University of St. Thomas

4 Credit Hours

This course offers an intensive focus on the literature and culture of the English early modern period. Such authors as Sidney, Spenser, Elizabeth I and Cary will provide a context for reading Shakespeare's works. Critical approaches and issues will also be studied. Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190

4 Credit Hours

This course offers an intensive focus on the literature and culture of the English early modern period. Such authors as Sidney, Spenser, Elizabeth I and Cary will provide a context for reading Shakespeare's works. Critical approaches and issues will also be studied. Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190

4 Credit Hours

This course focuses on ideas and practices central to advanced work in the field of language and literature. In addition to refining students' facility with critical concepts and scholarly methodology, this course will explore a number of key questions for current work in the discipline: How do we define such concepts as literacy, literature, and interpretation? How do we understand the relationship between reader, writer, and text? How do such factors as gender, culture, and history affect our understanding of literature and of ourselves as writers and readers? Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190; at least two courses in ENGL beyond the literature and writing core curriculum course requirements

4 Credit Hours

This course focuses on ideas and practices central to advanced work in the field of language and literature. In addition to refining students' facility with critical concepts and scholarly methodology, this course will explore a number of key questions for current work in the discipline: How do we define such concepts as literacy, literature, and interpretation? How do we understand the relationship between reader, writer, and text? How do such factors as gender, culture, and history affect our understanding of literature and of ourselves as writers and readers? Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190; at least two courses in ENGL beyond the literature and writing core curriculum course requirements

4 Credit Hours

In this senior seminar we will explore the works of English major types--that is, readers and writers-- engaging the world: as travelers and tourists seeking culture; as teachers of English as a foreign language; and as human rights workers witnessing and recording atrocity. Our reading will include novels, drama, travel theory, memoir, essays, and oral histories. Students will be creating a portfolio of writing in various genres such as literary criticism, travel essay, cultural analysis, and personal narrative. Prerequisites: Completion of five courses beyond the ENGL 100 level including ENGL 380; or, for non-majors, permission of the instructor and the department chair.

4 Credit Hours

In this senior seminar we will explore the works of English major types--that is, readers and writers-- engaging the world: as travelers and tourists seeking culture; as teachers of English as a foreign language; and as human rights workers witnessing and recording atrocity. Our reading will include novels, drama, travel theory, memoir, essays, and oral histories. Students will be creating a portfolio of writing in various genres such as literary criticism, travel essay, cultural analysis, and personal narrative. Prerequisites: Completion of five courses beyond the ENGL 100 level including ENGL 380; or, for non-majors, permission of the instructor and the department chair.

4 Credit Hours

City Arts focuses on the arts, popular culture and social change. Seminar themes include arts, ideology and public opinion formation, the politics of arts philanthropy, and approaches to community building and organizing. Students also complete a small group study project on topics chosen by the students.

4 Credit Hours

City Arts focuses on the arts, popular culture and social change. Seminar themes include arts, ideology and public opinion formation, the politics of arts philanthropy, and approaches to community building and organizing. Students also complete a small group study project on topics chosen by the students.

4 Credit Hours

Students meet with a wide variety of local ar tists, community organizers and arts advocates to dialogue on program themes. The group also attends plays, films and visual installations as a way to connect the theories studied with actual practice in the field.

4 Credit Hours

Students meet with a wide variety of local ar tists, community organizers and arts advocates to dialogue on program themes. The group also attends plays, films and visual installations as a way to connect the theories studied with actual practice in the field.

4 Credit Hours

Each student works in a half-time internship, with a wide variety of placements available, including arts organizations, artistic groups, and community organizations using the arts in programs and service.

4 Credit Hours

Each student works in a half-time internship, with a wide variety of placements available, including arts organizations, artistic groups, and community organizations using the arts in programs and service.

4 Credit Hours

Students reflect on their internship experience with other students in the program and connect their rea l-life experience with the learning taking place in the reading and field seminars.

4 Credit Hours

Students reflect on their internship experience with other students in the program and connect their rea l-life experience with the learning taking place in the reading and field seminars.

4 Credit Hours

MUST focuses on issues of poverty and inequality and ways to address these critical issues. Students explore key institutions that impact urban poverty and inequality, namely the economy, education and welfare. The role of urban sprawl, segregation and racial, class and gender discrimination are also analyzed. Students examine an array of strategies to rebuild the city more equitably.

4 Credit Hours

MUST focuses on issues of poverty and inequality and ways to address these critical issues. Students explore key institutions that impact urban poverty and inequality, namely the economy, education and welfare. The role of urban sprawl, segregation and racial, class and gender discrimination are also analyzed. Students examine an array of strategies to rebuild the city more equitably.

4 Credit Hours

Students meet with a wide variety of community leaders, educators, urban planners, corporate executives and others as a way to connect the theories studied with actual practice in the field.

4 Credit Hours

Students meet with a wide variety of community leaders, educators, urban planners, corporate executives and others as a way to connect the theories studied with actual practice in the field.

4 Credit Hours

Each student works in a half-time internship, with a wide variety of placements available, including public, private and community non-profit organizations working on urban issues.

4 Credit Hours

Each student works in a half-time internship, with a wide variety of placements available, including public, private and community non-profit organizations working on urban issues.

4 Credit Hours

Students reflect on their internship experience with other students in the program and connect their rea l-life experience with the learning taking place in the reading and field seminars.

4 Credit Hours

Students reflect on their internship experience with other students in the program and connect their rea l-life experience with the learning taking place in the reading and field seminars.

4 Credit Hours

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4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers.

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers.

4 Credit Hours

Reading of representative masterpieces of Western literature in translation, from the origins of Greek literature through Early Modern Europe. Authors mayl include Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, and Marie de France. Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190

4 Credit Hours

Reading of representative masterpieces of Western literature in translation, from the origins of Greek literature through Early Modern Europe. Authors mayl include Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, and Marie de France. Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190

4 Credit Hours

This course focuses on ideas and practices central to advanced work in the field of language and literature. In addition to refining students' facility with critical concepts and scholarly methodology, this course will explore a number of key questions for current work in the discipline: How do we define such concepts as literacy, literature, and interpretation? How do we understand the relationship between reader, writer, and text? How do such factors as gender, culture, and history affect our understanding of literature and of ourselves as writers and readers? Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190; at least two courses in ENGL beyond the literature and writing core curriculum course requirements

4 Credit Hours

This course focuses on ideas and practices central to advanced work in the field of language and literature. In addition to refining students' facility with critical concepts and scholarly methodology, this course will explore a number of key questions for current work in the discipline: How do we define such concepts as literacy, literature, and interpretation? How do we understand the relationship between reader, writer, and text? How do such factors as gender, culture, and history affect our understanding of literature and of ourselves as writers and readers? Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190; at least two courses in ENGL beyond the literature and writing core curriculum course requirements

4 Credit Hours

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4 Credit Hours

In Adaptive Ecosystem Management students gain a practical hands-on understanding of the basic ecological and physical processes that underlie environmental degradation. They develop a basic understanding of how to set up large and small scale ecological monitoring projects, and how to evaluate environmental decision making on appropriate time and spatial scales.

4 Credit Hours

In Adaptive Ecosystem Management students gain a practical hands-on understanding of the basic ecological and physical processes that underlie environmental degradation. They develop a basic understanding of how to set up large and small scale ecological monitoring projects, and how to evaluate environmental decision making on appropriate time and spatial scales.

4 Credit Hours

In Social Dimensions of Environmental Change students explore how worldviews impact a society's underlying value system regarding the human relationship with the natural world. The course situates local environmental challenges in the context of global sustainability, and encourages students to reflect about the meaning of civic responsibility in local and global contexts.

4 Credit Hours

In Social Dimensions of Environmental Change students explore how worldviews impact a society's underlying value system regarding the human relationship with the natural world. The course situates local environmental challenges in the context of global sustainability, and encourages students to reflect about the meaning of civic responsibility in local and global contexts.

2 Credit Hours

In the Field Methods course students have an opportunity to work with scientists and community members to conduct research in a methodologically rigorous manner. Students design and carryout either a social science or natural science based field project.

2 Credit Hours

In the Field Methods course students have an opportunity to work with scientists and community members to conduct research in a methodologically rigorous manner. Students design and carryout either a social science or natural science based field project.

6 Credit Hours

In their internships students interact with one of the most active networks of citizens' organizations in the country. Practitioners in the Twin Cities work on a wide range of environmental issues, and Minnesota's environmental policies are among the most progressive in the nation. Internships get students directly involved in this dynamic work.

6 Credit Hours

In their internships students interact with one of the most active networks of citizens' organizations in the country. Practitioners in the Twin Cities work on a wide range of environmental issues, and Minnesota's environmental policies are among the most progressive in the nation. Internships get students directly involved in this dynamic work.

4 Credit Hours

MUST focuses on issues of poverty and inequality and ways to address these critical issues. Students explore key institutions that impact urban poverty and inequality, namely the economy, education and welfare. The role of urban sprawl, segregation and racial, class and gender discrimination are also analyzed. Students examine an array of strategies to rebuild the city more equitably.

4 Credit Hours

MUST focuses on issues of poverty and inequality and ways to address these critical issues. Students explore key institutions that impact urban poverty and inequality, namely the economy, education and welfare. The role of urban sprawl, segregation and racial, class and gender discrimination are also analyzed. Students examine an array of strategies to rebuild the city more equitably.

4 Credit Hours

Students meet with a wide variety of community leaders, educators, urban planners, corporate executives and others as a way to connect the theories studied with actual practice in the field.

4 Credit Hours

Students meet with a wide variety of community leaders, educators, urban planners, corporate executives and others as a way to connect the theories studied with actual practice in the field.

4 Credit Hours

Each student works in a half-time internship, with a wide variety of placements available, including public, private and community non-profit organizations working on urban issues.

4 Credit Hours

Each student works in a half-time internship, with a wide variety of placements available, including public, private and community non-profit organizations working on urban issues.

4 Credit Hours

Students reflect on their internship experience with other students in the program and connect their rea l-life experience with the learning taking place in the reading and field seminars.

4 Credit Hours

Students reflect on their internship experience with other students in the program and connect their rea l-life experience with the learning taking place in the reading and field seminars.