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SLC 0723 - Ethical Leadership Final Cert. V 0 Credits
This course acknowledges the students who take a leadership role and make contributions to their communities by implementing a project they believe in. After completing Ethical Leadership and Active Citizenship Levels One and Two (or you have completed Level One and are currently enrolled in Level Two), you are eligible to enroll for Ethical Leadership Certification. This is a self-directed course where you develop, design, and implement a unique leadership project either on or off campus. You are required to find a mentor, complete the project proposal form, and have approval from the Coordinator of Applied Learning before registering. The project proposal form includes project goals, timelines, budget detail, and an assessment plan. Upon completion, you will receive Wellness Credit in an area appropriate for your proposed project, special recognition on your transcript and on Honor’s Day, and a ribbon to wear at graduation. This course is for an Ethical Leadership project that fulfills Vocational Wellness. Email Stacy Craig at scraig@northland.edu with any questions. Instructor approval required in order to register.
Wellness Dimension: Vocational
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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SLC 0724 - Ethical Leadership Final Cert. P 0 Credits
This course acknowledges the students who take a leadership role and make contributions to their communities by implementing a project they believe in. After completing Ethical Leadership and Active Citizenship Levels One and Two (or you have completed Level One and are currently enrolled in Level Two), you are eligible to enroll for Ethical Leadership Certification. This is a self-directed course where you develop, design, and implement a unique leadership project either on or off campus. You are required to find a mentor, complete the project proposal form, and have approval from the Coordinator of Applied Learning before registering. The project proposal form includes project goals, timelines, budget detail, and an assessment plan. Upon completion, you will receive Wellness Credit in an area appropriate for your proposed project, special recognition on your transcript and on Honor’s Day, and a ribbon to wear at graduation. This course is for an Ethical Leadership project that fulfills Physical Wellness. Email Stacy Craig at scraig@northland.edu with any questions. Instructor approval required in order to register.
Wellness Dimension: Physical
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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SOC 111 - Introduction to Sociology 4 Credits
Students learn concepts and methods of sociology by studying the basic structure of social life, culture, group interaction, social institutions, stratification, power, and social problems.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 120 - Gender and Work in the Watershed 4 Credits
Students focus on the sociological features of work in society, and then evaluate the role and effect of gender in the labor market and amongst laborers. They also evaluate the gendering and gender dynamics of paid and unpaid labor, with particular emphasis on the Lake Superior watershed. Explorations of various gender issues in real life work situations and travel to certain cities for analysis are integral to the course.
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SOC 130 - Workshop in Conflict Resolution 4 Credits
An entry level course designed to familiarize students with the major questions and basic issues, concepts, and vocabulary associated with the study of peace and conflict resolution. Along with lectures, readings, and videos, students are given ample opportunity for practice and discussion of various methods of conflict resolution.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 214 - Native Americans in Modern Society 3 Credits
Students examine the current conditions of indigenous peoples of the Americas from a sociological perspective. The course emphasizes the modern forms of tribal organization, the impact of Federal Indian Policy, and the political and ethnic resurgence that has influenced indigenous individual and collective identity.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 225 - Social Problems 3 Credits
Students critically analyze the structural sources of American and global social problems through an examination of wealth, power, and the institutional arrangements that perpetuate poverty, injustice, war, environmental degradation, and racial and social inequality.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 226 - Social Movements 3 Credits
Students study the nature and forms of social change through an examination of social movements, collective behavior, and revolution.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 234 - Sociology of Gender 3 Credits
Students study the development, operation, and consequences of gender socialization, both male and female. The course focuses on comparisons of gender roles in various cultures and societies, and on the effects of gender on inequality, sexual orientation, values, and belief.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 236 - Sociology of Sexuality 4 Credits
This course provides an overview of sexualities from a sociological perspective within the context of the United States, with some cross cultural comparisons. Students study how sexuality is socially constructed and focus on how people become sexual beings, understanding sexual identities, sexual subcultures, sexual “deviance”, and the sex-for-profit industry.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 240 - Cultural Ecology 3 Credits
This course focuses on how humans have gathered and distributed food throughout history. Students examine the consequences of various methods of food production on the other aspects of culture such as religion, politics, and inequality. They also examine human-nature interactions and conceptions of nature found in various cultures that are a result of human food production methods.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 260 - Sociology in the Lake Superior Watershed and the World 4 Credits
In this introduction to sociological reasoning, students objectively interpret patterns of social life both within and outside of the Lake Superior watershed as a means to understanding, explaining, and predicting how people behave and how societies change. Through the systematic examination of social variables, students come to understand their place in the world and how the world around them shapes their behavior.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: Enrollment in Superior Connections
Corequisites: XSS 215
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SOC 284 - Sociology of Religion 3 Credits
An investigation of the role of religion in human society, including the varieties of religious organizations, the function of religion and religious movements in the modern world, and the relationship of these phenomena to other attributes of social organization such as ethnicity and social class. Consideration of new religious movements such as New Age, ecofeminism, and spirituality. The role of religion as a source of both social conflict and cohesion will be considered so that the religious dimension in compelling social issues such as poverty and war may be understood.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 301 - Mass Media and Popular Culture 3 Credits
Students examine the relationship between media productions and society through the comparative study of Western and non-Western film, music, television, print media and radio. Sociological analysis of how mass media and popular culture affect social structure, organization, behavior, and identity is a focus.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 302 - Sociology of Culture 3 Credits
Students examine the links between culture, modernity, and post modernity through the analysis of cultural productions, power, moral discourse, and the audience in a variety of Western and non-Western societies.
Prerequisites: SOC 111
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SOC 315 - Sociology of Community 3 Credits
Students study urban, rural, and intentional communities, with an emphasis on the nature of community, place, neighborhood, development, and change.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 332 - Crime, Deviance, and Social Justice 3 Credits
Students examine the social construction of the law, the courts, crime, imprisonment, and justice. The course emphasizes the differential application of the law, the myths of crime and deviant behavior, and the uses of the legal system for political and social ends.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 336 - The Nature of Social Inequality 4 Credits
Students analyze the major forms of socially structured inequality in American society, emphasizing how wealth, power, and life chances affect different racial, ethnic, indigenous, gender, and national groups.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 338 - Political Sociology 4 Credits
Students study political phenomena including power, parties, and the early and modern states, including their relation to region, social class, ethnicity, and the global community. SOC 336 is recommended preparation for this course.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 341 - Sociology of the Environment 3 Credits
Students study the challenges, societal impact, and organization of environmental groups and movements, with an emphasis on contemporary issues, tactics, and ideologies.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
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SOC 342 - Australian and New Zealand Culture Preparation 0 Credits
This is a prepatory course for students who enroll in SOC 343 - Australian and New Zealand Culture , a May term travel course.
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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SOC 343 - Australian and New Zealand Culture 4 Credits
Students study environmental and social issues in Australia and New Zealand, while traveling in the regions and among the cultures associated with the issues. Specific sites visited during the course include the Sydney Opera House, the Blue Mountains, the Great Barrier Reef, the Bay of Islands, Mt. Cooke, and the Daintree Rainforest—the only Cultural and Natural World Heritage site in the world.
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Connections Discipline: Social Science or Experiential
Prerequisites: SOC 342 and Instructor Consent
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SOC 368 - Global Inequality 4 Credits
Students study the forms, causes and consequences of global inequalities. Globalization produces winners and losers, and this course explores those individuals, companies, and countries that benefit from globalization as well as those who are harmed by it. Additionally, the course will analyze how demographic trends play a role in the globalization process.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: SOC 111 or Instructor Consent
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SOC 370 - Social Science Research Methods 4 Credits
Students study methods used in social science research, including surveys, interviewing, ethnography, participatory action, content analysis, and secondary analysis. Students also apply basic statistical concepts to real social issues through the use of computer-assisted statistical packages such as R and SPSS. Finally, students apply their new knowledge and skills by completing research projects and presenting them to the class.
