NATAM-BA - Native American Studies (BA)

The Program in Native American Studies expects that undergraduate majors concluding their course of study will be able to:

• Mobilize comparative frameworks for analyzing how race and ethnicity develop historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally

• Understand, interpret, and utilize trans- and interdisciplinary theories and methods in the study of race and ethnicity

• Critically engage with primary and secondary sources and use both types of evidence in research and argumentation

• Effectively communicate data, research, and arguments to diverse audiences

• Apply a core inventory of theories, methods, and concepts to local and global contexts

• Analyze and evaluate the impact of historical events on contemporary issues faced by Native Americans in urban, reservation, island, and rural locales

• Explore and apply Native American approaches to decolonization that center frameworks of Indigenous knowledge, scholarship, and creative practices