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OED 431 - Outward Bound Semester 12 Credits
See Outdoor Education faculty or the Voyageur Outward Bound website for more information.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
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OED 437 - Universal Design Laboratory 4 Credits
Students explore the application of inclusion and universal design to outdoor education in a laboratory-style course. Students engage in individual projects, designing curricula, equipment, or products to promote inclusion and to experience the practical implications of universal design within the outdoor education profession.
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Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: OED 324 , OED 326 , OED 328 , and OED 381
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OED 439 - Therapeutic Principles and Practices 4 Credits
Students explore current therapeutic applications and research in the field of outdoor education. Current literature and case studies are used to teach and apply a range of therapeutic principles and practices. The primary focus is on Adventure Therapy but may vary with student interests. Students interested in working with at-risk or adjudicated adolescents in outdoor settings are encouraged to take this class.
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Prerequisites: OED 276 , PSY 110 , and Junior Standing or Instructor Consent
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OED 446 - Wilderness Instructor Training 4 Credits
Students plan and participate in a 3-week wilderness expedition. While traveling by land or water, students study and practice navigation, cooking, campcraft, technical skills, risk management, group process, leadership, and teaching techniques.
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Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: OED 237 , OED 324 , OED 326 , OED 381 , and Instructor Consent
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OED 470 - Enduring, Emerging Issues in Outdoor Education 3 Credits
This course explores multiple perspectives on key debates within the field. These include the role of technology in the wilderness, the value of motorized recreation, the trend of certification and accreditation, access for individuals with disabilities, the value of “virtual” adventure programs, the rights of organizations to restrict membership based on personal characteristics, and what it means for outdoor programs to be “sustainable.”
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing or Instructor Consent
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OED 481 - Outdoor Orientation Student Director 4 Credits
The Student Director assists the Outdoor Orientation coordinator by guiding the Steering Committee, implementing the outdoor leadership training program, overseeing the successful completion of Outdoor Orientation trips, coordinating outdoor trips with other on-campus Orientation activities, and maintaining communications with trip leaders and new students. This position requires participation in the trip planning and training class during the winter semester, availability for summer work-study employment, and program wrap-up and evaluation that extends into the first weeks of the fall semester.
Prerequisites: OED 180
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OED 496 - Outdoor Education Capstone 3 - 4 Credits
The outdoor education capstone is a full-time, 10-12 week intensive teaching or leadership practicum within a professional outdoor education environment. It is intended to be a culminating opportunity for students nearing graduation to hone their teaching and leadership skills in a professional setting. The capstone may be taken after completion of the required Outdoor Education Professional Development Block. Capstone experiences are chosen in consultation with and require approval from faculty in the outdoor education program.
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Physical Education |
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PED 132 - Lifeguard Training 2 Credits
Students learn rescue techniques, lifeguard etiquette, and pool maintenance. Students who successfully complete the course earn the American Red Cross certification in Lifeguard Training. Before enrolling in this course, students should have strong swimming skills and hold current AARC First Aid and CPR certifications.
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PED 133 - Water Safety Instructor 2 Credits
Students analyze aquatic skills and hydrodynamic principles and develop teaching methods. Students who successfully complete the course earn American Red Cross certification to teach swimming lessons.
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PED 202 - Sports Medicine 3 Credits
Students study the causes, prevention, and treatment of sports injuries. They also gain practical experience in first aid, taping, and training techniques.
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PED 240 - Sports Safety Training 2 Credits
Students who successfully complete this course earn Red Cross certification at the advanced first aid level.
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PED 300 - Theories and Techniques of Coaching 3 Credits
Students develop an understanding of general coaching fundamentals as well as techniques for coaching specific sports. The course includes four hours of lab.
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PED 301 - Musculoskeletal Anatomy 4 Credits
This specialized course features an in-depth study of human skeletal, articular (joint), and muscular systems, including their structure, function, and interactions. Students develop conceptual understandings and explore applications rather than memorize details.
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PED 303 - Analysis of Human Performance 4 Credits
Students study the principles of Exercise Physiology and their application to physical activities. Particular attention is given to bioenergetics, the physiology of muscular contraction, neural control and feedback mechanisms, and their application.
Prerequisites: PED 301
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PED 400 - Organization and Administration of Athletics 3 Credits
Students study the organization of athletics and athletic teams; administrative problems of athletics in relationship to individual, school, community, and state requirements; principles of officiating; the place of intramural and interscholastic athletics in the academic curriculum; and control and care of an athletic plant.
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Philosophy |
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PHL 225 - Ethics 3 Credits
Students explore contemporary moral problems and their relationship to applicable ethical concepts and theories, such as right and wrong, moral agency and responsibility, moral value, law and morality, and justification of ethical assertions.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 226 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credits
Students study ethical responsibility with regard to the natural world and gain practical experience by investigating the ethical dimensions of current environmental issues.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 229 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 Credits
Students study the fundamental questions, issues, and methods of philosophy. Specific topics include seminal ideas from philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, theories of knowledge (epistemology), ultimate reality (metaphysics), and moral philosophy (ethics).
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 262 - Environmental Philosophy 4 Credits
In this course students survey main areas of environmental philosophy, including environmental ethics, European environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, political ecology, and environmental aesthetics. Students explore and develop their own philosophical attitudes toward the environment and environmental issues.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 266 - Environmental Aesthetics 4 Credits
Students explore how aesthetic values of nature inform environmental ethical decision making and how culture influences the way that individuals appreciate nature. Integral to the course is an examination of how underlying Western environmental aesthetic values compare to traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 270 - Philosophy of Science 4 Credits
This course focuses on the philosophical thought associated with scientific revolutions and the scientific method specifically. Through discussions and readings, students examine the successes of modern science as well as critiques of its methods and philosophical underpinnings.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 276 - Logic 3 Credits
This course will emphasize learning to use symbolic logic to diagram and analyze deductive arguments, and to carry out proofs to derive conclusions. Basic predicate logic and quantification will be covered, as well as informal fallacies. Applications to real life arguments will be stressed.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
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PHL 282 - Contemporary Western Philosophy 3 Credits
A survey of the major ideas and currents in Western philosophy from the late 1800s through the 1900s. Areas will include analytic philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy, and neo-pragmatism.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 330 - Philosophy of Language 3 Credits
In this class students will explore the meaning of meaning from various philosophical perspectives. Topics include sense and nonsense, rules, mataphor, the role of context, and the alleged limits of language. We will take a theme-based rather than a chronological approach to the topic.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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PHL 360 - Concepts of Nature 3 Credits
An upper level seminar in which we explore conceptual frameworks surrounding the social construction of the concept of ‘Nature’. We will look at the tacit assumptions that inform our attitudes, decisions, and behaviors in relation to the natural world, and we will compare European, American, and Japanese models of understanding ‘Nature’.
Prerequisites: PHL 226 , PHL 262 , PHL 266 , or HIS 241
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Physics |
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PHY 100 - Physical Science 4 Credits
Students study the basic principles of physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, and astronomy. During the course, students acquire a broad understanding of concepts ranging from chemical reactions, electricity, and stellar evolution to plate tectonics, projectile motion, and future sources of energy. This course includes lab experience with each topic.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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PHY 104 - Introduction to Astronomy 4 Credits
Students investigate general astronomical topics, including the solar system, stars, galaxies, coordinates in space- time, prediction of the position of celestial bodies, constellation identification, and celestial navigation.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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PHY 110 - General Physics I 4 Credits
Students apply a calculus-based approach to the topics of kinematics, dynamics, gravitation, and rotation. In the laboratory portion of the course, students collect, analyze, and graph data.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Corequisites: MTH 140
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PHY 111 - General Physics II 4 Credits
Students apply a calculus-based approach to the topics of fluid mechanics, oscillations and waves, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism. The course requires a solid understanding of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. In the laboratory portion of the course, students collect, analyze and graph data.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: PHY 110 and MTH 140
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PHY 211 - Introductory Modern Physics 3 Credits
Students survey the basic concepts of modern physics, including special relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and elementary particles. Students in this course should have access to calculators capable of numerical integration.
