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Urban and Regional StudiesCredits
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Scheduled work assignments varying in length and content under the supervision of selected professional sponsors.
- Programs:
The collection and dissemination of original research in compliance with accepted research standards.
WellnessCredits
This course builds wellness, resilience, and academic skills designed to support your health and your life as a student through practicing skills and strategies for stress hardiness and academic success. Throughout the semester, students will identify their personal strengths, values, and interests, practice skills for healthy interpersonal relationships, and explore various domains of wellness and strategies for self-care and self-determination, in a structured and supportive environment. Students will also investigate learning styles, study and test-taking strategies, and practice various approaches to self-advocacy, planning, and SMART goal setting.
Wellness Coaching and Disease PreventionCredits
Behavior Change Foundations and Strategies is a course that focuses upon the complexity of health behavior change and the skills necessary for wellness coaches to assess, plan, and evaluate behavior change interventions for individuals and communities. Health behavior change theories and strategies will be discussed. Topics covered in class will include: behavior modification, goal setting, self-management, coping skills, and social support. Emphasis will be placed upon the application of theory and foundations to wellness coaching and disease prevention.
This course contains content associated with achieving entry-level certifications for wellness coaching. Health behavior change strategies are emphasized within the context of the health coaching theory, coaching relationship skills, well-being assessment, and goal setting.
In the course Advanced Wellness Coaching students will have an opportunity to further develop their one-on-one and/or group coaching skills with a variety of clientele. In addition, students will further develop their diversity/intercultural communication skills as it relates to health behavior change and the coaching relationship.
World Languages and CulturesCredits
This course explores a wide range of cultural topics such as race, gender, human rights, social conflict, mythology, imaginary worlds, etc. Topics vary every semester and will be explored from a global perspective involving at least 4 cultures (e.g. Dakota, German, Francophone, Scandinavian, Hispanic, Lusophone, etc.). The course is taught in English and exposes students to international and diverse points of view that prepare them to be global citizens.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple | Writing Intensive
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The course is designed to help advanced Spanish students identify similarities and differences between Spanish and Portuguese and begin developing Portuguese productive language skills and cultural competency through comparative practice.
- Prerequisites:
- SPAN 201W. Completion of one 300 level Spanish course or equivalent intermediate-midproficiency level of Spanish for admission to the course. See department for language proficiency evaluation information or instructor permission.
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Curricular practical training for World Languages and Cultures is a full-time practical experience in a professional setting in which more than one language is used. The experience is designed to allow students to improve overall communicative proficiency in languages and address business practices associated with the students academic field of expertise. The Co-Op experience covers a minimum of two consecutive academic terms and requires that students register for a minimum of two consecutive academic terms following the experience.
Designed to prepare teaching candidates and others interested in language teaching to teach a modern world language to K-12 students. Focuses on introduction to theory and practice of modern language teaching, including lessons in listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and culture. Includes assessment, program design, lesson planning, and use of technology. Practical application of the material will be carried out through a clinical field experience. Prereq: Students must demonstrate sufficient language competence in the target language so as to be able to teach courses exclusively in the target language. See content faculty for evaluation.
- Prerequisites:
- Students must demonstrate sufficient language competence in the target language so as to be able to teach courses exclusively in the target language. See content faculty for evaluation.
- Programs:
Special topics in language education. May be repeated for credit.
Designed to prepare teaching candidates and others interested in language teaching to teach a modern world language to K-12 students. Focuses on introduction to theory and practice of modern language teaching, including lessons in listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and culture. Includes assessment, program design, lesson planning, and use of technology. Practical application of the material will be carried out thought a clinical field experience. Prereq: Students must demonstrate sufficient language competence in the target language so as to be able to teach courses exclusively in the target language. See content faculty for evaluation.
Students will explore the linguistic variations for developing productive language skills and study the cultural similarities and differences between Spanish and Portuguese (Europe, South America, Africa).
- Programs:
Special topics in language education. May be repeated for credit.
Classroom experience in post-secondary teaching.