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WRIT 1001 - The Art of Explaining Things: Introduction to Technical Writing and Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course introduces students to the field of technical writing and communication. What do technical communicators do? They explain things!? Technical communicators are often tasked with explaining complex ideas to specific audiences through various means.? Students will explore the history and current and future trends of the field through a variety of readings including journal articles and industry publications. Topics in the course include ethics, global communication, collaboration, usability, digital writing technologies, and content management, as well as the rhetorical principles of audience, purpose, and context. Students will gain exposure to current practices in the field through guest speakers and assignments. Other assignments include oral presentations, analytical and research writing, and writing for the web. The format of the class includes lecture, student-led discussions, group activities, and peer review.

WRIT 3221W - Communication Modes and Methods (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course presents a survey of fundamental theories and philosophies of communication. Students will become acquainted with several theories of language and linguistic meaning and with principles of non-verbal and relational communication, and will engage in reflection on differences between older and newer media or ?modes? of discourse (speaking vs. writing; conventional print vs. digital text, etc.). In addition to introducing theories and concepts, the course seeks to develop competencies in evaluating and applying them in the analysis of communication in various contexts including face-to-face conversations, ongoing interpersonal relationships, and digitally-mediated interactions.

WRIT 3441 - Editing, Critique, and Style

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 3441/Writ 4561
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

In this course, students will increase their understanding of how language works and will learn to make choices about language, style, and punctuation to create messages that are clear, concise, and useful. The course emphasizes technical communication, but the skills learned can be applied to any communication situation. Editing practice will include three levels of editing to make the documents comprehensible and useful in which students will not only polish their grammar and punctuation skills, but they will also learn how to explain and justify changes they make in documents. Topics also included in the course are editing methods for both paper and electronic copy and editing for organization and visual design.

WRIT 3562W - Technical and Professional Writing (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 3562V/Writ 3562W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course introduces students to technical and professional writing through various readings and assignments in which students analyze and create texts that work to communicate complex information, solve problems, and complete tasks. Students gain knowledge of workplace genres as well as to develop skills in composing such genres. This course allows students to practice rhetorically analyzing writing situations and composing genres such as memos, proposals, instructions, research reports, and presentations. Students work in teams to develop collaborative content and to compose in a variety of modes including text, graphics, video, audio, and digital. Students also conduct both primary and secondary research and practice usability testing. The course emphasizes creating documents that are goal-driven and appropriate for a specific context and audience.

WRIT 3671 - Visual Rhetoric and Document Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course approaches the challenges of document design by drawing upon principles from rhetorical theory and scholarship. In practical terms, this means that the design questions addressed in this class are understood in terms of specific audiences and specific contexts. Students in this class will pursue a blend of critical analysis ? drawing on rhetorical principles ? and document design. While Visual Rhetoric and Document Design assumes no baseline design training, class assignments will encourage students to put theory into practice and develop documents that reflect current best practices in print and digital spaces.

WRIT 3701W - Rhetorical Theory for Writing Studies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed to explore major issues and perspectives in rhetorical criticism, including foundational concepts from the history of rhetorical theory, elements of rhetorical studies, and methods of rhetorical analysis. Rhetoric is an art form with a diverse theoretical landscape, meaning that there is no singular, stable definition of the term; rather, rhetoric is a practice that has been used as an organizing principle for a variety of communicative acts ? written, spoken, and enacted. As such, the study of rhetorical theory and criticism begins with the understanding that human beings use language and symbols to shape our many worldviews. The skills obtained in this class will help you to understand the nature and function of the persuasive strategies that structure our everyday lives and arguments. As a writing-intensive course, you will also learn how to construct a piece of rhetorical criticism that draws upon a toolbox of ideas and methods to successfully articulate a rhetorical argument.

WRIT 4501 - Usability and Human Factors in Technical Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 4501/Writ 5501
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Usability is concerned with how people interact with design and technology; usability is commonly known as the "ease of use" of products and technologies by a range of users. This course emphasizes usability and user research and will explore the intersection of usability and technical communication. We will investigate definitions of usability and user-centered design principles, and we will explore a variety of usability research methods including heuristic evaluation, personas, and usability testing. The course will focus heavily on usability testing of web sites, a common technical communication task that involves observation and interviews of human participants interacting with a web site.

WRIT 3029W - Business and Professional Writing (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3029W/Writ 3029W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In this course students practice writing and revising common business documents for today?s business world. Students write memos, proposals, cover letters, resumes, and digital and web content as well as practice choice of appropriate formats and media. The course draws from current business practices and stresses workplace collaboration, broader issues of professional literacy, and responsive writing styles. Students practice rhetorical analysis and discuss concepts such as audience, purpose, tone, and context when writing and revising their documents. Students analyze and write from a variety of perspectives and contexts including formal (researched reports, proposals) and informal (email, social media) communication. Students also build a professional online presence through such platforms as LinkedIn.

WRIT 3101W - Writing Arguments (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Students learn about argument, drawn from a number of theories of argument. This goal is pragmatic: those theories provide a vocabulary for talking about argument and for developing and refining students' own written arguments. Students get regular practice, coaching, and feedback on their writing skills, primarily as these concern argumentative writing. Students also learn how to analyze argumentative texts, drawn from popular culture, academic fields, and the public realm.

WRIT 3102W - Public Writing (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Students in this class examine public documents and apply critical/rhetorical analysis regarding audience, purpose, message, power, and context. Students conduct research and write documents for public audiences on contemporary issues of interest.

WRIT 3244W - Critical Literacies: How Words Change the World (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is focused on understanding and using the insights into language and writing that animate Critical Literacy movements in the United States. Literacy is usually thought of in terms of fundamental abilities to read and write about a reality outside of language. Critical Literacy is an intellectual and social movement that challenges this dominant understanding of literacy. Critical Literacy?s fundamental claim is that texts (and our practices for working with them) invite readers (and writers) to accept particular versions of reality as the Real Truth. Through historical and contemporary models, students will learn how efforts to question and transform dominant ways of using language have played an especially important role in struggles for greater justice by and for oppressed groups. Here, people have used the ideas and methods of Critical Literacy to question how racial, gender, social class, and other privileges structure our language practices and our daily experiences. Students will be invited to apply a critical understanding of literacy to their own writing as they analyze course texts and produce original essays on topics of interest to them.

WRIT 3257 - Technical and Professional Presentations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

In this course students develop oral presentation skills for technical or professional topics. Areas of study in the course include visual communication, audience analysis, presentation strategies, and presentation of complex research material. The course emphasizes use of digital technologies. Recommend that students take Comm 1101 or equivalent first

WRIT 3672W - Project Design and Development (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

If you want to put design thinking, agile project management, teamwork, writing, research, analysis, and critical thinking on your resume, join Project Design and Development. You will study, plan, research, design, and develop technical communication materials in a design-thinking, collaborative-writing environment. You?ll work in teams to create a user manual and information graphic, promotional materials, and a social media campaign while planning and documenting your projects and productivity. You will leave the course with knowledge and skills you can put to work in any organization: small business, nonprofit, and corporate. The course develops competencies that the National Association of Colleges and Employers has named as most-valued by employers: critical thinking, written communication, collaboration, digital technology, leadership, and professionalism.

WRIT 3751W - Seminar: Theory and Practice of Writing Consultancy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is a seminar in the theory and practice of teaching writing through one-to-one consultations. Our goal in this seminar is to develop as writers and writing consultants through investigating into, experimenting with, and reflecting upon our own literacy practices; reading carefully and discussing published research and theory as well as examples of our own and other students? writing; posing and exploring questions about writers, writing consulting, language and literacy learning, linguistic diversity, and the role of writing centers within higher education; observing, practicing, and reflecting on a variety of consulting strategies; and designing, conducting, and presenting our own writing center inquiry projects. Through reflective writing, in-class consultations, class discussions, and collaborative activities, we will learn together many approaches for conducting one-to-one conferences and for coaching students in their development as writers. prereq: Currently working in a University writing center, instr consent

WRIT 3896 - Internship in Technical Writing and Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This is an online course for students who are working in an approved internship in the field of technical communication. Students have the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned in the TWC major in a real-world situation. In the course, students are required to read materials, to submit bi-weekly progress reports on their position to an online forum, and respond to other students. Students are also asked to post examples of their projects and to rate their skills using the CLA Competencies and Rate Tool. The final project in the course is a 10-12 page final report that involves submitting a draft and meeting with the instructor. prereq: Writ 3562W and 24 credits completed in the Technical Writing & Communication major

WRIT 4573W - Writing Proposals and Grant Management (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This advanced-level Writing Studies course introduces students to the activities, responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities that characterize proposals for nonprofits and/or research/business. Students analyze unique proposal writing situations, including audiences (customers, reviewers, and teammates) and resources (collaborators, templates, and time). Students practice the entire process of proposal and grant writing: 1) describing the problem in context; 2) identifying sponsors and finding a match; 3) designing, writing, revising, and completing all proposal components; 4) conceptualizing and using persuasive visual elements; and 5) presenting and responding to stakeholders and sponsors.

WRIT 4662W - Writing With Digital Technologies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 4662W/Writ 5662
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

WRIT 4662W is an advanced level Writing Studies course that explores various digital writing technologies and provides multiple opportunities to assess writing situations and make appropriate decisions about digital form and production. Students will learn the basic building blocks of writing in Internet environments (text, sound, images, video) as well as the vocabularies, functionalities, and organizing structures of Web 2.0 environments, how these impact understanding and use of information, and how to produce these environments (i.e., multimedia internet documents) for interactivity and use. This course includes design projects and practice with apps, markup language, content management systems, video, and social media. prereq: Jr or sr or instr consent

WRIT 3152W - Writing on Issues of Science and Technology (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Science and technology are key parts of nearly every aspect of our lives, and, just as important, science and technology are highly debated topics in political, economic, social, public, and personal spheres. For example, consider debates regarding genetically modified foods, space exploration, vaccines, oil pipelines, or clean drinking water. This course will push you to consider the ways you think, feel, and write about science and technology. This course will ask you to examine the relationship between language and science and technology. We will spend the semester reading about science and technology, in addition to studying and practicing different strategies, techniques, and approaches for communicating about science and technology. Using rhetorical studies as a foundation, this course will give you the tools to more effectively engage with scientific and technological topics and debates. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this course aims to foster engagement with scientific and technological conversations. Put simply, students should leave this course caring about scientific and technological issues and wanting to participate in the conversations that surround such issues.

WRIT 3315 - Writing on Issues of Land and the Environment (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores how written texts help shape understandings of the land in the U.S. Students read and analyze historical texts that have contributed to colonialist understandings of nature and the land. Students will study how the rhetorical strategies of such texts helped to form exploitive relations with the land and enact violence against indigenous peoples. Historical and current texts written by native peoples provide a counter-narrative to the myth of progress. Emphasis in the course is placed on analyzing texts with an eye toward setting the ground for conversations aimed at achieving sustainability and justice. Students will also study how written texts are composed within material contexts that contribute to their understanding.

WRIT 3371W - Technology, Self, and Society (TS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Cultural history of American technology. Social values that technology represents in shifts from handicraft to mass production/consumption, in modern transportation, communication, bioengineering. Ethical issues in power, work, identity, our relation to nature.

WRIT 3381W - Writing and Modern Cultural Movements (AH, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course explores how written texts help to shape modern art and cultural movements. Writ 3381 first develops an understanding of the manifesto form by reading primary examples written by artists from such movements as Cubism and Expressionism. Students study the complex written and visual strategies of those texts and how they contributed to social and political change in the modern world. Out of those attempts to change culture, students will be challenged to consider how particular writing strategies developed in the U.S. aimed at bringing about change in 1960s culture in areas such as the women's movement, the move toward racial equality, and the environmental movement. Toward the end of the course, the writings of current movements are taken up as building on and departing from past writing and rhetorical strategies. Students both read about and practice writing strategies studied in the course.

WRIT 3577W - Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet (TS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course examines the rich and complex ways people are seeking to inform and persuade others via the internet. Western rhetorical theories have adapted to address spoken, written, visual, and digital communication. The internet incorporates aspects of all of these modes of communication, but it also requires us to revisit how we have understood them. Students in Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet will reinforce their understandings of rhetorical theories and the internet as a technology. The class will also ask students to read current scholarly work about the internet, and develop the critical tools needed to complement, extend, or challenge that work.

WRIT 4431W - Science, Technology, and the Law (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

In this course students explore the effects of scientific and technological development on the law?and the effects of the law on scientific and technological development. In particular, students will read and discuss government regulation, constitutional guidelines and rights, and federal and state court precedents regarding privacy, intellectual property (patients and copyright), and health law. Specific topics include the following: Search warrants and Four Amendment rights, electronic surveillance law, national security and foreign intelligence, copyright and fair use, citizens? access to creative works, informed consent, medical expert testimony in the courtroom, and the right to medical treatment. Students will have the opportunity to express their opinions and display their analytical skills in three take-home essay exams. Students from all majors are welcome, including those students interested in law school.

WRIT 4664W - Science, Medical, and Health Writing (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 4664W/ Writ 5664
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course explores the theories and practices of rhetoric and writing in science, medicine, and health (SMH). Students learn about genres of SMH communication including regulatory documents from the FDA, podcasts created by scientists for the public, patient blogs, and published research articles. The course also engages topics including accessibility, writing in regulated environments, writing for complex audiences, and engaging biomedical and scientific research in writing. Students are challenged to consider how language, science, biomedicine, and health intersect and how different stakeholders such as patients, healthcare providers, scientists, government officials, and insurance companies engage in SMH communication.

WRIT 4995 - Technical Writing and Communication Capstone

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 4995/Writ 4995H/Writ 4999
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Capstone project addressing topic in writing studies related to WRIT course. Must be done in conjunction with concurrent 3xxx or 4xxx level course in Writing Studies that student is taking. Instructor permission required for registration.

AECM 3051 - Building Construction/Woodworking Technology

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Instructional/lab exercises in light frame building construction. Foundations, concrete/masonry, framing, plumbing, electrical, insulating, roofing. Safe work procedures in a wood shop through small wood project construction will be utilized. Emphasizes safety and use of modern tools and materials.

ARCH 3611 - Design in the Digital Age

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Arch 3611/Arch 5611
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to design, design process. Developing/understanding ways of seeing, thinking, and acting as a designer. Changes in design being wrought by digital technology. Team design project.

