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CI 3101 - Issues in Urban Education

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

Issues in urban education examines and critiques contemporary commentary on urban education through texts, social media, case studies, and service-learning in schools. Through examination of socio-cultural and socio-political contexts of urban education, this course considers the role of teachers, curriculum, and community in urban schooling.

CI 4121 - Culture Power and Education (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CI 4121/CI 5121
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Manifestations of culture/power in education. How culture is mediating factor in educational achievement of students of color. Relationship between home/community, school cultures. Theories/research that show importance of integrating students' interests, knowledge, experience for increasing student engagement/achievement.

CI 4122 - Social Class Education and Pedagogy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CI 4122/CI 5122
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Social, psychological, economic, political aspects of social class/poverty. Implications for education as social institution/classroom pedagogy. Social class in U.S., working-class literature for adults/children, labor histories, economic systems.

CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education

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

Applies current sociolinguistic and discourse theory/research to study of relationships between language and culture in educational settings: language curriculum and instruction; classroom language use; borders between school and home/community language use; and educational policies on literacy/second-language instruction.

CI 5464 - The Politics of Literacy and Race in Schools

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

Literacy and race in schools examined, especially how power plays out, and what are the possibilities for creating radical democratic forms of life. Conceptions of language, literacy, whiteness, and racial identities are explored. Topics include educators� talk and silence about race, Ebonics, and youth�s racial identities in global times.

AAS 1101 - Imagining Asian America (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 1101/AMST 1101/ANTH 1101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

What are the histories, cultures, and experiences of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing group in the United States? How do they fit into the U.S.'s history of immigration, race, and citizenship? Is the "model minority" myth really true? This course is an introduction to Asian American Studies, an interdisciplinary field that uses ethnography, literature, histories, films, memoirs, and other texts to study how the history of Asian immigration to the United States has visibly shaped existing Asian American communities and identities, and how "Asian America" is central to a more general understanding of American popular culture and public life. The course is roughly organized chronologically. We will first begin with an introduction to the field of Asian American Studies by asking the questions: What is Asian America? What is Asian American Studies" We will then examine important concepts, categories, and processes before exploring the rich history of Asian migration to the United States and contemporary issues facing Asian Americans today. One of the core principles of this course is to encourage active and interdisciplinary learning. This means that we will be learning in a variety of ways to explore and understand the material (reading, writing, watching, listening, seeing, discussing, presenting). We will be drawing from a wide range of disciplines (history, law, sociology, education, cultural studies, psychology, etc.). And we will be using a variety of materials (memoir, scholarly articles, historical documents, government records, newspapers, films, photographs, popular culture, etc.) Your active participation in these activities is essential.

AAS 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History (HIS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3875W/Hist 3875W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America. The focus is placed on how American Indians, African Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Latin America struggle over identity, place, and meanings of these categories in society where racial hierarchy not only determined every aspect of how they lived, but also functioned as a lever to reconstitute a new nation and empire in the aftermath of the Civil War. We are interested in studying how these diverse groups experienced racialization not in the same way but in various and distinct ways in relation to each other.

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

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

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

AFRO 1021 - Introduction to Africa (GP)

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

A comparative regional examination of contemporary African challenges and varied struggles using case studies, and a range of analytical parameters. Of particular focus will be issues of political destabilization, social fragmentation,economic disruption; internal displacement and international migration within regional and global contexts.

AFRO 1023W - Introduction to African World Literature (GP, LITR, WI)

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

Childhood is a time of intense growth and dramatic change; of rapid physical, mental and emotional development. It is a time of discovering, experiencing, exploring; of exuberant curiosity and creativity. It is a state characterized by play and activity, innocence and wonder, surprise and delight. But childhood can also be a time of great confusion and uncertainty; of doubt, turmoil and anxiety. Through select pieces of short fiction, prose, essays and cinematic works, we will analyze the popularity of the coming?of?age genre (or bildungsroman) as a primary mode of formative response within the African world literary tradition. We will consider how the autobiographical or semi-autobiographical story, told by a narrator who is growing up and becoming conscious of their body, their familial and wider social surroundings, their emotions, their very identity, dramatizes the cultural, political, and historical contexts in which it is set. Through our exploration of socialization as a thematic component of the bildungsroman, we will examine how ?coming-of-age? comes to represent something very different for boys and for girls.

