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COMM 1101 - Introduction to Public Speaking (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 1101/Comm 1101H/PSTL 1461
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Public communication processes, elements, and ethics. Criticism of and response to public discourse. Practice in individual speaking designed to encourage civic participation.

WRIT 3562W - Technical and Professional Writing (WI)

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

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

ENGL 3027W - The Essay (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngC 3027W/EngL 3027W
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. The instructor helps the student develop more sophisticated research strategies and experiment with more creative stylistic choices. Assignments might include autobiographies, critical comparisons, reviews of articles or books, cultural analyses, persuasive essays, and annotated bibliographies. Students in this course learn to 1) generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition, 2) write for multiple audiences?academic and non-academic?making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format, 3) write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis, 4) analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field, and 5) experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.

WRIT 3029W - Business and Professional Writing (WI)

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

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

HSG 3462 - Housing and Community Development

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

Meaning/significance of neighborhood/community, residential neighborhood change, impact of housing on neighborhood conditions. Gentrification, displacement, racial segregation, suburbanization, community-based revitalization.

HSG 4196 - Internship in Housing Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ADes 4196/IGDes 4196/Hsg 4196/
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Supervised work experience relating activity in business, industry, or government to the student's area of study. Integrative paper or project may be required. prereq: Completion of at least one-half of professional sequence, plan submitted/approved in advance by [adviser, internship supervisor], written consent of faculty supervisor, instr consent

HSG 4461 - Housing Development and Management

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

Housing development process/financing. Management of multifamily housing. Emphasizes housing for low-income families/specific populations (e.g., older residents).

HSG 5463 - Housing Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hsg 5463/PA 5261
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Institutional/environmental settings that make up housing policy in the United States. Competing ideas about solving housing problems through public intervention in the market. Federal/local public sector responses to housing problems. prereq: [[2401 or DHA 2401], [2463 or DHA 2463]] or instr consent

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

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

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

ARCH 1281 - Design Fundamentals I (AH)

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

Using architecture broadly defined, students will develop essential habits of work and mind, as well as an ability to understand the relationship between drawing, making and exploring. The course will introduce and begin to build an understanding of the role of iteration and critique, as well as traditional and contemporary modes of representation in architecture.

LA 1201 - Learning from the Landscape (AH, DSJ)

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

This course is about the ordinary landscape: the objects, spaces, sites, and stories that are the stage for our everyday lives. But the landscape is not just a neutral stage. The landscape influences our lives and we construct and shape the landscape. This course examines the landscape through lenses of race, equity, justice, and climate change, taking an environmental justice framing in our investigations.

HSG 4465 - Housing in a Global Perspective

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

Demographic changes, economic connections, and public policies for housing around the world. Sustainable development, rural-to-urban migration, land distribution, economic globalization, and civil conflict and war.

APEC 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 1101/1104/1111/ApEc 1101
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Economic behavior of consumers/firms in domestic/international markets. Demand, supply, competition. Efficiency, Invisible Hand. Monopoly, imperfect competition. Externalities, property rights. Economics of public policy in environment/health/safety. Public goods, tax policy.

APEC 1102 - Principles of Macroeconomics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 1102/Econ 1102/1105/1112
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Unemployment/inflation, measures of national income, macro models, fiscal policy/problems. Taxes and the national debt. Money/banking, monetary policy/problems. Poverty and income distribution. International trade and exchange rates. Economic growth/development. prereq: 1101 or Econ 1101

ECON 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 1101/1104/1111/ApEc 1101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Microeconomic behavior of consumers, firms, and markets in domestic and world economy. Demand and supply. Competition and monopoly. Distribution of income. Economic interdependencies in the global economy. Effects of global linkages on individual decisions. prereq: knowledge of plane geometry and advanced algebra

ECON 1102 - Principles of Macroeconomics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 1102/Econ 1102/1105/1112
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Aggregate consumption, saving, investment, and national income. Role of money, banking, and business cycles in domestic and world economy. International trade, growth, and development. U.S. economy and its role in the world economy. International interdependencies among nations. prereq: [1101 or equiv], knowledge of plane geometry and advanced algebra

FSOS 3101 - Personal and Family Finances

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

Analysis of personal/family financial management principles. Financial planning of savings, investments, credit, mortgages, and taxation. Life, disability, health, and property insurance. Public/private pensions. Estate planning.

