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2009-2010 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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CSCI 3500 - Survey of Computational Science
Goals: An introduction to quantitative modeling in the context of the disciplines that support the computational science minor.
Content: Topics are chosen to prepare students to use computational methods. For example: mathematical modeling, optimization (discrete and dynamic), numerical methods, data mining, statistics (error analysis and stochastic modeling).
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: MATH 1180 and CSCI 1250.
Credits: 4 credits
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CSCI 5850 - Numerical Analysis
Crosslisted
See MATH 5850.
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EAST 5960 - Research in East Asian Studies
Goals: To provide experience for advanced East Asian studies majors in research and writing using primary source materials as much as possible–government documents, manuscripts, literature, or interviews.
Content: This course promotes student interest in either developing a new area or deepening current knowledge.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. This course is also open to non-East Asian studies majors.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5XXX - Secondary Special Methods
Special Methods courses focus on teaching methods specific to the major or minor. In some disciplines the Special Methods course(s) may be offered in the content major or minor or at another ACTC college; students are urged to consult the secondary coordinator or department chair for details.
Goals: To design and implement effective methods for teaching a particular content area in the secondary schools.
Content: Topics typically include the role of games, laboratory activities, textbooks, audiovisual materials, lectures and other strategies in teaching in the specified subject area; teaching with a focus on values; testing and evaluation.
Taught: Consult education advisor for scheduling information.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, junior standing, and admission to teacher education; EDU 5620 recommended. Enrollment during the semester immediately prior to student teaching is recommended.
Credits: credits vary
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EDU 3150 - Schools and Society
Goals: To understand the profession of teaching from a historical, philosophical, sociological, and practical viewpoint. To develop a personal philosophy of education. To understand the development of our public school system and the role schools can play in a pluralistic society such as ours. To develop the initial research, planning, and presentation skills essential to effective teaching.
Content: Important events and personalities that have shaped the public school system in the United States known as Universal Public Education; the basic skills of researching, planning, and presenting lessons; the major professional and political issues facing teachers, students, and parents, especially as related to standards and testing; school-based classroom observation and teacher assistance.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing preferred; first-year students may enroll spring term with instructor’s permission. Concurrent enrollment in EDU 3250 is required if pursuing an education license.
Clinical Requirement: 30 hours. Students who have transferred in the equivalent course content without clinical experience should see the Department Chair to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 3250 - Educational Psychology
Goals: To develop a working knowledge of various principles and theories based in the discipline of psychology and the practical application of these formulations to the teaching/learning process.
Content: Theories of learning; motivation and intelligence; theories of cognitive, social, and emotional development; influences of social and cultural background on development and learning; assessment and evaluation; theoretical basis for instructional models; theoretical basis of strategies for managing the learning environment.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Corequisite: EDU 3150 is required if pursuing an education license.
Clinical Requirement: Will use service learning experiences and/or clinical from EDU 3150 to complete assignments in this course.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 3350 - Teaching Art in the Elementary School (K-6)
Goals: To select and implement developmentally appropriate materials and activities for the teaching of art in the elementary classroom.
Content: Basic concepts, skills, and knowledge to teach art at each grade level; group activities and/or classroom involvement with elementary school children.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. Same term registration in EDU 3360, EDU 3370, and EDU 3380 is recommended.
Credits: 1 credit
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EDU 3360 - Teaching Music in the Elementary School (K-6)
Goals: To select and implement developmentally appropriate materials and activities for the teaching of music in the elementary classroom.
Content: Basic concepts, skills, and knowledge to teach music at each grade level; group activities and/or classroom involvement with elementary school children.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. Same term registration in EDU 3350, EDU 3370, and EDU 3380 is recommended.
Credits: 1 credit
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EDU 3370 - Teaching Health in the Elementary School (K-6)
Goals: To select and implement developmentally appropriate materials and activities for the teaching of health in the elementary classroom.
Content: Basic concepts, skills, and knowledge to teach health at each grade level; group activities and/or classroom involvement with elementary school children.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. Same term registration in EDU 3350, EDU 3360, and EDU 3380 is recommended.
Credits: 1 credit
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EDU 3380 - Teaching Physical Education in the Elementary School (K-6)
Goals: To select and implement developmentally appropriate materials and activities for the teaching of physical education in the elementary classroom.
Content: Basic concepts, skills, and knowledge to teach physical education at each grade level; group activities and/or classroom involvement with elementary school children.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. Same term registration in EDU 3350, EDU 3360, and EDU 3370 is recommended.
Credits: 1 credit
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EDU 3660 - Crucial Issues in Education
Goals: To explore and discuss issues that are currently engaging the attention of educators due to evolving professional responsibilities.
Content: Information related to education policy, programs, and social agency in a national and international context. This course is an elective for those minoring in education and other disciplines.
Taught: Winter term.
Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5400 - Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle Schools (K-8)
Goals: To develop an understanding of the social studies and the purposes they serve, especially citizenship education. To learn about materials development and teaching techniques used in facilitating learning of social studies skills and content by elementary and middle students. Issues in social studies such as its role in the school curriculum, standards and testing, curriculum development, and content controversies will be explored.
Content: Philosophy of social studies education; methods of teaching; major concepts of the social science disciplines; planning for teaching; research and study skills; professional and community resources; incorporation of national, state, and local standards; citizenship education in global perspective; a middle school focus is included; 15 hours of school-based teaching activities.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5450 - Teaching Literacy in the Elementary School (K-6)
Goals: To gain knowledge and skills necessary to foster literacy development (listening, speaking, reading, writing, thinking) in young children through a child-centered, whole language program.
