Center for Community and Civic Engagement

• Applied ACE
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Applied ACE

Fall 2016

• PSYC 218: Hormones and Behavior

  Summary
  In this course, students will learn about how hormones act in the brain and the body to affect behaviors.

• PHYS 210: Sustainable Energy Principles and Design

  Summary
  The course will consider the world energy landscape with particular local and global foci. Includes a significant group academic civic engagement project that focuses on renewable energy design

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

• CAMS 270: Nonfiction

  Summary
  This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production.

• RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom

  Summary
  This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the U.S. Projects integrate academic learning and student involvement in matters of particular concern to contemporary native communities.

• MUSC 192: West African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.

• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics

  Summary
  This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought.

• GEOL 210: Geomorphology

  Summary
  Study of the geological processes and factors which influence the origin and development of the surficial features of the earth, with an emphasis on some or all of the processes in Minnesota. Laboratories and field trips included.

• EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools. Observing learning activities in elementary and secondary classrooms and working with students.

• IDSC 298: FOCUS Sophomore Colloquium

  Summary
  This colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program. It will provide an opportunity to participate in STEM-based projects on campus and in the community.

• WGST 285: Gender Violence and Feminist Self-Defense

  Summary
  This course will focus on the theories and praxis feminists have put forth to resist gender and sexual violence. Students will participate in self-defense programs and reflect on feminist theories of resistance in the context of personal experience.

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  This course aims to help students acquire greater skill and confidence in both oral and written expression. The language classes team up with the Northfield public schools to help both Northfield and Carleton students improve their language skills.

• IDSC 235: Perspectives in Public Health

  Summary
  This course will explore the many dimensions of public health within the United States and provide an introduction to community based work and research.

• BIOL 322: Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory

  Summary
  Prerequisite: Biology 126 and one of the following: Biology 125, Geology 110, Chemistry 123 or Chemistry 128. Requires concurrent registration in Biology 321.

• CS 399: Senior Seminar

  Summary
  As part of their senior capstone experience, majors will work together in teams (typically four to seven students per team) on faculty-specified topics to design and implement the first stage of a project.

• PSYC 383: The Social Psychology of Gender: Playing by the "Gender" Rules

  Summary
  n this course, we will systematically review and analyze psychological theory and empirical research related to gender roles, gender stereotypes, and power differentials in society.

Spring 2016

• HIST 217: Engaging Youth in the Past

  Summary
  The course centers on a civic engagement project mentoring sixth grade students at the Northfield Middle School as they research and produce projects for a local version of National History Day.

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community.

• GERM 103: Intermediate German

  Summary
  Completion of the study of basic structural patterns of the German language, and the reading and discussion of a longer literary work.

• AFAM 125: New African Migrations

  Summary
  This course introduces students to African and African diaspora studies through an examination of new African migrations.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MUSC 192: West African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course is a continuation of either or both beginning courses, focusing on sophisticated handbuilding and throwing techniques and advanced problem solving in ceramics.

• PHIL 227: Philosophy with Children

  Summary
  This course is about helping children explore and develop their nascent philosophical abilities via children's literature. To that end, the bulk of this course is devoted to making visits to a first grade class at Greenvale Park Elementary School.

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad.This course will also include active involvement with local schools and educators to ground it in lived practice.

• ARBC 206: Arabic in Cultural Context

  Summary
  In this course students will continue to develop their Arabic language skills, including expanding their command of Arabic grammar, improving their listening comprehension, reading and writing skills.

• EDUC 338: Multicultural Education

  Summary
  This course focuses on the respect for human diversity, especially as these relate to various racial, cultural and economic groups, and to women.

• SOAN 233: Anthropology of Food

  Summary
  This course explores how anthropologists use food to understand different aspects of human behavior, from food procurement and consumption practices to the politics of nutrition and diets.

• ENTS 110: Environment and Society

  Summary
  This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to a number of the pressing environmental changes currently facing human societies around the world.

• SOAN 202: Girls Gone Bad: Women, Crime and Criminal Justice

  Summary
  In this course we examine female criminality. In doing so, we learn about the social basis of criminal activity, the assumptions present in criminological theory, and the ways in which criminal justice practices are gendered.

• GEOL 120: Introduction to Environmental Geology

  Summary
  An introduction to geology emphasizing environmental health and humankind's use and abuse of soil, water, fuels, and other resources.

• RELG 289: Global Religions in Minnesota

  Summary
  This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.

Winter 2016

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CS 400: Integrative Exercise

  Summary
  Beginning with the prototypes developed in the Senior Seminar, project teams will complete their project and present it to the department.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• IDSC 198: FOCUS Colloquium

  Summary
  This two-credit freshman colloquium will provide students with the opportunity to build air quality sensors to learn about the science around air pollution and to develop community based measurements.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad. This course will also include active involvement with local schools and educators to ground it in lived practice.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Instructor Permission Required, waitlist only

  • Location:
    Northfield

• BIOL 101: Human Reproduction and Sexuality

  Summary
  This course will review the basic biology of all aspects of reproduction--from genes to behavior--in an attempt to better understand one of the more basic and important processes in nature.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 240: Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  The course is concerned with social scientific inquiry and explanation, particularly with reference to sociology and anthropology.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ARBC 205: Intermediate Arabic

  Summary
  Students will develop their ability to express ideas in Modern Standard Arabic by writing essays and preparing oral presentations. Classes will incorporate readings and audio-visual material from contemporary Arabic media, as well as popular music.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• SOAN 262: Anthropology of Health and Illness

  Summary
  An ethnographic approach to beliefs and practices regarding health and illness in numerous societies worldwide.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MUSC 192: West African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• RELG 130: Native American Religions

  Summary
  This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance. The course focuses on the local traditions of the Ojibwe and Lakota communities.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Fall 2015

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

• HIST 232: Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy

  Summary
  Study of the geological processes and factors which influence the origin and development of the surficial features of the earth, with an emphasis on some or all of the processes in Minnesota. Laboratories and field trips included.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad. This course will also include active involvement with local schools and educators to ground it in lived practice.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  Taught three days a week in Spanish. Some Spanish 204 sections include a service-learning component, to enrich students' understanding of course material by integrating academic study with public service.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• EDUC 340: Race, Immigration, and Schools

  Summary
  This course explores the important role that public schools have played as the way to socialize students about what it means to be American and to prepare them to participate as citizens in a democracy

  • Location:
    Faribault

• MUSC 192: West African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom

  Summary
  This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions. Service projects will integrate academic learning and student involvement in matters of concern to contemporary native communities.

  • Location:
    National

• GEOL 210: Geomorphology

  Summary
  Study of the geological processes and factors which influence the origin and development of the surficial features of the earth, with an emphasis on some or all of the processes in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota

• MATH 255: Survey Sampling

  Summary
  Covers sampling design issues beyond the basic simple random sample: stratification, clustering, domains, and complex designs like two-phase and multistage designs.

  • Location:
    Northfield

Spring 2015

• HIST 126: African American History II

  Summary
  The transition from slavery to freedom; the post-Reconstruction erosion of civil rights; protest organizations and mass migration before and during World War I; roots of the modern Civil Rights movement, black female activism, and more.

  • Location:
    National

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad. This course will also include active involvement with local schools and educators to ground it in lived practice.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• HIST 216: History: Beyond the Walls

  Summary
  This course will examine the world of history outside the walls of academia.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• WGST 240: Gender, Globalization, and War

  Summary
  This course examines the relationship between globalization, gender and militarism to understand how globalization and militarism are gendered, and processes through which gender becomes globalized and militarized.

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Instructor Permission Required, waitlist only

  • Location:
    Northfield

• MATH 349: Methods of Teaching Mathematics

  Summary
  Methods of teaching mathematics in grades 7-12. Issues in contemporary mathematics education. Regular visits to school classrooms and teaching a class are required. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing and permission of the instructor.

• ENTS 288: Abrupt Climate Change

  Summary
  The field of abrupt climate change seeks to understand very fast changes, or "tipping points," in historical climate records.

• SOAN 240: Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  The course is concerned with social scientific inquiry and explanation, particularly with reference to sociology and anthropology.

• ENTS 110: Environment and Society

  Summary
  This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to a number of the pressing environmental changes currently facing human societies around the world.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• GEOL 120.01: Introduction to Environmental Geology

  Summary
  An introduction to geology emphasizing environmental health and humankind's use and abuse of soil, water, fuels, and other resources. Field trips and laboratories included.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• PHIL 227: Philosophy of Education & Philosophy in Education

  Summary
  This course looks at what it means to live an examined life while encouraging elementary school students to develop the skills of philosophical examination.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• HIST 139: Foundations of Modern Europe

  Summary
  A narrative and survey of the early modern period (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries).

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ARCN 246: Archaeological Methods

  Summary
  This course provides a hands-on introduction to the entire archaeological process through classroom, field, and laboratory components.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course is a continuation of either or both beginning courses, focusing on sophisticated handbuilding and throwing techniques and advanced problem solving in ceramics.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  Students in this art course will create over 500 bowls for a yearly event to highlight the problems that hunger creates in society. The event is a fundraiser called Empty Bowls.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

Winter 2015

• IDSC 236: Public Health in Practice

  Summary
  This course is the second part of a two-term sequence. During the winter term, students will complete their final public health-related civic engagement project.

  • Location:
    National, Twin Cities Metro, Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 330: Immunology

  Summary
  Topics to be covered include the structure and function of antibodies, cytokines, the role of the major histocompatibility complex in antigen presentation, cellular immunity, immunodeficiencies, and current techniques used to study immune responses.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• GEOL 340: Hydrology

  Summary
  A seminar on major principles of ground and surface water hydrology and their application to contemporary hydrologic problems. The course will draw considerably on student-directed investigation of critical areas of study in hydrology.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 347: Methods of Teaching Science

  Summary
  This course will explore teaching methods for the life and physical sciences in grades 5-12. Curricular materials and active learning labs will be discussed and developed.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• HIST 280: African in the Arab World

  Summary
  This course examines African people's existence as religious, political, and military leaders, and as slaves and poets in Arab societies from ancient to modern times.

  • Location:
    Global, On Campus

• MUSC 192: African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa. Students perform and conduct a workshop for students at Prairie Creek Community School.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 353: Schooling and Opportunity in American Society

  Summary
  This course is concerned with both the role of schools in society and the impact of society on schools. It deals with race, ethnicity, sex, social class and other factors which influence school achievement.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom

  Summary
  This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the U.S. Service projects integrate academic learning and student involvement in matters of concern to contemporary native communities.

  • Location:
    National, Greater Minnesota, On Campus

• CGSC 380: Seminar in Developmental Psychology: Cognitive Development During the Preschool Years

  Summary
  We will consider the development of memory, perception, and attention, as well as concepts and categorization, problem-solving and thinking, during the years from two to six. Course includes regular observation of preschoolers or kindergarteners.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• SOAN 285: The Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work.

  • Location:
    Global, Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  In this two-credit course students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• IDSC 298: Focus Sophomore Colloquium

  Summary
  This one credit colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program. It will provide an opportunity to participate in STEM-based projects on campus and in the community.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 262: Anthropology of Health and Illness

  Summary
  This course examines patients, practitioners, and the social networks and contexts through which therapies are managed to better understand medical systems as well as the significance of the anthropological study of misfortune.

  • Location:
    Global, National, Northfield, On Campus

• AMST 241: American Food?

  Summary
  This course examines perceptions of American food within historical and global contexts.

  • Location:
    Global, National, On Campus

• ENTS 262: Materials Science, Energy, and Environment

  Summary
  This course will focus on the relationship between the structure and physical properties of materials, how materials science can address environmental and energy challenges, and the technological and societal impacts of materials development.

  • Location:
    Northfield

Fall 2014

• IDSC 298: FOCUS Sophomore Colloquium

  Summary
  This colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the FOCUS program. Students will continue a project at the Northfield Middle School monitoring air quality during high traffic periods, using a set of portable air monitors.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• CS 100: Human Centered Computing

  Summary
  Technology permeates every aspect of our lives: how we work, play, and communicate; our finances and health; etc.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 322: Ecosystem Ceology Laboratory

  Summary
  In this lab students work with local farmers and ranchers to study the effects of land management and farming practices on soil and plant chemistry and the cycling of soil carbon and nitrogen.

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  In this two credit s/cr/nc only course students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community.

• HIST 137: Early Medieval Worlds

  Summary
  Through the intensive exploration of a variety of distinct "worlds" in the early Middle Ages, this course offers an introduction to formative political, social, religious, and cultural developments in Europe between c.450 and c.1050.

• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics

  Summary
  This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought.

• EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools.

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  This course aims to help students acquire greater skill and confidence in both oral and written expression. The language classes team up with the Northfield public schools to help both Northfield and Carleton students improve their language skills.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• RELG 130: Native American Religions

  Summary
  This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance.

• GEOL 258: Geology of Soils

  Summary
  The study of soil formation, and physical and chemical properties of soils especially as related to geomorphology and land use.

• PHYS 100: Powering the Future: Renewable Energy in Context

  Summary
  This A&I seminar provides an overview of the physics of energy harvesting at an introductory level. We also consider technological and socio-economic constraints as well as the environmental and sociological impact of different energy sources.

• PHYS 355: Classical and Quantum Optics

  Summary
  A junior/senior level course in classical and quantum optics. Students will take their knowledge about optics out into the community.

• IDSC 235: Perspectives in Public Health

  Summary
  This three credit s/cr/nc only course will explore the many dimensions of public health within the United States and provide an introduction to community based work and research.

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This two credit colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad.

Spring 2014

• BIOL 370: Topics in Virology

  Summary
  The course focuses on the most recent developments in HIV-related research, including implications for HIV-treatment and vaccines and the impact of viral infection on the immune system of the host.

  • Location:
    Global, Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 370: Seminar: Selected Topics in Virology

  Summary
  An examination of selected animal viruses. The course will focus on the most recent developments in HIV-related research, including implications for HIV-treatment and vaccines and the impact of viral infection on the immune system of the host.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• IDSC 198: FOCUS Colloquium

  Summary
  This colloquium is designed to give students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program an opportunity to learn and use skills in scientific study, reasoning, and modeling. Freshmen built tools to measure air pollution.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• PHIL 243: Animal Ethics: The Moral Status of Animals

  Summary
  Do non-human animals have moral status, or are our moral obligations confined to human animals? In this course, we will explore this and related questions in a hands-on and interdisciplinary way.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• PSYC 375: Language and Deception

  Summary
  In this course we will examine deception and persuasion in language use. Students in this class actively participated in Intro to Psychology classes at the local high school.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• RELG 289: Global Religions in Minnesota

  Summary
  This course examined how global religions adapt to and transform the disparate local communities where their practitioners make home. Students supplemented historical and theoretical instruction with research with living communities in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Twin Cities Metro, Greater Minnesota, Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 202: Girls Gone Bad: Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice

  Summary
  Students in the class will have the possibility of collaborating with the Rice County Corrections on projects or with the Alternatives to Violence Program currently running in the Faribault prison.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, Faribault, On Campus

• SOAN 285: The Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work. Each student will take on a project based on their own interests.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 101: Human Reproduction and Sexuality

  Summary
  This course will review the basic biology of all aspects of reproduction, from genes to behavior, in an attempt to understand one of the more basic and important processes in nature. Students work on curriculum for local schools and Carleton campus.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• PSYC 218: Hormones and Behavior

  Summary
  In this course, students will learn about the relationship between hormones and behavior. In spring 2014, students produced short videos about hormones which they showed to middle school students and with whom they then had follow-up discussions.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 236: Plant Biology

  Summary
  How do plants work? This course is framed in the context of advances in evolution and genomics, which offer insight into physiological, developmental, morphological, and anatomical adaptations to diverse environments.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• ENTS 232: Research Methods in Environmental Studies

  Summary
  This course covers various methodologies that are used to pursue interdisciplinary academic research relating to the environment. Students analyzed transportation challenges for Northfield middle schoolers and residents of Northfield Retirement Home.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• POSC 222: The Politics of Food: Producers, Consumers, and Citizenship

  Summary
  In this course we will learn about and reflect upon the political aspects of food in the U.S. Students in this class researched food products and produced educational materials which they shared with the local coop.

  • Location:
    National, Northfield, On Campus

• IDSC 298: FOCUS Colloquium

  Summary
  This two-credit sophomore colloquium will provide students with the opportunity to research light pollution and give public reports on their findings.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• MATH 237: Designing a Curriculum for Math GED

  Summary
  We will help local communities respond to the latest changes in GED requirements by observing how GED mathematics is currently taught and preparing new curricular materials to teach it in the future.

  • Location:
    National, Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 340: Race, Immigration, and Urban Schools

  Summary
  This course explores the important role that public schools, particularly in urban areas, have played in the American national imagination as the way to socialize students about what it means to be American.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 395: Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This is a research and design seminar for educational studies concentrators. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education. In spring 2014, students investigated youth activism.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• CS 342: Mobile Application Development

  Summary
  In the context of a few app development projects, this course will focus on mobile computing's design patterns, user interface principles, software development methodologies, development tools, and cultural impact.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad. This course will also include active involvement with local schools and educators to ground it in lived practice.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 386: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

  Summary
  The course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for helping secondary teachers learn to provide specific instructional support for secondary readers. Students will partner with students from the Prairie Creek Community School.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Winter 2014

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  Students are with the MN Celiac Center and Northfield's Just Food Co-op on projects related to celiac disease.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  Students are partnering with the MN Celiac Center and Northfield's Just Food Co-op on projects related to celiac disease.In partnership with the Rice County Public Health Department, students will be developing a video on the topic of vaccine safety.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to enrich their learning through engagement with the community by volunteering at Faribault High School.

  • Location:
    Faribault, On Campus

• IDSC 265: Topics in Public Health

  Summary
  Topics in Public Health will mix introductory text-based discussions with panels and discussions facilitated by visiting speakers.

• ENGL 272: A Journey in Journalism

  Summary
  In this workshop class, the classroom becomes a newsroom and students create and publish their own works of journalism in digital media of their choosing.Journalism as a truth-finding and truth-telling discipline is the underlying skill set taught.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• HIST 216: History: Beyond the Walls

  Summary
  A central component of the course includes a civic engagement project mentoring sixth grade students at the Northfield Middle School as they research and produce projects for Minnesota History Day.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ENGL 272: A Journey in Journalism

  Summary
  In this workshop class, the classroom becomes a newsroom and students create and publish their own works of journalism in digital media of their choosing including personal blogs, podcasts, videos, still photography, online graphics and multimedia.

• IDSC 198: FOCUS Colloquium

  Summary
  This two-credit freshman colloquium will provide students with the opportunity to build air quality sensors to learn about the science around air pollution and to develop community based measurements.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• IDSC 198: FOCUS Colloquium

  Summary
  This two-credit freshman colloquium will provide students with the opportunity to build air quality sensors to learn about the science around air pollution and to develop community based measurements.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• IDSC 265: Topics in Public Health

  Summary
  This course will mix introductory text-based discussions with panels and discussions facilitated by visiting speakers. Classes will cover an array of topics including community partnership, professionalism, and social theories of health equity.

  • Location:
    National, Greater Minnesota, On Campus

• MUSC 192: African Drum Class

  Summary
  Class instruction in basic techniques of African drumming. Students performed for Prairie Creek Community School.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 238: Multicultural Education

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to enrich their learning through engagement with the community by volunteering at Faribault High School.

