Winter Quarter 2019: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research

Winter Quarter 2019

Course	Title	Instructor	Lecture	Discussion
ENG 274	Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Literatures	Kelly Wisecup	MW 11 - 11:50am	Fri 10am
ENG 274 Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Literatures This will examine the exciting range of texts created by Indigenous writers from pictographs on birchbark to small newspaper presses, to award winning novels and video games. As we revise our understanding of "writing," we will also investigate how Indigenous people used writing as a form of creative expression and anti-colonial resistance. Read award-winning novels, learn about ground breaking video games, watch genre-shaping films and orient yourself in the literary landscape of Native Chicago.
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ENVR-POL 390-0	Maple Syrup and Climate Change	Eli Suzukovich III	Fri 12:00 - 3:00 pm
ENVR-POL 390-0 Maple Syrup and Climate Change Sesipâskw’pêskân is the Nehiywa (Cree) word for a maple sugar camp. It’s the time in between late winter and early spring when families gather to collect maple sap, and to harvest fish, beavers, and early spring plants, or at least it used to be. As the earth’s climate changes, maple trees and the subsequent maple syrup industry in the U.S. and Canada are being affected, in both good and bad ways. To compound this, the demand for maple syrup is rising in Asia. The class will cover these effects, their impact on Native American and non-Native communities, the maple syrup industry, and maple species themselves.
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INTL-ST 290-0	Introduction to International Development: Issues and Practice	Sarah Dees	T TH 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
INTL-ST 290-0 Introduction to International Development: Issues and Practice This course introduces students to historical, critical, and practical perspectives on international development. Through a combination of readings, lectures, speakers, case studies, written assignments, and presentations, students will learn about the history and practice of international development from its colonial foundations to its present dynamics. In addition, students will explore important issues such as the ethical dilemmas involved in doing development work, the challenges of measuring development, and the relationship between sustainability and development. To complement the historical and theoretical perspectives, students will examine mechanisms of economic, political, social, and cultural development, such as multilateral institutions, the private sector, and the nonprofit sector. This course offers students the unique opportunity to hear from thought leaders and practitioners working in various sectors of international development. Throughout the term, lunchtime receptions will be hosted immediately following class, allowing students to engage informally with class visitors.
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JOUR 390	Media History and the Native American Experience	Patty Loew	T TH 10:30 am - 12:20 pm
JOUR 390 Media History and the Native American Experience Northwestern University has identified diversity and inclusion as one of its teaching and learning objectives. In this class, we will generate multimedia content for an "Indigenous Tour of Northwestern." Students will research Native American people, places, policies and historical social movements that intersect with locations on the Northwestern campus. They will collect and digitize historical records, maps, newspaper and magazine accounts and generate new content in the form of video and audio interviews for use in a virtual reality tour (VR) and augmented reality (AR) walking tour of the Evanston campus. This unique digital humanities resource is intended to become a teaching and learning tool for faculty, staff, students, visitors and members of the Evanston community.
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SOCIOL 277-0	Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies	Beth Redbird	MW 2:00 - 3:20 pm
SOCIOL 277-0 Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies The Native American experience is complex and diverse. This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Native American Studies, focusing on indigenous peoples north of Mexico, their traditional cultures, histories and their present day status and conditions. Students will become familiar with the economic, political and legal structures of modern Native tribes, as well as the current economic and social experience of Indians.
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SPANISH 395	"Representaciones del Indio y de la Indigeneidad en" - Topics in Latin American, Latina and Latino, and/or Iberian Cultures	Jorge Coronado	T TH 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
SPANISH 395 "Representaciones del Indio y de la Indigeneidad en" - Topics in Latin American, Latina and Latino, and/or Iberian Cultures This course explores the forms and development of representations of indigenous peoples and of indigeneity in a wide array of modern Latin American literature. We will read mostly narrative and criticism, but also attend to visual and popular cultural production, and in particular we will be attentive to the ways in which these representations significantly structure and are structured by conceptualizations of the race, gender, nature, region, nation and city. We will delve into the prominent literary and cultural movement of indigenismo, which sought to vindicate indigenous peoples' cultural, social and political standing. We will also explore related cultural production, such as testimonio, photography, and film.
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