Friday, October 15, 2004

The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s College of Arts and Sciences invites the public to become college students for a day by attending the third annual College Day from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20. Registration for the popular program opens Wednesday, Oct. 20. For information and to enroll, call 910-962-3195.

Participants in College Day can choose one class from each of two morning and two afternoon sessions. The 48 one-hour presentations represent the range of the liberal arts tradition within the College of Arts and Sciences as well as guest presentations from the Cameron School of Business, School of Nursing and Watson School of Education. For detailed descriptions and faculty presenters, please visit the College Day Web site: www.uncw.edu/collegeday.

The cost is $20 per person and includes a catered lunch at Warwick Center. Payment may be made by cash, check or credit card. On Oct. 20, paid enrollees will be issued a password permitting Web access to the registration system at www.uncw.edu/collegeday. Using the password, enrollees can select classes and print out a schedule. Registration assistance is available by calling 910-962-3195. Non-computer users may pay and register in person at the Division for Public Service and Continuing Studies, 5051 New Centre Drive.

College Day participants may also attend a UNCW University Theatre special presentation of Sean O’Casey’s Shadow of a Gunman at a discounted price of $5. The performance is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20 in Kenan Auditorium. To reserve tickets, call the Kenan Auditorium Box Office at 910-962-3500.

Media sponsors of College Day are the Wilmington Star-News and WHQR Public Radio.

The following is a sample of topics being offered and presenters:

• Gangsters, Private Eyes, Low Lifes – Film Noir - Todd Berliner, chair, film studies

• The Role of Leadership in Organizational Change - Steve Harper, Cameron School of Business

• African-American Health Issues - Naydi Nazario, health and applied human services

• Music and Dance of Ghana, West Africa - John Rack, music

• Strategies for Successful Aging - Sue Owensby and Lorna Bell-Kotwall, School of Nursing

• Asian Challenges - Paige Tan, political science

• Violence in the Workplace - Reid Toth, sociology and criminal justice

• Designing Drugs to Treat Cancer - Sridhar Varadarajan, chemistry and biochemistry

• The Waldensian Housebarns of Western North Carolina - Frank Ainsley, earth sciences

• Aging Parents and Adult Children: Redefining Relationships - Eleanor Krassen Covan, Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock and Beth Richards, gerontology

• All I Need to Know I Learned at the Movies - Dave Monahan, film studies

• Gold Is Where You Find It: The North Carolina Gold Rush, 1799-1849 - Michael Smith, earth sciences

• Oh, the Things Our Kids Learn with… - Jeff Ertzberger, Watson School of Education

• Khrushchev to Elvis: America in the 50s - Michael Wentworth, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

• Messages and the Organizations They Create - David Weber, communication studies

• The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: A Learning Community Experience – interdisciplinary panel with Thomas Schmid, philosophy and religion; Robert Blundo, social work; Lavonne Adams, creative writing; and Glen Harris, history

• Documentary Filmmaking - Lou Buttino, film studies

• Forget Me Not: What We Are Learning about Human Memory - Julian Keith, psychology

• Chemical and Biological Terrorism: A Primer - William Cooper, chemistry and biochemistry

• Becoming Who We Are: The Formation of Identity - John Rice, sociology and criminal Justice

• Two Languages, Two Cultures: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Memoirs - Barbara Waxman, English

• America’s Oceans: Their Problems, Our Problems and What Are We Going To Do About It? - Alina Szmant, biological sciences

• Post-Election 2004: Where Do We Go from Here? - Remonda Kleinberg and Roger Lowery, political science

• Finding Money for Community Projects - Art Frankel, social work.

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MEDIA CONTACTS: Stephen McNamee, College of Arts and Sciences, 910-962-3660 and Kim Proukou, College of Arts and Sciences 910-962-4109.