  • Location:
    Faribault, On Campus

• POSC 209: Place, Politics, and Ctizen Mobilization

  Summary
  This class will research a current case study of sand mining for fracking in Winona, Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota

• EDUC 238: Multicultural Education

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to enrich their learning through engagement with the community by volunteering at Faribault High School.

  • Location:
    Faribault

• EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to enrich their learning through engagement with the community by volunteering at Faribault High School.

  • Location:
    Faribault

• SOAN 240: Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  The class is working with the Northfield League of Women's voters. They will construct surveys and interview members in order to illustrate the composition of league, its perceptions in the community, and ways that they could improve recruitment.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 240: Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  The class is working with the Northfield League of Women's voters. They will construct surveys and interview members in order to illustrate the composition of league, its perceptions in the community, and ways that they could improve recruitment.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• POSC 209: Place, Politics, and Citizen Mobilization

  Summary
  This class will research a current case study of sand mining for fracking in Winona, Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota, On Campus

• PHYS 356: Special Project: Systems Approaches for Sustainability

  Summary
  Students in this course are working on four projects related to sustainability including designing a net zero warming house, designing a low-energy/low-heat/low-water year-round greenhouse and a system for sustainability projects.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad. This course will also include active involvement with local schools and educators to ground it in lived practice.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• HIST 216: History Beyond the Walls

  Summary
  A central component of the course includes a civic engagement project mentoring sixth grade students at the Northfield Middle School as they research and produce projects for Minnesota History Day.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 375: Issues in Science Education: Policy and Praxis

  Summary
  This colloquium focuses on the pedagogy of science teaching, both in the United States and abroad.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield

• PEAR 174: Introductory Coaching Practicum

  Summary
  This practicum will culminate with a service-learning project in Seville offering free sports clinics to local schools. No previous coaching experience required.

  • Location:
    Global

• PHYS 356: Special Project: Systems Approaches for Sustainability

  Summary
  Projects in this course: designing a net zero warming house, designing a low-energy/low-heat/low-water year-round greenhouse, a system for sustainability projects, and exploring ways to implement the Green Steps program for the City of Northfield.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• MUSC 192: African Drum Class

  Summary
  Class instruction in basic techniques of African drumming. Students performed for Prairie Creek Community School.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• PEAR 174: Introductory Coaching Practicum

  Summary
  This practicum will culminate with a service-learning project in Seville offering free sports clinics to local schools. No previous coaching experience required.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, On Campus

• ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology

  Summary
  The course begins with a two-week visit in December to Beijing and Sichuan province. Field work will include visits to Chinese farms at the forefront of an incipient sustainable agriculture movement in China.

  • Location:
    Global

• ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology

  Summary
  The course begins with a two-week visit in December to Beijing and Sichuan province. Field work will include visits to Chinese farms at the forefront of an incipient sustainable agriculture movement in China.

  • Location:
    Global, On Campus

Fall 2013

• AMST 252: Food Culture in the United States

  Summary
  We explore the creation, exchange, and consumption of food in America, focusing on food as a cultural artifact that is intricately tied to individual and group identification. The class will partner with Northfield Community Action Center Food Shelf.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• MATH 280: Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• MATH 315: Topics in Probability and Statistics: Introduction to Sampling Techniques

  Summary
  Covers sampling design issues beyond the basic simple random sample: stratification, clustering, domains, and complex designs like two-phase and multistage designs.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics

  Summary
  This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice.The course allows students apply the ethical debates in environmental policy and practice to case studies in Northfield.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• CGSC 386: Adolescent Cognitive Development: Developing an Identity and Life Plans

  Summary
  An examination of recent literature on how adolescents develop their value system, explore their goals, begin to make life-framing decision, establish new relationships, and discover answers to the question "Who am I?"

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• PSYC 260: Health Psychology

  Summary
  This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens.

• SOAN 203: Anthropology of Good Intentions

  Summary
  This course explores the impacts of sustainable development, conservation, and AID programs to look beyond the good intentions of those that implement them.

  • Location:
    Global, National, Northfield, On Campus

• PSYC 260: Health Psychology

  Summary
  This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens. Students will examine local policy and health outcomes.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 221: Ecosystem Ecology

  Summary
  This course examines major ecosystems on Earth. Students will be collaborate with the Main Stream Project to do analysis of the effects of sustainable chicken production and develop units for a middle school field trip to the Arboretum.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• GEOL 210: Geomorphology

  Summary
  Study of the geological processes and factors which influence the origin and development of the surficial features of the earth, with an emphasis on some or all of the processes in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota, On Campus

• HIST 232: Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy

  Summary
  Using a range of evidence from Italy and France in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries we will explore selected issues of the period. Students will go to local schools to lead an enrichment opportunity around Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• CAMS 270: Nonfiction I

  Summary
  This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. The class will create a film about composting at Carleton.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of school. Three hours outside of class per week are devoted to observing learning activities in public school classrooms.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

  Summary
  This course will focus on education as a multidisciplinary field of study. We will explore the meanings of education within individual lives and institutional contexts. Students have the option of spending time in one of the after-school programs.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

Spring 2013

• POSC 223: Food Justice

  Summary
  This course will examine concepts of justice and apply them to issues related to farmworkers, factory works and others who produce our food, poverty and access to food, and genetically modified organisms as they relate to control of production.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 236: Introduction to Peace Studies

  Summary
  In this course we will study the alternative definitions of peace and examine the relation between peace and a variety of societal factors including modernity, post modernity, international anarchy, forms of state, and culture.

  • Location:
    Global, National, On Campus

• RELG 289: Global Religions in Minnesota

  Summary
  This course examined how global religions adapt to and transform the disparate local communities where their practitioners make home. Students supplemented historical and theoretical instruction with research with living communities in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Twin Cities Metro, Greater Minnesota, Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• ENTS 288: Abrupt Climate Change

  Summary
  Course topics include interpretation of historical climate data, methods of measuring abrupt changes in ancient climates, theories for abrupt change, the role of complex earth systems, and the connection to trends in global climate change.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 395: Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This is a research and design seminar for educational studies concentrators. The academic civic engagement component for this class will focus on charter schools.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota, Northfield, On Campus

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  Students in this art course will create over 500 bowls for a yearly event, Empty Bowls, to highlight the problems that hunger creates in society. The event includes a fundraiser selling the handmade bowls for the Northfield Food Shelf.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work. Each student will take on a project based on their own interests.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 233: Food Justice

  Summary
  This course will examine concepts of justice and apply them to issues related to farm workers, factory workers and others who produce our food, poverty and access to food, and genetically modified organisms as they relate to control of production.

