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Introductory Colloquia - 179 level Fall, 2008
ATMS 179 LSIC: Weather and Society - Christopher Godfrey BIOL 179 LSIC: The Impact of Cell Biology and Biotechnology in our Lives - Ted Meigs BIOL 179 LSIC: Plants in Our World - David Clarke CLAS 179 LSIC: The Muse of Ridicule-Irony and Satire - Brian Hook CSCI 179 LSIC: The Uses and Misuses Internet- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Charles Massey ECON 179 LSIC: Jelly Bean Economics - Chris Bell EDUC 179 LSIC: Freeing the Natural Teacher - Brenda Hopper EDUC 179 LSIC: Education: Promise and Betrayal - Janet Bowman FREN 179 LSIC: Cultural Misunderstanding: The French-American Experience - Cathy Pons HON 179 LSIC: Managing Terrorism in a Modern Environment - Bob Yearout HON 179 LSIC: Thinking/Visual/Culture - Brian Butler HON 179 LSIC: Math and Society - Sam Kaplan HON 179 LSIC: The Environment and Human Values - Jeff Wilcox HON 179 LSIC: Music: Culture and Context - David Wilken HWP 179 LSIC: Optimal Performance Connie Schrader IST 179 LSIC: Interdisciplinary Studies & Community Engagement: Does the ‘Real World’ Have a ‘Major’?” - Peg Downes LS 179 LSIC: Four Great Minds: Bach, Franklin, Jefferson, Newton - Noah Allen LS 179 LSIC: Creating Your Life Path - Eileen Buecher MMAS 179 LSIC: 3D Modeling and Fabrication - Susan Reiser PHYS 179 LSIC: Black Holes and Time Warps - Randy Booker POLS 179 LSIC: The Political Animal - Ken Betsalel PSYC 179 Adolescent Portraits: Growing Up is Hard to Do - Lisa Friedenberg PSYC 179 LSIC: True Stories: Young African Americans and Latinos in America - Joseph Berryhill SOC 179 LSIC: The Diverse World Heon Lee SOC 179 LSIC: Great Themes in Sociology, Great Themes in Society WMST 179 North Carolina Women: Making History - Pamela Nickless Course Descriptions ATMS 179 LSIC: Weather and Society - Christopher Godfrey Interpreting and effectively communicating potential threats from our environment requires a basic understanding of both the scientific principles governing our atmosphere and the complexities involved in making policy decisions. By examining current environmental concerns from a multidisciplinary perspective, students will discover the challenges involved in addressing scientific issues in our society. Topics include the mechanics of the atmospheric greenhouse effect in the context of global warming, the ozone hole, an overview of hurricanes and the government response to Hurricane Katrina, environmental risk assessment, and National Weather Service watches and warnings. Dr. Godfrey grew up in central Maine and earned a B.S. degree in atmospheric science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He furthered his education by earning M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. His research interests include land surface modeling and meteorological observations. While in graduate school, he taught an undergraduate course in severe and unusual weather, participated in the Weather and Society Integrated Studies workshop, and worked on several weather-related field projects. BIOL 179 LSIC: The Impact of Cell Biology and Biotechnology in our Lives - Ted Meigs Scientists have made enormous strides in understanding the function of cells and the molecules that comprise them. Cancers and other diseases have been traced to seemingly innocuous changes in these cellular molecules. The field of biotechnology is providing researchers with tiny molecular tools that are facilitating the development of strategies for correcting such cellular flaws, genetic tests for predicting a person’s likelihood for developing certain health conditions, an numerous other valuable innovations. The course will introduce students to various ways our society’s medical, agricultural, economic, and political institutions are impacted by cell biology and biotechnology. Topics will include stem cell research, cloning of organisms, molecular engineering or pest-resistant crops, gene patents, confidentiality of personal genetic information, use of biotechnology in forensics, and molecular cancer therapies. Thomas Meigs is Assistant Professor of Biology. BIOL 179. LSIC: Plants in Our World - David Clarke Students will be instructed in theoretical and applied topics in introductory botany as an introduction to form, function, and process in biological systems. Current issues, including environmental and ecological topics; nutrition, biotechnology and agriculture; plant products such as herbal medicines and drugs; and biological diversity will be presented from a perspective that emphasizes fundamental concepts in science as well as the method of scientific inquiry yet also stresses the social issues that arise from our relationship to cultivated and native plants. A lecture format will be supplemented by frequent outdoor activities that take advantage of plant diversity on campus, at the Botanical Gardens at Asheville, and in local, high quality natural areas of the Southern Appalachians. The course will also help orient new students toward opportunities in both outdoor recreation and with community environmental organizations. Clarke an associate professor in Biology and has taught this course previously (fall 2004). It is similar to Biology 110 (Plants and Humans), but is modified to serve the