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Topography, Environment, Society 
School of Liberal Arts 
  • System Type: Baccalaureate 
  • Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
  • Obliged credits to graduate with this degree: 120 
  • Required credits inside of the major: 32 to 39 
  • Degree: Bachelor of Arts 


The Geography major spotlights on the coordinated investigation of our globalizing world, as made by human and non-human powers alike. The real grasps and orchestrates approaches broadly utilized as a part of the humanities and social, biophysical, and data sciences. It is exceptionally ready to study mixes of social, political, financial, and biological procedures - particularly the part of space, spot, and geographic systems in forming these procedures and their cooperations. Topography endeavors to decipher these wonders, as well as, in numerous examples, how they are seen and what implications they hold. Such an integrative point of view on worldwide, provincial, and neighborhood change gives understudies a solitary comprehension of today's perplexing world. Geographers prize the world's differing qualities and offer understanding into a large portion of the most squeezing difficulties of the day, from environmental change and social-natural equity, to the uneven impacts of globalization and urban change, to the apt and dependable utilization of geographic data. 

Contingent upon their particular intrigues, geographers will utilize one or to a greater extent an assortment of exploration procedures, including field perception, legitimate and archival examination, member perception, meeting, printed investigation, ethnography, mapping, and spatial insights and displaying. Numerous geographers are keen on the crossing points of science, innovation, and data, for example, the effect of geographic data science on choice making. 

There are an assortment of chances for graduates who have degrees in Geography. Elected, provincial and nearby legislative offices look for geographers for city and territorial arranging, park administration, law implementation, and transportation division positions. Private industry counseling, ecological and promoting firms, the non-benefit part, and nearby, national and transnational non-administrative associations additionally look for geographic aptitudes. Numerous Geography undergrad majors acquire professions in training and numerous go ahead to master's level college. 

Both the B.S. what's more, the B.A. offer a strong establishment in the hypotheses and routine of topography. The B.S. offers a more prominent accentuation on quantitative examination while the B.A. concentrates more on subjective investigation, yet understudies can tailor their projects to address their issues and objectives.




CSENG Civil, Envrn and Geo-Eng (CEGE) 
School of Science and Engineering 
  • Project Type: Baccalaureate 
  • Prerequisites for this system are present for Spring 2016 
  • Obliged credits to graduate with this degree: 125 
  • Required credits inside of the major: 64 
  • Degree: Bachelor of Civil Engineering 


Structural building manages the science and craft of building connected to tackling issues and planning frameworks identified with base and the earth. Main fields inside structural designing are auxiliary building, ecological designing, water assets designing, transportation building, and geotechnical building. The upper division structural designing system obliges understudies to take early on courses in the greater part of the above regions. Also, understudies may accentuate a unique enthusiasm for one of the zones by selecting proper specialized electives in conference with their consultant. 

Program Delivery 

This project is accessible: 

by means of classroom (the larger part of guideline is up close and personal) 

Affirmation Requirements 

Understudies must finish 10 courses before admission to the project. 

Rookie and students from another school are normally admitted to pre-significant status before admission to this major. 

It is suggested that understudies take GEO 1001 and CE 1101, however these courses are not required to be admitted to the system. 

For data about University of Minnesota confirmation prerequisites, visit the Office of Admissions site.




Outline, Housing and Apparel 
School of Design 
Connection to a rundown of workforce for this system. 
Contact Information 
Executive of Graduate Studies, Design Graduate Program, 240 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108 (612-626-1219) 
Email: dhagrad@umn.edu 
Site: http://dha.design.umn.edu/programs/graduate 
  • Project Type: Master's 
  • Prerequisites for this system are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of project in credits: 34 
  • This project does not require summer semesters for convenient finishing. 
  • Degree: Master of Arts 


Alongside the system particular necessities recorded beneath, please read the General Information area of this site for prerequisites that apply to every single significant field. 

The outline graduate project concentrates on the investigation of connections in the middle of people and their composed surroundings. This attention depends on the supposition that plan and investigation of situations adds to the change of the human condition. The project addresses hypothesis, examination, and application, utilizing a mutual disciplinary base from human expressions and social and behavioral sciences. The objective of the project is for understudies to investigate, assess, and coordinate hypothetical structures identified with people and their composed surroundings. 

Applications submitted to the outline graduate project determine a track and degree objective. Formal tracks are: 

- Apparel studies (counting dress, history, and society; item improvement; and retail             promoting and purchaser examines) 
- Graphic configuration (counting intelligent outline) 
- Housing studies 
- Interior outline (counting confirmation based configuration) just




School of Science and Engineering 
Connection to a rundown of workforce for this project. 
Contact Information 
Division of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, 4-192 Keller Hall, 200 Union Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-4002; fax: 612-625-0572) 
Email: confirmations @cs.umn.edu 
Site: http://www.cs.umn.edu 
  • System Type: Doctorate 
  • Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of system in credits: 55 
  • This system does not require summer semesters for auspicious culmination. 
  • Degree: Doctor of Philosophy 


Alongside the system particular prerequisites recorded underneath, please read the General Information area of this site for necessities that apply to every single significant field. 

