MAS160A1

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This course is an overview of historic and contemporary ways that American Indians approach healing, illness and wellbeing. In traditional Native American healing, wellness and illness and result from conditions created by equilibrium/imbalance among individuals, kin, social order and the natural world. We will examine some shared values regarding health and illness (such as illness expressing an imbalance) as well as tribal specific methods of healing and American Indian traditional medicine. American Indian medicine will also be contextualized by social and historical processes that have impacted American Indian wellbeing.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

GE - GEDE (Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis), GE - T1-TRAD (Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures)

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