needs of freshman colloquia students, rather than the general population of students that enroll in Bio 110 to fulfill ILSN and Cluster requirements. Clarke has extensive experience teaching biology to non-majors. CLAS 179 LSIC: The Muse of Ridicule-Irony and Satire - Brian Hook Irony may be a method of writing, a critical approach to art, a world-view, even an entire life (Socrates comes to mind). Irony may serve as an essential part of cleverness and wit, but critics have seen irony as something perverse, even dangerous: a culturally destabilizing dynamic that undermines without any offering anything in return. In such a view, irony serves as a wedge between ourselves and serious conviction. Others are not so sure that destabilizing authority is such a bad thing or that the critical distance of irony is unhealthy. The “death of irony” was heralded after 9/11, and we will examine the role, and the appropriateness, of irony and satire in our current world. In this course we will talk about irony in its simplest forms-in simple sentences-and in its more complex and ambiguous extensions. We will pay special attention to one form that regularly employs irony, namely, satire, and discuss it as a literary genre and as an evaluative approach. Texts under consideration include: Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Plato, Symposium; Juvenal's Satires (w/ Samuel Johnson's adaptations of 3 and 10); Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel; Pope, The Dunciad; Swift, “A Modest Proposal”, Gulliver's Travels; Flannery O' Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”; Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; David Foster Wallace; and others. We will include film, TV, and music in our study: we will read The Onion online and watch “The Daily Show.” I will also assign attacks and defenses of irony in “culture.” There are quite a few book length secondary studies of irony (Booth, Muecke, Hutcheon) and satire (Kernan, Bogel) from which I will draw. Brian S. Hook (Ph.D. Duke 1992) is assistant professor in the department of Classics. His undergraduate degrees are in English and Greek. Dr. Hook's current research is focused on Roman satire, particularly Juvenal. He spends most of his other time with his family. CSCI 179 LSIC: The Uses and Misuses Internet- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Charles Massey With the exponential growth of Internet use in recent years, users have been faced with all kinds of information overload, some good and some bad. This course will examine some of the uses and misuses of the Internet. Through lectures, group and individual exercises, lab work and various multimedia materials, we will discuss topics such as Social Networking (MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging), addictions (pornography, gambling), Online Buying, Ethics, Spamming, Phishing and other similar topics. Charles Massey has been a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at UNCA for 25 years.. Previously he developed the first computer science courses at Montreat College while serving as the Chairman of the Science Division there. At UNCA he created and has developed over the years the Introductory Computer Science course CSCI 107 from which formed the basis of his interest in what good and bad things have come from the explosion of Internet use by the general public. ECON 179 LSIC: Jelly Bean Economics - Chris Bell An introduction to economics taught using a series of labs and simulations, most using jelly beans. Students in this colloquium will participate in each of the labs and simulations, study the economic principles upon which they are based, and, as a Service Learning experience, lead the labs and simulations in local elementary and secondary school classrooms. All freshman colloquia are writing intensive. Writing in this course may include any of the following: preparation of materials for existing labs and simulations (including instructions, reviews of economic principles, and discussion question sets for teachers who wish to use the labs and simulations in the future), preparation of materials for new labs and simulations, and reflection on opportunities for improving the labs and simulations (including documentation of the reflections of the teachers in whose classes the labs and simulations are used). The father of two daughters, ages 7 and 10, Associate Professor of Economics Chris Bell earned his B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He began using jelly beans to teach economics in his 10-year-old’s Kindergarten class. EDUC 179 LSIC: Freeing the Natural Teacher - Brenda Hopper This course is designed to assist first-year Teaching Fellows into the academic and social system of higher education. It provides an opportunity to explore beliefs about teaching and learning with emphasis on writing, exploration of self, school service and an introduction to the field of public education. Learning opportunities are provided through discussions, lecture/group interactions, teacher interviews, research on current issues in public education and reflections on readings and K-6 public school tutoring experiences. Brenda Hopper is Director of the UNCA Teaching Fellows program and lecturer in the Education Department. Her past experience includes