2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

NAS 495 Special Topics in Native American Studies 1-4 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Prerequisites: Junior standing and instuctor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A close study of a particular issue, topic or theme within Native American studies that is not emphasized or focused upon in another existing undergraduate course within the realm of Native American studies.

Notes: May be repeated if topic differs.

NAS 488 Native American Community Engagement 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This is a capstone course for the Native American Studies major. Students will create logic models and engage with multiple local American Indian communities to implement assessed and needed academic service learning projects for those communities.  

NAS 485 Native American Education 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Students will explore significant Native American education policy from pre-colonial times to the present day. Students will investigate treaties with educational provisions, current U.S. federal Indian education law; standards-based reform and Native American inclusion. Through online chat rooms, students will discuss these issues with individuals from different parts of the world.

NAS 484 Native American Inclusion in the Classroom 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course will challenge students’ preconceptions of what Native American inclusion means and provide methods and materials that will help them meet state standards while effectively including Native American cultural concepts across the curriculum. Emphasis is on State of Michigan standards and Anishinaabe language and cultural concepts.

NAS 342 Indigenous Environmental Movements 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • World Cultures University Requirement (WC)
  • Integrative Thinking (INTT)

An exploration of the historical and cultural foundations of the paradigms that led to the ecological exploitation of Indigenous lands. Students will examine how Indigenous cultures today are resisting domination and working to regain, protect and nurture their lands, the planet and their ways of life.

NAS 340 Kinomaage: Earth Shows Us the Way 4 cr.

• Offered: Summer
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Kinomaage, when translated, is "Earth shows us the way." Students will examine various plants of the Northwoods that have been traditionally used by the Anishinaabeg. Students will also examine the close relationship between Anishinaabeg [Anishinaabe] peoples, culture and the Earth while comparing that relationship to modern day society's view of the environment.

NAS 330 Native Cultures and the Dynamics of Religious Experience 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • World Cultures University Requirement (WC)
  • Perspectives on Society (PERS)

An examination of the traditional philosophies of the native peoples in the Great Lakes region as well as an exploration of how Christianity has influenced native peoples and communities. Students will learn about the historical impacts, positive and negative, that organized religion has had on Indian country.

NAS 320 American Indians: Identity and Media Images 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall alternate years
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Integrative Thinking (INTT)

An analysis of the identity and images of American Indians portrayed within the historic and contemporary media. Perpetuation of stereotypes and appropriate or distorted cultural images, symbols, beliefs, stories and contributions by native people to the media will be explored.

NAS 315 History of Indian Boarding School Education 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Integrative Thinking (INTT)

The history of the initiation, development, alteration and demise of the federally mandated Indian boarding school education experience in the U.S. and Canada. Intergenerational and contemporary repercussions, both positive and negative, within indigenous societies are considered.

NAS 310 Tribal Law and Government 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall Winter
• Prerequisites: EN 211 with a grade of "C" or better or HON 101 and HON 111 and sophomore standing.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A focus on the relationship between American Indian tribes, the federal government and states. Emphasis is placed on examining the current state of tribal governments and tribal citizens within the State of Michigan. Students will examine the U.S. Constitution, treaties and tribals [tribes], federal and state laws and court cases.