AFRO 3125W - Black Visions of Liberation: Ella, Martin, Malcolm, and the Radical Transformation of U.S. Democracy (CIV, WI)

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

Course on the critical thought of Black intellectual-activists and others enmeshed in the struggles for the radical transformation of U.S. democracy. Introduces the following three leaders and activists--Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X--whose work in the building of the Black freedom movement spanned the period from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Course proposition is that their life and times in the struggle for liberation offer important insights into the transformation of the U.S. political economy from the welfare/warfare state to the neoliberal state. These intellectual-activists, as well as others who translate their radical traditions through Black-Brown and Afro-Asian solidarity projects (e.g. Grace Lee Boggs of Detroit) have responded to racial formation in the U.S. and presented not just visions of liberation but concrete alternatives at the grassroots to usher in a more just, egalitarian, and ethical society.

AFRO 3301 - The Music of Black Americans (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3301/Mus 3301
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course examines the variety of ways African and African Americans express social history through music. It will consider the union of African elements and European elements that combined to present a new syncretized African-American product. To do this it is imperative that we explore the diversity of musical ?voices? found within the African American culture. This diversity can be seen in the struggles to retain African cultural effects and the desire to be eclectic, creative, and contemporary. Such an approach to the study of the place of Black music in American music corresponds with the criteria of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Liberal Education. The ?multi-layered operation of power, prestige, and privilege? can be understood through an examination of the music of African Americans, which represents both a Free African voice and an enslaved African voice; the western-trained Black performer/composer and the self-taught performer/composer. It also represents the habits of well-to-do African Americans and the poor African Americans. Students will examine the complexities of the history of African Americans and how this is played out in the development of musical styles and genres. From this, students will then begin to understand how this unique diversity within a community affects those outside of those communities. Such an approach to the study of the place of Black music in American music corresponds with the criteria of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Liberal Education. We will follow elements found in West African culture and music such as "call and response" and the "2nd Line" as they travel to the "New World" and expressed through Spirituals, Symphonies, Gospel Music, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Step Bands and more. Through lectures, readings, discussion, audiovisual examples, and homework assignments student can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the ways music both reflects and influences the social history of all Americans.

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

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

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

AMIN 1001 - Introduction to American Indian & Indigenous Peoples (DSJ)

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

Introduction to how voices/visions of indigenous peoples have contributed to history of cultural expression in North America. Historic contexts/varieties of this expression by region, tribal cultures. Emphasizes contributions in literature, philosophy, politics, fine arts.

AMIN 1003 - American Indians in Minnesota (HIS, DSJ)

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

History, culture, and lived experience of American Indian people in Minnesota. Self-representation and histories of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Dakota peoples through film, music, oral traditions, and written texts. Work by non-Indian scholars focuses on cultural, philosophical, and linguistic perspectives of Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples.

AMIN 3304 - Indigenous Filmmakers (AH)

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

Analysis of film/video made by American Indian writers, directors, producers within contexts of tribally specific cultures/histories, as well as within context of US culture/film history.

AMIN 3402 - American Indians and the Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3402/AmIn 5402
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Representations of American Indians in film, historically/contemporarily. What such representations assert about Native experience and cultural viability. What they reflect about particular relationships of power.

AMIN 3501 - Indigenous Tribal Governments and Politics (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3501/Pol 3701
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

History, development, structure, politics of American Indian Governments. North American indigenous societies from pre-colonial times to present. Evolution of aboriginal governments confronted/affected by colonizing forces of European/Euro-American states. Bearing of dual citizenship on nature/powers of tribal governments in relation to states, federal government.

AMIN 3711 - Dakota Culture and History (HIS, DSJ)

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

Dakota culture, language, history, literature. Contemporary issues, the arts.

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

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

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

CHIC 3221 - Chicana/o Cultural Studies: Barrio Culture and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life (AH, DSJ)

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

Cultural studies approach to investigating aesthetic dimensions of experience that inform and are informed by dynamic relationship between culture, class, ethnicity, and power.

CHIC 3374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy (CIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.

CHIC 3375 - Folklore of Greater Mexico (DSJ)

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

Scholarly survey and exploration of the sociocultural function of various types of folklore in Greater Mexico. Ways in which folklore constructs and maintains community, as well as resists and engenders cultural shifts.

CHIC 3672 - Chicana/o Experience in the Midwest (DSJ)

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

Experiences of people generally defined as Chicano or Latino, living in the Midwest. Individual/group identity. Focuses on construction of Chicano-Latino experience. How identity affirmation, migration stories, immigration status, historical memory, and cultural traditions are impacted by being in the Midwest.

CHIC 3888 - Immigration and the U.S. Latina/o Experience: Diaspora, Identity, and Community (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3888/Hist 3445
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of migrants from Latin America to the United States in 20th/21st century. Migrant engagements with US society. Pre-existing Latina/o and other ethnic communities. experiences within political, economic, and social aspects of life at local/global level.