Content: Definition of literacy; identification of appropriate goals, materials, methods, evaluation techniques for promoting literacy; professional resources; children’s literature. Students will spend 30 hours in elementary classrooms, including micro-teaching.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education.
Credits: 6 credits
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EDU 5510 - Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary and Middle Schools (K-8)
Goals: To learn the philosophy, content, and pedagogy of elementary and middle level mathematics. To understand an appropriate scope and sequence of knowledge and skills for each level. To employ a standards-based, problem-solving approach to teaching and learning in elementary and middle level mathematics.
Content: The historical development of mathematics within elementary and middle level curriculum. A standard scope and sequence of content based on the development of an operating definition of math for elementary and middle schools that includes the latest NCTM standards. Integrating curriculum, child-centered and holistic teaching strategies, assessment tools and models, appropriate technology in teaching and learning elementary and middle level mathematics.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, MATH 1130, and admission to teacher education. Concurrent registration in EDU 5520 required.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5520 - Teaching Science in the Elementary and Middle Schools (K-8)
Goals: To learn the philosophy, content, and pedagogy of elementary and middle level science. To understand an appropriate scope and sequence of knowledge and skills for each level. To employ a standards-based, problem-solving approach to teaching and learning in elementary and middle level science.
Content: The historical development of science within the elementary and middle level curriculum. A standard scope and sequence of content based on the development of an operating definition of science for elementary and middle schools that includes the latest NSTA standards. Integrating curriculum, child-centered and holistic teaching strategies, assessment tools and models, appropriate technology in teaching and learning elementary and middle level science.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. Concurrent registration in EDU 5510 required.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5600 - Host Practicum
Taught: Offered only as a combination of winter/spring terms.
See description of HOST program in the introductory portion of the education department section and consult with department chair for details.
Credits: 18 credits; available to HOST participants only
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EDU 5620 - Education and Cultural Diversity
Goals: To understand the educational implications of cultural diversity; race/ethnicity, class, gender, language, or disability. To design means of creating a positive classroom climate that enhances self-esteem of all students. To understand the contributions of various racial, cultural, and economic groups. To understand the nature, causes, and effects of prejudice. To explore classroom implications of inclusive education. Approved by the Minnesota Department of Education as satisfying the Education 521 human relations requirement.
Content: Principles for building self-esteem in students; communication skills for creating a positive classroom climate; the nature, cause, and effects of prejudice, institutional racism, and sexism; contributions to society by persons of color and other historically underrepresented groups; methods for designing multicultural curriculum units.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150 and EDU 3250.
Clinical Requirement: 30 hours. Students who have transferred in the equivalent course content without clinical experience should see the Department Chair to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5640 - Families, Schools, and Communities
Goals: To develop an awareness of the influences sociocultural and economic conditions have on students’ lives. To understand the impact of school-family-community relations on the education and well-being of children and youth. To develop skill in communicating with parents and communities. To understand the importance of bridging school and home experiences.
Content: Family structure and diversity; influences of social and economic status on school experiences; issues of health and well-being of children and adolescents; family background influences on child/adolescent development; communicating with families and communities; family and communities as resources for curriculum building; the influence of violence; use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and other chemicals on school experience and performance.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150 and EDU 3250.
Credits: 2 credits
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EDU 5690 - Theory to Practice (5-8)
Goals: To gain skill in applying theories of learning, instruction, adolescent development, motivation, and assessment to classroom situations typical for grades 5-8.
Content: Analysis of teaching and learning; instructional theory; structuring and managing the learning environment; strategies for assessing learning; designing developmentally appropriate learning opportunities to incorporate different approaches to learning, learning styles, and multiple intelligences; strategies for culturally mediated instruction; and uses of technology to facilitate and enhance learning.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, EDU 5620, junior standing, and admission to teacher education.
Clinical Requirement: 15 hours. Students who have transferred in the equivalent course content without clinical experience should see the Department Chair to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study.
Credits: 2 credits
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EDU 5710 - Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High Schools (5-12)
Goals: Facilitate acquisition of knowledge and the development of skills essential in assessing and teaching literacy skills in middle and high school classrooms.
Content: This course is designed to teach potential middle and secondary school teachers how to connect reading strategies to content information. The information in this course will prepare potential content teachers on how to assist struggling readers. This course will also provide information on instructional techniques and integrated learning models as well as young adult literature that can be geared toward content areas.
Taught: Fall and winter terms.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, junior standing, and admission to teacher education. EDU 5620 recommended.
Credits: 2 credits
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EDU 5720 - Exceptionality
Goals: To develop understanding of types of exceptionality and the significance of legal aspects, diagnosis, labeling, enrichment, placement, assessment, facilities, parental involvement, and professional and paraprofessional support in educational practice.
Content: Surveys areas of exceptionality such as learning disabilities, physical and mental disabilities, emotional and behavior disorders, and giftedness. Considers impact on classroom learning. Addresses theories of exceptionality, history of educational policy for exceptional children, and educational practices for responding to exceptional students’ needs.
Taught: Fall, Winter, and spring terms.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150 and EDU 3250. EDU 5620 recommended.
Clinical Requirement: 10 hours. Students who have transferred in the equivalent course content without clinical experience should see the Department Chair to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study.
Credits: 2 credits
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EDU 5730 - Teaching Social Studies in the Middle and High Schools (5-12)
Goals: To develop an understanding of the social studies and the purposes they serve, especially citizenship education. To learn about materials development and teaching techniques used in facilitating learning of social studies skills and content by middle and secondary students. Issues in social studies such as its role in the school curriculum, standards and testing, curriculum development, and content controversies will be explored.
Content: Philosophy of social studies education; methods of teaching; major concepts of the social science disciplines; planning for teaching; research and study skills; professional and community resources; incorporation of national, state and local standards; citizenship education within a global context; a middle school focus is included.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. EDU 5750 recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5740 - Teaching Science in the Middle and High Schools (5-12)
Goals: To understand and be able to demonstrate various strategies for teaching science at the secondary level. To become aware of and be able to incorporate national, state, and local goals for teaching science, as well as the knowledge of how students learn science into the design of learning opportunities for the secondary level student.
Content: Processes of science as a discipline; cognitive psychology and science teaching; models for teaching science; the laboratory in science teaching; science textbooks and other teaching resources, including the use of technology in teaching science; the science learning cycle; the influence of cultural and individual differences on learning science; the use of assessment tools and models.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5750 - Teaching in Secondary Schools
Goals: To demonstrate knowledge and beginning facility in methods for teaching adolescents. To understand the influence society, home, and school have on adolescents. To expand understanding of the educational process and the teacher’s role in it.
Content: Taxonomies of educational objectives; planning, measurement, and evaluation of learning; educational technologies; reading diagnosis and development; philosophy of teaching and teaching models; theories of adolescent development (physical, social, mental, and psychological); areas of educational controversy.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150 and EDU 3250, junior standing, and admission to teacher education.
Clinical Requirement: 20 hours.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5780 - Teaching Mathematics in the Middle and High Schools (5-12)
Goals: To gain knowledge and competency necessary to implement effective teaching strategies that support student investigation, discussion, and reasoning about challenging mathematical problems at the secondary level.
Content: Addresses processes of inquiry and problem solving in mathematics; models of effective mathematics teaching; experiences planning and delivering of curriculum and assessment which are aligned with national and state standards; selection and use of appropriate instructional tools including texts, manipulatives, and technology for teaching secondary mathematics; support for students with diverse learning needs.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education. EDU 5620, EDU 5690, and EDU 5750 recommended. Also recommend EDU 5780 be taken the semester prior to student teaching.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5840 - Double License in Elementary and/or Secondary School Teaching
Goals: To enable interested students to become licensed in two levels. The student teacher completes 10 weeks in one licensure area and 8 weeks in a second licensure area for 18 weeks total.
Content: Laboratory application of all previous methods and supporting coursework. Observation, part-time, then full-time teaching are required at both levels.
Taught: Offered only as a combination of fall/winter terms or winter/spring terms.
Prerequisite: Completion of all work in elementary and/or secondary licensure programs, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Concurrent registration in EDU 5900: Student Teaching Seminar required.
Credits: 4 credits winter term; 16 credits fall or spring term. Total of 20 credits.
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EDU 5850 - Elementary Student Teaching (K-8)
Goals: To demonstrate teaching competencies that enable the student to plan, implement, and evaluate effective lessons in a classroom setting; use of guidance techniques conducive to learning; diagnosis and evaluation; classroom organization; critical reflection, monitoring, and adjustment of professional practice; preparation for a career in elementary education.
Content: The 12-week student teaching experience designed to meet the individual needs of each student, and a two-week portfolio preparation period follows student teaching.
Taught: Fall and spring.
Prerequisite: Completion of all work in elementary licensure program, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Concurrent registration in EDU 5900: Student Teaching Seminar required.
Credits: 14 credits
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EDU 5881 - World Language Methods (K-12)
Goals: This methodology course will familiarize students with the basic teaching responsibilities and classroom management, as well as provide an introduction to the theoretical and practical issues relevant to foreign language learning. Through an understanding of past and current language acquisition and learning theory, students will be able to present arguments for the assumptions of teaching methods, as well as describe their contributions.
Content: Students will continually analyze their assumptions about teaching effectiveness through journal writing, personal experience in the classroom, and critical reading of current classroom research. Students will also be given a solid foundation in practical teaching techniques, evaluation of long-term course objectives and curriculum based on learner needs, and the successful implementation of the K-12 Minnesota Graduation Standards.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150, EDU 3250, and admission to teacher education; EDU 5620 is recommended. Enrollment in the semester immediately prior to student teaching is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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EDU 5900 - Student Teaching Seminar
Content: To be completed concurrently with student teaching. Features both small group and large group meetings. Focus on portfolios, self-assessment of and reflection on student teaching performance, completion of capstone program requirements and state licensure requirements, and collaboration with university supervisors.
Taught: Fall and spring.
Prerequisite: Completion of all work in elementary and/or secondary licensure programs, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Credits: 2 credits
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EDU 5930 - Secondary Student Teaching (9-12)
Goals: To apply, modify, and demonstrate effective teaching techniques through actual teaching experience in the public schools. To develop skills of critical reflection, monitoring, and adjustment of professional practice. To develop a professional understanding of the role of a teacher and a personal model of teaching.
Content: The 12-week student teaching experience designed to meet the individual needs of each student, and a two-week portfolio preparation period follows student teaching.
