Category: Classes
Summer course: The Health and Wealth of Native Nations
| May 8, 2013 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
AIS 340 A: Summer 2013 A-term
The Health and Wealth of Native Nations
How might health and wealth be imagined through a different paradigm? What for instance, are the relationships between American Indian and Alaska Native families, peoples, their land and their traditional economies? How is cultural/spiritual, physical/mental, and economic health imagined differently in Indian Country? How have Native peoples perceived their own definitions of family, of community and of health? How and why is a present “healing” of Native individuals and families articulated to a revitalized land and community that extends to include so much more?
All are welcome, including non-students, during summer quarter. Tuition charges apply; the ACCESS program allows Washington residents 60 years or older to attend class as auditing students for a $5 registration fee.
Autumn 2012 Course: Two-Dimensional Art of the Northwest Coast Indians
| August 29, 2012 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
Space is still available in AIS 350: TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS.
Department: American Indian Studies
Instructor: Marvin Oliver
SLN: 10174
VLPA
MT 3:30 – 5:20 pm
Studio course emphasizes principles of structure and style of two-dimensional art which can be found on many old, traditional Northwest Coast pieces, such as painted storage boxes and chests, house panels, and ceremonial screens. Students apply these principles in creating a variety of graphic projects.
Autumn 2012 Course: HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
| August 28, 2012 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
Space is still available in AIS 431: HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION.
Department: American Indian Studies
Instructor: Michael Tulee
SLN: 10175
I&S
TuTh 8:30 – 10:20 am
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive view of Indian Education based on an indigenous perspective. This course will introduce students to Native American education on a national level and in different regions throughout the United States. This course will analyze the history of education of Native Americans, beginning with the traditional/cultural methods of indigenous “Ways of Knowing”, to European education introduction of western views, ending with present day status of Native American students in our education system. We shall also examine federal policies instituted toward Native people that have evolved over the years that have adversely affected Native American education culturally, emotionally, socially and intellectually. Dynamics of education systems will also be explored that have led to the current state of Indian Education. We will discuss the future of Indian Education based on current decisions being made at the federal, state, tribal, and local school district levels throughout the United States that will impact social, cultural, spiritual, language and identity elements of Native students.
The Autumn 2012 time schedule for American Indian Studies can be found here.
Autumn 2012 Course: INDIAN GAMING AND CASINOS
| August 27, 2012 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
Space is still available in AIS 230: INDIAN GAMING AND CASINOS.
Department: American Indian Studies
Instructor: Mary Wright
SLN: 10169
I&S
MW 12:30 – 2:20 pm
Gaming–casinos and bingo–as a Tribal sovereignty practice is the class focus. Pre-contact and historic gambling among the Indigenous peoples of North America begin the class. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (1988), court cases and government regulatory issues are a major concern. Federal recognition of tribes, State-Tribal compacts, tribal membership and other current issues are highlighted. The social, political, and economic impacts of gaming for tribes, their local communities and the U.S. as a whole are explored, as well as the ‘Anti-Indian Casino’ movement. Tribal, government agency and industry representatives will speak to the class.
The Autumn 2012 time schedule for American Indian Studies can be found here.
Autumn 2012 Course: Philosophical and Aesthetic Universes
| August 24, 2012 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
Space is still available in AIS 203: Philosophical and Aesthetic Universes.
Department: American Indian Studies
Instructor: Carol Warrior
SLN: 22028
I&S
MW 11:30- 1:20 pm
This course satisfies one of the introductory course requirements for the American Indian Studies major and minor.
Through readings, discussions, lectures, and group work, we’ll consider Indigenous North American knowledge systems and philosophies with a particular eye toward how these ideas are related to geographic space, social structure, culture, and what the West calls “science.” Native and Western philosophies, or “epistemologies,” serve similar functions: they organize societies and construct those taken-for-granted truths we all operate from, but rarely examine. Yet even as such “truths” create ideas about how the world and universe work, these differences can be a source of conflict between people groups. In this class, we’ll examine how Native knowledge systems are formed and expressed, and what can be the result when conflicting knowledge systems interact with one another.
The Autumn 2012 time schedule for American Indian Studies can be found here.
Autumn 2012 Course: ZOMBIES AND INDIANS
| August 23, 2012 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
Space is still available in AIS 475 C: Zombies and Indians.
Department: American Indian Studies
Instructor: Chad Uran
SLN: 10178
I&S
MW 330 – 520 pm
While zombies have existed at some level of reality for centuries, it was not until the 20th Century that zombies overran the global popular imagination. Because of their origins at the many points of collision between colonizer and colonized, zombies have always walked the uncertain spaces between binary “certainties” such as us and them, rich and poor, slave and master, and, of course, alive and dead. As those spaces of uncertainty have spread through globalization, zombies became increasingly flexible and strategic syntheses across these binaries. Thus, zombies occupy a variety of liminal spaces wherein contemporary social tensions are reflected and refracted. These tensions, however, have historical and ongoing parallels with images and representations of “Indians.”
This course is intended to guide students towards thinking critically through the vehicle of zombies. Zombies reveal societal ambivalence about race, class, gender, ethnicity, political power, agency, and other aspects of social reproduction—in other words, zombies touch upon all of the anxieties commonly associated with colonialism.
We will read a LOT, watch some movies, and hopefully grow to appreciate that in order to make sense of our already infested world, it’s not enough to shoot zombies in the head; we have to be able to get inside their heads as well.
Warning: this course will contain content that students may (or even should) find offensive or disturbing, including graphic language, sexual situations, religious intolerance, gore, colonialism, violence, depictions of death and dying, cannibalism, nudity, racism, sexism, classism, weightism, homophobia, and sexualized violence.
The Autumn 2012 time schedule for American Indian Studies can be found here.
Call for Course Proposals from the Department of American Indian Studies
| November 2, 2011 | Posted by elissa under Classes |
The Department of American Indian Studies seeks class proposals for Winter 2012 through Spring 2013.
A list of AIS classes is available at:
http://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/ais.html
We are especially interested in receiving proposals to teach the following classes:
AIS 110: Musical Traditions of Native North America
AIS 201: Introduction to American Indian Histories
AIS 203: Introduction: Philosophical and Aesthetic Universes
However, we would like to receive proposals for various courses from instructors with a wide variety of backgrounds. Ideal candidates will have teaching experience and familiarity with tribal communities. MA/PhD preferred.
Please send a one-page course description and CV to Tom Colonnese, AIS Chair, at buffalo@uw.edu.
American Indian Studies is seeking proposals for adjunct teaching. We have not received funding for an additional, full-time position. We will only be able to add additional classes to the extent that we receive and continue to receive funding for adjunct teaching. We are very eager to reach out and expand our pool of eligible instructors.