St. Cloud State University
General Education Goal Area 5
History and the Social & Behavioral Sciences
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1.
Prepared by: Kelly Branam
Phone: 8-2772
Proposal Number:
Email: kmbranam@stcloudstate.edu
2.
Requesting Unit: Sociology and Anthropology
3.
Department, Course Number, Title: ANTH 188
4.
New Course
5.
Will this course be flagged as a diversity course?
Already Designated as Diversity
6.
Will this course also satisfy another General Education Goal Area?
If “Yes” specify which goal area.
Existing Course
No
Diversity Proposal Accompanying This Form
No
Yes
7.
Course bulletin description, including credits and semesters to be offered:
Origins, distribution and development of the human cultures found in North, Central, and South America.
Impact of European contact on the indigenous people of the Americas. 3Cr. ALT.
8.
Indicate the clientele for whom this course is designed. Is the course for general education only, or
does it fulfill general education and other program needs for this or another department? Obtain
signatures from any affected departments.
It is designed for general education and counts as an elective for the American Indian Studies minor.
9.
Indicate any changes that must be made in offerings or resources in your department or other
departments by offering this course.
None.
10.
For new courses or courses not yet approved for General Education, indicate any other SCSU departments
or units offering instruction that relates to the content of the proposed course.
N/A
11.
Courses designated as General Education are included in the assessment plan for the Goal Area(s)
for which they are approved. Courses for which assessment is not included in the annual GE
assessment report for two years will be removed from the General Education Program.
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The Requesting Unit understands and recognizes the above conditions.
12.
Provide a concise explanation of how the following goal is a “significant focus” of the proposed course.
Goal Area 5: History and the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Develop understanding of human societies and behaviors, and of the concepts, theories, and methods of
history and the social sciences.
Through the use of anthropological methods students explore the diverse cultures of indigenous peoples
of North, Central, and South America, while focusing on current social issues facing native North America.
Students examine the concept of culture, race, anthropological field methods, and the pursuit of ethnography,
exploring the pros and cons of anthropological study to the study of indigenous peoples. The history of the United
States is explored through the colonization of its indigenous peoples. Students also examine indigenous peoples’
responses to anthropological studies, Eurpoean colonization across the Americas, and the affects of globalization.
13. In order for a course to be designated as fulfilling Goal Area 5, it must address at least 4 of the 5 student learning
outcomes (SLOs) below. Check the SLOs below that are focused on in the proposed general education course.
1. Describe or use the methods and data by which historians, social scientists, or behavioral scientists investigate
human conditions.
2. Analyze human behavior, cultures, and social institutions and processes from the perspectives of history or the
social and behavioral sciences.
3. Develop explanations for and explore solutions to historical or contemporary social problems.
4. Reflect upon themselves in relation to family, communities, society, culture, and/or their histories.
5. Apply and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories about human societies and behaviors.
14.
Discuss how each Student Learning Outcome checked above is achieved in this course. (Note: Although
descriptions of typical assignments or types of assignments may be part of this discussion, it is not
appropriate to submit copies of actual assignments.)
Students will achieve SLO 1 through investigating and then describing anthropological, ethnographic and
ethnohistoric studies of indigenous peoples.
SLO 2 is achieved by analyzing these ethnographic and ethnohistorical readings concerning human
behavior, cultures, and social institutions introducing students to other ways of knowing and to indigenous
perspectives of the history of United States and the Americas.
Students achieve SLO 3 through describing, considering and reflecting on the issues of American
colonization, the history of American Indian reservations, social issues American Indian communities face today
and the ways in which these communities have responded to these problems.
SLO 4 is achieved through student self-reflection using an anthropological lens to analyze their own
ethnocentrism concerning their communities, society, culture and history.
SLO 5 is achieved by the students applying the various ways of knowing learned throughout the course to
the history and colonization of the Americas.
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15.
List or attach the Course Outline (adequately described and including percentage of time to be allocated
to each topic). Curriculum Committees may request additional information. Topics larger than 20% need
to be broken down further. Indicate in your course outline where the Student Learning Outcomes
checked above are being met.
Introduction to Anthropology 5% (SLO 1, 3, 5)
Introduction to ethnographic methods and to ethnography 10% SLO (1,2, 3, 5)
Introduction to ethnohistory and the data collected through ethnohistoric methods 10% (SLO 1,2,3,4)
History of colonization of the Americas including the construction of treaties 15% (SLO 2,3,4,5)
U.S. history from an indigenous perspective 10% (SLO 2,3,4,5)
Diversity of indigenous cultures throughout the Americas 10% (SLO 3,4,5,)
Discussion of culture, social organization and culture change 10% (SLO 1,2,5)
Discussion of race and race configuration in the United States 10% (SLO 3,4,5)
Social issues facing native peoples today 10% (SLO 3,4,5)
Responses to these issues by indigenous peoples 10% (SLO 3,4,5)
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St. Cloud State University
General Education Transmittal Form
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Response Date:
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Proposal Number
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Course or Course(s): ANTH 188
Robert H. Lavenda
Department or Unit Chair Signature
02/18/2010
Date
Department forward to Academic Affairs for publication and electronically to Chair of General Education Committee, Chair
of College Curriculum Committee, College Dean
Recommendation of General Education Committee:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
Chairperson
Committee
Signature
Date
Recommendation of University Curriculum Committee:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
Chairperson
Committee
Signature
Date
Recommendation of Faculty Association:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
FA Senate
Signature
Date
Action of Academic Vice President:
Approve
Disapprove
Signature
Entered in Curriculum Data File
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Remarks:
Date