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Teaching Social Studies B.A.A.

Education
College of Education and Human Service Professions
  • Program Type: Baccalaureate
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2023
  • Required credits to graduate with this degree: 124 to 128
  • Required credits within the major: 111 to 113
  • Degree: Bachelor of Applied Arts
The Bachelors of Applied Arts (B.A.A.) in Teaching Social Studies prepares students to teach grades 5 through 12. The major aligns with the Minnesota Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) standards for Social Studies in grades 5 - 15 in Minnesota. Teaching Social Studies is an interdisciplinary major that requires lower division coursework in each of seven areas: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. Students then select one of eight discipline-based sub-plan specializations and complete upper division coursework in that discipline: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, or Women's Studies. Students complete professional preparation coursework in education. Students should utilize a What-if APAS as the official tool to see all requirements for degree completion. Due to the complexity of the admission to the blocks process, students are strongly encourage to meet with their assigned advisor on a regular basis to establish a plan for degree completion.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Admission Requirements
Freshman and transfer students are usually admitted to pre-major status before admission to this major.
A GPA above 2.0 is preferred for the following:
  • 2.50 already admitted to the degree-granting college
  • 2.50 transferring from another University of Minnesota college
  • 2.50 transferring from outside the University
Students entering the Secondary (5-12 & K-12) licensure programs are bound by the policies in effect at the time of application; admission is based on criteria established by the UMD Dept. of Educ., consistent with MN policies as established by the MN Professional Educator Licensing & Standards Board (PELSB). Students must complete the following to be eligible for admission to Block coursework; a minimum of a 2.5 major & cumulative GPA; lower and upper division, sub-plan and non-western history (except History subplan) coursework with a grade of a C- or better; liberal education requirements; advanced writing; all requirements outlined at https://z.umn.edu/stepapplication. Applications are due the 6th Friday of the semester prior to starting Block I and can be only completed spring semester for fall semester entry into Block I. See advisor if out of sequence. Additionally, refer to the major sub-plans; these courses are additional admission requirements to the degree program.
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the Office of Admissions website.
Required prerequisites
Learning in Community (1 cr)
The Learning in Community requirement will be waived for transfer students with at least 30 credits taken post high school and for UMD students who started in a UMD program where this was not required. First-year students who have completed 30 PSEO credits may request a waiver to the student’s primary college.
UST 1000 - Learning in Community (1.0-2.0 cr)
or EHS 1000 - Into the World [GLOBAL PER] (3.0 cr)
or ES 1000 - Global Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability [GLOBAL PER] (3.0 cr)
or LING 1000 - Language and Culture in the U.S. What does it Mean to Speak American [CDIVERSITY] (3.0 cr)
or PSY 1100 - Living Your Best Life: Applying Positive Psychology [CDIVERSITY] (3.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Advanced Writing (3 cr)
WRIT 3140 - Advanced Writing: Human Services (3.0 cr)
or WRIT 3160 - Advanced Writing: Social Sciences (3.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Education Core (3 cr)
EDUC 1101 - Education in Modern Society [LE CAT7, HUMANITIES] (3.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Lower Division (36 cr)
Anthropology
ANTH 1602 - Biological Anthropology and Archaeology [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (4.0 cr)
or ANTH 1604 - Cultural Anthropology [LE CAT6, LEIP CAT06, SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
Economics
ECON 1003 - Economics and Society [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (3.0 cr)
or ECON 1022 - Principles of Economics: Macro [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (3.0 cr)
or ECON 1023 - Principles of Economics: Micro [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (3.0 cr)
Geography
GEOG 1205 - Our Globalizing World [SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER] (3.0 cr)
GEOG 1414 - The Physical Geography [LE CAT, NAT SCI, SUSTAIN] (4.0 cr)
History
HIST 1207 - Dawn of Modern Europe [LE CAT7, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 1208 - Europe in the Modern Age [LE CAT7, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
HIST 1304 - US History Part I: 1607-1877 [LE CAT7, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 1305 - US History Part II: 1865-Present [LE CAT7, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
Political Science
POL 1011 - American Government and Politics [LE CAT6, SOC SCI] (3.0 cr)
POL 1050 - International Relations [LE CAT, GLOBAL PER] (3.0 cr)
or POL 1500 - Introduction to Comparative Politics [LE CAT, GLOBAL PER] (3.0 cr)
or POL 1610 - Introduction to Political Theory [LE CAT, HUMANITIES] (3.0 cr)
Psychology
PSY 1003 - General Psychology [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (4.0 cr)
Sociology
SOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology [LE CAT, LECD C, SOC SCI, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Upper Division Core (9 cr)
EDUC 3412 - The Computer in Education (4.0 cr)
EDUC 4234 - Science, Technology, and Society [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
HLTH 3202 - Drug Education (2.0 cr)
General Requirements
  1. Students must meet all course and credit requirements of the departments and colleges or schools in which they are enrolled including an advanced writing course. Students seeking two degrees must fulfill the requirements of both degrees. However, two degrees cannot be awarded for the same major.
  2. Students must complete all requirements of the Liberal Education Program or its approved equivalent.
  3. Students must complete a minimum of 120 semester credits completed in compliance with University of Minnesota Duluth academic policies with credit limits (e.g., Satisfactory/Non-Satisfactory Grading Policy, Credit for Prior Learning, etc).
  4. At least 30 semester credits must be earned through UMD, and 15 of the last 30 credits earned immediately before graduation must be awarded by UMD.
  5. At least half of upper-division (3xxx-level or higher) credits that satisfy major requirements (major requirements includes all courses required for the major, including courses in a subplan) through UMD.
  6. If a minor is required, students must take at least three upper division credits in their minor field from UMD.
  7. For certificate programs, at least 3 upper-division credits that satisfy requirements for the certificate must be taken through UMD. If the program does not require upper division credits students must take at least one course from the certificate program from UMD.
  8. The minimum cumulative University of Minnesota (UMN) GPA required for graduation is 2.00 and includes only University of Minnesota coursework. A minimum UMN GPA of 2.00 is required in each UMD undergraduate major, minor, and certificate. No academic unit may impose a higher GPA standard to graduate.
  9. Diploma, transcripts, licensure, and certification will be withheld until all financial obligations to the University have been met.
Program Requirements
1. Compliance with general regulations governing granting of degrees. 2. Students are expected to make satisfactory progress each semester, including grades of C- or better in all courses required in the major and successfully achieve all standards aligned with assignments in each course. 3. Maintain a minimum 2.5 cumulative and major GPA. 4. Demonstrate acceptable professional performance, including dispositions and teaching skills, in field placement; candidate proficiency is assessed throughout the teacher preparation courses by University faculty, University supervisors, and the cooperating teachers in all field experiences. The field experience assessment forms include knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are aligned to institutional and standards for all field experiences. 5. Abide by the MN PELSB and UMD Dept. of Education Code of Ethics. 6. Obtain an approved background check before being placed practicum, volunteering, or student teaching in schools and agencies. Students are required to obtain an approved background check every two years prior to placement in practicum, volunteering, or student teaching in schools and agencies. Proof of complete background check is required prior to any experience in public school and agency settings. Students are required to keep a printed copy of the background check to provide to the school or agency, if necessary. 7. Obtain personal liability insurance before being placed practicum, volunteering, or student teaching in schools and agencies. Students are required to have professional liability insurance purchased through the Education Minnesota Student Membership annually while they are completing field placement. Students can purchase the liability insurance online at: https://z.umn.edu/edmnstudentmembership. A paper copy of the liability insurance MUST be provided to the UMD Department of Education when signing the placement contract each term. 8. Seek out advising each term with assigned advisor throughout college career to ensure you are on track for program completion. 9. Adhere to university policies regarding attendance. 10. In addition to the above expectations, students must abide by all university policies (http://d.umn.edu/academic-affairs/academic-policies). 11. Students are required to complete a program clearance process as part of the student teaching application to review their degree status with their advisor and the Accreditation office. Student teaching applications are due the 4th Friday of the semester. Learn more online at: https://z.umn.edu/studentteach. Students must have grades of C- or better in all required courses, and meet the required GPA in the major to be eligible for student teaching. 16. Recommendation for licensure are based on successful completion of all program-related courses; demonstration of satisfactory outcomes required by the program; acceptable performance in field experiences, including student teaching (including final student teaching assessments); submission of the edTPA, completion of UMD Dept. of Education graduate exit survey, and successful completion of all tests required by PELSB.