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

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

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

CHIC 4275 - Theory in Action: Community Engagement in a Social Justice Framework (CIV)

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

Theoretical frameworks of social justice and community engagement for work outside classroom with/in Latina/o community. Worker issues/organizing. Placements in unions, worker organizations. Policy initiatives on labor issues. Students reflect on their own identity development, social location, and position of power/privilege.

CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy (CIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.

GWSS 1002 - Politics of Sex (SOCS, DSJ)

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

Introductory survey of historical, cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical dimensions of analyzing gender/sexuality. Norms/deviances pertaining to gender/sexuality as differently enacted/understood by social groups in different time-/place-specific locations. GWSS / Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies / Gender Studies

GWSS 3003 - Gender and Global Politics (SOCS, GP)

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

Similarities/differences in women's experiences throughout world, from cross-cultural/historical perspective. Uses range of reading materials/media (feminist scholarship, fiction, film, news media, oral history, autobiography).

GWSS 3302 - Women and the Arts (AH, DSJ)

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

Study of women in the arts, as represented and as participants (creators, audiences). Discussion of at least two different art forms and works from at least two different U.S. ethnic or cultural communities.

GWSS 3306 - Pop Culture Women (AH, DSJ)

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

Contemporary U.S. feminism as political/intellectual movement. Ways in which movement has been represented in popular culture.

GWSS 3307 - Feminist Film Studies (AH, DSJ)

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

Construction of different notions of gender in film, social uses of these portrayals. Lectures on film criticism, film viewings, class discussions.

GWSS 3406 - Gender, Labor, and Politics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3406/GWSS 3406H
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical developments/contemporary manifestations of women's participation in labor force/global economy. Gender as condition for creation/maintenance of exploitable category of workers. How women's choices are shaped in various locations. Women's labor organizing. GWSS / Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies / Gender Studies

AFRO 3002 - West African History: 1800 to Present (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3002/Hist 3455
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

West African history from late 18th century to present. Past/profound changes including new 19th century state formation, European colonialism, post-colonial issues.

HIST 3455 - West African History: 1800 to Present (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3002/Hist 3455
Typically offered:	Every Spring

West African history from late-18th century to present. Themes include study of continuities with past. Profound changes including new 19th century state formation, European colonialism, post-colonial issues.

AFRO 3120 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbean. Black socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries. Colonialism/racism. Protest organizations, radical movements in United States/Europe.

HIST 3456 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbeans. Socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries within African Diaspora. Resistance in Suriname, Guyana, Caribbean. Protest organizations, intellectual discourses, radical movements in United States/Europe.

AFRO 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 3432/Afro 3432
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in Africa, from abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade through postcolonial era.

HIST 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 3432/Afro 3432
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Survey of modern African history from early 19th century to present. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in Africa, from abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade through postcolonial era.

AFRO 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3597W/EngL 3597W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

African American oral tradition, slave narrative, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, and drama, from colonial era through Harlem Renaissance.

ENGL 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3597W/EngL 3597W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

African American oral tradition, slave narrative, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, and drama, from colonial era through Harlem Renaissance.

AMIN 1002 - Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 1002/Pol 1019
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Colonial experiences of selected indigenous peoples in Americas, Euroasia, Pacific Rim.

POL 1019 - Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 1002/Pol 1019
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Colonial experiences of selected indigenous peoples in Americas, Euroasia, Pacific Rim.

AMIN 3201W - American Indian Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3201W/EngL 3201W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Comparative studies of oral traditions, modern literature from various tribal cultures.

AMIN 3301 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

RELS 3321 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

AMIN 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

American Indian history from the era of ancient Native America to the removal era. Social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

HIST 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to American Indian history from ancient native America to the removal era. Focuses on the social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

AMIN 4525W - Federal Indian Policy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4525W/Pol 4525W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Formulation, implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance new millennium. Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature related to policies.

POL 4525W - Federal Indian Policy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4525W/Pol 4525W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Formulation, implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance of new millennium. Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature on policies.

AAS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Diversity of cultures designated "Asian American." Understanding women's lives in historical, cultural, economic, and racial contexts.

GWSS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analysis of media, art, literature, performance, on artistic contributions. History, politics, culture of Asian American women. Interpret cultural production to better understand role of race, gender, nation within American society/citizenship.

AAS 3503 - Asian American Identities, Families, & Communities (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3503/Soc 3503/Soc 3503H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course provides a sociological overview of Asian American identities, families and communities. To place these experiences within a broader historical, structural, and cultural context the course will begin with a brief introduction to the history of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States and sociological theories about incorporation and racial stratification. We will then examine the diversity of Asian American communities and families, highlighting ethnic, gender, and class variations. Other topics of focus include racialization and discrimination, education, ethnic enclaves, family and intergenerational relationships, identity, media, culture, and politics and social action. Throughout the course we will consider the ways in which society affects individuals, and how in turn, individuals affect society. Students will have an option to do community-engaged learning or another course project.

