Native American Studies B.A.

Bachelor of Arts - Native American Studies

College Humanities & Sciences

Catalog Year: 2014-2015

Degree Specific Credits: 39

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.5

Lower Division Core Courses

Rule: Must complete all of the following courses:

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Show Description NASX 105H - Intro Native Amer Studies
Offered Autumn and Spring.  Survey course to acquaint the student with Native American Studies by a general overview of Indian history, culture, philosophy, religious beliefs and contemporary issues.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 201X - Indian Cultr Exprssd Thru Lang
Offered Autumn. This course has been designed to introduce students to a non-Western perspective of the relationship that exists between Indian cultures and their languages.  Students will be exposed to various languages of American Indian peoples, and how through Native languages insight can be gained into history, traditions, and cultural life-ways of Indian peoples.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 235X - Oral/Written Trads Native Amer
Offered Autumn and Spring.  Analysis of the oral traditions of Native Americans including an introduction to the literary works of early leading American Indian writers.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 280 - NA Studies Rsrch Theors/Mthds
Offered Autumn.  Prereq., NAS major or minor.  Introduction to the Research materials pertaining to the study of American Indian peoples and cultures.  Emphasis on current research trends and writing.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 12 Total Credits Required

Upper Division Core Courses

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories

18 Total Credits Required

Fundamentals

Rule: Must complete all of the following courses

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Show Description NASX 303E - Ecol Persp in Nat Amer Trad
Offered Autumn and Spring.  An examination of Native American environmental ethics and tribal and historical and contemporary use of physical environmental resources.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 304E - Native American Beliefs/Philos
Offered Autumn and Spring.   A study of selected ethical systems; origins, world views; religious beliefs and the way they have been affected by western civilization.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 494 - Seminar/Workshop
(R-6) Offered Spring. Prereq., NAS major or minor, 18 credits in NAS, and junior standing or higher.  Senior reading capstone course for the review of past and current literature on and by American Indians.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 9 Total Credits Required

Indigenous

Rule: Must complete 1 of the following courses

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Show Description NASX 306X - Contemp Global Iss Indg People
Offered Autumn. An examination of the major issues that affect the contemporary experiences of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, and other global communities.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 475X - Tribal Sovereignty
Offered Spring. Same as PSCI 475. An examination of the evolution of tribal governments from a historical and political perspective. Particular attention is devoted to the issues of tribal sovereignty and tribal-state conflicts.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required

History

Rule: Must complete 2 of the following courses

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Show Description NASX 464X - Hist Amer Indian Affrs to 1776
Offered Autumn.  Same as HSTA 465X. A study of American Indian relations with Europeans and the United States from first contact to 1776.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 465X - Hist Amer Indian Affrs 19 Cent
Offered Spring.  Same as HSTA 452X. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nations in the nineteenth century.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 466X - Hist of Indian Affrs from 1890
Offered Autumn.  Same as HSTA 453X. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nation from 1890.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

Elective Courses

Rule: Must complete 9 credits from the following courses:

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Show Description AAS 260 - African Amer & Native Amer
Offered Fall, even years. Same as NAS 260. A study of the broad scope of relations between African Americans and Native Americans in colonial and United States history. Topics explored through history, sociology, and cultural anthropology.
 3 Credits
Show Description ANTY 122S - Race and Minorities
Offered autumn. Analysis of the development and concept of race as a social category and the processes of cultural change within and between ethnic groups.
 3 Credits
Show Description ANTY 323X - Native Peoples of Montana
Offered spring. The history and culture of the Indian tribes in Montana.
 3 Credits
Show Description ANTY 330X - Peoples and Cultures of World
(R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Study of the peoples of various geographic regions and their cultures.
 3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 455 - Indian, Bison, & Horse
(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  Historical interaction between Native American societies, horses and bison in North America. A writing intensive course. Upper division writing course for the history major.
 3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 367 - 19th Cent Amer West
(AM) Offered intermittently. Euro-American movement and conflict in the nineteenth century trans-Mississippi west.
 3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 369 - 20th Cent Amer West
(AM) Offered spring.  The contemporary trans-Mississippi West.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 141 - Elementary Blackfoot I
Offered intermittently autumn.  An introduction to the Blackfoot language and culture. Students will learn how to write and read Blackfoot as well as how to conduct simple conversations.
 4 Credits
Show Description NASX 142 - Elementary Blackfoot II
Offered intermittently spring.  Continuation of 141.
 4 Credits
Show Description NASX 180 - Event Planning
Offered spring semester. This course is intended for students to learn the skills necessary to put on a large event. The course is intended as a hands-on experiential learning course. The culmination of the course will be putting on the annual Kyi-Yo contest pow-wow, the first large regional pow-wow of the year on the circuit.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 191 - Special Topics
(R-6) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
 1 To 9 Credits
Show Description NASX 198 - Internship
(R-9)Offered by special arrangement.  Prereq., consent of department. Extended classroom experience which provides practical application of classroom learning during placements off campus. Prior approval must be obtained from the faculty supervisor and the Internship Services office.  A maximum of 6 credits of Internship (198, 298, 398, 498) may count toward graduation.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description NASX 210X - Native Amer Sports & Games
Offered Autumn or Spring.  Explores Native American sports and games, both traditional and modern.  Through classroom learning and actual play, students gain an understanding of how play and competition have been vital to Native communities.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 231X - Indig World View Perspectives
Offered Spring.  Same as ANTY 231X.   Examination of Indigenous belief systems, with regard to world views, religious ceremonies, cultural ways and the impact that Anglo-European culture has had upon these systems.  Focus on Indigenous peoples of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 260 - Indig Community Developmnt
Offered intermittently. This course introduces the student to concepts in indigenous/rural sustainable community development in the countries of North America in broad historical and cultural frameworks.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 291 - Special Topics
(R-9) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description NASX 340 - Native American Lit
Offered Autumn.  Prereq., three credits of lower-division LIT courses and NASX 105H or 235X. Same as LIT 305. Selected readings from Native American Literature and criticism with emphasis on the literatures after the Native American literary Renaissance.  A minimum of three genres covered and three culture areas.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 354X - Indians of MT since Rsrvtn Era
Offered Autumn. Same as HSTA 354.  Examination of the history of Montana Indians since the establishment of the reservations, contemporary conditions, and issues among both reservation and non-reservation Indian communities in the state.  Special attention given to social and economic conditions, treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, and legal issues.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 360 - Native Amer and Cinema
Offered Autumn or Spring.  Same as ENFM 344. Surveys the image of Native Americans in American film with an emphasis on "revisionist," or "breakthrough" films.  Ultimate focus will be on films featuring Native American writers, directors and actors.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 388 - Native Amer Health & Healing
Offered alternate years. Examination of traditional and contemporary uses of medicine in Native American societies.  Issues covered will include current health conditions of American Indians, and the relationship from a cultural perspective on health, healing and medicine.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 391 - Special Topics
(R-9) Offered intermittently.  Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description NASX 394 - Workshop/Seminar
(R-6) Offered intermittently. Variable topics addressing Indian law, policy and culture by visiting scholars.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description NASX 403 - Contmp Tribal Resource Issues
Offered intermittently. Acquaints students with contemporary tribal resource management and environmental policies.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 405H - Gndr Iss in Native Amer Stdies
Offered intermittently.  Same as WS 342H.  Focus on American Indian gender relations and their cultural continuity and historical evolution. National in scope with concentration on certain tribes. Group analysis of contemporary gender issues relevant to Native American peoples.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 430 - American Indian Education
Offered intermittently.  An overview of American Indian education including a look at the unique needs of Indian children.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 488 - Stds in Native Amer Autobio
Offered intermittently.  Same as LIT 429.  Prereq., LIT 300 or LIT 305/NASX 340, or consent of instr.  Study of texts that present a first-person story of Native American individual's life within historical and cultural contexts, with discussion of theories of autobiography.
 3 Credits
Show Description NASX 491 - Independent Study
(R-6) Prereq., upper-division standing and consent of instr. Selected topics on American Indians under the direct supervision of a faculty member.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description NASX 499 - Senior Capstone/Thesis
(R-9) Offered by special arrangement.  Prereq., NAS major or minor, 18 credits in NAS, junior standing, and consent of instr. Independent research project in Native American Studies, supervised by a faculty member, and leading to completion of baccalaureate degree.
 3 To 9 Credits
Show Description PHAR 320 - Am Ind Health Issues
Offered spring. Same as AHHS 320. An overview of the health issues, health care delivery and payment that affect American Indians.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 9 Total Credits Required