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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 10161
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Writing to learn
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
This course examines the influence of culture on our own and others’ communication. Students will be introduced to different aspects and levels of culture, including basic principles and theories that explain cultural differences on the group level, and challenges in intercultural communication, such as stereotypes, ethnocentrism, conflicting ethical standards, and racial disparities. Through lectures, discussions and first-hand practice, students are expected to form global perspectives and become more competent in intercultural communication. Students are advised to take the course either during or after the sophomore year.
4 Credits
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 10162
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Comm Studies Major Approved
Comm Studies Minor Approved
Family Studies Major Approved
Family Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
Given that demographic changes, immigration patterns, transnational adoption, new U.S. Supreme Court rulings impacting LGBTQ+ families, and the addition of a multiracial option on the 2010 Census have all contributed to changes in the ways that individuals and families identify, are formed, and are (re)negotiated, it is of critical importance to examine scholarship highlighting these diverse (and often underrepresented) family forms. Families in the United States today are faced with opportunities and challenges that have never been experienced by families before. The first 21 years of this century have produced large social, civil, and technological changes that impact not only the communication among family members, but has also impacted larger societal discourses about what constitutes “family.” Although family communication scholars have long called for the inclusion of more diverse samples in family research, to date this research remains very limited in the understanding of family functioning, relationships, and processes in families of color, LGBTQ families, transnational and neo-ethnic families, discourse dependent families, and other family forms. To this end, this course examines the communicative experiences of contemporary and underrepresented families.
4 Credits
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 10238
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Writing to learn
What does it mean to be labeled an African American dramatist? A Latino/a poet? A transgender novelist? An Asian American essayist? A Native American environmental writer? How do the varied experiences and backgrounds of authors writing from diverse subject positions inform, mark, and/or transform their writing? How do the works of these writers fit into, conflict with, actively resist, or even redefine the American Literary canon as it has been traditionally understood? These questions and more will be explored in a chronological framework through extensive reading of literature from: a) American communities of color; b) postcolonial peoples; c) immigrant and/or diasporic peoples; or d) LGBTQ communities. This course will focus on the literary and cultural texts of one or more of these groups with an emphasis on the cultural, political, and historical contexts that surround them. This course fulfills the Historical Perspectives requirement in the English major. Prerequisites: ENGL 121 or 190.
4 Credits
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 10169
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Writing to learn
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
From Sappho to Austen to Woolf to Morrison – women have been rendering the world into exquisite words for centuries. But how has the writing of women served as a critique of patriarchy? What impact has women’s writing had on important cultural and political movements such as abolition, suffrage, and environmentalism? In what ways has the writing of women been more radical than polite, more aggressive than demure, more confrontational than deferential? How have women consistently defied the limiting expectations of them through the creation of some of the most experimental, risky, and defiant works of literature in existence? These questions and more will be explored in this course, which focuses on the history of literature by women. While it will concentrate mainly on British and American women writers, the course will also address the work of non-western writers. Ultimately, this course will examine gender and its role in both the composition and reading of literary texts. This course fulfills the Historical Perspectives requirement in the English major. Prerequisites: ENGL 121 or 190.
4 Credits
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 10239
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
Meet the maddest minds in literature! From Goethe’s Faust to the Godzilla-busting Dr. Serizawa, these rebels transgress the laws of nature and humanity to teach us about our world and ourselves. How far should we go? How much do we dare to know? Find the answers, or at least the most exciting versions of the questions, in books like Robert Louis Stevenson’s THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE; H. G. Wells’s THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play FAUST, PART I; as well as the film GODZILLA (1954). Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.
4 Credits
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 10170
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Soc Sci Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
School of Ed Transfer Course
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
Instructor: TBD
A study of the interaction of humans and the environment over time and space; a broad introduction that integrates a variety of social-science perspectives into an understanding of the environment and the relations between humans and nature. Specific topics include ecology, population, economic development, resources and sustainable development.
4 Credits
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Subject: Family Studies (FAST)
CRN: 10171
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Comm Studies Major Approved
Comm Studies Minor Approved
Family Studies Major Approved
Family Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
Given that demographic changes, immigration patterns, transnational adoption, new U.S. Supreme Court rulings impacting LGBTQ+ families, and the addition of a multiracial option on the 2010 Census have all contributed to changes in the ways that individuals and families identify, are formed, and are (re)negotiated, it is of critical importance to examine scholarship highlighting these diverse (and often underrepresented) family forms. Families in the United States today are faced with opportunities and challenges that have never been experienced by families before. The first 21 years of this century have produced large social, civil, and technological changes that impact not only the communication among family members, but has also impacted larger societal discourses about what constitutes “family.” Although family communication scholars have long called for the inclusion of more diverse samples in family research, to date this research remains very limited in the understanding of family functioning, relationships, and processes in families of color, LGBTQ families, transnational and neo-ethnic families, discourse dependent families, and other family forms. To this end, this course examines the communicative experiences of contemporary and underrepresented families.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 10172
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 10279
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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Subject: Geography (GEOG)
CRN: 10175
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Soc Sci Analysis
OR
[Core] Global Perspective
Other Requirements Met:
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
This course explores the effects of social, economic, environmental, political, and demographic change from a geographic perspective. It introduces students to a broad range of topics, including the effects of population growth, human impact on the environment, economic development, and globalization. Offered every semester.
