2021-2022 Winona Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ED396 Physical Science Methods: Grades 5–12 2 credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to prepare pre-service teachers with methods for teaching physical science in grades 5 through 12. Topics covered include lesson and unit planning, national standards, questioning skills, discrepant events in science and demonstrations supporting them, and science classroom safety. Classroom management, effective teaching strategies, and utilization of technology to enhance instruction are stressed. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: ED350 and acceptance into the teacher education program or declared Educational Studies major.
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ED397 Life Science Methods: Grades 5–12 2 credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to prepare pre-service teachers with methods for teaching the life sciences in grades 5 through 12. Topics covered include lesson and unit planning, national standards, questioning skills, discrepant events in science and demonstrations supporting them, and science classroom safety. Classroom management, effective teaching strategies, and utilization of technology to enhance instruction are stressed. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: ED350 and acceptance into the teacher education program or declared Educational Studies major.
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ED445 Advanced Literacy Methods for Diverse Learners K–8 3 credit(s)
In this course, elementary education majors explore the literacy needs of kindergarten through middle school students (using Response to Intervention) with exceptional learning styles (dyslexia and dysgraphia) and from different cultural, socioeconomic and linguistic backgrounds (including ELL). Students learn how their own cultural background influences the way they teach and master the dispositions and skills needed to facilitate language development in children with diverse and multiple literacy development needs. Offered spring semester.
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ED450 Nature of the Exceptional Child K–8 2 credit(s)
This course examines the characteristics of disabilities and their impact on learners’ education and social lives. The foundations of special education are discussed including identification, modifications and requirements for receiving special education services. Working with parents, universal design for learning, and research-based practices for effective teaching and learning for all learners will also be addressed. The following special needs are addressed in this course: learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia), cognitive developmental delays, speech disabilities, language disabilities, ELL, physical disabilities, autism spectrum, emotional/behavioral disabilities, other health impairments and talented and gifted. Special emphasis is placed on how teachers can effectively meet the needs of all learners in the K–8 classroom. Concurrent with student teaching.
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ED455 Nature of the Exceptional Adolescent 5–12 2 credit(s)
This course examines the characteristics of disabilities and their impact on learners’ education and social lives. The foundations of special education are discussed including identification, modifications and requirements for receiving special education services. Working with parents, universal design for learning, and research-based practices for effective teaching and learning for all learners will also be addressed. The following special needs are addressed in this course: learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalulia), cognitive developmental delays, speech disabilities, language disabilities, ELL, physical disabilities, autism spectrum, emotional/behavioral disabilities, other health impairments and talented and gifted. Special emphasis is placed on how teachers can effectively meet the needs of all learners in the 5–12 classroom. Concurrent with student teaching.
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ED470 Student Teaching: K–8 13 credit(s)
While working closely with a cooperating teacher, the teacher candidate begins to assume the role of teacher in an actual classroom setting, gradually becoming fully responsible for planning, organizing, and teaching lessons, maintaining a conducive learning environment, and becoming acquainted with school routines and practices. The pre-service teacher is expected to demonstrate development of professional dispositions of a well organized, effective, and reflective instructor. Teacher candidates student teach for a semester in the Winona area, or for the current number of weeks required by the state for licensure in the Winona area and the remainder of the semester at a student teaching abroad program site. Mastery of the Minnesota State Standards of Effective Practice Is expected by the end of the experience Prerequisites: consent of chair of undergraduate teacher education and minimum 2.750 cumulative grade point average. Additional fee required.
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ED480 Student Teaching: 5–12 13 credit(s)
While working closely with a cooperating teacher, the student begins to assume the role of teacher in an actual classroom setting, gradually becoming fully responsible for planning, organizing, and teaching lessons, maintaining a conducive learning environment, and becoming acquainted with school routines and practices. The pre-service teacher is expected to demonstrate development of professional dispositions of a well organized, effective, and reflective instructor. Teacher candidates student teach for a semester in the Winona area, or for ten weeks in the Winona area and the remainder of the semester at a student teaching abroad program site. Mastery of the Minnesota State Standards of Effective Practice is expected by the end of student teaching. Prerequisites: consent of chair of undergraduate teacher education and minimum 2.750 cumulative grade point average. Additional fee required.
