A study of fundamental accounting principles and procedures such as journalizing, posting, preparation of financial statements, and other selected topics. Accounting is emphasized as a service activity designed to provide the information about economic entities that is necessary for making sound decisions.
Involves the intensive study of financial accounting standards, both in theory and practice, as they relate to the preparation and analysis of financial statements. Accounting problems and their impact on the financial statements are addressed in regard to current assets, fixed assets, intangible assets, liabilities, and other selected topics.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 211
Provides an intensive study of accounting standards, both in theory and practice, as they relate to the preparation and analysis of financial statements. Accounting problems and their impact on the financial statements are addressed in regard to liabilities, investments, stockholders’ equity, leases, pensions, tax allocation and other selected topics.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 310
The study of principles and techniques for accumulating, reporting, and analyzing cost information for decision-making and external reporting. The use of cost accounting systems for planning and controlling cost responsibility centers is emphasized. Consideration is given to the appropriate use of various cost accounting methods such as activity-based costing, target costing, and just in time management techniques in service and manufacturing industries.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 211
Provides an understanding of the patterns of flow of accounting information in business, principles of internal control, and the use of computers in current and future accounting systems. Topics include concepts of accounting information systems, flowcharting and analysis of manual and computerized transaction cycles, decision support systems, electronic commerce, management reporting systems, control and audit of complex computerized information systems, and the development of accounting information systems.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 211
Provides a discussion of the comparative accounting practices and problems in international environments. The course is designed to explore the concepts, principles, and practices underlying comparative international accounting systems.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 211
Provides a study of current accounting theory and its applications. The course reviews theoretical aspects of accounting by means of problems, directed reading, and study of the various sources of accounting theory.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 311
Studies both theory and practice. Topics include audit planning, internal control, audit procedures, audit reports and opinions, materiality, audit risk, evidential matter, as required by generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS), professional ethics, legal responsibilities, and other selected topics.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 311
An introductory course in the study of internal auditing. This course is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of the concepts, principles, and skills underlying the practice of internal auditing.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ACCT 311 and 360 and 450
Addresses the accounting information needs of management for planning, controlling, and decision making purposes. The course integrates management accounting with other functional areas of business. Importance is placed on the use of technology to improve performance and quality in a highly competitive, global marketplace.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 211
Involves the study of fund accounting, including reports, records, and special problems encountered by nonprofit entities and the generally accepted accounting principles related to them. Nonprofit entities include municipalities and state governments, universities, hospitals, and voluntary health and welfare organizations.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 211
Studies special accounting problems relating to the preparation of combined and consolidated financial statements, partnership accounting, and foreign exchange transactions and translations.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ACCT 311
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.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ACCT 210 and 211
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 Registration restriction: School of Business seniors with Instructor consent
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.
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.
Note Registration restriction: Accounting majors in good standing who have completed junior level coursework
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.
This course provides an introduction to the use, abuse and addictive nature of ethyl alcohol. Students will explore the history of alcohol use, basic knowledge of the medical effects of alcohol use and abuse, the basic premise behind the biopsychosocial model, the continuum of care and personal risk for alcohol problems.
Fundamentals of mood-altering chemicals other than ethyl alcohol and the symptomatology and treatment of the abuse of them. Provides facts and insights concerning the abuse of a wide variety of “legal” and “illegal” mood-altering chemical substances and approaches to treatment and prevention of drug abuse.
An introduction to multicultural counseling theories and skills. The student will develop basic communication and individual helping skills appropriate in dealing with abusers of alcohol and other drugs.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117
Introduces basic theories and dynamics of counseling groups. Develops the facilitative skills appropriate to working with those groups in the management of alcohol and drug abuse.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117 and 220
ADS 315 - Ethical & Legal Issues in the Substance Abuse Profession
This course will explore the ethical and legal issues within the substance abuse field. This course will include an opportunity for identification and discussion of ethical and legal issues frequently encountered by prevention and treatment professionals.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117 and 220 and 222 or Instructor consent
Understand the key adolescent developmental tasks, gain knowledge on how alcohol and other drugs impact adolescent developmental tasks and understand the complex nature of determining adolescent substance abuse or addiction.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117 and 220 and 222
ADS 391 - Independent Study in Alcohol/Drug Abuse (C)
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. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic. Consent of instructor required.
ADS 410 - Working with Families on Alcohol and Drug Issues
Traditional and contemporary theories of family counseling will be studied and applied to alcohol and drug abusing families. The role of the partner/family in the onset, progression, treatment, and prevention and alcohol and drug abuse will be reviewed.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and ADS 117 and ADS 220 and ADS 222
Note Required of ADS majors.
Dual listed with ADS 510.
Cross-listed: Prior to 10-26-09 course was listed as ADS 318
ADS 412 - Alcohol and Drug Use in Diverse Populations
Alcohol and other drug use among diverse groups such as adolescents, people of color, women, elderly, and the LGBTQ population will be studied. Strategies for effective treatment and prevention in addictions will be examined.
