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2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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GLOB 3550 - International Organizations
Crosslisted: Also listed as PSCI 3550
Goals: To explore the foundations of international governmental and nongovernmental organizations; through case studies and policy issues, to discuss the United Nations and its affiliated groups; to examine how transitional actors have tried to deal with critical world issues such as hunger, environmental dilemmas, human rights, and the disparities of development.
Content: This course includes a discussion of theories of integration, histories of international organizations, and analyses of approaches to policy and politics in the international arena. This course serves as a precursor for GLOB 3650 (Model United Nations), which is offered in the Spring, and helps prepare students to participate in the Model United Nations program at Hamline. It fulfills upper level requirements for Global Studies and Political Science.
Taught: Annually, in the fall semester
Credits: 4
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GLOB 3600 - Human Rights in a Globalized World
Goals: This course surveys normative questions within human rights discourses, with a stress on international and transnational efforts to promote equity and human rights standards.
Content: Topics include the contributions of international and non-governmental organizations as well as transnational actors to global discourses on human and women’s rights, social justice and global equity. A particular emphasis is placed on understanding the North-South Debate, the process and policies of development and their uneven impact on the human rights of different populations and segments of society. Special consideration is given to the controversy between the universal and particular applications of human rights.
Credits: 4
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GLOB 3650 - Model United Nations
Crosslisted: Also listed as PSCI 3600
Goals: Through this course, students will develop research, critical thinking, and team-building skills; students will also gain perspectives on the role of international organizations and non-governmental organizations in the international community. Students will gain an appreciation for diverse cultures, modes of negotiation and conflict resolution, and the professional nature of diplomacy.
Content: This course is designed to help prepare students to serve as delegates to the National Model United Nations Conference in New York. Students will also have the opportunity to visit other international agencies and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in New York as well as volunteer with organizations in the Twin Cities. Topics discussed in the class will include: the nature of diplomacy, how nations interact, the operations of the United Nations system, the role of NGOs, and case studies of individual countries which the team will represent at the simulation in New York. Students will engage in mock debates and discussions of UN policy initiatives. By discussing the work of the UN and NGOs, students will also gain an understanding of a variety of transnational issues such as arms control, security, HIV/AIDS, environmental protection, child labor, etc.
Taught: Annually, in spring term
Prerequisites: Instructor permission and acceptance to the Model UN team; GLOB 1910 is recommended
Credits: 4
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GLOB 3700 - Social Media and Contentious Politics in the Global Age
Goals: The tweet heard across the world started a revolution in a small, relatively stable country in the Middle East (Tunisia) in January 2011 and within months had spread like wildfire across the globe, challenging the reign of the seemingly most firmly entrenched economic and political systems. Fueled by a newly energized youth and social media technology, non-ideological and peaceful protest movements —from Occupy Wall Street in the U.S., to riots in London, protests in Spain, Chile, and Russia, for example— have generated a wave of unprecedented regional changes with far-reaching global effects.
Content: This course will examine the roots and future implications of these global youth movements as they navigate uncharted territory, and consequent regional upheaval through the lens of new social movement theory, cyberactivism and the democratization of the public sphere.
Credits: 4
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GLOB 5010 - Honors Project
Goals: To undertake a capstone independent research project that will lead to honors in the global studies major.
Content: A focus on the research and writing process, from conceptualization through completion. Students pursue projects on topics of individual interest but share both discussions of the research and writing process and a first draft of their honors project with other students.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: Acceptance of an honors proposal in the major
Note: Students must also register for and attend GLOB 5900 as a 0-credit course in the fall semester.
Credits: 6 (which are distributed as 3 credits in fall and 3 credits in spring)
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GLOB 5900 - Senior Research Seminar
Goals: To produce a capstone independent research product (e.g., paper, web site, media project) that demonstrates the ability to conduct interdisciplinary research and writing in global studies.
Content: A focus on the research and writing process, from conceptualization through completion. Students pursue projects on topics of individual interest but share both discussions of the research and writing process and their final products with other students.
Taught: Annually, in the fall semester.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in global studies or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4
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HIST 1200 - Ancient Greece and Rome
Goals: To understand some of the key developments that shaped society, culture, and politics in this period.
Content: This course will examine the evolution of Ancient Greek and Roman cultures and give the students an overview of some of the main themes and developments which made those cultures important. Some of the questions examined will be: How did Ancient Greek civilization differ from that of its neighbors? Why is Ancient Greece and Rome important to this day? What can we learn from the Roman political evolution from a Republic to Empire?
