Diversity Related Academic Courses & Programs
MSUM offers undergraduate and graduate courses that develop global awareness or knowledge of human diversity. Explore our diversity-focused academic programs.
Graduate Courses Addressing Diversity
- AMCS 490 Topics in American Multicultural Studies
- ANTH 492 Seminar in Anthropology
- ANTH 497 Research in Anthropology
- COUN 520 Basic Counseling Skills
- COUN 590 Topics in Counseling
- COUN 611 Theories of Individual and Family Counseling
- COUN 614 Human Growth and Development for Counselors
- COUN 615 Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling
- COUN 620 Counseling Skills I
- COUN 630 Group Counseling
- COUN 641 Professional Orientation and Ethics
- COUN 654 Classroom Management for School Counselors
- COUN 655 Counseling Children, Adolescents and Their Families
- COUN 670 Administration of Clinical Mental Health Services & Counseling Skills
- COUN 674 Childhood to Adulthood Psychopathology for Mental Health Professionals
- COUN 676 Clinical Supervision and Ethics
- COUN 691A Practicum in School Counseling
- COUN 691D Practicum in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- COUN 691E Practicum in Addiction Counseling
- COMM 590 Topics in Communications
- ED 553 Interdisciplinary Instructional Strategies
- ED 601 Psychological Foundations of Education
- ED 613 Social, Cultural, Political and Community Dimensions of Education
- ED 630 Leadership, Planning and Organizational Behavior in Education
- ED 631 Educational Law and Organizational Structure of Education
- ED 632 Curriculum, Instruction and Learning Theory
- ED 634 Personal Communications and Ethics
- ED 635 Personnel, Supervision and Staff Development
- ED 638 Administration of the Elementary School
- ED 639 Administration of the Secondary School
- ED 671 Issues in Education
- ED 717 Adult Learning
- ED 727 Education Law & Policy: Historical, Political & Global Perspective
- ED 767 Organization and Administration of Educational Leadership
- ED 780 Instructional Models
- ED 789 School Community Relations
- EECE 642 Elementary School Curriculum
- ENGL 513 Writing About Art
- ENGL 535 Ecocriticism
- ENGL 545 Holocaust Literature
- ENGL 593 Grammars of English
- FINC 545 International Financial Management
- HIST 590 Topics In History
- LANG 557 Second Language Acquisition & Language Teaching
- LANG 571 Methods and Materials in Teaching Languages I
- LANG 572 Methods and Materials in Teaching Languages II
- LANG 575 Second Language Assessment
- MATH 502 Mathematics for Special Education
- MBA 615 International Marketing
- MBA 641 Human Resource Management
- MBA 651 Organizational Behavior
- MBA 671 Healthcare Delivery Science
- MHA 605 Health Care Quality and Regulatory Management
- MHA 618 Health Care Law and Ethical Decision Making
- MHA 628 Health Care Policy and Reimbursement
- MHA 690 Topics in Healthcare Administration
- NURS 600 Nursing Science, Ethical, and Transcultural Theories
- NURS 602 Advanced Healthcare Ethics
- NURS 608 Transcultural and Social Perspectives
- NURS 610 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- NURS 628 Health Care Delivery Systems, Policy, Financing and Leadership
- NURS 629 Educational Foundations and Teaching Strategies
- NURS 642P Advanced Nurse Educator Practicum I
- NURS 643P Advanced Nurse Educator Practicum II
- NURS 644P NAOSL Practicum I
- NURS 645P NAOSL Practicum I
- NURS 650 Organizational Strategy & Systems Leadership
- PSY 563 Abnormal Psychology
- PSY 565 Clinical Psychology
- PSY 570 History and Systems of Psychology
- PSY 601 Foundations of School Psychology
- PSY 622 Assessment/Intervention II: Special Populations
- SLHS 590 Topics in Speech Language Hearing Sciences
- SLP 631 Pediatric and Adult Motor Speech Disorders
- SLP 683 Seminar in Child and Adolescent Language Disorders
- SPED 502 Characteristics of Students with Mild Disabilities
- SPED 503 Methods: Mild Disabilities
- SPED 523 Foundations of Early Intervention/ECSE
- SPED 524 Assessment in Early Childhood Special Education
- SPED 531 Survey of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- SPED 547 Physical and Health Disabilities
- SPED 555 Characteristics of Student with Learning and Behavior Problems
- SPED 559 Communication Programming for Persons with Severe Disabilities
- SPED 567A Secondary Practicum: Mild Disabilities