FSOS 3102 - Family Systems and Diversity (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3102/FSOS 5101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Family systems/theories applied to dynamics/processes relevant to family life. Diversity issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Divorce, single parenthood, remarriage. Family strengths/problems. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

FSOS 2106 - Family Resource Management

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

Analysis of how individuals/families use interpersonal, economic, natural, and community resources to make decisions, solve problems, and achieve central life purposes.

GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities (DSJ, WI)

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

Introduction to cities and suburbs as unique crossroads of cultural, social, and political processes. Competing/conflicting visions of city life, cultural diversity, and justice. Focuses on the American city.

PA 4200 - Urban and Regional Planning

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

Fundamental principles of urban/regional land-use planning. Introduction to planning theory and its applications. Political-economic context of urban/regional planning.

EPSY 3264 - Basic and Applied Statistics (MATH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 3264/EPsy 5261
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introductory statistics. Emphasizes understanding/applying statistical concepts/procedures. Visual/quantitative methods for presenting/analyzing data, common descriptive indices for univariate/bivariate data. Inferential techniques.

BA 2551 - Business Statistics in R (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BA 2551/SCO 2550
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The purpose of the course is to develop skills for improving data-driven decision-making using statistical techniques in the powerful statistical software environment R. As an introductory statistics course, the content will include three main areas of statistics: Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Inference, and Analysis of Relationships with Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression. Developing statistical literacy is increasingly important in understanding data and engaging in the complex business world. BA 2551 focuses on statistical reasoning and how to implement statistical methods in a business context using R. Topics include (but are not limited to) descriptive statistics, statistical inference, variability, sampling, distributions, correlation analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, graphical summaries of data, and introduction to linear regression. Through weekly in-class lab sessions and critical thinking assignments related to statistics in business, the course will train students to become informed consumers of numerical information and provide foundational skills in R to compute statistical procedures in future courses. We use existing packages in R as a tool to enable us to solve business problems that can leverage mathematical and statistical thinking. prereq: [Math 1031 or equiv]

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

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

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

STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis (MATH)

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

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

SSM 3612 - Systems Approach to Building Science and Construction

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	SSM 3612/SSM 5612
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Dynamic/interrelated issues of energy, moisture control, indoor air quality in residential bldgs. Design, construction, and operational aspects for energy efficient, durable structure/healthy living environment. Interaction between moisture and wood products within building system. prereq: Upper div or instr consent

APEC 3001 - Applied Microeconomics: Consumers, Producers, and Markets

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 3101/Econ 3101H/ApEc 3001
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Consumer/producer decisions. Theory of supply/demand. Markets, pricing, investment, effect regulation, market failures. prereq: [[1101 or ECON 1101 or 1101H or ECON 1101H], [MATH 1142 or MATH 1271]] or instr consent; intended for undergrads in [Ag/Food Bus Mgmt, Appl Econ]

APEC 3002 - Managerial Economics

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

Microeconomic theory, its application to managerial problems. Introduction to regression analysis, demand analysis, demand function estimation, forecasting, cost function estimation, resource allocation decisions, linear programming, market structure, pricing policy, risk analysis, investment analysis. prereq - ApEc 3001 or Econ 3101 AND SCO 2550 or Stat 3011

APEC 3006 - Applied Macroeconomics: Government and the Economy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 3102/ApEc 3006
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course covers the core topics in macroeconomics including monetary policy, fiscal policy (including government expenditures and taxation), output, output growth, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation, expectations, GDP accounting, and balance of payments statements. The course modality alternates between in person and remote, depending on the semester and instructor. prereq: [[1102 or Econ 1102], [3001 or Econ 3101]] or instr consent

HSG 4465 - Housing in a Global Perspective

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

Demographic changes, economic connections, and public policies for housing around the world. Sustainable development, rural-to-urban migration, land distribution, economic globalization, and civil conflict and war.

