Subject: Amer Culture & Difference (AMCD)

CRN: 20892

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 227

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     Writing to learn

  David Lawrence

In AMCD 200, students learn about the historical and theoretical foundations of Cultural Studies as an academic discipline and use cultural theory to analyze a variety of cultural products and representations. In this course, students look specifically at dominant and subversive constructions of gender, race, ethnicity, national and sexual identities, and how these constructions are deployed through cultural practices and productions such as sports, film and television, folklore and popular culture, youth subcultures, music, and so on. For example, the course may contain units on "nation" and the creation of American mythologies; the process of hero-making in American history; stereotypes and the representation of race and ethnicity in television and film; representations of gender and sexuality in advertising; as well as a section on American music from jazz, blues, folk and roots music, to rock and roll, punk, and hip-hop.

4 Credits

Subject: Art History (UG) (ARTH)

CRN: 21211

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 203

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     CommGood/Community-Engaged
     Writing to learn

  Heather Shirey

Street art—including graffiti, murals, and other installations in public space—provides expressive avenues for marginalized voices, shapes urban space, and promotes competing visions of community development. In contrast to art that is created for museums or the commercial art market, street art is uniquely positioned to engage with social issues from a critical perspective. This class will involve an analysis of street art projects from the United States, situated in comparison with projects from around the world. Topics to explored include the history of street art over time (from its origins in graffiti to contemporary mural festivals); the impetus for street art in communities in the USA and globally; models for creating, preserving, and presenting street art; the institutionalization of street art; street art as it relates to diversity and inclusion; and, ultimately, the potential for street art to play a role in social change.

4 Credits

Subject: Biology (BIOL)

CRN: 21672

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 202

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     CommGood/Changemaking
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Jerry Husak, Patricia Maddox

While discussions of gender and its social construction have become common in our culture, there is less discussion of whether there are actually binary “biological sexes” that impact those conversations. In addition, while we have made many inclusive efforts in understanding the LGBTQIA+ community, our larger society correlates sexual orientation to biology leaving us to ask: are queer folks born that way and does it stay fixed throughout our lives? This course explores the convergence of sociology and biology in how we define gender, sex, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior as continua instead of binaries as once previously believed. Topics are examined in developmental order from conception to adulthood and include current issues relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community and society at-large. The course also considers these topics in non-human animals to ask ‘what is normal?’ in nature. This will be a BIOL - SOCI crosslisted course.

4 Credits

Subject: Catholic Studies (UG) (CATH)

CRN: 22258

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Billy Junker

This course explores a variety of Catholic identities that have emerged over the course of American history. We will not only grapple with the distinct historical experiences, spiritual and social practices, and cultural expressions of these identities, but will also try to grasp their fundamental unity as manifestations of the universal Church. We will particularly focus upon historically marginalized or underrepresented Catholic identities in the context of the United States, and the significance of their contributions to the nation and the Church. Our method will be interdisciplinary: students may expect to encounter literature, history, theology, political philosophy, film, visual art, and music.

4 Credits

Subject: Catholic Studies (UG) (CATH)

CRN: 22322

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Science Hall 329

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

  Michael Naughton, Don Weinkauf

This course provides an investigation into the ways in which Catholicism is inherently social and ecclesial. Its specific focus is on the Christian engagement with the world. The course's framework will be taken from the analysis of society into three spheres of action (culture, politics, and economics) as described in Centesimus annus. We will examine the ways that Revelation, the sacramental life, and the teachings of the Church call Catholics to seek holiness and to witness to their faith in the world. Specific topics may include social and economic justice, politics and public policy, lay and religious apostolates, education, and marriage and family. Course materials may include resources from philosophy, theology, history, economics, and political science.

4 Credits

Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)

CRN: 20901

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 309

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
     Writing in the Discipline
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Debra Petersen

This course focuses on theories and research of the historical and contemporary correlation between gender, race, class, and communicative practices, including rhetorical practice and mass communication content. It includes the influence of gender and racial stereotypes on public speech and debate, political campaigns and communication, organizational leadership, news coverage and advertising. Topics include: gendered perceptions of credibility; who is allowed to communicate and who is silenced due to class and racial privilege; and the impact of gender, race and class stereotypes about human nature, expertise, and abilities on individuals and groups that want to participate in public culture and communication. Students analyze and evaluate their own communicative styles in light of course readings and activities.

