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GSC 488 - Geoscience Capstone Research 2 Credits
Students conduct geoscience field work and gather data for an original research project. The research topic is chosen by students and completed in collaboration with a faculty mentor.
Prerequisites: Environmental Geoscience major and Senior Standing
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GSC 498 - Senior Seminar in Geology 2 Credits
Students complete an independent research project and prepare for the Geoscience Exit Examination. The Exit Examination requires a presentation to the faculty about the research project and demonstration of competency in basic topics in geoscience. This seminar, along with required field experiences in GSC 482, constitutes the capstone experience for geoscience majors. The seminar provides preparation for career employment or graduate school.
Prerequisites: Environmental Geoscience major with Geology emphasis and Senior Standing
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Gender and Women’s Studies |
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GWS 265 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies 3 Credits
Students study major issues, debates, and challenges in contemporary feminism as a political and academic movement, including representations and experiences of women, the construction of gender and gender roles, and their impact in areas such as body image, health, sexuality, reproductive rights, work, and domestic violence.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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GWS 266 - Ecofeminism 3 Credits
Students examine ecofeminism as an intersection of environmentalism and feminism, focusing on relationships between nature, culture, and gender. Readings and discussions explore diverse approaches to ecofeminist concerns, including environmental ethics, spirituality, and political practice.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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GWS 331 - Feminist Theory 3 Credits
Students participate in an advanced study of the theory and politics of contemporary feminism, including the contributions of prominent feminist academics and activists.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any GWS course
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GWS 343 - Queer Ecologies 3 Credits
Queer Ecologies explores queer, feminist, environmentalist cultural theories that illuminate and interrogate historical and current intersections between sexualities, politics, and environments. This course asks, what do queer and feminist theories of gender, identity, power, and desire contribute to environmentalism, and likewise, how might environmentalist theories of nature and environment enrich queer and gender theory, politics, and activism?
Prerequisites: Any GWS course or HIS 209 , HIS 260 , SOC 234 , SOC 236 , SOC 240 , SOC 341
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History |
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HIS 101 - United States History to 1865 3 Credits
Students examine major social, political, and economic developments in United States history from the origin of settlement through the Civil War. Students will pay special attention to such factors as race, class, religion, ethnicity, and gender in the shaping of the United States within this time frame.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 102 - United States History since 1865 3 Credits
Students examine United States political, economic, and social developments from Reconstruction to the present. They focus especially on the evolution of cities, industrial capitalism, immigration, and ethnic and women’s rights in the designated time frame.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 111 - History of World Civilizations to 1500 3 Credits
This course surveys human history from the beginning of agriculture to 1500. Students examine how technological innovation, religious ideas, culture, social structures, economic forces, and the environment interacted to shape civilizations.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 112 - History of World Civilizations since 1500 3 Credits
Students examine the interactions and increasing integration of the world’s civilizations in the modern era. The course covers global trade networks, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, European hegemony, the two World Wars, the Cold War and contemporary world trade, culture and politics.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 209 - Gender in the United States Landscape 3 Credits
Students study the complex ways in which landscapes are constructed through ideology, commerce, and gendered understandings of nature. Students cover several American landscapes and their construction, including but not limited to cities, wilderness, frontiers, suberbs, and parks.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 221 - History of Medieval Europe 3 Credits
A history of the beginnings and development of Western European civilization from the later Roman Empire to the beginning of the modern era around 1500. The medieval period will be studied from the political, social, economic, and cultural perspectives of history.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 234 - Ideology in the 20th Century 3 Credits
Students will explore the ways that political ideologies have shaped the world since 1900. Topics include European colonialism, the rise of communism and fascism, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the two World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, colonial independence movements, globalization and the status of ideologies such as liberalism today.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 241 - American Environmental History 3 Credits
Students trace the cultural perceptions of nature and humanity’s impact on the environment over the course of American history. Students study various sites of environmental degradation and preservation and the history and politics of environmental protection and sustainability within several crucial frames, including those of race, class, and gender.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 242 - European Environmental History 3 Credits
Students study the major climatic changes in Europe in the last 2000 years and the ways that these changes have impacted European society. Students also study the major ideas in European culture about human relationships with the environment, including scientific, religious, and more general cultural conceptions of nature.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 260 - Gender in Modern Europe 3 Credits
Students examine how gender roles for both men and women have interacted with political, social, economic, and cultural changes over the last 400 years. Specific topics include gender’s relationship to psychology, work and family, science, urban space, war, and imperialism.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 263 - History of the Middle East 3 Credits
