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INTERDEPARTMENTAL STUDY (ID)
College of Liberal Arts
Community & Career Learning Center
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ID
1201
- Major and Career Exploration
(2.0 cr; Prereq-Fr or soph; fall, spring, every year)
Students learn about their unique interests, skills, personality, values. Using this information in choosing major/career. Importance of internships, community service, other practical experiences.
ID
3201
- Career Planning
(2.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
For juniors and seniors. A practical introduction to integrating individual talents, values, interests, and experience with critical career search strategies. Emphasis on understanding the marketplace, internet research, strategic resume writing, networking, and interviewing.
ID
3205
- Law School Exploration
(2.0 cr)
Assessment of fit between individual, law school, and career field of law. Off-campus informational interviews, site visits.
ID
3208
- Internship Reflection: Making Meaning of Your Experience
(1.0 cr; Prereq-%; fall, spring, every year)
Allows students to examine, reflect on, and construct meaning from their internship experience through self assessment of personal and career needs and goals, examination of what it means to be a ?professional? and operate within professional environments, evaluation of performance and accomplishments, articulation of knowledge and skills via effective resume writing.
ID
3555
- HECUA: Making Media, Making Change - Consumers to Creators
(4.0 cr; Prereq-#; A-F only, spring, every year)
Critical exploration of storytelling/media in social change efforts. Digital stories as lens to understand world. Media-based activist strategies in context of competing theoretical perspectives on media/society. Theory/field experiences.
Effective: Spring 2014
ID
3556
- HECUA: Making Media, Making Change - Digital Laboratory
(4.0 cr; Prereq-#; A-F only, spring, every year)
Development/production of compelling digital stories. Training by MTN staff in camera operations, aesthetics of video production, shot composition, audio, lighting, editing. Produce video suitable for public broadcast by semester's end.
Effective: Spring 2014
ID
3557
- HECUA: Making Media, Making Change - Internship
(4.0 cr; Prereq-#; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
4-credit internship in semester following initial coursework. Minimum of 120 hours, takes place at Minneapolis Television Network. Create programming for show on art, social justice, community action in Minneapolis.
Effective: Summer 2014
ID
3558
- HECUA: Making Media, Making Change - Internship
(8.0 cr; Prereq-3555, 3556, #; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Minimum of 240 hours, at Minneapolis Television Network. Create programming for show on art, justice, community action. Produce professional-level videos for community clients. Teach community producers basic video production skills. Serve as resource for community programming.
Effective: Summer 2014
ID
3561
- HECUA Off Campus Programs: Literature in Political, Social, and Historical Contexts
(LITR)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3562, &3563, %; fall, every year)
Role of creative writers and literature in effecting social change.
ID
3562W
- HECUA Off Campus Programs: Writing for Social Change: Creative Writing Workshop
(WI)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3561, &3563, %; fall, every year)
Testing theoretical perspectives of literature and social change by writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
ID
3563
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: WSC Internship Seminar
(CIV)
(8.0 cr; Prereq-&3561, &3562, %; fall, every year)
Project-based internship with professional-level responsibilities. Opportunities to integrate experience with two companion courses.
ID
3564
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Environment and Agriculture: Sustainable Food Systems
(ENV)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-%; A-F only, spring, every year)
Connection between the environment and agriculture. Firsthand experience of food systems. Environmental, economic, political, social, and cultural issues that define modern farming. Seminars, field study trips, extended visits to sustainable Minnesota farms.
ID
3565
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Environment and Agriculture: Sustainable Food Systems Internship
(2.0 cr; Prereq-%; A-F only, summer, every year)
Students devote summer to practice of sustainable farming.
ID
3571
- HECUA: Inequality in America - Contested Theories of Poverty, Inequality, and Social Change
(SOCS)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3572, 3573, %; fall, spring, every year)
Roots/strategies for addressing urban inequality/poverty. Interdisciplinary field study, seminar work, internship.
ID
3572
- HECUA: Inequality in America - Social Policy and Anti-Poverty Strategies in Theory and Practice
(DSJ)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3571, 3573, %; fall, spring, every year)
Roots/strategies for addressing urban inequality/poverty. Interdisciplinary field study, seminar work, internship.
ID
3573
- HECUA: Inequality in America Internship Seminar
(CIV)
(8.0 cr; Prereq-&3571, &3572, %; fall, spring, every year)
Roots/strategies for addressing urban inequality/poverty. Interdisciplinary field study, seminar work, internship.