4 Credits

Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)

CRN: 21153

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing Intensive

  Pamela Nettleton

This course will provide students with the opportunity to understand television as a text situation in a cultural context. It will examine television from a critical perspective, review a wide variety of program genres and incorporate several theoretical orientations to the qualitative analysis of TV. Students, along with reading about and discussion of critical perspectives, watch programs such as comedies, dramas, news, advertisements, miniseries, etc., and write several critical analyses of the programs.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21276

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing in the Discipline

  Pamela Nettleton

Media, Culture and Society examines the role media play in social and cultural formations. This course looks beyond the media as transmitters of information to their broadest social and cultural effects. Students study media as agents of enlightened social modernism, as political and economic institutions, as purveyors of popular culture, and as aspects of cultural and sub-cultural rituals. History, political economy, critical studies, cultural anthropology, semiotics and sociology are among the areas from which approaches for studying the media are considered in the course. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor

4 Credits

Subject: Economics (UG) (ECON)

CRN: 22578

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 204

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Tyler Schipper

Economic Inequality focuses on two types of inequality often studied by economists: income and wealth inequality. The course will illustrate how inequality in the U.S. has evolved over time, and how it compares to other countries. It puts particular emphasis on using data and modeling to explain the origins of inequality and explore the impacts of policies aimed to address it. The course highlights how inequality relates to demographics such as race, gender, and education. Finally, it explores hard questions about whether inequality is unavoidable, whether it matters, and what can be done about it. Prerequisites: ECON 251 and ECON 252

4 Credits

Subject: Education (UG) (EDUC)

CRN: 22285

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305H

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Family Studies Major Approved
     Family Studies Minor Approved
     CommGood/Community-Engaged

  Chelda Smith Kondo

This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, practices, and dispositions to humanize those who are historically underserved. The course engages students with issues such as race, intersectionality, class, gender, exceptionality, oppression, and discrimination while examining the crucial role of educators in influencing positive, systematic change for social justice.

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22171

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 246

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing to learn

  Kelli Larson

Even in the land of Super Targets and Big Mac hamburgers, bigger is not always better--at least not in terms of literature. Short stories, because of their compression and intensity, offer lively plots and constant surprises. To the delight of readers everywhere, American authors provide a wellspring of tales that uncover our past, define our present, and speak to our future. In keeping with our diverse American heritage, stories have been chosen from a broad cross-section of literary and cultural traditions. Alongside canonical authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ernest Hemingway, we read the works of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Louise Erdrich, Kate Chopin, and others, examining how these diverse voices diverge from, resist, and transform the traditional American short story canon. This course satisfies a WAC Writing to Learn requirement; an Integrations in the Humanities requirement; and the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement. Please note that ENGL 201 is non-repeatable; students wishing to take a second 200-level Texts in Conversation course will need to register for ENGL 202, 203, or 204. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22172

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 246

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing to learn

  Kelli Larson

Even in the land of Super Targets and Big Mac hamburgers, bigger is not always better--at least not in terms of literature. Short stories, because of their compression and intensity, offer lively plots and constant surprises. To the delight of readers everywhere, American authors provide a wellspring of tales that uncover our past, define our present, and speak to our future. In keeping with our diverse American heritage, stories have been chosen from a broad cross-section of literary and cultural traditions. Alongside canonical authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ernest Hemingway, we read the works of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Louise Erdrich, Kate Chopin, and others, examining how these diverse voices diverge from, resist, and transform the traditional American short story canon. This course satisfies a WAC Writing to Learn requirement; an Integrations in the Humanities requirement; and the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement. Please note that ENGL 201 is non-repeatable; students wishing to take a second 200-level Texts in Conversation course will need to register for ENGL 202, 203, or 204. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22173

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 301

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Sports Management Minor
     Sports Studies Minor
     Writing Intensive

  Liz Wilkinson

What is any sports event but a story--multiple stories--playing out before our eyes? Sports by definition involve drama: conflicts in decision making, in relationships, with nature, and, if we believe it possible, conflicts with the supernatural. It's not an accident that some of our greatest metaphors come from the arena of athletics. Through sports we have a way to look at human values--at the best we have to offer and sometimes the worst. We’ll use sports literature to investigate what is just… and what is unjust… and how we discern which is which. In this class, we will read fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. Books may include CARRIE SOTO IS BACK, BIG SMOKE, TAKE ME OUT, and THE YEAR'S BEST SPORTS WRITING anthology. This course satisfies a WAC Writing Intensive requirement; an Integrations in the Humanities requirement; the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement, and counts towards the Sports Studies minor. Please note that ENGL 202 is non-repeatable; students wishing to take a second 200-level Texts in Conversation course will need to register for ENGL 201, 203, or 204. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.PLEASE NOTE THAT 5 SEATS IN THIS CLASS ARE RESERVED FOR SPORTS STUDIES MINORS.

