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Course Subject: GEOG Course Number: 1010
Course Title: Physical Geography Goal Areas: 03,10 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course will provide an introduction to the physical processes that are at work at all times on the surface of the earth. This course provides an introduction to the processes that influence the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Topics covered include earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, blizzards, winds, precipitation, the Hydrological Cycle, vegetation and soil. This course includes a basic understanding of how these systems interact and how the physical landscape interacts with the human landscape. Included in this will be discussions about environmental concerns such as acid precipitation, ozone depletion, soil degradation, desertification and rainforest destruction. This course includes lab-like coursework/exams that will enhance a student's ability to make observations, form questions, pose hypotheses, make predictions and critically evaluate scientific data and results.

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 1040
Course Title: American Indian Culture - Indigenous Peoples of Minnesota Goal Areas: 07,10 Credits: 3

Course Description: This American Indian cultural course will provide students with an overview, past and present, of the cultures of Indigenous Peoples of Minnesota, including music, dance, art, the oral story telling tradition and the American Indian connection with the environment and other non-human species. Students will also analyze how these vibrant cultures have survived oppression and genocide, and continue to thrive.Through exploring this living culture, students will gain understanding of Indigenous Peoples strong connection with, and stewardship of, the environment, learn about an important aspect of human and global diversity, and our interconnectedness with each other and our environment.

Course Subject: PHIL Course Number: 1200
Course Title: Environmental Philosophy Goal Areas: 10,06 Credits: 3

Course Description: Environmental Philosophy is concerned with developing rational and moral theories of dealing with our environmental concerns and discussing ways of putting them into practice. Using a variety of specific philosophical perspectives, we will examine the effects of population growth, ecosystem destruction, species extinction, pollution, climate change, resource extraction, agriculture, etc. on humans and the environment. We will develop ways of understanding relationships between humans and the environment and ways of acting on our responsibilities to the natural world and its inhabitants.

Course Subject: BIOL Course Number: 1200
Course Title: Current Environmental Issues Goal Areas: 03,10 Credits: 4

Course Description: Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course examines various aspects of natural and human-made ecosystems, human's intervention, and the subsequent impact on society and nature. It emphasizes current problems, values, and projection for the future. The lab involves internet exercises, videos, group discussion, individual and group projects, field trips and other outdoor activities. (3 hours lecture, 4 hours lab)Prerequisite: ENGL 0990 or a 78 on the Accuplacer Reading Comprehension

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 1490
Course Title: Dave Larsen American Indian Immersion Experience Goal Areas: 09,05 Credits: 4

Course Description: This course will focus on the American Indian Civil Rights Movement and the communitys efforts to protect, preserve and assert tribal sovereignty, language, culture, identity and treaty rights with a particular focus on the behaviors, actions and interactions between indigenous and non-indigenous individuals, groups, institutions, and nations. This course is designed to provide an up-close immersive experience of some of the events, places, peoples and systems throughout American Indian Country that have helped shape and define contemporary Indigenous theories. The course challenges participants to utilize and address issues such as sovereignty, colonization, treaty rights, political power, racism, activism, language revitalization, our relationship with this land, and traditional lifeways. This course includes in-class participation and an off campus expedition to American Indian Nations.

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 1970
Course Title: Environmental Justice and Nature Immersion Experience Goal Areas: 10,07 Credits: 4

Course Description: This course, a collaborative partnership with YMCA Camp Northern Lights, will focus on environmental justice and equity, access, and inclusion in nature and outdoor spaces movements in Minnesota, the US, and beyond. Students will explore these communities efforts to protect and preserve our natural spaces for current and future generations, while also breaking down barriers to ensure equitable access, participation, and inclusion of all cultural and ethnic groups. The course will have a particular focus on contemporary environmental justice issues, such as water quality, proposed pipelines through Minnesota tribal lands, food insecurity, and access for BIPOC and other marginalized groups to nature and outdoor spaces. This course is designed to provide a hands-on immersive experience that will expose students to the events, places, peoples, systems and organizations throughout Minnesota that have helped shape current environmental justice policies, action, and activism, as well as connections with national and international environmental justice organizations, such as Wild Path Farm, the Sierra Club, Honor the Earth, the Sierra Leone Foundation for a New Democracy, Friends of the Boundary Waters, MN350, and the Three Rivers Park District. The course challenges participants to assess and critique issues such as political power, racism, colonization and segregation, activism, access to resources, and our relationship with this land through diverse cultural lenses. Students will be encouraged to explore these issues through their own cultural heritage, while being exposed to the beliefs, traditions, and value systems of others. This course includes 8 weeks of in-class participation and an off-campus expedition to YMCA Camp Northern Lights, a wilderness camp in Northern Minnesota, where students will be immersed in nature for 5 days.

