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ENGL 608 - Fiction Writing
Students write short stories (or chapters); explore trends in twentieth-century fiction: interior monologue, present-tense narration, second-person narration, third-person interior monologue, multiple flashbacks/time sequencing.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 609 - Poetry Writing
Writing and reading poetry; in-depth discussion of student work. Preparation of portfolio of original poems; study of major poets and formal elements of poetry.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 610 - Rhetorical Theory
In-depth survey of the western rhetorical tradition from classical times to the present, with the principal focus on major contributions through the twentieth century.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 611 - Mountain Area Writing Project
By invitation only to K-12 teachers (all subjects) within Western North Carolina, Region 8. Focus on principal aims of National Writing Project and North Carolina Writing Projects, with which it is affiliated.
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 6
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ENGL 612 - The Mountain Area Writing Project (Level 2)
A follow-up extension of ENGL 611, open only to K-12 public school teachers through invitation. Rare exceptions made with permission of instructors.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 613 - Stylistics
In-depth study of the rhetoric of style. Examination of professional writing; how and why writers might choose sentence type, vocabulary, punctuation, and syntax.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 614 - Contemporary Rhetoric
In-depth survey of rhetoric in the late twentieth century; examination of theory/application of “new rhetorics.”
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 615 - Linguistic Perspectives
Specific focus will vary: may cover phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics, and child/adult language acquisition.
Prerequisites PREQ: ENGL 515 or permission of instructor. PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 616 - Foundations of ESL and Language Learning
Introduction to second language acquisition (SLA): language learning, learning theory, needs analysis, assessment, and factors in variability of SLA.
Prerequisites PREQ: Admission to program or consent of instructor. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 617 - Historical Linguistics
Attention to language in historical context: language families, linguistic change, and linguistic reconstruction. Focus on changes in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and orthography of English language.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 618 - Research Methods in English
Overview of research methodologies in fields related to the disciplines of English.
Prerequisites PREQ: Required for all graduate students in the M.A. in English. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 619 - English Grammars
Internal structure of English, particularly its syntax: traditional grammar, American structuralism, and generative grammar; primary focus on Chomskyan and other competing models.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 620 - Chaucer
Chaucer’s major poetry/ historical epoch analyzed; particular emphasis on The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the dream visions. All selections read in Middle English.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 621 - Medieval Language and Literature
Introduction to the structure, syntax, grammar, and vocabulary of Middle English; major works written between 1066 and 1500 are examined, in original and translation.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 622 - Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature
Emphasis on Old English language, major works, in translation and in original. Students will become familiar with Old English history and the culture.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 625 - Applied Phonetics and Pronunciation Teaching
The study of the English sound system as it applies to developing speaking abilities in ESL students.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 626 - ESL Methodology: Listening and Speaking
This core course for the MA-TESOL degree provides an overview of ESL/EFL methodology focusing on aural/oral skills (listening comprehension, pronunciation, and overall speaking instruction).
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 627 - ESL Methodology: Reading and Writing
ESL theory and practice for reading and writing development: vocabulary, grammar, content-based and task-based instruction. Critique of textbooks, materials, effective techniques.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 628 - ESL Curriculum and Administration
Survey and analysis of curriculum and syllabus design. Theoretical and practical issues in selecting content and developing instructional materials for ESL/EFL program development and administration.
Prerequisites PREQ: 616, 626, 627. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 630 - The Bible as Literature
Study of the Bible from a literary perspective, examining major portions of the text for its subjects, themes, literary styles and genres.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 631 - Shakespeare
Approach to selected works of Shakespeare from a specialized perspective, depending on instructor’s preference and students’ needs: e.g., dramatic language, great tragedies, critical approaches.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 632 - Renaissance Literature
Literature of Early Modern period from a specialized perspective, depending on instructor’s preference and students’ needs: e.g., Renaissance idealism, Sidney/Spenser, sonnets, Tudor-Stuart drama.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 635 - Teaching Grammar, Reading and Writing to ESL Students.
The study of English grammar and its application to teaching and writing to ESL students.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 641 - Milton
Examination of theological, mythological, political, and poetic issues in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, minor poems. Introduction to major prose works.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 642 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
Works of notable poets; special attention to Cavalier, Metaphysical, and Meditational poetry, and prose writings with attention to issues of theme and style.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 643 - Literature of the Enlightenment
Focus on artistic constructs of order (heroic couplet, Augustan diction); developments within artistic genres (satire, novel, and periodical); dynamic cultural temperaments.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 645 - Second Language Acquisition and TESOL Methodology
Current theories and research on second language acquisition and their application to language pedagogies.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 651 - Romantic and Victorian Poetry
A survey of Romantic and Victorian poetry, from the visionary William Blake to the luminary Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the decadent Oscar Wilde.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 652 - Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
A survey of nineteenth-century British fiction with special emphasis on significant novels of the era, from Austen and the Brontës to Dickens, Eliot, and Wilde.
Prerequisites Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 653 - British Nonfiction
A survey of British nonfiction prose and its authors’ interrogation of issues such as aesthetics, class, gender, industrialization, race, religion, science, and governance.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 655 - Professional Development of the ESL Teacher
An examination of language assessment and professional requirements for ESL teachers in North Carolina.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 659 - Southern Literature
The literature of the South with particular emphasis on cultural and historical themes of the region.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits (3)
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ENGL 660 - Early American Literature
“New World” texts, including indigenous literature, European settler writings, slave narrative, and works from the revolutionary and early national periods.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 661 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Texts of American literature encompassing one hundred years characterized by great change-including the American Renaissance, realism, and naturalism.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 662 - Contemporary Literature
Study of literature written since the end of World War II; texts covered will cross borders of genres, nations, and continents.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 663 - Environmental Literature
Study of environmental depictions in literature and how those depictions are imagined, shaped, and created by specific cultural contexts.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 670 - Early Twentieth-Century British Literature
Literary trends dominating first four decades of twentieth century; emphasis on Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence; also, works in English from United States or other countries.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 671 - Late Twentieth Century British Literature
A multigenre view of literature since World War II; writers in English, or in English translation.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 672 - African Literature
An exploration of African oral and written literatures from a variety of cultures, situated within a global literary historical context.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 673 - Global and Postcolonial Literature
Non-Western literature and film from formerly colonized areas such as Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean that share English as literary language.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 674 - Transnational Literature
Focuses on world literature shaped in response to immigration, globalization, increased access to telecommunications and military occupation.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 675 - Modernism
Study of literature written from 1900 to World War II. Literature will include multiple genres and national origins.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 676 - Adaptation: From Text to Film
Study of film adaptation in a variety of genres, including fiction and nonfiction; historical and contemporary theory, film and cultural analysis, industry practices that govern adaptations.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 677 - Literary Theory
Study of major schools of literary theory like new criticism, deconstruction, feminism, racial identity, post-colonial theory, gender theory, new historicism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and ecocriticism.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 683 - TESOL Practicum
Students will team-teach one ESL class, exploring principles of language learning, intercultural communication, ESL methodology, and the multidimensional nature of the English language classroom.
Prerequisites PREQ: 616, 626, 627. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3
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ENGL 693 - Special Topics in English
Varying topics of specialized focus.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3, R6
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ENGL 694 - Special Topics in Rhetorical Theory
Varying topics of specialized focus.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3, R6
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ENGL 699 - Thesis Research
Only 6 hours of thesis may be counted toward a degree. Students may register for thesis credit the semester after the thesis proposal has been approved. Students may enroll in no more than 6 semester hours of thesis credit during any given semester without approval of the English department’s graduate director and department head.
Prerequisites PREREQ: Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 3, R12
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ENGL 779 - Continuing Research-Non-Thesis Option
See Policy on Completion of Thesis and Dissertation found in the Admissions and Degree Requirements Section of the Graduate Catalog. S/U grading. These hours will not count toward fulfilling degree requirements.
Prerequisites PREQ: Must NOT be enrolled in a thesis program. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 1, R10
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ENGL 799 - Continuing Research-Thesis Option
See Policy on Completion of Thesis and Dissertation found in the Admissions and Degree Requirements Section of the Graduate Catalog. S/U grading. These hours will not count toward fulfilling degree requirements.
Prerequisites PREQ: Student must be enrolled in a thesis program. Requires departmental approval for non-degree seeking students and transient students.
Credits 2, R24
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Entrepreneurship |
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ENT 600 - Entrepreneurial Planning
Tools for venture creation and management including marketing, accounting, risk management, human resources, legal issues, and intellectual capital.
Credits 3
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ENT 601 - Entrepreneurial Innovation
Examination of invention, enhancement, originality, divergent thinking, and innovation in research, development, enhancement, and strategy in businesses and organizations.
Credits 3
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ENT 610 - Entrepreneurial Creation
Examination of the resources, demand, industry and competitive forces, and strategies required for successful entrepreneurial activities.
Credits 3
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ENT 630 - Entrepreneurial Growth
Developing the materials to institute and expand a successful entrepreneurial venture.
Credits 3
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ENT 640 - Entrepreneurial Feasibility Analysis
Financial forecasting to include pro forma cash flow development, and the design and development of reporting systems.
Credits 3
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ENT 645 - Entrepreneurial Marketing
Methods of creating and delivering a marketing plan using media and online approaches. Course requires the development of marketing plan, market analysis, collateral material, and online promotions.
Credits 3
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ENT 650 - Advanced Entrepreneurial Finance
Financial statements analysis, performance and sensitivity analysis and sources and types of debt and equity funding.
Prerequisites 640.
Credits 3
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ENT 655 - Planning a New Venture
Culmination of three semesters of work leading to the creation of a business plan that is capable of supporting substantial financial investment.
Credits 3
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ENT 660 - Entrepreneurial Strategy - Part 1
Strategic leadership, deliberate strategy, environment scanning, competitive assessment, entrepreneurial vision and communication.
Credits 3
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ENT 670 - Entrepreneurial Strategy - Part 2
Strategic leadership, deliberate strategy, environmental scanning, competitive assessment, entrepreneurial vision and communication.
Credits 3
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ENT 682 - Independent Study
Independent Study
Prerequisites Permission of instructor.
Credits 1-3, R6
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ENT 693 - Topics in Entrepreneurship
Topics in Entrepreneurship
Prerequisites Permission of instructor.
Credits 1-6, R9
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ENVH 570 - Principles of Epidemiology
Principles and applications of investigation, control, and prevention of disease.
Credits 3
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ENVH 575 - Environmental Program Administration
Intensive study of regulatory program administration; focus on development, implementation, and evaluation of environmental health programs in the government sector.
Credits 3
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ENVH 655 - Hazardous Materials and Waste Management
An application of technical and administrative procedures needed to understand the problems of hazardous materials and waste management, especially as they relate to current generators, transporters, processors, and disposers.
Credits 3
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ENVH 670 - Water Quality
Examination of processes for the development of water resources and water quality. Health implications of water quality management and pollution control will be stressed.
Credits 3
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ENVH 671 - Environmental Regulation and Law
Introduction of basic concepts of environmental law, including the workings of the justice system, the litigation process, witness testimony, and major environmental health laws.
Credits 3
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ENVH 675 - Loss Control through Industrial Hygiene
Reduction of employer healthcare cost through utilization of principles of industrial hygiene and occupational health; cost-effectiveness of preventive medicine in industry.
Credits 3
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Finance |
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FIN 570 - Portfolio Management
A “hands on” course managing an all-equity portfolio; corporate, industry and market analysis.
Credits 3
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FIN 601 - Financial Management
Capital budgeting, financial structure, financial analysis and planning, lease analysis, leverage, working capital management, and international financial management.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 500 or equivalent.
Credits 3
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FIN 602 - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Evaluation of stocks, fixed-income securities, and investment strategies; fundamental and technical analysis; and modern portfolio theory.
Credits 3
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FIN 682 - Research Project in Finance
Research Project in Finance
Prerequisites Detailed project proposal must be approved by department head and director of graduate programs in business.
Credits 3, R6
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FIN 693 - Topics in Finance
Topics in Finance
Prerequisites Permission of department head and director of graduate programs in business.
