Transfer Student Courses in RC Social Science (Division 877)

Fall Term, 1999 (September 8 - December 22, 1999)

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Section 001.

Prerequisites & Distribution: (1). (Excl).

Credits: (1).

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This seminar is designed for students at the sophomore level or above who are seriously considering a Social Science major in the Residential College. The seminar is a requirement in the Social Science Program; its purpose is to prepare students to pursue a concentration program in Social Science in the RC. Seminar sessions will introduce students to the RC Social Science faculty and upper-level Social Science majors, and discussion will center on how to turn general interests into problems that can be investigated systematically. Early on, students will begin working on their own with guidance from faculty and upper-level students whose interests complement theirs in order to complete the principal goal of the seminar: designing a coherent, indivualized program of study for the Social Science major.

Section 001 – Meets the research requirement for RC Social Science concentrators.

Instructor(s): Ann Larimore (annvans@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (4). (Excl).

Credits: (4).

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This course gives you the opportunity to learn intensively about a particular Native American group in the context of the long and continuing struggles of Native communities on Turtle Island (as the Americas were called) to survive during the onslaught of European and Euro-American conquest and settlement. We will investigate various groups’ origin stories, spiritual world views, resource ecology, land struggles, and cultural agendas.

We will use a comparative geographical research method, that of ethnically-sensitive human ecological analysis framed by world view comparison. We will also employ a writing style which includes writing about the data found, the research process, and one’s personal engagement with the research. You will be responsible for writing two research papers about a Native American group of your own choosing as well as for participating effectively in class sessions. The course will be taught using collaborative pedagogical methods. This course meets the RC Social Science Concentration research requirement.