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22177

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing Intensive

  Juan Li

This course investigates the complex and fascinating relationship between language, power, and identity. We will read a variety of texts that examine how individuals construct different aspects of their self identities (e.g., race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and religion) through their use of language in everyday conversations, narratives, writings, performances and public debates. The course will also incorporate a variety of media to engage us in asking questions on how our use of language shapes who we are, our relations with other people, and with the rest of society. For example, has anyone ever commented on the way you talk? Do you remember when you first noticed that other people spoke differently from you? Do men and women speak differently? What is “politically correct” speech? What hidden and obvious biases are embedded in everyday language use? As we explore these questions, we will also consider how power dynamics play out in patterns of language use. By exploring various aspects and contexts of language use, students will become more critically aware of motivations and consequences of language use, and develop the skills to talk and write about them critically. This course satisfies an Integrations in the Humanities requirement; a Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement; and a WAC Writing Intensive requirement. Please note that ENGL 204 is non-repeatable; students wishing to take a second 200-level Texts in Conversation course will need to register for ENGL 201, 202, or 203. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22178

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 227

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing to learn

  Laura Zebuhr

Where does the popular perception of America as the “New World” come from? How could slavery flourish in a land idealizing freedom? Why were immigrants so feared and reviled? Why did expansionism push out some and make millionaires of others? Such questions will be explored in a chronological framework through extensive readings from the beginnings of the American literary tradition to the turn of the twentieth century. Threaded throughout the literature are themes such as religious identity, political reform, race, slavery, war, gender, and industrialization. This course fulfills the Historical Perspectives requirement in the English major. Prerequisites: ENGL 121 or 190. 

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22297

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 206

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing to learn

  Leila Green

This multicultural literature course specifically focuses on short stories written by young BIPOC writers in the U.S. and abroad. We will read these diverse texts and consider 1) the relevant socio-political, cultural and historical contexts of storytelling; 2) the complex literary elements of the short story form; and 3) current inequalities in the publishing industry . We will focus on stories published between 1990-2022 that explore relevant topics of race, class, gender, and speculative fiction. You will also develop your writing, interpretive and analytical skills by completing regular writing and close-reading assignments. This course satisfies the Integrations in the Humanities and the Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice core requirements and a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22298

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 206

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing to learn

  Leila Green

This multicultural literature course specifically focuses on short stories written by young BIPOC writers in the U.S. and abroad. We will read these diverse texts and consider 1) the relevant socio-political, cultural and historical contexts of storytelling; 2) the complex literary elements of the short story form; and 3) current inequalities in the publishing industry . We will focus on stories published between 1990-2022 that explore relevant topics of race, class, gender, and speculative fiction. You will also develop your writing, interpretive and analytical skills by completing regular writing and close-reading assignments. This course satisfies the Integrations in the Humanities and the Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice core requirements and a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22236

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 301

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Catherine Craft-Fairchild

This course is focused on intersections and tensions between literature and the law. By analyzing literary and cinematic texts, students will explore the experiences of individuals living within imperfect systems of the law, especially the often-ambiguous relationship between innocence and guilt, right and wrong, justice and injustice. Reading and writing assignments will sharpen students’ understanding of rhetoric and audience and will raise questions related to racial, gender, and economic justice particular to the practice of law within the United States and beyond. Texts may include Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, or Suzan-Lori Parks’ Sally & Tom. The goal is to help students understand the ethical dimensions of law and prepare them to engage compassionately in professional practice. This course satisfies the core Integrations in the Humanities and the Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice core requirements and a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisites: ENGL 121 or 190, or transfer equivalent

4 Credits

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 22183

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     LatAm/Caribb Minor
     English Diversity Req.
     Writing to learn

  Olga Herrera

Science fiction, romance, political treatises, poetry, autobiography, historical fiction—these are all genres through which Latino, Latina, and Latinx writers have created literary worlds and expressed their hopes and desires for themselves and their communities. This course examines literature as a powerful means of expression and representation for one of the fastest growing populations in the US, and considers the impact of Latinx literature, art, film, and culture on US society. We will read authors from diverse Latinx backgrounds, including Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Victor LaValle, Erika Sanchez, Angie Cruz, Daisy Hernandez, Elizabeth Acevedo, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, as well as film and television by Gregory Nava, Robert Rodriguez, Tanya Saracho, and others. This course satisfies an Integrations in the Humanities core requirement; the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice core requirement, and a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.

