2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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1. Courses are listed by department.
2. 300 and 400 level courses are designed for students of upper-division standing (junior or senior standing).
3. In the course description, the digit(s) next to the course name indicate(s) the semester hours of credit for the course.
4. In planning schedules, students should be reminded that all courses are not offered each semester. In order that students may better plan their program of study, the semesters in which courses will be offered may be listed under the course description. Contact the department chair for information regarding the offering of a course without semester designation.
5. Courses that are designated Experiential Learning will have the following: (Q) All sections of Q designated courses will be experiential learning sections. (Q*) Selected sections of Q* designated courses will be experiential learning sections.
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University |
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UNIV 333 Interdisciplinary Nature of Careers - 3 credits
Equivalent: IDS 333
IDS 333 /UNIV 333 will provide the student the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of operating in a consumer based economy. It will expose the student to a further understanding of the overall business environment and explore the student’s role as employee/ employer and consumer. The topics covered in the course will include a brief overview organizational, management and motivational theory, personal ethics as it applies to decision making, selecting a major and planning a career, managing change in organizations and on an individual level, innovation and creativity affecting all individuals in all organizations.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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UNIV 395 Q Internship Experience - 0 credits
Prerequisite(s): 2.5 minimum GPA
(Course Restrictions: Student must have completed a minimum of 30 credit hours before enrolling in course. This course cannot be used as an elective.) Requires a minimum of 150 hours of on-site supervised and evaluated student work experience. The purpose of this course is to provide a student the opportunity to confirm major selection, clarify career objective, expand networking contacts, and develop interpersonal and profession skills in a work environment.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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UNIV 399 Independent Study - 1 to 6 credits
Prerequisite(s): permission of the dean of University College
Written contract between student and instructor and approval by the dean of University College. Directed study and/or research on a specific topic. This course may be repeated once for credit.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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UNIV 495 Q Internship - 1 to 12 credits
Restriction(s): (Course Restrictions: students must have permission of adviser, chair of major department, and dean of University College
Prerequisite(s): students must have completed 60 credit hours before enrolling in the course
The purpose of this course is to provide a student with the opportunity to confirm major selection, clarify career objectives, expand networking contacts and develop interpersonal and professional skills in a work environment. The course may be repeated for up to 12 total credit hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Visual and Performing Arts |
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VPA 103 Topics in the Fine Arts - 3 credits
Equivalent: VPA 103H
This course is designed to provide the student with the basic understanding of how the arts critically influence and culturally enhance our everyday experience. Each section will present a variety of modes that are rooted in artistic expression. Topics will draw from one or more of the following disciplines: Creative Writing, Music, Theatre, and the Visual Arts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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VPA 400 Programming, Principles and Practices in Arts Enterprise Careers - 3 credits
This course is designed for individuals who are considering an arts management career or in arts-related industries for the entrepreneurial purposes of starting one’s own nonprofit organization. This course introduces students to the industry of the arts, providing students with an overview of the careers in arts management, the work that arts managers do, and the contemporary issues and trends that affect arts management professionals. Students investigate practices of arts organizations including programming, community development, promoting the arts, and arts advocacy. Students explore how to use their own talents, passions, and interests to address problems with innovative and entrepreneurial solutions.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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VPA 422 Grant Writing for Non-Profit Organizations - 3 credits
Equivalent: MBA 522D
This course is designed to introduce students to the art of grant writing for professional, non-profit and arts enterprise organizations. The course explores ways to apply for and acquire funds from both public and private granting bodies, i.e. government agencies, foundations and the like. This course focuses on the importance of grant administration, stewardship, program evaluation, data analysis and the role of board and staff members in developing effective strategies for philanthropic success. This course also examines internal and external barriers that organizations face in procuring fund development. Additionally, students learn the importance of relationship building, planned giving and fundraising within a variety of enterprise careers.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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VPAE 401 Concepts in Arts Enterprise Careers - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): MATH 130I or MATH 130B or MATH 139
This course introduces the fundamentals of business to the arts major through a combination of text, lecture, multimedia resources, projects and experiences. Business concepts are examined with a specific focus on arts-focused organizations and the best practices that enable these concepts to have a positive effect on patrons, employees, and the artistic community as a whole. This unique approach draws from the interdisciplinary field of Arts Management providing a toolkit to understand and assess management practices in artistic institutions.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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Wall Fellows Program |
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WFP 301 Q Wall Fellows Leadership Program I - 0 to 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Walls Fellows Program
This course includes seminars regarding professional conduct, project management, team leadership and personal development. Tailored experiences based on the majors of studies of the course participants. Topics vary and are announced in advance. This course includes lecture seminars, team study, projects, internships and study trips. Students will develop skills to improve their workforce readiness. (This course is always taught as an honors course.)
