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CIVE 6001 - Critical Approaches to Civic Engagement

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

This course serves as the foundational course for students in the Master of Professional Studies in Civic Engagement. It is also open to other students interested in the history, theory, and practical applications of public participation in civic processes in arenas including electoral and neighborhood-level government, health care, social work, education, urban planning, environment, and others. Students will be introduced to graduate level inquiry and augment their critical thinking skills exploring forces and systems related to culture, power, race, democracy, and organizational structures along with theories of change, change methodologies, and impediments to change. Students will grapple with real-world challenges and topical content, engaging with relevant scholarship, readings, and interdisciplinary practices. Through the course, they will interact, lead, and build relationships in class and in their communities and/or workplaces. In doing so, students gain proficiency in critical thinking, community processes, and cultural competency. Students develop skills to be facilitators and leaders of change. This course offers students unique opportunities to engage in cross-disciplinary partnerships and creative problem-solving.

CIVE 6311 - Facilitating Community Driven Leadership

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

In Facilitating Community Driven Leadership, students will expand their critical skills for working with diverse audiences, communities, and community leaders and will develop an understanding of how communities define leadership. Students will also clarify their positionality, define the stakes of their work, and take ownership of their individual power and organizational possibilities. The course combines contemporary theory in community engagement and leadership with applied projects that develop the student's critical and analytical skills as community leaders.

ASCL 6312 - Finance for Non-financial Managers

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

This course explores organizational finance from the lens of a non-financial manager, helping students gain an applied understanding of financial and accounting concepts and the role finance plays in the economic viability of a business. Students will learn to construct financial statements and use these tools to strategically determine the overall business financial health. Students will forecast possibilities for future growth in relation to costs associated with operational expenses and the cost of capital. Students will review basic economic frameworks and complete case studies focusing on the connection of global economic influences to company and industry financial indicators. Specific topics include financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing.

ASCL 6313 - Data for Decision Making

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

This course aims to provide knowledge and equip students with techniques to transform data into information that decision makers can use in order to make decisions. Students will learn the importance of source and quality of the data, input from and impact on stakeholders, and how social, community, and political or governmental dynamics come into play in the decision-making process. By the end of this course, students will understand and be able to apply decision-making data collection, analysis, synthesis, and presentation skills to incorporate an abundant and wide-variety of data in order to make an informed decision. This course will have didactic and application components where students will be able to apply the skills and knowledge learned.

ASCL 6314 - Leading Projects and Teams

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

This course provides students the background and skills needed to enhance teamwork, make informed business decisions, or resolve productivity issues effectively. This course will focus on the principles techniques, and tools used to plan, control, monitor, and review projects to meet organizational monetary and time constraints. Through case studies and practical application, students will practice project management skills along with setting team priorities, performance objectives, and the team decision making process.

CIVE 6002 - Civic Engagement Capstone

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course serves as the capstone course for students in the master of professional studies in civic engagement. This course will synthesize the disciplinary and applied business coursework taken by students during their graduate career and will facilitate completion of an individualized, applied capstone project based on their community engagement career focus. This culminating experience, taken in the final year of the program, will provide students with an opportunity to engage in creative problem solving to address pressing real-world needs.

SOC 8551 - Life Course Inequality & Health

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

Seminar examines the changing life course in its social and historical context, including theoretical principles, methodologies, and policy implications. Focus on key societal institutions that offer unequal opportunities and constraints, depending on social class, race/ethnicity, and gender. Unequal access to age-graded social roles and resources shape the course of development, and in doing so, they have profound impacts on health. We will consider how inequality in the family, education, work, the military, and in the health care & criminal justice systems influence health behaviors and outcomes at different ages and life stages. prereq: grad student or instr consent

PA 8312 - Analysis of Discrimination

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

Policy analysis/other applied social sciences as tools for measuring/detecting discrimination in market/nonmarket contexts. Application of modern tools of labor econometrics/race relations research to specific problems of market/nonmarket discrimination.

ENGL 8300 - Seminar in American Minority Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

COMM 5231 - Media Outlaws

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

People working outside of mainstream media institutions who find creative/provocative ways to use media as space for cultural, political, or economic critique/resistance.

ACL 5211 - Trends and Impacts in Arts and Cultural Leadership and Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Through discussion and analysis, research and peer presentation projects, this seminar will investigate and question the theoretical nuances from which nonprofit arts and cultural organizations are built and the practical influences that affect them daily. Leadership in the cultural sector is evolving rapidly; textbook strategies are being re- evaluated and organizations are re-inventing themselves in creative ways in response to current social and economic conditions. Emphasis is placed on current events, immediate and long- term trends and research into what is happening now. Topics include the role of arts and cultural organizations within the community; past, current and future concepts in organizational structures; and the application of traditional and integrated relationship-based strategies.

