2019-2020 Winona Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ES298 Field Experience 1-9 credit(s)
This introductory off-campus experience provides qualified students with opportunities to observe and assist professional staff with education responsibilities in community-based programs and organizations. A minimum of 135 hours is required (about 10 hours per week). Prerequisites: ED306 , ED307 , and approval of both academic advisors.
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ES496 Integrative Internship Experience 1-12 credit(s)
This off-campus experience provides qualified juniors or seniors with opportunities to apply academic knowledge and increase professional autonomy as member of professional team in community-based programs and organizations. A minimum of 270 hours (6 credits) is required. For an internship exceeding 270 hours, the student may choose to register for additional credits (45 hours = 1 credit). The student’s academic advisors provide supervision and guidance during the internship. Prerequisites: ES298 and approval of both academic advisors.
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E105 Writing Skills 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to prepare students for college-level writing. Emphasis is placed on the development of writing as a process of thinking and communicating that involves the stages of planning, drafting, revising, and editing. Students will receive instruction and practice in sentence, paragraph, and essay structure as well as significant review of grammar, punctuation, and usage fundamentals. This course serves as preparation for E130 First Year Writing . Students taking E105 to meet the English competency requirement must complete the course with a passing grade before enrolling in E130 .
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E109 Heroes and Heroines 4 credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor course for the First Year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for the development of academic skills in the discipline of English. Inquiry into the ways that various literary texts (fairy tales, epic poems, short prose, drama, and/or films) present the heroic quest will allow you to develop the academic habits and ways of thinking to take forward into any Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice.
From Ancient Greece to the present day, from epic poetry to Hollywood films, stories of big adventures and legendary heroes abound, helping us to understand where we come from, what we value, what we are called to do, and how we can overcome the challenges that might lie in our paths. We will examine a few of these well-known stories, especially in terms of gender roles. What makes a hero? How is a heroine different from a hero? What skills, qualities, or lessons do heroes and heroines need to learn in order to overcome challenges and assume their social roles? This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well Being through examining the enduring relevance of such questions, the cultural situations that give rise to specific hero narratives, the different perspectives we each bring to our interpretation of such stories, and the ways in which these stories continue to resonate in contemporary life.
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E130 First Year Writing 4 cr. credit(s)
Contributing to the First Year Experience by focusing on the theme of place, this course introduces students to the stages of writing, from generating ideas to revising and editing. In this course, students will practice careful reading, conduct ethical research, and write thesis-driven academic essays, with an opportunity to reflect on their own reading, research, and writing. The course also stresses competence in grammar, punctuation, usage, and mechanics, and includes attention to citation and documentation. Through its assignments and activities, the course fosters awareness of the roles that audience, context, and purpose play in determining rhetorical choices, empowering students to articulate their own place in various communities.
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E170 Romance Literature 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint students with popular works of romance literature and to increase students’ appreciation of the experience of reading. Through study of early romance tales but especially recent variations on the romance in books and film, students will learn to identify common conventions and themes (such as journey, adventure, the psychological development of the hero, and encounters with the supernatural), read texts closely and critically, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E171 Sports Literature 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to engage students with the popular genre of sports literature. Through examining representations of athletes, the myths that surround sports, and the ways sports narratives reveal and influence our culture, students will identify common conventions and themes, read texts closely and critically, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E172 Readers and Writers 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint students with works of “self-referential” literature, i.e., literary works that reflect upon their own status as literature while also performing their other functions as a story, poem, or play. For example, we read a novel that not only tells a story but that also reflects on the act of storytelling and how storytelling shapes meaning in our lives and in our culture. Studying such literary works allows students not only to practice traditional conventions of reading, such as textual analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, but also encourages a deeper reflection on the act of reading itself and its role in shaping who we are. The literature in the class thus becomes not only the source of the answers to literary questions (what does this poem mean?) but also the source of important questions about literature and culture (how does literature make meaning? Why should one read? What is the effect of reading?). Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E173 Literature and Film 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to explore various ways that literature and film might speak to one another, working from the premise that films can (and perhaps should) be read critically as texts. Through study of literary and cinematic works linked by plot, theme, topic, and/or style, students will learn to identify common conventions and themes, read (and view) texts closely and critically, and consider how the interpretation of literature and film contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E174 Dystopian Literature 3 credit(s)
Dystopian works critique society, often by presenting an alternate or extreme version of society that points up the dangers of letting certain social elements (such as technology or political or legal systems) go too far. The dystopian is intimately related to the utopian: utopian texts imagine perfect societies, or at least best possible worlds, but the benefits gained typically endanger some of our cherished values (such as freedom and love); dystopian texts reveal this dark underbelly, showing how the rise to power of some comes at the expense of others, or even society as a whole. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E175 Introduction to Literature 3 credit(s)
