2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

• Offered: Contact department
• Prerequisites: Instructor selection by cover letter and resume/CV, student must have taken the course and received an A- or above, student must have junior standing or above, and attendance cannot conflict with other courses in student’s schedule.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course is a directed apprenticeship in teaching. The student will work under the supervision of the faculty member to act as a teaching assistant for a lower-level course. The TA will act as a moderator for class discussion sessions, labs, or other activities, provide tutoring sessions, and teach selected topics as deemed necessary.

Course may be repeated twice for credit, if acting as a teaching assistant for different courses.

Course assessment will be on a credit/no-credit basis and does not involve a letter grade; 80-100% results in Credit, 79% and below results in No Credit.
 

• Offered: Winter, Even numbered years
• Prerequisites: AN 365 or instructor permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This is an intensive, hands-on course that makes use of real human skeletal material from the FROST/FARL donated collection. This course is designed to provide students with in-depth knowledge of bone biology and skeletal anatomy, and the skills to conduct advanced metric and non-metric skeletal analysis for determining human/non-human differentiation, pathology, trauma, and estimation of sex, ancestry, stature, and age-at-death.

• Offered: Fall, odd numbered years
• Prerequisites: AN 101.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course introduces students interested in Forensic Anthropology to the history of the discipline as well as topics like death investigation, skeletal anatomy, forensic taphonomy, and the methods used by forensic anthropologists to analyze the human skeleton. The course has both lecture and lab components. Most of the laboratory exercises will take place indoors, but there may be outdoor aspects (weather permitting).

• Offered: Winter, odd numbered years
• Prerequisites: Instructor Approval.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course involves a combination of instructional modules that train students in the important topics of ethics, history, safety, policies, and standard procedures associated with the Forensic Research Outdoor Station (FROST), and hands-on, on-site training and application of FROST data collection methods. Methods include documentation of observations, photography, and possibly sample collection.

• Offered: Fall
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Perspectives on Society (PERS)

This course introduces a holistic, four-field approach to anthropology. Students will examine what it means to be human, central concepts to the field of anthropology, anthropological methods, ethics, applied anthropology, and the four subfields of anthropology: physical anthropology (including forensic anthropology), archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.

• Offered: Fall
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course will strengthen your ability to sing a melody at sight using movable do. This skill is considered to be one of the most important to your overall musicianship because it enables you to understand aurally what you read in a musical score. The course will also reinforce your ability to hear and notate melody, rhythm, and two-part harmonic structures through dictation.

• Offered: Fall Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Students will learn to effectively defend themselves from attackers in a variety of manners and situations. Skills learned will range from escapes from grabs and locks, to effective striking techniques and principles. Students will discuss defense based philosophy and practice drills to develop good self-defense and protection habits.

• Prerequisites: DFST 102: American Sign Language 2 with a grade of C+ or higher.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Advancement of ASL skill level, incorporated with a continuum of an expansion of vocabulary development and linguistic techniques. Advancing focus and emphasis placed on mastering conceptual accuracy through peer presentation assignments and projects using ASL in short stories, personal narratives, ASL poetry, etc.

Formerly DFST 454.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: DFST 102 and EN 111 with a grade of “C” or higher or instructor permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop more advanced interpersonal communication skills using American Sign Language in “voice-off” modality, as well as developing greater understanding of, and appreciation for, cultural aspects of the Deaf Community.

• Offered: Summer
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Integrative Thinking (INTT)

In this interdisciplinary course, students will explore and analyze the relationship between natural science and the visual arts. We will examine the historical and current synergy between the art and science and consider patterns based on examples where the two disciplines worked in concert. We will explore the close interrelationship between these two academic areas and consider how both areas can enrich our understanding of the world.