# University of Minnesota Crookston — full catalog > Generated 2026-06-22T22:00:14.987Z from a crawl of crk.umn.edu. 895 records (78 programs · 817 courses · 0 resource pages). > > Built and maintained by Team Tailwind (https://teamtailwind.com), an AI-native higher-ed advisory firm. # Accounting B.S. **Degree** Accounting is an information system that represents the economic resources and responsibilities of business or non-business enterprises. Monitored over time, it is used as a decision-making tool for allocating resources and evaluating responsibilities. Accounting information affects major economic decisions that have national and international impact. The accounting program teaches analytical, theoretical, communication, and leadership skills necessary for effective accounting and advancement in public, private, and government careers. The program prepares students to become accountants in bu… ## Courses - ACCT4515 — CPA Review Course - TCP Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Accounting Minor A minor in accounting complements several other majors. The accounting minor introduces students to the theory and practice of accounting, including the basics of generally accepted accounting principles. The accounting minor has flexibility to allow a student to concentrate in taxation, cost accounting, auditing, or financial accounting. The accounting minor also may be used to help qualify the student to take the CPA exam. Program outcomes: - understand generally accepted accounting principles - perform accounting functions based on generally accepted accounting principles - perform account… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agricultural Education B.S. **Degree** A Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Education at the University of Minnesota Crookston is a career-oriented degree, which prepares students to become a licensed agriculture teacher in public schools at the 5-12 grade levels. Students will be able to teach agriscience, agribusiness, agriculture, horticulture, food systems, agricultural mechanics, natural resource management, and management of the associated student organization (FFA), including SAE (Supervised Agricultural Experience). The program also helps students obtain a Work-Based Learning endorsement, which will allow graduates… ## Courses - AGEC2310 — Agribusiness Financial Records - ED2100 — Child/Adolescent Dev/Learning - ED2200 — Foundations of Education Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agricultural Systems Management B.S. **Degree** This program combines students' interests in machinery, technology, and crop and livestock production with superior people skills, creative thinking, and problem solving to build a career in the agricultural and food production industry. Agricultural systems management graduates are well-versed in agricultural foundations and have working knowledge of economic systems with a well-developed sense of professionalism. Companies are looking for multi-talented people who are confident around computers, machines, and business plans. The agricultural systems management program offers three areas of… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agricultural Systems Management Minor A minor in agricultural systems management provides an opportunity for students to learn the principles of agricultural technologies and how they relate to crop and livestock production and modern agricultural machinery. The opportunity exists for students to gain valuable knowledge in the area of renewable energy and bio-fuels technology and how that relates to agricultural enterprises. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agronomy B.S. **Degree** The BS in agronomy is a career-oriented program that combines science-based agriculture training and education with a strong liberal arts background to produce graduates skilled in the highly technical field of agronomy. Agronomy students build a broad understanding of crop science areas such as crop production, agricultural chemicals, soil fertility, integrated pest management, seed conditioning and technology, and other areas related to production and quality in the food and fiber industry. The flexibility of the program enables students to build knowledge and skills in related areas such a… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agronomy Minor The agronomy minor prepares graduates to work in crop production operations and provides entry level education for jobs in the agriculture service sector. Potential employers include seed, feed, fertilizer, and chemical companies, grain inspection facilities, and grain elevators. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Animal Science B.S. **Degree** The bachelor of science in animal science leads to careers in livestock production and management or one of the many allied industries, such as feed production, artificial insemination, and livestock or farm equipment support and sales. In addition, students can meet the requirements to attend graduate school or veterinary college. Coursework includes computer and communications training, sales, and business management. Other required coursework is traditional to livestock degrees, but students have the option of taking courses specific to their interests. Options also exist for students who… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Animal Science Minor The animal science minor allows students to attain valuable information with regard to the essentials of livestock (meat) and dairy production principles. Students earning this minor are trained for careers in areas such as ranching, herdsmen, dairymen, and other allied industry positions. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agricultural Business B.S. **Degree** The program blends a strong base of agriculture, business, and general education courses while maximizing flexibility that allows students to choose electives to fit their career interests and expectations. A wide array of challenging, satisfying, and rewarding careers await graduates as demand for trained personnel in agribusiness continues to outstrip the supply of qualified graduates. Clusters of employment opportunities include agricultural sales and marketing, agribusiness management, agribusiness finance, agribusiness information management, food marketing management, global agribusines… ## Courses - AGEC3900 — Enhanced Agbus Learning Exp - AGRO1183 — Field Crops: Prod Principles - ANSC1004 — Intro to Animal Science - ASM1021 — Intro Agricultural Systems Mgt - BIOL1009 — General Biology - CHEM1001 — Introductory Chemistry - GNAG3899 — Pre-Internship Seminar - GNAG3900 — Internship - GNAG3901 — Post Internship Seminar - HORT1010 — Introduction to Horticulture - TURF1072 — Principles of Turf Management Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agricultural Business Certificate **Certificate** The agricultural business certificate gives students a broad understanding of marketing techniques, livestock and grain commodities, financing, and economics of agriculture. This certificate provides students valuable information and skills regardless of whether they work in lending, consulting, sales, or run their own business. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Applied Studies B.S. **Degree** The applied studies program addresses the needs of individuals whose educational objectives cannot be met through traditional degree programs. It provides a professionally accommodating entry point for students with previous educational and technical competencies to develop an individualized bachelor of science degree. Students are not allowed to complete this major if they have previously earned a baccalaureate degree or are currently pursuing a baccalaureate degree. Program outcomes: - Complete an individually tailored course of study that builds upon prior education and experience - Demons… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Applied Health B.S. **Degree** The Bachelor of Science of Applied Health (BSAH) is an integrated four-year baccalaureate degree program delivered via distance education. The program includes a liberal education core curriculum, clinical occupational field, and management component. The curriculum combines the knowledge and experiences necessary to provide leadership in the changing health care arena and in entrepreneurial health care settings where clinical expertise is valued. Program outcomes: - Communicate effectively through written response statements and academic writing assignments that reflect a level of profession… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Biology B.S. **Degree** The BS in biology provides students with a broad knowledge of the biological sciences while introducing them to the practical skills needed in today's biotech industries and the background required to be successful applicants to graduate programs. Students may choose from advanced courses designed to emphasize studies in either animal or plant systems while participating in a common core of courses, which provides knowledge in the basic principles relevant to both areas. Program outcomes: - Use the scientific method in practice, especially with regard to hypothesis testing and analysis - Crit… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Biology Minor The biology minor program introduces students to the core concepts in a broad range of biological areas with two possible emphases, animal or plant biology. It is designed to complement majors in animal sciences, agriculture, and natural resources but can be tailored for students in other majors as well. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Chemistry Minor Chemistry is the central science that plays an unparalleled role in our society. It helps us understand the world at the molecular level. A minor in chemistry opens up opportunities in diverse fields such as medicine, forensic science, clinical laboratory science, environmental chemistry, and biotechnology. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Communication B.S. **Degree** The BS in communication prepares students to be effective communicators in professional settings. Graduates are prepared for advanced study or to enter careers in general corporate management, human resources, marketing, public relations, social media, and sports information. Graduates may also hold jobs as communication consultants, communication directors, event planners, political campaign leaders, public affairs officers, public information officers, publication designers and editors, speech writers, and online and social media content managers. The program provides transferable skills by… ## Courses - COMM2110 — Communication Technlgy Trends Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Early Childhood Education B.S. **Degree** The BS degree in early childhood education is a career-oriented program that prepares students to earn their Minnesota teacher's license, a professional licensure that allows teaching young children from birth through third grade. Graduates of this teacher education program design, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate learning experiences for young children in a variety of early childhood settings. They are prepared to work collaboratively with families and in the community. Significant opportunities for professional positions exist in these educational programs: infant and tod… ## Courses - ECE4811 — Preschool Student Teaching - ED2100 — Child/Adolescent Dev/Learning - ED2200 — Foundations of Education - ED3800 — Elem Educ Classrm Experiences Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Elementary Education B.S. **Degree** The BS degree in elementary education is a career-oriented program that prepares students to be effective teachers of young children from kindergarten through grade six. Graduates of this teacher education program design, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate learning experiences for young children in elementary education classrooms. They are prepared to work collaboratively with families and in the community. Combined with a dual major in early childhood education, significant opportunities for professional positions exist in these programs: kindergarten through 6th grade, infa… ## Courses - ED2100 — Child/Adolescent Dev/Learning - ED2200 — Foundations of Education - ED3800 — Elem Educ Classrm Experiences Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # English B.S. **Degree** The BS in English prepares students to succeed in professional organizations in myriad fields. Concepts learned and skills developed through the English major will be advantageous in a wide range of employment situations, such as education, media, business, and in technical writing, proofreading, editing, publishing, freelance work, and any career requiring skills in analysis, problem-solving, research, or written and verbal communication, such as paralegals, newsletter editors, critics, marketing coordinators, proofreaders, researchers, librarians, managers, sales associates, and media analy… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # English Minor The minor in English prepares students to succeed in professional organizations and myriad fields by offering students skills that will supplement their chosen majors. English minor graduates will gain an understanding and appreciation of the English language, develop critical thinking and theoretical application skills through the study and critique of literature, and gain insight into the importance of diversity. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate proficiencies in the intensive writing processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, and editing for professional presentation - Us… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Golf and Sports Turf Management B.S. **Degree** Golf course superintendents, sports turf managers, and turfgrass professionals within the green industry use technology and science to balance the needs of people with those of nature. The golf and sports turf management degree provides students with hands-on skills to maintain functional and aesthetically pleasing turfgrass environments. Extensive coursework in agronomy, soil science, horticulture, and turfgrass science help students develop the technical skills needed to be successful. Complementary courses in business management and communication provide the fundamentals for managing emplo… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Management B.S. **Degree** The health management program provides career-entry opportunities for high school graduates and professional advancement opportunities for health care personnel. Career opportunities for students with baccalaureate degrees in health management include management positions in hospitals, long-term care facilities, health maintenance, and other managed care organizations, public health departments, community-based and home health agencies, medical equipment companies, government regulatory agencies, and health insurance companies. The health management program focuses on developing managerial, a… ## Courses - HSM3900 — Health Management Internship - SOC3937 — Soc Gerontology: Eld in Am Soc Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Management Certificate **Certificate** The Health Management certificate program will provide fundamental knowledge in the business of healthcare in such areas of finance, health information technology, healthcare law, ethics, group practice, and so on. The certificate will qualify participants to advance their management careers in hospitals, outpatient centers, physician group practices, managed care organizations, public health agencies, and other health-related organizations, utilizing customizable elective courses to best fit the educational need of the individual. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Management Minor The health care management minor, delivered completely online, is designed to prepare undergraduate students with the conceptual knowledge for work in the healthcare field or graduate study. The asynchronous education will introduce students to the business of healthcare by augmenting other majors, allowing a competitive advantage of applying skills in a healthcare organization. This minor is designed for students of junior and senior status. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Horticulture B.S. **Degree** The BS in horticulture is a career-oriented program that combines science-based education, liberal arts education, and technical training. All horticulture students are introduced to botany, woody plants, entomology, plant pathology, and soil science as part of the program requirements. These courses together with liberal arts courses and program specific courses prepare students for careers in the green industry. Students select from three areas of emphasis: environmental landscaping, horticulture production, or urban forestry. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate competency in identification of… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Horticulture Minor The horticulture minor provides an opportunity for students in other majors (e.g., natural resources related, agronomy, ag business, business management, golf and turf management) to take a selected group of horticulture courses and strengthen their credentials in this area. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Humanities Minor A minor in humanities allows students to gain a greater understanding of disciplines, such as art, history, literature, philosophy, politics, and theater. Students become aware of the importance and benefit of diversity and multiculturalism. The humanities minor is intended to complement major programs of study presently offered at U of M Crookston. A minor in humanities helps students broaden and balance their chosen majors with skills such as creative thinking and expression. The minor enables students to recognize opportunities, think creatively, assemble resources, and plan and implement… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Music Minor The music minor allows students to develop a concentrated course of studies in music while pursuing a major in another area. Students who plan to earn a baccalaureate degree at UMC are generally able to complete the music minor if they have an appropriate musical background and/or interest. Students completing the minor may pursue opportunities in teaching beginning to intermediate piano lessons, playing church organ, directing volunteer choirs, directing community musicals, etc. The minor complements all UMC major degree programs. Program outcomes: - Vocal or instrumental skills for performa… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Natural Resources B.S. **Degree** Managing natural resources is increasingly important, with increasing human populations and limited natural resources and habitats. Natural resource managers help balance the needs of people with the ability of ecosystems to sustainably support soil, water, forests, wildlife, fish, and recreational resources. UMC's bachelor of science in natural resources provides an integrated approach to soil and water conservation, wildlife and fisheries management, forestry, and recreation. This combination enables graduates to work with a variety of resources and people and to build a career tailored to… ## Courses - HORT1021 — Woody Plant Materials - HORT3040 — Landscape Install and Maint - MGMT3200 — Principles of Management - MGMT3220 — Human Resource Management Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Equine Science B.S. **Degree** Graduates of U of M Crookston's equine science program understand and are able to meet the daily care, nutrition, health care, and exercise/training needs of horses in their care. They have the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in equine or equine-related employment and have the business and management experience necessary to operate an equine or related business. The program balances the practical skills students need to work with and care for horses, and the theory required to build a successful career. The focus is on the business and management aspects of the horse industry, thus… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Equine Science Minor The minor in equine science introduces students to the pertinent areas of management and production of the equine industry. Students learn core concepts of the equine industry, including training in reproduction, exercise physiology, nutrition, management of equine facilities, and rider instructor training. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Finance B.S. **Degree** The importance of finance for organizations today cannot be underestimated. The ability to understand the markets and how businesses raise and invest capital is highly looked upon among businesses and organizations. Finance is a very broad degree program covering such diverse topics as corporate finance, insurance and risk management, estate planning, investment and money, and banking and financial institutions. Organizations need individuals with the knowledge to calculate contemporary financial measures of performance and risk, as well as the ability to explain how the financial services co… ## Courses - ACCT4800 — Accounting Data Analytics - ECON1111 — Personal Finance - FIN3900 — Internship - FIN4800 — Financial Plan Development - GBUS3300 — Business Analytics - ITM3020 — Intro to Mgmt Info Systems Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Finance Certificate **Certificate** The ability to understand the markets and how businesses raise and invest capital is a highly looked upon specialized background amongst businesses and organizations. The certificate in finance is a broad program covering such diverse topics as corporate finance, insurance and risk management, estate planning, investments and money, banking and financial institutions. Students completing this certificate may find employment working with banks, insurance companies, securities firms, commodity brokers, and other financial investments enterprises. Please note that this certificate is available t… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Finance Minor The finance minor is available on campus and online and focuses on tools to solve business problems while giving students insight to understand financial and economic behavior. As an employment sector with sustainable future growth, the minor enhances the career prospects of our graduates. Students will be introduced to the principles of finance and how to apply these principles to analyze several financial issues. Students will develop the problem-solving and quantitative skills that are widely used in business. The minor in finance is available to all undergraduate students at UMC. Several… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # International Business B.S. **Degree** The need for graduates with skills to streamline global pursuits of companies that trade, manufacture, or use contract manufacturing globally is growing. The international business major is designed to ensure that students cultivate their global mindset. Classes like international business cultures and etiquette, international business law, international financial management, international marketing, international business management, and senior seminar in international business strategy are combined with field experience in international business and/or study abroad, which are included in th… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Marketing B.S. **Degree** The importance of marketing for organizations today cannot be underestimated. The best product in the world can fail if it is not marketed appropriately. Marketing is a very broad degree program covering such diverse topics as personal selling, integrated marketing communication, advertising, sales promotion, the psychology of consumer behavior, marketing research, retail marketing, marketing ethics, logistics, internet marketing, and strategic marketing. Organizations need individuals who can identify consumer needs and configure appropriate solutions, and a marketing degree provides graduat… ## Courses - CA1040 — Web Site Development - COMM4000 — News and Social Media Comm - GBUS1005 — Orientation to Online Learning - GBUS3300 — Business Analytics - MGMT3600 — Change Create Innovation Mgmt - MGMT3900 — Internship - MKTG3900 — Internship - MKTG4100 — Retail Management - UMC1200 — Intro to University Life Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Marketing Minor A minor in marketing complements a wide array of majors. The marketing minor introduces students to current marketing theories and practices. Students pursuing a minor in marketing will learn the basics of marketing principles, effective personal selling, the psychology of consumer behavior, and marketing research methods. Several electives are offered to provide five areas of specialization for students seeking the marketing minor. Program outcomes: - Understand the importance of having a consumer orientation and demonstrate how to effectively establish, develop, and maintain business relati… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Sport and Recreation Management B.S. **Degree** The sport and recreation management program gives students the opportunity to develop knowledge and expertise in sport and recreation with an orientation toward management. It is employment-oriented, designed around active learning and responsive teaching, and technology-driven, focused on communication and human relations. Program graduates will be able to manage, assist in the management of, or find employment in sport and recreation organizations. Career opportunities include positions in professional sport franchises, sport and recreation facilities, participative sport event management,… ## Courses - COMM1101 — Public Speaking Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Sport and Recreation Management Certificate **Certificate** Coursework in this certificate covers many different aspects of sport and recreation management: management and marketing as it relates to the sport industry, sport ethics, leadership, facility management, event planning, sport communication, psychological, and sociological aspects of sport. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Sport and Recreation Management Minor Coursework in this minor covers many different aspects of sport and recreation management: management and marketing as it relates to the sport industry, sport ethics, leadership, facility management, event planning, sport communication, psychological, and sociological aspects of sport. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Management B.S. **Degree** All organizations require managers to plan, organize, lead, and evaluate the organization's effectiveness. Businesses need individuals who can manage resources, identify and solve problems, work with others, understand markets, collect and analyze data, and evaluate organizational performance. This program prepares graduates for management positions in corporations, small businesses, and other organizations. It provides a well-rounded education in business operations, preparing individuals for a variety of management positions in business and government. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate analyt… ## Courses - COMM4704 — Organizational Communication - GBUS3000 — Global Seminar in Business - GBUS3300 — Business Analytics - IBUS3500 — International Business Mgmt - ITM3020 — Intro to Mgmt Info Systems - MGMT3210 — Supervision and Leadership - MGMT3255 — Logistics/Supply Chain Mgmt - MGMT3600 — Change Create Innovation Mgmt - MGMT3900 — Internship - MKTG4100 — Retail Management Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Management Minor A minor in management introduces students to current business theories and practices and provides a basic business knowledge foundation. It also gives students interested in business more marketability in all types of professions, from agriculture and natural sciences to information technology. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate an understanding of the management roles of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling - Demonstrate analytical and critical-thinking skills with direct application to management - Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in personal and business… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Information Technology Management B.S. **Degree** The information technology management program prepares students for technical and management positions in business and industry. Graduates have the knowledge, experience, and skills to succeed in technology-related careers as well as the business and management competencies for mid-management positions such as information technology specialists, application developers, network administrators, Webmasters, technology project and information systems managers. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate abilities in the use of information systems hardware, operating systems, programming languages, and applic… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Information Technology Management Minor An information technology management minor gives students a general background in technology, computer applications, services, and systems. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate abilities in the use of information systems hardware, operating systems, and industry leading computer applications - Use computer technology in preparing programs, presentations, and written reports - Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in written and oral communications through technical reports, solutions to information technology problems, and feasibility studies - Demonstrate human relations an… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Communication Minor The communication minor complements all University of Minnesota Crookston degree programs by preparing students to be effective communicators in any profession. The minor emphasizes communication theory and practice, as well as the creation, development, presentation, and evaluation of coherent messages. The minor provides students with the flexibility to select courses that enhance their professional career preparations. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate proficiencies in applying theory, listening, reading, speaking, and writing in the profession - Demonstrate critical thinking and problem sol… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Manufacturing Management B.M.M. The bachelor of manufacturing management (BMM) is a career-oriented program that prepares students to manage people and machines in a manufacturing environment. Graduates will be able to supervise a manufacturing process, manage human and mechanical resources within budgetary constraints, and assure product quality. The program is designed to meet the needs of people already in the workplace and two-year graduates who want to continue their education to the bachelor's degree level with seamless integration of prior credits earned. The program is available for in-class instruction on campus, a… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Manufacturing Management Certificate **Certificate** The manufacturing management certificate is a workplace-centered education program designed to meet the increasing demand for management skills in a production-based industrial environment. The program content provides an educational base that enables employees to meet the demands of modern management within a technological work setting. This flexible program fits the schedules of part-time students and students already in the workplace. The courses taken for the certificate program will transfer into the bachelor of manufacturing program. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Coaching Minor The coaching minor develops future coaches by teaching current theories and practices in coaching and with practical experience through the coaching practicum. This helps to prepare students for coaching at the youth, elementary, high school, college, or even professional levels. Since 1997, Minnesota has not required a teaching or coaching license to coach high school athletics. The coaching minor helps train and develop future coaches in the areas of practice planning, skill development, and coaching strategies in their sport of interest. In addition, it gives those students interested in c… ## Courses - BIOL3520 — Exercise Physiology - SRM3320 — Applied Sports Physiology Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Sciences Pre-Professional B.S. **Degree** The BS in health sciences provides students with the prerequisite knowledge and skills required for admission to professional programs in chiropractic, dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy. Admission is competitive and specific admission requirements, including courses and experiences, vary by professional program and institution. Completion of the BS does not guarantee admission to professional programs at the University of Minnesota or other universities. The course requirements shown are common to similar programs at other institutions; however, students ar… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Software Engineering B.S. **Degree** As technology penetrates every sector of the economy, software needs are becoming increasingly complex. This need has seen the evolution of a relatively new area of study, software engineering. The US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics states that computer software engineering will be among the fastest growing occupations for the next 10 years. The software engineering program combines the theory behind good software engineering practices along with applied projects throughout the IEEE standardized curriculum. This approach provides graduates the knowledge and skills to be succes… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Criminal Justice B.S. **Degree** The career-oriented bachelor of science in criminal justice degree at the University of Minnesota Crookston is designed for students interested in a professional career in the rapidly expanding criminal justice field. The program has an interdisciplinary criminal justice curriculum that provides students the opportunity to incorporate learning that is identified by employers as being critical to career success. The program provides high quality education in both academic and professional areas, offers unique training and internship experiences, a positive entry-level employment outlook among… ## Courses - CRJS1803 — Directed Studies - CRJS2390 — Spec Topics in Crim Justice - CRJS2560 — Emergency Medical Responder - NATR2630 — Intro to Geographic Info Systm Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Quality Management B.M.M. The bachelor of manufacturing management (BMM) degree in quality management responds to increased employer demand for employees with a solid background in manufacturing techniques combined with a qualification in quality. Many companies that outsource production discover the need for more stringent quality assurance of products made in foreign countries, causing an increased need for graduates with a good grounding in quality management. The high demand is concomitant with above average starting salaries. The quality management degree was designed with learner outcomes designed to: (1) meet t… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Environmental Sciences B.S. **Degree** The BS in environmental sciences is designed to provide students with the scientific background and practical skills needed to successfully address environmental issues and the background required to be successful applicants to graduate programs. Students may choose from advanced courses designed to emphasize studies in biological remediation technologies, water quality, or agriculture while participating in a common core of courses which provide knowledge in the basic principles relevant to all areas. Program Outcomes: - Use the scientific method in practice, especially with regard to hypoth… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Environmental Sciences Minor The environmental sciences minor introduces students to the core concepts of environmental sciences. Students will gain an overall understanding of environmental sciences and its importance in today's society. This minor meshes well with major courses of study in biology, agronomy, horticulture, animal science, and natural resources giving these students a feel for how their disciplines interact with environmental sciences. It also helps develop critical thinking skills in applying science-based decision making as it pertains to the environment. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Informatics Privacy and Security for Health Care Providers Certificate **Certificate** This certificate program will prepare students to support the secure collection, management, retrieval, exchange, and/or analysis of information in electronic form in health care and public health organizations. Program Outcomes: - Proficiency in Database principles (HI 2060) - Understanding of how/why information systems are used in health care (HI 3020) - Knowledge representation of secure data collection and retrieval (HI 3060) - Understanding of the use of health information workflow, analysis and design in supporting clinical decisions (HI 3100) - Awareness of Social, Legal and Ethical I… ## Courses - HI2060 — Database Mgmt in Hlth Info Sys - HI3020 — Intro to Hlth Information Syst - HI3060 — Secure Data Collectn/Retrieval - HI3100 — HI Workflow Analysis & Design - HI3200 — Soc/Legal/Ethicl Issues in HI - HI3215 — Hlth Info Assurance/Security Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Informatics for Software Engineers and IT Professionals Certificate **Certificate** This certificate will prepare students with an existing background in Information Technology, programming, and software engineering to apply their expertise to the domain of health informatics in order to build advanced Information Systems for health care and public health organizations. Program Outcomes: - Understanding of how/why information systems are used in health care (HI 3020) - Understanding of the use of health information workflow, analysis and design in supporting clinical decisions (HI 3100) - Awareness of Social, Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Informatics (HI 3200) - Awarene… ## Courses - HI3020 — Intro to Hlth Information Syst - HI3100 — HI Workflow Analysis & Design - HI3200 — Soc/Legal/Ethicl Issues in HI - HI3215 — Hlth Info Assurance/Security - HI3300 — Organization of EHR Systems - SE3060 — Data Warehousing and Mining Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Taxation Certificate **Certificate** The certificate in taxation is designed to prepare the student for a career in tax preparation, including individual, farm, business, trusts, estates, payroll, and estate taxes. In addition, it prepares the student to pass the registered tax return preparer competency test. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Medical Laboratory Science B.S. **Degree** The BS in medical laboratory science will give students a degree that will provide life-long mobility, flexibility and opportunity. Individuals who enjoy science, solving problems, and working as part of a team may find medical laboratory science to be a rewarding career. A medical lab scientist is part of a healthcare team that performs a variety of fact-finding tests that are used by physicians in making 70 to 80 percent of medical decisions. In addition, this degree provides a great background for individuals interested in entering fields of forensic science or medicine (medical doctors, d… ## Courses - MLS2220 — Intro to Cln Lab Oper (UND) Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Exercise Science and Wellness B.S. **Degree** The BS in exercise science and wellness combines the study of exercise physiology within the holistic context of health and wellness. The program integrates a hands-on, experiential learning laboratory working with various demographic populations (e.g., athletes, new moms, senior citizens). Through a dynamic collaboration between the University and the local hospital rehabilitation services, students are exposed to scenarios to apply theory to patient rehabilitation. Students learn techniques in coaching, counseling and effective motivational techniques during both internal and external inter… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Cybersecurity & Information Assurance Minor This minor is intended for students who are studying in a computer-related field (software engineering, information technology management). In addition, students from other programs with sufficient IT background will be able to enroll in this minor with the goal of enabling them to work in cyber security. The minor consists of courses designed to provide students with both the technical background and the hands-on experiences along with the theoretical background that gives them a competitive edge in cybersecurity jobs. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Honors The Honors Program is a program of study for high-achieving students. Incoming first-year students with an ACT of 28 or higher and a high school GPA of 3.5 or higher are invited to join the program. Full-time, degree-seeking students may also gain admission to the Honors Program after completing one or more semesters of coursework (i.e. at least twelve credits) with a college GPA of at least 3.3. Transfer students are eligible for the Honors Program after transferring in at least 30 college credits with a college GPA of at least 3.3. Students transferring credits from within the University of… ## Courses - GNED2000 — Global Study - GNED3000 — Global Seminar - HON3000 — Global Leadership Seminar Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Agricultural Communication B.S. **Degree** The BS in agricultural communication prepares students to be effective communicators in agribusinesses, commodity groups, agricultural advocacy agencies, and agricultural communication organizations. The program blends agriculture, communication, and liberal education courses that prepare students for a wide variety of career choices. Program Outcomes: - Integrate communication theories into personal and professional contexts - Identify and critique human relationship orientations and group communication processes - Construct and critique professional written communication - Create, deliver,… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Writing Minor The writing minor prepares students to succeed in myriad fields and professional organizations. Concepts learned and skills developed through a writing minor will be advantageous in any career that requires skills in written communication. Graduates who obtain a writing minor will gain an understanding and appreciation of the English language, develop critical thinking and theoretical application skills through the study of research, and be able to communicate complex ideas through writing in professional settings. Program outcomes: - Demonstrate proficiencies in the writing processes through… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # English Education B.S. **Degree** A bachelor of science degree in English Education at U of M Crookston is a career-oriented degree that allows students to work within the field of English Education in public schools at the 5-12 grade levels. Graduates with an English Education degree will gain an understanding and appreciation of the English language, education practices, develop critical thinking, communication, and theoretical application skills, and gain insight into the importance of diversity. Program outcomes: - Apply learners' growth and development principles across all domains to design and implement developmentally… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # English Education Minor The English minor, which is the middle school Communication Arts and Literature (CA&L) Endorsement allows any teacher education candidate at UMC to have the option of earning a middle-level Communication Arts and Literature Endorsement in addition to their professional teaching license. Graduates with an English Education minor will gain an understanding and appreciation of the English language, education practices, develop critical thinking, communication, and theoretical application skills, and gain insight into the importance of diversity. Program outcomes: - Apply learners' growth and dev… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Equine Business Management B.S. **Degree** Graduates of the University of Minnesota Crookston's equine management program understand and are able to manage the daily nutrition, health, and exercise/training needs of horses in their care. They have the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in equine or equine-related employment and have the business and management experience necessary to operate an equine or related business. The program focus is on the business and management aspects of the horse industry and affiliated agriculture industries, thus providing a broad-based management education which appeals to employers. Program Ou… ## Courses - AGEC2310 — Agribusiness Financial Records Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Sustainability Minor The minor in sustainability is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the three pillars of sustainability-economic growth, environmental stewardship, and social progress, allowing graduates to fully understand, articulate, and implement sustainable practices that will help our society face sustainability-related challenges. Program outcomes: - Explain the interdependency of nature and society and of the fundamental linkages between ecological, political, social, and economic systems - Analyze and make decisions regarding the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs associated… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Applied Agricultural Communication Studies B.S. **Degree** The B.S. in Applied Agricultural Communication Studies prepares students to be effective communicators for agribusinesses, commodity groups, agricultural advocacy agencies, and agricultural communication organizations. Applied agricultural communication studies graduates may hold jobs as Public Relations Specialists, Agricultural Lobbyists, Agriculture Journalists, Agricultural Literacy and Advocacy Specialists, Communication Specialists, and Event Planners. The program provides transferable skills by emphasizing communication theory and practice in the creation, development, presentation, an… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Leadership Minor Graduates with a Leadership Minor will develop a personal leadership philosophy that will help them fulfill their future roles and responsibilities as visionary leaders. The intent of the Leadership Minor is to be interdisciplinary so it can be incorporated into any current or future major. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Programming Minor A programming minor is intended for students in any field. Students completing the programming minor will demonstrate abilities in the use of programming languages including database and web development. The minor consists of programming courses that support understanding of software development skills. The minor will provide opportunities for problem-solving, structured and creative thinking, and hands-on experience with a broad range of software languages. The minor consists of courses designed to provide students in any field with a technical background that includes hands-on experiences,… ## Courses - SE2070 — Intro to Programming II - SE3100 — Object-Oriented Programming Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Soils Minor Soil is the reservoir on which most life on earth depends, as the primary source of food, feed, fuel, forage, fiber, and pharmaceuticals. Soil plays a vital role in sustaining human welfare and assuring future agricultural productivity and environmental stability. A minor in soils will provide students within related fields of study such as Agronomy, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Turf Management, Biology, and Environmental Science with a foundation of the physical, chemical, and biological soil properties and processes essential to such a complex ecosystem. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Turfgrass Management Certificate **Certificate** Obtaining a certificate in turfgrass management allows undergraduate students in related and non-related fields of study to gain the knowledge and expertise required to maintain and manage high quality turfgrass from various turf areas such as lawns, parks, sod farms, sports fields, and golf courses. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Turfgrass Management Minor Obtaining a minor in turfgrass management allows undergraduate students in Agronomy, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Biology, Environmental Sciences, and Sport Recreation Management to gain the knowledge and expertise required to maintain and manage high quality turfgrass from various turf areas such as lawns, parks, sod farms, sports fields, and golf courses. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Precision Agriculture Minor Enabled by the growing popularity and availability of high-tech precision equipment, farmers and producers have access to more data than ever before. When implemented properly, precision agriculture management can improve the profitability and sustainability of crop production. By combining theory and practice and bridging the disciplines of agronomy, soils, agriculture machinery management, and geographic information systems, the precision agriculture minor provides students with the foundational skills necessary to design and implement precision agriculture practices. Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Services Executive B.S. **Degree** The Health Services Executive program provides career opportunities to manage and lead organizations within the long-term care industry including nursing homes, residential care, assisted living, and home and community-based services. The program provides the knowledge and skills required to obtain licensing as a Health Services Executive, which many states have recognized as the standard for long-term care administrators. The program has been approved by the Minnesota Board of Executives for Long Term Services and Supports allowing graduates to be eligible to become licensed as a Health Serv… ## Courses - HSM3910 — Nursing Home Internship - HSM3920 — RC and HCBS Internship Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # Health Services Executive Certificate **Certificate** The Health Services Executive Certificate program prepares individuals for the regulatory and business principles of nursing homes, residential care, assisted living facilities, home and community-based services, and other long-term care services and supports. The certificate content consists of courses required for the state of Minnesota licensure. The certificate courses reside within the Health Management program, accredited by the Minnesota Board of Executives for Long Term Services and Supports (BELTSS). Every state requires nursing home administrators to be licensed. Because licensing r… ## Courses - HSM3910 — Nursing Home Internship Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # NXT Gen Ag Certificate **Certificate** NXT Gen Ag provides new and returning students with the key skill sets and understanding of agribusiness to develop their career paths within the agricultural industry. Students with a completed college degree (Associates degree or higher) should consider the Agricultural Business Certificate. Program outcomes: - Develop a personal leadership plan that incorporates an inclusive leadership style - Identify alternative career paths in agriculture and understand the knowledge and skills required for success in those pathways - Demonstrate foundational agricultural business knowledge and technolo… Source: https://umc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com --- # ACCT1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent --- # ACCT2010 — Financial Accounting 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to financial accounting for US organizations, reading/understanding financial statements. --- # ACCT2101 — Principles of Accounting I 3 credits · 3 hours Concepts of accounting cycle, cash, accounts receivable, inventories, and plant assets. Recommended prereq: Math 1031 --- # ACCT2102 — Principles of Accounting II 3 credits · 3 hours Modern accounting concepts. Liabilities, partnerships, corporations, statement of cash flows, and financial statements analysis. Enforced prereq: ACCT 2101 --- # ACCT3010 — Managerial Accounting 3 credits · 3 hours Costing techniques, including activity-based costing, applying costing methods to determine costs of products, services, production processes. Use of costs in operating/strategic decisions. Enforced prereq: ACCT 2101 --- # ACCT3201 — Interm Accounting I 4 credits · 4 hours Financial statements, time value of money, current/long-term assets, intangible assets. Enforced prereq: ACCT 2102 --- # ACCT3202 — Intermediate Accounting II 4 credits · 4 hours Current/long-term liabilities, stockholders' equity, statement of cash flows. Complex financial accounting topics, including leases, pensions, reporting issues. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3201 --- # ACCT3220 — Accounting Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Theory and methodology of analyzing, designing, and implementing accounting information systems. Emphasizes integrated data processing and managerial aspects of systems design and hands-on accounting software learning. Enforced prereq: ACCT 2101 --- # ACCT3301 — Cost Accounting I 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of cost accounting information systems, including cost-volume-profit relationships, costing in service/manufacturing sectors, cost behavior, budget/variance analysis. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3010 Recommended prereq: ACCT 2102, composition requirement --- # ACCT3302 — Cost Accounting II 3 credits · 3 hours Refinements of cost accounting information systems, including management control systems, cost allocation refinements, capital budgeting, performance measurement. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3301 --- # ACCT3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major but not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent Recommended prereq: Junior or Senior --- # ACCT3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Internship in accounting. Recommended prereq: ACCT 3202 --- # ACCT4110 — Advanced Accounting I 3 credits · 3 hours Accounting for business combinations including merger, consolidation and stock acquisition. Consolidated financial statements. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3202 --- # ACCT4111 — Advanced Accounting II 3 credits · 3 hours Accounting for partnership, state/local government, not-for profit. Foreign currency transactions and operations. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4110 --- # ACCT4221 — Auditing I 3 credits · 3 hours Duties/responsibilities of auditor. Audit programs. Liability/professional ethics. Audit reporting standards for independent CPA. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3202 --- # ACCT4310 — Auditing II 3 credits · 3 hours Auditor's responsibility/liability, ethics, standards of professional conduct, auditing electronic data systems, applying statistical audit techniques. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4221 --- # ACCT4404 — Income Tax I 3 credits · 3 hours Income tax laws as they relate to individuals. Enforced prereq: ACCT 2102 --- # ACCT4405 — Income Tax II 3 credits · 3 hours Income tax as it affects corporations partnerships, estates, trusts. May include service-learning component. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4404 --- # ACCT4420 — Income Tax Preparation 3 credits · 3 hours Preparation for Registered Tax Return Preparer competency test. Prepare tax returns under Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program sponsored by Internal Revenue Service and/or preparing simulated individual/business tax returns. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4404 --- # ACCT4500 — Forensic Accounting 3 credits · 3 hours Course offered online only. Case studies of accounting fraud, tools to detect fraud, design of accounting systems to reduce fraud. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3202 --- # ACCT4511 — CPA Review - Regulation 3 credits · 3 hours Prepares students for Regulation section of CPA exam. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4405 --- # ACCT4512 — CPA Review - Fin Reptg & Acctg 3 credits · 3 hours Prepares students to sit for the Financial Reporting/Accounting section of the CPA exam. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4111 --- # ACCT4513 — CPA Review - Audit/Attestatn 3 credits · 3 hours Prepares students to sit for the Auditing/Attestation section of the CPA exam. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4310 --- # ACCT4515 — CPA Review Course - TCP 3 credits · 3 hours Prepares students for the Tax Compliance and Planning discipline section of the CPA exam. Recommended prereq: ACCT 4511 --- # ACCT4516 — CPA Review Course - BAR 3 credits · 3 hours Prepares students for the Business Analysis and Reporting section of the CPA exam. Recommended prereq: ACCT 4512 --- # ACCT4517 — CPA Review Course - ISC 3 credits · 3 hours Prepares students for the Information Systems and Controls discipline section of the CPA exam. Recommended prereq: ACCT 4513 --- # ACCT4800 — Accounting Data Analytics 3 credits · 3 hours Data analytics in accounting including overview of accounting analytics, data understanding and preparation, modeling and evaluation, data visualization, audit data analytics, data analytics in managerial accounting, financial statement analytics, and tax analytics. Enforced prereq: ACCT 3301, ACCT 4110, ACCT 4310, and ACCT 4404 --- # AGEC1004 — Introduction to Agribusiness 3 credits · 3 hours Background of American agriculture. Interrelationships of agricultural industries. Economic concepts of production, marketing, and consumption. Principles of management. Agricultural policy. Issues/trends in agribusiness. --- # AGEC1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # AGEC2310 — Agribusiness Financial Records 3 credits · 3 hours Applied course in record keeping. Use of computerized system to record business transactions; manage agricultural inventories, receivables, payables, and payroll; and generate coordinated financial statements. --- # AGEC2530 — Professional Agriselling 3 credits · 3 hours Use of technical and agricultural knowledge in agricultural sales. Need-satisfaction approach to selling. Planning and conducting informational meetings, exhibiting at farm and trade shows, importance of service and timeliness in agribusiness, and practice in making agrisales presentations. --- # AGEC3050 — Economics AgriBusiness Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Gathering, organizing, assimilating, applying information applicable to current economic environment. Behavior of individual consumers, resource owners, business firms, market operation in a free enterprise economy. Applying basic economic principles that govern profit. Elements and effects of government policy. Real-world forecasting and planning. Recommended prereq: ECON 2101 --- # AGEC3310 — Adv Agribus Financial Records 3 credits · 3 hours Students learn to prepare cash flow budgets, prepare enterprise reports for analysis, prepare and interpret Farm Financial Standards reports, and learn about the connection between production field and/or livestock records and financial records using a computer software program specific to agriculture. Enforced prereq: AGEC 2310 --- # AGEC3430 — Food Marketing Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Topics include frameworks for analyzing food marketing systems. Marketing institutions, food prices, marketing costs, functional/organizational issues, role of government. Grades/standards. Issues in transportation, storage, and international trade. --- # AGEC3440 — Fund of Value Added Agric 3 credits · 3 hours Explore different aspects of value added agriculture as it relates to the production or manufacturing processes, marketing, or services that increase value of primary commodities or appeal to the final consumers. --- # AGEC3495 — Special Topics in Agribusiness 1 credits · 1 hours Topics cover contemporary issues in agribusiness. Offered on demand. --- # AGEC3540 — Farm Business Management 3 credits · 3 hours Principles of farm accounting. Financial/income statements, cash flow statements, depreciation methods, farm income tax, enterprise analysis, farm management decision making, budgeting/planning, computer analysis of farm business. Enforced prereq: AGEC 2310 or ACCT 2102 --- # AGEC3640 — Agricultural Finance Valuation 3 credits · 3 hours Analysis of investment strategies and financing policies for farm and agribusiness firms. Liquidity, solvency, profitability. Financial documents, legal aspects of credit, financial intermediaries serving agriculture, property valuation, estate planning. Enforced prereq: AGEC 3540 --- # AGEC3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # AGEC3900 — Enhanced Agbus Learning Exp 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Supervised project related to current employment. Advanced independent work in agribusiness in consultation with faculty. Report/consultation with faculty advisor. Enforced prereq: must be a Junior or Senior --- # AGEC4460 — Int'l Mktg Problems/Practices 3 credits · 3 hours Problems/practices facing companies in international trade. Import/export regulations, exchange rates, business practices/policies. --- # AGEC4740 — Grain and Livestock Marketing 3 credits · 3 hours Students develop commodity marketing plan for grain or livestock farming operations. Topics include cash markets, grid pricing, grade premiums/discounts, contracting, crop/livestock insurance, and futures/options. --- # AGEC4750 — Agribusiness Marketing 3 credits · 3 hours Role of marketing in agribusiness. Marketing systems/strategies for competitiveness in a rapidly changing marketplace. Identifying strengths/opportunities to create competitive advantage. Recommended prereq: AGEC 2530 or instructor consent --- # AGEC4760 — Business Plan for Agribusiness 3 credits · 3 hours Capstone. Application of economic, marketing, and business principles to critically evaluate a business opportunity. Identify and assess an agribusiness opportunity. Critically evaluate the potential for the business to be successful. Students develop a comprehensive business plan. Enforced prereq: AGEC 3540 and MKTG 3300 Recommended prereq: AGEC 4740 --- # AGEC4800 — Rural Econ Developmt Practicum 3 credits · 3 hours Students develop strategies/program to promote economic development for a real rural community, including implementation/financing plans. --- # AGED2001 — Early Experience in Ag Ed 1 credits · 1 hours Orientation to career opportunities in agricultural education. Observe schools, extension offices, farm business management programs, and/or agricultural-oriented businesses to learn about work/workplace in agricultural education. Field experience hours required. --- # AGED3003 — SAE, FFA, and Leadership 3 credits · 3 hours Development and organization of programs in agricultural education including classroom, SAE, and FFA leadership with student, community, and agribusiness needs assessed. Principles and techniques of coordinating and advising an FFA chapter and developing and conducting Supervised Agricultural Experience programs. Development of teaching aptitudes in SAE, FFA, and leadership topics. Field experience hours required. --- # AGED3004 — Methods of Teaching Agr Educ 4 credits · 4 hours Use of teaching resources; principles of teaching/learning; problem-solving techniques, lesson plan construction for large group, small group and individual investigations; micro-teaching labs, assessment preparation/administration/evaluation. Recommended prereq: AGED 3003 --- # AGED3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # AGED4700 — Student Tchg: Farm Bus Mgmt 1 credits · 1 hours Student teaching experience in communities that have access to Farm Business Management. Recommended prereq: concurrent enrollment in other AgEd internship courses --- # AGED4800 — Student Tchg: Middle School 1 credits · 1 hours Student teaching experience in schools offering middle school agricultural education or in related fields such as middle school science. Recommended prereq: concurrent enrollment in other AgEd internship courses --- # AGED4900 — Student Tchg: High School 8 credits · 8 hours Student teaching experience in schools offering high school agricultural education. Recommended prereq: concurrent enrollment in other AgEd internship courses --- # AGRO1020 — Special Topics 1 credits · 1 hours Identifying economically important crop/weed seeds throughout the United States. --- # AGRO1030 — Crop and Weed Identification 3 credits · 3 hours Morphological characteristics used in mature plant, seedling, and seed identification. Identifying economically important crops and weeds in all stages of growth throughout the United States. --- # AGRO1183 — Field Crops: Prod Principles 3 credits · 3 hours Principles and cultural practices used in growing certain row crops, small grains, oil crops, and specialty crops. --- # AGRO1540 — Seed Conditioning & Technology 4 credits · 4 hours Seed laws, certification standards, purity analysis, germination tests, vigor tests, principles of seed conditioning, handling equipment. Tours of facilities processing small grains, sunflowers, grasses, and legumes. Recommended prereq: AGRO 1030 --- # AGRO1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent --- # AGRO2573 — Entomology 3 credits · 3 hours Insect taxonomy, anatomy, and physiology. Emphasis on insects of economic importance, especially in the Upper Midwest. Control methods, including integrated pest management. Recommended prereq: AGRO 1183 or HORT 1010 --- # AGRO2640 — Applied Agriculture Chemicals 3 credits · 3 hours Applied use of agriculture chemicals. Safety, toxicity, efficacy, phytotoxicity, recommendations, environmental interactions. Recommended prereq: AGRO 1030 --- # AGRO2840 — Grain and Seed Evaluation 4 credits · 4 hours Analytical techniques, procedures, and practices in interpreting U.S. grain standards. Identifying seeds of crops, weeds, and diseases. Lab practice in grading grain according to U.S. standards and determining grain quality. Recommended prereq: AGRO 1030 --- # AGRO3023 — Plant Breeding and Genetics 4 credits · 4 hours Principles of plant breeding. Emphasizes application of genetic principles to plant breeding. Genetic variation, selection methods, cultivar development. Examples from common field/horticultural crops. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # AGRO3030 — Stat Analyses/Research Techn 3 credits · 3 hours Experimental design and methodology in agriculture and natural resources research. Basic philosophy, data interpretation and analysis, and application of research information to practical management situations. Recommended prereq: MATH 1150, Jr or Sr --- # AGRO3130 — Forages 3 credits · 3 hours Characteristics, distribution, preservation, and uses of forage crops for pasture, silage, hay, and soil improvement. Cultural practices, disease and insect control, seed production, forage storage. Interrelationships between animals and plants as they relate to selection, production, and utilization of forage crops. --- # AGRO3230 — Intro to Plant Pathology 3 credits · 3 hours Nature, diagnosis, and management of plant diseases. Identification, control, and life cycles of representative plant diseases significant in the upper midwest that illustrate plant pathology principles. Recommended prereq: AGRO 1183 or HORT 1010 --- # AGRO3441 — Topics: Specialty Crop Prod 1 credits · 1 hours Lecture/discussion on one economically important or emerging specialty crop such as potato or sugar beet. Specific crop varies. Land selection, soil fertility, pest control, harvest, storage, quality, marketing. --- # AGRO3444 — Crop Production 4 credits · 4 hours Principles, including best cultural practices for crops of particular economic importance to the region. Oilseed, small grain, and specialty crops. Recommended prereq: AGRO 1183, SOIL 1293 --- # AGRO3620 — Adv ID, Seed Anal, Grain Grdg 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced techniques in identification, seed analysis, and grain grading. Enforced prereq: [AGRO 1030 and AGRO 2840] or Instructor consent --- # AGRO3630 — Integrated Crop Management 3 credits · 3 hours Capstone. Patterned after the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) crops contest. Students will be tested in major areas of agronomy featured in NACTA contest. For each test area, students must reach a predetermined minimum score to earn a passing grade. Enforced prereq: Senior or Instructor consent --- # AGRO3640 — Weed Science 3 credits · 3 hours Mechanical, cultural, biological, and chemical weed control practices. Factors affecting control. Classification and modes of action of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and plant growth regulators. Recommended prereq: [BIOL 1009, CHEM 1401, SOIL 1293] or instructor consent --- # AGRO3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: Jr or Sr, instructor consent --- # ANSC1004 — Intro to Animal Science 4 credits · 4 hours Survey of the meat animal, dairy, and equine industries. Emphasis on general management principles, health care, breeding, behavior, feeding, and care of dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, sheep, and swine. --- # ANSC1033 — Intro to Companion Animals 3 credits · 3 hours Companion animal industry. Emphasizes identification, general management principles, health care, breeding, behavior, feeding, and humane care of companion animals. --- # ANSC1101 — Animal Evaluation 1 credits · 1 hours Conformation, breed characteristics, type, and their importance in evaluation. Techniques of evaluation and interpretation of evaluation data. --- # ANSC1104 — Veterinary Medical Terminology 1 credits · 1 hours Exploring veterinary medical terminology through a systematic approach. Focus on terms and usage relevant to veterinary medicine including medical terms, drug classes and medications, and equipment. Students will learn the definitions of word elements, rules for constructing medical terms, spelling, pronunciation, and common abbreviations. --- # ANSC1201 — Advanced Animal Evaluation 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced techniques in evaluating and selecting dairy or beef cattle, sheep, and swine. Preparing and delivering oral reasons. Enforced prereq: ANSC 1101 --- # ANSC1206 — Sheep/Swine Production Tech 2 credits · 2 hours Skills necessary for successful/economical sheep/swine production. --- # ANSC1207 — Livestock Mgmt Experience 1 credits · 1 hours Proper techniques and behavior principles of animal handling to reduce stress and potential injury to people and livestock. Experience with handling animals and working facilities of that species. Management practices, including IACUC, record keeping, skid steer maintenance and handling, facilities maintenance. Recommended prereq: ANSC 1004 --- # ANSC1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # ANSC2001 — Artificial Insemination 1 credits · 1 hours Anatomy/physiology, heat detection, hormone function/synchronization, semen storage/handling, AI technique, record keeping, sire selection. Practical technical skills to run AI programs. --- # ANSC2104 — Feeds and Feeding 4 credits · 4 hours Identification and use of feed grains, forages, supplemental feeds, and additives. Bushel weights, price, and cost per unit calculations. Moisture content calculations. Factors influencing feed quality, feed value, price, and storage. Digestion, ration formulation, and feed processing methods. Recommended prereq: ANSC 1004 --- # ANSC2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # ANSC3004 — Lvstk Fac/Envir Sys 3 credits · 3 hours Effects of environment on animal production. Principles of environmental control. Planning open, partial, and total environmentally controlled systems for livestock. Functional, economic, and environmental considerations. Feed handling systems, waste management alternatives. Recommended prereq: MATH 1031 --- # ANSC3023 — Animal Breeding 3 credits · 3 hours Application of qualitative genetic principles to animal breeding. Quantitative genetics. Livestock improvements through breeding/selection systems. Recommended prereq: ANSC 1004, BIOL 3022 --- # ANSC3052 — Meat and Dairy Processing 3 credits · 3 hours Packaging/processing dairy/meat. Effects of hygiene/sanitation on product quality. Types of spoilage. Microbial ecology within the industry. --- # ANSC3104 — Animal Nutrition 4 credits · 4 hours Continuation of digestion/metabolism to include modifications/control. Application of nutritional principles to economical feeding of different farm animal species. Nutrient requirements/modifications due to weather, stress, feeding objectives, environment, and metabolic limitations. Computer formulation of rations. Enforced prereq: ANSC 2104 Recommended prereq: CHEM 1401, CHEM 3021 --- # ANSC3203 — Animal Anatomy and Physiology 4 credits · 4 hours Anatomy/physiology of general livestock, horses, and wildlife. Organization of the body from cells to tissues and organs to bodily systems. Identification and comparison of anatomy; functions of bodily systems. Comparative anatomy and physiology across species. Enforced prereq: BIOL 1009 or BIOL 1009H --- # ANSC3204 — Dairy Production 4 credits · 4 hours Growth/development of dairy cattle. Genetics/breeding, dairy nutrition, growth/development of heifer to first calving. Getting cows into production and their subsequent management, including milking management skills. Recommended prereq: ANSC 2104 --- # ANSC3205 — Dairy Management Practicum 3 credits · 3 hours Management and clinical skills, including those unique to large dairy herds. Recommended prereq: Sr or instructor consent --- # ANSC3301 — Swine/Poultry Production 3 credits · 3 hours Review of swine and poultry production systems with emphasis on reproduction, housing and environmental control, nutrition, disease prevention and control, processing of animal products, populations, and the economics of the industry. Recommended prereq: ANSC 1004, ANSC 1207 --- # ANSC3302 — Small Ruminant Production 3 credits · 3 hours To obtain a better understanding of the growth and development of sheep and goats, including basic animal husbandry, reproduction, nutrition, genetics, location, population, and economics of each industry. Students will learn and evaluate techniques and procedures used in the production/management of sheep and goat enterprises. Recommended prereq: ANSC 1004, ANSC 1207 --- # ANSC3303 — Beef Production 4 credits · 4 hours Application of technology and information to systems of managing beef operations. Incorporation of economics, farm management, records, and production science in management plans. Computer applications in management. Recommended prereq: ANSC 2104 --- # ANSC3304 — Reproductive Physiology 4 credits · 4 hours Explore reproduction in livestock including anatomy, physiology, endocrinology, estrous cycle, fertilization, gestation, parturition, and lactation. Application of this knowledge to reproductive management and technologies including ultrasound techniques, palpation, heat detection, synchronization, artificial insemination, and birthing assistance. Enforced prereq: ANSC 3203 --- # ANSC3450 — Spec Topics in Animal Science 1 credits · 1 hours Topics vary to reflect contemporary Animal Science issues. Recommended prereq: instructor's consent --- # ANSC3503 — Animal Health and Disease 3 credits · 3 hours Concepts of health and disease with emphasis on prevention through health plans and enhancing immunity. Influence of environment and other stressors on health and disease. Recommended prereq: ANSC 3203 --- # ANSC3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # ANSC3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # ANSC4204 — Animal Systems Management 3 credits · 3 hours Planning, budgeting (cash, feed, machinery, etc.), and implementing programs; facilities; labor force; and other factors required for operation of modern animal operations. Field trips, planning for existing operations. Recommended prereq: ANSC 3004, ANSC 3204 or ANSC 3303 or instructor consent --- # ANSC4205 — Pre-Vet Capstone 3 credits · 3 hours In-depth analysis of topics related to veterinary science. Course will focus on pharmacology, ethics, animal behavior, and other current topics relevant to the industry. --- # APLS3001 — Individual Program Development 1 credits · 1 hours Developing degree outcomes relevant to individual career objectives, designing an individual program of study for the Applied Studies baccalaureate degree and setting future career goals. The course also includes topics such as APA writing format, campus and University-wide policy, and student services. --- # APLS3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Supervised professional work experience in selected sites. Reports and consultation with faculty adviser and employer. prereq: 3001, adviser consent --- # APLS4652 — Applied Studies Seminar 2 credits · 2 hours Capstone course. Students present projects demonstrating integration of fields of study, general education, work experience, and computer applications. Required prereq: adviser consent Recommended prereq: APLS 3001, within 1 semester of graduation --- # ART1152 — Drawing and Design 3 credits · 3 hours Introduces foundations of drawing/design. Lecture studies concepts/history of drawing/design. Studio work is practical application. --- # ART1252 — Painting and Design 3 credits · 3 hours Introduces foundations of color (painting) and design. Lecture studies concepts/history of drawing/design. Studio work is practical application. --- # ART1352 — Pottery Design and Techniques 3 credits · 3 hours Introduces foundations of art techniques and design. Lecture studies concepts/history of drawing/design. Studio work is practical application. --- # AS1100 — AF ROTC Fitness (NDSU/UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Benefits of being physically fit, participation in lifetime fitness programs. Achieving/maintaining Air Force and AFROTC fitness standards. Graded version of Enhanced Physical Fitness Training Program. --- # AS1110 — Heritage and Value of USAF I 1 credits · 1 hours A survey course designed to introduce students to the United States Air Force and provides an overview of the basic characteristics, missions, and organization of the Air Force. --- # AS1120 — Heritage and Value of USAF II 1 credits · 1 hours Continuation of AS 1110. A survey course designed to introduce students to the United States Air Force and provides an overview of the basic characteristics, missions, and organization of the Air Force. --- # AS2100 — Leadership Lab (NDSU/UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Introduction to/application of Air Force customs/courtesies, drill/ceremonies, military commands. Air Force environment. Opportunities for commissioned officers. --- # AS2110 — Team/Leadshp Fund I (NDSU/UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Focuses on laying the foundation for teams and leadership. The topics include skills that will allow cadets to improve their leadership on a personal level and within a team. The courses will prepare cadets for their field training experience. Will instill a leadership mindset and motivate to transition from AFROTC cadet to officer candidate. --- # AS2120 — Team/Ldrshp Fund II (NDSU/UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Focuses on laying the foundation for teams and leadership. The topics include skills that will allow cadets to improve their leadership on a personal level and within a team. The courses will prepare cadets for their field training experience. Will instill a leadership mindset and motivate to transition from AFROTC cadet to officer candidate. prereq: AS 2110 --- # AS3210 — Effective Comm I (NDSU/UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Teaches cadets advanced skills and knowledge in management and leadership. Special emphasis is placed on enhancing leadership skills and communication. Cadets have an opportunity to try out these leadership and management techniques in a supervised environment as juniors and seniors. --- # AS3220 — Effective Comm II (NDSU/UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Teaches cadets advanced skills and knowledge in management and leadership. Special emphasis is placed on enhancing leadership skills and communication. Cadets have an opportunity to try out these leadership and management techniques in a supervised environment as juniors and seniors. prereq: 3210 --- # AS4100 — Leadership Lab (NDSU/UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Practical development of leadership skills. Students instruct, supervise, lead junior cadets participating in 2100, perform higher-level management functions within cadet corps organization. Supervised lab. --- # AS4410 — Prep for Act Duty I (NDSU/UND) 3 credits · 3 hours College seniors. Give them the foundation to understand their role as military officers in American society. Overview of complex social and political issues facing the military profession and requires a measure of sophistication commensurate with senior college level. --- # AS4420 — Prep for Act Dty II (NDSU/UND) 3 credits · 3 hours College seniors. Give them the foundation to understand their role as military officers in American society. Overview of complex social and political issues facing the military profession and requires a measure of sophistication commensurate with senior college level. prereq: 4410 --- # ASM1021 — Intro Agricultural Systems Mgt 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of agricultural mechanization systems (engines, machinery, structures, processes). --- # ASM1034 — Facility Maintenance/Safety 4 credits · 4 hours Safe operation and working environment for power equipment, structures, utilities, and metal fabrication. --- # ASM1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics in agriculture, food systems. --- # ASM2043 — Welding/Manufacturing Proc 3 credits · 3 hours Arc/gas welding of ferrous/nonferrous metals. TIG/MIG welding. Designs for welding, economics, and cost estimating. Project design/construction. Basic metal machining. --- # ASM2053 — Elec, Contrls & Sensors in Agr 3 credits · 3 hours Theory and practical application of electricity and electrical controls in agriculture. Selection/maintenance of electrical motors, heating/light/control devices, and sensors. --- # ASM2250 — Ag Machinery Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Mechanical principles. Application of field machinery/power units to varying crop, soil, and climatic conditions. Farm management decisions. Introduction to precision agriculture. --- # ASM3002 — Ag Mobile Power Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Selecting, testing, and maintaining power units for drawbar, PTO, and hydraulic applications. Spark/compression ignition systems, drive trains, DC electrical, and air conditioning systems. --- # ASM3005 — Facilities Planning/Selection 3 credits · 3 hours Planning facility design. Selecting materials/equipment used in manufacturing and production operations. Recommended prereq: ASM 1034, MATH 1031 --- # ASM3009 — Surveying 4 credits · 4 hours Principles, statistical methods, theory, applications. Measurement of distance, angles, and directions using theodolites, electronic distance measurement, and transits, total stations. Exercises in leveling, profiling, topographic mapping, traversing, and land/construction surveying. Introduction to photogrammetry, GPS, and GIS. --- # ASM3360 — Appl in Precision Agriculture 2 credits · 2 hours Introduction to applications of precision agriculture. Making data-driven on-farm decisions using the knowledge and tools of crop science and agricultural engineering. --- # ASM3365 — Applications Precision Ag Lab 1 credits · 1 hours Introduction to hands-on applications of precision agriculture. Examples include mapping fields, grid, and zone soil sampling techniques, yield monitor calibration, and creating and executing UAV flight plans. Recommended prerequisites: ASM 3360, NATR 2630 --- # ASM3511 — Yield Monitor/Data Interpret 1 credits · 1 hours Calibration of commercially available yield monitoring equipment. Operation fundamentals of various yield sensors. Interfacing sensors, data loggers, global position devices. Saving, storing, retrieving, pooling yield data. Working with data from multiple vendor models/formats. Use of commercially available software to make yield map interpretation. Recommended prereq: ASM 3360, ASM 3365, NATR 2630 --- # ASM3512 — Remote Sensing Appl In Prec Ag 1 credits · 1 hours Fundamentals of remote sensing and satellite imaging in monitoring/managing cropping system variability. Applications of commercial mapping and GIS software in processing/interpreting production scale economic variables. Recommended prereq: ASM 3360, ASM 3365, NATR 2630 --- # ASM3513 — Precision Farming Data 1 credits · 1 hours Cropping systems data in precision agriculture. On-farm input/output record keeping, profit analysis using commercial software. On-farm trials/testing of agronomic variables using precision agriculture technologies. Recommended prereq: ASM 3360, ASM 3365, NATR 2630 --- # ASM3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major, not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # BIOL1000 — Biology and Society 4 credits · 4 hours Introductory course that explores how scientific concepts may impact an individual's daily life. Topics: how energy is transformed/transported; role of photosynthesis and respiration in global climate change; genetic inheritance; evolution by natural selection; role of environmental factors in shaping global societal development; and sustainability. Lab. Recommended prereq: high school science courses --- # BIOL1009 — General Biology 4 credits · 4 hours Major concepts of modern biology. Molecular structure of living things. Energy recruitment/utilization. Flow of genetic information through organisms/populations. Principles of inheritance, ecology, and evolution. Lab. Recommended prereq: High school science courses --- # BIOL1009H — Honors: General Biology 4 credits · 4 hours Quantitative methods used to emphasize the dynamic nature of biology. Modern biology. Molecular structure of living things, energy recruitment/utilization, flow of genetic information through organisms/populations. Principles of inheritance, ecology, and evolution. Includes lab. prereq: High school chemistry or consent of instructor --- # BIOL1803 — Directed Studies for Biol Sci 1 credits · 1 hours Participation in research for talented undergraduates with fewer than 30 credits. Enforced prereq: instructor permission --- # BIOL2012 — General Zoology 4 credits · 4 hours Major animal groups (phyla). Applications of morphological, physiological, and developmental characteristics to define evolutionary relationships. Parasitic forms affecting human welfare. Lab requires dissection, including mammals. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # BIOL2020 — Plant Anatomy and Physiology 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of plant anatomy and physiology with particular attention paid to angiosperms and their basic structure and function. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # BIOL2021 — Plant Diversity/Ecology/Evol 3 credits · 3 hours Will provide students an overview of the entire plant kingdom, their ecology, and evolution. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # BIOL2022 — General Botany 3 credits · 3 hours Principles of plant biology. Organization, function, growth/development, and reproductive biology of plants and plant-like organisms. Lab included. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 or BIOL 1009H --- # BIOL2032 — General Microbiology 4 credits · 4 hours Fundamental principles of microbiology. Bacterial metabolism, growth, and genetics. Biology of viruses/fungi. Microorganisms and disease. Applied microbiology. Lab. Recommended prereq: [Biol 1009 or 1009H or BIOL 2103], and [Chem 1001 or [CHEM 1061 and CHEM 1065]] --- # BIOL2103 — Human Anatomy & Physiology I 4 credits · 4 hours Systems approach to anatomical structures and physiological functions of human body. Key concepts at chemical, cellular, tissue, and organ levels. Emphasizes spacial relationships of structures and their related functions within integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # BIOL2104 — Human Anatomy & Physiology II 4 credits · 4 hours Systems approach to anatomical structures and physiological functions of human body. Emphasizes spacial relationships of structures and their related functions within circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory, and digestive systems. Metabolism, nutrition, urinary/reproductive systems, human development. Genetics concepts. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # BIOL2251 — Scientific Writing I 1 credits · 1 hours Introduces the fundamentals of effective scientific writing. Recommended prereq: COMP 1013 (or equivalent) --- # BIOL2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # BIOL3022 — Principles of Genetics 3 credits · 3 hours Basic principles of Mendelian, molecular, and population genetics. Computer simulations/models used to study aberrations and their implications. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009, [[CHEM 1061 and CHEM 1065] or CHEM1401], [MATH 1031 or MATH1150] --- # BIOL3027 — Cell Biology 3 credits · 3 hours Structure/function of prokaryotic/eukaryotic cells, including cell surface, membranes, organelles, cytoskeleton, cell growth, cell physiology, experimental methods used in cell studies. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009, CHEM 1061 --- # BIOL3122 — Evolution 3 credits · 3 hours Origin, history, opposition, and evidence supporting evolutionary ideas. Origin of life, phylogeny, biological history, mechanisms of evolutionary change, population genetics, speciation, tempo of evolution, macroevolution, extinction, biogeography. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 --- # BIOL3131 — Plant Physiology 3 credits · 3 hours Plant functions with emphasis on higher plants. Growth and development, mineral nutrition, translocation, water relations, photosynthesis, and nitrogen metabolism. Lab. prereq: 2022, Chem 1401 --- # BIOL3140 — Histology 4 credits · 4 hours Microscopic examination of morphological characteristics of human tissues, organs, and blood cells. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2104 or BIOL 3027 or consent of instructor --- # BIOL3251 — Journal Club 1 credits · 1 hours Students will critically evaluate primary literature and present succinct summaries of the rationale, methodology, and conclusions to peers and faculty. prereq: BIOL 2251 --- # BIOL3420 — Ecotoxicology 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of ecotoxicology ranging from molecular to global issues. Major classes of contaminants, bioaccumulation, toxic effects, and risks. Lab. Recommended prereq: CHEM 1001 --- # BIOL3464 — Mammalogy 3 credits · 3 hours Classification, reproduction, physiology, behavior, ecological adaptations, zoogeography of mammals. Emphasizes techniques used in field/laboratory studies. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2012 --- # BIOL3466 — Ornithology 3 credits · 3 hours Classification, reproduction, physiology, behavior, ecological adaptations, zoogeography of birds. Emphasizes techniques used in field/laboratory studies. Lab. Recommended prereq: Biol 2012, NATR 3374 --- # BIOL3468 — Bioinformatics 3 credits · 3 hours Provides theoretical background and working knowledge of bioinformatics. prereq: 3022, SE 2050 --- # BIOL3496 — Special Topics in Biology 1 credits · 1 hours Topics cover contemporary issues in biology. Recent/significant primary literature. Critical thinking/evaluation. Application to issues in biological research. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 or BIOL 1009H --- # BIOL3520 — Exercise Physiology 4 credits · 4 hours This course will educate students on the interrelationships between energy intake, energy transfer, and energy expenditure during exercise as well as the physiological systems that support and sustain energy transfer. Students will learn how the body responds under acute exercise conditions and physiological adaptations as a result of chronic exercise. --- # BIOL3722 — Limnology 3 credits · 3 hours Description/analysis of events in lakes, streams, and ponds, beginning with their origins and progressing through their physics, chemistry, and biology. These parameters interrelated with population of aquatic environment. Lab. prereq: Biol 2022, Chem 1001, Phys 1012, Math 1031 or 1131 or 1150 --- # BIOL3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # BIOL3822 — Techniques in Molecular Biol 4 credits · 4 hours Basic recombinant DNA techniques. Methods for growing, isolating, and purifying recombinant DNA and cloning vectors. DNA sequencing, sequence analysis. Gene expression. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Other current techniques. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2032, BIOL 3022, [CHEM 3021 or concurrent registration in CHEM 3021] --- # BIOL3899 — Pre-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Expectations/responsibilities of internship. Preparing for graduate school application/job search. Presentations about internship experiences by those who have recently completed 3900 (internship). Discussions between students, staff, and invited guests. --- # BIOL3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Credit given for professional work experience outside an academic department. Enforced prereq: department approval, consent of instructor Recommended prereq: 3899 --- # BIOL3901 — Post-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Students who have recently completed internships prepare/deliver PowerPoint presentation on experience. Discussions between post-/pre-internship students, staff, and invited guests. Recommended prereq: BIOL 3900 --- # BIOL3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: Instructor's consent --- # BIOL4101 — Biology Seminar 1 credits · 1 hours Survey of current literature. Preparation/presentation of selected topics. Evaluation of seminars. Utilizing contemporary research/presentation technologies. Recommended prereq: Sr --- # BIOL4251 — Scientific Writing II 1 credits · 1 hours Writing and revising scientific manuscripts for publication as well as writing grants to funding agencies. prereq: BIOL 3251 --- # BIOL4361 — Developmental Biology 4 credits · 4 hours Molecular/cellular mechanisms of development. Emphasizes animal systems. Cell cycle, gametogenesis, fertilization, morphogenetic movements, cytodifferentiation, cell interactions, pattern formation, gene expression, organogenesis, metamorphosis, regeneration and aging. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 3022, BIOL 3027 --- # BM3000 — Manufacturing Processes 3 credits · 3 hours Students are introduced to various concepts and manufacturing processes. Review the fundamental properties of materials. Understand the tools and gauges that may be used for measuring and quality inspection. --- # BM3005 — Facilities Planning/Selection 3 credits · 3 hours Facilities planning through layout design. Product flow, space-activity relationships, personnel requirements, and material handling are considered, as well as receiving, shipping, warehousing, and integration with manufacturing. --- # BM3006 — Maintenance and Safety Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of maintenance and its importance in material and energy conservation, inventory control, productivity, safety, and pollution control etc. Safety regulations, pollution problems, human reliability, total quality management, total productivity maintenance. Recommended prereq: MATH 1150 --- # BM3007 — Metrology 3 credits · 3 hours Instrument calibration, reading engineering standards, precision measurement, geometric dimensioning/tolerancing, graphical inspection analysis, measuring tools, surface plate inspection methods. --- # BM3008 — Sustainability and Compliance 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to strategies used by businesses to achieve/maintain compliance with environmental laws/sustainability goals. Focus upon environmental due diligence, value of environmental auditing to identify compliance/sustainability issues in operations, and leveraging it to secure a competitive advantage in a marketplace. --- # BM3025 — Lean Manufacturing 4 credits · 4 hours Current lean methodologies, philosophies, and techniques relevant to manufacturing, operations, quality, service, and productivity. Six sigma framework, Kanban, 5S, Lean analytics, Kaizen, etc. will be studied to give students various tools and techniques to apply in relevant manufacturing situations. Recommended prereq: MATH 1150 --- # BM3034 — Applied Quality 3 credits · 3 hours Quality management concepts and definitions to explore Statistical Process Control (SPC) to diagnose, reduce, and eliminate causes of variation. Assist in process improvement, production control, production planning, and decision-making. SPC for variables and attributes are explored. Recommended prereq: MATH 1150 --- # BM3040 — Industrial Simulation 3 credits · 3 hours Work with technical tools and develop the skills required for problem solving and decision making within manufacturing. Decision making and scheduling related to inventory, transportation, planning, and production. This course will focus heavily on PC-based spreadsheet simulations. --- # BM3053 — Product Development Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Study modern tools and methods for product design and development. Explore concepts relating to the product life cycle from conception to end. Examine new product introduction management concepts – project charter, team formation, risk identification, and mitigation strategies, key stakeholder engagement, project scope, procurement, prototyping, and more. --- # BM3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # BM3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Supervised professional work experience in manufacturing plant situations. Reports/consultations with faculty advisers/employers. Recommended prereq: Jr --- # CA1012 — Application Suite Software 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics. --- # CA1020 — Spreadsheet Applications 3 credits · 3 hours Personal/presentation use of spreadsheets that include formulas, functions, what-if analysis, and charts. Focuses on applying spreadsheet applications to individual academic disciplines. --- # CA1030 — Multimedia Applications 3 credits · 3 hours Developing advanced graphics, animation, and audio/video materials for personal/professional presentations. --- # CA1040 — Web Site Development 3 credits · 3 hours Web site design. current HTML, scripting, graphics, Web services, user interface design. --- # CA2190 — Topics in Computer Applicatns 1 credits · 1 hours Topics related to advanced computer application certification, such as MOS, IC3, COmp TIA, Linux, and Oracle. --- # CHEM992 — Basic Chemistry 0 credits · 0 hours Measurements, metric system. Atomic/molecular structure, nomenclature, balancing chemical equations. prereq: [3 cr equiv]; High school algebra --- # CHEM1000 — Chemistry in Context 4 credits · 4 hours Explores underlying chemical concepts affecting everyday life and major global concerns such as climate change, energy storage, polymers, plastics, nutrition, water, health and medicine. prereq: high school algebra --- # CHEM1001 — Introductory Chemistry 4 credits · 4 hours For students who do not need professional-level general chemistry. Atomic and molecular structure, inorganic nomenclature, chemical equations, quantitative relationships, phases of matter, solution chemistry, chemical dynamics, acid/base chemistry, oxidation-reduction process. Recommended prereq: High school algebra, high school chem --- # CHEM1002 — Calc/Conversions in Chemistry 1 credits · 1 hours For students who need/desire to strengthen their skills in measurement, significant figures, units, mathematical calculations, mathematical conversions using the unit dimensional analysis process, and other problem-solving applications in chemistry. Recommended prereq: low score on skills test or elect to enroll; Recommended co-req: CHEM 1001 --- # CHEM1061 — Chemical Principles I 3 credits · 3 hours Concepts of inorganic chemistry, atomic theory/structure, periodicity of elements. Basic rules of oxidation/chemical combination. Molecular structure (hybridization, molecular orbitals). Thermochemistry, gases, solution process, colligative properties.Recommended prereq: CHEM 1001 --- # CHEM1062 — Chemical Principles II 3 credits · 3 hours Behavior of gases, thermodynamics, properties of solutions, solution equilibria, oxidation/reduction reactions. Rigorous course. Develops chemical foundations required in some agriculture, environmental, preprofessional programs. Enforced prereq: CHEM 1061 minimum C- grade, CHEM 1065 --- # CHEM1065 — Chemical Principles I Lab 1 credits · 1 hours Basic laboratory skills. Investigating physical/chemical phenomena associated with lecture material. Experimental design, data collection/treatment, discussion of errors, proper treatment of hazardous wastes. Recommended prereq: CHEM 1001 --- # CHEM1066 — Chemical Principles II Lab 1 credits · 1 hours Basic laboratory skills. Investigating physical/chemical phenomena associated with lecture material. Experimental design, data collection/treatment, discussion of errors, proper treatment of hazardous wastes. Enforced prereq: CHEM 1061 minimum C- grade, CHEM 1065 --- # CHEM1401 — Elem Bioorganic Chemistry 4 credits · 4 hours Organic chemistry as applied to important biochemical molecules. Enforced prereq: CHEM 1001 or [CHEM 1062 and 1066] --- # CHEM1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent --- # CHEM2301 — Organic Chemistry I 3 credits · 3 hours Important classes of organic compounds, their structures/reactions. Relation between structure, reactivity, and properties. Spectroscopic characterization of organic molecules. Recommended prereq: CHEM 1062, CHEM 1066 Recommended coreq: CHEM 2310 --- # CHEM2302 — Organic Chemistry II 3 credits · 3 hours Reactions, synthesis, and characterization of organic compounds and biologically significant classes of organic compounds (lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids). Enforced prereq: [Grade of at least C- in CHEM 2301 or consent of instructor] Recommended coreq: CHEM 2311 --- # CHEM2310 — Organic Chemistry Lab I 2 credits · 2 hours Laboratory techniques in synthesis, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Recommended coreq: CHEM 2301 --- # CHEM2311 — Organic Chemistry Lab II 2 credits · 2 hours Lab techniques in synthesis, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Recommended prereq: CHEM 2310 Recommended coreq: CHEM 2302 --- # CHEM2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Recommended prereq: CHEM 2301, CHEM 2310, Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # CHEM3021 — Biochemistry I 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of biochemistry. Structure/function of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates. Metabolism, regulation of metabolism. Quantitative treatments of chemistry equilibria, enzyme catalysis, and bioenergetics. Chemistry basis of genetic information. Recommended prereq: Grade of at least C- in [CHEM 2301 or consent of instructor], BIOL 1009 --- # CHEM3022 — Fate and Analysis of Chemicals 4 credits · 4 hours Fate and analysis of chemicals in single and multimedia systems. Use analytical tools and knowledge of chemistry to determine where chemicals will go in multimedia systems such as the environment and bodies of living organisms including humans. Recommended prereq: CHEM 2301, CHEM 2310 --- # CHEM3025 — Biochemistry I Laboratory 1 credits · 1 hours Contemporary biochemistry research techniques, hypothesis testing, and communication of results, which will cover studies of chemical equilibrium and pH, enzyme catalysis and kinetics, protein purification and analysis using chromatography and electrophoresis techniques, immunological techniques using ELISA and Western analysis, and cell culture techniques. Recommended prereq: CHEM 2301, BIOL 1009 --- # CHEM3994 — Undergrad Rsch in Chemistry 1 credits · 1 hours Laboratory techniques used in chemistry. Literature pertaining to the field. Students write proposals for UROP/UROC grants. Recommended prereq: CHEM 2301, CHEM 2310 --- # CHEM4021 — Biochemistry II 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced topics in protein, lipid, and nucleic acid metabolism: including the biochemistry of protein, lipid, and nucleic acids synthesis and degradation, and the biochemistry of replication, transcription, and translation. In addition, biochemistry/molecular biology topics of gene regulation, gene therapy, and recombinant DNA technology. prereq: 3021 or instructor consent --- # CHEM4025 — Biochemistry II Laboratory 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced look at contemporary biochemistry issues, which will utilize the techniques learned in the Chem 3025 to answer a proposed research hypothesis in areas of proteomics, translational research, or genomics. prereq: 3025 --- # COMM1101 — Public Speaking 3 credits · 3 hours Topic selection, research, organization, rehearsal, and extemporaneous delivery of informative and persuasive speeches. --- # COMM2000 — Introduction to Communication 1 credits · 1 hours Field/program of communication. Orientation to internships. --- # COMM2002 — Interpersonal Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamental concepts/skills of communication used in social/career contexts. Perception, listening, verbal/nonverbal, climate, and conflict. --- # COMM2004 — Intro to Sport Communication 3 credits · 3 hours An introduction to the study of sport communication examining various aspects of the field. Through theory and practical application the course covers topics such as public relations, news and social media, multimedia, broadcast production, and media writing in the context of sport communication. --- # COMM2110 — Communication Technlgy Trends 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to current/emerging industry standard software including design, presentation, and social media as used in organizations. --- # COMM2334 — Communication Topics 3 credits · 3 hours Applying the writing process to professional communication situations. Dissemination of products containing text/visuals meeting professional community standards. --- # COMM2711 — Multimedia Production 3 credits · 3 hours Explore fundamental principles of multimedia production in video, audio, graphics, and mobile technology. Apply strategies and approaches to storytelling and editing by developing content appropriate for a range of audiences and contexts. --- # COMM3000 — Communication Theory 3 credits · 3 hours Identifying, defining, synthesizing, applying, and critiquing communication theories. Focuses on the relationship between theory/practice within interpersonal, group, organizational, and social settings. --- # COMM3001 — Human Relationships/Leadership 3 credits · 3 hours Anti-relational/relational communication, interpersonal/group processes, conflict management, collaboration, team building, and leadership. --- # COMM3002 — Intercultural Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Interrelationship of cultures/co-cultures. Interpreting diverse communication styles. Cultural values, world views, philosophies, patterns, meanings. Communication strategies across cultures. --- # COMM3008 — Business Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Practical application of writing effective business letters, memos, e-mails, and faxes. Tables and other graphics. Informal/formal informational/analytical reports. Professional oral/web presentations. Development of personal writing style. Practice of appropriate business tone and etiquette. Recommended prereq: Comp 1013 or 6 credits of writing --- # COMM3100 — Research Fundamentals 3 credits · 3 hours Quantitative/Qualitative techniques for gathering, evaluating, and using information in applied settings. --- # COMM3431 — Persuasion 3 credits · 3 hours Persuasion in interpersonal, organizational, intra/inter-cultural relationships. Contemporary persuasion with historical segments. Argumentative claims, how to analyze/respond coherently to them. --- # COMM3537 — Visual Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Visual delivery of end-products in professional communication. Classical/contemporary theories of visual delivery. Designing visual delivery to reflect personal philosophy of communication. Integrating the visual delivery system with text to meet professional/client standards. --- # COMM3610 — Corporate Training 3 credits · 3 hours Using training models to create leader-led, self-study, and on-the-job instructor/participant training materials. Creating job aids. Implementing/evaluating training courses. --- # COMM3702 — Sport Broadcast Production 3 credits · 3 hours Learn the essential skills for broadcast from pre- to post-production in the sport industry, including live and recorded content. Apply principles and strategies to developing content for broadcast delivery. --- # COMM3704 — Business and Professional Spkg 3 credits · 3 hours Developing proficiency in communication/presentation skills in business contexts. Preparing, selecting, organizing, designing, and delivering oral messages in business situations. Meeting/group facilitation, interviewing, and professional presentations. --- # COMM3710 — Event Planning and Management 3 credits · 3 hours Using project management techniques to plan, market, implement, and evaluate small/large-scale events. --- # COMM3802 — Sport Media Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Develop the art and craft of writing used in the sport media industry appropriate for print, digital, and broadcast media. Practice in researching, interviewing, storytelling, and news release writing with the integration of ethical considerations. Apply Associated Press style. --- # COMM3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major, not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # COMM3855 — Topics in Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Current trends/practices in communication. Editing, training, event planning, political communication. Recommended prereq: Jr --- # COMM3857 — Technical Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Creating complex documents such as policies/procedures, manuals, instructions for clients. Team writing. Working with subject matter experts/technical topics. Usability testing/revision. Managing complex writing projects. Creating multiple documents as part of series. Recommended prereq: COMP 1013 --- # COMM3900 — Internship 3 credits · 3 hours Supervised professional work experience at selected sites. Reports/consultation with faculty adviser/employer. prereq: 12 cr of COMM courses --- # COMM4000 — News and Social Media Comm 3 credits · 3 hours Analyze traditional media/social media uses and strategies. Develop social media content. Write press releases using Associated Press (AP) style. Develop a comprehensive media/social plan. --- # COMM4007 — Political Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Theory of political ideology. Organizational politics/influences. Campaigns. Social movements. --- # COMM4704 — Organizational Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Using communication processes to create/maintain organizations (e.g., meetings, employee assimilation, interpersonal relationships, decision-making, leadership). Recognizing/identifying communication issues in organizations and applying organizational communication concepts, models, tools, and theories to resolve them. --- # COMM4800 — Crisis Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Organizational crises, disasters, emergencies. Existing academic literature, everyday media literature. Focuses on appropriate communication strategies, written composition, and delivery of speeches. --- # COMM4802 — Publication Design & Managemnt 3 credits · 3 hours Applying project management principles to manage publication from concept to final product. Design principles, desktop publishing software, audience analysis, usability testing, production. Using table presentations to communicate process, final product to clients/guests. --- # COMM4850 — Report Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Analyzing documents and conducting interviews to develop reports for assessment and other purposes. --- # COMM4900 — Public Relations 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of theory, practice, roles, and techniques in public relations within organizations. Writing news releases. Conducting news conferences, and planning/implementing events. Responding to challenging questions from audience members. Conducting public relations audit of the organization. --- # COMM4999 — Seminar in Communication 2 credits · 2 hours Synthesizes/integrates communication experience. Documents experiences through oral/written reports. Recommended prereq: Within 2 semesters of graduation --- # COMP1000 — College Writing Laboratory 1 credits · 1 hours Supplemental instruction in writing. Small group activities, individual conferencing. Recommended coreq: COMP 1011 --- # COMP1011 — Composition I 3 credits · 3 hours Process of clear, concrete, and convincing writing. Generation and discovery of subjects, revisions, and editing. --- # COMP1011H — Honors: Composition I 3 credits · 3 hours Process of clear, concrete and convincing writing. Generation and discovery of subjects, revisions, editing. prereq: Admittance in the Honors Program --- # COMP1013 — Composition II 3 credits · 3 hours Writing a research paper(s). Formulating/answering a research question. Developing an organizational/argument strategy for topic/audience. Supporting research question/argument with scholarly sources. Recommended prereq: COMP 1011 --- # COMP1013H — Honors: Composition II 3 credits · 3 hours Writing summaries, writing to synthesize material from several sources, evaluating readings and other materials, research writing prereq: [1011 or 1011H], admittance to Honors Program --- # CRJS1500 — Intro to Criminal Justice 4 credits · 4 hours Analysis of criminal justice system. Focuses on police, courts, corrections, and notion of justice in American society. --- # CRJS1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # CRJS2100 — Crime and Criminology 3 credits · 3 hours Legal definitions of criminal/delinquent behavior. Typologies of crime/criminals. Trends in reported distribution of crime/delinquency within population. Theoretical explanations. --- # CRJS2390 — Spec Topics in Crim Justice 1 credits · 1 hours Independent investigation of topics of special interest related to criminal justice. Topics vary to reflect contemporary criminal justice issues. --- # CRJS2400 — Introduction to Corrections 3 credits · 3 hours Penology. History, philosophy, programs, policies, problems associated with correctional practice. Topics include probation, prisons, jails, parole, community corrections, and alternative sanctions. Recommended prereq: CRJS 1500 --- # CRJS2500 — Introduction to Policing 3 credits · 3 hours Development of police in America, past, present, future. Institutional context of police activity. Bureaucratization of police. Professionalization, role of police. Police/community change. Recommended prereq: CRJS 1500 --- # CRJS2550 — Traffic Law 2 credits · 2 hours Motor vehicle/traffic code. Private/commercial vehicle regulations. Licensing regulations. --- # CRJS2560 — Emergency Medical Responder 3 credits · 3 hours Care for traumatic accidents, injuries, medical emergencies. Successful completion of course results in certification as emergency medical responder with Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board (EMSRB). --- # CRJS2600 — Public Servant Leadership 3 credits · 3 hours Identify important personal characteristics for success, importance of working and communicating in diverse cultural and socio-economic environments and intense situations, explore concepts of individual leadership. Recommended prereq: CRJS 1500 --- # CRJS2650 — Data Gather & Analysis for LE 3 credits · 3 hours Strategies and approaches to systematic evidence gathering and data analysis. Application of data analysis approaches to criminal justice problem solving. Data accuracy and reporting. Recommended prereq: CRJS 1500 --- # CRJS3350 — Criminal Justice Administratn 3 credits · 3 hours Application of leading administrative theories to problems of the criminal justice system. Bureaucratic nature of American criminal justice system as a complex organization. --- # CRJS3455 — Institutional Corrections 3 credits · 3 hours Function, structure, operation of American adult/juvenile correctional institutions. --- # CRJS3465 — Strategies Correctional Rehab 3 credits · 3 hours Treatment philosophies/strategies for supervision, parole, probation. Community-based correctional alternatives. Offender classification. Special offender groups. Treatment, custody, recidivism. Strategies to change offender conduct. Recommended prereq: CRJS 2400 --- # CRJS3475 — Community Corrections 3 credits · 3 hours Intervention strategies as alternatives to institutional corrections in sentencing adjudicated persons. Community corrections, parole, house arrest, restitution, community service. Development of intervention services in support of dispositions. --- # CRJS3505 — Judicial Process 3 credits · 3 hours Criminal justice judicial process. Judicial involvement from pre-arrest warrant issuance to appellate court review. Role/behavior of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges. Recommended prereq: CRJS 1500 --- # CRJS3515 — Criminal Justice Ethics 3 credits · 3 hours Ethical issues/dilemmas facing practitioners in criminal justice. Students' own ethical questions pertaining to area of interest. Development of solutions to dilemmas. --- # CRJS3520 — Natrl Resrc Law Enfrcmnt Tchnq 3 credits · 3 hours Methods, procedures, techniques in natural resource field law enforcement work. Natural resource case law. Applicable statutes pertaining to tenets of search/seizure, arrest, surveillance, court system. Recommended prereq: CRJS 1500, NATR 1233 --- # CRJS3525 — Juvenile Justice/Delinquency 3 credits · 3 hours Processing/treatment of juvenile offenders. Organization, operations, and goals of individuals, agencies, and institutions that work with offenders. --- # CRJS3530 — Criminal Justice Diversity 3 credits · 3 hours Dynamics of class, race, and gender as they intersect with crime/justice in the United States. How class, race, and gender separately/together influence the criminal justice system. Reforms to reduce bias in crime control. --- # CRJS3550 — Criminal Investigation 3 credits · 3 hours Rules of evidence in criminal investigation/court. Relevant issues, legal standards. Principles/techniques in criminal investigation procedures/surveillance. Recommended prereq: CRJS 2500 --- # CRJS3575 — Critical Issues in Policing 3 credits · 3 hours Function of law enforcement, roles of police in modern society. Police organizations/officers/work. Critical problems, policing strategies. Dealing with mentally disturbed. Police-minority/-community relations. Recommended prereq: CRJS 2500 --- # CRJS3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # CRJS3900 — Crim Just Field Plcmt (Intern) 3 credits · 3 hours Observation, participation, and study in selected criminal justice agencies. prereq: Instructor consent --- # CRJS4315 — Women and Crime 3 credits · 3 hours Historical/theoretical perspectives, contemporary trends concerning women and crime. Processing of women by criminal justice system. Women as criminal justice professionals. --- # CRJS4390 — Spec Topics in Crim Justice 1 credits · 1 hours Independent investigation of topics of special interest related to criminal justice. Topics vary to reflect contemporary criminal justice issues. --- # CRJS4435 — Theories of Punishment 3 credits · 3 hours Philosophical issues associated with criminal punishment. --- # CRJS4510 — Victimology 3 credits · 3 hours Criminological examination of victims. Victim reactions. Responses by criminal justice system/other societal agencies. --- # CRJS4540 — Criminal Law 4 credits · 4 hours Elements of criminal offenses in the United States/Minnesota. Crimes against persons/property. Administration of justice. Cases outline judicial interpretation of criminal law. --- # CRJS4550 — Criminal Procedure 4 credits · 4 hours Rights of criminally accused, primarily in pretrial stages. Bill of Rights. Constitutional law. Police procedures permissible within confines of federal/state constitutions. --- # ECE3410 — Lrning Envirn Infants/Toddler 4 credits · 4 hours Designing, organizing, and maintaining learning environment. Arrangement of physical setting, provision of materials, construction of curriculum, implementation of learning experiences. Assessment of child's learning and of teaching/learning environment. Field Experiences. prereq: 2100, Ed 3110, minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ECE3420 — Nurt/Coll Rel Infants/Toddlers 3 credits · 3 hours Understanding/applying practices to promote emotional/social development in infancy/toddlerhood. Principles of caregiving. Relationship to teaching/learning environment. Developmentally appropriate guidance, collaborative parent/staff relationships, respecting family/cultural values/experiences. prereq: 2100 --- # ECE3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major and not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # ECE4440 — Infant/Toddler Student Tchg 3 credits · 3 hours Students integrate theory/practice as member of teaching team. Portfolio-based student-teaching experience. Focuses on selected PELSB standards and teaching competencies. University approved classroom placement. prereq: 3410, 3420, 4750, 3901, minimum GPA of 2.50, achievement of passing scores on 2 of the 3 MTLE Basic Skills Tests --- # ECE4700 — Creat/Lang Arts: Preprimary 4 credits · 4 hours Theory/practice related to preprimary (preschool, kindergarten) education. Development related to learning environment, curriculum, and teaching methods. Developmentally appropriate approaches to subject matter in language arts, literacy, and expressive arts. Field experiences. prereq: 2100, 2300, ED 3110 or concurrent enrollment, minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ECE4702 — Math/Soc Sci/Sci: Preprimary 4 credits · 4 hours Theory/practice related to preprimary education (preschool, kindergarten). Development related to learning environment, curriculum, and teaching methods. Developmentally appropriate approaches to subject matter in mathematics and in physical/social sciences. prereq: 4700 --- # ECE4730 — Underst/Support Parenting 3 credits · 3 hours Parent-child relationships, adult development, family systems theory, parental authority, child compliance, developmental interaction during child rearing years. Parenting in diverse family configurations, in diverse cultures/lifestyles, and in high-risk families. Emphasizes knowledge of research for application. prereq: 2300, 3420, concurrent enrollment in Ed 3110, minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ECE4811 — Preschool Student Teaching 5 credits · 5 hours Integrate theory/practice as member of teaching team. Portfolio-based student-teaching experience. Focuses on selected PELSB standards and teaching competencies. University approved classroom placement in preschool setting. prereq: 3901, 4702, 4750, ED 3110, minimum GPA of 2.50, achievement of passing scores on 2 of the 3 Basic Skills Tests required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching --- # ECE4812 — Kindergarten Student Teaching 4 credits · 4 hours Integrate theory/practice as member of teaching team. Portfolio-based student-teaching experience. Focuses on selected BOT competencies/indicators. University approved classroom placement in kindergarten classroom. prereq: 3901, 4702, 4750, Ed 3110, minimum GPA of 2.5, achievement of passing scores on 2 of the 3 Basic Skills Tests required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching --- # ECE4883 — Student Exper in Program Mgmt 3.5 credits · 3.5 hours Integrate theory/practice as member of management team. Portfolio based capstone focusing on manager/director competencies articulated by national/state organizations. University approved placement in early childhood program serving children 6 weeks to 8 years of age. prereq: 4880 --- # ECON1010 — Global Trade Economics 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of ecological/demographic/economic factors influencing current agricultural, industrial, and environmental development issues. --- # ECON1111 — Personal Finance 3 credits · 3 hours Strategies, techniques, resources for managing/planning personal finances. Budgeting, investments, housing, insurance, taxation. Credit. Job selection, planning for retirement, installment buying. --- # ECON2101 — Microeconomics 3 credits · 3 hours Basic economic principles of pricing, resource allocation, and consumption. Supply/demand, cost of production, consumer behavior. Competition/influences of market structure. Recommended prereq: Math 0991 or 2 yrs high school algebra or equiv --- # ECON2102 — Macroeconomics 3 credits · 3 hours Big picture of economy. Determinants of national income, national income accounting, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth. Classical, Keynesian, recent theoretical approaches to modifying economic activity. Monetary/fiscal policies. International economic relations. --- # ED2000 — Technology in K-12 Classrooms 3 credits · 3 hours Use of current technology applicable to K-12 classroom settings; integration of technology in support of student learning and instruction; appropriate use and ethical issues surrounding use of technology in education. prereq: Minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ED2100 — Child/Adolescent Dev/Learning 3 credits · 3 hours Study of principles and major theories of development from birth through adolescence. Age trends, individual/group differences, factors which affect development/learning. Evidence-based applications. --- # ED2200 — Foundations of Education 3 credits · 3 hours Roles, responsibilities, duties, functions, routines, requirements of public school teachers. Historical, social, political foundations of public education. Role of education in a pluralistic society. Issues affecting education in American public schools. Recommended prereq: Minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ED2300 — Intro Early Childhd/Elem Educ 3 credits · 3 hours Historical, philosophical, sociological foundations of early childhood/elementary education. How foundations influence current thought, practice, instruction in classroom. Current issues that affect children, families, programs, schools, profession. Field experience. prereq: Minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ED2400 — Intro Middle/HS Ed/Exp Lrng 3 credits · 3 hours Pedagogy related to uniqueness of early/late adolescent education; utilization of media/technology to enrich learning applications for middle/high school education; core principles/theories of experiential learning. Recommended prereq: ED 2200 --- # ED2860 — Math for Elementary Teaching 2 credits · 2 hours Mathematics content matter for elementary school teaching. Five strands. Number and operation, algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis, and probability. Recommended prereq: ED 2200, minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ED2877 — Social Studies in Elem Educ 2 credits · 2 hours Concepts/tools for teaching social studies as inquiry through a constructivist approach. prereq: GPA of at least 2.50 --- # ED2878 — Science in Elementary Educ 2 credits · 2 hours Concepts/tools for teaching science as inquiry through a constructivist approach. Recommended prereq: GPA of at least 2.50 --- # ED3001 — Persp Subst Use for Educators 1 credits · 1 hours Basic understanding of substance use and abuse through a bio-psycho-social perspective as it applies to K-12 learners and their families. Examine the dynamics of pharmacology, prevention, intervention, and treatment modalities, and community services. Meet MN State Statue 122A.66, Teacher Training, Effects of Drugs and Alcohol. --- # ED3009 — Human Relations in Diversity 2 credits · 2 hours Topics on biases, discrimination, prejudice, and personal and institutional oppression in terms of history, social, and educational contexts; create responsive learning environments that contribute to self-esteem and positive interpersonal relations. --- # ED3010 — Child Guidance/Classroom Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Theories, principles, and practices of child guidance and managing classrooms. Social/emotional competence of children/students. Peer relations and violence prevention. prereq: 2200, ECE 2100, GPA of at least 2.50 --- # ED3033 — Found of Work-Based Learning 2 credits · 2 hours This course covers the role of work-based learning and the opportunities it provides to students, including the development of workplace skills, career self-awareness, career development strategies, and knowledge about state and federal labor laws. Students will earn 10 practicum hours in this course. --- # ED3034 — Methods Teach Work-Based Learn 3 credits · 3 hours This course covers the knowledge and skills required to successfully conduct a work-based learning program in a secondary school setting. Topics include student needs and assessments, employability skills, stakeholder qualifications, instructional methods, training plans, communication, and problem-solving. Students will earn 20 practicum hours in this course. prereq: ED 3033, 2.50 GPA --- # ED3110 — Educational Psychology 3 credits · 3 hours Teaching/learning process: planning/effective instruction and behavioral/cognitive views. Emphasizes how learning is affected by development, individual differences, and motivation. Recommended prereq: ED 2100, 2200, minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ED3201 — Reading and Language Arts 4 credits · 4 hours Instructional principles, standards, practices, and curriculum materials for becoming an effective teacher of literacy in elementary classrooms. Assessment tools and practices to plan and evaluate effective reading instruction. prereq: 3110, 3301, ECE 4700, GPA of at least 2.50 --- # ED3202 — Writing and Language Arts 2 credits · 2 hours Writing foundation principles, standards, practices, and assessment tools for planning writing instruction and becoming an effective teacher of writing in elementary classrooms. prereq: 3201, 3301 --- # ED3210 — Reading in the Content Area 2 credits · 2 hours Designed to meet requirements of Minnesota statute requiring teachers receiving an initial license to have preparation in "scientifically-based reading instruction". Recommenced prereq: Minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ED3301 — Creating Meaning Thru Lit/Arts 4 credits · 4 hours Course in children's literature designed to prepare pre-service teachers to integrate literature, art, drama, dance/movement, and music throughout the curriculum from a constructivist view of learning. Field experiences. prereq: Minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ED3500 — Intro to Special Education 2 credits · 2 hours Overview of special education public laws/processes of identifying students with disabilities. Introduction of children with low/high incidence disabilities/giftedness. Definitions, causes, characteristics, education implications. IFSP/IEP. prereq: 2.5 cum GPA --- # ED3600 — Classrm Mgt Middle/HS Settings 3 credits · 3 hours Managing students' learning and the classroom environment in work/community/family education programs. Strategies for middle/high school education including supervised internship/teaching experiences. prereq: 2400 --- # ED3800 — Elem Educ Classrm Experiences 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Directed field experiences in elementary classrooms implementing curriculum lessons. Taken for two semesters concurrently with curriculum courses. prereq: GPA of at least 2.50, adviser consent --- # ED3870 — Tchg Math in Elementary Educ 3 credits · 3 hours Facilitating the learning of mathematics in a constructivist environment through the use of investigations, manipulatives, technology, and holistic forms of assessment. Current trends, documents created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. prereq: 3110, 2860, concurrent enrollment in ECE 4702, GPA of at least 2.50 --- # ED3901 — The Professional Teacher I 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Role of student teacher in planning for full-time teaching. Orientation to student teaching handbook with related assignments. Development of standards based student teaching notebook. prereq: GPA of at least 2.50 --- # ED3902 — The Professional Teacher II 1 credits · 1 hours Completion/evaluation of professional standards-based portfolio, teacher licensure application. Taken concurrently with last student teaching experience. prereq: 3901 --- # ED3904 — Teacher Education Topics 1 credits · 1 hours Investigation/application/assessment of specific competencies which have been added/required for teacher candidates by licensing authorities. Recommended prereq: 2.5 cum GPA --- # ED3994 — Undergraduate Research in Educ 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced research experience that results in the completion of conference worthy and/or publication worthy text. Recommended prereq: minimum cum GPA of 2.5 --- # ED4400 — Tchg Grds 5-12 Stud Inclu Env 2 credits · 2 hours Addresses key aspects of developing, teaching/learning in inclusive settings. Topics on universal design learning (UDL), accommodation, modification/adaptation for students with mild, moderate, severe disabilities. Field experiences required. prereq: 3500 --- # ED4500 — Tchg in Inclusive Lrng Envrmt 2 credits · 2 hours Addresses key aspects of developing/teaching/learning in inclusive settings. Topics include early intervention techniques, universal design, strategies in accommodation, modification/adaptations for students with mild, moderate, severe disabilities. Field experiences required. prereq: 3201, 3500, ECE 3410, 4700, minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ED4600 — Stud. Teach: Work-Based Learn 1 credits · 1 hours Students teach in public school classroom with guidance/supervision by University supervisors and cooperating classroom teachers. Focus is on achievement of selected PELSB standards. prereq: Senior standing and 2.50 GPA or greater or advisor approval. --- # ED4750 — Family, School, Cmnty Relation 3 credits · 3 hours Emphasizes family involvement as essential to successful education. Patterns in family-school relations, trends, problems that inhibit parent involvement. Strategies for productive family involvement. Community/cultural considerations. prereq: 4730, minimum GPA of 2.5 --- # ED4800 — Senior Professional Seminar 1 credits · 1 hours Orientation to the student teaching internship. Reflective learning on teacher preparation experience including issues/challenges facing the profession. Professional issues will be addressed including licensure, portfolios, Teacher Performance Assessment, teaching code of ethics. Taken concurrently with the teaching internship. prereq: Sr status or instructor approval --- # ED4827 — Elementary Student Teaching 7 credits · 7 hours Students teach in public school classroom with guidance/supervision by University supervisors/cooperating classroom teachers. Focuses on achievement of selected Board of Teaching standards. prereq: Sr status, advisor approval, achievement of passing scores on 2 of the 3 Basic Skills Tests required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching --- # ENED2001 — Early Expernc Comm Arts & Lit 1 credits · 1 hours Field experiences in grades 5-12 schools offering English education. prereq: minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ENED3004 — Methods of Tchg Comm Arts/Lit 4 credits · 4 hours Principles of teaching/learning; teaching resources; instructional planning, implementation and assessments. prereq: Ed 3110, minimum GPA of 2.50 --- # ENED4800 — Student Teaching: Middle Schl 3 credits · 3 hours Student teach in schools offering English education with guidance/supervision by University supervisor/cooperating teachers. Focuses on achievement of selected PELSB standards. prereq: Senior status; advisor approval; achievement of passing scores on 2 of the 3 Basic Skills Tests. --- # ENED4900 — Student Teaching: High School 8 credits · 8 hours Student teach in schools offering English education with guidance/supervision by University supervisor/cooperating teachers. Focuses on achievement of selected PELSB standards. prereq: Senior status; advisor approval; achievement of passing scores on 2 of the 3 Basic Skills Tests --- # ENGL1005 — Intro to World Literature 3 credits · 3 hours Major forms of literature from various cultures/historical periods. Developing informed, personal responses to literature/interpretive skills required for appreciation of literature. --- # ENGL1016 — Am Lit: Race, Gender, Class 3 credits · 3 hours American literature from Puritans to present. Develop informed, personal response. Major concerns of American writers in different eras. Introduction to interpretative skills required for appreciation of literature. --- # ENGL1017 — British Literature 3 credits · 3 hours British literature from classic to present. Develop informed, personal responses to literature. Major concerns of British writers in different eras. Interpretative skills required for appreciation of literature. --- # ENGL1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # ENGL2000 — Topics in Literature 3 credits · 3 hours Changing focus on genres, cultures, literary topics, eras. Interpretive/writing skills required with focalized intent. Topic titles could include women/literature, war/literature, Modernism, Chinese literture, etc. --- # ENGL2001 — Intro to the Field of English 1 credits · 1 hours Allows emerging English majors to learn of the various professions within the field of English in order to plan elective focus within major, double major/minor options, and internship. --- # ENGL3001 — World Culture and Literature 3 credits · 3 hours Representative works from various cultures from around the globe. Relevant historical contexts/social movements. Intensified interpretive skills for appreciation of diverse genres. --- # ENGL3005 — Ancient to 17th Cent World Lit 3 credits · 3 hours Major forms of literature from ancient/medieval periods to Renaissance. Global focus of relevant historical, cultural, philosophical movements. Intensified interpretive/articulation skills for appreciation of literary evolution. --- # ENGL3006 — 18th Cent to Contemp World Lit 3 credits · 3 hours Major forms of literature from romanticism, realism, modernism, contemporary eras. Global focus of relevant historical, cultural, philosophical movements. Intensified interpretive/articulation skills for appreciation of literary evolution. --- # ENGL3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # ENGL4000 — Intercultural Literature 3 credits · 3 hours Study of literature on minority populations in the United States and globally, with an emphasis on cultural and historical contexts that influence literature. --- # ENGL4007 — Advanced Topics in Literature 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced focus on literary themes/topics. Intensified articulation/interpretive skills required. Topic titles could include Dramatic Literature/Film, Crime/Crisis Literature, etc. --- # ENSC2055 — Hazardous Waste Worker Trng 3 credits · 3 hours History of chemical emergency response laws and regulations, hazard assessments, fire and explosions, oxidizers, ionizing radiation, environmental stresses and hazards, site characterization, air monitoring, protective clothing and respiratory protection, site control, decontamination, and site emergencies will be covered. --- # ENSC2056 — Hazrd Wste Wrkr Trng Refresher 1 credits · 1 hours Annual refresher training of hazardous waste worker training. prereq: 2055 --- # ENSC2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # ENSC3003 — Sustainable YoU, Sustain World 3 credits · 3 hours Sustainability exists where social equity, environmental integrity, and economic prosperity intersect. We will approach sustainability using multiple lenses of understanding to enable students to become more informed about how to become sustainable students, members of the University community, and citizens of the world. --- # ENSC3124 — Env Sci/Remediation Technq 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced understanding of environmental science. Issues surrounding ecosystem management, risk assessment, sustainable energy, water quality, and air quality. Remediation techniques (traditional/nontraditional), environmental laws. --- # ENSC3496 — Spec Topics Environmental Sci 1 credits · 1 hours Topics cover contemporary issues in environmental sciences. Recent/significant primary literature. Critical thinking/evaluation. Application to research issues in environmental sciences. --- # ENSC3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics in environmental sciences not covered by the program courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # ENSC3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # ENTR2200 — Intro Entrepreneurship/Sm Bus 3 credits · 3 hours Entrepreneurship/economy. Traits/skills of entrepreneurs, opportunities in entrepreneurship, legal forms of business establishment, self-analysis/fitness for entrepreneurship. --- # ENTR3150 — Entrepreneurial Marketing 3 credits · 3 hours Marketing strategies/tactics in start-up/small venture settings. Development of resource-constrained market plans. Recommended prereq: ENTR 2200, MKTG 3300 --- # ENTR3200 — Business Planning 3 credits · 3 hours Business start-up/development phase. Planning related to opportunity recognition, product development, marketing, and financing. Students research/write a basic business plan. Recommended prereq: ENTR 2200, ACCT 2101 --- # ENTR3400 — Entrepreneurial/Sm Bus Finance 3 credits · 3 hours Start-up/expansion financing alternatives, requirements for economic development groups. SBA loan guarantees, venture capitalists, small business valuation techniques, and financial management practices. Recommended prereq: ENTR 2200, ACCT 2101, [ACCT 2102 or instructor consent] --- # ENTR4200 — Field Studies in Entrep/Sm Bus 3 credits · 3 hours Consult with local small business or entrepreneurs to solve problems or capitalize on new opportunities. Guest speakers provide insight on philosophies/practices. Recommended prereq: ENTR 3200, ENTR 3400 --- # ENTR4800 — Entrepren/Small Bus Strategies 3 credits · 3 hours Capstone course. Prepare/present a comprehensive business plan for an entrepreneurial venture, including comprehensive financials, marketing plan, business formation/management plan, and growth strategy. Recommended prereq: ENTR 3200, ENTR 3400 --- # EQSC1000 — Light Horse Driving 2 credits · 2 hours Types of driving vehicles and harness, including fine harness, heavy harness, and competitive driving. Hitching/driving the fine harness horse. Techniques for training the fine harness horse to drive. Negotiating obstacles while driving. --- # EQSC1002 — Equine Careers/Husbandry Pract 1 credits · 1 hours Introduce students to the technical knowledge and practical experience that is needed to be successful in the equine industry and to explore opportunities for career paths within the industry. --- # EQSC1100 — Western Equitation 3 credits · 3 hours Grooming, handling, safety, identification of equipment, saddling, mounting, correct body position (equitation), cues and their proper use, and various riding techniques. The focus is on the development of proper equitation skills and techniques that are used for riding and showing. --- # EQSC1200 — Hunt Seat/Dressage Equitation 3 credits · 3 hours Developing hunt seat skills and techniques, including how to ride a course of jumps. Techniques of "centered riding" will be taught and used. Basic dressage maneuvers and riding lower-level dressage tests. --- # EQSC1202 — Equine Evaluation 2 credits · 2 hours Conformation, breed characteristics, and type and their importance in evaluation. Performance evaluation, criteria, and scoring methods. Preparation and delivery of oral reasons. --- # EQSC1300 — Saddle Seat Equitation 2 credits · 2 hours Saddling, mounting, seat/hands, other saddle seat techniques. Developing equitation skills for saddle seat riding/showing. Recommended prereq: EQSC 1100 or EQSC 1200 or instructor consent --- # EQSC1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # EQSC2001 — Concepts in Dressage Equitatn 3 credits · 3 hours Developing a balanced, classical seat for riding. Dressage techniques, riding a test, collection, advanced maneuvers. Refining skills to develop a supple, obedient horse. Recommended prereq: EQSC 1200 or instructor consent --- # EQSC2102 — Horse Production 4 credits · 4 hours The purpose of this course is to provide students with an awareness of the scope of the equine industry and the fundamentals of horse knowledge and care, including identification, anatomy, nutrition, behavior, diseases, parasite control, hoof care, first aid, reproduction, and general health care. The hands-on portion of this course will aid in developing basic ground handling skills with weanling horses. Recommended prereq: ANSC 1004 --- # EQSC2110 — Topics in Farrier Science 1 credits · 1 hours The fundamentals of trimming work, anatomy (particularly of limbs), identifying lameness, common hoof ailments, first aid for the hoof, and history of horseshoeing. prereq: 1202 --- # EQSC2112 — Riding Instructor Training 3 credits · 3 hours Formulating lesson plans. Teaching methods for individuals or group. Safety, insurance, liability, management. Student's teaching methods are evaluated. Enforced prereq: EQSC 1000 or EQSC 1100 or EQSC 1200 or EQSC 2001 --- # EQSC2202 — Advanced Equine Evaluation 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced study of conformation/performance in the horse. Selection of horses of different breeds based on conformation, breed character, and movement. Emphasis will be placed on developing a knowledge of industry standards across a variety of disciplines to give the student a solid base for judging horse shows. Recommended prereq: EQSC 1202 or instructor consent --- # EQSC3023 — Equine Genetics 3 credits · 3 hours This course is designed to provide a background in the evolution and the genetic changes that occur within equine. This course also focuses on the fundamentals of basic genetics and inheritance while also delving into more advanced topics in both molecular and quantitative genetic topics in equine. Recommended Prereq: ANSC 1004, BIOL 1009, EQSC 2102 --- # EQSC3104 — Equine Nutrition and Feeding 3 credits · 3 hours This course focuses on feeding programs for broodmares, growing horses, performance horses, and horses with special needs. Classroom activities and assignments will integrate the science of nutrition with practical horse management. Topics covered will include unique aspects of the equine digestive tract, digestion of feedstuffs, feed selection, nutrient requirements, ration balancing, feeding management, treatment and prevention of feeding-related disorders. --- # EQSC3305 — Equine Reproductive Techniques 3 credits · 3 hours Breeding management practices/techniques. Gestation, fetal development, endocrinology, estrus manipulation, artificial insemination, embryo transfer, cooled and cryopreservation of semen, teasing, and foaling. Lab emphasizes skills required in equine industry. Lecture emphasizes reproductive theory. Enforced prereq: EQSC 2102 Recommended prereq: ANSC 3203 --- # EQSC3403 — Equine Exercise Physiology 3 credits · 3 hours Skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, and regulatory systems of the horse. Effect of work-related stress (mental and physical) using physiological measures and how the systems relate to one another; how various types of conditioning can affect the systems separately and as a whole. Enforced prereq: EQSC 2102 Recommended prereq: ANSC 3203 --- # EQSC3413 — Horse Training and Showing 3 credits · 3 hours Work with untrained young horse or older show horse to correct problems or maintain the horse. Recommended prereq: 6 crs of equitation courses [from EQSC 1100, EQSC 1200, EQSC 1300, EQSC 3441, EQSC 3442, EQSC3443] --- # EQSC3441 — Topics in Adv West Equitation 3 credits · 3 hours Experience in reining maneuvers. Students refine skills. Recommended prereq: EQSC 1100 or instructor consent --- # EQSC3443 — Topics: Adv Equit Over Fences 3 credits · 3 hours Experience in riding more challenging course of jumps. prereq: 1200 or instructor consent --- # EQSC3495 — Current Topics Equine Science 1 credits · 1 hours Additional coverage of special topics in the equine industry. --- # EQSC3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # EQSC4102 — Equine Management 3 credits · 3 hours This course prepares students with the knowledge and skills to successfully manage modern equine operations including career readiness, drafting job documents, and participating in mock interviews; the fundamentals of managing an equine operation including record keeping, farm/barn layout and design, marketing, and legal aspects; and a community-engaged capstone project working with equine industry partners. --- # ESL101 — High-Beginning English Grammar 0 credits · 0 hours Review/practice. Simple tenses (present, past, future). Present perfect, present progressive, interrogative, negative formation. Modal verbs, frequency adverbs. Pronouns, noun phrase formation. Comparatives/superlatives. prereq: IBT score of at least 32 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL111 — High-Beginning ESL Spkg/Listen 0 credits · 0 hours Basic pronunciation and listening comprehension, from phonemic level toward short-conversation level. Bottom-up (phonemic, sentential) and top-down (situational, functional-notional, topical) approaches. prereq: IBT score of at least 32 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL121 — High-Beginning ESL Writing 0 credits · 0 hours Sentence composition, paragraph development. Sentence/paragraph structures, topic sentence, supporting/concluding sentences. types of paragraphs (definition, descriptive, opinion, narrative, etc.). prereq: IBT score of at least 32 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL131 — High-Beginning ESL Rdg/Vocab 0 credits · 0 hours Sentence/paragraph reading comprehension, active vocabulary building through contexts. Analysis of sentence structures. Identification of topic, main idea, and supporting details. Unity/coherence through transitions, words, and ideas. prereq: IBT score of at least 32 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL201 — Intermediate English Grammar 0 credits · 0 hours Review/practice. Simple tenses, aspects. Dependent clauses, passivization, comparatives/superlatives, infinitives/gerunds, noun phrase structures, and participial phrases. Recommended prereq: 101 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL211 — Intermediate ESL Spkg/Listen 0 credits · 0 hours Communicative practice of tenses/modals. Pronunciation rules (e.g., linking, contractions, intonation). Comprehension of and discussion about long conversations and short lectures. Structural/functional aspects of English. Recommended prereq: ESL 111 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL221 — Intermediate ESL Writing 0 credits · 0 hours Paragraph development, short essay writing. Punctuations rules. Introductory paragraphs (attention getter, topic sentence, guide). Concluding paragraphs (summary, evaluation, prediction). Short essays (compare/contrast, cause/effect, classification). Recommended prereq: ESL 121 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL231 — Interm ESL Reading/Vocabulary 0 credits · 0 hours Strategic reading comprehension skills (e.g., finding main ideas, supporting materials, making inferences, summarizing, using context) of short essays. Active vocabulary building through context/etymology. Recommended prereq: ESL 131 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL301 — High-Interm English Grammar 0 credits · 0 hours Dependent clauses and their reductions. Quantification of noun phrases. Unreal tenses/subjunctives. Causative/sensory verbs. Clausal/phrasal connections. Continues structures from 0201. Recommended prereq: 201 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL311 — High-Interm ESL Speak/Listen 0 credits · 0 hours Note-taking skills. Comprehension of long lectures. Practice of communicative skills necessary for debates, group discussions, and public presentations. Recommended prereq: 211 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL321 — High-Intermediate ESL Writing 0 credits · 0 hours Full essay writing. Coherence/unity. Process essays. Comparison/contrast essays. Cause/effect essays. Opinion/argumentative essays. Classification essays. Reactions essays. Recommended prereq: ESL 221 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL331 — High-Interm ESL Rdg/Vocabulary 0 credits · 0 hours Critical reading skills. Speed reading. Vocabulary building for academic disciplines. Practice in strategic reading comprehension skills. Recommended prereq: ESL 231 or permission of ESL coordinator --- # ESL391 — Special Topics 0 credits · 0 hours Topics to meet the needs and interests of non-native English speakers. --- # ESL392 — Special Topics 0 credits · 0 hours Topics to meet the needs and interests of non-native English speakers. --- # ESL393 — Special Topics 0 credits · 0 hours Topics to meet the needs and interests of non-native English speakers. --- # ESL394 — Special Topics 0 credits · 0 hours Topics to meet the needs and interests of non-native English speakers. --- # FIN1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # FIN3020 — International Financial Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours International financial markets with risks/benefits of international operations. Compare the operation of global companies with domestic companies regarding foreign exchange fluctuations, political risks, financial tools to address risks, capital budgeting, tax, working capital structure, investment decisions, company's valuation. --- # FIN3100 — Managerial Finance 3 credits · 3 hours Principle financial considerations/ratio analysis of business. Cost of capital, asset management, capital structure planning, financial statement analysis, working capital management, short-term financing, and budgeting. Integrates theory/applications. Recommended prereq: [ACCT 2102 or 3010], [ECON 2101, MATH 1031] or instructor consent --- # FIN3105 — Corporate Finance 3 credits · 3 hours How corporations/other business entities raise capital to finance business endeavors. Legal rules. Transactional/litigation-related aspects of corporate finance. Accounting/valuation. Institutions/players in financial markets. Recommended prereq: FIN 3100 --- # FIN3110 — Retirement and Estate Planning 3 credits · 3 hours Accumulation, conservation, and distribution of the client's acquired property. Estate planning techniques. Identification/use of appropriate forms of wills/trusts. Methods to reduce freezing or eliminating Unified Transfer Tax. Post-mortem planning practices. Retirement planning methods and techniques. Benefits and shortcomings of the various retirement methods. --- # FIN3115 — Insurance and Risk Management 3 credits · 3 hours Process for handling business risks. Property/liability risks, employee benefit planning, international loss exposures. Risk identification/evaluation. Risk control/financing techniques. --- # FIN3120 — Money, Financial Markets/Inst 3 credits · 3 hours Principles/roles of money, banking, financial system. Interest rate, monetary policies of central banks. Financial instruments, asset pricing, determination/behavior of interest rates/exchange rates. Management, structure regulation of banking system. --- # FIN3125 — Investments 3 credits · 3 hours Key concepts in investment theory from perspective of portfolio manager. Investment theory/problems. Current academic work/application for portfolio choice. Recommended prereq: FIN 3100 --- # FIN3126 — Financial Modeling/Valuation 3 credits · 3 hours This is a case and project-based course employing intermediate to advanced level Excel and quantitative methods. The cases/issues will be interdisciplinary. Students will become proficient at valuing existing assets, adding value to existing assets, and projecting value for future assets. Enforced prereq: ACCT 2101, FIN 3100 Recommended prereq: FIN 3105 --- # FIN3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # FIN3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Employed as interns in business firms, institution or agency. Reports/consultations with faculty/employers required. --- # FIN4800 — Financial Plan Development 3 credits · 3 hours This course integrates theory and practice to develop a comprehensive personal financial plan. Using case studies, students will address key areas such as debt management, risk management, investments, tax analysis, educational funding, retirement, and estate planning. Enforced prereq: ACCT 4404, ECON 1111, FIN 3020, FIN3100, FIN 3105, FIN 3110, FIN 3115, FIN 3120. Recommended prereq: FIN 3125, FIN 3126 --- # FOST3201 — Study Abroad (UMC) 1 credits · 1 hours Study abroad programs/courses approved by and offered through UMC. prereq: Approval of Learning Abroad Center --- # FOST3205 — Study Abroad (Outside Program) 1 credits · 1 hours Study abroad programs/courses reviewed by UMC but offered through an outside organization. prereq: Approval of Learning Abroad Center --- # GBUS1001 — Emerging Leaders Success Sem 2 credits · 2 hours An overview of the skills needed to be a successful and lifelong learner. Develop and foster a sense of community with peers, employers, and their community. --- # GBUS1005 — Orientation to Online Learning 1 credits · 1 hours Introduction to UMC policies, e-mail, virtual private network, online library resources, writing scholarly reports, APA referencing, netiquette, networking in online environment, group work in online environment. --- # GBUS1007 — DECA 1 credits · 1 hours Active participation in UMC DECA team. Students expected to demonstrate effective communication, teamwork, and leadership skills as they actively participate in DECA meetings, projects, and events. --- # GBUS1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # GBUS2000 — Global Studies in Business 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. Examine specified global business practices. May require international travel for one to three weeks, led by a faculty member. --- # GBUS2200 — Found of Business & Technology 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of the functional areas of business. Emphasis is placed on basic economic principles, accounting and finance principles and financial statements, business ownership, business decision-making, management, marketing, business ethics and social responsibility. Students will explore relevant technologies used in today’s business environment. --- # GBUS2994 — Intro Undergrad Rsch in Bus 1 credits · 1 hours Introductory independent work for students to engage in undergraduate research in the areas of business. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # GBUS3000 — Global Seminar in Business 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. In-depth experiences in a discipline area of student's choice. May require international travel for one to three weeks, led by a faculty member. prereq: sophomore, junior, or senior status --- # GBUS3100 — Career & Professional Develpmt 1 credits · 1 hours Planning for securing/successfully completing an internship. Internship policies/objectives. Samples of forms. --- # GBUS3107 — Legal Environment in Business 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamental concepts of business law with emphasis on legal system, contracts, bailments, agency, business organizations, fundamentals of commercial law. --- # GBUS3190 — Topics in Business 1 credits · 1 hours May include varied emerging topics in business. --- # GBUS3300 — Business Analytics 3 credits · 3 hours Concepts, procedures, and technologies used by managers, administrators, and employees to enhance operation of an organization. Use of data mining and analysis to improve decision strategies. Recommended prereq: MATH 1150 --- # GBUS3500 — Business Ethics 3 credits · 3 hours Ethics as a compelling responsibility of today's business organizations. Moral principles/models for ethical decision making. Challenges of ethical business practices. Enforced prereq: COMP 1013 Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200 and MKTG 3300 or instructor consent --- # GBUS3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # GBUS3855 — Special Topics in Business 1 credits · 1 hours Topics for in-depth discussion which will cover issues in accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, or sport and recreation. --- # GBUS3994 — Undergraduate Research in Bus 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work for students to engage in undergraduate research in the areas of business. Enforced prereq: sophomore, junior or senior status; instructor consent --- # GEOG1104 — World Regional Geography 3 credits · 3 hours Theme of socioeconomic development used to organize geographic concepts for major regions of world. Geographic perspective in study of cultures, development, and human-environment interaction. Who has what, where, and how. --- # GEOL1001 — Introductory Geology 4 credits · 4 hours Survey of Earth, including its composition, structure, and dynamics; internal and surface processes related to theories of sea floor and continental movement; summary of geological history and development of life. Lab. --- # GMST2000 — International Travel Exp 1 credits · 1 hours Explore a math, science, and/or technology topic in relation to a specific culture and its current/local global issues. May require international travel for one to three week led by faculty member. --- # GMST3000 — International Travel Exper 1 credits · 1 hours Explore a math, science, and/or technology topic in relation to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. In-depth experiences in a discipline area of student's choice. May require international travel from one to three weeks led by a faculty member. --- # GNAG1005 — World Agric Food Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Historical preferences, consumer trends in diverse geographic regions. How global/national policies and cultures affect food trade. --- # GNAG1012 — Intro to Applied Ag Chemistry 2 credits · 2 hours Common chemical processes, their application to production agriculture. Application of pH in soil/feed systems. Dilution principles, units of weights/measures. Basic applied theories used in agriculture. prereq: CHEM 1001 or [concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1001, instructor consent] --- # GNAG1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # GNAG2000 — Global Studies Agrcltr/Nat Res 1 credits · 1 hours Students will study an agricultural or natural resource topic in relation to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. May require international travel for one to three seeks led by a faculty member. --- # GNAG2203 — Ag Products and Processing 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of raw agricultural products produced in Upper Midwest. Transport, processing, packaging, wholesale/retail distribution and sales. Quality factors, food laws/regulations, sanitation, food safety, environmental concerns. prereq: instructor's consent --- # GNAG2204 — Int'l Agr Prod, Process, Mktg 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of international agricultural production. Transport, processing, packaging, wholesale/ retail distribution, marketing. Quality factors, food laws/regulations, sanitation, food safety, and environmental concerns. prereq: instructor's consent --- # GNAG2899 — Pre-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Expectations/responsibilities of internships. Preparing for a job search. Presentations about internship experiences by those who have recently completed 3900. Discussions between students, staff, and invited guests. --- # GNAG3000 — Global Seminar in Ag/NatRes 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to specific culture and its local/global issues as it relates to agriculture or natural resources. International experience in discipline of student's choice. Course offered on demand. Led by faculty member. Enforced prereq: sophomore, junior or senior status --- # GNAG3203 — Ag Products and Processing 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of raw agricultural products produced in upper Midwest. Transport, processing, packaging, wholesale/retail distribution and sales. Quality factors, food laws/regulations, sanitation, food safety, environmental concerns. Recommended prereq: Jr --- # GNAG3204 — Interntnl Ag Prod, Proc & Mktg 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of international agricultural production. Transport, processing, packaging, wholesale/retail distribution, marketing. Quality factors, food laws/regulations, sanitation, food safety, and environmental concerns. --- # GNAG3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # GNAG3899 — Pre-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Expectations/responsibilities of internships. Preparing for a job search. Presentations about internship experiences by those who have recently completed 3900. Discussions between students, staff, and invited guests. --- # GNAG3900 — Internship 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Supervised professional work experience in agricultural business, governmental agency. Report/consultation with faculty advisor/employer. prereq: 3899, [soph or sr] --- # GNAG3901 — Post Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Student who have recently completed internships prepare/deliver a PowerPoint presentation of experience/knowledge gained. Discussions between post/pre-internship students, staff, and invited guests. Recommended prereq: GNAG 3900 --- # GNAG4652 — Senior Seminar 1 credits · 1 hours Survey of current literature. Preparation/delivery of special topics. Preparation of abstracts, papers, and visual aids. Evaluation of seminars. Use of library and other resources, including computer information search. Use of new technology. Recommended prereq: Sr or instructor consent --- # GNED1000 — Seminar for New Students 2 credits · 2 hours Assists students in transition from high school to college-level academics. Interactive environment. Knowledge and strategy skills for academic success. Recommended for first semester on campus. --- # GNED1505 — Peer Tutor Cert Level 1 1 credits · 1 hours Provides a theoretical background useful to systematic and effective tutoring, session planning, and learning group facilitation. Required prereq: must be approved for hire by the Student Success Center as a peer tutor --- # GNED1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # GNED1900 — Academic Success Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Comprehensive study program to help strengthen learning skills. Includes some monitoring of contract requirements. Enforced prereq: Student must be on academic contract --- # GNED2000 — Global Study 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. May require international travel for one to three weeks, led by a faculty member. --- # GNED3000 — Global Seminar 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. In-depth experiences in a discipline area of student's choice. May require international travel for one to three weeks, led by a faculty member. --- # GNED3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # GNED3809 — Teaching & Learning Assistance 1 credits · 1 hours Skills/techniques in disciplinary content associated with college teaching. Supervised by faculty monitor and site supervisor. prereq: Jr, instructor consent, minimum GPA 3.00 in subject matter --- # HI2060 — Database Mgmt in Hlth Info Sys 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of health information database design and development. Common aspects of many health information database management systems. How to write business rule, model and implement databases, and write transactions. Database mechanisms that aid in securing data. --- # HI3020 — Intro to Hlth Information Syst 3 credits · 3 hours Information systems applied to the health care industry. How information is collected, stored, retrieved, shared, and analyzed, along with the legal and ethical concerns inherent in the stewardship of patient information. Workflow, electronic health records, and personal health records. --- # HI3060 — Secure Data Collectn/Retrieval 3 credits · 3 hours Data manipulation in health care industry. Secure data collection techniques/tools. Data encoding. Resolving data conflicts. Data cleaning. Decision support systems. Data evolution. Data measures. Secure data retrieval techniques. Reporting applications. Data analysis techniques. Recommended prereq: HI 2060 or SE 3050 --- # HI3100 — HI Workflow Analysis & Design 3 credits · 3 hours Workflow processes in the health organizations. How to model workflows using formal/semi-formal diagramming notations. How processes can change over time/strategies for managing change. Information architectures, workflow components; interoperability in service oriented architectures. Recommended prereq: HI 3020 --- # HI3200 — Soc/Legal/Ethicl Issues in HI 3 credits · 3 hours Social, legal, and ethical issues associated with collection, using, sharing, and stewardship of electronic medical records. Responsibilities of and impacts on health information professionals and health organizations. Social impacts of meaningful use of electronic medical records. --- # HI3215 — Hlth Info Assurance/Security 3 credits · 3 hours Information assurance as it relates to legal responsibilities, including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, HITECH, and Digital Rights Management. Strategies and process models for securing information. Information assurance and security industry standards such as ISO 17799 and COBIT. Use of software tools to aid in protecting data. --- # HI3300 — Organization of EHR Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Architectures, organization, data structures, and features. Analysis and design patterns. Nonfunctional requirements and solutions. Constraints of EHR systems development such as security, interoperability, government, and certification. Application of XML, XMI, SOA, and RM-ODP. --- # HIST1021 — World Civilization I 3 credits · 3 hours Ancient Near East, Greece, Egypt, Rome, and Medieval Europe. --- # HIST1022 — World Civilization II 3 credits · 3 hours Renaissance and Modern Europe from Reformation to present. --- # HIST1301 — American History I 3 credits · 3 hours Colonial era and early national period from the Revolution through the Civil War and Reconstruction. --- # HIST1302 — American History II 3 credits · 3 hours Gilded Age to present with emphasis on foreign involvements and wars, New Deal, civil rights, and economic developments. --- # HIST3054 — Topics in History 3 credits · 3 hours Topics of regional, national, or international importance, such as Minnesota history, U.S. Civil War, Japanese history. --- # HLTH1062 — First Aid/CPR 2 credits · 2 hours American Red Cross course that follows guidelines set by the ARC and UMC for certification and grading. Prepares students to carry out the Emergency Action Principles and grants certification in Responding to Emergencies (an inclusive first aid and CPR course) if the ARC standards are successfully met. --- # HON1010 — Honors/Leadership Symposium 2 credits · 2 hours Foundation for Honors Leadership programs. Independent thinking, writing, discussion, leadership, research skills within a global perspective. Critical thinking skills will be emphasized throughout the course. Recommended prereq: Admitted to honors or approval of instructor --- # HON2010 — Honors Option 1 credits · 1 hours Students work with a faculty member to develop an extracurricular activity/project to be completed in addition to the requirements of a course. prereq: 1010 --- # HON3000 — Global Leadership Seminar 3 credits · 3 hours Interdisciplinary approach to current local/global issues. Leadership development in foreign location. International travel for 3 to 4 weeks. Presentation to campus community. prereq: Instructor consent --- # HON3010 — Honors Option 1 credits · 1 hours Students work with faculty member to develop extracurricular activity/project conducted concurrently with regular coursework. Coursework beyond scope of regular course. prereq: 1010, instructor consent --- # HON3030 — Honors Contract 1 credits · 1 hours Students work with faculty sponsor to organize group that discusses common reading. Students encouraged to take advantage of colloquia offered on campus. Recommended prereq: HON 1010, instructor consent --- # HON3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. --- # HON4010 — Proposal for Hon Essay, Rsch 1 credits · 1 hours Frequent meetings with academic adviser and director of honors to develop honors project proposal to fulfill final honors program requirements. Recommended prereq: HON 1010, consent of [project adviser, director of honors] --- # HON4030 — Honors Essay, Rsch or Cr Pr 3 credits · 3 hours Guides student through process of research/preparation of documentation for dissemination at public defense. Discipline-specific work supervised by adviser to develop an original essay, research, or creative project. Recommended prereq: HON 4010, approval of [departmental head, director of honors] --- # HORT1010 — Introduction to Horticulture 3 credits · 3 hours Environmental considerations, planting, propagation, pruning, and protection of horticultural crops. Greenhouse/field experience. --- # HORT1021 — Woody Plant Materials 4 credits · 4 hours Identification, ecology, and use of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, and vines. Recommended prereq: HORT 1010 or instructor consent --- # HORT1025 — Introduction to Arboriculture 2 credits · 2 hours Applications in arboriculture. Tree biology, tree/soil/water relations, planting, pruning, worker safety, trees/urban interfaces, electrical hazards, plant health care, golf course tree maintenance. Climbing/felling techniques. --- # HORT1091 — Indoor Flowering/Foliage Plnts 2 credits · 2 hours Identification, culture, and propagation of foliage plants used in interior decoration. --- # HORT1092 — Floral Design 2 credits · 2 hours Principles for design related to floral arrangement, identification, use, and care of cut flowers common to the florist industry. --- # HORT1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # HORT3025 — Applications in Arboriculture 3 credits · 3 hours Application of knowledge/techniques learned in introduction course. Students perform climbing, tree pruning, rigging applications, and tree felling. Safe work practices. Advanced pruning, fruit tree care. Disease/pest identification/management, cabling/bracing, lightning protection. prereq: 1025 --- # HORT3030 — Landscape Design 4 credits · 4 hours Application of aesthetic, environmental, and functional design principles to creative planning/development of residential/commercial landscapes. Emphasizes low impact and sustainability. Recommended prereq: HORT 1021 --- # HORT3031 — Herbaceous Perennial Plants 2 credits · 2 hours Identification, classification, ecology, and landscape uses of perennial flowers, bulbs, ground covers, and wildflowers. --- # HORT3033 — Com Flor Crops Fall 4 credits · 4 hours Identification and culture of holiday pot plants and major cut flower crops. Soil preparation, artificial mixes, soil testing, applying soil test results; greenhouse pests, life cycle, control, and management. Recommended prereq: HORT 1010 --- # HORT3034 — Com Flor Crops-Sprg 4 credits · 4 hours Fundamentals of greenhouse structure and management. Heating and cooling requirements, lighting photoperiod control, soil sterilization, production of winter grown greenhouse crops such as mums, azaleas, cineraria. Identification and culture of annual bedding plants. Wholesale production, use of annual flowers in residential and commercial landscape design. Recommended prereq: HORT 1010 --- # HORT3036 — Plant Propagation 4 credits · 4 hours Plant propagation techniques for the commercial and home propagator. Mist system construction and operation. Propagation of plants by tissue culture, seed, cutting, layering, grafting, and division. Recommended prereq: HORT 1010, BIOL 2022 --- # HORT3040 — Landscape Install and Maint 3 credits · 3 hours Applied horticulture practices in planting landscape materials, installing hardscapes, and maintaining residential/commercial landscapes. Proper use/maintenance of equipment. Emphasizes environmental/sustainability considerations. --- # HORT3045 — Urban Forestry Planning/Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Tree management for municipal forester. Tree planning/planting for city streets. Right of way pruning, management techniques, electrical hazard awareness, risk assessment/removals. Research papers, group exercises. Recommended prereq: HORT 3025 --- # HORT3090 — Advanced Landscape Design 3 credits · 3 hours Application of aesthetic, environmental, functional design principles to creative planning/development of commercial, interior, parklands, residential landscapes. Create computer generated designs using Auto CAD, SketchUp/other current design programs. prereq: 3030 --- # HORT3093 — Adv Floral Dsgn/Floral Oper 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced floral design. Management/business issues unique to floral industry. prereq: 1092 --- # HORT3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # HSCI1072 — Wellness 3 credits · 3 hours Students develop a personal wellness plan. --- # HSCI1123 — Fundamentals of Nutrition 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of nutrition and metabolism, including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, and water. Assessment of health risks, health promotion, and disease prevention. --- # HSCI1201 — Intro to Exercise Science 2 credits · 2 hours This course will educate students about the important aspects of exercise science and wellness, including history, areas of study, technology, career opportunities, certifications, professional organizations, and future trends. Details of the exercise science and wellness curriculum will also be explored. --- # HSCI2650 — Stress Management 3 credits · 3 hours This course is designed to help students understand the physiology of stress and its relationship with disease. Students will explore various coping strategies and stress management techniques to aid them in dealing with their own personal stress as well as use such techniques and strategies to assist others in stress management. --- # HSCI2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # HSCI3001 — Community Health and Wellness 3 credits · 3 hours Health/wellness education in community settings. Topics include behavior change, education and counseling theory, needs assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation in a community setting. Recommended prereq: HSCI 1072, BIOL 2104, or instructor consent --- # HSCI3050 — Sport Nutrition 3 credits · 3 hours Nutrition principles applied to fitness/sport. Six nutrients, body composition, training/conditioning, weight maintenance, nutrition in competitive sports. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009 or CHEM 1001 or HSCI 1123 --- # HSCI3112 — Kinesiology 4 credits · 4 hours Introduction to the various fields of human movement; exposure to concepts, definitions, and fundamental principles in the disciplines of biomechanics, exercise physiology, sport psychology, and psychomotor learning used for understanding human movement. Lab. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2104 or instructor consent --- # HSCI3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Individualized study related to student's interest in health care topic not covered in regular courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # HSCI3899 — Pre-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Expectations/responsibilities of internship. Preparing for graduate or professional school application or a job search. Presentations about internship experiences by those who have recently completed 3900 (internship). Discussions between students, staff, and invited guests. --- # HSCI3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Supervised professional work experience in health care facility. Report/consultation with faculty adviser/employer. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: 3899 --- # HSCI3901 — Post-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Students who have recently completed internships prepare/deliver a PowerPoint presentation of experience/knowledge gained. Discussions between post/pre-internship students, staff, and invited guests. Recommended prereq: HSCI 3900 --- # HSCI3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. --- # HSCI4301 — Capstone: Prbm Solv Hlth Care 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approaches to patient care and public health issues. Case studies. --- # HSCI4520 — Exercise Testing/Prescription 3 credits · 3 hours Examine techniques used to test/evaluate all components of fitness, including cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, body composition, and muscular flexibility. Stress management techniques introduced. Guidelines to prescribe exercise based on fitness evaluations/practical use of relevant equipment. Recommended prereq: BIOL 3520 --- # HSCI4650 — Adv Concepts of Strength/Cond 3 credits · 3 hours This course will provide the skills necessary for proper selection, administration, and interpretation of strength and conditioning practices. Students will learn to apply evidence-based training methods and strategies designed to reduce injury while optimizing individualized performance and fitness across various demographics. Recommended prereq: HSCI 3112, HSCI 4520 --- # HSCI4720 — Exrcs/Wellness Special Popltns 3 credits · 3 hours This course will examine exercise programming strategies and precautions for people in various life stages such as children, elderly, and pregnant women as well as those with chronic disease. Pathophysiology and exercise as a management strategy will be discussed for those with metabolic, cardiorespiratory, and musculoskeletal diseases and disorders. Recommended prereq: HSCI 4520 --- # HSM1010 — Medical Terminology 2 credits · 2 hours A comprehensive overview of medical language, including prefixes, suffixes, and roots, used to compose medical terms for body structure, disease, diagnosis, and treatment. --- # HSM1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Directed research with written and oral presentations on advanced topics, emerging trends, or innovations in the delivery of health care. Enforced prereq: Instructor Consent --- # HSM1900 — Nursing Assistant Training 2 credits · 2 hours Prepares students in the knowledge, skills, and responsibilities required to provide patient care and assist individuals with activities of daily living. The course includes lectures, clinical training, and experiential learning through clinical experience. Successful completion of the course will prepare students for the written and skills exam to become a Certified Nursing Assistant. --- # HSM2010 — Intro to the Hlth Care System 3 credits · 3 hours An overview of the U.S. health system including history, development, evolution, planning, organization, management, quality, and professions. --- # HSM2510 — Population Health 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to determinants of health within specific populations including identification, measurement, and interventions. Emphasis is on the distribution and etiology of health and disease within a community. --- # HSM2710 — Hlth Determ & Disparaties 3 credits · 3 hours Explores cultural awareness and competency related to worldviews and diversity in the delivery of health care services. Students will learn about social determinants of health and disparities that occur within the health system. --- # HSM3030 — Hlth & Disease for Aging Pop 3 credits · 3 hours Covers changes, syndromes, conditions, disorders, palliative care, terminology, and trends associated for aged populations. Recommended prereqs: HSM 1010 --- # HSM3190 — Special Topics in Health Mgmt 1 credits · 1 hours Evaluation, research, and application of relevant topics in health management based upon recent or significant changes within the industry. Enforced prereq: Instructor/Program Director consent --- # HSM3200 — Hlth Care Leadership/Planning 3 credits · 3 hours Theory and application of basic theories and concepts of leadership within the health care industry to successfully guide and direct organizations. --- # HSM3230 — Admin of Long Term Care System 3 credits · 3 hours Management of nursing and residential care facilities within the long-term care industry. Focuses on roles and responsibilities, laws, regulations, standards, structure, staffing, diversity, human relationships, and operations. --- # HSM3240 — Hlth Cr Policy/Comparative Sys 3 credits · 3 hours An introduction to the development, implementation, and application of health policy in the U.S. utilizing comparisons from throughout the world. --- # HSM3250 — Qual Impr & Ptnt Safety in HC 3 credits · 3 hours Evaluation of industry practices associated with patient quality and safety. Includes the use of continuous quality improvement as a framework to improve quality of care. Recommended prereq: HSM 2010 --- # HSM3260 — Risk Management in Health Care 3 credits · 3 hours Covers the methods and techniques of customer satisfaction, quality of care, and reduction of liability through principles of risk management. Recommended prereq: HSM 2010 --- # HSM3270 — Health Care Finance 3 credits · 3 hours Develops proficiency in applying financial techniques used in the health care decision-making process. Techniques include breakeven analysis, cost allocation, pricing, budgeting, capital budgeting, and revenue cycle management. Enforced prereqs: ACCT 2102, CA 1020 --- # HSM3350 — Patient Navigation & Advocacy 3 credits · 3 hours Provide students with an understanding of the barriers to patient health care. A focus will be place on the skills and competencies needed to become an effective patient navigator. Topics will include health care personnel, prevention, community health, inpatient care, outpatient care, health insurance, quality, care of the individual, and health information. --- # HSM3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics in health management tailored to the specific needs and interests of the student no offered in other courses. Enforced prereq: Jr, instructor consent --- # HSM3900 — Health Management Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Field experience within a health care organization or agency under the direction of a faculty member. Students will work with an approved precentor and organization to complete the required elements including observation, participation, and application of health care administrative and management skills. Enforced prereqs: HSM 3270, and Instructor consent, internship plan approved by HSM program director; may be repeated in different health care setting Recommend prereqs: HSM 3200, 3250, 4210 --- # HSM3910 — Nursing Home Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Field experience within a nursing facility under the direction of a faculty member. Students will work with an approved preceptor and organization to complete the required elements including observation, participation, and application of long-term care administrative and management skills in a nursing facility. --- # HSM3920 — RC and HCBS Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Field experience within residential care or assisted living facility or home and community based services under the direction of a faculty member. Students will work with an approved preceptor and organization to complete the required elements including observation, participation, and application of long-term care administrative and management skills in residential care, assisted living , or home and community based services. Recommended Prereqs: HSM 3200, HSM 3250, HSM 4212 --- # HSM4210 — Hlth Cr Law/Biomedical Ethics 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to laws, regulations, and ethical responsibilities of physicians, managers, and organizations. The course also includes a review of the development of law and regulations. Recommended prereq: HSM 2010 --- # HSM4212 — Regulatory Management 3 credits · 3 hours Covers the statutes and rules associated with the operations of longer-term care organizations including surveys, standards of care, resident rights, resident assessment, and quality assurance. Recommended prereq: HSM 2010, HSM 3230, HSM 4210 --- # HSM4215 — Medical Practice Management 3 credits · 3 hours Covers the fundamentals of group practice and ambulatory care management. Topics include revenue cycle management, cost containment, and project management. Recommended prereq: HSM 2010, HSM 3250, HSM 3270 --- # HSM4250 — Research Methodology 3 credits · 3 hours Introduces students to research methods including formulating a research question, reviewing the literature, developing a proposal, designing a study, and writing research results in a healthcare context. --- # HSM4300 — Managerial Epidemiology 3 credits · 3 hours Introduces students to managerial epidemiology methodologies including incidence and prevalence rates, analysis of vital statistics, and use of a statistical package in defining and describing health problems within a specific community. Recommended prereq: Math 1150 --- # HSM4400 — Health Care Economics 3 credits · 3 hours Explores the economic influences and factors of the delivery of health care services. Topics include supply, demand, public policy influences, cost effectiveness, and decision-making processes --- # HSM4500 — Strategic Planning in Hlthcare 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to the strategic planning process within a health care organization. Application of strategic planning principles to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for a health organization. Recommended prereq: HSM 2010, HSM 3270 --- # HSM4600 — Capstone Course in Health Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours A culmination of the health management program to provide preparation for career readiness and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the principles of health management. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent Recommended prereq: HSM 3200, HSM 3250, HSM 4210, HSM 4212, HSM 4500 --- # HUM1301 — Introduction to Humanities 3 credits · 3 hours The arts as a reflection of our search for understanding of the human condition. Beliefs and attitudes presented through creative expressions from around the world. --- # HUM2000 — Global Studies in Humanities 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. May require international travel for one to three weeks led by a faculty member --- # HUM2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Introductory research experience in the Humanities that results in the completion of a project. --- # HUM3000 — Global Seminar in Humanities 1 credits · 1 hours Interdisciplinary approach to a specific culture and its current local/global issues. In-depth experiences in a discipline area of the student's choice. May require international travel for one to three weeks led by a faculty member. --- # HUM3310 — Culture and Technology 3 credits · 3 hours Analysis of historical and cultural factors shaping technology. Synthesis of integrated relationships among technology, the arts, societal practices, and values. --- # IBUS2010 — Intl Dimensions in Bus/Culture 3 credits · 3 hours Skills to interact successfully in various settings in Europe, Africa, North and South America, Asia. Standards/practices of indigenous organizations, governments, and cultures in global context. Multinational interaction, communication, and cooperation. --- # IBUS3010 — International Business Law 3 credits · 3 hours Law for business transactions in global political legal environments. Laws of different countries/legal effects on individuals/business organizations. Agreements, international contracts/administrations, exports/import, technology transfers, regional transactions, intellectual property, product liability, legal organization. --- # IBUS3020 — International Financial Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours International financial markets with risks/benefits of international operations. Compare operation of global companies with domestic companies regarding foreign exchange fluctuations, political risks, financial tools to address risks, capital budgeting, tax, working capital structure, investment decisions, company's valuation. --- # IBUS3201 — Study Abroad in Intl Business 1 credits · 1 hours Taken in conjunction with focused international visit or as connection to cooperative learning experience at accredited higher education institution abroad. --- # IBUS3360 — International Marketing 3 credits · 3 hours Factors affecting marketing of goods/services. Managing organization in international environment. Complete team marketing plan for product being marketed internationally. Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200, MKTG 3300 --- # IBUS3500 — International Business Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Principles, opportunities, challenges of managing international business. Basic managerial functions. Economic, social, political environment. Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200 --- # IBUS3900 — Field Exp in International Bus 1 credits · 1 hours Employed as interns in international business firm, institution, or agency. Experience must have global component but may be completed either domestically or at international location. Reports/consultations with faculty/employers required. --- # IBUS4800 — Sr Seminar Intl Bus Strategy 3 credits · 3 hours Topics include gains from trade, costs of trade, competitive strategy of international business. Consider alternative modes of market entry, including import/export through intermediaries, contracting with suppliers/distributors, strategic alliances/foreign direct investment. --- # ITM1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # ITM2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # ITM3020 — Intro to Mgmt Info Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Theoretical background/hands-on experience with "software as service" applications. Traditional individual/company hosted software. --- # ITM3110 — Microcomputer Operating Sys 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to operating system concepts. Windows, Unix, Linux OS are discussed. Topics addressed include the purpose and uses of an operating system, resource management (e.g., memory, processes, I/O, and files), control language, shells, script. Enforced prereq: SE 2100 --- # ITM3130 — Messaging Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Unified messaging types such as electronic mail, fax, voice. Server software such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM Notes, Novell Groupwise. Internet standards for messaging. Enforced prereq: ITM 3110 --- # ITM3190 — Topics in Info Technology Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Topics may include cold fusion, asp, net, other emerging platforms. Recommended prereq: SE 2050, SE 3050 --- # ITM3733 — Green Technology Solutions 3 credits · 3 hours Examine a wide variety of green technologies and analyze the potential impact of green technologies on global energy usage. --- # ITM3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major, not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # ITM3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Supervised experience in an information or networking entity within a business firm or agency. Reports/consultations with faculty advisers and employers. prereq: Jr or instructor consent --- # ITM3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # ITM4020 — Analysis/Design of Info Sys 3 credits · 3 hours Systems development life cycle. Needs assessment, hierarchical diagramming, entity-relationships, data-flow diagramming. Project-focused review. Enforced prereq: ITM 3110, SE 3050 --- # ITM4900 — Sr Project in Info Tech Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Students complete an extensive IT design/development project under guidance of faculty member and present the project to ITM faculty and senior peers. Enforced Prereq: ITM 4020 --- # LEAD1010 — Honors & Leadership Symposium 2 credits · 2 hours Foundation for Honors and Leadership programs. Independent thinking, writing, discussion, leadership, and research skills within a global perspective. Critical thinking skills will be emphasized throughout the course. --- # LEAD2210 — Personal Leadership 3 credits · 3 hours Comprehensive overview of leadership styles, skills, roles, and functions of leaders of various organizations and communities. Broad understanding of theoretical approaches to leadership with a focus on leadership application and development of a personal philosophy of leadership. Includes leadership concepts within the context of diversity, equity, and belonging. --- # LEAD2600 — Creativity and Problem Solving 3 credits · 3 hours Identify problems facing organizations and communities. Develop effective solutions to individual, organizational, and community problems using various methods and tools. Utilize creativity and design thinking to improve organizations and communities. --- # LEAD2900 — Community Engaged Project 3 credits · 3 hours Explore ethical viewpoints and responsibilities of citizenship to enhance businesses, communities, and society. Identify, plan, and implement a community-based project of their choice. Utilize project management concepts, develop a budget, and analyze financial implications of chosen project. --- # LEAD3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's minor not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # LEAD4800 — Leadership Capstone 3 credits · 3 hours This capstone course requires students to further develop leadership skills and assess their competencies they have gained throughout the leadership minor. This course provides an experiential opportunity for students to exercise their leadership skills. Recommended prereq: LEAD 1010, senior status, or instructor consent --- # MATH991 — Elem & Intermediate Algebra 0 credits · 0 hours Equivalent to 3 credits. Signed numbers, first-degree equations/inequalities, fractional equations, exponents, polynomials, factoring, rational expressions, radical expressions, graphing, systems of equations, problem solving/mathematical modeling. --- # MATH1000 — Algebra Lab 1 credits · 1 hours Supplemental instruction in algebra. Small group activities. Recommended prereq: ACT Math score of 18-21Recommended coreq: MATH 1031 --- # MATH1031 — College Algebra 3 credits · 3 hours Basic algebraic operations, linear/quadratic equations/inequalities, variation. Functions/graphs. Theory of equations. Exponential/logarithmic functions. Systems of equations. Mathematical modeling/applications. Recommended prereq: MATH 0991 or ACT math score of 20 or higher --- # MATH1142 — Survey of Calculus 3 credits · 3 hours Derivatives, integrals, differential equations, maxima/minima, partial differentiation, applications. Recommended prereq: MATH1031 or ACT math score of 24 or higher --- # MATH1150 — Introduction to Statistics 3 credits · 3 hours Descriptive statistics, elementary probability, normal distribution, binomial distribution, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, correlation, regression, chi-square, ANOVA. Recommended prereq: MATH 0991 or ACT math score of 20 or higher --- # MATH1250 — Precalculus 4 credits · 4 hours Review of algebra, functions, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric functions, trigonometric identities/equations, systems of equations, determinants/matrices, sequences/series, topics from analytic geometry. Recommended prereq: MATH 1031 or ACT math score of 24 or higher --- # MATH1271 — Calculus I 4 credits · 4 hours Limits, differential calculus of functions of single variable, applications. Introduction to integral calculus of single variable. Recommended prereq: MATH 1250 or ACT math score of 28 or higher --- # MATH1272 — Calculus II 4 credits · 4 hours Techniques of integration, calculus involving transcendental functions, polar coordinates, Taylor polynomials, vectors/curves in space, cylindrical/spherical coordinates. Recommended prereq: MATH 1271 --- # MATH1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Currents topics not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # MATH2010 — Discrete Mathematics 4 credits · 4 hours Designed to provide students with a background in abstraction, notation, and critical thinking in mathematics with applications related to computer science and software engineering. Topics include: logic, sets, relations, functions, proof techniques, mathematical induction, combinatorics, recursion, elementary number theory, and basic graph theory. Recommended prereq: MATH 1250 --- # MATH2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent Recommended prereq: Math 1031 --- # MATH3496 — Special Topics in Mathematics 1 credits · 1 hours Topics cover contemporary issues in mathematics. Recent/significant primary literature. Critical thinking. --- # MATH3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # MATH3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. --- # MGMT1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # MGMT3200 — Principles of Management 3 credits · 3 hours Terminology, theories, concepts, and skills of managing. Basic functions of managing including, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Additional topics include decision making, business ethics, and social responsibility. --- # MGMT3210 — Supervision and Leadership 3 credits · 3 hours Emphasis on organizational environment/human behavior. Human resource systems, motivating employees, leadership, managing change, job satisfaction, communication, group processes, interpersonal/group dynamics within organization. --- # MGMT3215 — Organizational Behavior 3 credits · 3 hours Foundational understanding of people at work. Organizational behavior/business cultures. Social sciences of psychology, sociology, anthropology at work in organization. Address topics of organizational design, work relationships, leadership, communications, motivation/team building. Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200 --- # MGMT3220 — Human Resource Management 3 credits · 3 hours Management of people at work. Recruitment, selection, training, compensation, evaluation. Changing nature of world of work, labor market, labor relations, emerging legal issues, discrimination in pay and employment, effects of technological change on jobs/employment performance. Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200 --- # MGMT3250 — Operations Management 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to operations management concepts to transform inputs such as materials, labor, capital, and management into outputs that satisfy customer demand. The course focuses on analytical techniques and critical thinking to enhance decision making and operations management excellence. Recommended prereq: [MGMT 3200, MATH 1150] or instructor consent --- # MGMT3255 — Logistics/Supply Chain Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Examines supply chain management as a means of creating strategic competitive advantages. Logistical efficiency with environmental factors, strategic positioning, laws and policies, and cost maintenance will be examined. --- # MGMT3270 — Fundamentals of E-Business 3 credits · 3 hours The foundations of business information systems. Course will explore the technologies underlying a business information system and the functionality of internal and external communication platforms, Office, AIS, ERP, and CRM applications. Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200, MKTG 3300 --- # MGMT3600 — Change Create Innovation Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours The comprehensive study of organizing, planning, and evaluating innovation efforts in a dynamic business environment. Examination of ways to foster creativity and manage change in innovative organizations. Recommended prereq: [MGMT 3200, MKTG 3300] or instructor consent --- # MGMT3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # MGMT3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Employed as interns in business firm, institution, or agency. Reports/consultations with faculty/employers required. Recommended prereq: Jr --- # MGMT4200 — Project Management 3 credits · 3 hours Foundations of project management. Working with teams, schedules, risks, and resources to produce a desired outcome. Skills and tools of project management with case studies and using appropriate software to facilitate learning. --- # MGMT4800 — Strategic Management 3 credits · 3 hours Examines strategic management concepts and challenges. Requires students to research, develop strategic alternatives, and make decisions for organizations represented in textbook cases and from current business events. Recommended prereq: MGMT 3200, FIN 3100, MKTG 3300 --- # MKTG1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # MKTG2200 — Personal Selling 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to selling principles/processes. B2B vs B2C selling. Persuasive communication. Selling vs. buying. Time management. Emphasizes developing long-term buying/selling relationships. --- # MKTG3230 — Digital Marketing 3 credits · 3 hours Value of incorporating digital and interactive marketing of goods/services. Strategies for using Internet to leverage marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion) to meet marketing objectives. Recommended prereq: MKTG 3300 --- # MKTG3250 — Integrated Mktg Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Principles of integrated marketing communications (IMC) including broadcast media, print media, support media, direct marketing, Internet/interactive marketing, sales promotions, and public relations. Develop/present promotional campaign for company. Recommended prereq: MKTG 2200, MKTG3300 --- # MKTG3300 — Principles of Marketing 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to marketing/strategic marketing process. Team development of marketing plan that implements product, pricing, distribution, promotional strategies. --- # MKTG3310 — Consumer Behavior 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of consumer behavior. Behavior of individuals/groups. Social/environmental factors that influence buyer's purchase decision. Group projects outside classroom. Recommended prereq: MKTG 3300 --- # MKTG3400 — Marketing Research 3 credits · 3 hours Research process from marketing perspective. Problem formulation, scientific research methods, analysis/ interpretation of marketing data, research report writing, decision-making process derived from marketing research. Recommended prereq: Math 1150, Mktg 3300 --- # MKTG3700 — Branding & Design 3 credits · 3 hours Branding and building of brand equity. Brand differentiation, brand leveraging, and managing a brand in competitive global environment. Design and production of logo identity and branding elements. Recommended prereq: MKTG 3250, MKTG 3300, MGMT 3200 --- # MKTG3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # MKTG3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Employed as interns in business firm, institution, or agency. Reports/consultations with faculty/employers required. --- # MKTG4100 — Retail Management 3 credits · 3 hours Marketing, inventory planning/control, merchandising, retail supply chain, promotions. Challenges/opportunities in competitive environment. Characteristics of successful retail managers. Recommended prereq: MKTG 3300 --- # MKTG4800 — Marketing Strategies 3 credits · 3 hours Analysis of marketing decisions, creative problem-solving exercises, presentation of case analyses/marketing plans. Individual/group projects. Students critique current marketing articles. Case studies, readings. Recommended prereq: [MKTG 3310, MKTG 3400, final sem sr] or instructor consent --- # MLS2220 — Intro to Cln Lab Oper (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Foundational principles and practice of clinical laboratory operations. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS2226 — Intro to Cln Immunology (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Foundational principles and practice in clinical immunology. Enforced prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS3190 — Special Topics 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # MLS3332 — Intro to Clin Hematology (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Foundational principles and practice in clinical hematology and hemostasis. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS3334 — Intro to Clin Microbio (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Foundational principles and practice in clinical microbiology (including mycology, parasitology, and virology). prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS3339 — Intro to Evi Based Pract (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Foundational principles of evidence-based practice in the health sciences. The course focuses on identifying and evaluating common discipline-related evidence sources, as well as utilization of appropriate evidence to support relevant practice-related decisions. prereq: Acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS3340 — Molecular Diagnostics (UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Foundational principles and practice of molecular diagnostics. Enforced prereq: MLS program students only. --- # MLS4411 — Clinical Chemistry I (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Theory in clinical chemistry focused on physiologic mechanisms, preanalytic testing considerations, analytical testing principles/procedures, and general clinical correlations. Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4412 — Clinical Hematology I (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Theory in clinical hematology focused on physiologic mechanisms, preanalytic testing considerations, analytical testing principles/procedures, and general clinical correlations. Prerequisite: Certificate or Bachelor's in MLS. Students only. Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4413 — Clinical Immunohematol I (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Theory in clinical immunohematology focused on physiologic mechanisms, preanalytic testing considerations, analytical testing principles/procedures, and general clinical correlations. Summer semester at UND. prereq: Acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4414 — Clinical Microbiology I (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Theory in clinical microbiology (including mycology, parasitology, and virology) focused on physiologic mechanisms, preanalytic testing considerations, analytical testing principles/ procedures, and general clinical correlations. Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4415 — Clin Urin & Body Fluid I (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Theory in clinical urinalysis and body fluids focus ed on physiologic mechanisms, preanalytic testing considerations, analytical testing principles/procedures, and general clinical correlations. Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4416 — Clin Immu & Mole Diag (UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Theory in clinical immunology and molecular diagnostics focused on physiologic mechanisms, preanalytic testing considerations, analytical testing principles/procedures, and general clinical correlations. Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4420 — Clinical Lab Operations (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Theory and practice related to clinical laboratory operations. Prerequisite: Certificate or Bachelor's in MLS students only. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4421 — Clinical Chemistry II (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced theory and practice in clinical chemistry focused on analytical testing, relevant pathophysiology, clinical correlations, and post-analytic considerations. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4422 — Clin Hema & Hemo II (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced theory and practice in clinical hematology and hemostasis focused on analytical testing, relevant pathophysiology, clinical correlations, and post-analytic considerations. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4423 — Clinical Immun II (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced theory and practice in clinical immunohematology focused on analytical testing, relevant pathophysiology, clinical correlations, and post-analytic considerations. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4424 — Clinical Microbiology II (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced theory and practice in clinical microbiology (including mycology, parasitology, and virology) focused on analytical testing, relevant pathophysiology, clinical correlations, and post-analytic considerations. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4425 — Clin Urin&Body Fluid II (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced theory and practice in clinical urinalysis and body fluids focused on analytical testing, relevant pathophysiology, clinical correlations, and post-analytic considerations. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4431 — Clin Chem & Urin III (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Supervised clinical experience at an affiliated laboratory site. Focused on advanced clinical, professional, and theory-application skills required for entry-level competency in clinical chemistry & urinalysis. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4432 — Clin Hema & Hemo III (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Supervised clinical experience at an affiliated laboratory site. Focused on advanced clinical, professional, and theory-application skills required for entry-level competency in clinical hematology & hemostasis. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4433 — Clin Immunohemtlgy III (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Supervised clinical experience at an affiliated laboratory site. Focused on advanced clinical, professional, and theory-application skills required for entry-level competency in clinical immunohematology. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4434 — Clinical Microbiolgy III (UND) 2 credits · 2 hours Supervised clinical experience at an affiliated laboratory site. Focused on advanced clinical, professional, and theory-application skills required for entry-level competency in clinical microbiology. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MLS4449 — Capstone in MLS (UND) 3 credits · 3 hours A capstone course focused on professional development, laboratory management, evidence-based practice/scholarly writing, and understanding the role of the medical laboratory in healthcare. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. corequisite: enrollment in clinical practicum coursework prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4450 — Adv Clin App in MLS (UND) 1 credits · 1 hours A culminating course focused on preparation for entry-level professional practice as a laboratory scientist, integration of advanced clinical theory and skills, and interdisciplinary applications. S/U grading. Fall/Spring/Summer semester at UND. prereq: acceptance to UND MLS program --- # MLS4494 — Clinical Immunology (UND) 1 credits · 1 hours Applied theory and practice in clinical immunology and serology at the clinical affiliate. Spring semester of final year at UND. prereq: acceptance to the UND MLS program --- # MUS1011 — University Singers 1 credits · 1 hours Performing group provides experience in many areas of choral music. --- # MUS1021 — Intro to Music 3 credits · 3 hours Music from Renaissance to present. Styles, forms, expressions. Some examples of music from various cultures compared with western art music. --- # MUS1041 — Private Music Instruction 1 credits · 1 hours Individual music lessons in voice or instruments. One half-hour lesson per week. --- # MUS1042 — Private Instr: Class Piano 1 credits · 1 hours Study of piano technique/musicianship in classroom setting using multiple electronic keyboards. Musical concepts, including melody, harmony, rhythm, repertoire. --- # MUS1051 — Student-Community Band 1 credits · 1 hours Concert band open to all university students without audition, performing a wide variety of contemporary band literature. Ensemble also includes members of the Crookston community. Participation in the ensemble advances the growth of the students' overall musicianship through shared musical experiences and promotes lifelong activity in music. --- # MUS1052 — Jazz Band 1 credits · 1 hours Students will rehearse, prepare, and perform appropriate literature of all styles and genres for jazz ensemble. The art of ensemble playing and improvisation is the primary focus of the course. Students will gain knowledge and insight of the stylistic differences in each era of jazz through varied literature. Enforced prereq: Audition required --- # MUS1053 — Orchestral String Ensemble 1 credits · 1 hours A musical ensemble primarily consisting of orchestral string instruments that rehearses at the minimum twice weekly and performs at selected concerts and events. At least two performances are scheduled each semester. Recommended prereq: Ability to play an orchestral string instrument --- # MUS1071 — Musical Theater 1 credits · 1 hours Involvement in a musical theatre presentation. May include musical accompaniment, acting, singing, technical support. --- # MUS1111 — Elementary Music Theory 3 credits · 3 hours Basic knowledge of rudimentary traditional chordal harmonies. Ear training through harmonic, melodic, and formal musical analysis. Beginning compositional exercises. --- # MUS1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Music topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # MUS3011 — University Singers (Choir) 1 credits · 1 hours Performing group that provides experience in many areas of choral music. Students serve as section leaders and are required to review music to be rehearsed by ensemble before the music is "handed out." Required prereq: audition demonstrating skill in [sight-reading, accuracy of pitch, basic musicianship] Recommended prereq: MUS 1011 --- # MUS3027 — Rock and Jazz Music Styles 3 credits · 3 hours Jazz/rock, tracing their roots from Europe/Africa to being recognized as international popular music. --- # MUS3028 — Survey of Amer Musical Theater 3 credits · 3 hours Mid-1800's through present. Composers, lyricists, plot synopses, other aspects. --- # MUS3041 — Private Instruction 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced music instruction. Required prereq: Instructor consent --- # MUS3042 — Class Piano: Interm/Advanced 1 credits · 1 hours Piano technique/musicianship. Classroom setting using multiple electronic keyboards. Enforced prereq: audition Recommended prereq: MUS 1042 --- # MUS3051 — Student-Community Band 1 credits · 1 hours Concert band performing a wide variety of contemporary band literature. Ensemble also includes members of the Crookston community. Students will serve as leaders within the ensemble and explore musicianship at a more advanced level to promote lifelong activity in music through shared musical experiences. Enforced prereq: audition Recommended prereq: MUS 1051 --- # MUS3052 — Jazz Band 1 credits · 1 hours Students will rehearse, prepare, and perform appropriate literature of all styles and genres for jazz ensemble. The art of ensemble playing and improvisation is the primary focus of the course. Students will gain knowledge and insight of the stylistic differences in each era of jazz through varied literature. Enforced prereq: audition Recommended prereq: MUS 1052 --- # MUS3053 — Orchestral String Ensemble 1 credits · 1 hours A musical ensemble primarily consisting of orchestra string instruments that rehearses at the minimum twice weekly and performs at selected concerts and events. At least two performances are scheduled each semester. Students collaborate with the instructor to discuss repertoire and performance options. Recommended prereq: Ability to play an orchestral string instrument --- # MUS3091 — Inst/Choral Conduct 2 credits · 2 hours Conduct UMC ensembles to develop score reading skills, conducting techniques. prereq: At least 2 cr of Mus 1011 and/or 1051, instructor consent --- # MUS3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's minor not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # NATR1226 — Environ Science/Sustainability 3 credits · 3 hours An interdisciplinary survey course where students gain knowledge of the function of the biological, ecological, and physical world and how human interaction, at a global scale, has impacted and is predicted to impact these systems in the future. --- # NATR1233 — Intro to Natural Resources 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of our natural resource heritage with emphasis on North America. Various fields within natural resources examined in terms of conservation practices, employment opportunities, and importance to sustainable societies. --- # NATR1244 — Elements of Forestry 4 credits · 4 hours Forest management: ecology, silviculture, protection, and multiple-use decision-making processes. Woody forest plants: identification, growth requirements, and management techniques. Compass use and map reading. Survey of the lake states forest products industry. Recommended prereq: NATR1233 --- # NATR1663 — Principles of Fisheries Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Fisheries management and fish species of Minnesota. Identification, ecology, population assessment, application of appropriate management techniques. Recommended prereq: NATR 1233 --- # NATR1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent --- # NATR2573 — Entomology 3 credits · 3 hours Insect taxonomy, anatomy, and physiology. Emphasis on insects of economic importance, especially in the Upper Midwest. Control methods, including integrated pest management. Recommended prereq: Hort 1010 or Agro 1183 --- # NATR2630 — Intro to Geographic Info Systm 3 credits · 3 hours Application/use of computer-based information systems, data delivery, and geographic information systems in natural resource management and regional planning. Labs focus on developing basic competence using current suite of ArcGIS software and finding, retrieving and utilizing data currently available from public resource management agencies. Recommended prereq: NATR 1244, MATH 1031 --- # NATR2664 — Wilderness & Remote First Aid 2 credits · 2 hours This course includes the information and the skills to help adults, children, and infants during breathing and cardiac emergencies, and teaches advanced skills for emergencies in remote environments when professional first responders may be distant and delayed. Students can receive certification for 1) Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED and 2) Wilderness and Remote First Aid if the American Red Cross standards are successfully met (both are valid for two years). --- # NATR2899 — Pre-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Expectations/responsibilities of internship. Preparing for a job search. Presentations about internship experiences by those who have recently completed internship. Discussion between students, staff, and invited guests. --- # NATR2994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # NATR3203 — Park and Recreation Management 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of park and recreational area management. The recreationist; federal and state legislation; the roles of federal, state, local, and private sector recreation managers; and management techniques as they affect the private and public recreational area manager. Recommended prereq: NATR 1233 --- # NATR3251 — Scientific Writing in NatR 3 credits · 3 hours Introduces the fundamentals of effective scientific writing; review and evaluation of primary literature; and writing and revising technical reports, manuscripts for publication, and grants to funding agencies. Recommended prereq: COMP 1013 (or equivalent) --- # NATR3296 — Special Topics in Wildlife Mgt 1 credits · 1 hours Offered on demand. Focused studies on wildlife-related topics. Seminars by students and guest speakers, field trips, global studies trips abroad. Recommended prereq: Sr or instructor consent --- # NATR3297 — Spec Topics in Water Resources 1 credits · 1 hours Focused studies on water-related topics offered on demand. Seminars by students and guest speakers, field trips, global studies trips abroad. Recommended prereq: Sr or instructor consent --- # NATR3344 — Land Use Planning 3 credits · 3 hours Ecological, economic, and legal principles applied to land use planning in relation to agricultural, industrial, residential, wild land, forestry, recreational, and transportation needs. Legislative, agency, and citizen involvement in environmental law formulation and enforcement. Case studies. Enforced prereq: Jr or Sr status --- # NATR3364 — Plant Taxonomy 3 credits · 3 hours Principles of plant taxonomy with emphasis on higher vascular plants of the upper Midwest: family characteristics, floral structure, ecology, evolutionary relationships, values to human life, and importance as wildlife food and cover. Methods of field study and collection. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2022 or Instructor consent --- # NATR3368 — Land Management Field School 1 credits · 1 hours Intensive field-oriented program of study. Application of land management techniques in field situations. Guest lectures, field trips to natural resource agency projects. Recommended prereq: Junior or Senior status --- # NATR3374 — Ecology 4 credits · 4 hours Interactions among plants, animals, and the physical environment; structure and function of ecosystems; population dynamics, biotic communities; principles of biotic succession and ecosystem management. Recommended prereq: BIOL 1009, SOIL 1293 --- # NATR3376 — Wetland/Riparian Ecology & Mgt 3 credits · 3 hours Ecology/management of wetland/riparian lands from global, continental, and Minnesota perspective. General ecology, structure/function, delineation, wetland plant identification, restoration/regulation programs. Recommended prereq: NATR 3374 --- # NATR3464 — Mammalogy 3 credits · 3 hours Classification, reproduction, physiology, behavior, ecological adaptations, zoogeography of mammals. Emphasizes techniques used in field/laboratory studies. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2012 --- # NATR3466 — Ornithology 3 credits · 3 hours Classification, reproduction, physiology, behavior, ecological adaptations, zoogeography of birds. Emphasizes techniques used in field/laboratory studies. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2012, NATR 3374 --- # NATR3468 — Wldlife Habitat Mgt Techniques 3 credits · 3 hours Planning, ecological effects, application, monitoring of habitat management as used by conservation organizations: site preparation, planting, mowing, burning, grazing, herbicide use. Certification in prescribed burning, pesticide use. Wetland restoration, surface-mined land reclamation. --- # NATR3480 — Ecological Restoration 3 credits · 3 hours Principles of restoring/repairing disturbed/damaged ecosystems. Assessing site conditions, establishing reference criteria, determining restoration goals/objectives, manipulating successional trajectories, determining measures of successful restoration. Recommended prereq: NATR 3374 --- # NATR3482 — Minnesota Master Naturalist 3 credits · 3 hours Promote awareness, understanding, respect of Minnesota's natural environment by developing corps of well-informed citizens dedicated to conservation education/service within communities. --- # NATR3486 — Conservation Biology 3 credits · 3 hours Science underlying methods of conservation of populations, species, ecosystems. Exploration of theory/practice of conservation within social, political, economic context of conservation problems. Enforced prereq: BIOL 1009 or BIOL 1009H --- # NATR3488 — Invasive Species Ecology/Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Identification, ecology, control/management of invasive plant/animal species in north central U.S. Characteristics of invasive species/ecological processes that occur when non-native species are introduced into new habitats. Pathways that have led to introduction/spread of invasives. Enforced prereq: NATR 3374 --- # NATR3494 — Special Topics in Forestry 3 credits · 3 hours Additional coverage of topics/field applications in forestry beyond the scope of NATR 1244. This may include, but not limited to, fall dendrology, MN Tree Inspector Certification, forest/tree measurements. Recommended prereq: NATR 1244 --- # NATR3495 — Special Topics Wilderness Mgmt 1 credits · 1 hours Directed study offered once a year, with the following topics covered on a rotating basis: wilderness philosophy and ethic development, management of the wilderness resource, management of recreation resources, and wilderness management planning. Involves significant use of new communications technologies. Enforced prereq: NATR 3203 --- # NATR3496 — Spec Topics Ecology/Cons Biol 1 credits · 1 hours Topics ecology and conservation biology. Recent/significant primary literature. Critical thinking/evaluation. Application to issues in ecological research. Enforced prereq: NATR 3374 --- # NATR3520 — Nat Res Law Enforcement Tech 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of methods, procedures, and techniques in natural resource field law enforcement work. Natural resource case law. Applicable statutes pertaining to tenets of search/seizure, arrest, surveillance, and court system. Recommended prereq: NATR 1233, CRJS 1500 --- # NATR3580 — Adv Ecological Restoration 2 credits · 2 hours Advanced topics in ecological restoration, including evaluation of case studies. Explore current advancements, topics/emerging issues in theory/practice of restoration. Enforced prereq: NATR 3374, NATR 3480 --- # NATR3635 — Geographic Info Systems Appl 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced principles/applications of geographic information systems. Nature/accuracy of geo-referenced data and methods of data capture, storage, retrieval, modeling, and digital map display. Includes semester-long lab project. Enforced prereq: NATR 2630 --- # NATR3660 — Prairie/Range Ecology & Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Description of rangeland and prairie ecoregion of North America. Examines prairie plant ecology, grazing systems, rangeland stocking rates, wildlife habitat, disturbance ecology, and restoration. Identification of rangeland plants. Recommended prereq: NATR 3374 --- # NATR3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Recommended prereq: Jr, instructor consent --- # NATR3899 — Pre-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Expectations/responsibilities of internship. Preparing for a job search. Presentations about internship experiences by those who have recently completed internship. Discussion between students, staff, and invited guests. --- # NATR3900 — Internship 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Supervised professional work experience in natural resource agencies, private companies, and businesses. Report/consultation with faculty adviser/employer. Recommended prereq: NATR 2899 or 3899 --- # NATR3901 — Post-Internship Seminar 0.5 credits · 0.5 hours Students who have recently completed internships, prepare/deliver a PowerPoint presentation of experience/knowledge gained. Discussions between post/pre-internship students, staff, and invited guests. Recommended prereq: NATR 3900 --- # NATR3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent --- # NATR4652 — Seminar 1 credits · 1 hours Survey of current literature in horticulture, aviation, golf and turf, and natural resources. Preparation/delivery of special topics. Preparation of abstracts. Evaluation of seminars. Use of library and other resources, including computer information searches. Enforced prereq: Junior or Senior status --- # NATR4654 — Wildlife Ecology & Management 4 credits · 4 hours Application of ecological principles to studying and managing wildlife populations, with emphasis on land management. Land management plan preparation. Field and lab techniques used by natural resource agencies. Enforced prereq: NATR 3374 --- # NATR4699 — Integrated Resource Management 3 credits · 3 hours Team study exploring synthesis of environmental, technical, economic, political, and administrative principles as applied to case studies and current management situations. Emphasis on decision-making process. Enforced prereq: Sr or instructor consent --- # NT3120 — Networking Standards/Protocols 3 credits · 3 hours Design, implementation, and management of an enterprise network. Servers, routers, bridges, gateways, transmission media, communications protocols, network security, performance tuning. Enforced prereq: ITM 3110 --- # NT3215 — Info Assurance/Cybersecurity 3 credits · 3 hours Hacking culture. Impact of computer crime and Internet fraud. How a network/systems administrator can design/implement countermeasures to defend/protect systems assets. Enforced prereq: NT 3120 --- # OT1003 — Orient Occuptl Therapy (UMTC) 1 credits · 1 hours Survey of profession. Lectures, films, demonstrations, tours. --- # PER1151 — Golf 1 credits · 1 hours Introduction to and practice of the fundamentals of golf. --- # PER1201 — Dance 1 credits · 1 hours An alternative for aerobic activity. Acquaints students with dance and dance variety. Recreational dance course. --- # PER1341 — Court Activities 1 credits · 1 hours Introduce fundamental skills, rules/strategies of volleyball, racquetballl, tennis, and badminton. Progressing toward optimum ability. Achieving lifetime fitness. --- # PER1451 — Fitness for Health 1 credits · 1 hours Individualized approach to designing and following through with a personalized fitness program. Exercise programs and activities in the fitness area. A form of wellness program, with emphasis on fitness. --- # PER1461 — Phys Training/Cond 1 credits · 1 hours Promotion and development of lifetime fitness through weight training and conditioning. --- # PER1471 — Olympic Weight Training 1 credits · 1 hours Techniques for advanced strengthening/conditioning. prereq: PER 1461 --- # PER1481 — Aerobic Exercise 1 credits · 1 hours Promotes overall fitness. Incorporates aerobic movement for cardiovascular workout plus light weight training for strength and endurance. Stretching, flexibility, and relaxation. --- # PER1601 — Aquatic Activities 1 credits · 1 hours Strokes, personal safety, and basic rescue skills in accordance with guidelines established by the American Red Cross. --- # PER1690 — Topics in Phy Educ/Recreation 1 credits · 1 hours Topics in physical education or recreation vary. --- # PER1701 — Var Sports:Football 1 credits · 1 hours To study, practice, and participate in all individual and team skills of football. --- # PER1711 — Var Spts:Volleyball 1 credits · 1 hours Varsity collegiate volleyball experience. --- # PER1712 — Var Sports:Tennis 1 credits · 1 hours For students who wish to participate at the intercollegiate level. --- # PER1714 — Varsity Sports: Golf (W) 1 credits · 1 hours Daily practice sessions, game competition. Evaluation based on satisfactory participation, completion of golf season. --- # PER1716 — Varsity Sports: Golf (M) 1 credits · 1 hours Daily practice sessions, game competition. Evaluation based on satisfactory participation, completion of golf season. --- # PER1722 — Var Sports:Soccer 1 credits · 1 hours Rules and basic strategies of soccer. Basic techniques of the major components of soccer. Appreciating and practicing the game of soccer. --- # PER1731 — Var Spts:Basketball 1 credits · 1 hours Varsity collegiate basketball experience. --- # PER1741 — Var Spts:Basketball 1 credits · 1 hours Varsity collegiate basketball experience. --- # PER1761 — Varsity Sports: Equestrian 1 credits · 1 hours Students participate/compete in equestrian events at collegiate level. --- # PER1781 — Var Sports:Softball 1 credits · 1 hours For athletes who wish to compete at the intercollegiate level. --- # PER1791 — Var Sports:Baseball 1 credits · 1 hours To practice, study, and participate in all individual and team skills of baseball. --- # PHIL1001 — Introduction to Philosophy 3 credits · 3 hours Critical introduction to three fundamental questions of philosophy: What can I know? What can I believe? What ought I to do? Emphasis on developing ability to think, speak, and write critically. --- # PHIL2002 — Introduction to Ethics 3 credits · 3 hours Foundational concepts of ethics. Applications in various contexts. --- # PHIL3003 — Applied Ethics 3 credits · 3 hours Interdisciplinary examination of four areas of contemporary ethical concern: research ethics, agricultural ethics, business ethics, and biomedical ethics. Recommended prereq: PHIL 1001 --- # PHYS1002 — Introductory Meteorology 4 credits · 4 hours An introductory course on the atmospheric environment. Meteorological concepts are presented in a practical manner to stimulate curiosity and answer questions about weather and climate. Topics include earth's atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, winds, fronts, forecasting, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, changing climate, air pollution, and optics. --- # PHYS1003 — Introduction to Astronomy 4 credits · 4 hours Human's place in Universe. Earth, other planets, sun, stars, galaxies. Background/fragility of life on Earth. Scale, origin, history of the universe. --- # PHYS1012 — Introductory Physics 4 credits · 4 hours Motion, forces, torque, energy, heat, sound, light, electricity, magnetism. Emphasizes applications. Recommended prereq: MATH 1031 --- # PHYS1101 — Intro College Physics I 4 credits · 4 hours First of two-semester sequence. Algebra-based introduction to physics and physics problem solving. Motion, forces, torque, momentum, energy, thermal energy/heat. Topics presented in applied context. Recommended prereq: MATH 1031 --- # PHYS1102 — Intro College Physics II 4 credits · 4 hours Second of two-semester sequence. Algebra-based introduction to physics and physics problem solving. Vibrations, light, sound, electricity, magnetism. Selected modern physics topics (e.g., radiation). Topics presented in applied context. Recommended prereq: MATH 1031, PHYS 1101 --- # PHYS1301 — Int Phys I for Sci/Engineering 4 credits · 4 hours First in sequence of calculus-based general physics course using fundamental principals to solve quantitative problems. Motion, forces, conservation principles, and thermodynamics. Applications to mechanical systems. prereq: Math 1271 --- # POL1001 — American Government 4 credits · 4 hours Introduction to politics/government in United States. Constitutional origins/development, major institutions, parties, interest groups, elections, participation, public opinion. Ways of explaining politics. Nature of political science. --- # POL1054 — Comparative Government 3 credits · 3 hours Government systems of the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Japan, and France. Third World and Middle Eastern countries' political and social impacts studied through current events. --- # PSY1001 — General Psychology 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of psychology as scientific study of human/animal behavior. Emphasizes goals of psychology: to describe, understand, predict, and control behavior. Biological, cognitive, affective, and social perspectives. --- # PSY1093 — Lifespan Development 3 credits · 3 hours Human life span perspective. Integrates developmental principles through research of social issues. Theories of major developmental theorists, recent challenges from changes in society/family interrelationships. Total environmental issues. Progress in genetics/medicines toward a better understanding of human development. --- # PSY2253 — Human Behav/Diversity Issues 3 credits · 3 hours Understanding diversity from psychological, political, economic, and industrial perspectives. Dynamics of race, ethnicity, culture, and gender in American society. Recommended prereq: PSY 1001 --- # PSY3201 — Social Psychology 3 credits · 3 hours How thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are affected by others. Social influence/interaction. Attitude measurement/change. Conformity, impression formation, attribution theory, aggression, prosocial behavior. --- # PSY3520 — Industrial/Organization Psych 4 credits · 4 hours Psychology of business enterprise. Leadership, labor relations, motivation, selection, performance, stress, group dynamics, organizational structure/change. Experiential learning, student-centered discussion. Recommended prereq: PSY 1001, PSY 3707 --- # PSY3604 — Abnormal Psychology 3 credits · 3 hours Comprehensive study of abnormal behavior. Focuses on causal factors, treatment, and outcome of maladaptive behavior. Systematic study of biological, behavioral, and psychosocial therapies as modes of treatment and prevention of disorders. Lectures, case studies, videos, group discussions, oral presentations, term paper. Recommended prereq: Psy 1001 --- # PSY3707 — Organizational Psychology 3 credits · 3 hours Leadership, job satisfaction, motivation theories, goal setting, organizational behavior, organizational development, industrial relations. Recommended prereq: PSY 1001 --- # PSY3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # PSY4203 — Orgtn/Transitional Chg Seminar 3 credits · 3 hours Historical, contemporary, and emerging changes in cultures/societies on international/U.S. domestic organizations. Stages of change, strategies. Tools to assist individuals/organizations through systems processes leading to positive outcomes. prereq: [1001, 3707] or instructor consent --- # PUBH1001 — Success Over Stress (UMTC) 1 credits · 1 hours Understand stress/how to manage it. Holistic health perspective/impact of stress on all aspects of life. Causes, effects, consequences of stress for students/society. Tools/resources to manage stress during college/life. --- # PUBH1003 — Alcohol & College Life (UMTC) 1 credits · 1 hours Facts about how alcohol affect college life. Personal prevention strategies. Maximizing student/campus safety. Web-based distance learning format. prereq: Fr or soph or pseo --- # PUBH1004 — Sexuality Matters (UMTC) 1 credits · 1 hours Knowledge/skills to lead healthy sexual lives. Unbiased, medically accurate, evidence-based information/programs. Communication skills. Dispel sexuality/relationships myths. --- # PUBH1005 — Sleep, Eat & Exercise (UMTC) 1 credits · 1 hours Living balanced life while in college. Nutrition, sleep, physical activity. Techniques to promote self-awareness, reflection, goal setting, action toward wellness. --- # PUBH3102 — Iss in Envmt/Occup Hlth (UMTC) 3 credits · 3 hours Scope of the field of environmental health. Concepts upon which environmental interventions are based. Consulting literature to identify appropriate interventions for community environmental health problems. Online course through Twin Cities campus. --- # SE1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # SE2050 — Intro to Programming I 3 credits · 3 hours Structured/object oriented programming with current industry accepted languages. Data, selection, and iteration structures. Input/output operations, class definitions, interfaces, exception handling, inheritance, composition, polymorphism. Recommended prereq: MATH 1031 or 2 yrs high school algebra --- # SE2070 — Intro to Programming II 3 credits · 3 hours Java programming language and development process. Objects, classes, packages, applets. Enforced prereq: SE 2050 --- # SE2090 — Data Structures and Algorithms 3 credits · 3 hours Recursion, underlying philosophy of object-oriented programming. Fundamental data structures (including stacks, queues, linked lists, hash tables, trees, graphs). Algorithmic analysis. Principles of language translation. Enforced prereq: SE 2050 Recommended prereq: MATH 2010 --- # SE2100 — Microcomputer Sys Architecture 3 credits · 3 hours Computer organization/machine architecture. Overview of computer system organization. Digital logic level, register level, operating system program interface. May use assembly language of an available machine for programming assignments. --- # SE2200 — Intro to Software Engineering 3 credits · 3 hours Software development methodologies. Emphasizes object-oriented methodologies. Risk analysis, testing techniques/strategies, project management, architectural/user interface design, technical metrics for software. Enforced prereq: SE 2050 --- # SE2300 — Software Construction 3 credits · 3 hours Low-level software design issues, including formal approaches. Enforce prereq: SE 2200 --- # SE2400 — SE Approach to HCI 3 credits · 3 hours Topics relating to designing/evaluating user interfaces. Psychological background needed to understand people. --- # SE2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Intermediate independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor's consent --- # SE3050 — Database Management Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Database design management/implementation. Data modeling, normalization, relational algebra, SQL, Procedural SQL, physical database design, distributed databases. Use of common DBMSs and modeling tools. Enforced prereq: SE 2050, CA 1040 --- # SE3060 — Data Warehousing and Mining 3 credits · 3 hours How data warehousing/mining fits in decision support systems. Data warehouse planning, design, implementation on enterprise DBMS. Data mining techniques/algorithms. Application of data mining software. Recommended prereq: SE 3050, MATH 1150 --- # SE3100 — Object-Oriented Programming 3 credits · 3 hours C# programming language fundamentals. Some of the C# features are already found in existing languages, while others are unique to C#. The course will focus mainly on the new features in C# with respect to C++ and Java. Enforced prerequisite: SE 2050; Enforced corequisite: SE 3050; Recommended prerequisite: SE 3050 --- # SE3150 — Software Requirements Analysis 3 credits · 3 hours Discovering/eliciting requirements, languages, and models for representing requirements, analysis/validation techniques, specifying/measuring external qualities, requirements in agile processes, requirements change management. Enforced coreq: SE 2200 (It is preferred that students take SE 2200 & SE 3150 in sequence, however, it is permissible for students to take them simultaneously when needed.) --- # SE3190 — Special Topics 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # SE3200 — Software Design/Architecture 3 credits · 3 hours Formal methods of software analysis/design. Requirement analysis, definition. Specification, including formal methods, prototyping. Design, including object/function oriented design. Enforced prereq: SE 3150 --- # SE3250 — Cybercrime & Digital Forensics 3 credits · 3 hours This course covers the societal and legal impacts of computer activity: computer crime, intellectual property, privacy issues, legal codes; risks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures; and methods and standards for extraction, preservation, and deposition of legal evidence in a court of law. Enforced prereq: ITM 3110 --- # SE3300 — Software Qlty Assurance/Testg 3 credits · 3 hours Software quality assurance. Reviews/inspections, testing, formal verification methods, process management/improvement, defect prevention. Enforced prereq: SE 3200 --- # SE3510 — Essentials of Cybersecurity 3 credits · 3 hours Overview of key fundamentals in cybersecurity and information assurance including current issues and essential topics. Emphasis placed on review of relevant literature in areas pertinent to the cybersecurity domain. Enforced prereq: Junior --- # SE3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # SE3820 — Gaming - Real Time Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Mathematical foundations/modeling techniques, mapping, anti-aliasing, real-time rendering, binary space partition trees, object control issues. Recommended prereq: SE 3050, Math 1272, Phys 1102 --- # SE3900 — Internship 3 credits · 3 hours Identify employment opportunities in field. Enforced prereq: Instructor consent --- # SE3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # SE4050 — Adv Web Application Dev 3 credits · 3 hours Provide students with current/advanced techniques for World Wide Web software development including XML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, server-side scripting languages such as Javascripting & PHP, and Web databases. This course surveys a variety of Web development technologies and issues related to developing dynamic Web sites. Enforced prereq: SE 3050, CA 1040 --- # SE4100 — Intro to 3D Simulation Progrmg 3 credits · 3 hours Java/OpenGL (JOGL) to introduce basic concepts of 3D simulation programming and theory. Matrices/transformations, primitive construction, texture mapping, basic user interaction, animation. Recommended prereq: SE 2090 --- # SE4110 — Simulation/Game Development 3 credits · 3 hours Building simulations/developing games involving 3D modeling/animations. Advanced Programming, 3D Graphics Programming/Immersive Visualization, Interactive Architectures, Simulations. --- # SE4200 — Software Project Management 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to software project management. Issues include effort estimation and costing, project planning and scheduling, option analysis, software quality assurance, and formal technical reviews. Enforced prereq: SE 2200 --- # SE4500 — Senior Project I 3 credits · 3 hours Individual project/research course. Pursue projects or research (applied in nature) with faculty adviser, within area of specialization. Enforced prereq: Junior or senior status. Enforced coreq: SE 3150. Recommended prereq: SE 3300. --- # SE4510 — Senior Project II 3 credits · 3 hours Second of a full year, individual project/research course. Students pursue projects or research (applied in nature), with a faculty adviser, within their area of specialization. Enforced prereq: SE 4500 --- # SOC1001 — Introduction to Sociology 3 credits · 3 hours Culture, social institutions, socialization, groups, social class, race and ethnicity, collective behavior, and social deviance. --- # SOC1102 — Cultural Anthropology 3 credits · 3 hours Human culture from advent of agriculture to present. Methods used in cultural anthropology; linguistics; general theories of culture; functions of religion, law, kinship, systems, and other major influences in selected cultures. --- # SOC3005 — Sociology of the Family 3 credits · 3 hours Critical analysis of the family as a social institution, macro- and micro-level theoretical analysis of families and its interrelationship with other social institutions. Emphasizes the functions of the family, interaction among its members, and cultural forces affecting family. --- # SOC3937 — Soc Gerontology: Eld in Am Soc 3 credits · 3 hours Survey of characteristics/concerns of older persons. Physical, social, psychological, and cultural factors associated with aging. Individual outside work with older person. --- # SOIL1293 — Soil Science 3 credits · 3 hours Formation, classification, and composition of soils, with emphasis on environmental quality, chemical, and physical properties affecting growth and nutrition of plants, management principles and practices used to increase productivity and conserve soil and water resources for agronomic crops. Recommended prereq: CHEM 1001 --- # SOIL1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not offered in regularly schedule courses. --- # SOIL3414 — Soil Fer/Plant Nutr 4 credits · 4 hours Soil fertility management and its effect on crop growth. Uptake and use of specific important nutrients; use of fertilizers, their composition and characteristics; importance of residue management to maintain high productivity; environmental impact of certain agronomic practices. Enforced prereq: SOIL 1293 Recommended prereq: CHEM 1001 --- # SOIL3550 — Soil Genesis/Morphology/Surv 4 credits · 4 hours Processes of soil formation, morphology and use of soil survey information. Practical field experience describing soil properties. Required field trips. Enforced prereq: SOIL 1293 --- # SOIL3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not offered in regularly scheduled courses. --- # SOIL3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. --- # SPAN1104 — Beginning Spanish I 4 credits · 4 hours Conversational Spanish centered on day-to-day experiences. Emphasis on verb conjugation, rules of grammar, and vocabulary building. Cultural awareness and appreciation. --- # SPAN1204 — Beginning Spanish II 4 credits · 4 hours Emphasis on verb conjugation with the addition of compound tenses, indicative and subjunctive moods. Vocabulary building; dialogue concerning sports, travel, service information. Cultural and political dimensions of Spanish-speaking countries. Recommended prereq: SPAN 1104 or 2 years high school Spanish --- # SRM1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Current topics not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent --- # SRM2000 — Prevent/Care Athletic Injuries 3 credits · 3 hours Instruction/practice in fundamental athletic training skills. Historical perspective of athletic training as career. Basic terminology of injuries. Prevention, taping, immediate care. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2103 --- # SRM2010 — Topics in Coaching 2 credits · 2 hours Philosophies, theories, methods, techniques of coaching different sports. --- # SRM2020 — Foundations of Sport/Rec Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamental content areas. Career opportunities, principles/issues in sport ethics, personnel/financial management, sport law, facility/event management, strategic planning, sport marketing. --- # SRM3002 — Sport Law and Governance 3 credits · 3 hours Legal principles affecting managers, sponsors, users of sport/recreation programs. Vocabulary of contract negotiation/civil rights in planning, developing, maintaining, managing sport/recreation organizations. --- # SRM3003 — Sport Facility/Activities Mgmt 3 credits · 3 hours Designing, planning, and controlling sport facilities and sport event logistics. Scheduling and planning of sport events. Box office management. Security and supervision of facility events, safety, and medical services, housekeeping maintenance. Concessions, merchandise. Risk management, insurance. --- # SRM3005 — Athletics Administration 3 credits · 3 hours Administration of policies and procedures for amateu/professional athletics organizations; covers both private and public athletics administrations. --- # SRM3006 — Sport Mktg and Communication 3 credits · 3 hours Applying theories/principles of marketing to sport industry. How marketing is used in various SRM settings, from local sporting/amateur events to professional leagues. Recommended prereq: MKTG 3300 --- # SRM3008 — Sport Ethics and Leadership 3 credits · 3 hours Ethical issues in recreation/sport. Explore values/apply critical thinking. Ethical theories. Developing framework for ethical decision-making. Applying decision-making framework to industry needs. Recommended prereq: SRM 2000 --- # SRM3012 — Sport Finance and Economics 3 credits · 3 hours Traditional/innovative methods of revenue acquisition, financial management in sports organizations. Broader economic impact/implications of sport in society. Importance of budgeting/finance in sports industry. --- # SRM3020 — Coaching Practicum 1 credits · 1 hours Apply coaching technique in clinical setting. Recommended prereq: SRM 2010 --- # SRM3100 — Psychology of Sport 3 credits · 3 hours Theories, concepts, and interventions related to sport and exercise psychology. Topics covered includes: motivation, team/group dynamics, psychological skills training, psychology of injury, and burnout. --- # SRM3200 — Soc-Culturl Dimension in Sport 3 credits · 3 hours Ways sport is linked to other spheres of social life. Organization/behavior patterns within sport settings. Cultural, structural, situational factors, social processes related to sport. --- # SRM3320 — Applied Sports Physiology 3 credits · 3 hours Responses/adaptations of body's physiological systems to physical activity, biochemical foundations of these changes. Techniques and strategies useful for coaches, physical educators, and other exercise scientists in developing training programs beneficial for athletes/clients. Recommended prereq: BIOL 2103 --- # SRM3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. Enforced prereq: instructor consent Recommended prereq: Jr --- # SRM3900 — Internship 1 credits · 1 hours Field-based learning experience. Minimum of 3 credits is required. prereq: Jr, instructor consent --- # SRM4099 — Seminar in SRM 1 credits · 1 hours Capstone course emphasizing design, implementation, and evaluation of an entire sport or recreation program in terms of a virtual portfolio. Recommended prereq: Sr, instructor consent --- # SRM4800 — Sport/Recreation Mgmt Capstone 3 credits · 3 hours Capstone course emphasizing design, implementation, and evaluation of an entire sport or recreation program. Students will be expected to develop a senior project that could be used in a portfolio when applying for a job. --- # SUST3900 — Sustain. Field Experience 2 credits · 2 hours Internship within a student's chosen field with a focus on Sustainability. This course allows students to experience how Sustainability is relevant to their chosen field of study. prereq: department approval, consent of instructor --- # SUST4100 — Sustainability Capstone 2 credits · 2 hours Explore the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. A capstone project utilizing these goals will be done and presented to class at end of semester. prereq: Sr --- # SWM3009 — Hydrology and Water Quality 4 credits · 4 hours Principles/theory of surface/ground water quality, including but not limited to water budget, hydrologic cycle, water quantities, Darcy's Law, water quality units and flow rates, hydraulic conductivity/permeability, and laboratory tests for and maintenance of water quality. Enforced prereq: CHEM 1001, MATH 1031, and SOIL 1293 --- # SWM3103 — Meteorology and Climatology 3 credits · 3 hours Fundamentals of weather/climate. Energy balance, weather chart analysis, composition/circulation patterns of atmosphere, climates of continents. Recommended prereq: PHYS 1012 --- # SWM3224 — Soil and Water Conservation 4 credits · 4 hours Management principles and practices used to increase productivity and conserve soil and water resources for agronomic crops. Maintaining wildland and environmental quality through use of shelterbelts. Enforced prereq: SOIL 1293 --- # SWM3225 — Watershed Management 3 credits · 3 hours Precipitation, infiltration, evapo-transpiration, runoff from small watersheds. Application to design of structures, water/wind erosion practices. Design principles/techniques in constructing small impoundments and waste holding facilities, and in restoring wetlands. Selecting/applying irrigation/drainage systems. --- # TH1121 — Theatre Production 1 credits · 1 hours Involvement in one or more of the following: acting, directing, costuming, set construction, makeup, publicity, coaching, lighting, sound. --- # TH1131 — Acting I 3 credits · 3 hours Introduction to acting for theater. Physical/vocal training. Creativity/emotional recall exercises. Performance. Basic techniques of acting. --- # TH2434 — Oral Interp/Performance Tech 3 credits · 3 hours Analyzing prose, poetry, drama. Preparing material for presentation. Giving stimulating oral readings. Critical appreciation of literature. Use of voice/gesture. Critiquing performances. --- # TURF1072 — Principles of Turf Management 3 credits · 3 hours Species identification. Cultural requirements/principles for establishing, producing, and maintaining turf. Golf course turf care/maintenance. --- # TURF1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not offered in regularly scheduled courses. --- # TURF3072 — Turfgrass Science 3 credits · 3 hours Management requirements of intensively cultured turfgrass areas. Emphasis on golf course/ athletic fields. Interrelationships among soil, plant atmospheric environments. Management practices/turfgrass quality. Enforced prereq: TURF 1072 --- # TURF3073 — Sports Turf Management 3 credits · 3 hours This course focuses on the primary and secondary cultural practices required to maintain various types of sport fields to the highest level of turfgrass quality while being agronomically safe for athletes. Enforced prereq: TURF 1072 --- # TURF3074 — Turfgrass Pest Management 3 credits · 3 hours Identification/control of turfgrass diseases, weeds, and insects. Emphasizes integrated cultural/chemical management methods. Enforced prereq: TURF 1072 --- # TURF3075 — Turf Stress Management 3 credits · 3 hours Environmental stress factors integrated with cultural practices to enhance turfgrass performance/implement management practices that reduce stress injury. Enforced prereq: TURF 1072 --- # TURF3078 — Integrtd Turfgrass Diagnostics 1 credits · 1 hours Diagnostic features/identifying characteristics for all turfgrass species, seed, turfgrass pests (weeds, insects, diseases), fertilizer materials. Appropriate pesticides, applied mathematical skills/best management practices for world-wide golf course learning. Recommended prereq: TURF 1072 --- # TURF3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topics not included in regularly scheduled courses. --- # TURF3994 — Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced independent work in special fields. --- # TURF4076 — Turfgrass Management Systems 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced skills for establishment, maintenance, and renovation. Strategies for developing turfgrass management systems. Decision-making and problem-solving in applied-business context. Professional skills development. Enforced prereq: TURF 1072 Recommended prereq: TURF 3072 --- # UMC1200 — Intro to University Life 2 credits · 2 hours This course sets the groundwork for acquiring the critical thinking skills necessary to successfully complete a degree at UMC, while also assisting students in their transition to college life and fostering a culture of engaged learning. All new high school students are required to enroll in the course their first semester on campus. --- # UMC1202 — Topics in Problem Solving 1 credits · 1 hours Through high-impact learning practice (e.g., undergraduate research, service learning), students will learn to apply problem-solving techniques to current issues. All new high school students are required to enroll in the course in their second semester on campus. --- # WRIT1803 — Directed Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's minor not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # WRIT2110 — Digital Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Introducing the tools, language, and processes of digital composing, this course equips students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of analyzing and producing digital texts. Grounded in rhetorical theories, the course also overviews coding, digital ecosystems, and the content management system required of a digital platform. --- # WRIT2223 — English Grammar and Usage 3 credits · 3 hours Grammar, grammatical concepts. Processes/structural rules that describe how words combine with each other to form sentences. Practice in sentence diagramming. Recommended prereq: COMP 1011 --- # WRIT2335 — Intro to Creative Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Principles of creative writing. Basic literary/writing-craft concepts/terminology. Literary works. Practice writing, critiquing prose/poetry. Recommended prereq: COMP 1011 --- # WRIT2994 — Intro Undergraduate Research 1 credits · 1 hours Introductory research experience that results in the completion of a project. --- # WRIT3002 — Literary Theory & Criticism 3 credits · 3 hours Seminal literary theories in English studies, such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, gay and lesbian criticism/queer theory, and race and ethnicity studies. Applies theoretical approaches to literary texts. --- # WRIT3303 — Writing in Your Profession 3 credits · 3 hours Writing about subjects related to students' academic disciplines and future professions. Developing persuasive writing skills for academic, personal, and professional purposes. Effective communication principles, audiences, formats, and technologies. Recommended prereq: [COMP 1011, COMP1013] or 6 credits of writing --- # WRIT3804 — Individual Studies 1 credits · 1 hours Topic related to student's major not covered in regularly offered courses. --- # WRIT3856 — Editing 3 credits · 3 hours Copy editing for accuracy, completeness, consistency, correctness. Comprehensive editing. Symbols of markup. Electronic editing. Style sheets/manuals. Proofreading. Editing visuals. Team editing tools. Recommended prereq: COMP 1013 --- # WRIT3860 — Topics in Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced level of writing/critiquing original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama. Reading/discussion regarding craft of writing/characteristics of great literature. --- # WRIT3861 — Advanced Creative Writing 3 credits · 3 hours Advanced principles of creative writing. Advanced literary/writing-craft concepts/terminology. Literary works. Practice writing, critiquing prose/poetry, constructing a lengthy creative piece. --- # WRIT3900 — Seminar Experience in English 3 credits · 3 hours Internship, publishing, or presentation experience sites may include University, professional, or industry agencies. Internship proposal, progress report, final report with letter from internship supervisor required. --- # WRIT3994 — Undergrad Research in English 1 credits · 1 hours Advanced research experience that results in the completion of conference-worthy and publication-worthy text.