Prerequisites: PHY 111 and MTH 141
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PHY 306 - Classical Mechanics 3 Credits
At an advanced level, students investigate the study of mechanics, including kinematics with non-constant acceleration, rotation of rigid bodies, motion in non-inertial reference frames, two-dimensional collisions, and Kepler’s laws of gravitation. The course requires a combination of advanced mathematics and an understanding of fundamental physics.
Prerequisites: PHY 111 and MTH 141
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PHY 330 - Thermodynamics 3 Credits
An advanced investigation of the laws of thermodynamics. Topics include gas laws, heat transfer, work, entropy, heat engines, the thermodynamic behavior of water and moist air.
Prerequisites: PHY 111 and MTH 141
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Psychology |
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PSY 110 - General Psychology 4 Credits
Students integrate the natural and social sciences in the study of human psychology. Topics include history, systems, and methods of psychology; neuroscience; cognition, language and consciousness; lifespan development; motivation and emotion; disorders and treatment; personality and social psychology. Special emphasis is placed on incorporating research from several areas in the analysis of specific topics such as aggression, health, and sexuality.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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PSY 203 - Lifespan Developmental Psychology 3 Credits
This course examines physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development over the lifespan, addressing theories and research on development and its influences: what changes and what remains the same, how people differ in their development, and the nature of the stages we pass through.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: PSY 110
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PSY 225 - Experimental Psychology 3 Credits
Students apply the scientific method in psychology, including experience in preparing, performing, and reporting psychological experiments.
Prerequisites: PSY 110 and MTH 107 .
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PSY 227 - Cognitive Psychology 3 Credits
An introduction to contemporary research and theory in human learning and memory, relevant perceptual processes, and higher functions such as language.
Prerequisites: PSY 110
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PSY 233 - Social Psychology 3 Credits
Students explore the behavior and experience of the individual in a social and cultural context. Current theory and research are covered on core topics including: the self, aggression, prosocial behavior, attraction and love, attitudes, prejudice, conformity, and group dynamics. Coursework is focused on applying social psychological principles and practices to current issues related to the environment, health, politics, and the law. Students design and implement an independent research project.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: PSY 110
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PSY 234 - Theories of Personality 3 Credits
Students survey theory and research in the study of the individual and examine the complex concept of “personality.” The course focuses on a variety of definitions for the term “personality” and their associations with traits, strengths and limitations, motivations, and experiences. Students engage in introspection and analysis as they apply personality theories to better understand their own and others’ personalities.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: PSY 110
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PSY 236 - Political Psychology 3 Credits
Political behavior provides an excellent opportunity for applying basic psychological research and also driving that research with rich examples. This course focuses on utilizing psychology in understanding real world issues. Topics covered include social identity, group conflict, leadership, decision making, attitudes and opinions, nationalism, extremism, and international security.
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PSY 330 - Leadership for Change 3 Credits
Drawing on psychological research at the level of the individual, group, and organization, the class focuses on leadership development and transformative practice as it applies to politics, business, social enterprise, and education. Topics include ethics, storytelling, charisma, systems thinking, crucible experiences, visionary leadership, creativity, and transformation.
Prerequisites: OED 221 or PSY 233
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PSY 331 - Ecopsychology 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to the field of ecopsychology – its theory, practice, and relevance in a time of ecological crisis. Students study the ecopsychological issues surrounding relationships to self, others, and the rest of nature. Students also explore the role of ecopsychology in promoting a transition to an ecologically sustainable self and society through an examination of personal, economic, and societal challenges to this transition.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: PSY 110 , Junior Status, or Instructor Consent
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PSY 342 - Psycholinguistics 3 Credits
A detailed examination of issues in the processing of language. The course provides a survey of research and theory in psycholinguistics, reflecting the influence of linguistic theory and experimental psychology. Spoken and written language comprehension and language production processes are examined.
Prerequisites: PSY 110
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PSY 345 - Cognition in the Wild 4 Credits
A detailed examination of issues in the processing of language. The course provides a survey of research and theory in psycholinguistics, reflecting the influence of linguistic theory and experimental psychology. Spoken and written language comprehension and language production processes are examined.
