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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2019 through Fall 2020
- Course Number:
- ATH 230
- Course Title:
- Native Americans of Oregon
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Examines the prehistory, historical, and contemporary cultures, environments, and languages of Oregon's Native peoples. Covers the values, beliefs, kinship, marriage customs, politics, economics, and technology of Native people of Oregon. Considers the impact of colonialism, assimilation, reservations, treaties, Federal Indian policy, and other factors impacting historical and contemporary Oregon Native peoples. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Use an understanding of anthropology to describe the prehistories, histories, and contemporary cultures of Native American peoples in Oregon.
- Use an understanding of anthropology to compare the values, beliefs, languages, kinship, marriage customs, politics, economics, environments, and technologies of the cultures of Native American peoples in Oregon.
- Describe how colonialism, assimilation, racism, boarding schools, reservations, Federal Indian policies, and other factors have impacted historical or contemporary Native American peoples in Oregon.
- Examine power structures and social justice issues related to Native American peoples of Oregon from an anthropological and cross-cultural perspective.
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
Course Activities and Design
Course Activities may include any of the following:
- lectures
- discussions
- guest speakers
- museum visits
- presentations
- field experiences
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assessment strategies may include any of the following:
- *exams (take home and in class)
- quizzes
- short papers
- oral presentations
- term papers
- field projects
* term papers
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes:
- Native Peoples
- Anthropology
- Prehistory
- Language versus Culture versus Politics
- Ethnographic Present
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Issues:
- Origins
- Languages
- Distributions
- Race (sic.)
- Tribes (sic.)
- Nations (sic.)
- Tribal lands
- Disenfranchisement
- Assimilation
- Citizenship
- Treaty Reservations versus Executive Order Reservations
- Anthropology's effects on Native peoples
Concepts:
- Culture
- Sociopolitical organization
- Socio-linguistic organization
- Culture Ecology
- Linguistics
- History
Skills:
- read and write at the college level