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2010-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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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.
Note: Open to non-majors.
Credits: 2 credits
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GLOB 3965 - Crossing Borders Colloquium
Goals: To reinforce the academic integration of Global Studies majors’ study abroad experiences, and to provide a context for connecting individual research questions to the work of more senior scholars in the field.
Content: A focus on relating students’ research projects to larger issues and ongoing research in the field of Global Studies.
Taught: annually in the fall semester.
Prerequisite: Return from a semester- or year-long study abroad program. This course is intended as an integral part of the major. It should be taken following a student’s return from 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: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 3760 - Topics in the History of Imperialism
Goals: To understand the history of imperialism.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: The British Empire; Empires Past & Present; Comparative History of Colonial Societies.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One 1000-level HIST course.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 3800 - Topics in Gender History
Goals: To study the history of women and gender.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: History of Women and Gender in Europe; History of Women and Gender in the U.S.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One 1000-level HIST course.
Credits: 4 credits
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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, Immigration, Landmark Trials.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended: Completion of three 1000-level HIST courses.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: History
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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.
Prerequisite: One 1000-level HIST course on Latin America.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 3960 - Topics in Comparative History
Goals: To practice comparative history.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: History of Slavery and Emancipation; Clash of Civilizations; Nationalism; Disease and Society.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One 1000-level HIST course.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 5950 - Seminar in History
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 a significant historical research paper.
Content: Varies from year to year. Recent examples: Biography as History; Diplomatic History; Environmental History.
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 credits
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HLTH 1170 - Personal and Community Health
Goals: To explore health knowledge, attitudes, personal health behaviors, important trends in major health areas of concern today. To encourage students to examine, reflect upon, and act to change or strengthen health habits.
Content: Mental health, drugs, human sexuality, prevention and control of diseases, nutrition, weight control, fitness, aging and dying, and consumer health.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 1180 - From Knowledge to Action
Goals: To provide prospective teachers skills in teaching behavioral change and health/wellness skills, utilizing models of behavior change and motivational communication.
Content: Skill sets that integrate models and theories of behavior change and learning into lesson planning and classroom communication.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Credits: 2 credits
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HLTH 1520 - First Aid and Personal Safety
Goals: To identify ways to prevent injury and/or illness, recognize when an emergency has occurred, follow emergency action procedures, and apply basic first aid skills. American Red Cross Certification in Community First Aid and CPR.
Content: Shock, wounds, burns, respiratory emergencies, sudden illness, poisoning/drugs, thermal regulation, bone and joint injuries.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 0.5 semester credit
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HLTH 3630 - Prevention and Management of Athletic Injuries
Goals: To become familiar with modern sports medicine techniques. To develop an understanding of the basic principles of prevention, management, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
Content: Modern principles of athletic training with special emphasis on prevention of athletic injuries including prophylactic taping techniques, and management of athletic injuries including basic injury assessments. Other areas or presentation include mechanism of injury, principles of physical conditioning, emergency medical techniques, and analysis of protective equipment.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Basic human anatomy is recommended but not required.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 3700 - Critical Health Issues in Drug Education, Stress Management, Nutrition, and Sexuality Education
Goals: Students will be able to identify behaviors and factors that prevent or reduce the risk of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, misuse, and abuse. The student will understand health-enhancing behaviors that reduce health risks including strategies to reduce and prevent stress-related health practices. Students will understand the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as it pertains to behaviors influencing our sexuality.
Content: Investigate addictions and addictive behavior. Use, misuse, and abuse of pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and illicit drugs. Understanding stressors and stress management. Nutritional issues: eating healthy and safe, weight management, and eating disorders. Investigation of multifaceted human sexuality: defining gender identity and roles, the female and male reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 5630 - Advanced Techniques in Athletic Training and Sports Medicine
Goals: Students will focus on the rehabilitation techniques in athletic training. Emphasis will be on designing, managing, and evaluating rehabilitation programs.
