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2013-2014 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
Courses
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LGST 3410 - Special Topics in Law
Goals: Intensive study of a limited legal topic.
Content: An intensive study of a specific area of law. Topic varies from year to year. Some past topics have included: Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Bankruptcy Law, Securities Law and Insurance Law.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250, or permission of the instructor.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3420 - Special Topics in Law
Goals: To provide students with an opportunity to engage in an advanced study in a specialized area of law.
Content: An intensive study of a specific area of law. Topics vary from semester to semester. Some past topics have been: securities law, immigration law, contracts, and law of worker’s compensation.
Taught: Every semester
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250 (which may be taken concurrently), or permission of the legal studies department chair or director of the paralegal program. LGST 3520 is recommended.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3440 - Advanced Mock Trial
Goals: Students learn basic trial procedures and advocacy skills through practice sessions and simulations of courtroom procedures and activities. Students prepare for and conduct a trial of a hypothetical case. Student teams compete in invitational regional and national competitions.
Content: Participatory study of trial practice in the United States, advocacy, lawyering skills, and legal ethics. Focus on developing students’ speaking and critical thinking skills, team work, and leadership. Course is tied to the Hamline mock trial program.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1440
Note: To be eligible for course credit, the student must participate in mock trial team practice during the fall, winter, and spring terms and participate in tournaments.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3520 - Civil Litigation and Trial Practice
Goals: To acquaint students with the elements of civil trials from initial pleading through appeal.
Content: A study of fundamental principles of civil litigation, the court systems, attorney’s functions, common types of civil lawsuits and defenses. Lecture and discussion is combined with role play exercises and writing assignments. Students prepare documents and conduct interviews and a mock trial.
Taught: Every semester
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250 (may be taken concurrently).
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3530 - Estates and Trusts
Goals: To introduce students to vocabulary, concepts, and procedures associated with drafting, probate, and administering the decedent’s estates and trusts.
Content: A study of the legal concepts, processes, and practices associated with distribution of a decedent’s property. An introduction to trust construction and administration.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: LGST 1250
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3540 - Family and Gender Issues in Law
Goals: To introduce and explore the many complicated applications of law that affect men, women, and children in their relationships with each other.
Content: The course will emphasize the analytical, practical and verbal skills necessary for working in the area of family law. Through lectures, class assignments and exams students will examine theories, policies and practices of laws affecting the gender roles and status of people within domestic relationships.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: LGST 1250
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3550 - Real Property
Goals: To understand the basic concepts and instruments affecting real property, including ownership interests, transfers of title, purchase agreements, mortgages, leases, liens, title examination, legal descriptions, and surveys.
Content: Learning theory and practice underlying laws, conveyancing documents, and other agreements affecting real property; coordinating mortgage foreclosures; study of additional requirements for transactions involving large commercial properties; registration proceedings; taxes, special assessments, legal descriptions, and other matters affecting real property.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: LGST 1250 or permission of instructor.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3560 - Law of Business Organizations
Goals: To present the principles of law applicable to different types of business organizations and the preparation of related documents.
Content: The formation of business entities, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; articles of incorporation and by-laws; close corporations; shareholders and directors meetings; corporate equity and debt securities; various types of agreements and distributions; bankruptcy; pertinent sections of the Uniform Commercial Code and the drafting of supporting documents.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1250 or MGMT 3130
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3570 - Probate Procedures
Goals: To introduce students to vocabulary, concepts, and procedures associated with probate administration.
Content: A study of the legal concepts, processes, and practices associated with the distribution of a decedent’s estate. Students are introduced to the Uniform Probate Code, the laws of succession: testate and intestate, the legal forms related to formal and informal estate administration and relevant legal theory.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250 (may be taken concurrently).
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3670 - Legal Interviewing
Goals: To introduce students to general interviewing principles and to explore in more detail interviewing in the legal setting including interviewing client and witnesses.
Content: The course focuses on developing basic interviewing skills and explores particular features of conducting legal interviews including understanding the ethical implications of legal interviews and of cultural diversity as it affects legal interviewing. Particular attention is given to oral communication skills through participation in small and large group discussions and presentations. Students will have multiple opportunities to practice and analyze their own and others’ communication skills and to understand relationship between their communication choices and outcomes.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3680 - Law of Evidence for Legal Professionals
Goals: This course is designed to provide an overview of the law of evidence, focusing primarily on the Federal Rules of Evidence but, where appropriate, distinguishing the Federal rules from the Minnesota Rules of Evidence.