COMM 3201 - Introduction to Electronic Media Production

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students work as a team to plan, script, and shoot video productions in a hands-on multi-camera television studio. By creating their own productions and reviewing the productions of others, students learn how media aesthetics shape the presentation of themes and messages.

COMM 3204 - Advanced Electronic Media Production

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Video as communicative medium integrating visual/aural aesthetics. Creation of broadcast-quality production integrating message creation, audience analysis, argument development, and visual/audio scripting. Utilization of media aesthetics to develop/shape production content. prereq: 3201 or instr consent

COMM 3211 - Introduction to Media Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Historical development and current issues in electronic media technologies and programming. Effects of governmental, industrial, and public organizations on message content. Problem areas of electronic media.

COMM 4291 - New Telecommunication Media

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Development and current status of new telecommunication media such as cable TV, satellites, DBS, MDS, and video disk/cassettes. Technology, historical development, regulation, and programming of these media and their influence on individuals, organizations, and society. prereq: 3211 or instr consent

CSCI 1103 - Introduction to Computer Programming in Java

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Fundamental programming concepts/software development using Java language. Problem solving skills. Algorithm development techniques. Use of abstractions/modularity. Data structures/abstract data types. Substantial programming projects. Weekly lab.

CSCI 1113 - Introduction to C/C++ Programming for Scientists and Engineers

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Programming for scientists/engineers. C/C++ programming constructs, object-oriented programming, software development, fundamental numerical techniques. Exercises/examples from various scientific fields. The online modality for CSci 1113 will only be offered during the summer session. prereq: Math 1271 or Math 1371 or Math 1571H or instr consent.

CSCI 2011 - Discrete Structures of Computer Science

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSci 2011/CSci 2011H
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Foundations of discrete mathematics. Sets, sequences, functions, big-O, propositional/predicate logic, proof methods, counting methods, recursion/recurrences, relations, trees/graph fundamentals. prereq: MATH 1271 or MATH 1371 or instr consent

CSCI 3921W - Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of computers on society. Computer science perspective of ethical, legal, social, philosophical, political, and economic aspects of computing. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

DES 1101W - Introduction to Design Thinking (AH, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Des 1101W/Des 1101V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theories/processes that underpin design thinking. Interactions between humans and their natural, social, and designed environments where purposeful design helps determine quality of interaction. Design professions.

DES 2101 - Design and Visual Presentation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course introduces students to three of the main design software applications in the industry: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign through a practical, hands-on approach, focusing on teaching students to develop designs using the applications and prepare files for production.

DES 3311 - Travels in Typography

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Des 3311/DesI 3010
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Using collection in James Ford Bell Library, students study rare book/map collections and undertake hands-on exercises on history of type, including developments in typesetting, calligraphy, and letterpress printing.

GDES 1315 - Foundations: The Graphic Studio

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Graphic design process of problem-solving. Visual communication of ideas and information. Use of design software to compose with words, images, and forms. prereq: Graphic design premajor design minor or instr consent

GDES 4131W - History of Graphic Design (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Historical analysis of visual communication. Technological, cultural, and aesthetic influences. How historical events are communicated/perceived through graphic presentation/imagery.

GEOG 3561 - Principles of Geographic Information Science

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3561/ Geog 5561
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to study of geographic information systems (GIS) for geography and non-geography students. Topics include GIS application domains, data models and sources, analysis methods and output techniques. Lectures, readings and hands-on experience with GIS software. prereq: Jr or sr

HSCI 3331 - Technology and American Culture (HIS, TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 3331/5331
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

American culture(s) and technology, pre-Columbian times to present. Artisanal, biological, chemical, communications, energy, environment, electronic, industrial, military, space and transportation technologies explained in terms of economic, social, political and scientific causes/effects.

HSCI 3401 - Ethics in Science and Technology (HIS, CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 3401/5401
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

In addition to examining the idea of ethics itself, this course will examine the ethical questions embodied in specific historical events, technological systems, and scientific enterprises. Commonly, technology is assumed to be the best engineered solution for a particular goal and (good) science is supposed to be objective; however, this is never truly the case, values and moral choices underlie all of our systems for understanding and interacting with the world around us. These values and choices are almost always contentious. Through a series of historical case studies we will grapple with the big issues of right and wrong and the role of morality in a technological world. Our goal will be to learn to question and think critically about the things we create, the tools we use, and the ideology and practice of science.

HSCI 3714 - Stone Tools to Steam Engines: Technology and History to 1750 (HIS, TS)

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 1714/HSci 3714
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Technology is an enormous force in our society, and has become so important that in many ways it seems to have a life of its own. This course uses historical case studies to demonstrate that technology is not autonomous, but a human activity, and that people and societies made choices about the technologies they developed and used. It asks how technological differences between nations influenced their different courses of development, and why some societies seemed to advance while others did not. We ask how technological choices can bring about consequences greater than people expected, and how we might use this knowledge in making our own technological choices. In particular, we explore the historical background, development, and character of the most widespread technological systems the world has known, from prehistoric stone tool societies, through Egypt and the pyramids, ancient Greece and Rome, the explosion of Islam, and the dynamic and often violent technologies of medieval Europe.

HSCI 3715 - History of Modern Technology: Waterwheels to the Web (HIS, TS)

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 1715/3715
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course explores the many technological systems that have come to span our globe, alongside the widespread persistence of traditional technologies. We start with the earliest glimmerings of modernity and industrialization, and move on in time to the building of global technological networks. How have people changed their worlds through technologies like steam engines and electronics? Is it a paradox that many traditional agricultural and household technologies have persisted? How have technologies of war remade the global landscape? We ask how business and government have affected technological entrepreneurs, from railroads to technologies of global finance. We end by considering the tension between technologies that threaten our global environment and technologies that offer us hopes of a new world.

HSCI 4321 - History of Computing (TS, HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSci 4921/HSci 4321
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

Developments in the last 150 years; evolution of hardware and software; growth of computer and semiconductor industries and their relation to other business areas; changing relationships resulting from new data-gathering and analysis techniques; automation; social and ethical issues.

HUMF 5001 - Foundations of Human Factors/Ergonomics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HumF/Kin 5001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Variability in human performance influenced by interaction with designs of machines/tools, computers/software, complex technological systems, jobs/working conditions, organizations, sociotechnical institutions. Conceptual, empirical, practical aspects of human factors/ergonomics. prereq: Grad HumF major or minor or instr consent

JOUR 3006 - Visual Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

From Instagram to YouTube to memes-we live in a visual culture. How can we interpret this flood of images? Learn how to analyze advertisements, photographs, television, and social media from multiple perspectives. Historical, cultural, and ethical approaches unearth the changing role of visual media in society. You'll actively interpret current images to learn how to effectively communicate with visuals.

JOUR 3614 - History of Media Communication (HIS, TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Glos 3605/Hist 3705/Jour 3614
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In the history of humankind, there have been five major changes in how we communicate and we're in the middle of the latest revolution. This class helps you make sense of these uncharted waters by exploring how humanity adopted, and adapted to, past disruptions. From the alphabet to the internet and social media, learn how technological innovations in the media have changed not only how people share information and values but also what people have communicated throughout history. We will learn about these five phases in mediated communication over 5,000 years, and how they relate to major changes in politics, society and culture. And then we'll use history's lessons to peek into the future: When presidents tweet and everyone's foodie photos are on Instagram, how does the world communicate?

