Apr 20, 2024

2012-2013 Graduate Catalogue

2012-2013 Graduate Catalogue Archived Catalogue

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Instructional Technology
	MIT 512 - Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 513 - Computer-based Instruction Credits: (3) Prerequisites: MIT 500 and MIT 511 . 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 514 - Foundations of Distance Education Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 515 - Web Teaching: Design and Development Credits: (3) Prerequisites: MIT 500 and MIT 511 . 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 516 - Instructional Video Design and Production Credits: (3) Prerequisite: MIT 500 or permission of instructor. 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 517 - Gaming and Simulation 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 520 - Managing Instructional Development Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 521 - Diffusion and Implementation of Educational Innovations Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 522 - Organization and Management of Instructional Technology Programs Credits: (3) Prerequisite: MIT 510 or instructor’s permission. 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 530 - Evaluation and Change in Instructional Development Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 531 - Assessment of Learning Outcomes Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 540 - Colloquium I Credits: (1) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 541 - Colloquium II Credits: (1) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 542 - Internship Credits: (1) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 595 - Special Topics in Instructional Technology Credits: (1-4) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 598 - Design and Development Research Project Credits: (3) Completion of a minimum of 18 hours toward completion of master’s degree and permission of the instructor. 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	MIT 599 - Thesis Credits: (3) Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 18 hours toward completion of the master’s degree and permission of the instructor. 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
International Business
	IMB 531 - Portfolio Management I: Equity Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 532 - Portfolio Management II: Fixed Income Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 533 - Portfolio Management III: Derivatives and Financial Risk Management Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 534 - International Real Estate Investment Credits: (1) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 535 - International Finance Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 536 - Global Macroeconomics and Financial Institutions Credits: (1) Analysis of aggregate economic activity, the effects of fiscal and monetary policies in a global environment and financial institutions in which global business firms operate. The course will measure, analyze, and interpret economic data in an open economic context. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 537 - Global Topics Credits: (1-4) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 538 - Financial Research Methods Credits: (1-2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 539 - Financial Management Credits: (1-2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 540 - Global Marketing Strategies Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 551 - Global Strategic Analysis Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 552 - Human Resource Management in the Global Environment Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 571 - International Business Law Credits: (2) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 577 - Global Operations Management Credits: (2-3) (OPS 577) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 591 - Directed Individual Study Credits: (1-6) Permission of MBA Director required. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 594 - Capstone Project Credits: (1-6) Prerequisite: Permission of MBA director. 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 595 - Study Abroad Credits: (1-15) This course reflects the specialization topic courses taken by the International MBA (IMBA) students in one o 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 598 - Internship Credits: (1-2) 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. Students must secure permission of the MBA director. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 599 - Thesis Credits: (1-6) Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 600 - Continuous Enrollment IMBA Students Credits: (1) Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	IMB 901 - International Bus Elective Credits: (1-4) 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 6 classes in the fall semester toward their degree. Five of these courses 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
International Exchange
	INT 505 - Global Issues Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected international topic or theme. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 510 - Topics in the Middle East Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about the Middle East. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 520 - Topics in Europe Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Europe. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 530 - Topics in Latin America Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Latin America. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 540 - Topics in Asia Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Asia. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 550 - Topics in Africa Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected topic or theme about Africa. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 560 - Topics in South Asia Credits: (1-6) Intensive study of a selected topic or theme in art or literature. May be repeated under different subtitles. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 591 - Directed Individual Study Credits: (1-6) Involves investigation under faculty supervision beyond what is offered in existing courses. May be repeated under different subtitles. Students must secure permission of the program director. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	INT 594 - International Exchange Credits: (9) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
Liberal Studies
	GLS 502 - Contemporary Issues in Liberal Studies Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 510 - Religion and Sex Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 511 - The Social Organization of Cruelty Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 513 - Transitions from Communism Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 514 - Post-Modern Childhood Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 517 - Affirmative Action and Social Justice Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 519 - Poverty, Social Policy, and the American Welfare State Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 520 - Atheism and Unbelief Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 521 - Media and Society Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 522 - Shamanism Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 523 - Popular Culture Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 524 - The Contemporary American Workplace Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 526 - Persuasion in American Life Credits: (3) How American society is influenced by the advertising and public relations industries and the newspaper editorial page. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 527 - Historical Geography of American Race Relations Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 528 - Cultural Images of America in the 60s Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 529 - Cultural Images of America in the 50s Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 530 - The Shaping of America: Cultural Landscapes and the American Sense of Place Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 531 - Science and Pseudoscience Credits: (3) Study of criteria for description and explanation in science and the use of those criteria to demarcate between scientific and pseudoscientific claims to knowledge. Evaluation of specific areas such as parapsychology, astrology, and alternative medicine. Consideration of psychological factors influencing people’s tendency to accept unsupported beliefs. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 532 - Conservation and Culture Credits: (3) A discussion of both contemporary and historical links between conservation and human cultures, with a focus on wildlife and other natural resources. Includes topics such as the Dust Bowl, attitudes toward predators, the founding of the Hudson Bay company, Smokey the Bear, Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, and the conservation ethics of Muir, Pinchot, and Leopold. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 533 - The Environmental Crisis Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 534 - Culture Wars and the Origin of Difference Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 535 - The Historical Geography of Food Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 536 - America During the Great Depression Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 537 - American Roadways Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 540 - Jungian Psychology Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 541 - Psychology and Religion Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 542 - Creative Non-Fiction: Memoir and Truth-Telling Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 544 - Topics in Literature: War Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 545 - Author Focus: Stephen King Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 546 - The Sociology of Athletic Heroes Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 547 - Homelessness in America Credits: (3) 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. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 560 - Art in Social Science Perspective Credits: (3) Art both organizes and is organized by social interaction. This course examines this dialectical relationship between art and society, focusing upon the complex networks of social relationships among artists, critics, aestheticians, patrons, and institutions that powerfully influence the ways in which art is performed, exhibited, evaluated, and supported. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 561 - Theatre and Cinema Credits: (3) Aesthetic study of theatre and film and the relations between them. Examination of key texts in each medium, emphasizing rhetorical analyses of language, mise-en-scène, performance, cinematography, editing and other properties particular to dramatic art forms. Three seminar hours and two screening hours each week. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 562 - Our Cultural Heritage through Dance Credits: (3) This course provides an opportunity to experience and examine dance forms and cultures from around the world. These experiences will provide the focus and impetus for students to make connections to their lives, to show connections to the global studies curriculum, and to encourage future independent study by individual class members. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 564 - Composing a Self: Autobiography from the Margins Credits: (3) In this course, we will read a range of contemporary autobiographies and memoirs and explore how writers compose their lives, construct an identity, and create a somewhat coherent self often against enormous, personal, societal, and cultural obstacles. We will read the autobiographical work of authors who have been socially marginalized, due to race, gender, ethnicity, mental illness, or socio-economics. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 566 - Documentary Film: Moving Images Credits: (3) The Documentary Tradition. One documentary film will be shown and discussed each week so that students will develop an awareness of how these films, both classics and current-day documentaries, were put together. Narration, interview, historical photos, and footage as well as actual filming of action, people and scenes will be analyzed to see how a documentary story is told. The student will be able to see how various video and audio segments make up a documentary and will become a more critical viewer of documentaries. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 568 - Black Intellectual Tradition Credits: (3) An interdisciplinary study of the black intellectual tradition in the humanities, social sciences, and the fine arts that spans nearly two hundred years, two continents, and most of the academic disciplines with special emphases upon African intellectual heritage, African philosophical thought forms, Afro-American philosophy of religion, black education, the black social conscience, and Blacks in literature. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 570 - Black Mountain School of North Carolina Credits: (3) Intensive study of the highly innovative and interdisciplinary Black Mountain School (1933-1956), its roots in European and American culture, and its remarkable legacy. Special emphasis upon poetry, the visual arts, and the performing arts and such leading figures as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Motherwell, William de Kooning, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 571 - Main Street U.S.A. Credits: (3) An examination of small-town America from a variety of topical and disciplinary perspectives, including art and architecture, business and commerce, cultural and transportation geography, education, folkways, and folk customs, history, kitsch, literature, photography, popular media, psychology, religion, sociology, and sport and recreation. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 573 - Dance: A Teaching Tool for Humanity Credits: (3) Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 574 - Dance Performance Credits: (1-3) Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 575 - Dance Production Wrkshop Credits: (3) Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 591 - Directed Independent Study Credits: (1-3) Students must secure permission of the graduate coordinator. May be taken once. May not be taken concurrently with GLS 598 or used for thesis research. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 592 - Special Topics in Liberal Studies Credits: (1-3) Exploration of a special topic in liberal studies not regularly covered in other courses. May be repeatable for a maximum of 24 hours under different titles for credit. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 597 - Internship in Applied Liberal Studies Credits: (1-3) Prerequisite: Nine hours of graduate course credit for M.A. in Liberal Studies and permission of director. Supervised professional experience with specific goals and assignments to be set and evaluated by a GLS instructor. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 598 - Final Project in Liberal Studies Credits: (3) Focused study of topic or question selected by student and approved by faculty advisor and director of MALS. Synthesizes or represents the student’s interdisciplinary theme or concentration. Written analysis and oral presentation of project is required. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	GLS 599 - Post-Master’s Certificate Qualifying Exam Credits: (2) An extended written exam that provides post-Master’s certificate candidates with a reflective opportunity to assess the quality and significance of their learning experience as graduate liberal students and to examine the value and relevance of graduate liberal studies in the contemporary world, particularly in regard to those agendas of interdisciplinary, cultural diversity, internationalism, and active citizenship that inform the graduate liberal studies program at UNCW. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
Licensure
	LIC 500 - Advanced Elementary Grades Education, K-6 Credits: (3) Overview of roles and responsibilities of the teacher, major learning theories, school law, purpose of schools, and issues of accountability. Field experience required. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	LIC 501 - Research-based Instructional Design and Assessment (K-6) Credits: (3) Short-term and long-term planning structures emphasized including standards-based units and lesson design, scaffolding strategies, and ways to effectively assess student learning. Emphasis on using research literature as well as formative and summative assessment data to design curriculum. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	LIC 511 - Middle Grades Internship Credits: (6) Corequisite: LIC 520 . A full-time internship within a candidate’s certifiable teaching area(s). Students engage in a variety of supervised instructional activities, assuming an increasing amount of responsibility for all phases of classroom instruction. Successful completion of the internship leads to initial teacher licensure. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	LIC 518 - Advanced Middle Grades Education Credits: (3) Overview of the conceptual and historic development of programs for students in grades six through nine. Comparison of varied curricular, instructional, and organizational aspects of middle level schools. Explores the educational implications of the developmental characteristics of early adolescent learners, varied approaches to learning, and classroom management. Field experience required. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	LIC 519 - Advanced Diverse Learners, K-6 Credits: (3) Course focuses on strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners at the elementary level. Teacher candidates examine issues concerning understanding diverse populations including creating respectful environments, collaboration with families, and special education laws. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.
	LIC 520 - Advanced Diverse Learners, 6-9 Credits: (3) Course focuses on strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners at the middle level. Students study strategies for addressing student differences including academic, socio-emotional, physical, cultural and language differences. Click here for the Fall 2024 Class Schedule.