Content: Areas of study will include core stabilization, plyometrics, open vs. closed-kinetic chain exercises, PNF, and aquatic therapy. Review of common injuries and establishment of proper rehabilitation protocols will be the main focus.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: HLTH 3630.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 5890 - School Health Program
Goals: To understand that organized and effectively coordinated programs are essential to the goal of furthering school health education.
Content: Introduction to the complete school health program, healthful school living, health services, and health instruction.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Credits: 4 credits
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IJRN 5960 - Internship Seminar in International Public Journalism
Goals: To provide experience in international journalism via a student internship with a local media partner and to reflect upon the practice of public journalism as a means of engagement with various audiences.
Content: Students conduct media shadowing and a formal internship in print, audio, video, or online journalism. Class sessions contextualize the internship and allow students to share, compare, and analyze their internship experiences.
Taught: Annually, in the fall semester.
Prerequisites: Acceptance into the certificate in international journalism program or permission of instructor. Must co-register for GLOB 5900 or 5910.
Credits: 4 credits
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IJRN 5970 - International Journalism Capstone Media Project
Goals: To produce an independent media project in some area of international journalism for public dissemination.
Content: In consultation with the instructor, students take primary responsibility for developing, researching, and producing a piece of print, radio, television, and/or online journalism.
Taught: Annually (by arrangement).
Prerequisite: Advanced standing in the certificate in international journalism program and permission of instructor (submission of independent study form signed by instructor and certificate in international journalism program director).
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 1110 - Legal Systems in American Society
Goals: Familiarization with the American legal system.
Content: A jurisprudential 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 legal system: justice, equality, and fairness.
Taught: Every semester.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 1250 - Legal Research and Writing
Goals: To introduce students to legal materials and methodology.
Content: A writing-intensive course with emphasis on the development of legal research, writing, and drafting skills. An introduction to legal methodology and materials is presented by lecture, in-class exercises with out-of-class research, and writing exercises, utilizing materials of the law library.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisite (or co-requisite): LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120, or permission of the instructor or chair.
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 1440 - Beginning Mock Trial
Goals: Students learn basic trial procedures and advocacy skills through practice sessions and simulations of courtroom procedures and activities. Students prepare for and conduct a trial of a hypothetical case. Student teams compete in invitational regional and national competitions.
Content: Participatory study of trial practice in the United States, advocacy, lawyering skills, and legal ethics. Focus on developing students’ speaking and critical thinking skills. Course is tied to the Hamline mock trial program.
Taught: Annually.
Note: To be eligible for course credit, the student must participate in mock trial team practice during the fall, winter, and spring terms and participate in tournaments. Students enroll in LGST 1440 the first year.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3100 - American Constitutional Law
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: Reading and analyzing a wide variety of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court. An examination of the relationship between the government and the individual in the context of national and state power, the Bill of Rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3410 - Special Topics in Law
Goals: Intensive study of a limited legal topic.
Content: An intensive study of a specific area of law. Topic varies from year to year. Some past topics have included: Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law, Law and Justice in Australia, Comparative Legal Systems, Distributive Justice in the Himalayas, and Pension and Benefit Law.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, LGST 1110, LGST 1250, or permission of the instructor.
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3420 - Advanced Special Topics in Law
Goals: To provide students with an opportunity to engage in an advanced study in a specialized area of law.
Content: An intensive study of an advanced area of law. Topics vary from semester to semester. Some past topics have been: securities law, immigration law, contracts, and law of worker’s compensation.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000 and LGST 1250 (which may be taken concurrently), or permission of the legal studies department chair or director of the paralegal program. LGST 3520 is recommended.
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3440 - Advanced Mock Trial
Goals: Students learn basic trial procedures and advocacy skills through practice sessions and simulations of courtroom procedures and activities. Students prepare for and conduct a trial of a hypothetical case. Student teams compete in invitational regional and national competitions.
Content: Participatory study of trial practice in the United States, advocacy, lawyering skills, and legal ethics. Focus on developing students’ speaking and critical thinking skills, team work, and leadership. Course is tied to the Hamline mock trial program.
