74 courses with the subject HIST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIST 101Ancient Warfare
This seminar examines the social and political role of warfare in ancient Greek and Roman history. Students investigate the concepts of war and peace by considering the role of the soldier within society, details of tactics and logistics, and the impact of warfare on both combatants and non-combatants alike. The seminar uses primary sources to examine these themes. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
Students investigate notions of witchcraft, magic and the supernatural in Europe from the medieval period to today, survey beliefs and practices around the globe, and dive deep in the 17th century witch trials in early modern England. In addition to studying instructor-provided case studies, students prepare a "teach-in" day in pairs on a topic of their choosing, participate in a trial simulation, and examine written and visual primary sources. Offered annually in fall semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course explores the origins of the modern Russian empire. Using primary sources including chronicles, folktales, legal codes, letters, and religious icons, students consider Russia's development from a loose collection of princedoms into a powerful, multi-ethnic empire spanning 11 time zones. Topics include the impact of geography and climate, the Orthodox religion, Mongol rule, gender roles, the rise of autocracy, and social rebellion. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
HIST 123The World Wars: Conflict, Culture and the Birth of the Modern World
This course views the history and legacy of the World Wars through three thematic lenses: the shock of modernity, the contradictions of empire, and collective memory. From the metropole to the colonial periphery, individuals in the largest cities and the smallest villages experienced rapid and seismic upheaval, including extraordinary technological change, political and social revolution, economic depression, totalitarianism, nuclear war, and the Holocaust. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course examines Latin America's colonial history from 1492 to 1898. We will examine the history of Spanish, Portuguese and French imperialism in the region through the eyes of the people who lived it: Indigenous commoners and nobles, enslaved and freed people, women and children, scientists and entrepreneurs. With a specific focus on the history of human interaction with the region's diverse ecologies and the development of capitalism, on colonial law and the history of race and gender, we will ask how colonial society took shape, how these empires sustained themselves and why they eventually collapsed. Students will gain an appreciation for Latin America's central role in the modern history of global interconnection and understand how the specific dynamics of imperialism established the foundation for Latin America's postcolonial history. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course introduces students to the historical forces leading to and scholarly debates about slavery in African history. Students examine the nature and development of domestic slavery to the 19th century as well as the slave trade systems across the Saharan Desert and the Atlantic Ocean. Students "do history" using primary sources to retrieve the African voices and agency in discussions of the slave trade and debate themes such as ethnicity, kinship, state formation, and colonialism. Offered annually. Prerequisite: first-year student standing. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This seminar, using only eyewitness accounts, examines African slavery in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Typical readings include the narrative of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, and the writings of slave-holders like Mary Chesnut. Topics include the slave trade, the origins of African American culture, women and slavery, and the origins of the Civil War. The course concludes with an examination of the process of emancipation. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
In this class, students use primary source readings from the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries to get a closer look at the human lives and histories of those living in East Asia, Persia, and Europe during the time of the Mongol conquests and subsequent imperial rule. As the class unfolds, students develop basic research knowledge and skills including in-depth interpretation of sources and research-based academic writing. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
Why are the 1960s considered the "decade of the big change"? The era was one of global upheaval, political realignment, and cultural transformation. Through historical sources, film, literature, and media, students will explore how the decade reshaped ideas about power, identity, and protest across the U.S. and the wider world. The course emphasizes both a transnational historical context and collective memory, equipping students to analyze competing interpretations and consider the period's enduring influence. Offered periodically in spring semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
Students examine the overthrow of American segregation through several decades of agitation for civil rights. This seminar focuses primarily on the South, though students also discuss northern race relations. Primary accounts from the era constitute the assigned readings. Among the topics covered are the segregated South, Martin Luther King and his critics, the Black Power movement, and the rise of white backlash politics. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
This course surveys European history and culture since the Reformation. Topics include the impact of Protestantism, the development of nation-states, the Enlightenment, revolutionary ideas and experiences, the Napoleonic era, imperialism, mass political movements, and global warfare. Through original texts, historical studies, and literature, students explore relations among religions, states and societies and understandings of liberty and reason, natural environments, family life, and gender roles. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
An overview of the evolution of Latin American societies since 1750, this course examines the consequences of independence, 19th-century economic imperialism, and 20th-century transitions to more urbanized, industrialized ways of life. Students examine major Latin American nations and compare their revolutionary and counter-revolutionary trajectories toward the establishment of authoritarian states. Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) course is often available in Spanish. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
This survey course challenges students to break out of their European protective shields and "imaginings" and to think globally, while appreciating the contributions of other civilizations that have had such a telling impact on the modern world. Through a rigorous analysis of a list of primary sources and assigned reading, the course examines the significant political, religious, social and economic developments of humankind, and strives for the global perspective. Some historical processes, as one historian aptly stated, are best studied on a global, rather than a single perspective. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course examines the development of American culture and society from the Columbian encounter through the Civil War. Topics include the interaction of Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous peoples in early America; the social development of the British colonies; the evolution of American enslavement; the Revolution and the Constitution; industrialization, expansion, and reform in the 19th century; and the Civil War. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
As they study the development of American institutions and society from the Civil War to the present, students examine economic, social, and political themes with a special emphasis on changing interpretations. Major topics are Reconstruction, urbanization, populism, progressivism, depression, New Deal, foreign relations, civil rights, social reform, equality for women, and other recent trends. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
This course explores topics in ancient history, designed to emphasize active skills of critical reading, textual and contextual analysis, historiographical argument, and historical writing. Recent topics have included "Ancient Greece" and "Ancient Near East." Primarily for history majors; others by permission of instructor. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Writing Across the Curriculum.
Students investigate the history of Greece from the earliest days to the conquests of Alexander the Great through questions such as: Who held power in Ancient Greece? How was the position of the power-holders justified and enforced against the marginalized and disenfranchised? How did the Greeks construct their past? How do we construct histories of "Greece" today? Key themes are the Patriarchy, democracy, theatre, philosophy, rhetoric, the writing of history, and architectural and artistic aesthetics. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Writing Across the Curriculum.
This course is a survey of Mediterranean civilization from the early history of Italy through the Roman Republic and Empire. Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) course periodically available in Latin. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Writing Across the Curriculum.
This course explores topics in European history, designed to emphasize active skills of critical reading, textual and contextual analysis, historiographical argument, and historical writing. Recent topics have included "Restoration Britain" and "France in World War II." Primarily for history majors; others by permission of instructor. May be repeated if topic is different. Offered most years. OLE Core Requirement: Writing Across the Curriculum; Global Histories and Societies.
This course begins by offering a historical survey of the Viking expansion with a particular emphasis on primary written sources, including Eddaic poetry, Sagas of Icelanders and King's sagas (including material on St. Olaf). The second half conversely is focused on contemporary accounts (including literature, comic books and films), both Nordic and English/American, that rework this historical heritage in the present day. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course covers the main developments and themes in Europe from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, drawing on some of the on-going debates about the period, and giving particular attention to the powerful but often unpredictable influences of ideas and economic change in shaping institutions and people's experiences, including the Renaissance, literary and Christian humanism, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the rise of state power, merchant capitalism, European expansion, and the Scientific Revolution. Offered annually during fall semester.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Age of Reason and Enlightenment sparked revolutions throughout Europe and the world. This course explores how the Nordic nations were shaped by this transformative era. Students analyze the impact of these global movements on Nordic history, examining new views on science, religion, and government. Students learn how these countries were an interconnected part of a revolutionary time, experiencing their own significant shifts in power, society, and culture. Offered periodically in spring semester. OLE Core Requirement: Ethical Reasoning in Context; Global Histories and Societies.
This course offers a survey of modern Scandinavian history from the period of the Protestant Reformation to the present with special attention to recent developments. Offered annually.
This course examines the Cold War (1945-1991) outward from the "West" and the Communist world, and emerging nations throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. Students analyze and discuss major conceptual themes of ideological conflict, collective action, and technological change, and read, discuss, and write to develop their own ideas and challenge our notions of this global story and what it has meant -and continues to mean- for the past. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
HIST 224Ethics of Revolution: The Making of Modern Germany
Students explore modern German history from the Enlightenment through the establishment of a modern German nation-state (1871), two World Wars and their aftermath, up to the late Cold War period when the question of how to frame Germany's modern history became a matter of public debate. By examining primary sources in English translation, critical historiography, and ethical perspectives, students learn not just the major turns in modern German history, but consider the ethical implications of revolutionary and revolutionizing movements and the ethics of history-writing itself. Students hone skills of interpretation and argumentation in writing and speaking. No prerequisites. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Ethical Reasoning in Context.
HIST 225The Journey North: Migrations To, From, & Within Norway (study abroad)
This course examines migrations into, out of, and around Norway over time. By examining the push and pull factors for immigration and emigration, and the challenges this creates for Indigenous and minority groups, students gain an understanding of the interconnection of migrant experiences over time and geographical location. Students examine land taking of settler colonialism of Norwegian migrations both within Norway and Norwegian America. Prerequisite: FYS and WRR. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; OLE Experience in Practice.
Through role playing simulations, students examine events, institutions, and doctrines of the Revolutionary era in France and Haiti, with special attention to the 18th-century background to the political, social, and philosophical roots of the Revolution and its impact on the world in the 19th century. Using primary and secondary sources, students experience and examine the drama of the period and consider the variety of historical approaches to, and interpretations of, the Revolution. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
Russia's modern history from Peter the Great to the revolution of 1917 centers on the tsarist autocracy and popular movements to limit its power. Students assess Russia's economy, culture, and religion against the background of the country's westernization. Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) course periodically available in Russian. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course begins with the Communist revolution of 1917 and traces the growth of the Soviet Union under Lenin, Stalin, and their successors. Students analyze the "crisis" of the Soviet system in order to explain why the last of the European empires collapsed in 1991. Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) course periodically available in Russian. Offered alternate years. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course begins with a brief historical examination of the period from Abraham, whose "many sons" include both the Jews and the Arabs, through the Ottoman collapse and Mandatory Period to World War II. The chronology then slows and focuses primarily on the developments in the Middle East that have led to the current Palestinian Israeli crisis. Underlying this chronological structure, specific themes will be emphasized in each class, along with overarching themes like the roles of imperialism, nationalism, religion, and victimhood narratives. Offered periodically in spring semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
Students interrogate the systems and experiences of sex and sexuality and its intersection with empires from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. By examining primary sources, engaging with secondary sources, and producing original research, students develop an understanding of sex practices and ideas about sex in the past and the systems of oppression and categorization that shaped relations between the colonized and colonizers. Offered alternate years in spring semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
HIST 239Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Europe
Students analyze women's experience and notions of gender in Europe since 1700. Themes include the definition of domestic ideology from the Enlightenment through industrialization to the Victorian period, gendering citizenship in the nation-state, the impact of science and technology on women's lives and bodies, the development of feminism(s), and women and gender in socialist and fascist regimes. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
HIST 240Methods Seminar: Histories of Africa, Asia, and Latin America
This course explores topics in the history of Africa, Asia, or Latin America, designed to emphasize active skills of critical reading, textual and contextual analysis, historiographical argument, and historical writing. Recent topics have included "American Empire: A Cultural History of US-Latin America Relations" and "Imperialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia." Primarily for history majors; others by permission of instructor. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
HIST 248Sem: Digital Storytelling: Podcasting History
This seminar explores a public-facing format for historical storytelling: podcasting. Students are trained in assessing podcasts as public history, then develop podcasting episode topics, conduct historical research, practice "writing for the ear", learn how to optimize sound recording and edit audio, and engage in peer review and iterative writing and audio editing processes. For the final project, students work together to produce a podcast of their own, from concept to final product. OLE Core Requirement: OLE Experience in Practice; Writing Across the Curriculum.
Who are my ancestors and how did they live? This family history workshop enables students to explore their roots and place their ancestors' experiences in historical context. Working primarily with online databases, students construct genealogies and employ archival sources to tell richer stories about family history of marriage and child rearing, migration, and work, while situating them within contemporary social and political contexts. Students communicate their findings by writing a family narrative or by composing an ArcGIS Story Map. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course introduces the history of ancient and imperial China beginning with the earliest historical records through the 19th century. In this broad sweep of history, students engage with works of literature, philosophy, religion, medicine, the arts, and political statecraft in English translation. Rather than focusing solely on political history and dynastic change, this course also explores the cultural and social lives of ordinary people as a central theme. Offered annually during fall semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Ethical Reasoning in Context.
This course explores China across the tumultuous 20th century. Beginning from Qing late imperial China (mid-1800s-1911) through the reform period of the 1980s, students discuss the schools of thought that changed daily life in revolutionary China: fascism, nationalism, anarchism, feminism, socialism, and communism. Through close readings of primary sources in English translation, students investigate what constitutes revolution as a theory and practice in modern China, and how a revolution begins, continues, declines, and rekindles. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This survey of modern Japan from 1800 to the present examines the political transformation of the Meiji Restoration, the industrial revolution and social and cultural change, the rise and fall of party government, militarism and Japanese expansionism in World War II, the American occupation, and postwar social, political, economic, and cultural developments. Offered alternate years. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course traces the history of human rights, politics, and ideas in Latin America. Students examine strategies which people have used to claim rights, ask how people developed ideas of "the human" in the colonial era, examine how independence problematized the idea of universal rights, and watch the development of human rights politics in the twentieth century. Students critically examine human rights and challenges to their realization across the region. Offered annually in the spring. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course explores human responses to epidemic diseases in world history. Beginning with the pandemics of the Ancient world, students encounter the 14th-century Black Death, "virgin soil" epidemics in the Americas, London's cholera outbreak of the 1850s, as well as more recent events, from the 1918 influenza pandemic to Covid-19. Students consider the varied medical, social, political, and cultural impacts of disease through an exploration of diverse topics, ranging from the discovery of microbes to the recent popularity of zombie movies. Offered periodically during spring semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course explores topics in American history, designed to emphasize active skills of critical reading, textual and contextual analysis, historiographical argument, and historical writing. Recent topics have included "Franklin's America," "Women and Slavery," "American Family in Historical Perspective," and "Work in America." Primarily for history majors; others by permission of instructor. May be repeated if topic is different. Offered most years. OLE Core Requirement: Writing Across the Curriculum.
HIST 271In their own words: Literature by Immigrants in Minnesota
In this course, students read creative works written by immigrants to Minnesota, from nineteenth century arrivals from Nordic countries to contemporary works that reflect the diversity of recent immigrants to this state. Historical studies of immigration to Minnesota contextualize literary works. In this discussion-based course, students problematize the idea of a unifying "immigrant experience," and instead explore how creative works render visible the unique challenges immigrants, and their communities, face. Offered periodically in the spring. Prerequisite: WRIT 120, WRIT 111, or equivalent. OLE Core Requirement: Creativity; Writing Across the Curriculum.
This course surveys women's experience in American life from the colonial period to the present. Students examine the changing economic, social, and legal status of women, society's attitudes toward women, and the growth of feminism. Offered periodically.
HIST 274Love & Sex in Modern Irish History (study abroad)
This course introduces students to the urban and rural landscapes of two Irelands - the Free State/Republic, and Northern Ireland - through histories of love and sex from 1884 to 2018. Students consider histories of marriage, prostitution, same-sex desire, and bodily autonomy, and how the built and imagined environment shaped possibilities, dangers, and everyday experiences of love and sex. The course culminates in original research projects utilizing the archives only accessible by visiting Ireland. OLE Core Requirement: OLE Experience in Practice; Writing Across the Curriculum.
This seminar examines the role of gender, race, and class in the development of policing and punishment in the United States. Students utilize primary and secondary sources such as film, music, art, and activist documents in their inquiry. By the end of the course, students should be able to construct historical arguments about the history of captivity in the United States and how communities can work together to change its impact. Offered periodically in Fall semester. OLE Core Requirement: Power and Race; Writing Across the Curriculum.
In this study of African Americans in U. S. society from African origins to the present, students explore the African heritage, the experience of enslavement, segregation, and the rise of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The course pays particular attention to the issue of Black nationalism as a force in American life. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
Students explore the theory and practice of Public History as they learn to identify and interpret history for the public. Using readings, workshops, site visits, and individual and collaborative projects, students explore how ownership and funding influence decisions regarding what is preserved; how the past informs the present; how the present may oppose the past; and how cultures engage in remembering their pasts in ways consistent with the common good. Offered annually. Prerequisite: history major or permission of instructor. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course explores the deep history of American Indian societies in the North American west, beginning with the first migrations to the area thousands of years ago, and ending with their early encounters with US settler colonialism. Topics include the rise of ancient Pueblo communities, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, life in the Spanish missions in Alta California, equestrian cultures on the plains, and early encounters between Europeans and the peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Offered periodically during fall or spring semester. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
Spanning at least twelve thousand years and involving more than five hundred Indigenous nations the history of Native America is complex and diverse. This course focuses on significant themes, time periods, or geographical regions, with emphasis on the Native peoples within the modern-day continental United States. Examples include "The Trail of Tears," "The West Before Lewis and Clark," and "Pontiac's America." May be repeated if topic is different. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Power and Race.
This course examines the process of colonization in North America, emphasizing cultural encounters and the emergence of differential power relations between Indigenous, European, and African-descended peoples. It begins with an examination of Native American communities, and their creative responses to European colonization during two centuries of contact. It likewise explores the transatlantic slave trade, urban and plantation slavery, the emergence of African American culture that formed in response to these historical experiences, and other related topics. OLE Core Requirement: Power and Race; Global Histories and Societies.
This course investigates the forced expulsion of indigenous peoples from their homelands in the eastern US to western territories in the first half of the nineteenth century. Topics include indigenous culture change, accommodation and resistance to Removal, and the development of U.S. "Indian Policy." This course challenges students to see the Removal process from Native Americans' perspectives by introducing students to ethnohistory, a methodology first developed to write the histories of indigenous peoples. Offered alternate years during fall and spring semesters. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
HIST 288America in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era
In studying the impact of the Civil War era on American society and politics, students focus on enslavement, emancipation, and race relations. They also address the impact of industrialization on northern society, encompassing immigration and nativism, the westward movement, and the dispossession of Native Americans. The course situates the dramatic political and military events of the era in the wider evolution of American life. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies; Power and Race.
The course explores how people view Africa and the contested discourse on the meaning of "Africa" with special emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. Through lectures, discussion, and analysis of primary sources, students examine Africa's past in terms of material and social change; how the ordinary and the privileged made their world; economic and religious revolutions; responses to colonial encroachment and rule; and independence. No prior study of Africa necessary. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
HIST 292Sem: Muslim Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
This seminar introduces students to the nature and development of Muslim societies in sub-Saharan Africa, from the earliest times to the present. Students also explore questions of authenticity and "historical truth" as they examine current debates on themes such as patterns of Islamization, "African Islam," and Islam in Africa. Other themes include the invention of Muslim identities, expansion of Sufism, women in Islam, Islamic education, Islam and colonialism, as well as revivalism in Islam. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
Independent work is guided by a faculty member. Students need to have the necessary background, including appropriate coursework, before an independent project is approved. A student may not substitute an IS/IR course for a course regularly offered in a department or program. IS/IR culminates in at least one product (a paper, laboratory report, work of art, etc.). Normally, the student and faculty instructor are expected to meet at least once a week. See catalog for more information under registration and course enrollment. Prerequisites: at least second-year standing; at least 2 relevant courses for 298 (IS); approval from the faculty instructor, the academic advisor, and the department chair or program director.
This course offers selected surveys in historical studies. Topics depend on instructor. Recent topics have included "Women in Early America," "U.S.-Latin American Relations," and "Doing Public History." May be repeated if topic is different. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This seminar covers the emergence and development of Roman civilization from the founding of Rome to the end of the Western Empire. Students explore such topics as the Greek and Etruscan legacy, evolution from republic to autocracy, the Augustan Age, Pax Romana, social and intellectual trends, the triumph of Christianity and Rome's final transformation. May be repeated if topic is different. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This seminar covers various topics in modern European history, depending upon the instructor. Recent topics have included "Gender and the Enlightenment," "The Holocaust and History," "Race, Gender, and Medicine," and "Nation and Empire in Russian History." May be repeated if topic is different. Offered periodically. Prerequisites for certain offerings. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This seminar covers varying topics in East Asian history. Recent topics have included "World War II in East Asia and the Pacific," "Nationalism and Communism in Southeast Asia," and "Engendering Modern East Asia." May be repeated if topic is different. Offered periodically. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This seminar covers varying topics in American history, depending upon the instructor. Recent topics have included "Lincoln and his America," "The American Revolution," and "19th-Century American Political Culture." May be repeated if topic is different. Offered most years.
This course examines American life, politics, and foreign policy from the Cold War to the present. Using a variety of readings, students explore some of the contradictions of modernity and the transformation of America into a post-industrial society. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: HIST 199 recommended. OLE Core Requirement: Power and Race.
The seminar focuses on the theory and practice of oral history. Students learn to conduct, transcribe and incorporate interviews in projects. Students interrogate conceptual issues - the interview as narrative, memory, identity, connections, motivations, and the silences inherent in oral history - and how these relate to gender, religion, and class in multiple global settings. Students learn such practical techniques as how to probe social masks, evaluate oral evidence, and the legalities of releasing interviews. Offered annually. OLE Core Requirement: Global Histories and Societies.
This course provides a comprehensive research opportunity, including an introduction to relevant background material, technical instruction, identification of a meaningful project, and data collection. The topic is determined by the faculty member in charge of the course and may relate to their research interests. Offered based on department decision. May be offered as a 1.00 credit course or .50 credit course. Prerequisite: determined by individual instructor. OLE Core Requirement: Ethical Reasoning in Context.
Independent work is guided by a faculty member. Students need to have the necessary background, including appropriate coursework, before an independent project is approved. A student may not substitute an IS/IR course for a course regularly offered in a department or program. IS/IR culminates in at least one product (a paper, laboratory report, work of art, etc.). Normally, the student and faculty instructor are expected to meet at least once a week. See catalog for more information under registration and course enrollment. Prerequisites: at least second-year standing; at least 5 relevant courses for 398 (IR); approval from the faculty instructor, the academic advisor, and the department chair or program director.
