Distance Education includes online course offerings. Below are the courses offered for spring 2010. UNC Asheville works to ensure that online courses reflect the same high quality of teaching and learning as face-to-face classes. Those who take online classes have access to Campus Pipeline and have Ramsey Library privileges. 

Online Course Offerings 
Spring 2010
 

WMST 273:Theorizing Women's Lives
(3 cr hrs)

This course will examine the elements and evolution of the major theories articulated by feminist from the early days of the movement to the present. Building on a foundation of knowledge and understanding of the basic ideas articulated by feminists throughout history, the course will offer a close analysis of feminist critiques on subjects such as marriage, sexuality, and capitalism.  The course will conclude with an examination of cutting edge feminist thinking.

Instructor: Marie Stephens, MA, and post graduate work, UNC Asheville adjunct professor of Humanities, AB Technical Community College adjunct instructor.


PHYS 473 ST: Quantum Mechanics
(3 cr hrs)

The standard one-semester undergraduate course in quantum mechanics taken the senior year. Topics include the Schrödinger equation, one-dimensional applications involving bound states and scattering, Hilbert space, operator methods, the Schrödinger equation in three-dimensions, angular momentum, spin, and approximation methods.

Instructor: Michael J. Ruiz, UNC Asheville Professor of Physics


EDUC 373: Educational Psychology for Lateral Entry Teachers (3 cr hrs)
This course is designed for teachers who have their own classrooms and are seeking licensure through the Regional Alternative Licensing Center.  The course will emphasize the applications of psychological theory and research to the learning processes and the teaching of diverse learners and students with special needs. Developmental, behavioral, and cognitive psychological theories will be explored.  Participants will examine scientific-based research and methods, instructional practices, and classroom management techniques all taught through the lens of educational psychology.  Students will be exposed to the applied examination and understanding of interventions, instructional practices, disabilities, public school law, policy, assessment, and testing in educational settings.

Instructor: Gigi Derballa, MA, UNCA adjunct, Dean of Arts and Sciences and & faculty at
A-B
Technical Community College

 

 

Tuition Information Statement
The above courses are 1 and 3 credit hours each and the cost for tuition & fees for in-state students during the 2009-10 Academic year is $89.10 per credit hour. Out of state students must pay $484.95 per credit hour in the 2009-10 Academic year.