Prerequisite: This course is restricted to secondary science students pursuing a 9-12 license only. Completion of all work in secondary licensure program, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Concurrent registration in EDU 5900: Student Teaching Seminar is required.
Credits: 14 credits
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EDU 5940 - Double License in Elementary or Secondary and K-12 Student Teaching
Goals: To enable interested students to become licensed in both the elementary or secondary classroom and one of three K-12 specialized licensure areas. To develop skills of critical reflection, monitoring, and adjustment of professional practice. The student teacher first completes 16 weeks at the elementary or secondary level (10 weeks in regular classoom, then 6 weeks in a specialized field) after which the student must complete 8 weeks at the appropriate other level in K-12 specialty. (24 weeks total)
Content: Laboratory application of all previous methods and supporting coursework. Observation, part-time, then full-time teaching are required at each of three levels–elementary or secondary classroom, specialized elementary, and specialized secondary.
Taught: Offered only as a combination of fall/winter terms or winter/spring terms.
Prerequisite: Completion of all work in elementary or secondary licensure program, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Concurrent registration in EDU 5900: Student Teaching Seminar required.
Credits: 4 credits winter term; 18 credits fall or spring term. Total of 22 credits.
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EDU 5950 - Secondary Student Teaching (5-12)
Goals: To apply, modify, and demonstrate effective teaching techniques through actual teaching experience in the public schools. To develop skills of critical reflection, monitoring, and adjustment of professional practice. To develop a professional understanding of the role of a teacher and a personal model of teaching.
Content: The 12-week student teaching experience designed to meet the individual needs of each student, and a two-week portfolio preparation period follows student teaching.
Prerequisite: Completion of all work in secondary licensure program, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Concurrent registration in EDU 5900: Student Teaching Seminar is required.
Credits: 14 credits
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EDU 5960 - Student Teaching (K-12)
Goals: To develop and practice competencies for teaching in the elementary and secondary classroom. To demonstrate ability to plan, implement, and evaluate learning in the school environment. To develop skills of critical reflection, monitoring, and adjustment of professional practice. To observe and understand administrative and instructional policies and procedures (for music, ESL, theatre/dance, world languages, and physical education majors only).
Content: Laboratory application of all previous methods and supporting coursework. Observation, part-time and then full-time responsibility for teaching. At least two weeks of full-time teaching are required at each level; total of 16 weeks required, eight weeks elementary and eight weeks secondary.
Prerequisite: Completion of all work in K-12 licensure program, completion of teaching major, and approval to student teach.
Concurrent registration in EDU 5900: Student Teaching Seminar required.
Credits: 18 credits
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ENG 1100 - English for International Students
Goals: As preparation for ENG 1110 the course will help international students develop the writing skills necessary for college-level course work.
Content: Focus on writing and rewriting with an emphasis on the particular needs of non-native speakers of English.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1110 - Writing and Reading Texts
Goals: To develop critical writing, reading, and thinking skills needed in academic courses in order to achieve greater effectiveness and analysis in writing. To understand the dynamic relationship between language and culture and to begin to explore how one is shaped by language and shapes the world through language.
Content: Critically reading a variety of literary, nonliterary, and visual texts and developing research skills for providing cultural, social, political, and historical contexts. Frequent writing and rewriting in a variety of genres, at least one of which includes research strategies and incorporation of sources. Focus on the elements of successful written communication, including invention, purpose, audience, organization, grammar, and conventions.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: None. Required of all first-year students. Open to others with permission of the department. ENG 1110 does not apply to the English major but instead counts toward a student’s breadth of study.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1210 - British Literatures to 1789
Goals: To survey British literature to 1789 in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Selected works by such authors as Geoffrey Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Jonathan Swift.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1220 - British Literatures after 1789
Goals: To survey British literature after 1789 in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Selected works by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Tom Stoppard.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1230 - American Literatures to 1860
Goals: To survey American literature to 1860 in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Literary forms such as sermon, oral narrative, autobiography, journals, essays, poetry, and fiction. Possible authors and texts: Native American poetry and tales, Cabeza de Vaca, Mary Rowlandson, Sor Juana, Benjamin Franklin, William Apess, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1240 - American Literatures after 1860
Goals: To survey American literature from about 1860 to the present in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Literary forms such as the novel, poetry, and drama that develop themes such as the rise of the city, changing social and personal values, industrialism, and individual alienation. Possible authors: Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1250 - World Literatures
Goals: To survey literatures of the world in their cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Selections and emphasis will vary from semester to semester. Students will gain understanding of literary forms such as the novel, drama, poetry, and essay in different cultural contexts. Typical topics for discussion may include the cross-cultural comparison of forms, colonial and postcolonial experiences, and the effects of globalization.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 1270 - African-American Literatures
Goals: To survey African-American literary tradition as influenced by oral and written forms of expression. To heighten the student’s awareness of the particularity of African-American cultural expression as well as its connections with mainstream American writing.
Content: Selections of texts may vary from semester to semester. Typically, the course will survey prose, poetry, and drama from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Selected works by such authors as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Childress.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3010 - Textual Studies and Criticism
Goals: To introduce readers to a critical relationship with literary form that is the foundation of the discipline of English. The course investigates literature and writing as a site of cultural production and consumption, leading to a self-reflexive development of critical thinking through the close reading of texts in different genres. Students acquire critical terminology and practice interpretive strategies.
