Courses
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- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or equivalent.
This course develops learner Spanish skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) as an organic whole at the Advanced level. This course and its partner (SN 302: Advanced Spanish II) undertake a comprehensive review and expansion of the Spanish grammar system.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or equivalent.
This course develops learner Spanish skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) as an organic whole at the Advanced level. This course and its partner (SN 301: Advanced Spanish I) undertake a comprehensive review and expansion of the Spanish grammar system.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor’s permission.
This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to the culture and civilization of Spain. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical, geographical, political and economic factors that have helped shape today’s Spanish society.
Notes: SN 310 is taught in Spanish.- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302, EN 211, and sophomore standing.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or department head approval.
Students will learn about the culture of a particular country or countries through a combination of class sessions on the campus of Northern Michigan University and a faculty-led study abroad.
Notes: May be repeated for credit if topic varies. Cross-listed with IP 313X and HS 313X.- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302.
An introduction to the study and critical appreciation of poetry, prose, and drama from both Latin America and Spain.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor permission.
This course will provide the opportunity to improve your reading, writing, and conversation skills in Spanish. We will read a variety of articles from Spanish and/or Latin American online newspapers and other sources. Topics range from current events (“the news”), politics, the arts, culture, sports, and every other realm of human endeavor. May be taken for credit more than once.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or four years of high school Spanish.
Students produce and perform a play in Spanish.
Notes:May be repeated for credit.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor’s permission.
Students examine some of the masterpieces of Spain’s Golden Age literature. They will learn about historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts of societies that produced the texts and will improve their abilities to critically read and analyze literary works.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor’s permission.
Students examine 20th and 21st century works from Spain. They will learn about historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts of societies that produced the texts and will improve their abilities to critically read and analyze literary works.
- Offered: Contact department.
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor’s permission.
Students examine 20th and 21st century works They will learn about historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts of societies that produced the texts and will improve their abilities to critically read and analyze literary works.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor permission.
Students will read texts written by women throughout Latin America. They will learn about historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts of societies that produced texts and will improve their abilities to critically read and analyze literary works.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or department head permission.
Students will engage in an internship using primarily Spanish in accordance with NMU internship policies.
Notes:May be repeated for credit as internship opportunities vary.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor’s permission.
This is an experimental course based on linguistics, cultures, authors, genres or literary periods not covered in other regularly approved Spanish courses.
Notes: May be repeated for credit if topic varies.- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: Instructor and department head permission.
A directed study course designed to meet a specific academic requirement of the student who is unable to earn the credit during regularly scheduled course offerings. The student and professor agree to the specific topic and requirements needed to earn the credit.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Offered: Fall
Examines the complex social, economic, and cultural relations that determine what we eat. Analyzes how problems in the food system, including environmental degradation, labor injustices, and unequal access to healthy food are social problems that reflect an ongoing tension between the agency of individual eaters and the power of institutions and social structures.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SO 101 or instructor's permission.
Introduction to techniques of data analysis for social research. Applied uses of descriptive and inferential statistics are emphasized. Computers and statistical software are used as part of the instruction process.
Notes: Cross listed as SW 208.- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: SO 101 or instructor permission.
Examination of social changes that have affected family relations in western culture and the multifaceted effects of these changes and the social significance of these changes in a complex social order. Also explores many of the issues and problems confronting contemporary families.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SO 101 or SO 113 or CJ 110 or instructor's permission.
This course explores the nature, extent, causes and methods of treatment and prevention of crime. Emphasis is on the theories and methods of studying crime and criminal behavior as a social phenomena.
Notes: Cross-listed with CJ 263.- Offered: Summer
- Prerequisites: NAS 204 and Instructor approval.
This course provides students with an introductory, experiential opportunity to practice social service work with Tribal communities in the Upper Peninsula. Students will be placed in a Tribal victim services agency where they will both observe and perform relevant tasks under the guidance of an agency supervisor. Students will concurrently participate in a seminar course with an NMU instructor, which will emphasize integration of knowledge and skills learned in the classroom and practicum through discussion and self-reflection.
- Offered: Contact Department
Human happiness is a focus of multiple traditions -- artistic, poetic, religious, philosophical, scientific, and social scientific. This course addresses the social and cultural factors that contribute to, or detract from, the experience of happiness. The emphasis is on social forces – interpersonal, institutional, and global -- that shape our human journey on a path toward well-being.
Notes: Cross-listed with AN 287.- Offered: Contact Department
This course introduces students to the sociological study of sports with particular emphasis on American society. The course covers topics such as culture, structure, social interaction, deviance, and power. The central theme, however, is differentiation and stratification by race, gender, and class. In short: students will use sociological theories, methods, and empirical data to better understand the social institution of sport and its relationship to individual and collective lives.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: SO 101 or instructor's permission.