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New masters program to
begin at UNCA this spring
By Maria Horton
News Editor
The new Master of Liberal
Arts (MLA) program is designed Board
vancement," he added.
The MLA was approved by
the University of North Caro
lina General Assembly and the
of Governors last
to "deliberately cut across dis
ciplinary borders," according to
Dr. Theodore Uldricks, the pro
gram’s director.
"A bachelor’s in English or
nursing will be just as relevant
as a bachelor’s in philosophy or
literature," he said. The target
group for the degree will be
those who are out of college,
in mid-career, and want to
return to an academic setting
one or two nights a week.
A Master of Liberal Arts is a
fairly new degree, according to
he
all students, five or six elec
tives and a thesis or project
for a total of 33 semester
hours. Uldricks added there
will be room for choice, and
the degree will take three to
Spring. The Fall semester will
be spent advertising the MLA’s five years to complete,
existence and accepting appli- "We will be looking for a
cations for classes beginning diversity of background for the
the Spring of 1989, Uldricks classes and expect interest
said. from all disciplines. We have
•We have no new students had a lot of interest from
right now, but the interest has engineers and attorneys as well
been high. We have already as physicians and priests,"
sent out information to 160 Uldricks said,
people, and we haven’t really People who missed the chal-
advertised yet," he said. lenge of undergraduate study,
Approximately 36 students certain retirees and those who
will be accepted for the Janu- have a strong technical back-
ary 1989 class and another 36 ground and "wished they had
Uldricks. "There are only 60-70 fortheAugust 1989 class. "The studied Plato," will probably
universities in the country that spring semester will start off make up the bulk of the stu-
with Humanities 500, The dents who enroll in the pro-
Human Condition which is the gram, he said,
theme for the program," "We expect the average stu-
Uldricks said. dent to be 10 years older than
"The focus will be on the the traditional UNCA student,"
problems of human nature and he said,
its values. You can’t do all The January class will fea-
that in just a humanities
class. You need other disci
plines too," he said.
The MLA will contain a five
course core that is required by
have this type of degree,
said.
"Duke has had one for about
15 or 20 years. Wake Forest
and UNC-Greensboro have
one. N.C. State along with
UNCA have added the degree
this year," Uldricks said.
The core goal for the MLA
is intellectual stimulation and
personal intellectual develop
ment as opposed to career ad-
Staff Photo-
ture a team teaching format
with Dr. Margaret Downes and
Dr. Alan Comer serving as the
Please see MASTERS page 8
•Stacey Higdon
SG Aseeks communication
By Kris Beddingfield
Assistant News Editor
The Student Government
Association (SGA) wants to re
establish the lines of communi
cation and is actively working
this semester to attain that
goal.
"We’re trying to find ways to
talk to people so they’ll talk to
us," Robert Straub, Commuter
Senator, said.
"SGA is trying to create a
bond between a^inistration,
faculty and students," Rosalee
Hart, SGA president, said. "I
want student government to be
more active. If students have
problems, they can come to us.
It takes time but, things will
be done," she said.
SGA is co-sponsoring a dance
with Peace Link, a national
non-partisan organization, to
encourage voter registration.
The dance will be on the Quad
October 2 and will feature two
or three bands.
"We’re going to sell refresh-
Please see SGA page 8
Staff Photo—Stacey Higdoo
SGA President Rosalee Hart
College night offered local high school students an opportunity to meet with recruiters
from area colleges as well as prominent universities such as Yale and Notre Dame. School
representatives met with potential college applicants in Justice Gym Wednesday night
from 6-8:30 p.m.
Health promotions minor
added to curriculum
By Susan Dryman
Staff Writer
For two years, Dr. Cheryl
McClary worked to see a
health promotion minor become
a reality at UNCA.
McClary appeared unopposed
before the Faculty Senate and
Academic Approval Board be
fore the minor was approved.
The health promotion minor
is designed to provide students
an opportunity to supplement
and give added dimension to
majors already in place in the
university curriculum. In addi
tion, the minor addresses the
scientific and philosophical
questions which are inspired by
health promotion topics.
"I really can’t think of a
major that this minor couldn’t
supplement. Even if you never
intend to go into the health
care industry, you learn so
much through this program
about being a healthy person,
no matter what you want to do
with the rest of your life,"
McClary said.
In particular, she says the
Health Promotion minor will
benefit Mass Communication
majors who wish to go into
hospital public relations or
administration.
It will also benefit Psychol
ogy and Sociology majors wish
ing to work with patients in
health care institutions. En
vironmental Science and Bi
ology majors and especially
Pre-med majors, according to
McClary.
But she stresses the interdis
ciplinary aspects of the minor,
not just what it can do for a
particular major.
"The World Health Organiza
tion’s definition of ’health’ is
’a complete state of mental,
physical, and social well-being
and not merely the absense of
infirmity.’ So you can see
through this definition that
health care is interdisciplinary,
that is, it draws from all the
sciences," McClary said.
This pooling of other depart
mental resources is evidenced
in the number of lecturers
from other disciplines who will
teach Health Promotion courses
in the Spring. Lecturers include
Dr. William Bruce from the
psychology department. Dr.
John Bernhardt from the bi
ology department and Dr.
Lothar Dohse from the mathe
matics department.
To obtain the minor, students
must fulfill 17-19 hours of
courses in the Health Promo
tion department.
Six of these are courses from
psychology, management, soci
ology, philosophy and environ
mental sciences. Three hours of
a student’s major may count
towards the minor as well.
Library renovations
scheduled in November
From Staff Reports
Ramsey Library is expanding
to better meet the needs of
UNCA students. This expansion
will consist of a set of reno
vations to the building and an
expansion of the new on-line
computer system in the library
which the staff implemented
this summer.
The original date for library
construction was the spring of
1987 but was delayed due to
the library going over budget
twice. The new date to begin
construction is November 1988.
Malcolm Blowers, university
librarian, said a total renova
tion was needed due to an as
bestos problem, code violations
and "problems with the heating,
ventilation and air conditioning
system."
The university had originally
planned to build an extension
to the library and based their
bids on that fact. After hiring
the architects to design the
library addition, it was discov
ered that an addition, as well
as a renovation to the present
building,was needed.
Blowers said the first over
bidding was due to the unex
pected renovation of the pre
sent library, and the second
was due to lack of adequate
bidders.
"We have not been able to
get bidders from out of town
with a sharp pencil," said
Blowers. "Most of the major
bidders are working in Char
lotte and other larger cities."
The library is planning a new
strategy for bidding this month.
"Our tactic is to bid only for
the addition, and then we’re
hoping for some additional
funds in the next year which
would then De put toward the
renovation of this present
building," said Blowers.
The new on-line computer
system in the library is the
main reason for the new bar
code identification cards issued
this semester.
UNCA has teamed up with
Western Carolina University
and Appalachian State Univer
sity to create the Western
North Carolina Library Network
(WNCLN).
"Users can now go to a ter
minal and can either look at
our holdings or, by a simple
stroke of two or three keys,
they can look at the union
holdings and determine what
each institution has," said
Blowers.
Western Carolina is the only
college which does not have a
current catalogue system for
the computers, but plans to
have it by next semester, he
continued. If a book shows up
as "available" at WCU it may
not be so. At the present mo
ment all materials at that
Please see LIBRARY page 8
Staff Photo—Linda Greene
The Baptist Student Union recently purchased a house near campus. Mike Stephens will
be living there and working with the group this fall. It is the only organization on
campus with a house.