HSEX 6011 - Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses

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

Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses offers an overview of United States and international policy related to gender and sexuality. The course will present the content and impact of such policies across human life stages, from youth reproductive health to aging LGBTQ folks; and a variety of contexts including education, military service, employment, and criminal legal systems. Using readings, multimedia sources, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the theory, process, and central actors in policy development and implementation, and the real-world effects of these processes.

BTHX 5710 - Ethical Issues in Global Health

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

This course examines ethical issues related to global health. Topics may include religion, morality, public policy, and the connection between health and human rights. Open to juniors, seniors, graduate and professional students.

CSPH 5118 - Whole Person, Whole Community: The Reciprocity of Wellbeing

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

This course explores the symbiotic and reciprocal relationship between individual and community health and wellbeing, as well as the many factors/forces which influence that relationship. Drawing upon recent studies in the area of reciprocal/symbiotic effects between individual wellbeing and community wellbeing, this course will include the following core topics: definitions of community and related dimensions of wellbeing, importance of Individual/Community reciprocity (Social Justice, Equity, Safety, and Trust), historical trauma and healing, and individual action and personal empowerment in community transformation. Utilizing elements of the Center for Spirituality & Healing's Wellbeing model and modes of contemplative practice, this course will ultimately assist learners through phases of individual reflection and mindfulness for the purpose of creating more open and reciprocal relationships with entities they describe as their communities. An extension of recent studies in the area of the reciprocal (or rippling) effect between individual wellbeing and community wellbeing this course will guide individuals in identifying the various communities in which they live or participate, the roles they "play" within those communities and why/ how this knowledge can help prepare them for action and leadership. Main themes of the course will include: - Mindfulness, Reflection and Healing: Historical Trauma and Marginalization. - Roles and Reciprocity: Justice, Equity, Security and Trust between individuals and their communities. - Transformation: Individual Action/Leadership as Bridge between Personal and Community Wellbeing.

ESPM 5241 - Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

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

Political processes at play in management of environment and how disagreements are addressed by different stakeholders, private-sector interests, government agencies and institutions, communities, and nonprofit organizations. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

GCC 5005 - Innovation for Changemakers: Design for a Disrupted World (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CEGE 5571/GCC 3005/GCC 5005
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Do you want to make a difference? We live in a world full of complex challenges, such as COVID-19, racism, economic recession, and environmental collapse, to name a few. Now is the time to use your own skills and passion to make a positive impact in the world. In this project-based course, you will learn how to develop effective and sustainable responses to current social and environmental problems. You'll study a variety of tools, mindsets, and skills that will help you to address any complex grand challenge, as well as engage with case studies of successful grand challenge projects in the past. Your project may address food insecurity, unemployment, housing, environmental impacts, equity, or other issues. Proposed designs for how you might have an impact may take many forms (student group, program intervention with an existing organization, public policy strategy, or for-profit or non-profit venture) but this class will focus on how to make ideas financially sustainable. The primary focus of this (GCC 5005) course is how to develop a pilot project plan that addresses a grand challenge. You will learn business modeling, financial projections, and pitching to potential investors and funders. You will build a model for your idea around input from primary and secondary research, as well as the affected community?s culture, needs, and wants. Community members, locally and globally, may serve as mentors and research consultants to teams. External speakers will be brought in to share their stories of how to build and scale innovative efforts to serve the common good. Students enrolled will work either independently, or in small teams, on a project of their own choosing. Ideally, students will apply to take this class with a project in mind. By the end of the class, students will have a well-designed plan to turn their project into an actionable solution if that is of interest. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.

GCC 5007 - Toward Conquest of Disease (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GCC 3007/GCC 5007
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Since the rise of civilization, the large predators of humans have been subdued and the most dangerous predators remaining are those unseen--vastly smaller than our bodies. They are the microbial predators that cause disease. Infectious disease has devastated human populations and even caused global population declines. Subduing and managing disease is one of the grand challenges of our time. Through an enormous global effort, we have driven smallpox in humans and Rinderpest in livestock extinct from the natural world, and guinea worm is expected to follow. Other infectious diseases are in continual decline. In this course we will combine ecological thought and ecological models with historical and future perspectives to understand the fundamental dynamics of our miniscule predators, and relate this to similar miniscule predators of wild and domestic animals, to crops, and to other plants. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. prereq: sophomore, junior, senior, graduate student

GCC 5008 - Policy and Science of Global Environmental Change (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EEB 5146/FNRM 5146/GCC 5008/P
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Through readings, lectures, discussions, written assignments, and presentations this course introduces the critical issues underpinning global change and its environmental and social implications. The course examines current literature in exploring evidence for human-induced global change and its potential effects on a wide range of biological processes and examines the social and economic drivers, social and economic consequences, and political processes at local, national, and international scales related to global change. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.

