The course is a 5-week, 3-credit course running from May 31-June 29 and will take place online, with one-on-one interactions with the instructors throughout. The course is open to any degree or non-degree seeking person.
The purpose of the course is to provide future and current university student affairs professionals with knowledge on the heterogenous identities, cultures, and experiences of Native American/Indigenous (NAI) college students in the United States. This course will take a critical examination of Indigenous history, worldviews, lifeways, and educational practices and strategies that provide a foundation for supporting Native American and Indigenous student success. The course follows the educational trajectory of Native American and Indigenous college students from pre-college experiences through college access and curricular and co-curricular success on campus.
Additionally, the course will provide tangible products for students to utilize in their day-to-day work on their campuses to support Native American and Indigenous student success!
Questions can be directed to me at dian.squire@nau.edu.
Student Learning Outcomes
As a result of taking this course students will:
- Build a more complex understanding of NAI history in the United States.
- Articulate how higher education excludes and restricts NAI inclusion and success.
- Increase their knowledge base on and commitment to the success of NAI college students.
- Deepen their appreciation for the importance of NAI student learning, persistence, indigeneity, and sense of belonging.
- Build a greater academic and personal knowledge base on an underrepresented student population often only represented with an asterisk*.
- Learn about and design culturally relevant education models for serving NAI students on their college campus.