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Prerequisites: PSY 227
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PSY 346 - Abnormal Psychology 3 Credits
Students study the history of abnormal psychology including classifications of deviant behavior, personality adjustment, assessment, and treatment modalities. In addition, students examine gender, social, and cross-cultural issues through critical analyses of what constitutes a psychological/psychiatric disorder.
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Prerequisites: PSY 110
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PSY 431 - Ecopsychology II: Applied 4 Credits
In this experiential course, students apply various ecopsychological techniques and participate in related activities. Both techniques and activities share the objective of precipitating closer and more intimate experiences of self, other, and the rest of nature. The implementation value and relevance of these techniques and activities is examined and critiqued from group, individual, gender, and cultural perspectives.
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Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: PSY 331
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PSY 448 - Capstome 4 Credits
The investigation, under guidance, of a special problem in psychology. This course includes the design of the study, the literature search, and development of the research tool, followed by data gathering, analysis, and presentation.
Prerequisites: Senior Status and Psychology Major
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REL 219 - The Nature of Religious Experience 3 Credits
Students study the phenomena of religious experience, including mystical, contemplative and meditative expressions, and aesthetic and moral responses. Students read classic texts and biographies and observe a variety of worship experiences and religious expressions.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 220 - Myth and Ritual 3 Credits
Students explore the ways myths shape the human search for meaning, study the narrative foundations of religions while recounting certain myths, and examine a variety of religious rituals as representations of myths in repeated, structured practices.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 229 - Idea of God 3 Credits
Students explore the major monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition, students critically examine major issues related to belief in God and the various ways to express those beliefs through the history, scriptures, and worship rituals of each religion.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 230 - Asian Religions and Philosophies 3 Credits
Students study the history, beliefs, and practices of the great religious traditions of Asia, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 231 - Buddhism 3 Credits
Students survey Buddhist history and philosophy, focusing on the development of Buddhist thought and practice in India, sectarian schools, and the rise of Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, monasticism, ethics, and meditation.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 234 - Japanese Religious History 3 Credits
Students explore the fascinating religious history of Japan. Beginning with pre-historic Japan and the early Chinese records and continuing through to the present, students use indigenous and imported religious ideas as a lens to examine aesthetics, philosophy, environmentalism, and politics in Japanese society.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 235 - Daoism Seminar 4 Credits
In a seminar format, students conduct an in-depth study of philosophical and religious Daoism, both in its development in China and Asia, as well as its expressions in the contemporary West.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 241 - Religion in America 3 Credits
This survey course examines the role of religion in the history of the United States. We will study the dynamic interaction of religion with other social, political and cultural forces that helped shape and still influence the American experience today. We will explore such questions as: What role have religions played in shaping a diverse American culture? What does it mean to be religious in America, and how have various faiths contributed to personal and communal identity? How have dominant forms of Christianity participated in imperial impulses throughout American history? We will also investigate religious movements that uniquely evolved out of American culture, and the contemporary challenge of evangelical and fundamentalist forms of religion.
