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3.00 Credits
3 semester credits Interdisciplinary treatment of Native American studies. Provides general background and understanding of American Indian cultures.
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3 semester credits This course will deal with several major issues: One, the U.S.- Canada international border cuts between Native territories due to international negotiations in which Natives had no role. How has the border affected, and how does it continue to affect, their lives? Two, the histories and cultures of Montana's seven reservations and twelve Native groups vary and are complicated. The histories of the people and the reservations will be covered. Three, the course will include bringing in elders from the Hi-Line reservations to tell the cultures, traditions and present issues from their perspectives.
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3 semester credits Background on the extent and diversity of Native American cultural groups in North America, including languages, geographic locations of cultural groups, and the material, spiritual, and artistic cultures of American Indian tribal groups.
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3 semester credits A study of the oral traditions of various American Indian cultures, including examination of Indian language families, oral history traditions, oral literature, ritual and spiritual observances, together with English translations of Indian memoirs, autobiographies, and religious works.
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3 semester credits A critical and cultural examination of a representative number of major works written about Native Americans by non-Native Americans and major works by Native Americans. Readings include mythology, poetry, essays, novels, and non-fi ction.
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3 semester credits Treats the present applications and precedents of Federal Indian law and its historical development, including Indian treaties, tribal sovereignty, jurisdictional disputes, tribal and state powers of taxation, economic and environmental controls, and real property interests.
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3 semester credits History of American Indians from Pre-Columbian times to the present, with special emphasis on demographic shifts caused by encroaching European and American westward expansion, and relationships between Native Americans and immigrants.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester credits Introduction to aspects of the Biological, Physical, and Earth Sciences. The biology component emphasizes the structural and functional features of organisms, their classifi cation, and their importance in the environment. The physical science component presents a nonmathematical approach to understanding some of the basic concepts in chemistry and physics. The earth science studies focuses on the interrelationships between geology, paleontology, astronomy, meteorology and oceanography. This course is required for elementary education majors. This course does not meet the laboratory science requirement. Course Fee: $15.00
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3 semester credits This is a lecture course covering the important scientifi c discoveries from the ancient Greeks to the development of modern molecular biology and the human genome project. The course lectures, readings and discussions will develop how science, the scientifi c method and resulting technology have led to the ascent of humans to their present state of power. Such an ascent has been made possible through the relationship of mathematics and the physical, chemical and biological sciences. Prerequisite: A college science course, junior standing or consent of the instructor. This course does not meet the laboratory science requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester credits Provides the opportunity to perform undergraduate research in a particular science area of interest as selected by the student; the research project will be initiated and completed under the counsel and guidance of departmental staff. Prerequisites: Appropriate science background and Junior standing. This course does not meet the laboratory science requirement. Course Fee: $25.00
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