2012-13 Course Offerings

ARMS 121: Introduction to ARMS
The core course is ARMS 121-125. The number differs depending on the general education credit the course receives (ARMS 121 receives MCS-D and ALS-L credit while ARMS 122 receives MCS-D and HWC credit).
Semester I: Fall 2012
Professor Joan Hepburn
T 1:20-2:45, Th 2:15-3:35

An interdisciplinary survey of the histories, cultures, and literature of Native, African, Latino, Asian, and Jewish American groups. The course is designed to increase awareness of diversity in the United States especially with changing demographics. In addition to literature and history, students examine films. This course is required for the ARMS major and concentration.

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ARMS 250: Topical Seminar
In addition, a topical seminar, ARMS 250-259, is offered periodically. The precise subject varies depending on the instructor’s interests. Students develop an advanced critical understanding of race and ethnicity through an exploration of course topics.
Semester II: Spring 2013

ARMS 251: Multiculturalism and Public Education (MCD)
Professor Maria Kelly
MWF 10:45-11:40

This course examines the historical and cultural context of public education in the United States and the role that race, class, and gender have played in framing the experience we call “public education.” Students will explore the multicultural imperative that emerged from the school reform movements of the 1980’s and 1990’s. The initial work of James A. Banks and his five dimensions of multicultural education (content integration, the knowledge construction process, prejudice reduction, an equity pedagogy, and an empowering school culture and social structure) will serve as the conceptual model for the course. Essential questions for the course include: To what extent has this movement transformed public school curricula and pedagogical practices? In what ways have multicultural education and critical pedagogy successfully addressed issues of inequity in public education? In society? What might a new model for the 21st century look like?
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Permanently Approved Departmental Courses
Africa and the Americas 231: Africa and the Americas
Asian Studies 371: Asia and the West
ARMS 121: Introduction to ARMS

ARMS 250 – 259 (Topical) (More than one may count toward major.)

Dance 246: Dance in America

Education 170: Urban Schools and Communities
Education 246: English Language Learners: Issues in Education
Education 260: Foundations in U.S. Education
Education 378: Multicultural Education in Hawaii
Education 379: Urban Education Seminar and Practicum
English 200: Racial Indentity and Subjectivity in American Literature
English 203: Asian American Literature
English 205: American Racial and Multicultural Literature
English 284: Performing Arts in New York
English 345: Topics in Multicultural Literature
English 347: Teaching ESL K-12
English 347: Topics in Post-Colonial Literatures
History 161: Race & Culture in Early America
History 165: Slavery in the Americas
History 167: Trail of Tears
History 181: The Civil Rights Revolution
History 199: United States since 1865
History 270: Seminars for History Majors (Topical)
Race, Gender, Slavery
History 277: African-American History
History 282: Native American History
History 288: Civil War and Reconstruction
History 370: American Seminar Women and Slavery; Emancipation; Civil War (Topical)
IS 218: Chronicles of the American Immigrant Experience (Spring 2012)
Music 231: History of Jazz
Music 237: World Music
Political Science 299: Race and Politics
Religion 267: African American Religious Thought
Spanish 273: Cultural Heritage of the Hispanic U.S.
Social Work 125: Racism and Sexism in American Family Life – Interim 2010 – 11
Social Work 373: Culturally Competent Practice
Soc/Anth 119: Crime and Inequality
Soc/Anth 120: Jazz in American Society
Soc/Anth 128: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Soc/Anth 234: Native North American Culture and Religion
Soc/Anth 242: Contemporary Native American Issues
Soc/Anth 247: Linking the Local & Global: Changing Face of Minnesota
Soc/Anth 261: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Soc/Anth 264: Race and Class in American Culture
Soc/Anth 299: Sociology of Music
Social Work 373: Culturally Competent Practice
Spanish 273: Heritage of the Hispanic US