HIST 253 - Honors/Service Learning: Native American History

3 credit (3 lecture, 0 lab) 3 contact hours (This service learning honors course is limited to 10 students with 3.0 GPAs. Prior written approval after interview with Instructor Ken DeLong is required.)

This is a unique course that explores both the history and the contemporary experience of Native America. By combining reading, classroom discussion, lecture, guest speakers, video, student research, and volunteer experience, we attempt to gain a better understanding of the rich variety of Native American cultures. The course explores history, belief and value systems, customs and traditions and issues/challenges of the present day. While an effort is made to discover as much as possible about many different tribes, there is a focus on the Lakota Sioux people. The course includes a 10-day trip living and working (volunteering with Habitat for Humanity) on an Indian Reservation South Dakota.
OFFERED: odd-year spring semesters