Content: This course introduces the terminology, concepts and theories of the law of evidence, emphasizing familiarity with the Federal Rules of Evidence and how they are applied. Students develop the ability to identify evidentiary issues in hypothetical situations; to understand the importance of collecting and preserving evidence and of identifying necessary witnesses; and to understand appropriate techniques in introducing and objecting to evidence.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120. LGST 1250 is also recommended.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3750 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
Goals: The course is designed to introduce students to the theory and application of alternative dispute resolution, emphasizing important principles and issues in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Content: Students become familiar with negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other methods of resolving disputes as alternatives to litigation and become able to prepare for and participate in alternative dispute resolution activities. Students are required to reflect and report on the effectiveness of ADR mechanisms in different situations, including cross-cultural dispute resolution and to become familiar with cooperative and collaborative problem solving.
Taught: Alternate years
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3760 - Contracts
Goals: To provide an overview of contract law, focusing on contract formation, performance, interpretation, and remedies for breach.
Content: Students will be introduced to the various elements of a valid contract and will learn and apply practical contract drafting skills focusing on appropriate contract clauses and provisions.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250, or instructor permission. Recommended: LGST 3520.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3770 - Law Office Technology
Goals: To give students a hands-on, real-world experience learning about and using technology found in the modern law firm.
Content: Students will interact with desktop document productivity tools (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint), legal presentation graphics (SmartDraw, TimeMap), document automation and assembly (HotDocs), time and billing (TimeSolv Legal), litigation support and e-discovery (CT Summation - iBlaze), and a mobile phone forensics tool (Cellebrite UFED). Grading will be based on quizzes, exercises, class participation, and a substantial, hands-on law office technology project presented and demonstrated by the students to the entire class. The project can be done by the student alone or in small teams. It will utilize one or more of the tools studied in class to solve a problem in the modern law office.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250, or permission of the instructor.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3780 - Employment Law
Goals: To introduce students to legal concepts related to the employment context, with a particular emphasis on employment discrimination.
Content: An introduction to federal and Minnesota employment laws that govern the basis of an employment relationship, pre-employment concerns, employment contracts, and employee privacy with detailed coverage of anti-discrimination laws and their application in various stages of the employment relationship.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250, or permission of the instructor.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3810 - Criminal Law and Practice
Crosslisted
Also listed as CJFS 3810.
Goals: To acquaint the student with the theory and practice of substantive criminal law.
Content: A study of the substantive aspects of criminal law, including traditional elements of crimes, statutory definitions, and judicial interpretations of specific crimes and motor vehicle offenses, as well as inchoate crimes, defenses to legal liability, and sentencing procedure.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3820 - Constitutional Issues in Criminal Procedure
Crosslisted
Also listed as CJFS 3820.
Goals: To acquaint the student with the theory and practice of criminal procedural law.
Content: An overview and critical examination of the procedural aspects of criminal law and issues relating to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, unlawful gathering of incriminating evidence through interrogation and identification procedures, and the provision of legal counsel in criminal matters.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5600 - Tort Law
Goals: To introduce students to the body of law that makes up the field of tort law.
Content: An overview of the rights, obligations and remedies that are applied by courts in civil proceedings to address the claims of individuals that have been injured by the wrongful act of others.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110, LGST 1250, and LGST 3520.
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5800 - Senior Seminar in Legal Studies
Goals: To introduce students to advanced legal research and writing methods. To provide opportunity for individual and independent legal research on advanced topics.
Content: A study of advanced techniques in legal research including federal and other states’ materials. A seminar in which the students and the faculty member explore current issues in the legal field. Each student develops and pursues an individually designed research project leading to the production of an advanced writing project on a current legal issue.
Taught: Every semester
Prerequisites: Senior standing, LGST 1110 and LGST 1250, or permission of the legal studies chair.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5900 - Legal Studies Practicum
Goals: To apply the concepts and principles previously learned in a practical working environment under the supervision of a lawyer and/or an experienced paralegal (legal assistant).
Content: A 150-hour apprenticeship in the performance of the duties of a paralegal in one of the typical settings for members of the profession; hands-on production of drafts and collation of legal documents under experienced supervision and guidance; attendance at weekly seminars, designed to tie experiential and academic experiences together and to ensure adequate preparation for entry in the profession.
Taught: Every semester
Prerequisites: LGST 1110, LGST 1250, LGST 3520, and four other credits of Legal Studies coursework. (Students need to secure an internship before the semester in which they are taking the class and doing the internship.)