FINA 3001 - Finance Fundamentals

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 3501/Fina 3001/Fina 3001H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How competition for capital in Capital Markets establishes metrics and measures used to understand financial performance of the firm. The course introduces the finance view of the firm and the application of value creation principles to firm decision making. Course presents the centrality of cash flows, the theoretical foundations for Time Value of Money, decision tools for investment of capital, basic valuation of stocks and bonds, and the theoretical foundations for the impact of risk on the required return on investor capital. prereq: ACCT 2050 or ACCT 2051, SCO 2550 or BA 2551 or equivalent statistics course

MGMT 3001 - Fundamentals of Management

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

This course is about the foundational principles of management, encompassing disciplinary and topical boundaries. We will look at these principles from the perspective of how they guide action, specifically: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. By the end of the course, students will know the basics of how to set up organizations to be effective and innovative, and not just efficient. During the course, you will engage with the material in the course and understand how management frameworks can be used to choose the right internal structures and processes that can best react to your particular industry context and general business environment.

MKTG 3001 - Principles of Marketing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Mktg 3001/Mktg 3001H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to terms, concepts, and skills for analyzing marketing problems. Factors outside the organization affecting its product, pricing, promotion, and distribution decisions. Cases from actual organizations. prereq: ECON 1101 or ECON 1165

MKTG 3011 - Marketing Research

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

This course focuses on managing the entire marketing research process, which involves collecting and analyzing relevant, timely, and accurate information to gain customer insights and drive effective marketing decision making. Students learn fundamental techniques of data collection and analysis to solve specific marketing problems. The class offers hands-on learning-by-doing opportunities through group projects for students to practice every stage of marketing research. prereqs: 3001 and BA 2551 or SCO 2550 or equivalent statistics course

MKTG 3041 - Buyer Behavior

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Mktg 3040/Mktg 3041
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Application of behavioral sciences to buyer behavior. Perception, attitudes, learning, persuasion, motivation, decision-making, social/cultural influences, managerial implications. prereq: 3001

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

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

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

APEC 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 1101/1104/1111/ApEc 1101
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Economic behavior of consumers/firms in domestic/international markets. Demand, supply, competition. Efficiency, Invisible Hand. Monopoly, imperfect competition. Externalities, property rights. Economics of public policy in environment/health/safety. Public goods, tax policy.

ECON 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 1101/1104/1111/ApEc 1101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Microeconomic behavior of consumers, firms, and markets in domestic and world economy. Demand and supply. Competition and monopoly. Distribution of income. Economic interdependencies in the global economy. Effects of global linkages on individual decisions. prereq: knowledge of plane geometry and advanced algebra

APEC 1102 - Principles of Macroeconomics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 1102/Econ 1102/1105/1112
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Unemployment/inflation, measures of national income, macro models, fiscal policy/problems. Taxes and the national debt. Money/banking, monetary policy/problems. Poverty and income distribution. International trade and exchange rates. Economic growth/development. prereq: 1101 or Econ 1101

ECON 1102 - Principles of Macroeconomics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 1102/Econ 1102/1105/1112
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Aggregate consumption, saving, investment, and national income. Role of money, banking, and business cycles in domestic and world economy. International trade, growth, and development. U.S. economy and its role in the world economy. International interdependencies among nations. prereq: [1101 or equiv], knowledge of plane geometry and advanced algebra

APEC 1251 - Principles of Accounting

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Acct 2050/ApEc 1251/Dbln 2051
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Financial accounting. Theory, concepts, principles, procedures. Preparation/understanding of the four financial statements.

