UNCW Takes Programs on the Road
8/25/2005 4:57:17 PM
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WILMINGTON, N.C. – As part of its commitment to the region it serves, UNCW Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is sending professors and programs out into the community to give area residents easier access to university resources. The following outreach programs are planned:
Brunswick County – Southport
“The Cape Fear Region and the Civil War” with Chris Fonvielle Jr., assistant professor of history – Fonvielle will explore the conditions which led Southern states to secede from the Union, form the Confederate States of America and fight against great odds for its independence. He explains how the Cape Fear Region became a pivotal focus of Southern strategy. Participants will discuss the impact of the war on Southern society and how Southerners remember the war. Fonvielle is author of three books including The Wilmington Campaign.
Location: Community Room, Hampton Inn, Southport
5181 Southport Supply Rd., S.E.
Date: Mondays, Oct. 17 and 24 and Nov. 7 and 14
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $49
New Hanover County – Downtown Wilmington
“Revisiting 20th Century Civil Rights Movement and Its Impact Today” with Glen Harris, assistant professor of history – Forty years later after the tumultuous civil rights era of the 1960s, reverberations are front-line news today. The recent life sentence of Edgar Ray Killen, 80, for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., brings American racial issues to the forefront. Join Harris as he examines this era and its implications for present day understanding and possible healing.
Location: WHQR Studios
Date: Tuesdays, Oct. 25, Nov.1 and 8
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $29
New Hanover County – Porters Neck
“Tough Guys and Tough Dames: The American Film Noir” with Oliver Speck, assistant professor of foreign languages and literature – From the 1930s onward, movies often portrayed a world of desperate love, murder and betrayal, set in the seedy back-alleys of American cities. Later named “film noir” by French critics, these films featured actors like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in a hard-boiled world of deception and death. This five-week seminar introduces the American film noir era between the years 1934 and 1955 and those films known as “neo-noir” from 1980 to the present. Speck discusses film noir’s origins and cinematic antecedents.
Location: Plantation Village auditorium on Porters Neck Road
Date: Wednesdays, Oct. 12 – Nov. 16
(Class will not be held Oct. 26)
Time: 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Cost: $49 (register by Oct. 5)
Pender County – Burgaw
“Introduction to Pender County History and Basic Genealogy” with Jimmy Tate – Tate, a native of Pender County, leads this four-week course through the history and cultural landscape of Pender County, as well as basic genealogy and tracing family history. Tate is a history teacher at James Sprunt Community College.
Location: Burgaw County Library
Date: Saturdays, Oct. 8 – 29
Time: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $35 (register by Sept. 30)
Columbus County – Sandyfield
“Eco-tourism in Sandyfield” with guest lecturers – The Town of Sandyfield is planning an extensive birding trail which will be part of the North Carolina birding trails throughout the state. Three separate sessions will feature guest lectures by Andy Wood, education director of the Audubon Society, and Jamie Rotenberg, a UNCW ornithologist and research associate at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. Focusing primarily on birds, this course examines their N.C. habitats and the importance of maintaining a delicate balance in the eco-system.
Location: Sandyfield Town Hall
Date: Tuesdays, Oct. 4, 11 and 18
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free to town residents, $10 for non-residents (register by Sept. 30)
Sampson County – Clinton
“Historic Preservation: History and Practice” with Will Moore, assistant professor of history – Through lectures and class discussion, this course will examine the roots of Historic Preservation in the United States, and explain the many ways it is practiced. Among the many topics to be covered are house museums, Colonial Williamsburg, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, historic districts, the National Register of Historic Places and smart growth.
Location: Shield House Inn
216 Sampson St., Clinton
(reservations required)
Date: Tuesdays, Oct. 4, 11 and 18
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $29
For more information on any of these programs visit www.uncw.edu/pathways, or call 910/ 962-3195.
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