4 Credits

Subject: Film Studies (FILM)

CRN: 22370

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 208

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Paola Ehrmantraut

Women and Gender in Film explores the diverse roles women have taken in film from an intersectional perspective that includes analysis of gender along with considerations of race, class, migrant status, disability status, religious/spiritual identity, or other dimensions of diversity. Through readings, lectures and film analysis students will be able to consider how gender constructions have influenced the roles women and non-gender conforming individuals could take in film as an industry and in film as an art, focusing primarily in film production in the United States. Through a social justice lens, this course will lead students to become aware of how gender constructions are circulated, recast, and reinforced through film, which can also be a space for resistance, change and imagination of a more egalitarian future. 

4 Credits

Subject: Film Studies (FILM)

CRN: 22913

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 227

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing to learn

  Kanishka Chowdhury

FILM 230: In this course, we will consider the complex constructions of “race” in US film, paying special attention to the following questions: How has the category of “race” been historically constructed and represented? Whose interests have these constructions served? Why are these dominant representations often so far removed from the “real” way in which people live their lives? How are these representations connected to the ways in which we continue to think about race? How do underrepresented filmmakers resist dominant representations of race in the present, creating complex and liberating ways to rethink race? Special attention will be given to the language of filmmaking, examining how this language evolves differentially across mainstream Hollywood cinema and in films created by minority filmmakers. 

4 Credits

Subject: History (HIST)

CRN: 21330

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 211

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     Sustainability (SUST)

  Will Cavert

Humans are part of nature, and yet they have always changed and manipulated it. This course examines the entangled story of human/nature interactions, from the early history of our species up into the twenty-first century. Doing this draws on a range of methods, tools, and skills, including archaeology and anthropology, physical sciences like geology and biology, and the close reading of texts and objects as developed in humanistic disciplines like English, philosophy, and history. Key topics may include the co-evolution of people and other species; the ways that world religions have understood nature; the global mingling of people, plants, animals, and microbes after 1492; responses to pollution and toxicity in the modern world; and the development and politicization of climate science in the 20th-21st centuries.

4 Credits

Subject: History (HIST)

CRN: 22421

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 303

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     CommGood/Community-Engaged

  Jennifer McCutchen

This course examines the historical experiences of North America’s Indigenous peoples with respect to their cultures. It focuses upon Native Americans as active agents in producing their history both before and after European contact, not just victims of white oppression and/or abstract social forces. Topics and themes include: Native cultural diversity on the eve of European contact; the dynamics of early Indigenous-European encounters; the political, spiritual, and gendered dimensions of Native accommodation and resistance; forced removal; the Dakota War, the systematic placement of Native children in boarding schools and foster care; Indigenous self-determination in the twentieth century through gaming and other economic ventures; the formation of modern Federal Indian Law. Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor approved.

4 Credits

Subject: Honors (HONR)

CRN: 21447

In Person | Topics Lecture 4

St Paul: John Roach Center 222

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Patricia Maddox, Kenneth Cooper

These interdisciplinary seminars are intended to develop integrating insights through an analysis of topics chosen from different disciplines. Often they are taught by two faculty members or by a visiting lecturer who holds one of the endowed chairs at the university.

2 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 22296

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Science Hall 329

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

  Greg Song

This course empowers and supports students’ engagement with traditional and emerging forms of media. Students will not only understand how media contents shape people’s beliefs about different social groups, and how media exposure and usage influence identity development and cultural norms, but also become mindful in their own creation of media content. Students will be able to use media wisely and critically for individual purposes and in broader civic participation. Students will work collaboratively and collectively to build their knowledge structures in media literacy, and to understand how media contents are created, used, interpreted, and re-used by themselves and others. As a result of this course, students will have a firm grasp on not only the relationships of literacy and media, but also concrete experiences in responsible creation and use of media texts including social media posts, wiki entries, short videos, photo essays, etc.