ACCT 2051 - Introduction to Financial Reporting

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Acct 2050/ApEc 1251/Dbln 2051
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course introduces the topics of financial reporting and accounting. The purpose of financial accounting is to provide information to the entity owners and external parties to serve as the basis for making decisions about that entity. A student who successfully completes this class should be able to 1) understand the concepts and principles of accounting, 2) analyze, record and report the accounting treatment of business transactions, and 3) prepare, interpret, and analyze financial statements.

GERO 5105 - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Aging

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Obtain a broad understanding of the multidisciplinary perspectives, theoretical underpinnings, and advancements in the study of aging ("gerontology"), in the inter-related domains of clinical geriatrics, psychology, sociology, and policy as related to aging.

KIN 5385 - Exercise for Healthy Aging & Disease Prevention and Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Physiology or biology undergrad
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Exercise testing/prescription with modifications required because of special considerations associated with aging, gender differences, or presence of medical conditions. prereq: Physiology or biology undergrad

PUBH 3001 - Personal and Community Health

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

Fundamental principles of health conservation and disease prevention.

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

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

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

FSOS 3101 - Personal and Family Finances

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

Analysis of personal/family financial management principles. Financial planning of savings, investments, credit, mortgages, and taxation. Life, disability, health, and property insurance. Public/private pensions. Estate planning.

FSOS 3102 - Family Systems and Diversity (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3102/FSOS 5101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Family systems/theories applied to dynamics/processes relevant to family life. Diversity issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Divorce, single parenthood, remarriage. Family strengths/problems. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

FSOS 3426 - Alcohol and Drugs: Families and Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3426/FSOS 5426
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Psychology/sociology of drug use/abuse. Life-span, epidemiological, familial, cultural data regarding use. Fundamentals of licit/illicit drug use behavior. Variables of gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, sexual orientation, disability.

FSOS 2106 - Family Resource Management

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

Analysis of how individuals/families use interpersonal, economic, natural, and community resources to make decisions, solve problems, and achieve central life purposes.

FSOS 4153 - Family Financial Counseling

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

Family financial issues are studied with an emphasis on the role of the financial counselor. This course emphasizes the development of professional skills for assisting individuals and families to cope with financial concerns in their day-to-day lives. This course includes an optional service-learning component where students will work throughout the semester with local non-profit organizations focused on financial literacy, financial counseling, financial curriculum development, and/or researching financial resources. This course will require students to produce video recordings. At minimum students will need recording equipment that captures both video and audio. The resulting file will need to be uploaded to the internet. Laptops with webcams and smart phones with video capabilities should be sufficient for this purpose. Equipment and training are available from the Library's SMART Learning Commons.

PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy

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

Nature/extent of poverty/inequality in the United States, causes/consequences, impact of government programs/policies. Extent/causes of poverty/inequality in other developed/developing countries. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5421 - Racial Inequality and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical roots of racial inequality in American society. Contemporary economic consequences. Public policy responses to racial inequality. Emphasizes thinking/analysis that is critical of strategies offered for reducing racism and racial economic inequality. prereq: Grad or instr consent

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

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

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

PUBH 3001 - Personal and Community Health

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

Fundamental principles of health conservation and disease prevention.

PUBH 3003 - Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3003/PubH 3004/PubH 3005/
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scientific, sociocultural, and attitudinal aspects of alcohol and other drug abuse problems. Emphasizes incidence, high-risk populations, prevention, and intervention.

