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Morris Campus

Social Science B.A.

Division of Social Sciences - Adm
Division of Social Sciences
  • Program Type: Baccalaureate
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2017
  • Required credits to graduate with this degree: 120
  • Required credits within the major: 54 to 60
  • Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Objectives—Students will understand how each social science discipline structures and advances knowledge, raises and answers analytical questions, and deals with competing theories and the changing nature of the field. Students develop a sub-plan in a single discipline or an interdisciplinary social science area within the major.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the Office of Admissions website.
General Requirements
All students are required to complete general University and college requirements. For more information, see the general education requirements.
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 2 semester(s) of any second language. with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department or college.
Students work closely with their advisers to plan a program that satisfies the required competencies in a chosen sub-plan and in the social science disciplines. The sub-plan most often is demonstrated by completing the minor in that discipline. Program plans must be on file with the Social Sciences Division Office by the completion of a student's junior year. No grades below C- are allowed. Courses for the major and in the sub-plan may not be taken S-N, unless offered S-N only. A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in the major to graduate. The GPA includes all, and only, University of Minnesota coursework. Grades of "F" are included in GPA calculation until they are replaced.
Required Courses
While the programs of individual students may vary, based upon arrangements approved by the divisional committee for the social science major, the minimum competencies required for each discipline normally may be achieved by completion of the following courses and a sub-plan:
ANTH 1111W - Introductory Cultural Anthropology [SS] (4.0 cr)
ECON 1111 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
ECON 1112 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
GEOG 2001 - Problems in Geography [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
HIST 1111 - Introduction to World History [HIST] (4.0 cr)
HIST 1301 - Introduction to U.S. History [HIST] (4.0 cr)
POL 1201 - American Government and Politics [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
PSY 1051 - Introduction to Psychology [SS] (4.0 cr)
SOC 1101 - Introductory Sociology [SS] (4.0 cr)
STAT 1601 - Introduction to Statistics [M/SR] (4.0 cr)
or STAT 2601 - Statistical Methods [M/SR] (4.0 cr)
or Equivalent proficiency in statistics approved by the divisional committee for the social science major.
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Anthropology
This sub-plan requires a total of 20 credits.
Required Courses
ANTH 1103 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
ANTH 1201 {Inactive} [SCI-L] (5.0 cr)
Anthropology Methods
ANTH 2001 - How We Study People: Introduction to Methods in Cultural Anthropology [SS] (2.0 cr)
or ANTH 2002 {Inactive} [SS] (2.0 cr)
Anthropology Theory
ANTH 3001 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology (4.0 cr)
or ANTH 3002 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
Elective Courses
An additional 8 credits (exclusive of those used to complete required courses) in anthropology and sociology; 4 of which must be in courses 2xxx or above. No more than 4 credits can be from SOC courses. No more than 4 credits can be from IS 3796.
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
· ANTH 1812 {Inactive} [IC] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 1813 - Culture on TV: An Introduction to Anthropology [IC] (2.0 cr)
· ANTH 1xxx
· ANTH 2121 - Topics in Cultural Anthropology [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 2202 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 2204 - Anthropology of Education: Learning and Schooling in Ethnographic Perspective [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 2xxx
· SOC 1811 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1812 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1813 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1814 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1xxx
· SOC 2101 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 2xxx
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ANTH 3251 {Inactive} [ENVT] (2.0 cr)
· ANTH 3455 - North American Archaeology [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3461 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3603 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America [IP] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3701 {Inactive} [SCI-L] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3704 {Inactive} [SCI] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3705 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3751 {Inactive} [SCI] (2.0 cr)
· ANTH 3xxx
· ANTH 4501 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 4xxx
· IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions (1.0-16.0 cr)
· Sociology Electives
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
· SOC 3103 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3111 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3123 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3124 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3125 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3131 {Inactive} [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3251 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3252 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3403 - Sociological Theory (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3xxx
· SOC 4xxx
Economics
This sub-plan requires a total of 19 credits.
Required Courses
ECON 3201 - Microeconomic Theory (4.0 cr)
ECON 3202 - Macroeconomic Theory (4.0 cr)
MATH 1101 - Calculus I [M/SR] (5.0 cr)
Elective Courses
No more than 4 credits from each of the following can be applied to the sub-plan: ECON x993 - Directed Study ECON 4501/4502 - Senior/Advanced Research Seminar in Economics and Management
Take 6 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ECON 3005 - Experimental and Behavioral Economics I (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3006 - Experimental and Behavioral Economics II (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3007 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics I [ENVT] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3008 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics II [ENVT] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3009 - Political Economy (4.0 cr)
· ECON 3014 - Game Theory: The Theory of Strategic Behavior I (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3015 - Game Theory: The Theory of Strategic Behavior II (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3113 - Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (4.0 cr)
· ECON 3121 - Public Economics I (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3122 - Public Economics II (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3131 - Comparative Economic Systems [IP] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3132 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3134 - Cooperative Business Model (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3141 - Economic Growth and Development I [IP] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3142 - Economic Growth and Development II [IP] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3153 {Inactive} [IP] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3211 - History of Economic Thought I [HIST] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3212 - History of Economic Thought II [HIST] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3501 - Introduction to Econometrics [M/SR] (4.0 cr)
· ECON 3993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· ECON 3xxx
· ECON 4101 - Labor Economics I [HDIV] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4102 - Labor Economics II (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4111 - Mathematical Economics I (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4112 - Mathematical Economics II (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3012 - International Trade Theory [IP] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 3013 - International Finance [IP] (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4141 - Empirics of Economic Growth (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4501 - Senior Research Seminar in Economics and Management (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4502 - Advanced Research Seminar in Economics and Management (2.0 cr)
· ECON 4993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· ECON 4xxx
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
This sub-plan requires a total of 24 credits.
Required Courses
GWSS 1101 - Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
Elective Courses
Students must fill the remaining 20 credits with courses from the following lists. These courses must come from at least three different disciplines. A course not listed below may be applied to the elective requirement with the consent of the instructor and GWSS coordinator.
Primarily Gender, Women, and Sexuality Content
Take 20 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America [IP] (4.0 cr)
· ARTH 3281 - Women and Art [FA] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 2031 - Gender in Literature and Culture [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3155 - 20th-Century British Fiction (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3332 - African American Women Writers [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3414 - Feminist Theory [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· FREN 3607 - Francophone Studies: Sex and Gender in Francophone Literature and Film (4.0 cr)
· GER 3501 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· GWSS 2001 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· GWSS 3414 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· GWSS 3993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· HIST 1402 - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in American History [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2704 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2708W - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe [IP] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3021 - Gender and Sexuality in African History [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3304 - Race, Class, and Gender in American History [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· PHIL 2141 {Inactive} [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3303 - Gender, Sexuality, and Political Theory [SS] (2.0 cr)
· PSY 3221 {Inactive} [SCI] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3261 - Human Sexuality (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3252 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· SPAN 3654 - Seminar: Sex, Love, and Marriage in Golden Age Spanish Literature [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· SPAN 3688 - Seminar: Literature and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· SSA 2403 - Sport, Gender, and Sexuality [SS] (2.0 cr)
Partial Gender, Women, and Sexuality Content
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
· ANTH 3251 {Inactive} [ENVT] (2.0 cr)
· ARTS 3014 - Media Studies: Fabric as Form [ART/P] (2.0-4.0 cr)
· ECON 4101 - Labor Economics I [HDIV] (2.0 cr)
· ENGL 2253 {Inactive} [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 2411 - Representations of American Indians in Popular and Academic Culture [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3142 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3153 - Gothic Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3154 - 19th-Century British Fiction (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3165 - Seventeenth-Century Revolutions (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3168 - Victorian Literature and Culture (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3301 - U.S. Multicultural Literature [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3311 - American Indian Literature [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3411 - Critical Approaches to Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3444 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3522 - Harlem Renaissance [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4027 - Research Seminar: Dickens and Criticism (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4031 - Research Seminar: Renaissance Romance (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4034 - Research Seminar: The Adventure Novel in American and British Literature (4.0 cr)
· FREN 1031 - Modern Studies: The Modern Body in France [SS] (2.0 cr)
· FREN 1302 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· FREN 1311 - Sub-Saharan Francophone Cinema [IP] (4.0 cr)
· FREN 3402 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Pre-Enlightenment Culture in France (2.0-4.0 cr)
· FREN 3406 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Emotional Extremes in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (4.0 cr)
· FREN 3407 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The "East" and its Marvels (2.0-4.0 cr)
· FREN 3408 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Quests, Quails, and Custards--Food in Life and Literature (2.0-4.0 cr)
· FREN 3603 - Francophone Studies: Witches, Wilderness, and Words in African Folktales (4.0 cr)
· FREN 3605 - Francophone Studies: Maghrebian Cinema (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2103 - Medieval Europe [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2132W - History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 2151 - Modern Europe [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3008 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3204 - Nazi Germany [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3207 - The Crusades [IP] (2.0-4.0 cr)
· HIST 2152 - Modern Germany [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3212 - The French Revolution [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3214 - History of Childhood [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3465 - History of the American Family [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· PHIL 2112 - Professional Ethics [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3404 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3542 - Multicultural Psychology [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 2101 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 2201 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3123 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· SPAN 3685 - Seminar: Slavery and Abolition in Cuban Literature and Culture [IP] (4.0 cr)
· SPAN 3686 - Seminar: Writing History in Spanish American Literature [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· SPAN 3687 - Seminar: Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SPAN 3690 - Seminar: Mexican Cultural Production [HUM] (4.0 cr)
History
This sub-plan requires a total of 20 credits.
Electives
An additional 16 credits in history of which 12 credits are at 2xxx or above. There should be evidence of work in at least three (3) of the following areas: Asia, Europe, Middle East/Africa, Latin America, Native America/Indigenous, and United States. Directed Studies (X993) may be used in any of the areas if content is appropriate and approved by their major adviser.
Take 16 or more credit(s) including 3 or more sub-requirements(s) from the following:
Geographical Areas - 1xxx
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
Asia
· HIST 1501 - Introduction to East Asian History: China, Japan, and Korea before 1800. [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· Latin America
· HIST 1601 - Latin American History: A Basic Introduction [IP] (4.0 cr)
· United States
· HIST 1301 - Introduction to U.S. History [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 1402 - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in American History [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· Middle East/Africa
· HIST 1112 - Introduction to African History to 1880 [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 1113 - Introduction to African History since 1880 [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· Geographical Areas - 2xxx or above
Take 12 or more credit(s) from the following:
Asia
· HIST 2551 - Modern Japan [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2552 - History of Modern China [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2557 - History of Southeast Asia [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3557 - East Asia Since 1800 [IP] (4.0 cr)
· Europe
· HIST 2103 - Medieval Europe [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2132W - History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2151 - Modern Europe [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2704 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2708W - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe [IP] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3101 {Inactive} [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3161 - The Enlightenment [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3204 - Nazi Germany [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3207 - The Crusades [IP] (2.0-4.0 cr)
or HIST 2152 - Modern Germany [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3211 - Modern France [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3212 - The French Revolution [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3213 - Modern Britain [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3214 - History of Childhood [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· Middle East/Africa
· HIST 2312 - History of South Africa to 1976 [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2313 - History of South Africa since 1910 [IP] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3008 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3021 - Gender and Sexuality in African History [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· Latin America
· HIST 2608 - History of Cuba: From Colony to Revolutionary State [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2609 - History of Brazil: From Sugar to Sugar Cars [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3612 - Social Revolution in 20th-Century Latin America [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3613 - U.S.-Latin American Relations in Historical Perspective [IP] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3614 - Race and Ethnicity in Latin America [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· Native American/Indigenous
· NAIS 2252 - Comparative Indigenous History: Beyond Native America [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or NAIS 3403 - American Indian Education: History and Representation [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
or ANTH 3402 - Representations from the Field: American Indian Ethnography and Ethnohistory [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2251 - American Indians and the United States: A History [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2252 - Comparative Indigenous History: Beyond Native America [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2451 - The American West [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3359 - Native Strategies for Survival, 1880-1920 [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3402 - Representations from the Field: American Indian Ethnography and Ethnohistory [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3403 - American Indian Education: History and Representation [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· United States
· HIST 2003 - Public History [HIST] (2.0 cr)
or HIST 2352 - The U.S. 1960s [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2441 - The United States and the Great War [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 2452 - Minnesota History [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3303 - Creation of the American Republic [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3304 - Race, Class, and Gender in American History [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3351 - The U.S. Presidency Since 1900 [SS] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3353 - World War II [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3355 - United States in Transition, 1877-1920 [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3356 - Civil Rights Era, 1954-1974 [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3358 - Civil War and Reconstruction [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3360 - American Experience in World War II [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3361 - An Environmental and Geographic History of the United States [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3453 - The American Presidency, 1789-1900 [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3455 - American Immigration [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3456 - History of Religion in America [HIST] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 3465 - History of the American Family [HIST] (4.0 cr)
Management
This sub-plan requires a total of 18 credits.