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1210 - Plague, War, Slavery, and Ideas in European History
Goals: To understand some of the key developments that shaped European society, culture, and politics in the early modern period (1350-1800).
Content: This course surveys the history of Europe over five centuries. It looks at plague, war, and antisemitism; witchcraft and alchemy; new religions and scientific discoveries; the Atlantic slave trade and the systematic enslavement of millions of Africans that it made possible; and the causes and results—political, cultural, social—of these shocking developments.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1220 - Reforms and Revolutions in Europe
Goals: To understand some of the key developments that shaped European society, culture, and politics since the French Revolution.
Content: The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to some of the main themes (political, social, cultural, and economic) which have characterized the evolution of modern Europe from the time that it was the undisputed center of world politics and diplomacy to its present position.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1230 - Islam in Europe: The Ottoman Empire
Goals: To understand some of the key developments that shaped European society, culture, and politics under Islam.
Content: The purpose of the course is to study the impact of political Islam on Europe. From the 14th to the 20th century the Ottoman Empire, an Islamic state, had a major presence in Europe occupying most of the Balkans. We will study how East and West, Islam and Christianity reacted to each other and what were the wider implications of that contact for the development of Southeastern Europe as well as its legacy to this day.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1300 - Introduction to American History: Civil War and Reconstruction
Goals: To understand the key social, economic, and political developments that shaped the United States from the Early Republic era to the end of the Reconstruction.
Content: The American Civil War was the bloodiest and the most traumatic war in American history. This course will focus on three topics: the causes of the Civil War; the course of the war and emancipation; and the outcomes of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1310 - Introduction to American History: 1877-Present
Goals: To understand the key social, economic, and political developments that shaped the United States from 1877 to the present day.
Content: Various topics such as industrialization, reform and the move toward a welfare state, ethnic relations within American society, and the rise of the U.S. to the status of a world power.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1400 - Latin American History: Pre-Columbian to Modern
Goals: To understand key developments and themes in the history of Latin America from ancient times to the twentieth century.
Content: Various topics such as the nature and legacy of the colonial encounter, the contributions of Native American, European, African, and Asian peoples to the creation of the distinctive cultures and societies of the Americas, and Latin American relations with other hemispheric and international powers.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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HIST 1410 - Latin American History: Cuba and Puerto Rico
Goals: To develop an understanding of key developments in the history of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Content: This course considers the related but distinct histories of Cuba and Puerto Rico. We will examine both the similarities and divergences of their experience as Spain’s longest-held colonies in the Americas, as well as their different but intertwining struggles for independence and social and economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics to be considered in the course will include the context of Puerto Rican and Cuban development within the Caribbean region and the Spanish Empire, the economic, geographical, strategic, cultural and demographic factors that have shaped each island’s history, comparisons as well as connections between Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the nature of each island’s relations with the United States.
Taught: Every other year
Credits: 4
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HIST 1420 - Latin American History: Mexico
Goals: To understand key events and dynamics in Mexico’s history.
Content: This course explores major themes in Mexican social and political history, focusing on the period since independence. Following an overview of colonial legacies, the course surveys significant developments in the nineteenth century. It then traces the momentous events of the world’s first social revolution of the twentieth century, which transformed Mexico during the years 1910 to 1920 and beyond. The changes wrought by the Revolution paved the way for the distinctive course Mexico has charted throughout the twentieth century, different from other Latin American countries in many respects.
Taught: Every other year
Credits: 4
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HIST 1430 - Historical Study Abroad
Goals: To study the history of a particular place by traveling and immersion.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Ancient and Modern Greece.
Taught: This course is offered for credit whenever an appropriate study abroad is being conducted under the auspices of Hamline University.
Credits: 4
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HIST 1600 - Introduction to Chinese History
Goals: To understand the key characteristics that shaped the evolution of China both regionally and globally from ancient times to the present.
Content: Various topics such as revolutionary and reformist tendencies, globalization, the social role of students and intellectuals, the rise of Communist governance, democracy, the status of women, imperialism, market reforms, and nationalism.
Taught: Annually
Note: Topics and time periods covered vary from year to year. Recent examples: The Challenge of Reform and Revolution in China’s Past and Present; Continuity and Change in China’s Imperial Past.
