Subject: Biology (BIOL)

CRN: 41080

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 204

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Natural Science

Other Requirements Met:
     Sci, Med, Soc (SMDS) Minor
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

Instructor: TBD

This course addresses issues of biology from the perspective of women. The focus of the course will be to learn basic principles of biology in areas such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, cell biology, and microbiology in the context of issues relevant to women and women's health. Two laboratory hours per week. Not open to Biology majors or students who have completed BIOL 101 or BIOL 105.

4 Credits

Subject: Biology (BIOL)

CRN: 41081

Blended Online & In-Person | Lab

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 404

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Natural Science

Other Requirements Met:
     Sci, Med, Soc (SMDS) Minor
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

Instructor: TBD

This course addresses issues of biology from the perspective of women. The focus of the course will be to learn basic principles of biology in areas such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, cell biology, and microbiology in the context of issues relevant to women and women's health. Two laboratory hours per week. Not open to Biology majors or students who have completed BIOL 101 or BIOL 105.

0 Credits

Subject: Biology (BIOL)

CRN: 41082

Blended Online & In-Person | Lab

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 404

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Natural Science

Other Requirements Met:
     Sci, Med, Soc (SMDS) Minor
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

Instructor: TBD

This course addresses issues of biology from the perspective of women. The focus of the course will be to learn basic principles of biology in areas such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, cell biology, and microbiology in the context of issues relevant to women and women's health. Two laboratory hours per week. Not open to Biology majors or students who have completed BIOL 101 or BIOL 105.

0 Credits

Subject: Business Law (BLAW)

CRN: 42263

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: McNeely Hall 114

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Dawn Swink

This course explores the principle that men and women stand as equals before the law. It examines the ways in which courts and legislatures have interpreted the principle of equal opportunity to resolve gender issues in the workplace, as well as in other aspects of society that affect access to the workplace, including education, marriage, and the family. It also provides an historical overview of the law of equal opportunity and will touch upon modern notions of feminist legal theory. This course fulfills the Human Diversity requirement in the core curriculum. Prerequisite: Junior standing

4 Credits

Subject: Classical Civilization (CLAS)

CRN: 41265

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 306

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Integ/Humanities

Other Requirements Met:
     Class, Civilization Major Appr
     Class. Civilization Minor Appr
     Writing to learn
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Jordan Mitchell

Mythology is the embodiment and encoding of the beliefs, principles, and aspirations of ancient cultures. This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to mythology as an introduction and foundation to Classical civilization. Both Greek and Roman myths will be examined from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including aetioligical, structuralist, and psychological theories. Consideration will also be given to the study of literature in translation, art history, religion, and history. The course grade will be principally based on writing assignments and class discussions. ENGL 203 may also be substituted for this course.

4 Credits

Subject: Classical Civilization (CLAS)

CRN: 41267

In Person | Topics Lecture 1

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 306

Requirements Met:
     Class, Civilization Major Appr
     Class. Civilization Minor Appr
     Writing to learn
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Jordan Mitchell

The subject matter of these courses will vary from year to year, but will not duplicate existing courses. Descriptions of these courses are available in the Searchable Class Schedule in Murphy Online View Searchable Class Schedule

4 Credits

Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)

CRN: 41279

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Audra Nuru

Theory and practice of interpersonal communication, including how self-concept, language, nonverbal communication, and relationships effect and are affected by communication. Common problems in interpersonal communication, options for managing these problems, and ethical issues in interpersonal communication are examined. Students apply theory and concepts through class exercises, simulations and individual projects.

4 Credits

Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)

CRN: 41288

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 209

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     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: 41293

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 310

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     WGSS Major Approved

  Anna Kudak

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

Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)

CRN: 41294

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 247

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     WGSS Major Approved

Instructor: TBD

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

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 41449

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 227

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

Other Requirements Met:
     Sports Management Minor
     Sports Studies Minor
     Writing to learn
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Liz Wilkinson

This course uses literature to investigate how female athletes use their sport and their bodies to fight for women's rights and to change our world. In 1894-1895, Annie Londonderry biked around the world and spoke out for equality. Frances Willard advocated for the eight-hour workday, equal pay for women, and suffrage, then learned to ride a bike at age 53, and wrote about the freedom biking gave to women. In the winter of 1912 in New York, women walked 170 miles in Suffrage Hikes advocating for their right to vote. These women paved the way for athlete-authors such as Lynne Cox (who held the world record for swimming the English Channel) and Maxine Kumin (who, along with being U.S. Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, was a collegiate swimmer and rower). These and other great women writers explore their sports and their bodies in ways that both reflect and contest societal restrictions and expectations. This course will use their texts and other essays, articles, short stories, novels, and poetry from the late 1800s to today to explore the intersections of women, sport, and the body in literature. This course is ideal for students studying literature, gender, and various facets of physical education, sport, health, and human development. Texts may include: A WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME: WOMEN'S LITERATURE ON WOMEN'S SPORT, AROUND THE WORLD ON TWO WHEELS, WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL, SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA, CARRIE SOTO IS BACK, and GIRL RUNNER. Additionally, we will venture out of the classroom for some women's sports...maybe even play a little ourselves... and invite pro and semi-pro athletes in as guest speakers. This course satisfies the WAC Writing to Learn requirement as well as an Integrations in the Humanities requirement; the Diversity, Inclusion, & Social Justice requirement; and a Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 106, 121 or 190.

4 Credits

Subject: Film Studies (FILM)

CRN: 41474

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: In Person

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

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     Writing Intensive
     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: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41851

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

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

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     CommGood/Changemaking
     Writing Intensive
     WGSS Major Approved

  Christopher Kachian

The origins and history of jazz in the United States. Various phases in the development of jazz style are discussed. Blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, cool jazz, fusion, as well as other recent developments in jazz performances are investigated. An essential part of the course is the analysis and evaluation of recorded performances by outstanding jazz musicians. Designed for non-majors as well as an elective for music majors interested in jazz. Offered fall semester.

4 Credits

Subject: Sociology (SOCI)

CRN: 42027

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
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     Writing Intensive
     WGSS Major Approved

  Patricia Maddox

Race and ethnicity as significant components of U.S. social structure; the cognitive and normative aspects of culture which maintain and effect varying manifestations of social distance, tension, prejudice and discrimination between majority and minorities at both micro and macro levels, nationally and internationally. This course meets a requirement in American Cultural Studies and Justice and Peace Studies. Prerequisite: sophomore standing

4 Credits

Subject: Sociology (SOCI)

CRN: 42030

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 449

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Global Perspective

Other Requirements Met:
     Family Studies Major Approved
     Family Studies Minor Approved
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Monica Liu

This course explores the transformation of family life in the modern world through a global lens. Specific topics we will cover include dating and mate selection, love and romance, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and parenting. We will examine how broader social forces such as globalization, technological development, and race/class/gender inequalities have affected intimate relationships. Some of the questions we will discuss include: How are seemingly personal matters such as love and sex shaped by global economics and politics? What are some of the new desires, pleasures, and emotions that have emerged in the 21st century and through what processes are they circulated as commodities across cultural and geographical borders? This course explores family formation both within and outside the U.S. and encourages students to consider themselves part of a complex and fast-changing global environment. Prerequisite: SOCI 100 or permission of the instructor

4 Credits

Subject: Social Work (UG) (SOWK)

CRN: 40080

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: McNeely Hall 233

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

Instructor: TBD

This course equips students to understand and critically analyze current and past social policies. Policy alternatives are explored with a focus on the values and attitudes as well as the societal, economic and political dynamics from which they originate. Roles and responsibilities of citizens and professionals in formulating and implementing policies responsive to actual social needs are addressed. Prerequisite: SOWK 181 (or 281 under the old course number) or consent of the Program Director.

4 Credits

Subject: Women/Gender/Sexuality (WGSS)

CRN: 42163

In Person | Topics Lecture 1

St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 306

Requirements Met:
     Class, Civilization Major Appr
     Class. Civilization Minor Appr
     Writing to learn
     WGSS Major Approved
     WGSS Minor Approved

  Jordan Mitchell

The subject matter of these courses will vary from year to year, but will not duplicate existing courses. Descriptions of these courses are available in Classfinder, View Searchable Class Schedule

4 Credits