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Native American Environmental Knowledge Minor

College of Food, Agri & Natural Resource Sciences
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
  • Program Type: Undergraduate free-standing minor
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2013
  • Required credits in this minor: 17
This minor allows students to study Native American perspectives on the environment and natural resource systems from an interdisciplinary, culturally informed perspective, including coursework, practical experience, and community service. Required courses emphasize understanding the unique perspective of Native American approaches to science as it is applied to natural resources and the environment.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
Introduction to Cultural Systems
FSCN 1902 {Inactive} [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
Introduction to Cultural Systems Additional Requirement
Students taking CFAN 1902 must take an additional topic from the one above.
FSCN 1902 {Inactive} [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
or AMIN 1902 {Inactive} [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
or AMIN 1001 - Introduction to American Indian & Indigenous Peoples [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
or AMIN 1002 - Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective [GP] (3.0 cr)
or AMIN 1003 - American Indians in Minnesota [HIS, DSJ] (3.0 cr)
American Indian Studies
Take 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· AMIN 3xxx
· AMIN 4xxx
· AMIN 5xxx
Integrating Project
Two credits under appropriate departmentally-housed directed studies, independent studies, or special topics designators.
Additional Credits
Three additional credits approved by the minor program coordinator (must be 3xxx, 4xxx, or 5xxx).
Service Learning Project
Students are expected to become familiar with community interests and needs. This is accomplished by completing a 3 credit service-learning project in community.
CFAN 3293 - Directed Study (1.0-4.0 cr)
 
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AMIN 1001 - Introduction to American Indian & Indigenous Peoples (DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to how voices/visions of indigenous peoples have contributed to history of cultural expression in North America. Historic contexts/varieties of this expression by region, tribal cultures. Emphasizes contributions in literature, philosophy, politics, fine arts.
AMIN 1002 - Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective (GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: AmIn 1002/Pol 1019
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Colonial experiences of selected indigenous peoples in Americas, Euroasia, Pacific Rim.
AMIN 1003 - American Indians in Minnesota (HIS, DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
History, culture, and lived experience of American Indian people in Minnesota. Self-representation and histories of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Dakota peoples through film, music, oral traditions, and written texts. Work by non-Indian scholars focuses on cultural, philosophical, and linguistic perspectives of Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples.
CFAN 3293 - Directed Study
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
This course provides a service learning component for the Native American Environmental Knowledge minor. Through directed study students are expected to become familiar with community interests and needs under the direction of a faculty member through journaling, discussion, writing assignments, community presentations, and storytelling. Students enrolling in this directed study will be required to use the University-wide on-line directed study contract process in order to enroll. Prereq: department consent, instructor consent, no more than 6 credits of directed study counts towards CFANS major requirements.