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HIS 112 - History of World Civilizations since 1500 3 Credits
Students examine the interactions and increasing integration of the world’s civilizations in the modern era. The course covers global trade networks, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, European hegemony, the two World Wars, the Cold War and contemporary world trade, culture and politics.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 120 - American Agricultural History 3 Credits
Students examine various key sites and moments of agricultural production throughout United States history. Students study land law, as well as institutions of slavery, sharecropping, seed patenting, and spaces such as the plantation, farm, and botanical garden. Students examine various implements, including the fence, plow, as well as crate labels.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 127 - History of Darwinism, Evolution, and European Empire 4 Credits
Students study the history of ideas commonly known as Darwinism, including the process that led to their creation, the controversies that have enveloped them, and the various ways that sociologists, psychologists, historians, & biologists, as well as ideologues, racists, politicians and colonialists, have used those ideas to explain the world–for good or ill.
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HIS 209 - Gender in the United States Landscape 3 Credits
Students study the complex ways in which landscapes are constructed through ideology, commerce, and gendered understandings of nature. Students cover several American landscapes and their construction, including but not limited to cities, wilderness, frontiers, suberbs, and parks.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 221 - History of Medieval Europe 3 Credits
A history of the beginnings and development of Western European civilization from the later Roman Empire to the beginning of the modern era around 1500. The medieval period will be studied from the political, social, economic, and cultural perspectives of history.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 234 - Ideology in the 20th Century 3 Credits
Students will explore the ways that political ideologies have shaped the world since 1900. Topics include European colonialism, the rise of communism and fascism, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the two World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, colonial independence movements, globalization and the status of ideologies such as liberalism today.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 241 - American Environmental History 3 Credits
Students trace the cultural perceptions of nature and humanity’s impact on the environment over the course of American history. Students study various sites of environmental degradation and preservation and the history and politics of environmental protection and sustainability within several crucial frames, including those of race, class, and gender.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 242 - European Environmental History 3 Credits
Students study the major climatic changes in Europe in the last 2000 years and the ways that these changes have impacted European society. Students also study the major ideas in European culture about human relationships with the environment, including scientific, religious, and more general cultural conceptions of nature.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 260 - Gender in Modern Europe 3 Credits
Students examine how gender roles for both men and women have interacted with political, social, economic, and cultural changes over the last 400 years. Specific topics include gender’s relationship to psychology, work and family, science, urban space, war, and imperialism.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 263 - History of the Middle East 3 Credits
Students trace the history of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present with an emphasis on the events of the 20th century. Topics include European and American colonialism, Zionism and Arab Nationalism, the Iranian Revolution, the Persian Gulf Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Arab Spring.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 264 - Middle East History and Politics 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course allows students to study the historical and political context of the complex struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, with particular attention to the sequences of action and time, the study of events, and the role of political power. As students develop an understanding of the origins and causes of the Israelis-Palestinian conflict, on-site visits to historic sites and guest speakers help them to make links to the present.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
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HIS 266 - American Material Culture/Objects in Everyday Life and History 3 Credits
In this course, students uncover the cultural messages in the objects and spaces of our everyday lives. They attend to the development of American consumer culture and how physical objects construct racial, ethnic, and gendered identities. Objects of study include, among others, cemetaries, museums, architecture, clothing, and vernacular art.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 270 - The Holocaust 3 Credits
The course covers European anti-Semitism, racial ideology, the political crises of the early 1930s, Nazi ideology, the course of World War II, and the structures and functioning of the Nazi machinery of death. Questions regarding moral responsibility, memory, modernity, and depersonalization will figure prominently in discussions.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HIS 303 - Historical Method & Philosophy 3 Credits
This course combines instruction in the techniques of historical research and writing with a survey of historical philosophy from ancient times to the present.