  • Location:
    Global, National, Northfield, On Campus

• HIST 115: Carleton in the Archives: Studies in Institutional Memory and Culture

  Summary
  What is the relationship between "official" and "individual" memory in the making of an institutional world? We will explore this and related questions through reading, discussion, and a hands-on project based on materials in Carleton's own archives.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• HIST 285: Museums, Monuments, and Memory

  Summary
  This course ranges widely over the varied and sometimes risky terrain of contemporary history-making in Minnesota and beyond to examine preservation organizations, museums, archives, oral history projects, documentary films, historic sites, and more.

  • Location:
    National, Greater Minnesota, On Campus

• ENGL 272: A Journey in Journalism

  Summary
  In this workshop-style class in journalistic storytelling, the classroom becomes a newsroom and students become working journalists reporting on Carleton and Northfield events as well as broader social issues, personalities, and trends.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• EDUC 386: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

  Summary
  The course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for helping secondary teachers learn to provide specific instructional support for secondary readers. Students will partner with students from a local school to work on reading skills.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

Winter 2013

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• HIST 286: Africans in the Arab World: On Site and Revisited

  Summary
  This class promotes dialogue with Afro-Arab women around the historical constructions of gender, race, and ethnicity in heritage sites, Islam, Arab media, academic institutions, and popular culture.

• HIST 236: Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe

  Summary
  This course offers an exploration of women's place in the family and economy, laws and cultural assumptions about women, and women's role in religion.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ENTS 262: Materials Science, Energy and the Environment

  Summary
  This course will focus on the relationship between the structure and physical properties of materials, how materials science can address environmental and energy challenges, and the technological and societal impacts of materials development.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 262: Anthropology of Health and Illness

  Summary
  This course examines patients, practitioners, and the social networks and contexts through which therapies are managed to better understand medical systems as well as the significance of the anthropological study of misfortune.

• SOAN 240: Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  Topics covered include research design, data collection, and analysis of data. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are considered. Student will demonstrate their knowledge by developing a research proposal that is implementable.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• BIOL 302: Methods of Teaching Science

  Summary
  This course will explore teaching methods for the life and physical sciences in grades 5-12. In addition, time outside of class will be spent observing and teaching in local science classrooms.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

Fall 2012

• POSC 358: Comparative Social Movements

  Summary
  This course examines the role that social movements play in political life. Potential case studies include the transnational environmental movement, religious movements in Latin America and the recent growth of far right activism in northern Europe.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 230: Methods of Political Research

  Summary
  An introduction to research method, research design, and the analysis of political data. The course is intended to introduce students to the fundamentals of scientific inquiry as they are employed in the discipline.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 204: Media and Electoral Politics: 2012 United States Election

  Summary
  Our analysis of media influences on politics will draw from three fields of study: political psychology, political behavior and participation, and public opinion.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 100: Media and Election Politics: 2012 Election

  Summary
  This seminar introduces basic methods of political analysis through a case study of media and politics in the 2012 elections. Concepts from public opinion analysis and political psychology will be used to understand the 2012 campaigns.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ENTS 247: Agroforestry Systems: Local and Global Perspectives

  Summary
  This course will examine the principles and practices of tropical and temperate agroforestry systems.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• HIST 137: Early Medieval Worlds

  Summary
  Through the exploration of four "worlds" in the Middle Ages (Late Antique Italy, Anglo-Saxon England,Carolingian Europe, Holy Roman Empire)this course gives an introduction to political,social, and cultural developments in Europe between 250 and 1050

  • Location:
    On Campus

• GEOL 210: Geomorphology

  Summary
  Study of the geological processes and factors which influence the origin and development of the surficial features of the earth, with an emphasis on some or all of the processes in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Spring 2012

• SOAN 240: Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  The course is concerned with social scientific inquiry and explanation, particularly with reference to sociology and anthropology.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CLAS 244: The Oresteia Project: Visualizing Greek Tragedy

  Summary
  The course focused on Aeschylus' famous tragic trilogy as an entry-point into and case study of the production, both ancient and modern, of Greek drama.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 288: Washington D.C.: A Global Conversation

  Summary
  Students will participate in a seminar involving meetings with leading Washington figures in areas of global policy making and regular discussions of related readings.

  • Location:
    National, On Campus

• BIOL 370: Topics in Virology

  Summary
  An examination of selected animal viruses. The course will focus on the most recent developments in HIV-related research, including implications for HIV-treatment and vaccines and the impact of viral infection on the immune system of the host.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 209: Place, Politics, and Citizen Mobilization

  Summary
  We will explore concepts of democracy, power, identity, and sense of place as we examine cases of citizen mobilization. The class will research a current case study of an environmental controversy that gave rise to citizen mobilization.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CLAS 111: Classical Mythology

  Summary
  We will study a selection of the most famous Classical myths through close reading of Homer, the Greek tragedians, Ovid and other ancient sources.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 236: Plant Biology

  Summary
  This course is framed in the context of advances in evolution and genomics, which offer insight into physiological, developmental, morphological, and anatomical adaptations to diverse environments.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 289: Washington D.C.: A Global Conversation

  Summary
  Students will engage with leading scholars and practitioners in the field of political communication to learn how mass media, particularly TV news, influences politics.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 395: Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This is a research and design seminar for educational studies concentrators. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• FREN 349: The French Art of Living: Tradition, Myth, Reality

  Summary
  Through literature, art, architecture, and theory, students will explore French notions of what it means to live well, from Renaissance sumptuousness to existentialist questioning to the depiction of immigrants’ lives in contemporary Paris.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MATH 215: Introduction to Statistics

  Summary
  Practical aspects of statistics, including extensive use of statistical software, interpretation and communication of results, will be emphasized.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course is a continuation of either or both beginning courses, focusing on sophisticated handbuilding and throwing techniques and advanced problem solving in ceramics.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• PSYC 375: Language and Deception

  Summary
  In this course we will examine deception and persuasion in language use. We will take up three main issues: what it means to deceive and how people deceive others through language, why people deceive, and the ethics of deception.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• RELG 289: Global Religions of Minnesota

  Summary
  This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• ENTS 310: Environmental Law and Policy

  Summary
  This seminar aims to understand how environmental laws work to achieve policy objectives, with attention also to debates about the role of markets and community-based environmental management.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 386: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

  Summary
  The course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for helping secondary teachers learn to provide specific instructional support for secondary readers.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Winter 2012

• HIST 245: Ireland: The Origin of the Troubles

  Summary
  This course examines Irish history with a special focus on Anglo-Irish relations from Tudor colonization through the Great Hunger of the nineteenth century.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 101: Human Reproduction and Sexuality

  Summary
  This course will review the basic biology of all aspects of reproduction--from genes to behavior--in an attempt to better understand one of the more basic and important processes in nature.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology

  Summary
  The course begins with a two-week visit in December to Beijing and Sichuan province. Field work will include visits to Chinese farms as well as discussions with Chinese sustainable agriculture researchers.