Students trace the history of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present with an emphasis on the events of the 20th century. Topics include European and American colonialism, Zionism and Arab Nationalism, the Iranian Revolution, the Persian Gulf Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Arab Spring.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 264 - Middle East History and Politics 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course allows students to study the historical and political context of the complex struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, with particular attention to the sequences of action and time, the study of events, and the role of political power. As students develop an understanding of the origins and causes of the Israelis-Palestinian conflict, on-site visits to historic sites and guest speakers help them to make links to the present.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
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HIS 266 - American Material Culture/Objects in Everyday Life and History 3 Credits
In this course, students uncover the cultural messages in the objects and spaces of our everyday lives. They attend to the development of American consumer culture and how physical objects construct racial, ethnic, and gendered identities. Objects of study include, among others, cemetaries, museums, architecture, clothing, and vernacular art.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 270 - The Holocaust 3 Credits
The course covers European anti-Semitism, racial ideology, the political crises of the early 1930s, Nazi ideology, the course of World War II, and the structures and functioning of the Nazi machinery of death. Questions regarding moral responsibility, memory, modernity, and depersonalization will figure prominently in discussions.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 315 - American Foodways 3 Credits
Students examine various key sites and moments of agricultural production throughout United States history. Students study land law, as well as institutions of slavery, sharecropping, seed patenting, and spaces such as the plantation, farm, and botanical garden. Students examine various implements, including the fence, plow, as well as crate labels.
Prerequisites: Sophomore Status
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HIS 320 - The Enlightenment 3 Credits
Students examine the intellectual foundations of our culture from the Scientific Revolution to the French Revolution. The course emphasizes how the Enlightenment articulated Western civilization’s understandings of science, the role of government, the nature of the individual, and rationalism. Assignments focus on placing texts in context.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course
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HIS 321 - The French Revolution 3 Credits
Students study the French Revolution, an event that marks the beginning of modern politics in the West. Topics include the ideas of the Enlightenment, the events of 1789-1794, the rise of Napoleon, the birth of political ideologies, and the fundamental questions of government, representation, and violence in politics.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course
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HIS 325 - Nature and Nation: Environment, Art, Ideology 3 Credits
This course examines the intersection of nature and nation-building in three periods: the early national period, 1950s cowboy culture, and present-day National Parks tourism. Students study the relationship of natural history to national culture, examining how empire and Enlightenment thinking come together to constitute nation-building as an imperial and Romantic art.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: HIS 241 , HIS 242 , HIS 315 , or Junior Standing
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HIS 357 - Gender in Total War 3 Credits
Students examine the transformation of gender roles during World Wars I and II and explore in particular challenges to ideals of masculine courage, valor, and military efficacy in the face of mechanized warfare as well as the ways in which the wars drew women into industrial workplaces and onto the killing fields. Illustrations of these dramatic upheavals in European and American conceptions of gender are examined in secondary histories, film, literature, and memoirs.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course
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Humanities |
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HUM 220 - Soviet Art and Music 3 Credits
Beginning with some brief background on the late Czarist period and late Romantic music by Tchaikowsky, the course proceeds through the revolutionary periods, examines politics, poetry of Anna Akhmatova, music of Prokofiev, then focuses primarily on the Stalin years and the music of Shostakovich. Students will view and discuss the documentary film, Shostakovich vs. Stalin–The War Symphonies, a short work of Solzhenitsen, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, and the novel, City of Thieves by David Benioff. The concluding period, death of Stalin through the dissolution of the Soviet State, is addressed through The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee, the long poem, “Zima Junction” by Yuri Yevtushenko, and late musical works of Shostakovich.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HUM 235 - Arts, Letters, and The World War 3 Credits
Primarily focused on Europe, leading up to and through, World War I, the course examines arts, letters, and music of the period in the context of the cataclysmic changes of those times, probes the resulting sea change within the arts and the approaches and styles of many of the major exponents, and human response to world events and to the arts. Key themes: reorientation and disorientation.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HUM 249 - Voices in the American West 3 Credits
Students investigate the rich and varied art that treats the American West. Paintings, music, fiction, poetry, and film are considered. The manner in which creators such as Frederic Remington, Annie Proulx, Andrew Wyeth, Sherman Alexie, Cormack McCarthy, Aaron Copland, Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry inform and are informed by both the realities and the myths of the West are a central concern throughout.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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Interdisciplinary Studies |
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IDS 130 - Climate and the Complexities of Societal Change 4 Credits
This course explores the complexity of societal action to address climate change. Insights come from the fields of environmental education, communication, history of science, clinical psychology, religion, economics, and environmental philosophy as well as from case studies of current events and from experiences of communities on the front lines of climate change.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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IDS 141 - Sustainable Agriculture Synthesis 4 Credits
