Ethnic Studies: Native American Studies in Literature

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Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 101. Equivalency: Same course as ETHN 257EN. This course focuses on ethnic studies and provides students an overview of the Native American experience in the United States by critically exploring the social, cultural, political, and economic history through literature. Students will critically analyze the ways that Native American cultural identities and literature challenge, complicate, and reinvent the languages and literary forms of dominant American culture, emphasizing Native American survival, sovereignty, and resistance through the oral and written traditions of American indigenous peoples. (CSU, UC, AVC)