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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WFP 302 Q Wall Fellows Leadership Program II - 0 to 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Walls Fellows Program
This course includes the study of leadership and professional conduct in a variety of industries and organizations, national and international. Tailored experiences based on the participants’ majors of study. Topics vary and are announced in advance. This course includes lecture seminars, team projects, internships and an international study trip. (This course is always taught as an honors course.)
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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WFP 401 Q Wall Fellows Leadership Program III - 0 to 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Walls Fellows Program
This course includes seminars and projects that focus on developing professional conduct and networking, project management, leading organizations and personal effectiveness. Experiences are tailored based on the participants’ majors of study. Topics vary and are announced in advance. This course includes lecture seminars, team projects, internships and study trips. Students will develop skills to improve their workforce readiness. (This course is always taught as an honors course.)
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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WFP 402 Q Wall Fellows Leadership Program IV - 0 to 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Walls Fellows Program
This course includes the study of leadership in a variety of industries and organizations (national and international), career planning, and professional development. Experiences are tailored based on the participants’ majors of study. Topics vary and are announced in advance. This course includes lecture seminars, team projects, internships and a domestic study trip. Students will develop skills to improve their workforce readiness. (This course is always taught as an honors course.)
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGST 103 Q* Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies - 3 credits
Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that covers a vast range of issues. This introductory course gives an overview of the women’s movement in the U.S. and discusses its legacy in U.S. society today. It explores gender and sexuality as social constructions; special attention is given to how women and men negotiate these categories of identity on a personal-political level by looking at contemporary media and cultural productions. Readings focus especially on how gender norms influence the distribution of power and the creation of oppression. Students use feminist theory as a tool to become aware of these issues, to discuss them effectively, and to promote justice and equality in the U.S. and globally.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WGST 105 Introduction to LGBTQ Studies - 3 credits
In this course, students will become familiar with disciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the experiences and self-expressions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WGST 301 Q Women of Color - 3 credits
This course explores the complex politics of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other identity categories in the lives of women of color in the U.S. It familiarizes students with the experiences of Black, Latina/Chicana, Asian/Pacific Islander, indigenous, and Muslim women. Students examine key themes in women of color feminisms, including representation, stigmatization, violence, intersectionality, economic and reproductive justice, queerness, and agency and activism. The class also analyzes the history of the construction of the categories women of color and whiteness.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 302 Special Topics in Cultural Studies - 1 to 3 credits
This course is an interdisciplinary examination of selected themes and topics relating to race, class, and gender that shed light on the ways in which cultural meaning is generated, disseminated, ad produced through various practices, beliefs and institutions. This course may be repeated one time (for a total of six credit hours) provided it on a different topic.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WGST 303 Q Water and Women - 3 credits
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between water and gender. Students in the course gain an understanding of feminist theory and basic aquatic ecology. Throughout the course we explore both the gendered conceptions of water in science and society as well as the social and physical influences that water (and the abuses of water) can have on women and their communities. We investigate topics related to ecological, social, and cultural dynamics of water, paying particular attention to the themes of gender and justice. This course draws on readings from multiple disciplines, including geography, ecology, gender studies, and science and technology studies. The format of the course is comprised of lectures, discussions, fieldtrips, and film/media studies.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 305 Q* Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in Popular Culture - 3 credits
This class gives insight into the historical foundations, theoretical concepts, political manifestations, and social issues concerning feminist interpretations of popular culture. Students explore how popular culture generates and articulates understandings of gender and sexuality and their intersections with other identity markers such as race, class, and ability. Popular culture is never simply entertainment. It provides us with the stories, images, and scripts that enable us to imagine and practice femininities, masculinities, and sexualities. These, in turn, are imbued with class and racial values and characteristics. We absorb these norms in the ads we see, the movies/television we watch, and the music we listen to. The class focuses especially on how feminist concepts and theory provide the tools to become aware of issues of discrimination and oppression in pop culture, to discuss them effectively, and to promote social justice.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 310 Q Women and Allies in Action - 3 credits
This course explores the great variety of ways in which people who are inspired by feminist ideas have worked for social justice. Students discuss what activism is, what makes activism feminist, and how we can make sure that our activism is intersectional and sustainable. Students study the history and strategies of anti-oppression activism and create and implement an activism project themselves – either benefiting the CCU campus or the wider Horry County community.