Content: Close reading of and writing about selected works from various cultures, genres, and periods.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Strongly recommended that one survey course (1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270) be completed or taken concurrently.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3020 - Literary and Cultural Theory
Goals: To introduce students to theoretical approaches to texts and to the practical applications of literary theory. Students should take this gateway course in the sophomore year in conjunction with declaring a major/minor. This course builds on the learning experiences introduced in ENG 1110, the surveys, and ENG 3010: Textual Studies and Criticism and prepares students for success in 3000-level writing and literature courses and the senior seminar. Required for many 3000-level courses.
Content: Reading and discussing representative 20th-century critical approaches to the study and understanding of written texts and producing analytical essays that apply critical methods to selected texts.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: One survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, or 1270) completed. While in rare cases ENG 3020 may be taken concurrently with ENG 3010, it is strongly encouraged for student success that ENG 3010 be completed first. Not recommended for first-year students. Nonmajors and nonminors need the permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3100 - Introduction to African-American Studies
Crosslisted
Also listed as ENG 3100 or PHIL 3100.
Goals: To develop an understanding of several key issues in African American Studies emphasizing close textural reading and analysis. Additionally, students participate in academic service learning to synthesize textual and experimental learning.
Content: The course materials will focus on critical readings about construction of race as a concept; intersections of race, class and gender; afrocentrism; pan-africanism; diasporic connections; nationalism; religious dimension; literary theory and popular culture.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3190 - Introduction to Linguistics
Goals: To examine the scientific study of language and language analysis.
Content: Analysis of language in terms of phonetics and phonology (sounds), morphology (word formation), semantics (the meaning system), syntax (sentences and their structure), and language change. Discussion of the relationship between language and neurology, psychology, society, and culture.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: ENG 1110 or equivalent; ENG 3020 recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3300 - Creative Writing
Goals: To introduce students to writing poetry and short stories. (May include brief introductions to other genres.)
Content: Writing assignments designed to develop specific skills and techniques (dialogue, characterization, setting, point of view, metaphor, line breaks, persona, repetition, imagery, use of metric form, and free verse) and reading from contemporary authors.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 1110 or equivalent; ENG 3010 and/or ENG 3020 recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3320 - Fundamentals of Journalism
Goals: To develop skills in writing for mass media.
Content: Techniques and practice of news, feature, and interpretive reporting combined with reading and discussion of principles and ethics of journalism.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3330 - Special Topics in Journalism
Goals: To explore special topics in news reporting and writing.
Content: Build on basic writing techniques and formats with concentration on interviewing, fact gathering, editing, and design. Exposure to print, broadcast, or online media. Topics vary. Check section title and description.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or equivalent. ENG 3320 is recommended.
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3340 - Organizational Writing
Goals: To develop strategies for writing in organizations.
Content: Focus on inter- and intra-organizational correspondence, proposals, and reports, with emphasis on the principles and techniques for writing in for profit and non-profit organizations—business, government, and industry.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 1110 or equivalent. Senior status recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3370 - Topics in Professional Writing
Goals: An intensive study in a particular area of professional writing.
Content: Based upon the principles and practices of professional writing and communication, this course requires that students write for multiple, complex audiences and purposes. Topics vary. Check section title and description. Examples include “research and report writing,” “writing for new media” and “professional and technical writing.”
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3380 - Advanced Creative Writing
Goals: To develop further the writing of fiction, poetry, or other prose projects. Each class will focus on one of these three forms.
Content: Frequent writing and rewriting to exercise imagination, creativity, craft, and reading and editing skills.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 1110 or equivalent and ENG 3300. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3390 - Advanced Writing: Exposition and Argumentation
Goals: To study and acquire power in textual production through reflective reading and writing across genres, discourses, audiences, and purposes.
Content: Studies of writing that maintain (or subvert) the status quo, addressing particularly the influences of culture, gender, class, race, disability, and other categories that define identity and community. Course focus is on expository and argumentative writing—broadly defined—and may be organized around a single category. Recent examples include environment and place, public policy, and disability studies.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3450 - Studies in Literatures Across Cultures
Goals: A critical study of a specific topic in world literature.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: passages to India, the empire writes back, Harlem renaissance, pan-African oratory, 20th-century Irish literature.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 3010. ENG 3020 strongly recommended. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3510 - Studies in a Single Author
Goals: A critical study of a specific author.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Examples include Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Edmund Spenser, John Milton.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 3010. ENG 3020 strongly recommended. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3530 - Studies in British Literatures
Goals: A critical study of a specific topic in British literature.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: medieval lowlife, Arthurian legends, Renaissance drama, Romantic poetry, Victorian novel, modernism, contemporary novel.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 3010. ENG 3020 (may be taken concurrently). A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3540 - Studies in American Literatures
Goals: A critical study of a specific topic or period in American literature.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: American Literature of Landscape and Nature; Walt Whitman and Modern American Poetry; Beats, Bop, and the Status Quo; Comedy and Postmodernism; Women’s Bildungsroman and Kunstlerroman; Science and Literature.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 3010. ENG 3020 (may be taken concurrently). A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 3570 - Women and Literature
Goals: To understand women writers’ representations in literature by closely examining their work in historical and cultural contexts through the theory and practice of feminist criticism.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: writers of color, wandering women, black women writers.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 3010 or WSTD 1010. A student may register for this class more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 5700 - Teaching English in the Middle and High Schools (5-12)
Goals: To instruct prospective teachers in the theoretical foundations of current teaching methods and practices.