Credits: 4
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HIST 3010 - Historical Methods
Goals: To transition students from being students of history to being historians. Students learn the skills necessary to write original research papers and discuss some of the key philosophies of history. This course prepares students for their senior seminar or Departmental Honors Project, for graduate school in history, and for work as a professional historian.
Content: Focus on philosophies of history, historical methodologies, analysis, argumentation, research, and writing.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: One 1000-level HIST course and one 3000-level HIST course
Note: This course is required for all majors and minors and cannot be taken with the senior seminar.
Credits: 4
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HIST 3760 - Topics in the History of Imperialism
Goals: To understand the history of imperialism.
Content: Focus varies. Recent example: The British Empire.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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HIST 3800 - Topics in Gender History
Goals: To study the history of women and gender.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Homosexuality in Victorian Britain; Women and Revolution in Modern Europe.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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HIST 3880 - Topics in the History of War
Goals: To understand the history of war.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Europe and WWII; Europe and WWI.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4
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HIST 3910 - Topics in Russian and Eastern European History
Goals: To study the history of Russia and Eastern European History.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Modern Russia from the Empire to the Revolution; The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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HIST 3930 - Topics in United States History
Goals: To study the history of the United States.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Reform Movements in American History, Landmark Trials, Immigration, America in the Middle East.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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HIST 3940 - Topics in Latin American History
Goals: To study the history of Latin America.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: 20th Century Mexico.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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HIST 3960 - Topics in Comparative History
Goals: To practice comparative history.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Disease and Society; Torture and State Terror; The 1960s in Global Perspective.
Taught: Alternate years
Credits: 4
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HIST 5950 - Seminar in History
The senior seminar provides a capstone experience in the major, in which students practice and polish previously learned skills and build on previous knowledge and experience to produce a significant research paper.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, three 1000-level HIST courses, three 3000-level HIST courses, and completion of HIST 3010 or 3000. (Seven courses total.)
Credits: 4
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HONS 1000 - Introduction to Honors
Goals: To introduce students entering the University Honors Program to the mission and values of the program and to one another; to create a culture of excellence among University Honors students.
Content: This course introduces students entering the University Honors Program to the mission and values of the program and to one another. Topics include academic rigor, academic honesty, the purpose and value of reflection, and links between curricular and co-curricular learning.
Credits: 2
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INTD 3900 - Innovation
Goals: To introduce, educate, and train students in the basic principles and best practices of the innovation process and to develop, write, and present an innovation plan.
Content: The principles and best practices associated with the innovation process such as product development, market analysis, financial strategy, and intellectual properties; interactive sessions between students and accomplished innovators; and field trips to local innovative corporations.
Credits: 4
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LEAD 1000 - Leadership for the Common Good
Goals: To understand the myths surrounding, best practices for, and personal approaches to leadership. To understand the effect an individual can have on society.
Content: This 1000-level course introduces leadership using a personal leadership perspective and framework. Students taking this course will have the opportunity to examine their own views on leadership; mythologies of leadership; the impact of identity and difference on leadership expression; the differences between personal and positional leadership; and begin to explore concepts and skills relating to effective leadership and positive change for the common good.
Taught: Fall and spring
Credits: 4
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LEAD 1010 - Leading Across Groups and Teams
Goals: To become effective at collaboration and learn best practices for leading with limited authority. To understand personal leadership strategies for supporting effective and functional groups and teams.
Content: In this collaborative course, students will learn the best practices for exercising leadership on groups and teams while possessing little to no formal authority. Today’s fluid workplaces require that leaders demonstrate an ability to work both independently and collaboratively, across silos. In this hands-on course, students will explore the theoretical foundations of collaborative and adaptive leadership while applying that knowledge to impactful group and team projects.
Taught: Fall and spring
Credits: 4
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LEAD 3000 - Critical Leadership Theory
Goals: To understand, through a critical lens, the history of the field of leadership and how decolonizing and antiracist approaches can be applied to modern practices of leadership. To explore foundational leadership theories in order to craft one’s own theory of exercising effective, ethical leadership.
Content: This writing intensive course will provide students with a solid theoretical foundation for both applied leadership and leadership studies in the future. It explores the central questions: What is leadership? Who determines what is good leadership? How do we influence the trajectory of leadership practices? What is my own philosophy of leadership?
Taught: Fall and spring
Credits: 4
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LEAD 3010 - Leading Across Global Systems
Goals: To weave the together threads of their previous leadership courses in order to understand how to effectively engage in systems in evidence-based, culturally appropriate, and sustainable ways as global-citizen-leaders. To provide students the ability to investigate global issues with moral and ethical aspects and connect them to their own lives.