work in the public schools and with the NC State Department. EDUC 179 LSIC: Education: Promise and Betrayal - Janet Bowman Few areas of American life are as important to society as education. The original promise was that all were entitled to a fair chance to develop one’s individual power of mind and spirit to the utmost. Though this was the original promise, it did not truly include all. However, with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, it was hoped that social justice would prevail. This colloquium will be organized under three main headings: education of African Americans in the United States before Brown; schooling since the Brown v. Board of Education decision; and the inextricable link between educational opportunity and social justice. Interviews with students, parents, teachers, and administrators will be conducted to ascertain the belief/understanding about life in local schools. Participation in this colloquium will require the student to be an active participant in a series of discussions that could alter career choices. Janet Bowman is a Tuskegee University graduate, with a BS in Chemistry/Education and MS in Nutrition/Biochemistry. Upon graduating from Tuskegee, she received a scholarship to attend the University of California at Berkeley. Her studies there resulted in the ABD in Nutrition/Biochemistry and the Ph.D. in Education Administration. FREN 179 LSIC: Cultural Misunderstanding: The French-American Experience - Cathy Pons Americans and the French have much in common historically, culturally and socially. Our countries have maintained close relations since the time of the American Revolution, but sometimes those relations can become strained. Raymonde Carroll, an anthropologist and a U.S. citizen of French origin, offers a framework for understanding the source of conflicts large and small between peoples of our two countries. In this course we will examine various themes of everyday life – friendship, the family, manners, privacy issues – and discover how our learned cultural perspectives influence our cross cultural interactions. Knowledge of the French language is not necessary to enroll. Cathy Pons is Associate Professor of French. HON 179 LSIC: Managing Terrorism in a Modern Environment - Bob Yearout Students will become familiar with the three principle elements of unconventional warfare (guerrilla warfare, psychological warfare and terrorism). This phase of the class require selected readings from principal source documents, film clips, and classroom discussions. The second phase of the class will delve more deeply into terrorism itself. The terrorist’s goals and desired responses in a modern environment will include discussions on weapons of mass destruction. Other topics such as the use of mass media and distinguishing what is and what is not terrorism will be examined. Students will read portions of classical terrorist cases that were successful and those that failed. Selected assassination, specific selected targets of military importance, and random indiscriminate attacks on the population at large will be discussed in terms of desired response. Imbedded in daily discussions will be the questions of ethics, morality, protection under the Geneva Convention, and civil rights. Dr. Yearout is Professor of Management and Accountancy. HON 179 LSIC: Thinking/Visual/Culture Brian Butler "Visual Culture" is an emerging field (new in the last fifteen years) that investigates the intersection of social theory and the visual media. In this class we will read both historical essays and thematic works relating to specific visual forms such as painting, fashion, advertising, etc. More specifically, we will investigate the intersection of sight and thought. For example, why is it that a common assumption allows that reading is active and imaginative while viewing is passive and therefore less edifying. Some of the authors we will be reading include: DuBois, McLuhan, Debord, Haraway, Halberstam, etc. Brian Butler has degrees in Art (BFA/MFA), Philosophy (MA/PhD), and Law (JD). He has showed professionally as an artist in Los Angeles, written for various art periodicals and published widely on law and philosophy. Recently he curated a show for the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center on Emerson Woelffer. His article Aesthetics and American Law investigates law as a domain or practice that not only makes decisions over aesthetic matters but also has more aesthetic content than normally appreciated. HON 179 LSIC: Math and Society - Sam Kaplan Math, teaching and civil rights are hardly ever mentioned in the same breath. However, numeracy (the math equivalent of literacy) connects to public health, personal finance, workforce development and social justice issues. The course explores the notion of numeracy and the value of numerate citizens. We will review the NC Standard Course of Study and the Presidential Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. Students will put their learning into context through service learning, mentoring public school students in math. Students will be expected to also attend at least one Math Night at a public school and monthly math teacher learning circles. Sam Kaplan is Associate Professor of Mathematics. HON 179 LSIC: The Environment and