4 Credits
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Subject: History (HIST)
CRN: 10291
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Historic Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
School of Ed Transfer Course
Writing to learn
Introduces students to historical reasoning. Students learn to analyze evidence from the past in context in order to explain how the past produced the ever-changing present. This course surveys the social, political, cultural, and economic history of North America in global context, from the European-American encounter through the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It examines relations among Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, and their descendants. Major themes include: empires and colonization, race and slavery, the American Revolution, nation building, territorial expansion, the origins of American capitalism and democracy, sectionalism, and the Civil War.
4 Credits
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Subject: History (HIST)
CRN: 10179
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Historic Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
Introduces students to historical reasoning. Students learn to analyze evidence from the past in context in order to explain how the past produced the ever-changing present. The course introduces students to social, political, cultural, and economic developments from the American Civil War to the present day. It not only traces how ideas and lived experiences within each of those categories of historical analysis changed over time, but also shows how developments in each realm of American life shaped the others. It pays special attention to how American politics, institutions, and cultural norms emerged from—and produced—a changing role for the United States in its global context. It also interrogates how efforts to define American identity have both provided the terrain for inclusion and been used to justify the exclusion of various people, including racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups, people of different genders and sexual identities, and people of diverse religious and political beliefs.
4 Credits
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9:00 am |
9:00 am |
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Subject: Honors (HONR)
CRN: 10243
In Person | Topics Lecture 2
St Paul: John Roach Center 222
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
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1:00 pm |
1:00 pm |
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Subject: Honors (HONR)
CRN: 10244
In Person | Topics Lecture 3
St Paul: John Roach Center 222
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
| 01/05 - 01/29 | ||||||
| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
9:00 am |
9:00 am |
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Subject: Marketing (MKTG)
CRN: 10227
Online: Sync Distributed | Lecture
Online
Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
Application in Marketing is a 2-credit course designed to build on the foundations provided in Marketing 200 (Introduction to Marketing) by adding branding, consumer behavior, marketing research, and international marketing as concepts that cut across the basic components of marketing analysis, strategy, and implementation. This course emphasizes an application-oriented approach through case-studies, connections with the local marketplace, and problem solving via active-learning classroom activities. Prerequisite: MKTG 200. Note: Students who receive credit for MKTG 201 may not receive credit for MKTG 300.
2 Credits
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9:00 am |
9:00 am |
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Subject: Spanish (SPAN)
CRN: 10201
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 305
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Language/Culture
OR
[Core] Global Perspective
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
| 01/05 - 01/29 | ||||||
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9:00 am |
9:00 am |
9:00 am |
9:00 am |
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Subject: Spanish (SPAN)
CRN: 10202
Online: Some Synchronous | Online: Synchronous
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Language/Culture
OR
[Core] Global Perspective
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
Instructor: TBD
Designed to increase listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Spanish. Intensive review of grammatical structures of Elementary Spanish I and II. Continued exposure to Hispanic culture. Prerequisite: SPAN 112 or SPAN 122 or their equivalent with a grade of C- or better.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10206
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 3
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
This section is designed to acquaint students with the theology of Christian marriage, understood as covenant relationship and as sacrament, that is, an effective sign of God's love in our world. Primary though not exclusive emphasis will be on the Roman Catholic tradition. Students will also examine contemporary cultural attitudes toward sexuality, marriage, and the family in the light of Christian theology.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10231
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 9
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
This section involves the student in an intensive reading and discussion of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew scriptures. The course investigates methods of biblical interpretation and the literature and theologies of the Israelite people in their ancient Near Eastern context. In addition, this course explores the Old Testament as a foundational document for the Jewish and Christian traditions (both ancient and modern) in the development of doctrine, in the expressions of worship, and in the articulation of moral principles
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10207
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
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
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1:00 pm |
1:00 pm |
1:00 pm |
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10208
Online: Some Synchronous | Topics Lecture 8
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
This course will attempt to explore and understand the ways that human beings have engaged the world through embodied practices. From the beginning of time, societies, from small to large, have attempted to regulate human behavior. Often this requires the development of social structures such as religions or governing bodies that provide customs, rituals, and social norms. Today, in the West, religion is often misunderstood as simply the things that a person or a community BELIEVES. However, religions and/or worldviews, are far more than simply a set of beliefs. Religions have provided communities with dietary laws, developed rituals, performed rites-of-passage ceremonies, ways of dress, and practices of restraint and discernment in our actions. This month, we will attend to the way religion(s) and worldviews are embodied, and lived in the world, rather than just statements of belief. Since this is a Comparative course, we will look at how practices across a variety of traditions offer insight, meaning, and order to an often otherwise chaotic experience. Reflecting on how religious and secular practices have shaped society both historically and contemporarily, it is important as far as it brings our attention to the individual and communal practices that each of us participate in every day. Most importantly, this course is meant to be a personal exploration, where students reflect on their own practices (secular and religious) and try on new ones. Students will each set individual goals for themselves that will require them to not simply “intellectualize” about these themes, but instead embody practices that help them grow in physical, spiritual, and relational ways.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theater (THTR)
CRN: 10210
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn