AIS504A

037845

This class is the introduction for all M.A. and Ph.D. students in American Indian Studies and is intended to present the main ideas and theories that are important for all graduates of the program and interested others to know and understand as being the core concepts of American Indian communities.
Self governance/sovereignty
Land and sustainability
Native epistemologies and philosophies
Story
Identity
While these five main themes are listed separately, in fact they are all interconnected and are broadly constructed with each theme embracing multiple categories of knowledge and information. These themes are present in all of the five focus areas offered in AIS: American Indian Education; American Indian Law and Policy; Literature; Natural Resource Management; and Societies and Cultures. Texts are chosen to represent these themes with most of the texts demonstrating at least two of the core values as well as presenting these values from a diversity of American Indian cultures. Students will read and discuss the texts and complete assignments on these themes.

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

Graduate