Native American Studies (NATAMST)
NATAMST R1A Native American Studies Reading and Composition 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 10 hours of lecture/writing workshop per week for 6 weeks. 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of writing workshop per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Satisfaction of UC Entry Level Writing Requirement.
This course introduces students to the genres of Native American literature (written and oral traditions), provides historical and cultural frameworks for understanding, appreciating, and interpreting Native American writings, and develops basic skills in expository and creative writing. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
NATAMST R1B Native American Studies Reading and Composition 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of writing workshop per week for 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of writing workshop per week for 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of writing workshop per week. 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of writing workshop per week. 6 weeks. 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A.
Course examines Native American written and oral traditions in historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis on literary interpretation and creative and analytical writing, so that students increasingly write from positions of strength. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
NATAMST 20A Introduction to Native American Studies 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Tutorial per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores the interactions, from friendship treaties and land deals to contemporary American governmental policies, between America's original inhabitants with Europeans and Euro-Americans. Emphasis will be placed on how tribal peoples continue to react to the national myths and policies created by Europeans and Euro-Americans.
NATAMST 20B Introduction to Native American Studies II: Cultural Practice, Art, and Identity 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores Native American identify practices in written and oral traditions in literature, art, dance, theatre, ceremony, and song. The place of these traditions in the contemporary day will be emphasized as creative struggles for maintaining and elaborating on Indian identity in the context of colonialism.
NATAMST 39A Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 1.5 - 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 71 Native Americans in North America to 1900 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
An ethnohistorical analysis of America's original inhabitants and their interactions with Europeans and Euro-Americans emphasizing an Indian perspective.
Formerly known as 71A and 71B.
NATAMST 72 Native Americans in North America 1900-Present 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A survey and analysis of issues affecting Native Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries. Course will explore political, economic, and social/cultural developments as they shape federal-Indian relations and tribal sovereignty.
Formerly known as 50 and 71B.
NATAMST C73AC/ETH STD C73AC Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies; Ethnic Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course examines the history of indigenous, aboriginal, native, or "tribal" peoples over the last five centuries. Particular attention is paid to how these groups were brought into relations with an expanding Europe, capitalist development, and modern nation-states. How have these peoples survived, what are the contemporary challenges they face, and what resources and allies have they drawn on in the present?
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Instructor: Biolsi
NATAMST 90 Freshman Seminar--Myth, Memory and History 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Limited to Freshmen.
The course will introduce students to different ways of understanding the history of American Indians and to basic resources and research methods for studying the history of Indian tribes.
NATAMST 97 Field Work in Native American Communities 1 - 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of fieldwork per week per unit for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and lower division standing.
Individual conferences to be arranged. Supervised experiences relevant to specific aspects of the Native American community in off-campus settings. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Course may be repeated for credit as project varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 98 Supervised Group Study and Research 1 - 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Limited to freshmen and sophomores.
Supervised research by lower division students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
NATAMST 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of work per week per unit.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing and consent of instructor.
Individual conferences to be arranged. The individual student, with consent and guidance of an instructor, researches an interest not covered in the courses offered in the Program.
Course may be repeated for credit as project varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 100 Native American Law 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 71, 72, or consent of instructor.
Historical background of the unique relationship between the United States government and Native American tribes, and examination of contemporary legislation, court cases, and federal, state, and local policies affecting Native American social, political, legal, and economic situations.
NATAMST 101 Native American Tribal Governments 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 71, 72, or consent of instructor.
The roles of tribal governments in the formation of internal and external policies affecting the lives of Native American people, the basis for their political power historically and in contemporary society, and their structure and functions.
Formerly known as 103.
NATAMST 102 Critical Native American Legal and Policy Studies 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100, 101, or consent of instructor.
Key contemporary issues in the critical study of tribal and federal policy pertaining to American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. Topics include political and cultural sovereignty; religious, gendered, sexual, racial, and other tribal minorities, and civil rights within tribes; Native legal identity and tribal enrollment; the role of violence against women in the history of colonialism, and the struggle for justice and healing; and the movement for traditional or other culturally appropriate forms for tribal self-governance.
Instructor: Biolsi
NATAMST 110 Theories and Methods in Native American Studies 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 71 or consent of instructor.
Overview of literary theory and criticism, historiography, and social sciences theories and methods useful in the study of Native American literature, history and contemporary tribal groups. Course will develop skills of information gathering and development of theories that structure information.
NATAMST 120 Topics in Native American Arts 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 10 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores the practice of Native American art forms from the perspective of Native American Artists and scholars. Focused on specific art forms such as dance, music, film, crafts, and other traditions, this course provides a critique of conventional understandings of the relationships of Native American cultural traditions and their place in the world of "art."
