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2019-2020 Graduate Catalogue 
    
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– Course Descriptions

 

History
  

  • HST 593 - Problems in History

    Course Description: Investigation of selected problems in European, American, and non-Western history through discussions, development of bibliographies, or research papers.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: HST 500 (may be taken concurrently)
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • HST 594 - Capstone Project in Public History

    Course Description: Independent, public history project based on primary and secondary research completed in collaboration with a community partner.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • HST 595 - Special Topics in History

    Course Description: Research-oriented exploration of a special topic not regularly covered in other courses. May not be applied toward fulfilment of graduate seminar requirement.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: HST 500 (may be taken concurrently)
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: HST 495
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • HST 596 - Seminar: Topics in History

    Course Description: Advanced research on specialized topics using, where possible, primary sources.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: HST 500 (may be taken concurrently)
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • HST 597 - Topics in Asian History

    Course Description: Intensive study of selected themes and events in Asian history not regularly covered in other courses. Examples of topics include: Chinese Revolutions, Meiji Japan, Gandhian thought, and nationalist movements. May be repeated under a different subtitle.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: HST 500 (may be taken concurrently)
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: HST 497
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • HST 598 - Internship in Public History

    Course Description: Supervised experience with credentialed professional in public history or technical field, combined with directed reading in literature of that field. Final product must meet accepted standards of historical scholarship and professional practice as defined by faculty and supervising professional.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: HST 500 (may be taken concurrently)
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisites and permission of the instructor.
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Fee - General Professional Internship Liability Insurance Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • HST 599 - Thesis

    Course Description: Intensive research study of a topic selected by student and approved by a thesis committee. A scholarly oral presentation and defense of thesis is required.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: HST 500 (may be taken concurrently)
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • HST 600 - Continuous Enrollment in History

    Course Description: This course is intended for degree or certificate seeking graduate students who have completed all course work required for their program, but have not finished exit requirement (comprehensive exam, oral and written exam, defense, etc.). Students may register for this course up to 3 times, beyond that, students should complete a form to request permission to extend continuous enrollment. A continuous enrollment form, which is located on the Graduate School website, must be completed to register for this course.

    Credit Hours: 0

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Repeat Limit: 2

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Continuous Enrollment Tuition Charge Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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Instructional Technology
  

  • MIT 500 - Instructional Systems Design: Theory and Research

    Course Description: Designed to provide an analysis of theoretical foundations of instructional design and their application in design practice. The course will examine multidisciplinary and multicultural influences upon instructional theory and development. A broad range of current design research and theory, and future directions in design theory and practice will be explored.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 501 - Motivation in Instructional Design

    Course Description: Designed to provide a review and analysis of motivational theories in relation to instructional design strategies. The primary emphasis will be on the motivation to learn and techniques for stimulating and sustaining learner motivation.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 502 - The Systematic Approach to Performance Improvement

    Course Description: Provides an introduction to theories and techniques for solving training and nontraining problems in business, industry, and other performance-oriented organizations. Activities include needs assessment, analysis, solution selection, and job and task analysis.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 503 - The Fundamentals of Computer Programming

    Course Description: Study of computer programming and problem-solving as applied to real world educational problems with solutions designed and implemented in various programming and scripting languages. Topics include data types, logic, flowcharting, sequence, selection, repetition, functions, arrays, file i/o, design, testing, and debugging. Prior programming experience is neither assumed nor required.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 510 - Design and Development of Instructional Technology

    Course Description: Emphasizes skills and understanding necessary to create effective, efficient, and appealing instruction in any content area and with any medium, including live instruction. Addresses both “process” and “product.” Process is concerned with activities and media required to create and deliver the instruction. Product is concerned with what the instruction should accomplish. Students will engage in leading a team that designs, produces, implements and evaluates an instructional system developed for a field site. Team leaders will ensure the quality and integrity of the design and report.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: MIT 500 with minimum grade of C
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisite courses or approval of department.
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 511 - Multimedia Design and Development

    Course Description: The course focuses on cognitive learning theory, perception, motivation, color principles, communication, usability, multimedia learning principles and instructional design applicable to designing multimedia instructional products. Students will learn to design, develop, and evaluate multimedia applications. Each student will demonstrate basic proficiency across a wide spectrum of multimedia for print design, job aid design, graphic design and screen design.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 512 - Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning

    Course Description: Designed to enhance knowledge and skills related to application and integration of information technologies to educational environments with an emphasis on teaching and learning activities.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 513 - Computer-based Instruction

    Course Description: Exploration of computer-based instruction (CBI) as a delivery system. Students will learn to design, develop and evaluate an interactive computer-based instructional program that meets instructional needs. Students will follow a systematic instructional design process (flowcharting, storyboarding, prototyping, formative testing) to develop a CBI program.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: MIT 500 and MIT 511
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 514 - Foundations of Distance Education

    Course Description: Examine the concepts, technologies, and issues related to the design, development, delivery, policy-making, and evaluation of distance education courses and programs. Provide an overview of distance education technologies and focus on effective delivery techniques for teaching and learning within a distance education system.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 515 - Web Teaching: Design and Development

    Course Description: Focus on principles of designing Internet-based (web-based) instruction. Students will use Internet tools and other instructional design principles to design and develop web-based instruction. Four to six hour weekly lab required.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: MIT 500 with minimum grade of C and MIT 511 with minimum grade of C
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 516 - Instructional Video Design and Production

    Course Description: Designed to explore the process and techniques involved in professional video productions. Emphasizes fundamental theories and practice in camera and computer-based audio and video production, including recording, editing, and digitizing audio and video segments for education and training applications.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: MIT 500 with minimum grade of C
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisite courses or permission of instructor.
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 517 - Gaming and Simulation

    Course Description: The course uses a hands-on approach to explore the process of designing games, simulation, and virtual environments for teaching and learning. Students will analyze the design and use of the commercial games and simulations to identify their technical, practical, and pedagogical limitations. A variety of game engine software and various methodologies for building and evaluating game models will be explored. Students will design games and role playing/simulations.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 518 - Managing Learning Management and Course Management Systems

    Course Description: Designed to address administrative, management and tracking aspects of online courses.  Emphasizes managing enterprise level Learning Management System.  SCORM compliant and processes for launching courses authored in all standard course authoring tools.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 519 - Computer Interface Design

    Course Description: Learn image editing techniques (beginner to advanced) while simultaneously learning the principles of human-computer interaction. This course will focus on designing visually pleasing interfaces for PC, tablet, and mobile devices. You will learn the theor

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 520 - Managing Instructional Development

    Course Description: Examines principles of planning, scheduling, allocating resources, budgeting, proposal preparation, cost control and personnel management for instructional projects. Activities include negotiating an effective design project plan, how to implement that plan, and how to control and monitor project activities. Case studies will be used as a basis for exercises and discussions. Students will develop a plan that meets specific criteria.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 521 - Diffusion and Implementation of Educational Innovations

    Course Description: Designed to extend students’ understanding of theories and research in the diffusion of innovations. Activities include investigation of the literature and research in diffusion of innovations and examination of theoretical and research findings to the diffusion of technological innovations.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 522 - Organization and Management of Instructional Technology Programs

    Course Description: Examination of the planning and management of successful training, professional development, and technological projects in public or private schools. Topical areas include planning and developing technology projects, evaluating and analyzing school or district capacity and readiness for a new technology project, organizing and managing human resources and support systems, scheduling, budgeting, team structures, defining project requirements, and quality assurance. Analytical tools will be utilized to enhance project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control, including software designed to support project managers.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: MIT 510 with minimum grade of C
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisite courses or permission of instructor.
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 530 - Evaluation and Change in Instructional Development

    Course Description: Designed to provide an introduction to evaluation techniques associated with educational evaluation media and materials, courses, curricula, students or other elements in educational programs. Various units of the course will focus upon particular evaluation techniques.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 531 - Assessment of Learning Outcomes

    Course Description: Examines the nature and purpose of measurement and assessment of learning outcomes. Particular attention is paid to the concepts of reliability, validity, norms, interpretation of scores, response sets, fairness in testing and performance assessment, and norm-referenced vs. criterion-referenced tests. A variety of instruments that are used to measure or assess human attributes and behaviors will be studied.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 540 - Colloquium I

    Course Description: Examines issues, theory, research, and practice shaping the field of Instructional Technology. A particular topic will be emphasized each time the course is offered. Students will engage in reviewing issues, identifying trends, debating theory application, and developing researchable questions.

    Credit Hours: 1

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 541 - Colloquium II

    Course Description: Examines issues, theory, research, and practice shaping the field of Instructional Technology. A particular topic will be emphasized each time the course is offered. Students will engage in reviewing issues, identifying trends, debating theory application, and developing researchable questions.

    Credit Hours: 1

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 542 - Internship

    Course Description: Designed to provide opportunities to experiment in “real world” settings with knowledge and skills learned throughout the program. Internship sites may include on or off-campus, public or private organizations. Interns will apply knowledge and skills of the range of technology mediated instructional planning, design and delivery.

    Credit Hours: 1

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • MIT 595 - Special Topics in Instructional Technology

    Course Description: Seminars of varying duration and credit may be arranged for the study of special topics relevant to student needs not served by established graduate courses. Seminars of this nature may be offered only upon approval of the dean of the Graduate School. A maximum of six semester credit hours may be counted toward degree requirements.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 4

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 598 - Design and Development Research Project

    Course Description: Principal outcomes include the design and development research proposal and presentation of a research paper with the ultimate aim of improving the processes of instructional design, development, and evaluation. As a part of the design and development research project, students perform instructional design, development, and evaluation activities while studying the process of providing solutions to a practical problem.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Completion of a minimum of 18 hours toward completion of master’s degree and permission of the instructor.
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Fee - General Professional Internship Liability Insurance Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 599 - Thesis

    Course Description: Intensive study of a topic selected by the student and approval by the thesis committee required. Includes definition of problem, review of related literature, application of appropriate methodology, and interpretation of results and conclusions. Oral presentation and defense required.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Completion of a minimum of 18 hours toward completion of the master’s degree and permission of the instructor.
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • MIT 600 - Continuous Enrollment in Instructional Technology

    Course Description: This course is intended for degree or certificate seeking graduate students who have completed all course work required for their program, but have not finished exit requirement (comprehensive exam, oral and written exam, defense, etc.). Students may register for this course up to 3 times, beyond that, students should complete a form to request permission to extend continuous enrollment. A continuous enrollment form, which is located on the Graduate School website, must be completed to register for this course.

    Credit Hours: 0

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Repeat Limit: 2

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Continuous Enrollment Tuition Charge Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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International Business
  

  • IMB 515 - Business Analytics

    Course Description: An introduction to data driven decision making using descriptive, predictive and prescriptive Business Analytics approaches. Topics included are data visualization, predictive techniques, data mining, simulation, optimization models and decision analysis.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 525 - Research Methods

    Course Description: The purpose of this course is to guide students through all aspects of the research process and related methodologies so that they are equipped to develop a successful thesis proposal and manuscript.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







    Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
  

  • IMB 531 - Portfolio Management I: Equity

    Course Description: This course is designed to focus on tools and techniques of modern portfolio theory in a global context. The focus of the course will be on the asset class of equity securities.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 532 - Portfolio Management II: Fixed Income

    Course Description: This course is designed to focus on tools and techniques of modern portfolio theory in a global context. The focus of the course will be on the asset class of fixed-income securities.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 533 - Portfolio Management III: Derivatives and Financial Risk Management

    Course Description: This course is designed to provide an understanding of financial and commodity derivative contracts to facilitate effective risk management in corporations. The focus of the course will be on applications of these instruments rather than valuations methods. Extensive discussions of real world cases will be included in the material.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 534 - International Real Estate Investment

    Course Description: The course will first survey “real estate” as a bundle of rights defined differently across borders. Students will review special topics related to international real estate value. These topics will include the mathematics of real estate investment, special tax-deferral and tax sheltering options, cross-border money transfers, offshore real estate ownership, and the expanding importance of ecotourism and sustainable development.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 535 - International Finance

    Course Description: A global overview of managerial and financial accounting for international financial decision-making at an advanced level. The course focuses on analysis and decision making techniques affecting global economics, multinational finance, international accounting, global harmonization, corporate governance, and global value creating management.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 537 - Global Topics