Content: Methods of teaching reading and composition. Planning the English curriculum within the community setting. The inclusion of adolescent literature, non-Western literature, and popular culture in the curriculum.
Taught: Available annually at either Hamline or another ACTC school.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150 and 3250; an English major or minor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ENG 5960 - Senior Seminar
Goals: This course provides the capstone experience in the major. The goal of this course is to practice and polish previously learned skills and experiences to produce an analysis of literary texts of article length and quality. This essay marks the student’s entrance into the profession as a participant in an on-going and dynamic conversation about specific works and the discipline as a whole.
Content: Varies from year to year. Recent examples: Twice-Told Tales; Salman Rushdie and Transnationalism; There is No Place Like Home: Literature of Exile; Slavery, Women and the Literary Imagination; Narratives of National Trauma; Propaganda and the Literature of Commitment; 20th Century Drama; Hard-Boiled Fiction; Hawthorne and “a Mob of Scribbling Women”; Renaissance Self-Fashioning; American Melancholy: Readings of Race, Sexuality and Performance Culture.
Taught: Three senior seminars are offered each year.
Prerequisites: ENG 3020 and at least one 3000-level literature course or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ESTD 1100 - Introduction to Environmental Studies
Goals: To introduce students to the study of interactions between humans and the environment from an interdisciplinary perspective; to expose students to multiple viewpoints on environmental issues; to acquaint students with internship opportunities in environmental studies.
Taught: Fall semester and spring semester.
Credits: 4 credits
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ESTD 5950 - Problem Solving in Environmental Studies
Goals: To cultivate the competencies needed to address environmental problems. These competencies include working in groups, discussion and presentation skills, writing skills, understanding multiple viewpoints, and analyzing and presenting conflicting information.
Taught: Annually, fall semester.
Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 1110 - Beginning French I
Goals: To teach students to speak, understand, write, and read simple French, especially in practical situations.
Content: Practical situations and the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge necessary to cope with them: for example, travelling, shopping for food and clothes, getting medical help, eating in restaurants and cafes, interacting with French people.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 1120 - Beginning French II
Goals: To teach students to speak, understand, write, and read simple French, especially in practical situations.
Content: Practical situations and the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge necessary to cope with them: for example, travelling, shopping for food and clothes, getting medical help, eating in restaurants and cafes, interacting with French people.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3210 - Intermediate French I
Goals: To improve and develop spoken and written French and to develop a familiarity with the culture of France and of the Francophone world.
Content: Conversational practice and grammar review are supplemented with compositions and readings. Conversation is more complex, and cultural differences are stressed. Outside of class, students participate in regular conversations with the French Amity Scholar.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 1120 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3220 - Intermediate French II
Goals: To improve and develop spoken and written French and to develop a familiarity with the culture of France and of the Francophone world.
Content: Conversational practice and grammar review are supplemented with compositions and readings. Conversation is more complex, and cultural differences are stressed. Outside of class, students participate in regular conversations with the French Amity Scholar.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 3210 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3420 - Introduction to French and Francophone Literature
Goals: To improve reading skills in French; to integrate reading with writing, speaking, and listening; to further awareness of French and Francophone cultures.
Content: Current events around the world as well as contemporary literary texts in French provide the basis for advanced reading and writing activities. Students read online newspapers and other periodicals from France and the French-speaking world. Outside of class, students read texts of their choice.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3440 - Advanced French
Goals: Designed for students at the advanced intermediate level, this course helps them to improve their spoken and written French.
Content: Feature films in French provide the basis for speaking and writing activities. Outside of class, students do individualized grammar review.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3510 - France: Literature and Civilization I
Goals: To acquaint students with the rich history and literature of France from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. To develop advanced reading skill in French. To practice expressing complex ideas in French.
Content: Students study medieval society and civilization, the Renaissance, the Age of Louis XIV, and the Enlightenment. Literary and philosophical selections from each period.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 3420 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3520 - France: Literature and Civilization II
Goals: To acquaint students with the France of Napoleon and of the Industrial Revolution; the France of De Gaulle and of the Existentialists; and the contemporary period. To improve reading and writing skills.
Content: An account of France from the French Revolution to the present day. Topics include Napoleon’s transformation of France, Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables and the condition of working men and women, the infamous Dreyfus case, General De Gaulle, Simone de Beauvoir, and various issues faced by today’s society. Literary selections from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: FREN 3420 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3600 - Introduction to French Literary Analysis
Goals: To enhance mastery of French grammar as a basis for improvement speaking, writing, listening and reading.
Content: intensive grammar review, conversation with native speakers, reading and discussion of contemporary events as presented in French and Francophone media.
Taught: Alternate years
Recommended prerequisites: two of the following FREN 3420, 3440, 3510, or 3520
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3620 - Topics in Francophone African Literature
Goals: To acquaint students with the literature and culture of French speaking Africa. To introduce students to materials and methods of literary research. To improve their ability to speak and write in French about their reading and their ideas.
Content: Students read novels written by French-speaking writers of West and North Africa. In addition to analyzing texts, they engage in biographical and bibliographical research; they study and political context of the novels; they read critical articles about the texts.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisites: FREN 3510 or 3520; or MODL 1030 and FREN 3420; or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 3630 - Francophone Caribbean Literature
Goals: To acquaint students with the literature of the French Caribbean. To introduce students to materials and methods of literary research. To improve their ability to speak and write about their reading and their ideas.