Required Courses
MGMT 2101 - Principles of Accounting I (4.0 cr)
MGMT 2102 - Principles of Accounting II (2.0 cr)
Elective Courses
No more than 4 credits from Mgmt x993 - Directed Study can be applied to the sub-plan:
Take 12 or more credit(s) from the following:
· MGMT 3101 - Financial Management (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3102 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3123 - Managerial Economics (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3133 - Managerial Accounting (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3134 - Cooperative Business Model (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3141 - Business Law: The Legal Environment of Business (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3142 - Business Law: Sales Law, Commercial Paper, and Forms of Business (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3151 - Human Resources Management I [E/CR] (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3152 - Human Resources Management II [HDIV] (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3161 - Labor Management Relations I [E/CR] (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3162 - Labor Management Relations II (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3201 - Marketing Principles and Strategy (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3221 - Management and Organization Theory (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3501 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3502 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 3503 - Consumer Behavior [SS] (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3513 - Negotiation (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3601 - Transnational Enterprise [IP] (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3701 - Organizational Behavior [SS] (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 3993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· MGMT 3xxx
· MGMT 4101 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· MGMT 4202 - The Economics of Corporate Strategy II (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 4501 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 4502 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 4505 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
· MGMT 4896 - Internship (1.0-4.0 cr)
· MGMT 4993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· MGMT 4xxx
Political Science
This sub-plan requires a total of 20 credits.
Elective Courses
An additional 16 credits (exclusive of those used to complete required courses); 8 of which must be in courses above 2xxx.
Elective Courses
Courses used to satisfy electives are exclusive of any used to complete the required courses. Take 12 or more credits from 2xxx, 3xxx or 4xxx. At least 4 credits must be from 3xxx or 4xxx level.
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
· POL 1101 - Introduction to Political Theory [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· POL 1202 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 1401 - World Politics [IP] (4.0 cr)
Take at most 8 credit(s) from the following:
· POL 2001W - Political Science Research Methods [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 2221 - The American Judicial Process [SS] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2222 - The U.S. Supreme Court [SS] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2234 - Race, Class and Power: Social Movements in U.S. Politics [HDIV] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2235 - Race, Class and Power: Interest Groups in U.S. Politics [HDIV] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2261 - States: Laboratories of American Democracy [E/CR] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2262 - Power and Politics in American Cities and Communities [E/CR] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2301 {Inactive} [HUM] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2302 {Inactive} [SS] (2.0 cr)
· POL 2354 {Inactive} [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· POL 2401 - U.S. Foreign Policy [IP] (4.0 cr)
· POL 2411 - Model United Nations [IP] (4.0 cr)
· POL 2461 - Diplomatic Negotiation [IP] (4.0 cr)
· POL 2501 - East Asian Society and Politics [SS] (4.0 cr)
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
· POL 3201 - Legislative Process [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3211 - The American Presidency [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3231 - Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3232 - Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers and Constraints [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3251 - American Democracy in Action: Campaigns, Elections, and Political Behavior [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3263 - Political Psychology [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3266 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3272 - Making Environmental Public Policy [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3302 {Inactive} [SS] (2.0 cr)
· POL 3303 - Gender, Sexuality, and Political Theory [SS] (2.0 cr)
· POL 3351 - Ancient and Medieval Political Thought [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3352 - Modern Political Thought [HUM] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3355 {Inactive} [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3411 - International Law [IP] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3451 - Comparative Foreign Policy (4.0 cr)
· POL 3453 - Russian Politics and Foreign Policy [IP] (4.0 cr)
· POL 3475 - International Human Rights (4.0 cr)
· POL 3504 - Latin American Politics (4.0 cr)
· POL 3996 - Field Study in Political Science (1.0-16.0 cr)
· POL 3xxx
· POL 4205 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· POL 4305 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· POL 4405 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
Psychology
This sub-plan requires a total of 22 credits.
Required Courses
In addition to PSY 2001, students must complete at least one course from four of the five areas. One must be a designated lab course.
PSY 2001 - Research Methods in Psychology [SS] (4.0 cr)
Learning and Cognition
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· PSY 3101 - Learning Theory and Behavior Modification (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3111 - Sensation and Perception (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3112 - Cognition (4.0 cr)
Biological and Comparative Psychology
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· PSY 3201 - Comparative Psychology [SCI-L] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3211 - Biological Psychology [SCI-L] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3221 {Inactive} [SCI] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3521 - Health Psychology (4.0 cr)
Personality and Clinical Psychology
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· PSY 3302 - Personality (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3313 - Psychopathology (4.0 cr)
· PSY 4101 - Helping Relationships (4.0 cr)
· PSY 4301 - Clinical Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions (4.0 cr)
Developmental Psychology
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· PSY 2411 - Lifespan Developmental Psychology [SS] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3401 - Child Development (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3402 - Adolescent and Emerging Adult Development (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3403 - Adult Development and Aging [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3404 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
Social and Applied Psychology
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· PSY 3501 - Social Psychology (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3503 - Consumer Behavior [SS] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3504 - Educational Psychology (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3513 - Negotiation (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3542 - Multicultural Psychology [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3701 - Organizational Behavior [SS] (4.0 cr)
Elective Courses
Additional elective credits to total at least 22 credits in the psychology sub-plan (including required courses). Electives may be selected from any category above and the following:
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· IS 3800 - Practicum in Social Sciences (1.0-2.0 cr)
· POL 3263 - Political Psychology [SS] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 2581 - Drugs and Human Behavior [SS] (2.0 cr)
· PSY 2993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· PSY 3611 - History and Philosophy of Psychology [HIST] (4.0 cr)
· PSY 3800 - Research Practicum (1.0-12.0 cr)
· PSY 3993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· PSY 4102 - Intro to Prof Conduct, Legal Constraints, Ethics in Human Services [E/CR] (2.0 cr)
· PSY 4770 - Empirical Investigations in Psychology I (2.0 cr)
· PSY 4771 - Independent Research in Psychology (1.0-6.0 cr)
· PSY 4772 - Empirical Investigations in Psychology II (2.0 cr)
· PSY 4896 - Field Experiences in Mental Health (1.0-4.0 cr)
· PSY 4993 - Directed Study (1.0-5.0 cr)
· STAT 3601 - Data Analysis [M/SR] (4.0 cr)
· STAT 3611 - Multivariate Statistical Analysis [M/SR] (4.0 cr)
Sociology
This sub-plan requires a total of 20 credits.
Required Courses
SOC 3103 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
SOC 3403 - Sociological Theory (4.0 cr)
Elective Courses
No more than 4 credits of the 12 elective credits required for the sub-plan can be from ANTH courses. No more than 4 cr can be from IS 3796. SOC 4991 is strongly recommended.
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
· ANTH 1103 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 1201 {Inactive} [SCI-L] (5.0 cr)
· ANTH 2202 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 2xxx
· ANTH 3001 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3455 - North American Archaeology [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3603 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3701 {Inactive} [SCI-L] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3704 {Inactive} [SCI] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 3xxx
· ANTH 4411 - Project Development [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· ANTH 4xxx
· IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions (1.0-16.0 cr)
Take 8 or more credit(s) from the following:
· SOC 1811 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1812 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1813 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 1814 {Inactive} [IC] (2.0 cr)
· SOC 2101 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 2201 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 2xxx
· SOC 3111 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3123 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3124 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3125 {Inactive} [SS] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3131 {Inactive} [ENVT] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance [E/CR] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3251 {Inactive} [HDIV] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3252 {Inactive} [IP] (4.0 cr)
· SOC 3xxx
· SOC 4991 - Sociology Seminar (4.0 cr)
· SOC 4xxx
 
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ANTH 1111W - Introductory Cultural Anthropology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Varieties and range of human behavior as revealed through the comparative study of cultures throughout the world. Concepts developed by anthropologists to explain both the unity and diversity of humankind.
GEOG 2001 - Problems in Geography (ENVT)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Basic concepts and questions in the field of geography. The terminology and approaches of geographical inquiry and analysis, with emphasis on the spatial patterns and arrangements of human interaction with the landscape and the production of geographical knowledge.
HIST 1111 - Introduction to World History (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1101/Hist 1102/Hist 1111
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Methods, themes, and problems in the study of world history.
HIST 1301 - Introduction to U.S. History (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Methods, themes, and problems in the study of the history of the United States.
POL 1201 - American Government and Politics (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Analysis of principles, organization, procedures, and powers of government in the United States. The federal system, national constitution, civil and political rights, party system; nature, structure, powers, and procedures of legislative, executive, and judicial departments of the national government.
PSY 1051 - Introduction to Psychology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An introduction to the science of mind and behavior. Topics include history of psychology, research methods, biological bases for behavior, life span development, sensation and perception, learning, cognitive and social processes, personality, psychopathology, and applications of psychology.
SOC 1101 - Introductory Sociology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to the field of sociology, the exploration of societies, and how societies operate. Sociology broadens social insights, fosters critical thinking, guides analytical thinking, and develops writing skills. By actively thinking about issues facing societies today, students learn to examine life situations and the influence of societies and groups on people's lives, careers, hopes, fears, and personalities. Emphasis on how society is stratified: how organizations and institutions influence the way people think, talk, feel, and act and how different groups (e.g., racial and ethnic) and divisions (e.g., gender and social class) within society have different access to power and privilege. People live their lives in relation to social and physical environments; sociologists study these environments and their effects on people's experiences and behavior.
STAT 1601 - Introduction to Statistics (M/SR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Scope, nature, tools, language, and interpretation of elementary statistics. Descriptive statistics; graphical and numerical representation of information; measures of location, dispersion, position, and dependence; exploratory data analysis. Elementary probability theory, discrete and continuous probability models. Inferential statistics, point and interval estimation, tests of statistical hypotheses. Inferences involving one and two populations, ANOVA, regression analysis, and chi-squared tests; use of statistical computer packages. prereq: high school higher algebra
STAT 2601 - Statistical Methods (M/SR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Descriptive statistics, elementary probability theory; laws of probability, random variables, discrete and continuous probability models, functions of random variables, mathematical expectation. Statistical inference; point estimation, interval estimation, tests of hypotheses. Other statistical methods; linear regression and correlation, ANOVA, nonparametric statistics, statistical quality control, use of statistical computer packages. prereq: Math 1101 or Math 1021
ANTH 2001 - How We Study People: Introduction to Methods in Cultural Anthropology (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Survey of methods in cultural anthropology. prereq: any 1xxx Anth or Soc course
ANTH 3001 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Examines the historical development of cultural anthropological theory, influences that shaped historical and contemporary theories in cultural anthropology, and major debates regarding their interpretation. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Anth 4901] prereq: 1111
ANTH 1813 - Culture on TV: An Introduction to Anthropology (IC)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Introduction to basic anthropological concepts using popular depictions of "culture" and anthropology in the media, specifically, in reality TV. Students watch clips or episodes of TV shows like "Cops," "Sister Wives," "Run's House," and "Deadliest Catch." These serve as a springboard to critical engagement with anthropological concerns and concepts like cultural relativism, ethics of research and entertainment, religion, gift exchange, sexuality, gender, marriage, and kinship. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM
ANTH 2121 - Topics in Cultural Anthropology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Survey of ethnography (a key genre of anthropology writing) including classical and contemporary works. Consider issues about how research is conducted, how it is represented in writing, and ethics and consider the variety of ways in which anthropologists approach their work. Some locations, topics, and approaches may be determined by student interests.
ANTH 2204 - Anthropology of Education: Learning and Schooling in Ethnographic Perspective (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to the central concepts and methods used by cultural anthropologists to study and understand educational processes. Exploration of approaches to diverse educational settings, including both formal and informal contexts. The seminar-style format of the course emphasizes critical thinking and encourages students to connect the readings and course topics to their own lives and experiences.
ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to classic anthropological theories of sexuality, kinship, and marriage. Consider how emotional and experiential aspects of sex, marriage, and family life--love and romance as well as conflict and control--are shaped by formal arrangements known as "social structure." Topics such as gift-exchange, cousin-marriage, patrilineal and matrilineal descent, incest, arranged marriage, and the concept of "blood" relations in North American families are addressed. Also explore recent anthropological work on such topics as transnational adoption, marriage migration, and new reproductive technologies.