Human Values - Jeff Wilcox Scientific advances have allowed us to live longer and more comfortable lives but have also given us the ability to destroy the environment and our very existence as a species. Our quest for knowledge poses ethical questions as we develop new life-saving medical procedures and modern amenities while also producing hazardous waste and weapons of mass destruction. This course will examine the role of scientists in society and how scientific and technological advances can both create problems and provide solutions. Jeff Wilcox grew up in Michigan and received a B.S. in geology and chemistry from Hope College. He then proceeded to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology. He began teaching in the Department of Environmental Studies at UNCA in August 2007. HON 179 LSIC: Music: Culture and Context - David Wilken David Wilken is Coordinator of Jazz Studies at UNCA. In addition to teaching courses in jazz he also teaches world music, low brass and composition and arranging. He has earned degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University, DePaul University, and Ball State University. HWP 179 LSIC: 21st Century Health Care Careers - Barry Fox This course will present freshmen students who have both expressed and demonstrated a genuine desire to enter a health care profession direct contact with various professions and professionals. Contacts will be in the classroom and as possible, in health care settings. The class will be scheduled so that students may attend the Hippocrates Forum. The class will follow a similar pattern currently used in Pre-Health Professions for advanced students gaining experiences for their health career school applications. Other resources such as audio, video and guest speakers will be used. Barry Fox’s career, until beginning with UNCA as an adjunct in the late 1990s was in public health and health education. He received his MPH degree from UNC-CH School of Public Health in 1983. He worked in public health in Memphis, Tennessee and Asheville for about 15 years. HWP 179 LSIC: Optimal Performance - Connie Schrader IST 179 LSIC: Interdisciplinary Studies & Community Engagement: Does the ‘Real World’ Have a ‘Major’?” - Peg Downes This colloquium is an introduction to the meaning and application of interdisciplinary work/coursework and research, through readings, films, discussions (with community leaders and with other UNCA professors, as well as with each other and with instructor), and volunteer work for community non-profit(s). Goals: (1) introduce students not only to interdisciplinary study possibilities (and inevitabilities) on campus, but also to several disciplinary majors; (2) lead students to a basic understanding of the history and current meanings of both “academic discipline” and “interdisciplinary studies”; (3) through their involvement in community, help students to more carefully decide on their majors (whether disciplinary or interdisciplinary). Peg Downes is Professor of Literature and Language. She has taught a wide range of courses at UNCA since 1981. LS 179 LSIC: Four Great Minds: Bach, Franklin, Jefferson, Newton - Noah Allen Rarely do creativity and genius collide. In the cases of the four scholars, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, Johann Sebastian Bach and Benjamin Franklin, not only did creativity and genius collide, but their synergy yielded a veritable explosion of art, science and passion. The purpose of this course is to explore the events that shaped the lives of the scholars, and to briefly examine their output noting major historical events and their effect on the arts & sciences of then and now. Dr. Noah Allen received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in biophysical and computational chemistry. While he has undergraduate degrees in chemistry and biology, he also holds an undergraduate degree in music from North Carolina School of the Arts where he was an organ student and Kenan Fellow. He continued his studies in harpsichord and organ at the Royal College of Musicians in London, studying harpsichord and chamber music with Christopher Hogwood. Dr. Allen spent several years touring with piccolo trumpet player Anita Cirba, and giving masterclasses on baroque performance practice. He is still an active organist, and harpsichordist, but due to his academic pursuits in science, no longer has time for recitals. LS 179 LSIC: Creating Your Life Path - Eileen Buecher Using the text The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity and other readings, students will have the opportunity to learn about themselves, uncover their gifts and talents, and explore majors and careers that will help them apply these gifts and talents. The format of the class will include group discussions, written reflections, experiential activities, guest speakers, and creative out-of-class assignments. Honors students interested in any major are welcome to register for this class. The focus will be on creating a life plan based on self-knowledge and exploring the various opportunities and resources to help one realize his/her life path. Eileen Buecher has been serving as the Career Center Director for UNC Asheville students and alumni since February 2005. She has over 17 years experience in working at university