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ART 106 - Design Studio 3 Credits
This hands-on course examines the fundamental elements and principles of two-dimensional and three-dimensional composition and encourages students to explore traditional methods and discover new solutions to visual problems. This is a foundational course to all fields of visual study.
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ART 111 - Drawing I 3 Credits
Students explore the human impulse to make a mark on the world through an active seeing and recording of the world on a two-dimensional surface. By developing skills that allow them to work from direct observation, students establish a foundation for personal imagery that prepares them to work with a variety of techniques and media.
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ART 210 - Painting I 3 Credits
Students experience the capacities of oil and/or acrylic media on canvas. Students complete a series of studio exercises focused on color theory and direct observation leading to a personal aesthetic.
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Prerequisites: ART 111
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ART 212 - Drawing II 3 Credits
Students continue exploring and refining skills presented in Drawing I with more emphasis on the relationship between form, subject matter, and content leading to intelligent, self-directed creation. Students will be introduced to abstraction as a vehicle for expressive mark making.
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Prerequisites: ART 111
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ART 220 - Ceramics I 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the basic forming processes, throwing on the potter’s wheel, glazing, and decorating of ceramic ware. Students acquire a working understanding of clay and glaze formulation, as well as firing methods.
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ART 222 - Ceramics Handbuilding 3 Credits
This ceramics course focuses on off-wheel forming methods that do not rely on the potter’s wheel. Students practice structural techniques that will enable them to create unique and singular forms of expression in the clay medium.
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ART 225 - Introduction to Film 3 Credits
This course provides an introduction to American cinematic arts, its production methods, and broader cultural implications. Students develop a deeper appreciation and critical understanding of motion pictures by exploring styles, structures, techniques, aesthetic, and cultural implications of American films.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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ART 229 - Ceramics: History & Methodology 3 Credits
This course is a slide-illustrated survey of Ceramics from the 7th century to our contemporary times. Students study ceramic works from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. This introduction into ceramic history serves as an inspiration for the creation of a ceramic piece.
Course Fee
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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ART 230 - Art History Ancient to Medieval 3 Credits
This course is a slide-illustrated survey of the architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts starting with prehistoric and ethnographic art, and ending with 14th century international painting style. Students study Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Islamic, Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic styles.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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ART 231 - Art History Renaissance to Modern 3 Credits
This course is a slide-illustrated survey of art from the 15th century to the dawn of the modern age. Students study Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Impressionist, and American wilderness landscape styles.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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ART 232 - Contemporary Art History 3 Credits
This course is a slide-illustrated investigation into the varied and competing trends in the visual arts from Impressionism to the 21st century. Students study cubism, fauvism, expressionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, post-modernism, and artists working in the natural environment.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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ART 262 - Digital Photography I 3 Credits
This studio course introduces students to the basic principles and applications of digital photography as a medium, a skill-set, and an integral part of today’s digital literacy needs. Topics covered include capturing images using digital cameras while emphasizing the manipulation of camera controls, exposure, lighting, on-and-off camera flash, essential imaging tactics, digital workflow for photography, print, web and image storage and archival. Students are required to have a digital SLR camera.
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ART 270 - Printmaking: Relief and Intaglio 3 Credits
The focus of this studio class is on relief and intaglio processes including woodcut, linoleum cut, drypoint, hardground, softground, and aquatint. Lectures and readings put printmaking in historical and contemporary contexts to help students achieve personal aesthetic goals. Low toxic processes are used when possible.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: ART 111
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ART 271 - Printmaking: Screen Printing and Lithography 3 Credits
The focus of this studio class is on screen printing and lithographic processes including hand-cut stencils, photo stencils, stone and polyester plate lithography. Lectures, and readings put printmaking in historical and contemporary contexts to help students achieve personal aesthetic goals. Low toxic processes are used when possible.