JOUR 4272 - Digital Advertising: Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course introduces you to the fascinating and ever-changing world of digital advertising and marketing. Learn its history and evolution, current trends, future possibilities, and legal/ethical issues. We'll study the innovative research and theories explaining the practice and effects of various forms, including social media, search marketing, gaming, native, viral, online video advertising, online behavioral advertising, and mobile. Through a combination of lectures, in-class discussions, and guest presentations by industry professionals, you'll learn the basic theories for developing effective and socially-responsible digital advertising campaigns in the increasingly diverse and global media environment.

JOUR 3751 - Digital Media and Culture (AH, TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

How have digital media innovations like social media, mobile phones, artificial intelligence, drones and games shaped and been shaped by a culture and society globally? Learn to critically examine the function of digital media in your life. Take away a socio-historical understanding of digital media innovation, and the social, political, and economical impact of new media in creativity, industry, and culture from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Topics range from the concept of branding in an online context, to the varied uses of digital media in the context of journalism, social mobilization, law and privacy, business, globalization, content creation, and beyond. You will read, discuss, and debate cutting edge material from documentaries, podcasts, popular press, and academic literature. This course balances local contexts with global perspectives, and provides details into the practicalities of working and living in a new media environment.

KIN 3505 - Intro to Human-Centered Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Kin 3505/Kin 5505
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Application of design to meet human needs. Design of fabricated products, tools/machines, software/hardware interfaces, art/culture, living environments, and complex sociotechnical systems.

ANAT 3001 - Human Anatomy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anat 3001/Anat 3611/Anat 3601
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Anatomical relationships. Function based upon form. Clinical applications. Gross (macroscopic) anatomy, histology (microscopic anatomy). Neuroanatomy (nervous system), embryology (developmental anatomy). prereq: [BIOL 1002W or BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2002 or equiv], at least soph

BIOC 2011 - Biochemistry for the Agricultural and Health Sciences

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Survey of organic chemistry and biochemistry outlining structure and metabolism of biomolecules, metabolic regulation, principles of molecular biology. prereq: Chem 1015, Bio 1009

BIOC 3021 - Biochemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BioC 3021/BioC 3022/BioC 4331/
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Fundamentals of biochemistry. Structure/function of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates. Enzymes. Metabolism. DNA replication and repair, transcription, protein synthesis. Recommended prerequisites: Introductory biology (BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2003 or equivalent), organic chemistry (CHEM 2301 or CHEM 2081/2085 or equivalent). Note: CBS students should take BIOC 3022 not 3021.

BIOL 1001 - Introductory Biology: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives (BIOL)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Biol 1001/Biol 1001H/Biol 1003
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

A one-semester exploration of the genetic, evolutionary, and ecological processes that govern biological diversity from populations to ecosystems. We explore how these processes influence human evolution, health, population growth, and conservation. We also consider how the scientific method informs our understanding of biological processes. Lab. This course is oriented towards non-majors and does not fulfill prerequisites for allied health grad programs.

BIOL 1009 - General Biology (BIOL)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Biol 1009/Biol 1009H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

A comprehensive introduction to biology - includes molecular structure of living things, cell processes, energy utilization, genetic information and inheritance, mechanisms of evolution, biological diversity, and ecology. Includes lab. This comprehensive course serves as a prerequisite and requirement in many majors.

BIOL 1101 - Genetics and Society (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles of heredity and their social and cultural implications. prereq: Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: BIOL 3020, Biol 4003, GCD 3022. No CBS Major Juniors or Seniors.

PMB 2022 - General Botany

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to the biology of plants, algae, and fungi. Structure, growth, development, reproduction, diversity, and aspects of their ecology. Includes laboratory that focuses on structures in photosynthetic organisms and fungi as well as an introduction to physiology. prereq: One semester of college biology

EEB 3811W - Animal Behavior in the Field (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EEB 3411/3811W EEB 3412W/5412
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

In this course we will learn general principles governing the evolution of animal behavior. Being conducted at a field station, the approach is hands-on experiential learning through the application of the scientific method to the study of animal behavior. Thus, we will learn animal behavior by becoming animal behaviorists. Animal behaviorists communicate to one another through written reports in peer-reviewed literature and through oral talks at meetings. We will do both of these. All of these experiences culminate in the design, execution and presentation (written and oral) of an independent research project. Therefore, it is appropriate that this course is designated as writing-intensive. Writing comprises 90 points out of the course total of 140 points, representing 64% of the course grade. This is course meets two days per week from 8AM to 12N and from 1PM to 5PM over a 5-week period in May/June at the Itasca Biological Station and Labs. prereq: Undergrad biology course Credit granted for only one of the following: EEB 3411, EEB 3412W, EEB 3811W, EEB 5412

BIOL 4003 - Genetics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Biol 4003/GCD 3022
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Genetic information, its transmission from parents to offspring, its expression in cells/organisms, and its course in populations. prereq: Biol 2003/2003H or BioC 3021 or BioC 4331 or grad

BIOL 4004 - Cell Biology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Biol 4004/GCD 3033/4005W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Processes fundamental to cells. Emphasizes eukaryotic cells. Assembly/function of membranes/organelles. Cell division, cell form/movement, intercellular communication, transport, secretion pathways. Cancer cells, differentiated cells. prereq: Completion of Biol 4003 is preferred, Biol2003/2003H or Biol4003 or grad

CHEM 3101 - Introductory Analytical Chemistry Lecture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Primarily for chemistry majors. Methods/concepts of measurement by chemical/instrumental analysis, including titrimetry, quantitative spectrophotometric analysis, chromatographic separations, equilibrium/rate methods. prereq: 1062/1066 or equiv

CHEM 3111 - Introductory Analytical Chemistry Lab

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Lab for 3101. High precision methods, acidimetry and complexometry, single and multicomponent analysis by spectrophotometry, analysis of mixtures by ion exchange and gas chromatography, enzymatic and rate methods. prereq: 3101 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 3101

CHEM 2301 - Organic Chemistry I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 2301/Chem 2331H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Organic compounds, constitutions, configurations, conformations, reactions. Molecular structure. Chemical reactivity/properties. Spectroscopic characterization of organic molecules. prereq: C- or better in 1062/1066 or 1072H/1076H

CHEM 2302 - Organic Chemistry II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 2302/Chem 2332HChem 2304
Prerequisites:	Grade of at least C- in 2301
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Reactions, synthesis, and spectroscopic characterization of organic compounds, organic polymers, and biologically important classes of organic compounds such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids. prereq: Grade of at least C- in 2301

CHEM 2311 - Organic Lab

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 2311/Chem 2312H/2312
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Laboratory techniques in synthesis, purification and characterization of organic compounds with an emphasis on green chemistry methodologies. prereq: Grade of at least C- in [2302] or [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 2302

CHEM 4001 - Chemistry of Biomass and Biomass Conversion to Fuels and Products (ENV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BBE 4001/BBE 5001/Chem 4001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Chemistry of biomass and its sustainable utilization for biofuels and bioproducts, including bio-based materials. Chemicals/energy and their environmental implications within the context of chemical principles and associated reactions underlying the structure, properties, processing, and performance of plant materials. prereq: Chem 2301 or Chem 1082 or instructor consent

MICB 3301 - Biology of Microorganisms

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Biol 2032/MicB 3301/VBS 2032
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathogenesis, immunology, ecology of microbes. Molecular structure in relation to bacterial function/disease. Includes lab. prereq: [Biol 1961 and Biol 2003] or Biol 1009 or instructor permission

PHAR 1002 - Medical Terminology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phar 1002/Phar 5201
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Interested in learning the difference between an antigen and an antibiotic? During this course, you will not only increase your medical vocabulary by more than 2500 words at your own pace, you will also learn to identify and articulately describe a wide variety of medical conditions and processes. Communication related to disease states, procedures, and diagnostics in health care can sometimes seem like another language. This course will help you recognize medical abbreviations, relate terms to procedures and diagnostics, and comprehend the meaning of medical terminology by using word elements. If you are interested in the health care field or would like to understand more about your own medical care, this course is a great place to start.

