INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTING

On-Demand Is in Demand at SCE

Ruth Opad

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This semester, the School of Continuing Education (SCE) will see finance students (or not see them) studying, online, some very traditional topics—finance and law. Students working professionally in an area of finance are invited to work entirely at their own pace and place via the Internet as they study several noncredit courses. These courses include:

Legal Research and Writing on the Internet: Designed to balance exposure to new research techniques with intensive legal research and writing under the guidance of, and subject to critique by, the instructor. Each "class" includes a legal research assignment to be performed using a variety of legal research media, with a writing assignment due each week. Additionally, each student anonymously reviews and critiques a fellow student's work for each class and posts the critique electronically for all course members to review and discuss.
Global Licensing and Negotiations: Focuses on a variety of sample agreements representative of various sectors in the American and global economy. Topics include: trademark merchandising, patent and technology transfer, and copyright assignments. Industry sectors include: computer technology, entertainment, merchandising, and franchising.
How to Write a Financial Analysis: Takes the student through all the necessary steps to research, analyze, and write a professional financial analysis. The class works through a major corporation's financial statements and performs research on the Internet. This is an interactive course, and students are expected to solve problems and write up results. Online discussions are encouraged.

These new classes join the school's other technologically advanced courses, pioneered by SCE's Virtual College, which offers an advanced professional certificate in information technology. It's always been the school's goal to make learning convenient for working adults. This is just the twenty-first-century version of that tradition. SCE now also reaches out to even more students and potential students via the Internet, through its new and expanding sites on the World-Wide Web. Most don't even have to come in to NYU to register— they can now enroll by phone, mail, or fax, and signing up online may not be that far off. [ C ]

Ruth Opad was Advertising Manager at NYU's School of Continuing Education at the time of this article's publication.
{opad@is.nyu.edu}

Posted 25 September 1996. Last reviewed 30 November 2005.