Block Requirements (39 cr)
Application for admission to the blocks must be submitted by the 6th Friday of the fall and spring semester. Applications are available online at: https://z.umn.edu/stepapplication. Application for admission can be completed SPRING SEMESTER ONLY for FALL SEMESTER ENTRY INTO BLOCK 1. Application must be completed the semester prior to starting the blocks.
Block 1 (12 cr)
Typically, all courses must be taken concurrently (alternate schedules by program consent). Students must have personal liability insurance and approved background check while in field placement settings.
EDSE 4204 - Designing Learning Environments and Lessons (3.0 cr)
EDSE 4100 - Teaching in a Diverse Society (3.0 cr)
EDSE 4501 - Adolescent/Adult Development and Learning Theory (3.0 cr)
SPED 3415 - Special Education in the Secondary School (3.0 cr)
Block 2 (14 cr)
All courses must be taken concurrently. Application for student teaching must be made by the 4th Friday of the semester before student teaching. Applications are available online at: https://z.umn.edu/studentteach. Course deficiencies on Program Clearance Summary form must be cleared before filing application. Block 2 is the time to take the MTLE Content exams; immediately following the completion of Block 2 prior to starting Block 3, take the MTLE Pedagogy exams. EDSE 4244 offered spring only.
EDSE 3206 - Apprenticeship: Secondary School (2.0 cr)
EDSE 4214 - Teaching Content-Area Reading (3.0 cr)
EDSE 4244 - Teaching Social Studies: Grades 5-12 (3.0 cr)
EDSE 4525 - Assessment for Secondary Education (3.0 cr)
EDUC 4381 - Teaching Indigenous Students (3.0 cr)
Block 3 (13 cr)
All courses must be taken concurrently. Application for student teaching must be made by the 4th Friday of the semester before student teaching. Students must have personal liability insurance and approved background check while working in field placement settings. EDSE 4600 (register for 12 cr). Students must complete and submit the edTPA for scoring as outlined in the course requirements of EDSE 4600.
EDSE 4600 - Student Teaching (3.0-24.0 cr)
EDUC 4500 - Professional Issues and Ethics (1.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Anthropology
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 127 - 128 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Anthropology Courses (18 cr)
Students who select this sub-plan must take both ANTH 1602 and 1604; one course will count under the lower division anthropology requirement, and the other will count toward the sub-plan requirement.
ANTH 1602 - Biological Anthropology and Archaeology [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (4.0 cr)
or ANTH 1604 - Cultural Anthropology [LE CAT6, LEIP CAT06, SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
SOC 3156 - Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis (4.0 cr)
Anthroplogy Electives (10 cr)
Take 10 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ANTH 3xxx
· ANTH 4xxx
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Economics
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 124 -125 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 Students with an economics sub plan must take ECON 1003 as their lower division ECON course and both ECON 1022 and ECON 1023 for the sub-plan. The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Economics Courses (18 cr)
Economics Core
ECON 1022 - Principles of Economics: Macro [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (3.0 cr)
ECON 1023 - Principles of Economics: Micro [LE CAT, SOC SCI] (3.0 cr)
Statistics
ECON 2030 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics [LOGIC & QR] (3.0 cr)
or PSY 3020 - Statistical Methods (4.0 cr)
or SOC 3155 - Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis (4.0 cr)
or STAT 1411 - Introduction to Statistics [LE CAT, LOGIC & QR] (3.0 cr)
or STAT 3611 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics (4.0 cr)
Upper Division Economics
ECON 3022 - Intermediate Macroeconomics (3.0 cr)
or ECON 3023 - Intermediate Microeconomics (3.0 cr)
or ECON 3402 - Global Economic Issues (3.0 cr)
Economic Electives
ECON courses 3xxx or higher so total equals minimum 18 credits.
Take 5 - 6 credit(s) from the following:
· ECON 3xxx
· ECON 4xxx
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Geography
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 124 - 125 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Geography Courses (18 cr)
Geography Core
ES 2005 - Environment and Sustainability [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
GIS 2552 - Mapping Our World [LOGIC & QR] (3.0 cr)
Lower Division Electives
GEOG 1205 and GEOG 1414 may not be applied.
Take 6 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ES 1xxx
· ES 2xxx
· GEOG 1xxx
· GEOG 2xxx
Upper Division Electives
Highly recommended courses include: ES 3100, GEOG 3401, GEOG 3411, and GEOG 4393.
Take 6 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ES 3xxx
· ES 4xxx
· ES 5xxx
· GEOG 3xxx
· GEOG 4xxx
· GEOG 5xxx
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
History
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 126 Required credits within the major: 111 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
History Electives (20 cr)
Students who select the history sub-plan are strongly encouraged to also apply for a History BA degree.
Take 20 or more credit(s) from the following:
Subrequirement I : United States History
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 4 - 8 credit(s) from the following:
· HIST 3310 - The American Revolution (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3318 - Slavery, Lincoln and the Civil War [CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3320 - American Popular Culture, 1929 to the Present (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3355 - War and American Society, 1500-Present (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3386 - The United States and the World since 1898 (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3396 - The Vietnam War (4.0 cr)
· Subrequirement II: European History
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 4 - 8 credit(s) from the following:
· HIST 2345 - Science and Society: 1500 to Present [LE CAT7, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3133 - Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3141 - Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3145 - Ireland and the Construction of History (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3243 - Europe in Crisis in the 20th Century (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3244 - Holocaust & Genocide in Europe in the 20th Century (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3264 - Russian Empire under the Tsars: Russia under the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Lenin [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3265 - The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and Contemporary Russia [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3575 - Jews & Poles: Entangled Lives, Cultures and Memories in the 20th Century Poland - Study Abroad [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3939 - Europe in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation: 1348-1648 (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3940 - Early Modern England: 1485-1689 (4.0 cr)
· Subrequirement III: Asian, African, Non-U.S., Non-European
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 4 - 12 credit(s) from the following:
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3035 - Ancient Warfare From Alexander to Mohammad (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3038 - History of Christianity: Origins to 1054 (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3055 - The Bible & Ancient Near East (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3615 - Modern Africa (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3720 - History of Iran (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3825 - Islamic History from Muhammad to the Ottomans (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· Special Topics
A Special Topics course may fulfill a category requirement; advisor prior approval for intended category required.
Take 0 - 2 course(s) from the following:
· HIST 3095 - Special Topics: (various titles to be assigned) (4.0 cr)
Political Science
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 127 - 128 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Political Science Electives (18 cr)
Take 18 or more credit(s) from the following:
Category I: United States Politics
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· POL 3001 - American Public Policy (3.0 cr)
· POL 3015 - State and Local Government (4.0 cr)
· POL 3025 - Popular Culture and Politics [HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3040 - Women and Politics (3.0 cr)
· POL 3080 - Environment and Politics (3.0 cr)
· POL 3100 - Contemporary Issues in American Politics (3.0 cr)
· POL 3120 - Congress and the Presidency (4.0 cr)
· POL 3131 - Judicial Politics and Policy Making (3.0 cr)
· POL 3142 - Voting, Campaigning, and Elections (3.0 cr)
· POL 3150 - American Constitutional Law I (3.0 cr)
· POL 3151 - American Constitutional Law II (3.0 cr)
· Category II: International Politics
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· POL 3400 - Contemporary Issues in World Politics (4.0 cr)
· POL 3403 - American Foreign Policy (3.0 cr)
· POL 3420 - International Organization and Global Governance (3.0 cr)
· POL 3451 - Theories of International Relations (4.0 cr)
· POL 3456 - International Security: War and More (4.0 cr)
· POL 3458 - International Negotiation & Bargaining: Negotiating Across Cultures (3.0 cr)
· POL 3518 - Transitional Politics of Asia (3.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· POL 3575 - Latin American Politics and Development (3.0 cr)
· POL 3580 - Central American Politics (3.0 cr)
· Category III: Comparative Politics
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· POL 3511 - Politics of South Asia (3.0 cr)
· POL 3515 - Theories of Comparative Politics (3.0 cr)
· POL 3517 - Western European Political Systems (4.0 cr)
· POL 3518 - Transitional Politics of Asia (3.0 cr)
· POL 3530 - Comparative Constitutional Law and Judicial Politics (3.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· POL 3580 - Central American Politics (3.0 cr)
· Category IV: Political Theory
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· POL 3600 - Political Concepts (3.0 cr)
· POL 3610 - Political Economy: An Introduction (3.0 cr)
· POL 3652 - Modern Political Thought (4.0 cr)
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Psychology
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 124 - 125 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Psychology Electives (18 cr)
Students who select the psychology sub plan follow the guidelines for the psychology minor. EDSE 4501 credits count as an elective course in the psychology minor. Students who select the psychology sub plan should register with the Psychology Department as a psychology minor.
Take 18 or more credit(s) from the following:
Psychology minor course
· CSD 3010 - Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (3.0 cr)
or ECON 2030 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics [LOGIC & QR] (3.0 cr)
or EXSC 4700 - Statistics and Research Methods in Exercise Science (4.0 cr)
or PSY 2020 - Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods (3.0 cr)
or PSY 3020 - Statistical Methods (4.0 cr)
or SOC 2155 - Introduction to Research Methods and Analysis (4.0 cr)
or STAT 2411 - Statistical Methods [LE CAT, LOGIC & QR] (3.0 cr)
or Other approved course
· Group I
· PSY 2021 - Developmental Psychology [LE CAT, LECD C, SOC SCI, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
or PSY 3081 - History and Systems of Psychology (3.0 cr)
or PSY 3111 - Theories of Personality (3.0 cr)
or PSY 3121 - Abnormal Psychology (4.0 cr)
or PSY 3201 - Social Psychology (3.0 cr)
· Group II
· PSY 3061 - Physiological Psychology (4.0 cr)
or PSY 3611 - Learning and Behavior (4.0 cr)
or PSY 3613 - Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Change (4.0 cr)
or PSY 3621 - Cognition (4.0 cr)
or PSY 3697 - Sensation and Perception (4.0 cr)
· Psychology Elective Courses
PSY courses 2xxx or higher so total equals minimum 18 credits.
Take 8 or more credit(s) from the following:
· PSY 2xxx
· PSY 3xxx
· PSY 4xxx
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Sociology
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 127 - 128 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Sociology Courses (18 cr)
Sociology Core
SOC 2155 - Introduction to Research Methods and Analysis (4.0 cr)
SOC 3945 - Social Stratification (3.0 cr)
SOC 4111 - Sociological Theory (4.0 cr)
Sociology Electives
Take 7 or more credit(s) from the following:
· SOC 3xxx
· SOC 4xxx
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Women's Studies
Required credits to graduate with this degree: 127 - 128 Required credits within the major: 112 - 113 The below sub-plan requirements are a part of the total admission requirement that should be completed prior to admission to the degree program. These are considered prerequisites to the blocks.
Women's Studies Courses (18 cr)
Core
WS 2001 - Introduction to Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Studies [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
Electives (14 cr)
Take 14 or more credit(s) from the following:
Women's Studies Electives
Take 6 or more credit(s) from the following:
· WS 3xxx
· WS 4xxx
· Women's Studies Related Electives
Take 6 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 3450 - American Indian Women [CDIVERSITY] (3.0 cr)
· ANTH 3080 - Cultural Constructions of the Body (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3628 - Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3.0 cr)
· CRIM 4323 - Women and Justice (3.0 cr)
· HLTH 3118 - Women's Health Issues (3.0 cr)
· LGBT 3xxx
· LGBT 4xxx
· POL 3040 - Women and Politics (3.0 cr)
· PSY 2223 - Gender in Society [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3215 - Topics in Human Sexuality (3.0 cr)
· SOC 4925 - Sociology of Rape (3.0 cr)
· SOC 4947 - Sociology of Gender (3.0 cr)
Non-Western History (3 - 4 cr)
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture [SUSTAIN] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present [LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History [LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3463 - History of Modern China (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present [GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film (4.0 cr)
· POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures [LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
 
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UST 1000 - Learning in Community
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: EHS 1000/UST 1000/ ES 1000
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Facilitates the successful transition into college learning and student life at UMD. Credit will not be granted if already received for EHS 1000.
EHS 1000 - Into the World (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EHS 1000/UST 1000/ ES 1000
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course fulfills the UST 1000 requirement. Facilitates the transition into college learning and student life at UMD and the College of Education and Human Service Professions. Introduces the promise and peril of global challenges in the 21st century and relates these challenges to local communities. pre-req: 1st semester CEHSP student
ES 1000 - Global Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course fulfills the UST 1000 requirement. This course explores the global cultural context of sustainability while facilitating the successful transition into college learning and student life at UMD. Examine the topic of environmental sustainability through the context of global culture and affairs. Explore different cultural approaches to solving environmental issues, compare and contrast these approaches with those taken in the US. Investigate the concept of outsourcing with respect to the peoples and ecosystems that are impacted by the practice. pre-req: less than 30 credits earned
LING 1000 - Language and Culture in the U.S. What does it Mean to Speak American (CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course fulfills the UST 1000 requirement. Facilitates the successful transition into college learning and student life at UMD while simultaneously fulfilling other core requirements. Examines the topic of Cultural Diversity in the U.S. through the context of language and dialect in American English. Explores the impact language has on the broad spectrum of American culture, and conversely, the ways in which various American cultures and their diverse heritages have influenced the many ways language is spoken in the United States. Investigates concepts of linguistic competency, perceptions and biases toward language, power structures manifested in language, and influences of class, race, ethnicity, and heritage on spoken language. pre-req: less than 30 credits
PSY 1100 - Living Your Best Life: Applying Positive Psychology (CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course fulfills the UST 1000 requirement. Facilitate the successful transition into college learning and student life at UMD; applications of positive psychology across cultures and positive behavior change; the examination of diverse perspectives in positive psychology; the promotion of student well-being, community and inclusivity, and time- and stress-management techniques. pre-req: less than 30 credits
WRIT 3140 - Advanced Writing: Human Services
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study of writing for those invested in the disciplines of education and other fields related to human services. Exploration of academic and professional rhetorical situations. Practice with research methods, document design, editing, effective collaboration, and ethical issues in the production of documents in multiple genres for multiple audiences. pre-req: 1) WRIT 1120 or MNTC or AA completed 2) minimum 60 credits earned or in progress
WRIT 3160 - Advanced Writing: Social Sciences
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study of writing for those invested in the disciplines of social sciences and related fields. Exploration of academic and professional rhetorical situations. Practice with research methods, document design, editing, effective collaboration, and ethical issues in the production of documents in multiple genres for multiple audiences. pre-req: 1) WRIT 1120 or MNTC or AA completed 2) minimum 60 credits earned or in progress
EDUC 1101 - Education in Modern Society (LE CAT7, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Survey of educational institutions and practices used in different sectors of society. Historical and philosophical foundations of American education.
ANTH 1602 - Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Anth 1601/1602
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Origin and development of extinct and living human forms, primatology, human biological variations, the race concept, evolution, and development of human societies up to the earliest stages of ancient civilizations.
ANTH 1604 - Cultural Anthropology (LE CAT6, LEIP CAT06, SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to representative cultures of the world and to concepts and methods of cultural anthropology, focusing on range of variation and degree of uniformity in human behavior and in cultural adaptations.
ECON 1003 - Economics and Society (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
General description of U.S. economy and analysis of contemporary economic problems. Introduction to major economic issues and problems of the day, providing a simple framework used by economists for analysis. prereq: Cannot apply credit to economics major or minor or BAc or BBA majors
ECON 1022 - Principles of Economics: Macro (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Analyzing overall performance of an economic system. National income accounting and theory, unemployment, inflation, fiscal policy, money, monetary policy, economic growth, international trade, non-U.S. economies, and real-world application of these concepts. prereq: Minimum 15 credits or department consent
ECON 1023 - Principles of Economics: Micro (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Analyzing free enterprise system through study of product and resource markets. Supply and demand, utility, production and cost, market structure, resource use, market failures, regulatory role of government, and real-world application of these concepts. prereq: Minimum 15 credits or department consent
GEOG 1205 - Our Globalizing World (SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course analyzes the relationship between the environment, economic development, culture, and politics by examining human geography in the context of global regions. This course introduces core concepts in human geography such as space, place, and scale, and globalization, and applies those concepts to understand the diversity of our globalizing world. Topics from the impact of climate change, to colonialism, the geography of agriculture, urbanization, geopolitics, and ethnic and national identities are explored.
GEOG 1414 - The Physical Geography (LE CAT, NAT SCI, SUSTAIN)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
The environment is highly dynamic and is continually modified by human and environmental processes. This course examines these processes to better understand how the Earth's landscapes were formed and how they are currently being transformed. Specifically, students will understand the fundamental processes that govern the physical environment including Earth-sun relations, water resources, landforms, weather and climate, natural vegetation, and soils.
HIST 1207 - Dawn of Modern Europe (LE CAT7, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Early history of the modern era: Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Reason, French Revolution and its impact, Napoleonic era.
HIST 1208 - Europe in the Modern Age (LE CAT7, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Over the course of the past two centuries, the map of Europe has undergone several dramatic transformations. Empires disappeared off the map while new types of states and regimes were created. The forces of industrialization, imperialism, and nationalism brought about dramatic political, economic, social and cultural changes. At the same time, Europe extended its reach over other parts of the world. In this course, we will study the developments that have shaped European history in this period in order to better understand how we arrived at where we are today. In doing so, we will consider the many meanings of "modernity" and the impact it has had on contemporary culture.
HIST 1304 - US History Part I: 1607-1877 (LE CAT7, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Evolution of the United States from colonial origins into a modern nation. Frontier and agrarian heritage, constitutional development, emergence of modern U.S. political system, expansion of democracy, and cultural diversity. Colonial period to 1877.
HIST 1305 - US History Part II: 1865-Present (LE CAT7, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Historical roots of major challenges facing Americans today: global responsibility as a world power; the quest for political, economic, and social justice; and community and family changes in modern society; 1877 to present.
POL 1011 - American Government and Politics (LE CAT6, SOC SCI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles of American national government. Survey of American governmental system, structure, operations, and services; constitutionalism, federalism, civil liberties, parties, pressure groups, and elections.
POL 1050 - International Relations (LE CAT, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to contemporary international politics: levels of analysis; the international system; nation-state behavior; foreign policy decision making; economic and defense policy issues.
POL 1500 - Introduction to Comparative Politics (LE CAT, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Survey of the politics of countries selected to reflect alternative styles of politics and forms of government; examples of Western liberal democratic, Communist and post-Communist, and Third World systems.
POL 1610 - Introduction to Political Theory (LE CAT, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to the history of political thought from a thematic perspective such as freedom and citizenship, democracy and its critics, political obligation and justice, diversity and inequality. Close attention to method of interpretation and argument.
PSY 1003 - General Psychology (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Scientific study of behavior; current knowledge of biological, social, and cognitive areas of psychology. Assessment, research methods, human development, personality, mental disorders, and therapy.
SOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology (LE CAT, LECD C, SOC SCI, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course will help students develop a 'sociological imagination' - that is, an understanding of the relationship between the individual and the wider society. Students are introduced to the discipline of sociology, which is the systematic study of social interaction, social organization, social institutions, and social change. The course covers the main concepts, theories, and methods of sociology that are used to explore everything from daily interactions to widespread social problems.
EDUC 3412 - The Computer in Education
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to computer use in instructional settings. PC and Mac platforms. Develops basic skills using software commonly used by educators. Teaching strategies using computer-based instruction.
EDUC 4234 - Science, Technology, and Society (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Nontechnical study of historical and cultural impact of natural science and technology on the earth and its inhabitants. prereq: Minimum 30 credits, no grad credits
HLTH 3202 - Drug Education
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Physiological and psychological effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Survey of societal causes and effects of drug use and abuse. Reasons and pressures for drug use by students. Appraisal and assessment of teacher's role in education, intervention, and treatment of drug abuse. Minimum 30 credits, for students seeking and admitted to the STEP (Secondary Teaching Education program), Public Health or Pre-Public Health or Physical Education or Exercise Science or Communication Sciences and Disorders major, or Public Health minor, or instructor consent.
EDSE 4204 - Designing Learning Environments and Lessons
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The characteristics of effective teachers, various developmentally appropriate teaching strategies, design of lessons using Universal Backward Design framework, designing effective learning environments, goals and action plans, site data, collaboratively review of student work, collaborative planning, integrated and exploratory curriculum, content standards, teaching with technology, observation skills and teacher readiness will be presented with integration and analysis of materials. Field experience is required for course completion. prereq: Admission to EdSe program; no grad credit
EDSE 4100 - Teaching in a Diverse Society
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Examination of cultural differences; planning instruction to accommodate individual differences in race, gender, ethnic background, cultural background, and physical and mental development; Including the diverse needs of learners in middle school and secondary school settings; integrated and exploratory curriculum, utilization of technology, community resources, structured service learning and humanizing classroom environments and classroom management procedures. prereq: Admission to EdSe program
EDSE 4501 - Adolescent/Adult Development and Learning Theory
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles of psychology applied to teaching; examination of adolescent growth and development; classroom management. Field experience is required for course completion. prereq: Admission to EdSe program; no grad credit
SPED 3415 - Special Education in the Secondary School
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Exploration of topics in exceptionality for pre-service secondary education majors. Topics include universal design, instructional strategies, characteristics of students, special education law, and differentiated instruction. Field experience is required for course completion.
EDSE 3206 - Apprenticeship: Secondary School
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Fifty hours of experience in a high school, including observing, teaching, tutoring, working with individual students and small groups. Focuses on classroom management, multicultural education, and students with special needs. Weekly seminar. prereq: Admission to EdSe program, must be taken either after or concurrently with EDSE 3204
EDSE 4214 - Teaching Content-Area Reading
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EdSe 5215/4214/4212/4215
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teaching reading within 5-12 content-area courses as pedagogy for improving literacy. Developing an understanding of the brain, cognition, and reading. Exploration of stages of literacy, methods for promoting reading, and strategies for improving comprehension. Lesson planning for content-area reading. Diverse learners and critical literacy in the content-area classroom. Field experience is required for course completion.
EDSE 4244 - Teaching Social Studies: Grades 5-12
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites: Admission to EdSe program, 3204 or instructor consent; no grad credit
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
History and philosophy of social studies education; social studies objectives; curriculum design; instructional planning and use of resources; evaluation procedures. prereq: Admission to EdSe program, 3204 or instructor consent; no grad credit
EDSE 4525 - Assessment for Secondary Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An exploration of topics in responsive and responsible assessment of student learning. Topics include types and appropriate uses of classroom assessment strategies, large-scale and high stakes testing, backwards design, rubrics, checklists, and other evaluative tools and techniques. Field experience is required for course completion. prereq: instructor consent; no grad credit
EDUC 4381 - Teaching Indigenous Students
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EDUC 3381/EDUC 4381
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Survey of contemporary and historical Indian education; evaluation of attitudes toward Indian students: direct interaction with Indian parents and students; development of culturally sensitive teaching plans; specific cultural characteristics of indigenous groups; examination of American Indian outcomes. Field experience is required for course completion, prereq: EDSE 4100 or Admission to IESE program and successful completion of Blocks One and Two courses and associated field experiences, no grad credit; credit will not be granted if already received credit for EDUC 5381.
EDSE 4600 - Student Teaching
Credits: 3.0 -24.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Student teaching in secondary or middle school under direction of licensed teacher. Demonstration of subject matter, teaching competence, and potential for future improvement. Maximum number of 12 credits per semester. prereq: 4100, 4501, appropriate methods course; no grad credit
EDUC 4500 - Professional Issues and Ethics
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Provides an overview of several topics affecting practicing teachers including: employment preparation (resume, cover letter, interviewing skills), licensure application, professional organizations, professional codes of ethics, and district procedures. Offered concurrent with student teaching in order to provide options for discussion during student teaching. prereq: Admission to the elementary education program, successful completion of courses in block one and block two, no grad credit
ANTH 1602 - Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Anth 1601/1602
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Origin and development of extinct and living human forms, primatology, human biological variations, the race concept, evolution, and development of human societies up to the earliest stages of ancient civilizations.
ANTH 1604 - Cultural Anthropology (LE CAT6, LEIP CAT06, SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to representative cultures of the world and to concepts and methods of cultural anthropology, focusing on range of variation and degree of uniformity in human behavior and in cultural adaptations.
SOC 3156 - Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Application of qualitative research methods to study of social structures. Emphasizes field techniques, secondary data analysis, and interpretation. Lab prereq: (2155 or anth major or urs major or cst minor), at least 60 cr or instructor consent
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.
