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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: AmSt 202 or Fair 263 or Hist 275. Presents selected issues that impact Indian-White relations. Emphasis on case studies of issues of sovereignty, land claims, treaty rights, cultural appropriation, economic development, health, education, and environment. Also offered as AMST 315. Repeatable with various topics.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: course in political theory or philosophy and permission of instructor. Explore ideas, concepts and philosophies of selected political theorists or schools of thought, historical and current. Topics may include anarchism, hegemony, critical theory. Repeatable with various topics.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: amst 203 or Fair 218c or 364c or 365d. Examines the spiritual, political, and social contexts of pre-Columbian meso-American societies. Emphasis is on understanding of ascendant cultures such as the Mayas, Toltecas, and Mexca Aztecas and examination of the Popol Vuh, Tonatiuh, Curanderismo and the connections between spiritualism and calendric cycles. Provides linkages between pre-Columbian thought and culture and present-day Mexico and Central America. Repeatable with different topics.
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2.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prereq: Fair 201a, 203a, 211b or permission of instructor. Investigation of an area of the law using a law school class format and text. Examples of topics include Federal Indian Law II, Property Law, Contracts, Current Issues in the U.S. Supreme Court, and critical legal studies. Repeatable with different topics.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: at least one 300 level studio art course plus one of the following: Fair 215f, 218c, 219d, 263b or equivalent. This class will explore the work of contemporary artists from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, as well as the Americas, focusing primarily on artists addressing and commenting upon concerns such as globalization, poititcs, and post-colonialism.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: cross-cultural studies or permission of instructor. Examines health belief systems in cross-cultural perspective, including the roles of practitioner and patient; explanation, diagnosis and treatment of disease; the impact of modernization on non-Western medical systems, and ethnicity and health care in the United States.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: FAIR 369c or HIST 104 or evidence of familiarity with the Vietnam War or permission of instructor. Explores the cinematic interpretations of the Southeast Asian war as a process of rationalizing and renegotiating American interests and history to suit contemporary political and cultural purposes.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: WmnS 211 or Fair 203a or permission of instructor. A study of selected feminist thinkers and movements, the context from which they arose, the arguments and counter arguments they inspired, and the legacies they left for subsequent generations.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Fair 203a or Anth 201; Fair 413 or Anth 424 recommended. Crosscultural comparison of the roles, recruitment, techniques and performances of shamans, those ceremonial practitioners who move in a state of ecstasy between various spiritual realms. The relationships between healing, magic, sorcery and alternative states of consciousness in cultural context.
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prereq: successful 300-level work in literature. In-depth consideration of a small number of works, with theoretical or comparative analysis and intensive work with critical discussion and writing. Repeatable with different topics.
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