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The College of Charleston’s Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library is the premier research library for the region. With its comprehensive collections, the library serves as a dynamic hub of discovery that supports education at the highest levels. In addition to the Addlestone Library, the library system includes the Marine Resources Library, the Avery Research Center, the John Rivers Communications Museum and the the Lowcountry Graduate Center.
For the 2014-2015 academic school year. The floor themes are as follows: •Floors 2 & 3 – Honors College •Floor 4 – The Global Village (i.e. international studies, pre-law, sustainability, world politics) •Floor 5 – Fine Arts and Communication (i.e. marketing, studio art, theatre, dance, media) •Floor 6 – Innovation in Science & Technology (i.e. pre-med, data science, computer science) **For information about floor plans, see our website.
Set amid the beauty of one of the South's most historic cities, the Charleston School of Law teaches the practice of law as a profession whose chief aim is public service, providing relief for those who suffer because they are helpless, outnumbered or victims of prejudice. It achieves this in an environment of excellence and diversity, the hallmarks of which include a committed, caring and highly qualified faculty, a law library that provides the best in available resources and technology, and a student support system that promotes academic assistance, leadership development and personal support. Charleston School of Law graduates leave our campus as practice-ready professionals, prepared to begin making an impact to improve their communities. Gainful Employment Disclosure: www.charlestonlaw.edu/GainfulEmploymentDisclosures
The College of Charleston is a public, sea-grant and space-grant university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The college was founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, making it the oldest college or university in South Carolina, the 13th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the oldest municipal college in the country. The founders of the College include three future signers of the Declaration of Independence and three future signers of the United States Constitution . It is said that the college was founded to "encourage and institute youth in the several branches of liberal education." The college is in company with the Colonial Colleges as one of the oldest schools in the United States. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
College of Charleston’s School of Business offers five undergraduate programs, an honors program, an M.S. in Accountancy and a fulltime, one-year MBA. Approximately 1600 undergraduate and graduate students attend from around the world including places as far away as China, Vietnam, Germany and Brazil. The faculty has research expertise in areas such as global logistics, hospitality and tourism, political economics, financial investment, bankruptcy, business intelligence, and sustainable business practices. Visit http://sb.cofc.edu/ to learn more about our undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty and Centers of Excellence.
The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston is the result of the vision and generosity of Henry and Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik who began the program in 1984 to honor their parents. The matching endowment from Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold has enabled the Program to significantly expand its offerings. Located in the Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center, we offer South Carolina's first and only Jewish Studies major and Hebrew instruction through three years, house the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Education, the Center for Southern Jewish Culture, oversee the Jewish Student Union/Hillel, the campus's most active student organization, and provide a wide variety of educational and cultural offerings to the greater Charleston community. Follow the JSU/Hillel and learn more about their programming on Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/cofc.hillel
Welcome the community to the newly established Office of Sustainability at the College of Charleston. The Office will represent the hub for teaching, research, and practice of sustainability on campus and in the greater Charleston community. The Office of Sustainability will be located within Business Affairs, one that will give it a high profile on campus and in the community, where it can be accessed and influenced by all members of our campus community. This represents an exciting step forward for the College of Charleston, and signals a new chapter in our esteemed history. I hope you join us in establishing the vision, cultivating ideas, and strategically implementing those ideas and vision toward a Sustainable CofC.
College of Charleston School of the Arts — where real-world experiences in an arts-centric historic city, combined with studies with dedicated artist-scholars, offer well-rounded, individualized and real-life preparation for budding artists' careers. The School offers concerts, theatre productions, lectures and exhibitions to the campus and the Charleston community. (Music, Dance, Theatre, Art History, Historic Preservation and Community Planning, Studio Art, Arts Management, and Computing in the Arts)
CisternYard Radio is the College of Charlestons’s student-operated and produced online radio station.As a station, we provide listeners with diverse programming and insight into student life. DJs have the opportunity to create a weekly show based on their personal interests. The best part about CYR is that you can listen from anywhere through TuneIn.
The College's Department of Theatre and Dance operates on the premise that there exists a healthy balance between coursework and production experience. Theatre and Dance majors are expected to supplement their theatre or dance specialization with education in the humanities, sciences and languages.
The Department of Communication (COMM) was created as an independent administrative unit in Fall 1999 and has completed its eleventh year of operation. The department offers the largest undergraduate major in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the second largest major on campus, with 728 declared COMM majors at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year. The department offers a Graduate Certificate in Organizational and Corporate Communication and a Master of Arts in Communication, with about 35 students enrolled in the certificate program or the master’s degree at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year.