Note: *Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LSTD 5000 - Latin American Studies
Goals: To expose the student to contemporary Latin American problems and examine how Latin America attempts to solve them, how the United States attempts to help solve them and how the two solutions often conflict.
Content: United States response to rebellion, reform and revolution in Mexico (1910), Guatemala (1954), and Cuba (1959), and in other Latin American countries striving for social change. An analysis and discussion of debts, boycotts, loans, coups, invasions, and intervention from 1910 to present.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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LSTD 5100 - Contemporary Issues in the Americas
Goals: The primary objective of this course is to further our understanding of the Americas by studying many of the political, social, economic, and historical forces affecting the region today. Through this course students will come to appreciate the complex interrelatedness of these and other issues, and the necessity, in this new era of the “global village,” for international relations to be founded on knowledge, understanding, and respect.
Content: Through a case study approach we will examine how certain issues are played out in specific countries. For example, we will look at Mexico as we try to understand the phenomena of migration and urbanization; in Argentina and Brazil we will engage issues of authoritarianism and models of economic development; the examples of Peru and El Salvador will teach us about revolution; Chile will introduce to the changing role of Latin American women; and nations of the Caribbean will serve as case studies on race and ethnicity. Specific case studies may vary from year to year.
Taught: Annually.
This course is not recommended for first-year students.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1130 - Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
Goals: To gain an understanding of how the language of mathematics is used in problem solving. This course is especially appropriate for prospective elementary teachers.
Content: Precise formulation of problems, symbolization, strategies for solution of mathematical problems, introduction to various number systems and to mathematical logic.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1150 - Precalculus
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus, with a concurrent review of pre-calculus concepts.
Content: Pre-calculus mathematics emphasizing functions, graphing, and trigonometry concurrent with a first course in calculus.
Taught: Fall and spring term.
Prerequisites: Plane geometry and high school algebra.
Credits: 4
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MATH 1170 - Calculus I
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus.
Content: Limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable. Applications are taken mostly from the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: Twelfth-grade high school mathematics with at least B grades or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1180 - Calculus II
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus.
Content: Integrals of functions of one variable, sequences and series. Applications are taken mostly from the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1200 - Statistics and Data Analysis
This course will cover the fundamentals of statistical data analysis: elementary probability, descriptive statistics, parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses, analysis of variance, correlation and regression. Statistical computing will be in R and, if time is available, SPSS.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.
Credit will not be given for both MATH 1200 and PSY 1340 or MATH 1200 and ECON 1330.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3200 - Applied Modeling and Statistics
Goals: To provide students in the natural sciences with a computationally intensive introduction to statistics emphasizing multivariate modeling.
Content: Descriptive statistics, multivariate regression, single and multi-way analysis of variance, logistic regression, probability, hypothesis testing and experimental design.
Taught: Fall term
Prerequisites: None, though a firm grasp of pre-calculus mathematics is expected.
Credits: 4
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MATH 3320 - Multivariable and Vector Calculus
Goals: To extend concepts of calculus in two variables to the calculus of several variables.
Content: Vector calculus, partial and total differentiation, maximum/minimum problems, multiple integration, line and surface integrals, vector and scalar fields, theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3330 - Linear Algebra
Goals: To gain an appreciation for how abstract structures are used to solve theoretical and practical problems.
Content: Systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces and bases, transformations, eigenvectors, introduction to linear differential equations.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3440 - Discrete Mathematics
Goals: To introduce the concept of the discrete as well as techniques used in higher non-continuous mathematics, providing the necessary background material required by computer scientists for algorithm analysis.
Content: Sets and numeration, combinatorics, logic, algorithms, recursion, generating functions, graphs, and trees.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3550 - Foundations of Mathematics
Goals: To study mathematics as a logico-deductive system and to analyze those concepts and techniques that underlie all of mathematics.
Content: Logic, proof construction, sets, relations, functions, mathematical induction, arguments involving infinite sets, number systems, axiomatics.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3560 - Modern Geometry
Goals: To introduce to the concept of model building in mathematics from both a synthetic and an axiomatic point of view.
Content: Various geometries are studied with attention paid to what geometry is. Hilbert’s axiom system for Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry, and transformations.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3720 - Differential Equations
Goals: To introduce techniques and methods of mathematics especially appropriate to the physical sciences.
