If you are an incoming January 2013 student, for current information and details specific to your incoming class, please refer to the updated January 2013 Orientation website at:
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Orientation-January-2013
EQUIVALENCY EXAM INFORMATION FOR E201, E210M, AND B205/B206
Equivalency Exams for the Economics divisional requirement and for the Quantitative Reasoning requirement will be given on Thursday, January 12, 2012. Three exams (E201, E210m, and B205/B206) are administered. Students are not required to take the equivalency exams. However, if you have a foundation in Economics, Statistics, and/or Quantitative Methods, you may want to try one or more of these exams in order to:
(a) satisfy the Quantitative Reasoning requirement,
(b) take a higher level Economics course to meet your EIB breadth requirement, or
(c) satisfy your EIB breadth requirement.
MALD students taking and passing the E201/Introduction to Economic Theory exam will be able to take a higher level Economics course in order to satisfy the Economics breadth requirement. MALD students taking and passing one or both of the Quantitative Reasoning Placement Exams (E210m, B205/B206) will satisfy the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
INTERNET-BASED TRAINING - ELEMENT K
The Fletcher School and Tufts Information Technology Services are pleased to offer an online training resource called Element K. This Internet-based solution delivers training right to your desktop and offers self-paced courses that fit into your schedule - at school, at home, or at a café. Using elementk.com you can learn new software skills that may be required in Fletcher classes, refresh old ones, or even explore some totally new topics. With the self-paced tutorial, you can take a class from beginning to end, or select specific lessons to complete.
With Element K you may choose from classes ranging from MS Office productivity tools such as PowerPoint and Excel, to Web-building and Design software like Dreamweaver or Photoshop. Element K also maintains a personal course catalog that tracks all of your course activity, module by module, so that you can cover as little or as much content as you want and pick right up where you left off.
Requests for Element K account access are fulfilled on a first-come, first-serve basis and subscriptions are not unlimited. ITS reserves the right to close an account that is inactive or idle, however you are welcome to ask for your account to be reinstated if this occurs.
Once you arrive on campus, you are eligible to sign up for Element K. If you are interested, please contact ITS Training:
Email: training@ase.tufts.edu
Phone: 617.627.5897
Web:
http://ase.tufts.edu/its/training.htm