4 Credits

Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)

CRN: 20200

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305J

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing Intensive

  Damon Shoholm

Active nonviolence as a means for societal defense and social transformation analyzed through case studies of actual nonviolent movements, examining their political philosophy and how this philosophy is reflected in their methods and strategies. Examples of possible case studies include: Mahatma Gandhi's movement for a free India, Danish resistance to Nazi occupation, the struggle for interracial justice in the United State, an integrated Canada-to-Cuba peace-and-freedom walk, the campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC), fair trade movements, and the Honeywell Project. The course emphasizes the theory and active practice of nonviolence as well as oral histories of successful nonviolent movements. Usually offered every semester.

4 Credits

Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)

CRN: 21726

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305H

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing Intensive

  Ry Siggelkow

Active nonviolence as a means for societal defense and social transformation analyzed through case studies of actual nonviolent movements, examining their political philosophy and how this philosophy is reflected in their methods and strategies. Examples of possible case studies include: Mahatma Gandhi's movement for a free India, Danish resistance to Nazi occupation, the struggle for interracial justice in the United State, an integrated Canada-to-Cuba peace-and-freedom walk, the campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC), fair trade movements, and the Honeywell Project. The course emphasizes the theory and active practice of nonviolence as well as oral histories of successful nonviolent movements. Usually offered every semester.

4 Credits

Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)

CRN: 22547

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 454

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing Intensive

  Mike Klein

Active nonviolence as a means for societal defense and social transformation analyzed through case studies of actual nonviolent movements, examining their political philosophy and how this philosophy is reflected in their methods and strategies. Examples of possible case studies include: Mahatma Gandhi's movement for a free India, Danish resistance to Nazi occupation, the struggle for interracial justice in the United State, an integrated Canada-to-Cuba peace-and-freedom walk, the campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC), fair trade movements, and the Honeywell Project. The course emphasizes the theory and active practice of nonviolence as well as oral histories of successful nonviolent movements. Usually offered every semester.

4 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 22028

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: McNeely Hall 115

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     CommGood/Community-Engaged
     Writing to learn

  Ernest Owens

This course presents the concepts, techniques, and behavioral skills needed for managing projects effectively. The course introduces students to a project's life cycle (from project definition and goals to completion of the project) and the behavioral dynamics that need to be managed to achieve success. Project leaders need to fulfill multiple roles on a project including managing the timeline, meeting project specifications, resource budgeting and creating a sustainable project culture. Prerequisites: MGMT 200 or MGMT 305; and OPMT 200 or OPMT 300; and Junior standing.

4 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 22029

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: McNeely Hall 109

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Sports Management Minor

  Kris Donnelly

Leaders, both with and without formal management titles, need to appreciate the diverse people internal and external to their organizations and society at large. It is critical that leaders step up to design and deliver effective programs of inclusion in their organizations. Culturally competent leaders think critically about these programs and practice inclusion at individual, interpersonal, team, organization, and community levels. This requires foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes applied in diverse domestic and global contexts. This course introduces a range of perspectives to explore topics including, but not limited to, human diversity; inclusive cultures; social identity and perception; power and privilege; and models and paradigms for interpersonal and organizational inclusion. Prerequisites: MGMT 200 or MGMT 305 and Junior standing. Note: Students who receive credit for MGMT 385 may not receive credit for MGMT 388

2 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 22030

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: McNeely Hall 109

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Sports Management Minor

  Kris Donnelly

Leaders, both with and without formal management titles, need to appreciate the diverse people internal and external to their organizations and society at large. It is critical that leaders step up to design and deliver effective programs of inclusion in their organizations. Culturally competent leaders think critically about these programs and practice inclusion at individual, interpersonal, team, organization, and community levels. This requires foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes applied in diverse domestic and global contexts. This course introduces a range of perspectives to explore topics including, but not limited to, human diversity; inclusive cultures; social identity and perception; power and privilege; and models and paradigms for interpersonal and organizational inclusion. Prerequisites: MGMT 200 or MGMT 305 and Junior standing. Note: Students who receive credit for MGMT 385 may not receive credit for MGMT 388

2 Credits

Subject: Marketing (MKTG)

