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COM-103 Communication Fundamentals View Details

Students examine their methods of interpersonal communication in various contexts including dyadic, small group, and mediated communication. Individual activities and group work include both oral and written components. Class discussions and small group activities provide opportunities to practice and refine interpersonal communication skills. Objective exams and quizzes focus on cognitive learning of the principles and concepts in the various communication contexts. (COM103 is one of the two

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COM-212 Public Speaking & Performance View Details

Students prepare and deliver various types of public performances including speeches and oral interpretation. The evaluation and criticism of speeches is studied. Videotape helps students adjust to their performance style and improve presentation delivery. Course units include speech construction, presentation and delivery, audience and text analysis, informative, persuasive and special occasion speeches as well as visual aid construction. (COM212 is one of the two choices for the communication

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ENG-120 College Writing View Details

The content of a writing course is writing. For students to become proficient writers in all disciplines, they need to learn how to read and analyze a variety of texts and then practice reading and analyzing texts from various disciplines. Through research and writing, students learn what others are saying and how to integrate those ideas into their own writing. Constant practice will guide students into developing their own voice and style. They will make conscious choices related to audience

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ENG-155 Introduction to Literature View Details

Introduction to Literature seeks to excite students about literature; to feed students passion about literature; and to enhance their pleasure from literature. Through a variety of texts, students will encounter other members of the human community and, while in their company, learn about themselves. The course will introduce basic literary terminology.

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ENG-220 Applied Grammar View Details

To communicate clearly, students must correctly apply the rules that govern the English language. Through reading, discussion, and constant practice, students in this course will examine and use these rules to further develop their writing skills.

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ENG-221 Journalism View Details

This course is an introduction to periodical journalism. It focuses on the contemporary practices, issues, and ethics of the profession. Students will practice extensive in-the field reporting and journalistic writing.

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ENG-222 Journalism Practicum View Details

Journalism II provides an opportunity for hands-on experience in all aspects of producing a newspaper: writing, editing, layout, photography, business management, etc. This course is strongly suggested for those who wish to contribute to The Sword (the Concordia student newspaper) on a regular basis. It is required for the Editor-in-Chief, Technical Editor(s), and Page Editors. Beginning writers and photographers are encouraged to sign up. This workshop style class meets one hour a week,

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ENG-227 Column Writing View Details

This course will introduce students to the role of columns as vehicles that affect both public opinion and the identities of periodicals. Study of a range of contemporary artifacts will provide a basis for understanding the balance of opinion and reporting in column writing. Students will both analyze and write columns.

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ENG-228 Review Writing View Details

This course will introduce students to the various roles of the review in our culture. Study of contemporary artifacts will provide a basis for understanding the balance of presentation, critique, and edification in reviewing. Students will both analyze and write reviews.

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ENG-320 Writing in the Workplace View Details

Students in this course will examine the conventions of writing in the workplace. The particular topics of the course will vary depending on the semester. Some of the topics covered might include grant writing, copyrighting, writing for the web, public relations writing, or technical writing.

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ENG-324 Teaching Writing 1:1 View Details

Often, the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. Students in this course will do just that: improve their own writing, editing, and tutoring skills while helping others express their ideas in writing, develop their own writing voice, and edit their own work. Students will apply what they learn from readings, discussions, and writing assignments by tutoring in the Writing Center each week. (Prerequisite: ENG120)

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ENG-325 Creative Writing View Details

This course will examine the basic elements of short fiction and poetry and will require students to experiment with both genres. The class is run as a workshop: the main focus will be on the discussion of each other's work. It is also, to a certain extent, a literature course, since what one reads strongly influences what one writes. Assigned readings are intended to give students a fuller understanding of technique as well as a range of artistic possibilities. (Prerequisites: ENG120,

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ENG-326 Topics in Writing View Details

This course, the topic of which may vary from year to year, is designed to provide intermediate writers with the opportunity to experiment with different styles and genres.