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HIS 305 - Queer Ethnic History in America 3 Credits
This course is a survey of queer history in 20th Century America. Students examine white and queer ethnic identities (including African American, Chicano/a, Asian American, and American Indian identities) as constructed and lived in United States cities in the past century. Cities have racialized, gendered, and sexualized components; students will evaluate how American cities have served to encourage and inhibit the construction of queer communities.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course and Sophomore Standing
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HIS 320 - The Enlightenment 3 Credits
Students examine the intellectual foundations of our culture from the Scientific Revolution to the French Revolution. The course emphasizes how the Enlightenment articulated Western civilization’s understandings of science, the role of government, the nature of the individual, and rationalism. Assignments focus on placing texts in context.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course
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HIS 321 - The French Revolution 3 Credits
Students study the French Revolution, an event that marks the beginning of modern politics in the West. Topics include the ideas of the Enlightenment, the events of 1789-1794, the rise of Napoleon, the birth of political ideologies, and the fundamental questions of government, representation, and violence in politics.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course
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HIS 325 - Nature and Nation: Environment, Art, Ideology 3 Credits
This course examines the intersection of nature and nation-building in three periods: the early national period, 1950s cowboy culture, and present-day National Parks tourism. Students study the relationship of natural history to national culture, examining how empire and Enlightenment thinking come together to constitute nation-building as an imperial and Romantic art.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: HIS 241 or Junior Standing
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HIS 357 - Gender in Total War 3 Credits
Students examine the transformation of gender roles during World Wars I and II and explore in particular challenges to ideals of masculine courage, valor, and military efficacy in the face of mechanized warfare as well as the ways in which the wars drew women into industrial workplaces and onto the killing fields. Illustrations of these dramatic upheavals in European and American conceptions of gender are examined in secondary histories, film, literature, and memoirs.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any HIS course
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HIS 496 - History Senior Thesis 1-4 Credits
This course, the first part of a two semester capstone sequence, is an independent research project that serves as the foundation for a capstone paper written in the second half of the sequence.
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HIS 497 - History Senior Thesis 3 Credits
This course, the second part of a two-semester capstone sequence, is an independent project in which a student produces a 30- to 50-page historical research paper on a topic of particular interest to the student.
Prerequisites: HIS 496 .
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HUM 220 - Soviet Art and Music 3 Credits
Beginning with some brief background on the late Czarist period and late Romantic music by Tchaikowsky, the course proceeds through the revolutionary periods, examines politics, poetry of Anna Akhmatova, music of Prokofiev, then focuses primarily on the Stalin years and the music of Shostakovich. Students will view and discuss the documentary film, Shostakovich vs. Stalin–The War Symphonies, a short work of Solzhenitsen, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, and the novel, City of Thieves by David Benioff. The concluding period, death of Stalin through the dissolution of the Soviet State, is addressed through The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee, the long poem, “Zima Junction” by Yuri Yevtushenko, and late musical works of Shostakovich.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HUM 249 - Voices in the American West 3 Credits
Students investigate the rich and varied art that treats the American West. Paintings, music, fiction, poetry, and film are considered. The manner in which creators such as Frederic Remington, Annie Proulx, Andrew Wyeth, Sherman Alexie, Cormack McCarthy, Aaron Copland, Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry inform and are informed by both the realities and the myths of the West are a central concern throughout.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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HUM 480 - Junior-Senior Seminar 3 Credits
In this multidisciplinary Junior-Senior seminar, students develop and perform advanced-level readings and research projects. The first units focus on the development of interdisciplinary theories and methods. Assignments may include a microhistory, oral history or participant-observation, and/or varied disciplinary texts around a shared course topic. The course concludes with advanced research and writing techniques, as well as with preparation of an annotated bibliography for each student’s capstone project (should a student’s major not require a capstone, a longer paper assignment is substituted).