CRN: 22082

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: McNeely Hall 238

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Joelle Allen Purvis

The purpose of this course will be to help students appreciate the presence and understand the nuisances and similarities of various subcultures within the United States. From targeting and segmenting customers to developing partnerships, the class will discuss how these may impact American marketing practices and trends. Realizing that a subculture is any group that shares a set of attitudes, values and goals, this course will consider not only ethnic subcultures but religious, sexual orientation & gender identity, ability, and generational subcultures. Students will be exposed to concepts such as cultural capital, intercultural penetration, intersectionality, historical context and other concepts of culture and identity as they learn how individuals and organizations can effectively and responsibly engage with multiple diverse stakeholders. Prerequisites: MKTG 200

2 Credits

Subject: Neuroscience (NSCI)

CRN: 21575

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center LL45

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing Intensive

  Mari Gades

Neuropharmacology is the study of how drugs affect the cells of the nervous system and their ability to communicate with other target systems in the body. This course will cover different classes of neurotransmitters and neurohormones and the receptors on target cells that recognize and bind these substances, using a “clinical model” framework that ties these principles to the therapeutic use of drugs. A significant amount of time will be spent covering the transduction mechanisms involved in converting the signals into a biological response, the gaps in a therapeutic approach, and new technologies that are improving the study and application of neurochemistry in modern neuroscience. Prerequisites: a C- in NSCI 203

4 Credits

Subject: Neuroscience (NSCI)

CRN: 21576

In Person | Lab

St Paul: John Roach Center LL21

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Mari Gades

Neuropharmacology is the study of how drugs affect the cells of the nervous system and their ability to communicate with other target systems in the body. This course will cover different classes of neurotransmitters and neurohormones and the receptors on target cells that recognize and bind these substances, using a “clinical model” framework that ties these principles to the therapeutic use of drugs. A significant amount of time will be spent covering the transduction mechanisms involved in converting the signals into a biological response, the gaps in a therapeutic approach, and new technologies that are improving the study and application of neurochemistry in modern neuroscience. Prerequisites: a C- in NSCI 203

0 Credits

Subject: Neuroscience (NSCI)

CRN: 21577

In Person | Lab

St Paul: John Roach Center LL21

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Mari Gades

Neuropharmacology is the study of how drugs affect the cells of the nervous system and their ability to communicate with other target systems in the body. This course will cover different classes of neurotransmitters and neurohormones and the receptors on target cells that recognize and bind these substances, using a “clinical model” framework that ties these principles to the therapeutic use of drugs. A significant amount of time will be spent covering the transduction mechanisms involved in converting the signals into a biological response, the gaps in a therapeutic approach, and new technologies that are improving the study and application of neurochemistry in modern neuroscience. Prerequisites: a C- in NSCI 203

0 Credits

Subject: Philosophy (PHIL)

CRN: 22193

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Phil/Theo
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

  Peter Distelzweig

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the most pressing issues and questions concerning disability. Students will encounter and critically evaluate longstanding stereotypes and biases about the disadvantages of disability. This course examines disability primarily from a philosophical perspective, yet readings from other disciplines will also be used throughout the course. Some of the central questions examined in the course include: What is disability? Is disability merely a medical condition? In what ways do societal barriers disable? How does economic class impact access to educational, medical and social resources? Does disability itself make a person worse off or is it only social stigmatization and lack of accommodation that makes the lives of those with disabilities worse? How have those with disabilities been disadvantaged in the US? What is the basis for human dignity? What conceptual frameworks allow us to uphold the dignity of those with severe disabilities? Which behaviors and assumptions threaten the equality and dignity of those with disabilities? Prerequisite: PHIL 110, PHIL 115, or PHIL 197.

4 Credits

Subject: Political Science (POLS)

CRN: 22226

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305I

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Angela High-Pippert

An intersectional examination of the impact of gender within American politics, with a focus on representation. Campaign strategies and styles of candidates, election to local, state, and national office, and the impact that women make in public office will be emphasized. Differences between political lives across the gender spectrum will also be explored. Potential explanations for the political underrepresentation of women will be evaluated. Prerequisite: POLS 205 or permission of the instructor.