PHAR 5201 - Applied Medical Terminology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phar 1002/Phar 5201
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Interested in learning the difference between an antigen and an antibiotic? During this course, you will not only increase your medical vocabulary by more than 2500 words at your own pace, you will also learn to identify and articulately describe a wide variety of medical conditions and processes. Communication related to disease states, procedures, and diagnostics in health care can sometimes seem like another language. This course will help you recognize medical abbreviations, relate terms to procedures and diagnostics, and comprehend the meaning of medical terminology by using word elements. If you are interested in the health care field or would like to understand more about your own medical care, this course is a great place to start. Prereq: Basic knowledge of human anatomy/physiology

PHCL 3100 - Pharmacology for Pre-Med and Life Science Students

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/mechanisms of drug action. Major drug categories for different organ systems. prereq: College-level biology, biochemistry or physiology recommended

PHIL 1005 - Scientific Reasoning

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 1005/Phil 1005H
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How does science work? What is scientific method? How to evaluate scientific information in popular media or specialized publications, especially when it relates to technology used in everyday life? General reasoning skills. prereq: [1st or 2nd] yr student or instr consent

PHIL 3601W - Scientific Thought (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Science influences us daily, shaping how we understand ourselves and interpret nature. This course is an introduction to how scientists reason about the world, what that means for our lives, and the status of science as a human activity. What is science and what?s so great about it? Is science the ultimate authority on the world and our place in it? This course examines the authority of science, how scientists reason, and science?s status as a human activity. prereq: One course in philosophy or natural science

PHIL 4607 - Philosophy of the Biological Sciences

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 4607/Phil 5607
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Biology dominates the landscape of contemporary scientific research, and yet "biology" consists of a variety of different disciplinary approaches: from protein biochemistry to field ecology, from developmental biology to evolutionary genetics. Many philosophical issues can be found in the concepts and practices of life science researchers from these different disciplines. What is the structure of evolutionary theory? What is a gene? What are the units of selection? What is an individual? What counts as a "cause"? What is the relationship between evolution and development? Are all biological phenomena reducible to genes or molecules? What are adaptations, and how do we identify them? What is an ecological niche? Is there a progressive trend in the history of life? Is there such a thing as 'human nature'? This course is an introduction to these and other related issues in the biological sciences with an emphasis on their diversity and heterogeneity. It is designed for advanced undergraduates with an interest in conceptual questions and debates in biology that are manifested across a variety of majors (e.g., animal science; anthropology; biochemistry; biology, society and environment; biosystems and agricultural engineering; chemistry; ecology, evolution and behavior; genetics, cell biology and development; microbiology; neuroscience; physiology; plant biology; psychology). Some of these issues will appear familiar from previous coursework or opportunities, whereas new issues will be intriguing because of their similarities and differences with those that have been encountered in other contexts.

PHSL 3051 - Human Physiology

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phsl 3050/Phsl 3051
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How major organ systems function (nerve, muscle, circulation, respiration, endocrine, renal, gastrointestinal, temperature regulation and energy metabolism). Three one-hour lectures, two-hour lab. prereq: [BIOL 1009 or 1 yr college biol], 1 yr college chem

PUBH 3001 - Personal and Community Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3001/PubH 3004/PubH 3005
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamental principles of health conservation and disease prevention.

STAT 1001 - Introduction to the Ideas of Statistics (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Graphical/numerical presentations of data. Judging the usefulness/reliability of results/inferences from surveys and other studies to interesting populations. Coping with randomness/variation in an uncertain world. prereq: Mathematics requirement for admission to University

STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AnSc 3011/ESPM 3012/Stat 3011/
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Standard statistical reasoning. Simple statistical methods. Social/physical sciences. Mathematical reasoning behind facts in daily news. Basic computing environment.

CHEM 1015 - Introductory Chemistry: Lecture (PHYS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 1011/Chem 1015
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Matter/energy, atoms, compounds, solutions, chemical reactions, mole/chemical calculations, gases, liquids, solids, chemical bonding, atomic/molecular structure, acids, bases, equilibria. Physical/chemical properties of hydrocarbons and organic compounds. Problem solving. prereq: [High school chemistry or equiv], two yrs high school math, not passed chem placement exam, high school physics recommended; Students who will go on to take CHEM 1061/1065 should take CHEM 1015 only. Students who will NOT be continuing on to CHEM 1061/1065 and need to fulfill the Physical Science/Lab core requirement need take the 1-credit lab course CHEM 1017 either concurrently or consecutively. This course will NOT fulfill the Physical Science/Lab core requirement unless the CHEM 1017 lab course is completed either concurrently or consecutively.

CHEM 1017 - Introductory Chemistry: Laboratory (PHYS)

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites:	[1015 or &1015], %; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 1011; CHEM 1017 is a 1-credit lab-only course. This course is not intended for students who are planning to take CHEM 1061/1065. Intended only for students who need the course to fulfill the Physical Science/Lab requirement, and are taking CHEM 1015 either concurrently or consecutively. This course will NOT fulfill the Physical Science/Lab core requirement, unless CHEM 1015 is completed either concurrently or consecutively.; meets Lib Ed req of Physical Sciences)
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Organic chemistry. Matter/energy, atoms, compounds, solutions, chemical reactions, mole/chemical calculations, gases, liquids, solids, chemical bonding, atomic/molecular structure, acids, bases, equilibria. Physical/chemical properties of hydrocarbons and organic compounds containing halogens, nitrogen, or oxygen. Problem solving. prereq: [1015 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 1015], dept consent; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 1011; CHEM 1017 is a 1-credit lab-only course. This course is not intended for students who are planning to take CHEM 1061/1065. Intended only for students who need the course to fulfill the Physical Science/Lab requirement, and are taking CHEM 1015 either concurrently or consecutively. This course will NOT fulfill the Physical Science/Lab core requirement, unless CHEM 1015 is completed either concurrently or consecutively.; meets Lib Ed req of Physical Sciences)

CHEM 1061 - Chemical Principles I (PHYS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 1061/ 1071/H/ 1081
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Atomic theory, periodic properties of elements. Thermochemistry, reaction stoichiometry. Behavior of gases, liquids, and solids. Molecular/ionic structure/bonding. Organic chemistry and polymers. energy sources, environmental issues related to energy use. Prereq-Grade of at least C- in [1011 or 1015] or [passing placement exam, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 1065]; intended for science or engineering majors; concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 1065; registration for 1065 must precede registration for 1061

