GBL_HLTH 390 Native Nations, Healthcare Systems, and U.S. Policy
This reading-intensive, discussion-based seminar course will provide students with a complex and in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary policies and systems created for and by Native Americans. Further, to ensure students gain an understanding of current health care systems and policies, alongside their broader understanding of global health. Specifically, to highlight the need to include Native American priorities, successes, and ongoing challenges within discussions of health care policy domestically and globally. Students will begin to understand not only the complexity, but the necessity of systems specifically created for the needs and utility of Native American populations.
GBL_HLTH 390-21 Community Based Participatory Research
Oftentimes we hear of research done on communities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a research paradigm that challenge researchers to conducted research with communities. In this reading intense discussion-based course, we will learn the historical and theoretical foundations, and the key principles of CBPR. Students will be introduced to methodological approaches to building community partnerships, research planning, and data sharing. Real-world applications of CBPR in health will be studied to illustrate the benefits and challenges. Further, this course will address culturally appropriate interventions, working with diverse communities, and ethical considerations in CBPR.
HIST 300-0-30 Red Power: Indigenous Resistance in the U.S. and Canada, 1887-Present
In 2016, thousands of Indigenous water protectors and their non-Native allies camped at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in an effort to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. That movement is part of a long history of Native activism. In this course, we will examine the individual and collective ways in which Indigenous people have resisted colonial domination in the U.S. and Canada since 1887. In addition to focusing on North America, we will also turn our attention to Hawai‘i and the U.S. territories. This course will highlight religious movements, intertribal organizations, key intellectual figures, student movements, armed standoffs, non-violent protest, and a variety of visions for Indigenous community self-determination.
