Concordia
Concordia College is easy to find. We are located in the heart of Moorhead, Minnesota.
Both degree and non-degree seeking students are welcome to take individual graduate program and elective courses from our M Ed and MM programs.
We also offer graduate-level language courses from the Graduate Language Certificate program, on a variety of special topics.
Search our full list of courses below. Courses associated with a master's program are indicated as follows (NOTE that some courses are cross-listed between programs):
Master of Education in World Language Instruction (MEDWL)
Master of Education with a Concentration in Teaching & Learning (MED)
Graduate Language Certificate (GLC)
Master of Music in Music Education (MMME)
Course Cost: All graduate courses are $595 per credit. There is no application fee to apply for individual courses.
Registration: Complete the Graduate Elective Admission Form
You will be asked to upload your undergraduate transcripts indicating your degree has been completed.
Once you submit the form, we will admit you to the college and send your Concordia College credentials, along with information about your course enrollment.
Students will be billed for course(s) through Concordia's Business Office.
| Online Hybrid | January 6-April 29, 2022 |
MED |
4 CR | Instructor: Dr. Rev Hillstrom |
| This course examines social, environmental and ecological justice in educational settings. Powerful inequalities in society shape these injustices in ways that are systemic and structural but also personal. The study of social, environmental and ecological justice and then planning curriculum and teaching accordingly is a core feature of the curriculum. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 | MED |
4 CR | Instructor: Dr. Mona Ibrahim |
| Students will be introduced to the vocabulary, theory, primary principles, methods, and techniques of qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry. Students will read and review a variety of research articles related to specific content area methodologies. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 | MED |
2 CR | Instructor: TBD |
| Course description will vary and the topics of the course are customizable to the needs of the students in the cohort. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 | MED |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
| This course will focus on effective strategies for supporting language learners in various contexts. Multi-language learners have distinct needs as they develop literacy skills and content knowledge. Their alphabetic and phonological awareness impacts their ability to progress in reading and writing in various content areas. In this course, students will investigate and evaluate a variety of approaches for supporting English learners such as trans-languaging, assessment in both the L1 and L2, phonemic awareness and decoding, acquisition of vocabulary, and explicit versus interactive teaching. Ultimately, students will apply the readings, discussions, and conference activities to their own classroom by designing materials to support their own students’ development of skills and content knowledge. | ||||
| In Person |
July 11-29, 2022 On Campus |
MMME |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
| This course will explore the history of American music education and the philosophies that inform current practice. Emphasis is on the relationship between historical / philosophical thought and current music education issues. | ||||
| In Person |
July 11-29, 2022 On Campus |
MMME |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
| This course will explore new directions in the fields of ethno-musicology and musicology as they relate to music education and the contemporary study of music. Topics include music and sustainability, music as social life, community-based music, and the use of early and global music in the music classroom. | ||||
| Online Hybrid |
MMME |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| Examine and perform research in music education: reading data-based research, gaining bibliographical control of a topic, applying basic research materials and procedures, developing an understanding of quantitative (descriptive, behavioral, experimental) and qualitative methodologies in music education, and demonstrating the ability to discriminate between speculation and data-based information. | ||||
| Online Hybrid |
MMME |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course will explore the human response to music including: the psychological, physiological, sociological and cultural effects of music and the other arts; factors that affect practice, performance and learning; artistic preference and abilities; acoustical and psycho-acoustical aspects of the brain related to music; and the ability to discriminate between data-based information and speculation. | ||||
| Online Hybrid |
MMME |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course explores compositional and analytical approaches as they relate to teaching and learning in music. While including a review of fundamental analytical methodology and creative processes in music, the courses contextualizes analysis and creativity within the practice of the K-12 music educator. Topics include songwriting, creating and analyzing multi-part music, strategies of arranging existing material for voices and instruments, and approaches to spontaneous music-making. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | MMME |
4 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course is an introduction to basic research methods employed in the field. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | MMME |
2 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course will explore various technologies useful to music educators. Students will use these software programs to create musical projects and explore ways to incorporate these technologies into their classrooms/teaching. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | MMME |
2 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course will deepen the professional educator’s music literature study, analysis, and critical listening skills. Students will choose which educational levels into which they choose to delve. As a course in educational methodology, topics will include definitions of quality repertoire, how to incorporate repertoire into curriculum design, scope/sequence of a yearly repertoire, pedagogical considerations, student assessment strategies, and educational resources for further study. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | MMME |
2 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course will engage the student in the study of solo and chamber literature through the research, rehearsal and performance of assigned musical selections. The student will broaden their knowledge of performance and pedagogical techniques. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | MMME |
2 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course is designed to provide students with the advanced skills for successfully conducting an ensemble. The materials presented and concepts explored during this course cover advanced physical, scholarly, musical, and psychological aspects of conducting. Most classes will require active participation through conducting and performing together. Students will collectively form an ensemble to serve as the laboratory ensemble for individual conducting experiences in class. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | MMME |