4 Credits

Subject: Psychology (UG) (PSYC)

CRN: 20765

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center LL01

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Sci, Med, Soc (SMDS) Minor
     Writing to learn

  Mari Gades

The course surveys some basic facts and principles of administration, absorption, transport, action, deactivation and elimination of drugs. Various classes of drugs; their effects on mood, behavior, and consciousness; their use and misuse; and phenomena of chemical dependency and its treatment modalities are discussed. Lectures, readings, films, tapes and invited speakers are employed. Prerequisite: PSYC 111

4 Credits

Subject: Psychology (UG) (PSYC)

CRN: 22543

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 201

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Sci, Med, Soc (SMDS) Minor

  Roxanne Prichard

The course surveys some basic facts and principles of administration, absorption, transport, action, deactivation and elimination of drugs. Various classes of drugs; their effects on mood, behavior, and consciousness; their use and misuse; and phenomena of chemical dependency and its treatment modalities are discussed. Lectures, readings, films, tapes and invited speakers are employed. Prerequisite: PSYC 111

4 Credits

Subject: Sociology (SOCI)

CRN: 21673

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 202

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Patricia Maddox, Jerry Husak

While discussions of gender and its social construction have become common in our culture, there is less discussion of whether there are actually binary “biological sexes” that impact those conversations. In addition, while we have made many inclusive efforts in understanding the LGBTQIA+ community, our larger society correlates sexual orientation to biology leaving us to ask: are queer folks born that way and does it stay fixed throughout our lives? This course explores the convergence of sociology and biology in how we define gender, sex, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior as continua instead of binaries as once previously believed. Topics are examined in developmental order from conception to adulthood and include current issues relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community and society at-large. The course also considers these topics in non-human animals to ask ‘what is normal?’ in nature. This will be a BIOL - SOCI crosslisted course.

4 Credits

Subject: Sociology (SOCI)

CRN: 22519

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 306

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Jessica Hodge

Although hate crimes have long existed in the United States, the term "hate crime" is a relatively new addition to the social, political, and legal domains. This course examines the institutionalization of hate crime law within our legal system and explores the complexities surrounding the development and enforcement of hate crime laws. This course also examines the causes, manifestations, and consequences of hate crimes, and the effectiveness of formal and informal social controls in combating these crimes.

4 Credits

Subject: Sociology (SOCI)

CRN: 21823

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 207

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr

  Monica Liu

This course identifies and investigates the following topics: general principles of stratification, theoretical explanations by which inequality emerges and is maintained, the relationship between social class and other forms of inequality in the United States including gender, race, and changes in social hierarchy over time. The course will explore issues such as poverty, welfare, occupational prestige, meritocracy, and class prestige. Although primary focus is on the United States, the course also examines global inequality. Prerequisites: SOCI 100 or SOCI 110 and must be Junior or Senior Standing.

4 Credits

Subject: Social Work (UG) (SOWK)

CRN: 20893

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305K

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

  Renee Hepperlen

This a theory-driven course focusing on metacognition- training students to think about the way we think. The course takes a multidisciplinary approach to theoretical knowledge, introducing students to many ways of understanding how humans behave in, impact, and are impacted by multiple environments. Students learn to apply theories to understand human behavior in regard to their social and natural environments as well as reciprocal impact of humans and their environments. Theories are examined through a multidimensional framework constituting biological, psychological, spiritual, socio-cultural, political, environmental, and economic factors. Emphasis is on these factors within and between multiple systems: individual, family, small group, organization, community, and society, including political, economic, and natural systems. The course consists of five modules: interpersonal relations and empowerment, social systems, political and economic systems, social and environmental justice, and multiculturalism. The course investigates the multiple dimensions and intersections of diversity including gender, race/ethnicity, age, religion, ability, sexual orientation, nationality, and global and international perspectives. Students leave the class with a holistic understanding of the human experience within the environments that surround them. Recommended prerequisite or concurrent registration: SOWK 181 (or 281 under the old course number); Required Prerequisites: PSYC 202, or consent of the program director. 

4 Credits

Subject: Spanish (SPAN)

CRN: 21697

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 305

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     CommGood/Community-Engaged

  Susana Perez Castillejo

This is an intermediate level Spanish language and culture course for students who plan to work in health-related careers such as medicine, nursing, medical translation/interpretation, physical therapy, or health education. The course provides students with the medical Spanish terminology and intercultural competence to improve their interactions with Spanish-speaking patients and clients. Prerequisites: SPAN 211 or its equivalent with a grade of C- or better; placement beyond the SPAN211 level

4 Credits

Subject: Spanish (SPAN)

CRN: 20205

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 208

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     CommGood/Community-Engaged
     Writing Intensive

  Irene Domingo Sancho

Intensive practice in written Spanish using selected materials to acquire a high level of competence in writing Spanish. This writing course aims to improve technique, expand syntactic depth, increase vocabulary and learn good writing through a process approach involving stages of idea development, thesis construction, structural development, bibliographic notation, evaluation of ideas and rewriting of the text. Lectures and class discussions are based on major topics that relate to the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Written skills will be assessed. Prerequisite: Completion of SPAN 300 or its equivalent with a C- or better.

