The listing of courses is as accurate as possible at the time of publication of the catalog. Please note that the University reserves the right to change requirements where changes are necessary to comply with Board of Regents policy directives, to meet external demands relating to accountability or accreditation standards, to reflect curriculum changes or substitutions or to implement evolving discipline requirements in major fields. For information regarding definition and assignment of credit hours and the level and numbering of courses, the University follows SDBOR policy 2:32 and SDBOR policy 2:8.
HSC (Health Science)
HSC 241L - Medical Emergencies II Laboratory
In this course the student will master assessment skills and use assessment techniques to identify different patient maladies based on previously learned information. The student will continue to perfect advanced airway skills as well as intravenous therapy skills.
HSC 250 - Healthcare Terminology in the Clinical Setting
Healthcare practitioners utilize specialized terminology common across the healthcare professions. This course serves as a solid foundation to enhance understanding of the specialized terminology and jump-start learning for those students interested in a large variety of health care careers. Realistic patient case studies provide the opportunity for application and enhanced retention of the healthcare terminology.
This course takes an in-depth look at traumatic injuries and their effects on the human body. The student will learn a mastery of fluid resuscitation as well as body kinematics and their relationship to different injury accidents experienced by EMS trauma patients.
This course is designed for students with an interest of working in the healthcare industry. Emphasis is placed on student identification of individual goals and assessment of talents. Career options are explored and job market is analyzed. Students will learn how to search for employment, create resumes, cover letters, and conduct mock interviews. Academic plans for career pathways are developed.
HSC 275 - Comparative Cultures, Theory and Leadership in Healthcare
Health care practitioners are expected to provide culturally congruent care that meets the patient’s cultural values and lifestyles. Students will read selected information related to the importance of cultural competency in health care. Students will also gain an understanding of culturally relevant theory and learn to apply correlating models as a foundation for their practice. This course provides Health Science students an opportunity to achieve the program outcome of global citizenship.
HSC 280 - Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology [SGR #6]
HSC 280 Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology is designed to introduce students to essential concepts in anatomy and physiology, including basic chemistry, cell and tissue studies, and an overview of all the body systems. Students are introduced to scientific thinking. Intended for allied health and social service programs, and as a general natural science course. This is a single semester course and is not intended for those students seeking admission to a professional health program such as nursing, dental hygiene, physical therapy, occupational therapy or physician assistant studies.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #6
Prerequisites and Corequisites Co-requisite: HSC 280L
This course involves the study of functional or physiologic changes in the body that result from disease processes. Basic concepts and processes in pathophysiology are presented. Students will learn about specific disorders (or disease states) including etiology, signs and symptoms, and treatment. This course provides a foundation and resource for students in a variety of healthcare professional programs.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: HSC 280/280L Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology or PHGY 220/220L and PHGY 230/230L.
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.
Cardiac emergencies are some of the most serious and common emergencies in the pre-hospital setting requiring the Paramedic candidate to become an expert in emergency cardiology. The student will take an in-depth look at the anatomy of the heart, then master ECGs and use that information to appropriately treat his or her patients.
The course focuses on the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential to function as a paramedic with other departments within emergency services. The student will learn the principles of operating an emergency vehicle.
HSC 305 - Professional Communication and Relationship Centered Care
This course provides an opportunity to explore human relations in health care organizations. The dimensions of relationship centered care and its role in a reformed system of care are explored. Includes respectful communication essential to working as a member of the interprofessional team.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Instructor consent required.
The course will build on the student’s previous knowledge of the Spanish language with a specific emphasis on the language a health professional will need when communicating with a patient. Medical terminology, anatomy, personal information and expressions of feelings will be at the core of the course. The course will also address related cultural issues.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: A solid base of skills up to Spanish 202, an appropriate placement test score, or permission from the Spanish Program. The course is cross-listed and applicable to the Health Sciences and Languages, Linguistics & Philosophy Departments.