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WGST 315 Special Topics in Sexuality - 3 credits
This interdisciplinary course examines sexuality at the intersection of race, gender, and class. Topics include the history of sexuality, representations of sexuality in popular culture, sex work, reproductive justice, and/or activism. This course may be repeated once with different course topics.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 318 Women and Social Movements - 3 credits
This class is an exploration of women’s participation in a wide variety of transnational U.S. social justice movements from the 19th to the 21st century, such as the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, labor rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and anti-globalization. Students will examine how the ideas and practices within these movements both reflected and shaped larger social meanings and uses of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 325 Q Civic Engagement - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): WGST 103 or permission of the instructor
This course provides an opportunity for students interested in Women’s and Gender Studies issues to put their ideas about social change into action. It is designed for students to apply models of social change to various 21st-century challenges, such as: gender and racial justice, oppression, population growth, community health needs, poverty, reproductive health and climate change. As a type of service learning course, civic engagement from a gender studies perspective involves working towards equality and addressing these and other social issues from many different angles. Students will volunteer with appropriate local organizations (such as the Horry County Rape Crisis Center, Citizens Against Spouse Abuse, and local homeless shelters, among others) to address gender-based issues of the student’s choice, and host an on-campus event to raise awareness of the issue.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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WGST 350 Q Feminist Eco-Science & Technology Workshop - 3 credits
This is a practice-based, theory-driven course where students design and build feminist technologies and implement them in local environmental monitoring projects. Throughout this course we construct and reconstruct what it means to do science, who can do science, and where science happens. Students in the course gain an understanding of feminism, feminist approaches to science and technology, and how to apply feminist values to research methods and the design of technological artifacts. This course draws upon multiple lenses and disciplines, including science and technology studies, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, geography, and ecology. Creativity and thinking outside of the box are highly encouraged.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 399 Independent Study - 1 to 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor and Course Contract approved by the WGST Director
Reading or research on a specific topic related women and/or gender studies, under the direction of a faculty member. May involve a combination of reading assignments, tutorials, papers, presentations, etc. For more information, see the Non-Traditional Coursework in the Academic Regulations section in this catalog.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WGST 401 Feminist Theories - 3 credits
Theory provides us with the tools for interpreting and critiquing events, arguments and beliefs; when we read theory, we are forced to consider the world around us in a new way. The goal of this course is not only to critically examine the great variety of feminist theories, but also to encourage students to theorize their own understanding of the world. This course is organized around a careful investigation (and often interrogation) of key debates within Women’s and Gender Studies. Central to this course is the idea that understanding the world and understanding significant categories such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality are interpretive, theoretical, and political acts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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WGST 402 Gender and Sexuality in German and Austrian Culture - 3 credits
Equivalent: LIS 402
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
German and Austrian artists, intellectuals, and scientists have exercised enormous influence on attitudes about gender and sexuality over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. This class traces the development of discourses of gender and sexuality by analyzing works of fiction, non-fiction, and film in the cultural, social, and political context in which they were created. Topics to be addressed include psychoanalysis, sexology, homosexual emancipation, the women’s movement and feminism, the sexual politics of Nazi Germany, and contemporary debates surrounding multiculturalism. The course is taught in English and open to students without prior knowledge of German. To receive credit for the German minor or towards the major in Languages and Intercultural Studies, students must co-enroll in GERM 301L : German Culture Lab.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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WGST 410 Feminism and Technology - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): WGST 103
This course examines how gender, race, and class intersect with technology, and how technology contributes to the social construction of identity. Consideration is given to the uses of technology, the development of new technologies, and cultural representations of technology. What role have underrepresented groups played in the development of technology? How has technological change affected the roles of women and ideas about gender? How does technology offer possibilities for new social relations and how should we evaluate these possibilities? What are the social implications of technology and how is it understood and deployed in different cultural contexts?
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WGST 411 Women and Work - 3 credits
This course explores how identity and difference (race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and age) impact women’s historical and contemporary work experiences from the family kitchen to the corporate boardroom. Students critically engage with a broad range of topics, including workplace inequalities, the relationship between family and work, the politics of intimate labor, the globalizations of labor, and the history of labor movements.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WGST 495 Women’s and Gender Studies Internship - 3 credits
The guided internship requires 120 to 140 hours of on-site work; a journal; and a final paper. The purpose of the course is to provide students with practical application opportunities for their knowledge and skills, to introduce them to local and regional employers in their field of study, and to enhance networking opportunities.
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WGST 498 Q* Capstone Seminar - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): nine hours of minor-designated courses including WGST 103
This class is the “capstone” to the Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) minor, an opportunity for years of coursework and skills to culminate in a substantial independent project. The bulk of the semester is spent developing, researching, and writing/executing an original paper or project that makes a singular contribution to the intellectual community of WGS. Projects are designed and crafted so that they can be used as writing samples, conference presentations, or article drafts to help students transition into the next stage as WGS scholars, activists, and professionals. This course is run workshop-style, which will ensure that students are continuously working on their projects and receive constructive feedback from the instructor and fellow classmates.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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Human Services |
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HUS 101 Introduction to Human Services - 3 credits
The field of Human Services encompasses a wide range of interventions and programs to address diverse social needs. This introductory course serves to familiarize students with the profession and discipline of Human Services through an exploration of its history, theories, major concepts, and career opportunities. The course also introduces students to human service populations served, programming, federal/state policy, case management, agencies and organizations, professional development, professional helping ski
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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