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AMIN 3920 is also offered in Spring 2024
AMIN 3920 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | AMIN 3920 Section 001: American Indian Studies Topics -- Beyond the Land Acknowledgement (66890)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Various topics in American Indian Studies.
- Class Notes:
- Beyond The Land Acknowledgement: Exploring Identity and Difference in a Settler Colonial State The University of Minnesota's official land acknowledgment notes how "the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people." It goes on to name that the university sits "on Dakota land ceded in the Treaties of 1837 and 1851" and closes by acknowledging how remembering this history "is one of the ways in which we work to educate the campus and community about this land and our relationships with it and each other." In this class we will begin by asking how or whether this acknowledgement is a meaningful engagement with ongoing forms of settler-colonial violence, including Dakota renaming and land reclamation efforts, as well as forms of anti- blackness and police brutality. We will think about a global perspective of Minneapolis, and the international outrage and protests surrounding police violence and George Floyd's murder. We will explore the ways in which inhabiting this land intersects with and confronts your own ancestry and relationship with colonization. Building from readings across a range of literary and historical texts, this writing workshop-based class asks you to write and share your own original poetry and creative nonfiction pieces that consider how your own identity and positionality (Indigenous, immigrant/arrivant, settler, but also racial, class, gender, and sexual identities) relate to Dakota people's homelands, historical trauma, and survival. These will culminate in a final writing portfolio that includes a land/territory acknowledgement of your own and a list of suggested actions that enact change based upon it.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66890/1223
Spring 2022 | AMIN 3920 Section 002: American Indian Studies Topics -- Introduction to Indigenous Mapping (69546)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Various topics in American Indian Studies.
- Class Notes:
- Introduction to Indigenous Mapping Through an introduction to decolonization theory and place-based theory, this course takes an Indigenous worldview in exploring the University of Minnesota's relationship to systemic racism and settler colonialism. Students will use a spatial analytic lens to examine the significance of place -- the University of Minnesota's campuses and land-holding, and more broadly, the state of Minnesota -- and its relationship to Indigenous Peoples, particularly Ojibwe and Dakota Peoples. This course requires that students work collaboratively; a substantial amount of student time over the semester will be spent on developing public-facing web-based projects.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69546/1223
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