Taught: Annually.
Note: To be eligible for course credit, the student must participate in mock trial team practice during the fall, winter, and spring terms and participate in tournaments. Students enroll in LGST 1440 the first year.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3520 - Civil Litigation and Trial Practice
Goals: To acquaint students with the elements of civil trials, from initial pleading through appeal.
Content: A study of fundamental principles of civil litigation, the court systems, attorney’s functions, common types of civil lawsuits and defenses. Lecture and discussion is combined with role play exercises and writing assignments. Students prepare documents and conduct interviews and a mock trial.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 and LGST 1250 (may be taken concurrently).
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3530 - Estates and Trusts
Goals: To introduce students to vocabulary, concepts, and procedures associated with drafting, probate, and administering the decedent’s estates and trusts.
Content: A study of the legal concepts, processes, and practices associated with distribution of a decedent’s property. An introduction to trust construction and administration.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3540 - Family and Gender Issues in Law
Goals: To introduce students to the theories, policies, and practices of law affecting women, men, and children in their familial, domestic, and gender roles.
Content: The course will explore the many complicated applications of law that affect men, women, and children in their relationships with each other. Analytical, practical, and verbal skills necessary for working in the area of family law will be emphasized. Students will examine laws affecting the gender roles and status of people within domestic relationships through lecture, class assignments, and exams. Students will produce a simulated client file demonstrating their ability to apply the legal principles and procedures that are covered throughout the course.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3550 - Real Property
Goals: To understand the basic concepts and instruments affecting real property, including ownership interests, transfers of title, purchase agreements, mortgages, leases, liens, title examination, legal descriptions, and surveys.
Content: Learning theory and practice underlying laws, conveyancing documents, and other agreements affecting real property; coordinating mortgage foreclosures; study of additional requirements for transactions involving large commercial properties; registration proceedings; taxes, special assessments, legal descriptions, and other matters affecting real property.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250, LGST 5000 (may be taken concurrently), or permission of instructor.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3560 - Law of Business Organizations
Goals: To present the principles of law applicable to different types of business organizations and the preparation of related documents.
Content: The formation of business entities, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; articles of incorporation and by-laws; close corporations; shareholders and directors meetings; corporate equity and debt securities; various types of agreements and distributions; bankruptcy; pertinent sections of the Uniform Commercial Code and the drafting of supporting documents.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250 or MGMT 3130 (may be taken concurrently).
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3570 - Probate Procedures
Goals: To introduce students to vocabulary, concepts, and procedures associated with probate administration.
Content: A study of the legal concepts, processes, and practices associated with the distribution of a decedent’s estate. Students are introduced to the Uniform Probate Code, the laws of succession: testate and intestate, the legal forms related to formal and informal estate administration and relevant legal theory.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000 and LGST 1250 (may be taken concurrently.)
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3640 - Taxation of Individuals
Goals: To introduce students to concepts and practices in the law of individual taxation.
Content: An introduction to the law of personal taxation. Students are introduced to tax theory, relevant statutes and rules. Areas of study include but are not limited to: Gross Income, Deductions, Capital Gains and Accounting Methods. Students work on a variety of problems involving tax forms and procedures.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or MGMT 3130.
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3670 - Legal Interviewing
Goals: To provide students with conceptual understanding of interviewing in law-related fields and to develop student speaking and listening skills related to interviewing.
Content: This course will cover the theory and practice of interviewing in law related fields. Special emphasis will be put on developing the skills of question formulation, attentive and active listening, and interview recording. The course will include interviewing simulations in class and on video tape.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120.
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3680 - Law of Evidence for Legal Professionals
Goals: To introduce students to the law of evidence.
Content: This course will cover the rules of evidence, the theory and history of evidentiary law in America, and relevant case law in the field of evidence. Special emphasis will be placed on providing students with an appreciation of how the law of evidence relates to the work of evidence collection, preservation and organization, and preparation for trial. Students in this course will learn how to prepare evidence for electronic presentation. Students will learn how to lay foundations and present evidence in simulated court experience.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120. LGST 1250 is also recommended.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3750 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
Goals: To introduce students to the theory and practice of alternative dispute resolution methods in the field of law.
Content: This course will cover negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other methods of resolving disputes as alternative to trial. Students will engage in skill-building exercises and in simulated negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations in class and on videotape. Emphasis will be placed on skill development as well as detailed understanding of the work involved in preparation for actual negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: None
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3760 - Contracts
Goals: To introduce students to basic contract principles and theories and approaches to drafting contract terms.
Content: The course will focus on contract formation, performance, termination, and remedies. Students will learn the elements of a valid contract and will learn and apply practical contract drafting skills. The course will explore common law and statutory bases of contract law, including aspects of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, LGST 1250, or instructor permission. Recommended: LGST 3520.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3770 - Law Office Technology
Goals: To give students a hands-on, real world experience learning about and using technology found in the modern law firm.
Content: Students will interact with desktop document productivity tools (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint), legal presentation graphics (SmartDraw, TimeMap), document automation and assembly (HotDocs), time and billing (TimeSolv Legal), litigation support and e-discovery (CT Summation - iBlaze), and a mobile phone forensics tool (Cellebrite UFED). Grading will be based on quizzes, exercises, class participation, and a substantial, hands-on law office technology project presented and demonstrated by the students to the entire class. The project can be done by the student alone or in small teams. It will utilize one or more of the tools studied in class to solve a problem in the modern law office.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; LGST 1110 or LGST 5000; LGST 1250; or permission of the instructor.
*Paralegal Specialty course
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3780 - Employment Law
Goals: To introduce students to legal concepts related to the employment context, with a particular emphasis on employment discrimination.
Content: This course introduces students to federal and Minnesota employment laws that governing the basis of an employment relationship, pre-employment concerns, employment contracts, and employee privacy. In addition, this course focuses heavily on anti-discrimination laws and their application in various stages of the employment relationship. Students will draft employee handbook previsions and prepare documents for an administrative agency as well as research and write about the laws they study.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, and LGST 1250.
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3810 - Criminal Law and Practice
Crosslisted
Also listed as CJFS 3810.
Goals: To acquaint the student with the theory and practice of substantive criminal law.
Content: A study of the substantive aspects of criminal law, including traditional elements of crimes, statutory definitions, and judicial interpretations of specific crimes and motor vehicle offenses, as well as inchoate crimes, defenses to legal liability, and sentencing procedure. Focus is placed on developing practical skills associated with working in the field of criminal law.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3820 - Constitutional Issues in Criminal Procedure
Crosslisted
Also listed as CJFS 3820.
Goals: To acquaint the student with the theory and practice of criminal procedural law.
Content: An overview and critical examination of the procedural aspects of criminal law and issues relating to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, unlawful gathering of incriminating evidence through interrogation and identification procedures, and the provision of legal counsel in criminal matters.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or CJFS 1120 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5600 - Tort Law
Goals: To introduce students to the body of law that makes up the field of tort law.
Content: This course presents 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. An extensive writing project is part of this course. Students will write a memorandum addressing a particular area of tort law.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, LGST 1250 and LGST 3520.
Note: Paralegal Specialty Course
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5800 - Senior Seminar in Legal Studies
Goals: To introduce students to advanced legal research and writing methods. To provide opportunity for individual and independent legal research on advanced topics.
Content: This course will include a study of advanced techniques in legal research including federal and other states’ materials. This course will be conducted as a seminar in which the students and the faculty member explore current issues in the legal field. Each student will develop and pursue an individually designed research project leading to the production of an advanced writing project on a current issue related to the legal field.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, LGST 1110 and LGST 1250, or permission of the legal studies chair or director of the paralegal program.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5900 - Legal Studies Practicum
Goals: To apply the concepts and principles previously learned in a practical working environment under the supervision of a lawyer and/or an experienced paralegal (legal assistant).
Content: A 150-hour apprenticeship in the performance of the duties of a paralegal in one of the typical settings for members of the profession; hands-on production of drafts and collation of legal documents under experienced supervision and guidance; attendance at weekly seminars, designed to tie experiential and academic experiences together and to ensure adequate preparation for entry in the profession.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, LGST 1250, LGST 3520, and four other credits of Legal Studies coursework. (Students need to secure an internship before the semester in which they are taking the class and doing the internship.)
Note: Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5950 - Seminar on American Law and Legal Systems
Content: This is a seminar course for students seeking early admission to law school and pre-law juniors and seniors. Each student participates for two semesters (fall and spring). Each student will prepare and present an independent research paper to the seminar. The class is structured as a tutorial in the spring. Each student is expected to master one topic and to instruct the other students.
Taught: Annually. Students must start in the fall and continue through the spring.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, LGST 1250, and declared candidacy for early admission to the law school, or permission of the pre-law advisor.
Credits: 1 credit in fall, 1 credit in spring
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LSTD 5000 - Latin American Studies
Goals: To expose the student to contemporary Latin American problems and examine how Latin America attempts to solve them, how the United States attempts to help solve them and how the two solutions often conflict.
Content: United States response to rebellion, reform and revolution in Mexico (1910), Guatemala (1954), and Cuba (1959), and in other Latin American countries striving for social change. An analysis and discussion of debts, boycotts, loans, coups, invasions, and intervention from 1910 to present.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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LSTD 5100 - Contemporary Issues in the Americas
Goals: The primary objective of this course is to further our understanding of the Americas by studying many of the political, social, economic, and historical forces affecting the region today. Through this course students will come to appreciate the complex interrelatedness of these and other issues, and the necessity, in this new era of the “global village,” for international relations to be founded on knowledge, understanding, and respect.
Content: Through a case study approach we will examine how certain issues are played out in specific countries. For example, we will look at Mexico as we try to understand the phenomena of migration and urbanization; in Argentina and Brazil we will engage issues of authoritarianism and models of economic development; the examples of Peru and El Salvador will teach us about revolution; Chile will introduce to the changing role of Latin American women; and nations of the Caribbean will serve as case studies on race and ethnicity. Specific case studies may vary from year to year.
Taught: Annually.
This course is not recommended for first-year students.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1130 - Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
Goals: To gain an understanding of how the language of mathematics is used in problem solving. This course is especially appropriate for prospective elementary teachers.
Content: Precise formulation of problems, symbolization, strategies for solution of mathematical problems, introduction to various number systems and to mathematical logic.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1161 - Precalculus/Calculus I–A
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus, with a concurrent review of pre-calculus concepts.
Content: Pre-calculus mathematics emphasizing functions, graphing, and trigonometry concurrent with a first course in calculus. The calculus includes limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable, along with applications. Both MATH 1161 and MATH 1162 are required to fulfill MATH 1170 prerequisites for other courses.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: Plane geometry and high school algebra.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1162 - Precalculus/Calculus I–B
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus, with a concurrent review of pre-calculus concepts.
Content: Pre-calculus mathematics emphasizing functions, graphing, and trigonometry concurrent with a first course in calculus. The calculus includes limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable, along with applications. Both MATH 1161 and 1162 are required to fulfill MATH 1170 prerequisites for other courses.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1161.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1170 - Calculus I
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus.
Content: Limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable. Applications are taken mostly from the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: Twelfth-grade high school mathematics with at least B grades or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1180 - Calculus II
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus.
Content: Integrals of functions of one variable, sequences and series. Applications are taken mostly from the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1200 - Statistics and Data Analysis
This course will cover the fundamentals of statistical data analysis: elementary probability, descriptive statistics, parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses, analysis of variance, correlation and regression. Statistical computing will be in R and, if time is available, SPSS.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.
Credit will not be given for both MATH 1200 and PSY 1340 or MATH 1200 and MGMT 1310.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3200 - Applied Modeling and Statistics
Goals: To gain an understanding of applied statistics with emphasis on multivariate statistical analysis building on the concepts learned in elementary statistics courses.