The graduate project in software engineering offers coursework from over a wide range of hypothetical and connected software engineering, joined with examination opportunities in about all territories of the field. Employees prompt understudies in such regions as calculations and hypothetical software engineering; numerical, parallel, and elite registering; appropriated figuring and frameworks; counterfeit consciousness, apply autonomy, and PC vision; databases and information mining; human-PC cooperation and data frameworks; representation and perception; programming designing and programming dialects; PC structural planning and compilers; organizing; bio-informatics and computational biology;machine learning; and PC security. Moreover, understudies may pick a course of study that incorporates research in software engineering with applications in different fields. 

Software engineering degrees incorporate the Ph.D., and additionally the M.C.S. (a terminal, coursework-just degree), and the M.S. (offered Plan A with proposition, Plan B with task, or coursework-just Plan C with coursework-based undertakings). The division additionally bolsters an expert of science in programming building (M.S.S.E.) degree. 

Staff from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering likewise partake in an assortment of other graduate projects, including BioInformatics and Computational Biology, Health Informatics, Cognitive Science, Scientific Computation and Human Factors and Ergonomics.




Correspondence Studies 
School of Liberal Arts 
Connection to a rundown of staff for this project. 
Contact Information 
Bureau of Communication Studies, 225 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-5800; fax: 612-624-6544). 
Site: http://www.comm.umn.edu 
  • System Type: Doctorate 
  • Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of system in credits: 66 
  • This system does not require summer semesters for auspicious consummation. 
  • Degree: Doctor of Philosophy 


Alongside the system particular necessities recorded beneath, please read the General Information segment of this site for prerequisites that apply to every real field. 

Correspondence studies concentrates on the investigation of open measurements of human experience utilizing humanistic and social experimental strategies. This project gets ready understudies to end up scientists and educators, offering three fixations: interpersonal correspondence, explanatory studies, and basic media concentrates on. Coursework in talk and open talk studies stresses humanistic routines and incorporates argumentation and influence, morals, explanatory hypothesis and feedback, and political talk. Understudies might likewise seek after uncommon hobbies in explanatory theories, developments and crusades, or pop culture and basic hypothesis. The system ought to be supplemented by coursework outside the division. A comprehension of history, political science, human science, or social studies is suggested. Coursework in interpersonal correspondence has a social experimental introduction. Most understudies spotlight on a subarea, for example, little gathering, intercultural, interpersonal correspondence, or issues (e.g., choice making, strife determination). Coursework outside the office is generally moved in one or a greater amount of the behavioral sciences. Understudies are relied upon to add to a summon of exploration strategies and an exhaustive information of measurements. Coursework in basic media studies stresses subjective, chronicled, basic, and exact techniques and incorporates TV considers, women's activist media studies, ethnic and racial minorities in media, basic media proficiency, political economy of media, pop culture, natural correspondence, and music. Coursework outside the office is normally in the fields of American studies, political science, social studies, mass correspondence, or ladies' studies.




Organization of Child Development 
School of Education and Human Development 
Connection to a rundown of staff for this system. 
Contact Information 
Organization of Child Development, 154 Child Development Building, 51 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-0526; fax: 612-624-6373). 
Email: icdapply@umn.edu 
Site: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/icd 
  • System Type: Doctorate 
  • Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of system in credits: 68 
  • This system does not require summer semesters for auspicious finish. 
  • Degree: Doctor of Philosophy 

Alongside the system particular prerequisites recorded beneath, please read the General Information segment of this site for necessities that apply to every single real field. 

The Ph.D. in youngster brain science concentrates essentially on preparing for examination in typical human improvement, and most understudies take positions in scholarly or exploration settings. The objective of the system is to prepare all understudies for professions in examination and school educating in youngster brain research, and to plan understudies in the communitarian program choices for vocations in connected territories of tyke brain research, also. General system understudies may spend significant time in a range, for example, psychological neuroscience, dialect, learning, identity, memory, discernment, psychobiology, or social advancement. Understudies intrigued by clinical examination may have some expertise in formative psychopathology and clinical science through interest in the formative psychopathology and clinical science (DPCS) preparing project. DPCS preparing is a helpful exertion between the Institute of Child Development and the Department of Psychology to educate pioneers in examination and instructing. DPCS preparing draws on the one of a kind qualities of every project.