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 2017
Course Title: Outdoor Leadership Internship Goal Areas: n/a Credits: 4

Course Description: This internship course is part of the Outdoor and Environmental Leadership program, allowing students to gain personal and practical experience in various areas of the environmental education field. The course is for students studying Outdoor and Environmental Leadership and seeking internship and outdoor leadership experience with an outdoor organization. The course includes hands-on experience and training with local outdoor organizations such as Three Rivers, YMCA of the North, Wilderness Inquiry, the DNR, the International Wolf Center, Friends of the Boundary Waters, and tribal organizations.

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 2970
Course Title: Outdoor Experiential Program Leadership Goal Areas: 09 Credits: 4

Course Description: Building on the foundational work of GCST 1970, this project-based course, a collaboration with YMCA Camp Northern Lights, focuses on developing culturally relevant facilitation and leadership skills through participation and engagement in an outdoor, nature-based experiential learning program. This 5-day outdoor, experiential program will take place at YMCA Camp Northern Lights, Baker Reserve, or a similar outdoor learning facility. Students will explore and critique both the theory and application of experiential learning models through an indigenous lens, such as Kolbs learning cycle, and outdoor program principles such as Challenge by Choice, Leave No Trace and Zero Waste, as they plan, organize and implement all aspects of the GCST 1970 immersion program, including relationship-building with student participants, community partners and community members, including local tribal nations such as Bois Forte, developing their relationship with and connection to outdoor spaces, exploring environmental justice issues through diverse cultural lenses and indigenous world views, marketing and PR for the program and program-related events, culturally relevant and appropriate outdoor programming, and the grant-writing and reporting process. Students will understand the power dynamics that have created the outdoor adventure gap for BIPOC people in Minnesota and beyond and, through real-world problem-solving, project-based research and hands-on learning, will design and implement strategies for eliminating this gap.

Course Subject: EXSC Course Number: 1240
Course Title: Rock Climbing Goal Areas: n/a Credits: 1

Course Description: Rock Climbing is a beginning-level class. It is designed to introduce the basics of indoor top-rope climbing to students. Students will learn knot tying, belaying, climbing commands, and gear management. Students will also learn the skills necessary in order to maximize their climbing performance by learning balance, footwork and body position. Emphasis will be placed on making climbing a safe and enjoyable activity. (Additional fee for this course)

Course Subject: EXSC Course Number: 1640
Course Title: Outdoor Activity Sampler Goal Areas: n/a Credits: 1

Course Description: This course provides skill, instruction, and experience related to numerous outdoor activities. Activities may include any or all of the following: canoeing, kayaking, orienteering, rock climbing, adventure ropes course, hiking, camping, natures edibles, and/or outdoor cooking. Students are exposed to a variety of skills so they have the opportunity to pursue interests beyond this course and throughout their lives. This course concludes with a weekend trip.

Course Subject: EXSC Course Number: 1740
Course Title: Hiking Goal Areas: n/a Credits: 1

Course Description: This course is an introduction to the outdoor leisure sport of hiking. Students will have the opportunity to explore a number of different parks and experience recreational hiking, either in groups or solo. Instruction includes hiking basics, first aid on the trail, trail navigation, and preparation for a days hiking experience.

Course Subject: EXSC Course Number: 1760
Course Title: Introduction to Kayaking and Canoeing Goal Areas: n/a Credits: 1

Course Description: This course is designed for the beginner in both kayaking and canoeing. Students will learn how to get in and out of the kayak, wet entry, basic paddling strokes, and safety on the water for flat water kayaking. The canoeing portion covers safety, and proper steering paddling techniques. The course also includes a half day canoe trip and a half day kayak lake tour for skill application.

