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16.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program explores the policies, practices and competing ideologies of human, environmental and socioeconomic development in rural and urban Bangladesh. Students will experience the capital city, Dhaka, interact with leaders of government and development agencies, learn about Bangladeshi history and culture, and take introductory courses in Bangla language. They will also visit rural villages to see social change in process. Lectures and readings are in English, and student interpreters help translate Bangla in the field. The program courses include: Culture, Religion and History of Bangladesh (4 credits); Sustainable Development (4 credits); and Field Work and Internship (8 credits). NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
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4.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program focuses on the intentions of development agencies and the aspirations of local Bangladeshis. Students explore the policies, practices, and ideologies of socioeconomic development in rural and urban Bangladesh. NOTE: OFFERED SOME INTERIMS
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4.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program allows students to gain first hand knowledge of Ecuadorian culture, politics, and society as well as a deepened facility with Spanish language through classroom and field study in Ecuador. This is an intensive language immersion program. OFFERED SOME INTERIMS
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4.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program examines the events of the Civil Rights Movement by visiting important sites and interviewing leaders of the Movement. Students will combine travel through Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi with time in the Twin Cities to connect the Civil Rights Movement with their own lives. NOTE: OFFERED SOME INTERIMS
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16.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program builds hands-on knowledge of ecosystem degradation and rehabilitation, the social and economic underpinnings of conflict over environmental change, and public policy and community-based strategies to achieve sustainability through a semester of study in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Students will explore patterns of environmental resource use and current social inequities, analyze the effect of future environmental trends, and assess strategies for sustainability. Professional internships provide access to the vibrant environmental movement in the Twin Cities. The program courses include: Adaptive Ecosystem Management (4 credits); Social Dimensions of Environmental Change (4 credits); Field Methods (2 credits); and Environmental Internship (6 credits). NOTE: OFFERED EVERY FALL SEMESTER
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16.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program builds on the tradition in Western culture of using literature as a tool for social critique, as a means of calling for social change and justice, and as a tool for social transformation. This course combines traditional methods of literary and cultural analysis with a balance of creative writing workshops in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, and makes use of HECUA's strengths in interdisciplinary, reflective critique. The program combines critical reading seminars, creative writing workshops, field study, and a professional internship with a Twin Cities literary arts organization or K-12 school in need of reading/writing tutors, to give students an integrated, experiential learning opportunity. The goal is to facilitate the growth of students as writers, readers, and participants in our democracy. That goal will be achieved through student writing, internships, and an examination of the ways literature and literary production work to create social transformation. The program courses include: Reading Seminar (4); Writing Seminar (4); Internship, Field Work, and Integration Seminar (8). NOTE: OFFERED EVERY FALL SEMESTER
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4.00 - 6.00 Credits
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program examines growing economic inequality and the proliferation of new social movements in response to globalization. Students spend approximately one month in Quito, Ecuador, in class and working at internships with local NGOs on issues such as indigenous rights, gender equity, multinational control over resources, and emigration to the U.S. In Bolivia, students visit local NGOs and sites of cultural and historical significance, engaging local experts on current trends in Bolivian politics and globalization. NOTE: OFFERED MOST SUMMERS
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3.00 Credits
A Capstone course in the senior year is designed to encourage students who are concluding their college experience to wrestle with issues of meaning and moral value. Capstone courses are taught by teams of faculty using various topics as a vehicle for interdisciplinary, thoughtful, and critical conversation with senior students. It is intended that this conversation will stimulate seniors to see the relationship of their college studies to central issues of human existence. Students enrolled in 3-1 or 3-2 programs are exempted from the Capstone General Education requirement. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SEMESTER, INCLUDING INTERIM ______________________________ Geography is an important part of a liberal arts education, for it offers a unique perspective on the interrelationship between people and their environment.
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3.00 Credits
A multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of gender. The course will examine theories and issues generated by the women's movement and will allow students to clarify the impact of transforming gender roles in their own lives. NOTE: OFFERED SPRING SEMESTER, EVEN YEARS
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3.00 Credits
A study of human sexuality from physical, psychological, social and ethical perspectives. The course will examine topics such as biological and physiological functioning, gender identity, and the history of changing attitudes towards human sexual interaction. Students will also participate in discussion of the various ethical decisions confronting them as sexual beings. NOTE: OFFERED OCCASIONALLY
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