Connections Discipline: Humaniities
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REL 257 - Death and Dying 3 Credits
This course surveys issues related to death and dying, including religious responses to mortality and the search for enduring meaning. Students also explore contemporary cultural responses to death and dying, including the phenomenon of grief and funeral practices. Study methods include field trips, film studies, and current literature.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 258 - Religion and Nature 3 Credits
Students explore the religious dimension of our attitudes and actions regarding nature, including the idea of nature as sacred, the place of humans in the natural world, and ways religious insights seek to guide us in addressing environmental problems today.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 270 - Religion and Human Rights 3 Credits
Students engage in an exploration of the meaning and relevance of human rights in the world today, assisted by the use of religious systems and case studies
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 273 - World Religions Foodways 4 Credits
Using food as an entry point, students investigate the connections between food and religion in world religious traditions, focusing especially on how food rituals relate to religious myths, magic, healing, ethics, and doctrines. Assignments require reading, writing, classroom participation, and completion of a library or field project defined by the student.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Growing Connections Enrollment
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REL 315 - Christian Thought 3 Credits
Students study the historical development of Christian thought focusing on core concepts and the defining debates and major theologians. Studies include the various ways Christians have articulated their understanding of God, the meaning of Jesus, the nature and destiny of life, and the sources and authority of Christian teachings.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 330 - Islam 3 Credits
Students study the origins and history of Islam and closely examine religious practices, philosophical and intellectual developments, and the social and cultural dimensions of this major world religion. Students also discuss the relationship of the religion to historical and contemporary conflicts.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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REL 331 - Zen Buddhism 3 Credits
In this advanced, undergraduate seminar, students participate in a close, critical study of Zen Buddhist philosophy. The approach is to examine selected Zen Buddhist works in English and to compare and contrast the Zen Buddhist philosophical perspective with certain selected Western religious philosophies.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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SCD 110 - Introduction to Sustainable Community Development 4 Credits
This course provides a background and framework for sustainable community development based on a participatory model. Conceptual learning
complements the acquisition and practice of participatory community development skills and project planning through involvement in real-life group projects.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SCD 142 - Renewable Electricity 2 Credits
This course provides an introduction to electrical concepts as applied to renewable energy systems. Students study voltage, current, resistance, power and energy as they apply to solar and wind energy systems. Students also gain hands-on experience wiring, testing, and measuring the electrical performance of photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines.
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SCD 144 - Introduction to Photovoltaic (PV) Systems 3 Credits
Students study grid-tied and off-grid photovoltaic systems. Topics include solar cells, modules and arrays, site surveys and assessment, batteries, charge controllers, inverters, system sizing, mechanical and electrical integration, utility interconnection, and system cost analysis.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: SCD 142
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SCD 145 - Introduction to Wind Energy Systems 3 Credits
Students assess the global energy picture; analyze the causes of wind and wind flow properties; explore small, medium and large wind turbine designs; assess the environmental effects of wind turbines; perform business and site assessments for a wind turbine project, plan a wind turbine project, evaluate operation and maintenance of the turbine system, and future of wind energy.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: SCD 142
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SCD 146 - Photovoltaic (PV) Installation and Maintenance 2 Credits
Students learn how to correctly and safely install and configure complete PV systems. Participants identify and interpret NEC codes that pertain to the installation. Component selection, system sizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting are emphasized.
Prerequisites: SCD 144
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SCD 147 - Wind Energy System Installation and Maintenance 3 Credits
In this hands-on course students learn how to correctly and safely install and configure a wind energy system consisting of a tower, wind turbine, electrical inverter and associated disconnects. Participants identify and interpret NEC codes that pertain to the installation. Component selection, system sizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting are emphasized.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: SCD 145
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SCD 160 - Renewable Energy & Sustainable Design 4 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the science of renewable energy and green building design. Topics include an overview of the principles of energy production, an in-depth investigation of various forms of renewable energy and their associated environmental impacts, and design considerations for creating affordable, energy-efficient, environmentally-sound buildings.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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SCD 215 - Collapse and Sustainability 3 Credits
Societal collapse refers to the rapid decrease in social complexity and human population. Societal sustainability deals with meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This course examines past and present examples of collapse and sustainability and explores future scenarios of contemporary societies and the world.
