Courses

3 credits/1 credit

(Day and time TBD)

Elements of the atmosphere with emphasis on those processes that affect the global atmospheric circulation. Real time weather data is incorporated into lecture to aid in transferring the subject matter to real life experiences.

3 cr.

Scharf, E.

T/R, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

This course is an intensive overview of human skeletal anatomy, and emphasizes identification, description, and analysis of human bones (and fragments of human bones) primarily for medico-legal purposes.  We will also go over some analyses from related fields of study.  After completing the course, students should be able to:

• Describe skeletal characteristics used to determine sex, age, ancestry and stature
• Review data and explain how researchers came to their medico-legal conclusions in forensic anthropological cases
• Determine and apply the differences between presumptive and positive identification
• Explain the difference between antemortem, perimortem, and postmortem changes to human bodies and how that is applied in forensic anthropology (including taphonomic changes)
• Be able to critically evaluate and communicate the critical points of case studies in forensic anthropology

This course relates to our formal Anthropology program goals, as students will be asked to:

• Articulate and apply key anthropological perspectives using critical thinking and comparative analysis,
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the patterns and sources of biological and cultural variation.

3 cr.

Scharf, E.

T/R, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Introduction to recording and presenting descriptions of world cultures. Time will be spent reading already-produced ethnographies, watching ethnographic films, and comparing these to similar descriptive products, while wrestling with issues that arise such as race, identity, gender, power, status, and control. Students will also learn the steps needed to pose research questions and conduct fieldwork in cultural anthropology and will analyze ethical research issues and other challenges related to ethnographic research.

4 cr.

Lunnie, R.

T/R: 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.

This course introduces the student to aircraft and ground operations and support systems common to remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft. The course focuses o those the systems that differ significantly from their conventional counterparts. Specific emphasis is placed on mission requirements and their impacts on required systems. Powerplants, potential energy systems, launch and recovery systems, and ground control systems. Hands-on exxperiential learning is required. Prerequisite: AVIT 240 and a minimum GPA of 2.6.

3 cr.

Mendez, S.

W, 2:30 - 5:25 p.m.

This course investigates aviation's effects on global culture, commerce, and politics throughout its history by examining original historical sources and evidence from significant events in aviation. After taking this class, students will be more aware of their own and other cultural frameworks and biases and be able to use that perspective effectively as aviation professionals in a global industry. Prerequisite: Minimum GPA of 2.6.

3 cr.

Frazier, A.

TBD

This course investigates aviation's effects on global culture, commerce, and politics throughout its history by examining original historical sources and evidence from significant events in aviation. After taking this class, students will be more aware of their own and other cultural frameworks and biases and be able to use that perspective effectively as aviation professionals in a global industry. Prerequisite: Minimum GPA of 2.6.

3 cr.

Vacek, J.

T/R. 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

This course is designed to introduce the student to the United States legal system and the development of air law. The course will cover a broad range of topics related to aviation operations including constitutional law, administrative law, Federal Aviation Administration enforcement actions, aircraft ownership issues, products liability law, criminal law, contract law, and international law. Course activities include case reading, argument, and legal research.

3 cr.

Charmichael, J.

M/W, 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Basic concepts of biology with emphasis on the process of science, genetics, molecular biology, evolution, biodiversity, and ecology. Broadly designed to satisfy the needs of those pursuing biological and pre-professional curricula.

3 cr.

Simmons, R.

T/R 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Key aspects of scientific inquiry and communication are investigated and assessed. Students will participate in discussions of relevant current issues in biology and will develop an independent research project. This course provides an opportunity for students to integrate and apply knowledge and skills obtained in biology. Students must take course within 3 semesters of graduation.

3 cr.

Stears, K.

T/R 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Key aspects of scientific inquiry and communication are investigated and assessed. Students will participate in discussions of relevant current issues in biology and will develop an independent research project. This course provides an opportunity for students to integrate and apply knowledge and skills obtained in biology. Students must take course within 3 semesters of graduation.

3 cr.

Kozliak, J.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

This course will explore the environmental and chemical aspects of microplastics through discussions and laboratory exercises. Students will apply laboratory skills to separate potential microplastic contamination from various sample matrices such as water, soil, and biological samples from commercial products and from North Dakota. Students will discuss the impact plastic has on the environment and the social and economic roles plastic plays in our world.

3 cr.

Powell, E.

M, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m,   and T/R, 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.

The theory and practice of public speaking with emphasis on content, organization, language, delivery, and critical evaluation of messages. Basic principles of speech from the viewpoint of composition and delivery. Emphasis on student performance stressing original thinking, effective organization and direct communication of ideas.

3 cr.

Schanilec-Gowan, J.

MWF, 12:20 - 1:10 p.m.

Introduces theories and practices of health communication. Explores health communication with interpersonal sources (e.g., physicians, other providers), groups (e.g., support groups, health care organizations), and effective communication through mass media and digital/social media channels.

3 cr.