SOC 3503 - Asian American Identities, Families & Communities (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3503/Soc 3503/Soc 3503H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course provides a sociological overview of Asian American identities, families and communities. To place these experiences within a broader historical, structural, and cultural context the course will begin with a brief introduction to the history of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States and sociological theories about incorporation and racial stratification. We will then examine the diversity of Asian American communities and families, highlighting ethnic, gender, and class variations. Other topics of focus include racialization and discrimination, education, ethnic enclaves, family and intergenerational relationships, identity, media, culture, and politics and social action. Throughout the course we will consider the ways in which society affects individuals, and how in turn, individuals affect society. Students will have an option to do community-engaged learning or another course project. prereq: SOC 1001 recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A/F

SOC 3503H - Honors: Asian American Identities, Families & Communities (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3503/Soc 3503/Soc 3503H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course provides a sociological overview of Asian American identities, families, and communities. To place these experiences within a broader historical, structural, and cultural context the course will begin with a brief introduction to the history of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States and sociological theories about incorporation and racial stratification. We will then examine the diversity of Asian American communities and families, highlighting ethnic, gender, and class variations. Other topics of focus include racialization and discrimination, education, ethnic enclaves, family and intergenerational relationships, identity, media, culture, and politics and social action. Throughout the course, we will consider the ways in which society affects individuals, and how in turn, individuals affect society. Students will have an option to do community-engaged learning or another course project. Honors students are expected to demonstrate a greater depth of discussion, depth and to a degree length of writing assignments, presentations, and leadership of the students. Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester. Examples of additional requirements may include: - Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session. - Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour). - Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news, or a two-page critique of a class reading - Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2-page maximum reflective paper. - Interview a current Sociology graduate student and present briefly in class or write a reflective piece, not more than 2 pages in length, to be submitted to the Professor. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, honors

AAS 3862 - American Immigration History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.

CHIC 3862 - American Immigration History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin American, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.

HIST 3862 - American Immigration History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from early 19nth century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.

AAS 3877 - Asian American History, 1850 to Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3877/HIST 3877
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Asian American history and contemporary issues, from 1850 to present. Immigration, labor, anti-Asian movements, women/families, impact of World War Two, new immigrant/refugee communities, civil rights, Asian American identity/culture.

HIST 3877 - Asian American History, 1850-Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3877/HIST 3877
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Asian American history and contemporary issues, from 1850 to the present. Immigration, labor, anti-Asian movements, women/families, impact of World War Two, new immigrant/refugee communities, civil rights, Asian American identity/culture.

AAS 4311 - Asian American Literature and Drama (LITR, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4311/ENGL 4311
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Literary/dramatic works by Asian American writers. Historical past of Asian America through perspective of writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan. Contemporary artists such as Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, and Han Ong. Political/historical background of Asian American artists, their aesthetic choices.

ENGL 4311 - Asian American Literature and Drama (LITR, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4311/ENGL 4311
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Literary/dramatic works by Asian American writers. Historical past of Asian America through perspective of writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan. Contemporary artists such as Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, and Han Ong. Political/historical background of Asian American artists, their aesthetic choices.

CHIC 1102 - Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 1102/Chic 1102H
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/cultural knowledge on the complex/multi-layered relationship that Latinos have to the U.S., their country of origin. Influence of social, cultural, and political dynamics on Latino identity, politics, and sense of belonging in the U.S. Cultural citizenship.

CHIC 1102H - Honors: Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 1102/Chic 1102H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/cultural knowledge on the complex/multi-layered relationship that Latinos have to the U.S., their country of origin. Influence of social, cultural, and political dynamics on Latino identity, politics, and sense of belonging in the U.S. Cultural citizenship.

CHIC 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.

CHIC 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, changing demographics. Social, economic, and political changes that influenced day-to-day life of Mexican Americans. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans and other Latino groups.

HIST 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, demographics. Social, economic, political changes. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans/other Latino groups.

CHIC 3444 - Chicana and Chicano History I (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3444GloS 3634/Hist 3444
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Important eras in histories of Mexico, the United States, and Mexican Americans. Central role of Chicana/os in U.S. history, culture, and politics. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, migration.

HIST 3444 - Chicana and Chicano History I (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3444GloS 3634/Hist 3444
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Important eras in histories of Mexico, the United States, and Mexican Americans. Central role of Chicana/os in U.S. history, culture, and politics. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, migration.

CHIC 3507W - Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3507W/EngL 3507W
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.