SOC 1001 - Introduction to Sociology (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 1001/Soc 1011V/Soc 1012W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is designed to introduce you to the study of society and what sociologists call the "sociological imagination:" a way of viewing the events, relationships and social phenomena that shape our individual lives and much of our collective experience. Through the course we will examine some of the central concepts and problems that have preoccupied both classical and contemporary sociologists and gain a sense of how the sociological imagination can illuminate the social forces that have a concrete impact on our everyday lives. Throughout the course you will be asked to consider the ways in which society affects your life, and how you, in turn, affect society. prereq: Soc Majors/Minors must register A-F

SOC 3201 - Inequality: Introduction to Stratification

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

Why does inequality exist? How does it work? These are the essential questions examined in this class. Topics range from welfare and poverty to the role of race and gender in getting ahead. We will pay particular attention to social inequities � why some people live longer and happier lives while others are burdened by worry, poverty, and ill health. prereq: soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3211W - Race and Racism in the US (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3211W/Soc 3211W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

We live in a society steeped in racial understandings that are often invisible?some that are hard to see, and others that we work hard not to see. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. This course is designed to help students begin to develop their own informed perspectives on American racial ?problems? by introducing them to the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism. We will expand our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics by exploring the experiences of specific groups in the U.S. and how race/ethnicity intersects with sources of stratification such as class, nationality, and gender. The course will conclude by re-considering ideas about assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, our goal will be to consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power, and inequality affecting everyone in the society albeit in different ways.

SOC 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3451W - Cities & Social Change (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 3451W/Soc 3451V
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

The core themes of this class will provide an essential toolkit for approaching broad questions about social justice, culture, work, housing and service provision on multiple levels and across the globe. This course will have units on economic development, inequality, the interaction between design and human action, inclusive and exclusive cultural formations, crime and cultures of fear, social control and surveillance. prereq: 1001 recommended, Soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3501 - Sociology of Families (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Family has long been a significant experience in human societies; much of what we understand ourselves to be, arises in family life. But family also varies widely in composition across time and place. We will learn how sociologists study and understand families theoretically, as social institutions, as well as sites and sources of social problems. prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F

SW 5101 - Historical Origins and Contemporary Policies in Social Welfare

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Contemporary policies and programs in social welfare are examined in light of their historical origins and evolution. A framework is then developed for analysis of concepts and principles in contemporary social policy for social welfare programs and services. The emergence of the profession of social work also examined.

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

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

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

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

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

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

AGRO 5321 - Ecology of Agricultural Systems

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

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

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

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

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

ANTH 4053 - Economy, Culture, and Critique (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 4053/8205
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Systems of production/distribution, especially in nonindustrial societies. Comparison, history, critique of major theories. Cross-cultural anthropological approach to material life that subsumes market/nonmarket processes.

ANTH 4069 - Historical Ecology & Anthropology of the Environment

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

This seminar course discusses current approaches to historical ecology, the study of human-environmental relationships over time. The course draws on and combines perspectives from the four subdisciplines of anthropology (archaeological anthropology, bioarchaeological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology), and similar disciplines, to understand the varying ways that scholars have analyzed and defined ecologies and environmental problems. It places particular emphasis on theories that define human relationships to the environment as recursive and interdependent. These theories stand in contrast to common Western theological suppositions that see the environment as a framework to which human societies adapt or a set of resources for human communities to exploit. Rather, historical ecologists argue that the environment is a true ecology with humans in it. They contend that human communities are fundamentally and inextricably intertwined with the life cycles and needs of other species, and consequently they study how human-environmental interactions emerge through distinct historical processes and cultural circumstances.

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

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

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

ARCH 4561 - Architecture and Ecology (ENV)

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

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

BBE 4733 - Renewable Energy Technologies (TS)

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

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

CEGE 3501 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering (ENV)

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

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

CEGE 4561 - Solids and Hazardous Wastes

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

This course will serve as an introduction to the topics of solid and hazardous waste management. Classes will incorporate information about prevention, treatment options, and the regulations surrounding solid and hazardous waste. They will also provide an opportunity to observe different methods of waste treatment in action.

