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  • 3.00 Credits

    The tools and approaches taught in this course should be useful to anyone who aims at making a difference in today's information age. In addition to learning organizational principles from the archival profession, students will examine and implement effective and efficient ways of storing, accessing, and selectively preserving data. Classes are supplemented by archival work in the Center of Southwest Studies. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (2-3)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course uses interactive listening to provide an understanding of the theory and practice of producing oral histories. It will benefit a budding historian, anthropologist, folklorist, sociologist, or archivist, and anyone wanting to improve listening skills and desiring to preserve an otherwise undocumented aspect of our past. Participants practice oral history interviewing and transcription. The final product is transcribed oral history interview of sufficient historical research value to warrant inclusion in the Center of Southwest Studies collection. Prerequisites: COMP 150 OR COMP 126 OR COMP 250 Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to prepare students in the interpretation of cultural resources and to create awareness of Western heritage under specific topics such as Indian Heritage; mining heritage; ranching heritage; etc. Each class will have a different cohesive theme that will include readings, research, guest speakers, and field trips. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Native American Oral Traditions still offer distinct perceptions of the world. Students in this course will learn of the evolution of tribal oral traditions from early records of their existence to the modern issues surrounding their maintenance. These and other issues will be explored through essay and oral assignments and participation in individual and group activities in recording oral traditions. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course traces the development of United State policy toward the American Indians. Beginning with the policies inherited from European colonizers, the federal government developed expedient policies to balance the desires of its own citizens with the Indian peoples' legal rights and hopes for continued tribal survival. The course documents the opposing concepts of assimilation and segregation that have led to the present philosophy of pluralism and self-determination in United States Indian policy. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Mesoamerican Art History is an overview of the prehistoric civilizations of Mesoamerica. It examines, in detail, culture, art and architecture of the area, including Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Haustec, Colima and Aztec. This course is the same as Art 365; credit will be given for only one of these courses. Prerequisites: CO1 course AND (LIB 150 OR LIB 150 Proficiency Score 1 OR CO2 course) Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of the complex relationships between human and biotic communities in the Southwest from ethnobotany to agriculture to the urban Southwest with an emphasis on technology, culture, and ecology. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Using a regional approach, this course examines art by Native Americans from Alaska, the Northwest Coast of North America, Plains, Woodlands, California, Northeast, Southeast and Southwest regions of the United States. The influence of tourism, photography, and museums on art, as well as Native American influence on these forces is also examined. Artsurveyed ranges from the archaic to the contemporary. This course is the same as Art 368. Credit will be given for only one of these courses. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of traditional and contemporary Native American expression as seen through oration, tales and legends, chants and songs, poetry, drama, autobiography and the novel. This course is the same as Engl 380; credit will be given for only one of these courses. Prerequisites: CO1 course AND (LIB 150 OR LIB 150 Proficiency Score 1 OR CO2 course) Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Survey of the re-assertion of Chicano culture in the Southwest with a focus on myth, ritual, symbol and storytelling through art and literature and emphasis upon the relationships between Meso American, American Indian, and Indo-Hispano cultures Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
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