ANTH 3455 - North American Archaeology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The archaeology of the societies located in the current United States and Canada prior to European colonization. Includes the earliest human colonization of North America (circa 12,000 years ago), early hunting and gathering societies, the development of agriculture, and the formation of complex chiefdoms. Emphasis on the diversity of cultures, languages, economies, and environments found throughout precontact North America.
ANTH 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Explore the history and experiences of Latinos in the Midwest United States. Starting from a historical perspective, the course examines issues including (im)migration, undocumented status, language, religion, race/ethnicity, media, and economy. A comparative framework emphasizes the unique context of migration into (rather than out of) rural communities as well as those far from a national border. Given the context of the local Morris community, the focus is particularly on rural Latino experiences.
ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A survey of gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin America. Course readings attend to the ways gender and sexuality intersect with factors such as race, ethnicity, social class, and religion. Topics include women's activism, public health, LGBTQ activism, tourism, and globalized labor.
IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions
Credits: 1.0 -16.0 [max 32.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
One-semester educational experience providing field applications in the helping professions (social work, counseling, casework, child protection services, educational settings, human resource counseling, and the like) for the student's theoretical classroom learning experiences. Prereq-Psy 4102, approved internship form; Psy 4101 recommended.
SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development (ENVT)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of the environment and social development. Examines the impact of international environmental and development efforts on individuals at the local level. Focuses on grassroots environmental activism and social development work. Explores and discusses power relations and systems of inequality within the context of environmental and social development efforts. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Introduces students to the sociological study of gender and sexuality. Focuses on gender difference and gender inequality. Analyzes the changing roles, opportunities, and expectations of women and men as their societies (and subsequently, gender relations and power) undergo change in today's world. Following a theoretical overview, examines how gender and sexuality affect everyday experiences. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111 or instr consent
SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of childhoods. Examines the interaction between societies and their youngest members-how societies shape children's lives through social institutions such as families, education, and the state. Takes a close look at children's access to privileges and resources as determined by children's experiences of race, gender, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of deviance. Explores the social reality of deviance within contemporary society and examines the social construction of deviant categories. Focuses on images of deviance as social constructs, rather than as intrinsic elements of human behavior. Investigates the complex relationships between individual behavior and social structure, with a focus on power, inequality, and oppression. Also, examines the socio-cultural definitions of morality and behavior. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3403 - Sociological Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Soc 3401/Soc 3402/Soc 3403
Prerequisites: 1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended
Typically offered: Every Fall
Survey of major developments in sociological theory, with attention to both classical and contemporary variants. Emphasis on sociological ideas in relation to the principal intellectual currents of European society, American society, and non-Western thought. prereq: 1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended
ECON 3201 - Microeconomic Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Analytical approach to decision making by individual economic units in the output and input markets, under perfect and imperfect market conditions. Externalities and role of government. prereq: 1101 (or 1111), Math 1101 or instr consent
ECON 3202 - Macroeconomic Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
The theory of national income determination; inflation, unemployment, and economic growth in alternative models of the national economy. prereq: 1101 (or 1112), Math 1101 or instr consent
MATH 1101 - Calculus I (M/SR)
Credits: 5.0 [max 5.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Limits and continuity; the concepts, properties, and some techniques of differentiation, antidifferentiation, and definite integration and their connection by the Fundamental Theorem. Partial differentiation. Some applications. Students learn the basics of a computer algebra system. prereq: 1012, 1013 or placement
ECON 3005 - Experimental and Behavioral Economics I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to economic experiments as controlled tests of microeconomic and game-theoretic behavioral predictions. In-class economic experiments, elements of non-cooperative game theory, results of market and social preference experiments, and empirical applications. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112), Math 1101, Stat 1601 or Stat 2601; or instr consent
ECON 3006 - Experimental and Behavioral Economics II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Advanced concepts and applications in experimental and behavioral economics. prereq: 3005 or instr consent
ECON 3007 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics I (ENVT)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Economic analysis of the causes and consequences of environmental pollution. Emphasis on the role of market failures as the root cause of pollution, and on regulatory approaches to solve those problems. Case studies of incentive regulation (emissions taxes & tradeable discharge permits) in practice, in the U.S. and beyond. prereq: 1101 (or 1111) or instr consent
ECON 3008 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics II (ENVT)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
The economic analysis of sustainability, focusing on market designs to discourage over-exploitation of both renewable and exhaustible natural resources. Topics include markets for water, fisheries, and energy. prereq: 3007 or instr consent
ECON 3009 - Political Economy
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
The historical evolution, methodological relevance, and basic structure of the modern capitalist economy, including the dynamics of capital accumulation, economic crisis, transformation and regulating mechanism of contemporary capitalism, and hegemonic tendency of economy over polity and other aspects of life in contemporary society. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112) or instr consent
ECON 3014 - Game Theory: The Theory of Strategic Behavior I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The analytic approach to strategic interaction. Strategic interaction takes place among people when the payoffs to each person depend on the choices of all the others, and each person knows this fact in choosing their behavior. Development of the basic concepts of the theory of strategic interaction, including the definition of a strategy, extensive form and strategic form representations of the same game, and the solution concepts of Nash equilibrium and rollback equilibrium. A selection of applications of economic interest are covered, such as market entry deterrence and social dilemma games. prereq: 1101 (or 1111) or instr consent
ECON 3015 - Game Theory: The Theory of Strategic Behavior II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Extensions to the basic analytic theory of strategic interaction that widen its applicability, including topics such as repeated games, asymmetric information, and refinements to basic solution concepts. A selection of applications of economic interest, such as screening, signaling, and brinkmanship. prereq: 3014 or instr consent
ECON 3113 - Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature and function of money; role of commercial banks and other financial institutions; structure and function of Federal Reserve system; monetary policies for stabilization and growth; and a survey and synthesis of major theories on the value of money. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112) or instr consent
ECON 3121 - Public Economics I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Analysis of the economics of public expenditures. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112) or instr consent
ECON 3122 - Public Economics II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Analysis of the economics of taxation. prereq: 3121 or instr consent
ECON 3131 - Comparative Economic Systems (IP)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Comparison of the theory and functioning of the major economic systems of the world. Examples of the use of different system attributes in important sectors of particular economies. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112) or instr consent
ECON 3134 - Cooperative Business Model
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Econ 3134/Mgmt 3134
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Same as Mgmt 3134. In the northern plains of the United States, cooperative businesses, including consumer, producer, and worker cooperatives, have made significant contributions to economic growth and development. Identify the unique economic, legal, and organizational characteristics of these firms and their role in the economy. Special attention is given to the potential role of cooperative business organizations in community development. prereq: 1101 (or 1111) or instr consent
ECON 3141 - Economic Growth and Development I (IP)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Issues of growth and development that are fundamental to low and middle-income countries. The concept and indicators of growth and development, comparative development status of countries, and the primary determinants of growth. Poverty, inequality, and the role of program evaluation in the formulation of evidence-based development policies. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112) or instr consent
ECON 3142 - Economic Growth and Development II (IP)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Issues internal to developing countries, such as agriculture, human capital, institutions (governmental, civic, and private), geography, culture. Issues external to developing countries, such as globalization. foreign trade, international migration, and climate change. The effects of these issues on poverty, inequality, and economic growth. prereq: 3141 or instr consent
ECON 3211 - History of Economic Thought I (HIST)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The origin and development of economic thought from Mercantilism through the classical school. Among others, Adam Smith and Karl Marx are featured. Nature of economics as a social science through the study of its historical development. prereq: 1101 (or 1111, 1112)
ECON 3212 - History of Economic Thought II (HIST)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The development of economic thought from Marx and the end of the classical school, through the development of more modern approaches. In addition to the demise of classical thought, a selection from the thinkers who contributed to the foundations of modern microeconomics and/or macroeconomics is covered. Nature of economics as a social science, through the study of its historical development. prereq: 3211 or instr consent
ECON 3501 - Introduction to Econometrics (M/SR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Statistical techniques and statistical problems applicable to economics and management, focusing on ordinary least-squares regression, classical inference, and detections of and adjustments for violations of the classical assumptions. The course also briefly explores some advanced econometric topics in model specification, estimation, and prediction that include pooled and panel data models, instrumental variable estimation, two-stage least squares estimation, limited dependent variables and logistic regression. prereq: 3201 or 3202, Engl 1601 (or instr consent for students with college writing experience), Stat 1601 or Stat 2601
ECON 3993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
ECON 4101 - Labor Economics I (HDIV)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Wage and employment determination. Distribution of earnings and earnings inequality by race and sex. Labor supply applications. prereq: 3201 or Mgmt 3123 or instr consent
ECON 4102 - Labor Economics II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Functioning and performance of the labor market. Heterodox explanations of labor market behavior. Labor demand applications. prereq: 3201 or Mgmt 3123 or instr consent
ECON 4111 - Mathematical Economics I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: ECON 4201/ECON 4111
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Application of mathematical methods to economic analysis. Mathematical formulations and solution of optimizing models pertaining to households and firms and of adjustments to disturbances. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Econ 4201] prereq: 3201, 3202 or instr consent
ECON 4112 - Mathematical Economics II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Topics include linear modeling, input-output analysis and linear programming, efficiency and exchange, comparative static analysis, and dynamic microeconomic and macroeconomic models. prereq: 4111 or instr consent
ECON 3012 - International Trade Theory (IP)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Overview of international trade theories to understand why nations trade. Analysis of various forms of trade protectionism. Discussion of trade blocs. Recent developments/issues in global trade. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Econ 4121] prereq: 1101 (or 1111) or instr consent
ECON 3013 - International Finance (IP)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Overview of the balance of payments, theories of exchange rate determination, fixed vs. flexible exchange rate regimes, macroeconomic behavior of a country in various exchange rate regimes. Discussion of international lending and financial crises. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Econ 4131] prereq: 1101 (or 1112) or instr consent
ECON 4141 - Empirics of Economic Growth
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Presentation of the recent developments in economic growth with an emphasis on empirical research. The course asks, "Why are some countries so rich and some countries so poor?" Students first explore the proximate causes of economic growth such as physical capital, human capital, and productivity, and then address the role played by fundamental causes such as institutions, geography, and deep history. prereq: 3501
ECON 4501 - Senior Research Seminar in Economics and Management
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Guided research sessions familiarize students with literature in the field. Students devote their time to identify a research question and prepare a literature review and research plan. Students are required to write a short literature review paper and make a formal presentation of their literature review and their research plan to their peers. Required presentations may occur outside the regular class schedule. prereq: Engl 1601 for all students (or instr consent for students with previous college writing experience), 3501 for econ majors or sr status for mgmt majors or instr consent
ECON 4502 - Advanced Research Seminar in Economics and Management
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Guided sessions familiarize students with advanced research tools in the field. Students extend their research from Econ 4501 in the form of a deeper literature review, an empirical analysis, or a specific case study (management majors only). Students are required to submit a final paper and make a formal presentation of their research to their peers. Required presentations may occur outside the regular class schedule. prereq: 4501, instr consent
ECON 4993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
GWSS 1101 - Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course introduces students to the concepts and impacts of gender and sexuality in everyday life. Various feminist, queer, and other gender-oriented theories are introduced as students explore how definitions of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality have been created, maintained, negotiated, and resisted.
ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to classic anthropological theories of sexuality, kinship, and marriage. Consider how emotional and experiential aspects of sex, marriage, and family life--love and romance as well as conflict and control--are shaped by formal arrangements known as "social structure." Topics such as gift-exchange, cousin-marriage, patrilineal and matrilineal descent, incest, arranged marriage, and the concept of "blood" relations in North American families are addressed. Also explore recent anthropological work on such topics as transnational adoption, marriage migration, and new reproductive technologies.
ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A survey of gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin America. Course readings attend to the ways gender and sexuality intersect with factors such as race, ethnicity, social class, and religion. Topics include women's activism, public health, LGBTQ activism, tourism, and globalized labor.