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SCD 220 - Sustainable Community Planning 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the community planning process. Topics covered include the components of long-and short-term plans for communities, how to optimize land use, how to deal with proposed facilities for a community, transportation systems in communities, urban and rural community design, among others.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SCD 225 - Sustainable Development in the Lake Superior Watershed 4 Credits
This course offers Superior Connections students a comprehensive survey of sustainable community development initiatives in the Lake Superior watershed and beyond. Over the course of the semester students examine development challenges faced by rural communities in the 21st century, just as they will learn how politicians, advocates, and activists are confronting those challenges in our own community.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: XHI 200
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SCD 230 - The Political Process 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the political process. Students will examine how demands are formulated and conducted through the political system. Areas at issue in this course are political culture, socialization and public opinion formation, interest group and social movement activism, electoral processes, political parties and partisan politics, bureaucracy, and the policy process.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SCD 235 - Forces of Change 3 Credits
History is the study of change over time, and it is the duty of the historian and the social scientist in general to identify and evaluate how and why change happens. With the goal of developing holistic agents of change, this liberal education survey considers the variety of social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental forces that have transformed American life.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SCD 270 - Crossroads Thinking: Problem Solving for the 21st Century 3 Credits
Part of the Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad programs, this course combines elements of critical and creative thinking and helps students to develop skills in questioning, imagining possibilities, exploring opportunities, analyzing alternatives, synthesizing ideas, and evaluating thought. Through a variety of course activities, students identify essential intellectual traits, question long-held assumptions or biases, evaluate ideas, reason honestly and open-mindedly, problem-solve, and form objective conclusions.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Prerequisites: Completion of two-course block or SCD 110 and Admittance to CELL program
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SCD 271 - Service Learning: Sustainability Through Community 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, students apply learning from their academic studies to real-life sustainable solutions adopted by their host communities. Students work with community partners to create appropriate and innovative solutions to environmental, economic, cultural, and social challenges. Specific projects are determined by the needs of the local community.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: Completion of a two-course block or SCD 110 and Admittance to CELL Program
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SCD 272 - Sustainability: Secrets of Simplicity 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this interdisciplinary course focuses on innovative strategies and programs in the United States and Central America that address issues threatening global sustainability. Through the study of these strategies and programs, students explore how they might incorporate sustainable practices into their own lives as well as how the principles of voluntary simplicity might contribute to sustainability. The course includes service-learning experiences with organizations such as Heifer International, Grupo Fenix, Association ANAI, and Kekoldi.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Prerequisites: Completion of a two-course block or SCD 110 and Admittance to CELL Program
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SCD 274 - Human Ecology: Relations Between Humans and the Environment 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course explores the question, “What is the appropriate relationship of human beings to the earth?” To facilitate this exploration, students study specific human and ecological issues facing the people and environments of Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Field trips, inquiry-based learning, and service learning are integral to the course.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Prerequisites: Completion of a two-course block or SCD 110 and Admittance to CELL Program
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SCD 276 - Global Warming Change Course: Lesson from Iceland 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course surveys the complexities of global warming, examines human participation in this ecological crisis, and explores personal and collective actions that might shape effective responses to climate change. The course also introduces students to Iceland’s unique geology and provides inspiring examples of how Iceland is utilizing carbon-free geothermal resources for heating and electricity production.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Prerequisites: Completion of a two-course block or SCD 110 and Admittance to CELL Program
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SCD 320 - The History of Planning and Development 4 Credits
From ancient urban societies through the innovative sustainable communities of today, urban development – how lives were/are ordered spatially – has been an ever-evolving process. With special attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course considers how cities worked, how intellectuals imagined cities could function, and what innovations succeeded and what ideas failed, thus providing greater understanding of how places should be planned in the future.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Sophomore Status
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SCD 332 - Rethinking Economic Development 4 Credits
In this course students explore the interaction between conceptions of economic development and measures of progress and well-being. Students learn the evolution of development theory – from classic theories of growth, to human development, to sustainable development – and the application of these theories at local and international scales. Students analyze trends of both traditional and innovative indicators of development.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: BUS 226 or ECN 263
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SCD 335 - Organizing Communities 3 Credits
People working to maintain, reform, and revolutionize their community of place play a critical role in organizing community and community change. This course addresses community, community organizing, and community change and demonstrates the power individuals and groups hold in shaping community through thoughtful and methodical collective action.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing or Instructor Consent
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SCD 355 - The Just City in Practice 3 Credits
This Spring Term experiential travel course offers Sustainable Community Development majors an intensive examination of the “just city” concept. A week of seminar readings and discussion is followed by ten days of fieldwork in an international “just city.” In the process, this course demonstrates how sustainable community development is a global phenomenon, and familiarizes students with the relationship between theory and practice.
Course Fee
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: SCD 110 , SCD 220 , SCD 230 , SCD 235 , or Instructor Consent
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SCD 422 - Capitalism, Justice, and Sustainability 3 Credits
This course explores the ways that capitalism, as it is currently practiced, is unsustainable. Additionally, students explore alternative models of economic development.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: BUS 226
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SCD 430 - Sustainable Development Theory 4 Credits
This intensive reading course offers Sustainable Community Development majors a comprehensive survey of the discipline’s theoretical underpinnings. In a seminar setting, students read, discuss, analyze, and critique a diverse array of community planning, economic development, and ecology theorists from the past century, ultimately synthesizing and enhancing sustainable development theory for applied practice in the field.
