The minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies is an interdisciplinary, interschool program, hemispheric in scope. Focusing on North America and Mesoamerica, the three core courses provide an overview respectively of: pre-Columbian history, worldviews, social organization, religion, and the centrality of place; American Indian diplomacy, law and history since 1776; and a critical assessment of colonialism, evolutionary theory, and ethnography. Upper division offerings, drawing upon research and teaching specializations of faculty from different departments, further enrich the minor with analysis of Native American literature and histories of native Latin America.
Minor Requirement (click here to view the UCI Catalogue)
A. Select two from the following:
HISTORY 15A Native American History
HISTORY 40A Colonial America: New Worlds
ENGLISH 8 Multicultural American Literature
COM LIT 6 Native American and Indigenous Studies
B. Select five courses from the following:
ANTHRO 121D Cross-Cultural Studies of Gender
ANTHRO 162A Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
EDUC 124 Multicultural Education in K-12 Schools
Students may also select from the following courses when the topics presented relate to Native American Studies:
ANTHRO 149 Special Topics in Archaeology
ANTHRO 169 Special Topics in Area Studies
COM LIT 105 Topics in Comparative Multiculturalism
ENGLISH 105 Multicultural Topics in Literatures in English
HISTORY 169 Topics in Latin American History
SOCIOL 149 Special Topics: Structures
SOCIOL 169 Special Topics in Age, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Residence Requirement for the Minor: Four upper-division courses required for the minor must be completed successfully at UCI. Two of the four may be taken through the UC Education Abroad Program, provided course content is approved in advance by the program director.
Additional courses that can be petitioned for Requirement B:
(Please submit your course petition at the Humanities Undergraduate Office Online Portal.)
INTL ST 146. Global Indigeneity