4 Credits

Subject: Spanish (SPAN)

CRN: 22304

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 203

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     CommGood/Community-Engaged

  Donny Vigil

This course introduces the complex task of spoken language for medical interpreting, focusing on developing critical thinking, decision-making, cognitive skills related to interpreting, and basic interpreting skills. Coursework includes theoretical knowledge and practical application of medical interpreting skills, medical terminology, glossary development, culturally responsive mediation skills, and role-plays in different healthcare settings.  We welcome and encourage Spanish Heritage Learners to register for this course. Prerequisites: Completion of SPAN 220 or equivalent with a grade of C- or better or permission of instructor 

4 Credits

Subject: Strategic Communication (STCM)

CRN: 21261

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 238

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  April Eichmeier

This course will introduce students to foundational concepts in science and its social impacts through discussion of the scientific method, boundaries of science, media construction of science, and the contribution of science in trust building and decision-making in various contexts. The course is designed to help students gain understanding and knowledge of contextual factors that shaped science and the uneven impacts on traditionally marginalized groups. Coursework will help students develop diverse and critical perspectives of communication about science concerning marginalized communities. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing 

4 Credits

Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)

CRN: 22499

In Person | Topics Lecture 10

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 207

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Phil/Theo
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing Intensive

  Daniel Pioske

This course examines the prophetic writings in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible by situating them in the historical settings in which they were written, being attentive to how these texts addressed issues of the common good in antiquity. This course then applies these insights to contemporary concerns of the common good today, asking where instances of prophetic activity, as understood in our course, may be currently present in our world, or where, perhaps, it is needed.

4 Credits

Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)

CRN: 22529

In Person | Topics Lecture 15

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305I

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Phil/Theo
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Ben Heidgerken

This course introduces students to central aspects of Christian history, thought, and action concerning ethnicity and race and provides resources to build up what Martin Luther King, Jr., called the “Beloved Community.” The course helps students develop ethical reasoning skills through consideration of various historical and contemporary Christian encounters across lines of racial difference, including examples from monastic communities, papal documents, missionary endeavors, North American churches, and saints from the Catholic tradition.

4 Credits

Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)

CRN: 22518

Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 2

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Phil/Theo
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Hans Gustafson

In the last half century religious diversity in the West has rapidly increased, bringing people from different religious traditions into daily contact. This has resulted in new conflicts, sometimes in violence, but also in new collaborations and friendships. Drawing on several approaches to interreligious conflict and relations, this course will examine the dynamic encounters that take place between and among people of different religious identities and ask students to reflect on their own role in religiously complex situations. Students will consider this interreligious reality and their role in it against the backdrop of their own individual relationship to spirituality, faith, and theology. To foster interreligious understanding beyond the classroom, students in this course will spend significant time outside the classroom directly engaging religious diversity. 

4 Credits

Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)

CRN: 22517

Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 2

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Phil/Theo
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Hans Gustafson

In the last half century religious diversity in the West has rapidly increased, bringing people from different religious traditions into daily contact. This has resulted in new conflicts, sometimes in violence, but also in new collaborations and friendships. Drawing on several approaches to interreligious conflict and relations, this course will examine the dynamic encounters that take place between and among people of different religious identities and ask students to reflect on their own role in religiously complex situations. Students will consider this interreligious reality and their role in it against the backdrop of their own individual relationship to spirituality, faith, and theology. To foster interreligious understanding beyond the classroom, students in this course will spend significant time outside the classroom directly engaging religious diversity. 

4 Credits

Subject: Women/Gender/Sexuality (WGSS)

CRN: 22429

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 208

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Paola Ehrmantraut

Women and Gender in Film explores the diverse roles women have taken in film from an intersectional perspective that includes analysis of gender along with considerations of race, class, migrant status, disability status, religious/spiritual identity, or other dimensions of diversity. Through readings, lectures and film analysis students will be able to consider how gender constructions have influenced the roles women and non-gender conforming individuals could take in film as an industry and in film as an art, focusing primarily in film production in the United States. Through a social justice lens, this course will lead students to become aware of how gender constructions are circulated, recast, and reinforced through film, which can also be a space for resistance, change and imagination of a more egalitarian future. 

4 Credits