printer friendly pageNATIVEAM 16: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America (ANTHRO 16, ANTHRO 116C, ARCHLGY 16)
What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Wilcox, M. (PI)
NATIVEAM 121: Discourse of the Colonized: Native American and Indigenous Voices (CSRE 121)
Using the assigned texts covering the protest movements in the 20th century to the texts written from the perspective of the colonized at the end of the 20th century, students will engage in discussions on decolonization. Students will be encouraged to critically explore issues of interest through two short papers and a 15-20 minute presentation on the topic of interest relating to decolonization for Native Americans in one longer paper. Approaching research from an Indigenous perspective will be encouraged throughout.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Red Shirt, D. (PI)
NATIVEAM 134: Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present (AMSTUD 134, ARCHLGY 134, ARCHLGY 234, ARTHIST 284B, CSRE 134, EDUC 214)
Students will open the "black box" of museums to consider the past and present roles of institutional collections, culminating in a student-curated exhibition. Today, museums assert their relevance as dynamic spaces for debate and learning. Colonialism and restitution, the politics of representation, human/object relationships, and changing frameworks of authority make museum work widely significant and consistently challenging. Through thinking-in-practice, this course reflexively explores "museum cultures": representations of self and other within museums and institutional cultures of the museum world itself.n3 credits (no final project) or 5 credits (final project). May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
NATIVEAM 161: Entrepreneurship for Social and Racial Equity (CSRE 161P)
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to business ownership with a focus on owning and operating businesses within diverse communities with an aim to create social impact for future generations as well as profitability and sustainability models. The course will introduce the beginning elements of creating a business (formation, product, business plan) as well as the additional overlay of social impact and cultural considerations. Types of financing as well as effective pitching will also be covered. Course materials will include instructor presentations, case studies, homework assignments, outside hours at campus ¿labs¿, creation of students¿ own business concept plan and guest lectures from successful entrepreneurs working within Silicon Valley and diverse communities. Resources (financing sources, accelerators and incubators), case studies, role models and guest lecturers will be an integral part of this course which can lead to internship opportunities (the latter via application).
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
NATIVEAM 200R: Directed Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 1-5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
NATIVEAM 200W: Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 1-5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Anderson, J. (PI)
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Biestman, K. (PI)
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Jessiman, S. (PI)
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Instructors:
Anderson, J. (PI)
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Biestman, K. (PI)
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Jessiman, S. (PI)
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LaFromboise, T. (PI)
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Pickel, L. (PI)
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Red Shirt, D. (PI)
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Scully, A. (PI)
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Snipp, C. (PI)
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Wilcox, M. (PI)
NATIVEAM 211: The California Missions: Art History and Reconciliation (ARTHIST 211, CSRE 111)
Sites of the spirit and devotion, sites of genocide, foreboding actors in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, the subject of fourth-grade school projects, the Spanish Missions of Alta California are complex sites of inquiry, their meanings and associations different for each visitor. This seminar examines the art and architecture of the California Missions built between 1769 and 1823. Constructed with local materials and decorated with reredos, paintings and sculptures from Mexico and Spain, the Missions are at once humble spaces and flagships of a belated global baroque. They were also the laboratories of indigenous artists and artisans. This course seeks to understand how Mission art was meant to function, how and why it was made, what its materials were, while asking what the larger role of art was in a global system of missions. Can the study of this art lead to the reconciliation of populations in North America and within the field of art history? The Missions require a specific reexamination of the relationship between European and colonial forms, not as objects of curiosity or diffusion but as viable and globally informed agents.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Kinew, S. (PI)
NATIVEAM 240: Psychology and American Indian Mental Health (EDUC 340)
Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance. Topics include: historical trauma; spirituality and healing; cultural identity; values and acculturation; and individual, school, and community-based interventions. Prerequisite: experience working with American Indian communities.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
LaFromboise, T. (PI)
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