ADS 415 - Native Americans and Substance Use and Abuse
This course is designed to acquaint the substance abuse student/professional with the cultural and spiritual basics of effective substance abuse prevention and treatment with Native American populations and individuals. This will aid the student in applying culturally and spiritually appropriate prevention and treatment with Native American clients.
ADS 420 - CADE: Comprehensive Alcohol and Drug Education
The fundamentals of the use, abuse and addictive nature of ethyl alcohol and other mood altering chemicals and the symptomatology of alcoholism and other drug addiction. Provides facts and insights concerning the nature, scope and complexity of mood altering chemical substances and current approaches to treatment and prevention of alcohol and other drug abuse.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ADS 116 or 117 or Instructor consent
ADS 421 - Foundations of Alcohol and Drug Prevention
Past and current models of alcohol and other drug prevention will be studied to determine what led to their origin, strengths, weaknesses and effectiveness.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117 or 420 or consent of instructor
The concepts that addiction treatment is a continuum from intervention through continuing care is emphasized along with students learning and demonstrating clinical treatment procedures. Students also practice the administration of screening and assessment instruments to identify addiction and other related problems in conjunction with developing an individualized treatment/continued care plan. The course can be used for South Dakota Addiction credentialing.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117 or 420; and 220 and 222
A study of the psychopharmacology of substance related disorders coexisting with mental health disorders. Includes implications prescription drugs have for treating individuals with a dual diagnosis.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 or 117 and 220 and 222
This course covers gambling and the process addictions, which are considered impulse control disorders in the DSM-V. These disorders are widespread and varied. This course describes each of the primary disorders in-depth, along with discussing and describing a variety of treatment options for each disorder.
Introduces the student to advanced dynamics and theories of addiction counseling. An examination of the major theories of addiction and an exploration of the meaning of addiction and substance abuse counseling will be undertaken.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117 and 220 and 222
This class will provide basic knowledge in how to identify trauma and its long and short term effects on clients and students will learn how to build a therapeutic relationship with a traumatized client to promote psychological healing. Students will have the opportunity to learn treatment strategies for working with clients that have co-occurring substance abuse/addiction, mental health and traumatic experiences such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and learn how to assess for suicide risk.
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.
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 between the student, instructor and field experience 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 in an internship or practicum course.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: Instructor Permission
This is a one-semester human anatomy and physiology course. The structure and function of the entire human body is covered, including all of the organ systems.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Co-requisite: PE 250L
This course is designed to complement PE 250. Activities are designed to reinforce the student’s understanding of concepts and topics introduced in PE 250.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Co-requisite: PE 250
This course formally introduces Native Studies as a discipline or field of study. The course examines the historical development of the discipline, including its theoretical frameworks and intellectual foundation, basic disciplinary concepts, research foci, criticism of the discipline, and the discipline’s future development within and without the academy.
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.
AIS 214 - Introduction to American Indian Literature (C)
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.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 210, or UHON 110
AIS 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 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
AIS 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.
AIS 417 - American Indian Government and Politics (C)
An in-depth investigation of federal, state, and tribal laws, and the historical development and status of treaties, legislation, court decisions, and tribal governments.
Study of the development, structure and powers of Indian tribal government. Special emphasis is placed on the law and legal relationships between tribal, state and federal governments.
An analysis of current American Indian life including inquiry into government policies, economics, social adjustment to non-Indian society, and cultural changes as these relate to Indian citizens on and off the reservation.
Examines culture of the Siouan-speaking tribes of the Northern Plains using historical, anthropological, and linguistic approaches. The course focuses on the three divisions of the Sioux peoples, namely Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. It also may include other Siouan-speaking tribes such as the Mandan, Omaha and Winnebago.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: AIS/HIST 257 or Instructor consent
Approaches American Indian thought from an experiential point of view. Examines myth and legends to construct outlooks or world views of American Indians.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: AIS/HIST 257 or Instructor consent
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 by examining the history of reservation societies in the United States.
This course examines the leadership and activism of American Indian women during the Red Power Movement of the 1970s. The course explores a definition of resistance that is culturally and historically specific to Native women. By viewing gender as a social construction that has cultural fluidity, students will analyze how Native women understood and contested their many roles through time and across cultures.
AIS 490 - Seminar: Senior Capstone for AIS Majors (C)
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.
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.
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.
Note Registration restriction: Department and Instructor consent
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.
A complete dissection of the human subject is performed. Clinical correlations are emphasized. This course is open only to students enrolled in the Medical Biology or Health Sciences program, have completed at least 60-credit hours of coursework, and have a current Grade Point Average of 3.0 or higher.
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. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: ANAT 411 and consent of instructor
Introduces the nature of human culture as an adaptive ecological and evolutionary system, emphasizing basic anthropological concepts, principles and problems. Draws data from both traditional and industrial cultures to cover such concepts as values & beliefs, social organization, economic and political order, science, technology, and aesthetic expression.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #3
A course designed to prepare the student for writing social science papers and other written communications. This course is intended for students in pre-professional programs and will provide practical writing and editing experience.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #1
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: SOC 100, and three hours of English composition.
