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Your search for courses · during 25FA, 26WI, 26SP · tagged with ENTS Society, Culture and Policy · returned 14 results
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ARTS 113 Field Drawing 6 credits
A beginning drawing course for students who are interested in developing their skills in drawing from nature, to better see and understand their surroundings. Class material covers line, form, dimension, value, perspective, and space using a variety of drawing materials. Subject matter includes specimens, plant forms, and the landscape. Students will use a portable sketchbook, and classes during the second part of the term are primarily outside. Locations include the Arb and field trips; access to these sites does include walking on unpaved paths and uneven terrain.
Sophomore Priority; Seats held for Art and Art History majors.
- Fall 2025, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 113.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority; Four seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after rising junior priority registration.
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ARTS 113.02 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority; Four seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after rising junior priority registration.
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority; Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority; Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
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ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development 6 credits
This course explores household behavior in developing countries. We will cover areas including fertility decisions, health and mortality, investment in education, the intra-household allocation of resources, household structure, and the marriage market. We will also look at the characteristics of land, labor, and credit markets, particularly technology adoption; land tenure and tenancy arrangements; the role of agrarian institutions in the development process; and the impacts of alternative politics and strategies in developing countries. The course complements Economics 241.
- Winter 2026
- IS, International Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ECON 111 with a grade of C- or better or ECON AL (Cambridge A Level Economics) with a grade of B or better or has received a score of 5 on the AP Microeconomics test or a score of 6 or better on the IB Economics test.
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ECON 240.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 203 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENGL 247 The American West 6 credits
Wallace Stegner once described the West as "the geography of hope" in the American imagination. Despite various dystopian urban pressures, the region still conjures up images of wide vistas and sunburned optimism. We will explore this paradox by examining both popular mythic conceptions of the West (primarily in film) and more searching literary treatments of the same area. We will explore how writers such as Twain, Cather, Stegner and Cormac McCarthy have dealt with the geographical diversity and multi-ethnic history of the West. Weekly film showings will include The Searchers, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unforgiven, and Lone Star. Extra Time Required, evening screenings.
Extra Time Required, Evening Screening
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ENGL 248 Visions of California 6 credits
An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner.
Extra Time required.
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ENTS 180 Community Engagement and Qualitative Methods 6 credits
This course introduces students to community-engaged research and qualitative methods in environmental and social contexts. Students will examine principles of working with communities, ethical research practices, and the role of power, positionality, and cultural humility. Through exercises, workshops, and group projects, students will learn to collect, code, and analyze qualitative data from interviews, focus groups, and observations. The course emphasizes reflective practice and translating research findings into actionable outputs. By the end of the term, students will have the background to plan community-based research projects, critically evaluate existing studies, and understand the challenges and opportunities involved in ethical qualitative research.
- Winter 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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ENTS 210 Environmental Justice 6 credits
The environmental justice movement seeks greater participation by marginalized communities in environmental policy, and equity in the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. This course will examine the meaning of “environmental justice,” the history of the movement, the empirical foundation for the movement’s claims, and specific policy questions. Our focus is the United States, but students will have the opportunity to research environmental justice in other countries.
X-List GEOL 210
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ENTS 220 Sovereignty and Sustainability 6 credits
This course explores the legal, cultural, and environmental foundations of Tribal and Indigenous environmental stewardship and natural resource management. Students will examine the historical significance of treaties, Tribal sovereignty, and federal trust responsibility, as well as key laws that have shaped Tribal resource use. The evolution of Tribal co-management with federal and state agencies will be analyzed through case studies, highlighting challenges and successful partnerships. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous worldviews on land stewardship will complement critical discussions on climate change, environmental justice, and the ongoing balance between economic development and ecological sustainability in Tribal resource use.