    Course Description: A series of topics providing depth in functional areas such as global business and economic forecasting, financial statement analysis, global information technology, project management, and globally emerging topics.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 4

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 4

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 538 - Financial Research Methods

    Course Description: An extensive study of the research methods utilized to understand and analyze financial issues. Topics and skills covered include: 1) identification and extraction of reliable data for interest rates, equity prices, company fundamentals, and foreign currency, 2) utilization of SAS, Eventus, Bloomberg, and Microsoft Excel to perform analytics such as correlations, regressions, and event studies, and 3) presentation of research results.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 2

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 539 - Financial Management

    Course Description: This is a corporate finance course designed for international MBA students. The primary objective of this course is to provide an understanding of finance and financial management. This primary objective will be supported with examinations of relevant topics in contemporary finance. These will include an appreciation of financial terms and the interplay between the capital markets, knowledge of the tools used by financial managers in their decision-making. With regular reference to current issues in personal, business and international finance, these tools and terms will be introduced and examined. The course format will be a mixture of lectures, assignments and class discussion.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 2

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 540 - Global Marketing Strategies

    Course Description: International marketing decision making at an advanced level. The course will address marketing performance in a global context, assess differences in country environments; select and apply techniques for international market segmentation, market entry strategies, market risk analysis, and marketing plans.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 551 - Global Strategic Analysis

    Course Description: An intensive course in globally strategy-making and execution. The course addresses global strategic business issues and the development of winning business strategies in a global economy. The managerial tasks of strategic analysis as well as crafting, selecting, and executing strategies are discussed through lecture, discussion, and case analysis.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 552 - Human Resource Management in the Global Environment

    Course Description: An examination of international human resource management in the context of the global business environment and policies of organizations for the management of people. The issues of managing international human resources, the link between HR practices and organizational performance, and international legal requirements and best practices will be addressed.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 571 - International Business Law

    Course Description: This course develops an understanding of international legal foundations and frameworks within which a business operates, focusing on a critical analysis of business transactions, and the global legal environment in which they are conducted. Legal concepts will be related to current issues in international business relationships to assist in an understanding of risks inherit in the global forum.

    Credit Hours: 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 577 - Global Operations Management

    Course Description: This class examines contemporary issues related to managing operations in a global context.  The focus will be on key issues within operations which are of relevance in a firm’s ability to remain competitive in a global economy.  The development, implementation and evaluation of effective strategies and tactics for managing operations are key drivers of an organization’s success.  Topics:  outsourcing and offshoring, managing international projects, designing and managing global supply chains, managing inventory and global logistics, and acquisition management.

    Credit Hours: 2 To 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: OPS 577
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 591 - Directed Independent Study

    Course Description: Permission of MBA Director required.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of MBA Director required.
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 594 - Capstone Project

    Course Description: Focused study of a research topic in the practical application of financial decision making/recommendation under the guidance of one or more faculty members. Topics are selected by the student with faculty and MBA director approval. Written analysis and oral presentation of the project is required.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of MBA Director.
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 595 - Study Abroad

    Course Description: This course reflects the specialization topic courses taken by the International MBA (IMBA) students in one of the European partner schools. All IMBA students are required to choose a specialization area for their degree. The courses, topics and content of these specialization areas will different for each of our partner schools. The transient courses taken abroad will be reflected in this course.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 15

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 30

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: Study Abroad







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  • IMB 598 - Internship

    Course Description: Academic training and practical experience through work in a private company or public agency. Faculty supervision and evaluation of all study and on-site activity.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 2

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of MBA Director.
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 2

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Fee - General Professional Internship Liability Insurance, Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 599 - Thesis

    Course Description: Intensive research study of a topic selected by student and approved by a thesis committee. A scholarly oral presentation and defense of thesis is required.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 600 - Continuous Enrollment in International Business Administration

    Course Description: This course is intended for degree or certificate seeking graduate students who have completed all course work required for their program, but have not finished exit requirement (comprehensive exam, oral and written exam, defense, etc.). Students may register for this course up to 3 times, beyond that, students should complete a form to request permission to extend continuous enrollment. A continuous enrollment form, which is located on the Graduate School website, must be completed to register for this course.