Students develop a holistic understanding of humanity’s relationship to nature through famine and food, gain understanding of agricultural challenges through projects in the campus garden and surrounding farms, and consider how a systems perspective informs the practice of farming and advances in sustainable food production.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
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IDS 168 - War and Peace in Film 3 Credits
This Spring Term course critically considers how filmmakers, producers and executives, activists, and governments have advocated for war and peace through the medium of film in the past century. Students primarily examine the American experience in war and peace in this period, but international perspectives on the topic also receive consideration.
Connections Discipline: Interdiscplinary
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IDS 180 - Lake Superior Circumnavigation 4 Credits
In this May-term travel course, students explore the Lake Superior Watershed as they circumnavigate the Lake by van, boat, and foot. Visits to prominent natural and historical sites as well as interactions with members of regional communities are integral to the course.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: Superior Connections 4-course block
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IDS 243 - Sustainable Agriculture Practicum 4 Credits
In this field course, students gain hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture either by working on selected farms or by assisting organizations working on food or agricultural policy issues. Students have the opportunity to work in-depth with one farm or organization for the semester, or gain a broad experience with several farms and organizations over the semester.
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Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: IDS 141
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IDS 254 - Diversity and the Environment 3 Credits
Students explore the unique issues that impact under-represented populations and their relationships to the environment. Issues that students examine include environmental policy, race and environmental injustice, cultural identity and the natural world, environmental activism, and diversity.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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IDS 274 - Israel and Palestine Studies 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides an interdisciplinary review of contemporary issues in three countries of the Levant region: Israel, Palestinian Territories, and Jordan. The first-hand survey includes home stays, touring, and study to understand the geography, culture, language, religion, economics, foreign relations, environment, and arts of the region.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 276 - Middle East Sustainability 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides students with an opportunity to explore the principles and integral relationship of peace and sustainability in Israel and Palestine. In addition to examining choices being made in their own lives and how these impact both peace and sustainability, the course provides an opportunity to examine current efforts in the region to build peace and a sustainable future. Field trips and opportunities to apply classroom learning to current peace and sustainability projects are integral to the course.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL program
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IDS 278 - Applied Peace and Sustainability 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this service-learning course challenges students to apply what they are learning in their academic courses to real-life peace and sustainability issues and practices in the programs and villages where they are working and living. Students will have opportunities to work with community partners in various organizations relating to peace and sustainability such as a refugee camp in Bethlehem, Friends of the Earth Middle East, Arava Institute, Seeds of Peace, Peace Players, an Environmental Education Center in Beit Jala, and Volunteering for Peace.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 280 - Trekking Planet Japan 4 Credits
Students participate in an international study trip to Japan. The focus of the course is on historic and contemporary expression of Japanese religions, notably Buddhism and Shinto.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
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IDS 281 - Spring in Italy 4 Credits
Students study the great artistic, intellectual, and religious achievements of Medieval and Renaissance Italy as they travel in the heart of Tuscany and Umbria. Students reside in a medieval villa atop the Umbrian mountains in addition to resident studies in Florence.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
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IDS 284 - Central American Culture, History, and Language 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides students with a hands-on introduction to the history and culture of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; the challenges of conservation and development facing this region; and the language of the region. Students participate in several homestay experiences, visit cultural and historical sites, and engage in discussions, lectures, and reflective writing.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 285 - Iceland Culture, History, and Language 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides students with an overview of the culture, language, and history of Iceland. Students receive instruction in conversational Icelandic and develop an understanding of the socio-cultural and environmental contexts relevant to Icelandic studies. Field trips to historical sites are integral to the course.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 373 - Humans and the Environment 3 Credits
Part of a Round River field experience, in this environmental anthropology course, students study a variety of topics that range from cultural models and narrative constructions of the natural environment to more applied, developmental issues associated with sustainability and community-based natural resource management, and the wider political and economic context of environmental issues as reflected in political-ecology and the environmental justice movement.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to the Round River Program
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IDS 480 - Senior Seminar 3 Credits
Through seminar discussions and essay assignments, students synthesize their learning from courses and experiences in the Humanity and Nature core and Environmental humanities emphasis. Specific topics of study vary in a given year.
Prerequisites: ENG 384 , GWS 331 , HIS 325 , REL 315 , or REL 331
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Meteorology |
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MET 125 - Introduction to Meteorology 4 Credits
This course provides students with an introduction to the general circulation of the atmosphere and the mechanisms responsible for the generation of daily weather. Students study seasonal and daily temperatures, atmospheric moisture, stability and cloud development, air pressure and winds, weather forecasting, and severe weather.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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MET 255 - Practicum Broadcast Meteorology 3 Credits
This practicum provides students with an introduction to the field of broadcast meteorology and offers hands-on experience in creating and airing weather reports at the Northland News Center in Duluth. Students become familiar with the technology and operating procedures of a news/weather/sports studio environment, gain skills in the use of specialized software, and learn how to put together a broadcast package under time constraints. For this course, students must arrange their own transportation to the Northland News Center in Duluth.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
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MET 270 - Oceanography 4 Credits
Students learn about the two-way interaction between the ocean and its surrounding environment. Students study how the surrounding environment has shaped the ocean from the initial origins to today. This examination considers everything from the influence of humans, the atmosphere, and the smallest marine life. The course also covers how the ocean influences life in the sea as well as on land. Topics include mixing, currents, ocean chemistry, waves, tides, and tsunamis.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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MET 364 - Synoptic Meteorology I 4 Credits
Students learn basic techniques for analyzing and forecasting surface and upper-air weather systems. The course focuses on air mass classification, frontal analysis, construction of surface weather maps, upper-air analysis, interpretation of satellite imagery, and discussions of standardized techniques for collection and reporting weather information and for displaying weather data patterns and preparation of forecasts.
Prerequisites: MET 125 and MTH 140 or PHY 110
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MET 365 - Synoptic Meteorology II 4 Credits
Continuation of Synoptic Meteorology I. Quasi-geostrophic theory, baroclinic instability, and potential vorticity dynamics are discussed in light of the development and propagation of mid-latitute cyclones and anticyclones. Interactions of synoptic-scale phenomena with the global and mesoscales are also discussed.
Prerequisites: MET 364 and MTH 141 or PHY 111
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MET 387 - Mesoscale Meteorology 3 Credits
By applying atmospheric dynamics and physical analysis techniques, students develop a physical understanding of and an ability to forecast certain mesoscale phenomena, including mesoscale convective systems, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes. Students also are thoroughly educated in storm safety. The final week of the course includes a storm chasing trip to Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. To be eligible for the chasing trip, students must have SKYWARN spotter certification.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: MET 125 and MTH 140
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MET 465 - Dynamic Meteorology II 4 Credits
Continuation of Dynamic Meteorology I. Topics include atmospheric waves, the planetary boundary layer, baroclinic and barotropic instability, and atmospheric turbulence.
Prerequisites: MET 464
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MET 467 - Physical Meteorology 3 Credits
Students complete an in-depth examination of various topics in atmospheric sciences including thermodynamics of moist air, radiative transfer through the atmosphere, and atmospheric fluid dynamics. The course requires a combination of advanced mathematics and a solid understanding of fundamental physics.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: MTH 141 and PHY 330
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MET 480 - Senior Seminar in Meteorology 3 Credits
The Senior Seminar in Meteorology is a capstone course intended for students majoring in meteorology and may include readings and presentations of current topics in meteorology, discussions, laboratory experimentation, and other preparation for employment and/or graduate school.
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MLG 105 - Elementary Spanish I 4 Credits
Students develop a working knowledge of modern Spanish, allowing them to speak, write, and understand the language as it is used today. Classes are taught in Spanish and consist of dialogue practice, presentation of grammatical forms, and intensive language drills. Regular attendance and steady, incremental work is essential for success in the class. Out-of-class support is provided by the instructor and a tutor. Texts for the course are carefully selected and include workbooks for drills and practice, as well as a strong focus on the different cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 105.
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MLG 106 - Elementary Spanish II 4 Credits
This course is a continuation of MLG 105 , students further develop a working knowledge of modern Spanish, allowing them to speak, write, and understand the language as it is used today. Classes are taught in Spanish and consist of dialogue practice, presentation of grammatical forms, and intensive language drills. Regular attendance and steady, incremental work is essential for success in the class. Out-of-class support is provided by the instructor and a tutor. Texts for the course are carefully selected and include workbooks for drills and practice, as well as a strong focus on the different cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Students develop conversational skills. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 106.
Prerequisites: MLG 105 , Advanced Placement or CLEP credit
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MLG 205 - Intermediate Spanish I 4 Credits
This course continues to build a solid grammatical foundation and to reinforce the four basic skills ―listening, speaking, reading, and writing― while giving more opportunities for conversation, so students can use the language freely and spontaneously. Culture is amplified with the class study of a movie script and viewing of the film, as well as various presentations on Latin America and Spain. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 205.
Prerequisites: MLG 106
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MLG 206 - Intermediate Spanish II 4 Credits
This course represents a mix of advanced grammar and conversation as well as an Introduction to literature. Students read short stories from renowned authors: those are analyzed and discussed in class and students write position/reaction papers on the topic of their choice. There are “windows” into other cultures through documentaries and films. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 206.
Prerequisites: MLG 205
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Mathematics |
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MTH 106 - Environmental Mathematics 4 Credits
Students explore environmental issues and problems using the mathematics of functions and basic statistics. Specific topics include explorations of measurements and units; ratios and percentages; tabular and graphical displays of data; linear, exponential, and power functions; difference equations; and statistical descriptions of data. Students reinforce all concepts through application to environmental data and situations.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: ACT math score of 17 or higher, SAT math score of 830 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 107 - Statistical Concepts and Analysis 4 Credits
Students learn to explore questions about data and populations through the application of exploratory data analysis and inferential statistics. Specific topics include summary graphics and statistics; normal distribution calculations; experimental design and sample collection; sampling distributions; inference concept; t-family of tests; chi-square family of tests; and regression. Students analyze data and perform tests with modern statistical software.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: Any 100-level MTH course, ACT math score of 17 or higher, SAT math score of 830 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 109 - Precalculus Mathematics 4 Credits
Students review the real number system and develop understanding of functions and graphs. Topics include polynomials and zeros, rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions, identities and inverse functions, solution of triangles and elements of coordinate geometry.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: ACT math score of 20 or higher, SAT math score of 950 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 140 - Calculus I 4 Credits
Students learn the concepts of limit, continuity, derivative, and integration. Topics include Mean Value Theorem, anti-derivatives, definite integrals and their applications. Students apply the derivative concept to curve sketching and extreme value problems of optimization in the life, social, and physical sciences.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 109 , ACT math score of 25 or higher, SAT math score of 1150 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 141 - Calculus II 4 Credits
In this course students develop a deeper understanding of calculus and its applications. Topics include applications of the definite integral, techniques of integration, improper integrals, Taylor polynomials, sequence and series, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, and multiple integrals.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 140
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MTH 207 - Biometry 4 Credits
Students learn to explore more advanced questions about data and populations through the application of statistical models and inferential statistics. Specific topics include linear models of one- and two-way ANOVA with multiple comparisons and transformations, linear regression with transformations and indicator variables, and logistic regression. Students apply theoretical constructs to real-life situations in the life and natural sciences using modern statistical software.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 107
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MTH 230 - Mathematical Modeling 4 Credits
Students use deterministic and stochastic models based on difference and differential equations to draw conclusions and make predictions about natural systems. Topics include equilibrium analysis, bifurcation, chaos, hysteresis, phase plane analysis, and numerical simulation. Students apply modeling concepts to population ecology, population viability, predator-prey relationships, sustainable use of renewable resources, and global climate.