ARTH 3281 - Women and Art (FA)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: any 1xxx ArtH course or jr status or #
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
A historical survey of women's roles as creators and patrons of the visual arts in Western European and American societies, from antiquity to the present. prereq: any 1xxx ArtH course or jr status or instr consent
ENGL 2031 - Gender in Literature and Culture (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to literary and cultural representations of gender. Emphasis on the intersections between power and the social relations of gender, race, class, and sexuality. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major
ENGL 3155 - 20th-Century British Fiction
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Major novelists from the Modernist period and after, focusing on the historical context of the new challenges to literary tradition. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212
ENGL 3332 - African American Women Writers (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
If African Americans struggled to achieve equality and recognition in the racist United States, the situation was even more difficult for African American women, who had to contend with the sexism in both the white and black communities. This course examines the writings of prominent African American women. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or instr consent
ENGL 3414 - Feminist Theory (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Engl 3414/GWSS 3414
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Same as GWSS 3414. Engages students in a critical examination of several influential works participating in the elaboration of feminist theories. Readings and discussions focus on a series of themes and issues--gender, sexuality, race, class, language, bodies, etc.--and how these issues bear upon society. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 (or GWSS 1101)
FREN 3607 - Francophone Studies: Sex and Gender in Francophone Literature and Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The study of the representation of women, men, and queer identities in Francophone literature and film. Discussion of models of femininity and masculinity, and LGBTQAA+ identities and how the dual system of sexuality and gender is problematic. Examination of various models of Feminist and Queer Theory from Africa and the Caribbean and how they may differ from American or French models. Meets Francophone Studies (FRS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011 or instr consent
GWSS 3993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
HIST 1402 - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in American History (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Themes and methods in the history of women in the United States. Topics may include women in the colonial era; American Indian, African American, and immigrant women; sex roles; women and work, family, politics, the law, and religion.
HIST 2708W - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination of the forces that have shaped the lives of European women since 1600 and analysis of how changes in the structures of power and authority--religious, political, social, familial--affected the choices available to them. Students engage critically with the question of what bringing gender to the forefront of the study of European history has to teach them. Students gain an understanding of many of the underpinnings of American society, which has been deeply affected by European patterns of thought about women and their place in the world.
HIST 3021 - Gender and Sexuality in African History (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination and discussion of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial African history through the debates and trends in and between Western feminism, U.S. women of color feminism, Third World feminism, LGBT studies, queer theory, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of African queer studies. Also suitable for students interested in understanding past and present issues of gender and sexuality in Africa through the theories and conditions that animate black queer studies and the black queer diaspora. prereq: 1111 or 1112 or 1113 or Anth 1111 or GWSS 1101 or instr consent
HIST 3304 - Race, Class, and Gender in American History (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The themes of race, class, and gender are explored in-depth throughout the semester. Students gain a new awareness about historiography and theories that highlight this growing subfield of American history. Prominent topics covered in lecture and readings include colonization, slavery, suffrage, immigration, sovereignty, labor, ghettoization, art, literature, culture, and the rise of self-determination. Study the intersection of race, class, and gender relations through multiple perspectives of region, ideology, political-economy, and religion.
POL 3303 - Gender, Sexuality, and Political Theory (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Examination of the politics of sex, gender, and sexuality through study of contemporary critical analyses within political theory. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
PSY 3261 - Human Sexuality
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Survey of aspects of human sexuality, including intimacy and communication; male and female anatomy, physiology, and response; development of sexual differentiation, gender identity, gender role, and gender orientation; varieties of sexual expression; pregnancy and child birth; contraception and disease prevention; sexual coercion and abuse; sexual dysfunctions and their treatment. prereq: 1051
SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Introduces students to the sociological study of gender and sexuality. Focuses on gender difference and gender inequality. Analyzes the changing roles, opportunities, and expectations of women and men as their societies (and subsequently, gender relations and power) undergo change in today's world. Following a theoretical overview, examines how gender and sexuality affect everyday experiences. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111 or instr consent
SPAN 3654 - Seminar: Sex, Love, and Marriage in Golden Age Spanish Literature (HUM)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
The theme of sex, love, and marriage in Golden Age Spanish Literature through prose, poetry, and theatre of the Golden Age (XVI-XVII centuries) Spain. Consideration of the gender relations and gender politics reflected in the works and the socio-historical context in which these works were produced. prereq: 3012, 3112 or instr consent
SPAN 3688 - Seminar: Literature and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (HUM)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
An examination of 19th-century Spanish literature with primary emphasis on gender representation and construction. Readings include both canonical and lesser known works, by both male and female writers, that reflect an ongoing dialogue regarding traditional and shifting notions of gender identity and relations in Spain at the time. prereq: 3012, 3112 or instr consent
SSA 2403 - Sport, Gender, and Sexuality (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Interdisciplinary introduction to gender and sexuality and their intersection with sport as a social institution. Varying levels and contexts of sport are examined in contribution to the discussion of the sport industry's opportunities as a platform to address and influence issues of inclusion, accessibility, and equity. prereq: GWSS 1101 or SSA 2302
ARTS 3014 - Media Studies: Fabric as Form (ART/P)
Credits: 2.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Focus on the possibilities of fabric as the primary medium in art making. Topics include surface manipulation via hand and mechanical processes and using fabric to construct independent forms. [Note: materials fee required] prereq: major or minor or instr consent
ECON 4101 - Labor Economics I (HDIV)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Wage and employment determination. Distribution of earnings and earnings inequality by race and sex. Labor supply applications. prereq: 3201 or Mgmt 3123 or instr consent
ENGL 2411 - Representations of American Indians in Popular and Academic Culture (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Study of representations of American Indians in American popular and academic culture including literature, film, and sports. Particular attention given to how indigenous identities, histories, and cultures are represented in pop culture by non-indigenous peoples and, more recently, indigenous people themselves. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major or NAIS major
ENGL 3153 - Gothic Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
The cultural origins of gothic literature in tension with the neoclassical values of 18th-century Britain and its persistent influence over the next two centuries (including its relationship to modern horror fiction and film). Emphasis on the ways gothic tales encode cultural anxieties about gender, class, and power. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212
ENGL 3154 - 19th-Century British Fiction
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The rise of the novel to respectability and prominence in Britain from the Romantics to the Victorians. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212
ENGL 3165 - Seventeenth-Century Revolutions
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
An in-depth study of how 17th-century British literature represents and responds to the numerous revolutionary changes of the time, including political, religious, sexual, cultural, and genre-based upheavals. Writers to be considered may include John Donne, Mary Wroth, George Herbert, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and John Milton. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212
ENGL 3168 - Victorian Literature and Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Studies an array of 19th-century literary forms, including fiction, poetry, drama, and prose, in their social and political contexts. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent
ENGL 3301 - U.S. Multicultural Literature (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination of literatures by African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicana/o, U.S. Latino/a, and other under-represented peoples. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent
ENGL 3311 - American Indian Literature (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of American Indian literature written in English. Particular attention given to language, identity, land, and sovereignty. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent
ENGL 3411 - Critical Approaches to Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
An introduction to the major schools of literary theory and cultural analysis; particular attention to the ways in which the dialogue and debate between these approaches define the discipline of literary criticism. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212
ENGL 3522 - Harlem Renaissance (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
During the 1920s, there was a major aesthetic outpouring in the African American community. Listen to jazz, examine African American artwork, and read poetry, short stories, novels and essays from Harlem Renaissance writers. prereq: 1509, two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212
ENGL 4027 - Research Seminar: Dickens and Criticism
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Multiple novels by Dickens in their historical context with sustained attention to recent critical analysis of his work. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent
ENGL 4031 - Research Seminar: Renaissance Romance
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
An intensive study of the ever-controversial and paradoxical romance genre of 16th- and 17th-century England. Texts include Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia," Lady Mary Wroth's "Urania," Robert Greene's "Menaphon," and William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," among others. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent
ENGL 4034 - Research Seminar: The Adventure Novel in American and British Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Survey of adventure fiction in the Anglo-American tradition from Walter Scott through the mid 20th century, paying particular attention to themes that shaped this tradition, including imperialism and revisions of masculine identity. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent
FREN 1031 - Modern Studies: The Modern Body in France (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Beginning with Vesalius, this course examines how the notions of body and mind have been shaped and reshaped in tandem with the rise of the sciences in France, with emphasis on evolving conceptions of ability and disabilities. Taught in English. Meets Modern Studies (MOS) requirement in the French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011 or instr consent
FREN 1311 - Sub-Saharan Francophone Cinema (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to the history of cinema in French-speaking West Africa. Students learn to read African films, to recognize and analyze political themes in the films, and to become sensitive to issues facing many African nations in the postcolonial world. All films have English subtitles. Taught in English. Meets Francophone Studies (FRS) requirement for the French major. [Note: does not count toward the Fren minor]
FREN 3402 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Pre-Enlightenment Culture in France
Credits: 2.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course traces the history of French culture in the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern Period; it examines the geography, language, and institutions of medieval and early modern France through literature. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011 or instr consent
FREN 3406 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Emotional Extremes in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Theories from cultural and religious studies, anthropology, history, psychology, and sociology combine to approach emotional expression in society and in literature. Readings: Durkheim, Freud, Laplanche, Bataille, Chretien's Lancelot, Partonopeus, Le Roman de Troie, troubadour lyric, Aucassin et Nicolette, Legenda Aurea, Saint Augustine, Ovid's Metamorphoses. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011
FREN 3407 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The "East" and its Marvels
Credits: 2.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A Medieval French course introducing cultural and literary aspects of the Middle Ages through marvelous figures and manifestations of the medieval French interpretation of the "East," including attention to exotic forms of clothing and food in romance, crusades, bestiaries, and fabliaux. Students read medieval interpretations of adventure stories such as the Iliad and Aeneid. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011
FREN 3408 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Quests, Quails, and Custards--Food in Life and Literature
Credits: 2.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Spices, game, and chocolate trace the real and imagined movement of European people in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in literary and historical sources. Make authentic recipes and read authors, including Marco Polo, from many genres of literature. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011 or instr consent
FREN 3603 - Francophone Studies: Witches, Wilderness, and Words in African Folktales
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of the oral tale in African cultures and how these texts encapsulate cultural knowledge of identity, community, and spirituality. Examination of the supernatural and ancestral spiritual worlds, with a special emphasis on the magical power of words and their ability to create, transform, and destroy. Meets Francophone Studies (FRS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011 or instr consent
FREN 3605 - Francophone Studies: Maghrebian Cinema
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A study of Algerian, Tunisian, and Moroccan history and culture as presented through the art of cinema. Examination of films produced in the francophone Maghreb thematically, focusing on topics such as colonialism, gender, Islam, childhood, and immigration. An important goal is to learn to analyze and discuss film academically. Meets Francophone Studies (FRS) requirement in French major. prereq: (or coreq) 3011 or instr consent
HIST 2103 - Medieval Europe (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of historical developments in Europe from about 500 to 1500.
HIST 2132W - History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of fairy tales and folklore in European history from the early modern era to the present, with a primary emphasis on tracing changes in the social and cultural use of fairy tales over time. Sources drawn from a diverse corpus of tales and retellings, as well as scholarly interpretations from historians, ethnographers, and folklorists. Explores key developments, such as the transformation of 17th-century French tales written as political allegory into the Grimms' 19th-century reinvention of the fairy tale as a staple of middle-class childhood. Other topics may include the oral tradition and literacy; changing ideas about gender, class, and religion; and themes of violence, nationalism, and sexuality.
HIST 2151 - Modern Europe (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
History of modern Europe emphasizing political, economic, social, and intellectual developments since 1789.
HIST 3204 - Nazi Germany (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
History of Nazi Germany. Social and political origins, Nazi rule in the 1930s, the "final solution," World War II, and Germany's attempt to assess this era in its history.
HIST 3207 - The Crusades (IP)
Credits: 2.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Explores the historical contexts and consequences of the European Crusades between the 11th century and early modern period, including the perspective of European Jews, Turkish and Arabic Muslims, and Byzantine and Near Eastern Christians.
HIST 2152 - Modern Germany (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of German history from the development of German national ideas through unification and consolidation of the modern German state in 1871 and through its re-unification at the end of the 20th century. Examines one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in German and European history, why the attempt to understand the German past has occupied so many historians, and why the debates surrounding that attempt have been so contentious. Sources include writings by established historians of Germany, novels, films, and music. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Hist 3209]
HIST 3212 - The French Revolution (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the causes, players, drama, complexity, and legacy of the French Revolution. Beginning with the changing social order and new political philosophies of the 18th century, the course follows not only the initial unfolding of revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, but also the rise of Napoleon and revolutionary wars. Later reverberations in the revolutions of 1848, the Commune of 1871, and global influences (such as the Haitian Revolution) also addressed. Throughout these events, the experiences of both prominent figures and ordinary participants (the "crowd") considered.
