ENGL 207 Native American Literatures (5 credits)
Course Description
A study of contemporary and historical Native American literary practices focusing on images, themes and ideas of individual works, and the social/cultural, political, spiritual and gendered contexts of their production.
Course Content
A. Diversity and shared beliefs/experiences represented in Native American literatures
B. Indigenous biogeography
C. Settler colonialism, indigenous resurgence and Native American literary production
D. Storytelling, oral tradition and textuality
E. Literary conventions and literary elements
F. Literary images, themes and ideas
G. Contexts of writing (social/cultural, political, spiritual, and gendered)
Student Outcomes
1. Discuss formal and thematic diversity among works by Native American writers.
2. Analyze how writers’ languaging practices construct audiences.
3. Examine how specific works interact with contemporary Native sovereignty movements and transnational indigenous contexts in order to understand how writers resist settler-colonial formations.
4. Explore the dynamics between orality and textuality in written works.
5. Analyze how writers create meaning by using storytelling to reimagine literary conventions and elements.
6. Reflect on how writers use images, themes, and ideas in their works in order to construct fictive and personal identities.
7. Reflect on how the positional identities of students and instructors in learning spaces shape an understanding of the field of study.
Degree Outcomes
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
D. Group discussions and classroom activities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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