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Creative WritingCredits
Specialized workshop focusing on a specific genre, such as flash fiction, true crime, hybrid writing, or auto-fiction.
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In this course, students develop skills in editing, close reading, process implementation, and community building meant to formulate their writing careers while in the MFA program.
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Analyze and explain the relationship between form and content in fiction. Create own works by applying the craft elements studied.
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Analyze and explain the relationship between form and content in poetic genres. Create own works by applying the craft elements studied.
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Workshop in creative nonfiction, including personal essays and literary journalism.
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Workshop in short fiction.
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Workshop in poetry writing.
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Novel workshop, with an emphasis on generating a minimum of 50,000 words of a first draft.
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Analyze and explain the relationship between form and content in creative nonfiction styles. Students will create their own works by applying the craft elements studied.
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This course familiarizes students with various approaches and strategies to the teaching of creative writing. Discussions of classroom practices and pedagogical theories as well as teaching demonstrations prepare students to plan and develop an introductory-level creative writing course.
Topics relating to creative writing. May be repeated with different subject matter.
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Individual study in writing.
Exploration of the business of creative writing and the tools for writing and research in the field.
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Focused study on a topic not covered in regularly scheduled courses.
On-site field experience in creative writing, the nature of which is determined by the specific needs of the student's program option.
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Independent capstone experience, guidelines of which are determined by the requirements of a particular program option.
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Criminal JusticeCredits
Examines the making of criminal law, the evolution of policing, the adjudication of persons accused of criminal law violations, and the punishment of adult offenders.
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- Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Diverse Cultures - Purple
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Learn about state and federal court systems, judge selection, and how the law is derived from court decisions to understand contemporary and historical issues as an informed citizen.
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- Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive
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This course will introduce students to the numerous agencies and organizations that make up the criminal justice system and its components. A primary goal for this course is to help students prepare for, as well as succeed in, a criminal justice system career.
The foundational tenets of peacekeeping are based on building relations between peace officers and the communities they serve. The student will be introduced to the value of positive interactions between peace officers and the populations they serve, as well as how negative interactions can impact public perception, funding, and trust. Students will also learn ways to incorporate problem-solving strategies and critical analysis on both micro and macro levels to address community and peacekeeping concerns.
Addresses the justifications and the historical development of punishment, the legal and policy issues concerning capital punishment, and the use of incarceration as a response to crime.
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- Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective
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The history, development, and application of criminal laws and criminal procedures in the criminal justice system.
An extensive study of the rules, statutes, criminal laws, and traffic laws that directly relate to the role of a peace officer in the State of Minnesota.
The history, legal aspects of investigation, the evolution of investigations and forensics, procedures of crime investigations, procurement and preservation of evidence and interviewing.
This course will introduce students to theoretical concepts in sociology, social psychology, psychology, and criminology pertaining to human behavior. Students will gain an understanding of how individual and societal factors influence the behaviors of the people they serve, as well as how those same factors influence the peace officer personality. Students will also be introduced to many of the mental disorders they will encounter in the field so that they may more easily identify those in crisis when in the field and determine the most appropriate course of action to assist them.