Prerequisites: MTH 107
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SOC 374 - Human Rights and Social Justice 3 Credits
Through written texts, videos, and personal life stories, students explore how groups have been denied basic human rights. Additionally, students learn about the numerous methods groups have used to gain human rights. Finally, students research, using the case study method, one group and its struggle to achieve human rights.
Connections Discipline: Social Science
Prerequisites: IDS 105
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SOC 381 - Undoing Racism 3 Credits
This course teaches students how to understand race and racism from a sociological perspective. American culture teaches us that we should not pay attention to race because it only makes inequality worse. This leaves us ill-prepared to interact with difference or understand inequality. In this course, students become familiar with the data that examine how race and ethnicity are tied to inequality and privilege, and they develop skills for dealing with racial / ethnic differences in a variety of contexts.
Prerequisites: SCD 110 or SOC 111
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SOC 448 - Sociological Theory 3 Credits
Students survey sociological theory from pre-modern times to the present. The course emphasizes the contributions of classical theorists to contemporary sociological practice.
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SOC 472 - Advanced Justice Studies 4 Credits
Students read, discuss, and debate numerous theoretical perspectives concerning justice and apply them to specific topical areas related to the instructor’s expertise.
Prerequisites: IDS 105 and SOC 111
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SOC 488 - Capstone in Sociology and Social Justice 4 Credits
This course provides students with the necessary skills to complete a social science research project of their choosing, with the guidance of the professor and other students in class. This is a seminar in which students read and discuss social science research.
Prerequisites: SOC 370
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WRI 260 - Introduction to Creative Writing 3 Credits
This course is a workshop in writing poetry and short fiction. Students explore their creative potential in the genres through exercises, writing/revision of poems and stories, peer review, and reading the work of prominent poets and writers.
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WRI 273 - Writing the Environmental Essay 3 Credits
Workshop in writing the creative nature essay.
Prerequisites: ENG 110 , a Connections Block, or Writing Assessment Score of 3 or above
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WRI 361 - Creative Writing: Fiction 3 Credits
This course focuses on the study and practice of short story writing. Students are given in- and out-of-class exercises to facilitate story ideas; the course also involves small and large group workshops, with discussions of student work. At the end of term, students present their stories in a public venue.
Prerequisites: WRI 260
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WRI 362 - Creative Writing: Poetry 3 Credits
In this workshop course, students practice the art and craft of writing poetry, as well as reading the work of established contemporary poets.
Prerequisites: WRI 260
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WRI 363 - Writing Literary NonFiction 3 Credits
This course is a workshop in writing literary nonfiction. Reading, writing assignments, and discussion explore the wide mix of memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, and personal essay that comprises the genre of literary nonfiction.
Prerequisites: WRI 260
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WRI 461 - Seminar in Fiction Writing 4 Credits
This seminar is an advanced workshop in fiction writing. Students write 3-4 medium length short stories (30-40 pages total), which are read and critiqued by the class as a whole. The course is a capstone option for Writing majors.
Prerequisites: WRI 260
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WRI 462 - Seminar in Poetry Writing 4 Credits
This course is an advanced workshop in writing poetry and is a capstone option for writing majors.
Prerequisites: WRI 260
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WRI 489 - Senior Honors Thesis 3 Credits
Students complete a long scholarly or creative work with a thesis director. The thesis is presented to the College community in a public reading. Students may only take this course by invitation of the English Program Coordinator. This course is not a capstone option for Writing majors.
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
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XENG 101 - Composition Tutorial 0 Credits
This tutorial provides supplemental instruction for students enrolled in Foundations in Nature blocks. Students complete writing exercises that complement assignments required in block courses, and through these exercises develop strategies for effectively engaging in the writing process as well as the knowledge required to accurately evaluate their own writing. Successful students acquire the confidence and skills required to continue improving their writing beyond the course.
Corequisites: Enrollment in Growing Connections or Superior Connections
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XHH 105 - Growing Connections Fall 1: Agricultural Humanities 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 165-B005 Agricultural and Pastoral Literature and HIS 120-B005 History of Agricultural Production in the United States Agricultural Humanities is part of a larger Growing Connections curriculum (4 courses in the fall with the option to continue in the winter/spring and beyond). This portion focuses on the historical context of agricultural production in the United States and provides a survey of literary responses to how humans grow food and imagine the countryside. The Agricultural Humanities block must be taken concurrently with the Sustainable Food and Agriculture block.
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XHH 110 - Exploring Meaning in the World 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
This block provides a unique opportunity to bring religion and natural awareness into a unified study.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 115 - Superior Connections Fall 1: Lake Superior Lives and Stories 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 126-B004 Confluences and NAS 160-B004 Lake Superior Ojibwe (Superior Connections First Year Fall Semester) Students explore the unique sense of identity and place among the peoples and communities of the Lake Superior Region. They examine these relationships through the lens of history, memory, culture, writing, artistic expression, and human relationships to the natural environment.
Connections Discipline: Experiential
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XHH 205 - Arts and Cultural Encounters 0 Credits
Connections Block: HUM 249-B010 Voices of the American West and NAS 211-B010 Native American History to 1838 Students explore a variety of cultural encounters and human interactions in Native American history and the American arts spanning the18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. They engage with themes, such as creative expression, human resiliency, colonialism, expansion, and the myths and realities of American history.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 210 - Asian Religions in Global Context 0 Credits
Connections Block: HIS 111-B006 History of World Civilizations to 1500 and REL 230-B006 Asian Religions and Philosophies In this block, students will study the content of various Asian religions and philosophies in the context of global history. In particular, students: connect the roots of each religion to the historical context that produced it; compare the doctrines and beliefs of various religious and philosophical systems; study the patterns of religious change across regions and times periods; trace the impacts of various religions on Asian political, economic, and social history; and juxtapose Asian religions and philosophies to Western religions and philosophies such as Jusiasm, Christianity, Islam and Western humanism.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 212 - World Religions
Connections Block: REL 229 Idea of God and REL 230 Asian Religions and Philosophies This block of religion courses provides a basic grounding in selected, major world religions. By engaging these traditions at the same time, the commonalities and contrasts are clarified and greater, contextual understanding results. Both courses will focus on the basic tenets, traditional and contemporary practices, as well as contemporary challenges within each tradition
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XHH 215 - Monotheism in Global Context 0 Credits
Connections Block: HIS 111-B011 History of World Civilizations to 1500 and REL 229-B011 The Idea of God In this block, students study the content of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and then explore the ways that these religious traditions were shaped by their historical contexts, and how, in turn, they had enormous impacts on Middle Eastern and Western political, economic, and social history. In addition, students trace the outlines of the interactions of these religions with Western humanism.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 220 - A-B positive (Art/Buddhism) 0 Credits
Connections Block: ART 111-B003 Drawing I and REL 231-B003 Buddhism This block connects the study of the Buddhist religion to the art of drawing. Buddhism has contributed to art history in myriad ways that utilize the art of the pen or brush. Students will have hands-on experience in studio with traditional drawing techniques as well as those influenced by Buddhism.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 225 - Ethics and Human Rights 0 Credits
Connections Block: PHL 225-B013 Ethics and REL 270-B013 Religion and Human Rights This block brings religion and philosophy into dialogue examining philosophical ethical theories and their application as well as religious sytems of thought on human rights.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 230 - Women of the World 0 Credits
Connections Block: NAS 250 Native American Women’s History and ENG 233 Women of the Third World
Students explore the diverse experiences and perspectives of women from around the world including Native American women and women in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 235 - Gender, Society, and Nature 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
