Includes senior project, and capstone experience. Independent research problems/projects or scholarship activities. The plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member and the student. Contact between the two may be extensive and intensive. Does not include research courses which are theoretical.
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.
A systematic study of the structure and classification of selected invertebrate Taxa. The course will provide a useful tool for field and laboratory work involving fossil-bearing rocks and will form a background for advanced work in paleontology or paleontological stratigraphy.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course corequisite: GEOL 461L
Becoming sensitized to authentic listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture skills at the elementary level. Introduction to basic functional grammar and sentence structure.
Develop active listening skills, functional language skills, reading skills related to student learners immediate environment, guided free writing and understanding of interrelationships of language and culture.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: GER 101 and 102
Develop interactive listening and speaking skills toward initiating and responding to simple statements and questions, ability to understand selected descriptive readings to include literature of various types, and continued refinement of language and culture, traditions, customs, folklore, etc.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: GER 101 and 102 and 201
Designed for students who wish to complement travel in a German-speaking country with a formal plan of study. Number of credits determined by level and performance expectancy. Students must present for approval an outline of a proposed study/travel project. Only for students who have completed less than two full years of college German or equivalent.
(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 depend upon the requirements of the topic.
The culture of the German-speaking countries from beginning to modern times including literary and artistic trends, governmental structures, and the life and customs of the people. Reading and discussions in German.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: GER 202
The culture of the German-speaking countries from the beginning to the 18th century and then to modern times including literary and artistic trends, and customs. Reading and discussion in German.
The history and cultural achievements of Germany since 1945 to the present. Open to all students. Does not fulfill basic language requirements. Taught in English.
Designed for students who wish to complement travel in a German-speaking country with a formal plan of study. Number of credits determined by level and performance expectancy. Students must present for approval an outline of a proposed study/travel project.
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.
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 explores how and why the arts exist. Drama, dance, literature, music, visual arts, etc., are examined as inventions for sharing experiences.
This basic course explains the application of business principles to arts organizations. Careful analysis is given to the function and techniques of management in dealing with people, budgets and other operational procedures in arts organizations.
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.
An initial study of the current, living tongue of the Greek people. Designed to enable English-speaking students to understand modern spoken Greek, to converse in that language in ordinary daily situations and to read simple Greek.
Note Registration restriction: Instructor consent
May be taken in any semester or in successive years, but not to exceed four hours of credit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HIST 257 - Early American Indian History and Culture (C)
A survey of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Indian peoples of North America from time immemorial to the end of the nineteenth century.
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.
HIST 315 - Great Historical Leaders of Diverse Cultures
Focuses on leadership qualities of great historical leaders in diverse cultural settings and different time periods. Considerations of time, place, and human characteristics of the leaders and their followers, and cultural settings in explaining successful leadership.
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.
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.
A study of the ways in which geographic factors such as land, water, climate, and terrain have influenced the development of civilizations and political systems and how cultural, political, and technological developments have affected man’s relationship to his physical environment.
Survey of archaeological, historical, and literary sources to examine women’s place in ancient civilizations, their social conditions, their gender roles and their power/authority in these civilizations.
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.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: HIST 122
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.
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.
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.
Federalist period, westward expansion, democratization, foreign policy, and the coming of the Civil War. Covers the years 1789 to 1860 in two semesters.
Federalist period, westward expansion, democratization, foreign policy, and the coming of the Civil War. Covers the years 1789 to 1860 in two semesters.
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.
Westward expansion of the United States including cultural contact and conflict with the Indians, economic and political development, settler society, and outlawry. First semester: colonial to 1840.
Westward expansion of the United States including cultural contact and conflict with the Indians, economic and political development, settler society, and outlawry. Second semester: 1840-1890.
Examines the trans-Mississippi West, emphasizing twentieth-century federal influence and regulation, shifting demographics, business and capitalism, plus the relationship between racial and ethnic groups.
This course focuses on Sioux tribes and covers the history of Indian-White relations by reviewing national Indian policy and the history of the Great Plains and examining the history of reservation societies in the United States.
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.
This course examines the leadership and activism of American Indian women during the Red Power Movement of the 1970’s. We will explore a definition of resistance that is culturally and historically specific to Native women. By viewing gender as a social construction that has cultural fluidity, we will analyze how Native women understood and contested their many roles through time and across cultures.
This course analyzes the evidence concerning the assassination of JFK. It examines the various theories about the assassination with a focus on historical analysis.
Examines the history of South Dakota’s physical environment, Native American presence, European settlement, economic developments, political institutions, and social life.
HIST 480 - Historical Methods and Historiography (C)
Introduces the problems, materials, and techniques of historical and writing, explains the larger meaning and directions of history, and examines major schools of historical thought.
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.
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.