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 120AC Photography and the American Indian: Manifest Destiny, American Frontier, and Images of American Indians 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and Zero to 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course explores the development of photography, historical photographs of Indigenous peoples, Black Indians, and the push to win the American West. Central to the course are research methods that deconstruct stereotypical representations of Native Americans, African Americans (who either married into Native nations, were owned by Native peoples, or who joined the military to fight Native peoples), and the theories and methods that influenced photography.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Instructor: Pearson
NATAMST 145 Making History/Making "Indians" 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores the ways in which an invented, generic "Indian" has played a variety of roles in master narratives of United States history. We shall examine changes in images of key figures and events constituting "our" collective historical memory.
NATAMST 149 Gender in Native American Society 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines gender roles from the period before the invasion to the present. An emphasis will be placed on the ways in which contact with European gender practices transformed those prevalent in Native North American before the conquest.
NATAMST 150 Native American Narratives 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of seminar per week.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and completion of 1A-1B.
This workshop provides intensive study of the crafts of writing in relation to various Native American genres as well as writing and discussion of student work.
NATAMST 151 Native American Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 71 or consent of instructor.
A study of the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of Native American world views, with emphasis on systems of knowledge, explanations of natural phenomena, and relations of human beings to nature through ritual and ceremonial observances.
NATAMST C152/AMERSTD C152 Native American Literature 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 151 is recommended but not required.
An analysis of the written and oral tradition developed by Native Americans. Emphasis will be placed on a multifaceted approach (aesthetic, linguistic, psychological, historical, and cultural) in examining American Indian literature.
NATAMST 158 Native Americans and the Cinema 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course will analyze the sociological, psychological, and literary aspects of Hollywood moviemakers' stereotyping of the American Indian through the history of film. The format will include representative Indian films, lectures, and guest speakers from the movie industry.
NATAMST N158 Native Americans and the Cinema 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of film viewing per week.
Prerequisites: 72 or consent of instructor.
This course will analyze the sociological, psychological, and literary aspects of Hollywood moviemakers' stereotyping of the American Indian through the history of film. The format will include representative Indian films, lectures, and guest speakers from the movie industry.
Instructor: Wilson
NATAMST 160 Maya Traditions 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course considers Maya traditions as performance, oral literature, and creative resource which informs the present and the future. The course will illustrate the ways Maya mythic narratives are tied and untied in Maya cultural histories and geographies with close attention to contemporary use of the 260-day sacred calendar, creation accounts, ceremony, and the publically emergent role of the AjQ'ijab, the spiritual leaders.
Instructor: Poz
NATAMST 161 Native American Art 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course is a survey of contemporary Native American Indian art from the 19th century to the present. The general philosophical foundations of traditional tribal arts and culture will be discussed in the first week of the course. The second and third week of the course contemporary art will be studied through selected readings, slide presentations, and other reproductions of painting and sculpture by Native American Indian artists.
Instructor: LaPena
NATAMST 162 Native American Environments 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course is a general survey of competing environmental interests of Native American Indians. Sacred sites and stewardship of the environment will be discussed in the first week. The legacy of radioactive waste disposal on tribal land will be studied in the second week of the course. Lectures in the third week will consider mining and the pollution of air and water on treaty reservations.
Instructor: Biestman
NATAMST 163 Native American Ceremonies 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course will consider Native American Indian ceremonies through the introductory examination of diverse religious beliefs, practices, and performances. Among the topics discussed will be the role of healing practices, revitalization movements, and religious changes in tribal communities in North America. The lectures will compare various tribal philosophies and world views in the context of culture and history.
Instructor: Garcia
NATAMST 164 Native Americans of California 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This introductory course will compare the general cultural themes and political histories of Native American Indians in California. The lectures in the first week of the course will consider demographic studies and the diversity of tribal cultures. The second week will review colonial dominance, mission activities, assimilation policies, and relations with the United States government. In the third week discussions will focus on the general political issues of tribal casinos in California.
Instructor: Karr
NATAMST 165 Native American Images 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Native American Indians have been the cultural objects of photographers and the exotic figures of filmmakers for more than a century. Lectures in the first week will critique the images of Native American Indians in photographs. The second week will focus on selected scenes in motion pictures. General theories of simulation, historical and ethnographic representations will be considered in the third week. Students will read selected essays and view slides and scenes from films.
Instructor: Vizenor
NATAMST C166/AMERSTD C168 Native American Novelists 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Native American Indian literature is a distinctive collection of fiction, poetry, autobiographical narratives, and oral stories in translation. This course will provide a general literary and historical context of this distinctive literature, consider narrative subjects and themes, and focus on critical readings of contemporary novels by Native American Indian authors.
Instructor: Vizenor
NATAMST 167 Plains Warriors 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course will compare the general cultural themes and political histories of Native American Indian warrior cultures of the North American Great Plains, with an emphasis on the diversity of traditional cultural roles.
Instructor: Karr
NATAMST C168/AMERSTD C186H Museums and Sacred Sites 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course considers the experiences, interpretations, and protections of Native American Indian cultural resources in museums and sacred sites. Creation stories, sacred geography, and ceremonies will be compared.
Instructor: Biestman
NATAMST C169/AMERSTD C186E Native American Philosophies 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course is a comparative discussion of Native American Indian philosophies, distinctive worldviews, and interpretations of sacred and secular ceremonies and stories. The Ghost Dance and other revitalization movements will be studied.
Instructor: Vizenor
NATAMST 170 Native American Sovereignty 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course will explore the unique legal status of Native American Indian tribes and reservation lands in the United States, including discussions of treaties, federal trust relationships, and the evolution of laws and policies that determine sovereignty.
Instructor: Myers
NATAMST C171/AMERSTD C186I Native American Poetry 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course will give an in-depth analysis to a selection of contemporary Native American Indian poetry. The issues of voice, cultural traditions, and sense of place, memory, imagery, and humor will be the focus of lectures.
Instructor: Lee
NATAMST 172 Medicine and Public Health 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course considers the health of Native American Indian communities past and present. The lectures will be comparative and explore medical public health issues in urban areas and on reservations.
Instructor: Ramsey
NATAMST 173 First Nations in Canada 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course will examine the cultural history and contemporary political dynamics of First Nations in Canada. The lectures will focus on early encounters with natives recorded in , and on recent land claims and the Nunavut treaty.
Instructor: Samson
NATAMST C174/AMERSTD C186J Imagining the Other 1 Unit
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
European images of the exotic existed long before 1492. After Columbus, they were applied to people of the Americas who were thus turned into objects of fear and desire. While these images were modified over the centuries, basic elements of positive, and negative stereotyping connected with notions of race, gender, and environmental conditioning have persisted to the present day. This class will study a selection of European and North American literary texts from the late 18th century to the present, focusing on the discourse of culture, alterity, and identity as well as, on such aspects as the Romantic idealization of "natural man," savagism, natural nobility, communicational boundaries, and forms of cultural hybridity.
NATAMST 175 History of Native Americans in California 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
History of the Native Americans of California with emphasis on the lifeways, mores, warfare, and relations with the United States government. Attention will be given to the background and evolution of acculturation up to the present.
NATAMST 176 History of Native Americans in the Southwest 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
An historical analysis of the Native American Nations of the southwestern United States.
NATAMST 178 Topics in Native American History 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores the history of Native Americans from the point of view of Native American historians and scholars. Focused on specific periods and regional case studies the course provides a rereading of much United States history as it has been conceived, set into periods, written, and taught. The chronological scope of the course begins before the European invasions and continues to the end of the 20th century.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 178AC Africans in Indian Country 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
This seminar will explore the intersections of Native American and African American histories and communities in the context of the United States which was formerly "Indian Country." We will read historical texts, first-person accounts, fiction, and primary documents primarily from the perspective of Native American, African American, and Black-Indian scholars and writers.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
NATAMST 190 Seminar on Advanced Topics in Native American Studies 1 - 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Advanced seminar in Native American Studies with topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 195 Senior Thesis 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Independent study.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Writing of a thesis under the direction of member(s) of the faculty.
NATAMST H195 Native American Studies Honors Course 4 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Student must have junior standing; a 3.5 GPA overall; a 3.5 GPA in major; and have been admitted to the honors program by the faculty adviser.
The course will entail directed study and completion of an honors research project under the direction of a faculty committee. The project should have originated from a regularly scheduled course in the department.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST H195A Senior Honors Thesis for Native American Studies Majors 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Seminar and individual meetings with faculty adviser.
Prerequisites: Senior standing. Approval of Faculty Advisor, 3.5 GPA on all University work, and a 3.5 GPA in courses in the major.
Course for senior Native American Studies majors designed to support and guide the writing of a senior honors thesis. For senior Native American Studies majors who have been approved for the honors program.
NATAMST H195B Senior Honors Thesis for Native American Studies Majors 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing. Approval of Faculty Advisor, 3.5 GPA on all University work, and a 3.5 GPA in courses in the major.
Course for senior Native American Studies majors designed to support and guide the writing of a senior honors thesis. For senior Native American Studies majors who have been approved for the honors program.
NATAMST 197 Field Work in the Native American Community 1 - 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of fieldwork per week per unit for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and upper division standing preferred.
Individual conferences to be arranged. Supervised experiences relevant to specific aspects of the Native American community in off-campus settings. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Course may be repeated for credit as project varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 198 Supervised Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and upper division standing preferred.
Individual conferences to be arranged. Group discussion, research, and reporting on topics by students.
Course may be repeated for credit as project varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
NATAMST 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 3 Units
Department: Native American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 1 to 3 hour of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 3 hour of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing and consent of instructor.
Individual conferences to be arranged. The individual student, with consent and guidance of an instructor, researches an interest not covered in the courses offered in the Program.
Course may be repeated for credit as project varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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