Concentration
Global Indigenous Studies Concentration
Director: Katrina Philips (History)
Global Indigenous Studies centers Indigenous Peoples' diverse histories and cultures, as well as arts, ecologies, economics, identities, knowledge, languages, literatures, music, politics, and religions. Indigenous Studies is inherently international: there are over 600 sovereign nations within the legal geographic bounds of the United States. Indigeneity itself is a global political formation, showing the linked histories that connect diverse peoples from many regions (including Africa, the Arctic, Asia, Oceania, as well as the Americas). Indigenous Studies is inherently interdisciplinary, finding expression in academic disciplines from across all divisions: arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.聽
Students completing a concentration in Global Indigenous Studies will enhance their capacity to consider how the experiences of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing and doing have both been affected by colonialism and settler colonialism and how these experiences and ways of knowing provide understanding, insight, and belonging that transcend the colonial experiences. This capacity enables students to be meaningfully reflective on their place(s) in the world, paying particular attention to locations, powers and聽privileges of people, institutions, and practices.
Global Indigenous Studies Concentration
Structure of the Concentration
A concentration in Global Indigenous Studies requires six courses. These six courses must come from at least three different departments with no more than two courses from any single department. Students may not have more than two courses in common with another major, minor, or concentration that they complete. Students are encouraged to take classes that cover multiple geographic regions, chronological periods, and divisions. These courses could be derived from the list below or students may petition to have additional classes count toward the concentation, including up to one from study away, or an internship with approval of the director.
Topics courses (194/294/394/494) may also count toward the concentration with permission of the director.