Focuses upon the interactive process between human biology and human culture, drawing relationships among such concepts as human evolution, human heredity, human biological diversity, and biological micro-adaptations.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #3
This course is a study of the cultural, political, social kinship, and worldview of Lakota peoples. The course will cover creation/origin, ceremony, social customs and values, cultural beliefs, oral literature, and other significant aspects of the Lakota peoples.
ANTH 230 - Introduction to Archaeology (C) [SGR #3]
An introduction to anthropological archaeology. Examines long-term cultural development, man-land interaction, and field and laboratory methods. Includes a survey of world prehistory.
This course meets System General Education Requirement: SGR #3
The study of human sexuality as it relates to anthropology and sociology. Topics include: primate sexuality, evolution of sexuality, human reproductive physiology, sexual behavior in non-Western cultures, and sociological perspectives on sexuality in contemporary American society.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: SOC 100 or ANTH 210 or SOCW 200
An introduction to the nature of theories of human social and cultural behavior and their construction. Major approaches from anthropology and sociology will be examined in order to better comprehend elements essential to generating knowledge of social behavior.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ANTH 210 OR SOC 100
This course focuses on the physical remains of human beings in medico-legal contexts. Students will learn how to identify all parts of the human skeleton, assess human remains to estimate or determine age, sex, stature, and investigate how disease, trauma, and behavioral patterns can leave identifying markers on bones. Discussion topics include recent application of forensic anthropology in specific investigative cases, including international human rights work.
Focuses on the evolution of Native American cultures in South Dakota from the first Paleo Indian big game hunters through the advanced horticulture and nomadic hunting people at the time of European contact.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: ANTH 230
South Dakota’s statehood had an impact on the Lakota peoples. This course examines the relationship between the Lakota people and nations with South Dakota settlers. This course will explore attitudes of settlers and the state toward Lakota peoples/nations, the impact on tribal governments and the various state laws and policies that have affected and/or continue to affect Lakota peoples. Finally, this course will examine Lakota participation in South Dakota politics and how it has altered Lakota self-governance and self-determination.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: NATV 223
A comprehensive survey of forensic science with technical and scientific detail that introduces the breadth and richness of forensic science, including introductions to forensic pathology, crime scene investigation, laboratory forensic science, forensic applications in the social sciences, and ending with ethical and legal issues. Laboratory activities will be incorporated throughout the course.
The discipline of historical archaeology employs the methods of archaeology and history. Historical archaeologists study the past by integrating material culture and documentary research. Interpretations are anthropologically oriented. Students will survey historical archaeology, examine case examples, and study methods and theories. They will practice historical archaeology in a laboratory setting using artifacts and documents.
Students will explore the diversity of religious expression throughout the world and learn anthropological theories used to study belief systems and ritual practice. Focusing on various topics (shamanism, myth, witchcraft, magic, ritual, spirit beliefs, etc.), this course examines how religions orient people to their social worlds and are influenced by historical and cultural change.
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.
ANTH 422 - Native American Religion and Spirituality
This course provides a historical and contemporary study of Indigenous philosophies and worldviews, how they are expressed in various societal contexts, and how they have both changed and remained consistent to the present day. Ethical practices and questions related to both Native American religions and efforts to suppress those religions are also the focus of the course.
This course examines Lakota tribal sovereignty as defined by their relationship to federal and state governments through treaties, congressional acts and court decisions.
ANTH 425 - Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
This course in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is designed and intended to provide students with a basic introduction to the theory, principles, and practical applications of land-based studies. Course will include technology applications to land-based sciences, natural resources management, rural and urban planning and environment assessment. Laboratory exercises to include use of both raster and vector based GIS systems.
Connecting archaeology’s study of the past to present day concerns, this course will examine materials and data on successful management practices of the past, including information on lasting agricultural and forestry practices. These insights will not only broaden our sense of what collapse means but also what sustainability can mean.
This course focuses on the perspectives, methods, and data that archaeology and sustainability fields can bring to discussions of climate variation. We will consider the importance of paleoenvironmental data to archaeological research, the ways in which it can be used, and the various methods of recovering and analyzing such data to reconstruct human-environment interactions in the Holocene, the epoch that encompasses the past 10,000 years.
The environmental challenges that present-day societies face, while pervasive and large-scale, are only the most recent set of consequences to emerge in a long history of human interaction with the environment. This course will examine, using case studies from around the world, how and why past human interactions with the environment developed the way they did in particular urban societies.
An investigation of relationships between culture, social structure, and personality. Current research in anthropology, social psychology and sociology is utilized.
Note Registration restriction: 6 hours of anthropology or sociology
The course integrates practical study of human and animal bones with discussions of age, sex, disease, diet, and burial context. Students will learn to distinguish human and animal bone remains, and identify the different skeletal parts. They will learn how to estimate gender, ancestry, height, certain diseases, etc. from the study of human remains (physical anthropology). The course will also explore the identification of animal remains from archaeological sites (zooarchaeology), a skill required to distinguish human remains from animal remains recovered from burial contexts. This course uses both practical lab sessions and lectures to develop the students’ knowledge of human and non-human skeletons.