CEGE 5212 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CEGE 5212/PA 5232
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Techniques of analysis and planning for transportation services. Demand-supply interactions. Evaluating transportation alternatives. Travel demand forecasting. Integrated model systems. Citizen participation in decision-making. prereq: 3201 or equiv, upper division CSE, or grad student

CEGE 5214 - Infrastructure Systems Engineering

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Systems approach, its application to transportation engineering/planning. Prediction of flows and level of service. Production functions, cost optimization, utility theory, demand modeling, transportation network analysis, equilibrium assignment, decision analysis, multidimensional evaluation of transportation projects. prereq: Math 2373 or equivalent, Math 2263 or equivalent. CEGE 3101 or equivalent, CEGE 3102 or eqiuvalent, CEGE graduate student or instructors consent.

EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society (ENV)

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

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

EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology (ENV, WI)

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

Regulation of energy and elements cycling through ecosystems. Dependence of cycles on kinds/numbers of species within ecosystems. Effects of human-induced global changes on functioning of ecosystems.

ENGL 3501 - Public Discourse: Coming to Terms with the Environment (LITR, ENV)

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

This course explores significant environmental issues (such as environmental justice, toxic chemicals, climate change) through the analysis of texts from diverse literary genres. It focuses as much on issues of language and meaning as it does on the subjects these texts concern. Students examine the formal dimensions of these texts, as well as their social and historical contexts. In addition, students are introduced to the underlying scientific principles, the limitations of technologies, and the public policy aspects of each of these issues, in order to judge what constitutes an appropriate response to them. Students also learn how to identify and evaluate credible information concerning the environment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ESPM 3245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3245/ESPM 5245
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Policies affecting land use planning at local, state, and federal levels. Ecosystem and landscape scale planning. Collaborative and community-based approaches to planning for ecological, social, and economic sustainability. Class project applies interdisciplinary perspectives on planning and policy, including information gathering techniques, conservation planning tools, and evaluation of planning options.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ESPM 3602 - Regulations and Corporate Environmental Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3602/ESPM 5602
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts/issues relating to industrial ecology and industry as they are influenced by current standards/regulations at local, state, and national levels. prereq: APEC 1101 or ECON 1101 or 3261W

ESPM 3603 - Environmental Life Cycle Analysis

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

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

ESPM 3604 - Environmental Management Systems and Strategy

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

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

ESPM 5245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3245/ESPM 5245
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Planning theories, concepts, and constructs. Policies, processes, and tools for sustainable land use planning. Scientific/technical literature related to land use planning. Skills needed to participate in sustainable land use planning.

ESPM 5602 - Regulations and Corporate Environmental Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3602/ESPM 5602
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts, major issues relating to industrial ecology and industry as they are influenced by current standards/regulations at local, state, and national levels. prereq: APEC 1101 or ECON 1101

FW 4102 - Principles of Conservation Biology (ENV)

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

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

ESCI 3005 - Earth Resources

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

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

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

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

Concepts for analyzing relations between capitalist development and environment in Third World. Historical geography of capitalist development. Case studies. Likelihood of social/environmental sustainability. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

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

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

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

GLOS 3303 - Environment and Development in the Third World (SOCS, ENV)

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

Concepts for analyzing relations between capitalist development and environment in Third World. Historical geography of capitalist development. Case studies. Likelihood of social/environmental sustainability. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

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

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

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

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

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

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

LA 4755 - Infrastructure, Natural Systems, and Space of Inhabited Landscapes (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	LA 4755/LA 5755
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Seminar, cross-disciplinary. Urban infrastructural solutions to mitigate/reverse anthropogenic impacts on Earth. Design of sustainable urban infrastructure systems. Policy options, technologies. Criteria, design methods. prereq: Jr or sr

PA 5232 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CEGE 5212/PA 5232
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Development of transportation policy, making of transportation plans, deployment of transportation technologies. Lectures, interactive case studies, role playing.