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IDS 105 - Introduction to Social Responsibility 4 Credits
This course exposes students to a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the idea of social responsibility and helps to foster a deeper understanding of the role students play in shaping the world. Additionally, students have the opportunity to examine numerous examples of individuals, groups, and organizations working to achieve their practical vision of a socially responsible society.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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IDS 130 - Climate and the Complexities of Societal Change 4 Credits
This course explores the complexity of societal action to address climate change. Insights come from the fields of environmental education, communication, history of science, clinical psychology, religion, economics, and environmental philosophy as well as from case studies of current events and from experiences of communities on the front lines of climate change.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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IDS 141 - Sustainable Agriculture Synthesis 4 Credits
Students develop a holistic understanding of humanity’s relationship to nature through famine and food, gain understanding of agricultural challenges through projects in the campus garden and surrounding farms, and consider how a systems perspective informs the practice of farming and advances in sustainable food production.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
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IDS 168 - War and Peace in Film 3 Credits
This Spring Term course critically considers how filmmakers, producers and executives, activists, and governments have advocated for war and peace through the medium of film in the past century. Students primarily examine the American experience in war and peace in this period, but international perspectives on the topic also receive consideration.
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IDS 180 - Lake Superior Circumnavigation 4 Credits
In this May-term travel course, students explore the Lake Superior Watershed as they circumnavigate the Lake by van, boat, and foot. Visits to prominent natural and historical sites as well as interactions with members of regional communities are integral to the course.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: Superior Connections 4-course block
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IDS 243 - Sustainable Agriculture Practicum 4 Credits
In this field course, students gain hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture either by working on selected farms or by assisting organizations working on food or agricultural policy issues. Students have the opportunity to work in-depth with one farm or organization for the semester, or gain a broad experience with several farms and organizations over the semester.
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Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: IDS 141
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IDS 254 - Diversity and the Environment 3 Credits
Students explore the unique issues that impact under-represented populations and their relationships to the environment. Issues that students examine include environmental policy, race and environmental injustice, cultural identity and the natural world, environmental activism, and diversity.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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IDS 274 - Israel and Palestine Studies 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides an interdisciplinary review of contemporary issues in three countries of the Levant region: Israel, Palestinian Territories, and Jordan. The first-hand survey includes home stays, touring, and study to understand the geography, culture, language, religion, economics, foreign relations, environment, and arts of the region.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 276 - Middle East Sustainability 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides students with an opportunity to explore the principles and integral relationship of peace and sustainability in Israel and Palestine. In addition to examining choices being made in their own lives and how these impact both peace and sustainability, the course provides an opportunity to examine current efforts in the region to build peace and a sustainable future. Field trips and opportunities to apply classroom learning to current peace and sustainability projects are integral to the course.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL program
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IDS 278 - Applied Peace and Sustainability 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this service-learning course challenges students to apply what they are learning in their academic courses to real-life peace and sustainability issues and practices in the programs and villages where they are working and living. Students will have opportunities to work with community partners in various organizations relating to peace and sustainability such as a refugee camp in Bethlehem, Friends of the Earth Middle East, Arava Institute, Seeds of Peace, Peace Players, an Environmental Education Center in Beit Jala, and Volunteering for Peace.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 280 - Trekking Planet Japan 4 Credits
Students participate in an international study trip to Japan. The focus of the course is on historic and contemporary expression of Japanese religions, notably Buddhism and Shinto.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
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IDS 281 - Spring in Italy 4 Credits
Students study the great artistic, intellectual, and religious achievements of Medieval and Renaissance Italy as they travel in the heart of Tuscany and Umbria. Students reside in a medieval villa atop the Umbrian mountains in addition to resident studies in Florence.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
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IDS 284 - Central American Culture, History, and Language 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides students with a hands-on introduction to the history and culture of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; the challenges of conservation and development facing this region; and the language of the region. Students participate in several homestay experiences, visit cultural and historical sites, and engage in discussions, lectures, and reflective writing.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 285 - Iceland Culture, History, and Language 3 Credits
Part of a Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) semester abroad program, this course provides students with an overview of the culture, language, and history of Iceland. Students receive instruction in conversational Icelandic and develop an understanding of the socio-cultural and environmental contexts relevant to Icelandic studies. Field trips to historical sites are integral to the course.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to CELL Program
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IDS 320 - Living & Working in a Multicultural Context 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the importance of understanding the challenges and opportunities in working in a multi-cultural work force, community, and nation. Students explore how to develop their own multicultural awareness, skills, and relationship competencies.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary
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IDS 373 - Humans and the Environment 3 Credits
Part of a Round River field experience, in this environmental anthropology course, students study a variety of topics that range from cultural models and narrative constructions of the natural environment to more applied, developmental issues associated with sustainability and community-based natural resource management, and the wider political and economic context of environmental issues as reflected in political-ecology and the environmental justice movement.
