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2013-2014 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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REL 3230 - The Letters of Paul
Goals: To explore the mind, method, and impact of the first Christian writer. To develop students’ abilities to read and interpret religious literature with critical appreciation.
Content: The Pauline Epistles, both those of Paul’s direct authorship and those of associates and later followers in the Pauline tradition. The letters will be analyzed and interpreted in their historical, social, and theological contexts. Secondary readings assessing Paul’s impact on the shape of Christianity and his contribution to the intellectual and social development of Western civilization will be included.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One of the following: REL 1200 or REL 1220; or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3250 - Death and Dying
Goals: This course will examine death and dying from a range of perspectives and multiple methodologies.
Content: The texts we will read include a) philosophical and theological reflections on the meanings(s) of death, how we should live in the face of death, and the possibility and desirability of immortality; b) psychological analyses of death anxiety, grief, and mourning; c) anthropological and sociological examinations of death rituals, suicide, and institutions surrounding death; d) accounts from Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, and Christian traditions about the nature of death and the after-life; and e) debates on controversial issues including euthanasia, war and pacifism, capital punishment and factory farming. We will also read literary treatments (short stories, poems, excerpts from novels) on many of these issues, and view films that focus on these topics.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisites: Any religion course
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3300 - Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Ancient and Medieval World
Goals: To explore the development primarily of Christian thought and practice in its relationship to culture from the first century B.C.E. through the medieval period and up to the Protestant Reformation.
Content: Persecution of the early church, formation of doctrine, Augustine and Constantinian Christianity, Monasticism, Mysticism and the medieval church, Martin Luther and the Reformation.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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REL 3310 - Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Modern World
Goals: To understand the persons and movements primarily within Christianity that contribute to an ever-evolving and reforming understanding of faith, faith-based organizations, and social change movements, especially as they relate to issues of race and gender, and to think broadly about the concepts of reform and revolution within a religious context.
Content: Protestant and Catholic Reformations, Enlightenment thinkers’ influence on religious thinkers and institutions, Christianity’s contribution to the creation of the concept of race, women and religion in the United States, and understanding the global development of Christianity in the twentieth century and beyond.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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REL 3320 - Philosophy of Religion
Crosslisted
Listed under Philosophy as PHIL 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3350 - Contemporary African-American Religious Thought
Goals: To understand how race in America—particularly the Black/White relationship—impacts religious thought in America; to encourage greater sensitivity to the ways in which religion is inextricably bound to culture, to politics, to economics, to American society as a whole.
Content: Pre-World War II to the present—from the non-violent, prophetic voices of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr., through the turbulent late 1960s with Malcolm X and the rise of Black Power—the influence of the protest movements on the creation of Black Theology and subsequently, of womanist theology; and the more recent critiques of capitalism by Cornel West and others.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3370 - Prophets and Mystics
Goals: If we are to be equal to our times, we need both the disquieting wisdom of prophets, those truth tellers who rage against unspeakable inequities, and the hopeful reminder of the mystics, that underneath the broken surface of life there is a unity, and a hidden wholeness. Some mystics are also prophets, and some prophets mystics.
Content: In this course we will draw from a wide range of contemporary prophets, including: poets, writers, film makers, photographers, musicians as well as the an-cient biblical prophets, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Jonah. Readings will include: The Open Spaces of Democracy, (Terry Tempest Williams) a biography of St. Francis of Assisi and Hildegard of Bingen; selections from Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Prophets, Wendell Berry, Arundhati Roy and selected poems.
Credits: 4
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REL 3390 - Christianity in an Age of Religious Diversity
Goals: this course will investigate recent attempts by Christian scholars and practitioners to address how to think about, interact and live with people of other traditions. Students will leave the course with a critical understanding of the promise and the challenge of working from within a religious tradition to forge avenues of understanding and build relationships across traditions.
Content: In an age of increasing religious diversity at the local, national, and international levels, it is imperative that religious traditions reflect on the following questions: How are we to think about the nature and meaning of religious diversity? What is the significance of my neighbor’s faith for mine? What does a commitment to my home tradition mean for how my community should relate to other religious communities that are now part of the fabric of life in our cities and neighborhoods? Taught in a seminar style, this course will explore these questions and more.
Credits: 4
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REL 3400 - Contemporary Issues in Christian Ethics
Goals: To achieve a greater appreciation of the major approaches and sources utilized by contemporary Christian ethicists, and to apply that knowledge to in-depth research into one current ethical dilemma.
Content: The influence of scripture, philosophy, social, and natural science on the shape of Christian ethics in relationship to specific ethical issues such as sexuality, health care, politics, environment, economics.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3430 - Feminist/Womanist Theologies
Goals: To explore the traditional theological claims in light of feminist and womanist critiques and reformulations.
Content: Close reading and discussion of a variety of feminist and womanist theological works, especially focused on how gender, race, and class have affected religious language and imagery regarding God, Christ, power, sin, love, and redemption.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: REL 1330 or REL 1400 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3570 - Religion, Culture, and the State
Crosslisted
Listed under Anthropology as ANTH 3570.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3630 - Seminar in Buddhism
Goals: To engage in an in-depth study of the Buddhist tradition, focusing on its origin in India, its development in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Tibet, and the spread of Buddhism to America. We will look at both continuity and diversity within Buddhism, examining the different forms the tradition takes in various cultures and at the threads that run through all of them.