Course Subject: BIOL Course Number: 1001
Course Title: Biology I Goal Areas: 03 Credits: 4

Course Description: This course focuses on the concepts of biological chemistry, cell structure and function, cellular metabolism, molecular genetics and heredity reproduction and development. The course is intended for allied health majors and others not requiring a majors-level introductory biology. (3 hours lecture, 3 hours lab).

Course Subject: ANTH Course Number: 1010
Course Title: Introduction to Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Goal Areas: 08,05 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course examines the nature of culture by studying the forms of conventional behavior (language, ideology, social organization, and technology) and their material manifestations. It also seeks to explain the variation in cultures of representative ethnic groups and societies of present and recent past in terms of ecological adaptation and cultural evolution.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 1200
Course Title: Gateway College Writing Goal Areas: 01 Credits: 4

Course Description: This class provides extended practice in critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will develop an effective writing process and work to achieve college-level competence in reading and responding to texts, visuals, events, and ideas in a variety of written formats, with an emphasis on the academic essay. Audience awareness, interpretation and analysis, logical reasoning, and persuasive and argumentative skills will be developed. MLA style documentation of primary sources will be included.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 1201
Course Title: College Writing I Goal Areas: 01 Credits: 4

Course Description: This class provides extended practice in critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will develop an effective writing process and work to achieve college-level competence in reading and responding to texts, visuals, events, and ideas in a variety of written formats, with an emphasis on the academic essay. Audience awareness, interpretation and analysis, logical reasoning, and persuasive and argumentative skills will be developed. MLA style documentation of primary sources will be included.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 1202
Course Title: College Writing II Goal Areas: 02,01 Credits: 2

Course Description: This class focuses on the research process, textual analysis of primary and secondary sources, rhetorical strategies for argument and persuasion, and successful integration of sources into a longer academic paper utilizing MLA (or other, as appropriate) documentation format. The class may be disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or topical in content.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 1203
Course Title: College Writing II with Workshop Goal Areas: 01,02 Credits: 2

Course Description: This class focuses on the research process, textual analysis of primary and secondary sources, rhetorical strategies for argument and persuasion, and successful integration of sources into a longer academic paper utilizing MLA (or other, as appropriate) documentation format. The class may be disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or topical in content.

Course Subject: COMM Course Number: 1210
Course Title: Small Group Communication Goal Areas: 07,01 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course examines communication in small groups. Students will participate in and analyze how small groups function, how leadership roles evolve, how decisions are made and how conflicts can be resolved. Students will work in small groups, complete group projects, and analyze group interaction.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 2340
Course Title: Nature in Literature Goal Areas: 06,10 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course surveys literature that examines the relation between human beings and the natural world. The primary consideration of this course is how a literary idea of nature has been affected and effected by variations in culture, namely, changes in politics, economics, and technology that in diverse historical contexts have created conflicts between ecological and human interests. Ultimately, this study leads to considering how the green language created by the writers under study has contributed to an eco-critical ethic that allows examination of current ecological sensibilities and the language that represents them.

Course Subject: MATH Course Number: 1010
Course Title: Survey of Mathematics Goal Areas: 04 Credits: 3

Course Description: Designed for the liberal arts student, this course explores the diversity of math and is focused on developing quantitative skill and reasoning ability. Topics are chosen by the instructor and may include but are not limited to: logic, problem solving, and data analysis, mathematics of social choice, geometry, financial mathematics, infinity, topology, and probability.Prerequisites: College math placement level or successful completion of Math 0900 or 0902 or 0980 or 1031 or 1130 or 1140 with grade of C or better.Please Note: If you have taken a 1000 level Math Course (or higher) from another institution, and have submitted your official transcript, please contact the Records and Registration Department in order to register for this course.

Course Subject: MATH Course Number: 1130
Course Title: Elementary Statistics Goal Areas: 04 Credits: 3

Course Description: This is an introductory course in descriptive statistics, probability, random variables, and inferential statistics. Topics include exploratory data analysis, measures of central tendency and variation, linear regression, binomial and normal distributions, the central limit theorem, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for one population and two populations. Additional topics may include basic probability, conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, analysis of variance, and chi-squared tests.

Course Subject: GEOG Course Number: 1040
Course Title: Human Geography Goal Areas: 08,05 Credits: 3

Course Description: Human Geography is concerned with how human interactions shape material and cultural landscapes. It broadly examines the great diversity of human organization and experience in different countries through a variety of perspectives. Essential to this examination is a comparative review of the contemporary geographies of race, language, political ideologies (including religion), public policy, ecology, economic activity, natural resources, settlements, and demographics.