Staff/TBD

T/R, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

This course, which builds upon ENGL 110, gives students experience with genres and rhetorical situations beyond the academic classroom. In begins with a set of common readings on an important social issue to establish a context for the work of the class. Throughout the semester, students engage in a series of research tasks and writing projects that center on a collaboratively-authored project proposal or recommendation for a specific audience or community. Then, students use the knowledge gained through research and rhetorical awareness to produce documents that will help inform and persuade the public.

3 cr.

Kitzes, A.

T/R, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

A universally recognized figure who often shapes people's sense of what makes for good writing. Shakespeare can sometimes feel overwhelming. Our course is designed to help students make sense of this phenomonon that goes by the name of Shakespeare: from professional writer to "national poet," to symbol of cultural capital. We will spend time getting to know some of his plays. We'll read and write about them. But we also will experience them in different forms, as performance, as visual arts, as inspriation for other writers, and always as a source of play.

3 cr.

Rhomsdahl, R.

T/R, 9:30 - 10:15 a.m.

Governance and policy are the most common strategies used to address environmental problems. This course introduces students to the foundation, development, actors, process, challenges, and future outlook of global environmental policy. By navigating various levels of US and global governance, students will explore a variety of concepts and principles in the development and implementation of environmental policies.

3 cr.

Wang, E.

T/R, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

This course helps students gain an understanding of China as a large and complex country and a rising global power through examining its geography of landscapes and development processes, with particular focus on the development in the reform decades. Some example topics include: physical environment, political geography, population dynamics and policies, agriculture and food, industrialization and the “world’s factory”, cities and urbanization, trade and transportation, environmental issues and development.

3 cr.

Prescott, C.

T/R, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

What does old stuff reveal about hte past? Analze historic photographs, study household objects, publish your own digital history page, and discover what your trash says about you.

3 cr.

Campbell, C.

Asyncronous Online

This course will explore how the concept of human rights developed throughout the world from the 18th century to today. Topics will include debates over what human rights are and when they originated, how people throughout the world have used the concept for their own ends, and why it is a controversial subject today.

By contract/permission only.

1-4 cr.

Cason, D.

Invest in your community, gain practical knowledge and experience, and earn up to 4 Honors credits by volunteering or interning at select organizations. A two-pages or more reflection paper will be due at the end of the semester. By Permission Only. Contact David Cason (david.cason@UND.edu) for details.

1 cr.

This course is designed to give self-directed, motivated students the opportunity to take a deeper dive into an aspect of another course they are taking and earn 1 Honors credit for doing so. This course is repeatable. Permission of Honors Director required to register; contact merie.kirby@und.edu for details.

3 cr.

Kirby, M.

T/R, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

For much of the world, American popular culture is the primary method by which we are known. In this class, we flip the lens and look at other countries through an export of their popular culture: crime and mystery novels. How does popular fiction reflect the culture it comes from? How much can we ask one novel to say about the culture it comes from? Are there universal ideas of morality, justice, guilt, punishment, redemption, or crime?  

3 cr.

Cason, D.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

An interdisciplinary examination through the lens of the Social Sciences of the role of hoaxes, myths, urban legends, and health scares in our contemporary social media landscape. Focuses on the development of the critical thinking and digital literacy skills needed to evaluate journalistic, academic, and alternative media sources.

3 cr.

Kirby, M.

T/R:  9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

Visual storytelling – despite being part of humanity’s communications toolkit since prehistoric cave paintings – often gets relegated to being for kids or too “low brow” for serious consideration. However, the synthesis of word and image on the page opens up possibilities unavailable to either prose or film and provides alternate explorations of ideas, history, emotions, and narrative. This class examines the form, the function, the pleasure, the challenge, and the meaning of something that continually, stubbornly transcends the box in which it is put.

3 cr.

Koriko, H.

Students in Honors 391 class, Honors Undergraduate Journal, will work together to create a digital journal of creative and academic writing by Honors students. The class will solicit work, read and select from submissions, determine editorial policies, design page layouts, and produce a digital journal. This class will meet periodically in person and/or through Zoom, as determined by class. No prior experience working on a journal is necessary. Please contact Hamzat Koriko at amoussa.koriko@und.edu for details.

2 cr.

Chu, Y.

Raise awareness and interest in national and international scholarships. Inspire your peers to engage in diverse scholarship learning experiences worldwide. Share your national scholarship stories. Serve as a National Scholarship Peer Advisor. You will reflect on your interest in national and international scholarships in a meaningful way, while developing concrete skills to articulate the value of scholarship opportunities. As an advisor, you will also strengthen your communication, networking, and leadership skills. Positions available: 1) NSPA Communications & Social Media Intern; 2) NSPA Presentation Intern; 3) NSPA Event Planner Intern; 4) NSPA Advising Intern; and 5) NSPA Newsletter Intern. Contact yee.chu@und.edu for more information.

By permission of the Director

1-8 cr.

Kirby, M.

By permission of the Honors Director only.

Independent research on a significant project with an expert faculty advisor.

3 cr.

Knapp, T.