ENGL 3507W - Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3507W/EngL 3507W
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative nonfiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.

CHIC 3852 - Chicana/o Politics (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3852/Pol 3752
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theory/practice of Chicana/o politics through an analysis of Mexican American experience, social agency, and response to larger political systems and behaviors using social science methods of inquiry. Unequal power relations, social justice, and the political economy.

POL 3752 - Chicana/o Politics (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3852/Pol 3752
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theory/practice of Chicana/o politics through analysis of Mexican American experience, social agency. Response to larger political systems/behaviors using social science methods of inquiry. Unequal power relations, social justice, political economy.

CHIC 4232 - Chicana/o - Latina/o Gender and Sexuality Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4232/GLBT 4232/GWSS 4232
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Critical thinking of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os around construction of gender. Politics of sexual identity. How the self is gendered in relationship to sexual, racial, class, and national identities under different social structural conditions. Way in which the "borders" that define/confine sexual norms shift over time.

GWSS 1003W - Women Write the World (LITR, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 1003W/GWSS 1003W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Concepts in literary studies. Poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, letters by women from different parts of world. Focuses on lives, experiences, and literary expression of women, including basic concepts of women's studies.

ENGL 1003W - Women Write the World (LITR, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 1003W/GWSS 1003W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Concepts in literary studies. Poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, letters by women from different parts of world. Focuses on lives, experiences, and literary expression of women, including basic concepts of women's studies.

GWSS 1007 - Introduction to GLBT Studies (DSJ, SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 1001/GWSS 1007
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of contemporary GLBT-identified communities. Terms of theoretical debates regarding sexual orientation, identity, experience. Analyzes problems produced/insights gained by incorporating GLBT issues into specific academic, social, cultural, political discourses.

GLBT 1001 - Introduction to GLBT Studies (DSJ, SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 1001/GWSS 1007
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of contemporary GLBT-identified communities. Terms of theoretical debates regarding sexual orientation, identity, and experience. Analyzes problems produced and insights gained by incorporating GLBT issues into specific academic, social, cultural, and political discourses.

GWSS 3002W - Gender, Race, and Class in the U.S. (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3002W/GWSS 3002V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative study of women, gender, race, class, sexuality in two or more ethnic cultures throughout U.S.

GWSS 3002V - Honors: Gender, Race and Class in the U.S. (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3002W/GWSS 3002V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative study of women, gender, race, class, sexuality in two or more ethnic cultures in U.S. prereq: Honors

GWSS 3102W - Feminist Thought and Theory (AH, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3102W/GWSS 3102V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Substantively, this course surveys the rich and varied history of influential feminist ideas. These ideas propel us to think critically about sex, gender, sexuality, and the categories that intersect with them; these ideas provide us with language to express ourselves more critically and creatively; these ideas enable us to rethink relationships of power and forge coalition-al values and connections across difference. This course also holds the field of feminism accountable for its influence, in hopes of contributing to more liberating feminist theories. Methodologically, this course develops students? skills in tracking arguments, understanding commonly used theoretical terms, learning how to apply theory to real life situations, and honing students? theoretical writing.

GWSS 3102V - Honors: Feminist Thought and Theory (AH, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3102W/GWSS 3102V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Substantively, this course surveys the rich and varied history of influential feminist ideas. These ideas propel us to think critically about sex, gender, sexuality, and the categories that intersect with them; these ideas provide us with language to express ourselves more critically and creatively; these ideas enable us to rethink relationships of power and forge coalition-al values and connections across difference. This course also holds the field of feminism accountable for its influence, in hopes of contributing to more liberating feminist theories. Methodologically, this course develops students? skills in tracking arguments, understanding commonly used theoretical terms, learning how to apply theory to real life situations, and honing students? theoretical writing.

GWSS 3305 - Queer Cinema (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3305/GWSS 3305
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

What "queer" and "queering" signify in relation to cinema. Directors, films, styles, genres of queer cinema. Ways in which traditional narrative codes are challenged/repackaged. Ideological dimensions. Impact of political climate. Readings, screenings, discussions, assignments.

GLBT 3305 - Queer Cinema (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3305/GWSS 3305
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

What "queer" and "queering" signify in relation to cinema. Directors, films, styles, genres of queer cinema. Ways in which traditional narrative codes are challenged/repackaged. Ideological dimensions. Impact of political climate. Readings, screenings, discussions, assignments.

AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (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

Analytical overview of three major forms of inequalities in the United Sates today: race, class, gender. Focus on these inequalities as relatively autonomous from one another and as deeply connected/intertwined with one another. Intersectionality key to critical understanding of these social forces. Social change possibilities.

AAS 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.