ECON 1022 - Principles of Economics: Macro (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Analyzing overall performance of an economic system. National income accounting and theory, unemployment, inflation, fiscal policy, money, monetary policy, economic growth, international trade, non-U.S. economies, and real-world application of these concepts. prereq: Minimum 15 credits or department consent
ECON 1023 - Principles of Economics: Micro (LE CAT, SOC SCI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Analyzing free enterprise system through study of product and resource markets. Supply and demand, utility, production and cost, market structure, resource use, market failures, regulatory role of government, and real-world application of these concepts. prereq: Minimum 15 credits or department consent
ECON 2030 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics (LOGIC & QR)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to modern business statistics, emphasizing problem solving applications through statistical decision making using case studies. Topics include organization and presentation of data, summary statistics, distributions, statistical inference including estimation, and hypothesis testing. prereq: minimum 30 credits, LSBE student, pre-business or pre-accounting or Econ BA major or Graphic Design and Marketing major or Graphic Design with Marketing subplan major or Econ minor or Accounting minor or Business Admin minor or Arts Administration; credit will not be granted if already received for Econ 2020, Stat 1411, Stat 2411, Stat 3611, Soc 3151, Psy 3020
PSY 3020 - Statistical Methods
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Descriptive statistics; introduction to correlational analysis and regression; sampling techniques and statistical inference; applications of simple and factorial design analysis of variance and other parametric and nonparametric hypothesis-test statistics in the behavioral sciences. prereq: Math ACT 21 or higher or Accuplacer score of 237-300 or higher or MATH 1005
SOC 3155 - Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Descriptive statistics. Measures of central tendency, deviation, association. Inferential statistics focusing on probability and hypothesis testing. T-tests, Chi-square tests, analysis of variance, measures of association, introduction to statistical control. Statistical software (SPSS) used to analyze sociological data. Lab. prereq: 2155, crim major or soc major or URS major, min 30 cr
STAT 1411 - Introduction to Statistics (LE CAT, LOGIC & QR)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Statistical ideas involved in gathering, describing, and analyzing observational and experimental data. Experimental design, descriptive statistics, correlation and regression, probabilistic models, sampling, and statistical inference. prereq: Math ACT 21 or higher or a grade of at least C- in MATH 0103 or department approval
STAT 3611 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Basic probability, including combinatorial methods, random variables, mathematical expectation. Binomial, normal, and other standard distributions. Moment-generating functions. Basic statistics, including descriptive statistics and sampling distributions. Estimation and statistical hypothesis testing. prereq: A grade of at least C- in Math 1290 or Math 1296
ECON 3022 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Determinants of national income, employment, and price levels with particular attention to aggregate demand and aggregate supply, and monetary and fiscal policy. prereq: 1022, 1023, Math 1160 or Math 1296, Econ major or minor or LSBE candidate
ECON 3023 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Behavior of households as consuming units and suppliers of resources; analysis of decision making by firms under various market conditions. prereq: 1022, 1023, Math 1160 or Math 1296, Econ major or minor or LSBE candidate
ECON 3402 - Global Economic Issues
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Application of economic theory of markets to analyze major issues shaping the future of the world economy. Emphasizes globalization of markets and the institutions involved in coordinating economic policies among world economies prereq: LSBE candidate or Econ major or Econ minor
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.
ES 2005 - Environment and Sustainability (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: ES 1001/ES 2005
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course will cover human impacts on their natural environments (resource depletion and pollution) and the complex notion of Sustainable Development. Students will analyze resource depletion (i.e., fossil fuels, forests, fisheries, water and soil) and pollution (i.e., climate change, ocean acidification, and oceanic garbage patches and dead zones) trends over the past century to better understand our growing impacts on the natural environment. Students will also analyze a wide variety of solutions (i.e., local food systems, renewable energy systems and water systems) from the emerging field of Sustainable Development aimed at mitigating these alarming resources depletion and pollution trends. Finally, students will be introduced to policy considerations regarding the implementation of these solutions and new economic approaches to help transition from economic growth to Sustainable Development.
GIS 2552 - Mapping Our World (LOGIC & QR)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: GIS 2552/GEOG 2552
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course starts with the definition of what a map is and considers maps as tools for communication. Students are led to explore the effects of scale, projection, cartographic symbolization and generalization on the mapping process and resulting digital databases. Students are introduced to spatial data models, types of spatial data and representation, and study alternative or non-tradition map representations provided by GIS and Remote Sensing. The course includes hands-on map activities; map reading/interpretation, map use, and map production where students will use their laptops to create online web mapping services.
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.
HIST 3310 - The American Revolution
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course studies the social and political values, ideas, and experiences of colonial and revolutionary America that underlay the eventual formation of the US Constitution. Particular attention is given to the different ways in which American settlers from varying social and ideological contexts reconceived their own past history/histories.
HIST 3318 - Slavery, Lincoln and the Civil War (CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Examines the Civil War and its causes, slavery, and the career of Abraham Lincoln.
HIST 3320 - American Popular Culture, 1929 to the Present
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Examines the intersection of the American popular arts--especially film, music, the visual arts, and literature--with national and international politics and American public life from the Great Depression to the present.
HIST 3355 - War and American Society, 1500-Present
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course seeks to cultivate students' understanding of the military history of the United States, exploring the development and influence of the "American way of war" in the broader context of American history, "American" history began with the invasion by Europeans five centuries ago and has continued to be shaped by war and the preparation for war ever since. This course is intended to assist students in gaining knowledge of important people, events and trends in American military history, and to develop the tools to critically assess and discuss that history.
HIST 3386 - The United States and the World since 1898
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Examines United States foreign relations--political, economic, social, and cultural--since 1898. prereq: students will receive credit if 3384 (only) or 3385 (only) were taken; credit will not be granted if already received for 3384 and 3385.
HIST 3396 - The Vietnam War
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines the Vietnam war as a transformative event in both the United States and Vietnam. It will cover the decades-long history of the conflict, and will address its legacies in U.S. foreign relations, domestic politics and culture, and Vietnamese life.
HIST 2345 - Science and Society: 1500 to Present (LE CAT7, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Explores a series of creative moments in development of science and scientific methods within their broader social and cultural contexts. prereq: credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 2245
HIST 3133 - Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Early history of Greek world from Heroic Age to death of Alexander the Great, 850-323 B.C. prereq: Credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 3333 or HmCl 3333
HIST 3141 - Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Outlines a four century period in which ancient Rome was an empire beginning after the Second Punic War of 201 B.C. Republican Rome struggled with external possessions and the wealth this provided for the ruling elite in their effort to dominate the state. The failed reform movement of the Gracchi brothers guaranteed that a polarized society would continue. This led to the Roman Revolution and the establishment of the imperial dynasties, the first of which was created by Julius Caesar and his successors and Julio-Claudians. The Pax Romana was a direct outcome of the seizure of power by Julius Caesar and for the next two full centuries Rome governed a world that was larger than the continental United States. The signs of mismanagement, social stagnation, and military pressure at the end of the 2nd century A.D. in the reign of the philosopher-king Marcus Aurelius eventually led to a crisis that was both political as well as economic. prereq: Credit will not be granted if already received for HmCl 3041 or HIST 3041
HIST 3145 - Ireland and the Construction of History
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
This course approaches the question of the history of Ireland by examining how history itself is written. Since its founding as an independent nation-state only a century ago, the Republic of Ireland has experienced an explosion of historical narratives, both official and unofficial. Each narrative has a distinct agenda, or "constructed image," of Ireland which its proponents believe is essential for the identity, or the self-awareness, fo the new state. Students will examine Irish historiography by focusing on the presentation of three ears common to Irish historical writing: 1) The Prehistoric/"Dreamtime," 2) Early Christian/Medieval, and 3) Modern/Revolution. By examining books, articles, images, and museum displays the students will critically evaluate the construction of various Irish identifies over the past century, and they will also evaluate the academic and popular criticism of these narratives which call for different approaches.
HIST 3243 - Europe in Crisis in the 20th Century
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course focuses on the turbulent history of Europe in the 20th century, particularly the causes, development, and consequences of the First and Second World Wars. It will explore the world wars as global phenomena and consider the ways in which these events have shaped contemporary geopolitics and the international world order. The course will address the political, military, cultural, economic and social transformations that characterized this period and influence our society today.
HIST 3244 - Holocaust & Genocide in Europe in the 20th Century
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
The murder of six million Jews as well as hundreds of thousands of other innocent civilians by the Nazi regime during World War II remains one of the most horrific massacres in human history. This course will examine the circumstances and causes that led to the Holocaust, the mechanisms through which the genocide was carried out, and the consequences and responses to the Holocaust. We will consider the perspectives of victims, bystanders, perpetrators, collaborators and resisters, as well as the meanings of these categories themselves. Moreover, this course frames the Holocaust within the broader history of ethnic cleansing and genocide, posing important questions about modernity and threats faced by minority populations in our world today.
HIST 3264 - Russian Empire under the Tsars: Russia under the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Lenin (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The Romanov dynasty reigned in Russia for over 300 years and, despite the Romanovs' dramatic fall from power in the wake of the Revolution of 1917, was, by many criteria, one of the most successful dynasties in European history. This course will examine the economic, cultural, political and social transformations of the Russia Empire during the epoch of the Romanovs from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. We will study the accomplishments of the dominating political figures of the period, such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, as well as the experiences of the diverse populations who lived across the wide expanse of the empire. In doing so, we will gain insight into the causes of the downfall of the imperial regime in 1917.
HIST 3265 - The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and Contemporary Russia (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will cover the economic, political, social and cultural changes within the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. Topics to be covered include the Russo-Japanese War, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Russian Civil War, Russia's industrialization and collectivization of land, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the cold War, late Soviet culture, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russian under Yeltsin and Putin. Throughout the semester, students will be working with a variety of primary and secondary sources in different media (textual materials, visual sources, and film). Thorough written and oral assignment, student will develop their critical reading, writing and speaking skills. Credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 2265 or 2365.
HIST 3575 - Jews & Poles: Entangled Lives, Cultures and Memories in the 20th Century Poland - Study Abroad (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Summer
Study aboard in Poland. This course focuses on the history, experience and memory of Jewish life in Poland. One of the focuses of the course will be the experience of discrimination and the history of the Holocaust in Poland. However, the course will also examine the ways in which both Poles and Jews contributed to and engaged in a rich cultural, social and economic life in communities across the region and, in some cases, continued to do so today. The course will consider the history and legacies of the co-existence, interdependence, entangle between Poles, Jews, and other minority populations in this diverse geographic space. We will also explore the contentious contemporary debates over the politics of commemoration of Holocaust sites and Jewish life in Poland today. Pre-req: minimum 30 credits, instructor consent; admission to an approved study abroad program requires consent from the International Programs and Services Office
HIST 3939 - Europe in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation: 1348-1648
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Social, economic, political, and cultural development of Europe from the Black Death to the Thirty Years' War. Central themes include Renaissance humanism and art, Columbus and European expansion, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, and the era of religious wars. prereq: credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 3239
HIST 3940 - Early Modern England: 1485-1689
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3940/Hist 3245
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Early Modern English society and culture from the 15th to the 17th centuries. prereq: credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 3240
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3035 - Ancient Warfare From Alexander to Mohammad
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Warfare as the unifying theme in the social and cultural analysis of the impact Alexander the Great had on eastern Mediterranean development between 323 B.C. and 631 A.D. Alexander and his world, the formation of its three great religions, and the Alexandrian legacy of his achievement. prereq: Credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 3335 or HMCl 3335.
HIST 3038 - History of Christianity: Origins to 1054
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination of the historical (social, cultural, intellectual, and political) development of the Christian religion from the first century to the schism of 1054, with particular consideration of Eastern Christianity. recommended prereq: 1207
HIST 3055 - The Bible & Ancient Near East
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
History of Ancient Near East from birth of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia (c. 3100 B.C.) to arrival of Alexander (330 B.C.). Review of the ancient cultures of Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, the Hittites, Persia, Syria, and Palestine. prereq: Minimum 30 credits; credit will not be granted if already received for HmCl 3055 or CSt 3055
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3615 - Modern Africa
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Africa, 1800 to present. Colonial conquest and domination, African resistance, nationalism, and problems of independence. prereq: credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 3515
HIST 3720 - History of Iran
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course covers 1,200 years of Iranian history, politics and culture. Because Iran has exerted a substantial influence on world history, this course will provide an overview of that history and culture from the Arab Conquests (c. 641) to the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Covering sixteen centuries, the scope of this course will be necessity concentrate on the formative aspects of Iranian history: the first half of the course brings us up to the early modern period (1700); the second half concentrates on the modern period (1800's-1990). Throughout the course, the history of Iran will be placed in the greater context of world history.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 3825 - Islamic History from Muhammad to the Ottomans
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This intermediate level class on Islamic history is offered partially online. It covers the periods from ca. 570 to 1600 C.E. It includes an examination of the political leadership of the Prophet; the development of the caliphate and Community; sectarian differences; the rise of the independent states; military and land tenure practices; social history; the influx of Turks, Mongol and Timurid invasions; and ends with the Ottoman and Safavid dynasties. prereq: minimum 30 credits; credit will not be granted if already received for HIST 3725
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
HIST 3095 - Special Topics: (various titles to be assigned)
Credits: 4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Special topics in history not offered within the regular curriculum.
POL 3001 - American Public Policy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Approaches to policy study, context of policy process, and discussion of policy issues. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress cr or instructor consent
POL 3015 - State and Local Government
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
State and local governments in the United States; governmental institutions and processes; intergovernmental relations. Special reference to Minnesota. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3025 - Popular Culture and Politics (HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Summer
Evaluation of the presentation of political institutions, officials, and policy issues in various forms of mass media and entertainment, including newspapers, magazines, films, television/cable, radio, video, podcasts, weblogs, and social media sites. How accurate are the portrayals and how effective are they at influencing attitudes, opinions, policy choices, and selection of public officials?
POL 3040 - Women and Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Women's political status; implications of women's role in political process; women as political actors; feminist critique and vision of politics. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3080 - Environment and Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
American natural resource problems with special attention to conservation activities on national, state, and local levels; development of conservation agencies in Minnesota. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3100 - Contemporary Issues in American Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Detailed examination and analysis of important and evolving contemporary issues in state, local, and national government, law, public policy and/or public administration. Policy recommendations dealing with each issue. pre-req: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3120 - Congress and the Presidency
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Functioning and structure of the United States Congress and Presidency. Members of Congress and the Presidency: their characteristics, their selection, roles they play, how they interact with each other as well as with others in the policy-making process. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3131 - Judicial Politics and Policy Making
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
An examination of the characteristics and behavior of judicial institutions, emphasizing the interaction with other policy-makers and social and political problems. Investigates the policy roles of state and lower federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3142 - Voting, Campaigning, and Elections
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Covers theories of voting, including how they explain who votes and vote choice. Examines how campaign money, policy issues, the media, and campaign advertising play a role in presidential and congressional elections. Typically offered in the fall during national election years. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3150 - American Constitutional Law I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Institutional powers and civil rights: judicial review; authority of Congress and President; powers in war and foreign affairs; power of national and state governments; property rights; civil rights and equal protection (race, gender, and other groups); anti-discrimination; affirmative action. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3151 - American Constitutional Law II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Civil liberties: incorporation of the Bill of Rights; Due Process clause; freedom of religion; freedom of speech; freedom of press; privacy rights; rights of the accused; search and seizure; rights before the Courts; cruel and unusual punishment. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3400 - Contemporary Issues in World Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Detailed examination and analysis of selected contemporary issues in world politics and international relations. Policy recommendations dealing with each issue. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent repeatable: Allow up to 2 repetitions totaling up to 8 credits.
