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3.00 Credits
This course utilizes historical and contemporary sources to survey the music and music-related traditions of Native North America. In addition, students will examine traditional music and context from the Northwest Coast, Arctic, Southwest, Great Basin, Plains, Plateau, California, and Eastern Woodlands music-style areas, as well as contemporary neotraditional and popular genres of American Indian music.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course will be expected to continue studying principles introduced in Beginning Media Design. Further, they will be introduced to the uses of video camera equipment, lighting, microphones, organization of screen space, cuts-only and A/B role editing, and to the production relations in the TV production studio and control room. In addition, they will also learn about working with certain kinds of film equipment as well as various techniques used in producing film. Students will be expected to complete and present a production. The use of computer technology will be a central element in the course.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will learn about the fundamentals of fundraising and grant writing, as both are vital to tribal growth and project implementation. Students will become familiar with the basic steps (and terms) as well as the research involved in authoring a grant proposal-whether to federal or state agencies, or to private foundations. In order to learn how to write successful grant proposals, students will examine both successful and unsuccessful examples. Students will be responsible for authoring a proposal, and they will work closely with a tribal entity to submit a fully-realized grant. Students will also consider various strategies for fundraising and carrying out successful initiatives.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of Native American Indian art forms which embrace history, myth, and tribal cultures as found in pottery, textiles, wood, and stone carving, basket making, jewelry, and other visually representative genres. Major consideration will be given to stylistic and aesthetic organization of the study of North American Indian Art. The course places an emphasis on contextualizing art as cultural manifestation. Cultures considered will range from the Plains to the Mississippi basin, to the eastern woodlands, the northwest, and southwest. Within the scope of this broad survey, the course emphasizes Plains Indian art and the development of the Native American Fine Arts Movement.
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3.00 Credits
This course will be a continuation of the first course in that students will study techniques involved in the production of radio programs with emphasis on timing, content, and production techniques. Students will be expected to develop and produce the projects on which they have worked.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course will examine the rise of the gaming industry in Indian Country and explore its far-reaching impact. To that end, students will become familiar with the regulations established by the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC); they will also learn about the rules that govern operating a casino. In addition, they will study a number of gaming ordinances and consider the benefits of establishing third-party gaming management offices. Completing such a course will allow students to understand how to manage either a gaming management office or a gaming facility. A discussion of business ethics will be ongoing during the course.
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3.00 Credits
Students will examine depictions of American Indians in film, tv, and popular culture, which covers a span of some five centuries-beginning with Columbus' notebooks. The thrust of the course will be spent considering images of Indians asrepresented in Hollywood films and on television. More often than not, most images of Indians rely on stereotypes as opposed to well-developed characterizations. Students will scrutinize both historical and popular depictions and will delve into various reasons why such depictions were established and perpetuated. Once completed, students should have a broad knowledge of racial (Indian) stereotypes as maintained in Hollywood and promulgated by Popular Culture, the development and use of various archetypes (and how those types originated), as well as the kinds of imagery employed at this particular moment.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students a comprehensive study of the Graphic Arts Industry that focuses on product, reproduction processes, materials, equipment and Graphic Arts Careers. Related areas of instruction include design, relief printing, photo-offset lithography, screen printing, gravure, and finishing operation. Students will be expected to develop proficiency in the use of relief, offset, and screenprinting; develop skills in layout and design as it relates to the graphic arts field; develop an awareness of the scope of the graphic arts industry as it exists today; increase the appreciation and develop an eye for creative designs; develop proficiency in the image generation and image conversion.
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3.00 Credits
Students will have an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of managing and coordinating projects, which will include their becoming familiar with creating budgets, writing invoices, organizing meetings, writing meeting agendas, writing memos, letter writing, and principles of effective communication. To that end, students will learn about the various phases and disciplines involved with construction projects and conflict resolution.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of the development of two different types of communication within certain Indian cultures so as to provide an overview of the significance of written and verbal forms in Indian Country as it has been used over time. The role of storytelling in Indian communities cannot be overstated as it serves as a teaching device that allows members to gain an understanding of their historical context. Through written and oral stories, identities of Indian nations, different clans, families, and individuals are reinforced. By studying various genres of literature and oral stories, students will become familiar with structural patterns-in both written and verbal stories-major authors and orators, as well as issuesrelating to identity within certain Indian communities. As a result, students will gain a knowledge of the various forms of traditional oral literature, including narratives, oratory, and songs.
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