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Web: ncc.gmu.edu

Faculty

Professor: O’Connor

Associate professors: Gabel, Garner, Gorski, Gring-Pemble (associate dean), Lucas, Muir, Smith, Wood, Wingfield

Assistant professors: Chen, Freeman, Gilmore, Mahatmya, Owen, Vitazkova

Term assistant professors: Dunne, Fuertes, K. Scott, S. Scott, Smith, Wagner

Adjunct faculty: Carter, Giampa, Holder, Johnson, Kohr, Lennon, Lynch, Niedzwiecki, Saddler, Sweetman, Uy-Tioco

Administration

Lisa Gring-Pemble, Associate Dean
Kelly Dunne, Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs
Wendy Wagner, Director of the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement
Karen Misencik, Director of Experiential Learning
Teri Slick, Director of Student Services
Misty Hensley, Student Services Coordinator

Course Work

NCC offers all course work designated NCLC in the Courses  section of this catalog.

About New Century College

An integral part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, New Century College (NCC) offers students a personalized, interdisciplinary education typical of a small liberal arts college within the context of a large public university. Drawing on its own faculty, which is enriched regularly with others from across the university, New Century provides a learning environment that integrates interdisciplinary knowledge with workplace and lifelong learning. The programs enhance students’ technology skills, improve their writing, and provide them with challenging opportunities.

New Century College students interact closely with faculty; engage in critical thinking, problem solving, creative activity, and leadership development; and participate in experiential education in the form of internships, field studies, service learning, or study abroad. They learn to develop original ideas, engage in active and reflective learning, master competency areas, and conduct independent inquiry with high ethical standards. Both the structure and curriculum of New Century College respond to the needs of civic and corporate communities and provide instruction for a rapidly changing society.

Undergraduate Programs

New Century College offers a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of science degree in integrative studies. The curriculum is based on intensive, interdisciplinary learning communities, coordinated with traditional academic programs. The result is an integrated program of study that emphasizes collaboration, experiential learning, and self reflection.

All students complete their degree programs with an interdisciplinary concentration. See the programs of study below. Students develop mastery of eight essential competencies; communication, global understanding, group interaction, aesthetic awareness, critical thinking, civic engagement, digital literacy, and well-being.

Mason Cornerstones

New Century College offers an interdisciplinary first-year program known as Mason Cornerstones . Freshmen from many university majors may be invited to participate. Invitations are based on academic performance and other criteria.

Transfer Students

New Century College welcomes transfer students from other four-year institutions or community colleges, as well as from other academic units within Mason. Academic advisors work with students to best use transfer credits and provide a plan for timely completion of the bachelor’s degree. All transfer students are required to take NCLC 391 - Introduction to Integrative Studies  within their first two semesters and meet with an academic advisor as soon as possible.

Minors

New Century College offers minors in childhood studies, consciousness and transformation, leadership studies, multimedia, nonprofit studies, and social justice. All are available to students in any major in the university. See Minors and Interdisciplinary Minors  in this section.

The Sustainability Studies Minor  is offered jointly by the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and New Century College. For details, see the Department of Environmental Science and Policy   in the College of Science  section of this catalog.

Centers

New Century College houses the Center for Consciousness Transformation, the Center for Field Studies, and the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement. The services of these centers are available to all students and faculty in the university.

Programs

• Environmental and Sustainability Studies, BA
• Integrative Studies, BA
• Integrative Studies, BS

• Applied Conservation Studies Minor
• Childhood Studies Minor
• Consciousness and Transformation Minor
• Leadership Minor
• Multimedia Minor
• Nonprofit Studies Minor
• Social Justice Minor

• Integrative Studies, BA (Elementary Education Concentration)/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd (Elementary Education Concentration)
• Integrative Studies, BA (Social Science for Education Concentration)/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education History and Social Science Concentration)

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