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

AAS 3211W - Race & Racism in the U.S. (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 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.

AFRO 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3598W/EngL 3598W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

African American oral tradition, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, drama. From after Harlem Renaissance to end of 20th century.

ENGL 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3598W/EngL 3598W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

African American oral tradition, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, drama. From after Harlem Renaissance to end of 20th century.

CI 4311W - Technology and Ethics in Society (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CI 2311W/CI 4311
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Critique of values and ethical issues related to technology use in education, the workplace, and family and community life.

CI 5145 - Critical Pedagogy

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

Examination of critical pedagogy; critique of power relations regarding race, culture, class, gender, and age in various educational settings; consideration of improved practice in education for children, youth, and adults.

CI 5472 - Teaching Critical Media Analysis in Schools

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

"Critical" media literacy means that we focus on, among other things, analyzing the intersection between media and issues of identity -- like gender, race, class and sexuality. We also focus on how to teach critical media analysis to students and others.

CI 5746 - Global and Multicultural Education in the Secondary Classroom

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

Issues, classroom practices, and controversies surrounding global/multicultural perspective-taking in social studies education. Strategies for helping secondary social studies students develop global/multicultural worldviews.

CI 5762 - Developing Civic Discourse in the Social Studies

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

Philosophies, strategies, and research on developing civic discourse in secondary social studies classroom. Selecting issues. Democratic classroom climate. Relating to social/cultural contexts.

CI 3901 - Exploring the Teaching Profession I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an avenue for participation in the College of Education and Human Development for undergraduate students who have identified teaching as a possible career choice and are accepted into the College?s DirecTrack to Teaching program. This course enables students to explore the history and culture of teaching, student learning, community contexts for learning, and sociocultural, historical, and political influences on teaching, learning, and schools. Students will participate in service learning experiences in area schools. They will attend class, make presentations, engage in online and in person analytical and reflective discussions, collaborate with peers and begin their journey towards becoming teachers. prereq: DirecTrack to Teaching program or department consent

EPSY 3132 - Psychology of Multiculturalism in Education (DSJ)

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

Course critically examines social and cultural diversity in the United States, confronting social issues of poverty, handicappism, homophobia, racism, sexism, victim-blaming, violence, and so on, and presenting models for change. Students examine how and why prejudices develop.

FSOS 2103 - Family Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSOS 2103/FSOS 4103
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Connections between policies that governments enact, and families and their well-being. Conceptual frameworks for influences underlying policy choices. Evaluating consequences of such choices for diverse families.

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 4101 - Sexuality and Gender in Families and Close Relationships

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

Human ecology/development as frameworks for examining sexuality in close relationships. Diversity of sexual beliefs, attitudes, behaviors within differing social contexts. Using scientific knowledge to promote sexual health among individuals, couples, families through various life stages. prereq: At least jr or instr consent

FSOS 4152 - Queer Families

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

This course is designed to examine Queer people in families and their unique contribution to the understanding of diversity among families. Current research, theory, personal narratives, and opportunities for self-reflection will be pathways to learn more about the diverse experiences of those who participate in families with LGBTQ members. Course topics include: family strengths and resilience; intersectionality and identity; racism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism; family of origin; chosen families; marriage and divorce; sexuality and intimacy; children and parenting; aging; unique health concerns; and culture. Methodological issues in research and clinical issues for serving LGBTQ families will also be addressed.

FSOS 4155 - Parent-Child Relationships

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

History, theories, research, and contemporary practices of parent-child relationships in diverse families/cultures across the life span. Preparation for professionals in education, social work, and other human service occupations.

GEOG 1372 - Geography of Global Cities (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 1372/GloS 1672
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Urban forms/processes. Uses key global cities as examples. Political, historical, and economic contexts of cities. Planning ideologies. Globalization. Race/segregation. Population growth. Environmental problems. Current issues in global urbanization.

HIST 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History (HIS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3875W/Hist 3875W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race in the American past and make legible how racially aggrieved groups responded to this shaping power. Thus, throughout, we ask, "What did racial subjects do with what was done to them by the American system forged out of settler colonialism, slavery, racism, and other forms of injustice, exclusion, and violence?" This question issues an intellectual challenge to do all that needs to be done to capture community life, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of social identities in all their richness, fullness, and complexity. In other words, we study and write about the racial history of modern America, including its ugly past and arc of justice, to consider what it would take to transcend this racial past.