Content: Through readings, research, dialogue, and technology that connects us to the world, we will explore what it means to be a global-citizen-leader in a complex and ever-adaptive world. Using collaborative leadership skills students will focus on identifying, defining, and engaging in one issue or grand challenge through interviewing individuals from across the globe and incorporating evidence-based research from scholarly peer-reviewed journals with diverse and culturally tuned perspectives.
Taught: Fall
Credits: 4
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LEAD 5100 - Developing Leaders
Goals: To learn how to develop and empower others to become leaders. To practice bridging leadership practice with leadership theory in community-based settings.
Content: The best leaders develop and empower those around them. Students in this course will study and practice leadership pedagogies, the role of the follower-leader, and research surrounding leadership education. In order to bridge theory with practice, this course has a field experience component where students will practice teaching leadership/ developing others in a setting of their choice. This course serves as the LEAP experience and capstone course for undergraduates in the leadership minor, but is also open to graduate students interested in learning how to teach leadership.
Taught: Spring
Prerequisite: LEAD 3010
Credits: 4
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LGST 1110 - Legal Systems in American Society
Goals: Familiarization with the American legal system.
Content: An exploration of the American legal system with special emphasis on the role of law in the American social order. Working models of the judicial system are studied and the legal decision-making process is examined. Emphasis is placed on basic values of the legal system: justice, equality, and fairness.
Taught: Every semester
Credits: 4
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LGST 1300 - Legal Advocacy, Policy, and Practice
Goals: To introduce students to legal research and how to navigate the law to understand its impact on their own lives and contexts.
Content: A writing intensive course with emphasis on finding, analyzing, and explaining legislative and regulatory materials, with an introduction to how the courts interpret those policies. Students will explore how academics and advocates write about the law and practice advocating for policy changes in America.
Taught: Every semester
Credits: 4
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LGST 1445 - Gender Violence: Transforming Law and Society
Goals: Analyze how gender-based violence is framed in cultural, legal, political, and institutional or systems contexts, and survey the intersectional relationships between individual social statuses and how they relate to victimization, survivorship, and individual and institutional responses. Develop contextual reasoning and practice critical thinking about legal problems encountered by, and the connections among, systems, victim-survivors, perpetrators, and advocates. Explore pathways leading to systems change.
Content: Survey of feminist approaches to theories used to understand responses to victim-survivors of gender violence within legal, social, institutional, and systems contexts; examination of multiple types of gender violence, including physical, psychological, emotional, and sexual, as well as a range of contexts of violence including domestic/intimate partner violence, campus sexual assault, and stalking; laws and policies defining and governing harassment, criminal sexual conduct, rape, intimate partner and domestic violence, and stalking; personal narratives and case studies of impacted persons; empathy and advocacy skills used in a variety of contexts to further positive systems change.
Credits: 4
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LGST 3100 - American Constitutional Law and Political Mobilization
Crosslisted: Also listed as PSCI 3100
Goals: To study the role of the courts in the development of the American Constitution. To introduce students to the “rule of law” concept in Anglo American judicial history.
Content: Study of the United States Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court cases on separation of powers, federalism, civil liberties and civil rights.
Taught: Annually
Note: This course is applicable to majors and minors in Legal Studies and Political Science, regardless of whether it is taken as LGST 3100 or PSCI 3100. This course will not count as breadth of study for either major. Students may not earn credit for both LGST 3100 and PSCI 3100.
Credits: 4
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LGST 3420 - 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: environmental law, immigration law, international human rights law, and intellectual property.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110, and LGST 1300 or concurrent registration
Credits: 4
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LGST 3430 - History of Women’s Action for Legal and Social Change
Goals: Explore the history of American women’s organized activity as a means for legal, policy, and social change leading to citizenship, greater civil rights, and legal equity; survey histories of diverse systems change advocacy communities; investigate how the intersection of law and culture informs expectations, policies, and social practices in intended and unintended ways. Apply legal perspectives to problems in social movements.
Content: History of American women’s organized activity and its impact on state and federal law and policy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; why, and in what ways, women become involved in legal and political activism under changing notions of citizenship; understand efforts to transfer social control activities to state and federal legal systems; maternalist and feminist initiatives resulting in the development of law and policy such as Federal Mothers’ Pensions, the US Children’s Bureau, and the enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act; legal social control efforts designed to reform and/or regulate social problems relating to female sexuality and establish concepts of delinquency, including moral reform and social purity movements; development of a “maternal state” through the creation of age of consent laws, criminalization of statutory rape, and regulation of abortion and sex work; state-sponsored institutions governed by law and legislation and how they impacted vulnerable citizens and expanded the carceral state; development and impact of Federal legislation and Constitutional Amendments such as the Nineteenth Amendment, the Comstock Act, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 1300 with a grade of C- or better, or instructor permission
Credits: 4
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LGST 3445 - Gender Violence: Transforming Law and Society
Goals: Analyze how gender-based violence is framed in cultural, legal, political, and institutional or systems contexts, and survey the intersectional relationships between individual social statuses and how they relate to victimization, survivorship, and individual and institutional responses. Develop contextual reasoning and practice critical thinking about legal problems encountered by, and the connections among, systems, victim-survivors, perpetrators, and advocates. Explore pathways leading to systems change.
Content: Survey of feminist approaches to theories used to understand responses to victim-survivors of gender violence within legal, social, institutional, and systems contexts; examination of multiple types of gender violence, including physical, psychological, emotional, and sexual, as well as a range of contexts of violence including domestic/intimate partner violence, campus sexual assault, and stalking; laws and policies defining and governing harassment, criminal sexual conduct, rape, intimate partner and domestic violence, and stalking; personal narratives and case studies of impacted persons; empathy and advocacy skills used in a variety of contexts to further positive systems change.
This course includes a service-learning experience focused on crisis counseling and victim advocacy in conjunction with our community partners Sexual Offense Services of Ramsey County. This experience also provides students with the option to earn a state of Minnesota recognized certification as a Crisis Counselor and Victim Advocate.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 1300 with grade of C- or better, or instructor permission
Credits: 4
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LGST 3600 - 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 and LGST 1300, or permission of the legal studies chair.
Credits: 4
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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 clients 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 group and large group discussions and presentations. Students will have multiple opportunities to practice and analyze their own and others’ oral communication skills and to understand the relationship between their communication choices and outcomes.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120
Credits: 4
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LGST 3680 - Law of Evidence for Legal Professionals
Goals: 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 l covers the terminology, concepts and theories of the law of evidence, including methods of reasoning and of assessing reasoning strength and validity. In addition to becoming familiar with evidentiary rules, students will develop familiarity with Federal and Minnesota Rules of Evidence, identify evidentiary issues in hypothetical fact situations, and think critically about evidentiary concepts and issues. The course also emphasizes the importance of collecting and preserving evidence, identifying necessary witnesses, and understanding appropriate techniques in introducing and objecting to evidence.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120, and LGST 1300
Credits: 4
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LGST 3690 - Courts and Testimony
Goals: By the end of the class each student will be able to demonstrate:
- Familiarity with legal and psychological terminology, concepts and theories pertaining to forensic psychology;
- Familiarity with the legal process, particularly relating to evidence, expert witnesses, and juries;
- Critical thinking skills necessary to identify and analyze issues in hypothetical fact situations.
Content: As a component of the concentration in forensic psychology, this four-credit course provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the role of courts and testimony in the legal system, including selected evidentiary issues, the identification, selection, and preparation of expert witnesses, and jury selection.
Taught: Fall
Credits: 4
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LGST 3760 - Contracts
Goals: To provide an overview of contract law.
Content: This course focuses on contract formation and performance using textbook materials and case law. Students will be introduced to the various elements of a valid contract and will learn and apply practical contract drafting skills.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: LGST 1110, and LGST 1300 or concurrent registration
Credits: 4
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LGST 3785 - Feminist Legal Theory
Goals: Become familiar with feminist legal theory and theoretical methods used to analyze and critique the gendered implications of rules embedded in deeper structures of the law. Practice critical thinking about equality, neutrality, fairness; develop contextual reasoning.
Content: Historical and contemporary feminist concepts and schools of thought that inform feminist legal theories and feminist legal methods; feminist legal theory’s connection to analyses of sex, gender, race, sexualities, class, and other intersectional categories of analysis; how feminist legal theory can be applied to real-life contexts and substantive areas of law.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 1300 with grade of C- or better, or instructor permission
Credits: 4
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LGST 3790 - Law and the Lives of Women
Goals: To gain a better understanding of the legal system, its impact on women, and the historical development of law in the context of the cultural politics of gender.
Content: Using readings of text and law, and practical learning in the context of advocacy and women’s issues, the course examines 1) the historical development of policies aimed at eliminating gender bias and promoting equality and 2) the practice of advocating for women in the current legal system.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: LGST 1300 or WSTD 1010, or permission of the legal studies chair.
Credits: 4
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LGST 5900 - Legal Studies Practicum (Internship)
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: A declared major or minor in Legal Studies and junior or senior status.
Note: Students need to secure an internship before the semester in which they are taking the class and doing the internship.
Credits: 4
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LGST 8000 - Foundations in Law
This course introduces students to the study of law and prepares them for academic success in their upper level curriculum. After an initial intense focus on the fundamentals of legal reasoning and analysis, the course offers a general overview of the American legal system and examines the ethics rules that govern the work of lawyers and legal professionals.
Credits: 4
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LGST 8010 - Civil Litigation Survey and Procedure
Introduces students to the substantive legal subjects that often form the basis of civil litigation with a focus on tort law. Students will learn the procedures from initial client intake through trial involved in litigating a case in the civil court system. Students will build on skills, have an opportunity to research, and create documents in areas that interest them.
Prerequisite: LGST 8020 or concurrent registration
Credits: 4
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LGST 8012 - Transactions and Contracts in Business
This survey course is focused on the legal principles involved in transactional legal work, including real estate, contract, and corporate law. Students will learn the basics of contract law and focus on interpreting contract provisions and understanding the approaches legal and business professionals take when drafting and negotiating contracts.
Prerequisite: LGST 8020 or concurrent registration
Credits: 4
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LGST 8015 - Regulation in America
This course surveys the complex web of regulatory authority within which individuals, businesses, and other organizations must navigate. Included is an examination of the powers and procedures of administrative agencies; basic principles of constitutional interpretation, including doctrines and competing philosophies; and the framework of state and federal government under the Constitution. The course includes practical lessons for professionals who frequently interact with administrative law.
Prerequisite: LGST 8020 or concurrent registration
Credits: 4
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LGST 8020 - Legal Writing and Research
This course introduces students to the tools necessary for investigation, analysis, and communication of legal concepts. These basic tools are essential in a paralegal professional setting and highly useful in any law-related, compliance, or advocacy work. Students will learn how to find and cite primary and secondary legal sources and to find forms and templates commonly used in legal settings. The course introduces students to the structure of written legal analysis and the skills of legal drafting from short e-mails to longer contracts.
Credits: 4
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LGST 8045 - Employment Law
This course surveys the common law and selected state and federal statutory schemes that regulate the employment relationship in the United States. After a brief contextual overview of discrimination law, this course explores the doctrine of employment at will and its erosion; employee hiring and discharge; federal and state wage and hour law; employee privacy rights and freedoms; occupational health and safety; workers’ compensation; and a variety of fringe benefit programs.
Credits: 4
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LGST 8060 - Family Law
This course will introduce and explore the complex application of legal theories, policies, and practices that affect men, women, and children in their relationships with each other and gender roles in the family law context. The course will emphasize the analytical, practical, and verbal skills necessary for working in the area of family law and will explore access to justice and availability of legal resources impacted by class.
Credits: 4
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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.
Taught: Fall and spring
Credits: 4
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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 precalculus concepts.
Content: Precalculus 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
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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
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MATH 1200 - Statistics
Goals: To cover the fundamentals of statistical data analysis.
Content: Elementary probability, descriptive statistics, parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses, analysis of variance, correlation and regression. Statistical computing will be in R.
Prerequisite: High school algebra
Note: Credit will not be given for more than one statistics course (MATH 1200, PSY 1340, or QMBE 1310).
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 and Spring terms
Prerequisite: MATH 1180
Credits: 4
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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
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MATH 3410 - Mathematical Modeling
Goals: An introduction to mathematical modeling of quantitative processes in the sciences, with applications from physics, chemistry, biology, economics, etc.
Content: Mathematical models of various types: differential equations (both ordinary and partial), transform techniques, statistical techniques, discrete models, numerical simulations, etc. Some content will vary depending on the interests of the students.
Taught: Fall term, alternate years
Prerequisite: MATH 1180
Credits: 4
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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: Spring term
Credits: 4
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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
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MATH 3560 - Modern Geometry
Goals: To introduce 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
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MATH 3720 - Differential Equations
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: Spring term, alternate years
Prerequisite: MATH 1180
Credits: 4
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MATH 3810 - Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Goals: An introduction to the basic topics of mathematical probability theory and statistics.