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– Course Descriptions

MIT 512 - Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning

MIT 513 - Computer-based Instruction

MIT 514 - Foundations of Distance Education

MIT 515 - Web Teaching: Design and Development

MIT 516 - Instructional Video Design and Production

MIT 517 - Gaming and Simulation

MIT 520 - Managing Instructional Development

MIT 521 - Diffusion and Implementation of Educational Innovations

MIT 522 - Organization and Management of Instructional Technology Programs

MIT 530 - Evaluation and Change in Instructional Development

MIT 531 - Assessment of Learning Outcomes

MIT 540 - Colloquium I

MIT 541 - Colloquium II

MIT 542 - Internship

MIT 595 - Special Topics in Instructional Technology

MIT 598 - Design and Development Research Project

MIT 599 - Thesis

IMB 531 - Portfolio Management I: Equity

IMB 532 - Portfolio Management II: Fixed Income

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

IMB 534 - International Real Estate Investment

IMB 535 - International Finance

IMB 536 - Global Macroeconomics and Financial Institutions

IMB 537 - Global Topics

IMB 538 - Financial Research Methods

IMB 539 - Financial Management

IMB 540 - Global Marketing Strategies

IMB 551 - Global Strategic Analysis

IMB 552 - Human Resource Management in the Global Environment

IMB 571 - International Business Law

IMB 577 - Global Operations Management

IMB 591 - Directed Individual Study

IMB 594 - Capstone Project

IMB 595 - Study Abroad

IMB 598 - Internship

IMB 599 - Thesis

IMB 600 - Continuous Enrollment IMBA Students

IMB 901 - International Bus Elective

INT 505 - Global Issues

INT 510 - Topics in the Middle East

INT 520 - Topics in Europe

INT 530 - Topics in Latin America

INT 540 - Topics in Asia

INT 550 - Topics in Africa

INT 560 - Topics in South Asia

INT 591 - Directed Individual Study

INT 594 - International Exchange

GLS 502 - Contemporary Issues in Liberal Studies

GLS 510 - Religion and Sex

GLS 511 - The Social Organization of Cruelty

GLS 513 - Transitions from Communism

GLS 514 - Post-Modern Childhood

GLS 517 - Affirmative Action and Social Justice

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

GLS 520 - Atheism and Unbelief

GLS 521 - Media and Society

GLS 522 - Shamanism

GLS 523 - Popular Culture

GLS 524 - The Contemporary American Workplace

GLS 526 - Persuasion in American Life

GLS 527 - Historical Geography of American Race Relations

GLS 528 - Cultural Images of America in the 60s

GLS 529 - Cultural Images of America in the 50s

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

GLS 531 - Science and Pseudoscience

GLS 532 - Conservation and Culture

GLS 533 - The Environmental Crisis

GLS 534 - Culture Wars and the Origin of Difference

GLS 535 - The Historical Geography of Food

GLS 536 - America During the Great Depression

GLS 537 - American Roadways

GLS 540 - Jungian Psychology

GLS 541 - Psychology and Religion

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

GLS 544 - Topics in Literature: War

GLS 545 - Author Focus: Stephen King

GLS 546 - The Sociology of Athletic Heroes

GLS 547 - Homelessness in America

GLS 560 - Art in Social Science Perspective