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This lecture and clinically based course provides the student with opportunities to deepen and refine their knowledge, skills, and judgments in providing advanced dental therapy scope of practice to underserved patients across the lifespan. In the clinical setting ethics, responsibility, self-assessment, and self-improvement continue to be emphasized as well as professional referrals and collaborations to provide comprehensive patient care.

Areas of Study:
Dental Education

Programs:
Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course provides the student with practical experiences in delivering advanced dental therapy oral healthcare services to special needs patients in extended campus, nontraditional clinical settings as well as the university clinic. Patient groups encountered may include: pediatric, geriatric, and medically compromised patients; patients with genetic and/or acquired disabilities, and financially or motivation-impaired patients. Knowledge and skills to effectively promote healthcare policy are also a course focus.

Areas of Study:
Dental Education

Programs:
Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course advances the competency of Master of Science in Advanced Dental Therapy students. The oral healthcare of special needs and underserved patients are addressed in non-traditional and university dental settings. Critical thinking, clinical judgment, ethics, and professional responsibility are emphasized, in addition to health equity.

Areas of Study:
Dental Education

Programs:
Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course requires capstone topic identification in an area related to Advanced Dental Therapy. The student composes a scholarly reading list, an abstract for the capstone paper and an outline of paper contents.

Areas of Study:
Dental Education

Programs:
Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course is the zenith of advanced dental therapy student educational experiences. Knowledge, skills, clinical judgments, and critical thinking appropriate for successful advanced dental therapy practice are demonstrated in clinical practice and assignments.

Areas of Study:
Dental Education

Programs:
Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

Students complete their capstone project and present their conclusions to faculty and/or colleagues in the oral and allied health professions.

Areas of Study:
Dental Education

Programs:
Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course examines supply chain concepts and principles, theoretical concepts and their application to modern and future agriculture industries. This course will have an emphasis on regional agriculture and food commodities as well as processed food production and manufacturing. Professionals in the agriculture industry will be brought into class to explain how agribusiness supply chain knowledge and skills are essential to various sectors. Students will have an opportunity to broaden their thinking, understanding, and professional potential as related to the agribusiness and food industry while interacting with professionals and facility tours.

Areas of Study:
Agriculture and Agribusiness

Programs:
Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS)

The goal of this course is to provide a basic understanding of finance for students entering agribusiness profession. The primary objective of this course is to cover all basic topics, including time value of money, agricultural lending, financial statement analysis following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the Farm Credit System, risk in agribusiness, legal matter in agribusiness, national and international trend in agribusiness finance.

Areas of Study:
Agriculture and Agribusiness

Programs:
Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS)

This course is designed to give students an opportunity to study abroad while learning basic business principles. The course focuses on building business knowledge in agriculture, food and trade while experiencing these concepts in another country. The course also focuses on cultural competency and understanding and experiencing a different culture. An interactive activity will also take place with a company.

Areas of Study:
Agriculture and Agribusiness

Programs:

Supervised experience in agribusiness or food related organizations, industry, state, or federal institutions.

Areas of Study:
Agriculture and Agribusiness

Programs:
Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS)

Class introduces students to history of the discipline and surveys both historic and contemporary topics of importance to American Indian Studies including gender roles, education, sovereignty, treaties, and oral traditions.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA) | American Indigenous Studies (BS)

This course provides the first steps in understanding the Dakota culture through the language of the Oyate or Dakota people. Students will be introduced to culture and concepts through the Dakota language and learn to understand the words from a Dakota worldview.

Prerequisites:
AIS 101

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA)

This course provides the second step in understanding the Dakota culture through the language of the Oyate or Dakota people. Students will continue to explore an understanding of culture and concepts through the Dakota language and learn to understand the words from a Dakota worldview.

Prerequisites:
AIS 101, AIS 110

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA)

An introduction to the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in the Ojibwe language as well as non-linguistic aspects of cultural background and history.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA)

An introduction to the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in the Ojibwe language as well as non-linguistic aspects of cultural background and history.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA)

An introduction to Indigenous cultural content, worldview, and concepts of Indigenous education, knowledge, and learning. Surveys the historical and present-day relationships between educational institutions, policies, practices, and Indigenous communities. Explores Indigenous communities across the U.S. with particular attention to Indigenous nations in Minnesota.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:

Grammar review, oral practice, written composition, and development of reading and listening skills within a cultural context.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA)

Grammar review, oral practice, written composition, and development of reading and listening skills within a cultural context.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA)

Oral traditions are at the base of all American Indian cultures. This class will provide students with the necessary tools for a better understanding of traditional knowledge and its importance within diverse traditional cultures.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA) | American Indigenous Studies (BS)

This course is an introduction to Native American history from creation to 1900 in North America. It introduces students to the continuity of social, cultural, political, and economic diversity amongst Native American peoples and focuses on adaptions to intertribal and colonial relationships during this time period.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:

This course is an introduction to Native American history from 1900 to present day. It introduces students to the continuity of social, cultural, political, and economic diversity amongst Native American peoples and focuses on the impact of federal Indian policy, issues of power, sovereignty, identity, activism, and self-determination.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:

Course introduces students to the legal side of being American Indian. Politics and policies will be examined to show how a contemporary native experience is shaped through American courts, Presidential chambers, and Native activist movements.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA) | American Indigenous Studies (BS)

This course will provide overview of Minnesota Indian nations and their relations to each other and the effects of European incursion. Subsequent relations will focus on the US-Dakota war and its aftermath.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
American Indigenous Studies (BA) | American Indigenous Studies (BS)

Being American Indian and being woman creates a unique situation for women who have been directly influenced by the differences of gender roles from two intersecting cultures. This course will focus on how those differences have affected American Indian Women.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs:
Gender and Women's Studies (BS) | Gender and Women's Studies (BA) | Gender and Women's Studies Minor

The course is offered according to student demand and instructor availability/expertise. A variety of topics related to ethnic and cultural areas will provide curriculum enrichment on an ongoing basis.

Areas of Study:
American Indigenous Studies

Programs: