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Terminal-year, non-tenure-eligible appointment eligibility and process

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Requests for creation of ad hominem AAP, staff, or instructional positions

Proposals that members of the Ordinary faculty leave that status and take up full-time non-Ordinary teaching appointments will not normally be approved. Such arrangements proposed at the time of a negative tenure decision or in proximate anticipation of a negative decision will not normally be considered.

Explore your intellectual passions before college

At Georgetown, we believe that you're more than a mind. You're an individual with unique talents, dreams, and passions. Our long-held Jesuit tradition of cura personalis means "care for the whole person," and our goal in creating these new online courses is to provide a holistic experience for you.

Current courses available

You may have been intrigued by a television show or movie involving attorneys and dramatic court cases. Here is your chance to see how the profession works from the inside. In this course, you will learn how to think like an attorney—how to pose the right questions, evaluate evidence, and make decisions based on fact rather than emotion.

How You Will Benefit

Online courses are available throughout the year—pick a subject that fits your passion and your schedule.

Three Learning Advantages Designed for You

All online courses culminate in a special final project that allows you to:

How to Apply

It’s easy. No transcripts or letters of recommendation are required. Our application will require the following:

Frequently Asked Questions

How will you be graded? What are assignments like? How much time do you have to turn around a project? When do you find out if you're admitted? Find answers to your questions here.

Scholarships

We offer need-based scholarships in each cohort to students exhibiting high potential and an inability to pay full tuition. If you would like to be considered for a scholarship but you:

UIS Training

Two web accessibility classes are available to any website editors at Georgetown. Classes are online in Canvas and can be taken at your leisure. You don’t have to be using the UIS WordPress templates to attend!

Web Accessibility for Content Editors

Duration: 1 hour Format: Online Canvas Course What you’ll get out of this class: Read-Only level access to Siteimprove and the ability to fix and prevent common issues Access to this class: Log in to Canvas and then click “Enroll in Course” -> “Go to the Course” -> “Introduction to Web Accessibility”.

Decisions in Siteimprove

If you have a group of 10 or more and are interested in a custom training over zoom, please email webaccessibility@georgetown.edu.

Construction Management

Note: The core business of real estate development is the design, construction and delivery of buildings and improvements to real property.

Deal Lab

Course Description: “Deal Lab: Articulating Risk Within The Real Estate Enterprise” (“Deal Lab”) is an engaging and academically demanding course in which students learn to connect themes across the many multi-disciplinary components of the commercial real estate enterprise (including acquisition, development, finance, leasing and related ownership matters) in a realistic real estate development context.

Due Diligence for Real Estate Development, Transactions, and Finance

Note: Due Diligence: Acquisitions and Dispositions course will provide an overview of what REITS, developers, investors and lenders require in terms of due diligence, permitting and underwriting for land and improvements for commercial transactions.

Ethics in Action

Note: Core requirement for the MPS degree. Minimum grade of "B" needed to pass.

Exploring Opportunities in Europe

This course offers an intense exploration of European real estate opportunities focused around the annual Expo Real conference held in Munich, Germany each October. Expo Real (exporeal.net) annually attracts over 40,000 real estate practitioners including developers, advisors, investors and lenders from established and emerging global markets.

Foundations of Real Estate Accounting

Foundations of Real Estate Accounting provides a graduate level introduction to real estate accounting, taxation concepts and equity incentives utilizing various tax credit and incentive programs.

Foundations of Real Estate Finance

This introductory course provides students with the technical skills and business concepts of real estate finance. Mastering the basic and advanced concepts of real estate finance is essential to understanding other courses in the MPS curriculum, and to success in the real estate industry.

Schedule of Classes

To search the class schedule, simply click the link above, select your term, and execute your search. Instructions for using both the schedule of classes and the course catalog can be found here.

Course Catalog

As of Fall 2017, course descriptions are no longer found in Explore. They have been migrated to the Banner catalog. Instructions for finding the course catalog in MyAccess can be found here.

Archived Schedules

The University Registrar is responsible for working with departments to create a schedule of classes in an accurate and timely manner. Scheduling guidelines, approved by the Provost and Executive Faculty, govern much of the process. Please contact univregistrar@georgetown.edu for any questions.

Notification of The President’s Decision

• The final decisions on promotion, appointment to rank, and grant of tenure rest with the President. The decisions will be communicated by letter to the candidate by July 31, with copies to the deans and chairs. In the case of an adverse decision, the faculty member may file a petition for reconsideration. This should be a letter from the applicant ...

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Terminal-Year, Non-Tenure-Eligible Appointment Eligibility and Process

Requests For Creation of Ad Hominem AAP, Staff, Or Instructional Positions