2 CR | Instructor: TBD |
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| This course will explore and investigate special topics in the field of music education. This course will allow for a variety of rotating or changing topics. | ||||
| Online Hybrid |
January 6-April 29, 2022 |
MEDWL |
4 CR | Instructor: Dr. Lisa Twomey |
| Students will develop the ability to teach culture for intercultural communicative competence and the goal of helping their students to gain intercultural citizenship. They will learn how to leverage authentic resources, meaningful tasks, and Web-based instructional materials effectively to help students to become intercultural interlocutors and global citizens. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 |
MEDWL |
4 CR | Instructor: Dr. Mona Ibrahim |
| Students will be introduced to the vocabulary, theory, primary principles, methods, and techniques of qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry. Students will read and review a variety of research articles related to specific content area methodologies. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 | MEDWL |
4 CR | Instructor: Allison Spenader |
| Students will examine the principles and characteristics of content-based instruction in the second language classroom. A continuum of program models ranging from content-driven to language-driven instruction will be discussed along with implications for curriculum and instruction. Students will design a content-based unit of instruction to demonstrate understanding of the methodology. | ||||
| In-Person TBD |
June 6-July 1, 2022 | MEDWL / GLC |
2 CR | Instructor: Amy Tervola-Hultberg |
| Students will be placed in an intensive experience in the Village of the language they teach/speak (ESL/EFL teachers will be placed in the English Language Villages), and they will actively participate in the planning and delivery of programs at the Language Villages in collaboration with staff members and native speakers. Students will also engage in reflective practice about their experiences working with Villagers and staff. | ||||
Courses are available in French, German and Spanish. Choose your target language when you complete the Graduate Elective Admission Form.
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 |
GLC |
2-4 CR | Instructor: |
| Students will examine some of the problematic aspects of advanced target language grammar, focusing on such concepts as indicative times (past tenses), subjunctive tenses (values and uses in simple and complex structures), the values and uses of particular prepositions, and a variety of other concepts. The course will also pay special attention to concepts that are particularly confusing for non-native speakers of the language. However, the course also allows for individual exploration of advanced concepts in order to increase students own knowledge of the language. In order to examine grammar within authentic, meaningful contexts, students will read and view a variety of texts such as short stories, news, and social media, paying close attention to the values and uses of the concepts being studied. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 | GLC |
2-4 CR | Instructor: |
| Students will read and discuss several young adult novels written in the target language. Although there are a number of competing definitions of this genre, this course will mostly focus on literature that is written and published in the target language expressly for young adults between the ages of 14-20 (or older). Students will focus on the way in which aspects of culture are represented and reflected in the various examples of young adult literature we will read in this course. Often young adult literature pushes boundaries, and students will also examine critical questions and topics that arise in the literature within the context of the target culture(s) in which the novel takes place. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 |
GLC |
2 CR | Instructor: |
| Students will explore current critical and social justice topics in the target cultures. As these are dynamic topics that are ever changing, the topics of the course will change to reflect current issues in need of examination in various target language countries and within the diaspora. Some examples might be the exploitation of natural resources and environmental justice, gender and sexuality movements, or women’s rights and access to reproductive healthcare. Students will read, view, discuss, and write about the topics this class will examine, considering action that they and/or their own students could take to address similar topics in their own communities and beyond. | ||||
| Online Hybrid | June 6-July 1, 2022 | GLC |
4 CR | Instructor: |
| Students will view, discuss, and write about various target language films that they could integrate into their own classrooms in order to teach historical, political, and cultural content through film. Students will read about and research the themes present in the films in order to gain a stronger understanding of the content, themselves, allowing them to develop course materials for their own classrooms. The films will lead to an exploration of different genres of film, various historical and political events, and diverse views of society, human relationships, and other aspects of the target culture. | ||||
| Online Hybrid |
Fall 2022 |
GLC |
2 CR | Instructors: French-Gay Rawson German-Jonathan Clark Spanish-Alexander Aldrich |
| This course is designed to engage students in listening, reading, writing, and speaking around the topics of technology, media, and human relations in target cultures around the world. Particular attention will be paid to students in K-16 educational contexts, such as the influence of social media on students, students’ abilities to engage in current events through technology and social media, and the way in which technology and media affects human relationships and communication in target language countries. Students will read, listen to, and view a variety of authentic texts, and they will also engage in text analysis and discussion on these topics. | ||||
| Online Hybrid |
Spring 2023 |
GLC | 2 CR | Instructors: French-Gay Rawson German-Jonathan Clark Spanish-Alexander Aldrich |
| This course will ask students to examine the relationships between products, practices, and perspectives found in 21st century diaspora within particular countries. Depending on the language being studied and the countries most influenced by the diaspora, students may examine Hispanic diaspora, African diaspora, Arab diaspora, etc. Diaspora comes from the Greek word “to scatter about” and refers to a group of people with the same or similar heritage or ethnicity who have moved to new places throughout the world. Students will examine cultural topics through different lenses in order to understand that the relationship between products and perspectives or practices and perspectives can vary within one particular culture. Human experiences such as emigration and immigration also greatly influence perspectives. Students will read, listen to, and view a variety of authentic texts, and they will also engage in an ongoing portfolio project and discussion on these topics. | ||||
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