AIS 431 Topics in Indigenous Education (5 credits) Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of topics surrounding Indigenous education, stemming from the original intentions of schooling in relation to Indigenous/ American Indian/ First Nation students to the current reform efforts to Indigenize the curriculum within public schools both nationally and globally. The course will cover theoretical, and culturally sustaining revitalizing pedagogies, and anticolonial/ decolonial praxis to situate Indigenous education. Using a critical lens provided from the course readings and materials uncovers coloniality that permeates in cultural, social, economic, and political domains within the public school systems that are not designed for minoritized students. To address these issues in public school systems, developed Indigenous education curricula in current school systems serve as the bases for starting to re/imagine, re/claim, and re/design what preK-12 teaching and learning could begin to look like. Instructor: Shayla Chatto Course Prerequisite: None Quarters Scheduled for: Spring 2022 Gen Edu Req: I&S and DIV
AIS 275/ART H 233 Survey of Native Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast (5 credits) Course Description: Surveys indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest Coast from the Columbia River in the south to Southeast Alaska in the north and from ancient through contemporary times. Focuses on the historical and cultural contexts of the art and the stylistic differences between tribal and individual artists' styles. Instructor: Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse Course Prerequisite: None Quarters Scheduled for: Spring 2022 Gen Edu Req: I&S or VLPA and DIV
AIS 310 Lushootseed in the Seasonal Calendar (5 credits) Course Description: This course begins with readings and research to build discussions pertaining to cultural connections of cultural calendars, historical ways of life and cultural sensitivities. Topics of research and study will include stories of seasons, the moon cycles, tides, commonly used language terms and a geographical study that demonstrates plant, food sources, and typical weather, all of which takes place during each season and month. The historical studies will provide the necessary connections that will build an understanding to what cultural aspects still continue today and aid in the production of a modern cultural calendar as each student will construct an individual calendar through their own research. Although not required, this course is an excellent avenue for additional study of the AIS 3-quarter Southern Lushootseed sequence. Instructor: Tami Hohn Course Prerequisite: None, no previous Lushootseed study required Quarters Scheduled for: Spring 2022 Gen Edu Req: I&S or VLPA and DIV Curriculum: American Indian Studies |