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ENTS 220.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Roger Faust 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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ENTS 250 Food, Forests & Resilience 6 credits
The course will explore how the idea of sustainability is complicated when evaluated through a socio-ecological framework that combines anthropology and ecology. To highlight this complexity, the course is designed to provide a comparative framework to understand and analyze sustainable socio-ecological propositions in Minnesota and Oaxaca. Key conceptual areas explored include: coupled human-natural systems, resilience (ecological and cultural), self-determination, and social justice across stakeholders. The course includes a series of fieldtrips to nearby projects of interest. This course is part of the OCS winter break Oaxaca program, involving two linked courses in fall and winter terms. This class is the first class in the sequence.
Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico
- Fall 2025
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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Student Cohorts any in the selection list OCS Socioecological Life – Oaxaca Mexico Program
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ENTS 250.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤 · Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHulings 316 8:15am-10:00am
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ENTS 251 Field Study in Sustainability in Oaxaca 6 credits
A field-based investigation of socio-ecological systems in Oaxaca, Mexico that will allow students to draw comparisons with similar systems in Minnesota. During winter break, we will visit the city of Oaxaca and neighboring villages to document and research systems of agriculture, sustainable forestry, and ecotourism, emphasizing the integration of methodologies in anthropology and ecology. Following the winter break trip, students will complete and present their research projects. This course is the second part of a two term sequence beginning with Environmental Studies 250.
Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico | X-List AMST 251, LCST 251
- Winter 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ENTS 250 with grade of C- or better during the immediately preceding term AND at least one term of Spanish or equivalent proficiency.
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ENTS 251.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤 · Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- TLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico
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HIST 307 Arctic Environmental History 6 credits
The Arctic world faces enormous interconnected environmental challenges. Climate change, wildlife threats, toxic pollution, human livelihoods and cultural practices – all of these and many more are colliding at a time when the region is also responding to shifting economic, geopolitical, and technological forces. This course will consider the deeper historical nature of these intertwined eco-cultural developments over the past two centuries, giving particular attention to animals and marine life, energy and mining, Indigenous resource strategies and well-being (including exploring Carleton’s Inuit art prints), storytelling and meanings, and ideas and policies focused on conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice.
Recommended Preparation: HIST 205
- Winter 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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HIST 307.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 224 Religion, Science, and the Moral Imagination 6 credits
How do we imagine the relationship between religion and science? Are they at odds, in harmony, or different ways of imagining ourselves, our world, and our futures? This course explores historical understandings of religious and scientific thought, asking how the two came to be separated in the modern era. We use the imagination to explore power dynamics and moral judgments embedded in assumptions about matter, nature, mind, bodies, persons, and progress. We draw on literature, philosophy, and theology to consider questions about ethics, focusing on climate change, ecofeminism, technology and personhood, AI, and the possibility of alternative futures.
- Winter 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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RELG 224.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 243 Native American Religious Freedom 6 credits
This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the United States. Making reference to the cultural background of Native traditions, and the history of First Amendment law, the course explores landmark court cases in Sacred Lands, Peyotism, free exercise in prisons, and sacralized traditional practices (whaling, fishing, hunting) and critically examines the conceptual framework of “religion” as it has been applied to the practice of Native American traditions. Service projects will integrate academic learning and student involvement in matters of particular concern to contemporary native communities.
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RELG 243.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 233 Anthropology of Food 6 credits
Food is the way to a person’s heart but perhaps even more interesting, the window into a society’s soul. Simply speaking understating a society’s foodways is the best way to comprehend the complexity between people, culture and nature. 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. In doing so we hope to elucidate how food is more than mere sustenance and that often the act of eating is a manifestation of power, resistance, identity, and community.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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SOAN 233.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SOAN 320 The Anthropology of the End of the World 6 credits
We live on a planet marked by ruin, devastation, and destruction—conditions associated with the concept of the Anthropocene, a geological era that recognizes the inescapable consequences of human activity on the planet. This course examines these consequences through the lens of environmental anthropology to explore various socio-cultural strategies implemented by societies around the world. Themes explored include notions of unpredictability, precarity, resilience, and survivance as avenues for understanding the impacts of profound environmental change, as well as new opportunities for place-making, community, and sustainable futures.
Recommended preparation: Introductory courses in SOAN or ENTS.
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SOAN 320.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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