Native American Studies

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NATAMST R1A Native American Studies Reading and Composition 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2018
This course introduces students to the genres of Native American literature (written and oral traditions), provides historical and cultural frameworks for understanding, appreciating, and interpreting Native American writings, and develops basic skills in expository and creative writing. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of UC Entry Level Writing Requirement

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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NATAMST R1B Native American Studies Reading and Composition 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Course examines Native American written and oral traditions in historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis on literary interpretation and creative and analytical writing, so that students increasingly write from positions of strength. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better.<BR/>Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better.<BR/>Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition.<BR/>Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition.<BR/>Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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NATAMST 20A Introduction to Native American Studies 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This course explores the interactions, from friendship treaties and land deals to contemporary American governmental policies, between America's original inhabitants with Europeans and Euro-Americans. Emphasis will be placed on how tribal peoples continue to react to the national myths and policies created by Europeans and Euro-Americans.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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NATAMST 20B Introduction to Native American Studies II: Cultural Practice, Art, and Identity 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course explores Native American identify practices in written and oral traditions in literature, art, dance, theatre, ceremony, and song. The place of these traditions in the contemporary day will be emphasized as creative struggles for maintaining and elaborating on Indian identity in the context of colonialism.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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NATAMST 39A Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 1.5 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2013
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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NATAMST C70 Working with Grammar: Linguistic Tools for Learning and Teaching a Native American Language 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This course is for people who want to learn a Native American language, understood to include any of the hundreds of indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. Since most of these languages are not taught in the usual formal educational settings, a major emphasis of the course is helping students develop strategies for self-directed language learning and effective teaching methods to help others learn as well. The course will also provide a basic introduction to principles of linguistic analysis that will make materials developed by specialists more accessible and useful to learners.

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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Instructor: Line Mikkelsen

Also listed as: LINGUIS C70

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NATAMST 71 Native Americans in North America to 1900 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
An ethnohistorical analysis of America's original inhabitants and their interactions with Europeans and Euro-Americans emphasizing an Indian perspective.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 71A and 71B

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NATAMST 72 Native Americans in North America 1900-Present 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016
A survey and analysis of issues affecting Native Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries. Course will explore political, economic, and social/cultural developments as they shape federal-Indian relations and tribal sovereignty.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 50 and 71B

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NATAMST C73AC Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2013, Spring 2009
This course examines the history of indigenous, aboriginal, native, or "tribal" peoples over the last five centuries. Particular attention is paid to how these groups were brought into relations with an expanding Europe, capitalist development, and modern nation-states. How have these peoples survived, what are the contemporary challenges they face, and what resources and allies have they drawn on in the present?
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Biolsi

Also listed as: ETH STD C73AC

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NATAMST 90 Freshman Seminar--Myth, Memory and History 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
The course will introduce students to different ways of understanding the history of American Indians and to basic resources and research methods for studying the history of Indian tribes.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Limited to Freshmen

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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NATAMST 97 Field Work in Native American Communities 1 - 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Individual conferences to be arranged. Supervised experiences relevant to specific aspects of the Native American community in off-campus settings. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and lower division standing

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-9 hours of fieldwork per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-22.5 hours of fieldwork per week
10 weeks - 4.5-13.5 hours of fieldwork per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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NATAMST 98 Supervised Group Study and Research 1 - 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Supervised research by lower division students.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Limited to freshmen and sophomores

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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NATAMST 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Individual conferences to be arranged. The individual student, with consent and guidance of an instructor, researches an interest not covered in the courses offered in the Program.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Lower division standing and consent of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 1-3 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-3 hours of independent study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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NATAMST 100 Native American Law 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Historical background of the unique relationship between the United States government and Native American tribes, and examination of contemporary legislation, court cases, and federal, state, and local policies affecting Native American social, political, legal, and economic situations.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 71, 72, or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Native American Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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NATAMST 101 Native American Tribal Governments 4 Units [+]Expand course description

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