Science 
School of Science and Engineering 
Connection to a rundown of workforce for this project. 
Contact Information 
Right hand to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 137 Smith Hall, 207 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-7444 or 1-800-777-2431; fax: 612-626-7541) 
Email: chmapply@umn.edu 
Site: http://www.chem.umn.edu 
  • Project Type: Doctorate 
  • Prerequisites for this system are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of project in credits: 48 
  • This project does not require summer semesters for opportune fulfillment. 
  • Degree: Doctor of Philosophy 


Alongside the system particular necessities recorded beneath, please read the General Information area of this site for prerequisites that apply to every significant field. 

While cutting edge research in science is exceptionally interdisciplinary, graduate work in the Department of Chemistry falls extensively into the center ranges of explanatory science, concoction science, natural science, inorganic science, materials science, natural science, polymer science, trial physical science, and computational science.



School of Science and Engineering 
Connection to a rundown of workforce for this project. 
Contact Information 
Substance Physics Program, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 137 Smith Hall, 207 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-7444; fax: 612-626-7541) 
Email: chmapply@umn.edu 
Site: http://www.chem.umn.edu/chemphys 
  • System Type: Master's 
  • Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of system in credits: 30 
  • This system requires summer semesters for convenient finishing. 
  • Degree: Master of Science 


Alongside the system particular necessities recorded beneath, please read the General Information area of this site for prerequisites that apply to every single real field. 

Compound material science concentrates on zones where the methods of science and physical science are united for the investigation of iotas and particles; their associations in gasses, fluids, and solids; and the nitty gritty structure and elements of material changes. Ranges of examination and specialization incorporate spectroscopy, optical properties, laser applications, sub-atomic impacts, substance flow, quantum mechanics, computational science, measurable mechanics, thermodynamics, low-temperature conduct, polymers and macromolecules, surface science, natural chemistry, and biochemical and heterogeneous catalysis.



CCE Graduate Programs Instruction 
School of Continuing Education 
Connection to a rundown of staff for this project. 
Contact Information 
School of Continuing Education, Master of Biological Science Program, 20 Ruttan Hall, 1994 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108 (612-624-4000; fax: 612-626-2800) 
Email: ccembs@umn.edu 
Site: http://www.cce.umn.edu/Master-of-Biological-Sciences/index.html 

  • System Type: Master's 
  • Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
  • Length of system in credits: 30 
  • This system does not require summer semesters for opportune consummation. 
  • Degree: Master of Biological Sciences 


Alongside the system particular prerequisites recorded beneath, please read the General Information area of this site for necessities that apply to every single significant field. 

The Master of Biological Sciences (MBS) degree is an exceptionally adaptable graduate-level system intended to address the issues of individuals from the working group who wish to build their insight in territories of cutting edge science. Understudies center their studies in one of three expansive regions: Molecular Biosciences, Cellular and Organismal Biology, or Environmental and Population Biology. Constrained elective credits in regions, for example, Education, Business, and Public Health can be utilized to bolster an understudy's individual vocation objectives and project center. The degree empowers beneficiaries to learn new occupation aptitudes, change proficient accentuation, or give increased the value of their present employment and may be finished on low maintenance premise.




Craftsmanship History 
School of Liberal Arts 
Connection to a rundown of workforce for this project. 
Contact Information 
Division of Art History, 338 Heller Hall, 271 nineteenth Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-4500; fax: 612-626-8679) 
Email: arthist@umn.edu 
Site: http://www.arthist.umn.edu 

System Type: Doctorate 
Necessities for this project are present for Spring 2016 
Length of system in credits: 54 
This system does not require summer semesters for auspicious culmination. 

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy 

Alongside the system particular prerequisites recorded underneath, please read the General Information segment of this site for necessities that apply to every real field. 

Note: The craftsmanship history system does not concede understudies straightforwardly to the Ph.D. All craftsmanship history graduate understudies start in the M.A. program and are relied upon to proceed toward the Ph.D. Regions of specialization in the craftsmanship history project include: American workmanship and material society; early advanced and Baroque workmanship; workmanship and paleontology of old Iran, Hellenistic Asia, and the late Roman realm; present day and contemporary workmanship and hypothesis, including film and photography contemplates and also nineteenth through 21st century workmanship; pre-Columbian and pioneer specialty of the Americas, South Asian craftsmanship and structural engineering, East Asian workmanship and archaic exploration. The PhD is the second phase of the connected MA/PhD graduate system in Art History. All understudies, whether they have an expert's from a past organization or not, matter to and pick up affirmation through the expert's project. 

Program Delivery 
  • This system is accessible: 
  • through classroom (the larger part of guideline is eye to eye)
Carleton College

Carleton College (Northfield, MN)



Established in 1866, Carleton College is a little, private human sciences school in the noteworthy waterway town of Northfield, Minnesota. Best known for its scholastic fabulousness and warm, inviting grounds group, Carleton offers 37 majors and 15 fixations in expressions of the human experience, humanities, normal sciences, and sociologies. 