The course examines professionalism and professional behaviors as they apply to EMS practitioners and their roles within the Emergency Response team as a whole. The student will make final preparations for certification at the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic level.
Health Care Delivery explores the history of health care delivery and how it has evolved to the current state. Contemporary trends in health care and ethical issues are considered. The importance of a system approach is emphasized. The continuum of care and the role of providers are discussed. The influence of reimbursement, payment processes, regulations, compliance demands, standards, quality assurance, and accreditation are explored.
This course will cover the key elements of public health using an evidence-based population health approach. Students will explore through case studies the history, mission, essential services, core function, infrastructure, and care options. This course will use the United States public health system as its focus, but students will be exposed to global issues, views, and case studies from an international perspective.
This course will cover the key elements of epidemiology, integrating quantitative thinking, inquiry and analysis, and teamwork. Student will explore the terminology, experimental designs, and application of epidemiology to public health problems. Key sources of epidemiological data will be examined, as will the principles, promise, and problems of public health programs. Students will learn to calculate and interpret basic epidemiological measures and reports.
The course will provide an introduction to global health issues to include the burden and distribution of disease and mortality in various places in the developed and developing world. Determinants of global health disparities will be addressed with an examination of how economic, political, cultural, and behavioral factors relate to and affect disease spread and management. The formation of global health policies and the outcomes of evidenced-based global health interventions will be explored. Lastly, this course will address emerging innovations to bring resources to health problems in developing countries.
HSC 330 - Native People’s Health Care, Promotion and Policy
This course addresses healthcare systems, policy, and health conditions common to Native Peoples. The course also studies environmentally related illness, healthy environments and innovative healing and illness prevention strategies in a current Native context.
HSC 340 - Interprofessional Approach to Person-Centered Care
This course examines interprofessional teamwork which characterizes relationships between professions when providing services and supports to individuals and families. Levels of cooperation, coordination and collaboration among the professions working across various agencies and facilities will be discussed.
The course focuses on professional attitudes, knowledge and skills essential in health care. Compassion, accountability, ethics, integrity and medical law are addressed. Roles of the professional, including civic engagement, stewardship, leadership and responsibility to the health of the community are explored.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Instructor consent required.
This course focuses on the technologies essential to health care delivery. Technical, organizational, and cost-benefit issues related to health care information systems, including clinical decision support, integrated networking, distributed computing technologies, and telemedicine applications are explored.
HSC 365 - Universal Supports in Disabilities Services
An overview of universal supports in working with people with disabilities. The content provides the opportunity to develop practical knowledge about universal support systems that assist people with disabilities to be responsible adults in the community.
HSC 370 - Computerized Medical Records Regulatory Compliance
Technology has become an enabler of solutions, with the healthcare industry doing business through the use of standardized electronic exchanges. This course focuses on the role of the electronic health record (EHR) in a system’s information infrastructure and its essential role in complying with regulatory requirements. The importance of the EHR to reimbursement is addressed. The privacy and security of health records is discussed. Hands-on activities are used to teach EHR concepts and data entry.
HSC 375 - The United States and Global Healthcare Systems
This course explores the history of healthcare delivery within the United States and how it has evolved to the current state. Contemporary trends in the United States healthcare system will be compared to that of the country visited in this faculty led program. The importance of a system approach is emphasized. The continuum of care and the role of providers are discussed as well as the influence of reimbursement, payment processes, regulations, compliance demands, standards, and quality.
“What do I need to know to care for you and to meet your needs?” forms the basis for this course. Familiarizes the student with necessary adaptations to healthcare delivery that reflect an understanding of diversity between and within cultures. Health literacy and the ability to obtain, process, and understand health information needed to make informed health decisions are studied in relation to health outcomes.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Instructor consent required.
HSC 385 - Introduction to and History of Disability
This course will provide an overview of the field of disability including historical and legislative foundation, service delivery system roles and practices, and contemporary issues impacting individuals and their families. Different disability characteristics and implications for the provision of supports and services aimed at education, employment, independent living, and quality of life outcomes will be discussed. A variety of classroom and community learning experiences will be offered.
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.
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 established by the student, instructor, and field-based supervisor. Due to the presence of a field experience supervisor, a lower level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with an internship or practicum course.
This course introduces the use of clinical analytics to enhance health care safety and efficiency. Healthcare systems must measure clinical performance, identify areas for improvement, and redesign processes to achieve desired changes, then, monitor results to ensure desired outcomes are sustained. The focus is on analytic knowledge, skills and abilities essential for anyone entering any sector of the healthcare field.
This intensive-writing course examines the major issues that influence health and human services and their delivery. The healthcare needs of a diverse and multicultural population and healthcare disparities and strategies to address these needs are explored. Includes special populations service provision, advocacy, patient/client-centered care, psycho-social aspects of disease and wellness, health promotion and education, quality and cost controls, and interprofessional team approaches to service delivery. The three tenets of evidence-based practice are examined.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ANTH 211, CJUS 202, ENGL 201, ENGL 205, ENGL 283, ENGL 284, SOC 211, POLS 202, UHON 211, or equivalent. (Advanced Comp requirement)
Adverse clinical events occur within health care systems causing physical and psychological harm to patients, their families and staff. This course provides the opportunity to develop skills in quality improvement, patient safety, teamwork, leadership, and patient-centered care. These are essential skills needed by all healthcare professionals.
The Health Sciences Major portfolio is finalized, including a personal assessment of competencies achievement. Classroom and self-directed learning activities foster the development of core knowledge, skills and values that support the development of leadership skills. Entrepreneurial thinking is explored. The course provides an introduction to the basics of developing a health business plan.
Note Registration Restriction: Instructor Permission Required and Health Sciences Majors only.
Continuous Improvement efforts are intensifying across the healthcare continuum. The Toyota Production System (TPS) has transformed the auto manufacturing industry, and has recently been adopted by many healthcare institutions. This process improvement methodology will be studied as it applies to healthcare processes, utilizing hands on activities designed to highlight the key components of Pull, Single Piece Flow, Standard Work, and 5S. Case studies focusing on current efforts to reduce waste and improve quality in healthcare will be reviewed.
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.
Art and architecture in the historical and contextual development of the role of visual arts including crafts, drawing, painting, sculptures and architecture, in the historical and cultural development of world civilizations from prehistory through the 14th century.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #4
Art and architecture in the historical and contextual development of the role of visual arts including crafts, drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture, in the historical and cultural development of world civilization from the renaissance through the 20th century.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #4
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.
This course introduces students to the important and unique body of law known as federal Indian law. It provides an overview of the formulation, implementation, evolution, and comparison of federal Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance in the new millennium. Major federal Indian policies will be introduced, including theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy, attitudes of policy-makers, and reactions of indigenous nations to federal policies.
HIST 324 - Dissent and Persecution in the Middle Ages
This course examines the persecution of heretics, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Christendom. It explores how Christian orthodoxy was defined and established, and how those who dissented were marginalized, persecuted, and tortured. Themes that we will address include penitential violence, the Holy Inquisition, medieval magic, witchcraft, and female spirituality. Students will have a clearer understanding of how sacred texts have been used to justify violence and oppression against the religious “other” throughout history, and how interpretation of these historical texts remains relevant in our modern and globalized society.
HIST 329 - French Revolution & Napoleon 1789-1815 (C)
A study of the major changes in the European political powers due to the French Revolution and the emergence of Napoleon. The effects of the Congress of Vienna will also be evaluated.
Focuses on understanding the lives of outlaws, peasant rebels, and pirates in their historical context, and exploring the question of why pirates and other persons living outside the law have come to be understood and valorized as heroes. Also explores what those living outside the law can reveal about perceptions of law vs. social justice, building community, and using primary sources to separate myth from reality.
