GLS Topical (GLS 592) Course Listing
For your edification and enjoyment, please take a few minutes to check out the GLS Topical Course listing. Although this listing provides access to the expanded course descriptions for these courses, it is also an indicator of the scope and breadth of subject matter available in this program. Enjoy!
Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all courses are 3 credit hour courses.
- 1787: Constituitional Players
- Altruism in America
- America in the Jazz Age
- American Film Noir
- Ancient Messiahs, Modern Cults: Studies in Religious Leadership
- Appalachian Folkways
- Appalachian Literature
- A.R. Ammons: A Poet for all Disciplines
- The Art of Creative Nonfiction
- Author Focus: Stephen King
- The Beat Generation and American Culture
- Becoming a Political Pundit
- Building Blocks Necessary for Personal, Natural, and Cultural Resiliance
- Business and Environmentalism: From Heresy to Dogma?
- Character, The Basis of Ethics: Ancient and Modern, East and West, Religious and Secular
- Clothing and Society
- Coastal and Ocean Law
- Comedy and the Media in Contemporary Culture
- The Community of Life
- Comparative Cultural Systems
- Composing a Self: Autobiography and Memoir from the Margins
- Confederate States of America: Government and Politics
- Constructing and Deconstructing the American Family Onstage
- Creativity, Innovation, Intuition, and Imagination
- Crime, Terrorism, and Psychology?
- Cultural Images of America during the Great Depression
- Cultural Images of the Mideast in Contemporary Film
- Cultural Studies in Music: Legends
- The Dark Side of Scottish fiction
- Doing Documentary Work
- Dreams and Active Imaginations
- Enslaving America
- Environmental Ethics Made Local
- Ethics in Literature
- Everyday Ethnography
- Evolution in Contemporary Culture
- Exploring Science through Science Writing
- Exploring the Craft of the Science Writer
- Experiencing the Second World War
- Freakish Visions: Physical Difference in Western Literature and Art
- Genetics and Its Impact on Society
- Globalization: Current Issues
- The Good Life
- The Great Ism's: Political and Economic Ideologies Shaping and Distorting Modern Societies
- The Hard Boiled Dames of Film Noir
- Historical Geography of American Race Relations
- Historical Geography of Capitalism
- History of the Unconcious
- Homelessness in America
- Human Machines and Fleshy Robots in Science Fiction and Film
- Humor in War
- Identifying Ireland
- Improvisation: The Creative Spark
- Infectious Diseases and Human Society
- Innovative Thinking and the Nature of Invention
- Introduction to Meditation
- Introduction to Human Language
- Islam and America
- Jungian Psychology
- Los Angeles: Literary and Filmic Landscapes
- Laughing Matters: Contemporary American Humor
- Lying Our Way to the Truth: The Personal Narrative in Poetry
- The March of Folly: How and Why State Leaders Historically Act Against Their Self-Interest
- Mayan Culture, Shamanism and Creativity
- Meditation: Theory and Practice
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- (Mis)Understanding Music: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Metal
- Movers, Shakers, and Troublemakers: The Constructive Role of Dissent in North Carolina
- Mythology and Culture
- Negativity in Interpersonal Relationships
- Passionate and Political Sixties: Protest and Reform in Post-War America, 1954-1973
- Periods in Literature: American Romanticism
- The Nature of Addiction
- Ocean and Coastal Law
- The Past and Future of the Human Body
- Periods in Literature: American Romanticism
- Poetics of Ecology
- Political Freedom and Oppression: Cinematic Explorations
- The Political Voice of Punk
- "Projecting Our Fears": The Role of Horror Films and Novels in American Culture
- This Property is Condemned: Eminent Domain vs. the American Dream
- Psychology of Terror
- Race and Poverty
- "Romancing the Road": Classic American Road Narratives
- Screwball Comedy in American Film
- Secret Societies
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
- Sexuality and 20th Century American Religions
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
- Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and the Holocaust
- The South: A Historical and Cultural Interpretation
- Southern Culture
- Star Wars: A Complete Saga?
- Suicidal Alcoholics, Metrosexual Family Men and Other Heroes
- Symbols: An Interdisciplinary Study
- Television and Democracy: The Pivotal Years
- Totalitarian Science
- Topics in Islam
- Topics in Literature: War
- Understanding and Interrupting a Rape Culture
- Understanding the Nature of Addiction
- Values and Technology
- Vernacular Architecture
- Vietnam, Film, and Fiction
- Vietnam, Politics, and Film
- Visions of the Republic: Classical and Modern Sources in the Formation of American Government
- Watergate: The Watershed of Twentieth Century American Politics
- What Lies Within: Discovering and Expressing Your Creative Self
- Women in Film
- Women Make Movies
- The Womens' Health Movement of the 1970s
- World Religions -- Post 9-11
- Writing About Place
- Writing with Style
Last Update:March 15, 2010
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