Discusses the fabricated image of Native Americans in American film history, the media process that perpetuates such images, and the resulting stereotypes; also covers the relationship to social movements and alternatives for overcoming stereotypes.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Introduces students to a variety of approaches that have been developed in American studies to assist understandings of how different people participate in this society and in the world. Also considers how experiences continue to shape present thinking and future possibilities.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Outlines historical developments that helped formulate today's jazz and rock movements; emphasizes roots and foundations of the forms.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Examines patterned stories, sayings, designs, and ways of living that have been created and are continuously being recreated by groups of people; also investigates historical and social meanings of folklore.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Examines patterned stories, sayings, designs, and ways of living that have been created and are continuously being recreated by groups of people; also investigates historical and social meanings of folklore.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Uses basic musical techniques derived from various Afro-Western traditions.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Speaks about ways of life of the North American continent's original peoples, including their history and contemporary issues. Provides a Native American perspective.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Studies the connection with all forms of life in evolutionary development and ecological processes. Also examines ecstatic experiences; social life before the domestication of plants, animals, and each other; and utopian thinking.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Provides a special concentration in Native American, African / African American, and American history. Utilizes an interdisciplinary and cross cultural approach to better understand oppression and the creation/maintenance of hegemony in the Americas.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Introduces the lives, histories, cultures, and characters of Native American peoples of North America. Focuses on cultural assumptions and native visions of the land, the environment, and the spirit life.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Seneca is an unwritten language. The course presents the basic Seneca vocabulary for numerals, foods, geological features, the classification of society, and the classification of nature, and works up to reading myths and legends.
Credits: 4
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Credits: 1
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the UB seminar course may not repeat this course.
Introduces ethnomusicology; studies musical styles in a variety of cultures.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Introduces ethnomusicology; studies musical styles in a variety of cultures.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Focuses on the spiritual side of the Native American; including substance, motivation, and character of the American Indian.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Focuses on the spiritual side of the Native American; including substance, motivation, and character of the American Indian.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Examines perspectives and philosophies of Native American writers. Provides insight into why the American Indian has a unique perspective on caring for what happens to the Earth.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Introduces undergraduate students to some of the current difficulties facing Indigenous peoples in North America.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Examines cultural interactions and values in collision during the major phase of the colonization of the Americas. Reviews contemporary texts in Native American history and culture in a seminar setting.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Examines conflict between the natural world perspective of Native American culture and the legal world perspective of U.S. culture.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Traces historical periods that affected Indigenous women's lives; emphasizes current laws and policies that have impacted their families and communities. SEM
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Examines traditional and contemporary art methods and techniques by various Indigenous groups in North and South America.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Studies social dimensions of space affecting human distribution and location of social activities; provides theoretical explanations.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Looks at the legal status of Native North Americans in relation to the United States and its governmental predecessors.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Considers problems in American fiction from a cultural, historical, thematic, and stylistic perspective.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Considers problems in American fiction from a cultural, historical, thematic, and stylistic perspective.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Studies urban development aspects in the local community and more generally.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Introduces the theory and practice of nonviolence.
Credits: 1
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Hands-on experience in the field.
Credits: 3
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Data not available
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Individually designed program of reading, research, or skills development in close association with an instructor.
Credits: 1-16
Semester(s) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Pre-Requisites: permission of instructor
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