Survey of European military history from the ancient world to the end of the Great War, emphasizing the evolution of tactics, strategy, technology, professionalism, administration, and military policy.
This course is designed to introduce students to some of the key ideas and events associated with imperialism in the modern world, especially as these relate to notions of race. In particular, it will investigate the complex nature of imperialism, seeking to explore the “building blocks” upon which the European nations constructed their empires during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Accordingly, student in this course will consider the impact of imperialism upon both the European nations who constructed these empires, as well as those living in Africa, Asia, and the Americas who were challenged by the technological, economic, and military expansion of Europe. By comparatively considering factors such as migration, race relations, identity formation, and international power dynamics, students will gain a greater understanding of race and the role played by imperialism within a global context.
This course will study religion as a force in American history from the Protestant Reformation in Europe through the present, examining a wide range of beliefs, practices, events, and historical figures. How have religious beliefs and communities both responded and contributed to historical change? What is American about religion in American history? To what degree has religion served as a source of liberation but also as source of oppression in American history?
This course focuses on the experiences of women in the United States from the early colonial period to the present, exploring changes in gender and sexuality, family, labor, and politics and activism. Students will learn to identify and explain key concepts in American women’s history, as well as the diverse viewpoints of American women, paying attention to the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and how these intersections created diverse experiences for women.
This course examines the experiences of Indigenous women in the US and Canada today with respect to cultural expression in the arts, education, work, family, health, politics, and the law. Contemporary issues facing Indigenous women will be examined, including the effects of Western values and gender/sex roles on Indigenous societies.
HIST 369 - Modern American Indian History and Culture since 1867 (C)
A survey of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Indian peoples of North America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
HIST 370 - Native American Oral History and Traditions
Oral traditions and histories continue to serve as a means of preserving the collective wisdom of Indigenous nations and communities. Additionally, storytelling serves as a means of transmitting these oral narratives. This course focuses on ways in which various fields of study have approached documenting oral traditions and collaborated with Indigenous nations and communities.
This class dismantles the notion that Indigenous resistance ended in 1890 at Wounded Knee. Using a thematic approach, this class examines competing worldviews between Indigenous peoples and settlers and their subsequent responses. This class explores how Indigenous peoples employed various tools to resist ongoing colonization and continued to exert their sovereign rights to protect their land and peoples into the 21st century.
Westward expansion of the United States including cultural contact and conflict with indigenous peoples, economic, cultural and political development, and settler society.
Explores the origins and development of naval institutions, tactics, technology and practices in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Examines the United States Navy in the context of American political, cultural and military history.
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 limited with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
The origin and development of classical myths, their importance in classical literature, and their influence in literature, drama, music, psychology, and art.
Cross-listed: Also ENGL 404, CLHU 404, and REL 404
This course surveys the development of arts and architecture viewed in relation to Greek history and societal change from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods.
This course examines the major events, organizations, and people who defined the Civil Rights movement at its height (1940s-1960s). It also explores the systemic oppression of African Americans in the decades leading up to the movement. The course begins with a long historical view of civil rights activism and a consideration of how activists borrowed strategies from older traditions of protest in African American history.
This course surveys the history of making films about the ancient world. Students will become familiar not only with typical films of the genre but also popular culture’s reception of the ancient world and with the basic elements of film-making. Finally, students will develop the critical tools for analyzing and critiquing films.
Examines the history of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance and emphasizes religious, political, economic, and social developments.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: HIST 121
This course is designed to introduce students to some of the key events and themes of British history between 1400 and 1689. In particular, it explores the formation of Britain across four dimensions: political thought, religious change, economic development, and intellectual innovations.
This course will focus on exploring British social history (1700 - 1900) from perspective of those who were rejected by the mainstream culture –the gin merchants, purveyors of opium, prostitutes, and serial killers. In doing so, it shall explore a number of themes concerning the relationship between state control and personal action, questions of personal identity, and the redefinition of “civilization” in the wake of increased scientific knowledge.