HIST 3214 - History of Childhood (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of changes in childhood and youth from the early modern era to the present. Geographic emphasis on Europe, although the course also allows for exploration of similar themes in other parts of the world. Considers key developments in both ideas about and experiences of children, such as the emergence of children's rights discourse. Other topics may include schooling, play, labor, family, sexuality, consumption, migration, welfare, imperialism, and war. Readings drawn from social, cultural, and political approaches to the history of childhood, as well as historical documents created by children themselves across contexts.
HIST 3465 - History of the American Family (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination of the history of the American family from the colonial period to the present. One focus is demographic and explores changes in family size and structure due to economic change and modernization. Also examined are altered relationships within families, as the nuclear family became more democratic and affectionate, as the position of women within American life changed, as people began to practice different methods of family limitation, and as childhood and adolescence were recognized as distinctive life course phases. Additional topics include the role of class and cultural differences in defining family systems, shifting gender and sexual norms, the rise of unrelated individuals, and the aging of the population, etc.
PHIL 2112 - Professional Ethics (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
A critical examination of moral issues that arise in a person's professional life. Possible topics include affirmative action, autonomy in the workplace, ethical issues in advertising, corporate responsibility, coercive wage offers, distributive justice, and sexual harassment. Issues concerning race, gender, and women are included in selected modules.
PSY 3542 - Multicultural Psychology (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Psy 3541/Psy 3542
Typically offered: Every Spring
Theoretical and methodological approaches to multicultural psychology. Multicultural psychology is the systematic study of behavior, cognition, and affect settings where people of different backgrounds interact. Exploration of these interactions both within and outside of the United States. Topics may include worldviews, communication styles, acculturation, prejudice, white privilege, identity development, physical and mental health, and multicultural competencies. prereq: 1051
SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development (ENVT)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of the environment and social development. Examines the impact of international environmental and development efforts on individuals at the local level. Focuses on grassroots environmental activism and social development work. Explores and discusses power relations and systems of inequality within the context of environmental and social development efforts. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of childhoods. Examines the interaction between societies and their youngest members-how societies shape children's lives through social institutions such as families, education, and the state. Takes a close look at children's access to privileges and resources as determined by children's experiences of race, gender, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of deviance. Explores the social reality of deviance within contemporary society and examines the social construction of deviant categories. Focuses on images of deviance as social constructs, rather than as intrinsic elements of human behavior. Investigates the complex relationships between individual behavior and social structure, with a focus on power, inequality, and oppression. Also, examines the socio-cultural definitions of morality and behavior. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SPAN 3685 - Seminar: Slavery and Abolition in Cuban Literature and Culture (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A study of the major texts surrounding Cuban slavery from the 1812 Aponte slave rebellion to independence from Spain in 1898. How did 19th-century writers depict Cuban slave society? What was the relationship between literature, abolition, and independence? prereq: 3012, 3112, or instr consent
SPAN 3686 - Seminar: Writing History in Spanish American Literature (HUM)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A study of 20th- and 21st-century Latin American historical novels and the colonial and 19th-century texts on which they are based. How and why is the past mobilized to meet the needs of the present? How do historical events continue to haunt the present day? prereq: 3011, 3012, or instr consent
SPAN 3687 - Seminar: Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
An overview of the literature and culture of peoples of African descent in Spanish America from the colonial period to present day. How have Afro-Hispanics been marginalized from national projects in Spanish America? To what extent and under what circumstances has the group been included? How have Afro-Hispanic writers responded to larger culture? prereq: 3011, 3012, or instr consent
SPAN 3690 - Seminar: Mexican Cultural Production (HUM)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
An overview of the literature and culture of Anahuac (Mexico) from the colonial period to present day. With a focus on migration and diaspora, a key objective is to explore the dynamic cultural exchanges across this region. How are migration and diaspora represented? How do these representations deepen our understanding of Mexico and movements on a global scale? prereq: 3012, 3112
HIST 1501 - Introduction to East Asian History: China, Japan, and Korea before 1800. (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Examination of the social, political, economic, technological, and cultural changes in East Asia before 1800. Possible sub-themes include the rise of the Confucian world order, the spread of Buddhism, and East Asian interactions with the outside world. Discussion of changing perceptions of gender.
HIST 1601 - Latin American History: A Basic Introduction (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Methods, themes, and problems in the study of Latin American history.
HIST 1301 - Introduction to U.S. History (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Methods, themes, and problems in the study of the history of the United States.
HIST 1402 - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in American History (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Themes and methods in the history of women in the United States. Topics may include women in the colonial era; American Indian, African American, and immigrant women; sex roles; women and work, family, politics, the law, and religion.
HIST 1112 - Introduction to African History to 1880 (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Exploration of Africa's incredible human and environmental diversity from the earliest times to European contact. Special attention to how historians of Africa interpret non-written sources to understand the past.
HIST 1113 - Introduction to African History since 1880 (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Consideration of Africa's past from the colonial era to the present. Special attention to the challenges Africans faced living under Europe's grip as well as their courage to build independent African nations.
HIST 2551 - Modern Japan (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The history of Japan from the foundation of the Tokugawa Shogunate until the present. Special attention to issues of gender, nationalism, and modernity.
HIST 2552 - History of Modern China (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Study of the history of China from the foundation of the Qing dynasty in the 1600s until the present. Special attention to issues of gender, nationalism, and modernity.
HIST 2557 - History of Southeast Asia (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
A broad survey of Southeast Asia's civilization and its modern challenges. Emphasizes recent colonialism, nationalism, and postwar development.
HIST 3557 - East Asia Since 1800 (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the social, political, economic, technological, and cultural changes in East Asia [China, Japan, and Korea] since 1800.
HIST 2103 - Medieval Europe (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of historical developments in Europe from about 500 to 1500.
HIST 2132W - History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of fairy tales and folklore in European history from the early modern era to the present, with a primary emphasis on tracing changes in the social and cultural use of fairy tales over time. Sources drawn from a diverse corpus of tales and retellings, as well as scholarly interpretations from historians, ethnographers, and folklorists. Explores key developments, such as the transformation of 17th-century French tales written as political allegory into the Grimms' 19th-century reinvention of the fairy tale as a staple of middle-class childhood. Other topics may include the oral tradition and literacy; changing ideas about gender, class, and religion; and themes of violence, nationalism, and sexuality.
HIST 2151 - Modern Europe (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
History of modern Europe emphasizing political, economic, social, and intellectual developments since 1789.
HIST 2708W - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination of the forces that have shaped the lives of European women since 1600 and analysis of how changes in the structures of power and authority--religious, political, social, familial--affected the choices available to them. Students engage critically with the question of what bringing gender to the forefront of the study of European history has to teach them. Students gain an understanding of many of the underpinnings of American society, which has been deeply affected by European patterns of thought about women and their place in the world.
HIST 3161 - The Enlightenment (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment has been given the credit and the blame for all things modern--from the concept of human rights and the democracies it has engendered to the subversion of those rights in the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Exploration of the ideas of the Enlightenment and their political context and attempt to answer the question of how such an important development in human history can be viewed in such contradictory ways.
HIST 3204 - Nazi Germany (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
History of Nazi Germany. Social and political origins, Nazi rule in the 1930s, the "final solution," World War II, and Germany's attempt to assess this era in its history.
HIST 3207 - The Crusades (IP)
Credits: 2.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Explores the historical contexts and consequences of the European Crusades between the 11th century and early modern period, including the perspective of European Jews, Turkish and Arabic Muslims, and Byzantine and Near Eastern Christians.
HIST 2152 - Modern Germany (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of German history from the development of German national ideas through unification and consolidation of the modern German state in 1871 and through its re-unification at the end of the 20th century. Examines one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in German and European history, why the attempt to understand the German past has occupied so many historians, and why the debates surrounding that attempt have been so contentious. Sources include writings by established historians of Germany, novels, films, and music. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Hist 3209]
HIST 3211 - Modern France (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of French culture and history from the Revolution (1789) to the present. The ways in which successive governments, from Napoleon's empire through the Fifth Republic, have come to terms with legacies of the Revolution such as national citizenship, individual rights, and the politicization of women.
HIST 3212 - The French Revolution (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the causes, players, drama, complexity, and legacy of the French Revolution. Beginning with the changing social order and new political philosophies of the 18th century, the course follows not only the initial unfolding of revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, but also the rise of Napoleon and revolutionary wars. Later reverberations in the revolutions of 1848, the Commune of 1871, and global influences (such as the Haitian Revolution) also addressed. Throughout these events, the experiences of both prominent figures and ordinary participants (the "crowd") considered.
HIST 3213 - Modern Britain (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the history of modern Britain and its empire since the 17th century. Topics include the growth of Britain as a world power through imperialism and industrialization, the challenges of shaping a modern polity, and the 20th-century shifts that reduced its global profile.
HIST 3214 - History of Childhood (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of changes in childhood and youth from the early modern era to the present. Geographic emphasis on Europe, although the course also allows for exploration of similar themes in other parts of the world. Considers key developments in both ideas about and experiences of children, such as the emergence of children's rights discourse. Other topics may include schooling, play, labor, family, sexuality, consumption, migration, welfare, imperialism, and war. Readings drawn from social, cultural, and political approaches to the history of childhood, as well as historical documents created by children themselves across contexts.
HIST 2312 - History of South Africa to 1976 (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Exploration of South Africa's settler colonial history from European contact to youth resistance against white supremacy. Special attention to examining the history of structural racism in a global perspective.
HIST 2313 - History of South Africa since 1910 (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Consideration of apartheid South Africa's roots and the multiracial country's struggle to reconcile its colonial past. Special attention to 20th-century black and non-racial political thought from a global perspective.
HIST 3021 - Gender and Sexuality in African History (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination and discussion of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial African history through the debates and trends in and between Western feminism, U.S. women of color feminism, Third World feminism, LGBT studies, queer theory, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of African queer studies. Also suitable for students interested in understanding past and present issues of gender and sexuality in Africa through the theories and conditions that animate black queer studies and the black queer diaspora. prereq: 1111 or 1112 or 1113 or Anth 1111 or GWSS 1101 or instr consent
HIST 2608 - History of Cuba: From Colony to Revolutionary State (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
A survey of the history of Cuba from Spanish colonization to the present, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include colonization, slavery, imperialism, nationalism, and the Cuban Revolution.
HIST 2609 - History of Brazil: From Sugar to Sugar Cars (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Examination of Brazilian history from Portuguese colonization in the early 1500s to its current status as a growing world economic power. Topics include Portuguese colonial rule, independence and the creation of the Brazilian Empire in the nineteenth century, the end of the Brazilian monarchy and the emergence of the oligarchic republic, the rise of the populist state in the mid-twentieth century, military dictatorship during the Cold War, and the return to democracy and Brazil's rise to world-power status. Additional topics include the Amazon and environmental history, indigenous history, Afro-Brazilian history, the U.S.-Brazilian relationship from a historical perspective, Brazilian economic development, how Brazilians are coping with the socioeconomic changes in their society, and how they perceive their role in the world.
HIST 3612 - Social Revolution in 20th-Century Latin America (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of social revolution in 20th-century Latin America. Particular attention paid to social revolution in Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Populism, democratic attempts at social revolution, and counterrevolution in other parts of Latin America also considered. Key issues include imperialism, capitalism, communism, nationalism, and the Cold War.
HIST 3613 - U.S.-Latin American Relations in Historical Perspective (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the history of U.S.-Latin American relations from U.S independence to the present. Focuses on the political, economic, social, and cultural relationships between the two.
HIST 3614 - Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Explore issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America from a historical perspective. Covering the colonial and national periods, examine how ideas of race and ethnicity have intersected with political, economic, and socio-cultural developments in the region. Consider the ways in which race, class, and gender have intersected in Latin America.
NAIS 2252 - Comparative Indigenous History: Beyond Native America (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 2252/AmIn 2252
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Same as Hist 2252. Explore indigenous experiences with settler colonialism in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and sub-Saharan Africa. With special attention to issues of race, labor, gender, education, and movements for decolonization, place the indigenous histories of Morris and Minnesota within a global context. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for AmIn 1701 or Hist 1701]
NAIS 3403 - American Indian Education: History and Representation (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3403/AmIn 3403
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Same as Hist 3403. Examination of indigenous education in the United States from pre-contact to the late 20th century. Topics include indigenous ways of teaching and learning, efforts to assimilate Native peoples through education, the movement toward educational self-determination within Native communities, and contemporary representations of boarding school experiences. Students also gain insight into the history of the Morris Indian School and its contemporary representation at UMM.
