# CATALOG_COURSES

SUBJ: GEOL
TITLE: Environmental Geology
COU_NBR: 118
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces the geological materials, processes and events of the earth's surface and crust that are most relevant to human populations.  The phenomena studied include natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, floods, and hurricanes, as well as important resources such as water, soil, traditional and alternative energy resources, and pollution and remediation of water and air quality.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Best Practices in Law Enforcement Ethics and Police Leadership
COU_NBR: 502
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is to prepare future ethical leaders for a career within the law enforcement profession, with a focus in the best practices within peace leadership, the dynamics of leadership, morality and professional conduct, ethical decision making, communication, motivation, and community policing.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Social and Cultural Ecologies of Latinas/os in the United States
COU_NBR: 250
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This class introduces students to socio historical, cultural,
  and political issues and debates concerning Latinas and
  Latinos in the United States, including but not limited to
  immigration, language, education, public policy, popular
  culture, and cultural politics.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Practicum in Clinical Teaching
COU_NBR: 685P
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This practicum provides nurse educator students with a guided experience in the process of laboratory, simulated and clinical teaching and student evaluation. Students will apply the teaching/learning concepts studied in NURS 681 and NURS 682 to a selected nursing educational activity. Students will work with a preceptor in the planning and delivering the nursing course throughout the semester. Student practicum experiences will be individually designed through use of learning contracts in consultation with the NURS 685P instructor.


SUBJ: WKSP
TITLE: StrengthsQuest
COU_NBR: 003C
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SAFS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Internet Courses
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: O
COU_DESC:
  The StrengthsQuest helps identify most dominant areas of strength which this assessment calls Signature Themes. The StrengthsQuest can help in guiding one's career by paying close attention to dominant talents and learning how to best capitalize on them. Contact Career Services for more information: 651-793-1528.


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Mathematics Senior Seminar
COU_NBR: 499
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course integrates reading of the mathematical literature with presentation of student developed projects.


SUBJ: NURS
CRHR: .5
TITLE: WOC Bower and Bladder Continence Practicum Portfolio
COU_NBR: 532P
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: WOC Nursing Program
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: E
COU_DESC:
  This course is an assessment of prior learning to validate specialty nursing competency in the care of the patient with bowel or bladder control problems.  Emphasis is placed on mastering entry level skills and integrating knowledge of pathophysiology into effective care of the patient with bowel or bladder incontinence.  Following the completion of the prerequisite courses and requirements, learner submits material for review to validate completion of the course objectives.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Applied Research Methods
COU_NBR: 610
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The course will present a wide variety of research designs, analyses and conceptual approaches appropriate to improving our general understanding of behavior and social problems in communities. Methods such as experimental, quasi experimental, survey research, interview and observational may be covered along with issues of sampling, measurement, reliability and validity.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Historical, Cultural, and Philosophical Foundations of Urban Education
COU_NBR: 630
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores historical, cultural, sociological, and philosophical foundations of education in the United States with an express focus on urban education principles and practices. The metropolitan community is used as a resource for learning about the educational strengths and challenges faced by diverse groups. Students will gain understanding of the contributions and lifestyles of various racial, cultural, and economic groups in our society, including an emphasis on Minnesota-based American Indian culture, history, and tribal government. Core concepts include democracy and education, educational equity for all students, and historical as well as contemporary relationships between school and society. Emphasis is on issues of power and the educational segregation and attempted de-culturalization of historically marginalized groups. Resilience and persistent struggles for equal educational opportunity in the face of oppression are also emphasized from diverse cultural perspectives. Philosophical, legal, cultural, and ethical perspectives about education will be explored as teacher candidates develop critical awareness of issues and develop their own philosophies of education.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Managing Learning in Diverse Urban 5-12 Classrooms
COU_NBR: 415
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is based on current research on the relationship between classroom management and academic achievement to prepare prospective urban teachers for facilitating student learning in a positive classroom environment. Participants in this course will examine teacher and student classroom behaviors from a cross-cultural perspective to recognize the effects of cultural/linguistic differences in the assessment, interpretation, and planning of the instructional and social environment in a class. Students will gain understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create learning environments that encourage positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation. Students will also gain understanding of how factors in students environment outside of school may influence the classroom learning environment. A portion of this course will explore the influence of the use and misuse of drugs, and management strategies for atypical behaviors stemming from the effects of chemical dependency in adolescents. Teacher candidates will explore multiple methods and strategies for integrating effective classroom management approaches into urban middle school and high school classrooms, including collaborating with other professionals and families to ensure a positive learning environment for all.  Clinical field experience hours are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Police Culture
COU_NBR: 631
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the dynamics of police culture and how it influences police officers' behavior.  It explores the complex interactions between police culture and issues relating to integrity for police managers.  The underlying values of the police culture are examined as challenges for police supervisors developing integrity within law enforcement agencies. Issues connected to loyalty, racism, professionalism and use of force are focused on as they relate to integrity within police agencies.


SUBJ: CFS
TITLE: Introduction to Computer Forensics
COU_NBR: 280
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students learn the fundamental principles and concepts in computer forensics. The topics include the classification of the digital evidence, the procedure of discovering and preserving evidence, types of computer and Internet crimes, and analysis of computer crime statistics and demographics. Students also learn how to search and retrieve information to find the evidence using some common tools. Related legal procedures, regulations, and laws are also discussed briefly.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: WOC Nursing, Skin and Wound Management
COU_NBR: 521G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: WOC Nursing Program
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: E
COU_DESC:
  The course focuses on the care of the client across the lifespan who may be at risk for skin breakdown, who has a break in skin integrity or who has an existing wound. Specifically, students will gain knowledge of the etiology, differential diagnoses, clinical findings and management options of the wounds or skin complications affecting these groups. Focus will also be on the adept skill of obtaining a physical assessment and medical history, incorporating data from diagnostic tests, and documentation of assessments and evaluations to attain optimal patient outcomes.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: WOC Nursing, Ostomies and Continent Diversion
COU_NBR: 522G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: WOC Nursing Program
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: E
COU_DESC:
  This course will address the immediate and long term care of clients across the lifespan experiencing acute and chronic health concerns that may result in an ostomy or continent diversion. Specifically, students will gain knowledge of the etiology, differential diagnoses, clinical findings and management options of the common conditions necessitating an ostomy or continent diversion. In addition, students will gain knowledge of the etiology, differential diagnoses, clinical finds, and management protocols of the common conditions affecting the ostomy or continent diversion patients. Emphasis will be placed on the psychosocial and educational needs of these patient groups from the preoperative, postoperative and long-term follow-up perspective.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Telecommunications and Internet Management - Part One
COU_NBR: 643
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course will cover a range of Internet and telecommunications services, applications and the management of telecommunications operations within a business enterprise.  It will address the impact of various telecommunications services on day-to-day business operations and analyze the productivity and revenue-enhancement potential available to business.
    
  This course is targeted at students who are working business managers with a need to understand the impact of the new and emerging telecommunications services and how they can be harnessed to add value to business operations.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Telecommunications and Internet Management - Part Two
COU_NBR: 644
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores current issues related to telecommunications technologies and how they can be used to facilitate information access and dissemination at all levels of an organization and through the Internet. Trends of telecommunications services are analyzed. Telecommunications trends in the United States and Europe are examined. A range of emerging telecommunications services is explored as well as how such services alter the ways that organizations gather information for decision making and manage these new environments.
    
  This course is targeted at students who are working business managers with a need to understand the impact of the new and emerging telecommunications services and how they can be harnessed to add value to business operations.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Introduction to College Writing
COU_NBR: 101
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed for students who may not have recently taken a college-level writing course or who have been placed in the class as a result of the writing assessment.  Students write short essays and work on developing and organizing ideas, composing well-structured paragraphs, and writing clear sentences.


SUBJ: COMM
TITLE: Theories and Explorations in Community Based Intercultural Communication
COU_NBR: 533G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Theories and Explorations in Community Based Intercultural Communication has both a global and local perspective.  Theories are learned to help students develop their ability to apply a comparative perspective to cross-cultural communication episodes in interpersonal interactions. World issues and news are examined to better understand who U.S. immigrants are and why they are in the U.S. and Minnesota, as well as to become global citizens who see the interconnected and interdependent aspects of all who share this earth.  Students research topics of interest that evolved out of their own communities to better understand the social, economic, religious and political values and practices of a specific immigrant/refugee group. 


SUBJ: STAT
TITLE: Biostatistics
COU_NBR: 321
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers fundamental and intermediate topics in biostatistics, and builds on the ideas of hypothesis testing learned in STAT 201 (Statistics I).  The focus is on learning new statistical skills and concepts for real-world applications.  Students will use SPSS to do the analyses.  Topics include designing studies in biostatistics, ANOVA, correlation, linear regression, survival analysis, categorical data analysis, logistic regression, nonparametric statistical methods, and issues in the analysis of clinical trials.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Community Health Nursing
COU_NBR: 456
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the origins and trends in community and public health nursing, conceptual models for practice, and contemporary health problems and issues.  Case studies of clients/aggregates in multicultural settings in the community are the basis for discussion of systems theory, public health nursing, and population-based practice.  Unconditional acceptance of culturally, ethnically and socio-economically diverse clients enhances the development of students' nursing care.  Students work collaboratively in small groups to assess and diagnose the health needs of an actual community.  Students must register concurrently for a practicum session.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Foundations of Nursing Education
COU_NBR: 680
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course provides an introduction to the foundational concepts that influence or support nursing education. Students explore the social, economic, or institutional forces that influence nursing and higher education, including concepts. Students study teaching and learning theories, including theories about learning styles, and examine how these theories may be applied to a diverse population of nursing students. Students explore the status and utility of evidence-based teaching strategies for nursing education.


SUBJ: CFS
TITLE: Introduction to Electronic Discovery
COU_NBR: 480
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course students learn the fundamental principles and concepts of electronic discovery including the collection, preservation, filtering, processing, review, and production of electronically stored information such as email messages, word processing documents, spreadsheets, and other computer files.  Students also learn the relationship between digital evidence analysis and electronic discovery and its role in civil litigation, government regulatory proceedings, and internal corporate investigations.  Unique issues involving electronic discovery that arise in international contexts are also addressed.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Best Practices in Police Community Interactions
COU_NBR: 311
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course reviews best practices to address issues facing the police in the 21st Century with an emphasis on diversity and community oriented policing.  This course also serves to fulfill some of the state of Minnesota's learning objectives to be a police officer in Minnesota.


SUBJ: ARTS
TITLE: Intermediate Photography
COU_NBR: 316
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Basic photographic techniques as personal expression, approaches to image making and printing  photographs using digital equipment.  Students explore photography as a creative art form.


SUBJ: PSYC
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Community Change Practicum
COU_NBR: 580
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Community engagement strategies are forefront in efforts to prevent problems in living and promote healthy communities. Students in this course will improve their analytical and practical capacity to promote comprehensive approaches to community wellness that bridge excluded cultural communities into civic processes, organizations and systems. Students will engage in community-based projects at various levels of development.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Law Enforcement Leadership: Contemporary Issues
COU_NBR: 445
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The course explores contemporary leadership, motivation, teambuilding, change, and working with difficult people, along with the roles and responsibilities of the first line supervisor within a law enforcement agency.


SUBJ: PHYS
TITLE: Energy and the Environment
COU_NBR: 107
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the physics principles (such as force and energy, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, chemical physics, and nuclear power generation) related to the use of energy and its effects on the environment. Topics such as power production, acid rain, fuel resources are studied. The consequences of fundamental physics on public policy are also discussed in this context. Include lab. Intended for general education students.


SUBJ: DBA
TITLE: Doctoral Seminar in the Development of Management Thought
COU_NBR: 700
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctorate in Business Administration
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: Y
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the history of the development of management theory and practice and its relationship to significant issues and challenges of today's managers. The works of both classical and contemporary management theorists will be analyzed, with students developing and defending models of management practice for their use in business organizations.


SUBJ: DBA
TITLE: Information Technology: Issues and Strategy
COU_NBR: 730
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctorate in Business Administration
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: Y
COU_DESC:
  This course offers an in-depth understanding of the values, roles, and alignment of information technology in support of the mission of business organizations, with attention given to the relationship between strategic technology management and managerial decision making at senior levels.


SUBJ: MUSC
TITLE: Music Appreciation
COU_NBR: 220
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  A general introductory course designed to enhance listening enjoyment and ability.  Exploring both the western musical tradition and world music.  Emphasis on the elements of music, and includes in-class demonstrations and attendance at outside musical events.  No previous musical study required.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Business Analytics
COU_NBR: 656
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This new course introduces methods used to find Predictive Solution in Supply Chain Management (SCM). Students will learn which methods/tools should be selected to reduce inventory, estimate supplier performance or improve demand forecast accuracy. Topics covered include: Replenishment Methods  and Inventory Optimization, Supplier Performance Analysis,  Demand Forecasting , Logistics Planning, Price Optimization.
  Special emphasis is placed on Combining SCM and  Customer Relationship Management (CRM).