This block traces the history of gender relations in Western Civilization over the past 250 years and aligns that history with current feminist theories and practices regarding the relationship of gender to environmental issues, conceptions of nature, and inequality.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 241 - The Middle East and the Muslim World 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 228-B002 Literature of the Arab World and HIS 263-B002 History of the Middle East In this block students explore the culture and history of the Middle East, and especially Arab Literature. The courses cover the rise of Islam and its affect on the culture of the Middle East, the nature of Western involvement in the region, and the roots of current conflicts in the area. Students also get a solid grounding in the ways that Islam shapes modern gender roles, conceptions of community and society, and governmental structures. Special attention is given to the role that oil has played in the region’s history and power politics.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 261 - Gender and Environment 0 Credits
Connections Block: GWS 266-B001 Ecofeminism and HIS 209-B001 Gender in the United States Landscape This block examines critical moments and theories at the intersection of the construction of gender and nature in the United States over the past two centuries. Topics include conceptions of the body, the landscape, and power in American culture; women’s health, work, leisure, and consumer habits; ecofeminist politics; and gender as understood through physical space.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 269 - Contemporary Western Art and Philosophy 0 Credits
Connections Block: ART 232-B014 Contemporary Art History and PHL 282-B014 Contemporary Western Philosophy We survey trends and individual contributions to the development of Art and Philosophy from the late 1800’s to the present. We will explore the influences of historical, cultural, and technical developments on the development of Art and Philosophy.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
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XHH 305 - Language, Literature, and Meaning 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 384-B007 Literary Criticism and PHL 330-B007 Philosophy of Language Students explore the nature of meaning from the perspectives of philosophy and literary criticism. Studying the schools of criticism and the philosophy of language, the class investigates the meaning/language connection, how language hooks onto the world, the sense/nonsense distinction, the role of context in meaning and understanding, connections between theory, criticism, and literature, and how theoretical approaches to the study of literature question and shape the making of meaning in literary texts.
Connections Discipline: Humanities
Prerequisites: Any ENG course
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XHI 105 - Energy, Design, andAesthetics 0 Credits
Connections Block: PHL 266-B100 Environmental Aesthetics and SCD 160-B100 Renewable Energy and Sustainable Design Students investigate the aesthetics of cultural and natural environments while studying principles of energy production and green building practices. Applying European, American, and Japanese models of aesthetics to human landscapes, students examine climate appropriate building designs and sustainable methods of energy production.
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XHI 200 - Superior Connections 2: Reading the Waters and Confluences II 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 229-B101 Reading the Waters and IDS 250-B101 Confluences II Building on experiences in first-semester Superior Connections blocks, students study literature of the Lake Superior Watershed as well as places and communities that they will visit during the May circumnavigation. Particular attention is given to the development of skills in critical reading, writing, speaking, and research.
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XHN 105 - Nature in Life and Literature 0 Credits
Connections Block: BIO 115-B202 Concepts of Biology and ENG 211-B202 Humanity and Nature in Literature This two-course block addresses environmental issues and views of nature from the distinct perspectives of science and the humanities. Students acquire an understanding of the foundation in biology (genetics, water issues, etc.) as well as exposure to those same issues through the reading of appropriate literature (novel, play, short stories, essays, and poetry).
Prerequisites: ENG 110 or Connections Block
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XHN 110 - Exploring Meaning in the Universe 0 Credits
Connections Block: REL 258-B201 Religion and Nature and PHY 104-B201 Introduction to Astronomy This block examines the connection human beings have to “nature,” from local surroundings to the entire universe. Quite often this connection to, and understanding of, nature is viewed through the lens of various world religions. It is also the case that religion is sometimes shaped by scientific understanding. Religion and Nature takes the position that the current relationship championed by human beings and world religions has lead to irreparable harm. Introduction to Astronomy examines the relationship between science and religion and discusses the possibility that this relationship is not unidirectional.
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XHN 120 - B203 - Rock Solid Thinking
Connections Block: GSC 120 Physical Geology and PHL 270 - Philosophy of Science Acquire the knowledge and background to answer geologic questions and to appreciate the diversity of the physical landscape and the processes that shape it. Gain knowledge to appreciate the complexity of environmental problems. At the same time, learn about the history of science, its methods, its rise to prominence, and the challenges it has faced and which it faces today.