ANTH 3402 - Representations from the Field: American Indian Ethnography and Ethnohistory (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3402/Anth 3402
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Same as Hist 3402. An analysis of ethnographic and ethnohistoric materials focusing on specific American Indian cultures.
HIST 2251 - American Indians and the United States: A History (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
The experience of the original Americans and their interaction with later immigrants.
HIST 2252 - Comparative Indigenous History: Beyond Native America (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 2252/AmIn 2252
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Same as NAIS 2252. Explore indigenous experiences with settler colonialism in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and sub-Saharan Africa. With special attention to issues of race, labor, gender, education, and movements for decolonization, place the indigenous histories of Morris and Minnesota within a global context. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for NAIS 1701 or Hist 1701]
HIST 2451 - The American West (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3451/Hist 2451
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
The American West has loomed large in the imagination of the public since the first Europeans set foot on what would become the United States of America. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier of the West was what distinguished Americans from their European counterparts. However, the West was already home to complex and sophisticated cultures long before the first fur trapper, gold miner, missionary, or cowboy arrived. Disagreements over the future of the West fueled violent confrontation, disagreements that continue to reveal themselves on contemporary relations among a variety of ethnic, class, and cultural backgrounds. Explore the historical underpinnings of confrontations between settlers and indigenous inhabitants, farmers and ranchers, and the federal, state, private, environmental, and tribal interests in the West. These historical underpinnings help to re-imagine the West and the American identity, and continue to shape contemporary controversies.
HIST 3359 - Native Strategies for Survival, 1880-1920 (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Exploration of the events and policies that sought to eliminate American Indian communities and cultures and the strategies that American Indians developed to survive. Students gain insight into a pivotal time for the "incorporation" of the United States and ongoing tensions between unity and diversity that characterize the nation's political economy and social structure. Paradoxes under scrutiny include the degree to which policies claiming to emancipate actually imprisoned and prisons became homelands.
HIST 3402 - Representations from the Field: American Indian Ethnography and Ethnohistory (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3402/Anth 3402
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Same as Anth 3402. An analysis of ethnographic and ethnohistoric materials focusing on specific American Indian cultures.
HIST 3403 - American Indian Education: History and Representation (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3403/AmIn 3403
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Same as NAIS 3403. Examination of indigenous education in the United States from pre-contact to the late 20th century. Topics include indigenous ways of teaching and learning, efforts to assimilate Native peoples through education, the movement toward educational self-determination within Native communities, and contemporary representations of boarding school experiences. Students also gain insight into the history of the Morris Indian School and its contemporary representation at UMM.
HIST 2003 - Public History (HIST)
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Introduction to the many ways historians conduct research and present historical topics to public audiences. Public historians, who typically come from a traditional academic discipline, utilize their knowledge in such public settings as museums, archives, historic sites, historical societies, and federal agencies. Examine a number of themes ranging from oral histories and historical reenactments to websites and electronic media. Explore what is public history, who practices it, the role of audience, the tension between history and memory, and the ethical concerns that influence public history practice. Gain hands-on experience in facets of public history such as archival management and oral history.
HIST 2352 - The U.S. 1960s (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
History of the United States in the 1960s. Backgrounds to the 1960s; political and cultural issues of the decade; the Kennedy promise, civil rights and other movements, Vietnam war, counterculture, conservative backlash, and legacy.
HIST 2441 - The United States and the Great War (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Summer
Presentation of a highly integrated picture of the American experience in World War I. Part of the focus is on the military experience, although approached from the perspective of average sailors and soldiers. More of the emphasis is on the home front and how the war at home encouraged the emergence of a new, more powerful, federal state while simultaneously inviting attacks on civil liberties and ethnic culture. Follow the impact of war through the post-war Red Scare and into the 1920s and explore how it ushered in a new period in American life but one rife with political and cultural contradictions.
HIST 2452 - Minnesota History (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the social, cultural, and political history of Minnesota with emphases on American Indian and European-American conflict, immigration and ethnicity, the development of political culture, and the changing nature of regional identity.
HIST 3303 - Creation of the American Republic (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Examination of the history of the United States from the beginning of the Seven Years' War in 1754 to the end of the War of 1812. The origins of the nation and the political, cultural, and social changes that accompanied the birth and early years of the American Republic. Focus on the political and social history of the American Revolution. Other topics include women in revolutionary America, the retrenchment of slavery, indigenous people and early Indian policy, religion and revivalism, the constitutional crisis, and the early presidencies.
HIST 3304 - Race, Class, and Gender in American History (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The themes of race, class, and gender are explored in-depth throughout the semester. Students gain a new awareness about historiography and theories that highlight this growing subfield of American history. Prominent topics covered in lecture and readings include colonization, slavery, suffrage, immigration, sovereignty, labor, ghettoization, art, literature, culture, and the rise of self-determination. Study the intersection of race, class, and gender relations through multiple perspectives of region, ideology, political-economy, and religion.
HIST 3351 - The U.S. Presidency Since 1900 (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
History of the 20th-century U.S. presidency. Brief consideration of the Presidency before 1900, analysis of performance of presidents since 1900 in roles of chief executive, commander-in-chief, chief diplomat, and chief of state during an era of enlarged governmental functions at home and world power abroad.
HIST 3353 - World War II (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Origins, political and military aspects of the war in Europe and Asia, domestic mobilization, the Holocaust and Atomic Bomb, aftermath.
HIST 3355 - United States in Transition, 1877-1920 (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Topics, themes, and problems in U.S. history, 1877 to 1920.
HIST 3356 - Civil Rights Era, 1954-1974 (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Background of the Civil Rights movement, emergence of the theory and practice of nonviolence, various Civil Rights groups, role of women, legislative and other accomplishments of the movement, its aftermath and influence.
HIST 3358 - Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Origin, context, and significance of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
HIST 3360 - American Experience in World War II (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Seven former American Presidents were veterans of World War II and over 175,000 books have been published on this subject alone. Arguably this one event has commanded more attention by writers, filmmakers, and academics than any other modern historical event. For decades historians have also debated the significance of World War II. After the conclusion of the war, the worldwide devastation and loss of life had reached apocalyptic proportions and new military technologies, like the atom bomb, forever altered the American experience. Scientists and intellectuals, such as Albert Einstein, emerged as new celebrities. Literally every sector of American society and culture had been transformed by World War II. Investigate these questions and more throughout the semester. It is important to note that this course is not a strict military history of the European and Pacific campaigns. Instead, the purpose of this class is to challenge students to grapple with the historic origins and legacies of the war. prereq: jr or sr or instr consent
HIST 3361 - An Environmental and Geographic History of the United States (ENVT)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
A broad examination of how humans interacted with their natural world throughout American history. Combined emphasis on cultural ecology (the study of how various cultural groups shaped the American landscape) with political ecology (the role of the nation's political economy in driving environmental change). Possible topics include: the Columbian Exchange, European and American Indian conflict, Thoreau and the creation of an environmental ethic, the slaughter of the bison as an ecological tragedy, urbanization and environmental racism, conservation as a political movement and the development of environmental policy, eco-feminism, American religion and the environment, the politics of global climate change. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Hist 2361]
HIST 3453 - The American Presidency, 1789-1900 (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Growth and development of the U.S. presidency during its first century. Emphasis on selected presidencies such as those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley.
HIST 3455 - American Immigration (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
The role of voluntary migration in U.S. history from the late 18th century to the present. Emphases on settlement, ethnicity, nativism, transnational issues, and immigration law. Possible topics include European immigrants and "whiteness," restriction of immigration from Asia, ethnicity and U.S. foreign and military policy, and the varieties of immigration, legal and undocumented, since 1965.
HIST 3456 - History of Religion in America (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The history of religion in American life from the perspective of ordinary Americans. Religious diversity receives special emphasis. Topics may include New England witchcraft, the First and Second Great Awakenings, American Indian belief systems, nativism and Anti-Catholicism, religion and politics, immigrant religion and new fundamentalist movements.
HIST 3465 - History of the American Family (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Examination of the history of the American family from the colonial period to the present. One focus is demographic and explores changes in family size and structure due to economic change and modernization. Also examined are altered relationships within families, as the nuclear family became more democratic and affectionate, as the position of women within American life changed, as people began to practice different methods of family limitation, and as childhood and adolescence were recognized as distinctive life course phases. Additional topics include the role of class and cultural differences in defining family systems, shifting gender and sexual norms, the rise of unrelated individuals, and the aging of the population, etc.
MGMT 2101 - Principles of Accounting I
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
An introductory course in accounting principles and practices. Students develop an understanding of both the conceptual and procedural framework of accounting processes. Emphasis is placed on the preparation and communication of accounting information and the financial statements for proprietorships and partnerships.
MGMT 2102 - Principles of Accounting II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
A continuation of Principles of Accounting I. Students develop an understanding of the issues unique to corporations and organizational financing. Cash flow statements and performance analysis are also emphasized. prereq: 2101
MGMT 3101 - Financial Management
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Fundamental theories of financial management, their applications, and their limitations in solving real business problems. Emphasis on financial analysis, valuation of future cash flows, capital budgeting, risk and return, cost of capital. prereq: 2102, Econ 1101 (or Econ 1111, Econ 1112), Stat 1601
MGMT 3123 - Managerial Economics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Development of the basic concepts of the microeconomic theories of consumer behavior, the firm, and market structure, in application to managerial decision-making contexts in the operation and control of business and non-profit organizations. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Econ 3201] prereq: 2101, Econ 1101 (or Econ 1111), Stat 1601 or Stat 2601 or instr consent
MGMT 3133 - Managerial Accounting
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 2102
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Managerial accounting is designed to help managers assess needed information to carry out three essential functions in an organization: planning operations, controlling activities, and making decisions. The emphasis of this course is placed on cost behaviors, various product costing methods, cost-volume-profit relationships, budgeting and control through standard costs, and other quantitative techniques used by management. prereq: 2102
MGMT 3134 - Cooperative Business Model
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Econ 3134/Mgmt 3134
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Same as Econ 3134. In the northern plains of the United States, cooperative businesses, including consumer, producer, and worker cooperatives, have made significant contributions to economic growth and development. Identify the unique economic, legal, and organizational characteristics of these firms and their role in the economy. Special attention is given to the potential role of cooperative business organizations in community development. prereq: Econ 1101 (or Econ 1111) or instr consent
MGMT 3141 - Business Law: The Legal Environment of Business
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to the legal environment in which business operates. Covers the sources of regulatory authority, including U.S. constitutional authority, judicial authority, and state and local regulatory systems; ethical business decision-making; tortious acts in the business world, intellectual property, and an introduction to contract law. prereq: 2101 or instr consent
MGMT 3142 - Business Law: Sales Law, Commercial Paper, and Forms of Business
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Covers sales law under the Uniform Commercial Code; negotiable instruments (i.e., the law of commercial paper); and principles of agency law. Provides an introduction to a wide variety of business organizational forms with in-depth emphasis on partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability corporations, corporate law, and securities law and regulation. This class complements MGMT 3141, and may be taken with or without having first taken 3141. prereq: 2101 or instr consent
MGMT 3151 - Human Resources Management I (E/CR)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
An introduction to the functional areas of human resource management through the use of case studies. Topics include legal issues, strategic and sustainability planning, recruitment, evaluation, compensation, and benefits. prereq: Stat 1601 or Stat 2601 or instr consent
MGMT 3152 - Human Resources Management II (HDIV)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Topics in human resource management: evaluating employee performance, training and safety, sustainability and "lean manufacturing," labor relations, and international human resource management. prereq: 3151 or instr consent
MGMT 3161 - Labor Management Relations I (E/CR)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical development of labor relations and the legal framework governing collective bargaining. Labor relations law reform. Case studies from labor relations law. prereq: Econ 1101 (or 1111) or instr consent
MGMT 3162 - Labor Management Relations II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Issues in labor-management negotiation, grievances, wages and economic security plans, public policies toward collective bargaining. Case studies from labor arbitration. prereq: 3161 or instr consent
MGMT 3201 - Marketing Principles and Strategy
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Basic factors affecting policy and strategy issues in marketing. Economic, legal, behavioral, environmental, competitive, and technological factors as they affect product, pricing, promotion, and marketing-channel decisions. prereq: 2102, Stat 1601 or instr consent
MGMT 3221 - Management and Organization Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Theory, research, and practice of management. Planning, organizing, leading, controlling. Emphasizes goals, policies, procedures. Factors and human relationships necessary to achieve organizational success. Organizational structure/culture. Changing environment in which businesses operate. prereq: 2101, Econ 1101 (or Econ 1111) or instr consent
MGMT 3503 - Consumer Behavior (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Psy 3503/Mgmt 3503
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Same as Psy 3503. Psychological basis for understanding consumers. Some of the topics include consumer behavior, consumer cognitive processes, and consumer judgments and decisions. prereq: Stat 1601 or Stat 2601 or instr consent
MGMT 3513 - Negotiation
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mgmt 3513/Psy 3513
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Same as Psy 3513. Examines the theoretical and applied aspects of negotiation. Topics include negotiation theory, strategy, skills and tactics, communication processes, global negotiation, and ethics. Use of negotiation simulations. prereq: 3221 or Psy 3501 or Psy/Mgmt 3701
MGMT 3601 - Transnational Enterprise (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Development and transformation of business enterprise within the global economy emerging from time and motion studies, mergers, "corporate revolution," Fordism through to multi-plant manufacturing beyond national boundaries. Includes the basic impact of structural, institutional, and organizational change upon the dynamics of the firm and industry in the contemporary hyper-competitive, technology-driven, fast-paced, global environment. prereq: 2101, Econ 1101 (or Econ 1111, Econ 1112) or instr consent, Engl 1601 (or instr consent for students with college writing experience)
MGMT 3701 - Organizational Behavior (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mgmt 3701/Psy 3701
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Same as Psy 3701. Uses the theories and research of the behavioral sciences to understand how organizations function at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Topics include stress in the workplace; group dynamics; power, leadership, and attribution theory. prereq: Stat 1601 or Stat 2601, jr or sr
MGMT 3993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
MGMT 4202 - The Economics of Corporate Strategy II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Tools for analyzing business strategies: credible strategic commitments, pricing rivalries, entry and exit, Porter's five forces framework, and the relationship between value creation and strategic market positioning. prereq: 4201
MGMT 4896 - Internship
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Supervised educational experience and field application relevant to student's major. Written analysis appropriate to the application is required. [Note: 2 cr may be applied to major or minor] prereq: 2102
MGMT 4993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
POL 1101 - Introduction to Political Theory (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
An introduction to key political concepts, questions, and ideologies through the writings of major political thinkers and examination of contemporary debates about political life.
