Updated 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog | 20265
Indigenous Studies Courses
All Indigenous Studies Courses
INST 1107 Introduction to Turtle Island
(3 credits)
INST 1202 Indigenous Environmental Current Events
(3 credits)
INST 2201 Creation to Contact
(3 credits)
INST 2202 Survivance Since Contact
(3 credits)
INST 2410 Ojibwe Crafts
(2 credits)
INST 2925 People of the Environment: Indigenous Knowledge Perspective
(3 credits)
INST 3170 Indigenous Education
(3 credits)
INST 3307 Ojibwe History
(3 credits)
INST 3317 Tribal Government and Leadership
(3 credits)
INST 3410 Advanced Ojibwe Crafts
(1-4 credits)
INST 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective
(3 credits)
INST 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments
(3 credits)
INST 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective
(3 credits)
INST 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place
(3 credits)
INST 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective
(3 credits)
INST 3888 Indigenous Women Writers
(3 credits)
INST 3890 Genealogy and Clan Systems
(3 credits)
INST 4000 Nation Building and Leadership
(3 credits)
INST 4207 Indigenous Lifeways
(3 credits)
INST 4418 Federal Indian Law
(3 credits)
INST 4900 Social Justice
(3 credits)
INST 4917 DIS Tchg Assoc |
(1-2 credits)
INST 4931 Experimental Course
(3 credits)
INST 3888 Indigenous Women Writers (3 credits)
This course will focus on Indigenous Women Writers across a number of genres. Each work will be read alongside nonfiction sources that provide glimpses into the social, historical, political, or cultural background for its production. Some of them will also be accompanied by selections of literary or critical analysis drawing on these texts. This class focuses on the scope and possibilities of Indigenous feminist literary criticism for tracing connections among history, creative expression, and contemporary Indigenous existences. [Core Curriculum Goal Area(s) 6 & 7A]; [Nisidotaading Course Requirement Course Requirement]
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