ETHS V04 - Introduction to American Indian Studies

    Recent Professors
    Sim Hay Kin Stensgar
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025
    Class Size
    35–50 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
    View Fall 2026 sections of ETHS V04
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D · CSU GE Area F
    Description
    This course provides an interdisciplinary survey of Native American/American Indian experiences from indigenous ways of knowing. The survey will include an analysis of social, cultural, historical, religious, and artistic expressions of various indigenous American communities. Emphasis will be placed on topics which have been instrumental in shaping contemporary conditions and experiences in the United States and in Indian Country. The course will address historical roots of systemic/structural racism in a wider framework of self-determination, liberation, sovereignty, decolonization, cultural revitalization, and indigenous resurgence. Community engagement and advocacy with indigenous peoples in Ventura County will be critical in participating in an anti-racist pedagogy.
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 10:00am–11:20am, Tue Thu 8:30am–9:50am, Wed 10:00am–11:15am