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ENG-330 Young Adult Literature View Details

By introducing the student to a wide variety of both traditional and recent literature for young adults, this course helps the student become aware of quality adolescent literature. It includes instruction in oral interpretation of the literature, methods of presenting it in the classroom and planning individualized reading programs for young people of high school age. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-338 Hist & Prin of English Lang View Details

This course provides an introduction to the linguistic study of the English language, focusing in particular on English phonology, morphology and syntax. Also covered in the course will be the development of the English language over time and the relationship between language and society, including literature, dialects and registers of various English speakers and writers.

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ENG-365 British Literature I View Details

The beginning course in the survey of British literature covers the Anglo-Saxon period through the middle of the eighteenth century. Selected readings lead to discussions about the growth of nationalism and its reflection in literary pride and canon formation. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-366 British Literature II View Details

The survey of British literature continues with selected writings from the Romantic period through to the present day. Readings cover the rise of the novel, the fight for women's rights and the decline of colonialism. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-369 Shakespeare View Details

This course offers a study of Shakespeare's work and its relationship to Elizabethan concepts of poetry and rhetoric as well as to gender and imperialism and government. It explores the rich terrain of Shakespeare imaginative world. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-375 World Lit I: West Classical View Details

This course examines major authors in the Western literary tradition from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the Middle Ages. Authors include Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil and Dante. This course may offer additional material from other early cultures.

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ENG-376 World Literature II View Details

Using examples of literature in translation from Asia, South America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe, the course will explore themes common around the world in forms distinctive to diverse cultures. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-385 American Literature I View Details

Students examine selected works of early American writers with emphasis on Puritanism, literary nationalism, and the period known as the �American Renaissance.� Along with examining the literature for aesthetic technique, students discuss significant themes and the literary canon as it relates to minority and women writers. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-386 American Literature II View Details

Students explore the emergence of local color, realism and naturalism and the fragmentation of modern and post-modern literature between the Civil War and the present. Women and minority writers are important foci. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-420 Persuasive Wrtng on Cont. Issu View Details

Students in this course analyze essays by established writers of expository prose, read articles in current magazines and journals and meet with local writers invited into the classroom. Students also write their own creative non-fiction and keep journals. Both in workshops and in individual conferences, the course asks students to consider their own writing as a process that requires their attention to revising and editing. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-440 Literary Theory View Details

In this course students become familiar with various critical theories about literature including structuralism, deconstruction, cultural criticism (especially as related to third world literature), feminist theory and psychoanalytical theory. It prepares them to read critically and helps them to develop their own critical stances. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155 and an upper level English course)

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ENG-487 Topics : Images of Italy View Details

Topics in Literature offers students an opportunity to study in-depth a literary genre, theme, or movement. Topics will vary from offering to offering. (Prerequisite: ENG155 or permission of the instructor)

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ENG-488 English Independent Study View Details

Independent study offers the opportunity to pursue advanced study in language, literature, or communication. Independent study is open only to students with substantial preparatory course work in the discipline involved.

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ENG-490 Seminar in Literature View Details

Seminars in literature cover varying topics in greater depth than is possible in a survey class. Recent seminar topics include Virginia Woolf: Her Art and Her Influence; Emily Dickinson: Her Circle and Her Influence; Seminar in the African-American Literary Tradition; and Victorian Secrets. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-498 Internship View Details

Students participate in a variety of internship programs in editing, publishing, broadcasting, television and public information under the supervision of the faculty and the director of internships for the company or organization granting the internship. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)

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ENG-499 Framing the Literary Tradition View Details

This course, taught by all full-time English faculty, for English majors and teacher candidates in language arts, is designed to help the major see patterns in course work. Through review, reading and discussion students will re-examine and synthesize texts and ideas. The English Capstone exam is both written and oral. (Prerequisite: senior year status)

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HIS-111 Western Civilization to 1648 View Details

Beginning with the Egyptian society, this course places major emphasis on the growth and progress of Western culture and civilization and European institutions. Topics include the Hellenistic world, Rome, medieval Europe, and the Renaissance.

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HIS-113 Western Civ. Since Reformation View Details

Beginning with the Reformation, this course places major emphasis on the growth and progress of Western culture and civilization and European institutions. Topics include the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Romanticism, and twentieth century totalitarianism. INT111 is not a prerequisite for this course.

