UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Department of Continuing Education
http://www.usm.edu/cice/ce/index.html

University of Southern Mississippi was founded in 1910. It is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It first offered distance learning courses in 1941. In fall 2003, there were 3,600 students enrolled in distance learning courses. Institutionally administered financial aid is available to distance learners.

Services Distance learners have accessibility to academic advising, bookstore, campus computer network, e-mail services, library services.

Contact Ms. Sue Pace, Director, University of Southern Mississippi, Box 5055, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5055. Telephone: 601-266-4210. Fax: 601-266-5839. E-mail: [email protected].

DEGREES AND AWARDS

MEd Music Education–Master of Music Education

MLIS Library Information Science

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS OFFERED OUTSIDE OF DEGREE PROGRAMS

Undergraduate— accounting; anthropology; bible/biblical studies; biology; business information and data processing services; business marketing and marketing management; chemistry; community health services; community organization, resources and services; comparative literature; creative writing; criminology; education administration and supervision; educational evaluation, research and statistics; education, other; electrical engineering; engineering-related technologies, other; English composition; English language and literature, general; English technical and business writing; family and community studies; foods and nutrition studies; foreign languages and literatures; gaming/sports officiating; geography; health and physical education/fitness; health professions and related sciences, other; liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities; library science, other; management information systems/business data processing; mathematics related; medical genetics; microbiology/bacteriology; music; nursing; philosophy and religion; social work; sociology; special education.

Graduate— biochemistry and biophysics; biology, general; city/urban, community and regional planning; cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics; communications, general; community health services; construction/building technology; consumer and homemaking education; criminal justice and corrections; curriculum and instruction; demography/population studies; economics; education administration and supervision; educational evaluation, research and statistics; family and community studies; foreign languages and literatures; geography; health and physical education/fitness; individual and family development studies; mathematical statistics; nursing; parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies, other; public health; social and philosophical foundations of education; social work; special education.

Non-credit— communications, general; health and medical administrative services; health and medical assistants; health and medical preparatory programs; tourism/travel marketing.