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Urban Middle School and High School Methods
COU_NBR: 306
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on common methods of differentiating instruction for urban middle school and high school classrooms. Teacher candidates begin learning how to create developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant unit and lesson plans that attend to the various abilities, needs, cultures, experiences, and interests of urban 5-12 students while also meeting district and state standards for learning and making interdisciplinary connections. Foundational understanding of the diverse learning styles and developmental characteristics of young adolescent and adolescent learners forms the basis upon which appropriate plans are developed and methods are employed. The inter-relationships between standards, assessment, curriculum and instruction are examined in promoting high achievement for each urban learner. Teacher candidates gain awareness of current trends in urban middle school and high school education along with the knowledge and skills these trends demand of effective urban educators, including teacher collaboration and teaming. Clinical field experience hours participating in an urban middle school and/or high school classroom are part of the requirements for the course.


SUBJ: EDU
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Student Teaching in the Urban Infant-Toddler Classroom
COU_NBR: 475
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Supervised student teaching with children ages 0-3 within an urban child care center for teacher candidates seeking early childhood licensure (Birth-Grade 3). Placement is for a minimum of three full-time weeks (2 credits) in combination with other student teaching placements to a maximum of fifteen full-time weeks (9 credits) in a single placement depending on the teacher candidate's Individualized Student Teaching Plan that is developed with and approved by the teacher candidate's advisor and the Field Experience Coordinator.  Weekly reflections, periodic seminars with other student teachers, and the development of a standards-based portfolio are also required.


SUBJ: EDU
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Student Teaching in the Urban PreK-Kindergarten Classroom
COU_NBR: 485
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Supervised student teaching with children ages 3-5 within an urban preschool and kindergarten classrooms required for teacher candidates seeking early childhood licensure (Birth-Grade 3). Placement is for a minimum of three full-time weeks (2 credits) in combination with other student teaching placements to a maximum of fifteen full-time weeks (9 credits) in a single placement depending on the teacher candidate's Individualized Student Teaching Plan that is developed with and approved by the teacher candidate's advisor and the Field Experience Coordinator.  Weekly reflections, periodic seminars with other student teachers, and the development of a standards-based portfolio are also required.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Real Time Operating Systems
COU_NBR: 664
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is the study of fundamentals of design and implementation of real-time operating systems.  Most embedded computer systems have dedicated microprocessors as their computational and controlling elements and run real-time operating systems.  This course covers concepts, programming languages, tools, hardware, and methodologies used in the construction of real-time operating systems and their peripheral components.  Topics include: applications of real-time operating systems; communications between PC computers and embedded systems; fundamental concepts of scheduling (multitasking and interruptions); introduction of basic hardware components used in most real-time operating systems; Hardware description language[VHDL]; and the writing of a real-time operating system [RTOS] using industrial standard C language, debugging, and loading the code to the target hardware.


SUBJ: LAED
TITLE: Teaching Language Arts in Urban Middle and High School
COU_NBR: 450
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, prospective urban teachers learn how to develop, teach and evaluate units and comprehensive teaching plans that implement best practices for middle and high school language arts classes. Students acquire, practice and demonstrate a repertoire of effective techniques and activities for teaching such middle school language arts competencies as vocabulary development; sentence, paragraph and essay construction; and reading skills; and such high school language arts competencies as vocabulary development; creative and technical writing skills; and understanding the characters, plots and messages contained in literary works. 


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
COU_NBR: 625
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces XML technologies, web services and service-oriented architectures. Current approaches to web service design and implementation will be discussed.  Models for designing and implementing a service-oriented architecture will be discussed. Security considerations and emerging trends will be explored. Students will implement web services.


SUBJ: CFS
TITLE: Computer Laws
COU_NBR: 484
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students will learn the law relating to computer software, hardware, and the Internet. The areas of the law include intellectual property, cyberspace privacy, copyright, software licensing, hardware patent, and antitrust laws. Legislation and public policies on cyberspace technology, cryptographic method export controls, essential infrastructure protection and economic development are also discussed in class.


SUBJ: CFS
TITLE: Computer Forensics Internship/Capstone
COU_NBR: 499
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to practice what they have learned from the computer forensics program through a group project. The topic of the project must be approved by either the instructor or the director of the program. Each project must have a written report and an oral presentation. This course is recommended to be taken in the last semester of the program study.


SUBJ: IDST
TITLE: Women in Math, Science and Technology
COU_NBR: 330
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CIS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This interdisciplinary course explores the history, theory and methods of analysis for understanding institutional barriers to women's participation in math, science, and technology. Students will explore the history of women's participation, the ways in which the philosophy of science has created an exclusive view of science itself as well as science education, the educational and professional climate for women in these fields, and the ways in which stereotypical images of women in literature and film continue to influence women's participation.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writers as Readers
COU_NBR: 357
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This workshop course emphasizes the union of reading and creative writing.  Good creative writers need to understand literature from the writer's perspective.  They also need a comprehensive background in the various genres of literature and must be able to discuss, critique and identify the basic components of imaginative writing.  This course focuses on tone, style, diction and author's voice through the students' own writing and through the readings of others.


SUBJ: COMM
TITLE: Creating Change through Communication, Writing and the Arts
COU_NBR: 200
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course presents a multidisciplinary exploration of how students can exercise responsible and productive citizenship, participate in the exchange of ideas, advocate for social justice and articulate issues for the common good through communication, writing and the arts.  It also presents theoretical and ethical dimensions of communication, writing and the arts.  Each week a faculty member from the Communication, Writing and the Arts Department presents a lecture/ workshop on his or her area of expertise and how it may be employed to create social and cultural change.  Assignments include response papers, reflective papers, film analyses, group projects, and creative projects that require critical thinking, investigation and imagining new solutions to problems.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Administration of the Management Information Systems Function
COU_NBR: 412
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This is an alternate capstone course for MIS majors that emphasizes both the technical and strategic planning and as well as organization frameworks necessary to successfully select, deploy and manage information systems. Other areas of study include the roles of executive and staff, administrative structures, outsourcing decisions & outsourcing frameworks. Several IT management methodologies will be examined,including ITIL and COBIT. This course was formerly numbered MIS 312.


SUBJ: BIOL
TITLE: Developmental Biology
COU_NBR: 323
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course surveys animal reproduction, fetal and embryonic development, growth, and aging. Molecular mechanisms of development and vertebrate embryology are emphasized. Applied topics covered include fertility, infertility, birth control, assisted reproductive technologies, cloning and stem cell research. Laboratories include morphological study of vertebrate embryology, manipulation of developmental processes and study of selected vertebrate life cycles. Intended for Biology majors and minors.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: African American History
COU_NBR: 341
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the history of African Americans and race relations in the United States from slavery to freedom.  Emphasis is on putting the experiences of African Americans in the context of U.S. social, cultural and political history.  The course encourages examination of primary sources (such as slave narratives, newspapers and speeches) to illuminate an African American cultural and intellectual tradition in U.S. arts and letters.  Assignments include library and/or other research.  (Also listed as EthS 341 African American History.)


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
COU_NBR: 352
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on writing memoir as well as specialized nonfiction genres such as biography, and nature or travel writing.  Students read and discuss pieces by professional writers, learn to create and revise their own work, and comment on each others' writing.  This course may be repeated for credit.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Innovative Teaching Strategies
COU_NBR: 681
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course provides learners the opportunity to explore and implement a variety of teaching / learning strategies to meet the needs of diverse student groups in nursing education. Students apply and modify teaching strategies based on educational theories and evidence-based educational practices that were learned in NURS 680: Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Education. This course is designed to provide learners with experiential learning experiences focused on planning, application, modification, and evaluation of contemporary student-centered instructional methods including problem-based learning, distance education, and other evidence-based approaches. Course content continues to build nurse educator knowledge and competencies identified by the National League for Nursing. This course is foundational for the classroom and clinical practicum courses that follow in the Nurse Education Track Curriculum.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Theories and Methods of Language Learning
COU_NBR: 452
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course starts with the fundamentals of the first and second language acquisition, and differences between child, adolescent, and adult language acquisition. Students will learn and demonstrate strategies to develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing across the K-12 curriculum.  Other topics are: differences between literacy development in the first language and the second language and implications for teaching English learners; and communication techniques that enhance student learning. Students will become familiar with a variety of methods, approaches, techniques, and programs; and will investigate issues related to the full inclusion of English learners in the school setting; and that both language learning and subject matter learning are essential to student success. The teaching of reading and writing across the curriculum will be emphasized, as well as the use of technology. Urban field experience in grades K-12 is part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: DENH
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Special Topics in Dental Hygiene
COU_NBR: 699
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This independent study course is designed for oral health practitioner students and focuses on continuing development of laboratory and/or clinical skills. The student and faculty member negotiate the number of credits to be completed and the specific course outcomes and requirements to be satisfied. Through guided study the student completes these requirements. This course may be repeated. Credits do not substitute for required course work.  Register by permission only.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Nursing Capstone Seminar
COU_NBR: 495
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This capstone seminar focuses on synthesizing theories, principles, models, and skills from nursing, other disciplines, and the arts and sciences. Emphasis is placed on Modeling and Role-Modeling theory as a basis for implementing holistic nursing care directed toward healing in the human health experience. Students demonstrate integration of theory through student-led seminars and the completion of a capstone project.


SUBJ: HSG
TITLE: Aging: Planning and Policy Making
COU_NBR: 380
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers various aspects of public policy development and planning for the aged by federal, state and local agencies.  Topics include how policies are planned and implemented, the effects of policies on program services, the roles and functions of community organizations and how they relate to governmental factions in developing, maintaining and upgrading services and programs for the aged.


SUBJ: MGMT
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Writing Multiple Choice Questions that Assess Higher Order Critical Though
COU_NBR: 9037
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Special Program/Community
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 7
COU_DESC:
  Writing Multiple Choice Questions that Assess Higher Order Critical Thought has been designed for this purpose.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Pre-Scholarship
COU_NBR: 741
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctor of Nursing Practice
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: J
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on conducting a needs assessment and defining the scope of a problem at a community site that will serve as the location for the DNP clinical scholarship project.  Students will start to accrue required clinical hours for their clinical scholarship projects.  Competence Statement:  Know concepts of needs assessment well enough to identify a clinical practice problem and the scope of a clinical scholarship project.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: K-Elementary ESL Practicum
COU_NBR: 496
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This practicum is designed to give students in this course the opportunity to document and reflect upon at least 25 hours of field experience working with ELL students in an urban K and/or elementary school. Students in this course will have the opportunity to thoughtfully apply knowledge, theories and skills in learned in coursework.   


SUBJ: MUSC
TITLE: Applied Guitar Study
COU_NBR: 333
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This private study course is designed for students who wish to learn to play the steel string or classic acoustic guitar. It accommodates advanced beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Students study hand positions, fingering technique, music notation and other fundamentals. They are introduced to a variety of musical styles and have an opportunity to concentrate on one particular style. Students must have access to a guitar. Students may register six times for credit.


SUBJ: ARTS
TITLE: Introduction to Photography
COU_NBR: 115
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This introductory course focuses on the aethetic and practical elements of image making in photography.  Basic principles of camera work, framing, light and lenses are covered.  This course provides a foundation for further study in photography.


SUBJ: BIOL
TITLE: Pollution Ecology
COU_NBR: 415
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the ecology of environmental pollution from biological, paleolimnological and international perspectives. Topics include acidification, eutrophication, metal and organic contamination, species introductions, and climate change. Students develop skill with structured decision making, risk assessment and public presentation. Intended for biology majors and other qualified students. 


SUBJ: MDST
TITLE: Communicating with New Media
COU_NBR: 485
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to effectively promote and advocate for events, organizations, or issues using a variety of social media and multi-media. Students will combine online writing (or blogging) with other forms of social networking and media (wikis, YouTube, Facebook, and/or Twitter) to build a comprehensive online initiative promoting a timely and relevant issue or event either of their choosing or provided by the instructor. Students will increase their knowledge of online rhetoric, audience research, planning for media events, script or treatment writing, and evaluation of communication programs. 


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Professional and Technical Writing Careers
COU_NBR: 301
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students learn about the skill set required to succeed professionally and how they might acquire these skills through coursework. Students also learn about career opportunities for professional writers and technical communicators through presentations by guest speakers and readings.


SUBJ: HBIO
TITLE: Human Anatomy and Physiology I
COU_NBR: 201
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Detailed study of the anatomy and physiology of the human body with special emphasis on the relationship between structure and function. Includes the following topics: introduction to anatomy and physiology, tissues, integument system, skeletal system, articulations, muscular system, nervous system, special senses, and endocrine system. 


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Rhetorical Theory
COU_NBR: 685
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Rhetorical theory can be loosely defined as the theory of effective communication.  This course begins with a review of key figures and texts in the history of Western rhetoric, while also introducing some non-Western rhetorical traditions.  It then turns to more contemporary issues, including the rhetoric of visual messages and electronic media, feminist critiques of traditional rhetoric, and the politics of technical rhetoric.  Questions addressed include:  What is the relationship of rhetoric to morality?  What are the social and political constraints on any rhetorical act?  What role does style play in defining and practicing rhetoric?


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: American Indian Spirituality
COU_NBR: 334
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  American Indians have a wonderfully rich tradition of wisdom and spirituality.  This course looks at the spirituality of at least two nations of American Indians from a variety of perspectives including historical, sociological, anthropological and political.  Students have the option to explore other American Indian nations if desired.  Some community research is expected.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: American Indian History
COU_NBR: 331
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines American Indian history from the Indian and mainstream cultures' viewpoints.  It briefly addresses pre-contact time and topics in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.  Topics include family life, political/economical issues, food production/economy, religion/language, legends/storytelling and the arts, as well as other topics of student interest.  Students incorporate community-based experience into their course work.  (Also listed as Hist 310 American Indian History.)


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Race and Religion
COU_NBR: 316
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the role and function of religion in the lives of American racial and ethnic groups.  It also addresses how religious belief has helped different racial groups in sustaining their struggle for survival and inspiring their lives.  Topics covered include the concepts of identity, selfhood, community, spirituality, social responsibility, salvation and freedom.  Certain religious tradition, such as African American, American Indian and Asian American, are discussed in the light of histories of the groups. (Also listed as RelS 333 Race and Religion.)


SUBJ: HSER
TITLE: Elder Abuse Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 304T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Nationally and in Minnesota, the issue of domestic elder abuse has been invisible to most of society. However as the population ages, elder abuse continues to grow. This course will explore theories that were historically and are now currently attached to domestic elder abuse.  Elder justice means assuring adequate public-private infrastructure and resources to understand, detect, intervene in, treat, prevent, and prosecute elder abuse.


SUBJ: WKSP
TITLE: Online Orientation for New Students
COU_NBR: 002
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SAFS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Internet Courses
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: O
COU_DESC:
  After completing admission requirements and receiving notification of acceptance to Metro State, degree-seeking students are required to register for and complete Online Orientation.  This must be completed prior to being able to register for classes.  Online Orientation introduces students to academic support systems, GELS (general education/liberal studies) requirements, creative learning strategies, career services, scholarship and financial aid information, diagnostic assessment information, advising and student services, and student clubs and programs and much more.

  **Additionally, you may choose to attend an optional on-campus Group Advising and Registration (GAR) session.   GAR sessions provide students group level advising and the chance to meet in their college groups to receive program major and minor information.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: MIS Auditing and Security Controls
COU_NBR: 450
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to present the elements of an integrated security compliance platform from a technical and legal perspective.  Issues such as provide risk assessment, legal compliance, identity management, provisioning, access management, and monitoring and audit activities will be discussed.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: Women in Modern U.S. History
COU_NBR: 328
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines how and why political, economic, and cultural events and social customs in modern America were influenced by and shaped the life experiences of women from diverse ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds. We will also examine when and how women organized collectively to improve the quality of their lives. The course introduces students to many aspects of women's everyday life in modern America-family life, sexuality, work, friendship, leisure, consumerism, and public activism-through documents, films, lectures, discussions, and recent scholarship in U.S. women's history.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: Religion and Politics in America
COU_NBR: 531G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Religion has always been deeply enmeshed in American political life, despite the American tradition of separation of church and state.  Today, some fear an erosion of that separation, while others complain that we live in a "culture of disbelief" where religion is not respected.  This course examines controversies surrounding religious belief, religious practice and religious diversity in industrial America, giving students the opportunity to decide for themselves what the place of religion in modern America is and ought to be.  Students of diverse religious backgrounds are most welcome, but a respect for the beliefs of others is a condition of participation.  (Also listed as Hist 331, RelS 355 and RelS 555 Religion and Politics in America.)


SUBJ: CJS
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Topics in Criminal Justice:
COU_NBR: 382
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides students an opportunity to study specific issues and concerns in criminal justice and law enforcement.  A variety of contemporary and relevant course topics are offered for in-depth analysis based on student interest and demand.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: The Rise and Fall of Communism
COU_NBR: 395
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is a general overview of the history of communism.  It examines how the theories of Carl Marx were put to practice by leaders such as Lenin, Stalin and Mao.  The class focuses on the antagonism between communist and noncommunist states and on the impact the communist regimes had on the people who lived under them.


SUBJ: COMM
TITLE: Advanced Organizational Communication
COU_NBR: 452
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The advanced study of organizational communication concentrates on current communication topics within organizations such as interaction within a diverse workforce, changing an organizational culture, initiating technology change, ethics and research.  Students craft communication solutions and recommendations for specific organizational improvements.  Students complete case studies, community-based projects, and final major research projects.


SUBJ: WRIT
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Advanced Creative Writing
COU_NBR: 481
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This advanced workshop provides students with the opportunity to develop and refine works of fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry.  Open to all advanced creative writing students.  Those who are nearing graduation who take this course to fulfill the capstone portfolio requirement for the writing major must register for five credits. This course may be repeated for credit.  Prerequisite:  Two 300-level creative writing courses or instructor's consent.


SUBJ: ARTS
TITLE: Intermediate Drawing
COU_NBR: 306
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this class students further develop their hand-eye coordination skills, polish their techniques, deepen their understanding of artists or movements of the past and examine contemporary trends in drawing and painting.  Emphasis is placed on drawing as a medium of self-expression.


SUBJ: POL
TITLE: Citizenship in a Global Context
COU_NBR: 301
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course investigates the theory and practice of citizenship in local communities, the United States and the world.  Students draw on core concepts from political science to explore contrasting ideas about citizenship and the political, economic and cultural dimensions of critical issues facing the global community.  Classroom inquiry is supplemented by field experiences and investigation.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing and Technical Communication Capstone
COU_NBR: 461
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This class provides a bridge between academic study and professional careers in writing or technical communication. Students assess and reflect on their academic study; research and write a capstone project; develop a writer's portfolio; and learn about writing- related careers through guest speakers and informational interviews. This class is required for all Technical Communication and Professional Writing majors.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Data/Statistical Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
COU_NBR: 307
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students learn the basic procedures used in the collection and analysis of data in the behavioral sciences. Statistical software is used to conduct descriptive and inferential analyses of both small and large data sets.  Students learn to write conceptual conclusions supported by statistical analyses.  Prerequisite:  Completion of math general education requirements.


SUBJ: HSCI
TITLE: Global Health Issues
COU_NBR: 309
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course examines global health issues that influence population health outcomes, including the interaction between domestic and global health. Students study frameworks such as vital statistics, Millennium Development Goals, and human rights principles and apply these frameworks to the definition, prevention, or mitigation of identified global health issues or concerns with particular attention given to the health of infants, children, and women in low and middle income countries. The course concludes with a study of cooperative efforts designed to mitigate or prevent global health problems. 


SUBJ: HSCI
TITLE: Designing for Quality in Health Care
COU_NBR: 648
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on clinical and operational excellence and continuous improvement of quality and safety from the leadership perspective. Process improvement philosophies, approaches, models, and methods are reviewed and applied to health care delivery. Critical communication, collaboration, and leadership skills are incorporated and evaluated throughout the course.
  Competence Statement: Knows the theories, principles and methods of continuous quality improvement, work flow design, and human factors well enough to develop a quality improvement proposal. 


SUBJ: FIN
TITLE: Advanced Corporate Finance
COU_NBR: 595G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This graduate course meets jointly with FIN 595. The course examines the same topics as FIN 595, but with greater breadth, in greater depth, and with additional assignments.


SUBJ: NPM
TITLE: Nonprofit Governance and Management
COU_NBR: 600
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This foundational course explores the challenges of leading and working in today's nonprofit organizations.  Topics include leadership, management, ethics and values, board governance, human resources management, and constituency building.  It also includes an examination of the theory, history and development of nonprofit.  Students examine in depth current issues confronting nonprofit organizations.


SUBJ: ECON
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Managerial Economics and Strategy
COU_NBR: 696
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the application of economic analysis to enterprise decision making.  The basic topics include analysis of demand, costs, capitalization and strategy.  The purpose is to apply economics to achieve long-run profit maximization.  Students apply principles of modern strategy to real case studies.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Group Dynamics and Processes
COU_NBR: 614
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students learn advanced theory and practice of group membership skills, including group development, roles, norms and leadership responsibilities. Students also learn to apply social psychological strategies when working/consulting with community groups  e.g. situational leadership styles and roles, interpersonal communication styles, conflict management, problem solving, feedback skills, facilitation, and group activity planning, presentation and processing. 


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Praxis Seminar I
COU_NBR: 680
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This class represents the convergence of theory and practice in criminal justice. Students will develop a project plan/proposal and begin to work on their final master project to be continued and completed in CJS 690, Praxis II.   


SUBJ: DBA
TITLE: Innovative Teaching for Business Faculty and Professionals
COU_NBR: 750
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctorate in Business Administration
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: Y
COU_DESC:
  This course presents relevant research and theory on curricular and teaching approaches for higher education business students and adult learners. Applied skills in areas such as course and unit development, use of alternative teaching methods, and assessment of learner outcomes will be developed. Attention to effective e-learning approaches is emphasized.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Pharmacology and the Role of the Nurse
COU_NBR: 282
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces theoretical concepts that enable students to provide safe and effective care related to pharmaceuticals and natural products to diverse clients across the lifespan. A framework is presented for approaching the study of pharmacotherapeutics including pharmaceutical research and regulation, quality and safety, major drug classifications, and clinical management. 


SUBJ: HBIO
TITLE: Basic Microbiology
COU_NBR: 205
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The study of microorganisms covering the basic principles of growth, metabolism, and genetics; the relationships between microbes and humans in health care; microbes that cause disease and their control; pathogenicity, epidemiology, and immunology; and related topics such as microscopy, aseptic technique, and diagnostic testing.


SUBJ: COMM
TITLE: Desktop Computer Designing for Communication
COU_NBR: 171
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces students to contemporary computer and design tools used in the communication field.  The course is structured around a series of exercises that help students develop skills and understanding of word processing, presentation software, the Internet and desktop publishing.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
COU_NBR: 311
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines historical experiences of at least three racial groups.  Groups explored include African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos and European immigrants.  The course considers the different experiences of these groups as impacted by gender, class and other factors.  It aims to deepen and broaden students' understanding of racial and ethnic groups in the United States by studying the similarities and differences of their experiences.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: Europe: The Global Power, 1789-Present
COU_NBR: 351
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students in this course study Europe's rise, and decline, as the dominating force in the world.  The numerous political and economic systems which existed in Europe during this period-monarchy, democracy, fascism, capitalism, socialism, communism-are examined, and students explore how people living under these systems perceived them.  The class also discusses the current movement towards a federal, "United States of Europe."  Emphasis is placed on learning historical skills and using a variety of sources.


SUBJ: HUM
TITLE: The Classical World: Greece
COU_NBR: 311
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students read and enjoy classic works of literature, history and philosophy from the eighth to first centuries before the common era, by such writers as Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Sophocles, Aristophanes and Plato.  The course explores characteristics of ancient Greece and its continuing influence on intellectual history.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Microcomputer Applications
COU_NBR: 120
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This lab course covers how and when to use the four common components of an integrated software package:  word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software.  It requires no previous knowledge of computing.  Students who want an overview of computer hardware and software concepts should consider taking ICS 100 Computer Literacy in addition to this course.  This course cannot be applied to the computer information systems or computer science majors.


SUBJ: SCED
TITLE: Science Curriculum and Differentiated Instruction in Urban Grades K-6
COU_NBR: 440
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course prepares prospective teachers in the Metropolitan State University Urban Teacher Program to teach science in urban kindergarten to grade 6. The course will examine methods and content standards for teaching science to students in grades k-6. Included in this course is the examination of factors affecting achievement among urban learners historically underserved in science education including young girls and children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Teacher candidates will learn approaches for enhancing instruction to improve standards-based academic achievement among urban learners. Participants will develop skills in lesson planning, instructional strategies, leading inquiry activities and assessing learning in all areas of the K-6 science scope and sequence. Urban elementary field experiences are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Integrated Classroom Management Methods in Urban Grades K-6
COU_NBR: 345
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course addresses current research on the correlation between classroom management and academic achievement. The student will explore multiple methods and strategies for integrating effective classroom management approaches and developing learning communities in urban K-6 classrooms. 
   


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Victimology
COU_NBR: 346
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to prepare criminal justice and law enforcement students to work with victims and to understand the complexity of victim issues.  This course will look at victimization from a sociological, psychological, as well as, legal perspective.  Students will be exposed to current research, ethical considerations in victim response, psychological phenomena common to crime victims, legal obligations for victim service providers, and resources available to victims.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Probation and Parole
COU_NBR: 370
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines both probation and parole and how each field plays an integral part in the criminal justice system.  Students are given an historical background of probation, become familiar with present day policies and procedures and are introduced to treatment philosophies and future trends.  Throughout the course, students also supervise a mock caseload of probationers and parolees.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: White Collar Crime
COU_NBR: 387
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course presents an overview of white collar crime.  Students explore theories of white collar crime and corporate criminal liability.  The investigation, prosecution and sentencing of white-collar offenders are examined.   "Crime in the suites" is compared to "crime in the streets."  Issues related to diversity are explored.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: The Dynamics of Criminal Sexual Assault
COU_NBR: 315
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the incidence of sexual assault and rape in our society and focuses on its prevention through awareness, self confidence, knowledge of the offender and strategies to protect women when confronted.  The course explores situations where women might encounter sexual assault.  The course presents choices and options women may take to survive dangerous situations.  The course will instruct students in basic self-defense techniques.  In addition, professionals in the field will provide insight on rape and domestic assault.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Introduction to Security Management
COU_NBR: 310
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the past, current and future trends in security management.  The basic concepts, tools and practices that comprise security management are examined. Students learn how to identify and minimize risk in a private setting.  They also learn the basics of physical security and access control as well as how to identify potential liability in the security field.  In addition, this course examines various career opportunities in security management.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing I Intensive
COU_NBR: 121
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is the same as WRIT 131 Writing I except that sentence and paragraph structure are covered in more detail. First semester students may take this course instead of WRIT 131. Only three credits may be counted toward the general education writing requirement (the other two credits do not count toward any general education requirement).  This course is an introduction to expository writing principles and processes. Students develop skill at analyzing audiences, generating ideas, organizing and developing thoughts, drafting sentences, and revising and handling mechanics. Students write, revise and edit extensively.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Careers in Criminal Justice
COU_NBR: 110
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces students to an array of career paths taken by criminal justice students throughout the public, private, and non-profits sectors.  The course broadens students' understanding of the direct and indirect criminal justice professional opportunities through presentations by professionals in the field and research of possible career choices.  This course also focuses on the selection process, including resume development and job interviewing.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Asian American Women: Myths and Realities
COU_NBR: 363
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines myths and ideological teachings concerning Asian American women, and how these shape their experiences in the United States. Analyses of myths about Asian American women as obedient, submissive, and as sexual objects will be explored. Scholarly writings that present knowledge and critical understanding of these women's experiences and their issues will be part of course readings and discussions.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Literary Criticism: Beginnings-1950
COU_NBR: 501G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides grounding in literary theories that have been expounded from antiquity down to the recent past.  The course also covers applications of these theories to particular texts.  Typical questions engaged include What is literary quality and how is it recognized?  Does or should literature serve moral, social or political purposes?  What is literature?


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Literary Criticism: 1950-Present
COU_NBR: 502G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides grounding in literary theories that have emerged in the recent past.  The course also covers applications of these theories to particular texts.  Knowledge of these approaches offers students a variety of tools for analyzing texts, and makes more decipherable the scholarly discourse of the literary profession.


SUBJ: SSCI
TITLE: Qualitative Research Methods
COU_NBR: 512G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines research methods that produce descriptive data, primarily people's observable behavior and their spoken and written words.  This approach emphasizes the naturalistic and interpretive components of the research process.  Methods explored include fieldwork, in-depth interviewing and historical method.  Classroom learning is enhanced by experiential activities.


SUBJ: ACCT
TITLE: International Accounting
COU_NBR: 560G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores in detail international financial and managerial accounting issues. Topics include:  accounting systems for global business transactions; accounting organizational design; performance evaluation; pricing; control; cost allocation; foreign currency translation; consolidations; comparative multinational financial accounting principles; and multinational financial reporting issues.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing for Publication and Profit
COU_NBR: 541G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines writing as a business, full or part time.  Students learn to market their writings to appropriate magazines, create effective book proposals, understand the conventions of the publishing industry, and edit their own works.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Management and Use of Databases
COU_NBR: 335
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Competence in management and use of organizational and external databases is a skill needed by all business people and critical to management information systems effectiveness.  This course teaches the development and accessing of internal and external information resources.  Topics include: ensuring the availability of appropriate data; interrelating and applying data to typical business problems; normalized database design; protecting and managing information resources; scalability; and compatibility issues.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: MIS Capstone
COU_NBR: 499
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to help students integrate the concepts and themes from the courses in the MIS major into a comprehensive experience in which these concepts are applied.  Knowledge of rapid application development tools is needed.  The MIS capstone course is the final course taken in the MIS major and therefore students must complete all other required coursework and elective coursework in the MIS major before registering since the course is planned to be the final one in the major.  Prerequisite:  All work in the MIS major must be completed prior to registration.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Applied Graduate Research Methods in Criminal Justice
COU_NBR: 610
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course will provide criminal justice practitioners with the tools to be critical consumer of research.  Students will learn methods of research and how to critically analyze studies and reports.  Grant writing will also be discussed in this class.


SUBJ: WRIT
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Industry Standard Tools for Technical Communication Workshop
COU_NBR: 001
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Internet Courses
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: O
COU_DESC:
  This workshop assists graduate students in the MS Technical Communication program in acquiring skills and knowledge of professional tools.


SUBJ: PHIL
TITLE: Philosophy, Film and the Meaning of Life
COU_NBR: 102
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Does human life have a meaning? If so, where or how can it be found? How should one live? What kind of people should we want to be? How does the nature of one's community and one's position in it affect one's answers to these questions? Do only certain kinds of communities offer opportunities for a good life? This course uses movies and philosophical essays from classical and contemporary sources to discuss these and other matters concerning life's meaning.


SUBJ: WKSP
TITLE: Job and Internship Fair Registration
COU_NBR: 009C
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SAFS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Internet Courses
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: O
COU_DESC:
  Annual Job and Internship Fair at the Minneapolis Convention Center for students and alumni of all seven Minnesota State Universities, including Metropolitan State University.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing and Designing for the Web I
COU_NBR: 373
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This class focuses on the basics of how to write for websites; primarily this means analyzing audience needs, creating essential and effectively written messages, using lists, tables, and illustrations, and editing. Topics include Writing for the Web, User-Centered Design, Web Usability, and currrent Web Standards Authoring (CSS and HTML). Students will use professional tools to create a basic website. Students must already possess basic computer skills, such as managing files and folders; and adding and removing programs.


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Applied Calculus
COU_NBR: 208
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides an overview of the differential calculus for single and multivariable functions and an introduction to the integral calculus and differential equations, with an emphasis on applications to the natural and physical sciences. Particular topics covered in the course include limits, ordinary and partial derivatives, applications of derivatives, definite integrals, fundamental theorem of calculus, applications of definite integrals, models involving differential equations, Eulers method, equilibrium solutions.


SUBJ: PSYC
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Advanced Topics in Psychology
COU_NBR: 499
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course considers topics of current or relevant importance to the field of psychology and is offered for variable credit. Since the topics change from semester to semester consult the Class Schedule for specific topic listing. If more than one topics course is taken in fulfillment of the major, they must be different topics course titles.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: DNP Scholarship I
COU_NBR: 750
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctor of Nursing Practice
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: J
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on developing a proposal for a clinical scholarship project designed to improved health outcomes fo a defined population. Students will identify theoretical underpinnings, analyze scientific evidence, and evaluate the literature applicable to the clinical scholarship project.  Students must successfully present the clinical scholarship proposal.  Students accrue 100 clinical hours related to the clinical scholarship project. 
  Competence Statement: Knows concepts of practice project design well enough to develop and successfully present a DNP Capstone Project proposal. 


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Essential Concepts of Pharmacology II
COU_NBR: 404
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course builds on the core content presented in NURS 306.   Students will apply core drug knowledge, safety principles and core patient variables to major classes of medications prescribed for adults and older adults within simulated and actual clinical cases.

  Competence Statement: Knows the core drug knowledge for the major classes of medications well enough to safely apply the nursing process to simulated scenarios. 


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Chronic and Palliative Care
COU_NBR: 280
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the nursing care of clients experiencing chronic illness and/or end of life. Emphasis is placed on understanding the lived experience of clients and families.  Ethical issues related to advocacy, self-determination, and autonomy are explored.  Evidence-based practice is used to support appropriate focused assessments and management of care of clients experiencing concurrent illnesses/co-morbidities.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Object-oriented Programming with C++
COU_NBR: 266
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to provide a fast-paced exposure to beginning and intermediate level C++ programming, including classes, inheritance, multiple inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, operator overloading and virtual functions.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Software Design Models
COU_NBR: 370
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The course focuses on how to design and build process, object and event models that are translatable into project specifications and design. Topics include an overview of systems analysis and design; a framework for systems architecture; design and development using data modeling; object modeling, entities, relationships, attributes, scope rules and influences; and event models, messaging and application activation.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Operating Systems
COU_NBR: 462
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Principles, techniques, and algorithms for the design and implementation of modern operating systems. Topics include operating system structures, process and thread scheduling, memory management including virtual memory, file system implementation, input output systems, mass storage structures, protection, and security. Students will implement process, memory, and file management algorithms.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Introduction to Literature
COU_NBR: 100
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces students to methods of literary analysis and prepares them for further study in university literature courses.  Taking a practical, common-sense approach, the course teaches how to pay attention to a text in order to become a better and more appreciative reader of poetry, drama, short stories and novels.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Drama
COU_NBR: 303
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this class students read and discuss plays from ancient Greece to the present.  Discussion focuses on thematic content and dramatic technique considered in light of traditional theory and criticism.  Students interpret and evaluate plays in class discussion and in short critical papers.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: English Literature: 1800-Present
COU_NBR: 372
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students survey important and influential texts of the last two centuries.  Emphasis is placed on literary history and the development of the English language as the vehicle of literary expression.  Attention is also given to literary analysis, and to the application of various interpretive approaches.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Children's Literature
COU_NBR: 330
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course acquaints students with the range and history of children's literature and problems of critical evaluation.  Readings typically include books of historical importance, as well as new books from a variety of genres such as folk tales, historical fiction, contemporary realism, fantasy and poetry.


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Math for Liberal Arts
COU_NBR: 110
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on practical applications of mathematics and is a good introduction to the broad spectrum of areas that use mathematical understanding.  This course is designed for those students who are not planning to take any further mathematics courses.


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Abstract Algebra
COU_NBR: 471
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  By extending the familiar concepts of arithmetic, this course introduces abstract algebraic structures. Topics include an introduction to number theory; group theory, including the classification of all finite abelian groups; rings, integral domains, and fields.


SUBJ: MUSC
TITLE: Experimental Music
COU_NBR: 330
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the techniques, theories and applications of experimental music by directly engaging the materials of sound and developing individual and group methods and practices for creating original performances, compositions and installations.


SUBJ: THEA
TITLE: Theater History II: Contemporary
COU_NBR: 387
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is for students interested in the implications of modern drama on our contemporary world. In this class, students explore some of the most exciting plays in modern and contemporary drama and experience the incredibly rich variety of theater offerings within their own community. 


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Document and Information Design II
COU_NBR: 572
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course teaches students a systematic procedure for researching, designing, editing and evaluating documents that convey specialized information.  The primary focus is on effective design of layout and information, whether documents are paper or digital.  Document types discussed include promotional publications, Web pages and various kinds of product literature.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: African Americans in Minnesota
COU_NBR: 244
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides a context and a baseline for knowledge about Minnesota African American communities.  This course includes an overview of the past and present experiences, struggles, and issues and the intersections of the past and the present in Minnesota African American communities.  Students will have an opportunity to complete a community-based project as part of the requirements for this course.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Violent Crime Investigation
COU_NBR: 339
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students will learn about criminal investigations and critical techniques to enhance solving cases.  Student will learn how to identify the different types of violent crimes, and how to systematically investigate each type of violent crime.   Students will learn how to develop a criminal profile, and gain insights to what motivates criminal behavior.


SUBJ: PHYS
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Directed Research in Physics
COU_NBR: 489
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This is a faculty designed independent study (FDIS) which provides students the opportunity to do independent research in the field of theoretical and/or computational physics under the supervision of a resident physics faculty member. This course will improve problem solving, numerical/computational, and mathematical skills of the students.  At the end of the course, students must complete a research report which must be approved by the instructor.  The number of credits will be decided by the faculty and the student.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Introduction to Information Assurance
COU_NBR: 680
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Modern organizations operate in a net-centric world. New information technologies arrive at lightning speed, allowing us to share information across town, across the country, and around the world faster than ever before. Organizations in both the public and private sectors are only now realizing the value of the information assets they manage.  This class will present and provide an introduction to information assurance (IA) and explore a wide range of business services and how they are impacted by IA issues. Topics covered include:  How to assess risks and develop a security policy for operational integrity. Learning outcomes for this course include: Defining the roles and responsibilities of technical and non-technical participants in Enterprise systems development and utilization; The applications of information technology in business organizations and managerial decision making; Knowing associated ethical and societal implications; Understanding how emerging technologies pose risks to organizations; and Defining how providing information assurance solutions will keep our information systems safe from harm. At the macro level, the course will also address national security considerations.


SUBJ: METR
TITLE: Your Academic Journey
COU_NBR: 101
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CIS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students relatively new to university education or those returning to college after a number of years often find the transition difficult.  This course is designed to introduce students to Metropolitan State and its academic programs and services.  It also helps students self-assess their abilities and gain knowledge in important reading and writing skills, public speaking, listening skills, study skills, and critical thinking.  The course provides a firm foundation for all university learning that follows.  It is required of all newly-admitted students with less than 16 semester credits.  Students with fewer than 30 semester credits, or students who have been away from college for some time, are also strongly encouraged to enroll.


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Complex Variables
COU_NBR: 375
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Starting with an introduction to the complex plane, this course covers holomorphic functions and power series, Cauchy's Theorem, contour integration and its applications.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Primary Care Nursing II: Adult and Older Adult Health
COU_NBR: 641
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the primary care of adults and elderly clients experiencing developmental, acute and chronic health concerns.  Students will gain knowledge of the etiology, differential diagnoses, clinical findings, and management of common conditions affecting these age groups.  Content includes age-appropriate health promotion activities.


SUBJ: IMDA
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Creative Project Capstone
COU_NBR: 459
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This project allows students to work directly with faculty to create an original production relevant to their particular artistic focus.  Prerequisites:  Two courses in Media and Fine Arts or instructor's consent.


SUBJ: BIOL
TITLE: Comparative Animal Physiology
COU_NBR: 322
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers the functions of each of the organ systems of the animal body focusing on the physiological problems experienced by animals and the solutions that have evolved in various animal groups. The course includes an integrated laboratory in which students conduct physiological experiments. Intended for biology majors. 


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Politics of Resistance and Protest Movements
COU_NBR: 303
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  There have been various efforts by communities to challenge the effects of discrimination and inequality in society.  The creation and development of social resistance movements has been one such effort and is an important part of history.  This class explores modern social movements and their relationship to racial and ethnic communities in the United States.


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Calculus III: Multivariable Calculus
COU_NBR: 310
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This is a continuation of Math 211 Calculus II and covers calculus as it applies to functions of several variables. Topics include vectors and plane curves, partial differentiation, curves and vectors in space, multiple integrals, vector fields, line integrals, and Stokes Theorem.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Academic and Career Pathways in Psychology
COU_NBR: 250
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course offers students an introduction to the study of psychology.  It is designed to stimulate students to consider the role of psychology in their overall goal of becoming an "educated person."  Career goals, graduate school options and the psychology major at Metropolitan State are reviewed.  Note:  Students should take this course during their first semester as a psychology student.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Human Factors
COU_NBR: 317
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Human factors psychology (ergonomics) is the study of human capacities and limitations affecting people's interaction with machines.  Topics include perception, cognition, memory, psychomotor learning, display and control design, vehicular design, the human-computer interface, airplane crashes, and product liability.  The course includes Psychology Laboratory assignments, laboratory experiment simulations, flight simulator field trips and exercises in human factors design.  Experimental methodology underlies the content of this course.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Color of Incarceration
COU_NBR: 315
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the U.S. prison population and system.  Important questions to be explored are:  Why are communities of color over represented in U.S. prisons?  Is there an inherent racial bias of law enforcement agencies which result in greater arrest and incarceration of African Americans and other racial and ethnic groups?  How does the criminalization of political acts effect various movements of social change?


SUBJ: MDST
TITLE: Topics in Film Studies
COU_NBR: 330
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Subject matter for this course varies, as it is designed to allow in-depth analysis of unique topics relating to films and their audiences.  Regular topics such as American Indians in Film, Women in Film, and Cinema as Literature are featured.  Students should consult the Class Schedule for particular topics and descriptions.  Some of the courses are cross-listed with other departments such as Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Psychology of the LGBTQ Community
COU_NBR: 368
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course will provide an overview of psychological theories and research relevant to the understanding of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender and Queer lives and experiences. Issues explored in class include: coming out, parenting, youth, aging, substance abuse, relationships and sexuality. Additionally, sexuality and gender identity models will be presented, and issues related to class, race and culture will be examined. Sexuality and gender inequalities will be examined both from an interpersonal and global context. 


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Advanced Social Psychology and Applications
COU_NBR: 603
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  An examination of the theoretical and empirical literature in social psychology focusing on social cognition, judgments and decision making, stereotyping and prejudice, interpersonal relationships, personality and the self, group processes, and social learning. Emphasis will be placed on how theories can be applied to issues and problems.


SUBJ: PHYS
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Special Topics in Physics
COU_NBR: 479
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers advanced topics in physics that vary from semester to semester. Because the content of each section of this course is different, students may take this course more than once for credit. Intended for students minoring in physics in their junior or senior year. 


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Qualitative Methods and Analysis
COU_NBR: 615
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces students to classical and contemporary research within the qualitative (or interpretive) paradigm of social science. This course uses hands-on experience in the practicalities of a variety of methods for conducting qualitative and non-intrusive research.


SUBJ: SCRW
TITLE: New Screenplay Forms
COU_NBR: 314
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Through course work and writing exercises students will learn to use personal experience, imagination, and wild first thoughts to write new form short screenplays.  Films and screenplays will be analyzed and discussed for critical and historical perspectives.  


SUBJ: DBA
TITLE: Applied Business Statistics and Analytics
COU_NBR: 710
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctorate in Business Administration
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: Y
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students apply statistical and analytical techniques used in conducting doctoral-level applied research, with emphasis on graphical, bivariate, and multivariate data analysis techniques as well research and reporting practices.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Asian Women Writers
COU_NBR: 365
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the rich tradition of Asian womens literary voices expressing their chosen themes in novels, diaries, anonymous folk poems, short stories, and lyric verse from ancient times to the present. Relevant aspects of geography, history, culture, and language support interpretations of representative works; regional focus may vary. All selections are read in English translation. 


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Computer Organization and Architecture
COU_NBR: 232
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Introduces machine language, digital logic and circuit design, data representation, conventional von Neumann architecture, instruction sets and formats, addressing, the fetch/execute cycle, memory architectures, I/O architectures, as well as hardware components, such as gates and integrated chips. 


SUBJ: PHYS
TITLE: Seminars in Physics
COU_NBR: 469
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course takes advantage of scientific presentations offered in the Twin Cities area by educational institutions such as Metropolitan State University and the University of Minnesota.  This course can, with instructor permission, be taken more than once for credit. Intended for students minoring in physics. 


SUBJ: DBA
TITLE: Professional Consulting in Business: Theory and Practice
COU_NBR: 751
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Doctorate in Business Administration
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: Y
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students will contract for and execute a significant professional business consulting engagement with exposure to management at the director's level or above. The values, roles, and skills of professional consulting for business organizations will be emphasized.
  Student skills in these areas will be assessed by faculty member and clients.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Programming Fundamentals
COU_NBR: 140
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Problem solving in domains such as biology, physics, and finance using programming constructs including  sequencing, looping, selection, methods, arrays, and text I/O. Program design using flowcharts and pseudocode. Emphasis on testing and debugging. Use of a general purpose programming language such as Python.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: U.S. Economic Life: Business
COU_NBR: 303
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  How did the economic undertakings of the first colonists in Virginia and Massachusetts grow into today's businesses?  How did American businessmen and women shape the Industrial Revolution and how, in turn, did that revolution influence American business?  What is distinctive about American capitalism, and how did it come to be what it is?  These and other subjects make up the story of business in U.S. Economic Life.


SUBJ: WRIT
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Advanced Topics
COU_NBR: 599G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course presents topics of interest to students in the graduate and undergraduate technical communication programs.  Topics vary with each offering of this course.  Check the class schedule for details about topics and course prerequisites.


SUBJ: SCRW
TITLE: Film Production and Editing I
COU_NBR: 315
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The course introduces the principles and practices of electronic filmmaking as a personal and creative art form. Students will engage in exercises and projects to explore and understand editing, camera work, light, composition, and sound.  A variety of cinematic forms will be examined.  Student screenplays may be produced. Students will film and edit individual creative projects.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Emergency Medical Responder Law Enforcement
COU_NBR: 104
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course meets the Minnesota POST Board first-aid requirement for law enforcement officers.  The course emphasizes development of skills in patient assessment and emergency medical procedures for personnel likely to respond to traffic accidents and other medical emergencies.  Successful completion results in Minnesota EMS Regulatory Board Emergency Medical Responder Registration.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Assertive Behavior: Theory and Practice
COU_NBR: 105
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course deals with the origins of assertiveness training in behavior therapy and applies the theory of assertive behavior as a personal and professional growth tool for dealing with passive and aggressive behavior in oneself and others. Students apply concepts of assertiveness to personal, social and vocational life situations.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Child Abuse
COU_NBR: 306
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers major areas of child maltreatment.  Topics include definitions of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect; methods of prevention, intervention and treatment; and community resources.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Humanistic Psychology
COU_NBR: 318
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course looks at the array of theories in the humanistic tradition and the historical and philosophical background of this tradition.  Humanistic psychology is compared to the other major schools of therapeutic psychology in the United States.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Jungian Psychology: Basic Concepts
COU_NBR: 321
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the basic concepts of the analytical psychology of C.G. Jung, including the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, psychological types and symbols.  Local Jungian analysts and psychotherapists act as guest speakers and students are encouraged to apply these concepts to mental and emotional health issues and the individuation process.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Psychology of Personality
COU_NBR: 332
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers similarities and differences in major personality theories and the "real life" implications for holding different theoretical views.  Students take an active part in class discussions and give a class presentation on an in-depth study of a major theory.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Violence and the Media: Psychological Effects of Film and Popular Music
COU_NBR: 341
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course surveys social science research and theories of the impact of graphically violent or sexual materials on children and adults using two influential aspects of culture as examples.  It stresses research design and systematic interpretation of results, along with intensive behavioral analysis of film and music, and presents clinical techniques for minimizing the negative effects of violent or sexually graphic materials on children.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Adlerian Psychology
COU_NBR: 380
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This independent study familiarizes students with the basic concepts and techniques of Adlerian counseling/psychotherapy.  The teachings of Alfred Adler and Rudolph Dreikurs are examined in detail, including lifestyle analysis, early recollecitions and impact of ordinal position.  Evaluation is based on an objective test, several papers and a lifestyle analysis.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Marriage and Family Relations
COU_NBR: 388
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This independent study addresses issues, problems and conflicts as well as possible solutions to various dilemmas in marriage and family relationships.  Topics include processes of change in marriage, and problems and pressures on contemporary family units.  Students complete individualized research projects.


SUBJ: ETHS
TITLE: Asian Americans in Minnesota
COU_NBR: 262
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides the historical and contemporary perspectives of Asian Americans in Minnesota from the late 1800s to the present.  the historical overview includes immigration and refugee experiences.  The contemporary component includes demographics, struggles, conflicts and opportunities of Asian Americans in the state.


SUBJ: SSCI
TITLE: Social Science Capstone: Integrative Seminar
COU_NBR: 452
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The social sciences have been shaping our understanding of the human condition for 175 years. Students will be comparing and evaluating ideas that continue to engage and perplex thoughtful public intellectuals. The capstone project involves researching an idea that remains disputable. The goal of a student's thesis is an independent interpretation of a specific concept.


SUBJ: HSCD
TITLE: Co-Occurring Disorders: Substance Abuse and Mental Health
COU_NBR: 309
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Significant numbers of chemically-dependent individuals have one or more mental disorders.  This course is designed to help the alcohol and drug counselor to become more familiar with the most common mental disorders, the interrelationship between mental disorders and substance abuse, and various counseling methods and treatment approaches for the dually disordered client.  This course covers the main features of the most common mental disorders, how they interact with substance abuse, assessment and counseling approaches, medications used for treatment, and community resources used to help these clients.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Service Learning and Integrating K-6 Curriculum
COU_NBR: 445
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores current methods for integrating curriculum and service learning into the urban elementary K-6 curriculum. Students will explore and experience various topics, themes, and issues that guide and make curriculum integration and service learning possible, developmentally appropriate, and culturally relevant.  Urban teacher candidates will learn how to integrate curriculum and service learning in ways that address the diverse learning styles, experiences, needs and talents of urban learners.  Curriculum integration contrasts with the traditional separate-subjects approach that teaches reading, writing, math, science, social studies, health, art, etc. in isolation and at separate times.  Service learning is introduced as a core approach for integrating academic learning, civic engagement, and opportunities to address critical issues or problems in students communities.  Teacher candidates in this course will work independently and cooperatively to design, plan and implement at least one integrated curriculum unit and one service-learning project for urban elementary students to engage and learn in their community.  Field experience hours are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: World History II: The Modern World, 1500 to the Present
COU_NBR: 104
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the interactions among the world's peoples as they were brought increasingly into contact with one another after 1500.  The rise of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism were closely linked to the creation of the modern world system, a system that took shape out of the cooperation and conflict among and between people as they were drawn into a world economy.  Their experiences, the experiences of the people of the past as they both created and confronted the modern world, are thus central to an understanding of our own place in it.


SUBJ: LIT
TITLE: Poetry
COU_NBR: 307
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students are introduced to close and careful reading of poetry from many eras and social groups, and to the ways in which poets use rhythm, rhyme, meter, diction, syntax, imagery, metaphor, allusion and blank space to shape a reader's response.  The goal is for students to become confident, perceptive and thoughtful readers of past and present poetic art.


SUBJ: HSTD
TITLE: Training, Design and Instruction Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 393T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This theory seminar is ideal for students with some training experience.  The course examines the primary and auxiliary uses for the training needs analysis and makes a distinction between the proactive and reactive approaches to meeting needs for training.  Students demonstrate knowledge of steps and procedures involved in developing/writing a needs analysis, write a training program and conduct evaluations.  This course emphasizes active learning.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Biopsychology
COU_NBR: 345
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the biological basis of behavior.  Topics include structure and function of the nervous system, psychopharmacology, electrophysiology, and higher order function of the nervous system.  Laboratories include brain dissection, nerve histology, electrophysiology and behavioral experiments.  


SUBJ: RELS
TITLE: Introduction to the Christian Scriptures (the New Testament) Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 303T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the various historical and religious factors that gave rise to the writing and editing of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) in their Jewish and Greco-Roman context.  Topics include the relationships of the Christian Scriptures to the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), Paul's theology, the emerging church community and current academic methods of scriptural interpretation.  Overlap:  RELS 303 Introduction to Christian Scriptures (the new Testament).


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Student Teaching in the Urban Middle School (grades 5-8)
COU_NBR: 460
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Supervised student teaching for 12 weeks, full-time or the equivalent with students in urban grades 5-8 for teacher candidates seeking 5-12 licensure. Weekly reflections, periodic seminars with other student teachers, and the development of a standards-based portfolio are also required.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Observing and Assessing Young Children: Birth Through Age Five
COU_NBR: 357
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is an introduction to formal and informal assessment strategies and their application to work with young children.  The emphasis is on observing, recording and using authentic performance-based assessment, communicating assessment results to colleagues and parents, and applying assessment data to curriculum planning.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Early Childhood Studies Capstone: Professionalism and Ethical Issues
COU_NBR: 420
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This capstone course is an exploration of the dilemmas facing early childhood professionals today through analysis of historical studies, recent reports and autobiographical reflections.  Consideration is given to social policy issues, advocacy, leadership, ethics and organizational change.  Students should register for this course in their final university semester.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Data Mining Tools
COU_NBR: 685
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces how Data Mining tools can be used to solve business problems like Best Next Offer, Customer Retention, Customer Potential Life Time Value estimation, Market Basket analysis, etc.  This course gives students an opportunity to exercise advanced Data Exploration and Mining software.  Introduction to Data Mining tools/solutions evaluation is also part of this course.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Special Education Overview Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 393T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This seminar is designed for students who have extensive practical experience in the areas of exceptional and special education.  Content targets underlying theoretical concepts and ongoing potential for changes and growth in exceptional individuals.  Overlap:  PSYC 393 Special Education Overview.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Advanced Health Assessment: Adult and Older Adult
COU_NBR: 615
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the knowledge and skills of history taking, physical examination, and critical thinking related to interpreting normal and abnormal findings in the health of adults and the elderly.  Relevant anatomy and physiology are reviewed for interpreting body system assessments.


SUBJ: RELS
TITLE: Civil Religion: Theory, Practice, Analysis
COU_NBR: 307
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Discussions of 'religion and politics' or 'the separation of church and state' often fail to recognize the religious aspects of civic life itself that involve or suggest a sacred aspect of the state. This course explores the theory of 'civil religion' as an expression of the contemporary academic understanding of religion, involving symbol, myth, ritual, and sacred space and time; examines historical examples of civic religion (for example, in the early Roman Empire) and the history of civil religion in the United States; and inquires about evolving aspects of civil religion today as these relate, for example, to immigration and/or Muslims in America. 


SUBJ: MATH
TITLE: Developmental Mathematics Using Web-Based Technology
COU_NBR: 099
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course prepares students for college-level mathematics. Students learn mathematics by using on-line learning technology at home and in the lab. Lab sessions are conducted weekly with instructor supervision. Topics of this course include: real numbers, linear and quadratic equations, functions and their graphs, as well as applications of the above topics.


SUBJ: ANTH
TITLE: Human Origins
COU_NBR: 101
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  What is evolution and how does it differ from common beliefs about human origins? Students investigate the evolution of humans and other primates, and the cultural and biological adaptations of modern humans to their environments.  The course explores a variety of topics including: the origins of language and culture, fossil evidence for primate and hominid evolution, and human biological variation.  Students also examine contemporary debates about human origins.


SUBJ: MAPL
TITLE: Labor Organizing
COU_NBR: 630
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  MAPL 630 is a concentration course in the Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL) track within the Master of Public and Nonprofit Administration (MPNA) Program.  The course will examine why and how working people form and join labor unions, historical background, applicable laws, basic organizing concepts, different organizing models, types of unions and how they operate, current state of the unions, challenges for organizing and innovative approaches to meeting those challenges.


SUBJ: NURS
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Intensive Practicum III
COU_NBR: 656P
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the complex and collaborative nursing care of diverse populations.  Student clinical experiences will occur in varied community based settings and include the application of public health evidence-based practice and principles and clinical decision making as they relate to the actual health needs of communities.


SUBJ: COMM
TITLE: Advanced Public Relations
COU_NBR: 481
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Students in this course explore persuasion theory, techniques, ethics, history, legal issues, public opinion research, human relations and emerging issues.  They explore research methods used in effective program planning and assessment.  In addition, students gain hands-on experience by solving case problems and completing tactical projects.


SUBJ: BIOL
TITLE: GIS for Natural Sciences
COU_NBR: 418
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Geographical information systems and their use in biology, particularly ecology and public health. Students learn to use current version of ArcGIS software and apply their knowledge to contemporary problems in the areas of spatial ecology, conservation biology and ecoepidemiology. 


SUBJ: SSCI
TITLE: Seeing Like a Social Scientist
COU_NBR: 300
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Most of us are only dimly aware of how politics, culture, and society influence, and often coerce, our daily lives. The calling of a social scientist is to help us make these invisible social structures visible. In this course, students develop the skills and tools to discover, analyze, and interpret these obscure social processes. Ideally, this knowledge will have a liberating effect on their individual lives. Students will also perceive how their civic and ethical participation can change politics, culture, and society, as well as themselves.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Criminal Justice Leadership
COU_NBR: 645
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The course explores past and future trends, challenges, and advancements in criminal justice/law enforcement leadership. Focusing on the stories and lessons learned by leaders throughout the private, nonprofit, and public sectors; while exploring issues of ethics, diversity, and changing demographics of leadership within the criminal justice/law enforcement profession. 


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Mental Retardation: Adulthood and Old Age
COU_NBR: 389
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This independent study examines community adaptation and behavioral, sociological and biological factors affecting adult and elderly mentally retarded individuals.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Mental Retardation: Issues, Assessment and Intervention
COU_NBR: 390
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This independent study focuses on the study of mental retardation as a multidisciplinary study in both theory and practice.  Students gain an understanding of intervention causes, issues and methods related to mental retardation to ensure successful mainstreaming within the community.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Violence Against Women Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 304T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This seminar is designed for students who have practical experience in resources and programs for battered women and their families.  It is also for women who have been battered or experienced other forms of violence, but may not have been exposed to underlying theoretical concepts.  Students must have work or life experience to take this theory seminar.  Prerequisite: Obtain and complete diagnostic test/or essay from the Teaching Center.  Overlap: PSYC 304 Battered Women: An Historical and Social Perspective.


SUBJ: IMDA
TITLE: Intermedia Arts
COU_NBR: 340
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course traces the history and recent developments in the area of music, sound art, the visual arts, creative writing, movement, performance art and the new media arts, focusing in particular on the border regions between the various art forms, and the materials, methods, forms and practices developed by intermedia artists.


SUBJ: HSCO
TITLE: Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention and Intervention
COU_NBR: 321
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the causes of juvenile delinquency and the social and psychological factors involved in the predictive studies and theories concerning the development of delinquency and the intervention processes.  Topics also include formation of youth gangs, methods of coping with gang activity, the types of crimes committed by children and youths, narcotics problems, neglected and dependent children, the youthful offender and wayward minor, the operation of the juvenile court, and crime prevention and intervention programs.


SUBJ: HSCO
TITLE: Community Corrections
COU_NBR: 326
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers the concepts and practices of community corrections.  The specific content includes halfway house program activities, restitution projects and program coordination, work release activities, court diversion processes and programs, truancy tracking programs, and community outreach initiatives.


SUBJ: HSER
TITLE: Family Counseling
COU_NBR: 352
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the dynamics and processes of family interactions and counseling from the viewpoint of a family counselor.  Some of the major theories of family counseling are discussed, with particular emphasis on the theories of Virginia Satir.  Evaluation is based in part on a final conference with the instructor.  This course is designed for students seeking self-understanding, as well as for students pursuing careers in the human services.


SUBJ: HSER
TITLE: Behavior Modification
COU_NBR: 357
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This independent study covers procedures used in behavior modification and the underlying concepts on which it is based.  Students read and complete exercises in a text.  In addition, they  complete a project demonstrating the application of behavior modification procedures.  Evaluation is based on answers to study questions, three tests, and evaluation of a written report of a real or simulated behavior modification project.


SUBJ: DENH
TITLE: Management of Oral Healthcare Delivery
COU_NBR: 320
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to assist the dental hygienist in understanding current and relevant issues impacting community-based dental hygiene practice. Dental practice economics and practice management with a strong emphasis on community partnerships in clinical settings are a course focus. Current and emerging advanced practice issues including entrepreneurship, non-profit corporations, fundamentals of tax laws, overhead costs, benefit packages, billing and negotiation with third party payers and agencies are examined.


SUBJ: HSDS
TITLE: Introduction to Disabilities
COU_NBR: 304
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Internet Courses
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: O
COU_DESC:
  Introduction to disabilities prepares students who desire to learn about and potentially work in the field of disabilities.  Using a diversity model and social perspective approach, students learn about issues common to persons with diverse disabilities.  Perspectives of disabilities that recognize disability as a culture and acknowledge the potential and capabilities of persons with disabilities are offered.  Course materials include definitions, psychosocial considerations and societal perspectives.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Geriatric Nursing
COU_NBR: 414
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on issues related to the provision of holistic nursing care to the aging population.  Emphasis is placed on health promotion, chronicity and cultural aspects of aging.  Additional focus is on end-of-life care and ethical dilemmas related to the aged population.  Current theories of aging are examined.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Ethical Dimensions for Nursing Practice
COU_NBR: 602
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the theory and skills that prepare nurses to be competent participants of a moral community.  Content includes analysis and application of several conceptualizations of ethical behavior, examination of the roots of ethical behavior, clarification of values, ethical decision making, collaboration with others to determine ethical standards, and evaluation of an ethic of care in nursing practice.  Students explore caring and justice within health care. Graduate students further examine the ethical dimensions related to advanced nursing roles.


SUBJ: NURS
TITLE: Advanced Health Assessment Lab: Adult and Older Adult
COU_NBR: 615L
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SON
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Nursing
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: X
COU_DESC:
  This laboratory experience focuses on the application of the skills taught in N615.  Students will practice interview and physical exam techniques in simulated clinical settings.  Demonstration of a complete physical exam is required for course completion.


SUBJ: SSCI
TITLE: Qualitative Research Methods
COU_NBR: 312
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines and utilizes research methods that produce descriptive data, primarily people's observable behavior and their spoken and written words.  Students develop skills in participant observation, in-depth interviewing and historical approaches.  Current social research practices are examined in light of postmodern, feminist, and postcolonial critiques of science and methodology.


SUBJ: HSCD
TITLE: Best Practices in Drug and Alcohol Counseling
COU_NBR: 400
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course's goal is to improve outcomes in the practice of alcohol and drug counseling by linking scientific research to treatment practice.  As such, the course explores current best practices in alcohol and drug counseling, such as transtheoretical stages of change, motivational enhancement techniques, and so on.  The student also selects, researches, and completes a study project, which explores an evidence-based approach to alcohol and drug counseling, in depth.  Counseling skills are practiced in this course.


SUBJ: WKSP
TITLE: LSAT Prep Course
COU_NBR: SL01
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SAFS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Special Program/Community
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 7
COU_DESC:
  Interested in going to Law School? Over the years the LSAT has become one of the primary factors in determining the law school you attend.  Requirements: 75+ credits or enrollment in a masters program at Metropolitan State University or a graduate after Spring semester 2001.  Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Software Engineering
COU_NBR: 470T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the theory and practice of effectively and efficiently building software systems that satisfy the requirements placed upon them by customers.  This course gives an overview of the software life-cycle, and introduces various process models used to develop software.  Other topics include system verification and validation, software project management and software inspection.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Working with Diverse Communities:
COU_NBR: 562
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  These seminars are open to current students as well as professionals who work or plan to work with diverse communities.  Each seminar is focused on one specific issue in a community.  The seminars provide opportunities for concentrated learning of issues and culturally specific knowledge relevant to working in diverse communities.  Instructors will modify this description to accurately reflect course content and learning strategies for their specific topic.


SUBJ: DSCI
TITLE: Managerial Statistics
COU_NBR: 651
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to give students a conceptual understanding of statistics with an emphasis on the use of applied statistics in managerial decision-making process. Topics covered include methods of summarizing data, including collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of numerical data. microsoft Excel will be used to perform statistical analyses.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Criminal Justice
COU_NBR: 600
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: SLC
END_DATE: NULL
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces students to writing at the graduate level.  Students learn to search, retrieve, evaluate and document sources and prepare papers using writing and citation styles expected in criminal justice graduate courses.  Students are also introduced to critical thinking and problem-solving on current issues in the criminal justice system and required to complete writing assignments using these skills.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Written and Visual Communication
COU_NBR: 132
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course, which can be taken in place of WRIT 131 Writing I, is an introduction to the theory and practice of written and visual communication.  Students read, write, view and produce visual and written texts in a variety of media.  Emphasis is on developing writing skills and learning basic concepts of visual communication.  Prerequisite:  Placement in WRIT 131 Writing I on the diagonostic writing assessment offered by Diagnostic Services.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing II
COU_NBR: 231
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, students learn strategies to critically analyze a variety of texts and essays; to understand how audience and social/cultural factors shape writing; and to research, evaluate, interpret, paraphrase, quote and summarize texts.  Students write and revise several papers and critique the work of other students.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Introduction to Creative Writing
COU_NBR: 251
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides an introduction to the elements of writing short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.  Students learn a variety of approaches to creative writing in a cooperative class environment.


SUBJ: SSCI
TITLE: Introduction to Social Science
COU_NBR: 100
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  How is society possible? Are human beings free? Can the individual make a difference? This course explores these and other fundamental questions drawn from the social sciences. Through films, novels, classroom exercises, and topical readings students investigate the relationship between the individual and society. Cross-cultural perspectives are integrated into the course.


SUBJ: ANTH
TITLE: Anthropology of Religion
COU_NBR: 304
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course takes a cross-cultural approach to religion in relation to the individual life cycle, social order and relations, and culture change.  Students examine theoretical constructs and methods and their relation to a variety of religious beliefs and practices in the United States and globally.


SUBJ: SOC
TITLE: Women in Minnesota Life: Education, Politics and Social Change
COU_NBR: 317
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the roles, strategies and contributions of Minnesota women in public life, past and present. Assignments include experiential learning and investigation of community resources. Students investigate and analyze oral history, case study and traditional research methodologies and then choose the most appropriate to apply to a major project demonstrating research and critical thinking.


SUBJ: SPAN
TITLE: Beginning Spanish II
COU_NBR: 102
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course sequence builds and develops the communication skills, grammar and cultural knowledge needed to read, speak and understand Spanish at a low-intermediate level.


SUBJ: CFS
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Seminar on Emerging Technologies
COU_NBR: 492
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This series of workshops is intended to provide students with hands-on experience with current and emerging technologies and tools.  Students will learn design principles and implementation practices on a variety of platforms.  Specific topics will vary.


SUBJ: HSCD
TITLE: Alcohol and Drug Counseling Group Practicum I
COU_NBR: 380
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is intended to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills acquired during their academic coursework and transfer it into clinical settings.  This internship requires students to demonstrate competence in the Transdisciplinary Foundations of 8 Practice Dimensions (12 core functions) of alcohol and drug counseling, including culturally competent and professionally ethical practice.


SUBJ: HSCD
TITLE: Alcohol and Drug Counseling Group Practicum II
COU_NBR: 390
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The alcohol and drug counseling group internship is intended to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills acquired during their academic coursework and transfer it into clinical settings.  This Internship requires students to demonstrate competence in the Transdisciplinary Foundations and 8 Practice Dimensions (12 core functions) of alcohol and drug counseling, including culturally competent and professionally ethical practice.  In the classroom portion of this course, students will review and critically analyze counseling style, diversity, ethics and the agency in which they are conducting their internship.  In addition, they will continue to practice and enhance clinical skills and techniques.


SUBJ: PRSP
TITLE: Self-Directed Learning Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 302T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CIS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This theory seminar is designed for adult students who have engaged in one or more self-directed projects and/or activities a year. Self-directed learning applies to broad areas of interest and includes, but is not limited to, experiences in travel, business, self education, literacy, entertainment, the arts, environment, home improvement, gardening, parenting, activism, volunteerism, and the like.  Students read and discuss leading adult learning theories covering a wide range of thinkers and their complex and relevant thoughts.  Also, students who enroll in this theory seminar are encouraged to link their learning experience with the theories, concepts, approaches and paradigms being considered in the seminar.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Beginning Reading and Language Arts
COU_NBR: 482
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Prospective urban teachers will be introduced to the extensive research on beginning reading as well as the most recent theories about beginning reading instruction. This course provides the skills, strategies, and understandings necessary for urban teachers to help young children to learn to read. Various models for teaching beginning reading are introduced, and students will learn to evaluate beginning reading curricula based on the criteria learned in the course. A basic introduction to the selection and use of quality multicultural literature for diverse urban children will be part of the course. Clinical field experience hours are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: MAED
TITLE: Teaching Mathematics to Urban Learners in Grades K-8
COU_NBR: 440
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides students with the knowledge and experience of intermediate and middle school mathematics to be an effective teacher in urban, multicultural classrooms.  The content of this math methods course emphasizes the interconnectedness of curriculum, instruction and assessment.  The overarching philosophical framework for this course is the social justice perspective of mathematics education particularly for urban students.  Field experience in an intermediate or middle school mathematics classroom is required.  Prerequisites for Mathematics Teaching majors: EDU 300 Assessment of Learning and Teaching in Urban Grades 5-12 and EDU 306 Urban Middle School and High School Methods and at least 24 credits of Math courses required for the Mathematics Teaching major.  Prerequisite for Urban Elementary Education majors: MATH 106 Math for Elementary Teachers AND one of the following: MATH 110 Math for Liberal Arts OR MATH 115 College Algebra OR STAT 201 Statistics I.  Corequisite Mathematics Teaching Majors:  EDU 450 Advanced Urban Teaching Practicum and Seminar if plans are to student teach in an urban high school.


SUBJ: MAED
TITLE: Teaching Mathematics to Urban Learners in Grades 7-12
COU_NBR: 450
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides students with the knowledge and experience of high school mathematics to be an effective teacher in urban, multicultural classrooms.  The content of this math methods course emphasizes the interconnectedness of curriculum, instruction and assessment.  The overarching philosophical framework for this course is the social justice perspective of mathematics education particularly for urban students.  Field experience in a high school mathematics classroom is required.


SUBJ: LIT
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Authors and Topics in Literature
COU_NBR: 390
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Each section of this course selects a different author, topic, genre, period or issue and explores it through the literary study of texts.  Course topics and class discussion are intended to engage upper-division students from across the university as well as English majors, to build understanding of the topic under consideration and to develop intermediate-level skills in the analysis and  interpretation of literature.  See the Class Schedule for information on individual sections.


SUBJ: PHYS
TITLE: General Physics II - Algebra Based
COU_NBR: 112
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is a continuation of Phys 111 General Physics I.  Phys 112 covers concepts of light, electricity/magnetism, nuclear energy and modern physics.  It is taught at the algebra/trigonometry level and includes extensive laboratory work.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Applied Police Research
COU_NBR: 453
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Using both a theoretical and practical framework, students identify and research a critical issue facing law enforcement and identify alternatives and solutions. This course is a student-designed research project to meet the special needs of students, their agencies, and/or the law enforcement profession.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Student Teaching in the Urban High School (grades 9-12)
COU_NBR: 470
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Supervised student teaching for 12 weeks, full-time or the equivalent with students in urban grades 9-12 for teacher candidates seeking 5-12 licensure. Weekly reflections, periodic seminars with other student teachers, and the development of a standards-based portfolio are also required.


SUBJ: POL
TITLE: Community Organizing and Social Action
COU_NBR: 311
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the theories, current trends and practical dimensions of how people with common goals and grievances organize themselves to effect change.  Topics include the nature of community organizing, organizing models from a variety of cultural and historic traditions, practical approaches to identifying issues, bringing constituencies together and nurturing grass roots leadership, and choosing and implementing effective strategies and tactics.  Case studies include organizing projects in communities of race and ethnicity, social class and gender.


SUBJ: COMM
TITLE: Public Relations Writing
COU_NBR: 380
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This class provides practical experiences in public relations writing. Writing activities will include developing written communications in major PR genres. This class will incorporate a workshop approach, with emphasis on weekly assignments that are critiqued and discussed as a class. We will focus on producing clear, concise writing that is accurate, organized and targeted to specific audiences. 


SUBJ: THEA
TITLE: Directed Readings in Theater
COU_NBR: 321
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course uses full length play scripts, videos of plays and film adaptations to tour the rich traditions of the theater. Students are required to demonstrate reading knowledge of all plays on their individual reading/viewing list, through on line discussions, and the focused analysis of six short questions for each play read or seen. This class can be done at home or on site at the teaching center, and may be taken for a maximum of eight credits.


SUBJ: WRIT
TITLE: Writing Humor
COU_NBR: 356
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is a serious inquiry into what's funny, how to write that way and how to say something important in the process.  Each writer will focus on developing an idea of serious purpose and conveying that purpose through the use of humor.  All genres are welcome. This course may be repeated for credit.


SUBJ: FIN
TITLE: Financial Management
COU_NBR: 601
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course focuses on the optimal management of the firm's assets and financing requirements.  Topics covered include:  financial decision making, financial markets, risk, valuation, long and short-term financing and investing.  International and ethical implications are included, and extensive use of cases and spreadsheets is required.


SUBJ: SOC
TITLE: Homelessness: Critical Issues for Policy and Practice
COU_NBR: 309
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course explores the experiences of the homeless and the public policies that affect them. The problems of homelessness are viewed from sociological and historical perspectives, as well as from a more experiential angle. The course emphasizes assessing the needs of the homeless and students serving as their advocates.  Particular attention is devoted to race, gender, class, and age. Service learning is an integral part of this course.  Students are expected to give thirty hours of service to homeless people.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Dance Therapy Overview
COU_NBR: 502
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course introduces students to the history and concepts of dance therapy and the importance of nonverbal communication in people's lives through active participation.  Differing theoretical approaches are explained, then explored through movement.  Students learn about themselves through their own body movement and experience how their "body talk" affects the dynamics of a group.


SUBJ: ACCT
TITLE: Advanced Financial Reporting
COU_NBR: 510
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The second course in the two-course financial reporting sequence, this course emphasizes accounting theory and practice including special disclosure and reporting problems; international accounting and foreign currency translation; not-for-profit accounting, governmental accounting; business combinations; and consolidated financial statement preparation and analysis.


SUBJ: HRM
TITLE: Employment Law
COU_NBR: 370
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Key laws, administrative regulations and selected court cases which impact day-to-day, employee-employer relationships are the focus of this course.  Students explore formulation of policies and programs that respond to issues such as equal employment opportunity, wage and salary administration, safety and health, employment at will, immigration, drug testing, and labor/management relations in unionized organizations.


SUBJ: PSYC
TITLE: Gestalt Theory and Practice
COU_NBR: 504
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course students learn the theory of the Gestalt orientation to therapy with an emphasis on gaining an ability to understand how Gestalt concepts are applied.  A variety of learning strategies are employed, encouraging students to critically examine the theories and methods presented and to arrive at their own integration of the information.


SUBJ: MKTG
TITLE: Sales and Sales Management
COU_NBR: 435
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the principles and practices of successful sales management, applied within the context of a company's overall marketing strategy and focuses on the sales manager's leadership and administrative roles in planning and executing a business' sales programs.  Topics include sales force organization, territory decisions, quota development, ethical and social responsibilities, recruiting, selecting, sales training, motivating, compensating, supervising, evaluating, and controlling a sales force.


SUBJ: HRM
TITLE: Staffing Organizations
COU_NBR: 520
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the concepts and methods of human resource forecasting, planning and alternative staffing strategies within an organization.  It addresses staffing needs under varying organizational conditions such as mergers, downsizing, and acquisitions.  Selected topics include job analysis, recruitment methods, selection techniques, training needs, termination procedures, and the ethical and legal implications of staffing policies.


SUBJ: CHEM
TITLE: Organic Chemistry I Lab
COU_NBR: 231L
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides the laboratory experience to accompany Chem 231 Organic Chemistry I. This course introduces the techniques, specialized equipment, instrumental methods and safety procedures common in an organic lab setting. Students get hands-on experience with the instrumentation, equipment, hazardous material procedures, and multi-step methods employed in the synthesis of larger, more complicated organic structures from simpler molecules.


SUBJ: CHEM
TITLE: Organic Chemistry I
COU_NBR: 231
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The first semester of a comprehensive course in organic chemistry. This course covers structure and nomenclature, bonding theory, reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry, reaction kinetics and thermodynamics, instrument methods [e.g. NMR, IR, MS] and the syntheses and reactions of various functional groups of organic compounds. Molecular modeling software is used to assist in visualizing structures and reaction mechanisms, and in the interpretation of various spectra. Intended for biology majors and chemistry minors. 


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Student Teaching in the Urban Elementary School K-6
COU_NBR: 495
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Required culminating clinical field experience with children and a cooperating classroom teacher in an urban elementary grades (K-6) classroom for urban teacher candidates seeking elementary education licensure.  Placement is for a minimum of twelve full-time weeks based on teacher candidate's Individualized Student Teaching Plan that is developed with and approved by the teacher candidate's advisor and the Field Experience Coordinator the semester prior to student teaching.  Weekly reflections, periodic seminars with other student teachers, and the development of a standards-based e-folio are also required.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Teaching Math and Science In Urban Grades 1-3
COU_NBR: 486
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course will focus on strategies to excite and extend math and science experiences for primary age children. Students will review developmentally appropriate mathematics and science pedagogy and connect development to the practices used to design appropriate programs for primary age children in urban early childhood settings. Students will consider the appropriate practices for a program serving primary age children in a diverse urban community.   Field experience hours in urban primary grades classrooms are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: SSED
TITLE: Social Studies Curriculum and Differentiated Methods in Urban Grades K-6
COU_NBR: 440
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course encourages the pedagogies of reflective teaching, constructivism, and teaching for social justice and social change.  Students will be introduced to current theories and research that examine effective teaching and meaningful learning in the elementary social studies.  Urban teacher candidates will review content in various social studies disciplines while preparing to teach national, state, and local district social studies standards.  Students will practice and model instructional strategies that encourage the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.   Students will use formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and help foster the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.   Urban elementary field experiences are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: FIN
TITLE: International Finance
COU_NBR: 550
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is an introduction to the international dimensions of corporate financing, investment, and risk management decisions. Topics include foreign exchange markets, international financial systems, foreign exchange rate determination, currency risk, spot and forward rates, hedging, international monetary and trade flows, multinational capital budgeting, and cost of capital in emerging economies.  Overlap:  IBUS 550 International Financial Management.


SUBJ: FIN
TITLE: International Finance
COU_NBR: 550G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This graduate course meets jointly with FIN 550. The course examines the same topics as FIN 550, but with greater breadth, in greater depth, and with additional assignments.


SUBJ: DSCI
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Decision Sciences Individual Internship
COU_NBR: 350I
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: SDIS/Priors/Internships
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 6
COU_DESC:
  Under the direction of the Internship Office and the DSci faculty, students can use actual on-the-job experience with their past or current projects in operations, manufacturing, project management, and or decision making to earn four credits. A comprehensive project report is required.


SUBJ: EDU
TITLE: Teaching and Assessing Young Children with Disabilities
COU_NBR: 484
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: UED
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is designed to prepare prospective early childhood education and elementary teachers to teach and assess young children with disabilities in urban settings. Teacher candidates are introduced to the nature and type of young children with disabilities in the context of urban schools. Formal and informal assessment strategies are addressed as well as strategies for integrating children with disabilities into the early childhood and elementary classroom. Specific areas of focus include the nature of disabilities among culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional learners, instructional individualization, and communication with parents. Issues discussed include funding, professional ethics, and legal implications for professionals, students, and family. Clinical field experience hours are part of the course requirements.


SUBJ: HIST
TITLE: History of Japanese Popular Culture
COU_NBR: 372
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  In this course, we will examine various aspects of Japanese popular culture from the Tokugawa period, through the imperial era (1868-1945), to the postwar/contemporary time (1945-present), though more emphasis is put on postwar Japan.  Critical analysis of different forms of cultural production, from the theoretical and thematic perspectives of class, gender, globalization, modernity, national/racial/ethnic identity, sexuality, invented traditions, and war memory, will provide insight into Japanese history, culture, and society.


SUBJ: DSCI
TITLE: Project Planning and Budgeting
COU_NBR: 421
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The primary focus of this course is to master project management tools and techniques. Topics covered include a review of principles of project management, project scheduling, budgeting and cost estimation, resource allocation, and information system using Microsoft Project. Use of Simulation as a tool for Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and risk assessment is also emphasized.


SUBJ: ICS
TITLE: Graduate Research Thesis
COU_NBR: 699
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Original and creative research in Computer Science; preparation of a thesis and defense of the work; supervised by a resident faculty member of the department.  Offered on the Pass/Fail basis only.


SUBJ: BIOL
TITLE: Human Biology
COU_NBR: 105
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CAS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is an introduction to the genetics, anatomy, physiology, and evolution of the human body in both health and disease. Lab included. Intended for general education students, students preparing for Biol 111 General Biology and students needing a one-semester introduction to human biology.


SUBJ: WKSP
TITLE: Metro Alliance Leadership at Camp Friendship
COU_NBR: SL08
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SAFS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Special Program/Community
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 7
COU_DESC:
  This weekend retreat is dedicated to encouraging and promoting leadership experiences. Workshops facilitated by High Impact Training.


SUBJ: MGMT
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Topics in Supervision
COU_NBR: 121
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This independent study focuses on supervision topics that relate to situations confronting the first level management position.  Specific topics will vary with the offering but might include decision making, motivation, leadership, discipline, delegating, establishing goals, hiring, firing and evaluation employees, setting priorities, and developing techniques for effective supervisor-employee relationships.


SUBJ: IBUS
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: International Business
COU_NBR: 611
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  The goal of this course is to raise your awareness and understanding of international business theory and practice needed by a company to compete successfully in the global economy.  The course's specific objectives, to be achieved through written, oral, and individual research work, are as follows: Understand the theoretical principles and day-to-day practices of international business; describe and analyze the political, technological, market, cost and competitive drivers; understand the U.S. position in world trade and investment; recognize different management issues associated with a company's stage of development in its international planning; apply concepts of gender, ethnicity, ethics, and religion to intercultural business transactions, and develop skills to critically analyze and use data with an international perspective.


SUBJ: IBUS
TITLE: Topics in International Business
COU_NBR: 613
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This is a topics-based course in which current themes are covered intensively.  The course is divided into three parts: an integrative portion which explores business history, culture, traditions and recent economic development, assessing their impact on the business climate/environment; a social section covering negotiation skills/styles, business etiquettes and internal country resources; and a strategic section, which covers keys to success and failure for various business strategies such as joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, wholly-owned subsidiaries, production contracts and others.


SUBJ: HRM
TITLE: International Human Resource Management
COU_NBR: 585
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course covers the current issues, policies and practices of international human resource management within a typical U.S. multinational corporation. It addresses staffing, compensation, benefits, training and development, and labor and employee relations as they relate to Foreign Service employees and local national employees in subsidiary operations. Each student completes a special project related to human resource practices in another country. This course is recommended for general management and business administration students in addition to human resource management professionals.


SUBJ: MIS
TITLE: Advanced IT Management, Planning and Systems Delivery
COU_NBR: 660
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  Time to market, competitive advantage, organizational agility and emerging technologies are some of the dynamics that constantly influence IT functions such as Business/IT alignment, strategic IT planning, IT architecture, portfolio management and systems delivery. Understanding the relationships between these drivers, their impact on IT and the associated trade-offs is critical to managing an effective IT organization.


SUBJ: CJS
TITLE: Urban Violence
COU_NBR: 356
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course examines the causes of violence in urban areas and the effects they have on law enforcement, the criminal justice system and communities.  Students explore the various solutions for alleviating violence, focusing on those amenable to community-oriented approaches to crime reduction.


SUBJ: PRSP
TITLE: Perspectives: Educational Philosophy and Planning Theory Seminar
COU_NBR: 301T
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: CIS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This theory seminar is geared for students with experience in independent learning such as:  teaching, training, human resources, management or supervision; learning situations such as education in another country, English as a second language or disabilities; or other learning situations that have helped them reflect on and understand values and expectations toward being an educated person.


SUBJ: SOWK
TITLE: Comparative Racial/Ethnic Analysis I
COU_NBR: 341
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is the first of a two-course sequence that equips students for culturally appropriate social work interventions.  In this course, students acquire a framework for comparative racial/ethnic analysis by learning how discrimination influences resource allocation and stratification.  They explore one racial/ethnic Twin Cities community in depth using this structural framework.  Prerequisite: Admission to social work major.


SUBJ: SOWK
CRHR: NULL
TITLE: Community Research and Advocacy
COU_NBR: 552
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: HCPS
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course is the second course in the research sequence and is offered at the end of the senior year.  Students conduct a major advocacy research project focusing on an issue of concern to a community of color within the Twin Cities.  Students learn to apply research theories, practice racial/ethnic analysis and social change to a real-life situation.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Legal Issues in Law Enforcement
COU_NBR: 220
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course presents an historical overview of constitutional law and its direct application to law enforcement operations.  Knowledge and practical application of types of criminal evidence, evidence collection and preservation, and criminal court procedures are presented.  Analysis and review of landmark Supreme Court decisions serve as the basis for understanding the constitutional protections guiding peace officers in such areas as search, detention, interrogation and arrest.


SUBJ: LAWE
TITLE: Minnesota Criminal and Traffic Codes
COU_NBR: 240
LEVEL: U
DIVISION: SLC
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course provides students with the knowledge and practical application of Minnesota criminal laws and traffic codes.


SUBJ: FIN
TITLE: Investment and Portfolio Analysis
COU_NBR: 511G
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This graduate course meets jointly with FIN 511. The course examines the same topics as FIN 511, but with greater breadth, in greater depth, and with additional assignments.


SUBJ: ACCT
TITLE: Financial Accounting for Managers
COU_NBR: 610
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course meets the prerequisite requirements for undergraduate courses in financial accounting.  It does not count toward your master's degree.  This course covers the main issues central to financial accounting including nature measurement, valuation, and reporting concepts and issues, emphasizing management and stakeholder analysis and use of data for decision making.


SUBJ: ECON
TITLE: Economic Research and Forecasting
COU_NBR: 601
LEVEL: G
DIVISION: COM
MODIFIED: N
UPDTDESC: N
UPDTTITLE: N
IUT_LONG_DESC: Regular On Campus Course
INSTR_UNIT_TYPE: 1
COU_DESC:
  This course prepares students for the task of analyzing primary and secondary economic data in order to assist decision makers in profit, nonprofit and public organizations.  It also provides an introduction to econometrics regression models, serial correlation, forecasting, simultaneous equation estimation, model building and time series.