Content: Students read novels written by French-speaking writers of the Caribbean. In addition to analyzing the texts, they engage in biographical and bibliographical research; they study the cultural and political context of the novels; they read critical articles about the texts. The main themes to be studied are: colonization, post-colonization issues, identity crisis, negritude, alienation, creolité and women. The study will comprise, among others, the works of Fanon, Césaire, Roumain, Zobel,Condé, Glissant, Senghor and Sartre.
Taught: Alternate years.
Note: No knowledge of French required–will be taught concurrently in French and English.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 5400 - Problems in Translation
Goals: To provide French majors with an understanding of the principal differences between French and English syntax, and to utilize this understanding in translating from English to French and from French to English.
Content: At the level of the sentence, students study grammatical structures and selected translation devices in some detail and with abundant drill and testing. These preparation activities culminate in translations of longer prose passages. Some time is also given to translation of advertisements, travel brochures, business letters and other documents.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisites: Four 3000-level courses beyond FREN 3220, or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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FREN 5600 - Topics: Advanced Study in French and Francophone Literature
Goals: To provide French majors with a capstone experience that allows them to use their language skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing–in a student-professor collaboration on a topic of their choice.
Content: Designed for senior French majors, this course emphasizes independent work. Students, in consultation with one of the instructors, choose a topic related to their interests. They then undertake a project that results in a research paper or other suitable demonstration of the work they have done.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisites: Senior standing and/or completion of at least eight courses toward a French major.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 1110 - Beginning German I
Goals: To master elements of German grammar and vocabulary, especially in practical situations.
Content: Readings in German; exercises in grammar and vocabulary building; equal emphasis on speaking, understanding the spoken language, writing, and reading.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 1120 - Beginning German II
Goals: To master elements of German grammar and vocabulary, especially in practical situations.
Content: Readings in German; exercises in grammar and vocabulary building; equal emphasis on speaking, understanding the spoken language, writing, and reading.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 3210 - Intermediate German I
Goals: To review all topics of German grammar and to enhance all the skills required for proficiency.
Content: Readings in German, exercises in grammar and vocabulary building; equal emphasis on speaking, understanding the spoken language, writing, and reading.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 1120 or equivalent. .
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 3220 - Intermediate German II
Goals: To review all topics of German grammar and to enhance all the skills required for proficiency.
Content: Readings in German, exercises in grammar and vocabulary building; equal emphasis on speaking, understanding the spoken language, writing, and reading.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3210 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 3230 - Intermediate German Conversation
Goal: Designed for the intermediate level, this course helps consolidate a knowledge of German and develops conversational fluency. Excellent preparation for an extended stay in German-speaking countries.
Content: Emphasis is placed on building vocabulary, strengthening pronunciation, and enhancing fluency by means of role-playing, debates, and conversations. Cultural differences, including speech patterns, personal space, and body language, are identified. German satellite TV programs keep issues current and authentic.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5500 - Issues in Translation
Goals: To gain greater understanding of cultural differences and a better command of and sensibility for the German language through the process of cooperative translation.
Content: Speeches, conversations, and texts from a variety of areas will be translated from German into English, leading to discussion of translation theory. Close attention will be paid to the context within which texts are situated in order to identify cultural barriers and biases. The course will enhance interpretive skills.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5560 - Highlights of German Literature
Goals: To familiarize students with German cultural and literary development through the ages. Literary touchstones from important periods are read and discussed.
Content: Genres and literary movements are presented and discussed and exemplary works from the Middle Ages, the Goethe Era, Modernism, and Post-War Germany are interpreted within their sociohistorical context.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5600 - Student/Faculty Collaborative Research
Goals: To develop skills for independent research by encountering indepth texts on mutually selected topics, potentially leading to presentations of papers at national conferences and publication of articles.
Content: Primary research in tandem with faculty on a wide variety of topics including politics, film, children’s literature, and science.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5680 - German Culture and Civilization
Goals: To acquaint students with German civilization and culture through accounts in English, and in German for majors and minors, of its history, science, art, music, dance, theatre, sculpture, architecture, and customs; to increase awareness of cultural differences and the role of the German-speaking lands in world affairs.
Content: Accounts of the German-speaking lands from Roman times to the present, including discussion of the main artistic, literary, and historical issues of the Chivalric Period, the Reformation, the Thirty Years War, Enlightened Despotism, the Classic-Romantic Period, German Idealism, the Wilhelminian Age of Industrialization, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the PostWar Era and Re-unification.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite for non-Germanists: None. Recommended prerequisite for Germanists: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5700 - Topics in German Literature
Goals: To study selected topics in German intellectual and literary history toward a deeper understanding of a particular period or theme.
Content: Study of specific writers, movements, and problems in German literature. Content will vary depending upon the interest of the instructor and the demand of the students. Sample topics: Children’s Literature, the Fairy Tale, Fascist Film, Rilke, Literature and Politics, the Romantic Age.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5800 - Gender Studies: German
Goals: Critically to encounter, in English translation, various visual and literary representations of gender, both dichotomous and nondichotomous, in German-speaking lands since the twelfth century.
Content: Selected readings in English translation (and in German for majors and minors) of German literary and visual texts such as the mystics, Frau von Stein, the fairy tales, the Romantics, the psychoanalysts, the urnings, the communists, the National-Socialists, Bettina, Rahel Levin, and Magnus Hirschfeld; current research and theories about race, disease, sexuality, and otherness.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites for non-Germanists: None. Recommended prerequisite for Germanists: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5900 - Advanced German Conversation and Composition
Goals: To enable students to speak and write more proficiently and more idiomatically leading toward mastery of fine points of German structure and style. Students learn to express convincingly their own ideas in German.
