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Subject: Amer Culture & Difference (AMCD)
CRN: 20703
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
Writing to learn
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
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8:00 am |
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Subject: Art History (UG) (ARTH)
CRN: 20729
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
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
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9:55 am |
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Subject: Art History (UG) (ARTH)
CRN: 20730
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
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
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9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 20964
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
This course focuses on the creation and use of rhetoric in public persuasion settings, including social movements and political campaigns. The diversity of rhetorical acts examined may include campaign ads, speeches, films, advertisements, music, memorials, architecture and other nonverbal strategies. Topics of study may include: The rhetoric of domination and resistance, national identity formation, and the rhetoric of public memory.
4 Credits
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1:35 pm |
1:35 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 20965
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
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
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
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 20966
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
This course provides an overview of documentary television and film as part of American culture. Class sessions will focus on how to analyze and interpret claims particular documentaries make, while providing a foundation for understanding aesthetic, rhetorical, and political economic conventions that help shape the meaning of each documentary. To this end, this course will center on current theoretical dilemmas and debates in documentary filmmaking, including questions of how to define documentary, what constitutes the ethical treatment of documentary subjects and subject matter, and how documentaries construct and position audiences. We will explore the concepts of reality, truth and authority, through a variety of readings and viewings.
4 Credits
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10:55 am |
10:55 am |
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21088
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:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Early American Literature
Writing to learn
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 120, ENGL 121, or ENGL 190
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 21122
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
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
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)
CRN: 21292
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
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing Intensive
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
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)
CRN: 21293
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
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing Intensive
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
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9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)
CRN: 21294
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
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing Intensive
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
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)
CRN: 21295
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
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing Intensive
Instructor: TBD
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
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)
CRN: 21297
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing in the Discipline
In this class students will investigate how and why particular policies are developed, proposed, adopted, and implemented; will explore how social values shape and impact public policies; and will learn how to frame issues in ways that allow for more effective advocacy. The class will examine the relative power of diverse corporate and non-profit sectors in influencing policy debates and outcomes, including the role of think tanks. Students will analyze the limitations and strengths of diverse approaches to advocacy ranging from third-party appeals and solidarity efforts to elite decision makers, as well as the prospects for a politics of agency rooted in citizen-centered politics in which people mobilize to meet the needs of their communities. The course will integrate basic theory, interaction with public policy analysts and advocates, personal experience in persuasive advocacy, and case studies focused on issues such as climate change, economic inequality, land-food-hunger, and approaches to health care. Assignments will introduce students to various tools for persuasive advocacy and allow them to develop skill sets for using them.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Justice & Peace Studies (JPST)
CRN: 21298
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
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing in the Discipline
This course is an introduction to the issues surrounding social conflict. It centers on equipping students with the theory and skills of conflict analysis and processes of engaging in conflict on the global, local and interpersonal levels. It contrasts a traditional conflict resolution model with conflict transformation, a paradigm that appreciates how conflict and violence are connected to underlying issues of justice. The course introduces students to a wide range of conflict transformation processes such as negotiation, mediation, dialogue, facilitation, restorative justice and conflict advocacy. It provides students with the opportunities to participate in these processes and explore potential vocational paths in the field of conflict transformation. As a component of the practice of the skills taught in this course, students organize and lead the annual World Cafe, a university-wide interdisciplinary dialogue. Throughout, the course engages students in a process of rigorous reflection of the ethics involved in engaging conflict. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
4 Credits
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)
CRN: 21364
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 110
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing Intensive
This course includes a study-abroad trip to Berlin over Spring Break. A separate application is required through St. Thomas Office of Study Abroad. MUSC 115: Music & Culture: Cold War Cadence is new with this semester and with the publication of B. Gleason, Cold War Cadence: A Military Musician’s Berlin Memoir, 1988 – 1991 (Calumet Editions, 2024). Generally, sections of MUSC 115: Music & Culture address: “…the classics of European and American music in their historical, cultural and social contexts….investigating the many ethnic, religious, political, philosophical, economic and scientific influences that have shaped these traditions. This course is designed to enable students, regardless of musical background, to increase their understanding of music.”
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)
CRN: 22186
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 110
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing Intensive
This course traces the development of American popular music from its roots through multiple genres such as minstrelsy, jazz, big band, swing, crooning, jump blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, country, western, folk/protest, and rock 'n' roll, concluding with the British Invasion. Popular music development is critically examined through four interrelated driving forces: identity (ethnicity, gender, culture, generation), centers vs. peripheries (the established vs. the innovative ), technology (impact on musical performance and listening), and business/law (commercial competition and development). Multimedia presentations include extensive audio and video support. Designed for the Popular Music minor.
4 Credits
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Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)
CRN: 21370
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
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
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9:35 am |
9:35 am |
9:35 am |
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Subject: Sociology (SOCI)
CRN: 21539
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
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
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Sociology (SOCI)
CRN: 22163
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
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
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3:25 pm |
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Subject: Sociology (SOCI)
CRN: 21542
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
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
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1:35 pm |
1:35 pm |
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Subject: Sociology (SOCI)
CRN: 21543
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: In Person
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
WGSS Minor Approved
Sexuality as a social construction is explored with a specific focus on cultural and institutional influences including the family, economy, religion, government, and the media. Current research findings are discussed within the context of historical change in American sexual behavior, attitudes and research methodologies. This course meets a requirement in Family Studies. Prerequisite: SOCI 100 or 110
4 Credits