This course shall trace thematically some of the key issues associated with modern Irish history, paying particular attention to questions such as the relationship between Ireland and Britain (in both a political and social sense), the nature of social life in Ireland, and the violence that has so dominated recent history. By considering the historical events of this period, through the study of a variety of sources, students will gain a greater knowledge of Irish history and the historical process.
Examines the history of Russia to approximately 1917, including the development of the Russian land and character, the growth of the tsarist autocracy, reform and revolutionary movements, and the cultural heritage of imperial Russia.
Presents the history of Russia form the mid-nineteenth century through Communist period in the twentieth century, including politics, foreign policy, economy, social and political reform, revolutionary movements, art, music, science, and literature.
Presents Germany history from the establishment of the Weimar Republic after World War I through Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to 1945, including the political, social, economic, cultural, and military aspects of Germany under National Socialist rule.
This course studies the period from 1933 - 1945 and the effort by the Nazi regime to utterly annihilate Europe’s Jewish population, as well as other populations deemed undesirable. The course examines the historical context of the Holocaust, the means by which the holocaust was brought about, and the profound historical and moral dilemmas raised by the Holocaust. Students will also encounter some of the individual lives ended or transformed by these events.
Provides an in-depth look at the English colonies in America, emphasizing how and why they were founded, and tracing their growth and development through the revolutionary period.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: HIST 151
This course examines Hollywood portrayals of the Vietnam war through films in the chronological order in which they were produced. Students critically examine such issues as tactics, strategy, the POW/MIA controversy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the historical revisionism of the Reagan era.
This class will explore the ways Americans between 1787 and 1845 experienced, understood, fueled, and resisted the growth and transformation of their new nation. Using primary document and scholarly sources, students will examine the political, social, economic, and cultural changes of this period, considering how different groups struggled to define and shape the young nation.
This class will explore the development and transformation of the institution of racialized chattel slavery in North America and the United States as well as the emergence of the antislavery movement and the formulation of anti- and proslavery arguments. Students will assess primary sources and scholarly debates about slavery and consider representations of slavery in contemporary culture.
Explores American history from the end of the Civil War to the start of the First World War. Students will examine the political, social, economic, and cultural changes of this period using contemporary documents paired with the short stories, essays, and speeches of Mark Twain.
Examines the origins and development of military institutions, traditions, tactics, and practices in the United States from 1775 to the present, including the relationship between the armed forces and other government agencies.
HIST 461 - Sex & Equality: Modern U.S. Women’s Movements
Explores diverse U.S. women’s movements after women’s suffrage (1920) and in response to the intensification of domesticity and the struggle for civil rights in Cold War America. Using the lenses of race, politics, gender, media, class, region, sexuality and generation, the course focuses on women and men who worked to change both law and culture.
Examination of United States foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the present, including issues of moral mission, national security and honor, and racial perceptions as justifications for foreign policies, and the assessment of the impact of global leadership on the principles of democratic government.
Examines the history of South Dakota’s physical environment, Native American presence, European settlement, economic developments, political institutions, and social life.
This course examines the portrayal of Cold War policies and themes through films in the chronological order in which they were produced. Both documentary and Hollywood films are used to address issues, such as ideological tensions, national security, nation-building, Mutually Assured Destruction, survivability, and brinkmanship.
This course introduces students to an overview of Native American history from contact to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Themes include impact and responses to European contact, conquest and colonization, empire building, removal and dispossession from traditional lands, treaty making and the origins of federal Indian policy. Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiian peoples and histories will also be included.
This course introduces students to an overview of American Indian history from 1890 to the present. Major themes covered in this course include termination and relocation, Red Power movement, gender, sovereignty, identity, land, environment and current issues facing American Indian, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiian peoples and communities today.