T/R, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Explore a shared focus on community and citizenship—the responsibility of individuals for the welfare of others—in a digital world through the academic examination of and reflection on transformative texts, films, and artworks from a variety of linguistic and cultural traditions from the German-speaking world

3 cr.

Weldt-Basson, H.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.

Explore a shared focus on community and citizenship—the responsibility of individuals for the welfare of others—in a digital world through the academic examination of and reflection on transformative texts, films, and artworks from a variety of linguistic and cultural traditions from Spanish-speaking Latin America world.

3 cr.

Ross, E.

T/R, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

An introduction to the interdisciplinary nature of cultural practices and traditions around the world, this course will explore an understanding of culture as historical, literary, linguistic, visual, and performative. Through reading, writing, and discussion to foster advanced communication, students will be expected to engage and examine intercultural contexts and complexities. Repeatable when topics vary.

3 cr.

Weldt-Basson, H.

Online

T/R, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Open to majors and non-majors. Literature, linguistics, and/or culture course organized by genre, movement, topic or period with a focus on promoting complex engagement with the subject through in-depth analytical writing and discussion. Taught in English.

3 cr. 

Beltz, M.

MWF 10:10 - 11 a.m.

At some point in our lives, we become involved in the health care system. Whether we are patients, nurses, doctors, or family members of patients, we must understand how the decisions we make about health care are ethical decisions. This course focuses on understanding the ethical responsibilities of professionals, the rights of patients, the nature of moral decision making, and applying ethical frameworks to concrete situations. Drawing on case studies, ethical dilemmas, and real-world scenarios, this course examines the significance of informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, organ transplant policy, professional standards, assisted suicide, vaccine mandates, drug screening, national health care policy and reform. The rights and responsibilities of professionals and patients will be examined through contemporary ethical theories and through codes of professional ethics.

3 cr.

Butler, M.

T/R, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

We are often encouraged to care for our mental health. This sounds good on the surface. But often those encouraging us to do so are not necessarily those we trust to have our best interests in mind – corporations, insurance companies, the human resources department, etc. Why do these powerful institutions have an interest in our mental health? How is their power connected to the way we think about what it means to be mentally healthy or ill? Where did the concept of mental illness come from and how is it related to older concepts like madness or psychopathology? This course will critically investigate these questions through 20th and 21st century European philosophy. Figures explored will include, Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, and Mariana Alessandri.

3 cr.

Rozelle-Stone, R.

M/W, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m.

What does it mean to live a feminist life? Why are feminists often portrayed as “willful” or “killjoys”? What kinds of societal and political issues does feminist philosophy address and how? In this course, we will not only discuss these broad questions, but we also will explore individual, relational, sexual, and familial obstacles and revolutions through a feminist-philosophical lens. Themes will include: the meaning of oppression; gendered expectations; bodily norms; “outlaw emotions;” happiness scripts; relationship paradigms; intersectional feminism; feminist resistance, survival, and fatigue; and more. We will read and engage with works by notable feminist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, and Iris Marion Young. (Humanities & Analyzing Worldviews class.)

3 cr.

Ferraro, R.

MWF: 9:05 - 9:55 a.m. and     F, 8:00 - 8:50 a.m.

A survey of the psychology of human life span development, including intellectual, emotional, and social aspects of the normal individual and emphasizing childhood and adolescent development. Prerequisite: PSYC 111.

3 cr.

Terrell, H.

T/R. 8 - 9:15 a.m.

An advanced research methods course. Students will learn how to plan and execute basic psychological experiments, analyze data, and correctly report research findings using APA style. Prerequisite: PSYC 241 and PSYC 303.

3 cr.

O'Leary, M.

T/R, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

This course will introduce you to the foundational concepts underwriting how gender has been socially, historically, and politically constructed. This course considers how power functions, how it affects/is affected by gender, and how it works through concurrent social and political categories such as race, class, sex/uality, dis/ability, nationality, and citizenship. As an interdisciplinary course, and in addition to our required texts, we will be reading widely from work in the social and biological sciences, law, history, literature, and philosophy to better understand how gender inflects aspects of our own identities and experiences. As we do so, we will also learn to critically read material that may challenge our own assumptions and existing knowledge base. We will learn how to approach this work critically and generously, allowing us to form critiques of different ideas and to approach material from multiple possible perspectives.

• CE 483HON: Civil Engineering Design II
• CHE 412HON: Process Project Engineering
• CSCI 493HON: Senior Project II
• EE 481HON: Senior Design II
• ENGR 201HON: Statics
• ENGR 202HON: Dynamics
• ENGR 203HON: Mechanics of Materials
• ENGR 206HON: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
• ENGR 340HON: Professional Integrity in Engineering
  GEOE 485HON: Geological Engineering Design
• ME 488HON: Engineering Design
• PTRE 485HON: Senior Desig

Requires permission codes from Nursing to register

• NURS 301HON Professional Nurse I
  
• NURS 331HON Patient and Family-Centered Nursing
• NURS 406HON Evidence-Informed Practice
• NURS 450HON Transition to Practice: Seminar