    Credit Hours: 0

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Full-Time Enrollment Equivalent: Yes
    Additional Course Fees: Additional Tuition Charges Apply (International MBA Off-formula) Additional Fee Amounts
    Course Attribute: None







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  • IMB 901 - International Business Elective

    Course Description: This course reflects the core elective taken by the International MBA (IMBA) students at one of the European partner schools. All IMBA students are required to take 12 semester hours in the fall semester toward their degree. Five of the courses offered are the same at each partner University. The sixth class varies by institution (elective). The transient course taken abroad will be reflected in this course.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 4

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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International Studies
  

  • INT 505 - Global Issues

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected international topic or theme. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 510 - Topics in the Middle East

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about the Middle East. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 520 - Topics in Europe

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Europe. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 530 - Topics in Latin America

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Latin America. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 540 - Topics in Asia

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Asia. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 550 - Topics in Africa

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Africa. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 560 - Topics in South Asia

    Course Description: Intensive study of a selected topic or theme in art or literature. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 591 - Directed Independent Study

    Course Description: Involves investigation under faculty supervision beyond what is offered in existing courses. May be repeated under different subtitles.

    Credit Hours: 1 To 6

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of the program director.
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 15

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • INT 594 - International Exchange

    Course Description: This is a placeholder course for international exchange program graduate-level participants so that program statistics can be monitored and maintained, so participants remain enrolled at UNCW while on the program, thus safeguarding their catalogue year, keeping active computer accounts, etc.

    Credit Hours: 0 To 12

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: Study Abroad







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Liberal Studies
  

  • GLS 502 - Contemporary Issues in Liberal Studies

    Course Description: A review of critical issues in liberal studies that may be influencing disciplinary methodology, discourse or research techniques. Emphasis on forms of oral and written communication, and research methods.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 510 - Religion and Sex

    Course Description: Through an examination of the major world religions’ views on sex, procreation, marriage, abstinence, masturbation, incest, and sexual orientation as expressed in their scriptures, exegesis, and practice, this course explores the close connections between various conceptions of the sacred and their impact on this biological activity.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 511 - The Social Organization of Cruelty

    Course Description: This course examines the origins and organization of cruelty (slavery, torture, genocide, child abuse, the treatment of “inmates” in nursing homes and mental hospitals) with the aims of 1) developing a general theory of cruelty and 2) better understanding cruelty as an ongoing social achievement.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 513 - Transitions from Communism

    Course Description: An interdisciplinary approach to the problems of transition in four regions: Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and China. After an examination of the historical, geographical, and cultural foundations of current issues, the course focuses on the prospects for democracy and civil society.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 514 - Post-Modern Childhood

    Course Description: Interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary childhood. Popular media, scholarly sources, and a variety of qualitative methods will be used to analyze the social worlds of children and the social construction of childhood in postmodern and increasingly global consumer culture.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 517 - Affirmative Action and Social Justice

    Course Description: Introduction, through discussion, debate and dialogue, to the philosophy of racial justice. Topics include equality and the Constitution, slavery and segregation, the philosophy of civil rights, affirmative action and theories of social justice, and racial healing.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 519 - Poverty, Social Policy, and the American Welfare State

    Course Description: A seminar considering America’s struggle against poverty and related social problems. Examination of social policy and programs, the changing character of poverty over the past century, the influence of reform movements, and the future of the U.S. social welfare system.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 520 - Atheism and Unbelief

    Course Description: Examines the beliefs and assumptions of atheists by exploring an atheist’s response to common theistic arguments, by surveying the historical and philosophical traditions of atheism, and by considering how atheists explain all those things deists need gods for, with special reference to the theories of Freud, Durkheim, Marx, Skinner, Harris, and Sperber.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 521 - Media and Society

    Course Description: Examines the relationship between media, culture, and society, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary perspectives. Focuses on the roles the mass media play in the production, reception, and representation of the news, race, class, gender and sexuality in contemporary society.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 522 - Shamanism

    Course Description: Cross-cultural study of shamanism. Topics include importance of cultural context, altered states of consciousness, balance with nature, and use of plants. Exploration of the shaman as healer, medium, and conduit of spiritual knowledge. Shamanism as a personal journey.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 523 - Popular Culture

    Course Description: Cross-cultural and semiotic analysis of popular forms of everyday life (food, fashion, fads, entertainment trends, television, movies, music, myths, stereotypes, and icons of mass-mediated consumer culture), with a special emphasis upon thinking and writing critically about popular culture by examining tacit assumptions about how the world works and our place in it as well as the role language plays in shaping reality.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 524 - The Contemporary American Workplace

    Course Description: Examines the contemporary American workplace from a number of disciplinary perspectives—economic, sociological, psychological, historical, philosophical, and literary—and considers such concerns as work and identity, ethics and the workplace, gender and ethnic discrimination, work as reality and myth, work and leisure, the workaholic syndrome, job satisfaction, management and labor relations, and education and the marketplace.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 526 - Persuasion in American Life

    Course Description: How American society is influenced by the advertising and public relations industries and the newspaper editorial page.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 527 - Historical Geography of American Race Relations

    Course Description: This seminar explores the historical geography of American race relations from 1619 to the present through readings, discussions, and oral and written presentations of research.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 528 - Cultural Images of America in the 60s

    Course Description: An interdisciplinary examination of the United States in the 1960s, with a focus upon such major political, social, and cultural developments as the anti-Vietnam war movement, the free speech movement, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the sexual revolution, the Black Arts movement and the environmental movement as well as the evolution of a distinctive counterculture.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 529 - Cultural Images of America in the 50s

    Course Description: An interdisciplinary examination of the United States in the 1950s from a variety of socio-cultural perspectives, with a focus upon such topics as fashion, automotive design, food and kitchen technology, roadside architecture, suburban development, consumerism, the nuclear family, the evolution of a distinctive youth culture, segregation, the “Red” scare, popular fads, and the popular media.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 530 - The Shaping of America: Cultural Landscapes and the American Sense of Place

    Course Description: Examination of the material cultural landscapes of America from geographical, historical, and aesthetic perspectives and how attachment to place has shaped the landscape. A study of the rich spatial tapestry of our nation’s fields, towns, cities, architectural styles, railways, and roadscapes and how those patterns reflect five centuries of diverse ethnic and cultural evolution.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 531 - Frontier Sciences

    Course Description: A cultural and historical examination of the emergency, successes, and problems of new sciences and technologies in gaining credibility in the greater scientific and medical communities. Comparative study of how a science widely accepted in one culture is rejected in another, and how some sciences remain controversial.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 532 - Conservation and Culture

    Course Description: The making of nature conservation in local, national, and global contexts. Its historical and contemporary dynamics in relation to human cultures, politics, and consciousness. Philosophical, creative, and scientific examinations of non-human sentience and ecological interconnectedness.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 533 - The Environmental Crisis

    Course Description: An intensifying environmental crisis has arisen from local, national, and transborder encounters with water and air pollution, habitat destruction and species extinction, and possible global warming, all in the context of unprecedented population growth. This course is an America-centered, historically oriented examination of our environmental dilemmas and their possible solutions.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 534 - Culture Wars and the Origin of Difference

    Course Description: Intensive study of significant themes in the literature on the encounter of European peoples with the Third World. Interdisciplinary and anthropological readings focus on explanations for the origin of cultural differences, the dynamics of the colonial encounter, the contemporary clash of cultures, and multiculturalism.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 535 - The Historical Geography of Food

    Course Description: Examines the food ways of different cultural regions from prehistoric hunter/gatherers through Neolithic sedentary agriculture up to modern agri-business, including the diffusion of agricultural practices and products, famine’s causes and effects, the decline of world fisheries, climatic and economic parameters of food production, and the role of foods in cultural practices and prohibitions.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 536 - America During the Great Depression

    Course Description: An examination of the United States during the Great Depression from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from literature, photography, popular music, and popular film to sociology, geography, climatology, agronomy, politics, economics, public health, and education. Featured texts include fiction, autobiography, oral history, public history, letters, newspaper and photojournalism, and relevant historical and sociological studies.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 537 - American Roadways