Connections Discipline: Interdisciplinary or Experiencial
Prerequisites: Admittance to the Round River Program
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IDS 480 - Junior-Senior Seminar 3 Credits
Through seminar discussions and essay assignments, students synthesize their learning from courses and experiences in the Humanity and Nature core and Environmental humanities emphasis. Specific topics of study vary in a given year.
Prerequisites: ENG 318 , or PHL 360
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MET 125 - Introduction to Meteorology 4 Credits
This course provides students with an introduction to the general circulation of the atmosphere and the mechanisms responsible for the generation of daily weather. Students study seasonal and daily temperatures, atmospheric moisture, stability and cloud development, air pressure and winds, weather forecasting, and severe weather.
Course Fee.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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MET 255 - Practicum Broadcast Meteorology 3 Credits
This practicum provides students with an introduction to the field of broadcast meteorology and offers hands-on experience in creating and airing weather reports at the Northland News Center in Duluth. Students become familiar with the technology and operating procedures of a news/weather/sports studio environment, gain skills in the use of specialized software, and learn how to put together a broadcast package under time constraints. For this course, students must arrange their own transportation to the Northland News Center in Duluth.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
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MET 270 - Oceanography 4 Credits
Students learn about the two-way interaction between the ocean and its surrounding environment. Students study how the surrounding environment has shaped the ocean from the initial origins to today. This examination considers everything from the influence of humans, the atmosphere, and the smallest marine life. The course also covers how the ocean influences life in the sea as well as on land. Topics include mixing, currents, ocean chemistry, waves, tides, and tsunamis.
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Connections Discipline: Natural Science
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MET 363 - Synoptic Meteorology 4 Credits
Students learn basic techniques for analyzing and forecasting surface and upper-air weather systems. The course focuses on air mass classification, frontal analysis, mandatory height level analysis, standard techniques for displaying weather data, and forecasting by hand and by computer model.
Prerequisites: MET 125 and MTH 140
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MET 387 - Mesoscale Meteorology 3 Credits
By applying atmospheric dynamics and physical analysis techniques, students develop a physical understanding of and an ability to forecast certain mesoscale phenomena, including mesoscale convective systems, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes. Students also are thoroughly educated in storm safety. The final week of the course includes a storm chasing trip to Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. To be eligible for the chasing trip, students must have SKYWARN spotter certification.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
Prerequisites: MET 125
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MET 463 - Dynamic Meteorology 4 Credits
This course examines the theoretical foundations of meteorology through the application of calculus and the principles of physics. Topics include atmospheric thermodynamics; the atmospheric equations of motion and kinematics of fluid flow; circulation, vorticity, and divergence theorems; atmospheric stability, and how fundamental atmospheric phenomena can be reproduced in the lab.
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MET 467 - Atmospheric Physics 3 Credits
Students complete an in-depth examination of various topics in atmospheric sciences including thermodynamics of moist air, radiative transfer through the atmosphere, and atmospheric fluid dynamics. The course requires a combination of advanced mathematics and a solid understanding of fundamental physics.
Connections Discipline: Natural Science
Prerequisites: MTH 141 and PHY 330
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MET 480 - Senior Seminar in Meteorology 3 Credits
The Senior Seminar in Meteorology is a capstone course intended for students majoring in meteorology and may include readings and presentations of current topics in meteorology, discussions, laboratory experimentation, and other preparation for employment and/or graduate school.
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MLG 105 - Elementary Spanish I 4 Credits
Students development the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing with an emphasis on dialogues, pattern practice, phonetics, and oral comprehension and communication. Practice in language lab is included. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 105.