- SPED 567D Secondary Practicum: Developmental Disabilities
- SPED 567P Practicum in Physical and Health Disabilities
- SPED 568P Student Teaching II: Physical and Health Disabilities
- SPED 575 Information Assessment/Teaching Strategies: Student with Learning Disabilities
- SPED 580 Legal/Social Foundations of Special Education
- SPED 613 Inclusive Teaching Practices
- SPED 620 Perspectives and Policies in Special Education
- SW 502 Child Welfare Services
- TESL 551 English Structures
- TESL 555 Oral Discourse Structures
- TESL 556 Written Discourse Structures
- TESL 590 Special Topics in Teaching English as a Second Language
- TESL 625 Social, Cultural and Political Context of Language and Literacy
- TESL 627 Cultures in the Schools
- TESL 670 Designing ESL Courses
- TESL 675 Assessment in TESL
- WS 512 Seminar in Women's Studies
Undergraduate Courses Addressing Diversity
- AMCS 100 America's Mosaic
- AMCS 209 African American Humanities I: Roots
- AMCS 210 African American Humanities II: 1865-Present
- AMCS 220 Contemporary Asian America
- AMCS 302 Latinos of the Caribbean: Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
- AMCS 303 Latinos in the United States
- AMCS 315 African American Images in Film
- AMCS 325 African American Theatre
- AMCS 372 Dynamics of Prejudice and Oppression
- AMCS 390/490 Topics in American Multicultural Studies
- ANTH 100 Debating Humankind
- ANTH 110 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 115 Introduction to Archaeology
- ANTH 202 American Indian Culture
- ANTH 217 The Rise of Civilization
- ANTH 265 Language and Culture
- ANTH 306 Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 307 Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH 308 Migration and Human Adaptation
- ANTH 309 Indians of the Great Plains
- ANTH 311 American Indians and the Environment
- ANTH 313 Understanding Contemporary Africa
- ANTH 314 American Indian World Views
- ANTH 315 North American Archaeology
- ANTH 316 Magic, Witchcraft and Belief
- ANTH 317 Collapse
- ANTH 325 Reading Landscape: Ways of Seeing
- ANTH 327 The Aztecs
- ANTH 329 The Uses of the Past
- ANTH 333 Anthropology of Music
- ANTH 337 The Maya
- ANTH 380 Traditional Cultures
- ANTH 450 Field Work in Anthropology
- ANTH 490 Topics in Anthropology
- ANTH 492 Seminar in Anthropology
- ART 170 Art Appreciation: Content and Form
- ART 233 Global Art History I
- ART 233M Global Art History I: Methods
- ART 234 Global Art History II
- ART 234M Global Art History II: Methods
- ART 270 Visual Culture: Practices in Critical Looking
- ART 320 Philosophy of the Arts
- ART 345 Art of Social & Environmental Justices
- ART 408 Women and Art
- ART 430 Nineteenth Century Art
- ART 431 Twentieth Century Art
- ART 450 Contemporary Art, Design and Theory
- BIOL 109 Biology Today
- BUS 145 Introduction to International Business
- BUS 245 Seminar on Doing Business in China
- BUS 345 China Business Trip
- CHEM 102 Environmental Chemistry
- CHIN 101 Beginning Chinese I
- CHIN 102 Beginning Chinese II
- CHIN 132 Introduction to Chinese Culture
- CHIN 201 Intermediate Chinese I
- CHIN 202 Intermediate Chinese II
- CHIN 390 Topics in Chinese Language, Literature and Culture
- CJ 111 American Criminal Justice
- CJ 200 Introduction to Criminal Justice
- CJ 201 Introduction to Juvenile Justice
- CJ 306 Gangs
- CJ 309 Law and Society
- CJ 380 Global Criminal Justice
- COMM 100 Speech Communication
- COMM 101 Introduction to Mass Media
- COMM 110 Introduction to Communication Studies
- COMM 201 Interpersonal Communication
- COMM 211 Group and Team Communication
- COMM 285 Intercultural Communication
- COMM 301 Business and Professional Communication
- COMM 310 Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
- COMM 311 Principles of Persuasion
- COMM 315 Introduction to Communication Theory
- COMM 317 Training and Development
- COMM 324 International Communication
- COMM 376 Crisis Communications
- COMM 400 Mass Media Ethics and Issues
- COMM 401 Organizational Communication
- COMM 403 Communication Law
- COMM 410 The Rhetoric of Popular Culture
- COMM 411 Political Campaign Communication
- COMM 414 Health Communication
- COMM 417 Academic Service-Learning Practicum
- CSIS 316 Ethics in the Information Age
- ECON 100 The American Economy
- ECON 202 Principles of Economics I: Micro
- ECON 204 Principles of Economics II: Macro
- ECON 300 Global Economic Issues