Content: We will examine various facets of Buddhism—e.g. meditation, ritual, ethics, devotion—and different types of Buddhist lives—e.g. Monastic and lay, contemplative and activist. We will read both primary texts (e.g. Sutras) and modern secondary literature, and will examine Buddhist thought and practice at the “elite” level as well as the popular level. A number of sub-themes and questions will run through the course: How has each culture been shaped by Buddhism, and how has Buddhism been shaped by the various cultures? What has been the interaction of Buddhism with other aspects of culture, and with the sociopolitical sphere, in each country? Special topics include women in Buddhism, conceptions of Nirvana, the ethics of Karma, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, and Buddhism in contemporary America.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended: Previous religion course.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3900 - Junior Colloquium
Goals: The course will meet monthly to examine significant topics and developments pertinent to the formation, history, expression, and study of religion. It is designed to stimulate ideas for honors projects among junior majors in the class and to support the work of seniors who are undertaking honors projects.
Content: The idea of “service” as a religious concept will provide a unifying theme for the course, but monthly topics will depend on the interests of the student (or occasionally faculty person) who is presenting for the day.
Taught: Annually.
Required of majors: Two semesters of the junior and/or senior year, although more would be permitted. Only religion majors and minors are eligible to enroll in this course.
Credits: 1 credit
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REL 5750 - Senior Seminar
Goals: To examine the concept of religious vocation in the contemporary context.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Two 3000-level religion courses.
Note: Only religion majors and minors are eligible to enroll in this course.
Credits: 2 credits
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REL 5900 - Senior Colloquium
Goals: The course will meet monthly to examine significant topics and developments pertinent to the formation, history, expression, and study of religion. It is designed to stimulate ideas for honors projects among junior majors in the class and to support the work of seniors who are undertaking honors projects.
Content: The idea of “service” as a religious concept will provide a unifying theme for the course, but monthly topics will depend on the interests of the student (or occasionally faculty person) who is presenting for the day.
Taught: Annually.
Required of majors: Two semesters of the junior and/or senior year, although more would be permitted. Only religion majors and minors are eligible to enroll in this course.
Credits: 1 credit
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SOC 1110 - Introduction to Sociological Thinking
Goals: To introduce students to the basic sociological concepts. To show how these concepts are used to analyze society. To increase our knowledge of how society is organized and operates. To encourage creative and critical thinking.
Content: Study of culture, socialization, social institutions such as the family, religion, and government, race, gender, social class, and social change.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 1120 - Social Problems
Goals: To understand why we have social problems and what we can do about them. To learn about selected social problems.
Content: Poverty, racism, sexism, urban issues, alcohol, and drug abuse. The social problems selected will vary with the instructor.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 1330 - Women, Men, and Society
Goals: To introduce students to gender as an area of sociological inquiry.
Content: The course will cover a variety of topics including crosscultural issues, socialization, education, communication, intimate relationships, employment, crime, politics, spirituality, and health.
Taught: Annually, fall or winter terms.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3000 - Visual Sociology
Goals: To deepen our sensitivities about the way in which people’s “perceptions” are constructed through the works of art, photography, and advertising. To show that images are not neutral objects, but social constructs which shape our attitude about ourselves and others.
Content: Various theoretical and historical works on photography, vision, and art by John Berger, Roland Barthes, Malek Alloula, Stuart Ewen, Susan Sontag, and others.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: SOC 1110
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3330 - Sociology of Gender
Goals: To understand and evaluate gender as a form of social structure and the consequences that structure holds for individuals and society. To understand gender as a social, rather than purely biological, construct.
Content: Covers a variety of topics including social constructionism, biological explanations of gender difference, feminist theory, and sexuality, as well as a selection of contemporary issues in gender studies.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisites: A combination of either (1) SOC 1110 and SOC 1330 OR (2) SOC 1110 and WSTD 1010.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3350 - Racial and Cultural Minorities
Goals: To develop a critical understanding of the different racial, ethnic, and culturally distinct groups in society. To explore a range of theories which seek to explain the nature of minority relations.
Content: Topical focus will vary with the instructor.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110 or CJFS 1120.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3370 - Families in Crisis
Goals: To learn about the different types of family forms and changing functions of the family as a basic social institution. A social problems focus.
Contents: Dating, family violence, divorce, and alternatives to marriage.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110 or WSTD 1010.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3390 - Social Psychology
Goals: To provide an overview of sociological social psychology, specifically the perspective of symbolic interaction. To understand how we become social beings and how, through our everyday interactions with one another, we create and re-create both ourselves and the social world in which we live.
Content: The course will begin with a comparison of sociological and psychological theories of social psychology. We will then turn to symbolic interaction with topics that include meaning and symbols as human creations, language and cognition, impression management, the self, and the social construction of reality.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3440 - Urban Sociology
Goals: To explore the advent and growth of cities, the key organizations and concerns of everyday urban life, and the movement of people into and out of cities as well as regional shifts in the distribution of America’s population.
Content: Urban and suburban domination of American life, the way in which the distribution of power has influenced the shape of cities, gentrification, the rise and fall of the “Southern Rim,” the factors that make cities desirable places to live, the various political and social problems which affect all cities and the possible remedies for these problems.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3530 - Political Sociology
Goals: To analyze the distribution of power in society. To explore the role of the state and the ways the key institutions of society affect the potential stability of a social system.
Content: An overview of the field of political sociology and an examination of the reigning political ideologies in American society. The variety of available political ideologies, their dissemination, acceptance or rejection, significance of work, and movements for social change.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3600 - Consuming Societies
Goals: The purpose of this course is to un-naturalize consumption by teaching students to critically examine the development and the consequences of act of consumption and societies whose dominant feature is based on consumption.
Content: As Western industrial societies have come to outsource their production facilities to the developing nations, they have become societies based on consumption rather than production. This course explores the consequences of this transition by studying various texts that examine the consequences of consumption in relationship to food, childhood, waste, environment, politics, and the dilemma of choice.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: SOC 1110
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3700 - Medicine, Morality, and Mortality
Goals: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1) describe the socialization experiences of students in medical school;
2) identify and describe historical shifts regarding the place and practice of medicine in American society;
3) describe patient-doctor interactions and experiences in various clinical settings;
4) compare and contrast health and illness across social differences including race, socio-economic status, and gender;
5) articulate key ethical issues in medicine including the case of organ transplantation;
6) comprehend some of the complexities of medical practice, such as the role of patient compliance, surgical risk, and the anatomy of hope.
Content: This course explores the social worlds of medicine. Topics include the process of becoming a doctor, the history of medicine, patient and doctor experiences, inequities in access to health care, organ transplantation, medical complications, and the anatomy of hope. Using literature, film, text, and guest speakers, we will examine the roles of doctors, patients, and the institution of medicine in a social exploration of health, illness, and healing.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: SOC 1110 or consent of instructor
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3900 - World System Theory
Goals: To examine the notion of “social change” from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. The emphasis is on theoretical and historical understanding of the macrostructures that are changed from feudalism to capitalism. The major focus is on a world system. The purpose of the course is to equip students with a much broader understanding of the way society and its institutions function in a global perspective.
Content: Works by Wallerstein, Harvey, and others.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: SOC 1110
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3930 - Social Research Methods
Goals: To learn how to design and implement a research project. To become familiar with limits and appropriateness of various qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Content: Various types of research methods such as field research, content analysis, and survey.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3950 - Critical Social Theory
Goals: To introduce students to sociological theories and to develop a scholarly sensitivity that is guided and shaped by critical concepts, ideas, and theories. Students will learn that understanding social reality is controversial and complicated.
Content: In order to teach students a sociological way of “thinking” and a critical examination of social issues, the course draws on the works of past and present sociologists.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 5330 - Sex and Sexuality: An American Perspective
Goals: To understand and evaluate sexuality as a form of social structure and the consequences that structure holds for individuals and society. To understand sexuality as a social, rather than purely biological, construct.
Content: The course will cover a variety of topics, providing a structural analysis of sexuality. Topics include social construction of sexuality, the history of sexuality in America, sexuality and religion, medicine, law, family, commerce, and education. Students have the option to complete the Leadership, Education, and Development (LEAD) component of the Hamline Plan.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisites: A combination of either (1) SOC 1110 and SOC 1330 and SOC 3330 OR (2) SOC 1110 and SOC 3330 and WSTD 1010.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 5960 - Senior Seminar
Goals: To synthesize the diverse sociology courses taken during the course of the major. To discuss the discipline of sociology—its major issues and debates, its applications, and its occupational relevance through completion of an internship.
Content: Completion of an intership fulfills the LEAD requirement.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisites: SOC 1110, SOC 3930, and SOC 3950. Instructor signature required.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 1100 - Introduction to Issues in Social Justice
Goals: This course will introduce students to major streams of social justice thought, including historical social justice movements, theoretical problems having to do with social equality, personal freedom, access to social resources, marginalization, and stigmatization, and the ways in which communities respond to these issues.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 1150 - Living on the Edge: The Asian American Experience
Goals: To familiarize students with various Asian American communities, their origins and immigration to the United States, current conditions in Asian American communities and the challenges they face.
Content: We will learn about Asian immigrants and refugees, read Asian American literature, experience Asian American art and meet members of the local Asian American community. Among the topics we will discuss are stereotype (such as the “model minority”), the role of women in the Asian American community, racism (including the American concentration camps) and assimilation. Students examine the role of cultural heritage in how one views oneself, one’s own ethnic group, and community cultures.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 3200 - Sexuality and the Law
Goals: To provide students with an overview of the way U.S. Federal and state law regulates sexuality and related aspects of social behavior. In particular, to examine the way that the law provides different rights, privileges, and responsibilities dependent upon one’s sexual orientation. To further one’s understanding of the relationship between the law, as part of the public sphere, and sexuality, which is generally perceived to be a part of the private sphere.
Content: Topical areas include, but are not limited to, the conceptualization of sexual orientation, historical trends, Constitutional law, employment, marriage, military policy, and hate crime legislation.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 3280 - Shelter for All
Goals: Students will learn about homelessness through the dynamic interplay between theory and practice.
Content: Through service-learning, speakers, and critical articles, students will examine the lived realities of homelessness, investigate its root causes, and identify responses and solutions. Students are required to complete 20 hours of service-learning at community agencies.
Taught: Winter term.
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 3360 - Philosophy of Nonviolence
Crosslisted
Listed under Philosophy as PHIL 3360.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 5900 - Social Justice Capstone
Goals: This course will permit major students to integrate theory, knowledge, and practical experience gained in their major using a series of readings, fieldwork experiences, and a major project.
Note: Students may request permission to substitute PHIL 5750: Senior Seminar with the permission of the faculty advisor and the course instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 1110 - Beginning Spanish I
Goals: To introduce students with little or no previous training in the language to the basic grammar and vocabulary necessary for a variety of common activities.
Content: Practical communication in such areas as greetings, descriptions, social and family life, food and restaurant needs, daily routines, the weather and the seasons, cultural values and leisure activities, machismo and feminism; occasional lectures concerning relevant aspects of Hispanic and Latino lives.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 1120 - Beginning Spanish II
Goals: To introduce students with little or no previous training in the language to the basic grammar and vocabulary necessary for a variety of common activities.
Content: Practical communication in such areas as greetings, descriptions, social and family life, food and restaurant needs, daily routines, the weather and the seasons, cultural values and leisure activities, machismo and feminism; occasional lectures concerning relevant aspects of Hispanic and Latino lives.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3210 - Intermediate Spanish I
Goals: To review and strengthen fundamental concepts. To increase writing and speaking skills. To develop an active vocabulary and improve pronunciation. To foster awareness and knowledge of Hispanic cultures and civilizations.