In this course, students gain exposure to works of fiction, poetry, and drama and acquire experience in critical reading and interpretation of literature. Students not only read but also actively engage with literary texts, in the process becoming familiar with literary conventions and discourse. Readings may explore a particular theme (e.g., The Heroic, The Quest, The Individual and Community, Coming of Age); themes and reading selections vary by instructor. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E176 The Graphic Novel 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to introduce students to fiction within the graphic novel genre and increase students’ appreciation of the experience of reading. With a close, critical focus on the relationship between text and image, students will learn to identify common conventions and themes in fiction, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E177 Holocaust Literature 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to introduce students to popular works of Holocaust fiction and increase students’ appreciation of the experience of reading. By evaluating Holocaust fiction closely and critically, students will learn to identify common conventions and themes, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E178 Gothic Literature 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint students with popular works of gothic literature and to increase students’ appreciation of the experience of reading. Through study of some seminal texts that helped establish the modern concept of Gothic, and attention especially to contemporary ghost, monster, and other eerie books and film, students will learn to identify common conventions and themes, read texts closely and critically, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E179 Fantasy Literature 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint students with popular and influential works of fantasy fiction and to increase students’ appreciation of the experience of reading. With a particular focus on the ways in which fantasy authors build fictive worlds that challenge us to reevaluate the familiar and the magical, reinterpret ourselves and others, and reimagine the world around us, students will identify common conventions and themes, read texts closely and critically, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E180 Mystery and Detective Fiction 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to engage students with the popular genre of mystery and detective fiction and film from its “classic” age to the present. With a particular focus on the ways in which mystery stories confront culturally driven fears and play with the notion of knowledge, students will identify common conventions and themes, read texts closely and critically, and consider how the interpretation of literature contributes to a deeper understanding of language and culture. Prerequisite: E130 or E130 placement.
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E195-204 Special Topics in English 1–3 credit(s)
Selected topics in English may be offered depending on student and faculty interest.
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E251 Textual Analysis 3 credit(s)
This course examines the ways texts carry and convey meaning, and the processes through which we construct meaning from various kinds of texts (e.g., narrative fiction, poetry, drama, film, lyrics, etc.). By examining various representations of a common theme, we will practice ways of reading and interpreting literary and other cultural texts, look for patterns and paradigms that help us make sense of textual forms, and analyze how experience is represented in these texts. We will write essays that articulate those analyses using the conventions of literary discourse, focusing especially on close reading.
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E252 Contextual Analysis 3 credit(s)
This course examines the ways in which our understanding of literature has been shaped by the historical contexts in which texts are produced and by the literary constructs and conventions which have developed as a way to define those contexts. Through the reading of representative texts, the course will examine how elements outside of the text, including biographical, historical, cultural, and sociopolitical constructs, influence texts as well as the analysis of texts.
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E295 Practical Grammar 2 credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to teach students to identify basic and advanced grammatical structures. Students are asked to apply this grammatical knowledge to exercises that require them to edit for grammar and punctuation. Offered spring semester. Prerequisite: E130 or equivalent.
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E298 Field Exploration 1-5 credit(s)
Explores the field of English and Literature.
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E300 Dimensions of Literature 3 credit(s)
This general education course is designed to give students an understanding of some major writers, themes, or trends of literature (American, English, or World) in its larger context – cultural, historical, philosophical, theological, etc. Themes or concepts that serve as points of departure in the investigation of literary history or cultural and individual expression vary from semester to semester (see specific titles on course schedule).
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E302 An American Conflict: The Individual vs. Society 3 credit(s)
Especially because of its strong historical emphasis on the individual and individualism, there has always existed in American culture a dynamic tension between the individual and society. This course explores how major American authors have chosen to present and interpret this theme by tracing it from its roots in early American literature to its most sophisticated expression in works written during the latter half of the 19th and first part of the 20th century. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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E303 Imagining Nature in Early American Literature 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on the relationship between the American literary imagination and nature. It examines how early American romantic, naturalistic, and modernist authors have imaginatively perceived the relationship between nature and humanity. Students read and discuss American literary texts that embody a variety of perspectives on this relationship, leading to a deeper understanding of this pervasive cultural theme. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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E306 American Postmodernities and Beyond 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on the theme of identity in American literature since the start of the 20th century and, in particular, on those authors and texts that explore the topic of identity in relation to the American dream. Students read and discuss a variety of American literary texts that embody varying perspectives on this relationship. These perspectives include, but are not limited to, the following: gender, ethnicity, sexual identity, geographical location, and religious affiliation. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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E307 Modern American Literature 3 credit(s)
American Modernism studies the major American authors who were writing between the two world wars and the Modernist literary movement of which they were a part. Students examine a variety of poetry and fiction to identify the changes in form that emerged around the time of World War I; students make connections between the content and form of literature and what was happening in world history and in the world of art; and students consider the individual innovations of writers within the broad aesthetic movement known as Modernism. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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E315 Christianity and Its Others 3 credit(s)
In this course, students explore the advent and establishment of Christianity as the dominant mode of discourse in the Medieval and Early Modern periods of British Literature. This investigation hinges upon exposure to countercurrents which Christianity operated against as it established its primacy (such as paganism, Judaism, Islam), as well as to tensions within Christianity itself (heresies, humanism, patriarchy v. feminism, and the division between Catholicism and Protestantism). While the course thus is historical and cultural in its overall theme, the emphasis is on close reading and discussion of literary texts. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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E316 From Romance to Epic 3 credit(s)
In this course students explore the development of medieval British Romance especially from its Celtic and French origins, then proceed to examine Spenser’s fusion of romance with epic in the context of the rising vogue of the epic in the Early Modern period, and conclude in a sustained engagement with Milton’s Paradise Lost. The course focuses on the development of these two genres, but with attention to the cultural context in which the texts to be explored were produced. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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E321 Storytelling for Impact 3 credit(s)
In this course, students will encounter common storytelling patterns rooted in various cultural contexts, and analyze these patterns with attention to audience, purpose, and context. Students will learn both to recognize the value and impact of story and to adapt storytelling practices for a variety of professional situations. The course will culminate in a collaborative project, designed and developed in stages, and presented to a professional audience. Prerequisite: E130 and a 100 or 200 level literature course.
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E325 The Art of the Essay 3 credit(s)
In this course, students produce a variety of essays that cover a range of rhetorical situations. Emphasis is placed on strategies for developing and organizing essays as well as on rhetorical concerns, such as audience, purpose, voice, and style. Attention is also paid to integrating research, both formal and informal, into students’ work. Offered alternate spring semesters. Prerequisite: E130 or equivalent.
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E326 Short Fiction Writing 3 credit(s)
Through the reading of short stories, guided instruction and writing workshops, students in Short Fiction Writing study the genre of the short story and produce several examples of their own literary short fiction for an audience. In addition to composing original works that reveal their own artistic vision, students are expected to become informed of the literary tradition of the short story and provide critical and theoretical reflections on their work as well as the writing of other students and of published authors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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E328 Professional Communication 3 credit(s)
An introduction to professional communication, this course teaches students how to write documents commonly generated in the work world, such as emails, memos, resumes, letters, manuals, reports, and proposals. Students are invited to write documents for different audiences, especially those in a student’s major field of study. Some attention may be given to incorporating visuals as well. Finally, general principles of the composing process, of grammar and mechanics, and of style are reviewed as needed. Offered spring semester. Prerequisite: E130 or equivalent.
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E329 Poetry Writing 3 credit(s)
This course aims to help students produce inspired and technically informed literary poetry intended for an audience. In addition to writing and discussing their own poetry, students become informed of both the techniques and the traditions of poetry writing. Course work includes the study of published poets and poems, essays and research papers on theoretical issues related to poetry, and the production of original poems by the students. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
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E330 British Restoration and 18th Century Literature 3 credit(s)
This survey examines the major works and authors of the Restoration through the Eighteenth Century, including the historical, political, and social contexts of these works.
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E331 The Romantics and Their World 3 credit(s)
Between 1785 and 1830, British writers witnessed two major revolutions and participated in many cultural, political, and intellectual watersheds, from the rise of Romanticism and Republicanism to nation building to the beginnings of modern feminism. They dealt with these cultural experiences in new as well as traditional literary forms, including the historical novel, lyric and narrative poetry, essays, letters, and journals. This course examines the lives and works of a selection of major literary figures from this period and assesses their contributions to the literary tradition in English.
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E333 Shakespeare 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on a representative group of Shakespeare’s sonnets, comedies, histories, and tragedies. Emphasis is placed on close reading of the plays, with the intention of exploring some of Shakespeare’s most pressing issues, including love, nature, death, dreams, relationships between parents and children, gender roles, freedom of the will, and reality itself. The course also address the cultural milieu out of which the texts were generated; the meaning of the terms “comedy”, “history”, and “tragedy”; and the relationship of the written plays to modern adaptations.
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E340-345 Special Topics in English 1–4 credit(s)
Designed to permit instruction in specialized fields of English, explore new topics and utilize the expertise of the faculty and other resource persons.
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E351 British Modernism: Its Origin and Its Ends 3 credit(s)
This course explores the primary characteristics of British Modernism by studying authors writing before, during and after the high point of the movement in the early twentieth century. By studying Victorian, Modern and Postmodern British writers, the course considers the creation of modernism and its aesthetic aftermath and simultaneously questions the legitimacy of modernism as a distinct aesthetic category. Special attention is given to aesthetic, theological and philosophical questions and how these are reflected or addressed in literary works. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Peter Carey. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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E352 The Edge of Empire 3 credit(s)
This course studies British Literature from the Victorian Age into the postmodern period by looking at it from the “outside.” By studying works of literature from those writing on or about the periphery of the central literary tradition of the British empire, students gain a sense of post-1830 British literature and its relationship to the cultural conditions in which it was produced. Topics could include such areas as Colonial Literature, the Irish Literary Renaissance, and Women’s Literature and consider writers such as Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, and Seamus Heaney. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
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E360 Literature on Location 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to convey a broad sense of English literary history and culture. Through intensive study of culturally important works of English literature, written in different genres over a significant period of time, the course will explore traditionally British values, customs, social norms, and sensibilities. The course will conclude with a fortnight in England, where the class will visit landscapes and sites relevant to the course’s texts. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: 15 credits.
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E365 Recent Prize-winning Fiction 3 credit(s)
This course addresses the question “What makes a new novel good?” by examining the phenomenon of literary prizes. In the digital age, more books are being published than ever before. But what makes a book “good”? What qualities do “we” value in contemporary fiction (and who is “we”?), and what might “qualify” a book for potential inclusion in the canon, however we might understand that contested category? To answer these questions, we will read several recent prize-winning novels, and we will engage with various facets of book culture such as reviews, author appearances (live and virtual), and book marketing. The course will end with a negotiated “class award,” for which students will independently choose, read, and nominate a contemporary work of their choice.
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E370 Literature in Evolution 3 credit(s)
This course examines contemporary literature in English by writers from around the world. The course aims to convey a sense of the stylistic and thematic tendencies that continue to evolve in the literatures of our world by exposing students to intensive study of the representation of a particular theme or strain (e.g., imperialism, desire) in works by authors from a variety of backgrounds and social/ political situations.
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E373 Post-Colonial Fictions 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on literature in English that addresses colonization and decolonization. The course considers how postcolonial texts present the legacy of imperialism; how postcolonial writers inscribe their perspectives, politics, and lived experiences in literature; and how various fictional accounts (of origin, of colonization, of identity, of nationality) contribute to a contemporary understanding of community, history, and narrative.
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E381 The Adventures of the Writer in World Literature 3 credit(s)
A study of selected works from non-Anglo- American cultural traditions. Students in this course examine how geographical and cultural differences contribute to varying literary representations of “universal” themes. Taking as our point of departure the notion of the artist figure, we examine ancient and modern ideas of creativity, authorship, and the social role of the writer in society in cultures around the world.
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E383 Geographies of Identity 3 credit(s)
A study of selected works from non-Anglo- American cultural traditions. Students in this course explore literature from around the world with a focus on how identities, perspectives, and values are shaped by geographical and cultural circumstances. We look particularly at literary dialogues and confrontations between the Western European tradition and writers from other cultures, especially Russian and African, from the 19th century to today.
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E390 Women’s Narrative 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on narrative strategies that are distinctive in literature by and/or about women and examine themes and issues that are common to women from a variety of social, historical, and/or political situations. In particular, the course examines how literature by and/or about women differs from literature by and/or about men, and how women writers inscribe their perspectives, politics, and lived experiences in literature.
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E391 African American Perspectives 3 credit(s)
African American Literature studies the literary works of major authors of African American heritage. Students examine poetry, fiction, and autobiographical narrative, as well as engage critical race theory that seeks to situate writers of color and their relationship to the American literary tradition. This course considers African American literature as integral to the American literary canon, and readings allow students to see the ways in which African American writers have contributed to, been influenced by, and transformed American culture.
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E410-419 Special Topics in English 1–3 credit(s)
Selected topics in English may be offered depending on student and faculty interest.
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E425 Writing in the First Person 3 credit(s)
This course will focus on a variety of “autobiographical” texts narrated in the first person, including fiction and non-fiction. Additional readings, class discussion, frequent in-class writing activities, and two longer writing projects (one creative, one critical) will focus on the construction of identity, voice, authority, and authenticity in narratives written in the first person. Open to all junior and senior English majors and minors; especially recommended for Literature with Writing Emphasis majors.
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E452 Critical Approaches to Literature 3 credit(s)
This course explores relationships and dialogues among literary works, literary criticism, and cultural theory. In a seminar setting, students wrestle with key theoretical concepts, such as identity, gender, power, language, and representation, and learn to situate their own readings of literary works in a theoretically informed critical conversation. The course investigates the contributions, methodologies, and assumptions associated with key figures in literary and cultural studies. Offered spring semester.
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E470-479 Seminars in English 3 credit(s)
These courses, reserved for upper division English majors and minors, explore special topics in depth through careful reading and research in a seminar setting. Topics vary by semester (see specific descriptions on the course schedule). Prerequisite: junior or senior majors or minors only.
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E490 Senior Thesis 2 credit(s)
Designed to be a capstone experience for senior English majors, this course provides advanced instruction in the research methods, drafting and revision, and bibliography work involved in writing a major research project. Students complete a major research paper in an area of their interest in literary studies and make an oral defense of their project at the end of the course. Prerequisite: junior or senior majors only.
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E497 Internship 3 credit(s)
Tailored individually to each student’s interests and needs, the internship provides an opportunity for qualified juniors or seniors to participate in a field experience under the guidance and supervision of competent professionals. Required for Literature with Writing Emphasis majors; open to all majors.
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ELB100 Academic Oral Communication Enrichment 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to assist advanced-level nonnative English speakers in acquiring academic communicative competence. Students are introduced to specific settings in which to use an academic register and are familiarized with the rules and quality of performance that are expected in these settings. Because nearly all authentic academic communication situations involve integration of all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), course activities integrate all four skills. Students are required to participate in interviews, orally interpret graphs and tables, define terms, and discuss articles. They also receive practice with listening to lectures, taking notes, and participating in class discussions. Finally, they give a process and impromptu speech, serve on a panel discussion, participate in a seminar, and challenge and defend a position.
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ELB110 English Grammar for Academic Enhancement 3 credit(s)
Advanced-level nonnative English speakers thoroughly examine and review the structure and usage of contemporary spoken and written English grammar in authentic situations. This course involves more than rote rules and forms. ELB110 seeks to bridge the gap between a student’s declarative and procedural knowledge of English grammar. ELB110 assists students in developing a functional understanding of what grammar is and how it works in order to successfully carry out various communicative tasks connected to success in higher education. Through the use of relevant texts and oral language, students focus on the grammatical aptitude required for success at the university level in the skill areas of writing, reading, speaking and listening. Prerequisite: minimum ACT Reading/English score of 13.
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ELB116 Critical Academic Reading Strategies 3 credit(s)
This course for advanced-level nonnative English speakers focuses on reading strategies and vocabulary enrichment in a variety of academic disciplines (i.e., hard sciences, social sciences, history, business, and arts) that students encounter in their general education classes. Students improve their reading comprehension, increase their reading speed, and develop their retention of vocabulary. Strategies that are covered are prereading techniques; annotation and note taking; summarizing and paraphrasing; and vocabulary building.
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ESL001, 002, 003 ESL Language Experience 3, 6, 9 credit(s)
The ESL Language Experience courses are designed to assist beginning English language learners with specialized language acquisition needs. The courses provide focused instruction specific to the mastery of particular skills necessary to success within the sequence of the ESL curriculum. The courses are also designed to accommodate ESL students participating in short-term (4 week, 8 week, 12 week) programs.
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ESL010 Pronunciation and Listening I 2 credit(s)
The course is designed to help non-native English speakers with critical listening skills, while also stressing speaking and pronunciation. The course utilizes a blended learning approach structured around face-to-face instruction as well as an online program providing speech recognition technology via a provided headset and microphone. Learners are given feedback and instruction to correct pronunciation based on native tongues. Additionally, students study reading, grammar and vocabulary specific to various subjects/careers. The online modules are designed for independent use and are individualized in both pace and level. Teacher led instruction examines non-verbal cues, note-taking skills, stress and intonation, as well as issues arising from cross-cultural communication.
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ESL011 Pronunciation and Listening II 2 credit(s)
Continuing from Pronunciation and Listening I, the course utilizes a blended learning approach combining face-to-face instruction with an online program for the purpose of improving students’ listening and pronunciation skills. Online components are individualized in pace and level while teacher led lessons, reinforcing as well as supplementing online material, will examine rules of appropriate academic and social discourse, connected speech, idiomatic expressions, and stress and intonation patterns.
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ESL020 TOEFL I 2 credit(s)
The course is designed to help students improve TOEFL scores by familiarizing them with the format of the test, providing tips for test taking, and offering opportunities to practice TOEFL exercises and full-length exams. This course focuses on the iBT as well as the ITP TOEFL formats.
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ESL021 TOEFL II 2 credit(s)
Continuing from TOEFL I, the course begins with a review of standardized test taking strategies and formats specific to the TOEFL iBT and ITP. The course proceeds with instruction focused on the mastery of higher-level academic language skills assessed on the TOEFL. Further opportunities to practice TOEFL exercises and full-length exams are provided.
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ESL030 Customs and Culture of the U.S.A. I 2 credit(s)
Designed for international students, the emphasis of this course centers on the introduction and explanation of various aspects of U.S. culture. Students will examine lifestyles, attitudes, customs and traditions of the people of the United States and compare them to those of their countries. Students have the opportunity to listen to guest speakers and participate in activities outside of the classroom.
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ESL031 Customs and Culture of the U.S.A. II 2 credit(s)
Continuing from Customs and Culture of the U.S.A. I, the course proceeds with an examination of life in the U.S. as well as in the students’ home-countries for the purpose of developing social and academic intercultural competencies. Students have the opportunity to listen to guest speakers and participate in activities outside of the classroom.
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ESL035 Public Speaking I 2 credit(s)
The course introduces ESL students to public speaking. Students learn how to plan a speech, research a topic, and use visual aids to enhance delivery. Style, tone, pronunciation, and the importance of body language and appropriate humor will be stressed. Students will investigate, create and present impromptu, personal, persuasive, and demonstrative speeches.
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ESL036 Public Speaking II 2 credit(s)
Continuing from Public Speaking I, the course begins with a review of the basic principles, strategies and forms of public speaking. The course proceeds with a focus on the production of oral language for academic purposes. Using material from a variety of academic disciplines, students will examine and participate in a variety of group discussions and oral presentations requisite to common undergraduate courses. Additionally, along with the interpersonal/cultural skills necessary to an effective speaker and listener, students explore methods of building confidence and relieving stress while speaking in a second language.
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ESL050 Beginning Reading Writing and Vocabulary I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for beginning through lower-intermediate level non-native English speakers, utilizes content-based readings that are intellectually stimulating but not beyond grammatical understanding. The course aims to assist students in developing reading speed as well as comprehension and vocabulary skills. The use and practice of basic standards of correctness for sentence structure and paragraph writing are integrated into the material.
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ESL051 Beginning Reading Writing and Vocabulary II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Beginning Reading, Writing and Vocabulary I, the course proceeds with an integrated approach to developing reading, writing and vocabulary proficiency. Students focus on literal comprehension, the use of more advanced vocabulary, and short essay construction.
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ESL065 Intermediate Reading, Writing and Vocabulary I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for intermediate through advanced-intermediate level non-native English speakers, uses an integrated approach with content-based materials to develop reading, vocabulary and writing skills necessary for success at the university level. Using a variety of academic readings, students develop critical thinking skills while learning to understand, paraphrase, summarize and respond in appropriate written formats. Vocabulary skills increase through the analysis of context, lexical roots, prefixes and suffixes.
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ESL066 Intermediate Reading, Writing and Vocabulary II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Intermediate Reading, Writing and Vocabulary I, the course proceeds to assist students in refining these skills for academic advancement. Students begin to analyze content for abstract inferences while responding coherently in academic prose with logically supported reasoning and discipline specific vocabulary.
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ESL068 Beginning Grammar I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for beginning through lower-intermediate level non-native English speakers, provides students with the fundamentals of English grammar taught in conjunction with writing, speaking, listening and reading skills. Through an examination of basic pronouns, nouns, prepositions, verb forms and tenses, as well as adjectives and adverbs, students develop and manipulate simple sentence structures allowing them to engage in meaningful communication about real-life situations.
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ESL069 Beginning Grammar II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Beginning Grammar I, the course reviews and reinforces the eight parts of speech and basic sentence patterns. Using an integrated approach utilizing all skill areas, the course proceeds with a focus on complex sentence creation employing phrase and clause structures leading to the development of paragraphs practicing target structures.
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ESL075 Intermediate Grammar I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for intermediate through advanced-intermediate level non-native English speakers, begins with a review of basic grammar principles. The course continues with the study of advanced phrase and clause structures, as well as higher-level verb tense usage. In addition, students are exposed to a wide variety of oral and written examples leading to the examination and creation of effective paragraphs and essays for a variety of authentic purposes.
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ESL076 Intermediate Grammar II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Intermediate Grammar I, the course begins with a review of higher-level grammatical structures. Emphasis is placed on purposeful and meaningful use of English grammar for the creation of effective academic writing. Students examine common usage problems dealing with coherence, transitions, misplaced and dangling modifiers, voice and tense shifts, as well as faulty parallel and comparison structures.
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ESL080 Beginning Conversation I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for beginning through lower-intermediate level non-native English speakers, prepares students to meet the basic standards of correctness in English conversation. Through an integrated skills approach, students gain the ability to respond to simple everyday topics in predictable and straightforward situations. Additionally, students become familiar with basic idiomatic expressions and grammatical conventions used in daily interpersonal communication.
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ESL081 Beginning Conversation II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Beginning Conversation I, the course begins with a review of basic conversational practices. Students then examine how to respond appropriately when faced with more complex situations such as instructions, explanations and unpredictable questions. Students continue developing knowledge of idiomatic expressions and oral grammatical concepts.
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ESL085 Intermediate Conversation I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for intermediate through advanced-intermediate level non-native English speakers, prepares students to meet advanced standards of correctness in both social and academic English conversation. Students examine conversational vs. written grammar while focusing on self-monitoring techniques to correct pronunciation, mend gaps in understanding, and identify situations requiring a change of pace and/or altered intonation. As a content-based course, students are additionally exposed to various academic disciplines.
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ESL086 Intermediate Conversation II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Intermediate Conversation I, the course resumes with a more focused study of speaking and listening skills needed for success in a variety of academic situations. Students practice integrating colloquial language, idioms, and everyday slang within more formal grammatical structures. Methods of determining a speaker’s literal vs. implied intent are explored, and students are given authentic situations in which to practice.
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ESL095 Research Writing 3 credit(s)
The course is designed to prepare non-native English speakers for competency in academic written work at a level required within degree programs. This content-based course assists students with the ability to adjust and produce writing strategies according to discipline; to select, evaluate and use primary and secondary research materials; and to develop a multi-disciplinary vocabulary base.
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ESL098 Fiction I 3 credit(s)
The course, designed for intermediate through advanced-intermediate level non-native English speakers, familiarizes students with numerous authors and writing styles. Through the reading and examination of various short works of fiction, students develop higher-level reading and comprehension skills, advanced critical thinking, an improved vocabulary, and a more complete understanding of effective written structures. In addition to practice focusing on defining vocabulary through context clues and identifying main ideas as well as supporting details, emphasis is placed on the examination of how grammatical structures and vocabulary choices influence meaning.
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ESL099 Fiction II 3 credit(s)
Continuing from Fiction I, the course resumes with the reading and examination of additional short works of fiction for the purpose of developing higher level reading and comprehension skills, advanced critical thinking, an improved vocabulary, and a more complete understanding of effective written structures. Following a review of context clues, main ideas and supporting details, students practice paraphrasing, summarizing, identifying bias, and decoding figurative language.
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FN101 Personal Finance 3 credit(s)
This course provides the basics of personal financial management as an important life skill. Students will develop an understanding of personal finance through a series of activities, applications, and projects. Topics include checking and savings accounts, budgeting, use of credit, investing, insurance, and income taxes.
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FN341 Corporate Finance 3 credit(s)
The goal of corporate financial management is to maximize the wealth of the stockholders. Decisions regarding risk and return, the management of current assets and current liabilities, and capital budgeting are examined in view of this goal. Students are also introduced to the stock market and other financial institutions and systems. Prerequisites: C grade or higher in AC222 and either EC261 or EC262 .
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FN345 Entrepreneurial Finance for Small Business 3 credit(s)
This course examines the financial aspects of opening and operating a small business. Special attention is paid to financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and capital budgeting and sources of funding. The course focuses on developing a financial plan, gaining access to capital and leveraging debt and equity financing. Prerequisites: BU243 and MG315 .
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FN368 Investments 3 credit(s)
Students study the stock markets, bond markets, and derivative markets. The course emphasizes both personal investing and professional opportunities as investment counselors. Prerequisites: FN341 , M145 or M148 /M149 or M151 .
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FN402 Financial Markets and Institutions 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on financial markets, money, instruments, and institutions. The emphasis is on the operations and functions of domestic and international markets and institutions. The course reviews the determinants and structure of interest rates and asset prices. Prerequisites: FN341 .
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FN404 Portfolio Management 3 credit(s)
This course focuses on the valuation and major investment instruments and strategies available in capital markets. The course considers how investors evaluate and form portfolios with instruments such as bonds, mutual funds, and stocks. The primary focus of this course is the theory and practice of combining securities to optimal portfolios. Prerequisites: FN341 and FN368 .
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FN408 Financial Planning 3 credit(s)
Professional financial planning is the capstone course in the Finance major. This course will require the student to write a comprehensive personal financial plan. The plan will require applying basic financial, economic, and institutional concepts to advise individuals and families in achieving their financial goals. Topics include budgeting, financial analysis, credit management, insurance, time value of money, investment strategies, income taxes, risk management, retirement, and estate planning. Prerequistes: FN341 .
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Geography |
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GE305 Introduction to Geography 3 credit(s)
A general introduction to the study of geography, with special emphasis on linking geography’s basic concepts to the realms and major regions of the world. (Offered every semester.)
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GS489 Thesis Development 1 credit(s)
Students choose a topic and design the research project required of Global Studies majors. The course is conducted primarily on an independent basis in consultation with the global studies coordinator. Offered fall and spring semesters. Prerequisite: approval of the global studies coordinator. Junior or senior status.
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GS490 Research in Global Studies 2 credit(s)
Students complete the original research project required of Global Studies majors. Offered fall and spring semesters. Prerequisite: GS489 (may be concurrent).
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Greek |
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GK101 Beginning Greek I 3 credit(s)
This course is an introduction to the basic grammar and syntax of classical Greek. Students will read and translate passages from original Greek texts. Offered on a rotating basis.
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GK102 Beginning Greek II 3 credit(s)
This course completes the introduction to Greek grammar while furthering translation skills. Offered on a rotating basis. Prerequisite: GK101 .
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H107 Sports in America 4 credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor for the First Year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for the development of academic skills in the area/discipline of history. Inquiry into the ways in which Americans have historically played, organized, enjoyed, celebrated, critiqued, and understood sports—in the broadest possible cultural sense—will allow you to develop the academic habits and ways of thinking to take forward into any Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice. This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well-Being by investigating the role of home (home team, home games, home plate, home run, home stretch) and environment (the ball park, the green, the field, road work, the ice) in the way we experience sports, and the role of place in community formation; the important role we assign sports in shaping our character, careers, language, and lives; and the historical links between exercise and competition on the one hand, and ideas of mental well-being and physical fitness on the other.
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H108 Home and Away in American History 4 credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor for the First Year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for the development of academic skills in the area/discipline of history. Inquiry into the ways in which Americans have historically, culturally, and artistically understood the idea of home, the experience of leaving home, and the challenges of creating new homes elsewhere will allow you to develop the academic habits and ways of thinking to take forward into any Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice. This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well-Being by investigating what makes a place “home”, how a sense of “home” helps shape our identities, how to navigate being away from home in the age of instant communication, and how to thrive as part of a new community in a new home.
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H109 Make a Place in History 4 credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor for the First year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for development of academic skills in the discipline of history. Inquiry into the experience of immigrants coming to, and sometimes departing from, the land now called Winona will allow you to develop the academic habits and ways of thinking to take forward into an Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice. This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well Being by examining the ways in which different cultures engaged in the process of place-making in Winona, the purposes that brought them here and that they developed here, and the cultural, political, and economic factors that contributed to their attempts to establish healthy communities in this place. It also considers the role of students as immigrants, of a sort, in the history of Winona and examines their evolving relationship to this Place, the Purpose that brought them here and that they develop here, and their role in contributing to the Well Being of this community.
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H111 Global History to 1500 3 credit(s)
This course is an introduction to world history from the origins of civilization to 1500. The course focuses on the societies and cultures of Eurasia: Southwest Asia (the Middle East), India, Persia, China, Greece and Rome, Europe, and Africa, and the Americas. Major themes include the founding and development of the world’s great religions; political ideas, institutions and practices; law and legal institutions; society and economy; war, conquest and empire; the encounters between cultures; and the richness and diversity of human experience and aspiration in the foundational eras of the world’s civilizations. The course also is an introduction to the discipline of history and to the skills of critical reading, critical analysis, and effective communication.
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H112 Global History since 1500 3 credit(s)
This course is an introduction to global history since 1500. It focuses on the development of the major societies of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia and also on the interactions between these societies, including trade, colonization, biological exchange, migration, the spread of technology, world war and genocide. The course also is an introduction to the discipline of history and to the skills of critical reading, critical analysis, and effective communication.
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H113 U.S. History to 1865 3 credit(s)
This course offers an introductory survey of the multicultural history of the United States from the earliest human settlement around 13,000 B.C. to the end of the Civil War in 1865. It introduces students to the diversity of peoples that came to inhabit North America, such as Native Americans, early colonizers from a variety of European nations, slaves from Africa, and the various waves of immigrants that enriched the American population prior to the Civil War. It introduces students to the various historical periods historians recognize, such as the pre-Columbian era, the Colonial period, the era of the American Revolution, the Early Republic, antebellum America, and the era of sectional conflict and the Civil War. The course also introduces students to many of the people, voices, ideas, beliefs, events, and larger historical developments that shaped American history. And it emphasizes the tension that has existed throughout American history between, on the one hand, the forces that work to create a single, unified country out of this multiplicity of cultures, and, on the other hand, the forces that threaten to undermine and tear apart the great republican experiment that is the United States.
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H114 U.S. History since 1865 3 credit(s)
This course offers an overview of the history of the United States between the end of the Civil War and the present day. It emphasizes broad developments that transformed American life: the transformation of a rural-agrarian into an urban-industrial society; the shift from “isolationism” to internationalism; the rise of liberalism, the growth of the federal government, and the development of the military-industrial complex; the rise of a conservative movement and the subsequent polarization of American politics and life, especially as seen in the Cultural Wars; and the ubiquitous role technology played in these developments. In addition, the course looks at these transformations through the lenses of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and class, in order to investigate how these broad developments affected people in an increasingly diverse nation.
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H151 A Multicultural History of America 3 credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the history of the United States from the pre-Columbian past to the multicultural present, focusing on the interactions between various peoples and cultures that have shaped what we now call “the American people.” It emphasizes the challenges multiculturalism and diversity pose to the triumphalist narrative of a united people devoted to the promotion and defense, both at home and abroad, of rights, freedom, and democracy. As a history of the American people that includes a broad range of identities–African American, Native American, Latinx, LGBTQA+, Asian American, Jewish, women, working class, etc., and all the ways in which these intersect–the course also covers, in addition to the contributions Americans of all backgrounds have made to their shared culture, the exploitation, discrimination, exclusion, genocide, segregation, lynching, relocation, internment, and imprisonment that have made the ideal embodied in E Pluribus Unum so difficult to attain. Offered spring semester. Class is available only for elementary education.
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