and college career centers; including Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School for Public and International Affairs, and liberal arts institutions such as Chatham College and Berry College. Eileen also is an avid supporter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma’s Team in Training Program. She is currently serving as the Asheville Chapter’s Century Cycling Coach and has completed three century rides, three marathons, and three triathlons for the TNT program, as well as raised about $30,000 in the past 10 years for patient care and research. MMAS 179 LSIC: 3D Modeling and Fabrication - Susan Reiser This course will introduce students to 3D design and fabrication. The material presented will be a combination of design, computer science and engineering. We will create and model designs for useful 3D objects, iteratively evaluate and refine our designs, and then fabricate the objects. We will study graphics theory common to CAD/CAM programs, games and animation. We will learn to create the precise specifications and milling instructions necessary for fabrication. Writing assignments will range from expository essays to technical writing assignments. This is a "hands-on" course, all concepts will be introduced in an interactive lab/lecture environment. Susan Reiser has a private sector background in software development and network support. In addition to her corporate work, she developed visualization applications in an electrophysiology lab at Duke. She has a BS in Computer Science from Duke with a concentration in zoology, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina. Her interests are in the fields of computer graphics, scientific visualization, and human computer interaction. Susan Reiser began work at UNC Asheville in 1994 where she is a lecturer in Computer Science. She also serves as the Associate Director of the Multimedia Arts and Sciences program. PHYS 179 LSIC: Black Holes and Time Warps - Randy Booker This course investigates the most bizarre objects in outer space – black holes. We will study how scientists have viewed black holes over the past 100 years, from their prediction that they exist from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, to being shown by Einstein that they can’t exist, to their acceptance in theory, to finally the experimental proof that black holes do in fact exist. We’ll study the strange properties of black holes, all with no mathematical pre-requisites needed for the course. We’ll ask what it might be like to take a trip to a black hole or to live near one in a space colony. Even more bizarre is the possibility of wormholes and time travel as two black holes connect to form a time warp. Do time warps really exist? Randy Booker received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Rice University in 1979. He served in the Peace Corps from 1979-1981, teaching high school math and science in Kenya, Africa. He received his Masters degree in Physics from Duke University in 1983 and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Duke University in 1986. He has taught Physics and Astronomy courses at UNCA since 1986. He received the UNCA Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992 and has served as Chair of the Department of Physics at UNCA since 2000. His research interests are broad, from studying the interstellar medium of our galaxy using radio astronomy to investigating new sources of non-polluting power in collaboration with Blacklight Power of New Jersey. POLS 179 LSIC: The Political Animal - Ken Betsalel Drawing on literature, film and political theory, this course explores what it means to be a political animal in an election year. Such topics as political commitment and authenticity, political narrative vs. empirical measurement and the changing nature of community in a globalizing world economy and culture will be discussed and analyzed. Community service learning projects will also introduce students to local non-profits and the work of international humanitarian and human rights organizations. Dr. Ken Betsalel received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California Berkeley and is a film reviewer for Human Rights Quarterly PSYC 179 Adolescent Portraits: Growing Up is Hard to Do - Lisa Friedenberg This colloquium introduces the scientific study of adolescence as a stage of development. Our specific focus will be adolescence as a time of transition, especially in the areas of identity and interpersonal relationships. Using a combination of scholarly readings and first-person narratives (case studies), we will explore how changes in thinking, values, and personal challenges are reflected in the development of personal identity, ethnic identity, and sexual identity, and how these shifts within us are reflected in our patterns of interaction with family and peers. Writing and research assignments will provide an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of theories of development, your knowledge of current research on adolescence, and your ability to use foundations to describe and interpret life events. After receiving undergraduate degrees in Linguistics and Spanish--with a minor in Russian--Lisa Friedenberg received her Master's and doctoral degrees in developmental psychology, focusing on