American Indian Studies Minor

American Indian Studies utilizes departmental program learning outcomes.

1. Sovereignty: Students will understand how sovereignty is a spiritual, moral, and dynamic cultural force that empowers Indigenous individuals and their nations to act socially and politically as self-determining agents in the world.

2. Diversity of Native and Indigenous Knowledge: Students will engage the diversity of philosophies and cultures of Native people in North America and/or of Indigenous people across the world. Students will understand American Indian Studies as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge that affirms, reflects on, and synthesizes ways of knowing that exist among Native and Indigenous peoples.

3. Resurgence and Revitalization: Students will recognize the continuity and revitalization of Native/Indigenous thought, language, and political and social identities over time and into the present. Students will identify how Indigenous values and ethics inform the types of justice Native and Indigenous peoples seek for their communities

4.    Being a Good Relative: Students will acquire skills to help them think about both Native/Indigenous nations and society at large. Students will accept responsibility to communicate what they have learned verbally, in writing, and/or through other forms of media.