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ED490 Professional Capstone: Performance Assessment 1 credit(s)
This course provides teacher education students with mentoring in a largely self-directed experience completing their Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA). The experience is designed to assist teacher candidates in integrating their professional identity along program based dimensions of theory and practice. Reflection and consolidation of personal understanding is accomplished through planning, instructing and engaging students, assessing student learning, and reflection. The course also addresses professionalism and continued professional development for teachers. Coaching courses at Saint Mary’s are designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of coaching and prepare them as leaders in the field. Elective within the School of Education, this series of courses exposes students to theories, concepts, philosophies, and principles of effective coaching. Students may take the courses in any order. While no formal certification is presented for completion of the series, course content is valuable for those aspiring to serve others as coaches. Concurrent with student teaching.
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ED495 Senior Portfolio Development 1 credit(s)
This course is an elective for senior education majors and prepares them for work in the educational fields. The experience is designed to assist teacher education candidates in integrating their professional identity along program-based dimensions of theory and practice. Reflection and consolidation of personal understanding is accomplished through the development of an e-portfolio. The course also addresses professionalism and continued professional development for teachers.
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ED496 Educational Internship 13 cr. credit(s)
This course provides students with practical applications that complement the theoretical concepts introduced in undergraduate education program coursework. Students complete a semester internship under the guidance of a university supervisor in an educational setting. Individual, in-person, or at-a-distance meetings coincide with the internship experience. Students explore, apply, and reflect on best practices in the field. This course is a culminating experience for a degree in education but does not meet the student teaching requirements for teacher licensure.
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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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E131 Writing Lab 1 credit(s)
Writing Lab provides hands-on, individually-tailored instruction to students who are concurrently enrolled in E130: First Year Writing. This course supports the writing students do in E130 by providing guided workshops, extended peer review experiences, and one-on-one instruction on a weekly basis. To guide this focus on practice, students will also reflect deeply on their identities as writers, their writing processes, and ways they can improve their writing abilities.
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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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E225 Public Writing and Rhetoric 3 credit(s)
In this course, students will bring a humanities perspective to the process of communicating with the public on complex social issues (such as public health, technological innovation, or the environment). Students will study and apply rhetorical theory to projects written for specific audiences and communities. All the projects in this course will focus on either (1) writing for public audiences or (2) writing to serve the public interest. Students will explore frameworks of intercultural communication, social justice, and civic engagement to consider the ethical demands of public communication. The course will also provide students with resources and practice in different modalities, genres, styles, formatting, and grammars appropriate for use with public audiences. Also offered as HH225 Prerequisite: E130 or equivalent
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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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E304 Power, Conflict, and Protest in American Literature and Culture 3 credit(s)
James Baldwin once said, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” From abolitionist and temperance literature to slam poetry, American writers and cultural figures have always explored the literary boundaries of social critique. This course offers an exploration of democratic discourse and dissent, focusing on literary production in the United States from the early colonial period through the twentieth century.
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E305 Race and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture 3 credit(s)
This course examines both the conscious and unconscious racial and ethnic encoding in works that make up the American literary canon, with emphasis on BIPOC authors who subvert this encoding. Students will explore representations of race and ethnicity in American literature from the 1800’s to the present, providing a framework for exploring the underlying sociopolitical, cultural, and historical factors that inform and shape American attitudes about identity and belonging.
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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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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 .
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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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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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E361 Dante’s Commedia 3 credit(s)
This course will entail exploration of the entirety of Dante’s great poem, the Commedia (commonly known as The Divine Comedy). We will spend substantial time on close reading of Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, and consider such issues as intertextuality, authority and authorship, Dante’s truth claims, multiple levels of meaning (literal, allegorical, and figurative) and the poem’s encyclopedic approach to representing the universe (incorporating philosophical, theological, scientific, mythological, linguistic, and other content, methods, and discourses). The edition of the text for the course will be a dual-language edition; students will read the English translation and discussions will be in English, but the instructor will make frequent reference to the original Italian.
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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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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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E393 Health Narratives 3 credit(s)
This course promotes skills and explores issues central to experiences of health by undertaking literary investigations of health-oriented narratives (including fiction, poetry, and memoir). Students will develop their ability to comprehend and to analyze (in other words to listen); they will examine these narratives from multiple perspectives (as health experiences involve multiple parties and views); they will consider what “health” and “healthy” mean and how such concepts are determined; and they will advance their communication skills through oral and written practice. In keeping with a humanities emphasis and the university’s Lasallian, Catholic mission, the course’s approach is in turn designed to allow for the cultivation of sympathy and empathy as well as self-reflection for the sake of humane health experiences in the lives of students and those with whom they will interact. Also offered as HH393 .
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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.
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E429 Writing Theory and Pedagogy 3 credit(s)
This course is designed to provide a foundation in rhetorical, composition, and writing center theories. Students will explore influential approaches to the teaching and tutoring of writing and begin developing their own tutor identity and philosophy of writing pedagogy. The course begins with intensive study of rhetorical and composition theories coupled with in-class application of key concepts, then continues with an overview of the major theoretical tenets of writing centers and peer tutoring, with a focus on strategies for supporting writers from a variety of language and learning backgrounds. Through examination of how race, gender, literacy, and other aspects of a writer’s identity intersect with their writing, this course explores how both the writing classroom and the writing center are important sites to enact socially just and equitable pedagogies.
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E452 Critical and Cultural Theory 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 Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 credit(s)
This course reserved for upper division English majors and minors employs an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature, exploring special topics in depth through careful reading and research in a seminar setting. Topics vary by semester (see specific descriptions on the course schedule).
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E472 Seminar in World Literature 3 credit(s)
This course reserved for upper division English majors and minors focuses on literature from around the globe (in English and/or in translation), exploring special topics in depth through careful reading and research in a seminar setting. Topics vary by semester (see specific descriptions on the course schedule).
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E474 Seminar in British Literature 3 credit(s)
This course reserved for upper division English majors and minors focuses on literature from the United Kingdom and/or the Commonwealth, exploring special topics in depth through careful reading and research in a seminar setting. Topics vary by semester (see specific descriptions on the course schedule).
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E476 Seminar in American Literature 3 credit(s)
This course reserved for upper division English majors and minors focuses on literature from the United States and/or the Americas, exploring special topics in depth through careful reading and research in a seminar setting. Topics vary by semester (see specific descriptions on the course schedule).
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E490 Senior Thesis 2-3 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.
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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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Finance |
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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 advisors. 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)
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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FN410 Sport Finance 3 credit(s)
This course closely examines the management of revenue generation in sports. Financial administration, planning, budgeting, and financing initiatives within the sport, tourism, and recreation industries are covered. Topics discussed may also include ownership, taxation, financial analysis, feasibility studies, economic impact analysis. revenue-sharing, subsidization of stadiums, labor markets, and ticket pricing. Prerequisite: AC222
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FN496/497 Internship: Finance 1-17 credit(s)
This internship experience challenges students to utilize their in-class learning in the area of finance within the workplace. Student learning is focused on application of concepts, tools, and techniques used by financial professional while working on employer-directed work assignments and projects. Internship placements must be approved by the department chair and department advisor.
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Fine and Performing Arts |
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FPA311 Arts and Healing 3 credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the long history and use of Arts in Healing practices including Art Therapy (painting & drawing, collage and other visual arts), Music Therapy (drum circle, singing, ukulele or guitar, songwriting, guided listening), Dance and movement therapy (creative dance, improvisational movement, partner dances). The uses of creative writing and theatre as therapy, including poetry, story telling and skits will be explored.
By learning and experiencing a variety of arts a student’s awareness of their own creative process develops. As a result, students will be able to support self-expression and therapeutic creativity in others. Arts-based therapy, in its many diverse forms, facilitates wholeness and healing of both individuals and of communities. Also offered as HH311 .
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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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Global Studies |
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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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Health Humanities |
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HH111 Foundations in Health Humanities 3 credit(s)
This course introduces students to primary concepts and issues within the field of Health Humanities. Students will understand that Health Humanities is a multidisciplinary field, integrated in the vision of care for the whole person. Examining a variety of health-related experiences as viewed from the perspective of the patient, the practitioner, and the public, students will engage with issues at the intersection of health and humanities, including concepts regarding human dignity, human values, and the common good.
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HH225 Public Writing and Rhetoric 3 credit(s)
In this course, students will bring a humanities perspective to the process of communicating with the public on complex social issues (such as public health, technological innovation, or the environment). Students will study and apply rhetorical theory to projects written for specific audiences and communities. All the projects in this course will focus on either (1) writing for public audiences or (2) writing to serve the public interest. Students will explore frameworks of intercultural communication, social justice, and civic engagement to consider the ethical demands of public communication. The course will also provide students with resources and practice in different modalities, genres, styles, formatting, and grammars appropriate for use with public audiences. Also offered as E225 Prerequisite: E130 or equivalent.
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HH305 Health Care Ethics 3 credit(s)
This course provides a survey of some of the specific issues in health care ethics that are faced today by patients, providers, insurance companies and other constituencies in the health care arena. Such issues include: access — how are limited resources to be allocated? Informed consent – what information must patients possess in order to make reasonable and informed decisions about their health care? What compensatory obligations do providers have in the realm of informed consent? Funding — should the quality of health care vary by the means of the payer? Death — what is death? Also, should a patient have the right to choose the time and means of his or her death? Procedures and technologies — are all possible procedures and technical interventions morally defensible? Also offered as PH305 .
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HH311 Arts and Healing 3 credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the long history and use of Arts in Healing practices including Art Therapy (painting & drawing, collage and other visual arts), Music Therapy (drum circle, singing, ukulele or guitar, songwriting, guided listening), Dance and movement therapy (creative dance, improvisational movement, partner dances). The uses of creative writing and theatre as therapy, including poetry, story telling and skits will be explored.
By learning and experiencing a variety of arts a student’s awareness of their own creative process develops. As a result, students will be able to support self-expression and therapeutic creativity in others. Arts-based therapy, in its many diverse forms, facilitates wholeness and healing of both individuals and of communities. Also offered as FPA311 .
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HH325 Histories of Medicine 3 credit(s)
The historical development of what is today called “modern medicine” serves the disciplinary purposes of both history and the health humanities. This course will address the impact of disease and medicine on human history, as well as human responses to that impact. While medical knowledge has been homogenized in the contemporary world around westernized models of medicine, this course also uses a case-study approach to examine the heterogenous knowledge and experience of illness and medical treatment around the globe and in particular locales. It will explore the assumptions about human nature that have influenced perceptions of health and disease, illness and wellness. Also offered as H325 .
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HH335 Global Health Ethics: Sustainability and the Common Good 3 credit(s)
The course introduces the recent issues and debates in bioethics as well as its evolution from traditional biomedical ethics into present-day global health ethics. In particular, the course engages theological ethics in promoting global health as an urgent good and right that is integral to a vision of just society and common good. Global health challenges are studied by highlighting international examples that help to identify the moral theological agenda and to implement it. Public health concerns and universal health coverage are part of this agenda worldwide. The course’s moral theological analyses and proposals rely on Judaeo-Christian insights - from social doctrine to philosophical and theological bioethical discourse. Extensive attention will be paid to the global health ethical framework endorsed by both the Church and the international organizations such as UNESCO and WHO, including principles such as human dignity, respect for cultural diversity, solidarity, sharing of benefits, and protection of future generations. Also offered as TH335 .
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HH393 Health Narratives 3 credit(s)
This course promotes skills and explores issues central to experiences of health by undertaking literary investigations of health-oriented narratives (including fiction, poetry, and memoir). Students will develop their ability to comprehend and to analyze (in other words to listen); they will examine these narratives from multiple perspectives (as health experiences involve multiple parties and views); they will consider what “health” and “healthy” mean and how such concepts are determined; and they will advance their communication skills through oral and written practice. In keeping with a humanities emphasis and the university’s Lasallian, Catholic mission, the course’s approach is in turn designed to allow for the cultivation of sympathy and empathy as well as self-reflection for the sake of humane health experiences in the lives of students and those with whom they will interact. Also offered as E393 .
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HH490 Health Humanities Capstone 3 credit(s)
Designed to be a capstone experience for Health Humanities majors, this senior seminar will focus on a complex health-related topic of the instructor’s choice. Through reading and discussion of selected texts, students will explore the course topic through multiple perspectives that take into account both private and public elements of health; approaches that enable ethical, humane health care; and roles that carry out and support such care. Students will then design and complete a multifaceted, community-oriented, public-facing project in a specific area of their interest related to the theme of the seminar, integrating primary and secondary research in multiple humanities disciplines and engagement with affected communities and stakeholders, and will present that project in a relevant public forum. Prerequisite: Senior status
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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 Dakota, Polish, Hmong: Cultures That Shaped Winona 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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H152 The Modern World 3 credit(s)
This course introduces students to modernity, beginning around 1500, and its variegated impacts on their world. It focuses on the growing interactions between varying political, economic, social, and cultural traditions that would later be termed “globalization.” It includes discussion of aspects of that process, including scientific advancement, colonization, biological exchange, environmental degradation, religious syncretism and fundamentalism, industrialization and the spread of technology, world war, genocide, population manipulation, and the rise of modern ideologies and their attendant economic systems.
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H165 Art, History and Theology in the Italian Renaissance: A Travel Course 4 credit(s)
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study Italian art history, political history, and theology, which were at the center of Italian Renaissance culture, and to reflect on the importance of these ideas in shaping modern thought. The course is designed to help students to develop their critical thinking, writing and oral communication skills, and creative perspectives to enable them to get the most out of their international experience. Travel and study in Rome, Florence, and Vicchio will be the focus of this course. Same as AR165 . There are no prerequisites for this course. This is a summer travel course meant for high school/SMUMN partnership. Additional course fee required
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H251 Histories of Religion 3 credit(s)
This course introduces students to the history and culture of one of the world’s major religions by exploring its central teachings, texts, figures, terminology and geographical reach; its origins and its emergence as an outgrowth of its broader historical context; its institutional and doctrinal development over time and place, especially its transformation and reinterpretation in the course of its interaction with different cultures and changing historical circumstances; the larger cultures associated with it; and its nature as one of many syncretic, varied, and evolving religious expressions that have historically interacted with, and shaped, one another.
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H252 Topics in Film and History 3 credit(s)
This course, centered around a specific film genre, explores film as an imaginative and creative form of producing knowledge about, and representations of, the past; film as text, and therefore as a subject of textual analysis informed by a variety of disciplines; film as a primary source for the study of cultural history, collective memory, and the affective turn; film as producing, affirming, investigating, or critiquing dominant narratives, especially with regard to diversity and social justice; and the relationship between academic history and film-making as competing yet interwoven forms of storytelling.
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H270 Historical Thinking 3 credit(s)
This is a sophomore-level course for students intending to major or minor in history or those interested in exploring this major. The course introduces students to the discipline of history, and in particular to the skills of thinking historically, of collecting and analyzing historical evidence, of critically reading the work of historians. The course also focuses on close readings of one or more major historical works which make large claims about the human experience by integrating approaches from several disciplines, and also on critical evaluation of the debates generated by these works. The course encourages students to broadly synthesize their learning and to deeply reflect on the nature of the historical discipline. There are no prerequisites for this course, but completion of a college level history course is recommended. There are no prerequisites for this course, but completion of a college level history course is recommended.
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