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HIS-121 World History View Details

A comparative introduction to the development of cultures in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Topics include the age of exploration from a global perspective; the rise of the West; religious, economic and political revolutions; imperialism; changes in the patterns of everyday life. No prerequisites.

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HIS-212 Introduction to History View Details

Students familiarize themselves with methods of inquiry in history and compare these with the methodologies of other disciplines. The course asks participants to raise relevant questions about the data, sources, and conclusions of the material they examine and to conduct their own inquiry through the completion of a self-designed project.

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HIS-221 World Culture: Greece & Rome View Details

This course studies the cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome with a focus on the interaction of diverse cultural elements which shape the metropolitan and cosmopolitan world culture of which we are heirs.

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HIS-231 USA to 1877 View Details

This survey course traces American history from colonial times through Reconstruction. The course emphasizes a broad range of topics including: colonial settlement patterns, the growth of slavery, the Revolution, the development of nationalism, the Age of Jackson, Westward expansion, sectionalism, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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HIS-233 USA since 1877 View Details

This survey course traces American history from Reconstruction to the present time. The course will begin by focusing on the nation's emergence as a world power and its failure to keep the promises it made in the 13th & 15th amendments. Students will also examine: America's various reform movements, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression and New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, Civil Rights, Vietnam, the 1960s counterculture, Watergate, the oil and Iran hostage crises, the Reagan

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HIS-267 Introduction to Latin America View Details

An introduction to modern Latin America, with emphasis on the post-colonial era. Beginning with a discussion of the colonial heritage, the course traces the development of Latin America, its struggle with political instability and economic dependence and the role of the United States in hemispheric development. Primary focus is on Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

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HIS-285 European History Since 1789 View Details

This comprehensive survey focuses on events and forces that have shaped European history since the French Revolution. The course will examine industrialization, the revolutions of 1848, socialism, the unification of Germany, European imperialism, the devastating world wars of the 20th century, as well as the Russian Revolution, National Socialism and the Holocaust, the Cold War standoff, and the birth and expansion of the European Community.

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HIS-320 Minnesota History View Details

This course will examine the social, cultural, economic, and political history of Minnesota from pre-European contact to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on American Indian and European-American conflict. This course will also focus on interrelationship between Minnesota's geophysical environment and socio-cultural development. Topics will include Native American life and culture, European settlement, the fur trade, immigration, economic and industrial development, political

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HIS-325 U.S. Business History View Details

The course will primarily examine the role of business in the American economy from the colonial period to the present. The course will focus on the development of capitalism and the corporation, with an emphasis on the interaction between business firms and other institutions in American life�including labor unions and the government. Students will study business, labor, and other economic institutions starting in the 17th century and ending with the modern global corporation. Topics will

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HIS-330 America's Civil War: 1845-1877 View Details

This course will examine the Civil War era in the United States. The class will emphasize a number of topics including: North-South social and cultural differences, the short and long-term causes of the conflict, Southern secession, slavery and emancipation, Abraham Lincoln's leadership, battles and military strategies, soldier's lives, wartime diplomacy, politics, and economics during the war, the struggles of Reconstruction and the significance of the war in American history.

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HIS331 HIS331 Religion in American Culture View Details

From the European antecedents of Puritanism to the Moral Majority and the �Caf� Spiritualism� of the late twentieth century, this course studies the incredibly complex and often ignored interplay between religion and American politics, economics, and social policy. Christianity, Judaism, Native American spirituality, and other points of religious reference will be utilized.

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HIS-332 The Cold War: A Global Persp View Details

This course examines the causes, actions, and results of a conflict between the world's superpowers that shaped the direction of global affairs for more than forty years. This course will allow the students to view the Cold War through the eyes of the United States, the Soviet Union, their allies, and many other countries that served as proxies during this period. Both the history and the international system will be emphasized.