ID
3574
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Programs: Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences
(HIS, DSJ)
(6.0 cr; A-F only, summer, every year)
May-session course. History/practice of civil rights movement in the United States. Philosophy, practice, and historical implications of the movement.
ID
3581
- HECUA: Arts for Social Change - Art and Culture in Political, Social, Historical Context
(AH)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3582, 3583, %; spring, every year)
Arts, popular culture, social change. Interdisciplinary field study, seminar work, internship.
ID
3582
- HECUA: Arts Praxis - Social Justice Theory and Practice in the Field
(DSJ)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3581, 3583, %; spring, every year)
Arts, popular culture, social change. Interdisciplinary field study, seminar work, internship.
ID
3583
- HECUA: Arts for Social Change Internship Seminar
(CIV)
(8.0 cr; Prereq-&3581, &3582; spring, every year)
Arts, popular culture, social change. Interdisciplinary field study, seminar work, internship. Offered spring semester.
ID
3591
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Environmental
Sustainability: Adaptive Ecosystem Management
(ENV)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3592, &3593, &3594, %; A-F only, fall, every year)
Examine ecological and physical processes that underlie
environmental degradation and learn to set up ecological monitoring through in-depth case studies of adaptive management projects.
ID
3592
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Environmental
Sustainability: Dimensions of Environmental Change
(SOCS)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3591, &3593, &3594, %; A-F only, fall, every year)
How power dynamics and a global free market impact efforts to promote sustainability. The state's role in regulating resources and distributing environmental benefits. How social movements develop a collective future and mobilize actors to realize it.
ID
3593
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program in Sustainability: Field Methods Research and Investigation
(BIOL)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3591, &3592, 3594, %; A-F only, fall, every year)
Field research project on environmental issues. Students work with scientists and community members and conduct publishable research.
ID
3594
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Environmental
Sustainability, Internship
(CIV)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3591, &3592, &3593, %; A-F only, fall, every year)
Students work with an organization addressing issues such as how to manage infrastructure for a booming economy and population in the metropolitan area, how rural communities can maintain viable livelihoods, and how to avert environmental decline in threatened ecosystems.
ID
3595
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Agriculture and Justice Agroecosystems in Context
(4.0 cr; Prereq-#; spring, every year)
Through interdisciplinary/field-based methods, including farm stay/subsequent creation of "whole farm plan," students learn theory/practice of fundamental agroecological principles. Define, assess, interpret factors that contribute to greater sustainability of agroecosystems.
Effective: Spring 2014
ID
3596
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Agriculture and Justice - Justice and the U.S. Food System
(4.0 cr; Prereq-&3595, %; spring, every year)
Complexities of food system. Roots of land ownership/labor practices in U.S., unpacking economics/policies. Considering one's own role in creating sustainable future. Participatory Action Research projects place students at organizations working for food justice in Twin Cities.
Effective: Spring 2014
ID
3597
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Agriculture and Justice Food Systems Internship (4 cr)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-3555, 3556, #; spring, summer, every year)
Minimum of 160 hours on substantive, mission-related projects at community-based organizations dedicated to food justice/food sovereignty in Twin Cities/greater Minnesota. Through written assignments/critical reflection, HECUA faculty link internship back to theoretical frames.
Effective: Spring 2014
ID
3598
- HECUA Off-Campus Study Program: Agriculture and Justice - Food Systems Internship (8 cr)
(8.0 cr; Prereq-%; spring, summer, every year)
Minimum of 300 hours on substantive, mission-related projects at community-based organizations dedicated to food justice/food sovereignty in Twin Cities/greater Minnesota. Through written assignments/critical reflection, HECUA faculty link internship back to theoretical frames.
Effective: Spring 2014
ID
3900
- University YMCA Collegiate Allies
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Active participation in a U YWCA program, #; S-N only, fall, every year)
Contextualize learning through multiple settings of real life experiences. Students are engaged in seminar topics that help them to find significant meaning and understanding of themselves and others in multicultural environments. Community service activities, connecting knowledge and practice, and reflecting on how experiences have informed them in becoming effective and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.
ID
3901
- Scholars Program Capstone Seminar
(1.0 cr; Prereq-%, Community Engagement Scholars coordinator approval; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Complements Integrative Community Engagement Project. Guidance, support, and structure to complete ICEP. Students reflect on previous academic/community work and prepare for next phase of their life.
ID
3960
- Interdepartmental Study Topics
(3.0 cr; A-F only, summer, offered periodically)
Selected interdepartmental topics not covered in regular courses.
ID
3993
- Directed Study
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 8.0 cr]; Prereq-#, %, @; fall, spring, every year)
Guided individual reading or study.
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