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  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the lives of American Indian women in a variety of contexts through time. The complexity and diversity of Indian women's experiences throughout history are emphasized. Much of the class concerns Indian women's lives within the reality of European American colonization and its consequences for Indian peoples. Dual listed with NAIS 4360; cross listed with WMST 5360. Prerequisites: 6 hours of 2000-level NAIS classes.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys the history of American Indians from the period before contact to the end of the American Revolution. Examines the various contacts between American Indians and Europeans and considers what the American Revolution meant to the continent's Native peoples. Dual listed with NAIS 4462; cross listed with HIST 5462. Prerequisite: HIST/NAIS 2290.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys the history of American Indians during the twentieth century. Examines the development of new cultural, social, and political forms that help create an American Indian identity. Dual listed with NAIS 4464; cross listed with HIST 5464. Prerequisites: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys ethnohistorical methods and concepts and provides students concrete opportunities to use these methodologies in writing exercises. American Indian ethnohistory explores Native American experiences within their own cultural contexts. Dual listed with NAIS 4466. Prerequisite: ANTH/NAIS 2210 or HIST/NAIS 2290.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Focuses on quantitative reasoning defined broadly as viewing the world through a mathematical perspective. Prerequisite: none, must apply to FIG.
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Presents selected science topics to acquaint teachers or prospective teachers with new concepts, materials or techniques, as introduced in various new school curricula. Topics may include earth science for the middle school, computer learning and/or elementary school environmental science. Includes laboratory. Prerequisite: junior standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    One in a series of three courses investigating earth as a system. Examines the global dynamics of energy, hydrocarbon combustion, and the physics and chemistry of water. Investigates relationships between energy transformations and pollutants. Considers environmental limitations of fresh water availability and the buffering effect of sea and fresh water. Prerequisite: graduate standing and teaching certification in elementary, middle school or general science; or, graduate standing and concurrent enrollment in a program leading to teacher certification in Elementary, middle school or general science education.
  • 3.00 Credits

    One in a series of three courses investigating earth as a system. Emphasizes the lithosphere and atmosphere and their interactions with the hydrosphere and biosphere. Examines the interplay between tectonic processes, earth's radiation balance, ocean processes, ozone depletion and the green house effect. Includes evaluation of methods of measuring and monitoring these phenomena. Prerequisite: graduate standing and teaching certification in elementary, middle school or general science; or, graduate standing and concurrent enrollment in a program leading to teach certification in elementary, middle school or general science education.
  • 3.00 Credits

    One in a series of three courses investigating earth as a system. Investigates ecosystem composition and processes, and biological responses to changes in ecosystem parameters. Examines terrestrial and aquatic communities, photosynthesis, energy flow, biogeochemical cycles, global climate change, climate warning, deforestation, population ecology, DNA/RNA structure, function, genetic engineering and forensic applications. Prerequisite: graduate standing and teaching certification in elementary, middle school or general science education.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides working middle-level mathematics teachers opportunities to understand and discuss numbers, their representations, and operations on them, from an abstract perspective that includes elegant proof. Also emphasized is the role of language and purpose in composing definitions. Cross listed with MATH 5140. Prerequisites: admission to a UW graduate program, either degree or non-degree seeking status, and acceptance into the Middle-level mathematics program.