FIVE COLLEGE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
IN NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
The Five College Certificate in Native American Indian Studies is currently available to students at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
The Five College Certificate in Native American Indian Studies provides students with the opportunity to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the development, growth, and interactions of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Western Hemisphere. The program emphasizes the many long histories of Native American Indians as well as their contemporary lives and situations. A holistic and comparative interdisciplinary approach underlies the Certificate Program's requirements, enabling students to become familiar with the diversity of indigenous lifeways, including cultural forms, institutions, political economies, and modes of self-expression. In addition to this broader perspective, the program places some emphasis on the Native peoples of the Northeast so that Five College students can become acquainted with the history, culture and presence of indigenous peoples in this region.
Requirements
At least seven courses are required for completion of the Five College Certificate in Native American Indian Studies: a foundation course plus six additional courses, with no more than three of the seven courses from a single discipline. A student's program must be approved by the program advisor from her or his campus.
A. Foundation courses. Offered at various levels, foundation courses provide an opportunity to hear Native perspectives and are taught from a philosophical perspective that reflects Native Studies theories, pedagogies and methodologies. Currently, Anthropooogy 370 (U Mass) is the approved foundation course.
B. At least six additional courses. Below is a list of courses currently approved by the Five College NAIS Committee as counting toward the certificate. The six additional courses must be selected from this list. (Courses not on this list may be approved for inclusion by campus program advisors in consultation with the Committee.)
C. Grades. Students must receive a grade of B or higher in all 7 courses to receive a Certificate.
MASTER LIST OF COURSES (not all courses offered every year)
AC ENG 60 Native American Expressive Traditions
AC HIST 31 Native American Histories
HC HA 238 Paired Landscapes: Place as Experienced by North American Indians and Whites
HC NS 135 Health in America to 1492
HC NS 235 American Indian Health 1492-1992
HC NS 300 Indigenous Women's Health
HC SS 178 Indigenous Peoples and Europeans: A Legal Perspective
HC SS 237 Indigenous Politics in Latin America
MH ANTH 202s Latin American Society and Culture
MH GEO 317s Perspectives on American Environmental History
MH LATIN AM 376f Foundations of the Colonial Enterprise in the Americas
SC AM STD 221 American Indians, American Identities
SC ANTH 237a Native South Americans
SC ANTH 240a Anthropology of Museums
SC ART HIST 201a American Indian Art and Architecture
SC ART HIST 204a Arts of the Pre-Columbian Andes
SC ART HIST 205b Arts of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
SC HIST 245 Empire in the North: Native Peoples in Siberia and Alaska
SC HIST 268 North American Indians since 1500
SC HIST 270 Cross-cultural Captivity in North America 1500-1860
SC HIST 372 Probs. In Amer. Hist.: Cross-Cultural Captivity in No. Amer. 1500-1860
SC SOC 213 Ethnic Minorities in America
UM ANTH 270 North American Indians
UM ANTH 337 Mesoamerican Archaeology
UM ANTH 369 North American Archaeology
UM ANTH 370 Contemporary Issues of North American Indians: Focus on the Northeast
UM ANTH 375 South American Archaeology
UM ANTH 376 South American Ethnology
UM ANTH 397 Andean Archaeology
UM ANTH397 Anthropology of Education
UM ANTH 497B Native American Languages
UM ANTH 697 with ANTH 370Contemp Issues of North American Indians
UM BIO 197b Ethnobotany of Northeastern American Indians
UM COMM 497 Native American Communication
UM EDUC 377 Intro to Multicultural Education
UM ENG 116 Native American Literature
UM ENG497 Topics in Native American Literature
UM GEO 497 Indigenous Peoples and Conservation
UM GEO 692B New Paradigm Conservation: Linking Conservation, Rights & Social Justice
UM HIST 170 Indigenous Peoples of North America
UM HIST 397 Topics in Native American History
UM HIST 398N Native American Activism in New England
UM HIST 572 Native Peoples of the Northeast
UM HIST 693P Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
UM HIST 697A Theory and Method in Native American History
UM HONORS 392X Visions and Revisions
UM HONORS 499D Capstone Course (Brown-Perez, section 08)
UM Legal Studies 460 The Legalization of American Indians
UM Legal Studies 470 Indigenous Peoples, Global Issues
UM STPEC 349d They Taught You Wrong
CAMPUS ADVISORS:
Amherst College: Robert Hayashi (American Studies and English, rhayashi@amherst.edu)
Hampshire College: Pamela Stone (School of Natural Science, pksNS@hampshire.edu)
Mount Holyoke College: Lauret Savoy (Environmental Studies, lsavoy@mtholyoke.edu)
Smith College: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero (Anthropology, farmstro@email.smith.edu)
University of Massachusetts: Ron Welburn (English, rwelburn@english.umass.edu), Robert Paynter (Anthropology, rpaynter@anthro.umass.edu),
Jean S. Forward (Anthropology, jforward@anthro.umass.edu)
NOTE: This information describes the Certificate offered through the Five Colleges. The University of Massachusetts also offers a Certificate of Native American Indian Studies (see link below); requirements differ slightly. Students may seek either or both certificates. However, students at the four colleges should be sure to check with their advisor to see if their college will approve the U Mass version
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