Connections Discipline: Humanities and Natural Science
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XHN 125 - Natural Hazards 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
This block examines natural hazards and disasters, exploring natural events and crises as geologic processes, as subjects of literature and film, and as social and environmental problems.
Connections Discipline: Humanities and Natural Sciences
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XHS 105 - The Structure of Disaster 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 160-B300 Natural Disasters in Literature and Film and SOC 225-B300 Social Problems Disasters come in many forms, seemingly striking out of the blue and leaving people to pick up the pieces. Many recent disasters, both social and ecological, illustrate the failure of social structures and institutions, in general and in responding to catastrophe. In this block we explore the social problems that underpin disaster, as well as literary and cinematic representations of disaster and apocalypse.
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XHS 115 - Developing Business Presentations 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
This blocked course will develop students’ public speaking skills for application in a professional business environment.
Connections Discipline: Humanities and Social Sciences
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XHS 117 - Developing Business Presentations II 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
This blocked course will develop students’ public speaking skills for application in a professional business environment.
Connections Discipline: Humanities and Social Sciences
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XHS 119 - Developing Business Presentations
Connections Block: BUS 228 Marketing Management and ENG 180 Public Speaking This blocked course will develop students’ public speaking skills for application in a professional business environment.
Connections Discipline: Social Science and Humanities
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XHS 200 - Collapse 0 Credits
Connections Block: ENG 234-B302 Science Fiction and Societal Collapse and SCD 215-B302 Collapse and Sustainability . Discussions of societal collapse capture the minds and hearts of scientists and artists alike. Scientists have studied past and present examples of societal collapse and sustainability. Likewise, science fiction writers have described marvelous utopian societies and created cruel and unforgiving worlds of complete chaos. In this block, the courses uncover empirical, science-based case studies and imaginary, fiction-based worlds found in scientific and humanist traditions. The block brings together fantasy and reality through discussions of collapse and sustainability, and through a creative thought experiment, challenges students to explore possible futures.
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XHS 205 - Groups and Counterculture 0 Credits
Connections Block: MUS 217-B305 Music in World Culture and OED 221-B305 Group Process What forces are at work within groups and how can we live and work successfully within them? Topics include group dynamics, leadership, power, conformity, communication, conflict, morality and ethics, diversity, subcultures and countercultures. Insights come from theories in sociology, psychology, leadership and education as well as from case studies in outdoor education, business, community organizing, juries, war, and music groups from around the world.
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XNN 105 - Growing Connections Fall 1: Sustainable Food and Agriculture 0 Credits
Connections Block: BIO 115-B602 Concepts of Biology and CHM 103-B602 Chemistry of Food Sustainable Food and Agriculture is part of a larger Growing Connections sequence of courses (four courses in the fall semester with the option to continue in the winter/spring and beyond) that focuses on the history, theories, and practices of sustainable agriculture. This portion focuses on the biology and chemistry of food and agriculture in sustainable systems. Students in Growing Connections work closely with faculty mentors and regional farmers in classrooms, labs, and in the field to develop a comprehensive understanding of the role that agriculture plays in the lives of individuals and their communities.
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XNN 110 - Revenge of the Ecosystem 0 Credits
Connections Block: BIO 115-B603 Concepts of Biology and CHM 105-B603 Chemistry in Social Context Students examine the impact of human activity on the environment and the resultant consequences for both human health and ecological sustainability. Particular attention is given to the chemistry and biology of our local watershed.
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XNN 125 - The Unsettled Earthscape 0 Credits
Connections Block: GSC 120-B600 Physical Geology and MET 270-B600 Oceanography This block examines processes that have given the Earth its current shape and how these processes might change the future shape of the Earth. Processes are studied from a geologic and oceanographic perspective and include: the circulation of water and air, volcanism, the rock cycle, nutrient cycling in the ocean, mixing of the ocean, waves, shorelines, tectonic activity, hurricane formation and movement, and sea floor and sediments.
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XNN 135 - In Search of Aliens 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
Participants in this block will join the current search for extraterrestrial life. To do this, students will be exposed to the basic building blocks of life as well as how we can conduct a search from the safety of our own planet.
