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ELED 320 - K-8 Science Methods Common Course Number & Description
Students develop an understanding of the tools of inquiry of K-8 science; the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a variety of instructional strategies and processes that incorporate learning resources, materials, technologies, and state and national curriculum standards appropriate to K-8 science; the ability to assess student learning in K-8 science; and to apply these knowledge, skills, and attitudes to real life situations and experiences.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 to 3 semester hours
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ELED 330 - K-8 Math Methods Common Course Number & Description
Students develop an understanding of the tools of inquiry of K-8 math; the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a variety of instructional strategies and processes that incorporate learning resources, materials, technologies, and state and national curriculum standards appropriate to K-8 math; the ability to assess student learning in K-8 math; and to apply these knowledge, skills, and attitudes to real life situations and experiences.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 to 3 semester hours
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ELED 360 - K-8 Social Science Methods Common Course Number & Description
Students develop an understanding of the tools of inquiry of K-8 social studies; the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a variety of instructional strategies and processes that incorporate learning resources, materials, technologies, and state and national curriculum standards appropriate to K-8 social studies; the ability to assess student learning in K-8 social studies; and to apply these knowledge, skills, and attitudes to real life situations and experiences.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 semester hours
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ELED 395 - Practicum Common Course Number & Description
Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
1 to 2 semester hours
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ELED 408 - Plan, Manage, and Assess the Diverse K-8 Classroom Unique Course
This capstone seminar is a highly focused and topical course whose purpose is to acquaint pre-service K-8 classroom teachers with the literature, practices, issues, and procedures considered essential for effective teaching. Content of this seminar will focus on the planning, managing, and assessing necessary for effective learning in the diverse K-8 classroom. Integrated into this seminar is a supervised, field-based experience where students generate and deliver plans of instruction for diverse populations. Students will enroll in this seminar concurrently with the methods block.
2 semester hours
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ELED 440 - K-8 Language Arts Methods Common Course Number & Description
Students develop an understanding of the tools of inquiry of K-8 language arts, integrating reading, writing, speaking and listening, the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a variety of instructional strategies and processes that incorporate learning resources, materials, technologies, and state and national curriculum standards appropriate to K-8 language arts; the ability to assess student learning in K-8 language arts; and to apply these knowledge, skills, and attitudes to real life situations and experiences.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 to 3 semester hours
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ELED 450 - K-8 Reading Methods Common Course Number & Description
Students develop an understanding of the research and tools of inquiry of K-8 reading, the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a variety of instructional strategies and processes that incorporate learning resources, materials, technologies, and state and national curriculum standards appropriate to K-8 reading, the ability to assess student learning in K-8 reading, and to apply these knowledge, skills, and attitudes to real life situations and experiences.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 to 3 semester hours
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ELED 459 - Intro to Literacy Assessment & Remediation Common Course Number & Description
This is a practical course in which the student is directed toward acquiring specific skills that will enable a teacher to complete group and individual assessments, and develop activities to remediate reading problems. This course includes a practicum.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
1-3 semester hours
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ELED 488 - K-8 Student Teaching Common Course Number & Description
Students preparing for teaching in the elementary school will observe, participate, and teach under the supervision of the regular classroom teacher in an approved elementary school.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 to 16 semester hours
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ELED 495 - Practicum Common Course Number & Description
Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
1 to 12 semester hours
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English |
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ENGL 031 - Basic Writing Remedial Course
Intensive work in grammar and usage, punctuation, and paragraph development. Does not count toward graduation.
BH-PreRequisite: Placement
1 to 3 semester hours
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ENGL 032 - Basic Writing Remedial Course
Intensive work in grammar and usage, punctuation, and paragraph development. Does not count toward graduation.
BH-PreRequisite: Placement
1 to 3 semester hours
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ENGL 033 - Basic Writing Remedial Course
Intensive work in grammar and usage, punctuation, and paragraph development. Does not count toward graduation.
BH-PreRequisite: Placement
1 to 3 semester hours
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ENGL 099 - English As a Second Language Remedial Course
Concentrated study in aspects of the English language and the culture of its speakers. Designed for students who do not speak English as their native language. ENGL 099 does not count towards graduation.
Note: May be repeated with a change of subject matter for a maximum of 9 hours.
1 to 8 semester hours
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ENGL 101 - Composition I Common Course Number & Description
Practice in the skills, research, and documentation needed for the effective academic writing. Analysis of a variety of academic and non-academic texts, rhetorical structures, critical thinking, and audience will be included.
BH-PreRequisite: Placement
3 semester hours
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ENGL 115 - American Indian Oral Literature Unique Course
The American Indian oral tradition focusing on myth, legend, song and oratory in English translation is studied. Selections will represent various tribes but will emphasize the Lakota culture.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as AIS 115)
3 semester hours
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ENGL 201 - Composition II Common Course Number & Description
Study of and practice in writing persuasive prose, with the aim to improve writing skills in all disciplines.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 210 - Introduction to Literature Common Course Number & Description
Readings in fiction, drama, and poetry to acquaint students with literature and aesthetic form.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 211 - World Lit I Common Course Number & Description
Selected works of world literature in translation from ancient times through the Renaissance.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 212 - World Lit II Common Course Number & Description
Selected works of world literature in translation since the Renaissance. ENGL 211 and 212 need not be taken in sequence.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 214 - Introduction to American Indian Literature Common Course Number & Description
This introductory course in American Indian literature allows students to read and study a variety of genres, including traditional oral literature, autobiography, poetry, fiction, and drama by American Indian authors. Students learn basic research and critical skills needed in reading Native American texts.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as AIS 214)
3 semester hours
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ENGL 221 - British Literature I Common Course Number & Description
A chronological survey of British literature from Old English through the 18th century.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-210
3 semester hours
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ENGL 222 - British Literature II Common Course Number & Description
A chronological survey of British literature from the 19th century to the present. ENGL 221 and 222 need not be taken in sequence.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-210
3 semester hours
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ENGL 241 - American Lit I Common Course Number & Description
Background to and survey of major works from the beginnings to the Civil War. ENGL 241 and 242 need not be taken in sequence.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-210
3 semester hours
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ENGL 242 - American Lit II Common Course Number & Description
Background to and survey of major works for the Civil War to the present. ENGL 241 and 242 need not be taken in sequence.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-210
3 semester hours
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ENGL 248 - Women in Literature Common Course Number & Description
Study of literature by and about women from early times to the present.
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 256 - Literature of American West Common Course Number & Description
A study of the literature produced in our region, centered on the Great Plains, including that of Native Americans, both oral and written; of pioneers; immigrants; and farmers; Western literature, and current writers.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as AIS 256)
PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 283 - Creative Writing I Common Course Number & Description
Study and practice in the techniques of writing fiction, poetry and/or drama.
Cross-listed: WRTG-283
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL 101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 290 - Seminar Unique Course
A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to few than 20 students.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 291 - Independent Study Common Course Number & Description
Includes Directed Study, Problems, Readings, Directed Readings, Special Problems, and Special Projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
1 to 3 semester hours
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ENGL 292 - Topics Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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ENGL 304 - Fundamentals of English Grammar Unique Course
This course presents a broad range of traditional grammar topics (parts of speech, sentence types, sentence structure).
Cross-listed: WRTG-304
3 semester hours
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ENGL 320 - The Non-Western Novel Unique Course
This is a study of novels outside of the European/American tradition. It introduces students to contemporary literature from Africa, South America, Asia, the Near East, and other parts of the world. The course approaches the literature both critically and as an expression of culture within the countries of origin.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 379 - Technical Communication Common Course Number & Description
Study of and practice in writing of a technical nature.