Content: Intensive review of the indicative mood, including the perfect and progressive tenses, and an introduction to the forms and uses of the subjunctive. Vocabulary building, including idiomatic phrases and readings to illustrate grammatical usage and introduce Hispanic topics. Classroom conversation and small group discussion.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 1120 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3220 - Intermediate Spanish II
Goals: To develop skills in using compound tenses and the subjunctive in conversation and in writing. To increase vocabulary and fluency through extensive reading, writing, and conversation. Emphasis is given to self-correction and to paragraph-length speech.
Content: A comprehensive refinement of the use of all tenses, with emphasis on the subjunctive. Reading and discussion of short stories and articles to build vocabulary and facilitate oral communication, and explore different aspects of Latino culture. Compositions and some translation.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3210 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3350 - Advanced Communication in Spanish
Goals: To refine skills and attain near-native proficiency in pronunciation and in understanding native speakers.
Content: Concentrated practice with word and sound variations used by native speakers; an analysis of idiomatic material vital to understanding normal conversation; an awareness of the importance of gestures, speech patterns, personal space and body language; and sensitivity to the interplay of language and society as well as the impact of Spanish on English.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3600 - Hablemos de cine
Goals: The primary goal is to strengthen the advanced-intermediate student’s listening and speaking skills in preparation for 5000-level coursework. Secondary goals include introducing students to the questions and methodologies of film criticism and developing their ability to critique films on the level of narrative and as expressions of Spanish/Latin American culture and society.
Content: Students will view 6-7 films from different parts of the Spanish-speaking world so as to improve their listening skills, particularly their ability to identify and understand regional accents and idiomatic expressions. Oral (and some written) assignments include comprehension exercises, plot summaries and analyses, research presentations, debates, role-playing and a final, in-depth critical review. Significant emphasis on vocabulary building, pronunciation and the confidence and skill needed to speak in longer, more complex sentences. The course is conducted entirely in Spanish, although some films are screened with English subtitles.
Prerequisites: SPAN 3220 or equivalent. Note: This course is not intended for native Spanish speakers.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5000 - Latin American Studies
(See listing in Latin American Studies, LSTD 5000.)
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5100 - Contemporary Issues in the Americas
(See listing in Latin American Studies, LSTD 5100.)
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5300 - La cultura popular en America Latina
Goals: To engage in the collaborative and interdisciplinary study of various forms of popular culture in Latin America (festivals, music, foods, television, sports, etc.). To appreciate how both the Humanities and the Social Sciences can help us understand the social, historical, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of cultural practices. To improve one’s spoken Spanish through class discussion and formal presentations on a research topic.
Content: In the first half of the semester we learn how popular culture is defined and studied, and through readings, lectures, and class discussion we examine a range of popular Latin American cultural figures and practices. By mid-semester students will have formed working groups and chosen study topics, which they will research individually and collaboratively for several weeks. Finally, in a graduated series of oral presentations, students will teach classes on the popular culture genre they researched (e.g., comic books), and will lead us in interpreting a specific example of that genre (e.g., the Chilean comic book Condorito). Although some course readings are in English, all lectures, writing assignments, exams and presentations will be in Spanish.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5400 - Borderlands
Goals: To explore and interpret cross-cultural Borderlands experiences as they relate to the Latino world, with a special focus on female iconography and folklore in Mexico and in the United States. This course is designed to help the student understand the role that icons play in forming models of behavior for women (and men) and how those models are perpetuated, challenged, or reinterpreted in our time. The objective is to explore, in theory and in practice, communication across cultural boundaries.
Content: Three female figures, La Llorona, la Malinche, and la Virgen de Guadalupe, are well known Mexican icons that are increasingly important in the U.S. due to the continuing borderlands immigration experience. Emphasis is placed on the origin of stories related to these female figures and to the evolution of the attitudes surrounding them. These icons are redefined according to the wants and needs of successive generations and play an important role in various aspects of social, political, and religious life. Concepts related to these icons are found and discussed in such disparate female figures as Frida Kahlo, Dolores del Rio, Selena, Lilith, Adam’s first wife, Medea and Madonna. Readings include works by Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, and Gloria Anzaldua. Films include the Life of Frida Kahlo, Lone Star, and the Forbidden Goddess.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 1120 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5580 - Golden Age of Spanish Literature
Goals: To acquaint the student with Imperial Spain and its most productive and creative literary period. Major contributions are made to western culture: Cervantes writes the first European novel (El Quixote), Tirso writes the first Don Juan drama, Santa Teresa confronts the Catholic Church with quiet mysticism, and social protest comes from street urchins like Lazarillo de Tormes as the picaresque tradition begins. The major focus is on Golden Age plays by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca. Films of some plays are shown.
Content: Plays from the Golden Age which deal with honor, free will, cloak-and-dagger intrigue and history; establishment of a national theatre; mystical prose and poetry; picaresque novels.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5600 - Student/Faculty Collaborative Research
Goals: To help interested students develop research skills through individualized independent study activities with one of the Spanish professors. Topics will be of mutual interest and research could potentially lead to student presentations at the yearly National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) meetings. In the past several undergraduate research projects have also been given by students at professional conferences and later submitted for publication.
Content: Primary research on various topics, literary or nonliterary in nature, in collaboration with a faculty member interested in the area chosen by the student. Topics could include literature, culture, political and economic issues, films, or any other aspect of Hispanic or Latino culture.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5610 - The Generation of 1898
Goals: To understand the impact of Spain’s defeat by the United States in 1898, and how that defeat caused a generation of Spanish authors to re-examine traditional values and beliefs and initiate a renewal and change in Spanish letters and philosophy.
