Teaching Honors and Awards 

• 1999–2009 Chosen by several graduating seniors in both the fall and spring semesters as having had a significant impact on their education. 
• 2006 The Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award 
• 2005 The Center for Teaching Excellence Summer Pedagogy Development Stipend, University of North Carolina Wilmington. 
• 2001 The Center of Teaching Excellence: Recognition of Noteworthy Professional Development in Teaching, 2000-2001. 
• 2000 Outstanding Faculty Member for 1999-2000 from the Department of Philosophy and Religion. 
• 2000 The Center for Teaching Excellence Summer Teaching Initiative Stipend, University of North Carolina Wilmington. 

Courses Taught

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES RELATED TO ISLAM:

• Islam
• America and Islam
• The Qur’an
• Modern Movements in Islam
• Ancient Arabia
• Shi‘i Islam
• Intensive Arabic for Reading 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES RELATED TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION: 

• Introduction to Religion
• Comparative Religion
• Psychology of Religion
• Evil and Suffering
• Atheism and Unbelief
• Philosophy, Religion, and Sex
• Fundamentalisms around the World 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES ON OTHER RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS: 

• Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• Judaism
• Asian Religions
• The Sikh Religious Tradition 

GRADUATE COURSES: 

• Religion and Sex
• Atheism and Unbelief (also online)
• Problem of Evil
• Islam and America 

HONORS SEMINARS, COLLABORATIVE COURSES, AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES: 

• America from the Outside (Honors Seminar for UNCW study abroad students at the University of Wales Swansea)
• Thinking and Believing (Learning Community: PAR 103: Introduction to Religion & PSY 105: Introduction to Psychology)
• The Mind and the Body (Co-taught with Dr. Diane Melroy for the Science, Humanities, and Society Minor)

See also: http://people.uncw.edu/bergh