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HIS-333 The Industrial Revolution View Details

This course traces the most explosive period of growth and change in American history. Covering the presidencies of Ulysses S. Grant through Woodrow Wilson, this course intensively examines the American metamorphosis from divided, wounded and fractious nation to industrial juggernaut and policeman of the world. Major themes include: the final days of red-white conflict, issues of black freed people, immigration, industrialization and urbanization, robber barons, labor unrest, muckrakers and

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HIS-334 US Foreign Policy View Details

This course examines the goals and consequences of American foreign policy and diplomacy from the founding of the republic to the present day. Topics include commercial and territorial expansion, America's relationships with other states and nations, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, Vietnam, U.S. imperialism, and the current conflicts over terrorism and natural resources. The perspectives of other peoples and nations will be emphasized.

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HIS335 HIS335 Women in US View Details

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HIS-337 Parties, Campaigns, & Election View Details

Analysis of party organizations, campaigns, and presidential and congressional elections in the United States. Attention will be given to state and local party structures and activities, third-party movements, and historical patterns of voting behavior.

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HIS-339 Race & Ethnicity inUS Hist View Details

This course examines those who came or were brought to the United States through the slave trade, economic, social, and political dislocations in different parts of the world and more personal factors. Various modes of assimilation and diversity will be discussed, as will the stories of many of the different peoples who have served to create the citizenry of the United States.

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HIS-340 Slavery & Freedom the Americas View Details

This course explores the history and demise of chattel slavery in the Americas by using a global approach to examine developments and conditions of slavery and emancipation in Latin America, the Caribbean region, and the United States. By comparing slavery in the U.S. to other slave systems the class will explore whether the legacy of race relations in the Southern U.S. was exceptional or typical. Topics will include: the Atlantic slave trade, slave life and slave culture, the expansion of

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HIS-341 Civil Rights Movement in U.S. View Details

This course will explore the major campaigns, personalities, organizations, and guiding themes of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This course will focus on the long civil rights movement; that portion of the struggle characterized by an organized mass movement(s) from World War II through the 1970s, highlighting the shift from protest to electoral politics. The class will place the civil rights movement within the context of American political, economic, and social

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HIS342 HIS342 Reformation View Details

This course traces the social, political and economic trends in Europe from 1500�1648 as they interrelate with the Reformation of the Church. Particular attention is focused upon the work of Luther, Calvin, the Anabaptists, and Loyola in order to illustrate the many facets of religious reform in this era.

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HIS-351 Themes in US History View Details

This course will explore a specific topic or topics selected by the instructor, and will expand the student's understanding and appreciation of the history and historiography of the given subjects(s). (Pre-Req. waiver can be signed by professor.)

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HIS353 HIS353 Themes in European History View Details

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HIS-355 Themes in World History View Details

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HIS-357 History on Film View Details

This course will utilize films to examine and analyze various historical topics, eras, and subjects. Students will speculate and consider how films from the past and the present have judged and interpreted history. The thematic focus for this course will vary.

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HIS-362 Mexican History View Details

This course looks at the structures, forces and individuals that have shaped the history of Mexico. Beginning with pre-Columbian civilizations and the conquest, the course then covers the colonial period, independence in 1821, 19th century liberal modernization and the Revolution (1910�20) before concluding with an assessment of contemporary Mexico. Relations with the United States receive special emphasis.

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HIS-372 The Second World War View Details

The Second World War seen from economic, social, military and political points of view; other topics include the causes of the war and the various post-war problems. European or American perspective depending on the instructor. No prerequisites.

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HIS-382 Hitler's Germany View Details

From the unification of Germany in 1871 to the reunification in 1990, stressing the origins and consequences of the National Socialist period, 1933-45. Topics include Bismarck and his political legacy and the divergent paths taken by the two German states in the midst of the East-West conflict after 1945. Emphasis is placed on understanding Germany's role in a larger European context.

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HIS383 HIS383 Modern France View Details

The political, social, and economic history of France from Napoleon to the Fifth Republic, stressing the impact of revolution, industrialization, and war on French society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed on understanding France�s role in a larger European context.

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HIS385 HIS385 Britain since 1688 View Details

Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688, this course explores themes such as the rise of Britain to a world power in the eighteenth century, the impact of the Industrial Revolution and imperialism, the Victorian world view, two world wars and the Thatcher Revolution of the 1980s. Emphasis is placed on understanding Britain�s role in a larger European and world context.