Content: A selection of texts including novels, short stories, essays, drama, and poetry by authors such as Azorin, Unamuno, Valle-Inclan, Machado, Baroja, and Ortega y Gassett. Excerpts from scholarly works on political and literary history. This intellectually vibrant literary movement led to innovation and enrichment, to a reassessment of Spain’s past and present, and it molded Spain into the country that it is today.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5680 - Spanish Culture and Civilization
This course is designed to give a comprehensive view of Spain and to provide students with a global knowledge of the different and diverse expressions of contemporary Spanish culture. The goal is to introduce students to the diverse realities of Spain through its history, geography, visual arts, politics, sociology and music, as well as its people, languages, traditions and daily life and customs. Spanish Culture and Civilization also presents new and current perspectives regarding Spain and its role in the European Union.
Different aspects of modern Spanish culture will be presented to the class through textbooks, contemporary movies, literary works, newspapers and magazine articles. In addition to expanding students’ cultural knowledge, this course works to develop students’ writing, reading, listening and speaking skills. Students are asked to form opinions on issues, defend their beliefs, and research and explore course topics independently.
Taught: Periodically
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
Note: All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5800 - Latin American Novel and Short Story
Goals: To expose the student to the development from realism to magical realism in Latin American novels and short stories, to analyze the importance of the historical reality of the Mexican Revolution in literature, and to examine machismo and hembrismo in the culture and how they are reflected in literature.
Content: Through literature, students move north with the troops of Pancho Villa (Los de abajo), experience life in a machodominated pueblo where the dead speak (Pedro Paramo), examine choices that made a revolutionary into a politically powerful cacique in our modern world (La muerte de Artemio Cruz), observe the gender specific “painted woman” and “suffering mother” in relation to the macho male, and understand the impact that Mexican attitudes and customs have had on the United States.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5810 - Modern Latin American Fiction
Goals: To explore different literary movements in the 20th century such as indigenismo, regionalismo, la novela psicologica, la vanguardia, lo real maravilloso, and feminismo; to seek connections between literary aesthetics and sociopolitical forces in Latin America; to develop through practice our ability to analyze, discuss, and write about art.
Content: Primary texts: original works of Latin American fiction. Secondary texts: historical, biographical, and analytical readings. Authors vary from year to year. Course may occasionally focus on one or more themes, such as women writers, the regional novel, exile literature, or others.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5900 - Advanced Conversation and Composition
Goals: To teach students advanced aspects of oral and written expression in Spanish.
Content: Oral expression, expository and creative writing, syntax, stylistics and idiomatic usage. Some introduction to advanced translation into Spanish.
Taught: Annually
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3350 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5910 - Spanish for the Professional
Goals: To provide the student with a working knowledge of the Spanish language and Latino culture as related to the bilingual workplace of the United States and its counterpart abroad.
Content: Work in such technical fields as health care and medicine, education and communication, law enforcement, social services and, in particular, business. Social and cultural issues are also emphasized. Pursuit of individual interests in specific career areas is encouraged. Strong emphasis is placed on relevant cultural issues.
Taught: Annually
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3350 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1010 - Production Experience (Category I)
Goals: To engage the student in a range of production activities to develop communication abilities and technical skills required in the performing arts.
Content: Stage management, board operation, and running crew for a mainstage show.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore status.
Credits: 0.5 credits
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THTR 1120 - Introduction to Theatre Arts: Stage and Screen
Goals: To introduce students to the appreciation of theatre, film, and television as unique forms of dramatic art. To gain an understanding of the production process by participating in limited crew work for the Hamline University Theatre. To develop critical skills in analysis of dramatic text and performance review.
Content: Examination of the work of each artist in the creative process (writer, actor, director, designer). Exploration of dramatic aesthetics and theory applicable to theatre, film, and television. An overview of theatre arts which includes historical survey of audience relationships to stage and screen. Intended for the general student and required of all majors and minors.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1130 - Dance I
Goals: To demonstrate an understanding of basic modern and jazz dance techniques through proper warm-up, the performance of across-the-floor combinations, a sensibility to music and/or rhythmic structures, and proper use and alignment of the body in terms of mechanical functioning. To acquire an awareness of movement relative to the use of space, time, and weight. To participate in structured improvisation as a vehicle for individual movement expression. To develop an understanding and awareness of modern and jazz dance as a performance art. To acquire an understanding of dance relative to its historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Content: An introduction to modern and jazz dance technique. Performance of fundamental elements which comprise warm-ups, center floor sequences and combinations, and across-the-floor combinations. Basic elements of dance composition and improvisation.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1140 - Dance II
Goals: To provide an introduction to the principles and processes involved in making dances. Explore concepts fundamental to creativity and the choreographic process. To develop a deeper understanding of the various motivations for movement in relationship to the elements of space, time, weight, and breath.
Content: This course is a continuation of Dance I. Participants will gain greater self-awareness of the body, explore with greater depth the rhythms and dynamics underlaying movement, and explore the orientation of the body moving through space. More emphasis will be placed on longer movement phrases and more in-depth improvisations and creative choreography.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: THTR 1130 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1150 - Yoga
Goals: To improve body mechanics; develop mental focus and control; reinforce positive body image and language; and introduce yoga philosophy and experiential anatomy.
Content: Work with structural alignment, flexibility and strength technique to improve body mechanics and injury prevention through yoga poses; examination of how yoga philosophy relates to day-to-day living through written material and written reflections.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1230 - Acting I
Goals: To introduce the student to the basic principles of the actor’s craft: physical discipline, vocal control, individual expression, and intellectual/emotional exploration of the role.
Content: Beginning with theatre games and improvisations, the course moves beyond exercises to the exploration of intention, action, and characterization in extensive scene and monologue work, including significant time spent in preparing students for a range of audition situations.
Taught: Each semester.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1420 - Stagecraft
Goals: To introduce the theories and practical skills of technical production in theatre. To develop a basis for further work in theatrical design and to qualify the student for theatrical production work.