Content: Introductory ordinary differential equations, linear partial differential equations, emphasizing separation of variables, Fourier series, special functions.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320 and PHYS 1240 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3720 - LAB: Introduction to Applied Mathematics
This lab must be taken concurrently with the MATH 3720 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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MATH 3910 - Analysis I
Goals: An introduction to complex variables, including a study of the topology of the plane required.
Content: Properties of complex numbers and analytic functions of one complex variable. Power series. Cauchy’s theorem, and applications to integration. Applications.
This course is the first in a two semester sequence, along with MATH 5910, in analysis.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5720 - Ordinary Differential Equations with Numerical Methods
Goals: To learn to determine both the qualitative and quantitative properties of those functions which satisfy ordinary differential equations, using both analytic and numerical techniques.
Content: Analytic methods of solution, numeric methods of solution, linear differential equations, series solutions, the Laplace transform, systems of differential equations, initial and boundary value problems, existence theory and applications.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5810 - Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Goals: To gain an understanding of both probability and statistics as not merely collecting and organizing data but as the science of basing inferences on observed data and making decisions in the face of uncertainty. The student will be prepared to take the preliminary actuarial examination in probability and statistics.
Content: Probability distributions, mathematical expectation, random variables, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, analysis of variance.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5850 - Numerical Analysis
Crosslisted
(Also listed as CSCI 5850.)
Goals: To introduce the methods of modern computation as used in solving problems with the aid of a computer using various algorithms.
Content: Algorithms for the solution of equations in one variable, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, initial-value problems for differential equations, solution of linear systems by direct or iterative techniques and various methods of approximation.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5890 - Algebra II
Goals: To continue the study of algebraic structures begun in MATH 3330 with the goal of seeing how the building of these mathematical models yields powerful tools to understand the global nature of mathematics.
Content: Development of the elementary concepts of groups, rings, and fields.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: MATH 3330 and MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5910 - Analysis II
Goals: To learn the language, fundamental concepts, and standard theorems of analysis. To also learn how to reason deductively from explicit assumptions and definitions in mathematical analysis, thus developing analytic techniques for attacking problems that arise in applied mathematics. Recommended for students considering graduate school in mathematics.
Content: An introduction to real analysis with emphasis on proofs of theorems and on problem solving. Topics include properties of the real number system, functions, sequences, limits and continuity, differentiation, integration, and infinite series including sequences and series of functions.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisites: MATH 3330 and MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5920 - Junior Seminar
Goals: The student will be introduced to ideas and issues that are outside of the regular undergraduate curriculum, studying how mathematics is used in academia and industry.
Content: Reviews of current research and projects of various mathematicians: senior math majors, guest lecturers, and department staff. Student presentations of topics from internships, independent studies, or honors projects.
Credits: 0.5 credit per term
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MATH 5930 - Senior Seminar
Goals: The student will be introduced to ideas and issues that are outside of the regular undergraduate curriculum, studying how mathematics is used in academia and industry.
Content: Reviews of current research and projects of various mathematicians: senior math majors, guest lecturers, and department staff. Student presentations of topics from internships, independent studies, or honors projects.
Credits: 0.5 credit per term
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MATH 5950 - Topics in Advanced Mathematics
Goals: To synthesize previous work in the various areas of mathematics with the goal of putting the areas in a historical perspective and of relating them to the question of what makes up mathematics.
Content: The content of the seminar varies from year to year depending on the instructor. Attention is paid to the history of mathematics and to filling gaps in the spectrum of mathematics presented at the undergraduate level.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3100 - Foundations of Management
Goals: To understand basic concepts, theories, and research in management and to apply them to practical management problems. To relate the liberal arts to work, using a common theme of ethics.
Content: The principal functional areas of management (planning, organizing, controlling, and leading) are examined in the context of organizations and groups. Ethical issues and the different views of work from various fields are examined.
Prerequisites: Sophomore, junior, or senior standing, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3130 - Business Law
Goals: To provide an overview of the law as it relates to the formation, operation, and completion of business transactions. The course is not only intended to assist the student who plans a career in management, but also the student interested in a legal career.
Content: Contracts, sales, secured transactions, commercial paper, and bankruptcy.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100, and junior or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3700 - Human Resource Management
Goals: To explore the field of human resource management (HRM) from the perspective of HR professionals, supervisors, managers, and employees. To learn how to identify and implement human resource policies and practices that are legal, ethical, organizationally sound, and help the organization to achieve its goals.
