Indigenous Research and Education Graduate Academic Certificate
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 580 | Tribal Nation-Building Seminar: Institution Building and Transforming University Cultures | 1 |
| ANTH 581 | Land Education Seminar: Theory into Practice | 2 |
| ED 592 | Decolonizing, Indigenous, and Action-Based Research Methods | 3 |
| NRS 598 | Internship | 1 |
| 6 credits of electives chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor. | 6 | |
| Total Hours | 13 | |
Courses to total 13 credits for this certificate
1. Students will be able to navigate the academic institution in ways that affirm Indigenous peoples’ goals and priorities while recognizing the ways the institutionalized educational systems has not been designed around these goals and priorities.
2. Students will understand the various ways that Indigenous STEM is practiced in communities, and how these relate to their own research and education.
3. Students will be able to examine how learning has happened in Indigenous communities and will be able to compare these with learning as presented in academic institutions.
4. Students will be able to explain principles of ethical partnering with Tribal communities and the ways that these are put into practice in their own research.
5. Students will analyze tribal sovereignty as a bedrock for addressing complex issues of sustainable community development in the US.
6. Students will design research that engages methodologies grounded of Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies and axiologies and scholarship in the field of Indigenous research.