POL 3319 - Education and the American Dream (SOCS, DSJ)

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

What role does education play in American democracy? What role should it play? Does American education, particularly public education, live up to its citizens� hopes and expectations? And, perhaps most importantly, what do we mean by a �good education�? This is a question with deep historical roots in this country, one that is the subject of current policy debates and one that cannot be separated from questions of discrimination and inequality. The over-arching theme of the course is to wrestle with what it means to be an educated citizen in the context of historical struggles to achieve that vision in the face of multiple and inter-related inequalities and competing visions about how to make the American dream a reality in the field of public education. No one political perspective will be offered or favored. No magic powder will be revealed on the last day of the course. The fact is that the underlying issues are really complicated, often seemingly intractable, and very, very political. This course is intended as introduction to education politics and policy in the United States. It will focus on K-12 education, especially in the public system. It is designed for any student who might have an interest in exploring education, public policy, or American government. Topics will include equality of educational opportunity, educating democratic citizens, school finance, the role of political institutions in making educational policy, and efforts to reform and remake American education, including charter schools, private school vouchers, and standardized testing. By the end of the course, students should have a basic understanding of the provision of public education in the United States, including the ways in which education is governed and the institutions involved in that governance. Students should be able to critically reflect on the degree to which American education fulfills the sometimes-competing goals Americans have for their schools. This course fulfills the Social Sciences Core of the University liberal education requirements. In this course students will act as policy analysts, with all of the complexity that such a task entails in the field of American public education. This course also fulfills the Diversity and Social Justice in the United States theme of the University liberal education requirements.

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 3003 - Social Problems

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

In this course, we will engage in a sociological examination of major social problems facing the contemporary US and abroad. We explore the origins and causes of different social problems, seek to understand how they impact individuals, groups, and the society as a whole, and evaluate solutions. We ask how an issue becomes defined as a "social problem," discuss the social construction of reality and deviance, and consider the primary frameworks under which societies have organized their responses to different social problems. prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3452 - Education and Society

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

Everyone thinks they know what "education" is. We've all been in schools, and we think we know how they work. We all have opinions about why some people go farther in school than others and why some people learn more than others. We all think we know what role education plays in shaping who gets good jobs, who has a good life, and who has more knowledge. This course is designed to challenge and expand what we think we know about all of these things. Students (and instructor) will critically engage scientific research in sociology, education, economics, public policy, and elsewhere. The goal will be to educate everyone about the current state of knowledge about how "education" works: what shapes educational achievement; where sex and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in educational achievements come from; what role education plays in economic development; how and why educational accomplishments result in better social and economic outcomes; and how educational institutions might be improved. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F.

SOC 5455 - Sociology of Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	OLPD 5041/Soc 5455
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Structures and processes within educational institutions. Links between educational organizations and their social contexts, particularly as these relate to educational change. prereq: 1001 or equiv or instr consent; soc majors/minors must register A-F

SW 2501W - Introduction to Social Justice (DSJ, WI)

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

Meanings of social justice. Ways in which social justice advocates work for social change. Criminal justice, globalization, and social welfare. Students do service learning in a social justice organization.

SW 3501 - Theories and Practices of Social Change Organizing

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

Concepts, theories, and practices of social change organizing. U.S. power relations. How people organize. Cross-class, multi-racial, and multi-issue organizing. Students do service learning in social justice organization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 3001W - 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.

YOST 2101 - Urban Youth and Youth Issues (DSJ)

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

This course explores issues faced by youth, especially those who live in or are characterized by our understanding of urban areas. We explore by asking questions like: ?Which youth are labeled as 'urban' and by whom?? ?What has contributed to notions of ?urban? and ?suburban?"? "What are the associated myths and stereotypes?? and ?How are urban communities policed and what are the consequences of this policing?? We will critically examine what the term ?urban youth? means, how it has evolved over time and place, its relationship to power and privilege, and its use as a ?code word? with implicit associations of race, poverty, and violence. Using a critical Youth Studies framework, which engages with the role of historical, social, cultural, geographical, and political contexts, we seek to understand how each of these axes of power-relations influence the opportunities and struggles of young people, their interaction with institutions and the construction of their identities in particular places. This class is a part of the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) program. Students will combine direct work with youth in the community with classroom learning. The objective is for students to make valuable contributions to communities, gain practical experience and apply the knowledge gained in the classroom to their service learning work. Students will also be able to discuss, reflect and write about their community ?engaged experiences. This class offers a unique opportunity to engage with diverse youth in different settings thus gaining valuable skills that can be useful for future professional practice in many fields including, education, recreation, mental health, and youth work. prereq: YOST 1001 or instr consent

YOST 3001 - Introduction to History & Philosophy of Youthwork (HIS, DSJ)

