Michael Demchik and Michael Foret, UW-Stevens Point
Stephanie May de Montigny, UW-Oshkosh
W. Lawrence Neuman, UW-Whitewater
Helena Pycior, UW-Milwaukee
Michael Demchik, College of Natural
Resources, and Michael Foret, Department
of History, UW-Stevens Point -
"Native American Forestry."
The course will be offered by the
Department of History and College of
Natural Resources and will expose students
to: 1) Native American management
of forests prior to European occupation;
2) the scope and importance of
treaty rights to Native American forest
management; and 3) current examples of
forest management by tribal entities.
Much of the course will be developed
through the help of a Native American
advisory board composed of tribal
foresters and historians. The course may
also be offered through Fond du Lac
Tribal and Community College using
ITV or other technological venues.
Stephanie May de Montigny, Department
of Religious Studies and Anthropology,
UW-Oshkosh - "Anthropology
300: American Indian Women."
Through this class, students will learn
about North American Indian women,
their lives, perspectives, histories, cultures,
and contemporary issues. Topics
include: 1) clashes between Native and
European gender roles and expectations;
2) how American Indian cultures, belief
systems, gender roles and expectations
shape experiences of health, alcoholism,
and education (and vice versa); and 3)
how, through involvement in education,
women affect cultural and linguistic
change and preservation. Students will
read essays, ethnohistory, ethnography,
autobiography, and fiction not only for
their content, but also to critique their
writing methods in terms of their
strengths and weaknesses in representing
American Indian women.
W. Lawrence Neuman, Department of
Sociology/Anthropology, UW-Whitewater
- "Asian America: Asian Experiences
in America - (Sociology 295)."
As a beginning course in Asian
American Studies and a lower-division
sociology course, the class will focus on
four areas: 1) basic concepts and issues
regarding race and ethnicity generally; 2)
an elementary grounding in Asian cultures
so that students can understand
Asian American diversity and become
familiar with Asian cultures of origin; 3)
experiences of the various Asian peoples
who have immigrated to the U.S., including
inter-Asian American relations and
relations between Asian Americans and
other U.S. racial/ethnic groups; and 4)
explore issues of Asian American identity
formation, collective action and Pan
Asian identities, and hybrid and transnational
identities and relationships. The
course will be submitted for approval to
fulfill the diversity requirement and for
consideration in the Race and Ethnicity
Cultures minor.
Helena Pycior, Department of History,
UW-Milwaukee - "Race and Ethnicity in
American Science: Biographies of
Minority Scientists."
This course will use biographies of
scientists of color to deepen students'
understanding of the impact of
"racial/ethnic difference" on scientists,
scientific communities, and the concerns
and products of the "hard sciences." The
course will introduce students to methodological
issues involved in historical, scientific,
and African-American
(auto)biography. Readings will include
scientific biography, autobiography,
memoirs, and children's and young adult
biography. Students will explore each
(auto)biography's aim, audience, scientific
content, mythology, and
(dis)engagement with issues of race/ethnicity.
Analysis is informed by attention
to the uses of biography to establish contested
"role models" and to promulgate
myths that trivialize (George Washington
Carver as "the Peanut Man").
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