College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

208 write both applets (programs that execute in a web browser) and applicants (stand-alone programs). In addition to learning about basic language statements, you will also learn how Java provides support for such diverse applications as web pages, multimedia, education, etc. MACS 0603 – Ocean and Coastal Law A hodgepodge of laws and approaches apply to the oceans and coasts. Essentially all the legal attention arose within the past six decades. Rights divide among private landowners, resource extractors, local governments, national governments, or international authorities. Today a great period of legal adjustment is in motion as many living systems collapse, bearing social and economic consequences. Much ocean and coastal law is already a story of failure followed by rethinking or reconstruction. This background law is now asked to rise to the task of enabling prevention of global climate change, and to the task of adaptation to its impacts which elude prevention. Other courses in the distance program address science or policy for living and non-living resources. This course is about how law copes with emerging science and policy. It depicts examples of legal success and of disappointment to highlight the mechanisms and principles of law. From the examples, we understand and can recollect how these laws are created, revised, processed into regulations and administered. Limits on agencies and courts to make interpretation, apply science in legal settings, and enforce are evaluated. MACS 0612 – Coastal Policy This web-based distance education course explores the issues, problems, and potential political and public policy solutions to the challenges of achieving smart, sustainable stewardship of the seashores. Primary emphasis is on the United States experience. Students read two outstanding books and participate in on-line activities including original case studies, on-line tests, and selected interactive discussion with each other, the professor, and guests. Optional weekend or extended 3-credit field trips to experience and examine costal policy venues in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach (Florida, USA) and other coastal locations will also be available. MACS 0614 – Intl Coastal Zone Management International Integrated Coastal Zone Management: This web-based distance education course focuses on the international dimensions of integrated coastal zone management. Students will examine the major "big picture" issues affecting the world's coastal areas and oceans, and will examine seven case studies that will help to bring alive the grave problems of mismanaging coastal and economic resources: the Black Sea, Newfoundland, the Louisiana Region of the Gulf of Mexico, Belize, the Marshall Islands, and Antarctica.