Cross-listed: WRTG-379
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL-201; GE-101 or ENGL-101; Minimum grade C.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 401 - Advanced Writing Unique Course
A grade of at least a C in English 101 and English 201 or permission of the instructor. Advanced Writing will give students the opportunity to strengthen and extend their writing skills and to make intellectual connections between their major field of study and the other fields of study they have encountered during their college education. The course will review primary writing techniques, but the emphasis will be allowing students to develop their own styles and voices. The course will add to the reading, writing, and thinking experiences accumulated in and outside the student’s major.
Cross-listed: WRTG-401
3 semester hours
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ENGL 406 - Literature for Young Adults Unique Course
This course focuses on authors and the basic genres of literature for young adults with analysis of literary quality, book selection, adolescent needs and reading interests. This course also includes discussion of censorship, current publication practices and methods of generating reading interests among young adults.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as LIBM 406)
3 semester hours
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ENGL 409 - Teaching English as a Second Language Common Course Number & Description
This course prepares teachers to teach English to those whose native language is not English.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 411 - Bible As Literature Unique Course
Analysis of Old and New Testament texts in their historical and philosophical contexts, which are literary in form (that is, lyric, dramatic, epic, and narrative) for their aesthetic and ethical meanings.
PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 412 - Composition for the English Teacher Unique Course
The course allows prospective teachers to broaden their skills as writers and writing teachers and will introduce them to the theories and practices of successful teachers of writing while at the same time providing opportunities for future language arts teachers to become familiar with various technologies and their use.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 426 - History/Structures of English Unique Course
This course offers students a comprehensive historical background for understanding Modern English. It also explores such issues as attitudes toward language; varieties of English; regionalisms and their contributions to the richness of English: the interconnection of language, culture and identity; and language acquisition. Contemporary topics such as bilingualism, multilingualism, inclusive language and standardization are also explored.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 431 - Shakespeare I Common Course Number & Description
Studies of the comedies and their background.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 432 - Shakespeare II Common Course Number & Description
Studies of the tragedies and their background.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 453 - American Renaissance Common Course Number & Description
An analysis of the major American writers from 1820-1865.
Registration Restriction: Junior Class Standing
3 semester hours
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ENGL 468 - Contemporary Fiction Common Course Number & Description
A study of the significant trends in contemporary fiction.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 476 - Creative Writing: Fiction Common Course Number & Description
Advanced study of the writing process concentrating on fiction.
Cross-listed: WRTG-476
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL/WRTG-283
3 semester hours
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ENGL 478 - Creative Writing: Poetry Common Course Number & Description
Advanced study of the writing process concentrating on poetry.
Cross-listed: WRTG-478
BH-PreRequisite: ENGL 101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 482 - Creative Writing II Common Course Number & Description
Advanced study of the writing process with the opportunity to concentrate on a single genre, such as poetry, fiction, or drama.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 483 - Advanced Creative Writing Common Course Number & Description
Advanced study of the writing process with the emphasis on refining technique and style in a genre of the student’s choice, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama.
3 semester hours
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ENGL 484 - Literary Criticism Common Course Number & Description
The theory and practice of various critical approaches to literature.
PreRequisite: ENGL-101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 486 - Rhetorical Theory & Practice Common Course Number & Description
Survey of the developments and applications of the theories of rhetoric.
Cross-listed: WRTG-486
PreRequisite: ENGL 101
3 semester hours
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ENGL 490 - Seminar Common Course Number & Description
A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than 20 students.
1 to 4 semester hours
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ENGL 491 - Independent Study Common Course Number & Description
Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
Cross-listed: WRTG-491
Registration Restriction: Permission of Instructor
1 to 5 semester hours
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ENGL 492 - Topics Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
Cross-listed: WRTG-492
1 to 5 semester hours
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ENTR 336 - Entrepreneurship I Common Course Number & Description
This course is an introduction to the concepts, terminology, and
process of new venture creation, operation and growth, as well as
the introduction of entrepreneurial management practices into
existing businesses. New ventures include public and non-profit
institutions as well as for profit businesses. This course will
assist in the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities and
strategies and the role of personal factors (including
creativity). Legal, ethical, and social responsibilities are
emphasized.