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Prerequisites: ART 111
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ART 280 - Graphic Design I 3 Credits
This foundational course in graphic design guides students in developing and expanding their vocabularies in visual communication. Utilizing basic design elements and principles students explore graphic solutions for communication problems through digital and traditional tools. Emphasis is placed on research and idea generation as students learn to analyze and discuss their work as well as that of others, as they become familiar with the theoretical and practical aspects of the graphic design process. Creative studio practice is combined with lectures, readings, and software training.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: ART 106 and ART 111
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ART 282 - Interactive Design I 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to concepts, methods, and technologies utilized in the design of interactive media. Students study user and site requirements and address design problem solving within screen-based projects developed for various content, needs, and audiences. Creative studio practice is combined with lectures, readings, and software training
Course Fee
Prerequisites: ART 280
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ART 285 - Typography 3 Credits
This class explores creative, historical, theoretical, and applied principles of type. Creative projects and exercises guide students to explore the impact of choosing typefaces, their combinations, and the expressive possibilities of type. Students also develop skills to enhance, clarify, and support meaning through typographic choices. Creative studio practice is combined with lectures, readings, and software training.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: ART 106
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ART 306 - Art Collaborations with Nature 3 Credits
Students create environmental and ecological art using natural materials, responding to nature and mitigating environmental problems. After surveying examples of art from indigenous peoples to recent ecologically restorative works, students create outdoor, ephemeral works of art using nature itself.
Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
Prerequisites: ART 106 , ART 111 , or ART 260 and Junior Standing recommended
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ART 320 - Ceramics II 3 Credits
This course is a continuation of ART 220 . Students further develop their knowledge, skills, and aesthetic awareness in the ceramic arts. They expand their basic knowledge of techniques and acquire additional information regarding clay and glaze formulation as well as kiln firing.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: ART 220
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ART 340 - Alternative Photographic Processes 3 Credits
This course explores a variety of alternative photographic processes, including pinhole and toy cameras, hand-applied emulsions, and other processes. Using historical context and hands-on experimentation with alternative photo processes, students design, review, and make images.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: ART 260 or Instructor Consent
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ART 370 - Printmaking II 3 Credits
Students choose one of the processes introduced in ART 270 (relief, serigraphy, lithography, or intaglio) and explore it more deeply. Coursework includes an emphasis on color registration, autographic, photographic, and digital processes that result in a personal creative statement. (This course may be repeated for credit with instructor approval.)
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: ART 270 or ART 271
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ART 380 - Graphic Design II 3 Credits
This intermediate course in graphic design builds on the skills and concepts learned in Graphic Design I. Students have an opportunity to work on design problems with professional clients. Creative studio practice is combined with lectures, readings, and software training.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: ART 280
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ART 382 - Interactive Design II 3 Credits
This advanced interactive design course allows students to put their understanding and training to use by working with clients to solve real world design problems. Creative studio practice is combined with lectures, readings, and software training.
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Prerequisites: ART 282
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ART 385 - Graphic Design History 3 Credits
Students explore the history and theory behind the evolution of graphic design, with a particular focus on the past 100 years.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: ART 280
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ART 402 - Senior Exhibition 1 Credits
Students install, promote an exhibition of their work, and create a statement reflective of their development as a Northland College art student.
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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ART 403 - Senior Seminar 3 Credits
Students develop standards for aesthetic judgments and gain insight into their own creative potential through the study and discussion of the theories of the character and functions of art and artists’ perceptual, conceptual, and motivational processes. Students learn guidelines for portfolios, resumes, and professional display and documentation of artwork.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: Art major or minor and Junior or Senior Standing
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ART 420 - Ceramics III 3 Credits
This is a continuation of ART 320 . Students further develop their knowledge, skills, and aesthetic awareness in the ceramic arts. With an emphasis in individual expression, students will continue to expand their knowledge of ceramic techniques, firing, and glaze formulation.
Prerequisites: ART 320
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ART 470 - Printmaking III 3 Credits
Students continue to explore and begin to develop technical mastery of a printmaking process that they worked with in ART 370 Printmaking II. Students also develop an understanding of printmaking history in fine art and of its relationship to commercial processes.
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Prerequisites: ART 370
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ART 480 - Graphic Design III 3 Credits
This advanced course in graphic design builds on the skills and concepts learned in Graphic Design II while working with clients to solve real world design problems. Creative studio practice is combined with lectures, readings, and software training.
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Prerequisites: ART 380
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BIO 115 - Concepts of Biology 4 Credits
Students learn the basic principles of biology, from basic cell chemistry, energetics, and genetics, to the broader environmental topics of evolution and ecology. The laboratory focuses on the development of skills needed by biological scientists and emphasizes analytical thinking.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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BIO 128 - Natural History and Conservation in the Lake Superior Watershed 4 Credits
Part of the Superior Connections Program, this course introduces students to the natural history, conservation, and restoration of the region’s natural resources. Students begin by studying the general natural history of the Lake Superior region, and then focus on regional conservation biology issues. The course concludes with an examination of restoration from ecological, economic, and philosophical perspectives.
Course Fee
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Corequisites: XNN 115 and GSC 112
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BIO 208 - Anatomy 4 Credits
This course provides an overview of mammalian anatomy, with an emphasis on human anatomy. In the laboratory, students engage in dissections and work with models in order to apply what they learn in lecture.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: BIO 115
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BIO 220 - Plant Science 4 Credits
This course covers topics in plant morphology and development, along with an introduction to plant physiology. There is an emphasis on the phylogenetic relationships of plant types.
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Prerequisites: BIO 115 .
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BIO 222 - Woodland Plants of Northern Wisconsin 4 Credits
Students participate in a taxonomic study of plants commonly found in northern Wisconsin, with a focus on early flowering shrubs, spring wildflowers, and ferns.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 225 - Aquatic Invertebrates 4 Credits
This course is a survey of the natural history, ecology, and taxonomy of freshwater invertebrates, with an emphasis on local animals. Students are required to collect invertebrates, prepare a specimen collection, and gain proficiency in identifying animals by sight and keying.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 231 - Paleobiology 4 Credits
In this course students explore the history of life on earth, the interplay between geological and biological processes, and the tools scientists use to study the fossil record. There is one, multi-day field trip to a paleontological museum.
Course Fee
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 234 - Ecology 4 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of ecology, including the topics of energy flow, trophic structure, nutrient cycles, population dynamics, and adaptations. Students experience the study of ecology through numerous local field experiences leading to the collection and analysis of data.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 235 - Biology of Organisms 4 Credits
This course introduces students to organismal biology, specifically focusing on plants and animals. Major topics include basic anatomy, physiology and phylogenetic relationships.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 238 - Cell Biology 4 Credits
Students study life at the cellular and molecular levels. Lecture topics include: structure of biological molecules, metabolism, gene expression, cell signaling, the cell cycle, and cell death. Additional topics include structure, function, and dynamics of cellular components such as membranes and the cytoskeleton. The biology laboratory emphasizes cell visualization and acquisition of skills in basic molecular techniques.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 242 - Ichthyology 4 Credits
In this course students study the biology, ecology, taxonomy, and management of fish, with a focus on Great Lakes and northern Wisconsin fishes.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 244 - Field Ornithology 4 Credits
In this field-intensive course, students learn to identify birds of northern Wisconsin by sight and sound. To maximize exposure to birds in the area, the course includes daily field excursions to a variety of habitats. Discussion of the natural history of birds is also an integral part of the course.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science or Experiencial
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 245 - Mammalogy 4 Credits
Students study the biology of mammals with an emphasis on evolution, population structure, reproduction, and physiological adaptations. Lab sessions focus on morphology and general taxonomy of local mammals.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 246 - Ornithology 4 Credits
This course introduces students to avian anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, systematic, and conservation. The lab surveys the major orders of birds. Local field trips are required.
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Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 328 - Vegetative Communities of Northern Wisconsin 4 Credits
Students study the community structure, taxonomy, and natural history of woody plant species which comprise the plant communities in the Upper Great Lakes Region. Lecture and discussions are complemented by weekly field trips to various plant communities.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 234
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BIO 330 - Genetics 4 Credits
This course integrates the classical and molecular principles of genetics. Topics include transmission, population, conservation, and quantitative genetics, as well as gene expression, regulation, and mutation. Problem solving is emphasized.
Prerequisites: BIO 234
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BIO 331 - Microbiology 4 Credits
Students develop a solid background in microbiology and study the physiology, ecology, molecular biology, and phylogeny of microbial organisms, as well as the impact of these organisms on human health and the environment. In the laboratory, students acquire skills in culturing, characterizing, and quantifying microorganisms.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 238
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BIO 332 - Immunology 3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the immune system of vertebrates, with an emphasis on human immunology. Students study cellular and humeral responses, antibody diversity, evolution of the immune system, application of immunological techniques to ecological problems, and vaccines.
Prerequisites: BIO 238
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BIO 343 - Biology of AIDS 3 Credits
This course provides a survey of the biology of HIV infection. Topics include the retrovirus life cycle, the impact of HIV on the immune system, viral transmission, diagnosis of HIV and symptoms of AIDS, and epidemiology of the disease. Students also discuss the social and political dimensions of the AIDS epidemic and present on a topic of their choice.
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 360 - Vertebrate Physiology 4 Credits
This course focuses on the fundamental principles of animal physiology, such as circulation, digestion and respiration. It also emphasizes the comparative approach and interactions of the organism with its environment.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 234
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BIO 370 - Applied Conservation Biology 3 Credits
Part of a Round River field experience. This course introduces students to the application of scientific principles to inform interdisciplinary protection and management of biological diversity. Topics include population ecology, landscape ecology, community ecology and genetics, as well as social, economic and community-related aspects of conservation.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128 and Admittance to the Round River Program
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BIO 371 - Natural History Methodology and Application 3 Credits
Part of a Round River field experience. This course provides an overview of the physical and biological features of a specified habitat with an emphasis on discerning patterns and processes on the landscape. Students adhere to a rigorous field journal system to record and understand the flora and fauna of a place, and make regular use of diagnostic field guides.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128 and Admittance to the Round River Program
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BIO 372 - Biological Field Methods 3 Credits
Part of a Round River field experience. This course introduces students to a variety of methodologies for the study of plant and animal populations. Topics include field journal techniques, ecological field research methodologies and rationales, and field safety and risk management.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128 and Admittance to the Round River Program
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BIO 373 - Introduction to Ecological Models 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the use of ecological models to understand ecological phenomena, as well as to the implications of management actions for the conservation of biological diversity. Experiential.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 374 - Tropical Ecology and Conservation 3 Credits
Part of a Round River field experience. This course provides an introduction to the ecological complexity of tropical forests and to the natural history, evolutionary biology, and conservation status of the animals, plants, and ecosystems of the Neotropics. This course also examines major threats to biodiversity, the main conservation problems of tropical environments, as well as current alternatives to the destruction of tropical forest.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128 and Admittance to the Round River Program
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BIO 375 - Grass Paramo Pyro Vegetation 3 Credits
This course focuses on the theory that the paramo habitat of the high elevation grasslands of the Andes Mountains is a landscape derived from human use. Students explore issues of fire ecology, climate history, and the co-evolution of flora and fauna. Experiential.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 115 or BIO 128
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BIO 409 - Evolutionary Biology 3 Credits
This course covers evolution from a historical point of view, both biologically and conceptually. Students study the various mechanisms by which populations evolve, such as sex linkage, mutation rates, selection, and polymorphism.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 330
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BIO 410 - Conservation Biology 3 Credits
Students build on ecological principles learned in other courses, with a particular emphasis on how to apply more advanced ecological theory and concepts in natural ecosystems. Primary goals of the course include understanding 1) how natural ecological systems behave in a human dominated world and 2) methods conservation biologists use to maintain and/or enhance biological diversity. Topics include population genetics, population biology, community ecology, behavioral ecology, ecosystem ecology, and conservation policy.
Prerequisites: BIO 234
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BIO 420 - Methods in Molecular Biology 4 Credits
Students examine the laboratory techniques used to study how higher organisms maintain and express genetic information. The course emphasizes model organisms and their responses to environmental stimuli; topics include DNA and RNA isolation, PCR, gene cloning and manipulation, analysis of gene expression, conservation genetics, and bioinformatics. Laboratory only.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 234 or BIO 238
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BIO 425 - Eco League Field Experience 4 Credits
This advanced field course brings together students and faculty from each of the institutions of the EcoLeague consortium in an interdisciplinary, field-based inquiry into relationships between human and natural systems. The course will focus on issues relevant to the particular landscapes in which it is offered, which will vary from year to year. Students must apply to participate and will be selected by a panel of faculty. Competence in writing and understanding of fundamental ecological principles is expected.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: BIO 234
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BIO 460 - Animal Behavior 3 Credits
This course introduces students to major concepts and theories in animal behavior. Topics include neural and hormonal mechanisms, communication, foraging and reproductive behavior, mating systems, and sociality. The course is grounded heavily in an evolutionary approach to these topics.
Prerequisites: BIO 234
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BIO 473 - Limnology 4 Credits
Students study the functional relationships of freshwater communities as they are affected by their physical, chemical, and biological environments. Students perform limnological studies using techniques gained through field and lab experiences.
Course Fee.
Prerequisites: BIO 234 and CHM 103 , CHM 105 , CHM 108 , or CHM 110 .
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BIO 480 - Biology Senior Seminar 3 Credits
In a seminar format, students discuss primary literature, develop a research proposal on a topic of their interest, and give an oral presentation on their proposal. Students may conduct research based on their proposal by registering for the biology capstone.
Prerequisites: Biology major and Senior Standing
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BUS 120 - Quantitative Methods 3 Credits
Problem-solving approach to systems of equations, matrix algebra, mathematics of finance and optimization techniques. Modeling applications in the managerial and social sciences. Recommended three years of high school mathematics.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
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BUS 168 - Technology and Communication 3 Credits
This project-based course introduces students to contemporary business issues surrounding communication and technology. Students build a basic technical vocabulary to better understand current computing technology, as well as to develop computer literacy skills to adapt to emerging technologies in the global marketplace. Students enhance reading, writing, computing, professional communication, and reasoning skills and apply them to the business environment.
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BUS 222 - Fundamentals of Accounting 4 Credits
Students acquire background in accounting, including treatment of sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporate forms of business organization. The course emphasizes accounting procedures used in interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating financial statements. Topics include accounting for assets, liabilities, owners’ equity, and merchandising concerns as well as preparation of the four basic financial statements.
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BUS 226 - Essentials of Economics 4 Credits
This course combines the basic aspects of macroeconomics and microeconomics to develop the fundamental skills of economic thinking. Students examine the relevance of economics to society and the interaction between politics and economics. Students complete the course understanding that economics is neither business nor finance but that knowledge of economics is vital to understanding these fields.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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BUS 228 - Marketing Management 3 Credits
Students study basic marketing principles and functions as well as competitive, legal, economic, and social environments and their effects on strategic planning, analysis, and decision making. Topics emphasized include market segmentation, product development and management, distribution, promotion, and pricing strategies. The focus of the course is on the application of marketing concepts in businesses and non-profit organizations and the construction of a strategic marketing plan.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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BUS 229 - Small Business Management 3 Credits
Students study practical approaches to the organization and management of a small business or non-profit organization. Major areas of study include starting, financing, managing, and operating a small business or non-profit organization. The focus of the course is on the application of small business management concepts and the construction of a small business plan.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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BUS 232 - Principles and Practice of Management 3 Credits
Students learn how to achieve desired results through efficient utilization of human and material resources in a profit or non-profit setting. The course emphasizes the history of management and the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling enterprises.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Any 200-level BUS course
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BUS 235 - Introduction to Sustainable Business 3 Credits
This course presents a study of the Triple Bottom Line concept; organizational profitability, environmentalism, and social responsibility. This course explores the relationship between businesses, the community, and managing the future to achieve environmental quality. It also examines the principles and practices of the sustainable organization. Liberal Education: Environmental Perspectives.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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BUS 237 - Environmental Marketing 3 Credits
This course introduces general principles of marketing within the context of environmentally focused organizations. Students learn to develop integrated marketing plans that are targeted at enhancing an organization’s market effectiveness through environmentally responsive marketing mix.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
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BUS 288 - Ethics and Business 3 Credits
The elements of ethics relevant to business organization. The identification and analysis of moral issues facing managers and employees. Ethical decision-making for managers, conflict of interest, discrimination, product safety, and advertising. Social responsibility of business. Satisfies the religion and philosophy liberal education requirement for Business Economics majors.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing or Instructor Consent
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BUS 312 - Economics for Managers 3 Credits
Students study the decision-making processes that involve the economic activities of a firm. They develop tools and techniques for generating cost, demand, and other information that contributes to decision making. Specific topics include consumer behavior, production, cost and pricing analysis, and market structure.
Prerequisites: BUS 226 and BUS 120 or MTH 107
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BUS 326 - Global Business Management 3 Credits
Students explore and analyze internal and external factors that affect a global business enterprise. The course focuses on the development of necessary changes and strategies needed in accounting, finance, marketing, management, and production for a business to be competitive in the global marketplace. Topics presented emphasize profit-making businesses, but students also study the management of non-profit organizations in other cultures and countries.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level BUS course
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BUS 330 - Managerial Finance 3 Credits
Students study the theory and practice of financial management. Topics include asset management, internal financing, short-term and intermediate financing, capital budgeting, and risk analysis.
Prerequisites: BUS 222 , BUS 226 , and MTH 107 or BUS 120
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BUS 331 - Legal Environment of Business 3 Credits
Students survey the legal environment in which businesses and non-profit organizations must operate. The course emphasizes the formation, implementation, and results of the many legal issues that affect business and non-profit organizations. Topics include regulation of commerce and competition, labor-management relations, contracts, consumerism, environmental protection, formation of businesses, mergers, and acquisitions.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level BUS course
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BUS 338 - Human Resource Management 3 Credits
Students focus on the various functions of HRM in profit and non-profit organizations. Topics studied include selection, training, recruiting, developing employees, wage and benefit management, unions and employee relations, performance appraisal, and employee law.
Prerequisites: BUS 232 and Junior Standing
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BUS 342 - Business and Public Policy 3 Credits
Students examine how changes in the business environment affect business organizations and how organizations respond to such changes through public issue and crisis management, public policy strategies, and social responsibility, with an ultimate objective of aligning with the changes in the external business environment.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: BUS 344 , BUS 346 , or Junior or Senior Standing
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BUS 344 - Ethical Leadership 3 Credits
This course examines business behavior in the context of moral philosophy. The course emphasizes philosophical theories of morality and relates these theories to leadership and decision making in business organizations.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: IDS 105
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BUS 346 - Social Entrepreneurship 3 Credits
This course is structured around the general field of social entrepreneurship, business structures that social entrepreneurs typically follow in starting as well as managing a social enterprise. Students examine leadership characteristics of social entrepreneurs, how social enterprises are sustained financially, and how social entrepreneurs create and spread innovation and social change.
Prerequisites: BUS 232
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BUS 358 - Innovation and Creativity 3 Credits
Students develop a conceptual and applied understanding of organizational innovation by examining the institutional contexts that foster or impede innovation. Students also become familiar with the key organizational characteristics associated with innovation and creativity applicable to both for and not-for-profit organizations. Ultimately, students are prepared to manage innovation and foster creativity within organizations.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing
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BUS 359 - Entrepreneurship 3 Credits
The course is designed to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking among students and help them recognize opportunities that can be converted into successful ventures using the principles and best practices of management. Students will learn application of marketing, finance, ethics, and human resource concepts. Special emphasis is placed on providing hands-on experience of developing comprehensive business plan.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Junior Standing
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BUS 360 - Grant Writing 3 Credits
In this introductory course, students will learn grant writing basics. Students will develop a program in an area of personal interest; practice pre-writing exercises; write sections of a proposal and a letter of inquiry; and prepare budgets. The emphasis in the course is on grant writing for program support, program development, and operating grants. Writing research and construction grants are touched on but not discussed in depth.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing or Instructor Consent
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BUS 361 - Organizational Behavior 3 Credits
Students examine different types of leadership skills used to resolve organizational problems and to achieve the goals of the organization. The behavioral sciences are stressed, with emphasis on leadership and motivation theories. Includes the principles, concepts, and processes that interpret human relations in management at the individual and organizational levels.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing
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BUS 362 - Non-Profit Management 3 Credits
The course will help students learn about the macro-environment surrounding the non-profit sector. By examining case studies drawn from social cause organizations as well as from arts and culture-promoting organizations, students will learn concepts and best practices for managing a successful non-profit organization. This course will help prepare students for managerial careers in the non-profit sector.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing or Instructor Consent
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BUS 383 - Consumer Behavior 3 Credits
Consumer and buyer behavior characteristics and theories as they relate to marketing, management, planning, analysis and control. Explanations of how demographic, cultural, psychological processes, and socioeconomic differences affect consumption. The implications of the consumer decision-making process on the marketing mix variables.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: BUS 228
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BUS 415 - Multicultural Aspects of Organizational Development 4 Credits
Students acquire knowledge and skills that increase their intercultural competence, preparing them to be effective managers of diverse populations and in different organizational cultures. The course focuses on multicultural aspects of organization development practice and organizational culture issues through a business lens.
Prerequisites: BUS 338, BUS 361 , or BUS 429
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BUS 429 - Managing People and Conflict Resolution 3 Credits
Students study the practical application of management training techniques to the management of people’s behavior in the workplace. Students participate in interviews as interviewer, interviewee, and critic. The course emphasizes the use of reinforcement theory and methods of giving critical feedback using performance appraisals.
Prerequisites: BUS 232 and PSY 110
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BUS 441 - Corporations and Activism 3 Credits
Students examine why activist groups have relatively limited success in changing business behavior. As such, the focus of this course is to analyze activists’ campaigns and corporate response to those campaigns using theoretical explanations and case studies.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: BUS 342
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BUS 475 - Strategic Planning and Policy Capstone 3 Credits
Students analyze policy formulation and implementation from an organizational-wide standpoint. The course emphasizes integration of knowledge and planning approaches, analysis of both internal and external resources and constraints that affect organizational policies, and the role of the firm in society. Case analyses are integral to the course.
