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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 10174
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Comm Studies Major Approved
Comm Studies Minor Approved
Family Studies Major Approved
Family Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
Family is experienced and understood in many ways. Social, legal, and demographic changes shape how families are formed and recognized in the United States. These shifts influence communication within families and larger societal discourses about what constitutes “family.” Family communication scholars have long called for greater attention to a wider range of family experiences. This course examines the communicative experiences of diverse and underrepresented families.
4 Credits
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 10179
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
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 120, ENGL 121, or ENGL 190
4 Credits
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Subject: Family Studies (FAST)
CRN: 10180
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Comm Studies Major Approved
Comm Studies Minor Approved
Family Studies Major Approved
Family Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
Family is experienced and understood in many ways. Social, legal, and demographic changes shape how families are formed and recognized in the United States. These shifts influence communication within families and larger societal discourses about what constitutes “family.” Family communication scholars have long called for greater attention to a wider range of family experiences. This course examines the communicative experiences of diverse and underrepresented families.
4 Credits
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Subject: Geography (GEOG)
CRN: 10185
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: 10189
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Historic Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
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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Subject: History (HIST)
CRN: 10190
Online: Sync Distributed | 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 historical evidence in context in order to explain how the past produced the ever-changing present. This course introduces students to the history and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the region's interaction with global powers. With special attention placed on global developments and local responses, the course will highlight the origins and expansion of Islamic empires, modern interactions with the West through imperialism and oil concessions, responses to this interaction from nationalist, secularist, and Islamist movements, and the issues these responses generate in the present day, including questions of ethnic conflict and religious pluralism.
4 Credits
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9:00 am |
9:00 am |
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Subject: Honors (HONR)
CRN: 10234
In Person | Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: In Person
Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
The Authoritarian Mind: Power, Obedience, and Resistance - Authoritarianism is on the rise around the world, marking what historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat calls the third major wave since the early twentieth century. This course explores how psychology and justice and peace studies define authoritarianism, and the cultural, societal, and psychological conditions that allow it to take root. Together we will ask: What draws people to authoritarian leaders? How does disinformation sustain their power? And, importantly, how can individuals and communities resist these forces and reclaim agency? Guided by Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, we will examine how democracies become vulnerable to authoritarian tendencies and connect these themes to both historical and contemporary case studies. 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
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Subject: Psychology (UG) (PSYC)
CRN: 10203
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Requirements Met:
School of Ed Transfer Course
Writing to learn
An examination of brain systems that subserve human behavior. Topics include: human development, consciousness, social behavior, cognition, emotion and abnormal behavior. Prerequisite: PSYC 111
4 Credits
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1:00 pm |
1:00 pm |
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Subject: Spanish (SPAN)
CRN: 10206
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Language/Culture
OR
[Core] Global Perspective
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
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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9:00 am |
9:00 am |
9:00 am |
9:00 am |
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Subject: Spanish (SPAN)
CRN: 10207
Online: Sync Distributed | Lecture
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: 10208
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 1
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
This course introduces students to a historical examination of a particular period or periods of Christian history, such as the emergence and development of the Christian Church in the early centuries, the Middle Ages, or the period of the Reformation, or students may delve into a specialized topic in Christian history with a focus on a topic of the instructor’s choosing, such as Christianity and Nazism, the Second Vatican Council, contemporary Catholic theologians, etc.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10210
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 course either introduces diverse expressions of Christian spirituality or focuses on topics within a distinctly Christian spirituality according to the discretion of the instructor such as Christian styles of worship, Christian understandings of sacramentality (especially Christian marriage), or stages of spiritual formation. Students will consider methodological issues in the academic study of spirituality. Emphasis is placed on a wide reading in the Christian tradition of both primary and secondary literature in order to assist the student in grasping the integral link between the lived faith of Christians and the theological articulation of that faith.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10211
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 9
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
In this course, students will explore approaches to theology that emerge out of diverse cultural contexts. Sections may focus on biblical interpretation, dynamics of church life, mission work, or transnational solidarity through the eyes of the marginalized, or they may focus on efforts to articulate and bear witness to the gospel amid new cultures and historical challenges, according to the instructor’s discretion. Sections may focus on experiences of marginalization and oppression as a source for theological reflection for women (giving rise to feminist/womanist/mujerista theologies, for example), or for people of color or indigenous peoples (giving rise to Latin American, African-American, Minjung, and South African liberation theologies, for example), or for economically exploited classes (also giving rise to liberation theologies). This course will thus provide an opportunity to learn how the global Christian community is gaining fresh insights into the gospel that were missed when the dominant perspective on theology reflected primarily the experience of European men, or to learn how claims by Christians have at various times served both to challenge and to reinforce systems of power and privilege.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10214
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 invites students to explore Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Indigenous worldviews, or other traditions, in relation to Christianity. They may also examine distinctions within a single religious tradition (between Sunni and Shia sects within Islam, for example). Classes may focus on lived practice, modes of inter- and intrareligious dialogue, theologies of religious pluralism, or sacred texts. Students will critically and creatively reflect on the theological opportunities and challenges posed by the reality of religious pluralism in our contemporary world.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theater (THTR)
CRN: 10215
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
Development of theater in the United States from its 17th century roots to the present, with special attention to contemporary American drama. Emphasis on the connections between theater and culture.
4 Credits