3 semester hours
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ENTR 406 - Accounting for Entrepreneurs Common Course Number & Description
Accounting concepts and practices for entrepreneurs/small
business owners. Emphasis given to the use of accounting tools to
solve small business problems.
3 semester hours
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ENTR 438 - Entrepreneurship II Common Course Number & Description
This course focuses on the process of screening an opportunity,
drafting a personal entrepreneurial strategy, and understanding
the business plan writing process. Building the entrepreneurial
team and the acquisition and management of financial resources
are emphasized along with venture growth, harvest strategies, and
valuation.
3 semester hours
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ENTR 489 - Business Plan Writing and Competition Common Course Number & Description
Students will write a business plan and present it to a panel of
faculty and business community members. The top three business
plan presenters will move on to a statewide competition.
1 semester hours
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Foreign Language |
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EXCH 487 - Study Abroad Common Course Number & Description
Designed to keep a student active in the regental system if out for one to two semester(s) for study abroad program and not enrolling in credit at the university. Does not guarantee eligibility for financial aid. Repeatable, but for no more than three consecutive terms at any one point.
PreRequisite: Permission of Instructor - Tracking Course
0 semester hours
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FL 391 - Independent Study Unique Course
Includes Directed Study, Problems, Readings, Directed Readings, Special Problems, and Special Projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
Note: This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
1 to 6 semester hours
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Foundations of Education |
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EDFN 210 - Issues and Strategies in Reading Unique Course
This is a practical course in which students will discuss the interrelationships of reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Using a hands-on approach, students will develop strategies for teaching phonics, vocabulary, fluency and the comprehension of reading.
2 semester hours
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EDFN 295 - Practicum: Pre-Admission Unique Course
Applied, monitored, and supervised field-based experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and/or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with Field Experience courses.
1 semester hours
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EDFN 300 - Using Educational Research Unique Course
This course provides an introduction to educational research for pre-service teachers. It will review No Child Left Behind legislation and its mandate for teachers to use classroom practices that are grounded in scientifically based research to improve student learning. Students will acquire skills in the interpretation and evaluation of both qualitative and quantitative educational research.
2 semester hours
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EDFN 338 - Foundations of American Education Common Course Number & Description
A survey of the goals, history, organization, and philosophy of pre-K-12 American education, with emphasis on teaching as a profession; contemporary issues and practices, legal and ethical responsibilities, and attributes of effective teachers.
1 to 2 semester hours
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EDFN 365 - Computer-Based Technology & Learning Common Course Number & Description
Prepares students to integrate computers into the curriculum by exploring the evolving uses and expectations of technology as a teaching and learning tool. Course objectives based on ISTE standards.
Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Education
2 to 3 semester hours
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EDFN 395 - Practicum Common Course Number & Description
Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
1 semester hours
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EDFN 475 - Human Relations Common Course Number & Description
This course is designed to reflect the six strands of the human relations component as mandated by the South Dakota Board of Education. Students will develop expertise in listening and communicating to create a climate within the school environment that is more conducive to learning. The course is also designed to help the participants understand the community issues in education and to encourage the teachers to be more aware of ways to strengthen community involvement in the school. Another area that will be addressed is the dehumanizing impact of biases and negative stereotyping.
3 semester hours
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French |
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FREN 101 - Introductory French I Common Course Number & Description
Fundamentals of language structure and introduction to French culture enabling students to converse, read, and write simple French. Class work may be supplemented with required aural/oral practice outside of class.
4 semester hours
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FREN 102 - Introductory French II Common Course Number & Description
Fundamentals of language structure and introduction to French culture enabling students to converse, read, and write simple French. Class work may be supplemented with required aural/oral practice outside of class.
PreRequisite: FREN-101
4 semester hours
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FREN 201 - Intermediate French I Common Course Number & Description
Goals of the introductory course continued. Emphasis on cultural and intellectual aspects of French life and literature. Class work may be supplemented with required aural/oral practice outside of class.
PreRequisite: FREN-102
4 semester hours
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FREN 202 - Intermediate French II Common Course Number & Description
Continues FREN 201. Laboratory as required.
PreRequisite: FREN-201
4 semester hours
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General Studies |
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GS 100 - University Experience Common Course Number & Description
The primary purpose of this course is to help students transition successfully to the university. The focus of the course will be to familiarize students with campus resources and to facilitate their engagement in the university experience. Through group discussions with a faculty mentor, students will develop critical thinking and social interaction skills to prepare them for the academic environment. Students will become active participants in the university community. Course content will include access to university resources, college policies, role of the academic advisor, student support services, and university academic requirements.
0 to 1 semester hours
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GS 189 - Program Tracking Unique Course
Used to track students who are degree seeking, but not currently enrolled at BHSU to keep their programs active.
0 semester hours
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GS 491 - Independent Study Common Course Number & Description
Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depend upon the requirements of the topic.
1-3 semester hours
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Geography |
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GEOG 101 - Introduction to Geography Common Course Number & Description
The course presents a broad, introductory overview of geographic concepts, themes, and elements designed to help students better understand and analyze the world from a geographic perspective. It provides a background to Earth’s physical and human elements and systems. It also emphasizes the unique quality of world regions, and the spatial interaction of people, elements, and regions, as well as major global and regional problems and prospects.
3 semester hours
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GEOG 210 - World Regional Geography Common Course Number & Description
A survey of the Earth from a broad global framework through the differentiation of the world in terms of both natural and human environmental features and characteristics on a regional basis.
3 semester hours
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GEOG 292 - Topics Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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GEOG 305 - A Physical Approach to Geography Unique Course
This course is designed to prepare students in the many components of Physical Geography and to ensure that they become more aware of the international implications of haphazard interaction with the environment.
3 semester hours
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GEOG 319 - World Environmental History Unique Course
Examines the history of interactions between human cultures and the natural world, from early humans to the present day.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as HIST 319)
3 semester hours
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GEOG 346 - Canada: History and Geography Common Course Number & Description
Examines the impact of the physical geography of Canada upon the nation’s exploration, settlement, and development from the earliest inhabitants to modern times, and emphasizes the economic and cultural relations between Canada and the United States.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as HIST 346)
3 semester hours
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GEOG 379 - Environmental History of the U.S. Unique Course
Examines the relationship between the natural environment and the historical movements of humans by tracing U.S. environmental changes, beginning with the activities of the Native American peoples through the Euro-American presence to the Cold War era.
3 semester hours
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GEOG 400 - Cultural Geography Common Course Number & Description
A detailed analysis of the concept of culture in a geographical context, including such applications as culture and nature, cultural growth and change, cultural universals, culture and economy, cultural relativity, cultural landscape, culture region, and cultural conflict.
3 semester hours
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GEOG 450 - Geographical Education Unique Course
This course covers geographical thought and historical trends. It considers viewpoints and methods prevalent in the discipline, together with various themes and relationships which influence methods of teaching geography. Discussed are the subject’s position in a global world and the constant changes which affect life on the planet.
3 semester hours
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GEOG 459 - Political Geography Common Course Number & Description
An examination of world regions and concepts that have political significance, such as language, boundaries, electoral geography, the law of the sea, and nationalism. International, national, and local perspectives are addressed.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as POLS 459)
3 semester hours
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GEOG 491 - Independent Study Common Course Number & Description
Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
1 to 4 semester hours
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GEOG 492 - Topics Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
1 to 5 semester hours
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Geology |
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GEOL 201 - Physical Geology Common Course Number & Description
Basic concepts in the study of the earth and its history. Brief introduction of the earth’s place in the universe and solar system and the evolution, composition and structure of the earth. Introduction to minerals, and igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Survey of geological processes acting at the surface of the Earth such as wind, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and the sea; introduction to internal processes regarding plate tectonics theory and growth of mountains. Societal implications of geological processes are emphasized throughout the course.
CoRequisite: GEOL-201L
3 semester hours
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GEOL 201L - Physical Geology Laboratory Common Course Number & Description
Laboratory experiences to accompany GEOL 201.
CoRequisite: GEOL-201
1 semester hours
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GEOL 203 - Historical Geology Unique Course
In this study of changes in continents and oceans through
geological time, emphasis is placed on the origin of mountains
and the evolution of living things as read from the fossil
record.
CoRequisite: GEOL-203L
3 semester hours
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GEOL 203L - Historical Geology Lab Unique Course
This is a completion of activities to complement GEOL 203. Topics
include sedimentary rocks, fossils of lower groups, plants, and
animals, reading of geological maps and the concepts of plate
tectonics.
CoRequisite: GEOL-203
1 semester hours
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GEOL 291 - Independent Study Unique Course
Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings,
special problems and special projects. Students complete
individualized plans of study which include significant
one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and
students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments
are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the
requirements of the topic.
1 to 3 semester hours
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GEOL 292 - Topics Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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GEOL 310 - Volcanology Unique Course
This course is a study of the processes that occur at volcanoes
on Earth and the other terrestrial planets. Topics include
eruption triggering mechanisms, lava flow formation, pyroclastic
flow formation, lahars, volcanic gas, volcanic hazards, and case
students of recent eruptions.
PreRequisite:
GEOL-201
3 semester hours
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GEOL 321 - Conservation of Natural Resources Unique Course
This is a study of the history of the exploitation of our renewable and nonrenewable resources, and the contemporary practices used in their conservation.
Cross-listed: (Also offered as BIOL 321)
PreRequisite: BIOL-151 BIOL-151L BIOL-153 BIOL-153L
3 semester hours
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GEOL 340 - Mineralogy/Petrology Unique Course
This course will cover the origin and occurrence of rocks and
minerals. Topics include crystallography, crystal chemistry and
physics, rock and mineral hand specimen identification, optical
properties of minerals, and the classification of igneous,
sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Field trips to study various
rock outcrops will be included.
PreRequisite:
CHEM-112 GEOL-201
4 semester hours
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GEOL 350 - Environmental Geology Unique Course
This course will allow students to examine how human activities influence the earth’s physical environment. Students will apply a basic understanding of geological principles to better understand world environmental problems. Field trips to environmentally sensitive areas will be scheduled.
PreRequisite: GEOL-201
3 semester hours
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GEOL 360 - Environmental Geochemistry Unique Course
This is a course designed to study the origin and distribution of
chemical elements within the earth and solar system, global
geochemical cycles, contaminants, water and air pollution,
chemical waste disposal and relationships between environment and
health. Field trips will be included.
PreRequisite:
GEOL-201 CHEM-114
3 semester hours
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GEOL 370 - Hydrogeology Unique Course
A study of water movement through geologic materials. Topics
include subsurface flow modeling, physical properties of
aquifers, land subsidence and ground water rights. Field trips
will be included.
PreRequisite:
GEOL-201 PHYS-211 MATH-102
3 semester hours
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GEOL 390 - Seminar Unique Course
A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student
presentations and discussions of reports based on literature,
practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over
electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division
or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than
20 students.
3 semester hours
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GEOL 392 - Topics Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
3 semester hours
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GEOL 490 - Seminar Unique Course
A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student
presentations and discussions of reports based on literature,
practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over
electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division
or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than
20 students.
3 semester hours
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