Adjust Font Size: Normal Large X-Large

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

Inactive: Course Catalog by Subject

TwoStop Home

Select a Subject to display
Subject:

Inactive: Denmark's Intl Study Program (DIS) Courses

Academic Unit: International Programs, Ofc of

DIS 1001 - Beginning Danish I
(3 cr [max 5]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 5 credits)
Speaking/understanding skills for everyday situations, using family or collegium as point of departure. Reading, writing, grammar.
DIS 1002 - Beginning Danish II
(3 cr [max 5]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 5 credits)
Speaking/understanding skills for everyday situations. Using family or collegium as point of departure. Reading, writing, grammar.
DIS 1003 - Intermediate Danish I
(3 cr [max 5]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 5 credits)
First semester of second-year Danish, using increasingly difficult texts and written assignments.
DIS 1004 - Intermediate Danish II
(3 cr [max 5]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 5 credits)
Continues intermediate Danish I at more advanced level.
DIS 3120 - Interior Design Studio [OH]
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Research/design. Aspects of Danish tradition, its relation to surrounding culture.
DIS 3210 - European Art of the 19th Century: From Classicism to Symbolism [OH IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Development of art in 19th century in France and Scandinavian countries.
DIS 3211 - European Art of the 20th Century: From Expressionism to Postwar Art
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Major artistic concepts, 1900-1950. Expressionism, cubism, abstract art, surrealism.
DIS 3212 - European Art: From Impressionism to Abstract Art
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Modernist art of late 19th and early 20th centuries.
DIS 3213 - History of European Film
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Emphasizes post-World War II film history of France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and Scandinavia. Basic facts/methods of film comprehension, film analysis, and general film history.
DIS 3214 - Contemporary European Film: the Individual and Society [OH IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Representative themes in contemporary European film concerning attitudes in social, political, and artistic issues in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, and other countries.
DIS 3230 - History of European Ballet [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Main facets of European ballet from Renaissance to present, its development in social/artistic context. Visits to Royal Danish Ballet.
DIS 3320 - Dickens and Andersen: Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism [LIT IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Comparative reading of Dickens and Andersen. Touches on European literary romanticism, realism, and modernism.
DIS 3321 - Hans Christian Andersen [LIT]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Life/works of Andersen. Analysis of selected texts. Andersen as writer in European romantic tradition.
DIS 3322 - Masterpieces in Modern Scandinavian Literature [LIT IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Introduction to major figures in Scandinavian literature since 1870. "Modern breakthrough." Literature as vehicle raising social/human problems and as expression of Scandinavian character and world view.
DIS 3331 - Nationalism and Minorities in Europe [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Causes/impacts of nationalism. Proliferation of ethnic/national minority conflict in post-Cold War Europe. Models to explain nationalism. Instruments/policies to deal with nationalism.
DIS 3332 - Environmental Problems and Policy: a European Perspective [ENVT SSCI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Current local/global environmental issues, options at hand, politics involved.
DIS 3333 - European Conflict and Security Issues [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Problems of European security. Emphasizes issues resulting from end of Cold War. Search for new European security order. Emergence of security threats such as nationalism and minority issues.
DIS 3334 - Russia under Putin [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Past/current developments. Attempts to look into future: How will Russia develop politically, economically, and militarily?
DIS 3341 - The Jews in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present [HP IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
History, culture, and beliefs of the Jewish populations in Eastern and Western Europe, mostly from 18th century to present.
DIS 3342 - The Impact of Epidemic Disease upon European History
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
How epidemic disease has been a powerful factor in shaping attitudes, belief systems, institutions, and policies (e.g., public health).
DIS 3343 - Environmental History of Europe [ENVT HP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
European history, Ice Age-present, from ecological perspective. Theories of environment as determining factor in historical development.
DIS 3344 - 20th Century European History [HP IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Main periods/trends in European history, from end of 19th century to present. Interplay of political, social, and ideological developments.
DIS 3345 - America in the European Mirror [HP IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Relations between America and Europe over last three centuries. How Europeans used interpretations of American society/culture to create/confirm their own identity.
DIS 3421 - Kierkegaard: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Kierkegaard?s view on relationship of personal existence to art, society, philosophy, and religion.
DIS 3422 - Making of the Modern Self [OH IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Introduction to Kant, Hegel, Nietzche, Heidegger, and others. Trying to find meaning in a world that no longer offers one answer to the question, "What is a human being?"
DIS 3423 - Biomedical Ethics [C/PE]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
What are ethical criteria for evaluating biotechnology? How far do we want to legislate "life"? How can such legislation be enforced?
DIS 3431 - Danish Politics and Society [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Analyzes politics, economics, and society of contemporary Denmark.
