2021-2022 Course List

The course exposes students to texts, issues, strategies, and materials for designing and assessing an interdisciplinary humanities course. Part of the course will involve participants observing and evaluating how Humanities classes are taught. Pre-reqs or Co-reqs: HUM 550 and 631

This course introduces prospective and practicing teachers to research tools, strategies, and materials related to interdisciplinary humanities both useful for the Plan B paper or Portfolio and also useful for classroom activities. Pre-reqs or co-reqs: HUM 550 and 631

This course will proceed as a directed written project as the culminaton of a student's internship in which he/she reflects on and analyzes the planning and actual teaching associated with that experience and contemplates changes necessary for a more successful experience.

Interdisciplinary study in an area for which student has basic preparation.

A prospective or practicing teacher will team with faculty to deliver an interdisciplinary humanities course at MSU, M, a community college, or a high school (this last setting available only to practicing teachers). Pre-reqs or Co-reqs: HUM 631 and 651

International dimensions of business: global business environment (economic, cultural, legal, political) and international business functions (management, marketing, finance, exporting, importing).

Curricular Practical Training: Co-Operative Experience is a zero-credit full-time practical training experience for one summer and an adjacent fall or spring term. Special rules apply to preserve full-time student status. Please contact an advisor in your program for complete information.

Prerequisites:

Permission of the Chairperson of the department; co-op contract; other prerequisites may also apply.

Topics on current developments in international business, technology, and legislation.

Prerequisites:

IBUS 380 

Managerial approach to marketing decision making in multicultural market situations.

Prerequisites:

MRKT 210, IBUS 380

This course examines cross-cultural differences in business practices. Among the topics covered are the differences in management styles, multiculturalism, international negotiations, as well as international human resource issues, social responsibility and ethics in a global context, international labor relations, cultural synergy and multicultural teams.

International finance functions in a corporation include currency issues, investment, financial markets interacting, raising debt and equity, and export financing.

Prerequisites:

IBUS 380 

Provides knowledge and documentary skills in managing and implementing the export operations of firms engaged in international trade.

Prerequisites:

IBUS 380 

A capstone course for students majoring in international business designed to analyze and integrate the various international business management decisions.

Prerequisites:

IBUS 428, IBUS 448, IBUS 469 (select 2 out of the 3 courses)

Study tours are led by Minnesota State University, Mankato faculty and provide students with opportunities to visit companies and attend lectures by renowned experts from key sectors of economy, government, and business.

Supervised experience in business, industry, state or federal institutions.

Prerequisites:

Consent 

Supervised experience in business, industry, state or federal institutions. Taken for grade only.

Prerequisites:

Consent 

Individual study of special topics.

Prerequisites:

Consent 

S Prerequisite: consent of instructor

F Prerequisite: consent of instructor

Project synthesizing student's three academic areas of concentration, to be arranged in consultation with program director and academic advisor(s) after minimum nine credits earned in each academic area. Project will culminate in presentation to director and advisor(s).

In this course, multilingual students in the Intensive English Program develop their reading comprehension and vocabulary at the beginning level by reading a selective range of shorter academic texts from a variety of genres and by applying a variety of reading and vocabulary-building strategies.

In this course, multilingual students in the Intensive English Program develop their writing skills at the beginning level by writing sentences and short paragraphs in a range of genres and by applying a variety of writing strategies.

In this course, multilingual students in the Intensive English Program develop their listening and speaking skills at the beginning level by listening to a selective range of short academic texts and other types of audio-visual texts, by participating in short academic and social conversations, and by performing brief oral presentations.

In this course, multilingual students in the Intensive English Program develop their grammar skills at the beginning level by understanding how written and spoken grammar at the sentence-level is used in context and how to apply them in written and spoken contexts.

In this course, multilingual students in the Intensive English Program develop in all four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in an integrated manner through a focus on selected interdisciplinary themes and topics. Designed for beginning learners, the course will help students to develop their overall language proficiency.