POL 1401 - World Politics (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
An introduction to international relations, covering the basic concepts, theories, and trends. The major issue fields include historical international systems, war and peace, foreign policy, diplomacy, national interests, international conflict and cooperation, international law, and international organizations.
POL 2001W - Political Science Research Methods (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Students conceive and develop research questions and hypotheses; collect and critically review published research on their topic; analyze empirical evidence using statistical software; and write clearly, forcefully, and logically about their research. Examination of the philosophy and critiques of social-science methods. prereq: any 1xxx-level UMM Pol course, major or minor or instr consent
POL 2221 - The American Judicial Process (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 2221/Pol 3221
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
A half-semester course examining the common law system as broadly practiced in the United States, including types of legal recourse, the structures of state and federal judicial systems, how judges are selected, and the various influences on their decisions.
POL 2222 - The U.S. Supreme Court (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 2222/Pol 3221
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
A half-semester course specifically looking at the role of the Supreme Court in U.S. politics with an emphasis on its historical development, how it interacts with the other federal branches, and the decision-making process of the justices on the Court.
POL 2234 - Race, Class and Power: Social Movements in U.S. Politics (HDIV)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 2234/Pol 3234
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Using a case study approach, this half-semester course examines a variety of social movements from across U.S. history. Addresses questions such as why social movements arise, how they succeed or fail, and how the American political system adapts to their influence.
POL 2235 - Race, Class and Power: Interest Groups in U.S. Politics (HDIV)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 2235/Pol 3234
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
A half-semester course focusing on the growth and importance of interest groups in U.S. politics by looking at different types of interest groups, the tactics they use to try to influence the political system, how successful they are at doing so, and whether this system works for the public good.
POL 2261 - States: Laboratories of American Democracy (E/CR)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Examination of the ways American democracy functions in the states. Analysis of principles, organizations, procedures, and functions of state government in the United States, with particular emphasis on comparing state politics and policy outcomes. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Pol 3261] prereq: 1201 or instr consent
POL 2262 - Power and Politics in American Cities and Communities (E/CR)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 2262/Pol 3261
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Explores the nature of political power and institutions in urban, suburban, and rural communities, along with cultural and economic forces. Analyzes political and policy trends in metropolitan regions and rural areas. Includes relevant experiential or service projects in surrounding communities.
POL 2401 - U.S. Foreign Policy (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
American diplomatic history. Institutions and processes of American foreign policy. Major factors to be considered and levels of analysis that allow for the examination and dissection of foreign policy decisions. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Pol 3401]
POL 2411 - Model United Nations (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Students examine the nature and functions of the United Nations and hone their negotiating skills through a series of mock UN conferences. The issue areas to be covered include peace and security, social justice, economic well-being, nuclear proliferation, environment, and human rights.
POL 2461 - Diplomatic Negotiation (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Discusses negotiation strategies and tactics and examines negotiation skills through a series of simulated negotiations and mock conferences. Diplomacy, negotiation styles, negotiation simulations, and mock conferences. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Pol 3461]
POL 2501 - East Asian Society and Politics (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Examination of governments, political and leadership changes, and economic developments in China, Japan, and Korea. Modernization, democratization, political pluralism, revolution, authoritarianism, and civil-military relations. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Pol 3501]
POL 3201 - Legislative Process (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The internal organization of Congress and state legislatures, with emphasis on how rules and organizational changes affect the policy process. Topics include the evolution of the modern Congress and state legislatures, the committee system, the role of party leadership, and competing theories of congressional organization and behavior. prereq: 1201 or instr consent
POL 3211 - The American Presidency (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Traces the development of the American presidency over time. Major theories of presidential behavior and success are examined, as well as the literature on presidential popularity and executive/congressional relations. prereq: 1201 or instr consent
POL 3231 - Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Pol 3231/Pol 3233
Prerequisites: 1201 or #
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Case-based examination of major Supreme Court opinions primarily dealing with the Bill of Rights and including topics such as freedom of religion, speech and the press, rights of the accused, and struggles over the right to privacy and how to guarantee civil rights protections. [Note: this course is one part of a two-part set of courses covering Constitutional Law; these courses may be taken in any order] prereq: 1201 or instr consent
POL 3232 - Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers and Constraints (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1201 or #
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Case-based examination of major Supreme Court opinions dealing with separation of powers, checks and balances, and issues of federalism. Specific topics include the importance of due process, the Contract Clause, the power to tax and spend, the Commerce Clause, and the struggle to define national and state powers. [Note: this course is one part of a two-part set of courses covering Constitutional Law; these courses may be taken in any order] prereq: 1201 or instr consent
POL 3251 - American Democracy in Action: Campaigns, Elections, and Political Behavior (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Examination of the American system of choosing new political leaders and the reasons behind political engagement and making specific voting choices. Attention is paid to the demographics of who does and does not participate, what happened in recent elections, and how American voting behavior has changed and is changing. There is a significant focus on the mid-term or presidential elections which occur during the semester the course is offered, including the creation and implementation of a poll of voters. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Pol 4251] prereq: 1201 or instr consent
POL 3263 - Political Psychology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1201; Psy 1051 or # recommended
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Examines the intersection of political science and psychology research, particularly on topics such as personality, emotions, and cognition. Explores the various roles of individuals and groups in political decision-making, emphasizing the connections between how we think and learn and how we structure society and make political choices. prereq: 1201; Psy 1051 or instr consent recommended
POL 3272 - Making Environmental Public Policy (ENVT)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Exploration of the domestic and international politics of environmental and energy policy making. Focus on theoretical frameworks for policy making and political behaviors surrounding development of environmental and energy policies. Includes the applications of political dynamics and principles to specific areas of environmental and energy policy. Emphasis also given to politics of policy implementation. prereq: 1101 or 1201 or 1401
POL 3303 - Gender, Sexuality, and Political Theory (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Examination of the politics of sex, gender, and sexuality through study of contemporary critical analyses within political theory. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
POL 3351 - Ancient and Medieval Political Thought (HUM)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
A survey of Western social and political thought from 5th century BCE through the 15th century. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
POL 3352 - Modern Political Thought (HUM)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
A survey of Western social and political thought from the 16th through the 19th centuries. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
POL 3411 - International Law (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
An introduction to public international law, examining basic concepts, theories, and legal cases in international law. Includes the nature of international law, recognition, succession, the rights and duties of international persons, the individual and international law, territorial questions, and laws of war. prereq: 1401 or instr consent
POL 3451 - Comparative Foreign Policy
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1401 or #
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Comparative examination of foreign policies of the United States, China, and Russia. Topics include Sino-American relations, Sino-Russia relations, China's rise, Russia's resurgence, global war on terrorism, and nuclear proliferation. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Pol 4451] prereq: 1401 or instr consent
POL 3453 - Russian Politics and Foreign Policy (IP)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1401 or #
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Domestic and foreign policies of Russia and the former Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Nature of the Soviet empire, Russian Federalism, democratic and market reforms, and Russian foreign relations. prereq: 1401 or instr consent
POL 3475 - International Human Rights
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Explores the historical and philosophical development of concepts of human rights and the contemporary international political and legal frameworks to address rights. Analyzes contemporary concerns about political, economic, and social rights, as well as specific human rights topics like human trafficking and war crimes. Compares American, European, Asian, and Developing World conceptions and critiques of human rights. prereq: 1401 or instr consent
POL 3504 - Latin American Politics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1401 or #
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
A comparative examination of central issues in and components of Latin American political life, with a particular focus on economic development, political development of democratic regimes, political violence and human rights, and the region's role in the world. Countries analyzed may include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, and Cuba. prereq: 1401 or instr consent
POL 3996 - Field Study in Political Science
Credits: 1.0 -16.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Field study of governmental organization; internship with legislature, a state or local administrative office, lobbying group, or other position involving direct experience with government, governmental officials, or political organizations and environment. [Note: max of 4 cr may be applied to the major or minor]
PSY 2001 - Research Methods in Psychology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Design, analysis, and interpretation of research in psychology. Instruction on different research techniques and ethics in research. Students conduct, analyze, and evaluate empirical research and gain experience preparing APA-style research reports. Includes laboratory/discussion sessions. prereq: 1051, Stat 1601 or Stat 2601, or instr consent
PSY 3101 - Learning Theory and Behavior Modification
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 2001 or #
Typically offered: Every Fall
Major theories of learning and their importance for understanding human and nonhuman behavior. Classical and operant conditioning, generalization, discrimination, stimulus control, animal cognition. Behavior modification theories and techniques and their application to clinical populations. Lab projects demonstrate learning and behavior modification theories, concepts, and techniques and illustrate research methods and theory testing. Includes lab. prereq: 2001 or instr consent
PSY 3111 - Sensation and Perception
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 2001 or #
Typically offered: Every Fall
Empirical study of sensory processes and perceptual organization with emphasis on vision and audition. Anatomy and physiology of sense organs, psychophysics, signal detection theory, attention, speech perception, and perceptual-motor coordination. Includes lab. prereq: 2001 or instr consent
PSY 3112 - Cognition
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 2001 or #
Typically offered: Every Spring
Empirical study of memory, language behaviors, representation of knowledge, judgment, decision making, problem solving, and creative thinking. Includes lab. prereq: 2001 or instr consent
PSY 3201 - Comparative Psychology (SCI-L)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Comparison of the causations of human and non-human animal behavior from both an evolutionary and biological point of view. The contributions of evolutionary selection pressures, genetics, environment, learning, and culture on the expression of behavior in a wide variety of species, through topics such as adaptation, fitness, altruism, social behavior, parental care, reproductive behavior, mating systems, and aggression. Focus on explaining modern human behavior as informed by non-human behavior. Includes lab component. prereq: [1051, 2001] or Biol 2111
PSY 3211 - Biological Psychology (SCI-L)
Credits: 4.0 [max 5.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Brain organization and function; an emphasis on an understanding of the neural processes that underlie human and nonhuman behavior. Incorporates information from psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, physiology, chemistry, neurology, and zoology to investigate the physiological bases of behavior. Topics include sensory processes, drugs and addiction, biological rhythms, sexual differentiation, reproduction, methods in neuroscience, neuropsychological disorders, and clinical assessment. Lab projects focus on neuro-anatomical organization and function of the brain. prereq: 1051 or Biol 1111, Stat 1601 or Stat 2601
PSY 3521 - Health Psychology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Health implications of interactions among behavioral, environmental, and physiological states. Physiological bases of behavior and health; stress and coping; behavioral antecedents of disease; psychoneuro-immunology; disease prevention and health promotion. [Note: includes lab component] prereq: 1051, Stat 1601 or Stat 2601
PSY 3302 - Personality
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1051 or #
Typically offered: Every Spring
Nature of personality constructs and theories. Conscious vs. nonconscious processes; emotion and motivation; nature and measurement of personal traits; their dimensional structure, stability, development, and heritability. prereq: 1051 or instr consent
PSY 3313 - Psychopathology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1051 or #
Typically offered: Every Spring
Psychological disorders and their treatment, including anxiety, personality, mood, schizophrenia, eating, substance and other recognized disorders of adults. prereq: 1051 or instr consent
PSY 4101 - Helping Relationships