POL 3403 - American Foreign Policy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 3403/3402
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Various influences on the making of American foreign policy; understanding why particular foreign policy choices are made and the effects of a changing international environment on American foreign policy. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3420 - International Organization and Global Governance
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Explores the role of international organizations in world politics and the evolution of global governance systems. Includes examinations of state sovereignty, methods for achieving cooperation, and whether international organizations are effective means for achieving global collective goods. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3451 - Theories of International Relations
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Historical and contemporary theories of international relations. Views of contending theorists are analyzed and assessed. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3456 - International Security: War and More
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Introduction to a variety of different aspects of International Security, including warfare, terrorism, human rights, environmental justice, and women and violence worldwide. Includes discussion of efforts to ensure and barriers to achieving international security in its various forms. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3458 - International Negotiation & Bargaining: Negotiating Across Cultures
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: INTS 3458/POL 3458
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Cultural understanding and misunderstanding can determine the outcome of international negotiation and bargaining. Word choice becomes particularly significant in global negotiations. In this class, we explore how international solutions in various areas, such as the environment, business, politics, and human rights, are produced through negotiation and influenced by culture, language, and behavior. pre-req: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3518 - Transitional Politics of Asia
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
This class is a comparative study of the states in Asia namely India, China, Japan, and others. The class will explore the historical trajectories of these states; will study how these histories have given rise to different forms of their current state formations; will explore their contemporary political systems; economies; their socio-cultural and gender dynamics; and contemporary policy issues faced by these states. The class will also analyze the geo-strategic significance of Asia to the West/United States in the contemporary eras of globalization. pre-req: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3575 - Latin American Politics and Development
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
A comparative examination of politics and development in the Latin American region. Topics of this course include transition to democracy, democratic consolidation, rule of law, human rights, the military and politics, women and politics, executive-legislative relations, civil society, and economic development. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3580 - Central American Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Explores the history, politics, culture, and modern problems in Central America. Includes examination of the differences and similarities in colonial history among Central American countries, the role of U.S. influence on Central American politics and the economy, and legacies of civil wars. Then, it focuses on modern problems of violence against women, gangs, violent crime, and governance, and how international and local organizations and individuals can (or cannot) contribute to alleviating these problems. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3511 - Politics of South Asia
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Comparative study of five South Asian countries (namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). It analyzes the history and impact of colonialism in South Asia; state formations in South Asia; and controversies in recent South Asian politics over issues like globalization, democratization, religious fundamentalism, nuclearism, and gender. Policy solutions to these problems will be considered. pre-req: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3515 - Theories of Comparative Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Introduces the theoretical, methodological, and substantive debates in the discipline of comparative politics. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3517 - Western European Political Systems
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Comparative analysis of development and operation of political-governmental institutions and processes in selected Western European countries: political and ideological patterns and trends; problems of democratic politics; policy issues in advanced industrial societies; and the future of the "welfare state." prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3518 - Transitional Politics of Asia
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
This class is a comparative study of the states in Asia namely India, China, Japan, and others. The class will explore the historical trajectories of these states; will study how these histories have given rise to different forms of their current state formations; will explore their contemporary political systems; economies; their socio-cultural and gender dynamics; and contemporary policy issues faced by these states. The class will also analyze the geo-strategic significance of Asia to the West/United States in the contemporary eras of globalization. pre-req: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3530 - Comparative Constitutional Law and Judicial Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
A cross-national examination of the intersection of law and politics in the development of constitutional law, especially in newly emerging democracies. Includes an investigation of the relationship between globalization and constitutional development and the role that law plays in social control, dispute resolution, protection of minority rights, social change, and economic development. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3580 - Central American Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Explores the history, politics, culture, and modern problems in Central America. Includes examination of the differences and similarities in colonial history among Central American countries, the role of U.S. influence on Central American politics and the economy, and legacies of civil wars. Then, it focuses on modern problems of violence against women, gangs, violent crime, and governance, and how international and local organizations and individuals can (or cannot) contribute to alleviating these problems. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3600 - Political Concepts
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Fundamental political themes and concepts in political theory, including but not limited to justice, liberty, equality, power, democracy, political obligation, and community. Perspectives of diverse political philosophies and cultures may be addressed.
POL 3610 - Political Economy: An Introduction
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Relationship between politics and economics and ways they affect each other, focusing on political and economic values/goals and their role in shaping public policy; policies and policy making in selected national systems; and the international economy. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
POL 3652 - Modern Political Thought
Credits: 4.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Advanced survey of political thought from Enlightenment to the present; course topic may include one or more of the following traditions of political theorizing: English (e.g. Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Bentham, Mill, Wollstonecraft), German (e.g. Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas) or French (e.g. Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault, Derrida). pre-req: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent repeatable: Allow up to 3 repetitions totaling up to 12 credits.
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.
CSD 3010 - Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Descriptive statistics; sampling techniques and statistical inference; applications of simple and factorial design; analysis of variance; nonparametric statistics; and introductory correlational analysis used in the behavioral sciences. prereq: CSD candidate or non-CSD candidate with a minimum of 60 credits and instructor consent or instructor consent; credit will not be granted if already received for CSD 4000
ECON 2030 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics (LOGIC & QR)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to modern business statistics, emphasizing problem solving applications through statistical decision making using case studies. Topics include organization and presentation of data, summary statistics, distributions, statistical inference including estimation, and hypothesis testing. prereq: minimum 30 credits, LSBE student, pre-business or pre-accounting or Econ BA major or Graphic Design and Marketing major or Graphic Design with Marketing subplan major or Econ minor or Accounting minor or Business Admin minor or Arts Administration; credit will not be granted if already received for Econ 2020, Stat 1411, Stat 2411, Stat 3611, Soc 3151, Psy 3020
EXSC 4700 - Statistics and Research Methods in Exercise Science
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Descriptive and inferential statistical procedures and research design in exercise science. Prepares students to conduct and analyze research projects in exercise physiology, biomechanics, motor learning, and/or the psychological factors that influence exercise. prereq: 12 cr from 3200, 3300, 3400, 3410, Exercise Science major, no grad credit
PSY 2020 - Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Scientific method and designs used in published psychological research including quasi-experimental and survey designs accompanied by inferential statistics used to test research questions (including correlation and analysis of variance). prereq: psychology minor or Social Work major
PSY 3020 - Statistical Methods
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Descriptive statistics; introduction to correlational analysis and regression; sampling techniques and statistical inference; applications of simple and factorial design analysis of variance and other parametric and nonparametric hypothesis-test statistics in the behavioral sciences. prereq: Math ACT 21 or higher or Accuplacer score of 237-300 or higher or MATH 1005
SOC 2155 - Introduction to Research Methods and Analysis
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles/practice of research design, sampling, data collection including field observation/surveys. Data management, analysis, and reporting of quantitative/qualitative data. Ethics/administration in sociological research. Introduction to SPSS statistical software. Lab
STAT 2411 - Statistical Methods (LE CAT, LOGIC & QR)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Graphical and numerical descriptions of data, elementary probability, sampling distributions, estimations, confidence intervals, one-sample and two-sample t-test. prereq: Math ACT 24 or higher or a grade of at least C- in Math 1005 or higher or department approval
PSY 2021 - Developmental Psychology (LE CAT, LECD C, SOC SCI, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Major processes in human development, conception through lifespan; biological and cultural influences on physical-motor, cognitive, social, and emotional development; effects of diverse cultural traditions and values; social policy implications.
PSY 3081 - History and Systems of Psychology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Survey of historical development and current status of contemporary systems and theories in psychology. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3111 - Theories of Personality
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Basic concepts, issues, and methods involved in study of human personality; introduction to selected theories on motives, dynamics, development, and description of human nature. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3121 - Abnormal Psychology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Mental disorders, including DSM-IV classification system, etiology, and treatment. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3201 - Social Psychology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
How thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are affected by others. Social influence and interaction. Attitude measurement and change, conformity, impression formation, attribution theory, aggression, and prosocial behavior. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3061 - Physiological Psychology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Physiological basis of behavior, including central and peripheral nervous systems, sensory processes as they relate to perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, intelligence, and learning. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3611 - Learning and Behavior
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Study of basic learning and behavior processes including the evolution of behavior, pavlovian conditioning, instrumental learning, and elementary cognitive processes. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3613 - Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Change
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Overview of diverse topics and application of the principles of the science of behavior known as behavior analysis. The philosophical system known as behaviorism that underlies this area of study will be explored, as well as the application of behavioral principles to a number of areas of society, including interpersonal relationship, parenting, clinical applications and treatments for persons with intellectual and other disabilities, business and management, animal behavior, health, sustainability, and more. Students will learn techniques for utilizing the principles of behavior in their own lives, conducting functional behavior assessments, as well as the social benefits associated with the incorporation of behavioral principles into educational, rehabilitative, organizational, and other settings. prereq: 1003
PSY 3621 - Cognition
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
An overview of cognitive processes, using historical, philosophical, biological, and experimental perspectives. Course topics include attention, perception, knowledge representation memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and decision-making. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
PSY 3697 - Sensation and Perception
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Theories, methods, and findings in study of sensory and perceptual processes; psychophysics and psychophysiology of visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, cutaneous, kinesthetic, vestibular, and pain senses; analysis of perceptions of constancy, illusion, space, time, motion, and form. pre-req: PSY 1003 or instructor consent
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.
