Like any other academic program
or department, quality teaching is indispensable to the educational mission
of the GLS program and is consistent with UNCW's longstanding commitment
to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, a commitment that, for
over the past eleven years has attracted national recognition, leading U.S.
News and World Report to rank UNCW in 2009, for the eleventh consecutive year, as one of the top ten
public master's universities in the South. In 2009, UNCW maintained the rank of sixth.
As an interdisciplinary program,
rather than an autonomous discipline-specific department, the GLS program
draws upon teaching faculty from such academic departments as anthropology,
biology, creative writing, English, environmental science, foreign languages,
geography, health and applied human services, philosophy and religion,
political science, psychology, and sociology as well as qualified temporary
faculty outside the university community who have taught such courses
as "Clothing
and Society," "History
of the Unconscious," "Poetics
of Ecology," "Women
in Film," and "Ocean
and Coastal Law."
Consistent with UNCW's commitment
to quality classroom instruction, the GLS program at UNCW seeks to encourage
and facilitate a close collaborative relationship between instructor and
students. Such a relationship is fostered by the seminar atmosphere of
GLS classes, with a ceiling enrollment of fifteen students; faculty support
of student research and travel initiatives; and the committee format for
students' final projects. Outside the classroom, the GLS program further
personalizes students' learning experience through social and cultural
activities, involving both students and faculty, and academic advising,
which involves regular one-on-one contact with the student's assigned
faculty advisor.
All UNCW faculty, including
participating GLS faculty, are encouraged to take advantage of special
programs and workshops (many of which are based toward technology-based
instruction) sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence. The GLS
program also encourages regular contact among faculty teaching in the
GLS program to ensure quality of instruction.
Participating
UNCW Faculty
 |
Frank
Ainsley
Professor of Geography
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (geography)
GLS Courses: The Shaping of America: Cultural Landscapes and the American Sense of Place; Vernacular Architecture |
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John Bennett
Associate Professor of Health
and Applied Human Sciences and UNCW Distinguished Teaching Professor
Ed.D., Northern Illinois University (physical education)
GLS Course: Our
Cultural Heritage through Dance |
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Herbert
Berg
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director, Graduate Liberal Studies Program
Ph.D., University of Toronto, Ontario (philosophy and religion)
GLS Courses: Religion and Sex; Atheism and Unbelief; The Problem of Evil ; Islam and America; The Qur'an in Translation |
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Todd Berliner
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
GLS Course: Theatre and Cinema |
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Bob Brown
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Ph.D., Yale University (psychology)
GLS Course: Science
and Pseudoscience |
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Lou Buttino
Professor and Chair of Film Studies
Ph.D., The Maxwell School, Syracuse University
GLS Courses: The Documentary Experience: A Filmmaker’s Journey; Television and Democracy: The Pivotal Years ; Doing
Documentary Work |
|
Mika Elovaara
Lecturer in Graduate Liberal Studies and Assistant Director, Graduate Liberal Studies program
Ph.D., University of Oulu, Finland (English)
GLS Courses: The Political Voice of Punk -- from Rebellion to Registered Voters;Suicidal Alcoholics, Metrosexual Family Men and other Heroes? ; Contemporary Issues in Liberal Studies; Star Wars: A Complete Saga; Author Focus: Stephen King ; Writing with Style ; (Mis)Understanding Music: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Metal ; Topics in Literature: War ; Periods in Literature: American Romanticism ; |
|
Don Habibi
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Ph.D., Cornell University
GLS Courses: Political Freedom and Oppression: Cinematic Explorations; The Clash of Civilizations |
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Rod Hagley
Lecturer in Biology
|
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Mary Elizabeth
Hines
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
; Homelessness in America ; |
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Donna
King
Associate Professor of Sociology
|
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Pat Lerch
Professor of Anthropology
|
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Diane Melroy
Lecturer in Biology
; The Past and Future of the Human Body ; |
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Sam
Murrell
Associate Professor of Philosophy
and Religion
|
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Diana
Pasulka
Assistant Professor of
Philosophy and Religion
|
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P.
Nelson Reid
Professor of Social Work
|
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John Rice
Associate Professor of Sociology
|
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Kathy Rugoff
Associate Professor of English
|
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Patricia Turrisi
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
|
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Mike
Wentworth
Professor of English, UNCW Distinguished
Teaching Professor, and past Director of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program
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| Temporary
GLS Faculty |
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Hannah D. Abrams (abramsh AT uncw DOT edu)
|
|
James Brewster
|
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Elizabeth
(Betty) Chancey
|
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Bill DiNome
|
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Larry Ferrell
; The Nature of Addiction ; Building Blocks Necessary for Personal, Natural, and Cultural Resiliance ; |
|
Kimberly K. Faxon
; The Art of Creative Nonfiction ; Composing a Self: Autobiography and Memoir from the Margins ; Writing About Place ; |
|
Ashley E. Hudson
|
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Mark Gaskill
|
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Anthony James
|
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Barbara Michael
; Documentary Film: Moving Images ; Comparative Cultural Systems ; |
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Anne Russell
|
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H. David Shuster
The Great Ism's; Political and Economic Ideologies Shaping and Distorting Modern Societies ; The March of Folly: How and Why State Leaders Historically Act Against their Self-Interest ; |
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Kindra Steenerson Understanding and Interrupting a Rape Culture ; |
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Robert Sutton
|
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Jenny
Yates
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Last Update: March 30, 2009