Key Content Areas Include: Recruiting, interviewing, and placing employees; creating an effective work environment; analyzing jobs; affirmative action and diversity in the workplace; compensation systems; performance management; union/management relations; the ethics and legality of human resources decisions; and managing human resources globally.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3100, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3710 - Operations Management
Goals: To explain the basic concepts, principles, and techniques for managing manufacturing and service operations. The course will utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods when exploring techniques that improve the operations of different environments This course is targeted to provide general management students with an appreciation of the function of operational thinking.
Content: Operational management functions, operations, strategy, product design, service operations design, managing quality, planning and scheduling projects, workforce management, materials management, inventory planning and scheduling, and forecasting.
Prerequisite: ECON 1340, MGMT 3100. Junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3720 - International Business Environment
Goals: To provide an overview of the international business environment including key international institutions. In this course, students will explore the meaning and nature of culture as well as its influence on management functions and international business throughout the world. The course will examine dominant cultural norms in key world regions and effective cross-cultural communication and management methodologies designed to enhance international business success.
Content: The nature and role of culture in international business and management, regional cultural norms throughout the world, international negotiating and resolution styles, cross-cultural synergy, international business ethics, international human resources management issues, and international organizations that influence business.
Prerequisite: ECON 1310, ECON 1320, ECON 1340, MGMT 3100. Junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3730 - Decision Science
Goals: To introduce students to decision-making analysis, stressing problem formulation, analytical methods for solution, and use of computer models.
Content: Decision theory, linear programming, simulation, and implementation.
Prerequisites: ECON 1340, MGMT 3100 or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3740 - Organizational Behavior
Goals: To develop an understanding of this interdisciplinary field so that management from an organizational perspective is enhanced, thus creating and sustaining competitive advantages. To develop and strengthen effectiveness as a leader, manager and team member by introducing frameworks for understanding organizations and the behavior of people and groups within them.
Key Content Areas include: Diversity in organizations, attitudes, job satisfaction, motivation, group behavior, working in teams, communication, leadership organizational power and politics, conflict and negotiation, organizational structure, organizational culture, organizational change, and human resource policies and practices.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3100, or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3750 - Entrepreneurship
Goals: To expose students to the wide variety of knowledge and skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur or small business manager. To help students integrate their other studies in business, and to understand how the different disciplines apply in starting and running a business.
Content: This course is an intensive, applied approach to understanding Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. Topics include selection of organizational form, start up costs, licenses and permits, location selection and layout, operations, management, marketing and advertising, accounting and record-keeping, financial projections, and financial analysis. Throughout the course the students will develop a comprehensive business plan for an organization of their choosing.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3100 and MKTG 3100, or approval of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3760 - Sustainable Enterprise
Goals: To introduce students to best practices in sustainable management in for-profit, non-profit and governmental entities, including assessment and strategic planning for sustainability initiatives.
Content: Stakeholder analysis and governance and leadership for sustainable initiatives. Functional areas for sustainability initiatives including production, logistics, facilities management, and marketing. Critical analysis of success/failure of sustainability initiatives in organizations.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100, MKTG 3100
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3770 - Sports Management and Marketing
Goals: This course is designed to provide an overview of historical perspectives in the sport and recreation management fields as well as their current and future trends.
Content: Key components will include an examination of the philosophy and function of recreation and an overview of sport management marketing, finance, legal and ethical principles, facilities, and general sport industry divisions.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3100, MKTG 3100.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3780 - Sport Facility Management
Goal: To introduce students to issues related to management of sport and recreation facilities.
Content: Students learn the principles and practice involved in (This course provides an introduction to) the planning, design, and maintenance of sport and recreation facilities, from local community facilities to professional settings.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3770 or PHED 5940
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3790 - Promotion and Event Planning
Goal: To study the application of basic marketing concepts in sport and recreation settings.
Content: This course builds upon Foundations of Marketing by applying marketing theory and principles in identifying specific strategies for planning and promotion of sport and recreation events in a variety of settings with diverse populations.
Prerequisites: MKTG 3100
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3960 - Internship with Seminar
Goals: To provide an opportunity to apply students’ skills and knowledge in a working/learning context. To complement internships by providing discussion groups for sharing and crosschecking students’ experiences.
Content: Students must hold an internship and will also meet once a week as a group to articulate and assess their experiences.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or consent of the instructor. Primarily intended for economics and business majors, but other majors with administrative internships are welcome.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 5860 - Strategic Management
Goals: To learn to think strategically. To learn to work effectively on a policy setting management team. To develop knowledge and skills necessary to analyze and resolve formulation and implementation issues.
Content: The formulation and implementation of management strategy, utilizing learning from other business courses and insights from business experiences.
