Graduate Courses of Instruction
Courses in Great Plains Studies comprising the interdisciplinary component
of the student's program of study are listed below by department. Course
descriptions and prerequisites are contained in the appropriate departmental
listings. With approval of the Supervisory Committee, a student may take
courses cross-listed with an outside department to meet program requirements.
| Great Plains Studies | |
| 800 | Seminar in Great Plains Studies |
| 895 | Internship in Great Plains Studies |
| Agricultural Economics | |
| AECN 832 | Economics of Agricultural Production |
| AECN 856 | Environmental Law |
| AECN 857 | Water Law |
| AECN 865 | Resource & Environmental Economics II |
| AECN 868 | Advanced Resource & Environmental Economics |
| Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication | |
| ALEC 801 | Theoretical Foundations of Leadership |
| ALEC 810 | Environmental Leadership: A Historical and Ethical Perspective |
| ALEC 833 | Planning and Implementation of Cooperative Extension Programs for Domestic and Foreign Audiences |
| ALEC 901 | Leading Change in Rural America and Beyond |
| Agronomy and Horticulture | |
| AGRO 808 | Microclimate: The Biological Environment (GEOG/NRES 808) |
| AGRO 835 | Agroecology (NRES 835) |
| AGRO 840 | Great Plains Ecosystems |
| AGRO 842 | Wildland Plants |
| AGRO 844 | Vegetation Analysis |
| AGRO 845 | Livestock Management on Range and Pasture |
| AGRO 850 | Climate and Society (GEOG/METR 850, NRES 852) |
| AGRO 875 | Water Quality Strategy (CRPL 875, NRES 875) |
| AGRO 877 | Great Plains Field Pedology (GEOG 867, NRES 877) |
| AGRO 881 | Water Resources Seminar (GEOG 881, NRES 815) |
| HORT 909 | Crop Responses to the Environment (AGRO/NRES 909) |
| Anthropology and Geography | |
| ANTH 816 | Topics in Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 819 | Art & Anthropology of Native North America |
| ANTH 833 | North American Archaeology |
| ANTH 834 | An Introduction to Plains Archaeology |
| ANTH 851 | Indians of Contemporary North America |
| ANTH 854 | Traveling Ethnographic Field School |
| ANTH 876 | Human Rights, Environment, and Development |
| ANTH 880 | Advanced Fieldwork |
| ANTH 883 | Advanced Field Methods |
| ANTH 896 | Special Readings in Anthropology |
| ANTH 898 | Advanced Current Topics in Anthropology |
| ANTH 953 | Seminar in Anthropology and Geography (GEOG 933) |
| GEOG 850 | Climate and Society (AGRO/METR 850, NRES 852) |
| GEOG 877 | Great Plains Field Pedology (AGRO/NRES 877) |
| GEOG 881 | Water Resources Seminar (AGRO 881, NRES/GEOL 815) |
| GEOG 933 | Seminar in Geography and Anthropology (ANTH 953) |
| GEOG 935 | Seminar in Historical Geography: Great Plains |
| Architecture | |
| IDES 860 | Preservation and Conservation of Historic Interiors |
| ARCH 848 | Architecture of the Great Plains |
| ARCH 860 | Environmental Survey and Analysis (CRPL 872) |
| ARCH 863 | Architectural Preservation |
| Art and Art History | |
| AHIS 898 | Special Topics: American Art & Regionalism; Great Plains |
| Biological Sciences | |
| BIOS 855 | Great Plains Flora |
| BIOS 859 | Limnology (NRES 859) |
| BIOS 864 | Fisheries Biology (NRES 864) |
| BIOS 870 | Prairie Ecology |
| BIOS 882 | Field Entomology |
| BIOS 887 | Field Parasitology |
| BIOS 888 | Natural History of the Invertebrates |
| BIOS 891 | Ichthyology (NRES 889) |
| BIOS 894 | Ornithology |
| Communication Studies | |
| COMM 830 | Political Communication |
| COMM 950B | Seminar in Intercultural Communication |
| COMM 985 | Cultural Criticism |
| Community and Regional Planning | |
| CRPL 800 | Introduction to Planning |
| CRPL 804 | Legal Aspects of Planning |
| CRPL 860 | Planning and Design in the Built Environment |
| CRPL 870 | Environmental Planning & Policy |
| CRPL 872 | Environmental Survey & Analysis (ARCH 860) |
| CRPL 875 | Water Quality Strategy (AGRO/GEOL/NRES 875) |
| CRPL 877 | Recreation & Park Planning |
| CRPL 880 | Economic Development Planning |
| CRPL 895H | Selected Topics: Housing: Issue & Innovations |
| CRPL 895Q | Selected Topics: Historic Preservation Planning |
| CRPL 895T | Selected Topics: Issues in Community Transit Planning |
| CRPL 896 | Special Problems: Rural & Small Town Planning |
| Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education | |
| CURR 925E | Seminar in the Curriculum and Teaching of Social Studies: Great Plains |
| Department of Economics | |
| ECON 840 | Regional Development |
| ECON 842 | Regional Analysis |
| ECON 857 | US Economic History: 19th Century |
| ECON 858 | US Economic History: 20th Century |
| ECON 871 | Public Finance |
| ECON 872 | Efficiency in Government |
| English | |
| ENGL 805K | Canadian Fiction |
| ENGL 811B | Plains Literature |
| ENGL 845K | Ethnic Literature: Native American Literature |
| ENGL 911 | Seminars in Great Plains Literature |
| ENGL 933B | Seminar in American Authors since 1900: Willa Cather |
| Geosciences | |
| GEOL 815 | Water Resources Seminar (AGRO/GEOG 881, NRES 815) |
| GEOL 823 | Quaternary Ecology and Climate |
| GEOL 850 | Surficial Processes and Landscape Evolution |
| GEOL 875 | Water Quality Strategy (AGRO/CRPL/NRES 875) |
| GEOL 881 | Environmental and Urban Geology |
| GEOL 888 | Groundwater Geology (NRES 888) |
| GEOL 889 | Hydrogeology (NRES 887) |
| GEOL 929 | Mesozoic and Cenozoic Stratigraphy |
| GEOL 934 | Site Analysis in Vertebrate Paleontology |
| GEOL 935 | Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleoecology |
| GEOL 953 | Glacial Geology |
| METR 850 | Climate and Society (AGRO/GEOG 850, NRES 852) |
| History | |
| HIST 852 | American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century |
| HIST 864 | Native American History: Selected Topics |
| HIST 865 | History of Plains Indians |
| HIST 889L | Directed Readings: History of the Great Plains |
| HIST 889J | Directed Readings: The History and Culture of the American Indian |
| Natural Resource Sciences | |
| NRES 808 | Microclimate: The Biological Environment (AGRO/GEOG 808) |
| NRES 815 | Water Resources Seminar (AGRO/GEOG 881, GEOL 815) |
| NRES 823 | Integrated Resource Management |
| NRES 835 | Agroecology (AGRO 835) |
| NRES 850 | Biology of Wildlife Populations |
| NRES 852 | Climate and Society (AGRO/GEOG/METR 850) |
| NRES 859 | Limnology (BIOS 859) |
| NRES 864 | Fisheries Biology (BIOS 892) |
| NRES 868 | Wetlands |
| NRES 875 | Water Quality Strategy (AGRO/CRPL/GEOL 875) |
| NRES 877 | Great Plains Field Pedology (AGRO/GEOG 877) |
| NRES 887 | Hydrogeology (GEOL 889) |
| NRES 888 | Groundwater Geology (GEOL 888) |
| NRES 889 | Ichthyology |
| Textiles, Clothing and Design | |
| TXCD 978 | Seminar in Textile History |