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Theories of counseling and helping relationships with individuals & groups with psychological/stress disorders (e.g., Substance, Anxiety, Adjustment). Acquisition of helping skills (e.g. client psychoeducation, attending behavior, reflecting skills) and evaluative skills (e.g. orientation, termination). Didactic instruction/practical experiences. prereq: 8 cr 3xxx or 4xxx Psy or Soc or Anth courses or instr consent
PSY 4301 - Clinical Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Evaluation of screenings, intakes, psychological assessments and interventions from different perspectives. Topics: structured and unstructured assessments; motivational interviewing; treatment planning, crisis intervention, reports and record-keeping; family and couples therapy; interpersonal therapy; group therapy; and solution-focused therapy. prereq: 3313 or 4101
PSY 2411 - Lifespan Developmental Psychology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
An introduction to theory, data, and research approaches in development from the prenatal period through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging until the cessation of life. Includes physical, perceptual, cognitive, language, moral, personality, socio-emotional, family, and career development and changes over time, as well as issues of death, dying, and bereavement. Includes a multicultural focus. prereq: 1051
PSY 3401 - Child Development
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Theory, data, and research in development from conception to middle childhood. Prenatal and physical development as well as perceptual, cognitive, personality, and social development. Language acquisition and Piaget's theory of cognitive development. prereq: 1051 or instr consent
PSY 3402 - Adolescent and Emerging Adult Development
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Theoretical perspectives and research on adolescence and emerging adulthood as distinct stages of the life cycle. Focuses on developmental issues central to the transition from childhood to adulthood, including: puberty and physical development, cognitive and socioemotional development, identity formation, dating and sexuality, family and peer relationships, school and work, culture and media, and the challenges faced by today's adolescents. prereq: 1051 or instr consent
PSY 3403 - Adult Development and Aging (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
An introductory exploration of the health, individual, social, and cultural factors associated with adult development (e.g., young adulthood, middle age, and older adulthood). Provides an overview of current concepts, gerontological theories, and current methodology in the study of adult development and aging. Students become familiar with the physical aging process, society's perceptions of aging, aging family relationships, and end of life preparation and planning. prereq: 1051 or instr consent
PSY 3501 - Social Psychology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theories and research in the study of interpersonal behavior. Topics include prejudice, altruism, persuasion, group dynamics, and social influence. prereq: 1051 or Soc 1101 or instr consent
PSY 3503 - Consumer Behavior (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Psy 3503/Mgmt 3503
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Same as Mgmt 3503. Psychological basis for understanding consumers. Some of the topics include consumer behavior, consumer cognitive processes, and consumer judgments and decisions. prereq: Stat 1601 or Stat 2601 or instr consent
PSY 3504 - Educational Psychology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Discussion of psychological principles/theories in relation to learning in academic settings. Topics may include: a consideration of developmental and social issues that are likely to impact the learner; a discussion of individual differences in learning; an examination of different theoretical approaches to learning applied specifically to educational settings; an analysis of factors related to student motivation and behavior; and a discussion of issues related to testing and measurement in academic settings. prereq: 1051
PSY 3513 - Negotiation
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mgmt 3513/Psy 3513
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Same as Mgmt 3513. Examines the theoretical and applied aspects of negotiation. Topics include negotiation theory, strategy, skills and tactics, communication processes, global negotiation, and ethics. Use of negotiation simulations. prereq: 3501 or Mgmt 3221 or Psy/Mgmt 3701
PSY 3542 - Multicultural Psychology (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Psy 3541/Psy 3542
Typically offered: Every Spring
Theoretical and methodological approaches to multicultural psychology. Multicultural psychology is the systematic study of behavior, cognition, and affect settings where people of different backgrounds interact. Exploration of these interactions both within and outside of the United States. Topics may include worldviews, communication styles, acculturation, prejudice, white privilege, identity development, physical and mental health, and multicultural competencies. prereq: 1051
PSY 3701 - Organizational Behavior (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Mgmt 3701/Psy 3701
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Same as Mgmt 3701. Uses the theories and research of the behavioral sciences to understand how organizations function at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Topics include stress in the workplace; group dynamics; power, leadership, and attribution theory. prereq: Stat 1601 or Stat 2601, jr or sr
IS 3800 - Practicum in Social Sciences
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Supervised experience of selected learning activities such as discussion group leader, lab assistant, research assistant, or other teaching-related activities. [Note: no more than 4 credits may be applied to the bachelor of arts degree] prereq: approved practicum form
POL 3263 - Political Psychology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites: 1201; Psy 1051 or # recommended
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Examines the intersection of political science and psychology research, particularly on topics such as personality, emotions, and cognition. Explores the various roles of individuals and groups in political decision-making, emphasizing the connections between how we think and learn and how we structure society and make political choices. prereq: 1201; Psy 1051 or instr consent recommended
PSY 2581 - Drugs and Human Behavior (SS)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Survey of psychoactive drugs, their effects on mind and behavior, and prevention and treatment of drug abuse. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Psy 1081]
PSY 2993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
PSY 3611 - History and Philosophy of Psychology (HIST)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Historical roots and comparative features of major theoretical systems in psychology, including scientific methodology, research interests, and techniques. Movements within psychology that are discussed include: structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, Gestaltism, psychoanalytic, and existential movements and their modern syntheses, as well as other topics of interest to students. prereq: 1051 or instr consent
PSY 3800 - Research Practicum
Credits: 1.0 -12.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Research activity carried out under the supervision of a psychology faculty member.
PSY 3993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
PSY 4102 - Intro to Prof Conduct, Legal Constraints, Ethics in Human Services (E/CR)
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Concepts of professional ethics in human services professions (e.g. Psychologists, Alcohol and Drug Counselors, Probation Officers); ethically relevant legal mandates and constraints on professional practice (e.g. consultation with other professionals); practical problems in the application of ethical principles (e.g. dual relations). [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for IS 4101] prereq: jr, 8 cr 3xxx or 4xxx Psy or Soc or Anth courses or instr consent
PSY 4770 - Empirical Investigations in Psychology I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
This class provides students with an opportunity to conduct their own research. Students work independently or in groups. Students review an area of psychology, generate a hypothesis, design a study and obtain IRB approval. prereq: 2001, instr consent; no credit for 4770 until 4772 is completed
PSY 4771 - Independent Research in Psychology
Credits: 1.0 -6.0 [max 12.0]
Prerequisites: 2001, #
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Supervised independent research by a student in any area of psychology. A research proposal may be required by a faculty member prior to approval to enroll in the course. The student is required to write an APA style research paper or give a public presentation. prereq: 2001, instr consent
PSY 4772 - Empirical Investigations in Psychology II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Based on previous work in 4770, students collect and analyze data, submit and present their research to the Undergraduate Research Symposium or other instructor approved venue, and write an APA style research paper. prereq: 4770, instr consent
PSY 4896 - Field Experiences in Mental Health
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Individually arranged, supervised observation of and assistance with activities of licensed mental health providers (e.g., Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists) in schools, clinics, hospitals, and other field settings [Note: only 4 cr may be applied to the BA or the Psy major or minor] prereq: normally requires 4101, 4102, other courses appropriate to field experience.
PSY 4993 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
STAT 3601 - Data Analysis (M/SR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Nature and objectives of statistical data analysis, exploratory and confirmatory data analysis techniques. Some types of statistical procedures; formulation of models, examination of the adequacy of the models. Some special models; simple regression, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, analysis of variance, use of statistical computer packages. prereq: 1601 or 2601 or 2611 or instr consent
STAT 3611 - Multivariate Statistical Analysis (M/SR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Analysis of categorical data. Loglinear models for two- and higher-dimensional contingency tables. Logistic regression models. Aspects of multivariate analysis, random vectors, sample geometry and random sampling, multivariate normal distribution, inferences about the mean vector, MANOVA. Analysis of covariance structures: principal components, factor analysis. Classification and grouping techniques: discrimination and classification, clustering, use of statistical computer packages. prereq: 1601 or 2601 or 2611 or instr consent
SOC 3403 - Sociological Theory
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Soc 3401/Soc 3402/Soc 3403
Prerequisites: 1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended
Typically offered: Every Fall
Survey of major developments in sociological theory, with attention to both classical and contemporary variants. Emphasis on sociological ideas in relation to the principal intellectual currents of European society, American society, and non-Western thought. prereq: 1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended
ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to classic anthropological theories of sexuality, kinship, and marriage. Consider how emotional and experiential aspects of sex, marriage, and family life--love and romance as well as conflict and control--are shaped by formal arrangements known as "social structure." Topics such as gift-exchange, cousin-marriage, patrilineal and matrilineal descent, incest, arranged marriage, and the concept of "blood" relations in North American families are addressed. Also explore recent anthropological work on such topics as transnational adoption, marriage migration, and new reproductive technologies.
ANTH 3001 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Examines the historical development of cultural anthropological theory, influences that shaped historical and contemporary theories in cultural anthropology, and major debates regarding their interpretation. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Anth 4901] prereq: 1111
ANTH 3455 - North American Archaeology (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
The archaeology of the societies located in the current United States and Canada prior to European colonization. Includes the earliest human colonization of North America (circa 12,000 years ago), early hunting and gathering societies, the development of agriculture, and the formation of complex chiefdoms. Emphasis on the diversity of cultures, languages, economies, and environments found throughout precontact North America.
ANTH 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest (SS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Explore the history and experiences of Latinos in the Midwest United States. Starting from a historical perspective, the course examines issues including (im)migration, undocumented status, language, religion, race/ethnicity, media, and economy. A comparative framework emphasizes the unique context of migration into (rather than out of) rural communities as well as those far from a national border. Given the context of the local Morris community, the focus is particularly on rural Latino experiences.
ANTH 4411 - Project Development (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Exploration and evaluation of methods used in cultural anthropology; qualitative methods; research ethics; and design of qualitative research project. prereq: 1111, 2001
IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions
Credits: 1.0 -16.0 [max 32.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
One-semester educational experience providing field applications in the helping professions (social work, counseling, casework, child protection services, educational settings, human resource counseling, and the like) for the student's theoretical classroom learning experiences. Prereq-Psy 4102, approved internship form; Psy 4101 recommended.
SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development (ENVT)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of the environment and social development. Examines the impact of international environmental and development efforts on individuals at the local level. Focuses on grassroots environmental activism and social development work. Explores and discusses power relations and systems of inequality within the context of environmental and social development efforts. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Introduces students to the sociological study of gender and sexuality. Focuses on gender difference and gender inequality. Analyzes the changing roles, opportunities, and expectations of women and men as their societies (and subsequently, gender relations and power) undergo change in today's world. Following a theoretical overview, examines how gender and sexuality affect everyday experiences. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111 or instr consent
SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods (HDIV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of childhoods. Examines the interaction between societies and their youngest members-how societies shape children's lives through social institutions such as families, education, and the state. Takes a close look at children's access to privileges and resources as determined by children's experiences of race, gender, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance (E/CR)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Introduces students to the sociological study of deviance. Explores the social reality of deviance within contemporary society and examines the social construction of deviant categories. Focuses on images of deviance as social constructs, rather than as intrinsic elements of human behavior. Investigates the complex relationships between individual behavior and social structure, with a focus on power, inequality, and oppression. Also, examines the socio-cultural definitions of morality and behavior. prereq: 1101 or instr consent
SOC 4991 - Sociology Seminar
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Soc 4901/4902/Soc 4991
Typically offered: Every Spring
A capstone seminar to guide sociology majors in the completion of an independent study project, including selection and definition of a research project, designing and planning its execution, developing a literature review and bibliography, applying relevant theoretical perspectives to research materials, and organizing and writing a research paper. prereq: 3103, 3403