Prerequisites: ECON 1320, MGMT 3100, MKTG 3100, FIN 3100, and senior standing, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MKTG 3100 - Foundations of Marketing
Goals: To understand basic marketing concepts and to apply them to practical marketing problems.
Content: Legal, behavioral, ethical, competitive, economic, and technological factors are examined as they affect product, price, promotion, and place decisions.
Prerequisites: ACCT 1320, ECON 1310 and ECON 1330 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MKTG 3700 - Marketing Management
Goals: To understand marketing management concepts through text and readings. To become familiar with current marketing thought through reading and analysis of journal articles. To function effectively as part of a management team which is addressing marketing problems. To develop an understanding of the principal tools of the marketing manager. To recognize the factors which affect the efficiency and effectiveness of marketing programs.
Content: The development and implementation of marketing strategy, with particular emphasis on the major components of a marketing program.
Prerequisites: ECON 1320, FIN 3100, MGMT 3100, and MKTG 3100, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MKTG 3710 - International Marketing
Goals: To provide students with a fundamental understanding of concepts, theories, issues, and practices related to international and global marketing. The course will explore marketing issues in crosscultural perspectives and investigate culturally appropriate global opportunities. The course will also address ethical issues related to market development and explore the managerial implications of these cultural and ethical issues as they relate to the market practice.
Content: Global marketing and marketing research, social and cultural environment, political, legal, and financial environment, segmenting and targeting, exporting and importing, product pricing, distribution, and advertising in the global marketplace.
Prerequisites: ECON 1320 and MKTG 3100, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MKTG 3720 - Market Research
Goals: This course introduces the fundamentals of market research in order to prepare students to conduct basic research or to be more informed consumers of marketing research services.
Content: Major topics include the use of secondary research, research design for surveys, experiments, and focus groups, and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Taught: Spring semester
Prerequisites: MKTG 3100 or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MKTG 3740 - Consumer Behavior
Goals: This course provides students a thorough understanding of consumer behavior and related the consumer behavior concepts to marketing theory and practice. The course is structured to enable students to develop critical thinking and decision-making skills in consumer behavior and marketing. By working through consumer behavior problems, cases and exercises, the students get a chance to experience some of the professional challenges, issues, and decisions that face marketers and to develop their marketing knowledge and skills.
Content: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of consumer behavior, with emphasis on the implications for marketing of theory and findings from the behavioral sciences.
Prerequisites: ECON 1330 and MKTG 3100
Credits: 4 credits
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MODL 1010 - The Language Phenomenon
Goals: To understand language, the uniquely human enterprise, and particularly the English language. To describe language—its sound patterns, its forms, its meanings, its structural patterns. To determine how languages are born, evolve, and die. To discern how both first and second languages are acquired.
Content: English phonetics, phonology, morphology, writing, syntax, semantics. Language both in its social context—dialects, slang, taboos, language acquisition—and in its historical context—philology and etymology. Class activities may include reading from Lewis Carroll, collecting of speech samples from sound tracks, media, and the street, creating a new language and analyzing word games.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MODL 1020 - Language and Society
Goals: To examine how language reflects an individual’s or group’s status or power in society, social class, ethnic background, geographical or regional origins, political associations, and religious identity, as well as gender.
Content: Sociolinguistics examines urban complexities and emphasizes the effect of our attitudes on speech. Students discover their own idiolects and verbal repertoires, learn why Italians in New York might hypercorrect, why some men choose not to speak as well as women do (covert prestige), why we call someone “Dr.” one moment and “Jimmy” or “Jane” the next, and why we use taboo words. Our linguistic choices tell others how conservative or liberal, how religious, how sexist, how racist, or how status-conscious we are. Special attention is given to the origins of African-American English and its characteristics as reflected in literature.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MODL 1030 - Language as Literature
Goals: To introduce students to the analysis and interpretation of literature, especially the literature of French, German, and Spanish speaking peoples.
Content: Representative samples of drama, prose, and poetry. All texts are in English.
Taught: Periodically.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1010 - Rhythms and Intonation in Music
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1020 - Elements of Music
Goals: To increase students’ understanding of musical language and construction and provide performance experience. To learn to read and perform elements of rhythm, pitch, and expression, students will sing, play the piano and percussion instruments, move, compose, and improvise.
Content: Beats and subdivisions, rhythm patterns, simple and compound meters, pitch in treble and bass clefs, intervals, scales and key signatures, primary chords.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1030 - Music in World Cultures
Goals: To introduce students to the music of diverse cultures.
