Summer College Online

Course Descriptions

If you are a current student, you are eligible to register for summer courses.  If you are currently not enrolled at UNCSA, you are eligible to register once you've been accepted.  You may register for the summer courses listed below via E-Z Arts. If you need help logging into the student portal E-Z Arts, see E-Z Arts login instructions. 
*All DLA Classes are 3 credit hours*

Registration for Summer 2026:
Monday, March 23-Friday, April 3 

Last day to add/drop: Tuesday, May 26

Courses Descriptions

ARH 1000-01: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ARTS

An introduction to the language of art, visual analysis, and art history, providing the foundation for the study of visual art and visual culture. The class will begin with an overview of visual art language, including the elements, principles, and techniques of visual art and design. Next, the course covers the basics of art theory and methods of art history through close looking at and analysis of art in different media. Third, the course offers a brief survey of the history of art from prehistory to the present. Lectures, discussions, readings, writings and projects introduce a framework of the historical, cultural and environmental forces that affect art, artists and audience. Designed for students who have not had introductory classes in visual art or art history.

ENG 1200-01:
Writing About...Zombies 

Zombies have taken a strong hold in our popular culture whether in the syndication of George Romeo’s movies including the Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead to the most recent movies like Max Brooks’ World War Z and Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland to T.Vs The Walking Dead and Z Nation to novels including graphic novels and numerous video games and even our relationship to technology, i.e., cell phones, and the world. In this First-Year writing intensive course, we will examine constructions (fiction, film and art forms) of several authors’ creativity, hone our own, and develop our ability to reflect, think and write critically about their representations. As we reflect, think, write and create and present projects about Zombies, we do so with attention to culture, history, anthropology, literature and art. We will also watch the films White Zombie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Pontypool. To continue to hone our reading and writing skills, active class participation, short written reflections, art project assignments and one written research assignment and a Final Exam, a group Art Project, are required.

HUM 2100-01:  Critical Dialogues

In this core humanities course, students encounter exemplary texts from antiquity to the present and from multiple continents and diverse cultures. How do we make meaning from this expansive record of storytelling, inquiry, and creative expression? How can today's artist-citizens respond as active conversation partners across time and space? Specific content and thematic emphases will vary across course sections, reflecting the diverse specializations and perspectives of Division of Liberal Arts faculty. In all sections, however, students will wrestle both with texts long privileged as 'canonical' and, of equal importance, others that speak from the margins and compel us to think critically about how we assign value and importance to different voices and traditions. All sections also share one significant contemporary text (selected annually). “Critical Dialogues” students will cultivate their skills of research, writing, and verbal expression, and in doing so, situate their artistic and professional practice in specific contexts and as woven into a larger world of ideas. This course fulfills the Foundations of American Democracy requirement. Prerequisites: ENG 1200 or FYS 1200

LIT 2298-01:
Topics in Literature: Metafiction

Description:
From our fixation on the unique odds and ends of one’s “creative process” to the enduring appeal of meta-texts that take on art about making art, the life of the artist is one of infinite curiosity. By taking a critical look at art that falls under this rubric of meta-fiction or art cinema, we will look at 20th and 21st century texts to examine the self-reflexive impulse behind art that explores how “the artist” is enmeshed with our external reality. With art as a mirror to society, this course curates a series of contemporary experimental works that examine the relationship between innovative new representational forms of storytelling and art’s larger sociopolitical meaning. This course is divided into five sections: Finding the Story: Where Art Meets Life; Seeing, Being, and The Limits of Cultural Imagination; Finding the Language: Giving Form to New Shapes; Finding The Self: Coming of Age; A Story Within a Story. Beginning with Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, this first unit considers the ways in which art presents its own “portrait” of reality. What is the relationship between the artist and one's art? How do we find the story? Where does the art begin and where does it end? To disentangle what it means to be an artist in society, we will explore how art produces social and cultural meaning. We will then analyze how art about “the self” shapes larger narratives around categories of identity through different genres and modes of expression from Toni Morrison’s short story “Recitatif” to satire in films such as American Fiction that in turn prompt the question: Is art always critique? What are the limitations of art as a vehicle for social change? Situating these conversations within a historical frame, we will trace how postmodern texts draw on modernism’s investments and aesthetic strategies to explore themes like interiority, selfhood, and temporality. Finally, we will think about how graphic memoir, performance art, and experimental filmmaking challenge the singularity of the narrated self.

PSY 1100-01:
General Pyschology

Description:
This is a broad survey of psychology. Topics to be addressed include psychology as science, nervous system, growth and development, sensory and perceptual processes, motivation, emotion, learning, social behavior, personality (normal and pathological), statistics, testing, intelligence, aptitudes, and achievement The online version of this course is currently available only during Summer School sessions.

SCI 2198-01:
Topics in Science: Drugs, the Brain, and Media

Description:
Drugs that act on the central nervous system (CNS) are the most widely used group of pharmacologic agents. In addition, drugs are one of the most important tools for studying all aspects of CNS physiology from the mechanisms that control movement to the consolidation of memories. The field of neuropharmacology requires understanding of disease mechanisms as well as the effects of drugs and other compounds on neuronal function. This course will focus on the pharmacodynamics (the actions of the drug on the body) and pharmacokinetics (the actions of the body on the drug) of various drugs in the central nervous system and the communication of this subject to a non-science audience.