Prerequisites: MTH 140
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MTH 307 - Probability and Its Applications 3 Credits
Students learn combinatorial analysis, axioms of probability, conditional probability, discrete, continuous and jointly distributed random variables, moment generating functions and limit theorems. Students apply theoretical concepts to inferential statistics, Bayes’ Theorem, and Markov chains.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 312 - Advanced Calculus 4 Credits
Students explore multivariate functions and vector calculus. Topics include extreme values of functions of several variables, implicit functions and Jacobians, transformation of coordinates, derivatives of vector-valued functions, line integrals, surface integrals, Green’s theorem, Stokes’ theorem, and the divergence theorem.
Prerequisites: MTH 141
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MTH 328 - College Geometry 3 Credits
Students learn both Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. Topics include vector methods of proof, classical theorems, geometric transformations of the Euclidean plane, the Poincare model of hyperbolic space and non-Euclidean geometry, and introductory projective geometry.
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 330 - Differential Equations 4 Credits
Differential equations serve as mathematical models for displaying the interrelations between mathematics and the physical sciences engineering. Students study the methods of solutions of ordinary differential equations to represent the dynamics of physical phenomena. Topics include first and second order linear differential equations, power series, and Laplace transform solutions of differential equations.
Prerequisites: MTH 141
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MTH 335 - Discrete Mathematics 4 Credits
Students learn fundamental discrete structures. Topics include algorithms, mathematical induction, elements of set theory, graphs, trees, combinatorics, difference equations, recursion, logic, and probability.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 140 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 337 - Linear Algebra 4 Credits
Students use matrix and generalized vector spaces to understand multi-variable functions in real-life applications. Topics include vector spaces, linear dependence/independence, properties of matrices and determinants, linear transformations, inner product spaces, and eigenvalues.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 470 - Advanced Topics in Mathematics 4 Credits
Students learn methods of rigorous proofs in analysis and algebra. Topics from analysis include sequences and series, continuous functions on metric spaces, derivatives, basic point set topology and properties of Riemann integrals. Topics from modern algebra include groups, rings, and fields. Real Analysis/Modern Algebra offered in alternate years.
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 496 - Mathematics Senior Capstone Seminar 1 - 4 Credits
Students select, conduct, and complete a research project. The focus of the seminar reflects particular competencies of faculty and specific interests of students. Strongly recommended for all senior mathematics majors.
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MUS 101 - Introduction to Music 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to music history, language and form. Students learn to listen to and discuss music critically. Classical, western tonal music is the foundation, but other styles of music are included. Students experience live music in various settings.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 121 - Chamber Music in Performance 1 Credits
Students rehearse and perform chamber music repertory for various standard combinations of instruments and/or voices. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 122 - Voice in Class 1 Credits
Students study the basic principles of vocal tone production and develop vocal skills in a group setting.
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MUS 131 - Symphonic Band 0 - 1 Credits
In this Northland College and community concert band, participants study traditional and contemporary band literature and participate in concerts throughout the academic year, balancing the musical and educational needs of the members with service to the cultural needs of the community. Membership is open to all qualified students. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 141 - Northland Singers 0 - 1 Credits
This is a mixed choir for students who enjoy the challenge of singing a wide variety of choral music in a range of different styles. The course is offered by audition and is repeatable for credit.