Content: Classical music styles from India, China, Africa, and other cultures will be contrasted with music from Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world. All will be related to current classical and popular traditions.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1070 - Beginning Class Voice
Goal: Learn basic vocal production and singing techniques.
Content: Breathing, sound production, diction, vowel placement, ensemble basics.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1080 - Music History Abroad
Goals: To study the composers, compositions, and styles on-site through traveling in Italy, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, and other countries.
Content: Italian music from Palestrina to Verdi; music of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Liszt, and others. MUS 1080 can count for breadth of study for music majors.
Taught: January term and extended May term.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1100 - Survey of Western Music
Goals: To establish a vocabulary for musical understanding and discussion; to establish a foundational knowledge of Western Classical music history; to become familiar with selected works from this repertoire; to introduce students to traditional musics of other selected cultures.
Content: Recordings, supplemented with readings.
Taught: Annually
Note: This course is the same course as MUS 1100: Introduction to Music. The course title changed to Survey of Western Music effective Fall 2009. If you have already completed MUS 1100: Introduction to Music, you cannot repeat this course.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1130 - University Women’s Chorale
Content: A women’s chorus performing a wide variety of secular and sacred repertory from ancient to modern. One or two concerts are given each semester.
Prerequisite: None, placement auditions at start of term.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 1140 - PerformancePlus
Goals: Music literacy. Course activities include reading, writing, analyzing, hearing, identifying, singing, and playing of the contents listed below.
Content: Pitch notation in treble and bass clef, and on the keyboard standard rhythms in simple and compound meters intervals major, minor, modal and chromatic scales triads and seventh chords. PerformancePlus is self-paced, giving students the flexibility to accelerate through material that is familiar to them and focus study time where it is needed. A text with CD and website resources, definitions, listening, games, drills and quizzes will deliver the course content and guide the learning.
Taught: Fall and spring semester.
Co-requisite: Registration in Hamline Winds is required. The pairing of the co-registered courses provides the opportunity for students to make essential connections between the theory and practice of music.
Credits: 2
Department: Music
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MUS 1210 - Beginning Class Piano
Goals: To develop basic keyboard skills and music fundamentals.
Content: Music notation, sight reading, intervals, rhythm and meter, scale and triad building, harmonization, elementary repertory, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually
Note: Counts towards breadth of study requirement for music performance majors.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1220 - Advanced Beginning Class Piano
Goals: Continuation of MUS 1210.
Content: Scales and triads, chord progressions, sight-reading, transposition, elementary repertory, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisite: MUS 1210 or equivalent training.
Note: Counts towards breadth of study requirement for music performance majors.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1250 - Invitation to the Opera
Goals: To introduce students to the practice and history of opera.
Content: The chronology of opera in western music will be described. Examples of live and video-taped performance will be examined critically.
Taught: Spring, alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1410 - Indonesian Music and Cultures
Crosslisted
(Listed under Anthropology; ANTH 1410).
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music, Anthropology
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MUS 1415 - Africa, Music, and Cultural Production
Crosslisted
(Listed under Anthropology: ANTH 3410).
Department: Music, Anthropology
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MUS 1420 - African Ensemble
Crosslisted
(Listed under Anthropology: ANTH 3420)
Department: Music, Anthropology
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MUS 1600 - Class Violin
Goals: This 1000-level course is intended for students who would like to develop their violin technique and explore alternative styles, such as bluegrass, Irish, and other ethnic fiddle traditions.
Content: Students will meet weekly as a class to work on pieces which will be performed at the end of the semester in a student recital.
Note: Beginning violin students are welcome, as well as students with some violin experience. Note-reading is helpful but not required.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 1750 - Class Guitar
Goals: To learn basic folk and classical guitar techniques.
Content: Basic technical skills and varied guitar literature.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3070 - Advanced Class Voice
Goals: Continuation of MUS 1070: Beginning Class Voice; work on more advanced vocal production and singing techniques.
Content: Breathing, sound production, diction, vowel placement, and ensemble singing.
Prerequisite: MUS 1070 or equivalent training (permission of instructor).
Note: May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3080 - Percussion Ensemble
Goal: To develop techniques of instrumental playing and interpersonal communication that will improve a student’s ability to collaborate with others in the process of making music.
Content: Students will practice musical literature from a variety of eras and genres, written for/transcribed for the ensemble. They will experience collaborative small group work towards the common goal in interpreting the music with accuracy and affect and preparing it for performance.