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MLG 106 - Elementary Spanish II 4 Credits
This course is a continuation of MLG 105 . Students develop conversational skills. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 106.
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MLG 205 - Intermediate Spanish I 4 Credits
Training in the language skills and grammar review will continue in this course. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 205.
Prerequisites: MLG 106
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MLG 206 - Intermediate Spanish II 4 Credits
Continues MLG 205 , with training in language skills and readings in Spanish literature, discussions, and written themes. Advanced Placement and CLEP credit accepted for MLG 206.
Prerequisites: MLG 205
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MTH 104 - Environmental Mathematics in the Lake Superior Watershed 4 Credits
Part of the Superior Connections Program, students use statistical and mathematical modeling methods to investigate environmental questions through analysis of real data. Learning of most mathematical concepts is reinforced through field and laboratory work related to the aquatic resources of the Lake Superior watershed.
Prerequisites: ART 166 .
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MTH 106 - Environmental Mathematics 4 Credits
Students explore environmental issues and problems using the mathematics of functions and basic statistics. Specific topics include explorations of measurements and units; ratios and percentages; tabular and graphical displays of data; linear, exponential, and power functions; difference equations; and statistical descriptions of data. Students reinforce all concepts through application to environmental data and situations.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: ACT math score of 17 or higher, SAT math score of 830 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 107 - Statistical Concepts and Analysis 4 Credits
Students learn to explore questions about data and populations through the application of exploratory data analysis and inferential statistics. Specific topics include summary graphics and statistics; normal distribution calculations; experimental design and sample collection; sampling distributions; inference concept; t-family of tests; chi-square family of tests; and regression. Students analyze data and perform tests with modern statistical software.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: Any 100-level MTH course, ACT math score of 17 or higher, SAT math score of 830 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 108 - Mathematics for Success 4 Credits
Students explore a variety of mathematical concepts and problem solving techniques that help solve environmental issues as applied in business and industry. Topics include counting principles and probability, mathematics of matrices, systems of linear equations, linear programming, and optimization.
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MTH 109 - Precalculus Mathematics 4 Credits
Students review the real number system and develop understanding of functions and graphs. Topics include polynomials and zeros, rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions, identities and inverse functions, solution of triangles and elements of coordinate geometry.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: ACT math score of 20 or higher, SAT math score of 950 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 140 - Calculus I 4 Credits
Students learn the concepts of limit, continuity, derivative, and integration. Topics include Mean Value Theorem, anti-derivatives, definite integrals and their applications. Students apply the derivative concept to curve sketching and extreme value problems of optimization in the life, social, and physical sciences.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 109 , ACT math score of 25 or higher, SAT math score of 1150 or higher, or Instructor Consent
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MTH 141 - Calculus II 4 Credits
In this course students develop a deeper understanding of calculus and its applications. Topics include applications of the definite integral, techniques of integration, improper integrals, Taylor polynomials, sequence and series, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, and multiple integrals.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 140
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MTH 207 - Biometry 4 Credits
Students learn to explore more advanced questions about data and populations through the application of statistical models and inferential statistics. Specific topics include linear models of one- and two-way ANOVA with multiple comparisons and transformations, linear regression with transformations and indicator variables, and logistic regression. Students apply theoretical constructs to real-life situations in the life and natural sciences using modern statistical software.
Connections Discipline: Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: MTH 107
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MTH 230 - Mathematical Modeling 4 Credits
Students use deterministic and stochastic models based on difference and differential equations to draw conclusions and make predictions about natural systems. Topics include equilibrium analysis, bifurcation, chaos, hysteresis, phase plane analysis, and numerical simulation. Students apply modeling concepts to population ecology, population viability, predator-prey relationships, sustainable use of renewable resources, and global climate.
Prerequisites: MTH 140
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MTH 307 - Probability and Its Applications 3 Credits
Students learn combinatorial analysis, axioms of probability, conditional probability, discrete, continuous and jointly distributed random variables, moment generating functions and limit theorems. Students apply theoretical concepts to inferential statistics, Bayes’ Theorem, and Markov chains.
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 312 - Advanced Calculus 4 Credits
Students explore multivariate functions and vector calculus. Topics include extreme values of functions of several variables, implicit functions and Jacobians, transformation of coordinates, derivatives of vector-valued functions, line integrals, surface integrals, Green’s theorem, Stokes’ theorem, and the divergence theorem.
Prerequisites: MTH 141
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MTH 328 - College Geometry 3 Credits
Students learn both Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. Topics include vector methods of proof, classical theorems, geometric transformations of the Euclidean plane, the Poincare model of hyperbolic space and non-Euclidean geometry, and introductory projective geometry.
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 330 - Differential Equations 4 Credits
Differential equations serve as mathematical models for displaying the interrelations between mathematics and the physical sciences engineering. Students study the methods of solutions of ordinary differential equations to represent the dynamics of physical phenomena. Topics include first and second order linear differential equations, power series, and Laplace transform solutions of differential equations.
Prerequisites: MTH 141
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MTH 335 - Discrete Mathematics 4 Credits
Students learn fundamental discrete structures. Topics include algorithms, mathematical induction, elements of set theory, graphs, trees, combinatorics, difference equations, recursion, logic, and probability.
Prerequisites: MTH 140 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 337 - Linear Algebra 4 Credits
Students use matrix and generalized vector spaces to understand multi-variable functions in real-life applications. Topics include vector spaces, linear dependence/independence, properties of matrices and determinants, linear transformations, inner product spaces, and eigenvalues.
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 470 - Advanced Topics in Mathematics 4 Credits
Students learn methods of rigorous proofs in analysis and algebra. Topics from analysis include sequences and series, continuous functions on metric spaces, derivatives, basic point set topology and properties of Riemann integrals. Topics from modern algebra include groups, rings, and fields. Real Analysis/Modern Algebra offered in alternate years.
Prerequisites: MTH 141 or Instructor Consent
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MTH 496 - Mathematics Senior Capstone Seminar 1 - 4 Credits
Students select, conduct, and complete a research project. The focus of the seminar reflects particular competencies of faculty and specific interests of students. Strongly recommended for all senior mathematics majors.
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MUS 101 - Introduction to Music 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to music history, language and form. Students learn to listen to and discuss music critically. Classical, western tonal music is the foundation, but other styles of music are included. Students experience live music in various settings.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 121 - Chamber Music in Performance 1 Credits
Students rehearse and perform chamber music repertory for various standard combinations of instruments and/or voices. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 122 - Voice in Class 1 Credits
Students study the basic principles of vocal tone production and develop vocal skills in a group setting.
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MUS 131 - Symphonic Band 0 - 1 Credits
In this Northland College and community concert band, participants study traditional and contemporary band literature and participate in concerts throughout the academic year, balancing the musical and educational needs of the members with service to the cultural needs of the community. Membership is open to all qualified students. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 141 - Northland Singers 0 - 1 Credits
This is a mixed choir for students who enjoy the challenge of singing a wide variety of choral music in a range of different styles. The course is offered by audition and is repeatable for credit.
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MUS 151 - Jazz Band 0 - 1 Credits
The band is organized for the study and performance of jazz arrangements and composition in a variety of styles. This ensemble provides the opportunity to strengthen improvisational skills. Membership is open to all qualified students. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 161 - Chequamegon Symphony 0 - 1 Credits
Students participate in a college-community orchestra that performs major orchestral repertory during a season of three or four concerts. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 171 - Chamber Choir 0 - 1 Credits
An extension of Northland Singers, Chamber Choir explores music written for small vocal ensembles. Singers have opportunities to perform music from a number of different style periods, with an emphasis on music from the Renaissance. Students perform regular concerts and are involved in musical outreach in the community. Repeatable for credit.