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

This course exposes students to a depth of perspectives on young people and youth work. Exploring various historic and philosophical origins of ?normal? childhood, we unveil the way our modern understandings of child, youth, and adolescent draw upon a rich history of sexist, colonialist, and racist science. To do so we explore Indigenous, early European, Middle-Class, and W.E.I.R.D. (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) notions of childhood. We explore how these ideas are operationalized into practices on youth/youthwork. We explore how contemporary organizations of American youthwork and youth development, then took up and applied these ideas thus naturalizing modern norms and expectations of child and youth. This course covers the philosophical and historical foundations of youthwork in a critical and interactive way through a review of youth, youthwork, and youth organizations set in the context of the past 500 years. The course is designed to encourage students to examine their familial histories, timelines and geographies and through collaborative and interactive learning, begin to explore how these histories, combined with others, helped to shape the ways that we think about youth and how this thinking collectively shapes youth policy, practice, and the institutions within which we meet and work with young people. All of this with the goal of becoming more effective and thoughtful when working with young people in youthwork settings. Whether you choose to work in youthwork settings or in other human service organization or agency, developing a sense of cultural humility and skills to understand historical data, philosophical frames and current practices will be critical to your success in professional arenas. prereq: YOST 2xxx or instr consent

YOST 3101 - Youthwork: Orientations and Approaches

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

Within the U.S. there is an ongoing conversation about what values, knowledge, skills, and practice are basic to the field of youth work. The occupational title, youth worker, is not widely recognized with a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that distinguish it from other occupations that work with young people (teacher, coach, social worker). Often youth worker is taken to signify those who ?work with youth.? In recent years there have been attempts to clarify and specify what a youth worker does, whom a youth worker should be, and how one should be educated for this type of work. These debates now occur within international and national movements to ?professionalize? youth work. In this course, we enter this conversation by considering the multiple ways of becoming, being a youth worker, and doing youth work. Toward the end of the course, we will also explore how context?agency, street, and neighborhood?can have consequences on all three of these. To be knowledgeable participants in these conversations you must know the possible answers to at least four questions. Who are young people? What is youth work? Who are youth workers? Where is the location of the work? For each of these questions, we explore the diverse answers, given by scholars and practitioner, here in the United States and internationally. How one chooses to answer any one of these questions has consequences for the other three. Attention is also given to how you and I choose to answer these questions given our own experience of being a young person and our current interactions with young people. At the end of this course, you will be able to participate at a beginning level in the conversations that are of concern to youth work and enhance your direct work with, on behalf of, and/or for young people. In the process, you will have begun constructing and articulating a personal philosophy of youth work. prereq: One gen psy course, one gen soc course, or instr consent

YOST 3240 - Special Topics in Youth Studies

Credits:	2.0 -8.0 [max 10.0]
Course Equivalencies:	YoSt 3240/YoSt 5240
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

In-depth investigation of one area of youth studies. Teaching procedure/approach determined by specific topic and student needs. Topic announced in advance. prereq: [Two social sci courses, exp working with youth] or instr consent

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

AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (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

Analytical overview of three major forms of inequalities in the United Sates today: race, class, gender. Focus on these inequalities as relatively autonomous from one another and as deeply connected/intertwined with one another. Intersectionality key to critical understanding of these social forces. Social change possibilities.

AAS 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.

YOST 3032 - Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	YoSt 3032/YoSt 5032
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

In this course, we will explore the multitude of theories that have been proposed to describe, understand, and even explain young people in the second decade of life and beyond. Indeed, we will be studying development theories that have been used to explain your own life and experience. This gives us a unique perspective in the class. You have first hand experience that can be used to interrogate the theories and often illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of each. Over the course of the semester, we describe, discuss, and critique six theories of adolescent and youth development, including: Social Justice Youth Development, Participatory Youth Development, Community Youth Development, Positive Youth Development, Adolescent Development, and Recapitulation. We begin with the most recent theory and then using academic archeology, dig back through time to understand not only the individual theories but also how they connect and join to each other. Along the way, we also discuss the social and cultural events and situations that influenced each theory?s development and often demise. A major goal of this class is to better understand where these theories come from, what they are connected to, and often how they are used to both support and marginalize young people. Class will be interactive, using both small and large group discussion, experiential learning activities, and guest lecturers. The major assignment for the class is a grant writing project, where students will collaborate with a youth-serving organizing to develop a grant proposal that addresses the organization?s needs. This project will be used to deepen understanding of how to apply the theories we learn in class, as well as to develop skills around writing strong grant proposals for youth-serving organizations. prereq: YOST 1001 or 2101, [any Psych or CPsy course], or instr consent

YOST 5032 - Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	YoSt 3032/YoSt 5032
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Application of theory/research about children/adolescents. How findings/theories facilitate understanding of behavior. prereq: [1001 or 2001 or 2002W or 2101], [any Psych or CPsy course]

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