  • Location:
    Global, On Campus

• DANC 255: Performing Politics

  Summary
  We will investigate ways in which contemporary politics can influence the creation of performance work. We will explore individual identity and community-based art as inspirations for making new performance material.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 262: Anthropology of Health and Illness

  Summary
  An ethnographic approach to beliefs and practices regarding health and illness in numerous societies worldwide.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 236: Introduction to Peace Studies

  Summary
  In this course we will study the alternative definitions of peace and examine the relation between peace and a variety of societal factors including modernity, post modernity, patriarchy, ecology, globalization and a global civil society and culture.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 238: Multicultural Education

  Summary
  This course focuses on the respect for human diversity, especially as these relate to various racial, cultural and economic groups, and to women.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Fall 2011

• PSYC 260: Health Psychology

  Summary
  This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  This course aims to help students acquire greater skill and confidence in both oral and written expression. The language classes team up with the Northfield public schools to help both Northfield and Carleton students improve their language skills.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  This course aims to help students acquire greater skill and confidence in both oral and written expression. The language classes team up with the Northfield public schools to help both Northfield and Carleton students improve their language skills.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• RELG 276: Nonviolent Social Change: Theory and Praxis

  Summary
  This class will give attention to the historical conditions that led to the emergence of the theory of nonviolence and the nonviolent activist tradition, and analyze the development of theories of nonviolent social change.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ECON 266: Experimental Economics

  Summary
  This course will provide an introduction to experimental methodology, with an emphasis on design and hypothesis testing.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 340: Race, Immigration, and Urban Schools

  Summary
  This course explores the role that public schools have played in the American national imagination as the way to socialize students about what it means to be American and to prepare them to participate as citizens in a democracy.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MATH 115: Statistics: Concepts and Applications

  Summary
  Introduction to statistical concepts with emphasis on understanding and interpretation of statistical information, especially in the context of media reports and scholarly articles.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CGSC 385: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

  Summary
  We will consider the development of memory, perception, and attention, as well as concepts and categorization, problem-solving and thinking, during the years from six to 11.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• GEOL 258: Geology of Soils

  Summary
  The study of soil formation, and physical and chemical properties of soils especially as related to geomorphology and land use.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• IDSC 100: Measured Thinking: Reasoning with Numbers about World Events, Health, Science, and Social Issues

  Summary
  This interdisciplinary course addresses one of the signal features of contemporary academic, professional, public, and personal life: a reliance on information and arguments involving numbers.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• HIST 282: Masquerades in Africa

  Summary
  This course explores the relevance of masks, animated in masquerade performances, to the practice of reconstructing the African past.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 221: Ecosystems Ecology

  Summary
  This course examines major ecosystems on Earth, including terrestrial, wetland, lake, river, estuarine, and marine systems.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CAMS 275: Audio Workshop

  Summary
  The Audio Workshop introduces students to essential skills in audio storytelling and drama. Students will produce projects in three essential genres: reportorial projects, personal narratives and new audio drama.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Spring 2011

• ENTS 329: Environmental Analysis Lab

  Summary
  In this course, we will study the chemistry of molecules in the air, water, and soil. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry in the natural (unpolluted) environment, and the changes which occur due to human activity and pollution.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom

  Summary
  This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the United States.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course is a continuation of either or both beginning courses, focusing on sophisticated handbuilding and throwing techniques and advanced problem solving in ceramics.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MATH 315: Topics in Probability and Statistics

  Summary
  Introduction to the main discrete and continuous time stochastic processes. Topics include Markov chains, Poisson process, continuous time Markov chains, Brownian motion.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• MATH 349: Methods of Teaching Mathematics

  Summary
  Methods of teaching mathematics in grades 7-12. Issues in contemporary mathematics education. Regular visits to school classrooms and teaching a class are required.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• RELG 281: Art, Religion and Globalization

  Summary
  Tracing the history of exhibiting cultures, beginning in the late nineteenth century, we will consider how religions and traditions are represented in different contexts with a range of political and social implications.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ENTS 246: Environmental and Agricultural Politics of the Americas

  Summary
  We will explore policies and political institutions relating to the environment--and particularly agriculture--in North and South America.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 215: Social Welfare

  Summary
  The course reviews the historical, social, and cultural underpinnings of the nation's welfare system and examines which groups are served and not served by the system.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 236: Introduction to Peace Studies

  Summary
  In this course we will study the alternative definitions of peace and examine the relation between peace and a variety of societal factors including modernity, post modernity, religious prejudice, ecology, and a global civil society and culture.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• WGST 250: Women's Health Activism

  Summary
  This course focuses on women's health movements and feminist activism around reproductive justice in the United States.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 236: Plant Biology

  Summary
  This course is framed in the context of advances in evolution and genomics, which offer insight into physiological, developmental, morphological, and anatomical adaptations to diverse environments.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 234: Microbiology

  Summary
  A study of the metabolism, genetics, structure, and function of microorganisms. While presented in the framework of the concepts of cellular and molecular biology, the emphasis will be on the uniqueness and diversity of the microbial world.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• AMST 252: Ethnic Foodways in the U.S.

  Summary
  This course explores the creation, exchange, and consumption of ethnic foodways in the United States. In particular, we look at food as a cultural artifact that is intricately tied to individual and group identification with ancestry and traditions.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 365: Democracy, Diversity, and Education

  Summary
  A junior-level seminar, the course will examine various theories about the relationship between democracy and education and the role of American public schools in creating a citizenry for a democratic society.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Winter 2011

• HIST 280: African in the Arab World

  Summary
  This course examines African people's existence as religious, political, and military leaders, and as slaves and poets in Arab societies from ancient to modern times.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CAMS 285: Community Video

  Summary
  In this course students will focus on non-fiction structure, story, and production techniques as they create video projects working in collaboration with Northfield area non-profit organizations.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• RELG 289: Global Religions in Minnesota

  Summary
  This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Twin Cities Metro, Greater Minnesota, Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 275: Community Needs Assessment

  Summary
  This course introduces students to different approaches to assessing a community's needs and to social program evaluation.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• EDUC 238: Multicultural Education

  Summary
  This course focuses on the respect for human diversity, especially as these relate to various racial, cultural and economic groups, and to women.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• AMST 127: Introduction to Latina/o Studies

  Summary
  Utilizing an interdisciplinary framework, this course will discuss the emergence of Latina/o studies in the academy and its relationship to community activism.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ECON 268: Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis

  Summary
  This course will cover the basic theory and empirical techniques necessary to quantify and aggregate the impacts of government policy, especially as related to the environment.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Fall 2010

• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics

  Summary
  This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought.

• EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to enrich their learning through engagement with the community by volunteering at Faribault High School.

  • Location:
    Faribault

• POSC 358: Comparative Social Movements

  Summary
  This course will examine the role that social movements play in political life.

  • Location:
    Global, National, Greater Minnesota, Northfield, On Campus

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  Each Fall, sections of Spanish 204 include a hands-on learning opportunity for students and the Northfield community. Each Carleton student works 1-on-1 with a local Northfield student, engaging in conversations in Spanish and tutoring the student.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota

• EDUC 234: Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools. Students complete 3 hours of classroom observation at local schools each week.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ENTS 120: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis

  Summary
  Spatial data analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, global positioning, and related technologies are increasingly important for understanding and analyzing a wide range of biophysical, social, and economic phenomena.

• RELG 130: Native American Religion

  Summary
  This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota

• CHEM 100: Air Pollution and Human Health

  Summary
  This course begins with an overview of the interdisciplinary science of air pollutants. Questions such as the relationship between childhood asthma and air quality and the relative impacts of possible strategies to mitigate pollution will be studied

• GEOL 100: Geology in the Field

  Summary
  This course introduces basic principles of geology and geological reasoning through first-hand field work. Using their field work, students piece together the long geologic history of southern Minnesota. Findings will be presented to the public.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota

Spring 2010

• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics

  Summary
  This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought.

• EDUC 340: Race, Immigration, and Urban Schools

  Summary
  This course explores the important role that public schools, particularly in urban areas, play in the American national imagination as the way to socialize students about what it means to be American and to participate as citizens in a democracy.

  • Location:
    Twin Cities Metro

• PSYC 375: Language and Deception

  Summary
  In this course we will examine deception and persuasion in language use.

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course is an advanced ceramics class for studio art majors. Students created bowls that were sold at Spring Concert and also in Northfield to raise money for a local charity.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota, National, Global, Twin Cities Metro, Southern Minnesota, Northfield, Faribault, On Campus

• POSC 220: The Politics of Food

  Summary
  In this course we will learn about and reflect upon the political aspects of food in the U.S. Topics include food history, agribusiness, local food movements, food policy, and social justice.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield

Winter 2010

• SOAN 395: Public Sociology

  Summary
  Students in this course conducted needs-based assessments of Northfield and the Rice Country area to identify potential projects and collaborations between Carleton and local organizations.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield

• SOAN 262: Anthropology of Health and Illness

  Summary
  For this course, some students worked with Growing Up Healthy to conduct library-based research on subpopulations such as Faribault's Somali population and issues such as refugee mental health and culturally specific presentation of symptoms.

  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield

• BIOL 310: Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity. Topics to be covered include the structure and function of antibodies, cytokines, and more.

• FREN 241: Marginality and Renaissance

  Summary
  This course will examine the Francophone presence in Quebec, Louisiana and Acadia through works of novels, plays, songs, films and folktales.

• EDUC 395: Educational Studies Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This is a research and design seminar for educational studies concentrators. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education. Students volunteered with various non-profit agencies and studied service-learning

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, Northfield

• SOAN 111: Introduction to Sociology

  Summary
  An introduction to sociology, including analysis of the sociological perspective, culture, socialization, demography, and social class and caste institutions in modern industrial societies and cultures.

• RELG 268: Encountering Islam

  Summary
  This course explores discourses that emerged as Islamic traditions encountered other cultures. Students will also explore Minnesota's varied Muslim populations and the nuances in contemporary American encounters with Islam.

• ENTS 271: Environmental Economics and Policy

  Summary
  This course will explore the economic and political institutions affecting the environment. Topics to be discussed may include: climate change, agriculture, transportation, energy efficiency, population growth, and water.

• POSC 209: Place, Politics, and Ctizen Mobilization

  Summary
  Citizen mobilization often centers around environmental problems or other controversies about the shape of community landscapes. We will explore concepts of democracy, power, identity, and sense of place as we examine cases of citizen mobilization

• RELG 265: Modern Hinduism

  Summary
  This course will begin with the ideas of such prominent Hindu thinkers as Rammohan Ray, Vivekananda, Savarkar, and Gandhi, looking to a range of historical and critical materials to ground their voices in the experience of colonialism.

• PSYC 260: Health Psychology

  Summary
  This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens.

Fall 2009

• HIST 139: Foundations of Modern Europe

  Summary
  A narrative and survey of the early modern period (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries). The course examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Contact with the Americas, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  Sections of Spanish 204 include a hands-on learning opportunity for students and the Northfield community. Each Carleton student will work 1-on-1 with a local Northfield student, engaging in conversations in Spanish while tutoring the student

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ENTS 288: Abrupt Climate Change

  Summary
  Course topics include interpretation of historical climate data, methods of measuring abrupt changes in ancient climates, theories for abrupt change, the role of complex earth systems, and the connection to trends in global climate change.

  • Location:
    Global

• BIOL 370: Topics in Virology

  Summary
  An examination of selected animal viruses. The course will focus on the most recent developments in HIV-related research, including implications for HIV-treatment and vaccines and the impact of viral infection on the immune system of the host.

• RELG 243: Native American Religions

  Summary
  This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the United States exploring landmark court cases in Sacred Lands, Peyotism, Free Exercise in prisons, and more.

  • Location:
    National

• ENTS 120: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis

  Summary
  Spatial data analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, global positioning, and related technologies are increasingly important for understanding and analyzing a wide range of biophysical, social, and economic phenomena.

• GEOL 210: Geomorphology

  Summary
  Study of the geological processes and factors which influence the origin and development of the superficial features of the earth, with an emphasis on some or all of the processes in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota

• ENGL 109: English Writing Seminar

  Summary
  Devoted exclusively to the study and practice of clear and persuasive prose, this course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental organizational and argumentative skills they need to write effectively at Carleton.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• ENGL 272: Truth Vs. Power: A Journey in Journalism

  Summary
  In this workshop class, the classroom becomes a newsroom and students create and publish their own works of journalism in digital media of their choosing including but not limited to personal blogs, podcasts, and videos.

• ENGL 109: English Writing Seminar

  Summary
  Devoted exclusively to the study and practice of clear and persuasive prose, this course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental organizational and argumentative skills they need to write effectively at Carleton.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• CAMS 310: Moviegoing and Film Exhibtion in America

  Summary
  In this course, we will familiarize ourselves with the various methodologies for doing film history while researching and writing the history of movie culture at the local level, using primary sources such as newspapers, interviews, and photographs.

