Monday, May 18 – Friday, July 31, 2026
All classes are taught by Wheaton faculty and offered online.
BUS 610: Leading and Managing with Integrity
Asynchronous
Professionals at all levels in organizations must lead and manage others to enable achievement of the organization’s objectives. Leading and managing with integrity requires understanding of one’s self, other people, the situational and cultural context, as well as both current and future impacts of actions taken. This course enables students to develop individual and organizational strategies to influence others, shape culture, manage change, negotiate, and facilitate employee engagement and performance so organizations can contribute to society in ways that are effective, responsible and sustainable.
Faculty: Leanna Lawter
BUS 698: Financial Decision Making
Asynchronous
This course covers how to use, analyze, and interpret financial data to make informed decisions in organizations. Topics will include financial reporting, retirement savings, analyzing debt and equity, corporate valuation, financial integrity and compliance, and understanding ethical financial practices. The emphasis is to empower students to consistently make informed and sound financial decisions, both personally and professionally.
Faculty: Yaw Sam-Kwachie
CI 615 :Development Lab
M T W R F 10:30 a.m. – 03:30 p.m.
NOTE: This course runs from May 20 – June 18
Students will engage in the production of a creative work that will serve as the centerpiece of their professional portfolio. This can take the form of a short film, a screenplay or teleplay, original film score, animation project, or more. The production lab experience will include some or all of the following elements: independent and guided research leading to substantive original work, active production of creative work with oversight and assistance of faculty, the development of a professional portfolio and skills inventory, a self-assessment of and an action plan for personal and professional digital presence as well as formal and informal professional networks.
Faculty: Patrick Johnson
CI 635: The Business of Representation
Asynchronous
Is all visibility, good visibility? How does diversity create capital, and what happens when it doesn’t? With content from Will & Grace to Black Panther, the past 20 years have seen a dramatic increase in on-screen representation of marginalized groups. This class will explore why and how that shift took place as well as how other areas of media industries have moved towards inclusivity (or failed to do so). We’ll ask how business imperatives shaped those shifts, the effects of change on minority communities, as well as how content creators might think through the stakes of diverse representation in their own work.
Faculty: Talitha Espiritu
ESCI 605: Directed Research for Master’s Thesis
Asynchronous
This course supports students in collecting data for their master’s thesis, building on the experimental design developed in the previous semester’s Research Design course. Students will receive guidance in addressing methodological challenges encountered during data collection. By the end of the course, students will have generated the data required to advance to analysis and thesis preparation in subsequent semesters.
Learning Outcomes:
Implement and manage data collection for a master’s thesis based on an approved research design.
Diagnose and resolve methodological challenges to ensure high-quality, usable data.
Learning Goals:
- Develop independence in conducting thesis research
- Build proficiency in data collection methods and their adaptation in the field or lab
- Strengthen problem-solving skills in response to research challenges
- Cultivate rigorous and reproducible research practices
Faculty: Jessie Knowlton
ESCI 700: Advanced Data Analysis in Environmental Science
Asynchronous
This course will cover data analysis topics most relevant to practitioners in environmental science fields, including techniques for visualizing and analyzing complex datasets. Students will learn how to work with data from a variety of environmental sources using standard computer tools in the field. Students will also learn the best way to analyze the data for their thesis projects.
Faculty: Primrose Boynton