Content: Topics will include statistical models motivated by examples drawn from diverse fields including economics, education, and biology; model selection and factor analysis; maximum likelihood; multiple regression; MANOVA; logistic regression; and the bootstrap.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: MATH 1170. MATH 3320 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3320 - Multivariable and Vector Calculus
Goals: To extend concepts of calculus in two variables to the calculus of several variables.
Content: Vector calculus, partial and total differentiation, maximum/minimum problems, multiple integration, line and surface integrals, vector and scalar fields, theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3330 - Linear Algebra
Goals: To gain an appreciation for how abstract structures are used to solve theoretical and practical problems.
Content: Systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces and bases, transformations, eigenvectors, introduction to linear differential equations.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3440 - Discrete Mathematics
Goals: To introduce the concept of the discrete as well as techniques used in higher non-continuous mathematics, providing the necessary background material required by computer scientists for algorithm analysis.
Content: Sets and numeration, combinatorics, logic, algorithms, recursion, generating functions, graphs, and trees.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3550 - Foundations of Mathematics
Goals: To study mathematics as a logico-deductive system and to analyze those concepts and techniques that underlie all of mathematics.
Content: Logic, proof construction, sets, relations, functions, mathematical induction, arguments involving infinite sets, number systems, axiomatics.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3560 - Modern Geometry
Goals: To introduce to the concept of model building in mathematics from both a synthetic and an axiomatic point of view.
Content: Various geometries are studied with attention paid to what geometry is. Hilbert’s axiom system for Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry, and transformations.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3720 - Introduction to Applied Mathematics
Goals: To introduce techniques and methods of mathematics especially appropriate to the physical sciences.
Content: Introductory ordinary differential equations, linear partial differential equations, emphasizing separation of variables, Fourier series, special functions.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320 and PHYS 1240 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3720 - LAB: Introduction to Applied Mathematics
This lab must be taken concurrently with the MATH 3720 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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MATH 3890 - Number Theory
Goals: An introduction to number theory. This course will develop the properties of integers, especially the properties of prime numbers, starting from the Peano Axioms and show how the structure of prime numbers is reflected in the structure of the group of integers modulo n.
Content: Equivalence relations. Peano Axioms. Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. Diophantine equations. Prime numbers. Gaussian integers. The group of integers modulo n. Fundamental Theorem of Finite Cyclic Groups.
While not a prerequisite for MATH 5890, this course is the first in a two semester sequence, along with MATH 5980, in modern algebra.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3910 - Complex Analysis
Goals: An introduction to complex variables, including a study of the topology of the plane required.
Content: Properties of complex numbers and analytic functions of one complex variable. Power series. Cauchy’s theorem, and applications to integration. Applications.
While not a prerequisite for MATH 5910, this course is the first in a two semester sequence, along with MATH 5910, in modern analysis.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5720 - Ordinary Differential Equations with Numerical Methods
Goals: To learn to determine both the qualitative and quantitative properties of those functions which satisfy ordinary differential equations, using both analytic and numerical techniques.
Content: Analytic methods of solution, numeric methods of solution, linear differential equations, series solutions, the Laplace transform, systems of differential equations, initial and boundary value problems, existence theory and applications.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5810 - Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Goals: To gain an understanding of both probability and statistics as not merely collecting and organizing data but as the science of basing inferences on observed data and making decisions in the face of uncertainty. The student will be prepared to take the preliminary actuarial examination in probability and statistics.
Content: Probability distributions, mathematical expectation, random variables, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, analysis of variance.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5850 - Numerical Analysis
Crosslisted
(Also listed as CSCI 5850.)
Goals: To introduce the methods of modern computation as used in solving problems with the aid of a computer using various algorithms.
Content: Algorithms for the solution of equations in one variable, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, initial-value problems for differential equations, solution of linear systems by direct or iterative techniques and various methods of approximation.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5890 - Modern Algebra
Goals: To continue the study of algebraic structures begun in MATH 3330 with the goal of seeing how the building of these mathematical models yields powerful tools to understand the global nature of mathematics.
Content: Development of the elementary concepts of groups, rings, and fields.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: MATH 3330 and MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5910 - Real Analysis
Goals: To learn the language, fundamental concepts, and standard theorems of analysis. To also learn how to reason deductively from explicit assumptions and definitions in mathematical analysis, thus developing analytic techniques for attacking problems that arise in applied mathematics. Recommended for students considering graduate school in mathematics.
Content: An introduction to real analysis with emphasis on proofs of theorems and on problem solving. Topics include properties of the real number system, functions, sequences, limits and continuity, differentiation, integration, and infinite series including sequences and series of functions.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisites: MATH 3330 and MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5920 - Junior Seminar
Goals: The student will be introduced to ideas and issues that are outside of the regular undergraduate curriculum, studying how mathematics is used in academia and industry.
Content: Reviews of current research and projects of various mathematicians: senior math majors, guest lecturers, and department staff. Student presentations of topics from internships, independent studies, or honors projects.
Credits: 0.5 credit per term
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MATH 5930 - Senior Seminar
Goals: The student will be introduced to ideas and issues that are outside of the regular undergraduate curriculum, studying how mathematics is used in academia and industry.
Content: Reviews of current research and projects of various mathematicians: senior math majors, guest lecturers, and department staff. Student presentations of topics from internships, independent studies, or honors projects.
Credits: 0.5 credit per term
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MATH 5950 - Topics in Advanced Mathematics
Goals: To synthesize previous work in the various areas of mathematics with the goal of putting the areas in a historical perspective and of relating them to the question of what makes up mathematics.
Content: The content of the seminar varies from year to year depending on the instructor. Attention is paid to the history of mathematics and to filling gaps in the spectrum of mathematics presented at the undergraduate level.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 1010 - Introduction to Business and Economics
Goals: To provides students with an overview of business, management, and economics. The purpose of this course is to help students develop the ability to use these concepts to make business and management decisions. The major emphasis will be on concepts and their applications in the workplace of organizations–both profit and non-profit. This course aims to help students understand the dynamic nature of today’s business environment and to equip them with skills to analyze business/economic problems.
Content: Business model simulations will be used to help students understand various functions within business organizations. Also, to prepare for the workplace, this course will aim to identify workplace competencies and successful business practices.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 1310 - Statistics
Goals: To acquaint students with major parametric and nonparametric statistical techniques.
Content: Data organization, simple probability, and sampling distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; regression and correlation; time series; selected non parametric tests.
Prerequisites: None, though a basic understanding of algebra is expected. Credit will not be given for both MGMT 1310 and PSY 1340 or MGMT 1310 and MATH 1200.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 1320 - Quantitative Analysis and Data Management
Goals: The course focuses on developing quantitative analysis skills with special emphasis on the technology and application of software for conducting quantitative analysis of business-related data.
Content: Topics include the use of financial, logical, and time functions in creating worksheets and using tables and charts in analyzing and presenting data. The course will use Excel, Access, and SPSS software packages. Topics also include the creation and use of relational databases, data safety and security, and commonly used system applications like Human Resource Information Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310 and MGMT 1310; or PSY 1340; or MATH 1200.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3100 - Foundations of Management
Goals: To understand basic concepts, theories, and research in management and to apply them to practical management problems. To relate the liberal arts to work, using a common theme of ethics.
Content: The principal functional areas of management (planning, organizing, controlling, and leading) are examined in the context of organizations and groups. Ethical issues and the different views of work from various fields are examined.
Prerequisites: Sophomore, junior, or senior standing, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MGMT 3130 - Business Law
Goals: To provide an overview of the law as it relates to the formation, operation, and completion of business transactions. The course is not only intended to assist the student who plans a career in management, but also the student interested in a legal career.
Content: Contracts, sales, secured transactions, commercial paper, and bankruptcy.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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