Wellness Dimension: Natural Sciences
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XNN 305 - Connecting Hydrology with GIS 0 Credits
Connections Block: and
Students learn about the occurrence and movement of water in the atmosphere, over land, and in the ground. This block focuses on the processes of the hydrologic cycle and visualization and analysis using GIS. Students will experience common approaches to studying hydrology from the GIS community.
Connections Discipline: Natural Sciences
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XNS 105 - Response to Climate Change 0 Credits
Connections Block: and IDS 130-B700 Climate and Complexities of Societal Change Understanding global climate change requires knowledge not only of the scientific concepts involved but also of the complicating social factors. Citizens and leaders must understand the science behind the issue before they can make informed decisions; scientists must understand the social forces affecting their research. Working across the disciplines of biology and environmental studies, we will explore the responses of biological systems to current and past climate change, the societal and psychological impacts of the climate issue, and creative responses to concerns about the future of the environment and humanity.
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XNS 200 - Earth Resources and Economics 0 Credits
Connections Block: GSC 233-B701 Earth Resources and BUS 226-B701 Essentials of Economics This block studies the economics and geology that drive extraction and use of mineral, energy, and water resources. Environmental impacts of resource use and economically realistic alternatives are covered in detail.
Prerequisites: Any 100-level GSC course
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XSS 205 - Economic Geography 0 Credits
Connections Block GSC 262 - World Regional Geography and BUS 226 - Essentials of Economics . Students develop their understanding of basic economics and this understanding informs their views of contemporary geographic issues, such as the distribution of goods and services, the production and allocation of natural resources, and how it affects different cultures and nations across the globe.
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XSS 210 - Growing Connections Fall 2: Growing Farms and Community 0 Credits
Connections Block: BUS 229-B903 Small Business Management and SCD 110-B903 Introduction to Sustainable Community Development Growing Farms and Community is the final block in the Growing Connections program. Students study small business management and sustainable community development to develop an understanding of the role that agriculture can play in sustainable communities as well as the practical skills required for developing business plans and managing the business aspects of a small farm or related enterprises.
Prerequisites: GSC 107 and REL 273
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XSS 215 - Superior Connections Fall 2: Communities of Lake Superior 0 Credits
Connections Block: SCD 225-B904 Sustainable Development in the Lake Superior Watershed and SOC 260-B904 Sociology in the Watershed Communities of Lake Superior is the final block of the Superior Connections program. Building on previous experiences in Superior Connections, students study communities and patterns of social life as a means to better understanding how communities are formed and how individuals function within them. Students also explore questions related to community health and sustainability.
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XSS 220 - Political Processes 0 Credits
Connections Block: PSY 250-B902 Political Psychology and SCD 230-B902 The Political Process Combining research and theory from psychology, political science, and sociology, students explore local, regional, and national political processes. Issues addressed include political socialization, public opinion formation, interest group and social movement activism, electoral processes, partisan politics, bureaucracy, and the policy process.
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XSS 225 - Making Sense of Misfortune 0 Credits
Connections Block: OED 272-B901 Accident Theory and Analysis and PSY 250-B901 Narrative Psychology. Why do bad things happen, and how do we make sense of them once they do? Theories in cognitive psychology, sociology, organizational science, and outdoor education inform the exploration of sensation-seeking, risk, accidents, and paradoxes in risk management. Theories in narrative psychology illuminate the role of narrative structure in human cognition and the process of sense-making, healing, storytelling, and narrative techniques in therapeutic practices.
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XSS 255 - Sustainable Communities 0 Credits
Connections Block: PSY 250-B900 Models of Sustainable Community Change and SOC 250-B900 Leadership in Community Change Sustainable communities require hard work and cooperation by committed community members. Sustainable communities also need the right social, economic, and political conditions to thrive. This block focuses on attempts by individuals, groups, and organizations from around the world who are trying to become more sustainable. By studying case study examples across the globe, students will have the opportunity to examine and understand how people attempt to achieve sustainable communities.
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