cognitive and linguistic development. Her interest in the interaction between language and cognition in young children grew into an interest in the broader effects of cognitive change at all ages. Committed to understanding both sides of the developmental equation, her favorite topics include cultural and cross-cultural parenting practices, and the growth of identity and self-awareness. She holds the rank of Professor of Psychology and has served for 5 years as Dean of Social Sciences. PSYC 179 LSIC: True Stories: Young African Americans and Latinos in America - Joseph Berryhill In this course, you’ll read accounts of adolescents and young adults who face long odds, become a mentor to a child in the Asheville area, and write your own true stories about working with that child. You’ll read one book about an African American teenager from inner-city Washington, D.C., who wants to go to an elite university and another about a Honduran youth who undertakes an arduous trip on foot in an attempt to be reunited with his mother, who immigrated to the United States after not earning enough money to feed her children. (This book, Enrique’s Journey, is available in Spanish if you prefer.) These stories and others will allow us to explore what it’s like to be a young person of color in the United States, as well as how to write creative non-fiction. One day a week, on either Tuesday or Thursday afternoon (after our class ends at 3 p.m.), you’ll go to an after-school program for children living in poverty and mentor a child there. Reflecting on that experience, you’ll write your own creative non-fiction stories. Dr. Berryhill has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among other endeavors after graduation, he spent four years as a newspaper reporter covering higher education. Then, after some unfortunate and fortunate events, he became a volunteer at an orphanage in southern Mexico, where he spent three years teaching English and caring for children. That led Berryhill to his interest in child clinical psychology, in which he earned a doctorate from the University of South Carolina. Now a clinical and community psychologist, he primarily does research with children who face disadvantages such as poverty and examines ways to create environments that can instill more hope in their lives. SOC 179 LSIC: The Diverse World - Heon Lee The world is diverse. It is religiously diverse. It is ethnically diverse. It is diverse in many dimensions. It will become more diverse. As an introductory colloquium, this course helps students be aware of a variety of human differences in the world. This course will introduce students the ways in which the world have been diversified, explore the ways how we should live in this diverse world and how we can build a better world with diverse people. In this course we will examine how one’s identity is socially constructed and how it has been used to allocate the highly valued-but-scarce resources to people unequally. This course particularly focuses on race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and disability. Using autobiographical books, video products, guest speakers, virtual travels through internet, students will experience people’s different worlds. It will serve as an introductory course to many diversity-intensive courses and enhance students’ awareness of importance of diversity in liberal arts education. Dr. Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University. He has a strong commitment to the racial/ethnic diversification of UNCA for a better learning environment. SOC 179 LSIC: Great Themes in Sociology, Great Themes in Society - Volker Frank This course explores the dilemmas of our time, as identified by Sociology. An important premise – to be discussed early on in the semester - involves the exploration why these dilemmas “should” be dilemmas. Where does this premise come from? And what kind of promise is made to society in calling these conditions “dilemmas.” This exploration charts the course: the liberal world makes certain promises based on certain premises. How realistic are these premises, how good is society in delivering these promises? The themes (the dilemmas) we read about and discuss in class, include: inequality and poverty, crime and violence, globalization and environment. Volker Frank is Professor and Chair of Sociology. WMST 179 North Carolina Women: Making History - Pamela Nickless This course will examine the history of women in North Carolina and the tools scholars use to “make history.” We will use as our text Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson’s North Carolina Women: Making History. Each student will read one other book on women in North Carolina and will write an oral history of a women either born or currently living in NC. We will spend time examining how scholars use documents of all sorts to interpret the past. Dr. Nickless is a Professor of Economics and past Director of Women’s Studies. She is an economic historian specializing in nineteenth century labor markets. She recently published “Scarlett’s Sisters: Spinsters, Widows, Wives, and Free Traders in Nineteenth Century North Carolina.” It was while doing this research that she became interested in North Carolina history.
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