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GENL 097 - NEW STUDENT SEMINAR (Area 1.1) (1 credit)
The New Student Seminar Program, a required experience for new students entering Augustana College with fewer than one full-time semester of college credit, is designed to facilitate a successful transition to college. Grading System: S-U only.
NOTES: OFFERED EVERY SEMESTER
ALLOWED TO COUNT FOR SOUTH DAKOTA OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP, EVEN THOUGH IT IS GRADED S/U AND NOT LETTER GRADED.
GENL 100 - CAREER AND LIFE PLANNING (3 credits)
This class is designed for students who are uncertain about their career direction and/or major selection. Through self-awareness exercises and occupational research, students will gain a better understanding of which occupations may be a good fit for them. Students will be given the opportunity to expore their interests, skills and values, take a Strong Interest Inventory, visit local organizations, job shadow Augustana alumni, find useful resources on the internet and create a resume. This class will help put the future into focus!
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY INTERIM
GENL 116 - BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT (1 credit)
An intensive opportunity for students to learn and adopt methods to promote their success in college. Participants will explore specific strategies for managing time commitments, improving memory, taking notes, reading textbooks and studying for tests.
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SEMESTER
GENL 118 - CITY ARTS PROGRAM (HECUA) (Area 1.2) (16 credits)
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program studies art and social change in the arts communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Students explore the relationships among art, culture, and social change through classroom and field experiences. Professional internships provide direct access to the arts community. The program courses include: Creating Social Change: Art and Culture in Political, Social, and Historical Context (4 cr. hrs.); Arts Praxis: Social Justice Theory and Practice in the Field (4 cr. hrs.); and Integration Seminar and Internship (8 cr. hrs.).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
GENL 119 - METRO URBAN STUDIES PROGRAM (HECUA) (Area 3.3) (16 credits)
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program focuses on building tools for social change in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Students will examine the causes of and solutions to poverty and inequality in the urban United States through classroom and field experiences. Professional internships provide direct access to the non-profit sector in the Twin Cities. The program courses include: Reading Seminar (4 cr. hrs.); Field Seminar (4 cr. hrs.); and Integration Seminar and Internship (8 cr. hrs.).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SEMESTER
GENL 125 - THE DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL EXPERIENCE (1 credit)
This is an interdisciplinary course, which includes a 10-day international travel experience during spring break. Believing that interpersonal, intercultural, and international relations are a vital aspect of every student's education, teh College regards teh whole world as its classroom. This course is seen as an fundamental expression of what a liberal arts education is all about: moving beyond the immediate into the larger world, developing a resiliency and capacity to serve a changing world. Students are pushed to critically examine their own and other points of view. This course is by invitation only. No audits. Grading System: S/U grade only.
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
GENL 146 - DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND (HECUA) (16 credits)
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program examines the historical, political, and religious roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland, the prospects for peace, and the progress being made toward a pluralistic society. Students will learn through readings, lectures, discussions, internships, group study projects, and field experiences that invite interaction with people involved in social change. The program courses include: Northern Ireland: Building a Sustainable Democracy (4 cr. hrs.); Politics of Conflict and Transformation (4 cr. hrs.); and Internship Seminar and Internship (8 cr. hrs.).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
GENL 147 - SCANDINAVIAN URBAN STUDIES TERM (HECUA) (16 credits)
Students in this Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program gain a deeper understanding of contemporary Norway using the welfare state economic model and the notion of citizenship and national identity as the foci for investigation. Three interrelated courses and a volunteer placement/internship provide an understanding of how the welfare state works in the context of a social democracy facing challenges posed by recent increases in immigration. To round out the semester, students will pursue an independent study project or enroll in Norwegian language courses. The program courses include: Scandinavian International Relations (4 cr. hr); Urbanization and Immigration (4 cr. hrs); Scandinavian Literature: Immigration and National Identity (4 cr. hrs.); and Norwegian Language or Independent Study Project (4 cr. hrs.).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY FALL SEMESTER
GENL 149 - COMMUNITY INTERNSHIPS IN LATIN AMERICA (HECUA) (16 credits)
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program focuses on community participation and social change in urban and rural Ecuador. Students combine rigorous seminar work and independent study with a home stay and a hands-on internship for an in-depth experience of community participation and social movements in Ecuador. The program courses include: Community Participation for Social Change (4 cr. hrs.); Independent Study Project (4 cr. hrs.); and Internship Seminar and Internship (8 cr. hrs.).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SEMESTER
GENL 151 - THE DIVIDED STATES OF EUROPE: GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITIES IN THE NEW EUROPE (HECUA) (16 credits)
In this Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program studnets examine the development of the European Union (EU), its historical foundations and institutional base, contemporary democratic and social challenges it faces, and its expansion to include teh former communist nations of Central and Eastern Europe. The program explores the relationship between teh EU and globalization, in particular whether and how European integration addresses teh consequences of globalization. Scandinavia and Poland are used as case studies: Scandinavia for strong democratic credentials, relatively evenly distributed wealth, and diverse experiences with the European integration project, and Poland for its tumultuous history, recent EU membership, and role as a major supplier of migrant labor within Europe. Scandinavia and Poland provide a dramatic illustration of the economic, political, and social complexities, transformations, and inequalities that globalization has catalyzed within Europe. The programs courses include: Ever closer union: the challenge of European integration (4); Included but excluded? Globalization and human rights in Europe (4); Internship and Integration Seminar (4); Independent Study Projects (4).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
GENL 154 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AN ISLAMIC CONTEXT: BANGLADESH (HECUA) (16 credit hours)
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 cr. hrs.); Sustainable Development (4 cr. hrs.); and Field Work and Internship (8 cr. hrs.).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
GENL 157 - DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY IN BANGLADESH (HECUA) (Area 3.6) (4 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 Bangledesh.
NOTE: OFFERED SOME INTERIMS
GENL 158 - INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE SPANISH (HECUA) (4 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.
NOTE: OFFERED SOME INTERIMS
GENL 159 - CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES (HECUA) (4 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
GENL 163 - ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY AND COMMUNITY ACTION (HECUA) (16 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 teh 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
GENL 169 - WRITING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (HECUA) (16 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 callign for social change and justice, and as a tool for social transformation. This coruse 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 will be achieved through student writing, internships, and an examination of the ways literature and literary producation work to create social transformation. The program courses include: Reading Seminar (4 credits); Writing Seminar (4 credits); Internship, Field Work, and Integration Seminar (8 credits).
NOTE: OFFERED EVERY FALL SEMESTER
GENL 171 - GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA (HECUA) (4-6 credits)
This Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) program examines growing economic inequailty and teh 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 culutral and historical significance, engaging local experts on current trends in Bolivian politics and globalization.
NOTE: OFFERED MOST SUMMERS
GENL 492 - SENIOR CAPSTONE (Area 4.3) (3 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 AND SUMMER