CHEM 1065 - Chemical Principles I Laboratory (PHYS)

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 1065/Chem 1075H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Basic laboratory skills while investigating physical and chemical phenomena closely linked to lecture material. Experimental design, data collection and treatment, discussion of errors, and proper treatment of hazardous wastes. prereq: concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 1061

CHEM 1062 - Chemical Principles II (PHYS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 1062/1072/1072H/1082/
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Chemical kinetics. Radioactive decay. Chemical equilibrium. Solutions. Acids/bases. Solubility. Second law of thermodynamics. Electrochemistry/corrosion. Descriptive chemistry of elements. Coordination chemistry. Biochemistry. prereq: Grade of at least C- in 1061 or equiv, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 1066; registration for 1066 must precede registration for 1062

CHEM 1066 - Chemical Principles II Laboratory (PHYS)

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chem 1066/Chem 1076H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Basic laboratory skills while investigating physical and chemical phenomena closely linked to lecture material. Experimental design, data collection and treatment, discussion of errors, and proper treatment of hazardous wastes. prereq: concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 1062

AMIN 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

COMM 3631 - Freedom of Speech (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Communication theories and principles that underlie the concept of freedom of speech in the United States. A variety of contexts and practices are examined in order to understand how communicative interaction should be described and, when necessary, appropriately regulated.

CSCI 3921W - Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of computers on society. Computer science perspective of ethical, legal, social, philosophical, political, and economic aspects of computing. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

JOUR 3007 - The Media in American History and Law: Case Studies (HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

In this class, you'll study news media and their social, cultural, and political impact during a specific historical time period, based on the instructor's expertise and area of research. Examples include: Journalism during the Civil War; Mass media and the African American struggle for civil rights; the Sixties and rise of the New Journalism. Instructors of the course may vary from term to term and students may wish to contact the instructor for information on the specific focus of his or her section.

JOUR 3776 - Media Law

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 3776/Jour 3776H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, and of the press. Does that mean that journalists can write anything they want, broadcast any video images they choose, or go wherever they like in order to gather news? In this course, we will examine significant court decisions that have defined the legal rights and privileges of journalists. We will look at statutes like the Freedom of Information Act and journalist 'shield laws.' We will consider how new technology raises questions, and challenges, about how to balance First Amendment freedoms with other interests, like privacy and national security. Learn legal rules and principles, and apply them in classroom debate and discussion and in written exercises and examinations. The goal is to understand how the First Amendment and other laws protect the rights of freedom of expression, not just for journalists, but for all of us.

JOUR 5552 - Law of Internet Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Digital communication technologies continue to raise a variety of legal issues, including whether and how (and which) traditional media and regulatory laws will apply, and how policy should be applied through regulatory law to enhance and regulate that communication. This course is conducted as a seminar, with an open discussion of legal precedent and the influence of policy on internet and digital communications. This course covers the First Amendment as it applies in a digital era as well as regulatory topics like net neutrality, broadband access, privacy, and copyright.

PHIL 1001 - Introduction to Logic (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 1001/1001H/1021
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Sharpen your reasoning skills through a close examination of arguments. Learn formal methods for representing and assessing arguments, including how to represent informal arguments in formal languages, and how to evaluate whether the premises of an argument entail its conclusion.

PHIL 1004W - Introduction to Political Philosophy (AH, CIV, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 1004W/V
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Government -- what are its purpose; the limits on its authority; its responsibilities to citizens (and vice versa)? What roles do freedom, equality, rights, property, punishment and justice play here? Join in as we discuss and debate competing views.

PHIL 4321W - Theories of Justice (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 4321W/Phil 5321
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

What is justice, understood as a central virtue of our social (e.g., political and legal) institutions? What does justice require in the political realm and what kind of state is best suited to achieve it? Ideally, what image of the just state should regulate our behavior? How do the requirements of justice change, if they do, in non-ideal circumstances, such as in cases of noncompliance with the law or in the context of violent conflict (e.g., in war)? This course is intended to provide upper-level undergraduates and philosophy graduate students with a selective survey of important work in contemporary theory of justice that addresses such questions. prereq: 1003 or 1004 or instr consent

POL 1001 - American Democracy in a Changing World (SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Pol 1001/Pol 1001H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is intended to introduce students to the expressed hopes of the American people for their government and to the institutions and processes that have been created and recreated to achieve these hopes. The course is designed to help students understand what liberal education is by engaging in the study of American politics as a fundamentally critical and creative enterprise, and by grappling with the most complex and challenging problems of political life, such as the sources of political equality and inequality, and the tension between individual aspirations and political control. Questions of power and choice, opportunity and discrimination, freedom and restrictions on freedom are fundamental to the historical development of and current controversies within the American political system, and we will attend to all of these. We will explore topics including the ideas underlying the nation?s founding and its constitutional foundations; civil rights and civil liberties; the role of the United States in an increasingly globalized world; the structure and function of American political institutions; and the behavior of American citizens in the political process. In addition, we will learn to think and communicate like political scientists. We will read primary documents, such as the Federalist papers, engage with scholarly arguments about the way the American political system works, and critically evaluate critiques of the American political system that have been offered from a variety of perspectives. By the end of the semester students should have a basic understanding of the structure and function of American government as well as an increased ability to critically reflect on the degree to which our institutions, processes, and citizens live up to the expectations placed on them. Students will be able to identify, define, and solve problems and to locate and critically evaluate information. Students will have mastered a body of knowledge and a mode of inquiry. This course fulfills the liberal education requirements for the Social Sciences Core.

POL 1201 - Political Ideas (HIS, CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course serves as an introduction to the study of political theory. Political theory analyzes the meaning and significance of fundamental concepts in politics. Starting from such basic concerns as the nature of politics, humans, power and justice, political theorists explore how these basic starting assumptions organize the norms, practices, and institutions of political and social order. To explore these topics, the field turns to key texts, as well as to political and social events and other media (film, historical documents, etc.). In this introductory course, students will investigate some of the basic texts in political theory, with the goal of learning how to read texts more analytically and to address fundamental questions in political theory. Among the topics that might be the nature of justice and injustice, political obligation and civil disobedience, democracy and other forms of governance. Students who complete this course will understand the deep issues about the nature of politics, will have learned to read and to analyze complex texts. They will also have had the opportunity to reflect upon their own ethical engagement in political life and upon the ways in which historically, political ideas change.

POL 3225 - American Political Thought (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides an introduction to several key periods and some of the leading concepts and debates in American political thought. It might also focus on a broader theme such as: conceptions of destiny, mission, and exceptionalism; arguments over economic development and inequality; or debates over government and corporate power. The course will begin with Puritan religious and political thought, tracing its secularization over time. Considerable attention will be paid to the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, such as the social contract and the right of resistance to civil authority, civic republicanism, and the founders? new science of politics and government. The course will consider some if not all of the following: debates over slavery and emancipation, women?s rights, the rise of imperialism and nationalism, race and racism, and the rise of rule by public and private bureaucratic organizations, and the consequences of these developments for the possibility of continued individual liberty, equality, and justice. This course requires considerable reading of difficult texts. The ultimate goal of this course is for students to gain a deeper understanding of American political thought as a product of the country?s ever-evolving political discourse. prereq: Suggested prerequisite POL 1201

POL 3308 - Congressional Politics and Institutions (SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Pol 4308/Pol 5308
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is an introduction to the politics of the U.S. Congress and the federal legislative process. Throughout the semester, we will focus on the behavior of individual legislators and the role that they play in crafting federal legislation in policy areas such as healthcare, civil rights and the environment. We will devote special attention to changes in Congress, as well as current political and scholarly controversies such as congressional confirmation process of Supreme Court justices, congressional war powers, the influence of parties, and campaign finance. The theme of the course is why do legislators behave as they do and who interests do they represent.

POL 3309 - U.S. Supreme Court Decision-Making, Process, and Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Pol 3309/Pol 4309/Pol 5309
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The principal purpose of this course is to introduce you to judicial politics and decision-making of the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically, we will examine theoretical issues regarding judicial process and politics. Unlike constitutional law and civil liberties classes, this course does not study legal doctrine. Rather, it examines political aspects of the legal system with an emphasis on the social scientific literature about how the U.S. Supreme Court functions. Thus, we will cover nominations of justices, decision making models, and how justices interact with one another and the political world beyond the ivory tower. Recommended prerequisite: POL 1001

POL 4403W - Constitutions, Democracy, and Rights: Comparative Perspectives (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	POL 4403W / POL 5403
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

Around the world, fundamental political questions are often debated and decided in constitutional terms, and in the United States, the constitution is invoked at almost every turn to endorse or condemn different policies. Is adhering to constitutional terms the best way to safeguard rights and to achieve a successful democracy? When and how do constitutions matter to political outcomes? This course centers on these questions as it moves from debates over how constitutional drafting processes should be structured and how detailed constitutions should be, to the risks and benefits of different institutional structures (federal v. unitary, and the distribution of powers between the executive, legislature, and judiciary), to which rights (if any) should be constitutionalized and when and why different rights are protected, closing with a discussion of what rules should guide constitutional amendment and rewrite. For each topic, we compare how these issues have been resolved in the U.S. with alternative approaches in a wide variety of other countries around the globe. The goal is not only to expose students to the variety of ways, successful or unsuccessful, that other political communities have addressed these issues, but also to gain a more contextualized and clearer understanding of the pros and cons of the U.S. model, its relevance for other democratic or democratizing countries, whether and how it might be reformed, and, generally speaking, when/how constitutions matter for democratic quality and stability.

POL 4501W - The Supreme Court and Constitutional Interpretation (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This Course is designed to introduce students to constitutional law, with an emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court?s interpretation of Articles I, II, and III. This means that we will discuss how the nation?s Court of last resort has helped shape the powers of and constraints on the three branches of our federal government. We will also discuss and analyze the development of law surrounding the separation of powers, the structure of federalism, congressional power over the commerce clause, and the creation and demise of the concept of substantive due process. Successful completion of this course will satisfy the liberal education requirement of Civic Life and Ethics. Effective citizenship in the 21st century requires an understanding of our how government was created, is structured, and has been interpreted by the Supreme Court over the past two centuries. This course is premised on the notion that such an understanding is best achieved by reading the primary sources that led to these goals ? the opinions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

POL 4502W - The Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Today, more than anytime since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, individual liberties are at the heart of controversial debate in the U.S. Groups, from the far left and far right of the political spectrum have pushed free speech towards the boundaries set by the Supreme Court. At the same time, the religion clauses have become as controversial as ever, with corporations and local governments using them in ways they have not been used before. Finally, the right to privacy is at a crossroads as the U.S. Supreme Court considers cases about reproductive rights and personal privacy. Given these issues, this course allows students to read all the major cases where the U.S. Supreme Court interprets the balance of protecting civil liberties versus allowing government to limit or suppress such liberties. Specifically, the course covers the 14th Amendment, freedom of speech, press, religion, and the limits of the free speech clause of the 1st Amendment. It also covers the 2nd Amendment and the right to privacy found in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th Amendments.

SOC 3101 - Sociological Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 3101/Soc 3101H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course introduces students to a sociological account of the U.S. criminal justice system. We will critically examine the components, dynamics, and effects of policing, criminal courts, community supervision, jails, and prisons. Throughout the course, we focus on sociological understandings of these processes, with particular attention to ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities as well as long-term problems associated with the high rate of criminal justice supervision in the U.S. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4101W - Sociology of Law (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 4101V/Soc 4101W/Soc 5101
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will consider the relationship between law and society, analyzing law as an expression of cultural values, a reflection of social and political structure, and an instrument of social control and social change. Emphasizing a comparative perspective, we begin by discussing theories about law and legal institutions. We then turn our attention to the legal process and legal actors, focusing on the impact of law, courts, and lawyers on the rights of individuals. Although this course focuses on the US legal system, we will explore issues of the relationship between US law and global law and concepts of justice. prereq: [[SOC 1001] and [SOC 1101 or 3101 or 3102]] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4161 - Criminal Law in American Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Purposes of criminal law and of principles of criminal liability, justification, and excuse. Applications to law of criminal homicide, sexual assault, drugs, and crimes against property, public order, and morals. prereq: Soc 3101 or 3102 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4162 - Criminal Procedure in American Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How constitutional democracy balances need to enforce criminal law and rights of individuals to be free of unnecessary government intrusion. prereq: Soc 3101 or 3102 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4171 - Sociology of International Law: Human Rights & Trafficking (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 4406/GloS 5171/Soc 4171/S
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course takes a sociological approach to international law, considering how history, institutions, power, and interests shape the phenomenon. What is international law, where does it come from, and how does it work? What does international law tell us about globalization and nation-states? Does it make a difference in the world? Does it have a real impact on the day-to-day lives of individuals? When is it followed; when is it ignored? This course takes a broad sociological view of international law. We analyze the actors and processes that constitute international law and then focus on particular substantive areas, including human rights, economic development,environmental concerns, trafficking, and drug interdiction. prereqs: 1001 or 3101 or 3102 or instr consent; soc majors/minors must register A-F

APEC 3611W - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (ENV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts of resource use. Financial/economic feasibility. External effects, market failures. Resource use, environmental problems. Measuring impacts of resource development. Economics of alternative resource programs, environmental strategies. prereq: 1101 or ECON 1101 or 1101H or ECON 1101H

ARCH 4561 - Architecture and Ecology (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Arch 4501/Arch 4561/Arch 5501
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to theories/practices of ecological approaches to architectural design. Ecological context, implications/opportunities of architecture. Historical/theoretical framework for ecological design thinking. Issues studied at various scales: site/community, building, component.

BBE 4733 - Renewable Energy Technologies (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BBE 4733/CEGE 4513/ChEn 5551
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Energy security. Environmental, economic, societal impacts. Current/emerging technologies for production/use, characteristics of renewable energy, key methods for efficient production. Current/probable future. Impact on sustainable development. prereq: Junior or senior

CEGE 3501 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

A quantitative approach to environmental problems, including the development of mass and energy balances and the application of fundamental principles of environmental chemistry and microbiology. Meets the University of Minnesota's liberal education environment theme through the incorporation of environmental function, problems, and solutions throughout the course. prereq: Chem 1062, Phys 1302, Math 1372 or equivalent

EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Basic concepts in ecology. Organization, development, function of ecosystem. Population growth/regulation. Human effect on ecosystems. prereq: [Jr or sr] recommended; biological sciences students may not apply cr toward major

ESCI 1001 - Earth and Its Environments (PHYS, ENV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESci 1001/ESci 1101/ESci 1005/
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Physical processes that shape the Earth: volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics, glaciers, rivers. Current environmental issues/global change. Lecture/lab. Optional field experience.

ESCI 1012 - Natural Disasters (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Geological processes that give rise to natural hazards and the emerging technologies that allow societies to mitigate their effects.

ESCI 2202 - Earth History

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Big Bang cosmology, plate tectonics, evolution. Formation of Earth. Chemical evolution of Earth, atmosphere, and ocean. Origin/tectonic evolution of continents. Origin of life, its patterns/processes. Long-term interactions between geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. prereq: [2201, 2301] or instr consent

ESCI 3002 - Climate Change and Human History (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESci 3002/ESci 5102
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Causes of long-/short-term climate change. Frequency/magnitude of past climate changes; their geologic records. Relationship of past climate changes to development of agrarian societies and to shifts in power among kingdoms/city-states. Emphasizes last 10,000 years.

ESCI 3004 - Water and Society (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

For non-science majors. Study of (1) the role of humans as agents influencing the composition (quality) of water resources through domestic, agricultural, industrial, and other land-use practices; (2) the role of water in various ecosystem services which may be at odds with the anthropocentric view of water as a resource; (3) how population increase and climate change, coupled with human actions, is affecting the quality and quantity of available water, leading to lack of access to clean water and decent sanitation, and to severe water shortages (e.g., for irrigation) in some areas, especially in developing nations and politically unstable regions; and (4) how the availability of water shapes a society�s view of water as a resource and its view of the non-human demands for water (which is not uniform across the globe).

ESCI 3005 - Earth Resources

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Geologic aspects of energy/material resources. Resource size/life-times. Environmental consequences of resource use. Issues of international/public ethics associated with resource production, distribution, and use.

ESPM 1011 - Issues in the Environment (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introductory survey of environmental issues that explores the connections between environmental sciences, policy, and management. You will explore interrelationships between the environment and human society, as well as the underlying social, ethical, political and economic factors that affect those relationships. You will also examine the roles for science, technology, policy, and environmental justice in meeting environmental challenges. Asynchronous online lectures with weekly discussions in small groups.

ESPM 3607 - Natural Resources Consumption and Sustainability (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Current world trends for industrial raw materials; environmental/other tradeoffs related to options for satisfying demand/needs; global and systemic thinking; provides a framework for beginning a process of thinking critically about complex environmental problems/potential solutions in a diverse global economy.

ESPM 3011W - Ethics in Natural Resources (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Normative/professional ethics, and leadership considerations, applicable to managing natural resources and the environment. Readings, discussion.

ESPM 3241W - Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (SOCS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3241W/ESPM 5241
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Political processes in management of the environment. How disagreements are addressed by different stakeholders, private-sector interests, government agencies, institutions, communities, and nonprofit organizations.

ESPM 3251 - Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3251/ESPM 5251/LAS 3251
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

International perspectives on resource use and sustainable development. Integration of natural resource issues with social, economic, and policy considerations. Agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, non-timber forest products, water resources, certification, development issues. Global case studies. Impact of consumption in developed countries on sustainable development in lesser developed countries.

ESPM 3261 - Economics and Natural Resources Management (SOCS, ENV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3261/ESPM 5261
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Microeconomic principles and their application to natural resource management problems. Economic and policy tools to address market failures. Discussion of regulatory and market-based instruments. Discounting and compounding concepts. Methods for conducting financial and economic analyses of natural resource management projects. Decision criteria when conducting benefit/cost analysis of natural resource projects. Methods for valuing non-market natural resource goods and services. Economics of managing renewable natural resources such as forests and fisheries. Land economics. Payments for environmental services. Planning and management problems. Case studies. prereq: MATH 1031 or equivalent.

ESPM 3601 - Sustainable Housing--Community, Environment, and Technology (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3601/Hsg 3482
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How sustainable housing practices build community. How community growth has impacted the environment and how natural events impact our communities. Science and technology required to build high performance houses.

ESPM 3603 - Environmental Life Cycle Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3603/ESPM 5603
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Concepts/issues relating to inventory, subsequent analysis of production systems. Production system from holistic point of view, using term commonly used in industrial ecology: "metabolic system."

ESPM 3604 - Environmental Management Systems and Strategy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3604/ESPM 5604
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Environmental problems such as climate change, ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity.

FW 4102 - Principles of Conservation Biology (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	introductory biology course
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to themes/concepts of diverse, dynamic, and interdisciplinary field. Biological/social underpinnings of conservation problems/solutions. prereq: introductory biology course

GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change (ENV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3401W/5401W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Geographic patterns, dynamics, and interactions of atmospheric, hydrospheric, geomorphic, pedologic, and biologic systems as context for human population, development, and resource use patterns.

HSCI 3244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment (HIS, ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 3244/5244
Typically offered:	Every Fall

We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.

LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Dynamic relationships between environmentally designed places and biological/physical contexts. Integration of created place and biological/physical contexts. Case studies, student design.

PHIL 3301 - Environmental Ethics (ENV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Philosophical basis for membership in moral community. Theories applied to specific problems (e.g., vegetarianism, wilderness preservation). Students defend their own reasoned views about moral relations between humans, animals, and nature.

SOC 4305 - Environment & Society: An Enduring Conflict (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 4305/Soc 4305
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Examines the interaction between human society and the natural environment, focusing on the contemporary and global situation. Takes the perspective of environmental sociology concerning the short-range profit-driven and ideological causes of ecological destruction. Investigates how society is reacting to that increasing destruction prereq: 1001 recommended or a course on the environment, soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4311 - Power, Justice & the Environment (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 4311/Soc 4311
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course introduces students to the theoretical and historical foundations of environmental racism and environmental inequality more broadly. We will examine and interrogate both the social scientific evidence concerning these phenomena and the efforts by community residents, activists, workers, and governments to combat it. We will consider the social forces that create environmental inequalities so that we may understand their causes, consequences, and the possibilities for achieving environmental justice prereq: SOC 1001 recommended

URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Examine links between cities and the environment with emphasis on air, soil, water, pollution, parks and green space, undesirable land uses, environmental justice, and the basic question of how to sustain urban development in an increasingly fragile global surrounding.

AGRO 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.

ANSC 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Interactive learning using decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.

AGRO 5321 - Ecology of Agricultural Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Agro/Ent 5321
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ecological approach to problems in agricultural systems. Formal methodologies of systems inquiry are developed/applied. prereq: [3xxx or above] course in [Agro or AnSc or Ent or Hort or PlPa or Soil] or instr consent

SUST 3003 - Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3304/Sust 3003
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies minor. Scientific, cultural, ethical, and economic concepts that affect environmental sustainability and global economic justice. Key texts. Participatory classroom environment. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

GEOG 3379 - Environment and Development in the Third World (SOCS, ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3379/GloS 3303
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Inequality in the form of extreme wealth and poverty in our world are major causes of environmental degradation. In addition, development failure as well as certain forms of economic growth always led to environment disasters. This course examines how our world?s economic and political systems and the livelihoods they engender have produced catastrophic local and global environmental conditions. Beyond this, the course explores alternative approaches of achieving sustainable environment and equitable development. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

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