PHIL 3301 - Environmental Ethics (ENV)

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

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

SOC 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (SOCS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUST 3003 - Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet (ENV)

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

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

SUST 4004 - Sustainable Communities

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

Students synthesize multiple disciplinary perspectives and integrate insights gained from various approaches/methods. Concepts/scholarship related to sustainability. Applying knowledge/experience to real sustainability problems. prereq: [3003 or GLOS 3304, [jr or sr] in sustainability studies minor] or instr consent

URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment (ENV)

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

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

HSG 4465 - Housing in a Global Perspective

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

Demographic changes, economic connections, and public policies for housing around the world. Sustainable development, rural-to-urban migration, land distribution, economic globalization, and civil conflict and war.

FSOS 3102 - Family Systems and Diversity (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3102/FSOS 5101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Family systems/theories applied to dynamics/processes relevant to family life. Diversity issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Divorce, single parenthood, remarriage. Family strengths/problems. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities (DSJ, WI)

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

Introduction to cities and suburbs as unique crossroads of cultural, social, and political processes. Competing/conflicting visions of city life, cultural diversity, and justice. Focuses on the American city.

GEOG 3373 - Changing Form of the City (HIS, GP)

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

Urban origins, ancient cultures/cities, the medieval city, rediscovery of planning, colonial cities. Industrialization and urban expansion. Speculative cities, utopian cities, planning triumphs/disasters. Cities as reflections of society, culture, the past.

PA 4200 - Urban and Regional Planning

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

Fundamental principles of urban/regional land-use planning. Introduction to planning theory and its applications. Political-economic context of urban/regional planning.

PA 5002 - Introduction to Policy Analysis

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Process of public policy analysis from problem structuring to communication of findings. Commonly used analytical methods. Alternative models of analytical problem resolution.

PA 5004 - Introduction to Planning

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

History/institutional development of urban planning as profession. Intellectual foundations, planning theory. Roles of urban planners in U.S./international settings. Scope, legitimacy, limitations of planning/planning process. Issues in planning ethics/settings of diverse populations/stakeholders. prereq: Major/minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5013 - Law and Urban Land Use

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Role of law in regulating/shaping urban development, land use, environmental quality, local/regional governmental services. Interface between public/private sector. prereq: Major or minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5212 - Managing Urban Growth and Change

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

Theory/practice of planning, promoting, and controlling economic growth/change in urban areas. Economic development tools available to state/local policymakers, historic context of their use in the United States. legal, social, and economic implementation constraints. Interactions among economic, social, and demographic trends. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

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

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

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

SOC 1001 - Introduction to Sociology (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 1001/Soc 1011V/Soc 1012W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is designed to introduce you to the study of society and what sociologists call the "sociological imagination:" a way of viewing the events, relationships and social phenomena that shape our individual lives and much of our collective experience. Through the course we will examine some of the central concepts and problems that have preoccupied both classical and contemporary sociologists and gain a sense of how the sociological imagination can illuminate the social forces that have a concrete impact on our everyday lives. Throughout the course you will be asked to consider the ways in which society affects your life, and how you, in turn, affect society. prereq: Soc Majors/Minors must register A-F

SOC 3201 - Inequality: Introduction to Stratification

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

Why does inequality exist? How does it work? These are the essential questions examined in this class. Topics range from welfare and poverty to the role of race and gender in getting ahead. We will pay particular attention to social inequities � why some people live longer and happier lives while others are burdened by worry, poverty, and ill health. prereq: soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3211W - Race and Racism in the US (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3211W/Soc 3211W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

We live in a society steeped in racial understandings that are often invisible?some that are hard to see, and others that we work hard not to see. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. This course is designed to help students begin to develop their own informed perspectives on American racial ?problems? by introducing them to the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism. We will expand our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics by exploring the experiences of specific groups in the U.S. and how race/ethnicity intersects with sources of stratification such as class, nationality, and gender. The course will conclude by re-considering ideas about assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, our goal will be to consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power, and inequality affecting everyone in the society albeit in different ways.