Content: Materials, methods, and planning skills used in scenery, lighting, costumes, and properties. Projects in basic drafting, computer-aided design, construction, electricity, and electronics.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1450 - Drawing for the Theatre
Goal: Beginning drawing class especially intended for students interested in theatre design.
Content: The course covers basic principles of light and shadow, drawing the human form, fabric illustration and the techniques of working in pencil, marker and watercolor.
Taught: Winter, alternate years
Note: Students intending to take Costume Design or interested in fashion illustration are encouraged to take this course prior to taking Costume Design.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1700 - Creative Dramatics in the Elementary Classroom
Goals: To introduce students to the idea of using creative dramatics and theatre in the elementary classroom, using it to teach a variety of subject areas and how it can be a vehicle through which children can enhance their creativity, problem-solving skills, communication skills, literacy, cross-cultural understanding, as well as develop selfesteem. This theoretical understanding will be supported by practical, experiential learning.
Content: Reading and theoretical discussion of why use theatre with children. A great deal of the work is experiential learning and trying out various exercises, games, and programs. These will initially be presented by the professor, then each student will practice leading games and exercises in our college classroom. The last part of the month will include five days of practice teaching in a local elementary classroom.
Taught: Periodically in winter term.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3010 - Production Experience (Category II)
Goals: To engage the student in a range of production activities to develop communication abilities and technical skills required in the performing arts.
Content: Directing, designing, and performing in a mainstage show.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore status.
Credits: 0.5 credits
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THTR 3120 - Analyzing the Dramatic Text
Goals: To develop a strong foundation in script analysis with an emphasis on practical application through assignments geared to exercise the student’s ability to engage the dramatic text from a performance, a design, and a historiographic perspective.
Content: Seven plays covering major historical periods and genres—including a focus on a variety of dramaturgical approaches—will be analyzed through close reading and experiential activities.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: THTR 1120 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3140 - Theatre and Culture: Ancient to Renaissance
Goals: To become familiar with the broad and diverse history and literature of the theatre; the practical theories of acting, design, and directing; the latest research in dramatic criticism, performance theory and cultural studies; and the ways in which the study of theatre encourages cross-disciplinary thinking. To develop strong critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and writing skills.
Content: Representative texts from ancient Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; medieval Europe; feudal Japan; and the European Renaissance will be studied.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisites: THTR 1120 and THTR 3120 recommended. Theatre majors and minors should take THTR 3140 and THTR 3160 in sequence.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3160 - Theatre and Culture: Modern to Postmodern
Goals: To become familiar with the broad and diverse history and literature of the theatre; the practical theories of acting, design, and directing; the latest research in dramatic criticism, performance theory and cultural studies; and the ways in which the study of theatre encourages cross-disciplinary thinking. To develop strong critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and writing skills.
Content: Representative texts from the 17th century through the contemporary age, including non-Western approaches as well as post-colonial theatre in Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, and Australia.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisites: THTR 1120 and THTR 3140 recommended. Theatre majors and minors should take THTR 3140 and THTR 3160 in sequence.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3180 - Film Studies
Goals: To study prominent film artists and theorists through a close examination of their work.
Content: Landmark films and major film theories will be discussed along with significant trends in technology, aesthetics, and production.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: COMM 3320 or THTR 1120 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3210 - Movement for Actors
Goals: To improve physical communication through gesture, body language, and movement. Students will also develop critical analysis skills.
Content: Physical training in different somatic modalities including Feldenkrais, Laban Movement Analysis, dance, and yoga, which will explore the unique relationship between physical movement and text.
Taught: Periodically.
Prerequisite: THTR 1230.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3230 - Acting II
Goals: Building on Acting I, this class is designed to further deepen understanding and mastery of the techniques of acting and to help prepare students for working in the field.
Content: The class focuses on the following areas: auditions, improvisation, character development, resumes, and commercial work. This class includes lab components of voice and speech and make up.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: THTR 1230 and THTR 3210.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3410 - Stage Makeup
Goals: To learn the techniques, theory, and application of theatrical makeup. To develop a working knowledge of materials and methods essential to use of principal types of theatrical makeup.
Content: Makeup design and application in relation to character development and the overall production concept. The course focuses on advanced paint techniques and prosthetics.
Taught: Alternate Years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or permission of instructor
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3440 - Scenic Design
Goals: To develop an awareness of the principles and techniques of the scene designer’s art. To qualify the student as a beginning scenic designer.
Content: Script analysis, concept development, visual research, and the use of design elements in the service of coherent and unified production. An exploration of the variety of design styles and the development of rendering, drafting, collage, and model making skills.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3450 - Costume Design
Goals: To introduce principles and practices in the design and execution of costumes for the stage. To prepare the beginning costume designer.
Content: Script and visual research and use of design principles to create costumes appropriate to both individual character and the production as a whole. Summary of development of western dress, figure drawing, rendering skills, and research methods together with the nature and decoration of materials, pattern development, draping, assembly, and finishing methods.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3460 - Lighting Design
Goals: To introduce the student to the basics in design of lighting for theatre and television. To prepare students to attain minimum competencies as lighting technicians and designers.
Content: Basic electricity, wiring and optics, study of current and historic equipment and methods, the nature of color, graphic analysis, and drafting. Script and ground-plan analysis and selection of design elements to reinforce the intentions of specific productions.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3510 - Video Production
Goals: Introduction to digital video production.
Content: This course is an introduction to the art of video production, camera techniques and editing.
Taught: Spring
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3700 - Children’s Theatre
Goals: To provide a combined study of the theories and practical processes involved in creating and presenting theatre for children.
Content: Participants for the course are selected by audition to prepare and tour a participation theatre play for children. In addition to the rehearsal and performance components of the course, there are units of study in script analysis, the development of theatre for children, types of theatre for children, performing for and with children, and an introduction to the roles that theatre can play in an educational setting.