- ECON 302 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 304 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
- ECON 305 The Economics of Poverty, Discrimination and Inequality
- ECON 340 The Gendered Economy
- ECON 415 Industrial Organization and Public Policy
- ECON 416 Labor of Economics
- ECON 425 International Trade and Finance
- EECE 220 Foundations of Early Childhood & Early Childhood Special Education
- ED 205 Introduction to Education
- ED 294 Educational Psychology
- ED 310 Social Foundation of Education
- ED 553 Interdisciplinary Instructional Strategies
- ENGL 183 Introduction to the American Short Story
- ENGL 215 World Games: International Stories about Sports and Politics
- ENGL 234 Mythology
- ENGL 246 Women in Literature
- ENGL 280 World Literature: East and West
- ENGL 282 Literature for Non-Majors
- ENGL 300 Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENGL 301 Medieval British Literature
- ENGL 302 English Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 311 Major British Writers I
- ENGL 312 Major British Writers II
- ENGL 317 Personal Lives, National Affairs
- ENGL 318 Christian Bible as Literature
- ENGL 321 Early American Literature
- ENGL 322 19th Century American Literature
- ENGL 323 20th-21st Century American Literature
- ENGL 332 Film and the Novel
- ENGL 335 World Mythology
- ENGL 340 Genre Studies
- ENGL 346 Virtue and Vice in Gothic Storytelling
- ENGL 352 Native American Literature
- ENGL 356 African American Literature
- ENGL 371 Survey of American Literature I
- ENGL 372 Survey of American Literature II
- ENGL 380 World Literature
- ENGL 410 Studies in British Literature
- ENGL 445 Holocaust Literature
- ENGL 463 History of the English Language
- ENGL 493 Grammars of English
- EURO 355 A Topical Course in Politics, Power and the Law
- EURO 356 A Topical Course in Science and Discovery
- EURO 358 A Topical Course in Women's Studies
- EURO 359 European Grand Tour
- EURO 372 Eurospring History and the Social Sciences
- EURO 373 Eurospring Humanities: Arts, Literature and Philosophy
- FILM 180 Understanding Movies
- FILM 275 Film Appreciation
- FILM 285 History of Motion Pictures
- FILM 365 Survey of International Cinema
- FILM 371 History of LGBT Representation in Film
- FILM 480 Critical Approaches to Film and Media Arts
- FINC 445 International Financial Management
- FYE 101 First Year Experience
- GEOS 307 Introduction to GIS
- GEOS 310 United States and Canada
- GEOS 320 Economic Geography
- GEOS 410 Eastern Europe and Russia
- HIST 101 Critical Issues in U.S. History
- HIST 104 World History I
- HIST 105 World History II
- HIST 121 History of the United States to 1877
- HIST 122 History of the United States Since 1877
- HIST 190 Topics in History
- HIST 220 Contemporary Asian America
- HIST 244 Women in World Religions
- HIST 276 The World of Food
- HIST 301 East Asian History I
- HIST 302 East Asian History II
- HIST 304 History of Africa
- HIST 311 Topics in North American History
- HIST 315 Minnesota and the Upper Midwest
- HIST 317 Medieval Europe
- HIST 319 Early Modern Europe
- HIST 321 History of Britain I
- HIST 322 History of Britain II
- HIST 324 Twentieth Century Europe
- HIST 334 Latin America
- HIST 336 History of Mexico
- HIST 346 Modern China
- HIST 347 Modern Japan
- HIST 350 Women in European History
- HIST 359 Colonial America
- HIST 360 Revolutionary America
- HIST 361 Antebellum America
- HIST 362 Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 363 Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- HIST 369 The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975
- HIST 373 Monsoon Asia: People and the Environment
- HIST 374 Plagues & Peoples: Disease & the Environment
- HIST 375 Women in United States History
- HIST 377 African Americans in U.S. History
- HIST 383 Ancient Near East I (Greece)
- HIST 384 Ancient Near East II (Rome)
- HIST 385 History of Christianity
- HLTH 110 Personal Health and Wellness
- HLTH 412 Education for Sexuality and HIV/AIDS
- HON 102 Honors Encounters
- HON 200 Honors Colloquium in Humanities
- HON 300 American Society
- HON 301 Masterpieces in Literature
- HON 302 Tellings and Readings
- HON 306 Human Nature in the Western Tradition
- HON 307 Transformation of the Roman World: 31 B.C. to A.D. 312
- HON 312 Journeys in Literature: Classical and Medieval Masterpieces
- HON 314 Space, Time, and Change: Revolutions in Self Perception
- HON 318 Issues of the Nuclear Age
- HON 324 Life and Death in the Universe
- HON 492 Capstone in Ethics and Civic Responsibility
- HSAD 218 Introduction to Healthcare and Global Health
- HSAD 401 Health Aspects of Aging
- HSAD 420 Healthcare Policy and Economics
- HUM 101 Humanities Through the Arts
- HUM 211 Perspectives on Society
- HUM 320 Humanities East and West
- INTL 101 Introduction to Global Issues
- INTL 308 Migration and Human Adaptation
- JAPN 101 Beginning Japanese I
- JAPN 102 Beginning Japanese II
- JAPN 142 Introduction to Japanese Culture
- JAPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I
- JAPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
- LANG 190 Topics in Language
- LANG 457 Second Language Acquisition & Language Teaching
- LANG 475 Second Language Assessment
- LEAD 301 Introduction to Leadership
- LEAD 498 Leadership Seminar
- MATH 402 Mathematics for Special Education
- MATH 486 History of Mathematics
- MGMT 260 Principles of Management
- MGMT 405 Small Business Management
- MGMT 416 Labor Economics
- MGMT 440 Human Resource Management
- MGMT 451 Organizational Behavior
- MGMT 458 International Management
- MKTG 421 Consumer Behavior
- MKTG 444 International Marketing
- MKTG 451 Marketing Research I
- MKTG 452 Marketing Research II
- MUS 140 Thinking Musically: Critical Thinking in Multi-musical America
- MUS 215 History of Jazz
- MUS 240 American Music
- MUS 287 Commercial/Jazz Theory
- MUS 303 History of Western Music to 1750
- MUS 304 History of Western Music since 1750
- MUS 316 World Music Survey
- MUS 345 Women in Musical Culture
- MUS 346 Sex, Sexuality and Music
- NURS 303 Holistic Family Nursing
- NURS 318 Nursing Ethics
- NURS 342 Interdisciplinary Care of Diverse Populations
- NURS 348L Public Health Nursing
- NURS 352 End of Live Nursing Care
- NURS 370 Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
- NURS 420 Gerontological Nursing to Promote Successful Aging
- NURS 472 Leadership and Professional Development
- NURS 473 Professional Pathways
- NURS 485 Global Health Perspectives for Nursing
- PARA 320 Family Law
- PARA 321 Employment Law
- PARA 416 Elder Law
- PHIL 101 Introduction to Western Philosophy
- PHIL 102 Philosophies of Human Nature
- PHIL 120 World Religions
- PHIL 215 Contemporary Moral Issues
- PHIL 235 Philosophy of Sex and Love
- PHIL 300 History of Ethics
- PHIL 301 Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL 302 Buddhist Philosophy
- PHIL 303 Classical Philosophy
- PHIL 304 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL 305 Modern Philosophy: 17th Century
- PHIL 306 Modern Philosophy: 18th Century
- PHIL 307 19th Century Philosophy
- PHIL 309 Continental Philosophy
- PHIL 311 Morals and Medicine
- PHIL 312 Business Ethics
- PHIL 318 Professional Ethics
- PHIL 320 Philosophy of the Arts
- PHIL 322 Religious Traditions in our Global Society
- PHIL 340 Symbolic Logic
- PHIL 355 Existentialism
- PHIL 357 Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL 358 Peace and War
- PHIL 408 Metaphysics
- PHIL 483 Major Philosophers
- POL 105 Making Sense of Politics
- POL 120 American National Government and Politics
- POL 140 Political Statecraft
- POL 160 International Relations
- POL 210 Introduction to Political Science
- POL 221 Minnesota State and Local Government
- POL 230 Introduction to Law
- POL 265 International Protection of Human Rights
- POL 315 Political Thought
- POL 328 The Media and Politics
- POL 333 Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Liberties
- POL 340 Public Administration
- POL 341 Public Policy
- POL 345 Environment Politics
- POL 349 Great Power Politics
- POL 350 Comparative Governments of Western Europe
- POL 352 Political Problems in Developing Countries
- POL 356 Soviet Russia and the Global Cold War
- POL 360 American Foreign Policy
- POL 368 International Organizations
- PMGT 385 Process of Leadership
- PSY 113 General Psychology
- PSY 202 Developmental Psychology
- PSY 220 Social Behavior
- PSY 261 Personality
- PSY 265 Health Psychology
- PSY 310 Psychology of Women
- PSY 320 Social Psychology
- PSY 323 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- PSY 348 Cognition and Perception
- PSY 402 Child/Adolescent Psychology
- PSY 403 Adulthood and Aging
- PSY 463 Abnormal Psychology
- SOC 110 Introduction to Sociology
- SOC 120 Social Psychology
- SOC 210 Social Problems
- SOC 219 Sociology of Sexual Behavior
- SOC 220 Social Deviance
- SOC 290 Topics in Sociology
- SOC 300 Criminology
- SOC 301 Delinquent Behavior
- SOC 302 Social Theory
- SOC 303 Punishment and Prisons
- SOC 304 Community Corrections
- SOC 308 Social Gerontology
- SOC 309 Law and Society
- SOC 310 Dominant-Subordinate Group Relations
- SOC 311 Sociology of Law Enforcement
- SOC 319 Society and the Environment
- SOC 320 Sociology of the Family
- SOC 325 Social Movements
- SOC 330 Sociology of Religion
- SOC 333 Sociology of Gender
- SOC 375 Sociology of Health and Medicine
- SOC 390 Topics in Sociology
- SOC 407 Contemporary Sociological Theory
- SOC 410 Gerontology: Policy and Practice
- SOC 412 Sociology of Complex Organizations
- SLHS 101 Survey of Speech Language Hearing Disorders
- SLHS 150 Observation of the Practice in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
- SLHS 301 American Sign Language and Deaf Culture I
- SLHS 322 Language Disorders in Children
- SPAN 101 Beginning Spanish I
- SPAN 102 Beginning Spanish II
- SPAN 190 Topics in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture
- SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
- SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
- SPAN 211 Intermediate Spanish Conversation I
- SPAN 212 Intermediate Spanish Conversation II
- SPAN 290 Topics in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture
- SPAN 301 Spanish Grammar & Composition I
- SPAN 302 Spanish Grammar & Composition II
- SPAN 311 Advanced Spanish Conversation I
- SPAN 321 Iberian Culture and Civilization
- SPAN 322 Latin American Culture and Civilization
- SPAN 340 Introduction to Spanish Literature
- SPAN 341 Survey of Iberian Literature
- SPAN 342 Survey of Latin American Literature
- SPAN 351 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
- SPAN 390 Topics in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture
- SPAN 401 Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
- SPAN 421 Advanced Iberian Culture and Civilization
- SPAN 422 Advanced Latin American Culture and Civilization
- SPAN 443 Genres and Themes of Iberian/Latin American Literature
- SPAN 444 Periods and Authors of Iberian/Latin American Literature
- SPAN 451 Survey of Spanish Linguistics
- SPAN 461 Introduction to Spanish Translation I
- SPAN 490 Topics in Spanish Language, Literature or Culture
- SPED 225 Individuals with Exceptionalities
- SPED 402 Characteristics of Students with Mild Disabilities
- SPED 403 Methods: Mild Disabilities
- SPED 410 Methods and Strategies of Special Education Assessment
- SPED 431 Survey of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- SW 250 Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work
- SW 308 Social Gerontology
- SW 330 Human Behavior and the Social Environment
- SW 390 Topics in Social Work
- SW 402 Child Welfare Services
- SW 410 Gerontology: Policy and Practice
- SW 411 Chemical Dependency
- SW 420 Generalist Practice: Individuals
- SW 435 Generality Practice: Families/Groups
- SW 450 Generalist Practice: Communities and Organizations
- SW 460 Social Policy and Policy Practice
- TESL 451 English Structures
- TESL 454 Grammar for Teaching English as a Second Language
- THTR 325 African American Theatre
- THTR 420 The Theatrical World
- WS 100 Women Today: Contemporary Women's Issues
- WS 219 Sociology of Sexual Behavior
- WS 244 Women in World Religions
- WS 247 Women's Studies: Perspectives and Intersections
- WS 268 Global Sexualities in Pop Culture
- WS 300 Biology of Women
- WS 303 Cross Cultural Gender
- WS 305 The Economics of Poverty, Discrimination and Inequality
- WS 308 Social Gerontology
- WS 310 Dominant-Subordinate Group Relations
- WS 312 Rhetoric's of Resistance: Feminist Responses form the Humanities
- WS 314 Feminist Philosophy
- WS 316 Women in Action
- WS 320 Sociology of the Family
- WS 324 Feminist Theory
- WS 330 Gender, Justice and the Environment
- WS 333 Sociology of Gender
- WS 345 Women in Musical Culture
- WS 346 Sex, Sexuality and Music
- WS 350 Women in European History
- WS 394 Research in Women's Studies
- WS 406 DNA as Destiny: Genetics and Society
- WS 408 Women and Art
- WS 412 Seminar in Women's Studies
- WS 415 Media and Diverse Identities
- WS 420 Feminism in Global Perspective