Content: Definition of probability, probability distributions (discrete and continuous), expectation, random variables and functions of random variables. Sampling distributions and applications.
Taught: Fall term, alternate years
Prerequisites: MATH 1180, MATH 3320 recommended
Credits: 4
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MATH 5890 - Modern Algebra
Goals: An introduction to algebraic structures: groups, rings, and fields.
Content: An introduction to algebraic structures. Topics include normal subgroups, factor groups, and homomorphisms. Development of the elementary concepts of groups, rings, and fields.
Taught: Fall term, alternate years
Prerequisite: MATH 3550
Credits: 4
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MATH 5910 - Analysis
Goals: To learn the language, fundamental concepts, and standard theorems of analysis.
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: Fall term, alternate years
Prerequisite: MATH 3550
Credits: 4
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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 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 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, senior standing recommended
Credits: 4
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MGMT 1100 - Personal Power and Influence
Goals: Students will gain insight into their implicit theories and feelings about power and influence, the resulting impact on their perception of problems and opportunities; and subsequently, how they decide upon particular courses of action.
Content: Students will explore power and influence dynamics as a useful tool for analyzing their surroundings and understanding themselves as actors within it. Class activities will include readings, self-assessment tools and reflective writing.
Credits: 4
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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
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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 (grade of C- or better), and junior or senior standing.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3700 - Human Resource Management
Goals: For students to learn methods for attracting, developing and retaining a workforce that ensures an organization can achieve its mission and goals in a manner such that both the organization and the employees can flourish.
Content: This course takes a strategic approach to Human Resource Management. Topics explored with a dual eye towards both legal requirements and best practices in a competitive labor environment include: recruiting and selection, training and development, compensation and rewards, and retention and wellness programs.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100 (grade of C- or better), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3710 - Operations Management
Goals: To introduce students to concepts, techniques, and tools related to the design, planning, quality assessment and control, and improvement of manufacturing and service operations.
Content: Topics including process analysis, improvement, and productivity, quality management, supply management, and inventory management, and how these topics are integrated with high-level financial objectives. Class sessions involve explaining concepts, working examples, discussing cases and performing team projects.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100 (grade of C- or better) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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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 1100 and MGMT 3100 (grades of C- or better); junior or senior standing; or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3730 - Project Management
Goals: To guide students through fundamental project competencies and behavioral skills needed to successfully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations.
Content: This course aids students in understanding interpersonal issues that drive successful project outcomes. Topics covered include project integration, project scope, time and cost management, project team management, risk management and procurement management. The approach is a practical, hands-on application through case studies and class exercises.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100 (grade of C- or better) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3740 - Organizational Leadership
Goals: To guide students through critical self-analysis and exploration of organizational dynamics to enhance their abilities to be effective leaders in work settings.
Content: Students will explore personal predispositions in communication, conflict management, decision making, team behaviors, and cultural intelligence through assessment tools and in-depth discussion. The course will examine how cognitive and behavioral patterns impact efforts in team, organization and sector settings.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100 (grade of C- or better) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3750 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Goals: To provide students with proven approaches and emerging models for creative and innovative business solutions.
Content: Students will engage in applied activities to develop creative skills, build components of a business plan, and explore innovation within an industry that aligns with their interests. Topics include creative mapping and cognitive processes, product/service design and redesign, rapid prototyping, new venture startup processes, and industry/market systems disruption.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100 (grade C- or better) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MGMT 3950 - Integrative Leadership Seminar
Goals: This is a project-based course where students will design and implement a leadership initiative of their choosing.
Content: The instructor will support students in the development of their project and facilitate peer coaching and collaborative reflection activities. In institutional terms, this course represents the C of the SEEC model students learn in FYSEM: See all ideas within a web of connections, Explore those ideas, Evaluate them, and Contribute to the web of Ideas.
Prerequisite: MGMT 1100 (grade of C- or better)
Credits: 2
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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: 2
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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: MGMT 3100, MKTG 3100, FIN 3100 (grades of C- or better), and senior standing
Credits: 4
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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.
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3500 - Advertising and Marketing Communications
Goals: Students will learn the principles of advertising and Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and be able to create and evaluate best-in-class advertising campaigns.
Content: Topics include IMC strategy and planning, history of advertising, consumer segmentation/targeting, creative development and execution (TV, Print, Digital, etc.), media buying, and advertising and ethics.
Prerequisite: MKTG 3100 with a grade greater than or equal to C-
Credits: 4
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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.
Prerequisite: MKTG 3100 with a grade of C- or better
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3720 - Marketing 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 and QMBE 1310 (or equivalent statistics course) with grades of C-or better, or instructor permission
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3730 - Digital Marketing Strategies
Goals: Students will gain an understanding of the increasingly important world of internet-mediated marketing of 1) physical goods and services and 2) digital goods such as music.
Content: Students will view these markets and their implications from both the buyer and seller sides and explore the rapidly emerging, and often disruptive, new platforms that are both replacing and complementing traditional “bricks and mortar” marketing channels.
Prerequisite: MKTG 3100 (grade of C- or better), or instructor permission
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3735 - Project Management
Crosslisted: Also listed as MGMT 3730
Goals: To guide students through fundamental project competencies and behavioral skills needed to successfully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations.
Content: This course aids students in understanding interpersonal issues that drive successful project outcomes. Topics covered include project integration, project scope, time and cost management, project team management, risk management and procurement management. The approach is a practical, hands-on application through case studies and class exercises.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3100 (grade of C- or better) or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3740 - Consumer Behavior
Goals: This course provides students a thorough understanding of consumer behavior and relates 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: QMBE 1310 (or equivalent statistics course) and MKTG 3100 (grades of C- or better), or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4 credits
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MKTG 3750 - Marketing Communication
Goals: Students will learn the theory and practice of contemporary marketing communication practices, known as Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC).
Content: The course covers the role of IMC in branding, positioning, and creative strategies, including both paid and unpaid media options. Media choices include traditional print and broadcast, face-to-face and electronic. Emphasis is placed on performance evaluation, enabling marketers to identify the return on their marketing investments.
Prerequisites: MKTG 3100 and satisfaction of the communication requirement for the BBA core (grades of C- or better), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3755 - Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Crosslisted: Also listed as ECON 3750
Goals: To broaden the students’ understanding of economic theory by incorporating knowledge from other social sciences and by expanding traditional economic models to better understand and predict human behavior.
Content: Evidence suggests that human beings often do not behave according to the strict rational-actor assumptions inherent in traditional economic theory. This new and growing field of economics seeks to improve our ability to predict and understand phenomena including altruism, trust, reciprocity, and loss-aversion. The course will incorporate economics experiments and game theory methods to examine human behavior. These concepts will be applied to a wide range of contexts, from consumer or investor behavior to health care, dating, and procrastination.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisites: ECON 1100 and QMBE 1310 (or equivalent statistics course), with grades of C- or better, or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3760 - Professional Selling
Goals: Students will learn how individuals interact with customers, vendors and one another in a competitive environment.
Content: The course covers selling techniques, persuasive communication, oral and verbal presentation skills useful for one-to-one presentations, team selling and telemarketing techniques. Students will learn skills useful in both the industrial and consumer areas.
Prerequisite: MKTG 3100 (grade C- or better) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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MKTG 3770 - Marketing Data Analysis
Goals: To introduce students to data-centered analysis for critical aspects of marketing.
Content: Topics covered include sales forecasting, profitability analysis, market segmentation, promotion budgeting, and database marketing. Students will cover essential decision models and metrics with data sources and techniques for effective marketing decisions.
Prerequisites: MKTG 3100 and QMBE 1320 (grades of C- or better), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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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 speech samples from soundtracks, media, and the street, creating a new language and analyzing word games.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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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
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MUS 1030 - Music in World Cultures
Goals: To introduce students to the music of diverse cultures.
Content: This course introduces selected musical traditions from around the world, featuring case studies from Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Oceania, Latin America, or North America. Students will be introduced to the discipline of ethnomusicology, which explores the relationship between cultural context and various forms of human musical expression including as a meaningful aspect of daily life. Students will also learn to identify the basic elements of music, such as melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre, texture, and form, as found in various musical cultures, will learn the variety of uses and functions attributed to music and gain a glimpse into the musicians’ perspectives. Offered both online and on-campus. Attendance required at performances outside the regular class time. The on-campus section includes some hands-on musical activities.
Taught: Every semester
Credits: 4
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MUS 1040 - Music Technology for Creative Artists
Goals: To provide the creative musical artist with foundational digital tools.
Content: This course is primarily an introduction to LOGIC as the preferred software for DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) and the essential tool for the contemporary artist. Class activities will focus on experience with:
- Basic LOGIC/DAW session workflow
- Midi and single source audio programming and recording
Credits: 2
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