American Indian Studies Program Guide
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The American Indian Studies Department advances and promotes knowledge integral to Native peoples through research, teaching, and community service. It is the largest and most comprehensive program of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. American Indian Studies approaches its teaching and research from a decolonized, community based, and global perspective.
American Indian Studies Major
The AIS major is an open major: The American Indian Studies degree prepares students for a variety of careers, including community-based and university-based research; cultural resource management; education; writing; fundraising; tribal administration; academic advising and administration; museum curation; resource management; and many other careers.
The degree also provides a foundation for graduate study in indigenous studies, law, museology, tribal administration, documentary filmmaking, education, history, and other areas of study. See Declaring a Major.
Many Native students at UCLA and community members felt that the University could do more in regards to conducting relevant research and disseminating accurate information about Native American issues, history and culture. UCLA rose to the challenge. The Ford grant supported research, grant writing, a library, publications, and curriculum development. In the early s, the budding program secured a Student Affairs position that was designed to focus on Native student retention and recruitment—an element that still exists to this day.
The Center was charged with faculty recruitment and development of Native scholars and scholars working in Native Studies.
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Limited to 20 students. Designed as adjunct to lower division lecture course. Exploration of topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities and led by lecture course instructor.
May be applied toward honors credit for eligible students. Honors content noted on transcript. Honors Contracts Tutorial, three hours.
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Limited to students in College Honors Program. Individual study with lecture course instructor to explore topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities. May be repeated for maximum of 4 units. Individual honors contract required.
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Student Research Program Tutorial supervised research or other scholarly work , three hours per week per unit. Entry-level research for lower division students under guidance of faculty mentor. Students must be in good academic standing and enrolled in minimum of 12 units excluding this course.
Individual contract required; consult Undergraduate Research Center. American Indian Studies M—Student-Initiated Outreach and Retention Issues in Higher Education Exploration of issues in outreach and retention of students in higher education, especially through student-initiated programs, efforts, activities, and services, with focus on UCLA as a case. Introduction Through readings, discussion, and Native guest lecturers, students learn to participate within Native American communities engaged in political, social, and cultural processes of change and preservation.
Development of proposal for Native nation-building project. Preparing for Fieldwork Through readings, discussion, Native guest lecturers, and project participation, introduction to rules of conduct and skills necessary to successfully work or carry out community service projects for Native American communities and organizations. Service Learning Participation in community service learning project within Native American communities and organizations where students are mentored and supported by faculty members, other students, and project directors toward completing assigned service learning tasks and contributing to project activities.
American Indian Studies C—Federal Indian Law and Policy Through readings, discussion, and Native guest lecturers, introduction to fundamental concepts and history of federal Indian law and policy.
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Investigation of contemporary policies and legal issues and exploration of Native responses to policy and law. American Indian Studies —Nation Building Examination of historical interplay of federal policies with tribal cultures that has shaped political development of American Indian tribal nations. Current developments within Indian nations, including restructuring government, developing economies, and asserting cultural sovereignty to be subject of research, study, and required community-based projects.
Several theories of social change, applied to selected case studies.
American Indian Studies Program
Lecture, three hours; activity, one hour. Examination of causes and consequences of current worldwide loss of linguistic diversity and revelation of kinds of efforts that members of threatened heritage language communities have produced in their attempt to revitalize these languages. Projected loss of as many as half of world's languages by end of 21st century can only be explained as outcome of such factors as nationalism, global economic forces, language ideological change, and language shift away from smaller indigenous and tribal languages.
Since loss of such languages means both reduction of cultural as well as linguistic diversity, many affected communities have engaged in various language renewal practices. Examination of some diverse strategies that have been attempted, including immersion, language and culture classes, master-apprentice, interactive multimedia, mass media approaches, and language policy-reform approaches.
Evaluation of effectiveness of these measures and of very imagery used to discuss language endangerment.