Credits 3, R6
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Geography |
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GEOG 502 - Conservation of Natural Resources
Quantity, quality, and distribution of resources in the United States; dilemma of increasing demand on a dwindling resource base.
Credits 3
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GEOG 540 - Topics in Regional Geography
Physical, economic, and social aspects of the geography of a selected region (Asia, Europe, USSR, North America, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa).
Credits 3, R12
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GEOG 544 - Political Geography
Territorial and cultural elements in the formation of national and international boundaries: case studies.
Credits 3
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GEOG 560 - Urban and Regional Land Use Planning
Principles and practices of urban/regional planning; types of planning reports; applications to North Carolina.
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor.
Credits 3
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GEOG 562 - Introduction to Urban Geography
Study of the spatial structure and functions of urban places; theories of city origin and growth.
Credits 3
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GEOG 564 - Industrial Location and Community Development
Measures of manufacturing; location theory; decision-making factors in the location of industry; community-development planning practices.
Prerequisites PREQ: 350 or permission of instructor.
Credits 3
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GEOG 591 - Topics in Geography
Topics in Geography
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor.
Credits 1-3, R6
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GEOG 593 - Special Problems
Special Problems
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor.
Credits 1-3, R6
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GEOG 693 - Special Problems in Geography
Special Problems in Geography
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of department head.
Credits 3, R6
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Geology |
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GEOL 505 - Hydrogeology
Overview of basic principles and methods of hydrogeology with emphasis on groundwater, groundwater-surface water interactions, geologic controls, water chemistry, field investigations, and environmental problems. 3 Lecture 3 Lab.
Prerequisites PREQ: GEOL/GEOG 305 or GEOL/GEOG 302 or permission of instructor.
Credits 4
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GEOL 510 - Fluvial Geomorphology
Survey of channel hydraulics, sediment transport and deposition, and channel responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances; emphasizes factors controlling channel form and process.
Credits 3
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GEOL 523 - Contaminated Rivers: Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration
Survey of trace metal transport and fate in riverine environments and their potential impacts on ecosystem and human health; emphasizes remediation techniques.
Credits 3
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GEOL 555 - Wetlands
Wetland science and management with an emphasis on physical processes and field techniques.
Credits 3
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GEOL 565 - Environmental Geochemistry
Applying chemical principles in the study of geologic topics including environmental contaminants, element cycling, environmental reconstruction, and climate change; use of analytical equipment in geochemistry.
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor.
Credits 3
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GEOL 591 - Topics in Geology
Special course explores a current topic in Geology or Environmental Geology.
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor.
Credits 1-4, R8
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GEOL 593 - Special Problems in Geology
Special Problems in Geology
Credits 2, R4
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GEOL 601 - Earth Sciences
Survey of the elements of physical and historical geology, weather, climate, and their effect on the geomorphic process.
Credits 3
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GEOL 602 - Earth Sciences
Survey of the elements of physical and historical geology, weather, climate, and their effect on the geomorphic process.
Credits 3
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GEOL 693 - Topics in Geology
Topics in Geology
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of instructor.
Credits 1-3, R6
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Gerontology |
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GERN 510 - Healthy and Integrative Aging
An introduction to the field of gerontology with a focus on research, healthy aging and a holistic perspective of human development.
Credits 3
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GERN 520 - Long-Term Care Continuum
This course examines the continuum of supports and services available to consumers in planning and/or providing for their long-term care needs.
Credits 3
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GERN 680 - Independent Study
A directed independent study in the field of gerontology.
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of advisor.
Credits 1-3, R9
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GERN 688 - Gerontology Practicum
A capstone course with the major focus on designing, planning and implementing a service learning/practicum project.
Prerequisites PREQ: Permission of advisor.
Credits 3
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GERN 693 - Topics
Topics in the field of gerontology.
Credits 1-3, R9
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Health Sciences |
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MHS 510 - Systems and Policy in Health Care
Medical and health services delivery organizations, providers, recipients, financing, and national policy perspectives.
Credits 3
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MHS 530 - Theoretical Foundations of Public Health
Theory and principles of adult education as they apply to the promotion of health behaviors in clinical, worksite and community settings.
Credits 3
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