DIS 3432 - Western European Politics: Western European Politics [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Transformation of Europe as it becomes a major player in the world scene. Internal balance between unifying countries and rise of local identities.
DIS 3433 - The European Union [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
European unification, from its inception in early 1990s to its ongoing development today.
DIS 3441 - Brain Functioning and the Experience of Self [SSCI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Relationship between biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to human functioning and the individual?s experience of self-in-the-world.
DIS 3442 - Developmental Psychopathology [SSCI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Risk, resilience, and psychopathology in children?s development. Bridges gap between developmental psychology and abnormal psychology.
DIS 3451 - Nordic Mythology [OH IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Myths, cults, and traditions of pre-Christian Nordic peoples as expressed in contemporary literature, eye-witness reports, and art. Emphasizes Viking period. All readings in modern English translations.
DIS 3511 - Criminal Justice in Scandinavia [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Ideology of crime control and criminal justice administration in Scandinavia, with a North American point of reference. Emphasizes Scandinavia's liberal criminal policy and fairly modest crime rate.
DIS 3620 - Architecture Foundations Studio
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Elements of architectural design: principles of structure, process of design, composition of form, functional resolution, language of architectural graphics, presentation of projects in drawings/models.
DIS 3621 - Architectural Design Studio [OH]
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Combines small-group/individual research, programming, and design in relation to Danish regional conditions. Field visits (e.g., buildings, housing areas, construction sites).
DIS 3622 - Architectural Interior Design Studio [OH]
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Builds on Architectural Design Studio I, with increasing independence in programming/evaluating projects.
DIS 3623 - 20th Century Danish Architecture [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Danish architecture in historical, political, and social/architectural context. Relation of Danish architecture to Scandinavian/international architecture.
DIS 3624 - Contemporary European Architectural Theories [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Complexities of contemporary architecture. Comprehensive foundation for students? own work.
DIS 3625 - Watercolor Painting [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Watercolor painting theory/practice. Wet/dry painting techniques. Mixing/applying colors. Choosing tools/paper. Effects of color pigment/shading. Meaning of shape/volume, light/shadow, glossy/matte, and short/long viewing distance.
DIS 3626 - Visual Journal [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Seminar. Students develop Journal as tool for analyzing (e.g., architectural solutions, urban spaces). Skill-building in observation, and in recordings of physical environment and individual objects.
DIS 3627 - Urban Design Journal [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Experiencing, analyzing, and recording urban landscape, its fabric, spatial elements, and individual components, through a journal.
DIS 3628 - Scandinavian Design and Architecture [OH]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Overview of Scandinavian design/architecture. Historical/current conditions of architecture, urban design, and planning from architectural, social, and political points of view.
DIS 3629 - Independent Study
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Students meet weekly with faculty to prepare project.
DIS 3630 - Furniture Design Studio and Workshop [OH]
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Process of furniture making. Students develope/refine a concept, produce working drawings, and build a wood or steel model.
DIS 3631 - Furniture Design in Scandinavia [OH IP]
(3 cr [max 6]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Introduction to furniture design in Scandinavia. Focuses on Denmark. Current/historical conditions of furniture. Design theories/methodologies.
DIS 3640 - Digital Design Studio and Workshop [OH]
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Introduction to methods/theories relating to communication of cultural content in a digital environment. Students develop technical/graphic design abilities while exercising their communication skills.
DIS 3641 - Digital Design in Scandinavia [OH IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Aspects of history, theory, and practice of Scandinavian design. Philosophical, economic, and political trends that affect practice of design in a global perspective.
DIS 3720 - Management Accounting: New Control Tools and Perspectives
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Management accounting as integral part of a company?s larger perspective.
DIS 3721 - Management Accounting and Control Systems
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Management information systems as set of interactive decision support and early-warning systems for strategic management.
DIS 3730 - International Finance in a European Context
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Exchange rate determination, inflation rates, interest rates. Managing exchange-rate risk. Financial/investment decisions made by multinational companies. Issues related to European Economic and Monetary Union.
DIS 3740 - European Business Environment: the EU
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
European Union in terms of basic business-related functions, institutions, policies, issues, and implications for international business operations/competitiveness. Required study tours.
DIS 3741 - Economies in Transition: Doing Business With Russia and Eastern Europe [IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Efforts of Russia and Central/Eastern European countries to transform economies. Opportunities for Western firms in marketization/reconstruction, trade, joint ventures, and investments.
DIS 3742 - Environmental Business Strategy
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