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MUS 143 - Lumberjack Chorus 0 - 1 Credits
This is a male choir for students and community members who enjoy the challenge of singing a wide variety of choral music in a range of different styles. The course is offered without audition and is repeatable for credit.
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MUS 145 - Accidentals Women’s Chorus 0 - 1 Credits
This is a female choir for students and community members who enjoy the challenge of singing a wide variety of choral music in a range of different styles. The course is offered without audition and is repeatable for credit.
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MUS 151 - Jazz Band 0 - 1 Credits
The band is organized for the study and performance of jazz arrangements and composition in a variety of styles. This ensemble provides the opportunity to strengthen improvisational skills. Membership is open to all qualified students. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 161 - Chequamegon Symphony 0 - 1 Credits
Students participate in a college-community orchestra that performs major orchestral repertory during a season of three or four concerts. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 171 - Chamber Choir 0 - 1 Credits
An extension of Northland Singers, Chamber Choir explores music written for small vocal ensembles. Singers have opportunities to perform music from a number of different style periods, with an emphasis on music from the Renaissance. Students perform regular concerts and are involved in musical outreach in the community. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 181 - Individual Brass Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 182 - Individual Guitar Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 183 - Individual Percussion Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 184 - Individual Piano Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 185 - Individual Strings Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 186 - Individual Voice Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in voice. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 187 - Individual Woodwind Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 203 - Evolution of American Song 3 Credits
This course surveys popular songs, songwriters, and trends in songwriting from the 19th century through the modern era. Students study the nature of melodies, lyrics, changing trends, the creative process, and the social and economic contexts of the music.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 205 - Story of Jazz 3 Credits
This course covers the development of jazz from its African heritage through ragtime, blues, Dixieland, swing, and bop to today’s styles. Recordings support the historical-analytical approach to the subject.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 206 - History of Rock and Roll 3 Credits
In this course, students survey Rock and Roll music from its predecessors up to the present day. The elements of music (Sound, Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, Form, and Text) are discussed in the context of Rock and Roll, as are the cultural and sociological influences and implications of this music.
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MUS 217 - Music in World Culture 3 Credits
This course examines music across a broad and diverse spectrum of cultures, both within the United States and worldwide. The course addresses the intrinsic nature of each type of music considered as well as its function and meaning in its social context.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 221 - Music and Text 3 Credits
Students examine the relationship between text and music in a wide range of musical styles. Discussions include an examination of poetry and metaphor, musical and literary forms, tropes, and transumption of ideas. Students gain experience with art-song, opera, musical theater, as well as select popular genres.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 231 - Music Theory I 3 Credits
This course focuses on the mastery of the fundamentals, diatonic materials, ear-training and sight-singing, as well as the beginning of formal analysis.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 232 - Music Theory II 3 Credits
This course continues the study of formal analysis, including chromatic harmony and 20th century materials, and the mastery of ear-training, and sight-singing.
Prerequisites: MUS 231
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MUS 260 - Contemporary Music 3 Credits
Students survey important avant-garde and post avant-garde musical works and composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and examine relevant cultural shifts, innovations, and techniques that form the underpinnings of the music. The significant parallels between contemporary music and contemporary visual arts are also addressed. Musical styles such as atonality, serialism, minimalism, electronic and electroacoustic music will be considered.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 263 - Music and Nature 3 Credits
Through case studies and experimentation, students learn how music can build a sense of community in a variety of natural and cultural settings. Specific topics include campfire songs, adaptive music for the physically challenged, Ojibwa music in the Chequamegon Bay region, African traditions, hybrid and syncretic musics. Students also engage in song writing and develop their own skills with voice and instruments such as the dulcimer, banjo, penny whistle, drums, and keyboard.
Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
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MUS 315 - Conducting and Scoring 4 Credits
This course addresses conducting, arranging, scoring, and programming choral and instrumental literature.
Prerequisites: MUS 232
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MUS 323 - Survey of Musical Styles I 3 Credits
This course focuses on Western music from its beginnings through the Baroque era and traces both the religious and secular traditions. Students study major composers and works, with an aural and visual emphasis on the harmonic and formal structure characteristic of each.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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