Prerequisites: BUS 222 , BUS 228 , BUS 232 , and BUS 330
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BUS 482 - Corporate Citizenship and Stakeholder Management Capstone 3 Credits
Students identify and explore the philosophical, ethical, and practical issues of relationships between businesses and their broader stakeholders. A central focus for the course is developing an appreciation for these relationships as well as the skills to balance the diverse and sometimes conflicting demands that stakeholders place on business organizations.
Prerequisites: BUS 342
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ECN 263 - Economics in Context 4 Credits
In this course students study the basics of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory under the neoclassical model, including supply and demand, wage determination and monetary and fiscal policies. Students are challenged to situate the model in historical, social and ecological contexts, beyond what is typically considered in an introductory economics course. Students also explore empirical work that challenges the assumptions underlying the dominant theory.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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CHM 103 - General Chemistry: The Chemistry of Food 4 Credits
Through laboratory and classroom investigations, students study sustainable agricultural techniques from a scientific perspective and measure concentrations of both nutrients and contaminants in the campus garden. Students also examine the societal benefits and risks of pesticides to our society, and study the connection between diet and health.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Corequisites: XNN 105
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CHM 105 - General Chemistry: Chemistry in Social Context 4 Credits
Students examine the natural and human world through the lens of chemistry. In particular, they examine small molecular interactions that help determine how humans and other organisms interact with one another. Specific topics include the chemistry of air pollution, neurochemistry, global climate change, and the impact of human produced pollutants in the ecosystem. In the lab, students synthesize compounds and measure chemical attributes of the natural world.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Corequisites: XNN 110
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CHM 108 - General Chemistry: Respondng to Climate Change 4 Credits
Students investigate how chemistry relates to climate change by looking historically at what technologies have contributed to or mitigated against climate change. Students also investigate what new technologies are being developed and how these may reduce climate change and our environmental impact. This course is an applied version of general chemistry and has a significant laboratory component associated with it.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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CHM 110 - General Chemistry 4 Credits
Students learn models and theories of atomic and molecular structures and explore uses of the periodic table. Using modern techniques, such as atomic emission spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy, gas liquid chromatography, and visible light spectrophotometry, students determine the constituents of matter in real world samples. Students also apply classical techniques in the laboratory to elucidate the behavior of environmental samples. (Advanced Placement or CLEP credit accepted for 110)
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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CHM 210 - Chemistry of Natural Waters 4 Credits
Students spend time in the field and in the laboratory measuring attributes of natural water ecosystems. They explore appropriate ecological and chemical theories to help them understand how and what they might wish to measure. Students relate experimental measurements to relevant theories.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science or Experiencial
Prerequisites: CHM 103 , CHM 105 , CHM 108 , or CHM 110
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CHM 212 - Water Quality Lab Techniques 4 Credits
This laboratory based course provides hands-on experience in water quality analysis with a focus on regional water quality issues. In collaboration with Northland’s Applied Research and Environmental Laboratory, students will learn quantitative methods of analysis while measuring water quality indicators such as total phosphorous, chlorophyll a, nitrate, and chloride. The course will incorporate a wide range of chemical techniques including volumetric, potentiometric, and spectrometric methods.
Course Fee
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: CHM 103 , CHM 105 , CHM 108 , or CHM 110
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CHM 214 - Chemistry in a Regulatory Environment 3 Credits
Students explore the relationship between analytical measurements of pollutants in the environment and regulatory policy. They examine EPA regulations and EPA protocols for laboratory work. The course includes in situ water sampling as well as visits to government agencies in the region that impact the Lake Superior watershed.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: CHM 103 , CHM 105 , CHM 108 , or CHM 110
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CHM 220 - Organic Chemistry I 4 Credits
This course focuses on the properties and environmental transport of organic chemicals as well as the functional group transformations most often encountered in biological and environmental systems. Students study the following major classes of chemicals: aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, alkyl halides, alcohols, carbonyl compounds, and amines. Instrumental analysis of the compounds students synthesize is also an important component of the course. With Lab.
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Prerequisites: CHM 103 , CHM 105 , CHM 108 , or CHM 110
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