    Course Description: An examination of such classic American roadways as the Mississippi River, the Appalachian Trail, Route 66, the Burlington-Northern rail system, the “underground railroad,” and “The Trail of Tears” from such disciplinary perspective as cultural and transportation geography, folklore, history, literature, photography, popular music, the popular media, and sociology.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 540 - Jungian Psychology

    Course Description: The course will provide a study of basic ideas in Jungian depth psychology focusing on: the stages of life; the structure of the psyche; instinct and the unconscious; the concept of the collective unconscious; the relations between the ego and the unconscious; phenomenology of the self; marriage as a psychological relationship; psychological types; the transcendent function; analytical psychology and poetry; dream symbolism; spiritual problems; East/West differences; synchronicity; and Jung’s answer to Job. This course does not satisfy the requirement for electives for the MA in Psychology .

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 541 - Psychology and Religion

    Course Description: A study of the relationship between Carl Jung’s theory of the Collective Unconscious and Eastern views of higher consciousness. This course does not satisfy the requirement for electives for the MA in Psychology .

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 542 - Creative Non-Fiction: Memoir and Truth-Telling

    Course Description: An exploration of how authors compose their lives, construct an identity - and create a somewhat coherent self often against enormous personal, societal, and cultural obstacles, focusing on how memory and imagination, history and fiction, fact and invention intersect in the act of creating a self, and of engaging in a meaningful and/or complicated relationship with the past - a past that inevitably weaves itself into the present.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 544 - Topics in Literature: War

    Course Description: This class is a study of the (primarily American) literature inspired by war. The course readings will include various genres of literature - poetry, fiction, graphic novels and novels among others, and the subject matter ranges from Women in Indian Captivity Narratives and the story of Geronimo (“The Great Patriot Warrior”) to the more extensively documented wars (e.g. The Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII, the Vietnam War) America has experienced throughout its independent history.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 545 - Author Focus: Stephen King

    Course Description: Starting with his first published novel, Carrie, and working through novels, novellas and short stories from different time periods in his career, this course is a study of a variety of King’s works, including some works which were first published under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman. In addition to using the more traditional approaches to analyze literature, we will also study King’s own views on writing as discussed in his autobiographical title, On Writing, and work to polish our own writing skill during the course.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 546 - The Sociology of Athletic Heroes

    Course Description: This course is an in-depth study of the various qualities of modern athletic hero. Its primary objective is to explore contemporary heroism as represented by athletes with regard to the criteria for both traditional and modern heros. The course will include case studies of four pre-selected sports heroes and students’ individual research on contemporary athletes as heroes/heroines.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 547 - Homelessness in America

    Course Description: This seminar examines all aspects of the local and national homeless population, including causes of, services for, and the temporary and chronic conditions of homelessness. Homelessness in the United States has increased dramatically in the last 30 years. Therefore, this seminar must also explore the political and economic aspects of homelessness and the proposed solutions, which include first and foremost, affordable housing and services, as many homeless people are mentally ill and/or substance abusers.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 550 - Lying Our Way to the Truth: The Personal Narrative in Poetry

    Course Description: Exploration of the problems and possibilities of the personal narrative in poetry.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 551 - Grave Robbing for a Wedding Gown: Explorations in the Contemporary Fairy Tale

    Course Description: Exploration of the fairy tale in contemporary forms by looking back over traditional examples.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 552 - Easy Under the Apple Boughs: The Natural World in Poetry

    Course Description: This course will immerse students in the consideration of the representation of the natural world in poetry.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Additional Course Fees: None
    Course Attribute: None







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  • GLS 553 - Explorations in Southern Poetry

    Course Description: By looking at a scope of Southern poetry, this course will address what it means to be a Southern poet. We’ll explore the questions: What are the traditions of Southern poetry? What did it mean to be a Southern poet at different points in history? What is the future of Southern poetry? We’ll examine the themes of storytelling, the pastoral, and nostalgia. Written requirements include critical responses in weekly discussions and a final project. No prior poetry writing experience necessary.

    Credit Hours: 3

    Corequisite Courses: None
    Prerequisite Courses: None
    Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
    Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

    ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

    Equivalent Courses: None
    Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
    Course Attribute: None







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