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HIS-389 The Holocaust View Details

This course will introduce students to the history of the Holocaust and to individuals who embodied those issues. We will examine the historical development of anti-Semitism, German political and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries and the actions taken against Jews that culminated in the attempted implementation of a final solution to the Jewish question. Course will consist of lectures, readings and discussion, with occasional guest speakers and films.

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HIS-390 Vietnam War View Details

This course examines, from historical and political perspectives, the Vietnam War era. While an emphasis will be placed on America's role in the conflict; international geopolitical factors will also be investigated. Other topics might include the development of Vietnamese nationalism, the Cold War, French colonialism, Washington's initial commitment to Vietnam, the increase in American involvement from 1954-1965, the Gulf of Tonkin, the failure of military strategy, antiwar protests, the war's

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HIS391 HIS391 Modern Japan Since 1853 View Details

This course traces the dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, military, and other changes in Japan, beginning with Japan�s first contacts with the west in the nineteenth century. Japan�s 1868 revolution against the shogun, establishment of an authoritarian oligarchy, wars with China and Russia, creation of an empire, social and political struggles, wars in China, confrontation with and loss to America, rebuilding, and economic emergence will be discussed. Student participation is

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HIS-393 Modern China, 1911-present View Details

This course will study the effects of Western colonialism, the Sino-Japanese War, and World War I on China, and trace the development of the modern Chinese state, including the formation of the People�s Republic of China and Taiwan. Empahsis will also be placed on China�s relations with other countries around the world, as well as its treatment of ethnic minorities within its own borders.

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HIS-401 Research & Writing in History View Details

This serves as the research and writing capstone course for History majors and minors. After reading other scholars' ideas and interpretations in various classes, students will now have the opportunity to research, analyze, and write their own original work of scholarship. Students will do original research projects using primary source materials (newspapers, oral history interviews, government documents, letters, diaries, etc.), rather than scholarly articles or books. Student can select their

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HIS-403 Intro. to Professional Studies View Details

History, Political Science, and pre-law students will be introduced to and given opportunities to tour and work in a variety of professional settings: archives, museums, professional record-keeping centers, law offices, etc. Students may use this class to select, an internship site or think more broadly about vocational opportunities in the discipline.

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HIS434 HIS434 1960s in America: 1954 - 1975 View Details

This course studies the many strains of change and revolution in American life from 1954 to 1975. Topics include: Civil Rights, Cold War, presidential politics, foreign policy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, literature and drama, counterculture and alternative lifestyles, women�s rights and feminism, �Middle America�s Sixties,� black power, and the space race. Student participation is emphasized.

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HIS436 HIS436 Topics in US History View Details

Selected topics will be treated using primary and historiographical materials. Students participate in the presentation, analysis and, interpretation of the topics which include: World War One and the Treaty of Versailles, the 1920s, the New Deal, World War Two diplomacy, McCarthyism, the 1960s, Vietnam, Watergate, and the Reagan Revolution.

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HIS-482 French Rev & Napoleonic Era View Details

This seminar uses scholarly and primary source materials to provide an in-depth look at one of the most influential events of the modern era: the French Revolution. Topics include the origins of the revolution, the use of terror, mob violence, and the historiography of the revolution. Student participation is emphasized.

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HIS484 HIS484 Russian Revolution, 1917-1938 View Details

This seminar uses scholarly and primary source materials to explore one of the most influential events of the modern era: the Russian Revolution. Topics include the origins of 1917, the role of personalities (Lenin, Trotsky, Kerensky, Stalin), and differing interpretations of the revolution. Student participation is emphasized.

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HIS486 HIS486 Topics in European History View Details

Selected topics will be treated using primary and historiographical materials. Students participate in the presentation, analysis and interpretation of the topics which include: the origins and consequences of World War One and the Revolutions of 1989. Student participation is emphasized.