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The Graduate School of the University of Charleston, South Carolina capitalizes on the clear strengths of our faculty and facilities while focusing on the professional needs of the Charleston community. Our 21 master's degree programs and 10 graduate-level certificate programs prepare students to fill important roles in communities as teachers, scholars, environmentalists, historic preservationists, public administrators, and business leaders.
The study of English – both the language and the literature – is fundamental to any college education, particularly a liberal arts and sciences education. To underscore that, faculty members in this department teach students to read with insight, perception and objectivity, and to write with clarity and precision. In addition, we emphasize an aesthetic appreciation for the literary arts as well as how vitally important literature is in the life of any thinking individual.
The Aesthetics Work Group is an interdisciplinary group of professors and students who meet periodically to discuss theoretical works about and in the arts. The work is often (usually) works in progress by members of AWG and visitors from other institutions. It is led by Jonathan Neufeld in the philosophy department and is regularly attended by students and faculty from German, Jewish Studies, English, African American Studies, Music, Art, Art History, Political Science, and Psychology. Here is a list of AWG events since 2011: 2015 • 4/28/15: "Apocalypse Within: The War Epic as Crisis of Self," Garry Hagberg (Philosophy, Bard College) • 4/16/15: “Props and Poetic Devices in Zacharias Werner’s Romantic Plays,” Amy Emm (German, Citadel) • 4/10/15: “Individual Memories, Brazilian Longings: Nostalgia, Popular Music and Television,” Dan Sharp (Music, Tulane) • 4/3/15: "Art, Authenticity and Appropriation," Rebecca Stanley (Philosophy and Political Science student, CofC) • 3/26/15: "A Civilization of Discontents: Social Media in the Golden Age of Crisis in the Humanities," Eric Jarosinski (@NeinQuarterly) • 3/13/15: "Ecomusicology and Political Protest in Appalachia," Abby Tennenbaum (Political Science student, CofC) • 2/26/15: "Liveness, media, and the overflowing carnivalesque of murga porteña," Michael O'Brien (Music, CofC) • 2/19/15: Discussion of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle • 2/6/15: "Participatory Culture and Performative Process in René Pollesch's Theater," Morgan Koerner (German, CofC) • 1/22/15: discussion of Jacques Rancière's "Aesthetics As Politics" 2014 • 11/21/14: "Make It Funky; Or, Music’s Cognitive Travels and the Despotism of Rhythm," Paul Taylor (Philosophy and African AmericanStudies, Penn State) • 11/7/14: “Philosophy in Song,” Ayala Asherov-Kalus (Songwriter, Music, CofC) • 10/16/14: Title TBA, Margaret Moore (Philosophy, University of Tennessee) • 10/10/14: “Reading Danto’s Red Squares as a Political Thought Experiment, Or, ‘Catching the Conscience of our Kings,’” Lydia Goehr (Philosophy and Music, Columbia University) • 9/18/14: “How to be an Optimist about Aesthetic Testimony,” Rachel McKinnon (Philosophy, CofC) • 8/29/14: “Paleostructure: Biological, Spiritual, and Architectural Evolution at the Oxford Museum,” Nathaniel Walker (Art History, CofC) • 4/11/14: "The Concept of Freedom in Sartre and Adorno," Stefan Koester (Philosophy/Economics student, CofC) • 4/3/14: "Like Themselves: Personhood, Intellectual Disability and the Utopian Imagination," Claire Curtis (Political Philosophy, CofC) • 3/28/14: "Ethical Ideals in Artworks: Schopenhauer and Murdoch on SelfLossness in Aesthetic Experience," Scott Clifton (Philosophy, CofC) • 3/17/14: Violin and Piano Recital: Troy Gardner and Elizabeth Korelse • 3/13/14: "Poetry After Auschwitz," Johannes Wich-Schwarz (German, Maryville University) • 2/17/14: "The Aesthetics of Affirmative Action," Brian Soucek (University of California, Davis School of Law) • 1/31/14: "Bad Art and the Mere Exposure Effect," Jennifer Wright (Psychology, CofC) and Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, CofC) • 1/17/14: "Mirror Neurons and Simulation Theory: A Neurophysiological Foundation for Cinematic Empathy," Dan Shaw (Philosophy, Lock Haven University) 2013 • 11/15/13: "Games, Striving and Topologies of Choice," Thi Nguyen (Philosophy, Utah Valley State University via Skype) • 10/4/13: Introduction to inauguaral issue of Urban Cultural Studies, Ben Fraser (Spanish, CofC) • 9/19/13: "A Social Ontology of Art," Mathew Rabon (Philosophy student, CofC) • 9/5/13: "Affect in German Theater after the Performative Turn: Elfriede Jelinek’s Theater Texts in Performance," Morgan Koerner (German, CofC) • 4/12/13: Discussion of "Bach Defended Against his Devotees" by T. A. Adorno. • 2/22/13: Discussion of Chapters 3-4 of Philosophy of the Performing Arts, by David Davies. • 2/14/13: Roundtable discussion of The Lives of Animals with Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, CofC), Simon Lewis (English, CofC), and Ornaith O'Dowd (Philosophy, CofC) • 2/6/13: Discussion of Chapters 1-2 of Philosophy of the Performing Arts, by David Davies. 