GCC 5011 - Pathways to Renewable Energy (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GCC 3011/GCC 5011
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This interdisciplinary course will examine obstacles to energy transitions at different scales. It will explore the role of energy in society, the physics of energy, how energy systems were created and how they function, and how the markets, policies, and regulatory frameworks for energy systems in the US developed. The course will closely examine the Realpolitik of energy and the technical, legal, regulatory, and policy underpinnings of renewable energy in the US and Minnesota. Students will learn the drivers that can lead global systems to change despite powerful constraints and how local and institutional action enables broader reform. Students will put their learning into action by developing a proposal and then working on a project to accelerate the energy transition and to ensure that the energy transition benefits people in a just and equitable way. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.

GCC 5013 - Making Sense of Climate Change - Science, Art, and Agency (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GCC 3013/GCC 5013
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The overarching theme of the course is the role of artistic/humanistic ways of knowing as tools for making sense and meaning in the face of "grand challenges." Our culture tends to privilege science, and to isolate it from the "purposive" disciplines--arts and humanities--that help humanity ask and answer difficult questions about what should be done about our grand challenges. In this course, we will examine climate change science, with a particular focus on how climate change is expected to affect key ecological systems such as forests and farms and resources for vital biodiversity such as pollinators. We will study the work of artists who have responded to climate change science through their artistic practice to make sense and meaning of climate change. Finally, students create collaborative public art projects that will become part of local community festivals/events late in the semester. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.

GCC 5014 - The Future of Work and Life in the 21st Century (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GCC 3014/GCC 5014
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

This course seeks solutions to the technological, demographic, and economic forces that challenge taken-for-granted mindsets and existing policies around work, careers, and life. Students will consider positive and negative impacts of the forces that render the conventional education/work/retirement lockstep obsolete. What do these changes mean for men and women of different ages and backgrounds? What are alternative, sustainable ways of working and living in the 21st century? These questions reflect global challenges that touch the lives of people everywhere. Students will work in teams to begin to address these realities and formulate innovative solutions to better transform learning, working, caring, and community-building in the 21st century. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.

GCC 5017 - World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics and Hunger (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Agro 4103/ApEc 4103/GCC 3017
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

This course provides a multi-disciplinary look at problems (and some of the possible solutions) affecting food production, distribution, and requirements for the seven plus billion inhabitants of this planet. It is co-taught by a plant geneticist (Morrell) and an economist (Runge) who together have worked on international food production and policy issues for the past 40 years. Historical context, the present situation and future scenarios related to the human population and food production are examined. Presentations and discussions cover sometimes conflicting views from multiple perspectives on population growth, use of technology, as well as the ethical and cultural values of people in various parts of the world. The global challenge perspective is reflected in attention to issues of poverty, inequality, gender, the legacy of colonialism, and racial and ethnic prejudice. Emphasis is placed on the need for governments, international assistance agencies, international research and extension centers, as well as the private sector to assist in solving the complex problems associated with malnutrition, undernutrition, obesity, and sustainable food production. Through a better understanding of world food problems, this course enables students to reflect on the shared sense of responsibility by nations, the international community and ourselves to build and maintain a stronger sense of our roles as historical agents. Throughout the semester students are exposed to issues related to world food problems through the lenses of two instructors from different disciplinary backgrounds. The core issues of malnutrition and food production are approached simultaneously from a production perspective as well as an economic and policy perspective throughout the semester. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.

GCC 5031 - The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GCC 3031/GCC 5031
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Students will explore ecological and human health consequences of climate change, the psychology of climate inaction, and will be invited to join us in the radical work of discovering not only their own leadership potential but that of others. We will unpack the old story of domination and hierarchy and invite the class to become part of a vibrant new story of human partnership that will not only help humanity deal with the physical threat of climate change but will help us create a world where we have the necessary skills and attitudes to engage the many other grand challenges facing us. Using a strategy of grassroots empowerment, the course will be organized to help us connect to the heart of what we really value; to understand the threat of climate change; to examine how we feel in the light of that threat; and to take powerful action together. Students will work in groups throughout the course to assess the global ecological threat posed by climate change, and they will be part of designing and executing an activity where they empower a community to take action. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. For: so, jr, sr, grad

HSEX 6011 - Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses

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

Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses offers an overview of United States and international policy related to gender and sexuality. The course will present the content and impact of such policies across human life stages, from youth reproductive health to aging LGBTQ folks; and a variety of contexts including education, military service, employment, and criminal legal systems. Using readings, multimedia sources, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the theory, process, and central actors in policy development and implementation, and the real-world effects of these processes.

