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Fall 2019  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (19955)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Wed 01:00PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 216
Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 10 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
This course is a seminar for the preparation and completion of the American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement. A substantial part of the course will be devoted to individual instruction and independent work. The seminar will be our time for collaborative group meetings, and attendance is required at every session. Conversations during seminar will address some of the complex issues involved in bringing indigenous perspectives to research and academic work in American Indian Studies. Though there are no exams in the course, there will be various writing assignments to strengthen the students writing ability. The class will ultimately guide you through the phases of your senior project until completion.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Seniors or those who are in the final phase of the undergraduate program.
Learning Objectives:
Students in the Senior Seminar must identify a topic or project to complete during the semester, one that engages with the methodologies within the discipline of American Indian and Indigenous. They proceed in identifying their project by discussing their research interests with the class and the instructor. At the beginning of the semester, there are in class writing exercises that also help them define their project. The entire seminar is focused on helping students identify a research project they can complete by the end of the semester, defining the project, and seeing it through to completion. The project is sometimes a research paper, but more often they have produced, curriculum, Dakota and Ojibwe language materials, media projects, and sometimes they have crafted objects of indigenous material culture or composed songs. The seminar is designed to be flexible for students as they engage a wide range of of research projects.

Once students have chosen a Senior Project, this class help guides them through all phases until completion. In consultation with the course instructor, they will be asked to conceptualize the project, ask relevant questions, interview an expert in the area you are working, develop a means of investigation or research, serve as a peer reviewer, and produce the final assignment. Conversations in the seminar will address the complex issues involved in bringing indigenous perspectives to research and academic work in American Indian Studies, especially as practices of the academy or misinterpretations hinder the establishment of relationships, even in an era when scholars and students seek to engage in thoughtful, community based research and methodologies.

The Senior Seminar works within the discipline and methodologies of American Indian Studies, but it also allows students to complete an individual and meaningful Senior Project, and share the findings of their research with the department, Indian community, and even members of their own family. Because the projects vary widely, what students learn throughout the research experience tends to be highly individualized, rather than mastering a specific body of knowledge. What students have in common at the end of the course, is the experience of defining a research problem, engaging in original research and writing about it, and helping their classmates complete their own projects as well. They also learn how to share the findings of their research with an audience beyond the seminar., and the American Indian community

The subject matter of the Senior Seminar, the capstone experience for an American Indian Studies major, allows students to delve more deeply into a particular research problem or issue, perhaps language or another aspect of culture, about American Indian or indigenous peoples of our state, region, nation, or even more globally. This allows students to understand more about the diverse cultures within and across societies in the past or today. Students reflect on their knowledge of the diverse experiences of indigenous peoples, and learn from their own projects and those of their colleagues in the class.

The Senior Seminar will great assist students as they develop their oral and written skills. Because the seminar will create a forma writing group, all participants can share writing strategies and writing samples, as well as write drafts and make revisions before handing in the final writing project. Throughout the writing assignments, students learn to express themselves more clearly and to sustain an argument in their prose. The final Senior Symposium is the culmination of the seminar, allowing students to share their research and findings with their fellow students, professors, members of the Indian community, and even their families.

American Indian Studies is an inherently inter-disciplinary field, so that students who are majors have generally completed courses in art, language, literature, history, law and policy, and others before they arrive in the capstone course. Their projects reflect this inter disciplinarity. Majors have been very creative in how they have approached the Senior Project in years past. They have produced curriculum, Dakota and Ojibwe language materials, creative works and songs, media projects, and many significant research projects.
Grading:
A-F
Exam Format:
Students are continually evaluated throughout the course so that they will successfully complete their senior project by the end of the semester. In practice, this means that they participate in a number of class activities including writing assignments, class discussions, and a class presentation near the end of the semester. Students are expected to attend every session and maintain a portfolio of assignments, and they must also engage with their colleagues and discuss their projects in addition to their own. At the end of the semester, they must also participate in a public presentation of their Senior Project, which is a day-long "American Indian Studies Senior Symposium."

Throughout the course we will integrate writing into the content of the course as students proceed through projects that involve considerable independent research and writing outside of the classroom. The seminar begins with the assumption that students can learn effective writing strategies and techniques by reflecting on the writing process and sharing written work with others. The seminar will create a formal writing group for students where participants can share writing strategies and writing samples. Our sessions will allow students to write drafts and make revisions before handing in the final writing project.

The Senior Seminar expects students to exchange bibliographies, summaries, drafts, or other relevant materials with the instructor and other students in the seminar. We will devote time during our formal meetings for those exchanges, and thus share the findings of research with the seminar as students move along through the research process. In this way, students gain a deep knowledge of their own particular research project, while learning about the projects of their colleagues in the class. Work and knowledge is shared at every session, and culminates in an original research project as well as a wider understanding of other important topics and issues in American Indian Studies--and the American Indian community.

To begin, students will read Linda Tuhiwai Smith's very thought-provoking book, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous People (1999). Written by a Maori scholar, our class discussion about the book will address some of the issues involved in conducting research with Native people, even that produced by Native scholars. This particular book is good at raising conversation about the role of collaborative research in the academy, and the diversity of experiences indigenous people have had, and continue to have, with scholarship. This book will become part of a semester long dialogue about the complex issues of bring indigenous perspectives to research and academic work, regionally as well as globally. These conversations will help guide students as they conceptualize their projects, ask relevant questions, interview an expert in the area they are working, serve as a peer reviewer, and produce their final assignment.

From the first day of the seminar, students will be encourages to discuss with one another their research interests, and begin to conceptualize their projects. Early in the seminar they are expected to interview an expert about their project topic, write about the interview, and share the results with the seminar. Students must actively participate in each class session, and maintain a portfolio of their assignments. Their portfolio is handed in and graded at the end of the semester, and represents 50% of their grade in the seminar. Their final project itself, along with a public presentation, accounts for the rest of the grade.

My role as instructor in the class is to help students define a research project and guide them toward its completion. I am a historian and an American Indian Studies scholar, and while I can be helpful to their projects as a teacher, researcher, and writer, I also build in to the class many opportunities for them to seek out other scholars or members of the Indian community to help them with their projects. Students consult with linguists, language teachers, architects, performers, artists, museum professionals, and community members, especially elders, as they proceed through the semester. They work in the Indian community, as well as in the library and historical society. My role is to advise students on their projects, but also to let them know they have many resources and people at their disposal.
Class Format:
Independent Study; Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19955/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 July 2019

Fall 2018  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (20357)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Closed (10 of 10 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20357/1189

Fall 2017  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (17555)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Scott Hall 2
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17555/1179

Fall 2016  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (18511)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Scott Hall 2
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18511/1169

Fall 2015  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (35420)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 120
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35420/1159

Spring 2015  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (61736)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 219
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
This course is a seminar for the preparation and completion of the American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement. A substantial part of the course will be devoted to individual instruction and independent work. The seminar will be our time for collaborative group meetings, and attendance is required at every session. Conversations during seminar will address some of the complex issues involved in bringing indigenous perspectives to research and academic work in American Indian Studies. Though there are no exams in the course, there will be various writing assignments to strengthen the students writing ability. The class will ultimately guide you through the phases of your senior project until completion.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/61736/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 December 2014

Fall 2013  |  AMIN 4820W Section 001: Senior Seminar (36294)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 31
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar for preparation/completion of American Indian Studies Senior Project requirement.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/36294/1139

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