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HIS-487 Readings Seminar:Tpcs in Hist. View Details

Readings/Research Seminar in History covering various, selected topics. This course will emphasize the use of scholarly and primary source materials; historiography and interpretation, archival research, and student participation. Recent readings-seminar topics include: America in the 1960s; the French Revolution and Napoleon, Minnesota History, and the Russian Revolution.

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HIS-488 Independent Study View Details

Independent study provides a more flexible educational experience for the student as well as college credit for work done outside the conventional classroom setting. These courses are generally designed and supervised by a faculty member. Students are responsible for completing an application form that specifies course goals, objectives, projected outcomes, learning strategies, and evaluation procedures. The student's advisor, course instructor, department chair, and the dean must approve

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HIS-498 History Internship View Details

Students participate in internships in state and local government agencies, archives, museums, and related fields of interest under supervision of staff members of the department of history.

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HIS499 HIS499 Readings View Details

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SPA-101 Beginning College Spanish I View Details

This course introduces basic vocabulary along with present and past tense verbs. Cultural notes and short readings are included along with the basic grammar. Immediate use of the language is encouraged.

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SPA-102 Beginning College Spanish II View Details

This course continues vocabulary building through short readings and dialogues in simulated real-life situations. Grammar concentrates on past-tense review, present subjunctive, perfect tenses, the future, commands, and object pronouns. Cultural readings and film are included. (Prerequisite: SPA101 Beginning Spanish I or equivalent; usually 2 years of high school Spanish)

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SPA-201 Intermed College Spanish I View Details

In this course basic grammar is reviewed with increased emphasis on composition and conversation. An accompanying reader is included to expand vocabulary and recognition of familiar structures as well as provide literary and cultural material for discussion. Verb tenses include an introduction to the subjunctive. (Prerequisite: SPA102 Beginning Spanish I: Second Semester or equivalent; usually 2 years or more of high school Spanish)

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SPA-202 Intermed College Spanish II View Details

This course is a continuation of SPA201 with the same texts. Continued refinement of writing and conversational skills with emphasis on cultural issues is featured. Verb study is expanded to include all tenses. (Prerequisite: SPA201 Intermediate Spanish II: First Semester or equivalent; usually 2 years or more of high school Spanish)

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SPA-301 Advanced College Spanish I View Details

An advanced Spanish language course focusing primarily on grammar review and writing with regular conversation sessions. The course includes intensive and detailed work in expository and creative writing, syntax, stylistic and idiomatic usage. There is also some introduction to advanced translation in Spanish. (Prerequisite: SPA202 Intermediate Spanish II: Second Semester or equivalent; usually 3 years of high school Spanish)

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SPA-302 Advanced College Spanish II View Details

An advanced Spanish language course focusing primarily on vocabulary expansion and conversation with some writing exercises and structure review. Conversational practice with special emphasis on aural-oral skills. A variety of reading material is assigned as preparation for class discussion. Videos, movies, and audiotapes may also be assigned. (Prerequisite: SPA202 Intermediate Spanish II: Second Semester or equivalent; usually 3 years of high school Spanish)

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SPA-401 Spanish IV:Topics in Spanish View Details

This course is designed to provide the student with advanced Spanish language proficiency. The specific topic may vary depending on the year and the instructors. Examples might include Spanish in the Workplace, Spanish Linguistics, or other related topics.

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SPA-402 Read in Contemp Spanish Lit View Details

A course designed to expose the student to representative writers of current trends in the literature of Spain and Latin America. Some literary movements explored are magic realism, post modernism, feminism, and the testimonial novel. The student will read novels, short stories, theater, poetry, and view occasional films. Authors may vary from year to year. (Prerequisite: SPA302 or consent of instructor: based on interview and proficiency test)

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SPA-403 Span IV:VoicesLatinos in U.S. View Details

A course designed to examine the stories of Latinos in the U.S. as told by them. Authors read are of Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Mexican American origin. Special emphasis is placed on practices and values held both here and in the cultures of origin. Such subjects as family, social and economic struggles, individual aspirations ,and spiritual needs are covered. Language issues are highlighted and film is used to complement the readings.

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SPA-488 Spanish Independent Study View Details

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SPA-498 Spanish Internship View Details

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