PA 5161 - Redesigning Human Services

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

This course provides an in-depth examination of the history and institutions delivering human services in the United States, with an emphasis on how human-centered design can help improve service provision and outcomes. It explores how public, nonprofit, and philanthropic structures create unique operational realities and cultures that must be navigated to lead change across institutional boundaries. It also systematically investigates contributors to disparities in the human services system, particularly race. The use of frameworks such as human-centered design, human services value curve, and an equity lens will help us on this exploration. Course learning materials take students through a design process to highlight strategies for systems change and improvement grounded in outcomes. Design processes are iterative and involve understanding and engaging the people and context in problem solving. Through project-based learning approach, students will understand the various constraints that need to be navigated in design: feasibility, viability, and desirability. Students gain experience using design to help appreciate these constraints and develop strategies for overcoming them.

PA 5422 - Diversity and Public Policy

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

What is diversity? What role does it play in public policy? What role should it play? Whom does diversity include or exclude? In this highly participatory class, we will apply a policy analysis lens to explore how diversity interacts with, contributes to, and is impacted by policy. The interdisciplinary course readings draw from topics such as gender identity, intersectionality, socio-economic class, race and ethnicity, indigenous ways of knowing, sexual orientation, and disability. Students examine the evolution of difference and diversity, explore various domains of diversity (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, class), and synthesize and apply this knowledge to the development of a policy brief that focuses on a particular policy or organizational problem.

PA 5601 - Global Survey of Gender and Public Policy

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

Introduction to the key concepts and tools necessary for gender policy analysis. Survey of the major findings in the field of gender and public policy in policy areas such as poverty alleviation, health, international security, environment and work-family reconciliation. Scope includes local, national, and global policy arenas as well as exploration of gender and the politics of policy formulation.

PA 5724 - Climate Change Policy

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

Existing and proposed approaches to mitigate and adapt to climate change through policies that cross scales of governance (from local to global) and impact a wide range of sectors. Exploration of climate change policy from a variety of disciplinary approaches and perspectives, emphasizing economic logic, ethical principles, and institutional feasibility. How policy can be shaped in the face of a variety of competing interests to achieve commonly desired outcomes. Students develop a deep knowledge of climate change in particular countries through a team final project. prereq: Intro microecon (such as Econ 1101 or equiv)

PA 5971 - Survey of Election Administration

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

Survey of building blocks of election administration, from voter registration to recounts.

PA 5972 - Elections and the Law

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 3972/PA 5972
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theories and basic structure of the American legal system. Experience with basic tools and skills for using the law to understand and analyze issues facing election administrators across the nation. Use of election-related and non-election related materials to prepare election administrators for interacting with counsel, legislators and the courts in carrying out their responsibilities.

PA 5973 - Strategic Management of Election Administration

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Strategic management for election administrators in the political environment. Election official tools and challenges. The role of the lawmaking process in budgeting and organizational planning.

PA 5975 - Election Design

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Election administration design principles, including ballot and polling place design and poll worker training materials. Application of principles of field.

PA 5976 - Voter Participation

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Voter participation issues and challenges including historical survey of voter participation in US and methods to increase voter turnout.

PA 5982 - Data Analysis for Election Administration

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 3982/PA 5982
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Evidence-based election administration. Collection and analysis of quantitative data to solve problems and identify opportunities for improvement. Emphasis on pre-election forecasting for planning purposes and post-election auditing of election results.

PA 5983 - Introduction to Election Security

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 3983/PA 5983
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course will examine the history of cyberattacks on the United States and the American election system, with special attention to the 2016 election cycle. Students will explore the types of cybersecurity threats that exist and strategies to protect against them; understand the roles different levels of government can play in the process, and hear from key officials about the issues raised by the official response to election security threats at the federal, state and local levels as well as in related private sector communities.

PA 5984 - Elections Security: How to Protect America?s Elections

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

?Elections Security? uses the Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election as a case study to identify the vulnerabilities of US elections (especially state voter registration databases) as well as catalogue new protections. Readings and discussion will focus on best practices and technology options available to the public (social media) and elections professionals (cybersecurity) in guarding against future influence efforts and assuring public confidence in election outcomes. Special focus will be given to describing how local election officials can protect their election technology, most notably those vulnerabilities associated with their voting system and voter registration database. ?Elections Security? will draw heavily on concrete cases and challenges facing election professionals, using government and independent reports and an indepth analysis of new resources created by the US Department of Homeland Security and its collaborations with election professionals.

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