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MUS 181 - Individual Brass Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 182 - Individual Guitar Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 183 - Individual Percussion Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 184 - Individual Piano Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 185 - Individual Strings Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 186 - Individual Voice Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in voice. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 187 - Individual Woodwind Lessons 1 Credits
Students meet regularly with a faculty member for a specialized, one-on-one instruction in an instrument. Instruction focuses on both technical and interpretive aspects of solo performance.
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MUS 203 - Evolution of American Song 3 Credits
This course surveys popular songs, songwriters, and trends in songwriting from the 19th century through the modern era. Students study the nature of melodies, lyrics, changing trends, the creative process, and the social and economic contexts of the music.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 205 - Story of Jazz 3 Credits
This course covers the development of jazz from its African heritage through ragtime, blues, Dixieland, swing, and bop to today’s styles. Recordings support the historical-analytical approach to the subject.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 217 - Music in World Culture 3 Credits
This course examines music across a broad and diverse spectrum of cultures, both within the United States and worldwide. The course addresses the intrinsic nature of each type of music considered as well as its function and meaning in its social context.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 221 - Music and Text 3 Credits
Students examine the relationship between text and music in a wide range of musical styles. Discussions include an examination of poetry and metaphor, musical and literary forms, tropes, and transumption of ideas. Students gain experience with art-song, opera, musical theater, as well as select popular genres.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 231 - Music Theory I 3 Credits
This course focuses on the mastery of the fundamentals, diatonic materials, ear-training and sight-singing, as well as the beginning of formal analysis.
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MUS 232 - Music Theory II 3 Credits
This course continues the study of formal analysis, including chromatic harmony and 20th century materials, and the mastery of ear-training, and sight-singing.
Prerequisites: MUS 231
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MUS 260 - Contemporary Music 3 Credits
Students survey important avant-garde and post avant-garde musical works and composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and examine relevant cultural shifts, innovations, and techniques that form the underpinnings of the music. The significant parallels between contemporary music and contemporary visual arts are also addressed. Musical styles such as atonality, serialism, minimalism, electronic and electroacoustic music will be considered.
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Connections Discipline: Humanities
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MUS 263 - Music and Nature 3 Credits
Through case studies and experimentation, students learn how music can build a sense of community in a variety of natural and cultural settings. Specific topics include campfire songs, adaptive music for the physically challenged, Ojibwa music in the Chequamegon Bay region, African traditions, hybrid and syncretic musics. Students also engage in song writing and develop their own skills with voice and instruments such as the dulcimer, banjo, penny whistle, drums, and keyboard.
Connections Discipline: Humanities or Experiential
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MUS 315 - Conducting and Scoring 4 Credits
This course addresses conducting, arranging, scoring, and programming choral and instrumental literature.
Prerequisites: MUS 232
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MUS 317 - Kindergarten & Elementary Music 3 Credits
Students study methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the elementary grades from kindergarten through sixth grade. Does not count toward a major or minor in music.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of piano or guitar proficiency.
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MUS 318 - Teaching Music in Secondary Schools 2 Credits
Students study methods and materials for effective work in secondary music education including conceptual and philosophical bases for general music and performance curricula.
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MUS 323 - Survey of Musical Styles I 3 Credits
This course focuses on Western music from its beginnings through the Baroque era and traces both the religious and secular traditions. Students study major composers and works, with an aural and visual emphasis on the harmonic and formal structure characteristic of each.
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MUS 324 - Survey of Musical Styles II 3 Credits
A continuation of MUS 323 , this course focuses on the Classical and Romantic eras, as well as the musical development of the Twentieth Century. Students analyze changing forms and structures through the study of major composers and works.
Prerequisites: MUS 323
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MUS 330 - Music Half-Recital 1 Credits
This course requires a public performance of 25-30 minutes’ duration. Prior to the last day to drop without record, the music faculty must grant permission for a student to continue with this course.
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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MUS 331 - Music History I 4 Credits
This course focuses on Western music from its beginnings through the Baroque era and traces both the religious and secular traditions. Students study major composers and works with an aural and visual emphasis on the harmonic and formal structure characteristics of each.
Prerequisites: MUS 231
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