Course Subject: SOC Course Number: 1110
Course Title: Introduction to Sociology Goal Areas: 05,07 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course is a study of social and cultural aspects of human behavior. Topics include society and culture, roles and norms, groups and organizations, deviance, inequality, social and cultural change, and research methods.

Course Subject: POLS Course Number: 1140
Course Title: State and Local Politics Goal Areas: 05,09 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course studies the operation and structure of state governments including executive, legislative, judicial functions as well as elections and policy formation, with an emphasis on Minnesota.

Course Subject: PSYC Course Number: 1150
Course Title: General Psychology Goal Areas: 05 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course provides an overview of topics in psychology. Topics may include history of psychology, research methods, physiological psychology, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning, memory, motivation and emotion, personality, stress and coping, abnormal behavior, therapy, and social psychology. Students are strongly encouraged to check with an advisor to determine if this is the appropriate course for their degree/program. You must meet perquisites or obtain instructor permission to take this course.

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 1350
Course Title: Immigration and Society Goal Areas: 07,05 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course focuses on immigration and its relations to the society with a U.S. focus. We will learn about human migration and immigrant adaptation. We will discuss the history and the current state of immigration in the United States. We will analyze how immigration is connected to politics, the economy, and the other dimensions of society, including race and ethnicity. This course will not substitute for the PLEG 1610 (Immigration Law elective in the Paralegal A.S./Certificate.)

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 1030
Course Title: Introduction to Japanese Culture Goal Areas: 10,06 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course is an introduction to and interdisciplinary exploration of Japanese culture. Through the study of Japanese humanities and fine arts, people and the environment, students will identify what makes Japanese Culture so unique and how the Japanese Mind/Spirit (nihon no kokoro) and their connection to the environment and other non-human species has shaped Japanese society from days of old to the present.

Course Subject: ART Course Number: 1160
Course Title: Digital Photography Goal Areas: 06 Credits: 3

Course Description: A logical sequence to Art 1101 or 1140, this class emphasizes the computer as a digital darkroom to create photographic images through the traditional camera or a digital camera. ): Course content includes an overview of basic photographic techniques and a rigorous examination of Adobe Photoshop through assignments and personal exploration, class critiques and artist presentations, to help student understanding of photographic art. Students must have their own digital or analog camera.

Course Subject: GCST Course Number: 1978
Course Title: American Indian Cultural Expression Goal Areas: 07,06 Credits: 3

Course Description: This American Indian Cultural Expression course will expose students to the broad range of fine arts within the American Indian community. This course will engage students to understand the connections between past events and their influence in American Indian art forms through critical analysis and aesthetic evaluation. Through exploring how art has impacted these living cultures how these vibrant cultures have survived oppression and genocide, and continue to thrive students will gain understanding of Indigenous Peoples strong connection with the fine arts. Students will also learn to articulate the meaning of different Indigenous nations creative expression and interpretive processes, which have been handed down for generations. Students will also explore the art of activism and resistance to colonialism as well as the connections between American Indian artists and the land.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 2330
Course Title: Hmong American Literature Goal Areas: 07,06 Credits: 3

Course Description: Hmong American Literature explores the works of Hmong writers as represented in the novel, nonfiction, short stories, poetry, drama/film, and Paj Ntaub (stories recorded in tapestry). To a more limited extent, characterizations of Hmong in works by non-Hmong authors may be considered, as well as relevant works by Laotian American and Asian American writers.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 2380
Course Title: American Indian Literature Goal Areas: 07,06 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course introduces the students to North American Native American Literature. Readings may include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, songs, mythology, and film from traditional and contemporary authors. Special attention may be given to Native American authors with Minnesota connections, such as Louise Erdrich, David Treuer, and Susan Power.

Course Subject: ENGL Course Number: 2410
Course Title: US Latinx and Latin American Literature Goal Areas: 06,07 Credits: 3

Course Description: This course will introduce students to the genres, traditions, and themes that characterize Latinx literatures. Emphasis will be placed on the distinctions and similarities that have shaped the experiences and the cultural imagination among different Latinx communities in the U.S. and throughout Latin America. Genres include, but are not limited to, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and film.