2012 • “Lisa Sanditz and the Suburban Sublime,” Jennifer Baker (Philosophy, CofC) • Public Lecture, "Cover Records as Social Commentary," Ted Gracyk (Philosophy, MN State, Moorhead) • “Why Birds Don’t Make Music,” Ted Gracyk (Philosophy, MN State, Moorhead) • Public Lecture, “Participatory Art,” Michael Kelly (Philosophy, UNC, Charlotte) • "Participatory Art and Aesthetics," (AWG meeting) Michael Kelly (Philosophy, UNC, Charlotte) • “The Transgender Gaze in Film,” Richard Nunan (Philosophy, CofC), • Discussion of “Living Takes Many Forms,” by Shannon Jackson and “Microutopias: Public Practice in the Public Sphere,” by Carol Becker • Discussion of “Living as Form,” by Nato Thompson and “Eventwork: The Fourfold Matrix of Contemporary Social Movements,” by Brian Holmes. • “Participation as Spectacle: Where Are We Now?” by Claire Bishop and -“Democratizing Urbanization and the Search for a New Civic Imagination,” by Teddy Cruz 2011 • “Metaphor and Metaphysics in Zhuangzi," Tyler Ray (Philosophy and Religious Studies student, CofC) • “The Norms of Nature Appreciation,” Glenn Parsons (Philosophy, Ryerson University, Toronto) • Discussion of “Interaction and Nature Appreciation,” by Robert Stecker. • “Tibetan Poetry in Exile,” Amberjade Mwekali (Philosophy student, CofC ) • “Emotional and Ethical Expression in Music,” Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, CofC)
All meetings held in the conference room of 14 Glebe St. unless specified otherwise.
Headquartered in the Hispanic Studies Department at the College of Charleston (S.C.), Sigma Delta Pi admits as members those undergraduate students who satisfy the following criteria: 1. Completion of three years of study of college-level Spanish (eighteen semester credit hours) or the equivalent thereof, including at least three semester hours of a course in Hispanic literature or Hispanic culture and civilization at the junior (third-year) level. A student may be admitted to active membership while still enrolled in the second junior-level course if all other requirements have been met and if the instructor of the course certifies that the student's work is of "B" or "A" quality. 2. A minimal grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 point scale in all Spanish courses taken. 3. Ranking in the upper 35% of his/her class--sophomore, junior, or senior--and must have completed at least three semesters or five quarters of college work. Graduate students qualify for membership if they have unconditionally been admitted to a degree-granting program and upon completion of two graduate courses in Spanish with an average which, if continued, will make them eligible for a graduate degree. Sigma Delta Pi does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, or disability. Sigma Delta Pi is a certified member of the Association of College Honor Societies (http://www.achsnatl.org/) and affiliated with and a partner of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (http://www.aatsp.org/).
For the 2014-2015 academic school year. The floor themes are as follows: •Floors 2 & 3 – Honors College •Floor 4 – The Global Village (i.e. international studies, pre-law, sustainability, world politics) •Floor 5 – Fine Arts and Communication (i.e. marketing, studio art, theatre, dance, media) •Floor 6 – Innovation in Science & Technology (i.e. pre-med, data science, computer science) **For information about floor plans, see our website.
The College of Charleston’s Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library is the premier research library for the region. With its comprehensive collections, the library serves as a dynamic hub of discovery that supports education at the highest levels. In addition to the Addlestone Library, the library system includes the Marine Resources Library, the Avery Research Center, the John Rivers Communications Museum and the the Lowcountry Graduate Center.
The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston is the result of the vision and generosity of Henry and Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik who began the program in 1984 to honor their parents. The matching endowment from Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold has enabled the Program to significantly expand its offerings. Located in the Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center, we offer South Carolina's first and only Jewish Studies major and Hebrew instruction through three years, house the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Education, the Center for Southern Jewish Culture, oversee the Jewish Student Union/Hillel, the campus's most active student organization, and provide a wide variety of educational and cultural offerings to the greater Charleston community. Follow the JSU/Hillel and learn more about their programming on Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/cofc.hillel