Taught: Annually, winter term.
Prerequisite: Course participants must be cast in the touring children’s play.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3800 - Dance Ensemble
Goal: To provide performance experience in contemporary concert dance. To learn modern and jazz technique and repertoire work from professional choreographers in the Twin Cities area and explore the choreographic process. Students will perform two concerts during the academic year.
Content: Intermediate and advanced modern and jazz technique will be taught which will be comprised of warm ups; strength training; yoga; center floor sequences; across floor combinations; and partnering techniques. Emphasis will be placed on rehearsals for development of professional and student dance works.
Taught: Annually. This is a two credit class that may be repeated.
Prerequisite: Fall audition.
Credits: 2 credits
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THTR 3960 - Field Experience Seminar
Crosslisted
Listed under Communication Studies as COMM 3960.
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THTR 5160 - Special Topics in Theatre Studies
Goals: The critical study of a specific historical movement, theatre company, and/or theatre artist.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts (both written, performance, and historical texts) in their cultural context. Topics will vary.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5230 - Acting III
Goals: To provide the acting student with the technical means to assume roles in various historic dramatic styles.
Content: Significant representative examples of various theatrical modes are explored through work in exercises, monologues, and scenes. Voice and movement are studied in relation to historic styles. An introductory approach to acting for the camera is included. This course includes lab components in stage combat and period movement.
Taught: Periodically.
Prerequisites: THTR 1130 and THTR 3230, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5400 - Managing the Performing Arts
Goals: To introduce the student to the economic and administrative issues that confront a performing arts organization. To explore the methods, materials, and policies used by successful managers in preserving their organizations.
Content: Units of study on organizational development, staffing procedures, fundraising systems, accounting methods, publicity techniques, and audience development.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and ACCT 1310, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5520 - Stage Direction
Goals: To train the student in the essential principles of directing through play analysis, practical exercises, and scene staging.
Content: Emphasis on practical application through the staging of selected scenes from the modern theatre and exercises in composition, interpretation, and movement. Serious and comic texts, staging for traditional and open-stage forms, and working with script, actors, and designers.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, THTR 1230, THTR 1420, THTR 3120, and consent of instructor.
Note: This course is restricted to major students. Enrollment is limited.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5700 - Teaching Theatre and Dance K-12
Goals: To prepare the prospective teacher seeking a license in theatre/dance for the professional work.
Content: Techniques and content ideas for addressing the State of Minnesota Rules Chapter 8710.4300 subpart 3, curriculum and season planning considerations for the teacher, methods of evaluating creative work in an academic setting, best practices for the drama classroom, portfolio development, and the uses of drama techniques in teaching other content areas.
Taught: By arrangement. See instructor to make arrangements for the course.
Prerequisites: Substantial completion of the theatre arts major, EDU 3150 and EDU 3250.
This is a tutorial class that involves both online learning and seminar sessions.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5910 - Senior Theatre Project and Seminar
Goals: To provide senior theatre majors with the opportunity to demonstrate their professional abilities through the creation of a substantial research or production project and to prepare students for the transition to careers and/or graduate school.
Content: This seminar course focuses on the development of the performing arts professional. Topics include issues in ethics, union and professional association membership, career planning strategies, graduate schools and advanced training opportunities, parallel industry careers, and analyzing growth and change in the performing arts. Parallel to these seminars participants will also be developing their senior project. Techniques for the written and visual documentation of a performance will be examined as well as individual meetings with the project advisor.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: This is a two semester, two credits per semester course sequence. Seniors must complete both semesters. Only theatre arts majors are eligible to enroll for the senior project seminar. An approved project is required prior to enrolling. Approval of department chair is required.
Credits: 2 credits fall; 2 credits spring
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WRIT 1100 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Goals: To introduce students to the practice of creative writing at the introductory level in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will begin to develop their understanding of creative writing as an art form, the writing process, and their ability to read as writers.
Content: Each week practicing artists will discuss their own writing process in relationship to particular published works. Individual sections will meet to discuss the visiting writer’s work, to do writing exercises and share writing assignments designed to develop specific skills and techniques, and to workshop each other’s work. Each student will complete a creative writing portfolio combining poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: ENG1110 or its equivalent before or concurrent with “Introduction to Creative Writing.”
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3000 - Creating Across Genres
Goals: This course is open to all students interested in creative writing. Students are introduced to the practice of reading as creative writers in three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Content: The primary text, Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing, gives guidance in creative process and writing skills across genres; supplemental anthologies or texts may be added at the instructor’s discretion. Students engage creatively with texts as writers, participate in class discussions, and begin to develop a writing practice. Emphasis is on developing an awareness of the diverse social contexts in which writers write and readers read. The course combines lecture, discussion, readings in and across genres, weekly writing exercises, and other assignments. Students who successfully complete this course with a grade of “C” or better may apply for acceptance into the BFA program.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent.
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270).
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3110 - Forms & Elements of the Craft I: Poetry
Goals: In this course students explore some of the fundamental elements of poetry, including image, metaphor, simile, rhythm, rhyme, voice, tone, syntactical structures of the line, the sentence, the stanza, ideas of unity and fracture, and fragment and wholeness in the body of a poem, and the ways these elements interact with a poem’s form.
Content: Attention is paid to the ways in which poets integrate these elements into the form of the poem. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Students who successfully complete this course with a grade of “C” or better may apply for acceptance into the BFA program.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent and WRIT 3000. WRIT 3000 may be taken simultaneously with WRIT 3110.
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270)
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3120 - Forms & Elements of the Craft I: Fiction
Goals: In this course students explore and practice the fundamental elements of fiction, including characterization, setting, detail choice and placement, scene vs. summary, plot, tension and conflict, dialogue, point of view, voice, and short story structure. They will apply insights concerning these elements to their own work, the work of their peers, and published fiction.