Prerequisites: Membership in Winds, Orchestra, or Lessons, or permission of instructor.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3090 - Flute Choir
Goal: To develop techniques of instrumental playing and interpersonal communication that will improve a student’s ability to contribute, lead, and collaborate with others in the process of making music.
Content: Under the guidance of the flute instructor, students will practice musical literature from a variety of eras and genres, written for/transcribed for flute ensembles. They will experience collaborative small group work towards the common goal of interpreting the music with accuracy and affect and preparing it for performance.
Prerequisites: Membership in Winds, Orchestra, or Performance Studies, or permission of instructor.
Note: Students must supply their own instrument. Course may be repeated for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3120 - A Cappella Choir
Content: Performance of sacred and secular repertory from the sixteenth century to the present. Several concerts are given each semester, with international tours every four years.
Prerequisite: Members chosen by audition.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 3140 - Hamline Winds
Content: Musical experience for woodwind, brass, and percussion players through rehearsal and performance of original wind band literature as well as quality transcriptions. Repertoire covers three centuries. Ensemble experience includes small chamber ensembles (3 to 10 players) of like instrumentation, mixed instrumentation, and sectional choirs.
Prerequisites: None. Placement auditions at start of term.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 3150 - Jazz Ensemble
Content: Students study, improvise, and perform music in the jazz and popular idiom, with both vocal and instrumental combos formed from the larger group. Performance opportunities include the annual Swing Dance, high school and college JazzFests, and local venues.
Prerequisites: None. Placement auditions at start of term.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 3160 - Hamline Orchestra
Content: Students study and perform orchestral repertoire from the 18th century to the present. In string and wind sectionals, students explore orchestral excerpts, conducting, and repertoires for single families of instruments.
Prerequisite: No formal prerequisite, though advanced intermediate performance skills are expected. Ensemble membership is subject to placement auditions at start of term.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 3170 - Chamber Music
Content: Various small ensembles of strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard. Designed for advanced players, chamber music requires individual preparation for rehearsals, coaching sessions, and performances.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 3190 - Accompanying
Content: Coaching in the piano accompaniment of vocal and instrumental performers for recitals and juries.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 credit
Department: Music
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MUS 3220 - Advanced Class Piano
Goals: Development of repertoire, technique, and sight-playing. This course prepares students for private performance studies.
Content: Intermediate repertoire, scales and arpeggios in multiple octaves, triads and inversions, chord progressions, and harmonization from lead sheets, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisite: MUS 1210 or instructor permission.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3300 - Topics in Performance Literature
Goals: To provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the historical development, major forms, major composers, stylistic changes and technical developments of particular areas of music. (Chamber music, symphonies, piano music, etc.)
Content: Representative compositions from Renaissance era through the present. The general styles, individual composers and compositions are studied in detail through readings, score identification, and listening identification.
Taught: Alternate years
Note: Topics rotate – see current semester schedule.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3310 - Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Goals: Designed for nonmajors and majors, the course will explore diverse issues in early music. The dominance of the Church, the rise of the “secular,” the impact of the doctrines of “courtly love,” and the contexts of the other arts and politics; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: Representative compositions from Gregorian chant to Palestrina.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3320 - Topics in Baroque Music
Goals: Designed for non-majors and majors, the course will explore issues in 17th and 18th century music. The domination of language and its impact on opera, the age of Kepler, Newton, and Galileo running parallel to the new flowering of instrumental music; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: Representative compositions from Monteverdi to Bach and Handel.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3330 - Topics in Classical and Romantic Music
Goals: Designed for non-majors and majors, the course will explore issues in 18th and 19th century music. The impact of the enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions, the differentiation of concepts of Classicism and Romanticism, the import of late 19th century thought (Darwin, Marx, Freud); these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: Music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Billings, Brahms, Wagner, and others.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3340 - Topics in Twentieth-Century Music
Goals: Designed for nonmajors and majors, the course will explore issues in the music of the 20th century. The impact of wars, of political systems, of technology, of gender and race, the import of expressionism, of impressionism, of technical systems, and of the conflict between classical and popular cultures; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: American music, serialism, electronic music, new structural principles.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3350 - Music History I
Goals: Provide students with a rigorous knowledge of the chronology of music history. Ability to read music required.
Content: A detailed survey from the time of the Greeks to the early 18th century.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3360 - Music History II
Goals: Provide students with a rigorous knowledge of the chronology of music history. Ability to read music required.
Content: A detailed survey from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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