Prerequisites: SCD 110 and SCD 220
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SOC 111 - Introduction to Sociology 4 Credits
Students learn concepts and methods of sociology by studying the basic structure of social life, culture, group interaction, social institutions, stratification, power, and social problems.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 214 - Native Americans in Modern Society 3 Credits
Students examine the current conditions of indigenous peoples of the Americas from a sociological perspective. The course emphasizes the modern forms of tribal organization, the impact of Federal Indian Policy, and the political and ethnic resurgence that has influenced indigenous individual and collective identity.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 225 - Social Problems 3 Credits
Students critically analyze the structural sources of American and global social problems through an examination of wealth, power, and the institutional arrangements that perpetuate poverty, injustice, war, environmental degradation, and racial and social inequality.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 226 - Social Movements 3 Credits
Students study the nature and forms of social change through an examination of social movements, collective behavior, and revolution.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 234 - Sociology of Gender 3 Credits
Students study the development, operation, and consequences of gender socialization, both male and female. The course focuses on comparisons of gender roles in various cultures and societies, and on the effects of gender on inequality, sexual orientation, values, and belief.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 236 - Sociology of Sexuality 4 Credits
This course provides an overview of sexualities from a sociological perspective within the context of the United States, with some cross cultural comparisons. Students study how sexuality is socially constructed and focus on how people become sexual beings, understanding sexual identities, sexual subcultures, sexual “deviance”, and the sex-for-profit industry.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 240 - Cultural Ecology 3 Credits
This course focuses on how humans have gathered and distributed food throughout history. Students examine the consequences of various methods of food production on the other aspects of culture such as religion, politics, and inequality. They also examine human-nature interactions and conceptions of nature found in various cultures that are a result of human food production methods.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 260 - Introduction to Sociology - Superior Connections 4 Credits
Students learn concepts and methods of sociology by studying the basic structure of social life, culture, group interaction, social institutions, stratification, power, and social problems. As part of a block in the Superior Connections program, this course utilizes sociological concepts to understand life in and around the Lake Superior Watershed as students consider the relationship between sustainability and social justice
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Enrollment in Superior Connections
Corequisites: XSS 215
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SOC 301 - Mass Media and Popular Culture 3 Credits
Students examine the relationship between media productions and society through the comparative study of Western and non-Western film, music, television, print media and radio. Sociological analysis of how mass media and popular culture affect social structure, organization, behavior, and identity is a focus.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 302 - Sociology of Culture 3 Credits
Students examine the links between culture, modernity, and post modernity through the analysis of cultural productions, power, moral discourse, and the audience in a variety of Western and non-Western societies.
Prerequisites: SOC 111
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SOC 315 - Sociology of Community 3 Credits
Students study urban, rural, and intentional communities, with an emphasis on the nature of community, place, neighborhood, development, and change.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 332 - Crime, Deviance, and Social Justice 3 Credits
Students examine the social construction of the law, the courts, crime, imprisonment, and justice. The course emphasizes the differential application of the law, the myths of crime and deviant behavior, and the uses of the legal system for political and social ends.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 336 - The Nature of Social Inequality 4 Credits
Students analyze the major forms of socially structured inequality in American society, emphasizing how wealth, power, and life chances affect different racial, ethnic, indigenous, gender, and national groups.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 338 - Political Sociology 4 Credits
Students study political phenomena including power, parties, and the early and modern states, including their relation to region, social class, ethnicity, and the global community. SOC 336 is recommended preparation for this course.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 341 - Sociology of the Environment 3 Credits
Students study the challenges, societal impact, and organization of environmental groups and movements, with an emphasis on contemporary issues, tactics, and ideologies.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 342 - Australian and New Zealand Culture Preparation 0 Credits
This is a prepatory course for students who enroll in SOC 343 - Australian and New Zealand Culture , a May term travel course.
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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