"Green management" experience. Action of advanced European companies in face of international environmental regulation, EU opportunities/instruments for industry, and management theory.
DIS 3743 - EU Seminar
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Students, based on knowledge gained in fall semester European Union course, study particular business-oriented aspects of EU in depth and present their findings in major report. Independent research in Denmark and in Brussels, Belgium.
DIS 3750 - Seminar: Marketing Management Field Project
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Student groups act as management consultants and prepare industry analysis and marketing plan for real companies.
DIS 3760 - Global Business Strategy: European Approaches
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Strategic response of European business managers to recent international economic developments.
DIS 3761 - Human Resource Management in Europe [IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Analysis/interpretation of the way human resources are dealt with in various European countries.
DIS 3820 - European Business Environment: the EU
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
European Union in terms of basic business-related functions, institutions, policies, issues, and implications for international business operations and competitiveness. Includes required study tours.
DIS 3821 - Marine Biological Research Project [BIOL SCI/L]
(6 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Research project with practical field components. Students use scientific libraries of various research institutions, engage in discussions/seminars with leading Danish/German scientists, and conduct experiments on research ship and at marine biological laboratory.
DIS 3822 - Ecology and Human Impact in the North and Baltic Seas [ENVT BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Ecosystems of North/Baltic Seas. How natural/human activities threaten their integrity. Given in Copenhagen area, with study tour in northern/western Denmark.
DIS 3823 - Biology of Marine Mammals [ENVT BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Ecology/physiology of marine fish, birds, and mammals. Factors controlling vertebrate distribution/abundance. Role of vertebrates in marine ecosystems. Ecological impact of habitat alteration, pollution, fishing, and hunting. Emphasizes North/Baltic Seas.
DIS 3824 - Ecotoxicology: Principles and Practice [ENVT IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Introduction to fate/effects of toxic chemicals in ecological systems.
DIS 3825 - Intensive Ecotoxicology Laboratory: Introduction to International Tests and Assays [ENVT BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Hands-on experience of standard ecotoxicological test methods used internationally.
DIS 3826 - Biophysical Basis of Ecophysiology [BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Introduction to biophysics and biophysical chemistry as basis for biologist's understanding of physiological processest.
DIS 3827 - Element and Energy Cycling in Ecosystems [BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Major element cycles/processes that regulate flow/transformation of elements/energy in ecosystems.
DIS 3828 - Intensive Field Course: Carbon Cycling in Danish Forest and Fjord Ecosystems [BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Students use/evaluate classic ecological techniques for measuring carbon flow/transformations in terrestrial/aquatic ecosystems on coast of Denmark.
DIS 3829 - Arctic Biology: Life Under Extreme Conditions
(8 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Field/classroom study of arctic environments in Iceland. Focuses on marine, extreme conditions, comparisons with other climates, and effects of biodiversity on evolution/geology.
DIS 3830 - Marine Biology of European Coastal Waters [ENVT BIOL SCI/L]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Marine biology of Baltic/North Seas. Coastal waters, interactions between organisms and their environment, methods to investigate biological systems. Students conduct simple experiments during field trips in Denmark.
DIS 3839 - Volcanos, Glaciers, and Plate Tectonics: Geology of Iceland
(8 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Field/classroom study of arctic environments in Iceland. Focuses on Mid-Atlantic Ridge kinetics, volcanoes, glaciers, and biology.
DIS 3900 - European News Media in Transition
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3901 - Religion in Crisis
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3902 - New Members of the European Union
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
?
DIS 3903 - International Marketing and Branding Field Project
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3904 - Economic Theories of Globalization
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3905 - The Context of Danish History
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3906 - Children in a Multicultural Context: Practicum
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3907 - Children in Multicultural Context: Theory
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3908 - Migrants, Minoritites, and Multiculturalism
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3909 - American Popular Culture
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3910 - Health Care in Scandinavia
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3911 - Human Health and Disease
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3912 - Muslims in the West
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3913 - Sociology of European Families
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3914 - International Law in a European Perspective
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3915 - Independent Study
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3916 - Concept of the Sublime
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3917 - Masterpieces of Russian Literature
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3918 - Communication Across Cultures in Europe
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3919 - Decision Making in the European Union
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3920 - Sustainable by Design
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
DIS 3921 - European Urban Design Theories
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)

Please report problems with this form to the webmaster.

This software is free and available under the GNU GPL.
© 2000 and later T. W. Shield