Carleton at a Glance 

Area: Northfield, Minnesota, populace 20,000 

Closest urban areas: Minneapolis and St. Paul (40 miles) 

Enlistment: 2,023 understudies (fall 2013) 

Demographics: 47% men, 53% ladies; 90% live on grounds 

Timetable: Trimester (Three ten-week terms) 

Regions of Study: 37 majors, 15 focuses 

Degree granted: Bachelor of Arts 

Understudy/staff proportion: 9:1 

Normal class size: 18 (64% of classes have less than 20 understudies) 

Grounds: 1,040 sections of land including a 880-section of land arboretum 

Religious connection: None 

Certify by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools subsequent to 1913 

A genuine aesthetic sciences instruction 

Carleton College is focused on giving a genuine aesthetic sciences instruction, an educational programs that difficulties our understudies to learn extensively and think profoundly. Rather than preparing for one tight profession way, Carleton understudies build up the information and aptitudes to succeed in any stroll of life. 

"Classes here are not about essentially remembering data," says Anna H. Newman '11. "They speak the truth driving you to a more profound comprehension of the material." 

The most essential thing our understudies learn is the means by which to learn for a lifetime. Basic considering, critical thinking, innovativeness, viable correspondence: these are the instruments that change a gathering of raw numbers into a method for comprehension the world. Take in more about scholarly life at Carleton. 

Staff energetic about educating 

Carleton's employees are profoundly regarded researchers, analysts, and specialists in their fields. However, most importantly, their first need is instructing. Each course at Carleton is taught by a teacher, not a showing partner, in classes sufficiently little to offer individual consideration for our understudies. An understudy workforce proportion of 9 to 1 guarantees that Carleton understudies have a lot of chance for cooperation with their teachers. 

"The lion's share of our teachers truly need to become more acquainted with you," says understudy Jinai Bharucha '11, "and I have yet to meet an educator that does not empower class talk." 

Understudies enthusiastic about everything 

Carleton's understudy body is famously hard to arrange, yet in the event that we needed to pick only single word to portray them, it would be interested. They're a mentally voracious gathering that methodologies learning with eagerness, vitality, and an extraordinarily Carleton brand of liveliness. Expansive extending hobbies are normal, and kinships appear to cross every single customary boundarie. 

"The understudy body here at Carleton is shockingly differing," says Caitlin Unumb '11. "You can have any hobby, any ability, any foundation and still fit in well at this school. The main genuine speculation I can make about the understudies here is that almost everybody I meet is neighborly." 

"The Carleton understudy body has a touch of each sort of individual," concurs Steve Merry '10, "with the ongoing idea of a readiness to hear new thoughts with a receptive outlook." 

An affectionate group 

At the point when individuals visit Carleton, they're regularly astonished by the glow and closeness of the grounds group. By one means or another they expect a main human sciences school to feel more impressive and aggressive. 

In any case, as our understudies and graduated class will let you know, there's simply something other than what's expected about Carleton. Perhaps it's our little size (2,000 understudies). On the other hand possibly it's the round-the-clock vicinity of such a large number of inventive personalities (most understudies live and associate on grounds). Whatever the reason, Carleton is a spot where understudies are likelier to participate than contend - and where buckling down doesn't mean overlooking how to play. Take in more about Carleton grounds life.

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University of Minnesota

History and Traditions 

Built up in 1851 in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul). 
Minnesota's leader, area gift college 
Somewhere around 1947 and 2006, four extra grounds joined the U of M: in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester. 
Hues: maroon and gold 
Twin Cities mascot: Goldy Gopher 
Handle: Golden Gophers

Initiative and Faculty 

Leading body of Regents 
President Eric W. Kaler 
Executive Karen Hanson 
Senior Leadership Chart (PDF) 
We're positioned by Forbes as one of the 10 best instructive bosses in the country. 
Our 4,000 personnel incorporate individuals from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, in addition to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among different bodies. 
Present and previous personnel have won Guggenheim Fellowships, MacArthur Fellowships ("virtuoso awards"), Nobel Prizes, and other noteworthy respects.

Understudies and Alumni 

32,300 college understudies study on the Twin Cities grounds 
16,700 graduate and expert understudies 
6,100 worldwide understudies, from 142 nations 
2,500 understudies study abroad—third most among U.S. colleges 
We rank among the main 10 broadly in number of graduate Fulbright Scholars 
400,000 graduated class 
Well known graduated class incorporate Norman Borlaug (Nobel Peace Prize-winning agronomist), previous Vice President Walter Mondale, humorist Garrison Keillor, and Super Bowl title mentor Tony Dungy. 
Our graduated class have begun 10,000 organizations, utilizing 500,000 and creating income of $100 billion. 
All above information is present as of December 201
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