SOC 2155 - Introduction to Research Methods and Analysis
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles/practice of research design, sampling, data collection including field observation/surveys. Data management, analysis, and reporting of quantitative/qualitative data. Ethics/administration in sociological research. Introduction to SPSS statistical software. Lab
SOC 3945 - Social Stratification
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Theories and research about the effects of economic inequality in people's lives. Social class formation and the effects of institutionalized power structures. Intersection of social class, gender and race/ethnicity. Primary focus on the United States but with international comparisons. prereq: 1101 or CRIM 1301 or CSt 1101 or Anth 1604, min 30 cr or instructor consent
SOC 4111 - Sociological Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Analysis of classical and contemporary sociological theory. Major theorists, including Durkheim, Weber, and Marx; major paradigms and their importance to sociological thought. prereq: 1101, 30 cr, no grad credit; credit will not be granted if already received for SOC 2111.
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.
WS 2001 - Introduction to Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Studies (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Examines identity politics, LGBT popular media images and analysis, birth and history of LGBT social movement and intersections with other social movements, HIV/AIDS, policy/legislative issues especially immigration, marriage, adoption, and U.S. military policy; all with international comparative analysis. prereq: credit will not be granted if already received for CST 2001
AMIN 3450 - American Indian Women (CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: AMIN 3450/WS 3455
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Native women are powerful and influential members of their communities both historically and in the present. By analyzing memoirs, autobiographies, documentaries, and a variety of secondary sources, students gain an understanding of the diverse experiences, contributions, and roles of Native women in both the past and the present. prereq: minimum 30 credits
ANTH 3080 - Cultural Constructions of the Body
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: ANTH 3080/WS 3080
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Contemporary cultural constructions of the human body. How biology and culture intersect in body building, menstruation, childbirth, and tattooing. Students gain skills in reading the body as social text and learn core theoretical approaches to cultural studies of the body. prereq: minimum 30 credits or instructor consent
ANTH 3628 - Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: ANTH 3628/WS 3628
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Cross-cultural survey of gender systems, focusing on contemporary women's lives around the world. prereq: minimum 30 credits
CRIM 4323 - Women and Justice
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CRIM 4323/WS 4323
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Women's involvement in the civil and criminal justice systems, both historic and contemporary, primarily in the United States. Attention given to women as criminal and civil defendants, issues of women's civil rights, and to women practitioners within each system. Intersection of social class, gender and race/ethnicities. prereq: ANTH 1604 or CRIM 1301 or SOC 1101 or WS 1000 and 60 credits, or instructor consent; no grad credit
HLTH 3118 - Women's Health Issues
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Survey of American women's health issues. Role of women as patients and as health care providers. Language, politics, and economics of women's health care. Comparison of American women's health status to that of women around the world. prereq: Minimum 30 credits
POL 3040 - Women and Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Women's political status; implications of women's role in political process; women as political actors; feminist critique and vision of politics. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
PSY 2223 - Gender in Society (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Sociocultural, historical, and developmental formations of men's and women's roles and experiences in society. Effects on personality, interpersonal relationships, and life choices.
PSY 3215 - Topics in Human Sexuality
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Psy 3215/3216
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Biological and psychosocial factors relating to human sexuality, sexual functioning, gender, and related issues. Group discussion of societal factors, values, and attitudes and their impact on behavior. prereq: 1003 or instructor consent
SOC 4925 - Sociology of Rape
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Soc 4925/WS 4925
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Social, moral, and legal definitions and implications of rape. prereq: ANTH 1604 or CRIM 1301 or SOC 1101 or WS 1000 and 60 cr earned, or instructor consent
SOC 4947 - Sociology of Gender
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Soc 4947/WS 4947
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Status and experiences in society through the exploration of gender identities, systems, and social structures. Topics include politics, discrimination, family, education, workplace, popular culture, and changing definitions of gender. Emphasis on the expectations and performance of masculinity/femininity and the intersection of gender, race, and class. Some consideration given to global explorations and international comparisons. prereq: 1101 or CRIM 1301 or ANTH 1604 or WS 1000, min 60 cr or instructor consent
AMIN 2015 - Ojibwe History and Modern Culture (SUSTAIN)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This course examines the cultural and political history of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa life from origins to present day. Students will be introduced to the seasonal round and longstanding efforts for sustainability as well as the changes and continuities in these practices.
HIST 1400 - Modern World History from 1500 to present (LE CAT7, LEIP CAT07, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Summer Even Year
This course surveys the evolution of the world from relatively isolated regions around 1500 to the global interdependence whose trends continues to the present day. This course will examine the emergence of the interdependence among major civilizations, especially between the West and the East. This latest interaction was initiated by the European colonizations and sustained by the contributions of other civilizations. Major themes of the course include the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and environmental ramifications of the global interaction.
HIST 2405 - History of Chinese Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course examines the history of Chinese culture from the beginning of Chinese civilization, ca. 16th century BCE to the Republican period (1912 - 1949). Through a perspective of history, the course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge of major Chinese cultures in a variety of fields, from philosophy, law, calligraphy, civil examination to gender, architect, art, medicine, and marital arts. It also intends to teach students the origin, development, and end of certain cultures or practices in the course of China's long history and their impacts on neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
HIST 2410 - Modern China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam and East Asia
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Summer
This course is an introductory study to the history of major East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. It intends to examine the political, cultural, legal, diplomatic, religious, military history in this region and the interactions among themselves. But, in the modern period, with the heavy influence of the West, the history of East Asia is no longer restricted in East Asia, it has become an integral part of the world history. Therefore, the course seeks to explore the western influence on East Asia and East Asian countries; responses to the West.
HIST 2515 - Ancient to Pre-Modern African History (LE CAT7, LECD CAT07, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This course considers African peoples and states from Ancient times through the Pre-Modern era. The unique geography, vast history, varied political, and dynamic social life of Africa will be examined. We will discuss the importance of understanding Africa, and the important contributions the study of Africa has made to our knowledge of the world in which we live. We will give particular attention to how and why states form, were sustained and reproduced. In addition to considering the birth of humanity, we will look at state formation processes of ancient and pre-modern African states such as Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Ghana, the Empire of Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili city-states. What makes these states states? What are the social needs of developments that give rise to political activities such as providing security, adjudicating disputes, creating laws and enforcing order? Are there identifiable patterns of relations with other peoples and states?
HIST 3463 - History of Modern China
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines Chinese history from the early 1300s, late Yuan dynasty through the early 20th century. The focus of the course will be the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, cultural, and diplomatic history in both dynasties. It intends to teach students the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China since middle 1300s and the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China. Ming and Qing dynasties have many things in common, albeit the Ming was founded by a Han peasant and the Qing was created by a Manchu noble.
HIST 3465 - Twentieth Century China Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines Chinese history from the late Qing to the present with a particular attention on the Chinese political, legal, social, and diplomatic history. Teaches the various factors that gradually influenced the historical course of China, the important roles that the West and Japan played in shaping modern China, the causes and consequences of the numerous political movements in the early stage of the People's Republic of China, and China's recent massive reform efforts to prosperity.
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present (GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines developments of politics, religion, culture in the contemporary Middle East from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include contacts with the west, connections between modernity, democracy and Islam; gender; national identity; globalization and societal transformation in the urban Middle East.
HIST 4727 - Middle Eastern History Through Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines regional Middle Eastern history through documentary and feature film and printed sources. This course will give students an overview of the most significant themes of Middle Eastern history - religious, political, social, and cultural - from the rise and spread of Islam globally to the assimilation of the region to the world economy in modern times. prereq: 30 credits, no grad credit
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature of political development; individual and institutional causes and consequences of development; political economy of the Third World. prereq: 30 earned or in-progress credits or instructor consent
SPAN 2540 - Latino Literatures and Cultures (LE CAT8, LECD CAT08, HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of Latino communities in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include the Spanish legacy in the Southeast and Southwest, Caribbean communities on the East coast and demographic transition away from major metropolitan areas to the Midwest. Students will read travel narratives, fiction, poetry, and theater, and will have the opportunity to collect oral histories from Latinos in Minnesota. The course is open to all students and will be taught in English.