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