Content: Students will build skills through writing exercises and the study of contemporary and classic fiction, culminating in the completion of several pieces of short fiction. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Students who successfully complete this course with a grade of “C” or better may apply for acceptance into the BFA program.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent and WRIT 3000. WRIT 3000 may be taken simultaneously with WRIT 3120.
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270).
Credits: 4
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WRIT 3130 - Forms & Elements of the Craft I: Creative Nonfiction
Goals: In this course students expand their literary writing skills through the study of diverse subgenres co-existing under the creative nonfiction umbrella, learning the basics of writing the literary memoir, the personal essay, the lyric essay, literary reportage, the nonfiction short, and blended forms.
Content: Students write across nonfiction form and read classic and contemporary creative nonfiction, as well as writings about nonfiction form, narrative and lyric craft, and other issues related to this hard-to-pin-down and still-developing genre. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Students who successfully complete this course with a grade of “C” or better may apply for acceptance into the BFA program.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent and WRIT 3000. WRIT 3000 may be taken simultaneously with WRIT 3130.
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270).
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3210 - Forms & Elements of the Craft II: Poetry
Goals: In this course students study the use and history of metrics, including scansion and substitution; received poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the sestina, the villanelle, the haiku, the triolet, the pantoum, the ghazal; and the open form of free verse.
Content: Students examine the structure of poems and experiment with a wide variety of meters and forms, and how they affect elements of craft within a poem, to help them to discern the choices they have as writers in creating their own work. Readings include classic and contemporary poetry from various cultures, as well as one or more texts about the forms of poetry. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: WRIT 3000 and WRIT 3110
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3220 - Forms & Elements of the Craft II: Fiction
Goals: In this course students identify and consider various forms of fiction, which may include the short story, the novella, the novel, the graphic novel, flash fiction, the fable, and the fairy tale. They will apply insights concerning these elements to their own work, the work of their peers, and published fiction.
Content: Students will build skills through writing exercises and the study of contemporary and classic fiction, culminating in the completion of several pieces of short fiction. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Students who successfully complete this course with a grade of “C” or better may apply for acceptance into the BFA program.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: WRIT 3000 and WRIT 3120.
Credits: 4
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WRIT 3230 - Forms & Elements of the Craft II: Creative Nonfiction
Goals: In this course students explore and practice the fundamental elements of creative nonfiction writing, including showing and telling, character and portraiture, figurative language, point of view and narrative distance, setting and place, and variations in literary structure, and examine how these elements operate across the diverse subgenres co-existing under the creative nonfiction umbrella.
Content: Students develop their ability to create portraits of actual people, recreate themselves as characters on the page, manage time and event, construct narrative or lyric structures, compose effective reflection and description, identify deep subject, and apply these craft skills across nonfiction form. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: WRIT 3000 and WRIT 3130.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5110 - Advanced Poetry: Workshop
Goals: In this course students write and revise a small collection of poems and respond to peer work. Special attention is paid to use of poetic techniques and forms.
Content: Participants provide oral and written feedback that reflects an advanced understanding of craft. Respectful and constructive workshop methods are practiced. Students are introduced to the work of organizing, arranging, and balancing a manuscript of their own. The class may include student presentations and reading of selected poetry as creative writers.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000, 3110, and 3210.
Note: Restricted to creative writing majors or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5120 - Advanced Fiction: Workshop
Goals: In this workshop-centered course, students write and revise their own fiction and respond to peer work for successful application of fictional techniques such as plot, character, setting, dialogue, point of view, unity and subtext.
Content: Participants provide oral and written feedback which reflects an advanced understanding of craft. Respectful and constructive workshop methods are practiced. The class may also include reading of selected contemporary fiction, encouraging students to read as creative writers.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000, 3120, and 3220.
Note: Restricted to creative writing majors or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5130 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Workshop
Goals: Students in this course focus on generating new creative nonfiction writing for peer workshop review. The primary work of the course is the development of respectful and constructive workshop methods, and the application of craft-based critique to significant revision.
Content: Students analyze their classmates’ drafts and come to workshop prepared to contribute to a supportive, yet rigorous, discussion of work-in-progress. Students may also read selected contemporary texts, to further explore the diversity of CNF forms and study ways to apply an advanced understanding of craft to their drafts.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000, 3130, and 3230.
Note: Restricted to creative writing majors or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5960 - Senior Seminar in Creative Writing
Goals: In this multi-genre class students will expand their knowledge of themselves as writers, of the craft and process of writing, and of the literary marketplace. They also will continue to increase their understanding of the relationship between writer and reading.
Content: Students read, discuss, and apply elements of the craft from the reading to their own creative work. They research the work of a writer they admire and present that work to the class. Each student writes and revises a piece of work in their chosen genre. The course combines discussion, reading and writing assignments, student presentations, and practice.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: One of the following Advanced courses: WRIT 5110, 5120, or 5130. Creative Writing major in senior year or consent of the department chair.
Credits: 4
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WSTD 1010 - Foundations of Women’s Studies
Goals: This multidisciplinary course is designed to raise awareness of women’s status and women’s diversity; to critically examine disciplines and social practices through the lens of feminist theory; to recover past achievements of women and survey the work women now do; to expand perspectives; and to provide a basis for critical evaluation of future learning.
Content: An overview of women’s status in contemporary and historical periods, various disciplines’ theories about women, and women as agents of social transformation.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 1500 - Topics in Women’s Studies
Goals: to provide introductory study of one or more subject areas relating to women’s studies.
Content: Focus varies. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Topics have included courses such as “Women and Popular Culture,” and “Socially (Ir)responsible Fashion.”
Credits: 4 credits
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