NAS 1 - Introduction to Native American Studies

    Recent Professors
    N. Garcia, J. Whitney, C. Agee, M. Siaosi, P. Bommelyn, R. Maloney
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026
    Class Size
    Not published
    Credits
    3
    Spring 2027 Sections
    View Spring 2027 sections of NAS 1
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · Cal-GETC Area 6 · IGETC Area 4C · IGETC Area 7 · CSU GE Area D3 · CSU GE Area F · CSU GE Area D
    Description
    An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Native American Studies, exploring the complexity and diversity of the Indigenous Peoples of the lands now called North America, with an emphasis on the lands now called the United States. It is centered on perspectives from Native North American Indigenous People and their Nations directly, gaining further insight from ‘Western’ academic fields such as the bio-physical sciences, humanities, social sciences, and critical social theory, such as the study of race, power, and class. Connecting Indigenous traditions with the work Indigenous Nations have and continue to do across the past, present, and future will be emphasized, especially around resistance and resilience, decolonization, environmental management, and sovereignty-building.
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 10:05am–11:30am, Mon Wed 11:40am–1:05pm, Tue Thu 1:15pm–2:40pm, Tue Thu 10:05am–11:30am