SOC 3451W - Cities & Social Change (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 3451W/Soc 3451V
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

The core themes of this class will provide an essential toolkit for approaching broad questions about social justice, culture, work, housing and service provision on multiple levels and across the globe. This course will have units on economic development, inequality, the interaction between design and human action, inclusive and exclusive cultural formations, crime and cultures of fear, social control and surveillance. prereq: 1001 recommended, Soc majors/minors must register A-F

URBS 1001W - Introduction to Urban Studies: The Complexity of Metropolitan Life (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Urbs 1001W/Urbs 3001W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Interdisciplinary course, ranging across spatial, historical, economic, political, and design perspectives, among many others.

URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment (ENV)

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

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

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

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

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

ARCH 3412W - Architectural History Since 1750 (HIS, GP, WI)

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

Examples of the built environment from the Enlightenment to the present are studied within a broad social, cultural, and political context. Major architectural movements and their associated forms and designs. prereq: Soph or above

ARCH 4672 - Historic Building Conservation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Arch 4672/Arch 5672
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historic building materials, systems, methods of conservation. Structural systems, building repair/pathology. Introducing new environmental systems. Conserving interiors. Research on materials/techniques, using primary/secondary resources. Documenting with photography/measured drawings. prereq: 4671 or concurrent enrollment in 4671 or instr consent

ARCH 5673 - Historic Property Research and Documentation

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

Philosophy, theory, methods of historic building research. Descriptive analysis of buildings, building documentation, historical archaeology, architectural taxonomy. prereq: [3412, 3641, 4671, 5671, 4672 or 5672] or instr consent

SSM 4614 - Building Systems Performance: Testing & Diagnostics

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	SSM 4614/SSM 5614
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Theoretical basis for performance testing. Diagnostics applications for residential structures. Existing structures, retrofit/remedial applications. Digital differential pressure gauges, blower doors, airflow hoods/grids, duct pressure testing, infrared thermography. Hands-on equipment use, problem solving. prereq: SSM 3612

IDES 1601 - Interior Design Studio I

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

Theories used to solve interior design problems related to human behavior. Design process. Communication skills that are required for interior design profession. prereq: Interior design pre-major or interior environments minor

IDES 1602 - Interior Design Studio II

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

Introduction to interior design programming as method for understanding behaviors/requirements of humans in spaces. Use of color in three-dimensional environments. Developing communication skills. Problem-solving. prereq: [1601 or DHA 1601] with grade of at least C-, interior design pre-major

IDES 2612 - Interior Materials and Specifications (ENV)

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

Environmental issues, from global to interior spaces. Effect of building codes/legislation, social awareness. Functional/aesthetic relation of materials/resources to interior design. prereq: [Pass portfolio review, interior design major] or interior environments minor or design minor or instr consent

IDES 2613 - Interior Structures, Systems, and Life Safety

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

Codes, standards, regulations, and guidelines that govern design of interior space and support life safety. Integration of building systems. Structures for non-residential/residential occupancy. Building/energy codes. Lectures, guest speakers, field trips.

HSG 4465 - Housing in a Global Perspective

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

Demographic changes, economic connections, and public policies for housing around the world. Sustainable development, rural-to-urban migration, land distribution, economic globalization, and civil conflict and war.

PUBH 3001 - Personal and Community Health

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

Fundamental principles of health conservation and disease prevention.

PUBH 3102 - Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health

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

This course is an introduction to the field of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH), the impact of environmental and occupational hazards on individuals and communities, the approaches taken to address EOH issues at the community level,and the challenges that must be overcome to ensure success in dealing with EOH issues. Students will review scientific literature to learn about interventions for environmental health problems, and practice identifying environmental health problems and interventions in their communities. The focus of this course will be on the interaction between humans and the environment and how this interaction affects human health. Online Course.

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

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

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

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Housing Studies B.S.