Content: Equal weight is given to conversation and composition. Written and oral exercises focus on discursive patterns and the most frequent sources of lexical and syntactical errors. Conversations and essays are based on all genres and films as well as on current German cultural issues.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisites: GERM 3220 and 3230, or equivalents.
Credits: 4 credits
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GERM 5910 - Professional German
Goals: To familiarize students with the specific vocabularies and concepts of German business, economics, politics, management, social, and legal issues. Cultural competence and cross-cultural skills are a concomitant objective.
Content: Focus on Germany as a leading country regarding industry, trade, and markets. Analyses of the German economic, social, and political systems will provide students with a broad knowledge of German business practice and environment. The course will expand all four language modalities (listening, reading, writing, speaking) and cross-cultural awareness as it impacts the areas of business and economics.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: GERM 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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GLOB 1910 - Introduction to Global Studies I
Goals: To introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of global studies.
Content: A focus on the history and theoretical approaches that have created global studies as a field of study. Student “consumption” of key texts introduces themes to be encountered in upper-level courses. Presentations by faculty with different disciplinary, regional/cultural, and theoretical backgrounds illustrate the interdisciplinary and global nature of the field. Coinstructors facilitate integration of material presented.
Taught: Annually, in the fall semester.
Prerequisites: Open to first-year students in their second semester and open to sophomores. Juniors and seniors may register by permission of instructor or Global Studies chair.
Credits: 4 credits
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GLOB 1920 - Introduction to Global Studies II
Goals: To introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of global studies.
Content: Primary focus on student “production” of a satisfactory interdisciplinary research proposal in the field of global studies. Secondary focus on student “consumption” of exemplary texts. Presentations by faculty with different disciplinary, regional/cultural, and theoretical backgrounds illustrate and/or teach different possible methodological approaches.
Taught: Annually, in the spring semester.
Prerequisite: GLOB 1910 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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GLOB 3950 - Crossing Borders I
Goals: To support and strengthen the academic integration of semester- and year-long study abroad/off-campus study experiences into the student’s course of study and career plans.
Content: A focus on preparing students for international/ intercultural experiences by introducing students to challenges and opportunities they might encounter, by developing student capacities for successful cross-cultural interaction, and by preparing students to make transnational comparisons and to identify transnational connections (through mediated conversations with the instructor and other students) while abroad.
Taught: Annually, each semester.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into a semester- or year-long study-abroad program. This course is to be taken the semester immediately before study abroad.
Credits: 2 credits
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GLOB 3960 - Crossing Borders II
Goals: To support and strengthen the academic integration of semester-and year-long study abroad/off-campus study experiences into the student’s course of study and career plans.
Content: A focus on processing international/intercultural experiences, refining transnational comparisons and connections identified while abroad, sharing newly acquired knowledge with various potential audiences, and developing strategies for utilizing and building upon study-abroad experiences in other curricular and co-curricular contexts.
Taught: Annually, each semester.
Prerequisite: Return from a semester- or year-long study-abroad program. This course is to be taken the semester immediately after study abroad.
Credits: 2 credits
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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 credits
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GLOB 5910 - Honors Research Seminar
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, in the fall semester.
Prerequisite: Acceptance of an honors proposal in the major.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 1100 - Introduction to World History
Topics and time periods covered vary from year to year. Recent examples: World History from 1500; World History from 1900.
Goals: To study the main social, economic, political, and cultural issues of world history; to study global issues that arise as peoples came into contact with one another.
Content: Various topics pertaining to the historical, social, and political development of various cultures and how those cultures developed and interacted with each other.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 1200 - Introduction to European History
Topics and time periods covered vary from year to year. Recent examples: European History from the Renaissance to the French Revolution; European History Since the French Revolution.
Goals: To understand the key developments that shaped Europe from the Renaissance to the present.
Content: Various topics such as the reformations, changes in theories and forms of governments, industrialization, and revolutions, and world wars.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 1300 - Introduction to United States History
Topics and time periods covered vary from year to year. Recent examples: U.S. History from 1607 to 1865; U.S. History from 1865.
Goals: To understand the key social, economic, and political developments that shaped the United States from the early 17th century to the present day.
Content: Various topics such as immigration, the building of social and political institutions, the Westward expansion and its effect on the nation, the road to the Civil War, 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 credits
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HIST 1400 - Introduction to Latin American History
Topics and time periods covered vary from year to year. Recent examples: Latin American History to 1825; Latin American History Since 1825; Latin American History (Pre-Columbian to Modern).
Goals: To understand the key developments in the histories of the European, African, Asian, and Amerindian peoples whose interactions created the history of the New World after 1492 and resulted in the emergence of independent nations between 1812 and 1898.
Content: Various topics such as the nature and legacies of the colonial encounter, the importance of geography in national development, the economic foundations of different regions, and Latin American relations with other hemispheric and international powers.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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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 credits
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HIST 1500 - Introduction to Asian History
Topics and time periods covered vary from year to year. Recent examples: Themes in Contemporary Chinese History and Culture.
Goals: To understand the key characteristics that shaped east Asia from ancient times to the present day.
Content: Various topics such as modernization, the social role of intellectuals and students, the status of women, colonialism, and human rights.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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