing is sound. In addition, PR is just the day
to day interactions an organization has with the
public.

COM
4462

Spring 2015 By far the best class I have taken at UCF.

F2F
Communication was broken down and analyzed
so that future conflict can be avoid, diffused,
mitigated, and/or resolved efficiently and
effectively. Bargaining with interests is far
superior to positional bargaining.

Conflict Management

LEADERSHIP STUDIES MINOR

GPA - 3.640
LDR 2001

Foundations of
Leadership

Fall 2014
F2F

An overview of different leadership styles and

models and the importance of the followers.
Current models emphasize a working back and
forth relationship between leaders and
followers.

LDR 2002

Intermediate
Foundations of
Leadership

Spring 2015 Continued building on leadership styles but this

F2F
class focused more on concepts such as conflict
resolution and social change. Social change was
heavily emphasized. Being a good citizen means
working for more than oneself.

COM
3120

Organizational
Communication

Fall 2014
F2F

The structures of organizations often dictate how

communication flows to, from, and through the
organization. Many modern organizations are
straying from the big hierarchy structure where
leaders boldly lead the way. The emphasis on
more competent workers is transforming the
structure to be a bit more horizontal.

MAN
3025

Management of
Organizations

Fall 2014
F2F

Being a manager does not equate to being a

leader. But great managers are leaders.
Transformational leadership pushes the followers
to be all that they can be. Be a positive influence
in the lives of people. With business, generating
above average returns is competitive advantage.

CLP 3143

Abnormal Psychology

Spring 2014 This class looked at abnormal behavior and

F2F
disorders from a psychological perspective. While
there was an emphasis on the science behind it
such as treatment plans and procedures, there
also was an emphasis on how even those of us
with mental disabilities and deviations are still
human and simply need help because they are
missing certain understandings.

PAF 4754

Interdisciplinary
Leadership in Public
Affairs

Spring 2015 Most social issues CANNOT be solved with a

F2F
single discipline. In order to bring about change,
one must learn how to lead and identify ones
personal leadership style and use it to its full
potential while working with multiple perspectives.
Problems like homelessness will not go away
unless the entire community steps in to help.

PHI 3638

Ethical Issues in the

21st Century

Spring 2015 In this class, we looked at modern issues through

F2F
the lens of ethics. Such issues ranged from
Global Climate change, to immigration, to bioenhancement, to artificial intelligence and
autonomous moral agents. We identified
limitations and flaws in our own humanity in
hopes to overcome them.

The three forces the influenced the developing of this schedule were time, availability, and how
the courses would benefit me. For the most part, all the courses I wanted to take were available
with few exceptions. However the biggest issue was time. I am a commuting student who
functions best later on in the day so those later classes were really out of the picture. I am
heavily involved with a campus ministry but thankfully, the ministry and my employer are both
incredibly friendly and understanding of students and those activities actually took second
priority when it came to schooling. Both the ministry I work at and the campus ministry I
volunteer at always say that my first duty during this time is a student so meetings were planned
around my class schedule. The only time I ran into problems is during spring when I needed to
sign up for classes but I could not sign up for classes on certain nights due to year long
commitments made the previous semester. But this ended up not really being that big of an
issue in the large scope of things.
From the perspective of thinking about how the courses would benefit me, I was pushing to take
similar classes with each other. However, I made sure that I was not taking all communications
classes or all education classes. I like learning and I like mixing it up so this was definitely
something that helped me pick out specific schedules. In the end, I was choosing classes that
would ultimately best benefit me and what I was trying to accomplish. I wish to continue working
within ministry or other non-profit or community organizations (especially if its with students) so
all my classes were choses so that I would acquire important and relevant knowledge and skills.
So far, I think I did pretty well.