  • Location:
    Northfield

Spring 2009

• PSYC 260: Health Psychology

  Summary
  This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens.

• ARTS 330: Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course focuses on sophisticated handbuilding and throwing techniques and advanced problem solving in ceramics. Development of a personal voice is encouraged through open-ended assignments deepening exploration into the expressive nature of clay.

• ARTH 309: Historic Preservation

  Summary
  This five-week seminar will provide a general introduction to the topic of historic preservation. We will study the evolution of the field and consider theoretical and legal issues pertaining to the selective maintenance of the built environment.

• EDUC 395: Educational Studies Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This course focuses on a contemporary issue in American education. Recent seminars have been on educational reform and reformers, service learning, literacy leaders in education, education and the emotions, and personal essays about education.

• GEOL 258: Geology of Soils

  Summary
  The study of soil formation, and physical and chemical properties of soils especially as related to geomorphology and land use. Laboratories and field trips will emphasize how to describe and interpret soils.

• PSYC 375: Language and Deception

  Summary
  In this course we will examine deception and persuasion in language use.

• CAMS 270: Nonfiction Video Production

  Summary
  This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice. The class culminates in the production of a significant nonfiction media project.

Winter 2009

• SOAN 395: Public Sociology

  Summary
  Students in this course conducted needs-based assessments of Northfield and the Rice Country area to identify potential projects and collaborations between Carleton and local organizations related to arts, business, and housing.

  • Location:
    Northfield

Winter 2006

• AMST 127: Introduction to Latina/o Studies

  Summary
  Utilizing an interdisciplinary framework, this course will discuss the emergence of Latina/o studies in the academy and its relationship to community activism.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

Theoretical ACE

Fall 2016

• IDSC 203: Talking about Diversity

  Summary
  This course prepares students to facilitate conversations in the Critical Conversations Program. Students learn about categories and theories related to social identity, power, and inequality.

• HIST 226: U.S. Consumer Culture

  Summary
  This course explores the development of consumer culture through such topics as advertising and mass media, the body and sexuality, consumerist politics in the labor movement, and the response to the Americanization of consumption abroad.

• POSC 120: Democracy and Dictatorship

  Summary
  An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries.

• ECON 270: Economics of the Public Sector

  Summary
  This course provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the government's role in the U.S. economy.

Winter 2016

• POSC 120 Democracy and Dictatorship

  Summary
  An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• AMST 247 We've Never Not Been Here: Indigenous Peoples and Places

  Summary
  This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to important topics in the field of Native American Studies

  • Location:
    On Campus

Fall 2015

• SPAN 328: Contemporary Fiction and the Market

  Summary
  In this course we will be studying the various meanings of what has been labeled, esthetically and sociologically, as the Post-Modernist age, or Late Modernity.

  • Location:
    Global

Spring 2015

• POSC 120.01: Comparative Political Regimes

  Summary
  An introduction to the fundamentals of government and the variety of ways politics is practiced in different countries.

• Hist 226: U.S. Consumer Culture

  Summary
  In the period after 1880, the growth of a mass consumer society recast issues of identity, gender, race, class, family, and political life.

• PHIL 243: Animal Ethics: The Moral Status of Animals

  Summary
  This raises a pressing ethical question: what are our moral obligations (if any) to nonhuman animals, and how might we practically fulfill such moral obligations (if they exist)?

Winter 2015

• BIOL 101: Human Reproduction and Sexuality

  Summary
  The myths surrounding human reproduction and sexuality may out weigh our collective knowledge and understanding. This course will review the basic biology of all aspects of reproduction--from genes to behavior.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• POSC 120: Comparative Political Regimes

  Summary
  An introduction to the fundamentals of government and the variety of ways politics is practiced in different countries. Capitalist democracies, transitional states and developing nations are compared.

  • Location:
    Global, On Campus

• IDSC 103: Student Conversations about Diversity and Community

  Summary
  In this course students participate in peer-led conversations about diversity and community at Carleton.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Fall 2014

• IDSC 203: Talking about Diversity

  Summary
  This four credit s/cr/nc only course prepares students to facilitate peer-led conversations about diversity.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• SPAN 328: Contemporary Fiction and the Market

  Summary
  In this course we will be studying the various meanings of what has been labeled, esthetically and sociologically, as the Post-Modernist age, or Late Modernity.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• ECON 270: Economics of the Public Sector

  Summary
  Economics of the public sector takes a close look at the role of government (at all levels – federal, state, and local) in modern society.

Spring 2014

• POSC 236: Global, National, and Human Security

  Summary
  What are the greatest threats to national and global security? Students in this class researched issues of security at various levels and conducted interviews with professionals in the field, many located in Washington DC.

  • Location:
    Global, National, On Campus

• AMST 252: Food Culture in the United States

  Summary
  Explores the creation, exchange, and consumption of food in America, and the spaces in which it is produced, sold, shared, and eaten, focusing especially on food as a cultural artifact that is intricately tied to individual and group identification.

  • Location:
    On Campus

Winter 2014

• SOAN 333: Environmental Anthropology

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to develop an annotated bibliography on a topic that is related to work being done by environmentalist organizations in the region.

  • Location:
    Southern Minnesota, Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• SOAN 330: Environmental Anthropology

  Summary
  Students in this course have the opportunity to develop an annotated bibliography on a topic that is related to work being done by environmentalist organizations in the region.

• PHIL 222: Topics in Medical Ethics

  Summary
  Over the past 40 years, the idea that competent patients have the right to make decisions about their own care has become paramount in medical ethics and medical practice. We will explore these issues through philosophical readings and case studies.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• PHIL 222: Topics in Medical Ethics

  Summary
  Over the past forty years, the idea that competent patients have the right to make decisions about their own care has become paramount in medical ethics and medical practice.

Fall 2013

• POSC 358: Comparative Social Movements

  Summary
  This course will examine the role that social movements play in political life. Potential case studies include the transnational environmental movement, religious movements in Latin America and the growth of far right activism in northern Europe.

  • Location:
    Global, On Campus

• SPAN 328: Contemporary Fiction and the Market

  Summary
  In this class students will critically explore environmental cycles at Carleton in connection with learning about art and alternative visions from Spain and Europe. They will also learn from documentary filmmakers from Spain.

  • Location:
    Global, On Campus

Winter 2013

• HIST 139: Foundations of Modern Europe

  Summary
  The course examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Contact with the Americas, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment.

  • Location:
    On Campus